I'd Lie

Hilary rolled on the grassy surface she was lying on, to face her companion who was staring off ahead at the horizon ahead of them. The blue haired boy opened his eyes and spared her an acknowledging side glance, then turned his concentration back towards their surroundings.

Silence was usually at ease between the two of them. However, at the moment, after an hour spent alone with Kai watching the scenery from the hilly surface behind the dojo, Hilary was feeling rather fidgety and had a keen urge to talk to Bladebreaker captain.

"Kai, are you gay?" She asked abruptly.

Said boy raised his eyebrows. "No, I am not," he answered without turning to look at her.

"Good." The chocolate haired girl smiled triumphantly. "You could make a lesbian go straight with one of your smoldering looks."

Kai blinked at her then shook his head in mild annoyance He wasn't even going to think of asking how she came up with such a preposterous idea. On the other hand he did want to know what kind of effect he – and his smoldering gazes – had on her. She was attracted to him, yes, but did he really affect her like that too?

Kai smirked in spite of himself and deliberately scooted a bit towards Hilary. He wanted to know what reaction he would get if he purposely did try to fluster her.

"There must be someone outside the team and the Blitzkrieg boys who you like?" Hilary asked. The exasperation was evident in her tone and Kai had to try hard not to chuckle.

"Nope, there is no one outside the team who I like," Kai answered choosing his words cautiously.

Hilary grumbled something unintelligible under her breath. "Are you going to grow old and all alone with no family or anything?"

Kai lurched up into a sitting position and looked down at Hilary who was turned to her side.

"Do you not want a nice sunset scene with someone you like?" She continued now that she had his attention.

"Cliché much?" The former Blitzkrieg Boy retorted rolling his amethyst eyes.

She rolled her eyes the same. "I know, I know, but it would be fun."

"I'd rather jump off a cliff, Hilary," he muttered looking away from his coach. "By the way," he said after a while, pointing towards behind them. "Turn your head: sunset," he finished simply.

"Hmm." She smiled.

After a few minutes of contented silence Hilary spoke up again. The sun was now almost completely below the skyline and the sky had turned a calm shade of pastel blue with puffy clouds obscuring any remaining rays of sunlight. "Do you want me to set you up with some girl from my school?"

There was a low growl from her partner.

Hilary gave a nervous laugh and shifted a little away from Kai, glad to have an excuse to do so. "Why the need to, be so aggressive to get your point across? Those girls are my friends you know. Maybe you should have been the one to take those anger management classes…" she grumbled as an after-thought.

"Their thoughts are kind of one dimensional," Kai scoffed.

Hilary opened her mouth to protest and defend her class-mates, but pondering for a second, she realized that there was nothing she could use to defend them. "Fine." She grunted in agreement. "They are all fixated with beyblades. Ninety-five percent of the school male population is obsessed with blading, and the ninety-five percent of the female population is stalking bladers, the rest of us… eh, never mind."

If there was someone that Kai liked, being such a bipolar little girl that he was, Hilary was sure he'd deny it and try to act otherwise. Too bad though, it'd have been nice to be on one side with her whole crush-on-Kai phase. At four years, it was getting forty-four months too old! Hopefully, if he started dating someone, she'd get over it.

But as Kai moved completely next to her, the side of his figure pressed against her own, leaving Hilary completely flushed, she realized that getting over the Russian wouldn't be that easily accomplished.

I wrote this back in the winter of 2011. It's been rotting in my documents folder since. It was supposed to be a oneshot, but I've forgotten how I planned to continue this. So basically I cut out some parts, added an ending. And bada bing bada boom, you have a drabble.

Thank you to Dead-bY-n0w for beta-reading.

There's a drabble before this as well, which I published right now, and I'll be publishing two more tonight. Check them out too.

05:21 pm. 7th July, 2014