Chapter 6: Meet Tia, Chibodee's friend and Kira's old Love

"Shirley why didn't you tell us?" Chibodee asked her. He, Shirley, George, Maria Louise, Hans, Argo, and Nastahsa were all sitting in the kitchen.

"We didn't think he would find her so we didn't tell you guys." Shirley said, looking down at her hands.

"Do you have any idea how dangerous this guy is?" George said to the girls. "You should have told us." he said.

Just then, Domon and Sia came down the stairs followed by Allenby.

"How are they?" Argo asked.

"Their asleep right now." Sia answered.

"Well, how's Kira?" George asked.

"Tia's up there with her." Sai said as he sat down.

"I think she's still crying, who was that guy anyways? He was really strong." Allenby asked.

"He's... Kira's husband." Shirley said without looking up.

"What? Why would her husband try to kill her?" Domon asked.

"Kira doesn't know why, all she knows is that he wants her dead." Maria Louise answered Domon question.

Meanwhile upstairs...

"Why are you here Tia?" Kira asked him. She had been lying on her bed with her back towards him, but now was sitting up facing Tia. He was sitting on her bed next to her.

"I came because Chibodee asked me to." he answered her. He had known Chibodee since they were both kids running lose on the streets of New York. The cops had caught Tia when he was 16 and sent to live with a very wealthy old man. When the old man died, Tia inherited all of his money. That is when he met Kira. He was holding a dinner at his house and Kira's friend Sarah had been invited so Kira decided to tag along. From the moment her eyes met, Tia's she was in love, and he was too. Things did not work out though because Kira left for home after the summer was over and then left for college. She left him without as much as a good bye.

"Kira, when I saw you running out of the house I was worried for you. You see Kira, I..." he stopped there.

"Does he still love me after all this time?" Kira thought to herself.

"I still love you Kira." Tai yelled as if he did not yell then the words would not come out.

He had yelled it so loud everyone heard him. Down stairs everyone looked up and then at each other.

"Well I guess he still loves her." Chibodee kind of said to himself as he took a drink of coffee.

Kira could not believe he had said that. She started to cry.

"Kira, I'm sorry to make you cry. If you wish I will leave." Tia got up and headed for the door.

"No wait." Kira said as she got up and walked over to him. "I love you too." she said as she wrapped her arms around him and kissed him.

"Kira."

"This won't work though." she told him. She then let him go.

"Why not?"

"Tia I'm married."

"Kira, to who?" he asked her.

"To the man that tried to kill me." then she sat back down on her bed. "Please go."

"Kira." Tia did not want to leave her alone.

"Tia leave!" everyone downstairs again looked up then at each other.

"Guess she doesn't love him though." Chibodee again said to himself taking another drink of coffee.

Tia opened the door and Rain, Cecil, Cath, Janet, and Bunny fell into the room. Tia just stepped over them and went down stairs.

"Kira why did you do that?" Rain asked.

"I think I'm going downstairs." Bunny got up and said. Cath and Janet followed her. Cecil walked into Kira's room and sat on the bed next to her sister. Rain sat on the other side of Kira.

"I really do love him." Kira started to cry. Cecil put her arms around her sister and tried to comfort her. Rain did the same. They just sat like that, all three of them with their bandages on their heads.

Downstairs Tia had just walked out the door. "Hey Tia! Wait up!" Chibodee ran after his friend.

"I wonder what happened up stairs." Shirley said.

Tia was headed back to his hotel when Chibodee caught up to him.

"Why did ya leave?" he asked Tia.

"I can't stand being around her when I love her and can't do anything about it." he said.

"You aren't gonna leave and go home are ya?" Chibodee asked as he tried to keep up with Tia.

"I don't know what I'm gonna do." he said.

"Well can ya at least slow down and talk to me?" Chibodee was trying hard to keep up with Tia's fast pace walking.

Tia stopped and looked at Chibodee. "What do you care?" he asked coldly.

"Don't get me wrong or anything; I'm not the mushy type. I just haven't seen you happy like you were when you and Kira were together that summer in New York." he put his hands up in front of his face and had a stupid grin.

Tia looked down at the ground and started to remember that summer.

*Flashback*

"Kira, I will always love you no matter what." Tia was holding tightly to Kira. They both knew it would not last. Kira was going back home in a few days.

"I love you too. Just because I'm going home doesn't mean this has to end. You promise to come see me, right?" Kira looked up at Tia and she started to cry.

"Kira don't cry, I promise, no matter what." he looked down at her and kissed her on her lips.

A few weeks later Tia was waiting for Kira outside of their favorite place. He waited almost all day but Kira never showed up. She had already gone home. Tia tried so many times to call her but she never returned them.

*End of Flashback*

"Earth to Tia, are you still here?" Chibodee was waving his hand in front of Tia's face.

"Cut it out." Tia pushed Chibodee's hand a way from his face.

"What were you thinking about?" Chibodee had a stupid grin on his face again.

"I can't give up on Kira. She needs me now." Tia took off back to the house.

"Hey wait up!" Chibodee went running after Tia.

Back at the house Rain and Cecil had came down stairs.

"How are you feeling?" Maria Louise asked the two women when they sat down at the table.

"Much better, but I don't think Kira will be coming out of her room for a while." Rain told them.

"She is really shock up about Brain showing up." Cecil added.

"What do you think is the deal with her and Tia?" Shirley asked.

"I never knew of him. When Kira came back from New York she was really upset but she never told any of us what had happened." Cecil answered.

"Well, that's not true." Hans spoke up.

"Kira talked to me about him. Apparently, she was really in love with him but he didn't feel the same way. She had caught him with another girl. She never confronted him; she just came home without saying a word to him." Hans told his sister.

"They were going to get married. After that happened she was heartbroken." he looked down at the ground.

"I never knew Kira was engaged, but then again I never knew she was married either." Cecil was starting to get depressed.

"Hey cheer up Cecil." Sai Saici tried to make her feel better.

Tia walked in the front and headed up to Kira's room without saying a word to anyone. Chibodee came in after him and headed to the kitchen, where everyone else was.

"Where's he going?" Domon asked Chibodee.

"I guess he's going to talk to Kira." he sat down next to Shirley and hugged her.

"Chibodee, get off, your freezing!" she shoved him away from her.

While everyone else laughed Hans watched as his sister sat in her chair, silent.

Upstairs Tia had just walked into Kira's room.

"What are you doing back here?" Kira asked when he walked in.

"Listen to me Kira! I love you, I always will! I don't care if you're married! I want to be with you!" everyone in the house could hear Tia yelling at Kira.

"Tia." Kira looked at him.

"Com' on." Tia grabbed Kira's hand and led her out of her room and down the stairs.

"Tia let go of my hand." Kira tried to free herself from Tia.

Tia pulled Kira down the stairs and out the door.

Everyone saw this happen and followed them out the front door. The only ones that stayed inside where Domon, George Argo, and Nastahsa.

"Tell me now! Tell me why you left without as much as a goodbye!" Tia let Kira go. She was now crying and fell to the ground.

"I can't! I hate you for what you did to me!" Kira yelled at him as tears ran down her face.

Everyone watched as Kira sat on the ground and cried.

"Tell me what I did wrong." Tia bent down and said softly to Kira.

"I can't!" Kira kept crying.

"Why not?"

"It hurts too much!"

"Kira tell me!"

"I saw you with her!" Kira stood up and stopped crying.

"With who?" Tia had no idea who she was talking about.

"With, with Brit." she had lowered her head and started crying again.

"Kira why didn't you say something?" Tia picked her head up so that her eyes met his.

"Why did you tell me you would always love me if you really weren't going to always love me?" Kira asked him, but her eyes no longer had tears but were now filled with anger.

"Kira I meant what I said and I still do." he looked at her.

"If you meant what you said then why did you kiss her?" Kira asked him coldly.

"I didn't kiss her, she kissed me. I had pushed her away from me and left her there." Tia told Kira hoping that she would believe him.

"Tia, are you lying?" she could tell when he was lying to her, but this time she could not tell.

"Kira I would never lie to you, I love you." he meant every word he said.

"Tia. I love you too." she wrapped her arms around him.

"Does this mean your going to marry him now?" Chibodee asked. He was the only one, besides Hans, that had known about Kira and Tia's engagement.

"But we can't. I'm still married to Brain." Kira said to Tia.

"I think that will all work out later." Rain said then she walked back inside. Everyone followed behind her.