"So tell me, you've been friends with this Kai person for.." The guy asked, trying to get April to talk to him.
April looked away, like she was going to tell this guy anything when he wouldn't even tell April his name. There was a memory attached to him, April could just feel it but the memory seemed to be locked away, letting April only know that she knew him from somewhere.
The male leaned forward again and pushed April's bangs out of her eyes. "Come on April, we were always so close, why don't you tell me?"
"I don't know you." April told him firmly. "So just get away from me. When Kai finds out what you're doing to me and Shanna, he's going to wring you neck."
"I don't think that Kai's going to do anything to me April, not when I have the ability to bring a knife to you neck in a second." The boy chuckled. "Besides, he doesn't even know where we are."
April looked away from the guy again and sighed. He was right, this was a hopeless case but the only thing keeping her alive right now was the idea that somehow, someway, Kai would come and get her out of here.
{A/N: I decided that I haven't really given you any idea of what's going on back with Tala, Rei, Max, and Kenny so that's what I'm going to do so now
Tyson: What about me?
Oh yes and Tyson too}
Max handed Tyson the bowl of fruit. Tyson sighed and took a orange and set to peeling it. "Where is April? I need my meal!"
"Tyson, don't you think that we have more important things to worry about besides your stomach?" Rei asked. "April's disappeared just like Shanna did. Where's Kai when you need him?"
Kenny looked up from his computer screen. "At some meeting. I think you should phone him."
Rei sighed. "I've phoned his office and every time his annoying secretary answers and tells me that Kai's not there."
Max took an apple out of the fruit bowl and bit into it. "It could be worse." He said between bites. "Tala could be here to yell at us because we've lost April."
"What do you mean you've lost April?" Tala's voice flooded the room.
Tyson turned to Max. "You just had to jinx us Max. You just had to say 'it could be worse'. You'd think people would learn by now that by saying those four little words, you're just asking for something to happen." Tyson hit his head with his hand. "Even I know that if you say those four little words it's bad luck."
Tala took a deep breath. "I'm only going to say this once. Where in the hell is April?"
Rei swallowed. "Well actually Tala it's an interesting story-"
Tala cut Rei off. "I don't care if it's the most interesting god damn story even told and you've won a god damn award for it. Where in the god-forsaken name is April?"
"Like I said, it's an interesting story." Rei continued, his voice shaky. Finally he sighed and blurted it out. "We don't know where she is. She just kinda got up and vanished."
"WHAT?" Tala asked and grabbed Rei by the collar. "What do you mean you don't know where she is? She doesn't just leave without telling anyone. Now I want to know where she is and if you don't tell me, you'll end up flatter than a pancake."
"We seriously don't know Tala." Rei assured him, or at least tried to. "It's just like Shanna. One second she was in her house, doing whatever and the next second, she's missing."
"You guys left her alone?" Tala asked, his eyes filling with an emotion that Rei wasn't exactly comfortable with.
Rei swallowed. "It was only for a little bit."
"You left her alone long enough for her to disappear?"
Rei swallowed harder. "Yes but-"
"No buts about it. You're the reason that my girlfriend is bloody well missing. I'm going to kill you!"
Tyson pulled Rei away from Tala and Max pushed Tala out of the room. "Come on, go calm down." Max told Tala, and locked the door so that Tala couldn't get back in.
"Calm down?" Tala could be heard yell from the other room.
Max swallowed and turned to Rei. "I don't think he's too happy with us."
"Ya think?"
April watched as the boy dailed Kai's number again. "Hello Kai, guess what your time is almost up. Have you figures out who she is yet or are you still trying to think about it?"
She couldn't hear what Kai was saying but April was sure that he was losing his temper with this guy. Hell, April had lost her temper a long time ago. Unfortunately with her, it was one wrong mood and she ended up as doggy food.
"Would you like to talk to her again Kai?" The boy asked and handed April the phone. "Remember," He muttered to her. "Don't tell him who you are or you won't be alive long enough for him to save you."
April nodded. "Kai?"
"Yah! Are you alright? Has he hurt you?" This was the same tone of voice that guy used when April phoned home on a date.
April felt tears run down her cheek, and she couldn't help but give almost the same answer she'd give on a date. "No, no he hasn't. But Kai, I don't want to be here. Please! Please come and get me!"
April could almost hear Kai's brain turn as he remembered all the times that he had this conversation with her. "April? April is that you?"
April nodded and then realized that Kai couldn't see that. "Yah, it is."
"God, April, shit. Listen April, I'll find a way to get you out of this mess. I just can't believe that-" Kai's voice trailed off and April knew that there was something that he knew that he wasn't telling her.
"What?" April asked.
"I just can't believe you're my sister."
"WHAT?" April exclaimed. April could feel her brains trying to process this information to no success. What did he mean that they were siblings.
Before April could ask what exactly Kai meant, the phone was snatched away from her. "So tell me, do you know who it is yet?" There was a pause. "Good work. Now, meet me in the old abandonned fields behind your mansion in forty-five minutes and we'll find a compromise for all of this." The guy hung up the phone.
April swallowed and fell silent. What was she going to do? If he let this go on, Kai just might end up fish food for his grandfather's fish in his fountain and with the whole tables changed, now that she knew he was her brother. This was not going to be an easy decision.
Kai stood in the middle of his grandfather's abandooned fields and waited. Kai wondered what this guy would look like, if he had a gun or a knofe or whatever. Kai wondered if this guy would bring both April and Shanna or just one of them. If he would have anyone with him to protect him or if he planned to come alone. What if he came with so many people that Kai didn't even stand a chance?
Kai fingered his beyblade and let his mind relax. Slowly he realized that he wasn't really worried about anything like that. All he was really worried about was how long it was take to get Shanna and April back and into their homes and how long it would take to convince Shanna that she was alright.
Kai felt his blood heat up again as he thought of Shanna and what might be done to her. With that in mind, he stood and faced the trees, a gentle wind playing with his hair, almost as if it was pulling him, urging him to do what he had to do.
Kai stood up taller and grinned. He would do this, there was no doubt about it. Before the end of the night, he would have his girlfriend back.