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 4
It was 2:00 am when I was settled into a room at the hospital and given something to eat. I didn't know what was wrong with me, but I knew that I was worn out from all the drugs they had given me to help me relax. I was located on the fourth floor next to the elevators and as of right now I had my own room there were no roommates. I felt a little better but not too much better. I still had a little nausea but that was about it for right now.
I looked around to see Trevene cuddled up in Hwoarang's arms sleeping with Julia's head on Hwoarang's shoulder drifting off to sleep. Jin on the other hand was on his cell phone talking to Ling telling her that something happened and that he was in the hospital all while sitting right next to me.
"I'm fine but one of Hwoarang's friends is in the hospital and I am seeing that she is okay." Yeah, now I'm one of Hwoarang's friends. He also didn't bother to tell her that we slept together last night either. That was the medicine talking. Of course he wouldn't tell her that! I watched as he hung up the phone. He then looked at me and smiled. "Hey," he said in a low whisper. I waved at him.
"How are you feeling?"
I smiled now. "Better. All I remember is you, Hwoarang, Trevene and Julia arguing. And I think you or Julia was asking me questions."
"It was Julia. Can't stand her. She's forever meddling in people's affairs. I'm surprised that she didn't fuck up her own affair."
I held in my laugh. "Hey," I began, "that's my friend you're talking about."
He hugged me. "I'm sorry. It's just that I really don't like people like that."
"I know how you feel." My smile quickly faded. "Jin?" He looked at me, his smile quickly fading as well.
"Yes?"
"Did you happen to tell Ling about what happened that night?"
He grew silent…so silent that it scared me. "Jin?"
"No I didn't. When Hwoarang and I left your room at five that morning, I felt like I did something wrong. Hwoarang and I ended up at our dorm room and we went into our own rooms not saying a word. We were really tired that night and I guess he did as much with Trevene as I had did with you." He paused to take a breath. "But when I sat on my bed, I wanted to call Ling up and tell her everything. I was really unsure about myself at that time and I really thought that I really rushed trying to be with you although I knew you had a boyfriend."
Now is the time that I felt tears coming on again. "This is why I felt so sick. All of these emotions that you give and I get screamed and yelled at by my friends and their boyfriends and shit. I just can't take all of this abuse."
Jin looked at me and grabbed my hand squeezing it slightly. "Hwoarang yelled at me as well. He thought that wasn't the way to win you over."
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Win me over?"
He sighed and got up still holding my hand. "When I first seen you with Eddy…I thought that he wasn't right for you. I wanted you…but I didn't want to give up Ling either. At the time that I seen you in the hallway, I really had more feelings for you."
"I thought you didn't see me that time I looked at you in the hallway?"
"I did. I didn't want Ling anymore; she was really starting to get on my nerves. But I wanted to make sure that I could have you first. I didn't want to just see if I could get into your pants…ask Hwoarang. That's not me at all."
I turned my head to see Hwoarang stretching, ready to get up from the nap that he had. Trevene was now on the armrest of her chair sleeping, her arms supporting her. Julia was sprawled out on two chairs now sleeping. Hwoarang looked at us with a blank look. "What? Did I miss something?"
I shook my head. "No you didn't. Ummm, we were just talking."
"Well fill me in," he said picking up Trevene's head and putting her head on his shoulder.
"That's what I want him to do too," I said looking back at Jin.
"What do you mean?" Hwoarang stared at me blankly.
"He said that he wanted to win me over. He was explaining what that meant though. He wasn't done explaining."
Jin looked at Hwoarang, then looked at me again. "I really like you Christie, but I want to make sure that I can have you to myself is all."
Hwoarang looked at Jin. "You really like her, but the thing is…you can't have her without fighting Eddy. Eddy won't give her up without a fight."
I frowned for a minute. "If you didn't want Ling anymore you should have broke up with her." I was really starting to feel that I should have never taken this plan to 'Steal Away,' into action in the first place. This has really gotten me sick and I just started seeing him the other day. I had to think that me being sick is something else…like pregnancy. I don't think that's it though.
Hwoarang looked at me and smiled. "You scared us for a minute there sick ling." I laughed. Yeah I scared myself too. But I turned back to Jin and looked at him. "If you really wanted this to work, then you should have broke up with her."
"Would you have broken up with Eddy is the point?" That question I couldn't answer. I would have to think long and hard for that answer, and the answer was something that I didn't have.
But Hwoarang knew how to cover for me. "I know how she feels. She didn't get tired of Eddy yet but she has found someone else that cares for her as well. But she wouldn't dream of leaving Eddy. She feels that she can have two people and love them equally."
Jin listened to him still looking at me. He never let go of my hand. "Is that how you feel Christie?" I thought Hwoarang was my savior for a second there, but now I feel like he made the problem worse. I really didn't want to answer that question but Jin was hovering over me, awaiting an answer from me. I had to say something…
"Yes, Jin that is how I feel." His eyes looked as if they were ready to swallow me whole. I really felt bad about saying that but I didn't want to lie to him. If I lied to him that would have just made the whole situation worse. "Well if that's how you feel."
"Jin, don't feel bad." I said feeling him let go of my hand. "Jin, I really want to make it work between us but I don't want anyone to get hurt. If I became your girlfriend and you broke up with Ling, I still wouldn't only be yours. Eddy would still be in love with me as I am with him." Jin turned and faced the door and grabbed his brown suede coat that matched his brown suede boats and was ready to walk out the door until he heard Hwoarang just began to talk.
"Is he?" Hwoarang asked looking at me blankly.
I looked at him. "What do you mean?"
"He hasn't called you since Friday night to see how you were doing and when Jin and I seen him the other day he said nothing about you and he knew that you were across the street. I'm starting to think twice about Eddy myself. He seems to lie all the time now to keep from hiding something."
I felt tears run down my eyes. That really explains why he hasn't come to see me the past few days. Now it was Jin's turn to tell me not to feel bad. But he grabbed my hand and gently squeezed it again like he did before. It hurt to know that Eddy ignored me and that his friend Hwoarang had to have to tell me.
"He telling the truth Jin?" I asked Jin who was looking down at me the whole time Hwoarang had spoke.
Jin hesitated to answer for a moment but then he nodded. "Yes Christie. That's the way he's been acting for a week but he tried to play it off like he wasn't."
He clenched my teeth together. "This is the shit that makes me sick like this and all stressed out. Why does this shit happen to me?"
Hwoarang cringed at my voice. He never had heard me speak like that and when I did it scared him. The sudden jolt woke up Trevene. "Whuh?"
Hwoarang put Trevene's head back on his shoulder. "Shhhh, it's alright. Go back to sleep now." She didn't bother to fight him and drifted back to sleep in a matter of seconds. After putting her back to sleep Hwoarang looked back up at Jin and me again and then there was silence for a while.
I looked at the clock. It was almost 5:00 am. "I don't think that the doctor is going to let me out of the hospital for school this morning. So I guess all of you should go home and get some sleep." I wiped the tears from my eyes.
"You sure Christie?" asked Jin as he held onto my hand.
I nodded. "I'm sure. I really want you two to actually go and get some rest as well as the girls. I don't want them to wake up with cricks in their necks. Do you have any money for cab fare?"
Hwoarang nodded. Then he picked up Trevene and places her in his arms. "We'll be fine Christie, you just get some rest okay?" I nodded and watched as Jin did the same to Julia but not before putting his coat on and walked they both walked out of the open door. I slumped down in my hospital bed and began to cry. All of this is happening so fast. Jin seems to really be in love with me and Eddy seems to be falling out of love with me. This is the stress that I can't take. I called the nurse and asked if I can see a doctor to know how I am doing…
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"Hey Christie girl! How's it going?" Christie asked as she and Hwoarang walked into the hospital room after classes were over. I didn't want to look at them. I was disgusted and quite scared of what was just told to me just earlier today but I was planning on hiding it. I pretended to be okay but they could sense that something was wrong.
"What's up Christie?" asked Trevene as she sat in the chair next to me. She could see that I had done some crying again but I tried to hide it by wiping my face. She knew something was wrong but she didn't say anything about it.
"Nothing. Just since something really emotional on television that's all," I lied but not very smoothly.
"Really? Was it 'All my Children' or 'The New TNN?'" Hwoarang joked and let out a hardy laugh. I looked at him and smiled. Even if I was crying he would cheer me up with his stupid little jokes.
"All my Children," I joked back. Hwoarang took a seat in front of my bed and propped his feet on my bed. "Hey! This isn't a foot stool for your feet boy," I said jokingly as I kicked his feet down.
"Sure it is," he said but instead of putting his feet back up he came up to me and began tickling me. Then Trevene jumped into it and now he was tickling both Trevene and me. There was a lot of screaming coming from our room but I really didn't care. It felt good to laugh for once out of these three days of torment, but I began to wonder where Jin was.
Hwoarang had stopped after a little while and I decided to take this opportunity to ask about Jin. "Where's Jin? Isn't he out now too?"
"He went back to the dorm for a minute. I guess he'll be here any second now. He said if he doesn't make it then he went to Ling's and they had another massive fight or he broke up with her."
I gave him a look. "Yeah, right Hwoarang."
He laughed. "Okay, okay. He was supposed to call my cell after class but he never did. Maybe he had something to do."
I laughed along with him and Trevene hit Hwoarang with the pillow. He grabbed Trevene and threw her down on top of me making sure not to hurt us. He then pinned her to me and we both were screaming to let her go. I had never felt this much excitement in a long time. Eddy never really does this kind of thing unless he's in a good mood and really that's rare. Hwoarang and Trevene on the other hand play like this all the time and they never really care who sees it either. They really make a cute couple. For some reason I like him out of all of the boyfriends that Trevene has had because he cares for her friends and he cares for her as well.
Hwoarang's cell phone began to ring while he had us both pinned and he was still laughing as he let us go. We were both laughing as well but not as much as he was. Then Hwoarang pulled his cell from out of his pocket and looked at it.
"Christie it's your knight in shining armor," he said looking at the caller id.
I raised an eyebrow. "If it's Jin ask him where he's been."
Hwoarang shook his head. "Why don't you ask him," he asked handing me the cell phone. I flipped the phone open and pressed the call button.
Then I answered the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Christie. How are you feeling?" asked Jin in his regular husky voice.
"I'm doing much better, thanks," I said smiling through the receiver. "Hwoarang here was actually entertaining us." Hwoarang looked at me and began to blush as Trevene laughed at him.
"Hwoarang is always a joker. So anyway I'll be there in about five minutes okay. I just have to pay the cab driver and then I'll be upstairs in a minute."
"Okay."
"Bye Christie," he said in a sexy voice that made me laugh.
"Bye Mr. Kazama," I said in a sexy voice right back to him. Then I hung up the phone and handed it back to Hwoarang. Hwoarang sat down and put it back in his pocket. Then he looked at me and smiled. "What were you sounded so sexy about?" I blushed while Trevene was now looking at me with a curious look. "You two are doing something again when you get out of the hospital?"
I shook my head. "If you have to know nosey we were just joking with each other. He will be here in a few minutes after he pays the cab driver." Hwoarang and Trevene nodded.
It wasn't long before Jin came walking the door, he and Hwoarang looking like twins. They both had on red pants with matching red suede shoes and a white shirt. Both had on a gold name chain and gold rings on there fingers. Today was their day to look good but don't ask me why. Jin walked over to me and kissed me on the cheek. "What have you been doing?" he asked holding my hand.
I smiled at him. "Just sitting here laughing at Hwoarang."
"Everyone loves to laugh at Hwoarang. Instead of going to college for art I should be going to clown school." All of us started to laugh at Hwoarang.
"To tell you the truth you would actually make a good clown."
"Christie you are so funny. You should be a comedian."
Jin decided to change the subject. "So what did the doctor say about you?"
Hwoarang and Trevene started their "Yeahs" and "Rights" while I stared at all of them with a now serious face. I really didn't want to tell them what the doctor said so I decided to make something up. I don't really think that they could handle the truth and to tell you the truth I don't think I could handle the truth.
"The doctor said that it was just stress and I should be able to go home today."
Trevene sighed with relief. "Damn girl. We thought it was something worse like you getting some type of disease or something."
I laughed at her. "Yeah well, it's not. I just had some stress that I needed to get rid of." Trevene got up off of the bed and walked over to Hwoarang while we all watched the doctor come in. The doctor felt my head before asking me," How are you today Ms. Monteiro?"
"I'm doing much better." I looked at her as she began to take the I.V. out of my hand."
"Excited about going home today?" she asked now pressing a tissue to my slightly bleeding hand.
I smiled. "Yeah. Now I can get back to studying."
Jin and Hwoarang laughed. "Studying what? Schoolwork or boys?"
I shot them both a look that stopped them from talking. She then said to me," Your clothes were washed and dried during your stay. I will get them for you in a minute. Right now you can start to get together what you need before you leave."
Trevene put her hands on her hips. "Why didn't you tell us that you were going to come home earlier? We could have had everything ready for you already."
I shrugged. "Guess I forgot." She punched me playfully and then mouthed to me I'mma get you when we get home. The doctor came back to my room a few minutes later with my clothes and my shoes and wished for me to feel better. Then I looked at Jin and Hwoarang. "What?" they asked simultaneously.
"I have to change now. Don't you know it's rude to watch me dress?"
Jin shrugged. "It's not like I didn't see you—"
Hwoarang pulled him out of the room and shut the door behind him. As I dressed Trevene looked at the television. "Don't you get any good channels in this hospital?"
I shrugged. "I don't have a good room." She started to laugh.
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It didn't take me too long to get dressed and by time we got outside Hwoarang and Jin had already flagged down a cab. As we got in Hwoarang told the cab driver where to go. Jin let Trevene and me in first and then Hwoarang sat next to Trevene. Jin then got in on the other side so he can sit next to me. For the first part of the ride Jin held me close to him. My mind once again began to whirl. He was beginning to be affectionate again and that was something that I didn't need right now. Hwoarang was doing the same thing to Trevene except for now they were off and on kissing each other. Nothing was said in the car there was just action and movement.
Jin looked down at me but I wasn't paying any attention to him. I was looking out the window wondering about what the doctor told me. I would think that you may be pregnant but it's too early to tell. I will ask that you make an appointment to come and see me in a month or two. I want to see if you really are and if you are how your progress is doing. I didn't believe her. I didn't believe I was pregnant and I forced myself to believe that it was stress. Jin kissed my cheek, knocking me out of my thoughts. I looked up at him and he bent down to kiss me. As his lips touched mine I decided to just go with it. I really didn't care too much for reality right now and all I cared for was for his touch.
It's hard to think that Eddy really doesn't care too much for me anymore, but really I don't care. I have Jin now to ease my pain and take me away from all of this. Although Ling Xiaoyu is our obstacle, we can both overcome that obstacle. I'm not too sure whether we will be together long or he will go back to Ling right now, but all I care about now is this right here. Jin's soft lips touching mine and the both of us surrounded by each other's warmness…I really don't care too much about anything else right now and I don't think I ever will with Jin around…
TBC