Chapter 3: In Da Club
'What's going on?' Kara asked as she slowly opened her eyes to find Chakita with her mouth hanging open staring at her.
Chakita without saying a word pointed to the person lying next to Kara. Kara slowly looked at the cat like boy and smiled lightly.
'Like I said before, what's going on?'
Kara slowly slipped out of her lover's arms and began pulling on her clothes whilst Chakita stared at Ray in total amazement, shock and disbelief.
Once Kara was done Chakita grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the door without uttering one word, Kara grinned. Kara looked at her sister, she had never seen her this way before, like her she was always very confident and hard to shock but obviously this had broken down her defences.
As soon as the two girls had walked down to the stairs and were about to slip through the front door they felt someone staring at them. They both spun around.
'You're leaving in a rush,' Tala smirked at seeing Chakita's face when she saw Kai.
'So what?' Kara chirped.
'Oh nothing, just saw quite a few couples last night, wouldn't think that you were running away from them.'
'We aren't running, we are going home coz its waaayyy past our bedtime,' Kara said before pushing Chakita out of the door.
The two girls mounted their bikes and shot down the road.
***
The phone only went off twice before he picked it up.
'Hey Ray!' Kara chirped down the phone.
'Oh hey Kara, what happened?' Ray asked.
'Oh my stupid sister dragged me off. She didn't even say a single word! The term 'shocked beyond words' seemed to fit her exactly,'
'Heh. Not surprised. Listen, Kara, about last night-' Ray began.
'I don't regret, Ray. I really like you,' Kara interrupted.
There was a pause.
'Thank god! You really had me worried when you weren't there when I woke up!' Ray exclaimed.
Kara laughed.
'Ray ... what you said last night-'
'-I meant every word. Even if I was drunk,'
'That's good! Oh shit! Incoming mad mother!' Kara squeaked. Ray could hear a load of yelling, both Kara and Ms. Chang's voices echoing down the phone line.
'Ray! I need to go! Can you come round, and help me with all my stuff?' Kara gasped.
'Yeah sure!' Ray replied.
'Thanks babe!' she whispered with urgency before the line disconnected.
Kara looked around wildly, before spotting her mother walking towards her.
'You're gonna run us up a massive phone bill with all that time you spend talking to your friends!!!' she shrieked at Kara.
'I won't be doing that much longer, so give me a break!' Kara replied hotly.
'What do you mean, I won't be doing that much longer?' Ms. Chang hissed.
'Mother, I'm leaving!'
This statement left Ms. Chang in shock.
'Leaving?' she choked out, 'What d'you mean, leaving?'
'I'm moving out! I can't stay here any more when we're always arguing! Its doing my head in!'
'What!? You can't do that!' She shrieked.
'Yes I can! I'm 18 years old, not a little kid!' Kara yelled, getting angrier by the minute.
Ms. Chang tried a different approach.
'Look, Kara, I know we've never been the best of friends, but at least give it one more chance!' she pleaded.
'No. That's what we've tried over and over again. It never works. It can never change,'
And with that, Kara threw the last of the clothes in a cardboard box. Ms. Chang walked out of Kara's room, muttering to herself.
'Whoa, that was a big one!' Chakita chirped as she bounced in.
Kara merely grunted, throwing her makeup into a bag.
'Well, I'm packed!' Chakita continued.
'Packed?' Kara questioned.
'Yeah, do you really think I'm staying here, without my own lil sis?'
'Chakita, just cos you're one hour older than me doesn't give you the right to call me your lil sis,' Kara said, sighing.
'Whatever lil sis! Who's helping us move this stuff anyway? We can't do it on our own,' Chakita said, looking at all the boxes and bags that Kara dumped her possessions in.
'Well, duh. The guys are helping us out,' Kara said, smiling.
'What, Ray included?'
'Yeah, of course he's helping, considering he's gonna be living right next to us,'
'That's what's got me worried,' Chakita muttered.
'Huh?' Kara had obviously heard her sister.
'Oh nothing,' Chakita said before leaving the room.
***
'Hey guys!' Chakita shouted out of the window as she watched three convertibles pull into the driveway, one silver, one metallic blue and a midnight black one.
Ray, Max, Enrique, Hilary and Mariah looked up and smiled at cheerful girl in the window.
Ray stepped out of his black car and walked up to Enrique and Max who were getting out of Enrique's silver convertible. Chakita stepped out into the driveway and greeted her best friends. 'Wow! You have a lot of stuff!' Max exclaimed as he inspected all the boxes and bags that crowded the girls bedrooms.
'We won't fit all this in the convertibles,' Mariah said as she sat down on Chakita's bed.
'Hmm, we need mum's car,' Chakita stated as she looked at her sister.
'No way, I am not asking mum for her car!' Kara cried 'She doesn't want us to move out anyway, so why would she agree?!'
Chakita gave her a pleading look.
'Why can't you do it?' Kara asked her sister.
'You know mum doesn't trust me with her car, ever since I had the accident two years ago involving that tree down the road.'
'So! That was a long time ago!' Kara said but knew she wasn't getting anywhere. 'Fine!' She said before walking down the stairs to the living room where her mother was watching TV.
She took a deep breath before walking in.
'Mum?' she muttered.
'Yes?' her mother replied not taking her eyes off the screen.
'Can I... can we use your car to move our stuff to the new place?'
'Yeah, here,' Her mother said holding up the keys but still not taking her eyes off the television screen.
Kara took the keys muttered a thanks and swiftly walked out of the room. She got up the stairs and was about to walk into Chakita's room when someone pulled her aside.
'Wha-' Kara started before she saw the golden cat like eyes that were staring deep into her own amber ones. 'Ray,' she whispered, pulling him towards her. He complied, and leaned down as their lips met.
Tongues danced around each other, as Kara breathed in his cinnamon smelling cologne, and Ray tasted her strawberry tasting lips. Ray broke away, both of them gasping for air, and began to leave trail of butterfly kisses on her neck and collarbone.
While they were passionately making out, Chakita was growing more worried by the second.
'What's taking her so long? I better go save her from mum's clutches,' Chakita sighed, heading towards the door, where, half way out, she stopped, staring at something in shock.
'Err...Kita?' Mariah called out.
'You all right?' Max asked, walking up to her, and stopping, surprising everyone else.
Curious, they all got up and walked to the doorway, only to see Kara pushed up against the wall by Ray, her hands buried in his hair, one of his arms circling her waist and the other one behind her neck. They were kissing, eyes closed so they didn't realise the others were there.
'Am I missing something here?' Hilary whispered to Chakita.
'I found them last night ... sharing the same bed,' she replied, a disgusted look etching on her features.
At that point, the couple realised they weren't alone.
'Uhh...hi?' Kara said, looking over to the others. Ray moved from in front of her, to next to her, their hands never parting.
'Wanna explain?' Mariah said with a raised eyebrow.
'What is there to explain?' Ray asked.
'Yeah, we're together and that's it,' Kara stated.
'Yeah, Yeah, did you get the keys?' Chakita asked loosing interest.
'Yeah,' Kara said holding up the keys in front of her.
'Great, come on then!' Enrique exclaimed as he headed down the stairs and through the front door, balancing two large boxes in his arms.
***
'Uhh! About time!' Hilary sighed as she collapsed onto the sofa that Max and Enrique were carrying.
'Hey!' Max shouted as he dropped the sofa on Enrique's foot.
'Owwww!' Enrique cried out.
Ray laughed as he set down the last box. Kara walked in and looked around at all the mess.
'Home sweet home' she laughed as Chakita linked arms with her.
The apartment consisted of a large living room that was in the middle that all the rooms led off from. Chakita's room, the spare bedroom and the study were found to the left and Kara's room, the bathroom and kitchen were found on the right. The wall in front was made completely of glass and the setting sunlight seeped through.
Chakita ran into her bedroom and fell onto her soft king size bed. She sighed deeply.
'HEY GUYS!!' She shouted. 'We should go out and celebrate!!'
'I'm up for it!' Ray laughed; he stood up and walked over to Kara. 'You up for it?'
'Yeah!!' She laughed, grabbed Ray's hand and pulled him out the door.
***
At the club...
Chakita, Mariah and Hilary ran up to the bar to order the drinks whilst Max and Enrique found a table. Kara and Ray hit the dance floor.
Chakita and the girls came back with the drinks and after the song had finished Ray and Kara walked back to the table.
'Ok, so I guess Good Luck!' Max laughed as he picked up his drink and made a toast.
'What are you kids doing, you know drinking under age is against the law,' Tala sneered as he, Kai and a load of girls walked up to their tables.
'Look who's talking, aren't you the one who nearly killed us drink driving?' Kara smirked.
'You done what?' One of the blonde girls that was with them asked Tala.
'Oh, never mind!' He snapped at the girl.
'God, you two are like male sluts!! Different girls every night!' Kara snapped at them.
'Well your sister didn't seem to mind,' Kai said calmly.
'What do you mean by that?' Kara asked looking at Chakita's shocked face.
'What you mean she didn't tell you?!' Kai said in a mocking tone.
'She didn't tell us what?' Mariah asked confused.
'She slept with me that night when I had the party,' Kai sneered before leaving a shocked group of friends.
Kara stood up, grabbed Chakita by the arm and pulled her outside.
'Tell me that isn't true!' Kara screamed.
'It isn't true,'
'Don't lie to me!'
'Well I WAS DRUNK!!' Chakita shouted in her defence.
'I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS!!'
'Its not like I screwed him,' Chakita muttered at her raging sister.
'Go on then explain it to me!' Kara said now calming down.
'Well I was drunk and he asked me to dance, he said he liked me and then he kissed me,' Chakita explain 'and well I don't remember much after that but I woke up in his arms.'
'So how do you know you didn't screw him!?'
'I JUST KNOW OK!?' Chakita shouted before walking back into the bar grabbing Hilary and Mariah and driving back home.
Kara went back to the bar still fuming. She caught sight of Tala smirking.
That was it.
She jumped up from her seat, pushed through the dancing crowds and stopped right in front of Tala.
'What do you want brat?' He sneered.
Kara didn't wait any longer.
She clenched her fist and punched Tala straight in the eye.
Tala in fury charged at Kara, which made her fall to the ground, him on top of her. Kara kneed Tala right where it hurts and bit him on the arm.
Tala clenched his fist, he lifts he arm in the air and was about to give Kara a broken nose when someone caught his hand and pulled him off of Kara.
'What the fuck you doing man!?' Tala spat as he stared at Kara being restrained by Ray and Max.
'Saving your ass blud,' Kai said before pulling Tala out of the bar.
***
'We really have to do something about those bitches,' Tala snarled.
'I know. I'm working on Chakita but with Kara around to help her, we're not getting anywhere,' Kai replied.
'Look, we have a reputation to protect, and with those sluts around, that rep is going,'
A look of comprehension appeared on Kai's face.
'Break 'em,' Kai smirked.
'What?'
'They're different. They don't get affected by emotions that easily, like us. They're tough, physically and mentally. The only way to get them off our backs is to break their defences.'
'How?'
'Like I said, I'm working on Chakita, but Kara is different. She has a boyfriend to protect her. To break Chakita will only hurt Kara. To break Kara, you gotta steal someone she loves forever,'
Tala suddenly understood.
'Ray Kon,'
'What's going on?' Kara asked as she slowly opened her eyes to find Chakita with her mouth hanging open staring at her.
Chakita without saying a word pointed to the person lying next to Kara. Kara slowly looked at the cat like boy and smiled lightly.
'Like I said before, what's going on?'
Kara slowly slipped out of her lover's arms and began pulling on her clothes whilst Chakita stared at Ray in total amazement, shock and disbelief.
Once Kara was done Chakita grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the door without uttering one word, Kara grinned. Kara looked at her sister, she had never seen her this way before, like her she was always very confident and hard to shock but obviously this had broken down her defences.
As soon as the two girls had walked down to the stairs and were about to slip through the front door they felt someone staring at them. They both spun around.
'You're leaving in a rush,' Tala smirked at seeing Chakita's face when she saw Kai.
'So what?' Kara chirped.
'Oh nothing, just saw quite a few couples last night, wouldn't think that you were running away from them.'
'We aren't running, we are going home coz its waaayyy past our bedtime,' Kara said before pushing Chakita out of the door.
The two girls mounted their bikes and shot down the road.
***
The phone only went off twice before he picked it up.
'Hey Ray!' Kara chirped down the phone.
'Oh hey Kara, what happened?' Ray asked.
'Oh my stupid sister dragged me off. She didn't even say a single word! The term 'shocked beyond words' seemed to fit her exactly,'
'Heh. Not surprised. Listen, Kara, about last night-' Ray began.
'I don't regret, Ray. I really like you,' Kara interrupted.
There was a pause.
'Thank god! You really had me worried when you weren't there when I woke up!' Ray exclaimed.
Kara laughed.
'Ray ... what you said last night-'
'-I meant every word. Even if I was drunk,'
'That's good! Oh shit! Incoming mad mother!' Kara squeaked. Ray could hear a load of yelling, both Kara and Ms. Chang's voices echoing down the phone line.
'Ray! I need to go! Can you come round, and help me with all my stuff?' Kara gasped.
'Yeah sure!' Ray replied.
'Thanks babe!' she whispered with urgency before the line disconnected.
Kara looked around wildly, before spotting her mother walking towards her.
'You're gonna run us up a massive phone bill with all that time you spend talking to your friends!!!' she shrieked at Kara.
'I won't be doing that much longer, so give me a break!' Kara replied hotly.
'What do you mean, I won't be doing that much longer?' Ms. Chang hissed.
'Mother, I'm leaving!'
This statement left Ms. Chang in shock.
'Leaving?' she choked out, 'What d'you mean, leaving?'
'I'm moving out! I can't stay here any more when we're always arguing! Its doing my head in!'
'What!? You can't do that!' She shrieked.
'Yes I can! I'm 18 years old, not a little kid!' Kara yelled, getting angrier by the minute.
Ms. Chang tried a different approach.
'Look, Kara, I know we've never been the best of friends, but at least give it one more chance!' she pleaded.
'No. That's what we've tried over and over again. It never works. It can never change,'
And with that, Kara threw the last of the clothes in a cardboard box. Ms. Chang walked out of Kara's room, muttering to herself.
'Whoa, that was a big one!' Chakita chirped as she bounced in.
Kara merely grunted, throwing her makeup into a bag.
'Well, I'm packed!' Chakita continued.
'Packed?' Kara questioned.
'Yeah, do you really think I'm staying here, without my own lil sis?'
'Chakita, just cos you're one hour older than me doesn't give you the right to call me your lil sis,' Kara said, sighing.
'Whatever lil sis! Who's helping us move this stuff anyway? We can't do it on our own,' Chakita said, looking at all the boxes and bags that Kara dumped her possessions in.
'Well, duh. The guys are helping us out,' Kara said, smiling.
'What, Ray included?'
'Yeah, of course he's helping, considering he's gonna be living right next to us,'
'That's what's got me worried,' Chakita muttered.
'Huh?' Kara had obviously heard her sister.
'Oh nothing,' Chakita said before leaving the room.
***
'Hey guys!' Chakita shouted out of the window as she watched three convertibles pull into the driveway, one silver, one metallic blue and a midnight black one.
Ray, Max, Enrique, Hilary and Mariah looked up and smiled at cheerful girl in the window.
Ray stepped out of his black car and walked up to Enrique and Max who were getting out of Enrique's silver convertible. Chakita stepped out into the driveway and greeted her best friends. 'Wow! You have a lot of stuff!' Max exclaimed as he inspected all the boxes and bags that crowded the girls bedrooms.
'We won't fit all this in the convertibles,' Mariah said as she sat down on Chakita's bed.
'Hmm, we need mum's car,' Chakita stated as she looked at her sister.
'No way, I am not asking mum for her car!' Kara cried 'She doesn't want us to move out anyway, so why would she agree?!'
Chakita gave her a pleading look.
'Why can't you do it?' Kara asked her sister.
'You know mum doesn't trust me with her car, ever since I had the accident two years ago involving that tree down the road.'
'So! That was a long time ago!' Kara said but knew she wasn't getting anywhere. 'Fine!' She said before walking down the stairs to the living room where her mother was watching TV.
She took a deep breath before walking in.
'Mum?' she muttered.
'Yes?' her mother replied not taking her eyes off the screen.
'Can I... can we use your car to move our stuff to the new place?'
'Yeah, here,' Her mother said holding up the keys but still not taking her eyes off the television screen.
Kara took the keys muttered a thanks and swiftly walked out of the room. She got up the stairs and was about to walk into Chakita's room when someone pulled her aside.
'Wha-' Kara started before she saw the golden cat like eyes that were staring deep into her own amber ones. 'Ray,' she whispered, pulling him towards her. He complied, and leaned down as their lips met.
Tongues danced around each other, as Kara breathed in his cinnamon smelling cologne, and Ray tasted her strawberry tasting lips. Ray broke away, both of them gasping for air, and began to leave trail of butterfly kisses on her neck and collarbone.
While they were passionately making out, Chakita was growing more worried by the second.
'What's taking her so long? I better go save her from mum's clutches,' Chakita sighed, heading towards the door, where, half way out, she stopped, staring at something in shock.
'Err...Kita?' Mariah called out.
'You all right?' Max asked, walking up to her, and stopping, surprising everyone else.
Curious, they all got up and walked to the doorway, only to see Kara pushed up against the wall by Ray, her hands buried in his hair, one of his arms circling her waist and the other one behind her neck. They were kissing, eyes closed so they didn't realise the others were there.
'Am I missing something here?' Hilary whispered to Chakita.
'I found them last night ... sharing the same bed,' she replied, a disgusted look etching on her features.
At that point, the couple realised they weren't alone.
'Uhh...hi?' Kara said, looking over to the others. Ray moved from in front of her, to next to her, their hands never parting.
'Wanna explain?' Mariah said with a raised eyebrow.
'What is there to explain?' Ray asked.
'Yeah, we're together and that's it,' Kara stated.
'Yeah, Yeah, did you get the keys?' Chakita asked loosing interest.
'Yeah,' Kara said holding up the keys in front of her.
'Great, come on then!' Enrique exclaimed as he headed down the stairs and through the front door, balancing two large boxes in his arms.
***
'Uhh! About time!' Hilary sighed as she collapsed onto the sofa that Max and Enrique were carrying.
'Hey!' Max shouted as he dropped the sofa on Enrique's foot.
'Owwww!' Enrique cried out.
Ray laughed as he set down the last box. Kara walked in and looked around at all the mess.
'Home sweet home' she laughed as Chakita linked arms with her.
The apartment consisted of a large living room that was in the middle that all the rooms led off from. Chakita's room, the spare bedroom and the study were found to the left and Kara's room, the bathroom and kitchen were found on the right. The wall in front was made completely of glass and the setting sunlight seeped through.
Chakita ran into her bedroom and fell onto her soft king size bed. She sighed deeply.
'HEY GUYS!!' She shouted. 'We should go out and celebrate!!'
'I'm up for it!' Ray laughed; he stood up and walked over to Kara. 'You up for it?'
'Yeah!!' She laughed, grabbed Ray's hand and pulled him out the door.
***
At the club...
Chakita, Mariah and Hilary ran up to the bar to order the drinks whilst Max and Enrique found a table. Kara and Ray hit the dance floor.
Chakita and the girls came back with the drinks and after the song had finished Ray and Kara walked back to the table.
'Ok, so I guess Good Luck!' Max laughed as he picked up his drink and made a toast.
'What are you kids doing, you know drinking under age is against the law,' Tala sneered as he, Kai and a load of girls walked up to their tables.
'Look who's talking, aren't you the one who nearly killed us drink driving?' Kara smirked.
'You done what?' One of the blonde girls that was with them asked Tala.
'Oh, never mind!' He snapped at the girl.
'God, you two are like male sluts!! Different girls every night!' Kara snapped at them.
'Well your sister didn't seem to mind,' Kai said calmly.
'What do you mean by that?' Kara asked looking at Chakita's shocked face.
'What you mean she didn't tell you?!' Kai said in a mocking tone.
'She didn't tell us what?' Mariah asked confused.
'She slept with me that night when I had the party,' Kai sneered before leaving a shocked group of friends.
Kara stood up, grabbed Chakita by the arm and pulled her outside.
'Tell me that isn't true!' Kara screamed.
'It isn't true,'
'Don't lie to me!'
'Well I WAS DRUNK!!' Chakita shouted in her defence.
'I DON'T FUCKING BELIEVE THIS!!'
'Its not like I screwed him,' Chakita muttered at her raging sister.
'Go on then explain it to me!' Kara said now calming down.
'Well I was drunk and he asked me to dance, he said he liked me and then he kissed me,' Chakita explain 'and well I don't remember much after that but I woke up in his arms.'
'So how do you know you didn't screw him!?'
'I JUST KNOW OK!?' Chakita shouted before walking back into the bar grabbing Hilary and Mariah and driving back home.
Kara went back to the bar still fuming. She caught sight of Tala smirking.
That was it.
She jumped up from her seat, pushed through the dancing crowds and stopped right in front of Tala.
'What do you want brat?' He sneered.
Kara didn't wait any longer.
She clenched her fist and punched Tala straight in the eye.
Tala in fury charged at Kara, which made her fall to the ground, him on top of her. Kara kneed Tala right where it hurts and bit him on the arm.
Tala clenched his fist, he lifts he arm in the air and was about to give Kara a broken nose when someone caught his hand and pulled him off of Kara.
'What the fuck you doing man!?' Tala spat as he stared at Kara being restrained by Ray and Max.
'Saving your ass blud,' Kai said before pulling Tala out of the bar.
***
'We really have to do something about those bitches,' Tala snarled.
'I know. I'm working on Chakita but with Kara around to help her, we're not getting anywhere,' Kai replied.
'Look, we have a reputation to protect, and with those sluts around, that rep is going,'
A look of comprehension appeared on Kai's face.
'Break 'em,' Kai smirked.
'What?'
'They're different. They don't get affected by emotions that easily, like us. They're tough, physically and mentally. The only way to get them off our backs is to break their defences.'
'How?'
'Like I said, I'm working on Chakita, but Kara is different. She has a boyfriend to protect her. To break Chakita will only hurt Kara. To break Kara, you gotta steal someone she loves forever,'
Tala suddenly understood.
'Ray Kon,'