Can You Keep A Secret?
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Chapter 10
"I am soooooooooooooo bored."
"Yo Kai, shut up dude. We're all bored." Tyson threw a cushion at Kai who was sprawled on the living room floor in a very un-Kai like way.
"You lot can go out," he said, throwing the cushion back at him twice as hard. "Me and Rei have been stuck inside for days. Stupid press."
"It's your own fault."
"Oh shut up."
"Look Kai, if you're that bored you can go and make me breakfast."
"Piss off."
"I'll do it if you want," Rei said stumbling into the living room.
"Woo, 'bout time," Tyson cheered
"No Rei, you're ill, get back to bed."
"Ohhh, Kai, please, can't you come and sit with me?"
"Alright then. Tyson make your own breakfast." Kai pushed himself reluctantly off the floor.
"Nooooo! Max, Max!"
"Max is out shopping for food, on his own, because you wouldn't go with him," Kai shouted as he followed Rei out the room.
"Damn."
***
Rei sat up and watched the Russian on his bed. The boredom was definitely going to Kai's head. He'd stopped getting up at the crack of dawn and would lie around in a
t-shirt and a pair of boxers all day. Right now he was hanging off the edge of the bed head first reading J-17.
"Remind me again why you're reading that."
"When I asked Tyson to get me something to read he thought it'd be funny to bring this back."
"But you're reading it anyway?" Rei asked raising an eyebrow.
"Yes."
"Right." Rei gave what he could see of Kai a funny look. As he did he noticed a bit of pale, toned stomach showing where Kai's t-shirt had slipped up.
"Are you ticklish Kai?" He asked.
"Err…no," he lied rather unconvincingly.
'Yeah right,' Rei thought to himself.
***
"Kai! I need a drink!"
"When's dinner going to be ready Kai?!"
"Kai! Could you bring Dizzi up?" Kai ran frantically round the kitchen, trying to wait on four sick people at once.
"Right, Max's drink, take the dinner up, oh and Dizzi, where's Dizzi? Oh bloody hell!" He went into the living room and began searching for the laptop. He was looking under the table as the door bell rang.
"OW!" he cried as he hit his head off the table. "This'd better not be the bloody press again." He walked over to the window and peered around to see he could be bothering him at this very inconvenient moment.
'Shit,' he cursed to himself. Stood on the door step were the White Tigers, Mariah banging on the door impatiently. 'Oh God, not them, not her, not now.' He desperately tried to think of a way of getting out of answering the door. 'OK, maybe if I hide they'll think we're out. Now where do I hide?' Kai went back to the table and crouched behind it. He waited for a moment until he heard someone tapping at the glass.
"Kai! What are you doing? Let us in," Mariah's annoying voice came through the window.
"Damn," he muttered to himself. "Coming!" He walked reluctantly to the door and opened it. Immediately flashes went off outside and the photographers began shouting him. Mariah pushed past him and invited herself in.
"Oh hello to you too," he said under his breath. "I'm fine thanks, nice to see you."
"I'm sorry, did you say something Kai?"
"No."
"I see you haven't changed much then." (A:N BITCH!)
"You'd be surprised."
"Listen we need to talk to Rei," she said changing the subject.
"No, Mariah, you wanted to talk to Rei, we said to leave them alone," Lee added.
"Well, you can't he's ill."
"I wonder who he caught that off," Mariah muttered. (A:N MEGA BITCH!!!)
"Look, make yourself comfortable," Kai said to the rest of the team who were still standing by the door giving him apologetic looks. "I'll go and see if he's awake yet."
***
"Rei? Are you awake?" Kai said quietly, peering around the bedroom door.
"Yeah. Who wouldn't be with Tyson in the room underneath?" he smirked. "Have you come to keep me company?" Rei asked grinning mischievously.
"Err… as much as I'd love too I can't."
"Damn," Rei said, still grinning.
"Yeah well… anyway. Spackers United are in our living room,"
"What? They're in their rooms, aren't they?"
"Not those three. The White Tigers." Rei's grin instantly disappeared.
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, but I've told them you're asleep."
"Oh God thanks Kai. You're the best."
"I know. So are you coming to see them or am I going to have to get rid of them all on my self?"
"Leave you to do it obviously, I'm sick."
"Great."
"Sorry Kai," Rei said, giving him his best puppy-dog eyes. Kai walked over to the bed and sat next to him. Rei leant up to him and whispered seductively in his ear. "I'll make it worth your while."
"Excellent."
"I'd kiss you now but you'd catch my fever," Rei said, playing with a few strands of Kai's hair that had fallen out of place during the day.
"Fuck it." Kai pushed him down onto the bed and began kissing him roughly.
"Kai… you'll… you'll get sick!"
"I know but it's worth it."
"You can say that again." Eventually they both ran out of breath and Kai pulled back and rested his forehead on Rei's.
"I'd better go and get rid of them then, hadn't I?" he sighed.
"Oh, don't be long."
"You can count on it." He jumped off the bed and made his way to the door.
"Oh and Kai? Be nice."
"As hard as that will be, I'll try, for you."
"Love you!"
***
"Well you took a long time," Mariah said a soon as Kai walked back into the living room.
"I know I… had to see to Max."
"Why is he sick too?" Lee asked.
"Yeah they all are, so I've been kinda busy."
"We shouldn't have come. I did tell her it was a bad idea. We should go. Come on you guys," he said leading his team out of the door. However, Mariah didn't move an inch.
"I'm not going until I've spoken to Rei."
"I'm sorry Mariah but his asleep and he really needs it," Kai said, remembering his promise to Rei.
"I don't believe you."
"Mariah, come on. Kai's busy enough as it is. He doesn't need us here," Lee ordered.
"Stay out of this Lee," she spat back.
"Mariah, please. Come back next week, he'll be fine then and we can have dinner or something," Kai offered, trying his hardest to stay calm and doing rather well, considering the circumstances.
"I don't want dinner Kai! I want to speak to Rei," she said raising her voice.
"Mariah, that's enough. Now come on." Lee grabbed her arm and pulled her to the hall. Kai followed them to the door and opened it for Lee.
"Thanks Lee and I meant it about next week. I'm sure Rei will be fine by then and hopefully Mariah will have calmed down a bit."
"Yo Kai, what's with all the noise?" Tyson groaned as he Max and Kenny got to the bottom of the stairs. "Oh it's you guys." They joined Kai at the door, giving Mariah a funny look as she tried to escape from Gary's grip. "What's with her?"
"Just leave it Tyson," Kai ordered. After a while, her struggling stopped and she began laughing.
"You know, it's quite convincing Kai, all this. This whole act you're putting on." The small crowd at the door all stopped and watched both Kai and Mariah.
"I'm sorry Mariah but I have no idea what you're talking about."
"You know what I mean. All this niceness, looking after a house full of sick people, oh and all this about you loving Rei! Everyone knows it's not true. How could you love anyone? You're just a cold hearted bastard and you always will be!" All the shouting had attracted a lot of the lingering press who were stood at the gates, fighting back the security guards.
"Mariah this has gone too far you-"
"It's OK Lee. Mariah you obviously think you know me, but you know what? You don't. And you never will."
"Maybe you're right but I do know Rei-" she was cut off as Kai began laughing.
"You think you know Rei. But I know for a fact you don't know him as well as you think. For a start off, if you did know Rei like I do you wouldn't be here." Mariah gave him a confused look.
"What are you talking about Kai?" He couldn't hold it in any longer. Day's worth of stress just added to his anger. He wanted to get rid of them all for good.
"Mariah," he took in a deep breath. "Rei hates you. He always has. You piss him off immensely. He left your village because he couldn't take it any more. He admits that he regretted leaving Lee and the others but he told me it was the best decision he ever made. You all think he's there to give you advice and be optimistic. Have you ever thought that once in a while he'd like someone to listen to his problems and tell him it's going to be OK? And all those years ago when you thought he 'loved' you, you couldn't have been more wrong. It was Lee he had a crush on." A blush slowly crept up on Lee's face and the crowd on the doorstep and the press at the gates fell silent once more.
And now he'd started, Kai couldn't stop. He wanted everyone to know that they don't know Rei Kon as well as they thought. All those secrets came pouring out, the press quickly writing down every thing he said. And then the flashes began, all of them wanting a picture to go with the scandalous story. However, the flashes brought Kai back to reality. Their shouts also brought his attention to the balcony above him. There stood Rei looking totally shocked.
"Oh God…" Realization hit him. He did the first thing he could think of. Run.
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Ooooooo! Can you hear the atmospheric music? Can you feel the tension? We are evil! It killed us to right this, literally. It's so hard to write about Kai betraying Rei's trust. BUT, it is all for a reason and it makes the ending a LOT nicer. So bare with us while we create the FINAL chapter! Hopefully it should be up soon because we have it planned to the very last tiny bit of detail. Unlike this one.
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a) begin our new 'big project' A.S.A.P (baring in mind we have exams)
b) do a one off in between (we're not bothered about the extra work, we need something to do with our sad and meaningless lives- other than revise)
c) start the 'big project' and do one offs as we go
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