The sunset a nice bright mood shining an orange glow onto the world as it rose up from the night sky. It seemed like nothing could go wrong. Well...almost.
Thundering footsteps haunted the pace of the morning as two people ran down the side of the highway one chasing after the other.
"Kana Sheridan Corduroy get back here you bloody prick!" Felicity Baxter yelled as she chased after the taller girl in front of her. Kana turned around still running forward and stuck her tongue out at the British.
"Catch me if you can Baxter." Kana teased holding up Lexie's hat. Sure it seemed like just a hat but it meant a lot to Lexie which was something Kana wasn't aware of.
Sadly for Lexie, the taller girl, along with her advantage in height also had an advantage in speed(I mean look at those long legs!) so she was falling drastically behind as the other raced ahead towards town. As Lexie started to lose speed she sighed and stopped to catch her breath.
"Kana Corduroy if you don't give my hat back I'm not going on a coffee run with you!" She yelled but Kana only heard the first part of the tanner girl's threat.
"I am never giving this back then!" Kana shouted happily which broke the British's heart in two. Lexie kicked the dirt and sighed and began to walk away defeated. Hearing Kana whoop and cheer began to get on her nerves.
"Fine! Go by yourself!" Lexie snapped cupping her hands over her mouth like a megaphone. Finally hearing clearly what the Brit said Kana immediately stopped her joyous victory and panicked. Not understanding why Lexie had such a reaction to such a silly tease Kana stood there staring at the hat in her hands.
"Lex?" Kana softly cried out and her panic rose to a new high as the other girl didn't even give her a second thought not hearing Kana call for her. "L-Lexie?" Kana stuttered out and her heart began to accelerate its pace. Just the thought of being alone in the cafe after what happened between her and her ex made Kana shiver. The sky seemed to refelt both girl's moods with dark grey clouds beginning to clump together. "Lex!" Kana cried out running as fast as she could not wanting the girl to leave her alone.
Lexie was just about to turn around when suddenly two long thin arms wrapped themselves around her with a snake-like grip. A head of soft brown hair rested on her shoulder and Lexie looked down at Kana.
"Kana?" Lexie asked confused as to why Kana had such a reaction to her leave when just two seconds ago she was cheering like she won the lottery.
"Don't leave me, please," Kana begged knowing the words she spoke were probably useless but pleaded anyway. Lexie was at a loss now.
"Huh? But, but don't you want to see Tristan without a third wheel around?" Kana raised her head to look at Lexie in the eyes properly and shook her head looking at the ground in shame.
"Somethings...happened between us. Well, there is no us now I guess." Kana admitted with a sigh and looked at Lexie in the eyes again. "Please don't make me go alone Lexie, I'll behave," Kana promised and Lexie nodded understanding what Kana was going at. If something like a break up was bothering Kana so much she was begging LEXIE of all people to be her back up Lexie was going to be there for her friend.
Lifting the brunette's face with her hand Lexie smiled at Kana.
"I'll come on one condition," Lexie warned trying to show she wasn't giving in so easily. Kana nodded her head eagerly.
"What is it?" Kana asked willing to do just about anything just to have Lexie there with her.
"You can't mess around or tease me, got it?" Kana nodded not even hesitating to take Lexie up on her condition. Lexie nodded proud of herself and walked forward quickly surprising Kana and she moved even quicker to catch up with the fast walking Brit.
"Hold up Lexie," Kana shouted and Lexie turned around to see just what the taller girl wanted and was surprised to have her hat back on her head. "You forgot this hippie." Kana joked sticking her tongue out.
Lexie rolled her eyes and sighed smiling reaching up and ruffled Kana's wild hair and let her fingers sit in the fluff for a moment longer twiring a strand around her finger a bit before letting go.
"Whatever you say, dork," Lexie smiled and laughed at her friend as she reached up and tried to tame her wild locks. "Your hair is so long now, it was so cute when you had a mullet though," Lexie teased and Kana frowned obviously not please by the mullet joke but Lexie could see that she too wanted to smile.
"Well, maybe I'll cut it, that way you can't mess with it and it can't be a mullet." Kana huffed crossing her arms looking the other way trying to hide the red that coated her cheeks but little to her knowledge her ears were tinted with the same color. Lexie held back a laugh as she noticed this blush and rolled her eyes.
"Sure Kana, you cut it and dye it blonde too," Lexie added sarcastically but Kana being the bullheaded dork she is she didn't quite catch it.
"Why blonde?" Lexie shrugged.
"For Ash or Mel or something, I don't know." Kana scratched her chin scar a bit while she thought about it for a bit.
"Sounds like a plan," Kana smirked at Lexie tipping an invisible hat to her friend. "Captin' Baxter." Lexie rolled her eyes.
"Suuuuuuuuuure~. I bet you wouldn't even dare to do it." Kana's elfish smirk grew as her eyes twinkled with delight at the challenge.
"Oh yeah?"
"Yeah!"
"Wanna bet flower child?"
"You're on punk. I'll cut my hair and dye it but only if you do the same." Kana stuck her hand out but before Lexie could shake it Kana spit on it.
"I'm game if you are retro-zone." Not even fazed by the spit Lexie did the same to her own hand and they shook for like three seconds before both girls let go and started wiping their hands off on their clothes.
"Ugh, gross," Kana smiled as an idea hit her. Quickly she wiped her hand on Lexie's shoulder and booked it before the other girl could prosses what happened. "Take you spittle back!" Kana yelled at her laughing.
"Hey! That was a tease you jerk!" Kana turned around and laughed.
"Whatever you say, redcoat-"
"Kana look out!" Lexie yelled and moved her legs faster but didn't make it in time and paused to flinch as Kana hit a telephone face first. Running to help her friend up Lexie couldn't help but laugh as she helped Kana back onto her feet. "Ha! Oh my, um, sorry for laughing but are you okay Kana?" The brunette shook her head and groaned in pain rubbing her head.
"Ugh, what was that?" Kana grumbled out and Lexie sighed taking Kana's arm around her shoulders and another around her side keeping her friend up.
"Pole now can you see or do you need to sit down?" Kana squinted and shrugged.
"Um, yes?" Kana muttered with a small smile. Lexie rolled her eyes and sat them both down under a tree for shade even though the sun wasn't even that high yet. Kana muttered curses to all poles and the inventor of poles for whatever purpose they serve and Lexie just sighed and rubbed Kana's back.
"Ya know I'm really sorry Lex." Kana spouted out with a slur to her voice. Lexie raised a brow.
"About what?" Lexie couldn't think of a single thing Kana HADN'T apologized for yet. If Kana thought she had done ANYTHING to offend or bother Lexie in any way she apologized as soon as possible in her own way.
"You don't remember, it was a while ago. A certain elastic incident in the locker room." Kana felt Lexie stiffen up and Kana sighed. "Yeah, that one, I'm real sorry for how I reacted. I should have just talked it out with ya." Lexie shook her head.
"No worries, besides I kind of deserved it. I shouldn't have stared, it was rude." Kana sighed and looked up at the sky and groaned and she rubbed her head. "You sure you're okay?" Kana sighed and shook her head.
"No, I've got a killer headache. Seriously this thing will be the end of me," Kana flopped her head into Lexie's lap and dramatically put a hand over her eyes. "This is it for me, the end of the line!" Kana peeked from between her fingers and put her hand on Lexie's cheek. "You'll tell my story right?"Lexie smiled and nodded.
"I'll tell it till I think it's my own story Kana, I swear on...um...what's that river you always swear on?"
"The River of Styx?" Lexie nodded.
"Yeah, that one!" Kana frowned.
"You know if you break your vow you'll be punished after death and in your next life right?" Lexie shrugged and smiled.
"Then it's a good thing I don't plan on doing so. Besides, if I do break my vow will you keep me safe?" Kana nodded and smiled.
"Yeah, I'll be like your knight in rusty armor." Kana joked and Lexie smiled.
"Yeah, my white knight in rusty armor. And I'll be your Captin telling the story of a stupid white knight." Kana choked out a laugh a tear streaming down her face.
"And I'll sing you a song one day too when I come back home." Kana sniffed wiping her tears away with the sleeve of her shirt. Lexie nodded crying herself.
"You'll really do that?"
"Humm?"
"You'll sing me a song?" Kana nodded sitting up now and rested her head against Lexie's shoulder.
"Yeah I will, and you'll tell my story?" Lexie nodded and raised her pinky in the air.
"I swear on the River of Styx I will." Kana reached up and intertwined her finger with Lexie's.
"We swear...on the River of Styx."
Kana gasped as she woke up and looked around her hoping to see a sign of her friend but her heart fell to the floor as she was greeted with nothing but a dark room and not the rough tree she remembered. Feeling something wet touch her hand Kana reached up and found that tears were falling freely down her face in a sloppy mess like in her dream just now.
Groaning Kana flopped back on the dirt ground she was laying on and sighed not being able to go back to sleep. There was something on her mind that was really bugging her.
Kana reached up to her head and felt her long hair shifting her fingers through her messy mane like Lexie had done thinking of the little joke she had made about Kana's hair.
"Maybe I should cut it, and maybe dye it too, but first," Kana stood and stretched a bit smiling to herself. "Coffee run."