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 10Hwoarang and Trevene sat in front of me snoring aloud as I typed up my report for class. I had to do a chemistry report in any one of the topics we had learned and I chose the hardest one…biochemist. It may not have been hard for anyone else in the class, but I was the one who slept through the entire lecture. I couldn't help it. I didn't get any sleep that night because of Trevene's midnight mood swings and Jin's snoring. If one wasn't bitching, one was snoring.
I sat up and took a long stretch before looking at the clock. 2:30 a.m. I typed exactly five pages and I still needed three more. I looked in my room to see Jin wrapped in the covers snoring like crazy and laughed. Jin does look cute when he snores I'll give you that. I then looked back at Hwoarang and Trevene who were now wrapped up in each other also snoring. That damn snoring…sounds like a truck sitting there with the engine on. I don't know how I am going to get the report done with all that snoring…
I looked down at the laptop before taking it off of my lap and looking down at my stomach. It's pretty big now. I am now seven months…and wearing baggy pants and sweatshirts. Everyone in Mishima college knows that I am pregnant…everyone except for my grandfather and Jin's father. Jin just hasn't told his father and well…I guess I just haven't told my grandfather. Ever since Mr. Mishima drove me back to my dorm that day I didn't see him again, but Jin still informs me that he's still around. Jin's spoke to his father on the phone a few times, but he didn't get a chance to tell his father the good news.
As for my grandfather, he has been in jail for quite some time now…nine years to be exact. But I don't expect to see him again, though. He is sentenced for life in prison for murdering our neighbors. He calls once every month…on the third Saturday of the month to be exact. He only gets to speak to me for about a half hour and besides, he's never spoken to Jin before. I guess the next time he calls he can speak to the father of my unborn baby. Maybe Jin and my grandfather will really hit it off…now I'm going crazy! My grandfather doesn't like any guy that I date…so why would he like Jin?!
The thought of Jin made me look back at him as he snored the night away. Still wrapped in my quilt, all cozy in my bed, snoring away. I decided to walk into my room and take a good look at him. As I walked into the room, I thought about how Jin has treated me and for some reason I thought that I didn't deserve it. Don't ask why I felt that way, but I just did. I stood over him and watched as he snored…it was kind of annoying but in a way it was…well…cute. I was right about me going crazy, now I think snoring is cute! He did look peaceful while he slept though. I turned to look at the clock. 5:50 a.m.
DAMN!
I forgot all about my report. Class starts in an hour and five pages…and three more needs to be typed in an hour! Oh boy if I ever get out of college on time it'll be a miracle…
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"Watch where the hell you're going asshole!" Trevene yelled as she shoved people out of our way. We were already five minutes late for class because of the guys not waking Trevene up on time and since I fell asleep I wasn't too much help to either of us. We would have gotten to class on time if it weren't for the train running slower than Molasses. We would have taken a cab but there was way too much traffic.
As we rushed up the stairs to calculus, I nearly tripped trying to get up them. I couldn't take the elevator because every ride was packed and I didn't want to squish my pregnant self in…or get squished. Calculus was on the second floor anyway but the stairs seemed like I was walking up a long hill. I had to stop to catch my breath every five minutes but Trevene was right by my side the whole time. Trevene looked at the time on her cell phone. 7:10 a.m.
Trevene watched as I started to walk up the three stairs that were left and then walk through out the halls into class. She followed right behind me as we walked in quietly and took our seats in front of Jin and Hwoarang.
"Ms. Monteiro and Ms. Curry you are both extremely late. You just missed my lecture on binomials," Mr. Edwards appointed to the both of us. This guy is usually very boring to me. He rants on and on about his wife most of the time and tries to compare her to a calculus problem. He is old and very pale with a baldhead and a big stomach. This dude even wears suspenders. The first time in seen him when I entered this class I died laughing.
"I thought binomials was part of high school math?" Trevene and her smart mouth made the whole class giggle. As we sat we looked back at Jin and Hwoarang who were pretty much laughing along with the class. I even had to giggle. Trevene pulled her long blonde hair back as she sat down. She let it go as she sat down in her seat and turned to face me. She watched as I slowly took my time getting myself properly adjusted in my seat. Then she turned to her laptop that was on the table and began to type everything that was on the board.
As class went on, I noticed Trevene nodding off, Jin and Hwoarang were talking so loud that the people three rows behind them could hear them, and the teacher was just rambling on about a topic that we learned in the seventh grade…maybe sooner. I decided to keep myself occupied and looked around the classroom. Mostly everyone was nodding off or using their laptops for other reasons. Of course I can never keep myself occupied without being caught by Mr. Edwards…
"Ms. Monteiro, is there something interesting that you are looking at?" I heard Jin and Hwoarang snicker while Trevene laughed. All I did was shrug my shoulders and smile…but he really didn't want to see that. "You know Ms. Monteiro, you and your three friends are excused from class today." Trevene, Hwoarang and Jin looked at him surprised.
"And who are her three friends might I ask?" asked Trevene who stood up in such a flash she knocked over her chair.
"Ms. Monteiro, Mr. Kazama, Ms. Curry, and Mr. Hwoarang will you please leave my classroom."
We were in complete shock. Usually Julia would be our back up and convince Mr. Edwards to let us stay but we disowned her…and our way out. Each one of us stood up after the other as we headed out of the classroom. My chemistry class was directly after this class was over and I couldn't help but wonder what I would do before class started. I didn't care though, as long as I got away from Mr. Edwards…
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"Damn, I can't believe fat ass Edwards kicked us out of class. And to believe that I actually did that fat ass' homework." Hwoarang sat in-between Trevene and me with his arm around Trevene as she stared into space. Jin on the other hand was sitting next to me with his head in my lap. Every once and a while he'd close his eyes as I stroked his hair. I wasn't thinking about what Hwoarang said at the moment, I was more on the issue of Eddy. For some reason every time I was alone with Jin, I would think about Eddy and what he did to me. I would think about when he proposed to me and beyond that. And then I'd wonder…is Jin going to propose too?
"Christie, what's wrong?"
I looked down at Jin who was looking at me with a concerned yet playful look. "Nothing…why do you ask?"
"You stopped stroking my hair." I smiled at him and continued to stroke his hair. But every time I stroked I would continue to remember what happened to me. I guess Eddy is out of my hair for right now…but I'm always thinking, what if he comes back? We were sitting in the lounge room with the television playing and of course no one was looking at it. And of course I couldn't pay attention to what was going on around me…
"Eddy, let me go," I whined but he wasn't listening. He was still squeezing my wrist but now he also had me by my collar.
"You didn't tell me you let another man shoot up inside you," he said while squeezing me tightly. It started to become hard for me to breathe now and my vision became blurry. "Out of all the men to fuck you, you had to choose that fucking Japanese Jin Kazama."
Just one of the scenes that kept playing over and over in my head but others accompanied it.
"Eddy!" I was so happy to receive this gift…but I couldn't keep it. If Jin found out that I had this then he would leave me for sure…but then again I'm surprised he hasn't done it already.
"I knew you'd like it Chris." He stepped on the gas again as he kept driving straight.
I couldn't think straight…Eddy is trying to keep me in his life but yet Jin is doing the same. Yet, I have to choose who I want to be with…Jin or Eddy. Right now I'm not too sure who I want to be with…but I better make a good decision really quick before I loose them both.
"Christie, reach down into the glove compartment over there…there is something else for you too."
I stared at him wide eyed with excitement. "More gifts?" I asked as I anxiously put the necklace back into the gold box and put it in my pocket. Before I could reach the glove compartment my cell phone began to ring. I took it out of my pocket to see that it was someone from the dorm calling. I just stopped the call and put the cell phone back into my pocket. I just couldn't wait to see what the other gift was. I opened the glove compartment to see two little black boxes. I opened the first one to see that it was a pair of diamond earrings that looked like it costs thousands of dollars.
"Eddy…you shouldn't have spent this much money on me," I said as I stared at them.
He looked at me quickly before turning back to the road. "Don't worry about it…you know I love you."
Yeah, sure I do. I opened the other box to see that it was a diamond ring that looked like it was estimated to be over three thousand dollars. I keep forgetting about Eddy's drug money. Eddy pulled the car over in front of my dorm building and looked at me with bright eyes. He looked cute that way…I just had to smile. Then he asked a question that for sure I knew that he would regret later:
"Will you marry me Christie Monteiro?"
My jaw dropped as I looked at him. He just proposed to me… He went back to Brazil to get things ready for our wedding. But I can't marry him. If I did I would be hurting Jin, but then again if I said no I would be hurting Eddy. There was a song playing in the car, which caught my attention as soon as he proposed.
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 didn't pay any attention to them though. But I couldn't think of anything else to say except for, "Yes, Eddy." Now if Jin sees all of the things that Eddy gave me…then he would go ballistic. Not to mention that he would run back to that psychopath Ling Xiaoyu. Eddy bent down to kiss me but I didn't push him away. Instead, I accepted the kiss and grabbed the back of his neck as we kissed feverently. He grabbed the small of my back and slid his tongue into my mouth. He removed my jacket and I removed his. He then removed my shirt then removed his own. Those same lyrics kept playing over and over, and like I did before I ignored them.
That scene plays the most in my head. But I just can't get over this scene:
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…
I shouldn't really call them scenes; I should really call them painful memories. I am seven months pregnant with a baby that isn't my current boyfriends baby, and the man who is my baby's father is no where to be found. Really, I don't want to find him. With tears in my eyes, I looked down at Jin who was dosing off in my lap. It was quiet…Hwoarang and Trevene were both sleeping and I guess since there was no one to talk to, Jin thought it was wise to go back to sleep anyway. If it would do me some good, maybe I should go to sleep too. It'll beat having tears in my eyes…
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"Ms. Monteiro?" Ms. Donavon said as she stared at me from the corner of her eye. I didn't realize that I had been dosing off in class. Between trying to pay attention to this lecture in chemistry and trying to get these painful memories out of my head, I really couldn't think straight. I guess she didn't like it…
"I'm sorry Ms. Donavon. I haven't been feeling well lately."
"So then if you don't feel well you can give me your report and I can mark you present for class. Then you can go to the nurses station or to your dorm and rest."
Whoa…I love this woman! "Thank you Ms. Donavon," I said as I stood up getting myself together. I smiled as I handed her my report and walked out of the classroom. I heard a few people suck their teeth but I really don't give a damn about them. As I walked out, I overheard one girl in the front telling one of her friends that I don't deserve to be let out of class early. Jealous bitch. That's all she is.
But I guess it would have done me better to just let me stay in the class. All I kept thinking about was Eddy, what he did, and if he'd ever come back. As of right now I don't want him to. No one wants him to come back, and if he ever did I think Hwoarang would be the first one to kill him. Wouldn't be a surprise, he did use Hwoarang.
"Christie!" A male voice knocked me right out of my thoughts. It sounded familiar...a little too familiar. I walked to the exit as quickly as I could and pushed it open. The voice sounded a lot like Eddy's, but I couldn't really tell. All I wanted was to get to safety…or to some protection.
"Christie!"
The voice sounded like it was getting closer now. I began to panic…my body was so tired from walking so fast, I just wanted to drop. I felt tears well up in my eyes, usually I would be able to fight off anyone whom was trying to hurt me in anyway with Capoiera, but it's hard to do that when one's pregnant. I wanted to walk faster but I began to slow down…I didn't want to but my body was working against me. I began to cry as I slowed up seeing the male figures shadow right under me.
He's right above me.
"Christie, what's the matt—" he wasn't able to finish the sentence as my scream cut him off. As he put his hand on my shoulder I screamed again, my back turned to him. I tried to run but his grip was too strong and he swung me around.
"Christie, what's wrong with you?" I looked up to see Jin standing right above me. I hugged him and started to weep hard. He hesitated for a second and then hugged me right back.
"I don't know what came over me. I thought you were someone else," I cried. He didn't answer; all he did was hug me. I heard footsteps approach us, but I really didn't pay any attention to them at first. All I really cared about was Jin being with me right now. I needed someone and I'm actually glad it was him.
"Jin is everything alright?" I heard another male voice say, but this one seemed…older. I looked up to see Jin's father standing right over us.
"Yeah, pop. Everything is fine." Jin let me go and helped me into his father's limo. The limo driver opened the door for us and I got in first, followed by Jin and his father. His father sat facing us in the other seat. I couldn't help but look at him sculpt me up and down in shock. He opened his mouth to speak, but he said nothing at first. I raised an eyebrow as I watched him look at me with that shocked look. I reached over Jin and turned on the radio, but didn't bother to turn it up so that everyone in the limo can hear it. Hell, it was so low I couldn't even hear it.
"Christie, how far along are you?" he asked while tilting his head to the side. I guess the shock wore off.
"Um…seven months," I said looking at Jin. I watched as Jin looked out the window as if there was something fascinating going on outside.
"And, Jin is the father?" he asked his head still tilted. I was still looking at Jin and I didn't want to answer that question…if we both said yes then we would be lying to Mr. Mishima straight to his face. If we said no…Kazuya would either go on a rampage or worse, and I don't want to think about that. I guess he already knew the answer from the long pause that we just had.
"So he's not the father?"
"Yeah, pop…I am the father." Jin just lied to his father. I looked at Jin to see that he was looking at his father with a disappointed look. I guess he was disappointed because he had to lie to his father. It's only between them what would happen to Jin if the baby weren't his.
I looked back at his father to see that his father was in awe. "Hmmm, I never thought I would be a grandfather."
I started to smile as Kazuya's face did the same. I nudged Jin and he started to crack a smile as well. "You made your father happy," I whispered as I laid my head on his shoulder.
Jin lifted his arm and put it around me. He looked at his father who was now looking out the window with a smile on his face. "Yeah, but at what cost?" he asked as he started to turn up the radio….
TBCA/N: I am so sorry for the delay in "Steal Away." I am really busy with school and college applications that I can't seem to get any fanfics done. This would have been done already if I didn't have school. Lol. Well anyway, I hope you like this fanfic and I promise others will come up this year! Happy New Year everyone! Happy 2004!