Chapter2: Suicidal Tendencies, yay or nay?
Alex opened the door and stomped straight into the kitchen and grabbed a big block of chocolate and a bottle of Fanta. Then she stalked into her room and slammed the door behind her.
"Great," sighed Jenni shaking her head, "she's cracked."
"What does that mean?" asked Max looking at the Thunder Blades questionably.
"The stress got too much for her and she snapped. So now she's gone into her room to binge eat and watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," replied Carla.
"That's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," corrected Tessa.
"It's that serious?" asked Kai causing everyone to look at him.
"Well Hiwatari, seeing as you care so much why don't you go and cheer her up?" asked Tessa grinning like a hyena (dumb spelling).
"No way, she needs some alone time," replied Kai
"sorry buster you can't get out of this one," smirked Jenni. Then the pair began shoving him to Alex's room. They opened the door and pushed him in. Then they locked the door... from the outside.
"GET THE FUCK OUT! THIS IS MY ALONE TIME! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M ONLY WEARING A SHIRT!"
"I think that it's going well," laughed Fiona.
"You look different, but you sure don't act different," remarked Ray.
"Of course not, we'll always be the same old Thunder Blades," said Tessa wrapping her arms around Ray's chest, causing him to become tense (changed it a bit).
"Um guys...I kinda have a broken nose," came Tyson's voice.
"Oh right," said Carla, "that." Tyson wasn't a pretty sight, there was blood all down his neon yellow shirt and red jacket. His nose looked pretty flat as well.
"Alex really pulled one on you didn't she," said Kenny cringing at the sight of blood. Tyson nodded.
"So what are we going to do? Who's going to take him to hospital?" questioned Max.
"Hospital schmospital, we'll just call DR Kate!" said Tessa excitedly.
"Dr Kate?" asked Ray worriedly.
"Oh yeah Kate's a friend of ours. She's not actually a Dr but an assistant nurse, but she can deal with this stuff easy, it happened to Alex's last boyfriend when he laughed at her when she fell on her face in the middle of the Queen Street Mall," explained Jenni.
*1hr 30 min later*
"There ya go Tyson," said Kate finishing her work on Tyson, "now don't you go laughing at Alex when she makes a fool of herself no more."
Tyson just nodded, he has stunned by Kate's amazing beauty. Her naturally bleached blonde hair that hugged her ears, her elegant legs, her clear blue eyes.
"Anyway thanks for calling me you guys, I need all the experience I can get," she continued getting up smiling.
"It's no problem," replied Tessa, "besides we didn't want to have to go to the hassle of taking him to hospital."
"Really... So where's Alex?" asked Kate.
"Um well she kinda had a emotional breakdown and went to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory while binge eating," summarised Carla nodding her head.
"Woah, she has only done that once, the stress must really be phenomenal," replied Kate wide eyed.
"You can understand why though, with block testing, her band solo for the awards ceremony and that speech she has to give as school captain and then there's the piece she's performing at the final assembly... poor girl...it's all too much," sighed Jenni, sounding very wise.
"Are you feeling ok Jenni? I think that you need a sugar hit," advised Fiona.
"Yeah...SOFT DRINK AND COOKIES FOR EVERYONE!" yelled Carla.
"Yeah..." said Ray giving her a sideways glance.
A little while later, Ray was looking at Carla, Jenni and Fiona eat Smarties and drink Coca-Cola with horror.
The sugary effects of the lollies were making Carla and Jenni very hyperactive, but it didn't seem to be touching Fiona. Until she ate the caramel tart...
"Did you know that... heehee... nothing effects me like a caramel tart? It's like a sugary hitta... heeeeeeeta!" said Fiona.
"HITAHITAHITA!" said Carla and Jenni.
Ray decided to take a walk... escape sounded good right now.
Hell, did it sound good.
He didn't think he could stand the raised voices from of Alex's and Kai's fighting and the hita hita hita talking anymore.
Ray decided to check out the roof garden. He climbed the stairs careful not to step on any of the girls' stuff. He opened the door and felt the fresh air rush around his face. The day had become a lot colder due to a hard wind that had picked up.
On the other side of the garden he could see Tessa standing by an easel in her bikini and a skirt painting.
"What ya doing up here Tess?" he asked.
"Painting what do ya think? Like it?" Tessa replied.
"Crap that's amazing," said Ray staring at the still life painting of the sky.
"Um, I suppose so. I need to improve on the colour here and here though. It just doesn't look right yet," said Tessa, pointing out various parts of the painting that she thought were errors.
"Oh, I didn't see it when I looked at it first... but now I do... you shouldn't have pointed it out!" said Ray jokingly.
They both laughed for a bit then calmed down.
"Well... I think it's amazing." Ray expressed. Tessa smiled.
"Thank you." she paused. "So... When did you join the BladeBreakers?" she asked, trying to make some sort of conversation.
"A little while after I left the White Tigers," he said.
She caught something in his voice, so she didn't ask further.
"Oh, okay... hmm... so..." she said.
"You know... the first time I met you I... oh fuck this..." he said, and kissed Tessa before she had any say in the matter.
*In the bedroom*
Alex stood up, she couldn't take anymore of this bastard.
"IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH WATCH SOMETHING ELSE!" she yelled right in Kai's ears. With that she marched into the ensuité and slammed the door.
Alex undressed and turned on the shower. She let the warm water run all over her body. She took the time to wash her brown hair. It'd been ages since she'd had enough time to properly shampoo and condition her hair, so she was going to savor every moment of her shower.
Kai sat on the couch captivated by the program he was watching. He didn't hear Alex open the door. He didn't hear Alex come up behind him, but he did hear her laughing from the middle of the room.
"What a stupid prick!" muttered Kai, "he can't accept that he li...Huh?"
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KAI WATCHES SOAPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN I DON'T WATCH SOAPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD KAI YOU ARE SUCH A POOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Alex rolling on the floor with laughter.
*Outside*
"Did you hear something?" asked Kenny taking his attention off the game board.
"It's just Alex yelling at Kai," mumbled Carla, her head still buried in her cards.
"It sounded like she called him a poof," remarked Jenni, causing Carla to giggle.
"That's a new one," grumbled Tyson. "Want to play Fiona?" asked Tai ignoring the others. "Yeah!" said the Jenni, who still had a sugar rush going. "Guys... I'm not into board games unless it's chess, or checkers. Or something else like a murder mystery..." Fiona told all the people who were playing the Game of Life.
"Come on! It's FUN!" Tyson said.
"You sure?" Fiona said, flicking through a sketchbook.
"YES!" Carla said exasperatedly.
"So, how long does this game go for?" she asked.
Everyone: -_-;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
"Alright, alright. I'll play. Tai, which of these pieces aren't in use?"
*
Meanwhile...
"I. Am not. A poof --"
"Of course you aren't! You just find soaps 'intellectually engaging'" Alex laughed.
"I... Do... Not... it's just... strangely... addictive..." Kai looked like he was trying to hold down his anger.
"I'm sure it is!" Alex said, wiggling her eyebrows in her caffeine- saturated state.
"AGHHHHHHH!" Kai let out an outburst of anger. "Did you know that you're RUINING THIS?!"
"Jeez, I'm sorry. I just find you watching a soapie is rather amusing... Fiona doesn't even watch them either!" at this point she started laughing.
"What do I have to do to make you SHUT UP? You're ruining my show!"
"Oh, I dunno... Stand on your head whilst confessing undying love to Holly Valance?" Alex snickered.
"I won't do something as idiotic as that... plus, I don't like Holly Valance." he said.
"Ooooooooh... Then whom DO you love? Heh Heh Heh!" she said, again wiggling her eyebrows.
"I... you can't just..." he stammered.
Thus followed the awkward moment.
"You don't..." Alex said in her saturated state of sugar.
"No." he said, and walked out of the room. Well, tried.
It was locked.
He started trying the doorknob... then broke it off.
Swearing, he started to kick the door. "Let me out god Dammit!"
There was a yell outside, that sounded strangely like 'we can't because you ripped off the doorknob, you idiot!'
Then they both heard laughing.
"They are so evil..." Kai muttered, and slumped down the wall.
"No kidding. I've had to live with them since I was in year eight, but you know." Alex shrugged, then seemed to remember what they were saying before.
"So what do you mean, you don't like her?" the way he said it tweaked something in her head.
Kai started to get up again, and banged on the door.
"GET A CROWBAR!" he said, whilst banging. "JUST GET US OUT OF HERE!"
*
"You think we should get them out?" Tyson said nervously.
"Nah, it'll do 'em some good!" Fiona said cheekily, and started to laugh along with the others.
*
"I'm serious, Kai. What were you really talking about?" Alex said, serious for her state of hyperactivity.
"I wasn't talking about anything... you think that there's any other way to get out of here other than that window?"
"Yes, you were Kai. For hells sake, you have to tell me now... we're stuck in a room together and you can't avoid it now!"
Kai had reached his thresh-hold.
'Why can't she just shut up? He thought in exasperation. He looked around the room for a means of escape. He couldn't stay in this room with the subject of...love up for discussion.
He noticed at the far end of the room there was a balcony, and next to it was the main balcony that connected to the rest of the unit. It would be risky as hell, but it was either chance the balcony or face Alex's interrogation.
Ignoring Alex's question he walked across the room and out onto the balcony.
"What the hell are you doing? I asked you a question, don't just ignore me!" she shot at him, coming up behind him.
"Shut up I'm trying to get out of here," he snapped in frustration, how was he supposed to do this with her on his back?
"I know what you're planning to do you're going to jump aren't you?" continued Alex, a note of panic in her voice.
'Why does she always jump to conclusions?' groaned Kai mentally, shaking his head.
"No I'm not going to jump I'm trying to get onto the other balcony."
Alex stared at Kai with a raised eyebrow, she wasn't buying it.
"And I can believe you because?"
"I still haven't committed my undying love to Holly Valance while standing on my head," he replied dryly.
With that Kai swung his one leg over the railing and then the other.
'Damn this is high," he thought starting to sweat, spending so much time with the TB's and other BB's softened him up..., '...shit this is no time to panic.'
He stood there on the small ledge that went around the balcony...as he stood there a brief feeling of doubt passed through him, it was 31 stories high after all. During this one moment he lost his footing and would have fell to his doom if that dweeb Alex hadn't been standing there fretting like a headless chicken.
"FUCK!" she screamed as she grabbed reached over and grabbed onto his hand, "YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT!"
"IF YOU WEREN'T MAKING ALL THAT NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND I WOULDN'T HAVE LOST MY CONCENTRATION!" he retorted.
'Dammit, I'm about to fall to my death and we're fighting, how ironic,' thought Kai looking up at Alex, 'she has a pierced nose...'
"QUIT LOOKING UP MY NOSE AND CLIMB DAMMIT!!!" cried Alex. Her teeth gritted with the strain of holding Kai up, "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO MUSCLY DAMMIT!!!???"
Kai reached up and took Alex's other hand and SOMEHOW she managed to pull him up to the ledge from which he fell.
Once Kai climbed back onto the balcony Alex went rank.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING! YOU ALMOST GOT KILLED! YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST PUT SOME SHOES ON YOU FUCK WIT! WHEN DID YOU GET SUICIDAL TENDENCIES! SURELY YOU COULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT DESPERATE TO GET OUT!" she yelled until she worked herself up so much that she started to cry.
"You make it out that you actually care," he replied crossing his arms.
"OF COURSE I CARE DAMMIT! I LOVE YOU, YOU GREAT LUNK! SURELY IF YOU HAD ANY BRAINS YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT!" she screamed in reply.
Kai stared at her and then walked off into the ensuité. He needed to think, and what better place than the shower?
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING NOW?" Alex yelled at his back, but he kept going.
By the time he reached the ensuité he heard Alex crying. He rolled his eyes for a moment, then started to feel a little guilty.
It started to eat away at him as he took off his shirt, then he just got frustrated and started to talk to himself.
"No. I don't need to go out there and say sorry. No way! I don't need to. No, I don't!" just as he convinced himself not to go out there, he heard another sob.
"Shit!"
Getting frustrated, he gave up and stormed out of the ensuité over to Alex.
"Stop crying." he said angrily, with only a hint of guilt around the edges.
"You fucking scared me!" she said between sobs, not forgetting to swear.
"I know that. I... I... I'm sorry. Now just stop crying, will you?"
She stopped after a little bit and looked up at him, sniffing a little. "You mean that?"
"Yes... I... shit..." he sat on the ground next to her. "Yeah, I mean it."
Suddenly, Alex gave him a hug. He stiffened his hands in the air. Then he started to gently pat her back as she cried a little more.
Alex's POV
When he didn't protest to my hug I thought that I was dreaming. I had wanted to do this for the longest time. I was in heaven. Then he started to pat my back, which surprised me even more.
It is so ironic how just one event could change so much.
"For once my friends did something right," I managed to say, through the flow of tears. I don't think that he understood me though because he just looked at me for a moment.
What he had attempted scared me witless. I seriously thought that I would lose him. I shouldn't have ragged his addiction to soapies, even though it is very funny seeing the tough Kai watching a chick show. That was all in the past now. Right now, in the present I was content. No, I was in pure bliss.
We sat there in silence and eventually I stopped crying. I'd cried all my tears and there were none left. I adjusted myself so that I was looking right into Kai's eyes.
"Thank you," I whispered. He sat there looking slightly taken aback.
"I thought that you were asleep," he replied, his warm breath blowing into my face.
"And miss any of this?" I asked, "not a chance."
Then slowly our lips met for the first time.
Alex opened the door and stomped straight into the kitchen and grabbed a big block of chocolate and a bottle of Fanta. Then she stalked into her room and slammed the door behind her.
"Great," sighed Jenni shaking her head, "she's cracked."
"What does that mean?" asked Max looking at the Thunder Blades questionably.
"The stress got too much for her and she snapped. So now she's gone into her room to binge eat and watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," replied Carla.
"That's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory," corrected Tessa.
"It's that serious?" asked Kai causing everyone to look at him.
"Well Hiwatari, seeing as you care so much why don't you go and cheer her up?" asked Tessa grinning like a hyena (dumb spelling).
"No way, she needs some alone time," replied Kai
"sorry buster you can't get out of this one," smirked Jenni. Then the pair began shoving him to Alex's room. They opened the door and pushed him in. Then they locked the door... from the outside.
"GET THE FUCK OUT! THIS IS MY ALONE TIME! CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M ONLY WEARING A SHIRT!"
"I think that it's going well," laughed Fiona.
"You look different, but you sure don't act different," remarked Ray.
"Of course not, we'll always be the same old Thunder Blades," said Tessa wrapping her arms around Ray's chest, causing him to become tense (changed it a bit).
"Um guys...I kinda have a broken nose," came Tyson's voice.
"Oh right," said Carla, "that." Tyson wasn't a pretty sight, there was blood all down his neon yellow shirt and red jacket. His nose looked pretty flat as well.
"Alex really pulled one on you didn't she," said Kenny cringing at the sight of blood. Tyson nodded.
"So what are we going to do? Who's going to take him to hospital?" questioned Max.
"Hospital schmospital, we'll just call DR Kate!" said Tessa excitedly.
"Dr Kate?" asked Ray worriedly.
"Oh yeah Kate's a friend of ours. She's not actually a Dr but an assistant nurse, but she can deal with this stuff easy, it happened to Alex's last boyfriend when he laughed at her when she fell on her face in the middle of the Queen Street Mall," explained Jenni.
*1hr 30 min later*
"There ya go Tyson," said Kate finishing her work on Tyson, "now don't you go laughing at Alex when she makes a fool of herself no more."
Tyson just nodded, he has stunned by Kate's amazing beauty. Her naturally bleached blonde hair that hugged her ears, her elegant legs, her clear blue eyes.
"Anyway thanks for calling me you guys, I need all the experience I can get," she continued getting up smiling.
"It's no problem," replied Tessa, "besides we didn't want to have to go to the hassle of taking him to hospital."
"Really... So where's Alex?" asked Kate.
"Um well she kinda had a emotional breakdown and went to watch Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory while binge eating," summarised Carla nodding her head.
"Woah, she has only done that once, the stress must really be phenomenal," replied Kate wide eyed.
"You can understand why though, with block testing, her band solo for the awards ceremony and that speech she has to give as school captain and then there's the piece she's performing at the final assembly... poor girl...it's all too much," sighed Jenni, sounding very wise.
"Are you feeling ok Jenni? I think that you need a sugar hit," advised Fiona.
"Yeah...SOFT DRINK AND COOKIES FOR EVERYONE!" yelled Carla.
"Yeah..." said Ray giving her a sideways glance.
A little while later, Ray was looking at Carla, Jenni and Fiona eat Smarties and drink Coca-Cola with horror.
The sugary effects of the lollies were making Carla and Jenni very hyperactive, but it didn't seem to be touching Fiona. Until she ate the caramel tart...
"Did you know that... heehee... nothing effects me like a caramel tart? It's like a sugary hitta... heeeeeeeta!" said Fiona.
"HITAHITAHITA!" said Carla and Jenni.
Ray decided to take a walk... escape sounded good right now.
Hell, did it sound good.
He didn't think he could stand the raised voices from of Alex's and Kai's fighting and the hita hita hita talking anymore.
Ray decided to check out the roof garden. He climbed the stairs careful not to step on any of the girls' stuff. He opened the door and felt the fresh air rush around his face. The day had become a lot colder due to a hard wind that had picked up.
On the other side of the garden he could see Tessa standing by an easel in her bikini and a skirt painting.
"What ya doing up here Tess?" he asked.
"Painting what do ya think? Like it?" Tessa replied.
"Crap that's amazing," said Ray staring at the still life painting of the sky.
"Um, I suppose so. I need to improve on the colour here and here though. It just doesn't look right yet," said Tessa, pointing out various parts of the painting that she thought were errors.
"Oh, I didn't see it when I looked at it first... but now I do... you shouldn't have pointed it out!" said Ray jokingly.
They both laughed for a bit then calmed down.
"Well... I think it's amazing." Ray expressed. Tessa smiled.
"Thank you." she paused. "So... When did you join the BladeBreakers?" she asked, trying to make some sort of conversation.
"A little while after I left the White Tigers," he said.
She caught something in his voice, so she didn't ask further.
"Oh, okay... hmm... so..." she said.
"You know... the first time I met you I... oh fuck this..." he said, and kissed Tessa before she had any say in the matter.
*In the bedroom*
Alex stood up, she couldn't take anymore of this bastard.
"IF YOU HATE IT SO MUCH WATCH SOMETHING ELSE!" she yelled right in Kai's ears. With that she marched into the ensuité and slammed the door.
Alex undressed and turned on the shower. She let the warm water run all over her body. She took the time to wash her brown hair. It'd been ages since she'd had enough time to properly shampoo and condition her hair, so she was going to savor every moment of her shower.
Kai sat on the couch captivated by the program he was watching. He didn't hear Alex open the door. He didn't hear Alex come up behind him, but he did hear her laughing from the middle of the room.
"What a stupid prick!" muttered Kai, "he can't accept that he li...Huh?"
"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KAI WATCHES SOAPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! EVEN I DON'T WATCH SOAPIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OH MY GOD KAI YOU ARE SUCH A POOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Alex rolling on the floor with laughter.
*Outside*
"Did you hear something?" asked Kenny taking his attention off the game board.
"It's just Alex yelling at Kai," mumbled Carla, her head still buried in her cards.
"It sounded like she called him a poof," remarked Jenni, causing Carla to giggle.
"That's a new one," grumbled Tyson. "Want to play Fiona?" asked Tai ignoring the others. "Yeah!" said the Jenni, who still had a sugar rush going. "Guys... I'm not into board games unless it's chess, or checkers. Or something else like a murder mystery..." Fiona told all the people who were playing the Game of Life.
"Come on! It's FUN!" Tyson said.
"You sure?" Fiona said, flicking through a sketchbook.
"YES!" Carla said exasperatedly.
"So, how long does this game go for?" she asked.
Everyone: -_-;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
"Alright, alright. I'll play. Tai, which of these pieces aren't in use?"
*
Meanwhile...
"I. Am not. A poof --"
"Of course you aren't! You just find soaps 'intellectually engaging'" Alex laughed.
"I... Do... Not... it's just... strangely... addictive..." Kai looked like he was trying to hold down his anger.
"I'm sure it is!" Alex said, wiggling her eyebrows in her caffeine- saturated state.
"AGHHHHHHH!" Kai let out an outburst of anger. "Did you know that you're RUINING THIS?!"
"Jeez, I'm sorry. I just find you watching a soapie is rather amusing... Fiona doesn't even watch them either!" at this point she started laughing.
"What do I have to do to make you SHUT UP? You're ruining my show!"
"Oh, I dunno... Stand on your head whilst confessing undying love to Holly Valance?" Alex snickered.
"I won't do something as idiotic as that... plus, I don't like Holly Valance." he said.
"Ooooooooh... Then whom DO you love? Heh Heh Heh!" she said, again wiggling her eyebrows.
"I... you can't just..." he stammered.
Thus followed the awkward moment.
"You don't..." Alex said in her saturated state of sugar.
"No." he said, and walked out of the room. Well, tried.
It was locked.
He started trying the doorknob... then broke it off.
Swearing, he started to kick the door. "Let me out god Dammit!"
There was a yell outside, that sounded strangely like 'we can't because you ripped off the doorknob, you idiot!'
Then they both heard laughing.
"They are so evil..." Kai muttered, and slumped down the wall.
"No kidding. I've had to live with them since I was in year eight, but you know." Alex shrugged, then seemed to remember what they were saying before.
"So what do you mean, you don't like her?" the way he said it tweaked something in her head.
Kai started to get up again, and banged on the door.
"GET A CROWBAR!" he said, whilst banging. "JUST GET US OUT OF HERE!"
*
"You think we should get them out?" Tyson said nervously.
"Nah, it'll do 'em some good!" Fiona said cheekily, and started to laugh along with the others.
*
"I'm serious, Kai. What were you really talking about?" Alex said, serious for her state of hyperactivity.
"I wasn't talking about anything... you think that there's any other way to get out of here other than that window?"
"Yes, you were Kai. For hells sake, you have to tell me now... we're stuck in a room together and you can't avoid it now!"
Kai had reached his thresh-hold.
'Why can't she just shut up? He thought in exasperation. He looked around the room for a means of escape. He couldn't stay in this room with the subject of...love up for discussion.
He noticed at the far end of the room there was a balcony, and next to it was the main balcony that connected to the rest of the unit. It would be risky as hell, but it was either chance the balcony or face Alex's interrogation.
Ignoring Alex's question he walked across the room and out onto the balcony.
"What the hell are you doing? I asked you a question, don't just ignore me!" she shot at him, coming up behind him.
"Shut up I'm trying to get out of here," he snapped in frustration, how was he supposed to do this with her on his back?
"I know what you're planning to do you're going to jump aren't you?" continued Alex, a note of panic in her voice.
'Why does she always jump to conclusions?' groaned Kai mentally, shaking his head.
"No I'm not going to jump I'm trying to get onto the other balcony."
Alex stared at Kai with a raised eyebrow, she wasn't buying it.
"And I can believe you because?"
"I still haven't committed my undying love to Holly Valance while standing on my head," he replied dryly.
With that Kai swung his one leg over the railing and then the other.
'Damn this is high," he thought starting to sweat, spending so much time with the TB's and other BB's softened him up..., '...shit this is no time to panic.'
He stood there on the small ledge that went around the balcony...as he stood there a brief feeling of doubt passed through him, it was 31 stories high after all. During this one moment he lost his footing and would have fell to his doom if that dweeb Alex hadn't been standing there fretting like a headless chicken.
"FUCK!" she screamed as she grabbed reached over and grabbed onto his hand, "YOU STUPID FUCKING IDIOT!"
"IF YOU WEREN'T MAKING ALL THAT NOISE IN THE BACKGROUND I WOULDN'T HAVE LOST MY CONCENTRATION!" he retorted.
'Dammit, I'm about to fall to my death and we're fighting, how ironic,' thought Kai looking up at Alex, 'she has a pierced nose...'
"QUIT LOOKING UP MY NOSE AND CLIMB DAMMIT!!!" cried Alex. Her teeth gritted with the strain of holding Kai up, "WHY DO YOU HAVE TO BE SO MUSCLY DAMMIT!!!???"
Kai reached up and took Alex's other hand and SOMEHOW she managed to pull him up to the ledge from which he fell.
Once Kai climbed back onto the balcony Alex went rank.
"WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING! YOU ALMOST GOT KILLED! YOU SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST PUT SOME SHOES ON YOU FUCK WIT! WHEN DID YOU GET SUICIDAL TENDENCIES! SURELY YOU COULDN'T HAVE BEEN THAT DESPERATE TO GET OUT!" she yelled until she worked herself up so much that she started to cry.
"You make it out that you actually care," he replied crossing his arms.
"OF COURSE I CARE DAMMIT! I LOVE YOU, YOU GREAT LUNK! SURELY IF YOU HAD ANY BRAINS YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT!" she screamed in reply.
Kai stared at her and then walked off into the ensuité. He needed to think, and what better place than the shower?
"WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GOING NOW?" Alex yelled at his back, but he kept going.
By the time he reached the ensuité he heard Alex crying. He rolled his eyes for a moment, then started to feel a little guilty.
It started to eat away at him as he took off his shirt, then he just got frustrated and started to talk to himself.
"No. I don't need to go out there and say sorry. No way! I don't need to. No, I don't!" just as he convinced himself not to go out there, he heard another sob.
"Shit!"
Getting frustrated, he gave up and stormed out of the ensuité over to Alex.
"Stop crying." he said angrily, with only a hint of guilt around the edges.
"You fucking scared me!" she said between sobs, not forgetting to swear.
"I know that. I... I... I'm sorry. Now just stop crying, will you?"
She stopped after a little bit and looked up at him, sniffing a little. "You mean that?"
"Yes... I... shit..." he sat on the ground next to her. "Yeah, I mean it."
Suddenly, Alex gave him a hug. He stiffened his hands in the air. Then he started to gently pat her back as she cried a little more.
Alex's POV
When he didn't protest to my hug I thought that I was dreaming. I had wanted to do this for the longest time. I was in heaven. Then he started to pat my back, which surprised me even more.
It is so ironic how just one event could change so much.
"For once my friends did something right," I managed to say, through the flow of tears. I don't think that he understood me though because he just looked at me for a moment.
What he had attempted scared me witless. I seriously thought that I would lose him. I shouldn't have ragged his addiction to soapies, even though it is very funny seeing the tough Kai watching a chick show. That was all in the past now. Right now, in the present I was content. No, I was in pure bliss.
We sat there in silence and eventually I stopped crying. I'd cried all my tears and there were none left. I adjusted myself so that I was looking right into Kai's eyes.
"Thank you," I whispered. He sat there looking slightly taken aback.
"I thought that you were asleep," he replied, his warm breath blowing into my face.
"And miss any of this?" I asked, "not a chance."
Then slowly our lips met for the first time.