A/N: NEW CHAPTER, NEW COUNTRY, YOU'RE WELCOME!
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-Anna x
"It's so nice to see you two in clothes!" Taylor smiled sarcastically as Rai and Kimi emerged from her room and they flushed.
"So are you two together…?" Anastasia was blunt with it but in truth, everyone was wondering.
The two avoided looking at each other.
"Has anyone let Omi out yet?" Clay changed the subject quickly.
"Oh my god! I forgot!" Kimiko ran over and unlocked the door to find Omi sitting in the centre of the floor, meditating. "I'm so sorry I forgot you!"
"Is the helicopter here?" Omi peeked out from under his now slightly open eyes.
"It's about five minutes away." She smiled. "Did you enjoy my dad's room?"
"There is a lot of energy in there, Kimiko. Thank you very much for letting me meditate in here." Omi touched the door frame as he left. A slight spark connected to his finger and he knew the spirit was thanking him.
"So, let's go up to the roof!" The gang all started to the roof.
"I'm going home." Anastasia whispered.
"I cannot wait to see home." Omi said quietly.
"Home is where the heart is." Kimiko sighed.
The helicopter arrived and, with a tearful goodbye from Frankie who promised to visit, the gang were ready to depart.
A few hours later and the gang arrived with Dojo waiting for them.
"Alright kids, let's go meet the Pavlenko's." Dojo started walking.
"I live just down the road." Anastasia had changed into her fur coat and Russian attire. She opened the door to her house. "Mama? Brat'ya?" She called out. Two heads popped out from the kitchen.
"Anastasia!" The two boys ran down the hall to her and cuddled her in between them.
"I've missed you both!" She looked up at her older twin brothers.
"Spasibo! Printsessa, we've missed you too." They looked down at their little sister adoringly.
"Where is Mama?" She asked.
"Kukhnya." They said in sync.
"Spasibo, brat'ya." She kissed them each on their cheeks.
"Where is she then?" Rai asked.
"Kuk- I mean kitchen." She smiled, catching the words of her native tongue.
"Govorit' ne Rossii?" The twins asked.
"Net, tol'ko angliyskiy." She laughed.
The boys exchanged a glance then looked at the girls.
"Viktor Pavlenko. Your eyes are krasivyy." Viktor took Kimiko's hand and kissed it.
"Valery Pavlenko. It's wonderful to make acquaintance with you." Valery bowed his head at Taylor and stroked the mark on her face.
She watched his sea green eyes and could imagine swimming in the orbs all day.
"Brat'ya!" Anastasia shouted. "Do not flirt with my friends!"
"What does krasivyy mean?" Kimiko asked without breaking eye contact with Viktor.
"Beautiful." Valery continued caressing the mark on Taylor's face.
Kimiko held his intense gaze.
Taylor traced his hand as he held her cheek.
"Brat'ya! Parni!" Anastasia shouted.
The twins leapt back from the girls.
"What did you do?!" Taylor and Kimiko whined.
"I said you have boyfriends." Anastasia said smugly.
"But we don't!" The two girls shouted.
Rai looked down at Kimiko with his eyebrow raised. Kimiko immediately averted her eyes from her lover.
Taylor slowly turned to look at Clay who had a hint of hurt in his eyes but quickly masked it. "Taylor, you can do whatever you want. As your best friend, I just want you to be happy." A small smile formed on his lips and a courteous nod and it was all for her.
"I am happy. It was just nice to be hit on for once. He took charge with it… It was nice." She smiled at him but it wasn't a warming smile; it was a question.
"So how about you, Kim? Are you happy?" Rai asked.
"Let's go meet Mama Pavlenko." She said, ignoring Rai's question.
"Mama?" Viktor asked a tall woman with red hair in two fishtail plaits down her back.
"Viktor." She turned round to talk to Viktor and her jaw dropped, along with the china pot she was cooking stew in.
"Privet Mama." Anastasia greeted.
"What are you doing here, doch'?" She asked with certain steeliness in her voice.
"I came home." She responded in an ice cold tone.
"Pochemu?" Veronika snarled.
"YA zhivu zdes'." Anastasia narrowed her eyes.
"Are they always like this?" Zach asked Valery.
"Yes." Valery replied sadly.
"Ostavlyat'." Veronika stated.
"Net, Mama." Anastasia declined.
"Mama, we missed Anastasia. Let her and her friends stay. Pozhaluysta." Valery asked.
"Only because you asked, Valery." Veronika answered. "You know where the spare rooms are." She called over to Anastasia.
Anastasia gave her mother one last ice cold glare and then stormed up the stairs, followed quickly by Omi and her two brothers. The rest of the gang grabbed their stuff and piled upstairs.
"Stasia, can I come in?" Omi knocked on the door that her brothers were banging on.
"Omi, you don't want to see me like this." She called back out.
"I always want to see you." He replied.
The lock clunked open and Omi entered the door and noticed her brothers' jaws drop.
"So, are you sure you have a boyfriend?" A deep voice asked.
Kimiko turned to see Viktor leaning against the wall beside her. "I don't know." She looked up into his green eyes.
"You really do have beautiful eyes, Kimiko." He pushed some hair out of her face, brushing her cheek.
"I-I" Kimiko didn't manage to utter a word.
"Kimi?" Rai emerged from her room.
Kimiko looked between the two boys. Viktor pulled his hand away, knowing what it looked like.
"It's not what you think, Rai." She pleaded.
"Isn't it always?" He asked bitterly.
"I was pushing hair from Kimiko's face." Viktor stated.
"Oh of course you were. You were most definitely not about to kiss my-" Rai paused. He couldn't finish that sentence. She wasn't his girlfriend. She wasn't his.
"You're what?" Kimiko asked. "You're what?" She repeated.
"Kimiko, don't." Rai said.
"I didn't realise that was all I was to you, Rai; just a possession." Tears begun to sting her eyes and she didn't want him to see her like it.
"Kimiko, please don-"Rai started.
"Just leave me alone." She pushed him out of the way and slammed the door to her room.
She ran straight towards the bed and just sprawled herself out and cried.
There was a knock on her bed.
"Go away Rai!" She shouted.
"Excuse me! Since when did Rai even knock?!" A voice called from behind the door.
"Ugh come in."
The pregnant blonde stumbled in with her huge belly and plonked herself next to Kimiko. She stroked Kimiko's hair as she sobbed and wailed about how bad men treated her.
"I know sweetie." Ashley comforted.
"I just don't understand why he treats me like that! It's so wrong!" Kimiko cried.
Ashley's head snapped up. Her hand stopped moving in Kimiko's hair. She silently got up and stormed out of there.
"GET IN THERE AND DEAL WITH HER." Ashley screamed.
"SHE'S NOT MY PROBLEM." Rai shouted back.
"DO NOT UPSET A PREGNANT HUNGERY AND ANGRY WOMAN. I WILL EAT YOU." Ashley shouted.
"Kimi…?" Rai peeked through the door slightly but just received a pillow to the face.
"Kimi, I'm sorry." Rai pushed open the door.
"Go away!" She shouted.
"I actually am this time! Let me in and we can talk?" He asked.
She gave a small nod.
He crept in and shut the door behind him.
"I'm not a possession, Rai." She said.
"I know you aren't." He sighed.
"I've talked." She said.
"Kimi…" He said.
"What?" She looked up.
"Would you, I mean, will you…"
"Spit it out!" The door shouted.
"Huh?" They turned and walked to the door. The two opened the door and in piled the whole gang, brothers and all.
"Were you eavesdropping?!" Kimi wiped the tears from her cheeks as her eyes began to blaze.
"No!" The group exclaimed.
Fire rose from her hands.
"Okay maybe!" Taylor cried.
"Raimundo Pedrosa stuttered." Clay smirked.
"Shut up, man!" Rai glared.
"Out." Kimiko ordered.
"Really though…?" Taylor asked.
"OUT." The fire grew higher in her hands and burned in her eyes.
They all scurried out and shut the door.
"So, what were you asking?" Kimiko faced Rai.
"I was, er. Would you like to, I mean, will you. I mean could you?" He tried again.
"Seriously, Rai; spit it out!" Kimiko smiled.
"Would you like to become my, er, girlfriend?"
A/N: FINALLY! YOU'RE WELCOME!
R&R!
-Anna x