Rather Live Another Rainy Day
Chapter Seven: Get here, get close, get out
"I'm taking a vacation." April announced as she entered her office and noticed that her secretary was sitting at her desk, typing away at something.
"Alright, be back before too long. Tell Tala to make sure that you two don't spend too much time in bed. Make sure you actually sleep and eat. Remember that there are people around when you're in the woods and have fun. I'll see you when you get back April." The secretary said simply, not even stopping her typing for a second or looking up.
April looked at her secretary confused. "Aren't you even concerned that I'm taking a vacation when I haven't taken one for the entire time I worked here?" April sighed. "I have ten reports piled up and I'm taking a vacation. Aren't there any alarms going off in your head?"
The secretary looked up at April and blinked and motioned to the pile of paper that was laying on her desk. "That's nine of them, I'm typing up the last one right now, April." She looked up at April and glared. "And if your brother ever comes down here to yell at me for over-working you again, I will quit on the spot. If you had told me that you were feeling over-worked than I would have taken over a couple of those reports."
April looked at her friend. "What do you mean Kai came down here and yelled at you for over-working me."
She shrugged. "He came through those doors about twenty minutes ago and told me that if I didn't finish these reports for you and make sure that you take on the minimum amount possible then I would be fired so fast that my head would spin. Then he stomped away. Of course what he doens't realize is that if he keeps that up, I'm going to quit. A girl can only take so much before she gets too hung up to do anything else."
April blinked. "I see. I'm going to go have a talk with Kai about this."
April's secretary shook her head. "No, don't. I'll be fine. It's not like it's a life or death situation and I would like to keep my job for a little bit longer. Anyways, I hope you have fun on your vacation. See you when you get back." She got up and basically almost pushed April out the door. "Now go, shoo. Don't come back for at least a week."
April shook her head and walked out of the building, laughing as she did so. Then she jumped into her car and drove back to the apartment she owned for only a brief amount of time more, so that she could grab the rest of the boxes she needed and get them to the new apartment.
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Kai looked at the dress that Shanna was going to take back to the store today since they weren't having a fancy wedding anymore. Kai took a look over the wedding dress and sighed. It was such a pity to get rid of this but April had picked it out for Shanna and Shanna wanted to pick out her own. Kai respected her wishes and said nothing when Shanna put it in its bag and left the house to take it back. Kai didn't accompany her this time, thinking that if he did he would probably tell Shanna that she was making a big mistake and that she shouldn't take the dress back.
Kai made himself a cup of coffee and sat down to rewrite the invitations, having already made up the notes to the people that they weren't inviting anymore that they were sorry but couldn't invite them anymore. Now he had to write the new invitations to those he was re-inviting, telling them about the slight change in the location of the wedding and that they shouldn't wear their very best or make sure that they can clean it easily.
Kai looked at the card that he was going to be using for his invitations and sighed, it looked stupid. It looked completely impersonal. It said, you're invited to our wedding. Well, it could be anyone's wedding until you looked inside. Probably a million people send this card everyday. Kai growled and threw the lot of them in the garbage and then went over to his business computer. If there was one thing he had learnt from his sister, it was how to make something creative and personalized.
Kai opened an invitation-maker thing on the computer and stared at it and shook his head. No good. There wasn't anywhere to personalize it, just where you could pick what unpersonalized things you could put on it. Then Kai tried the card-maker thing that April had installed and smiled. This would do just fine.
Of course, along with the programs for these things, April had also put in pictures, three hundred or so of them, of him and Shanna, her and Tala, Lolli and Rei, or them in a group. It took Kai an hour but eventually he found a bunch of good ones and put them on fifteen different cards. Then he sat at the desk for a little while longer, trying to figure out what he should say on them.
"What'cha doing Kai?" Shanna asked, wrapping her arms around Kai's neck and peeking over his shoulder at his work. "I thought you promised me that you weren't going to do anymore work until after we got back from our vacation. You know that I don't want to be ignored for this kind of stuff."
Kai leaned back and captured Shanna's lips with his for a quick second and then pulled away and motioned to the screen. "I'm making wedding invitations for us. I didn't like the ones you bought, they looked unpersonalized." Kai brought up each of them for Shanna to look at and admire.
Shanna smiled as she looked at one of them. It was a picture of Kai riding a horse, attached to Shanna's waist instead of the other way around. Kai had never been on a horse before that day and Shanna remembered how hard it had been to get him on one. But it had been worth it, Shanna decided, just to have April take this picture so that she could forever remember a 'weak' moment Kai had. "We should send this one to my parents."
Kai nodded and clicked on it and then tapped on the keyboard's keys. "What do you think I should say on the front. I can't decide." Kai tapped his foot. "I'm just not good at thinking of captions for these kinds of things."
Shanna squeezed Kai's shoulder. "Sure you are, you're good at everything."
"Except horse-back riding, right?" Kai asked, motioning to the picture.
"That's it!" Shanna exclaimed. "We could put something like, you can't be good at everything on the front and then inside we can put, which is why we're glad we're bad at horse-back riding. At least now we know our marriage has a chance."
Kai laughed but typed it up anyways. "We're going to send that to your parents?" Kai shook his head and put in all the information about the wedding and then a little 'see you there' message at the bottom and printed it out, leaving their names blank so that they could sign it themselves.
"See, we'll do something like that for every single one of them. It'll be fun, but of course we'll be up all night." Shanna said with a sigh.
Kai grabbed her and pulled her into his lap and kissed her ferociously, causing her to giggle like crazy and then stopped and turned them so that they were facing the computer again. "Come on, only fourteen more to go and then we can go to bed."
Shanna sighed. "Fourteen more?"
Kai smirked. "Well, if you want, we can forget your parents again." Kai laughed when Shanna smacked him in the shoulder and then they got back to being serious {a/n: yah right} and started to finish the rest of the cards, smiling and laughing the whole time.
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Lolli yawned and slipped out of her bed and looked at the clock, it was about three in the morning, not too bad for someone whose slept for a day and a half. She walked down to the kitchen and then heard rattling at the door and she wrapped her house coat more securely around her body and then approached the door and opened it an inch.
"Hello. Lolli, isn't it? Hiya, I was wondering if-" Crystal's voice rang through the crack in the door.
Lolli slammed the door shut and leaned against it. What in the hell was she doing here? Hadn't she already caused enough trouble lately? Lolli sure as the hell thought so. "Go away."
"Aw come on Lolli, you don't mean that. You know that me and Rei belong together and you're just jealous. Well don't worry, I'll make sure he still visits you once in a while." Crystal's voice was beginning to sound more musical than humanly possible.
"I do mean that. Get the hell away from me and Rei. Rei doesn't want you, don't you get it? He has a girlfriend, he has someone to come home to already. Just because you think that he's perfect for you doesn't mean that he thinks the same about you." Lolli shouted through the door. "So do us all a favor and get the hell out of here and away from us."
There was a pounding on the door. "He does feel the same way I do. You just don't want to admit what you can't handle. He loves me just as much as I love him. So you let him come to me or I'll kill you."
Lolli locked the door with the doorknob and the bolt and then walked away from the door, deciding that she needed sleep. Then she heard the doorknob turn with the familiar sound of someone unlocking it and suddenly the bolt was the only thing keeping Crystal out of her apartment.
Lolli ran back to the door and tried to push Crystal out of the apartment. "Get out! You can't do this! Get the hell out!" Lolli felt tears run down her face. "Don't do this to Rei. Don't you see that you're ruining his life when you do this? He's going to be a proud father in eight months, and he doesn't need you to screw this up."
"What do you mean he'll be a father?" Crystal growled and pushed against the door again, the bolt slowly giving away. "You ruined him, didn't you. You made him fuck you. You raped him. Now you're carrying his child. The child that he wanted me to carry. You bitch!" With another push the door almost gave way and Lolli back away quickly, running to the keypad for the alarm, pressing the alarm button to activate the help squad but nothing happened. Nothing at all. Lolli's eyes widened in horror.
"Oh no, what did you do?" Lolli asked, screamed really, looking around, trying to find a way to get out of here without bringing Crystal to where Rei was.
"I disconnected the phone. You don't think that I was going to let you use the cops to separate me and Rei, did you? Oh I know your type, act all innocent to get to the guy and then boom, you attack." Crystal said angrily and then pushed on the door again and Lolli could see the bolt giving away, only barely holding her back now.
"GET OUT!" Lolli screamed and then rusehd at the door, slaming it in Crystal's face, tears now streaming down her face. "Get out, get out, get out!"
"You can't keep me out." Crystal exclaimed, her voice sounding more distant than Lolli thought it should. "No you can't. Not a chance in the world you can keep me away from my Rei."
Suddenly the window shattered, pieces of glass flying all over the place and Lolli screamed again, only aware of the body climbing through the newly cut window.
{A/N: evil cliffie..isn't it? can't wait to see your reviews...see ya}
Chapter Seven: Get here, get close, get out
"I'm taking a vacation." April announced as she entered her office and noticed that her secretary was sitting at her desk, typing away at something.
"Alright, be back before too long. Tell Tala to make sure that you two don't spend too much time in bed. Make sure you actually sleep and eat. Remember that there are people around when you're in the woods and have fun. I'll see you when you get back April." The secretary said simply, not even stopping her typing for a second or looking up.
April looked at her secretary confused. "Aren't you even concerned that I'm taking a vacation when I haven't taken one for the entire time I worked here?" April sighed. "I have ten reports piled up and I'm taking a vacation. Aren't there any alarms going off in your head?"
The secretary looked up at April and blinked and motioned to the pile of paper that was laying on her desk. "That's nine of them, I'm typing up the last one right now, April." She looked up at April and glared. "And if your brother ever comes down here to yell at me for over-working you again, I will quit on the spot. If you had told me that you were feeling over-worked than I would have taken over a couple of those reports."
April looked at her friend. "What do you mean Kai came down here and yelled at you for over-working me."
She shrugged. "He came through those doors about twenty minutes ago and told me that if I didn't finish these reports for you and make sure that you take on the minimum amount possible then I would be fired so fast that my head would spin. Then he stomped away. Of course what he doens't realize is that if he keeps that up, I'm going to quit. A girl can only take so much before she gets too hung up to do anything else."
April blinked. "I see. I'm going to go have a talk with Kai about this."
April's secretary shook her head. "No, don't. I'll be fine. It's not like it's a life or death situation and I would like to keep my job for a little bit longer. Anyways, I hope you have fun on your vacation. See you when you get back." She got up and basically almost pushed April out the door. "Now go, shoo. Don't come back for at least a week."
April shook her head and walked out of the building, laughing as she did so. Then she jumped into her car and drove back to the apartment she owned for only a brief amount of time more, so that she could grab the rest of the boxes she needed and get them to the new apartment.
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Kai looked at the dress that Shanna was going to take back to the store today since they weren't having a fancy wedding anymore. Kai took a look over the wedding dress and sighed. It was such a pity to get rid of this but April had picked it out for Shanna and Shanna wanted to pick out her own. Kai respected her wishes and said nothing when Shanna put it in its bag and left the house to take it back. Kai didn't accompany her this time, thinking that if he did he would probably tell Shanna that she was making a big mistake and that she shouldn't take the dress back.
Kai made himself a cup of coffee and sat down to rewrite the invitations, having already made up the notes to the people that they weren't inviting anymore that they were sorry but couldn't invite them anymore. Now he had to write the new invitations to those he was re-inviting, telling them about the slight change in the location of the wedding and that they shouldn't wear their very best or make sure that they can clean it easily.
Kai looked at the card that he was going to be using for his invitations and sighed, it looked stupid. It looked completely impersonal. It said, you're invited to our wedding. Well, it could be anyone's wedding until you looked inside. Probably a million people send this card everyday. Kai growled and threw the lot of them in the garbage and then went over to his business computer. If there was one thing he had learnt from his sister, it was how to make something creative and personalized.
Kai opened an invitation-maker thing on the computer and stared at it and shook his head. No good. There wasn't anywhere to personalize it, just where you could pick what unpersonalized things you could put on it. Then Kai tried the card-maker thing that April had installed and smiled. This would do just fine.
Of course, along with the programs for these things, April had also put in pictures, three hundred or so of them, of him and Shanna, her and Tala, Lolli and Rei, or them in a group. It took Kai an hour but eventually he found a bunch of good ones and put them on fifteen different cards. Then he sat at the desk for a little while longer, trying to figure out what he should say on them.
"What'cha doing Kai?" Shanna asked, wrapping her arms around Kai's neck and peeking over his shoulder at his work. "I thought you promised me that you weren't going to do anymore work until after we got back from our vacation. You know that I don't want to be ignored for this kind of stuff."
Kai leaned back and captured Shanna's lips with his for a quick second and then pulled away and motioned to the screen. "I'm making wedding invitations for us. I didn't like the ones you bought, they looked unpersonalized." Kai brought up each of them for Shanna to look at and admire.
Shanna smiled as she looked at one of them. It was a picture of Kai riding a horse, attached to Shanna's waist instead of the other way around. Kai had never been on a horse before that day and Shanna remembered how hard it had been to get him on one. But it had been worth it, Shanna decided, just to have April take this picture so that she could forever remember a 'weak' moment Kai had. "We should send this one to my parents."
Kai nodded and clicked on it and then tapped on the keyboard's keys. "What do you think I should say on the front. I can't decide." Kai tapped his foot. "I'm just not good at thinking of captions for these kinds of things."
Shanna squeezed Kai's shoulder. "Sure you are, you're good at everything."
"Except horse-back riding, right?" Kai asked, motioning to the picture.
"That's it!" Shanna exclaimed. "We could put something like, you can't be good at everything on the front and then inside we can put, which is why we're glad we're bad at horse-back riding. At least now we know our marriage has a chance."
Kai laughed but typed it up anyways. "We're going to send that to your parents?" Kai shook his head and put in all the information about the wedding and then a little 'see you there' message at the bottom and printed it out, leaving their names blank so that they could sign it themselves.
"See, we'll do something like that for every single one of them. It'll be fun, but of course we'll be up all night." Shanna said with a sigh.
Kai grabbed her and pulled her into his lap and kissed her ferociously, causing her to giggle like crazy and then stopped and turned them so that they were facing the computer again. "Come on, only fourteen more to go and then we can go to bed."
Shanna sighed. "Fourteen more?"
Kai smirked. "Well, if you want, we can forget your parents again." Kai laughed when Shanna smacked him in the shoulder and then they got back to being serious {a/n: yah right} and started to finish the rest of the cards, smiling and laughing the whole time.
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Lolli yawned and slipped out of her bed and looked at the clock, it was about three in the morning, not too bad for someone whose slept for a day and a half. She walked down to the kitchen and then heard rattling at the door and she wrapped her house coat more securely around her body and then approached the door and opened it an inch.
"Hello. Lolli, isn't it? Hiya, I was wondering if-" Crystal's voice rang through the crack in the door.
Lolli slammed the door shut and leaned against it. What in the hell was she doing here? Hadn't she already caused enough trouble lately? Lolli sure as the hell thought so. "Go away."
"Aw come on Lolli, you don't mean that. You know that me and Rei belong together and you're just jealous. Well don't worry, I'll make sure he still visits you once in a while." Crystal's voice was beginning to sound more musical than humanly possible.
"I do mean that. Get the hell away from me and Rei. Rei doesn't want you, don't you get it? He has a girlfriend, he has someone to come home to already. Just because you think that he's perfect for you doesn't mean that he thinks the same about you." Lolli shouted through the door. "So do us all a favor and get the hell out of here and away from us."
There was a pounding on the door. "He does feel the same way I do. You just don't want to admit what you can't handle. He loves me just as much as I love him. So you let him come to me or I'll kill you."
Lolli locked the door with the doorknob and the bolt and then walked away from the door, deciding that she needed sleep. Then she heard the doorknob turn with the familiar sound of someone unlocking it and suddenly the bolt was the only thing keeping Crystal out of her apartment.
Lolli ran back to the door and tried to push Crystal out of the apartment. "Get out! You can't do this! Get the hell out!" Lolli felt tears run down her face. "Don't do this to Rei. Don't you see that you're ruining his life when you do this? He's going to be a proud father in eight months, and he doesn't need you to screw this up."
"What do you mean he'll be a father?" Crystal growled and pushed against the door again, the bolt slowly giving away. "You ruined him, didn't you. You made him fuck you. You raped him. Now you're carrying his child. The child that he wanted me to carry. You bitch!" With another push the door almost gave way and Lolli back away quickly, running to the keypad for the alarm, pressing the alarm button to activate the help squad but nothing happened. Nothing at all. Lolli's eyes widened in horror.
"Oh no, what did you do?" Lolli asked, screamed really, looking around, trying to find a way to get out of here without bringing Crystal to where Rei was.
"I disconnected the phone. You don't think that I was going to let you use the cops to separate me and Rei, did you? Oh I know your type, act all innocent to get to the guy and then boom, you attack." Crystal said angrily and then pushed on the door again and Lolli could see the bolt giving away, only barely holding her back now.
"GET OUT!" Lolli screamed and then rusehd at the door, slaming it in Crystal's face, tears now streaming down her face. "Get out, get out, get out!"
"You can't keep me out." Crystal exclaimed, her voice sounding more distant than Lolli thought it should. "No you can't. Not a chance in the world you can keep me away from my Rei."
Suddenly the window shattered, pieces of glass flying all over the place and Lolli screamed again, only aware of the body climbing through the newly cut window.
{A/N: evil cliffie..isn't it? can't wait to see your reviews...see ya}