Aacura: I'm warning you!
Kai: …
Tala & Bryan: We're in this chappie so we'll update! ;)
Aacura: Btw, this whole chapter is in Normal POV k-day!
Chapter 10 - English
(Normal POV)
It was time for class. Everyone was sitting in their seats; Tala, Bryan, an empty seat, Ray, Max, Ian, Spencer, Kenny, Hillary, and Tyson. But wait! Kai isn't there! But Ray still felt intimidated just by knowing that that wooden desk haunting him to his right belonged to the one and only Kai Hiwatari. Or in Tyson's case, Kai 'Mr I'm a piss head who wears my bollocks on my head so you can see how much of a dick head I am when I strut around like I own the place!' Hiwatari. No one in particular found it funny, but it sure as hell made Tyson feel anger release!
Kai's friends knew the reason of Kai's absence. He felt awful about what he did to Ray, and couldn't bare to look at him in the eyes after what had been said under the tree. But Kai's friends would tell him how affected Ray was by those words, not out of spite, but because Kai needed to know one way or the other how much damage he had done, and just to figure out how to put the new Ray back to the old Ray. They obviously saw a shocking difference! Ray felt even more disturbed by the looks of shock on their faces, in which they did not hold behind their usual, emotionless masks by mistake. The clothes he wore, how fragile he now looked! Man Ray was a wreck! Kai was not going to like this.
Today in class, each student had to read a whole chapter to his or her classmates. Ray was praying to himself that he would not be the first victim. He could swear that that girl in the front row was whispering about him to a few of her friends! Hell he was paranoid.
Unfortunately, Kon, Raymond, was the first name picked, and he was about to faint. The others, as in Max Tyson, Tala, Bryan, Spencer, and Ian however, wanted Ray to be chosen to publicly read in front of a class of 44, to see how much he had really changed in the space of a week.
Ray stood from his desk, visibly shaking.
"This is not looking good." Ian whispered in front to Tala. What seemed like forever to Ray, he finally reached the stand where the book rested. He looked up at everyone, and everyone looked at him. You could tell by his eyes that there was fear in them, as he scanned every face, swearing that they were judging him, but he forcefully drew himself to the task at hand. Ray opened the large book and read aloud, but it was more like a faint voice. He was not reading in confidence and passion as Shakespeare had written it, but spoke in a crackled, shaky voice. He sounded and looked like he was about to cry. He could only imagine the class laughing at him, although they sat in pure silence (mainly because Shakespeare was not a favourite to this class at all). Then Ray started to fidget. His hand would reach up to his bandanae, tucking in those invisible strands of hair; he played with the back of it to make sure it was most definitely short. He tugged at his over-large clothes to hide his skin, hoping that if he was well covered up, no more flaws could be traced on him, but unfortunately, his and Kai's friends saw one incredible, disturbing flaw in him… RAY WAS A WRECK!
Ray finally stepped down and returned to his seat. Whispers were made throughout the room and Ray thought that it was obviously about him (though it totally was not) but it did not help at the fact that Max, Tyson, and all of Kai's friends were staring at him openly without even blinking. This reminded him about Kai's cruel behaviour and speech, and what hurt was that Ray himself was perfectly polite when they had encountered each other, yet Kai didn't even have the decency to even apologise about bitching behind his back… and explaining why he was acting so strange in the last English lesson. At first Ray thought that Kai had feelings for him, the way he looked at him, 'but it's obvious that he was only staring at a freak beside him, and that he couldn't believe that he had to sit next to me.' A tear slowly slid down Ray's closed eyes as he shut off from the world around him, only to awaken when the bell rang, ringing out that he had an art lesson to attend to next period, with Max.
Tyson departed to catering (surprise, surprise! Food!), whereas Kai's gang dropped Ian and Spencer off to Math, leaving Tala and Bryan to tell Kai the bad news. They knew where he'd be. In a mess, unshaven, in his room, also dwelling heavily on the past event.
The door was unlocked, so Tala and Bryan let themselves in. There Kai was, sitting on his bed, his gaze fixated in to thin air, until he saw their movement in the corner of his eye. Tala and Bryan sat on the bed opposite him. He had a pleading look of hope in his puffy, crimson eyes, but Tala sadly shook his head. He spoke as quietly and gently as possible, holding Kai's hands,
"I'm sorry, Kai. He's not good. His… confidence is dropping still… he almost burst out crying in front of the whole class he was so paranoid, and… and he's very self conscious. You know the new look he's given himself, well Max tells me that he dresses like that everyday now, and washes his hair at least three times more than normal people. (pause) Kai… he's anorexic. He's… he's going to get sick, Kai." Tala gripped Kai's hands even more as they started to shake. Tala had to tell him the exact truth, because lying and making out that Kai was the innocent one would be cruel in its own way.
Kai hung his head low and his whole body trembled. The boys then realized that he was crying! Bryan instantly got up and sat next to him, gently wrapping his arms around his crushed friend. Tala stayed put, but soothingly rubbed Kai's arms in attempt to calm him.
"Th… the one chance I have to… to have a relationship… and… and I blow it…!" Kai was sobbing now, heartily. "And I go and… and ruin someone… someone else's spirit in… in doing something so stu… stupid!" he was so angry with himself! He changed Ray, and not for the better, as he hoped to do in the future, if they had hopefully become a couple. "What can I do?" he pleaded, "I want to make things right! It was just one big mistake, and I want to correct it! Make Ray the way I met him on the first day of University, even… even if I never see him again…" Tala and Bryan looked at each other,
"WHAT?"
Aacura: Kai…
Kai: Just leave me alone…
Tala: R&R please peeps!
Bryan: Yeh.
Kai: (sits in a dark corner) …
Aacura: At least 3 new reviews before I put a happy chapter in!
Tala: Cruel bitch!
Aacura: Watch it fire head; I can easily break you and Bryan up in this story!
Bryan: NO! AT LEAST 3 REVIEWSPLEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAASSSSSE!