Blown away

Summary: Meet Berry Harrison, a fifteen year old teenager, a beauty hidden behind glasses. Meet Kai Hiwatari, the most popular guy in school, a bully, every girl's dream. Put them together and…?

Chapter 21: Confession of a father's love.

Kai turned restlessly on his bed, his violet eyes tired but worried, his mind lost in his own thoughts. He turned again and this time he was facing the ever-so-familiar ceiling of his bedroom, the chandelier glittered because of the moon outside his slightly opened window. He sighed and rubbed his already messy slate hair before getting up. He pulled off his covers before glancing at his digital clock on the side table. The red digital numbers shimmered brightly in the dark, showing unmistakably that it was three in the morning.

Kai didn't knew why he couldn't fell asleep, maybe because he was he had eaten a lot of junk food on his trip and it was giving his stomach a slightly burning sensation for water. Maybe it was because his grandfather was coming home after a very long time and he was just nervous about his arrival and the usual constant glares that he used to give him. Or maybe it was because the trip was not tiring at all…

Or maybe he was just worried.

Kai sighed loudly before stretching his tired muscles; he got from his king size bed and grabbed his blue dressing gown from the back of a chair. He hastily threw it over his pale body before walking towards the door. He opened it and walked slowly towards the kitchen.

"Maybe I should take some sleeping pills and go to sleep… grandfather won't certainly be happy if I would be sleeping on the breakfast table in the morning," Kai thought as he entered the kitchen and walked towards the fridge. He took out the carton of milk and poured himself a glass before putting the carton back.

Taking the glass of cold milk, he wearily sat down on the stool and allowed his thoughts to wander off freely.

"I know I shouldn't have left Berry alone at her home after what she had told me. But I had to; maybe she was just tired and needed rest. She will be all right in the morning. She just needs some good night's sleep,"

Kai sighed and shook his head disapprovingly at his own thoughts. And they say that thinking positive can make you feel better.

"This is so totally wrong! I need to go over to her house now and see if she is all right. She is not going to die… I hope. Good gracious! What will happen if the dream really comes true? The prediction? Maybe she is in great danger!"

Suddenly shaking in anxiety, Kai got up from the stool and dropped the now finished glass of milk on the floor. There was a loud crash and the glass broke into a billion pieces and Kai was lucky that none of it hurt his bare feet. He raised his eyebrows as he realized his worry state of mind. The crash of the glass had wakened him up and now he could see what was happening around him. He was just scared about Berry. Maybe he had been scared about her for such a long time that he still feels the same way, forgetting the fact that she was closer that he had hoped, his girlfriend to be precise.

He smirked as he walked towards his bedroom again, suddenly feeling very drowsy.

"Looks like positive thinking does make you feel better," he thought.

Steven Harrison lied back in his personal hot water pool comfortably as he slowly closed his eyes and relaxed his body into the warmth of the water. After months and months of restlessly reading the documents and countless planning, the Harrison Corp and the Hiwatari Corp had finally put their hands together and planned to develop a new housing scheme in Italy. Not only that, the other important men and women in business had come over and had a meeting about earning money for the better change. Steven Harrison chuckled slightly as he remembered Voltair's disapproving expression. Knowing him, he had probably thought it would be a waste of energy and money.

But also knowing him that he wouldn't refuse an offer in which their new housing scheme would probably be advertised all around the world in a great deal of amount and for free too, he had agreed in giving five percent of his monthly Corp income to the World Bank so the poorer countries could use the money for the better change.

For Steven Harrison, it was not a problem at all, he liked helping people and at a large state, Jesus would be happy. He had happily signed the contract with his eyes closed.

Steven was about to doze off when a loud shrill bell echoed through the indoor pool making his eyes to snap open. He winced slightly as the bell rang again and he extended his hand towards the edge and grabbed his cell phone. Squinting his eyes through the warm steam, he raised his eyebrows when he saw his daughter's name blinking continuously on the screen. Without a second thought, he pressed the green button.

"Steven Harrison speaking," he said in a businesslike voice. Though he knew he really didn't have to introduce himself as he knew it was his beloved daughter calling from Tokyo. But a part of him just did not want to talk to her and that part almost took him over.

"Hey dad, it's me Berry… when are you coming home?"

Her voice echoed through his ear and through his mind, easing him and making him happy. It was not that he wasn't relieved to hear his only child's sweet innocent voice but he was also glad to hear that Berry was safe.

Though the bad part inside him ignored the plea in her voice and snapped her in total control.

"Er, honey, I am at the meeting right now…"

"Don't lie dad, I know your winter holidays have started from last week,"

Steven sighed inwardly, he had just forgotten that Berry was a genius and would have remembered even the slightest detail about his work and his free time. It already felt bad lying to her like that but somehow deep inside he just… didn't want to talk to her. Though he cannot ignore the fact that he was her father and at that moment, Berry needed a good answer.

"Oh honey, I won't be home this winter, maybe in spring I would…"

"But why not dad? You can't probably be busy! I think you really hate me that's why you aren't coming… is that true?"

"Obviously it's not true… I love you with all my…"

"Then why do I have to tell you to come? If you did love me then you would have come even if they weren't even your holidays!" Berry snapped.

Love? What was love? To Steven it was just a word. Before he believed love was a drug that cannot be taken away from a person without a proper fight. Before he believed that love was a disease that had no cure, he believed that love could never be parted, could never be finished, and could never die. But his thoughts had been proven flatly wrong after his wife's sudden death. He knew that his wife was going out to see a number of doctors' everyday and when he asked for a reason, she would have just smiled and said "Not that important,"

Not that important? Was dying suddenly not that important? Was leaving behind someone with a child that he had no knowledge to bring up was not that important?

After a few months of her death, the doctors had told him that she had cancer. He just couldn't believe it, why didn't she just tell him? What was she trying to prove when she just took matters in her own hands? What was she even thinking that he would be capable of handling a child that looked so like her and haunted him every passing minute?

Sure he loved Berry but he wanted to stay away from her. Whenever he was near her, he would just feel uncomfortable. Not that he disliked her but she reminded him so much of her. Everything of Berry's was similar to his wife, her innocent soft voice, her thick black hair, her blue eyes, her gentle smile, her frequent blush, her Einstein of a mind, her humming, her playing… what not. Whenever he was near her, he would picture a small version of his wife and it would pain him dearly to realize that his wife just didn't love him as much as he did.

Jerking his head from his thoughts and trying his best not to burst into tears like a young boy would when he was forced to answer a question against his will, he forced his voice straight and slightly harsh before saying:

"Berry, I am very busy at the moment and don't use that tone with me… good bye, I will see you in spring,"

He quickly pressed the red button and threw his cell phone away. He slowly hung his head and a tear ran down his cheek and dropped into the warm water that didn't seem warm anymore.

For the first time, he was glad that he was alone so he could once again muse over his past. And cry all he wanted.

Her back hurt painfully and her body was stiff from the cold yet she didn't dare to open her eyes. She knew that where ever she was, she was in great danger.

Unwillingly she at last opened her eyes and looked around. She was in a dark room, probably a dungeon if it was a fairy tale. But she knew that it was no time of thinking about plots for stories because she already knew that what was around her was unmistakably real.

The walls were dark and the floor, on which she was lying, was hard. Everything around her was dark and the only source of light that came into the room was the moonlight that escaped from a slit like a window at the top of the room.

Berry tried to sit up and suddenly realized that she was chained against the wall. She gritted her teeth in irritation and struggled to sit up. At last she was sitting against the wall, panting deeply. Suddenly pain shot up in her stomach and she moaned in pain as tears began to build up in her eyes. Berry tried to ignore the panicked voice that was shouting in her head and blinked her tears away before scanning the room again. But she wished she hadn't because the next thing she saw made her whimper in fright.

In the corner, Berry could see a huge silhouette of a chair which was unmistakably called the electric chair.

Ano... i am like SOOOO sorry for breaking my promise to update every weakend! soooo ssoorrry! my tests were on top of my head and all! but now they are over and i have got some holidays in which i can type more stories! i just realized that i havent written anything for more than two weaks! and that is soooo not like me! good lord!
anyway, i am sorry for the late update... i will update soon!
sooooo... heres another chapter, sorry its short... but i wanted to show what really berry's father was thinking and feeling... so here it is!

read and review!