Kai Has A Girlfriend IV

*goes and hugs her 'acquaintance' who is a great person even if she says she isn't and continously reads her chapters even if she doesn't review* Yah, you know who you are...

Anyways...to the rest of my readers...thanks! *would hug them but doesn't know if they'd want to be hugged*

Oh well..here I go again...

Chapter Two

Kai looked around his apartment, which was completely painted black, with blue carpets and blue furniture. Kai thought that it suited his personality very well most days. The days that it didn't suit his personality were the days that he had been with Shanna, and those days were over, which was why he had changed his apartment to look like this.

Kai mindlessly looked around the apartment and decided that it looked empty, boring, unlived in even. Kai sighed, there was always going to be something wrong with this apartment, wasn't there? Oh well, Kai wasn't in the mood to drown himself about it, he had better things to do.

Kai wandered around the house, opening door and peeking in them, to see if there was anything in this place for him to do. Kai got to the last door in the hallway and then turned around, he wasn't going to go in there. That would just bring back the painful memories.

For the room at the end of the hall was his old bedroom, a room that he had brought Shanna into countless times, a place where he had fallen asleep listening to Shanna's soft breathing, a place where he had woken up to the sound of her voice. It was a place that he couldn't enter without feeling her presence and for that reason and that reason only, it was no longer his bedroom.

Kai had moved out of the room, leaving all of his stuff in there and had gone on a huge shopping spree with April and had bought new clothes, a new bed, a new dresser, a new rug, some new blankets, and April had even come over to help paint Kai's new bedroom. It was the only room in the entire apartment that they hadn't had the painters do for them. Well the second room in the apartment, the first was Kai's old bedroom.

Kai knew that beyond the door there was a shrine for Shanna, her pictures cluttered the wall, her gifts the dresser, her favourite clothes for him to wear were on the bed, waiting for Kai. But Kai would never put them on, as far as he was concerned Shanna was now a part of his past and so was that room, for now at least. Eventually, April would get her way and they would redecorate the room and use it as a guest room but for now, it would stay like that, preserving the perfection that he liked to think of as his once existent relationship with Shanna.

The phone rang in the distance and Kai just ignored it, figuring that it would be Bryan again, asking if Kai wanted to double up with him, Courtenay and her friend Hannah. Kai had politely said no the first time, but Kai was sure that Bryan wasn't about to give up.

It was amazing how in three short years, Tala, Bryan, Rei and Kai could have come to be such close friends. It was really a gift from the gods or god or whatever you wanted to call them and Kai smiled. Maybe he should take Bryan up on that offer, it might do him some good.

As soon as Kai decided that, the phone stopped ringing. Kai wasn't in the mood to call Bryan himself so he decided to go to the office and see if there was something for him to do. Take his mind off of anything it shouldn't be on.

Kai grabbed his coat and tucked it under his arm, grabbed his keys and left the apartment, not hearing his answering machine as it began recording a message. "Hello, this is Shanna, listen Kai, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry and that if you want me back, then I'd be honored to come back. I've missed you Kai."

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Rei and Lolli made their way up to Kai's apartment, intending orginally to just hang around, wanting to make sure that Kai was alright with his whole 'seperation' thing.

Actually to tell you the truth, Rei and Lolli were worried about Kai, they thought that he was being a little bit too productive in his journey forward. After being with Shanna since he was fourteen, that was three years ago, you'd think that he wouldn't be this outgoing with the whole break-up thing. Rei was really worried that Kai was actually ready to break but he just wouldn't tell anybody. That idea was troubling Rei a lot.

Rei fished his key chain out of his pocket and flipped through the keys on it until he found the key that Kai had given him to his apartment. Kai was constantly on business trips and Sarah, his cat, was constantly home alone. Kai had given Rei the key so that Rei could let himself in and take care of Sarah once in a while.

Rei noticed that Kai's answering machine was flashing and decided that he wasn't going to check it, even if he was curious about who would phone Kai at home. Rei looked around and, noticing that Kai wasn't anywhere to be seen, he walked to Kai's bedroom and opened the door and nearly fell over as he did.

The whole room looked like a ceremonial shrine to Shanna, the walls were completely covered with Shanna's pictures, the floor with things that Rei knew Shanna had given Kai. The bed was covered in the outfits that Rei was sure were Shanna's favourites. Rei turned out of the room and walked back to the living room, his muscles stiff and afraid for his friend.

"So, is he back there?" Lolli asked, completely oblivious to the fact that Rei had just seen something frightening.

"No." Rei said and sighed. Rei looked at the answering machine and couldn't help but wonder, he went and pressed the play button before he even realized what he was doing.

"Hello, this is Shanna, listen Kai, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry and that if you want me back, then I'd be honored to come back. I've missed you Kai." The recorded voice said.

Rei quickly pressed delete and he could hear Lolli shriek behind him. "Rei? Why did you do that?"

Rei quickly told her about Kai's room. "So I think that we need to find someway to get him to stop thinking about Shanna."

Lolli nodded. "Definitely and I know the perfect plan." Lolli said and grinned, before telling Rei her complete plan.

Rei grinned too. "Ingenius." Rei kissed Lolli on the cheek. "I knew that there was a reason I've been with you for so long."

Lolli giggled and looked away. "Come on, lets go before Kai comes back." Lolli and Rei left the apartment, careful to lock the door behind them but oblivious to the little kitten that had just let itself out.

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Shanna sighed as she checked her message machine for the third day in a row. Kai still hadn't returned that call that she had given him just a few days ago, telling him that she wanted him back in her life, that she couldn't stand not being with him any longer.

Shanna went out to the porch of her bedroom and curled up on the porch swing, pulling her knees to her chest and wrapping her arms around them, rocking back and forth in a comforting motion.

Before long, someone came and sat on the porch with her. Shanna didn't even have to turn and look at them in order to know that it was April. It was just the way that April walked and the comforting presence that let Shanna know who it was.

"Hey." Shanna said silently, looking out at the stars in the midnight blue sky. "What brings you out here?"

"I was worried about you." April admitted. "You don't seem to be yourself lately and I was worried, that's all. It's probably nothing but it's my natural instinct to worry about all these little things."

Shanna laughed. "You're going to be a great mother one of these days." Shanna squeezed her legs tighter. "You and Tala will be great parents if you ever get around to that."

April nodded. "I hope we will be." April sighed. "You know though, just because I'm a worrywart doesn't make me a good parent. You'll probably be a lot better at it then me."

"Me?" Shanna scoffed. "Are you kidding? There is no way that anyone would want me to raise kids. I'm not a people person, you know that. You're nice, kind, and generous, I'm just the exact opposite."

April shrugged. "People take advantage of people who are kind."

Shanna sighed again. "Yes but only until they realize that that person won't even stop giving no matter how much they take."

April nodded. "I guess you're right."

There was a silence before Shanna spoke again. "I'm sorry that I did that to Kai. You must feel weird, being stuck in the middle."

April shrugged again. "You get used to it, soon you don't even realize it anymore. I'm fine with it, I'll be fine with it forever. Like you said, I'll never stop giving out advice and friendship to anyone, even if they try to drain it all away. I'm Kai's sister and your friend and I won't stop being either, no matter what."

Shanna smiled. "Thanks April."

"No problem."

Then there was a silence and both of them just stared at the moon.

{A/N: Okay, sorta crappy chapter. I'm sorry if you think it's bad, I guess I wasn't really in the greatest of writing moods when I wrote this, please forgive me *begs forgiveness*

Oh and again, thanks Sa...I mean my acquaintance...}