The Aftermath
The four guys slept on and off. Waking up every once and while They would talk about stuff. Two little figures came into the room. Matt and Mark came into the room for some reason. "Hey what are you two doing in here huh?"
"We both had a nightmare." Matt said almost crying.
"Oh okay, come here Matt you can stay over here with me." Mark stood by the door shyly.
"Heh, heh come here Mark." Sweet picked up Mark's body wrapped in a blanket and placed a protective arm over him. Shang did the same for Matt. They both fell asleep soon into a peaceful sleep. Shang and Sweet carefully got up from the bed and made sure they hadn't waked up either of them.
Milo and Marty got up from their beds to follow Shang and Sweet. They stopped right outside Lei's door. Shang opened it slowly. Soon all four of them were looking at the two girls, Kida and Lei.
"She's really beautiful."
"You just notice Marty?"
"No I always thought she was pretty." Lei was sleeping in her bed vertically. She had a pillow wrapped under and arms and a blanket wrapped around her body. Her golden hair was messily placed over her face. She was glowing strangely.
"They both look like angels." His statement proved to be true as Kida looked pretty much like Lei sleeping peacefully. Her hair silvery hair down in front of her face. She too had a strange glow. Shang and Sweet got Milo and Marty to stop looking at both of them and went back to sleep.
That Morning…
I, Kit woke up to a soft noise. He crawled out of his bed. He walked through the hall pasted the other rooms down the stairs through the kitchen and living room to the door to the basement. I heard the noise get louder. I walked down the stairs silently. In the couch I saw Lei wrapped in a blanket. She was watching the TV almost crying.
I sat down beside her silent seeing whom she was watching. It was some of mom's old music videos. It was the ones she had us in. I think she missed her innocence. Since it was all the way gone now. She scooted over making room for me to sit next to her.
I sat down stretching my legs across the couch and Lei lying her head on my chest. I watched as my mother held us and danced around. She was saying she could never see the light till we and dad came around. My uncle Jazz says it's true along with my aunt Tiffy.
I held Lei tightly. She was never going to be the same ever again. I was thinking of last night. She seemed overly relieved but man were we all over protective of her. Shang just raised his fist at any guy who came too close to Lei.
I bet she could hear the whispers of people and rumors going around. But the whole gang was glad to see their leader back. I wondered if she was still going to be the leader. I bet she would have to fight to keep the spot. Shang, Marty, Milo, Kida, even Sweet or even I couldn't do anything to protect her if she wanted to still be leader.
"Lei are you going to hang out with the gang?" She thought for a while before saying a word.
"Do they still want me around?"
"Some do, some don't but the people who don't didn't want you there to begin with."
"Hmm. I will try but I'm scared."
"I know baby it's okay though we fixed the problem causer but there's going to be a bumpy road ahead."
"I know." She nuzzled my chest. I was really scared the last two weeks and never imagined it to be that bad. She soon fell asleep in my arms. It was still early and we didn't have school today since it ended yesterday. We all went to court though.
"Hey Kit, is she alright?"
"Yeah Kida she's just fine. She was just watching a video of our mom."
"Your mom's a really good singer and artist."
"I know." Kida sat down in an armchair and watched the videos with us. Lei was sleeping softly when the guys came down. Milo sat down by Kida. Shang, Marty, Matt, Sweet, and Mark sat down on the carpeted floor on their bellies. They too watched the video. Marty looked up to Lei and me. I nodded knowing what he was going to ask.
Lei soon woke up in a half an hour. She stretched out carefully. She was still sore. She got up from the couch and lay down in between Shang and Marty. Marty wrapped an arm around her bringing her closer to him. She leaned over and seemed to enjoy her closeness to him before falling asleep again.
Soon in an hour my mom came down stairs with Mya in her hands. She placed Mya down on the floor near Sweet who kept an eye on her before heading up the stairs saying hi and good mornings to everybody. She went to make breakfast for all of us. She said she was going to make waffles, pancakes and French toast for everyone and some bacon and sausage.
One year later…
Lei Smith is walking down the street and I am sitting on my stoop. I watch the people walk by. I like to spend some time thinking about my friends and stuff. What a girl that girl is too. She has a short gray 3/4-sleeve shirt under a silver vest that hangs open flying in the soft spring breeze. Her dark tanned belly shows that it's pierced with a small silver ring. Her baggy jeans hanging loosely around her waist with gold chain as belt hanging loosely as well. On her feet she's wearing a pair of sneakers that are yellow and gray. They are pretty new but she loves shopping for shoes and clothes all the time with the gang at the mall down the street.
Her hair is hanging around loosely blowing in the wind like her clothes. Her bangs are framing her beautiful sweet face are blowing back in the wind. In the back it is pretty much shaved off but it's only cut off midway and her other hair that doesn't frame her face is put up in two short nubs with rubber bangs. Her hair is a dirty blonde with a few streaks of pure blonde from the sun.
Her lips are a sweet light pink color. Her cheeks are a slight rosy color and she has a deep tan on her body from staying outside a lot of the time. Her eye shadow is a coppery color. Her eyelashes have a little mascara and a jewel a right across from her eye.
She likes to kick box, hang out with her gang which she's the leader, do her schoolwork with friends, chew mint gum, sing by herself or for her friends, sit in her room thinking, and playing with her brothers and sisters on a Sunday afternoon. Her hands are never cold. She can't stand people whose hands are. She turns her music up real loud. She's as pure as New York snow. She can't hurt a thing. She'll let you take her home. Yeah I'm in love with her. She turns my world upside down and my only problem is she is too pure to ever notice me.
I got to kiss her forehead but she seems to push me away or pull me close. It isn't always the same around here since a year ago. I would like to say she's had a 100% recovery but then that would be lying. It's more like a 99% recovery. But I see her smile that is as bright as the sun everyday.
At school no one harasses her anymore about the trail of Ace and if they do well I hate to say this but I bet they wish they never did. She's a bold fighter. She'll even kick my butt if I ever say the wrong thing. That is how she became the leader of so many people. When people older try to see how far they can get because they're older. They usually get kicked out permentantly. She doesn't tolerate much from disloyal friends.
I see her dance at The Bar. We all go there every Friday night. The girls all get together before and get real dressed up for it. It's like a ritual. That is where she is heading now to her home. We call it home base. Her parents don't seem to notice that she fights a lot or they don't really care. Either way she makes some money fighting at her kick boxing tournaments.
Some new girls have made the scene in town. First there's Audrey. Her nickname is Andy. She wears all the time a pair of overalls and some kind of short baby tee shirt. She's got in for Shang. She is bold and fearless. Often is opinionated and industrious. She's the same age as Lei and Kida. She has dark brown hair and her skin is a dark chocolate brown.
Then there's Kitty. She's a year younger than Lei. She's an average valley kind of girl. She's smart and just pretty much normal well not in these parts since a girl who likes to fight is normal. She's got it in for Kit. She has long brown hair and is always fashionable.
Cherry is a quiet shy girl that just moved here. She's a year older than Lei but listens to what everyone's got to say. She's got long blonde hair that has a spiral curls in it. Her eyes are like liquid silver and she looks very weird but strangely exotic and beautiful but don't get me wrong. I'm all for exotic beauties but Lei's the only girl for me. Sweet's gotten to like her and tries to get her to loosen up.
Kida and Lei those two are best friends. She walks through the school as the two most beautiful girls in the whole school. They're smart, pretty, sassy, and great singers. The entered the talent show and won first place. I think it was half because they where both very beautiful spirits. I know Lei has it in for me. She makes me go crazy.
We never really got together. But she can tell you I'm the most protective friend she's got. Here it is Friday night again. I bet she's gonna make five guys at least look like fools. She has that kind of class and charm to make guys to do what she wants.
~*~
"Hey Lei when you and Marty gonna get together?"
"Probably never cause he's too shy to ask me out for real."
"Does it drive you crazy?"
"Uh huh you know it." I fixed my hair up real well. I was planning on either driving Marty so crazy that he asks me or he'll go to the nut house.
We were all ready. All the girls always got all hyped up about the night's at The Bar. My dad drove us in the Hummer. He would watch over us and talk to me about driving the boys wild. He would laugh though at their faces when I left them.
We walked in and Shang, Sweet, Mark, Kit, Matt, my mom, and Marty where at a long table. My mom made sure to be here every Friday even though she had the busiest schedule. But she always put her children first before anything. Marty was holding his little brother. Yeah he had a little brother the exact same age as my sister Mya. Boy did she grow a lot this year.
The girls all walked out to the dance floor and started to dance in the quick hip-hop moves jumping, turning moving around. We all had our respective partners. I danced with Marty. He danced quickly. We were showed off our stuff as the song Scream came on. The fast beat made it difficult for rookies to dance but we weren't any rookies.
Marty dropped down to the floor and pounded as I hopped over him. He took me hand and flung me out and quickly recoiled me back close to him. I smiled micheviously. This was going to be good. We got our chairs for the chair routine. I had a low cut shirt and I knew he couldn't keep from the temptation. He tapped and stomped on the chair. I did the same bending low enough so he could get a good picture. I puckered my lips as if I was to kiss him. I noticed his dazed look. I got him hypnotized.
Luckily the song ended and a slow song came on. I tipped the DJ to do that. "Marty come on dance with me." He nodded slightly.
I wrapped my arms around his neck and he put his arms around my waist. He looked down at me with a smile. "Hey Lei, I've been meaning to talk to you."
"'Bout what?"
"I think I have these feelings for you." I looked up to him and smiled. He looked more nervous than when I was in the hospital a year ago. It still hurts sometimes but Red my guardian angel and my friends have helped me through it all and my parents have been really supportive.
"I know you do Marty."
"How?"
"It's pretty obvious."
"Well I think I love you Lei."
"Good because I love you."
"Why?"
"Well your sweet, kind, gentle, brave, protective, smart, courageous…" He kissed me before I could finish answering. I melted in his arms. He looked down at me, as I was startled. I held on to him tight because he was the only thing that was holding me up.
I saw all my friends giving me the thumbs up. Cherry and Sweet are dancing together. I see her in a pair of blue jeans and a silver glittery shirt. Her long pink hair resting on Sweet's large shoulder. Kida and Milo are dancing since I see him turned around with a very dark tanned girl with silver hair. Only could be Kida with him. Those two are never going to separate I bet. Shang and Audrey are dancing together and Kit and Kitty are dancing together as well.
"Look at all of them Zee. Remember when I taught you to dance like that?"
"How could I forget? That's when I realized I was falling for you."
"Well I think everybody's going to turn out fine especially Lei. Our little flower child."
"Yes I think your right Ro."
"When haven't I been right Zee?"
"Hmm, I think it's wiser not to answer that one Ro."
"I think that you're right."
