The Unpredictable Battlefield

Chapter 10- Not Going down

TyKa

I blinked as Tyson stared up at me with a saucy grin plastered onto his face. I felt my anger dissipating as my mind went blank. That comment caught me completely off-guard...Just...what? He was still looking at me, waiting for an answer. "So it's agreed then, we keep an eye on each other." I said, taking a sip of my water, trying to keep the blush off my face.

"You got it, Kai!" he winked and walked down the hallway to his grandfather's room, and I chugged back the rest of the water and placed the glass into the sink. I looked up and stiffened. Guilt started gnawing at my heart – The wall that I had slammed Tyson against now had a huge dent where his body had been. I bit my lip. I hadn't meant to push him that hard, just enough so I could get his attention.

I needed to calm the fuck down.

I downed another glass of water and grabbed 2 Tylenol's out of the cupboard. When Tyson returned, full smiles, I handed him the medicine.

"What's is for?" he asked and I nodded towards the wall. "Pffft. Takes a lot more than that to get me down."

I raised an eyebrow, giving him a look that said 'Do I look like an idiot?' and he took the medicine without another word. I inwardly smiled. The one thing I knew about Tyson was that he was a master at pretending he was fine, when he really wasn't.

30 minutes later we were all back on the mini-bus. Once again, I sat next to Tyson. I took a quick glance at Calvin and smirked when I saw that his split-lip was starting to bruise. Ha. Not so pretty anymore.

We went and signed up for the tournament, and I kept vigilant, looking for anything out of the ordinary. When I saw that Tyson was distracted with Max at a hotdog stand, I took the opportunity to "question" one of the employees.

The man looked at me, petrified, as I held him up by his throat against a wall, lightly pressing up against his windpipe, in the middle of an empty hallway. "Who are you working for?" I asked, making sure my tone was nothing short of dangerous.

"I-I don't know! M-My friend just s-said this p-place was hiring and I-I applied and g-got the job!" he stuttered. His face completely white. Didn't take a genius to see that his guy was telling the truth.

I released him and he gasped for air. Heh, wimp. "You didn't see me." he rapidly nodded his head and I went back outside, where Max and Tyson were sitting on the front steps eating their lunch. Or well...second lunch.

I narrowed my eyes when Calvin sat on the other side of Tyson, but I was surprised to see Tyson shift a little closer to Max. I felt my lips tug upwards. Good. Tyson was finally getting that Calvin was not to be trusted. I sat on the step behind Tyson and let my knees touch his back. He turned around, looked up at me and gave a bright smile that made my heart melt before he leaned back against me.

I sent a victory glance at Calvin and his mask faltered for a brief second, showing his disgust. My smirk widened.

When we returned to the dojo later that night, everyone was exhausted. Jet-lag had caught up with all of us, but I fought against sleep to keep my eyes open. There was no way in hell I was going to make myself vulnerable anywhere near Calvin.

"Are you seriously planning on staying up all night?" Came Tyson's voice from the doorway.

"Mind your own business."

I heard him sigh. "Man you're stubborn." I suddenly felt myself being pulled by the arm. I bore my eyes into his.

"What do you think you're doing?"

"Not letting you out of my sight." He said coyly.

Now curious, I let him drag me to his bedroom, where I saw a futon set-up on the floor. I opened my mouth to protest, but he beat me to it. "Just hear me out."

I crossed my arms over my chest and listened.

"You asked me to stay in your sight, so this is how I will. That door has a lock on it, so you don't have to worry as much about assassins getting to you in the open dojo. So, what do you say bud?"

I looked at the futon and into Tyson's pleading eyes. He was right. With a locked door, I would worry about Calvin less... "Fine."

"Sweet!" he started stripping down to change into his pj's and I quickly averted my eyes and pulled off my scarf, belt and vest. "Here Kai!" I snatched the clothes in mid-air and realized they were my nigh clothes. "Hope you don't mind, but I raided your bag for them."

...Cunning little brat knew I was going to say yes all along... "Hn." I quickly changed into the black muscle-shirt and grey sweatpants and crawled underneath the covers. Tyson turned out the lights and climbed into his bed. We laid in silence for a few moments.

"Kai, what happened in that bathroom with Calvin? You don't go around attacking people for no good reason."

I smiled in the darkness. "Exactly. I have my reasons."

"Does those reasons include why you want me to stay near you?"

"Yes."

"Hey wait!..." I heard him sit-up. "Were you and Calvin arguing about me?"

"Get some sleep Tyson." I replied, rolling over.

"Oh c'mon! Tell me!"

I refused to speak.

"If I didn't know better, I would say you were acting like a jealous boyfriend."

I could feel the vein on my forehead start to throb. I knew he was only trying to get a reaction out of me, but those words hit a little too close to home for my liking. "Believe what you want. I'm going to sleep."

"And to think 5 minutes ago, you were going to stay up all night."

Fucking little brat... "Zip. It."

I heard him chuckle softly, but minutes later his breathing evened out, and I could hear his light snores. As strange as it might be, being this close to Tyson, locked together in this little room...It was the safest I felt since all this craziness started.

I grinned as I realized something important. I had punched Calvin. Made him bleed. He was beatable. Only some kid who was in way over his head. There was no way he was going to kill me and now that Tyson was on my side, there was no way I was going down.

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