Two hearts, one love
Chapter 38: Surprise, surprise
Crystal/Akina's POV
Kai's birthday was two days away.
And I still hadn't decided what to get him.
I'm so screwed I thought miserably as I stared aimlessly out the window.
What the hell do you get a guy you're in love with but don't want to be in love with? I mused hoping the answer would come to me.
Nope, no such luck.
I'll try again later after I've gone and practiced my piano.
I walked down the stairs into the lounge and lifted up the lid of the piano.
Since I was still staying with Kai, Katrina had said I'm more than welcome to use the piano and that if I wanted privacy I could just close the folding doors.
I closed the doors and sat down at the piano, allowing my fingers to play whatever they wanted while my head buzzed with various ideas about what to get Kai.
God, I couldn't even play the piano properly ever since I had realized that I had fallen for Kai.
Wait, that was it! I was struck with inspiration and suddenly knew what to get Kai...
Kai's POV
"Happy birthday" a voice said cutting jolting my awake.
"Huh?" I said groggily prying one eye open to see Akina's face smiling down on me.
"So how does it feel to be 18?" she asked me when I sat up.
"Same as being 17" I responded.
"Look, I made you breakfast" she said proudly and sure enough I saw a tray sitting on my bedside table.
"Why?" I questioned her as I grudgingly accepted the tray.
"Why?" she said laughing. "Because it's your birthday"
"You didn't have to" I said taking a sip of my coffee.
"I wanted to. Anyway, since I'm here I'll eat with you too" she responded lifting up another tray from my desk.
"I was going to make you waffles instead of toast, but I thought you might not like them" she trailed off taking a bite of her waffles.
"Well thanks" I said after we had finished.
"Oh, Tala called asking if we wanted to go clubbing tonight" she told me.
"When did Tala call?" I asked her.
"Oh, umm he called me last night" she answered.
"Really?" I said absently.
"Yes really" Akina said firmly.
"Okay then, I suppose I'll call him and tell him we're going" I said getting up.
"Don't worry about it. I already told him that we'd go" she said dismissively.
The intercom in my room crackled to life.
"Kai dear, you have a visitor" mum said.
"Who is it?" I said frowning in confusion. Tala, Rei and Mariah knew better than to come this early. They knew I liked to sleep for half the day.
"I think you better come down and see for yourself" she replied before ending the conversation.
"I suppose I should change" I said making my way to the closet.
"Why bother?" Crystal said lightly before disappearing out of my room with trays, heading towards the kitchen I assumed.
I shrugged. She was right. Why bother changing.
I headed downstairs and stopped in my tracks.
Lying on a couch in the lounge was Melissa.
"Kai, sweetie," she purred getting up and making her way towards me.
I instinctively took a step back.
"Melissa, what are you doing here?" I asked her.
"I came here to give you your birthday present" she said and handed me a rectangular something wrapped in gold paper.
"Err, thanks. You didn't have to" I finally said after looking down at the present in my hand.
"Oh but I wanted to" she said pressing herself against me.
I cursed in my head for I was only wearing my blue boxers.
"Kai, who's here" Crystal called out from the kitchen before entering the lounge. "Oh" she said surprised and I saw her blue orbs flood with amusement.
"Hiwatari-sama, it appears that you have another visitor" the maid informed me before briskly walking away.
What, another visitor? Probably Tala and the gang. But if it was them, then wouldn't the maid have told me it was them? Before I could extend that thought an annoyingly chirpy voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Hey sexy" it said and stepping away from Melissa, I turned to the doorway to see Mia.
What the hell, was it bitch day today or something?
"Who are you?" Melissa questioned airily, turning up her nose at Mia's lumpy figure.
I darted a glance over to Akina only to see her eyes widen further and sparkled with laughter.
I scowled, she obviously found this whole situation entertaining.
"I am Mia, who are you?" she answered back.
"I'm Melissa Tan," Melissa shot back with a sniff.
"Whatever, anyway Kai I came by to drop off your present" Mia said and shoved a brown parcel into the same hand as I held Melissa's. At least her parcel was smaller so it was easy enough for me to carry the both in the same hand.
"Gee Kai, don't you just feel so overwhelmed?" Akina said lightly and Mia and Melissa turned to her in surprise
"What are you doing here?" Melissa asked her remembering that she was here as well.
"I live here. What are you doing here?" Akina replied innocently.
"What? You live here? You're lying" Mia spluttered.
"No I'm not lying. I'm living here temporarily." Akina said before turning to me. "By the way Kai, do you want your shirt back now?"
"Which one?" I asked her.
"You borrow Kai's shirts?" Melissa asked scowling.
"Well I borrowed this one last night" Akina responded sweetly indicating the black shirt she had on.
Flash back
"Where are you going Akina?" I asked her when I saw her headed for the garage.
"I'm going to my house to pick up some clothes." She responded pausing by the door.
"What now?" I said looking out the window to see that it was already dark.
"Yes now. I don't have any more P.Js. Do you expect me to sleep in this?" she said gesturing towards her demin skirt, bikini and my shirt.
"It's late. Why didn't you go pick it up earlier?" I questioned her.
"I forgot. I only just realized I was out of clean clothes" she said sheepishly.
"Go tomorrow morning" I told her.
"Would you like to sleep in this?" she said pointing to her clothes once again.
"Borrow one of my shirts" I said with a sigh turning to head up the stairs.
"What again?" she called out after me.
End of Flashback
Akina crossed the room to stand next to me. Smirking I stepped behind her and looped my arms around her waist while she leaned her head back against my chest.
"Why don't we go back to bed?" she suggested slyly and we both watched Melissa and Mia boil with anger out of the corner of our eyes.
"You know that's a great idea" I whispered loud enough for them to hear.
"Later Melissa and Mia thanks for stopping by" I called out as I lifted Akina up into my arms.
"Bye girls" she said giggling as her face reddened.
I scowled when Akina collapsed onto my bed in a fit of giggles after I set her down on it.
"What? I can't help myself if I found the entire exchange highly amusing" she said between her giggles. "What'd they get you anyway?"
"I dunno" I said and shook the golden box which I had received from Melissa.
"She didn't wrap it very well. I can't believe she wrapped your present in gold. It looks very gaudy" Akina remarked stretching out lazily on my bed.
"Well Melissa is very gaudy" I added and began to unwrap the box.
"Err, it's very nice?" Akina commented when I opened the box to see a gold photo frame with a picture of Melissa in a revealing bikini plastered inside it.
"Oh god what did I ever do to deserve this?" I moaned as Akina hurriedly turned the photo frame over.
"This isn't even plated in real gold" she said studying the frame.
"Like I would like it even if it was" I said rolling my eyes.
"Open up the card" Akina instructed me.
"No thanks. I'd rather not. You're more then welcome to open it if you wish" I told her.
"Well in that case then..." Akina said and pulled the card out of the envelope. "Surprise, surprise, its gold too. That girl sure loves her gold"
There was a pause while Akina scanned the card.
"It has her picture in it. How very original" she said dryly.
"I don't even want to look at it" I muttered underneath my breath.
"Moving on, I wonder what Mia got you" Akina mused and I handed her the brown parcel.
"Be my guest" I said dryly.
"If you insist" she replied with a shrug and peeled away the brown paper. "Ooh, what a coincidence you now have two photos from your admirers" she said flashing a fluro yellow photo frame with a photo of Mia inside.
"Oh great" I groaned.
"Hey, look on the bright side, at least she's not wearing a bikini" Akina said with a smile. "I suppose you want me to check out the card too?"
"You're more than welcome to it" I said flatly.
"Hmm, interesting." Akina said sarcastically as she flicked the card open and read through it. "Don't you think that it's kinda freaky that Mia and Melissa both got you the same thing?"
I shrugged in reply.
"I suppose the quote 'great minds think alike' would also apply to stupid minds?" Akina said thoughtfully and I smirked.
"Besides, it's the thought that counts" Akina reminded me.
"Well I don't want their thoughts" I answered.
"Maybe they couldn't think of anything else to buy you. You're very hard to buy for you know." She said matter-of-factly.
"I'm hurt" I said mockingly.
"Are you ready to go yet?" I asked later that night as I knocked on her bedroom door.
"Yeah. So what do you think?" she said stepping out of her room and twirling around.
"Nice" I said absently.
"Kai, a suggestion for next time. Next time you tell a girl they look nice, look at them first okay?" Akina said rolling her eyes.
I looked at her. Akina was dressed in a white peasant skirt which flowed down to her knees in layers and a pink flowered top. Her hair flowed over her shoulders in smooth waves and several random strands had been twisted tightly into tiny plaits.
"Well come on, let's go" she said and we headed towards the garage.
"I suppose Tala said he'd meet us there?" I enquired as we pulled up to Sirens.
"Huh? Oh yeah, he did" Crystal answered when we stepped out of the car.
"Come on" she said and tugged at my hand.
When we entered the club, it was dark.
"Maybe they're not open tonight" I said.
Without warning, the lights flashed on to illuminate a large group of people gathered around a table piled with presents and a gigantic cake.
"What-" I began but was interrupted with a SURPRISE!
"Happy birthday Kai" Tala said approached us.
"Huh?" I said still confused.
"You're so slow sometimes you know that?" Rei said shaking his head.
"Well allow me to break it down for you. Crystal planned this surprise party for you" Mariah explained before leaning in to whisper, "I think it helped provide a distraction from the whole Adam thing"
"Crystal" I said and turned to her.
"Yeah" she turning her attention from the people she was talking to to me.
"You planned this by yourself?" I questioned her.
"Well, Rei, Tala and Mariah helped too of course" she replied.
"Not really. All we did was help you decorate and pick a D.J" Tala protested.
"Well thanks anyway" I told them before glancing around. "Who are all these people anyway?"
"Rent-a-crowd" Rei said with a grin.
"Idiot" Mariah muttered poking him. "They're people from school."
"Oh right" I said.
About an hour into the party, Crystal suggested that I cut the cake and soon everybody was clustered around me and the cake.
Looking at it I almost fainted. They expected me to cut this?
The cake sat on the table and towered at three layers high. It had blue frosting and the words 'Happy Birthday Kai' was iced at the top in white. 18 Purple candles surrounded it and I wondered what was inside.
"It's chocolate" Crystal said answering my unasked question.
There was a moment of silence before everybody sang happy birthday. God, I felt like I was 5 again.
"Make a wish" Crystal reminded me as I took a breath to blow out all the candles in one go.
As usual, there was some smart ass who called out that if I touched the bottom, I'd have to kiss the nearest girl.
At that the majority of the girls moved forward.
Like I wanted to kiss any of them.
Rolling my eyes I slid the knife to the bottom, swearing to push anybody who tried anything.
I felt something brush against me and I looked down to see Crystal. She seemed to have been pushed nearer to me since several girls had moved forward.
"Sorry" she said sheepishly.
"Ooh, Crystal's the closest! Kiss, kiss, kiss!" somebody called out and soon a chant started up. "Kiss, kiss, kiss!"
My eyes flickered to Crystal who was flushed.
When we made eye contact, her blush intensified and she lowered her gaze. Sighing, I leaned forward and brushed my lips against her cheek for a brief moment before pulling away and the crowd cheered while several girls shot Crystal looks of envy her way.
After the cake was cut and served to everybody, I began opening presents.
I got watches, several stuffed toys, wallets, books and numerous other things.
I finally came to the last present which was wrapped up carefully in silver metallic paper and attached to it was a card in a matching envelope.
Opening the envelope, I saw that it had a pink penguin on the front. Without opening the card, I could already tell who it was from. Inside it read:
Dear Kai, Happy Birthday! Hope you like the presents. I wasn't really quite sure what to get you....have I mentioned that you are incredibly difficult to buy for? Anyway, hope you have a great day, remember you only turn 18 once! May all your wishes and dreams come true. Love Akina
Closing the card, I carefully set it aside and turned to the gift which was smaller than the card and small enough to fit into my palm with ease. I unwrapped it and opened up the black box. It was it jewelry?
It was a small set of silver keys.
Huh? I thought and shot a questioning look at Crystal.
"The other half is in your garage." She replied shrugging. "Also, I wouldn't throw the card away just yet"
What did that mean? I must've missed something I thought and looked in the envelope. Sure enough there was small disc in a clear blue case inside.
"What's on it?" I asked her.
"Put it in your computer and see" she said mysteriously before disappearing onto the dance floor.
"So, how'd you like your party?" Tala asked me when everybody had left but the five of us.
"It was good" I answered.
"Just good?" Rei joked. "I'm going to tell Crystal that"
I followed his glance to see Crystal carefully placing the leftover cake in a container.
"You guys can go ahead and leave" she said gesturing for us to go. "I'll be fine. Just about everything's cleaned up now. Kai, don't forget all your gifts either"
"Are you sure?" Mariah asked.
"Of course, go ahead. I'll see you at school on Monday" she assured her. "Kai, you can go ahead and leave too. I'll take a taxi back after I'm done"
"Okay then. See ya" Rei said.
"Yeah, later" Tala added before they left.
About 20 minutes later, Crystal had finished taking care of everything.
"Kai" she said in surprise when she caught sight of me at the exit. "I thought that you had already left"
"Leave? Like I was going to let you get back to the house by yourself in the middle of the night" I said. "What kinda of person would I be if I did?"
"It would've been perfectly safe. It's not like I would've walked or anything. I'd take a taxi. I'm not stupid" she shot back.
"Even so..." I trailed off. "Anything could happen to you"
So how'd you like this chapter? Long enough for you? I think it's like the longest so far yeah? I've just re-read the previous chapter and realized that it is a bit exaggerated that Kai has 5 girls asking him out everyday. I don't mean to insult the female population or anything. It's not like they're all desperate...well perhaps some of them (*cough, cough* Melissa) but not of them are all desperate...they just all really uhh..like him? A lot? But come on its Kai....need I say more? I've also gotten some flames about Crystal/Akina's character and how she's too perfect, has no flaws, etc, etc. Well uhh..I'm not really quite sure what to say to that.*scratched head* Just that after chapter 40 you might not think she's so perfect after all.. Anyway please review and tell me what you think okay? What's on the disc that Akina gave to Kai? All that and more will be revealed in the next chapter which will probably be up..ummz..Friday hopefully?
Chapter 38: Surprise, surprise
Crystal/Akina's POV
Kai's birthday was two days away.
And I still hadn't decided what to get him.
I'm so screwed I thought miserably as I stared aimlessly out the window.
What the hell do you get a guy you're in love with but don't want to be in love with? I mused hoping the answer would come to me.
Nope, no such luck.
I'll try again later after I've gone and practiced my piano.
I walked down the stairs into the lounge and lifted up the lid of the piano.
Since I was still staying with Kai, Katrina had said I'm more than welcome to use the piano and that if I wanted privacy I could just close the folding doors.
I closed the doors and sat down at the piano, allowing my fingers to play whatever they wanted while my head buzzed with various ideas about what to get Kai.
God, I couldn't even play the piano properly ever since I had realized that I had fallen for Kai.
Wait, that was it! I was struck with inspiration and suddenly knew what to get Kai...
Kai's POV
"Happy birthday" a voice said cutting jolting my awake.
"Huh?" I said groggily prying one eye open to see Akina's face smiling down on me.
"So how does it feel to be 18?" she asked me when I sat up.
"Same as being 17" I responded.
"Look, I made you breakfast" she said proudly and sure enough I saw a tray sitting on my bedside table.
"Why?" I questioned her as I grudgingly accepted the tray.
"Why?" she said laughing. "Because it's your birthday"
"You didn't have to" I said taking a sip of my coffee.
"I wanted to. Anyway, since I'm here I'll eat with you too" she responded lifting up another tray from my desk.
"I was going to make you waffles instead of toast, but I thought you might not like them" she trailed off taking a bite of her waffles.
"Well thanks" I said after we had finished.
"Oh, Tala called asking if we wanted to go clubbing tonight" she told me.
"When did Tala call?" I asked her.
"Oh, umm he called me last night" she answered.
"Really?" I said absently.
"Yes really" Akina said firmly.
"Okay then, I suppose I'll call him and tell him we're going" I said getting up.
"Don't worry about it. I already told him that we'd go" she said dismissively.
The intercom in my room crackled to life.
"Kai dear, you have a visitor" mum said.
"Who is it?" I said frowning in confusion. Tala, Rei and Mariah knew better than to come this early. They knew I liked to sleep for half the day.
"I think you better come down and see for yourself" she replied before ending the conversation.
"I suppose I should change" I said making my way to the closet.
"Why bother?" Crystal said lightly before disappearing out of my room with trays, heading towards the kitchen I assumed.
I shrugged. She was right. Why bother changing.
I headed downstairs and stopped in my tracks.
Lying on a couch in the lounge was Melissa.
"Kai, sweetie," she purred getting up and making her way towards me.
I instinctively took a step back.
"Melissa, what are you doing here?" I asked her.
"I came here to give you your birthday present" she said and handed me a rectangular something wrapped in gold paper.
"Err, thanks. You didn't have to" I finally said after looking down at the present in my hand.
"Oh but I wanted to" she said pressing herself against me.
I cursed in my head for I was only wearing my blue boxers.
"Kai, who's here" Crystal called out from the kitchen before entering the lounge. "Oh" she said surprised and I saw her blue orbs flood with amusement.
"Hiwatari-sama, it appears that you have another visitor" the maid informed me before briskly walking away.
What, another visitor? Probably Tala and the gang. But if it was them, then wouldn't the maid have told me it was them? Before I could extend that thought an annoyingly chirpy voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Hey sexy" it said and stepping away from Melissa, I turned to the doorway to see Mia.
What the hell, was it bitch day today or something?
"Who are you?" Melissa questioned airily, turning up her nose at Mia's lumpy figure.
I darted a glance over to Akina only to see her eyes widen further and sparkled with laughter.
I scowled, she obviously found this whole situation entertaining.
"I am Mia, who are you?" she answered back.
"I'm Melissa Tan," Melissa shot back with a sniff.
"Whatever, anyway Kai I came by to drop off your present" Mia said and shoved a brown parcel into the same hand as I held Melissa's. At least her parcel was smaller so it was easy enough for me to carry the both in the same hand.
"Gee Kai, don't you just feel so overwhelmed?" Akina said lightly and Mia and Melissa turned to her in surprise
"What are you doing here?" Melissa asked her remembering that she was here as well.
"I live here. What are you doing here?" Akina replied innocently.
"What? You live here? You're lying" Mia spluttered.
"No I'm not lying. I'm living here temporarily." Akina said before turning to me. "By the way Kai, do you want your shirt back now?"
"Which one?" I asked her.
"You borrow Kai's shirts?" Melissa asked scowling.
"Well I borrowed this one last night" Akina responded sweetly indicating the black shirt she had on.
Flash back
"Where are you going Akina?" I asked her when I saw her headed for the garage.
"I'm going to my house to pick up some clothes." She responded pausing by the door.
"What now?" I said looking out the window to see that it was already dark.
"Yes now. I don't have any more P.Js. Do you expect me to sleep in this?" she said gesturing towards her demin skirt, bikini and my shirt.
"It's late. Why didn't you go pick it up earlier?" I questioned her.
"I forgot. I only just realized I was out of clean clothes" she said sheepishly.
"Go tomorrow morning" I told her.
"Would you like to sleep in this?" she said pointing to her clothes once again.
"Borrow one of my shirts" I said with a sigh turning to head up the stairs.
"What again?" she called out after me.
End of Flashback
Akina crossed the room to stand next to me. Smirking I stepped behind her and looped my arms around her waist while she leaned her head back against my chest.
"Why don't we go back to bed?" she suggested slyly and we both watched Melissa and Mia boil with anger out of the corner of our eyes.
"You know that's a great idea" I whispered loud enough for them to hear.
"Later Melissa and Mia thanks for stopping by" I called out as I lifted Akina up into my arms.
"Bye girls" she said giggling as her face reddened.
I scowled when Akina collapsed onto my bed in a fit of giggles after I set her down on it.
"What? I can't help myself if I found the entire exchange highly amusing" she said between her giggles. "What'd they get you anyway?"
"I dunno" I said and shook the golden box which I had received from Melissa.
"She didn't wrap it very well. I can't believe she wrapped your present in gold. It looks very gaudy" Akina remarked stretching out lazily on my bed.
"Well Melissa is very gaudy" I added and began to unwrap the box.
"Err, it's very nice?" Akina commented when I opened the box to see a gold photo frame with a picture of Melissa in a revealing bikini plastered inside it.
"Oh god what did I ever do to deserve this?" I moaned as Akina hurriedly turned the photo frame over.
"This isn't even plated in real gold" she said studying the frame.
"Like I would like it even if it was" I said rolling my eyes.
"Open up the card" Akina instructed me.
"No thanks. I'd rather not. You're more then welcome to open it if you wish" I told her.
"Well in that case then..." Akina said and pulled the card out of the envelope. "Surprise, surprise, its gold too. That girl sure loves her gold"
There was a pause while Akina scanned the card.
"It has her picture in it. How very original" she said dryly.
"I don't even want to look at it" I muttered underneath my breath.
"Moving on, I wonder what Mia got you" Akina mused and I handed her the brown parcel.
"Be my guest" I said dryly.
"If you insist" she replied with a shrug and peeled away the brown paper. "Ooh, what a coincidence you now have two photos from your admirers" she said flashing a fluro yellow photo frame with a photo of Mia inside.
"Oh great" I groaned.
"Hey, look on the bright side, at least she's not wearing a bikini" Akina said with a smile. "I suppose you want me to check out the card too?"
"You're more than welcome to it" I said flatly.
"Hmm, interesting." Akina said sarcastically as she flicked the card open and read through it. "Don't you think that it's kinda freaky that Mia and Melissa both got you the same thing?"
I shrugged in reply.
"I suppose the quote 'great minds think alike' would also apply to stupid minds?" Akina said thoughtfully and I smirked.
"Besides, it's the thought that counts" Akina reminded me.
"Well I don't want their thoughts" I answered.
"Maybe they couldn't think of anything else to buy you. You're very hard to buy for you know." She said matter-of-factly.
"I'm hurt" I said mockingly.
"Are you ready to go yet?" I asked later that night as I knocked on her bedroom door.
"Yeah. So what do you think?" she said stepping out of her room and twirling around.
"Nice" I said absently.
"Kai, a suggestion for next time. Next time you tell a girl they look nice, look at them first okay?" Akina said rolling her eyes.
I looked at her. Akina was dressed in a white peasant skirt which flowed down to her knees in layers and a pink flowered top. Her hair flowed over her shoulders in smooth waves and several random strands had been twisted tightly into tiny plaits.
"Well come on, let's go" she said and we headed towards the garage.
"I suppose Tala said he'd meet us there?" I enquired as we pulled up to Sirens.
"Huh? Oh yeah, he did" Crystal answered when we stepped out of the car.
"Come on" she said and tugged at my hand.
When we entered the club, it was dark.
"Maybe they're not open tonight" I said.
Without warning, the lights flashed on to illuminate a large group of people gathered around a table piled with presents and a gigantic cake.
"What-" I began but was interrupted with a SURPRISE!
"Happy birthday Kai" Tala said approached us.
"Huh?" I said still confused.
"You're so slow sometimes you know that?" Rei said shaking his head.
"Well allow me to break it down for you. Crystal planned this surprise party for you" Mariah explained before leaning in to whisper, "I think it helped provide a distraction from the whole Adam thing"
"Crystal" I said and turned to her.
"Yeah" she turning her attention from the people she was talking to to me.
"You planned this by yourself?" I questioned her.
"Well, Rei, Tala and Mariah helped too of course" she replied.
"Not really. All we did was help you decorate and pick a D.J" Tala protested.
"Well thanks anyway" I told them before glancing around. "Who are all these people anyway?"
"Rent-a-crowd" Rei said with a grin.
"Idiot" Mariah muttered poking him. "They're people from school."
"Oh right" I said.
About an hour into the party, Crystal suggested that I cut the cake and soon everybody was clustered around me and the cake.
Looking at it I almost fainted. They expected me to cut this?
The cake sat on the table and towered at three layers high. It had blue frosting and the words 'Happy Birthday Kai' was iced at the top in white. 18 Purple candles surrounded it and I wondered what was inside.
"It's chocolate" Crystal said answering my unasked question.
There was a moment of silence before everybody sang happy birthday. God, I felt like I was 5 again.
"Make a wish" Crystal reminded me as I took a breath to blow out all the candles in one go.
As usual, there was some smart ass who called out that if I touched the bottom, I'd have to kiss the nearest girl.
At that the majority of the girls moved forward.
Like I wanted to kiss any of them.
Rolling my eyes I slid the knife to the bottom, swearing to push anybody who tried anything.
I felt something brush against me and I looked down to see Crystal. She seemed to have been pushed nearer to me since several girls had moved forward.
"Sorry" she said sheepishly.
"Ooh, Crystal's the closest! Kiss, kiss, kiss!" somebody called out and soon a chant started up. "Kiss, kiss, kiss!"
My eyes flickered to Crystal who was flushed.
When we made eye contact, her blush intensified and she lowered her gaze. Sighing, I leaned forward and brushed my lips against her cheek for a brief moment before pulling away and the crowd cheered while several girls shot Crystal looks of envy her way.
After the cake was cut and served to everybody, I began opening presents.
I got watches, several stuffed toys, wallets, books and numerous other things.
I finally came to the last present which was wrapped up carefully in silver metallic paper and attached to it was a card in a matching envelope.
Opening the envelope, I saw that it had a pink penguin on the front. Without opening the card, I could already tell who it was from. Inside it read:
Dear Kai, Happy Birthday! Hope you like the presents. I wasn't really quite sure what to get you....have I mentioned that you are incredibly difficult to buy for? Anyway, hope you have a great day, remember you only turn 18 once! May all your wishes and dreams come true. Love Akina
Closing the card, I carefully set it aside and turned to the gift which was smaller than the card and small enough to fit into my palm with ease. I unwrapped it and opened up the black box. It was it jewelry?
It was a small set of silver keys.
Huh? I thought and shot a questioning look at Crystal.
"The other half is in your garage." She replied shrugging. "Also, I wouldn't throw the card away just yet"
What did that mean? I must've missed something I thought and looked in the envelope. Sure enough there was small disc in a clear blue case inside.
"What's on it?" I asked her.
"Put it in your computer and see" she said mysteriously before disappearing onto the dance floor.
"So, how'd you like your party?" Tala asked me when everybody had left but the five of us.
"It was good" I answered.
"Just good?" Rei joked. "I'm going to tell Crystal that"
I followed his glance to see Crystal carefully placing the leftover cake in a container.
"You guys can go ahead and leave" she said gesturing for us to go. "I'll be fine. Just about everything's cleaned up now. Kai, don't forget all your gifts either"
"Are you sure?" Mariah asked.
"Of course, go ahead. I'll see you at school on Monday" she assured her. "Kai, you can go ahead and leave too. I'll take a taxi back after I'm done"
"Okay then. See ya" Rei said.
"Yeah, later" Tala added before they left.
About 20 minutes later, Crystal had finished taking care of everything.
"Kai" she said in surprise when she caught sight of me at the exit. "I thought that you had already left"
"Leave? Like I was going to let you get back to the house by yourself in the middle of the night" I said. "What kinda of person would I be if I did?"
"It would've been perfectly safe. It's not like I would've walked or anything. I'd take a taxi. I'm not stupid" she shot back.
"Even so..." I trailed off. "Anything could happen to you"
So how'd you like this chapter? Long enough for you? I think it's like the longest so far yeah? I've just re-read the previous chapter and realized that it is a bit exaggerated that Kai has 5 girls asking him out everyday. I don't mean to insult the female population or anything. It's not like they're all desperate...well perhaps some of them (*cough, cough* Melissa) but not of them are all desperate...they just all really uhh..like him? A lot? But come on its Kai....need I say more? I've also gotten some flames about Crystal/Akina's character and how she's too perfect, has no flaws, etc, etc. Well uhh..I'm not really quite sure what to say to that.*scratched head* Just that after chapter 40 you might not think she's so perfect after all.. Anyway please review and tell me what you think okay? What's on the disc that Akina gave to Kai? All that and more will be revealed in the next chapter which will probably be up..ummz..Friday hopefully?