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I had thrown myself so hard into my work recently I had sort of lost track of what day it was and before I knew it I was walking out of the library into the middle of a heavy April shower with no jacket and no umbrella. I had two options; go back into the library and wait until the rain had passed or I could run home and hope that I didn't get too wet (or that I'd be able to dry off quickly when I got back). I felt a little bit like I was constantly running around in circles – I work too much and I loose track of time and what day it is or I don't work enough and I end up getting distracted by Kai. I was much better at this balance thing when I was working towards my goal of getting a place here, it was easier then.

Deciding to ignore my failings as a responsible grown up adult human for now I turned to go back into the library but found the door had been locked. I looked at my watch. It was one minute passed six and the door said that it closed at six. I groaned. I had literally missed my chance to go back into the library to wait for the rain to pass by a minute. Granted I would have been kicked out about a minute ago anyway so, realistically, I would still be in the same predicament as I already was.

I sighed and resigned myself to the walk home in the pouring rain, thankful that my backpack was at least waterproof, and left the shelter of the library doorway. It was raining harder than I thought and I was soaked by the time I reached the bottom of the steps. It wasn't all that bad really, I thought lying through my teeth to myself, I mean it was only a ten minute walk to my house. Not that far at all right? A car drove past a huge puddle sending water splashing over me. At least I was already wet but I imagine the fuck weasel drove through that puddle on purpose just to splash me.

I pushed my hair out of my eyes and carried on walking. I heard another car drive up beside me, this one slower than the last. I ignored it, kept my head down and carried on. The car didn't speed up but continued to crawl along beside me as I walked. I continued to ignore it (seriously what was this guy's problem) until I heard the window roll down.

"Need a ride?" a familiar voice asked. I turned and realised that Kai was in the driver's seat. I stopped and leaned down so I could talk to him through the window.

"It's fine," I told him. "I'm not that far away from my halls."

"Max it's pissing it down with rain, get in the car." he said.

"Look seriously it's fine." I said. "I'm already wet." I should just accept the lift. I should stop being such a stubborn arse and just let Kai take me home. I don't know why I was being stubborn. Maybe I didn't trust myself enough to be on my own with Kai when there was no chance of us being interrupted by anyone. Apparently I am such a sea of raging hormones that I couldn't be alone with my ex long enough for him to drive me home. I'm so screwed!

"You're shivering." Kai stated. He wasn't wrong. Now that I wasn't moving I was starting to get cold in just a t-shirt and dungarees.

"I don't want to get the inside of your car all wet." I said. It was a lame excuse. I knew it, Kai knew it and he was not going to take no for an answer. He glared at me.

"Max Hikaru Tate I'm not going to ask you again, now get in the fucking car!" he snapped. I stopped and blinked at him. He continued to glare at me and I came back to myself. I opened the door and got in the car.

"Alright, alright," I grumbled as I buckled my seat belt. "no need to middle name me." Kai drove off and it was only now that I was out of the rain that I realised how cold I was. I brought my hands up to my mouth and blew on them to warm them up. Kai noticed and leaned over to turn the heater on.

"Here." he said before turning his attention back to the road. I held my hands in front of the heater and began to feel a little bit better. I was still really nervous about being alone in the car with Kai. I couldn't work out if it was because I wanted to stay in here with him for longer or I wanted to get out as soon as possible as it was a very short drive back to mine and before I knew it Kai had pulled up outside my halls.

"Thanks," I said smiling shyly at him. "I didn't mean to be a nuisance and make you go out of your way."

"Don't be silly." he told me. "It was no trouble and you would have frozen if you'd walked."

"Well thank you anyway." I said. God he looked good sitting there with one hand hanging lazily over the steering wheel. It took everything in me not to lean over and kiss him like nothing had happened but I somehow managed to open the door and get out of the car.

I ran up to the door and under the tiny bit of shelter began to rummage around for my keys. They weren't in my pockets and they didn't seem to be anywhere in my bag at all. Shy of tipping the entire contents onto the wet floor to make sure they definitely weren't in there I could assume that I hadn't picked them up when I left this morning. Shit! I knew Kenny was away until tomorrow, Emily and the rest of The All Stars were in rehearsals and Mariah and the White Tigers were doing some extra-curricular performing off campus. I didn't know anyone else who would have a key and be able to let me in as the accommodation office would be closed now too.

I turned around. Kai's car was still there and I could see him watching me through the window, looking confused. I run back over the car. Kai wound down the window as I approached the car.

"I appear to be slightly locked out." I said.

"Slightly?" he replied with a raised eyebrow.

"Okay I am locked out." I said. Kai chuckled.

"Get back in, you can stay at mine tonight and get replacement keys in the morning." he said. I should protest this – I really should, I don't know if I can trust myself around him for an entire night – but it was wet and I was cold so I opened the car door and got back in. Kai slipped the car into gear and drove off.

"Thank you," I said. "I'm sorry for being such a pain."

"It's fine." Kai replied. "I mean we're friends, right? Friends help each other out."

"Yeah I guess." I said. I'd never thought of the prospect of Kai and I being friends. To be perfectly honest I'd never really been friends with an ex before (although I had only really ever had two exes; Kai being on of them). If I thought about it it might actually make things a whole lot easier if I thought of Kai as a friend rather than my ex (who I'm not over). Anything to get me through spending the night at his, alone with him.

When we got to Kai's he gave me some dry clothes and hung mine up in the shower to dry off and made me a cup of tea. It felt good to be out of the rain and in clothes that weren't sticking to me. We were sitting in the kitchen drinking in silence and it was nice. It was like nothing had happened between us, Kai was never much of a talker and that hadn't really changed much. I looked at him over the rim of my mug and smiled to myself. How was it that even after all this time he still made my heart flutter like I was fifteen and he was kissing me for the very first time? He caught my eye and I looked away, blushing slightly.

"Hey Maxie!" Enrique's voice rang out loudly in the silent kitchen. He clapped me roughly on the shoulder and I nearly spilt my tea. "What'cha doing in our neck of the woods?" He and Oliver sat at the table in between me and Kai while Johnny and Robert busied themselves with numerous bottles of alcohol. I blushed – of course Kai lived in the same halls as 'Vocal Majesty' and they would see me in his clothes in their kitchen.

"I locked myself out of my flat and Kai was nice enough to let me stay here and give me a change of clothes." I said. Johnny hardly bothered to hide his snort and Oliver glance between me and Kai looking both suspicious and gleeful.

"Oh did he now?" he said. Kai rolled his eyes, got to his feet and left the kitchen.

"I should probably go..." I began and made to follow him but Oliver grabbed my wrist and pulled me back down into my chair.

"He can wait a few more minutes." Oliver grinned. Johnny and Robert joined us at the table. All of them were staring at me like I was being put through some kind of intervention. Johnny opened a bottle of whiskey and offered me a glass. I declined, if I was going to keep my hormones in check tonight I needed to have a clear head meaning no alcohol whatsoever. Enrique poured himself a glass of rum and turned to me.

"So Max, what's actually going on between you and Kai?" he asked. I blinked. He certainly didn't waste time.

"Um nothing," I said. "we're just friends." Johnny laughed derisively.

"Sure," he said. "and you just happen to be in his clothes staying over at his for the night because..."

"I got locked out of my room." I finished.

"And that's it?" Robert asked.

"Well yeah." I replied.

"And Dr Best's class was what?" Johnny asked. "A lapse in judgement on your part?"

"God damn it does everyone know about that?" I muttered "Yes that was a lapse in judgement, okay?"

"So you guys haven't slept together?" Enrique asked.

"No." I said. "Well not since I've been here." I added.

"But you used to though?" Oliver pressed. Damn this really was starting to feel like an intervention, I should have just kept my mouth shut.

"Back when we both lived in Japan." I said giving them the cliff-noted version of events. "We broke up when I moved to America."

"But nothing's happened since?" Enrique asked again.

"No." I said.

"Now that's very interesting." he smirked taking a sip of his drink.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Well Kai and I share a wall and a few months ago I heard him moaning your name through the wall." he said. I blanked.

"What?"

"The obvious assumption was that the two of you were getting hot and heavy so I sent Mariah a text to see if I could find an excuse to get out for a bit and imagine my surprise when she said she was hanging out with you and Emily." he said with a shit-eating grin.

"What?" I was still having a hard time processing this. Kai still thought about me like that? I knew Tala had told me that he was still into me and he had practically jerked me off under the table in class but I had no idea he still thought of me while writing his own happy ending. The thought made me blush and sent some rather nice images (that I really shouldn't be having right now) running through my brain.

"I've seen the way you look at each other," Oliver said placing a hand over mine. "so what's stopping the two of you from giving it another go?" I sighed, shrugging.

"I just don't want to get hurt again." I said. "When I moved to America Kai said we could make it work and then disappeared off the face of the earth. I don't want to go through all that again."

"Very sensible Max." Robert said. "No point opening yourself up to heartbreak from someone who has already hurt you; never go back to an ex, you broke up for a reason."

"Your advice is terrible." Johnny stated. "Don't listen to him Max."

"Besides," Oliver added. "it's not as if you guys really broke up officially in the first place by the sounds of it."

"When you put it like that..." I began. Maybe it was time that I admitted to myself that I was still in love with Kai. It had always been there (even when I was with Brooklyn) and had only really come to a head when I saw him that first day in class and had been growing ever since. I shook my head. This was crazy! I couldn't just hope that if we got back together he wouldn't just bail again like last time. "No, this is insane. I can't just go up to him and kiss him like nothing happened."

"Why not?" Enrique asked.

"Yeah," added Oliver. "you want him..."

"Don't deny it, you know you do." Johnny cut in when I opened my mouth to protest.

"He wants you," Oliver continued. "so why don't you just go for it and see what happens?"

God he was right! If I had any hope of spending the night with Kai and remaining in any way sane then I would have to tell him how I felt about him. Even if he did turn me down flat, which he might well do (just because everyone told me he still wanted me there was no guarantee that he would want to give it another try), then I would at least know and be able to sleep tonight rather than constantly worry about it.

"Okay," I said getting to my feet. "I'll go tell him.

"'Atta boy Maxie!" Enrique grinned.

"Follow your heart and find romance!" Oliver gushed.

"How drunk are you?" Johnny asked him nodding down to the almost full glass of wine in front of him.

"I'm a romantic." Oliver replied shrugging.

"And if everything goes south we'll be here with alcohol." Robert said. I may have to take him up on that.

"Thanks guys." I picked up a glass filled with water and downed the contents. It wasn't water. I shuddered. "This is gin, isn't it?"

"Could be worse," Enrique grinned. "could have been Grappa."

"True." The Dutch courage was probably good for me as there was a chance I would get to Kai's door and bottle it. I drank another shot of Gin. "Right I'm gone."

Before I could talk myself out of it I ran to Kai's room and pounded on the door. He opened it, looking at me with a raised eyebrow. Before he could say anything and before I could change my mind I grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him into a kiss. Kai reacted almost immediately to it wrapping his arms around my waist and kissing me back with equal passion. God it felt good to have Kai's lips on mine again, it was like everything melted away and we were just carrying on right where we left off.

One of his hands tangled in my hair and he bit down on my bottom lip, dragging his teeth along it before slipping his tongue into my mouth. I moaned, pressing myself right up against him and threading my fingers into his hair. He pulled back slightly.

"Have you been drinking?" he asked.

"I had, like, one gin." I told him diving in to kiss him again. God it felt so good! The hand in my hair gripped it tightly and pulled, forcing my head back and away from his lips. He looked down at me, his eyes hard but I could still see the lust burning behind them.

"Are you sure you want this?" he asked. There was a definite edge to his voice, like he was having trouble keeping himself in check. I felt myself shiver at the thought. I met his gaze and made sure he knew that I was deadly serious.

"I've never wanted anything more." I told him. A smiled spread across his face and he kissed me again.

Chapter title lyrics taken from 'Human' by Jon McLaughlin