Rather Live Another Rainy Day
Chapter Eleven: Time to put the plan into action
Lolli sighed as she looked between the elevator and the stairs. Knowing Kai and Tala, they would have taken the stairs. Why? Because they were idiots that's why. Lolli growled and rushed to the door for the stairs, pushed it open and took a quick look at how many stairs there were. And almost fainted.
There had to be at least fifty god damned stairs before you reached the second stupid set of stairs. This could take forever and climbing stairs wasn't exactly Lolli's favourite past time.
Lolli gritted her teeth and began running up the stairs. It didn't matter if she wanted to do this or not. She had to, she had no other choice. She had to make it to Kai and Tala before they did something stupid. After all, their safety just might hlep Lolli get Rei back.
Kai and Tala would be able to help her get Rei back, Lolli repeated to herself. They would help her! They would! All she had to do was get to them first.
With that in mind, Lolli continued to run up the stairs, cursing the way the stairs were set so that it was almost impossible to see if Kai and Tala were just on the next flight or not. What kind of stupid people designed this place anyways?
Lolli quickly scanned her brain as she continued to run, what floor was April and Tala's new apartment on? That would surely be the place that they would go to first of all, because well, that just would be where everything would be.
Lolli was sure that it was only on the third floor, which meant that she only had to go up six sets of stairs...two for each floor. Lolli sighed, she had already gone up two now, only four more to go and hopefully Tala and Kai didn't do something stupid before she got there. Wait a second. If Tala and Kai were only going to the third floor to stop Shanna then wouldn't they be done by now?
Lolli almost completely stopped as she thought about that. Shit, Tala and Kai were going to do something stupid. Lolli sped up, she had to get there before they did.
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"Hello? Julian? This is Shanna, Kai's fiancée. I have the money here Julian. I just need you to come and get it." Shanna said, sighing as she knocked on the door, a briefcase held tightly in her hand, her mind racing with what could go wrong with this plan but she tried not to think about that kind of stuff. It wasn't going to work. She couldn't think like that. If she did, well then this plan really would go down in smoke.
"I know you're lying. No one's left the premises since they came here. There's no way that you could have gotten the money." Julian called back through the door.
"That's not true. I left to go get the money and now I have it. I need you to open the door so that you can take it. I also have the keys to your getaway car." Shanna jingled her own car keys. "Come on Julian, open the door and you can go. I promise."
There was a slight struggle behind the door and then Shanna heard someone gasp in pain. "SHANNA! Get the hell out of here! He'll take you too! Don't stay here, run!" April yelled out before suddenly her voice went muffled and Shanna could tell that Julian had gotten control over the situation again.
"I want you to back away from the door Shanna, I have a gun on your little friend and any sudden movement or anything and I won't hesitate to shoot her." Julian warned, doing something to April to cause her to whimper in pain. "Alright, I'm opening the door now Shanna, back away."
Shanna backed away, against the wall, holding the gun that one of the police officers had given her up towards the door, her finger on the trigger, ready to pull it the second this guy showed his face. She held a little bit to the side, to where she figured his shoulder would be. She wanted to wound him, not kill him. After all, even if he did kidnap her friend, the courts would still have a hay-day with this one.
The door opened and Shanna pulled the trigger and gasped as the bullet was fired.
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They were on the right floor, Kai and Tala. But they were on the other side of the floor from where Tala and April had gotten their apartment. They were slowly making their way to the apartment, slowly because they didn't want any surprises and end up being taking hostages themselves.
"Do you think that that bastard has done anything to April?" Tala asked, as he and Kai checked around the corner before going around it.
"Nah, then he wouldn't have any leverage against us, now would he?" Kai asked.
Tala shrugged. "I dunno. If she was laying on the floor dying, I sure as hell would give him his money faster. Maybe he'll think like that too." Tala sighed and looked away. "I don't want to have to deal with this Kai. If anything happens to her...I don't know what I'd do."
Kai nodded. "I know what you mean. If anything happens to her, I'm going to be just as upset. She's my sister too, you know that."
Tala sighed. "Yah I know that, but she's my girlfriend." Tala stopped and leaned against the wall. "I'm going to ask her to marry me when we get out of this."
Kai stopped dead in his tracks. "What? Tala, just because she's been held hostage doesn't mean that you should jump into that sort of thing."
Tala shook his head. "I'm not going to be jumping into anything. I was going to ask her to marry me anyways. I already bought the ring, had the dinner planned out. I was going to ask you if you'd be there when I asked her. I was going to take all of us to that restaurant we always go to. You know, so not to raise any suspicions." Tala's face fell down and he hid his eyes from view. "But now..now I don't care whether or not it's a perfect moment. I just want to know that she'll be mine forever, that even if she does die, she'll die being mine."
"Tala-"
"Kai, I know that I sound a little possessive but that's just what I need." Tala looked up. "Alright, I'm done. Lets go get your girlfriend back."
"Tala-"
"Kai, lets talk about it later. Right now, we have girlfriend to save." Tala smirked. "Or did you forget?"
Kai rolled his eyes. "Like I could ever forget my fiancée." Kai empathisized that word. "Now lets go and get her before she does something that will make me want to kill her." Kai started walking again. "After of course I kiss her for still being alive."
Tala rolled his eyes. "You are one weird-" Tala was interupted by a gunshot and without even thinking about it, both Tala and Kai started running for the apartment.
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Lolli heard the shot and ran for the door for the third floor, she didn't even think about maybe endangering herself, all she could think about was her friends.
Lolli raced for the other end of the apartment building, even in her foggy state of mind, she knew that was where April's apartment lay. She ran faster than she had ever ran before in her life and she saw Kai and Tala in front of her. Sure, now she found them.
They were also running, probably for the same reason that Lolli was and Lolli caught up to them and passed them, turning around, running backwards. She handed each of them a gun and then turned back around, heading for the apartment, seeing Shanna in front of the door, looking shocked as hell and Lolli feared the worse
Only to find out that the worst was not even close to it.
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"I'm sorry Miss but you can't go through this street. We have a hostage situation going on here and we can't have any traffic out here in case something happens." The officer tipped his hat to Crystal. "We can't have any civilians getting hurt."
Crystal sighed. "Alright, let me turn around." She flashed a warning look at Rei and then turned the car into reverse.
Rei took a quick look at the door that kept him from the rest of the world. Crystal hadn't even locked it, expecting Rei to be a good behavior. Rei smirked, too bad for her now.
Rei looked over at Crystal while he snuck his hand towards where the door handle was. Rei waited until Crystal's eyes turned to the side mirror so that she could turn around. That's when Rei sprung his plan.
Rei wung open the door, before Crystal could stop him by locking the door. Rei thanked the police officer they had just talked to. Thanks to him, Crystal had put the gun away, not wanting him to do something like arrest her before she could get Rei safely to her house.
Rei had never put his seatbelt off, surprisingly the police officer hadn't told him to put it on. Maybe he hadn't noticed, or maybe he had noticed and just decided that there was no reason to make a fuss about it, he had enough to deal with as it was. Since he didn't have a seatbelt, he didn't have to worry about getting it off and without another thought, he jumped out of the slow moving vechile, rolling on his side for a few feet and then jumping up.
Rei wasn't stupid, he realized that Crystal was going to come after him, but another thing that he was aware of was the fact that there were police just a few yards ahead. If he could get to them, or at least alert them that he was in trouble, Crystal would have a hard time doing anything.
The police officer that had halted them spotted Rei trying to avoid the moving car that Crystal was currently driving. He pulled his gun out and fired, hitting Crystal's car, causing her to skid. Rei gritted his teeth and tried to make it to the safety of where she couldn't slid into him, unfortunately he didn't make it and she hit him and he went down.
Thankfully her skid had finished and Rei didn't need to worry about going underneath the wheels. The police officer ran over with a few others. The ones he hadn't known arrested Crystal while the first one came over to Rei.
"How did you know?" Rei asked weakly.
"You're Rei Kon, Lolli Burkenstock's boyfriend. I knew that this person wasn't Lolli." The police officer grinned. "Plus I read the paper this morning?"
"Huh?"
"Her name's Crystal. She made the paper today. Lolli did a story on her." The officer shook his head. "She did an article on the person most obsessed with you."
"Oh."
The officer held out a hand to help Rei up. "I'm Bob Riley, Lolli helped me out a long time ago. Glad I could help her boyfriend out." Bob scratched his head. "Are you alright to walk?"
Rei nodded. "Yah. Why?"
Bob pointed to the apartment building. "Kai Hiwatari's sister is in there, April Hiwatari I believe it is now. Anyway, she's being held at gun point."
"What?" Rei asked, jumping up. "You can't mean that." Rei winced and held his arm in pain. "Where's Lolli?"
"Lolli's here." Bob confirmed. "Last time I saw her, she was going in that building, to help Kai and Tala. They went in there unarmed, she wanted to stop them and arm them."
Rei shook his head. "Fuck. I need to go up there." Rei started towards the building.
"Oh no you don't." Bob said, grabbing Rei by the shoulder.
"Bob..please, I gotta help."
"Not without this you don't." Bob said, handing Rei his gun. "Go and get her back here alive."
Rei smiled, took the gun and started to head towards the building again.
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{A/N: I thought about ending it here but decided that I just HAD to tell you what happened with the gunshot that Shanna fired. ^_^ See I'm not that mean}
When Tala ran towards the door, he had feared the worse. That Shanna had done something stupid and then Julian had shot April, that April was now lying on the floor, bleeding or even worse, dead.
Well Tala was partly right, but not completely.
When they got to the door, holding their guns, ready to kill Julian for being a bastard and taking their April hostage, for shooting her and in it's own losing the only leverage he had over them. When they got to the door, they were surprised. April was indeed lying on the floor, she was indeed bleeding, and as far as Tala could see she wasn't dead but the person holding the recently fired gun wasn't Julian, it was Shanna.
Shanna had slid down on the floor, holding the gun that she had shot with, looking at it and crying. Two police officers had Julian in handcuffs, dragging him out. They nodded to Tala and Kai and then made their way to the elevator, to take him to jail. Tala was glad of that but April was on the ground...April was on the ground.
Tala fell to the ground next to April and picked her head up and put it in his lap, stroking her head and cheek, trying to get her to wake up somehow. Tala's eyes fell to her shoulder, where there was a hole in her shirt, and blood continously bled out of it.
Tala felt his heart stop as he felt for a pulse and found one, a very weak one. She was obviously losing a lot of blood.
"I'm sorry." Shanna sobbed out, handing Kai the gun and refusing the hug that he offered to her. "I don't know what I was doing. I thought that Julian was going to answer the door, so I fired, thinking that it was Julian but it wasn't. It was April. I had already shot, it was too late. Oh god Tala, I'm so sorry."
Tala shrugged off her apology and looked at Kai. "Get her out of here." Tala motioned to Shanna and looked back at April. "I'll stay here and wait for the paramedics."
Kai nodded and picked up the crying Shanna and carried her to the elevator, waiting for it to come back up.
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By the time that Rei had gotten to the elevator, two police men and a guy in handcuffs had come down it. Rei glared at the guy, got into the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor. When the doors opened, he found himself looking at Lolli, Kai and Shanna.
"Oh god Lolli." Rei said, enveloping her in a hug. "I was so worried." Rei looked over at Kai, noticing the uncried tears in his eyes and the tears covering Lolli and Shanna's face. "What happened? Is April alright? Did the bastard shoot her?"
Shanna shook her head, sniffled and looked up at Rei, her green eyes filled with tears and hurt. "No, he didn't." She looked down. "I did."
Rei said nothing more as the elevator travelled down. After all, what was there to say?
{A/N: OMG! What in the hell was that??? OMG OMG OMG OMG! That was cool...lol alright what do you think? I can't believe that happened like that. Sarah!!! You have to tell me what you think this time. I need to know. PLEASE *looks at Sarah pityfully*...
And everyone else...What do you think?? Was it bad...was it good??
Next chapter...
Will April wake up?
Will Tala forgive Shanna?
Will Kai and Shanna still get married?
Will Tala be able to ask April to marry him?
Will April say yes?
What will happen between Rei and Lolli?
All those answers and more...
next chapter}
Chapter Eleven: Time to put the plan into action
Lolli sighed as she looked between the elevator and the stairs. Knowing Kai and Tala, they would have taken the stairs. Why? Because they were idiots that's why. Lolli growled and rushed to the door for the stairs, pushed it open and took a quick look at how many stairs there were. And almost fainted.
There had to be at least fifty god damned stairs before you reached the second stupid set of stairs. This could take forever and climbing stairs wasn't exactly Lolli's favourite past time.
Lolli gritted her teeth and began running up the stairs. It didn't matter if she wanted to do this or not. She had to, she had no other choice. She had to make it to Kai and Tala before they did something stupid. After all, their safety just might hlep Lolli get Rei back.
Kai and Tala would be able to help her get Rei back, Lolli repeated to herself. They would help her! They would! All she had to do was get to them first.
With that in mind, Lolli continued to run up the stairs, cursing the way the stairs were set so that it was almost impossible to see if Kai and Tala were just on the next flight or not. What kind of stupid people designed this place anyways?
Lolli quickly scanned her brain as she continued to run, what floor was April and Tala's new apartment on? That would surely be the place that they would go to first of all, because well, that just would be where everything would be.
Lolli was sure that it was only on the third floor, which meant that she only had to go up six sets of stairs...two for each floor. Lolli sighed, she had already gone up two now, only four more to go and hopefully Tala and Kai didn't do something stupid before she got there. Wait a second. If Tala and Kai were only going to the third floor to stop Shanna then wouldn't they be done by now?
Lolli almost completely stopped as she thought about that. Shit, Tala and Kai were going to do something stupid. Lolli sped up, she had to get there before they did.
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"Hello? Julian? This is Shanna, Kai's fiancée. I have the money here Julian. I just need you to come and get it." Shanna said, sighing as she knocked on the door, a briefcase held tightly in her hand, her mind racing with what could go wrong with this plan but she tried not to think about that kind of stuff. It wasn't going to work. She couldn't think like that. If she did, well then this plan really would go down in smoke.
"I know you're lying. No one's left the premises since they came here. There's no way that you could have gotten the money." Julian called back through the door.
"That's not true. I left to go get the money and now I have it. I need you to open the door so that you can take it. I also have the keys to your getaway car." Shanna jingled her own car keys. "Come on Julian, open the door and you can go. I promise."
There was a slight struggle behind the door and then Shanna heard someone gasp in pain. "SHANNA! Get the hell out of here! He'll take you too! Don't stay here, run!" April yelled out before suddenly her voice went muffled and Shanna could tell that Julian had gotten control over the situation again.
"I want you to back away from the door Shanna, I have a gun on your little friend and any sudden movement or anything and I won't hesitate to shoot her." Julian warned, doing something to April to cause her to whimper in pain. "Alright, I'm opening the door now Shanna, back away."
Shanna backed away, against the wall, holding the gun that one of the police officers had given her up towards the door, her finger on the trigger, ready to pull it the second this guy showed his face. She held a little bit to the side, to where she figured his shoulder would be. She wanted to wound him, not kill him. After all, even if he did kidnap her friend, the courts would still have a hay-day with this one.
The door opened and Shanna pulled the trigger and gasped as the bullet was fired.
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They were on the right floor, Kai and Tala. But they were on the other side of the floor from where Tala and April had gotten their apartment. They were slowly making their way to the apartment, slowly because they didn't want any surprises and end up being taking hostages themselves.
"Do you think that that bastard has done anything to April?" Tala asked, as he and Kai checked around the corner before going around it.
"Nah, then he wouldn't have any leverage against us, now would he?" Kai asked.
Tala shrugged. "I dunno. If she was laying on the floor dying, I sure as hell would give him his money faster. Maybe he'll think like that too." Tala sighed and looked away. "I don't want to have to deal with this Kai. If anything happens to her...I don't know what I'd do."
Kai nodded. "I know what you mean. If anything happens to her, I'm going to be just as upset. She's my sister too, you know that."
Tala sighed. "Yah I know that, but she's my girlfriend." Tala stopped and leaned against the wall. "I'm going to ask her to marry me when we get out of this."
Kai stopped dead in his tracks. "What? Tala, just because she's been held hostage doesn't mean that you should jump into that sort of thing."
Tala shook his head. "I'm not going to be jumping into anything. I was going to ask her to marry me anyways. I already bought the ring, had the dinner planned out. I was going to ask you if you'd be there when I asked her. I was going to take all of us to that restaurant we always go to. You know, so not to raise any suspicions." Tala's face fell down and he hid his eyes from view. "But now..now I don't care whether or not it's a perfect moment. I just want to know that she'll be mine forever, that even if she does die, she'll die being mine."
"Tala-"
"Kai, I know that I sound a little possessive but that's just what I need." Tala looked up. "Alright, I'm done. Lets go get your girlfriend back."
"Tala-"
"Kai, lets talk about it later. Right now, we have girlfriend to save." Tala smirked. "Or did you forget?"
Kai rolled his eyes. "Like I could ever forget my fiancée." Kai empathisized that word. "Now lets go and get her before she does something that will make me want to kill her." Kai started walking again. "After of course I kiss her for still being alive."
Tala rolled his eyes. "You are one weird-" Tala was interupted by a gunshot and without even thinking about it, both Tala and Kai started running for the apartment.
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Lolli heard the shot and ran for the door for the third floor, she didn't even think about maybe endangering herself, all she could think about was her friends.
Lolli raced for the other end of the apartment building, even in her foggy state of mind, she knew that was where April's apartment lay. She ran faster than she had ever ran before in her life and she saw Kai and Tala in front of her. Sure, now she found them.
They were also running, probably for the same reason that Lolli was and Lolli caught up to them and passed them, turning around, running backwards. She handed each of them a gun and then turned back around, heading for the apartment, seeing Shanna in front of the door, looking shocked as hell and Lolli feared the worse
Only to find out that the worst was not even close to it.
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"I'm sorry Miss but you can't go through this street. We have a hostage situation going on here and we can't have any traffic out here in case something happens." The officer tipped his hat to Crystal. "We can't have any civilians getting hurt."
Crystal sighed. "Alright, let me turn around." She flashed a warning look at Rei and then turned the car into reverse.
Rei took a quick look at the door that kept him from the rest of the world. Crystal hadn't even locked it, expecting Rei to be a good behavior. Rei smirked, too bad for her now.
Rei looked over at Crystal while he snuck his hand towards where the door handle was. Rei waited until Crystal's eyes turned to the side mirror so that she could turn around. That's when Rei sprung his plan.
Rei wung open the door, before Crystal could stop him by locking the door. Rei thanked the police officer they had just talked to. Thanks to him, Crystal had put the gun away, not wanting him to do something like arrest her before she could get Rei safely to her house.
Rei had never put his seatbelt off, surprisingly the police officer hadn't told him to put it on. Maybe he hadn't noticed, or maybe he had noticed and just decided that there was no reason to make a fuss about it, he had enough to deal with as it was. Since he didn't have a seatbelt, he didn't have to worry about getting it off and without another thought, he jumped out of the slow moving vechile, rolling on his side for a few feet and then jumping up.
Rei wasn't stupid, he realized that Crystal was going to come after him, but another thing that he was aware of was the fact that there were police just a few yards ahead. If he could get to them, or at least alert them that he was in trouble, Crystal would have a hard time doing anything.
The police officer that had halted them spotted Rei trying to avoid the moving car that Crystal was currently driving. He pulled his gun out and fired, hitting Crystal's car, causing her to skid. Rei gritted his teeth and tried to make it to the safety of where she couldn't slid into him, unfortunately he didn't make it and she hit him and he went down.
Thankfully her skid had finished and Rei didn't need to worry about going underneath the wheels. The police officer ran over with a few others. The ones he hadn't known arrested Crystal while the first one came over to Rei.
"How did you know?" Rei asked weakly.
"You're Rei Kon, Lolli Burkenstock's boyfriend. I knew that this person wasn't Lolli." The police officer grinned. "Plus I read the paper this morning?"
"Huh?"
"Her name's Crystal. She made the paper today. Lolli did a story on her." The officer shook his head. "She did an article on the person most obsessed with you."
"Oh."
The officer held out a hand to help Rei up. "I'm Bob Riley, Lolli helped me out a long time ago. Glad I could help her boyfriend out." Bob scratched his head. "Are you alright to walk?"
Rei nodded. "Yah. Why?"
Bob pointed to the apartment building. "Kai Hiwatari's sister is in there, April Hiwatari I believe it is now. Anyway, she's being held at gun point."
"What?" Rei asked, jumping up. "You can't mean that." Rei winced and held his arm in pain. "Where's Lolli?"
"Lolli's here." Bob confirmed. "Last time I saw her, she was going in that building, to help Kai and Tala. They went in there unarmed, she wanted to stop them and arm them."
Rei shook his head. "Fuck. I need to go up there." Rei started towards the building.
"Oh no you don't." Bob said, grabbing Rei by the shoulder.
"Bob..please, I gotta help."
"Not without this you don't." Bob said, handing Rei his gun. "Go and get her back here alive."
Rei smiled, took the gun and started to head towards the building again.
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{A/N: I thought about ending it here but decided that I just HAD to tell you what happened with the gunshot that Shanna fired. ^_^ See I'm not that mean}
When Tala ran towards the door, he had feared the worse. That Shanna had done something stupid and then Julian had shot April, that April was now lying on the floor, bleeding or even worse, dead.
Well Tala was partly right, but not completely.
When they got to the door, holding their guns, ready to kill Julian for being a bastard and taking their April hostage, for shooting her and in it's own losing the only leverage he had over them. When they got to the door, they were surprised. April was indeed lying on the floor, she was indeed bleeding, and as far as Tala could see she wasn't dead but the person holding the recently fired gun wasn't Julian, it was Shanna.
Shanna had slid down on the floor, holding the gun that she had shot with, looking at it and crying. Two police officers had Julian in handcuffs, dragging him out. They nodded to Tala and Kai and then made their way to the elevator, to take him to jail. Tala was glad of that but April was on the ground...April was on the ground.
Tala fell to the ground next to April and picked her head up and put it in his lap, stroking her head and cheek, trying to get her to wake up somehow. Tala's eyes fell to her shoulder, where there was a hole in her shirt, and blood continously bled out of it.
Tala felt his heart stop as he felt for a pulse and found one, a very weak one. She was obviously losing a lot of blood.
"I'm sorry." Shanna sobbed out, handing Kai the gun and refusing the hug that he offered to her. "I don't know what I was doing. I thought that Julian was going to answer the door, so I fired, thinking that it was Julian but it wasn't. It was April. I had already shot, it was too late. Oh god Tala, I'm so sorry."
Tala shrugged off her apology and looked at Kai. "Get her out of here." Tala motioned to Shanna and looked back at April. "I'll stay here and wait for the paramedics."
Kai nodded and picked up the crying Shanna and carried her to the elevator, waiting for it to come back up.
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By the time that Rei had gotten to the elevator, two police men and a guy in handcuffs had come down it. Rei glared at the guy, got into the elevator and pressed the button for the third floor. When the doors opened, he found himself looking at Lolli, Kai and Shanna.
"Oh god Lolli." Rei said, enveloping her in a hug. "I was so worried." Rei looked over at Kai, noticing the uncried tears in his eyes and the tears covering Lolli and Shanna's face. "What happened? Is April alright? Did the bastard shoot her?"
Shanna shook her head, sniffled and looked up at Rei, her green eyes filled with tears and hurt. "No, he didn't." She looked down. "I did."
Rei said nothing more as the elevator travelled down. After all, what was there to say?
{A/N: OMG! What in the hell was that??? OMG OMG OMG OMG! That was cool...lol alright what do you think? I can't believe that happened like that. Sarah!!! You have to tell me what you think this time. I need to know. PLEASE *looks at Sarah pityfully*...
And everyone else...What do you think?? Was it bad...was it good??
Next chapter...
Will April wake up?
Will Tala forgive Shanna?
Will Kai and Shanna still get married?
Will Tala be able to ask April to marry him?
Will April say yes?
What will happen between Rei and Lolli?
All those answers and more...
next chapter}