Rather Live Another Rainy Day
Chapter Twelve: It rains, it pours, and sometimes an umbrella won't help.
Kai, Tala, Lolli and Rei all sat in the hospital waiting room. The doctors had taken April to an emergency room and they hadn't heard anything about it since then. That had been nearly an hour ago. Whatever was happening in there, wasn't good.
"So, how did you get away from Crystal?" Lolli asked, turning to Rei, finally breaking the silence that had slipped over the four of them. "I thought she was going to take you to her house."
Rei shrugged. "Well, we got stopped by the police officers in front of the apartment building. She had to hide her gun so it wasn't at her fingertips. I just jumped out of the car, we were going slow enough." Rei smirked. "We should send a thank-you letter to Bob Riley. He really saved my butt."
Lolli's eyes widened. "Really? He was the one that gave me those guns and let me go into the building." Lolli looked at Kai. "Hey, do you have any influence at the police station."
Kai's eyebrow shot up. "Do I not have any influence anywhere? I have money, money is the ultimate influence. Why?"
"I think you should get this Bob guy a promotion." Lolli nodded. "He deserves it, if it wasn't for him, maybe you would be the one in the emergency room. He's the one that gave me the guns."
Kai grunted. "I would rather be the one in the emergency room. April doesn't deserve that, she didn't do anything. It was my fault he had to resort to that. I'm the one who told his wife to hire a bodyguard and I'm also the one that recommended Tala." Kai looked down ashamed. "If I hadn't said that, then maybe April wouldn't have been taken prisoner, wouldn't have been shot and both me and Julian would be walking away a little happier today."
Lolli rolled her eyes. "Don't you guys realize that not everything is your fault." Lolli sighed. "Where's Shanna? You think she'd be here. After all, April is her friend."
"She ran off." Tala said simply. "I think that she thought I was going to blame her if something seriously wrong happened to April."
Kai shook his head. "No, she thought I was going to blame her if something seriously wrong happened to April. April's my sister, I've been over-protective of her since I found out." Kai sighed. "I don't think she realizes that I love her a lot more than I love my sister." Kai looked up. "I mean, I love my sister, sure but I would do anything for Shanna, even if it meant giving up my sister."
Tala growled. "You better not mean that."
Kai shrugged. "I do and there's nothing you can do to change that."
"Then why aren't you looking for her?" Lolli asked, hitting Kai on the back. "Get your ass out there and look for her. If April wakes up, we'll be here to make sure she doesn't feel lonely. We'll phone you for crying out loud. Just get your butt moving and find your girlfriend before she thinks that you really do care more about April than you care about her."
Kai nodded, getting up and exited the hospital. When he got to his car he was stopped by a hand on his shoulder. Kai turned around and found that he was looking Tala straight in the eye. "Hey Kai, listen. When you find Shanna, tell her that I don't blame her for what happened to April. Tell her that no one does. She did what she thought was right."
Kai nodded and got in his cat. "I'll tell her Tala." Kai said before closing the door. Tala backed off and watched Kai leave and then headed back inside the hospital.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
April fought against the blackening blanket that had been tossed over her. However, she had no effect and all she could do was lay there and watch as her brain repeated the memory over and over and over again.
It was always the exact same. She was being held at gunpoint by Julian. Then Shanna would come to the door, knock and tell Julian that she had his money. Then Julian would get April to open the door. April would see Shanna's gun, see the trigger being pulled, feel someting hit her shoulder and crash her into the ground. Then darkness would take over her and the last thing she would hear was a gunshot.
April moaned, trying to push away this memory, trying to bring another one up. Any other one, she just didn't want to have to watch this anymore. She knew why she was unconscious, wasn't that enough? Obviously not because the memory started again.
Gunpoint by Julian. Shanna at door. April opening door. April seeing Shanna's gun. Shanna pulling the trigger.
April didn't watch the rest of the rerun and burst into tears. Why had Shanna done that? Surely she had seen that it was April standing at the door, not Julian. So why had she fired? Why?
April heard someone whisper her name, someone from far away. It was Tala. April could recongize that voice everywhere. She wanted to find that voice but she couldn't. There was no where for her to run to in order to get to it. April panicked, what if she could never get back to Tala?
April heard his voice again, telling her to wake up. But how was she going to do that. April moaned and twisted, trying to fight the blanket of unconsciousness once more.
Then she opened her eyes.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala had finally been let into April's room. They told him something about being able to stabilize her wound and other stuff, but he wasn't really listening. He just wanted to be able to go and see her. To assure himself that she was still alive.
Tala opened the door to the hospital room, stepping inside and gently closing the door behind him. He walked over to April's bed and leaned over, kissing her on the cheek. "April?"
No response.
"April, wake up please." Tala brushed her hair out of her face. "Come on April, wake up."
April moaned a little bit and then turned her face away from Tala. Tala watched her curiously, wondering if she was trying to wake up for him. Tala smiled at that. Then April's head turned to face towards him and her eyes fluttered open. "Tala?"
Tala sighed in relief, closed his eyes and let that voice wash over him. Then he leaned down and kissed her. "Hi April. Welcome back to our world." Tala pulled the chair over to the side of the bed. "How are you feeling?"
April tried to move her shoulder and winced as she did so. "I'm doing alright. I could be better but hey, at least I'm here." April shifted to look around the room. "Where is everybody?"
"In the waiting room."
April lay back down. "I want to see Shanna Tala. Can you get her for me?"
Tala shook his head. "No, she's not here right now. She didn't come to the hospital. She was afraid we were all going to blame her for what happened to you."
"What did happen to me?" April asked quietly.
Tala's eyebrows knotted. "Well, you were opening the door for Julian, so that he could get his money and Shanna fired, figuring that Julian would be the one at the door. She saw that it was you a fraction of a second too late. She couldn't stop it. Julian was arrested by the police she had brought with her and is now in jail, hopefully he stays there and that's about it."
"So Shanna didn't think it was going to be me to answer the door." April quested.
"No, she didn't think it was going to be you." Tala looked down at April worried. "Why?"
"Well, all that I remember is Julian holding a gun to me, than Shanna coming to the door. She told him that she had the money, so Julian told me to the open the door. Next thing I knew, I was faced with another gun to my face and Shanna looked at me, and I swore I saw a look of recongition in her face and then the trigger was pulled and I was on the ground. I was blacking out and then I heard the sound of the gunshot." April looked up at Tala. "Did she fire twice?"
Tala shook his head. "Nah, you just never hear the bullet that hits you, before it hits you that is."
"Oh."
Tala smiled. "I have something for you April." Tala stuck his hand in his pocket and fished around for the ring that he had bought. "But I have to ask you something first."
April looked up at Tala, confusion written clearly in her eyes. "Surely it can wait until I get out of here."
Tala shook his head. "I don't want it to wait." Tala took a deep breath. {A/N: Okay people...i suck at wedding proposals...work with me...I've never had to do one before lol..probably because i'm only 14..but eh, what do I know?} "April Hiwatari. I love you, you know that, right?"
April nodded. "Yah, I know."
"I want us to live together and I want us to be together for a long time." Tala continued.
"So do I Tala, that's why we're moving in together." April replied.
"I want to make sure that you know how much I want us to be together. So April-" Tala brought the ring box out of his pocket and opened it to reveal a white gold, diamond ring.
April glasped her good hand over her mouth. "Oh god Tala, I don't know what to say."
"Say that you'll marry me." Tala prompted.
"Of course I will." April wrapped her arm, good one still, around Tala's neck and pulled him into a kiss. "I will marry you Tala. I will, I will, I will."
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Kai sat in his car, wondering whether or not he should go and see if Shanna was there. She had been here last time but would she be here again? Kai wasn't sure but he wasn't about to leave without checking first. Sure, she might not be here but every instinct in Kai's body was telling him that Shanna was.
Kai climbed out of his car, closing the door behind him. He stood there for a second, listening to the sound of nature. Then he walked into the forest, headed once again for the treehouse.
Rei made it there easily, the parth familiar to him especially since he had been there recently. Kai gazed up the trunk of the tree and noticed something strange, the throw-down ladder was missing. Kai growled, that meant that he'd have to go up the hard way.
It was definitely harder to climb it now, at eighteen then it had been at fifteen, the first time he had met Shanna and the first time he had followed her into the treehouse. Of course, those had been two separate events but still.
Eventually Kai made it up, crawlling in through the window. Kai looked around and growled. He'd done all that for nothing. Shanna wasn't even here. Kai kicked a box in the corner and threw down the ladder. He was about to climb down when he heard it. The unmistakable sound of his girlfriend crying.
It was unmistakable because of two things. One, he had heard it a million times before, most being while he was comforting her in the middle of the night from a nightmare or something. Two, because it was his girlfriend and no one in the world sounds the same as your girlfriend.
Kai turned around and tried to figure out where the noise was coming from. He detrimined that it was coming from the roof. Kai climbed back out the window he had came in and continued to climb higher and he could lift himself over and onto the roof. There, Kai found his Shanna.
She was sitting in the middle of the roof, her knees tucked up close to her body and her arms wrapped around them. Kai instantly felt an urge to comfort her and as it sunk in, before he knew it, he had gone up to her and wrapped his arms around her. "Shanna, it's alright."
Shanna turned around and buried her head in Kai's chest. "Oh god Kai. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen. Really, I didn't." Shanna gripped Kai's shirt and pulled him closer to her. "Please don't hate me. Please." Shanna said something else but Kai couldn't make it out because of her sobs.
Kai gathered her closer to him and stroked her hair. "We don't hate you. We know it was an accident." Kai stroked her cheek. "No one blames you. Tala said he didn't too. In fact, he told me to tell you that he doesn't."
"Yes he does. Don't you see?" Shanna sobbed louder. "He hates me. He only told you that he doesn't because he doesn't want me to know. But I do know. I know exactly what's going on. I know you all blame me." Shanna pushed Kai away. "I shot your sister Kai. Don't you understand that? The kidnapper would have gotten away woundfree if there hadn't been someoen with me. What part of this aren't you getting? I was the one that shot your sister Kai. I shot Tala's girlfriend Kai. I SHOT APRIL!"
With that Shanna jumped out of the tree house, scrambled down the tree and ran into the forest, leaving Kai to stare after her.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala continued to sit next to April's bed, even when April fell asleep. Kai had convinced the nurses to let him stay with April until he was ready to leave. Kai was good at convincing people.
April suddenly sat straight up in bed and clutched Tala's arm. "I need you to get Shanna for me." April looked Tala right in the eye. "Please, I need her to talk to me."
"What's wrong April?" Tala asked, stroking April's cheek as he looked into her terrified eyes.
"I can't tell you." April whispered to Tala. "Just go and get Shanna for me. I need her Tala. I need her now."
Tala nodded and went to the waiting room, seeing Kai sitting in the corner. Kai had been back for two hours now. He had done a search of the forest, he had told Tala, after Shanna had ran away but he was unable to find her.
"What's wrong Tala?" Kai asked, looking up at Tala as he approached him. "Did something happen to April." Kai jumped up. "Did it?"
Tala shook his head. "She wants to see Shanna." Tala sighed. "What am I supposed to say to her. I'm sorry April but Shanna doesn't want to see you right now. I mean, really. What am I going to tell her?"
Kai shrugged. "I don't know. I wish that Shanan would just come in, so that she could see that we don't blame her for this."
Tala sighed. "You know girls. They're emotional." Tala looked back at the hall that led to April's room. "Do you want to go and talk to her?"
Kai nodded. "I should. I haven't yet. She's probably worried." With that Kai started towards April's room.
"Hey Kai." Tala called after him.
"Yah?" Kai asked, over his shoulder, not wanting to turn around.
"Be nice to her."
Kai smirked. "I'll try." Kai opened the door to April's room and saw that she was watching the door.
April's face fell when she saw Kai but she quickly got over it and patted the chair that Tala usually sat in. "Come in and sit down." April sighed. "Shanna's not here is she?"
Kai shook his head, not knowing what else to do. What else could he say? She was in the bathroom? That wouldn't work. Not with April. April knew better. Kai sat down, staring at his feet, finally he looked up. "No, she's not here April. I'm sorry."
"Do you blame her for what happened to me?" April asked.
"No."
April rolled her eyes and laid back down. "You should, you know. You need to admit it. You're mad at her for shooting me. Just because you know that she didn't mean to, is no reason to just forgive her. You need to yell at her, kick something. Get your anger out." April turned to look at Kai. "Otherwise you never will."
"What's that supposed to me?" Kai raised his eyebrow as he looked at her. "Hm?"
April shrugged. "Can't tell you. You're not Shanna. But you need to yell. You need to blame her. Even if you know that she didn't mean to." April sighed. "It doesn't change the fact that she did."
"So?"
"If you don't get mad at her now, how will you ever voice your opinion later, when it gets too much to handle? You'll be married than and don't you think that it would ruin your marriage if you were always mad at her for this? I think it would." April closed her eyes. "I'm tired. Tell Tala he can come back in."
Kai nodded and walked to the door and then paused, turning around. "Do you think that Shanna knows that I'm secretly mad at her?"
April nodded. "Of course she does, that's why she's running."
Kai nodded and let the room. Maybe girls were smarter than he thought they were.
{A/N: Alright...i left a few questions unanswered but I answered most of them ^_^ I just didn't know how to answer them in content so...yah. What'cha think of this chapter??? Did it make any sense. I need to know that lol}
Chapter Twelve: It rains, it pours, and sometimes an umbrella won't help.
Kai, Tala, Lolli and Rei all sat in the hospital waiting room. The doctors had taken April to an emergency room and they hadn't heard anything about it since then. That had been nearly an hour ago. Whatever was happening in there, wasn't good.
"So, how did you get away from Crystal?" Lolli asked, turning to Rei, finally breaking the silence that had slipped over the four of them. "I thought she was going to take you to her house."
Rei shrugged. "Well, we got stopped by the police officers in front of the apartment building. She had to hide her gun so it wasn't at her fingertips. I just jumped out of the car, we were going slow enough." Rei smirked. "We should send a thank-you letter to Bob Riley. He really saved my butt."
Lolli's eyes widened. "Really? He was the one that gave me those guns and let me go into the building." Lolli looked at Kai. "Hey, do you have any influence at the police station."
Kai's eyebrow shot up. "Do I not have any influence anywhere? I have money, money is the ultimate influence. Why?"
"I think you should get this Bob guy a promotion." Lolli nodded. "He deserves it, if it wasn't for him, maybe you would be the one in the emergency room. He's the one that gave me the guns."
Kai grunted. "I would rather be the one in the emergency room. April doesn't deserve that, she didn't do anything. It was my fault he had to resort to that. I'm the one who told his wife to hire a bodyguard and I'm also the one that recommended Tala." Kai looked down ashamed. "If I hadn't said that, then maybe April wouldn't have been taken prisoner, wouldn't have been shot and both me and Julian would be walking away a little happier today."
Lolli rolled her eyes. "Don't you guys realize that not everything is your fault." Lolli sighed. "Where's Shanna? You think she'd be here. After all, April is her friend."
"She ran off." Tala said simply. "I think that she thought I was going to blame her if something seriously wrong happened to April."
Kai shook his head. "No, she thought I was going to blame her if something seriously wrong happened to April. April's my sister, I've been over-protective of her since I found out." Kai sighed. "I don't think she realizes that I love her a lot more than I love my sister." Kai looked up. "I mean, I love my sister, sure but I would do anything for Shanna, even if it meant giving up my sister."
Tala growled. "You better not mean that."
Kai shrugged. "I do and there's nothing you can do to change that."
"Then why aren't you looking for her?" Lolli asked, hitting Kai on the back. "Get your ass out there and look for her. If April wakes up, we'll be here to make sure she doesn't feel lonely. We'll phone you for crying out loud. Just get your butt moving and find your girlfriend before she thinks that you really do care more about April than you care about her."
Kai nodded, getting up and exited the hospital. When he got to his car he was stopped by a hand on his shoulder. Kai turned around and found that he was looking Tala straight in the eye. "Hey Kai, listen. When you find Shanna, tell her that I don't blame her for what happened to April. Tell her that no one does. She did what she thought was right."
Kai nodded and got in his cat. "I'll tell her Tala." Kai said before closing the door. Tala backed off and watched Kai leave and then headed back inside the hospital.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
April fought against the blackening blanket that had been tossed over her. However, she had no effect and all she could do was lay there and watch as her brain repeated the memory over and over and over again.
It was always the exact same. She was being held at gunpoint by Julian. Then Shanna would come to the door, knock and tell Julian that she had his money. Then Julian would get April to open the door. April would see Shanna's gun, see the trigger being pulled, feel someting hit her shoulder and crash her into the ground. Then darkness would take over her and the last thing she would hear was a gunshot.
April moaned, trying to push away this memory, trying to bring another one up. Any other one, she just didn't want to have to watch this anymore. She knew why she was unconscious, wasn't that enough? Obviously not because the memory started again.
Gunpoint by Julian. Shanna at door. April opening door. April seeing Shanna's gun. Shanna pulling the trigger.
April didn't watch the rest of the rerun and burst into tears. Why had Shanna done that? Surely she had seen that it was April standing at the door, not Julian. So why had she fired? Why?
April heard someone whisper her name, someone from far away. It was Tala. April could recongize that voice everywhere. She wanted to find that voice but she couldn't. There was no where for her to run to in order to get to it. April panicked, what if she could never get back to Tala?
April heard his voice again, telling her to wake up. But how was she going to do that. April moaned and twisted, trying to fight the blanket of unconsciousness once more.
Then she opened her eyes.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala had finally been let into April's room. They told him something about being able to stabilize her wound and other stuff, but he wasn't really listening. He just wanted to be able to go and see her. To assure himself that she was still alive.
Tala opened the door to the hospital room, stepping inside and gently closing the door behind him. He walked over to April's bed and leaned over, kissing her on the cheek. "April?"
No response.
"April, wake up please." Tala brushed her hair out of her face. "Come on April, wake up."
April moaned a little bit and then turned her face away from Tala. Tala watched her curiously, wondering if she was trying to wake up for him. Tala smiled at that. Then April's head turned to face towards him and her eyes fluttered open. "Tala?"
Tala sighed in relief, closed his eyes and let that voice wash over him. Then he leaned down and kissed her. "Hi April. Welcome back to our world." Tala pulled the chair over to the side of the bed. "How are you feeling?"
April tried to move her shoulder and winced as she did so. "I'm doing alright. I could be better but hey, at least I'm here." April shifted to look around the room. "Where is everybody?"
"In the waiting room."
April lay back down. "I want to see Shanna Tala. Can you get her for me?"
Tala shook his head. "No, she's not here right now. She didn't come to the hospital. She was afraid we were all going to blame her for what happened to you."
"What did happen to me?" April asked quietly.
Tala's eyebrows knotted. "Well, you were opening the door for Julian, so that he could get his money and Shanna fired, figuring that Julian would be the one at the door. She saw that it was you a fraction of a second too late. She couldn't stop it. Julian was arrested by the police she had brought with her and is now in jail, hopefully he stays there and that's about it."
"So Shanna didn't think it was going to be me to answer the door." April quested.
"No, she didn't think it was going to be you." Tala looked down at April worried. "Why?"
"Well, all that I remember is Julian holding a gun to me, than Shanna coming to the door. She told him that she had the money, so Julian told me to the open the door. Next thing I knew, I was faced with another gun to my face and Shanna looked at me, and I swore I saw a look of recongition in her face and then the trigger was pulled and I was on the ground. I was blacking out and then I heard the sound of the gunshot." April looked up at Tala. "Did she fire twice?"
Tala shook his head. "Nah, you just never hear the bullet that hits you, before it hits you that is."
"Oh."
Tala smiled. "I have something for you April." Tala stuck his hand in his pocket and fished around for the ring that he had bought. "But I have to ask you something first."
April looked up at Tala, confusion written clearly in her eyes. "Surely it can wait until I get out of here."
Tala shook his head. "I don't want it to wait." Tala took a deep breath. {A/N: Okay people...i suck at wedding proposals...work with me...I've never had to do one before lol..probably because i'm only 14..but eh, what do I know?} "April Hiwatari. I love you, you know that, right?"
April nodded. "Yah, I know."
"I want us to live together and I want us to be together for a long time." Tala continued.
"So do I Tala, that's why we're moving in together." April replied.
"I want to make sure that you know how much I want us to be together. So April-" Tala brought the ring box out of his pocket and opened it to reveal a white gold, diamond ring.
April glasped her good hand over her mouth. "Oh god Tala, I don't know what to say."
"Say that you'll marry me." Tala prompted.
"Of course I will." April wrapped her arm, good one still, around Tala's neck and pulled him into a kiss. "I will marry you Tala. I will, I will, I will."
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Kai sat in his car, wondering whether or not he should go and see if Shanna was there. She had been here last time but would she be here again? Kai wasn't sure but he wasn't about to leave without checking first. Sure, she might not be here but every instinct in Kai's body was telling him that Shanna was.
Kai climbed out of his car, closing the door behind him. He stood there for a second, listening to the sound of nature. Then he walked into the forest, headed once again for the treehouse.
Rei made it there easily, the parth familiar to him especially since he had been there recently. Kai gazed up the trunk of the tree and noticed something strange, the throw-down ladder was missing. Kai growled, that meant that he'd have to go up the hard way.
It was definitely harder to climb it now, at eighteen then it had been at fifteen, the first time he had met Shanna and the first time he had followed her into the treehouse. Of course, those had been two separate events but still.
Eventually Kai made it up, crawlling in through the window. Kai looked around and growled. He'd done all that for nothing. Shanna wasn't even here. Kai kicked a box in the corner and threw down the ladder. He was about to climb down when he heard it. The unmistakable sound of his girlfriend crying.
It was unmistakable because of two things. One, he had heard it a million times before, most being while he was comforting her in the middle of the night from a nightmare or something. Two, because it was his girlfriend and no one in the world sounds the same as your girlfriend.
Kai turned around and tried to figure out where the noise was coming from. He detrimined that it was coming from the roof. Kai climbed back out the window he had came in and continued to climb higher and he could lift himself over and onto the roof. There, Kai found his Shanna.
She was sitting in the middle of the roof, her knees tucked up close to her body and her arms wrapped around them. Kai instantly felt an urge to comfort her and as it sunk in, before he knew it, he had gone up to her and wrapped his arms around her. "Shanna, it's alright."
Shanna turned around and buried her head in Kai's chest. "Oh god Kai. I'm so sorry. I didn't mean for that to happen. Really, I didn't." Shanna gripped Kai's shirt and pulled him closer to her. "Please don't hate me. Please." Shanna said something else but Kai couldn't make it out because of her sobs.
Kai gathered her closer to him and stroked her hair. "We don't hate you. We know it was an accident." Kai stroked her cheek. "No one blames you. Tala said he didn't too. In fact, he told me to tell you that he doesn't."
"Yes he does. Don't you see?" Shanna sobbed louder. "He hates me. He only told you that he doesn't because he doesn't want me to know. But I do know. I know exactly what's going on. I know you all blame me." Shanna pushed Kai away. "I shot your sister Kai. Don't you understand that? The kidnapper would have gotten away woundfree if there hadn't been someoen with me. What part of this aren't you getting? I was the one that shot your sister Kai. I shot Tala's girlfriend Kai. I SHOT APRIL!"
With that Shanna jumped out of the tree house, scrambled down the tree and ran into the forest, leaving Kai to stare after her.
~*~ ~*~ ~*~
Tala continued to sit next to April's bed, even when April fell asleep. Kai had convinced the nurses to let him stay with April until he was ready to leave. Kai was good at convincing people.
April suddenly sat straight up in bed and clutched Tala's arm. "I need you to get Shanna for me." April looked Tala right in the eye. "Please, I need her to talk to me."
"What's wrong April?" Tala asked, stroking April's cheek as he looked into her terrified eyes.
"I can't tell you." April whispered to Tala. "Just go and get Shanna for me. I need her Tala. I need her now."
Tala nodded and went to the waiting room, seeing Kai sitting in the corner. Kai had been back for two hours now. He had done a search of the forest, he had told Tala, after Shanna had ran away but he was unable to find her.
"What's wrong Tala?" Kai asked, looking up at Tala as he approached him. "Did something happen to April." Kai jumped up. "Did it?"
Tala shook his head. "She wants to see Shanna." Tala sighed. "What am I supposed to say to her. I'm sorry April but Shanna doesn't want to see you right now. I mean, really. What am I going to tell her?"
Kai shrugged. "I don't know. I wish that Shanan would just come in, so that she could see that we don't blame her for this."
Tala sighed. "You know girls. They're emotional." Tala looked back at the hall that led to April's room. "Do you want to go and talk to her?"
Kai nodded. "I should. I haven't yet. She's probably worried." With that Kai started towards April's room.
"Hey Kai." Tala called after him.
"Yah?" Kai asked, over his shoulder, not wanting to turn around.
"Be nice to her."
Kai smirked. "I'll try." Kai opened the door to April's room and saw that she was watching the door.
April's face fell when she saw Kai but she quickly got over it and patted the chair that Tala usually sat in. "Come in and sit down." April sighed. "Shanna's not here is she?"
Kai shook his head, not knowing what else to do. What else could he say? She was in the bathroom? That wouldn't work. Not with April. April knew better. Kai sat down, staring at his feet, finally he looked up. "No, she's not here April. I'm sorry."
"Do you blame her for what happened to me?" April asked.
"No."
April rolled her eyes and laid back down. "You should, you know. You need to admit it. You're mad at her for shooting me. Just because you know that she didn't mean to, is no reason to just forgive her. You need to yell at her, kick something. Get your anger out." April turned to look at Kai. "Otherwise you never will."
"What's that supposed to me?" Kai raised his eyebrow as he looked at her. "Hm?"
April shrugged. "Can't tell you. You're not Shanna. But you need to yell. You need to blame her. Even if you know that she didn't mean to." April sighed. "It doesn't change the fact that she did."
"So?"
"If you don't get mad at her now, how will you ever voice your opinion later, when it gets too much to handle? You'll be married than and don't you think that it would ruin your marriage if you were always mad at her for this? I think it would." April closed her eyes. "I'm tired. Tell Tala he can come back in."
Kai nodded and walked to the door and then paused, turning around. "Do you think that Shanna knows that I'm secretly mad at her?"
April nodded. "Of course she does, that's why she's running."
Kai nodded and let the room. Maybe girls were smarter than he thought they were.
{A/N: Alright...i left a few questions unanswered but I answered most of them ^_^ I just didn't know how to answer them in content so...yah. What'cha think of this chapter??? Did it make any sense. I need to know that lol}