Steal Away
By: jneisha
J_neisha @hotmail.com
Disclaimer: Tekken is not mine and neither are the lyrics to Mary J. Blige's: Steal Away. Steal Away's lyrics will be read through out this fanfic. Might I add that Mary's CD: No More Drama is one of the best CD's of all time! Oh, and Trevene is mine though.
Chapter 3"So what happened with you and Jin in the dorm last night?" asked Trevene with an anxious face. She had her hands folded in front of her face as she sat on her knees sitting next to me on the couch awaiting an answer from me. I was sitting on the couch looking at my knees. "So?"
"I, ummm, we really hit it off last night." I began to blush a rosy red that made me look like I had blush on. My hair was a mess and my clothes were all messy and wrinkled. Trevene on the other hand was dressed and looked like she was ready for a morning jog, although she had just come back from that. It was 11:00 am.
From the squeal that Trevene made, I think I may have given her the right answer. "Really? What did you do? You must tell me!" Her blonde hair was wrapped in a bun but a piece fell to her face. "We kissed." That did it. Trevene screamed so loud her pale face turned red.
"What happened with you and Hwoarang last night?" I wanted to change the subject.
"I'd rather not talk about that," she said turning three shades of red. I knew they did something in there last night, but of course I really didn't bother with that.
Trevene grew impatient. She kept on jumping up and down wanting to get an answer out of me but I just kept on blushing and trying to fix my hair and clothes. Suddenly Trevene stopped. She looked at me for such a long time I thought something was wrong. "Trevene what's wrong? Why did you suddenly stop bouncing?"
"You two had sex last night didn't you?" She stared at me bright eyed. Those blue eyes were now bright and starry. I was starting to get crept out by it. "You two fucked last night! Oh girl I can't wait to tell Julia that you accomplished—"
I stopped her from going to the phone. "Don't tell Julia." I looked down. "Ummm, to tell you the truth I really didn't want you to know about what happened last night because it was rushed."
Suddenly Trevene was serious. "You two did fuck last night." She looked at me as I shifted positions, tears ready to form in my eyes. "Please Christie let me be wrong."
"Usually you would jump for joy if you heard that we did." I was straining not to weep.
She stood up. "Usually I would but you just met him. What made you do it?" Now I really uneasy knowing that my friend was scolding me for sleeping with a man that we all joked about and I we didn't really know. I wanted to tell her everything but I felt that she couldn't handle everything. But I told her anyway.
"He said to me that he thought I was civilized and that he would rather have me then Xiaoyu. Then he lent over and kissed me. The first time I hesitated but then when he came in for it again I didn't quite hesitate that time." Trevene listened to me and by the look on her face she probably thought that I was a damn fool believing him but I really like this guy and I think his looks are a death trap. "We were going crazy on the couch but then when I told him I didn't feel right, he stopped and blamed himself. But then I said that it was all right and hushed his worries with another kiss, but then after that—"
"You two fucked with a capital F." She really knows how to take the words out of your mouth. "Christie I guess that means that you weren't protected either right?"
I nodded. She really gave me a look of disrespect. "Well you and Julia promoted it and besides, I had no idea that was going to happen. No one can predict things. To tell you the truth I thought he was going to sit there and think of Ling or better yet bring her." Trevene reached over to me and hugged me as I cried in her arms. I really didn't mean to sleep with him but of course it just happened. "Would it be wrong if I had continued to see him?" I wondered as I cried in her arms.
"It all depends. If it was a one-night stand then I guess that will really make you have to wonder. But I don't know," she had to think about it for a minute before continuing, "but if Hwoarang knows about it he probably will try to inform you before not letting you live it down. But I promise he won't let you feel bad about what you did."
I was so happy to have a friend like Trevene. I really like last night with Jin but she really made it seem like I really did a bad thing. He and I had the same intentions that night but I'm not really sure if he will actually speak to me again. I cried even harder in her arms now thinking of the risks of what happened last night and him not speaking to me ever again. I guess my perfect plan to 'Steal Away' wasn't so perfect after all.
The phone rang. Trevene kissed the back of my head and then got up to answer the phone. She hesitated for a minute and watched as I put my face in my hands weeping silently. Why am I weeping now though? I thought this was supposed to be my big break. Now I feel bad about it.
She picked up the receiver. "Hello?"
This time I looked at her with tears streaks all over my face. "Hey Hwoarang. Yes Christie is fine, why?"
I frowned. "Okay hold on." She handed me the phone. "Hwoarang wants to speak to you." I hesitated to take the phone and wondered what he wanted. She put the phone in my hand and mouthed to me, 'don't worry about it.' Well if I wanted to know what he wanted, now was the chance to know.
"Hello," I said through tears.
"Christie. Yeah you all right? I heard about last night."
What exactly did he hear about last night that has him so worried? "Jin said you weren't feeling well last night."
"I'm okay."
"Then why are you crying?" There was now silence. I think he knows exactly what went on but he isn't really going to say too much.
"I—"
"Christie," he began. "You all right? Jin told me what you two did last night and he feels really bad about it."
"Hwoarang…I wanted to do it too. Tell him not to feel bad."
There was silence again. "Tell him yourself," he said.
"Hello, Christie?" said Jin. Sounded like he's done his share of crying as well.
"You at Hwoarang's house?"
"Yeah." There was a moment of silence. "Christie I am sorry if I had hurt you in any way last night and I apologize and I am perfectly okay with it if you don't want to see me again."
I stood on the other end silent. "You didn't hurt me. What is giving you the accusation that you hurt me Jin?" I wiped my eyes with my pajama sleeves.
"Umm," he began. "I thought that I hurt you last night a few times when you started to whimper."
"You didn't. To tell you the truth I really don't lust over guys that I can't have."
Jin was silent for a moment. "Who said that you couldn't have me?"
I felt light headed and almost fell off the couch if it weren't for Trevene there to catch me from a nasty fall. I can't believe he just said that. I can't believe I just said that. Hwoarang could be heard in the back ground screaming that he and Eddy would get into a free for all match up if he and I seen each other but Jin really wasn't paying him any mind. I looked at Trevene watching her pace back and forth worriedly. All this commotion over last night. I thought all this would be a good thing but instead it's making people very upset.
"Jin," I began. "I really don't want to get in-between you and Ling."
"You aren't. What we did last night was something that we both really wanted to do right?"
I hesitated to answer. "Yeah."
"I really didn't pressure you…did I?" I can't take this anymore. All these questions and all these premonitions are really making me sick.
"I really don't know how many times I am going to tell you no, Kazama. Calm down. It's okay."
There was silence. Then I began to speak again. "Jin I feel fine. I will talk to you, Hwoarang and Trevene about it later, okay? Right now I am going to go and leave you to talk to Hwoarang. Bye."
I handed the phone back to Trevene. She asked to speak to Hwoarang but I turned my head to keep from staring at her. Why does Jin make me feel so guilty about what I did? I really wanted to do it but he makes me feel as though he was pressuring me to do it. He is a hunk and all but I don't think he's cautious about his attitude. I looked back to Trevene to see that she and Hwoarang weren't really talking on the phone at all.
She would occasionally say "Yeah," or "Uh-huh," to him but they really weren't having a conversation like they usually do. I hope they aren't worried about me though. I got up and began walking into the bathroom but Trevene grabbed my hand and squeezed it slightly. Then smiled a weak smile and I smiled back. Then she let me go and I walked into the bathroom to where I would now cry to myself about what I just did…
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Jin and Hwoarang were over at the dorm later on awaiting my return with Julia from the airport. It was just about 10:30 pm when I had met up with Julia in the airport. Julia had gone to London to go see Steve, her boyfriend of almost three years. I didn't tell her anything about what had happened last night after she had left and when Jin came over. She had asked," What happened between you and Jin?"
I replied, "We talked. That's about it."
We were in a cab on our way back to Mishima College. The cab driver put on the radio and the song that was tuned on the radio really made me sick.
Steal Away. Steal Away. Before a day, we'll never say.
We should of left, much more soon
Then we will share a room.
When we make love? All damn day
Steal Away.
I still had tears in my eyes but I didn't dare release them in front of Julia or else she would be asking so many questions that I would have to run away from her. All I did was stare out the window most of the time we were in the car. Of course Julia spoke anyway knowing how quiet I was.
"Christie?" I looked at her. "What's the matter? You look depressed."
The word depressed really makes me want to cry now. "I'm fine. I just ate something that didn't agree with me that's all."
Yeah. That's what it felt like. I had a really bad feeling in my stomach now and knowing that Jin and Hwoarang were waiting for me at the dorm awaiting my arrival really made me sick. I really hope that this can all be talked out…
We arrived at the dorm at a quarter to nine. Julia took her luggage out of the car and I paid the cab driver. Then we headed upstairs to the third floor, room 320. On the way up I had to stop on the second floor. I felt so sick for some reason, like I was going to throw up. Julia put down her luggage and held my back and looked down at me.
"Are you alright?"
I forced myself up and looked at her. "I'm…fine." I lied. I really felt like throwing up all over the staircase. Nausea washed over my whole body. But I fought it and continued to walk up the staircase. I really felt sick once we got into the dorm room and ended up running into the bathroom and slamming the door.
"Christie thanks a lot for helping ME!" Julia screamed as she came in through the door ready to fall over from all the luggage that she had. She realized that I was in the bathroom when she seen that Trevene was sitting on the couch and Hwoarang and Jin helped her with the luggage.
"Thanks guys. Put it in the room over there, thanks," she said pointing to the room on the left. She then sat next to Trevene who had a worried look on her face. "What's the matter with Christie. She was about to keel over on the staircase. I'm worried."
"So am I," said Trevene in a low voice…so low that Julia's heart skipped a beat. Trevene decided to change the subject for a minute. "How was your trip? You didn't stay as long as I thought you were."
Julia shrugged. "When I got there Steve was about to leave to come back to Japan tomorrow. So now he has a fight here in about a month and he needs to make himself at home for a while."
Trevene pointed at the television. "Yeah, I know. The fight has been advertising for a while now." All Julia did was sigh and watched as the boys sat back down on the couch waiting for me to come out. I on the other hand was still in the bathroom throwing up yesterday's dinner. When I finally came out, everyone stared at me with a look of concern or a blank look.
"What?" I asked sitting on the couch next to Trevene.
Trevene looked at me with a really concerned look. "Are you okay? You were in there for a while." Could they have heard me throwing up?
I looked at the floor, but I still had tears in my eyes and they just wouldn't go away. "I'm okay. Really."
Hwoarang sucked his teeth. "No, I don't think you are. You're always saying that. I spoke to you on the phone today and you sounded like you were crying a river and now you ran into the bathroom just now letting out yesterday's lunch. What's up Christie? You can tell us."
Maybe. But I don't know whether I can handle the fact that Julia knows about everything that is going on. She would probably tell the whole school that I was seeing two men at the same time. But I guess I would have to take that chance now that Julia knows what is actually going on. "Hwoarang, I'm okay. What happened yesterday was just a—"
"What happened yesterday?" asked Julia. She was long at me with a look of concern as she pushed up her glasses with her middle finger. I licked my lips and suddenly I felt the tears stream down my face. Why does this feel so bad? Why does it have to feel so bad now, but it felt so good just last night. I looked over to Jin and seen that he was staring at the door as everyone else stared at me. "Me and Jin—"
"We fucked last night," Jin said in a harsh whisper.
"What?" she asked with a blank look on her face.
He said it again in a harsh whisper that made him feel bad now. "We fucked last night."
Julia stared at him for a moment then looked at me. "You two had sex?" She asked looking at me. I nodded. "But you two just met didn't you? And besides Christie how will Eddy react?"
I stared at her. "Eddy won't know about this."
"He'll certainly find out. When he does he won't take it very lightly either."
I clenched my teeth together. She was saying things to me that I already knew. I knew he wasn't going to be with me once he found this out, but also that Jin probably won't be with me much longer either.
Julia now focused on Jin. "And what about you? You and Xiao have had a relationship for two years and now you do this to her? You two are sick—"
"You're sick. You come here thinking that you know everything there is to know. We didn't do this on purpose. This was all a mistake. This wasn't supposed to happen last night. WHY DO YOU THINK WE FEEL BAD ABOUT IT NOW?" Jin was screaming. I had never seen him like that before. He's usually aloof at a moment like this. The sound of his voice made Hwoarang, Trevene and I cringe.
"Jin don't scream at her like that," I said silently and he turned to face me. My tear-streaked face was now full of fear. He didn't scream at me though but just sat down and looked at a now petrified Julia. I bit my bottom lip to keep from going off. I felt sick to my stomach again. I put my knees to my stomach to keep my stomach settled but it really didn't help. I was getting light headed and I was ready to faint. I put my head on the armrest of the couch and looked up. I could over hear Hwoarang and Trevene talking about the situation and Jin and Julia joining in. I felt so out of it. I passed out, hitting the floor with a thud but no one heard me fall.
"I hope you didn't hurt her."
"Julia she said I didn't and I would never hurt a female for no reason at all."
"That's what they all say Jin. You better hope to God that you didn't hurt her."
Jin got up. "Or else what are you going to do? Tell Eddy?! Eddy won't do anything because I didn't hurt Christie!"
"Where the hell is Eddy. Eddy hasn't been seen since yesterday morning?" He turned to Trevene. "Trevene do you know? Maybe Christie might have told you."
"No, I don't. Christie where is Eddy anyway?" Trevene asked looking at me. She looked at me on the floor and screamed. Suddenly everyone stopped screaming and ran over to me. Jin and Hwoarang put me on the couch and seen if I was breathing. Once they knew that I was breathing Trevene ran to call the ambulance. Hwoarang and Jin tended to me on the couch and Julia turned the other way and started to panic and cry. Trevene shakily picked up the phone and dialed 911.
"Christie?" Jin yelled trying to wake me up. Hwoarang shook me to get me up but it was not use. "She fainted," he said looking at Trevene. Trevene was now screaming into the receiver. Jin and Hwoarang were fighting back tears while Julia was now slumped down onto her knees crying into her hands. Trevene put down the phone and looked to the floor. Then she walked over to me and all three of them looked at me…
TBC