Chapter 8
Day 4 Confessions and gifts (Cale)

At 9:00 Dais, Cale, Sekhmet, and Anubis were awake, but after last night, all four Seasons knew that they would have to change their plans. They simply could not be together in public anymore. The Ronins were starting to question where Dais, Sekhmet, and Cale were going. Normally, they wouldn't mind tell the Ronins, but how were they going to explain to them why Anubis was walking around with them when he was supposed to be dead? Dais originally wanted Anubis to give them a tour of the island, but Cale warned that if they did something like that, the Ronins would get more suspicious. "That's okay." Anubis said, "I need Cale to stay with me today."
"Why?" Cale asked.
"I wanted to ask you something," Anubis replied
After Dais and Sekhmet left to join the Ronins, using the excuse that Cale wasn't feeling good to go traveling with them, they left. When they left, Anubis asked Cale, "The morning we were in the bathroom trying to escape from Dais, you started crying after we joked about the stuff we used to do in Dynasty. Do you want to tell me about it?"
"I don't want you to leave us, that's all." Cale responded
"Is that all?" Anubis asked, knowing there was something else bothering Cale.
"Yes," Cale said.
"Are you sure?" Anubis smiled.
"Would I lie to you?" Cale asked.
"No, but I know that you tend bury your pain and pretend that it isn't there," Anubis stated.
Cale looked at Anubis, he wasn't easy to fool, especially when it came to pain, "I don't want you to leave. I know that in the Dynasty, were never really saw past our egos, but we cared about each other, including you." With that, tears came into Cale's eyes. "I know we teased each other, but don't all brothers do that? The most painful thought was the fact that you died not knowing how much you meant to us."
Cale then became serious, "I was an only child in my biological family, and I always wanted a little brother and friend to talk to. You were that "little brother" I always wanted." Cale then looked at Anubis straight in eye, "I loved you as a friend and a brother, I know we had our arguments, but I still cared about you, and I don't want you to leave."
Cale leaned on Anubis' shoulder and started to sob helplessly. Anubis was glad that Cale had gotten these feelings out; all three of them had been given a second chance, they shouldn't have to bottle these emotions up inside.
"Cale," Anubis said in a comforting manner, "I have to leave, but there is a way for you to cope." Anubis got up from the bed where he and Cale were sitting, and grabbed a tablet and a pen. "I want you to take this paper and pencil and draw the first thing that comes to mind." He told Cale.
Cale was puzzled, what was Anubis trying to prove? But Cale took the tablet and pen and began to draw. When his mind registered what he was drawing, Cale looked surprised, "Did I know I could do that?" He asked, amazed
Anubis smiled, "Don't you feel better after drawing?"
"Yes, a little." Cale said
"Continue drawing," Anubis told him, "I'll get you some watercolors and paintbrushes."
True to his word, Anubis got the supplies at the small art store in the hotel, and for the rest of the day with a break for lunch Cale drew and painted. Cale drew the room, the seashore, the trees he had seen, and a portrait of Dais in his suit, standing before the Diet. Cale never knew how much better he felt after he drew good or bad experiences on paper, but he still didn't want Anubis to leave.
"I smell paint," Dais said, walking into the room several hours later.
"Just showing Cale the fine art of drawing and painting." Anubis said, smiling.
"Let's order room service," Cale said.
So for the rest of the night, they ate room service, talked, laughed, and joked, just like the friends they were meant to be.