Chapter 4: Baby Blues
'Kara open up!' Ray shouted as he banged on the bathroom door.
Ray heard Kara vomit and carried on banging on the door.
'Shut up! You're giving me a headache!' Chakita yelled from her bedroom.
'Kara's gone and locked herself in the bathroom!' Ray replied, frowning at Chakita as she appeared from her room.
'Do you really think I care!?' Chakita replied heatedly. It had been like this for a month- Kara was angry with Chakita for kissing Kai and Chakita was now fed up, refusing to talk to Kara.
Ray rolled his eyes. How much longer were they going to keep this up?
The bathroom door unlocked and Kara stepped out. She had her navy blue robe wrapped tightly around her body. Her jet-black hair was messy; her eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and her skin was deathly pale.
'Kara? What's wrong? Are you ill?' Ray asked with concern.
She shrugged, yawning.
'You should go back to bed,' Ray wasn't about to give up.
'I'm fine! I probably just got a bug,' Kara grumbled, heading for the kitchen and making herself some toast.
'You kidding me!? You've been throwing up every morning for a week! Bloody annoying as well!' Chakita snorted, biting into her own toast.
'Since when did you ever give a damn!?' Kara spat at her sister, as Ray took a seat beside Kara.
'Shut up you two!' Ray groaned before Chakita had a chance to reply. She glared at Ray before returning back to her breakfast.
Chakita quickly finished her breakfast before getting ready to go to Mariah's house.
Kara got changed and ready to go food shopping with Ray. They were running low on milk, crisps, chocolate, drinks and veggies.
'Hey Mariah!' Chakita greeted her best friend.
'Hey,' Mariah smiled as she watched her friend approach her.
'What are you doing?' Chakita asked.
'Nothing much, just daydreaming,' Mariah replied with a smile. 'Never mind me, you don't look so good.'
'Yeah I know, Kara keeps me up most of the night with her throwing up.'
'Are you sure there is nothing wrong with her?'
'Yeah, she said it her self, she probably has a bug or something.'
Mariah frowned, but dropped the subject anyway. Chakita, however, didn't.
'You know, I bet she's faking it. She's probably just begging for attention,'
Mariah snorted in disbelief. Kara was last person to do such a thing.
'And its really annoying! I mean, sure, make yourself sick, but don't keep me up all the time!'
Mariah couldn't handle this whining any longer.
'What is with you!? Its always me me me! Why can't you ever shut up and listen to other people's problems!?' Mariah snapped.
Chakita looked rather taken aback.
'And Kara is the last person to beg for attention! She doesn't even realise she's one of the most popular kids in the school, as well as the area!' Mariah continued. Why was she even protecting Kara anyway?
'If you prefer Kara to me, then my don't you just say so!?' Chakita snapped at her best friend.
The pink haired girl sighed.
'Don't you care that the guy I like is in love with your sister?' Mariah said softly, causing Chakita to gasp.
'Mariah! Why didn't you say so!?'
'Cos I just wanted Ray to be happy. If he finds happiness with Kara, then yeah, I'm upset, but I'm also happy for Ray,'
'I'm really sorry Mariah. You never said,'
'Its all right. Just pay attention to others for once, okay?'
'Yeah, okay. C'mon lets go back to my place,' Chakita said, standing up and stretching her arms over her head.
'Okay, let me just get my jacket,'
'Hey Max, can you help me put all this stuff away?' Kara called from the kitchen. The boys had decided to keep Kara company, seeing as Chakita wasn't talking to her, and Chakita had Mariah and Hilary.
'Yeah, sure,' Max replied, heading over to the kitchen.
'Hey guys, what're all doing here?' came a voice by the door. Chakita, Mariah and Hilary walked through the door, Mariah and Hilary smiling at the boys.
'Ah, you know, making sure you and Kara hadn't ripped each other's heads off,' Enrique replied uncertainly.
Chakita's eyes narrowed. Danger sign.
'You mean, you heard Kara was sick and came to see how she was,'
'Uh...'
Chakita rolled her eyes.
'No, they're here because they're keeping me company, seeing as we're not exactly on talking terms right now,' Kara said from her position at the kitchen door, Max right behind her, 'I'm not doing this for attention, Kita. I hate being up half the night vomiting,'
Chakita sighed. 'I suppose. Its stupid to think you would do that for attention,'
Ray laughed. 'Kita, Kara is a girl who doesn't realise she's one of the most popular kid in the area,'
'I'm one of the most popular kids the area!?' Kara exclaimed in shock. Everyone laughed, and Kara grinned sheepishly, scratching the back of her head. 'I never knew that. Heh, who cares!'
Kara smiled, before collapsing on one of the sofas facing the glass window. 'I just wish I knew what was wrong with me,' she sighed, staring at the glaring sun. Ray sat down next to her, and put his arm round her shoulders.
'You'll be okay,' he said softly.
'I hope so. I haven't had a decent moment of sleep since last week! And with A levels on the way...okay, whatever. Who cares about A levels,' Kara got up, and walked over to Chakita. 'Truce?'
Chakita smiled; she was getting fed up of the two of them dodging around each other, or sending everyone running for the emergency exits.
'Yeah,' she said, flinging her arms around her twin sister's shoulders. Kara grinned and hugged her back.
Everyone sighed in relief. It had been one long month...
Chakita sat on the roof of the tall apartment, her mind deep in thought, she was afraid; truly afraid of what was happening to not only her but also her sister.
Chakita always seemed to act like the younger sister but no matter what she always took care of her Kara like an older one, but this time she had no clue what to do.
Not only that was clouding her mind,
'Kai...' she whispered, her thought turning back to the two-tone haired boy.
No matter how hard she tried to stop it her thoughts kept coming back to him, memories of everything they have done to each other, and then the party.
His kiss...
Chakita felt sickened by that thought,
'What am I thinking?!?' She asked herself.
Suddenly she felt dirty; really dirty like her bare skin couldn't hold her pain and disgust in herself, she suddenly stood up and walked to the edge of the roof.
She could see the many people going through their daily life, no pain, not a single serious worry crossing their minds.
Chakita felt angry, 'Why are they okay but me and Kara are going through hell?' She started to hate the people around her; Chakita placed one foot forward so it stood on air.
She sighed deeply.
'Chakita?' She heard Kara call from inside the flat.
'Too late Kara...'
'Guys, have you seen Chakita?' Hilary asked, a frown playing on her face. Max and Enrique shook their heads.
Ray walked over to them, the same frown etching on his forehead.
'Has anyone seen Kara?' he asked. The boys and Hilary shook their heads.
'Chakita's gone missing too,' Mariah panted. The early morning tennis practice tended to take a lot of her.
It was now 8.30 on the Friday morning. Kara and Chakita always came in early, Kara for football practice and Chakita for basketball practice. But this morning, they hadn't turned up, and the others were worried. The twins never missed practice.
There was a sudden squeal as metallic midnight blue and metallic midnight black motorbikes skidded into the car park of Axel High.
Chakita jumped off her bike first, frowning. She seemed to be keeping a close eye on her sister, as if afraid something would happen to her. Her blue eyes showed concern.
Kara slowly got off her own bike, her face grim. She definitely looked ill; deep purple bags circled her lifeless amber eyes, the golden flecks seemingly losing their sparkle. Her jet-black hair hung limply down her back, and her usually light brown skin was deathly pale.
'Kara? You don't look so good...' Ray murmured, pulling her into a hug.
Kara simply sighed, wrapping her arms loosely around her boyfriend's neck, burying her head into his chest.
'I don't feel so good...' she groaned.
'We missed practice because we woke up late, mostly cos Kara was throwing up half the night, and we had to stop on our way here cos she threw up again.' Chakita said.
'Aww...what happened Chang? Finally saw what you woke up with?' Kai sneered from behind the group. Kara felt Ray tense underneath her, and would've bet her life that Chakita was clenching and unclenching her fists.
Luckily, she didn't have to lose her life.
But she did do something about it.
Kara turned around, letting go of Ray. Kai and Tala were surprised to see that she wasn't angry. In fact, all they saw was a tired, wary teenager. The amber-eyed girl walked up to Kai slowly, staring at him with something he couldn't quite place.
'You know Kai,' she whispered, now standing right in front of him. Kai realised she had used his first name; something that did not happen very often. 'I pity you. You have no idea what it is like to have true friends, do you? You'll never have a proper girlfriend cos you'll just sleep around with other girls. It's in your blood, you just do it,' Kara turned away. 'I'm not even gonna go on about family...I know what its like to have parents who don't care about you,' and with that, she just walked away. And for once, she wasn't happy that she had got the last word in.
Kai and Tala just stared after her in disbelief.
'She pities me!? The bitch!' Kai hollered, snapping back to his senses.
Kara had to laugh.
Period 1...
'That was so cool, Kara!' Mariah laughed, some time later.
Kara smiled warily.
'Kara? I think you should see the doctor, y'know,' Chakita said frowning at her smaller sister. Kara had spent the last twenty minutes of the art lesson with her head on the table, sketching on a piece of paper. The drawing had nothing to do with the lesson.
'Huh?' Kara hadn't been listening.
'I said, I think you should go see a doctor,' Chakita repeated, scowling.
'No, there's no point, its probably just a very persistent bug,' Kara replied automatically. She continued sketching.
'Kara, what are you drawing?' Mariah asked, looking over her shoulder.
The drawing happened to be of all of them. Ray stood at the front, holding his arm around Kara. Chakita stood on Kara's other side, laughing with Mariah and Hilary. Max and Enrique stood behind them, arguing about something.
'Wow...its all of us! One big gang, eh?' Mariah said, smiling.
'Mariah, you're allowing Kara to get away from the subject of her being ill!' Chakita grumbled. But, by then, the teacher had come round to their table, and had begun telling off Kara for not doing the assigned work.
Period 4...
'She's been completely out of it all day!' Enrique sighed, sending a worried glance down the table. Kara was once again had spent most of the lesson with her head on the table. Only, she wasn't doing any work. She simply sat there, staring into space, her amber eyes unfocused.
'That's it, when we get home, I'm calling the doctor!' Chakita muttered, glaring at her sister.
Yet, however much Kara seemed out of it, all she had been doing was thinking.
What the hell was wrong with me?
Why am I vomiting all the time? Especially during the night and morning.
Why do I feel so tired today?
Why hadn't I blown a fuse when Hiwatari had gotten up to his own tricks?
What the hell was wrong with me!?
Realisation hit her like a brick wall.
'SHIT!' she yelped, sitting up straight. Everyone stared at her, but she didn't notice. Her mind was whirling.
This can't be happening! She thought.
The world was whirling around her, as she drew ragged breaths. The classroom disappeared into a cloud of thick black smoke until she was blind.
Chakita and Ray ran through the school halls, both were afraid and both were deadly worried. They crashed into the entrance door of the school, forcing it open.
Ray ran out just in time to see the revolving lights of the ambulance head of into the distance before disappearing all together. He faced Chakita and noticed something was wrong.
Chakita's face had gone a ghostly white and her eyes were glazed, almost as if there was no life left, and she fell crashing into the dirt beneath her.
'Chakita, we have no time for this!' Ray pleaded; with a worried look he made a decision.
With one look back at the defenceless teenage girl behind him, he got into his convertible and rode off at high speed after the ambulance.
The wind blew through Ray's jet black hair as his thoughts battled in his head, yet no matter what he came up with, it seemed illogical.
Ray pulled up in the hospital car park and rushed inside crashing into everything that got in his way. He stopped in front of the receptions desk and hurriedly asked about his girlfriend.
'Where...is Kara Chang?' He panted.
'Third floor, on the ward.' The receptionist replied.
Ray ran in the direction of the stairs, not bothering to wait f0r the lift. After hurtling himself up the stairs, three steps at a time, he managed to find Kara's room without much difficulty.
The doctor was there already. Ray pushed open the door, and gulped once he had seen Kara's motionless figure underneath the pure white sheets. He barely noticed the doctor acknowledge him.
'Hello...you are?'
'Ray Kon,' he replied, his cat-like golden eyes never leaving Kara. Her skin was paler than it had been that morning, if that was possible, and her elbow-length wavy black hair was splayed across the pillow.
'Family?' the doctor asked.
'No...friend. Kara's dad lives in Russia and her mum's at work. Her sister's probably on her way now.'
There was a faint groan from the bed, and Ray was at Kara's side instantly. Her amber eyes slowly flickered open, gazing blankly at Ray until her golden- flecked eyes came into focus.
'Ray...' she muttered, squeezing her eyes shut again, 'Too bright,' she groaned. The doctor dimmed the lights, and Kara opened her eyes again. With new found strength, she managed to sit up against the pillows.
'What happened?' the question was not only aimed at Ray and the doctor, but herself too.
'You fainted, Miss Chang. Mostly due to lack of sleep and food,' the doctor told her.
Kara scowled 'Not my fault if I'm throwing up half the night,' she muttered.
'Well, we believe we have found the reason for that,' the doctor began, and Kara was already paling, remembering what she had realised before she had fainted. Ray, however, had no idea what news was about befall them. The doctor sighed before saying the words that proved Kara correct:
'You're pregnant.'
The ground beneath Chakita felt like it would swallow her whole, at least that's what she wished would happen. All the things that Chakita had dreaded were coming true, Kara was ill, she was alone, and the thoughts of Kai would not get out of her head.
'Pull yourself together Kita,' She said to her self, 'what use are you to Kara if you're drowning in self-pity?'
'But you know what's wrong with her don't you? You know why she's been sick every night!' She shouted at herself.
'NO! NO!' At that Chakita seemed to gain new strength, pushing herself of the ground she ran, she ran as fast as she could to escape the thoughts that were haunting her.
Tears began to fall from her swollen eyes as her feet struggled onwards not caring where she went, until she fell into someone.
Her vision blurred through tears, Chakita didn't even bother to look up and see whom she had crashed into, all she knew is that more tears were spilling from her glazed eyes.
'Watch where you're going!' She heard a masculine voice exclaim. She recognised the voice immediately.
'Kai?' Kita whispered.
'Chakita! What's wrong with you?'
'What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG?!? I'll tell you what's wrong! It's all my fault, I knew what was going on but I didn't say anything! Now Kara is in hospital and she's pregnant!' Chakita regretted saying it as soon as it left her lips.
'She's pregnant?!?' Kai said obviously he was expecting that.
Chakita couldn't take it anymore, all her fears must have fallen on her at one time, she fell like a child into Kai arms, with not much effort Kai picked her up in both hands and carried her to his car, a Dodge Viper.
Kai couldn't believe the scene that had unfolded in front of him, this was what him and Tala wanted but somehow he didn't want it anymore. Kai had left his lesson to find out why Kara had been taken to hospital but now he knew he hoped for Chakita's sake that it wasn't true.
'Kara open up!' Ray shouted as he banged on the bathroom door.
Ray heard Kara vomit and carried on banging on the door.
'Shut up! You're giving me a headache!' Chakita yelled from her bedroom.
'Kara's gone and locked herself in the bathroom!' Ray replied, frowning at Chakita as she appeared from her room.
'Do you really think I care!?' Chakita replied heatedly. It had been like this for a month- Kara was angry with Chakita for kissing Kai and Chakita was now fed up, refusing to talk to Kara.
Ray rolled his eyes. How much longer were they going to keep this up?
The bathroom door unlocked and Kara stepped out. She had her navy blue robe wrapped tightly around her body. Her jet-black hair was messy; her eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep and her skin was deathly pale.
'Kara? What's wrong? Are you ill?' Ray asked with concern.
She shrugged, yawning.
'You should go back to bed,' Ray wasn't about to give up.
'I'm fine! I probably just got a bug,' Kara grumbled, heading for the kitchen and making herself some toast.
'You kidding me!? You've been throwing up every morning for a week! Bloody annoying as well!' Chakita snorted, biting into her own toast.
'Since when did you ever give a damn!?' Kara spat at her sister, as Ray took a seat beside Kara.
'Shut up you two!' Ray groaned before Chakita had a chance to reply. She glared at Ray before returning back to her breakfast.
Chakita quickly finished her breakfast before getting ready to go to Mariah's house.
Kara got changed and ready to go food shopping with Ray. They were running low on milk, crisps, chocolate, drinks and veggies.
'Hey Mariah!' Chakita greeted her best friend.
'Hey,' Mariah smiled as she watched her friend approach her.
'What are you doing?' Chakita asked.
'Nothing much, just daydreaming,' Mariah replied with a smile. 'Never mind me, you don't look so good.'
'Yeah I know, Kara keeps me up most of the night with her throwing up.'
'Are you sure there is nothing wrong with her?'
'Yeah, she said it her self, she probably has a bug or something.'
Mariah frowned, but dropped the subject anyway. Chakita, however, didn't.
'You know, I bet she's faking it. She's probably just begging for attention,'
Mariah snorted in disbelief. Kara was last person to do such a thing.
'And its really annoying! I mean, sure, make yourself sick, but don't keep me up all the time!'
Mariah couldn't handle this whining any longer.
'What is with you!? Its always me me me! Why can't you ever shut up and listen to other people's problems!?' Mariah snapped.
Chakita looked rather taken aback.
'And Kara is the last person to beg for attention! She doesn't even realise she's one of the most popular kids in the school, as well as the area!' Mariah continued. Why was she even protecting Kara anyway?
'If you prefer Kara to me, then my don't you just say so!?' Chakita snapped at her best friend.
The pink haired girl sighed.
'Don't you care that the guy I like is in love with your sister?' Mariah said softly, causing Chakita to gasp.
'Mariah! Why didn't you say so!?'
'Cos I just wanted Ray to be happy. If he finds happiness with Kara, then yeah, I'm upset, but I'm also happy for Ray,'
'I'm really sorry Mariah. You never said,'
'Its all right. Just pay attention to others for once, okay?'
'Yeah, okay. C'mon lets go back to my place,' Chakita said, standing up and stretching her arms over her head.
'Okay, let me just get my jacket,'
'Hey Max, can you help me put all this stuff away?' Kara called from the kitchen. The boys had decided to keep Kara company, seeing as Chakita wasn't talking to her, and Chakita had Mariah and Hilary.
'Yeah, sure,' Max replied, heading over to the kitchen.
'Hey guys, what're all doing here?' came a voice by the door. Chakita, Mariah and Hilary walked through the door, Mariah and Hilary smiling at the boys.
'Ah, you know, making sure you and Kara hadn't ripped each other's heads off,' Enrique replied uncertainly.
Chakita's eyes narrowed. Danger sign.
'You mean, you heard Kara was sick and came to see how she was,'
'Uh...'
Chakita rolled her eyes.
'No, they're here because they're keeping me company, seeing as we're not exactly on talking terms right now,' Kara said from her position at the kitchen door, Max right behind her, 'I'm not doing this for attention, Kita. I hate being up half the night vomiting,'
Chakita sighed. 'I suppose. Its stupid to think you would do that for attention,'
Ray laughed. 'Kita, Kara is a girl who doesn't realise she's one of the most popular kid in the area,'
'I'm one of the most popular kids the area!?' Kara exclaimed in shock. Everyone laughed, and Kara grinned sheepishly, scratching the back of her head. 'I never knew that. Heh, who cares!'
Kara smiled, before collapsing on one of the sofas facing the glass window. 'I just wish I knew what was wrong with me,' she sighed, staring at the glaring sun. Ray sat down next to her, and put his arm round her shoulders.
'You'll be okay,' he said softly.
'I hope so. I haven't had a decent moment of sleep since last week! And with A levels on the way...okay, whatever. Who cares about A levels,' Kara got up, and walked over to Chakita. 'Truce?'
Chakita smiled; she was getting fed up of the two of them dodging around each other, or sending everyone running for the emergency exits.
'Yeah,' she said, flinging her arms around her twin sister's shoulders. Kara grinned and hugged her back.
Everyone sighed in relief. It had been one long month...
Chakita sat on the roof of the tall apartment, her mind deep in thought, she was afraid; truly afraid of what was happening to not only her but also her sister.
Chakita always seemed to act like the younger sister but no matter what she always took care of her Kara like an older one, but this time she had no clue what to do.
Not only that was clouding her mind,
'Kai...' she whispered, her thought turning back to the two-tone haired boy.
No matter how hard she tried to stop it her thoughts kept coming back to him, memories of everything they have done to each other, and then the party.
His kiss...
Chakita felt sickened by that thought,
'What am I thinking?!?' She asked herself.
Suddenly she felt dirty; really dirty like her bare skin couldn't hold her pain and disgust in herself, she suddenly stood up and walked to the edge of the roof.
She could see the many people going through their daily life, no pain, not a single serious worry crossing their minds.
Chakita felt angry, 'Why are they okay but me and Kara are going through hell?' She started to hate the people around her; Chakita placed one foot forward so it stood on air.
She sighed deeply.
'Chakita?' She heard Kara call from inside the flat.
'Too late Kara...'
'Guys, have you seen Chakita?' Hilary asked, a frown playing on her face. Max and Enrique shook their heads.
Ray walked over to them, the same frown etching on his forehead.
'Has anyone seen Kara?' he asked. The boys and Hilary shook their heads.
'Chakita's gone missing too,' Mariah panted. The early morning tennis practice tended to take a lot of her.
It was now 8.30 on the Friday morning. Kara and Chakita always came in early, Kara for football practice and Chakita for basketball practice. But this morning, they hadn't turned up, and the others were worried. The twins never missed practice.
There was a sudden squeal as metallic midnight blue and metallic midnight black motorbikes skidded into the car park of Axel High.
Chakita jumped off her bike first, frowning. She seemed to be keeping a close eye on her sister, as if afraid something would happen to her. Her blue eyes showed concern.
Kara slowly got off her own bike, her face grim. She definitely looked ill; deep purple bags circled her lifeless amber eyes, the golden flecks seemingly losing their sparkle. Her jet-black hair hung limply down her back, and her usually light brown skin was deathly pale.
'Kara? You don't look so good...' Ray murmured, pulling her into a hug.
Kara simply sighed, wrapping her arms loosely around her boyfriend's neck, burying her head into his chest.
'I don't feel so good...' she groaned.
'We missed practice because we woke up late, mostly cos Kara was throwing up half the night, and we had to stop on our way here cos she threw up again.' Chakita said.
'Aww...what happened Chang? Finally saw what you woke up with?' Kai sneered from behind the group. Kara felt Ray tense underneath her, and would've bet her life that Chakita was clenching and unclenching her fists.
Luckily, she didn't have to lose her life.
But she did do something about it.
Kara turned around, letting go of Ray. Kai and Tala were surprised to see that she wasn't angry. In fact, all they saw was a tired, wary teenager. The amber-eyed girl walked up to Kai slowly, staring at him with something he couldn't quite place.
'You know Kai,' she whispered, now standing right in front of him. Kai realised she had used his first name; something that did not happen very often. 'I pity you. You have no idea what it is like to have true friends, do you? You'll never have a proper girlfriend cos you'll just sleep around with other girls. It's in your blood, you just do it,' Kara turned away. 'I'm not even gonna go on about family...I know what its like to have parents who don't care about you,' and with that, she just walked away. And for once, she wasn't happy that she had got the last word in.
Kai and Tala just stared after her in disbelief.
'She pities me!? The bitch!' Kai hollered, snapping back to his senses.
Kara had to laugh.
Period 1...
'That was so cool, Kara!' Mariah laughed, some time later.
Kara smiled warily.
'Kara? I think you should see the doctor, y'know,' Chakita said frowning at her smaller sister. Kara had spent the last twenty minutes of the art lesson with her head on the table, sketching on a piece of paper. The drawing had nothing to do with the lesson.
'Huh?' Kara hadn't been listening.
'I said, I think you should go see a doctor,' Chakita repeated, scowling.
'No, there's no point, its probably just a very persistent bug,' Kara replied automatically. She continued sketching.
'Kara, what are you drawing?' Mariah asked, looking over her shoulder.
The drawing happened to be of all of them. Ray stood at the front, holding his arm around Kara. Chakita stood on Kara's other side, laughing with Mariah and Hilary. Max and Enrique stood behind them, arguing about something.
'Wow...its all of us! One big gang, eh?' Mariah said, smiling.
'Mariah, you're allowing Kara to get away from the subject of her being ill!' Chakita grumbled. But, by then, the teacher had come round to their table, and had begun telling off Kara for not doing the assigned work.
Period 4...
'She's been completely out of it all day!' Enrique sighed, sending a worried glance down the table. Kara was once again had spent most of the lesson with her head on the table. Only, she wasn't doing any work. She simply sat there, staring into space, her amber eyes unfocused.
'That's it, when we get home, I'm calling the doctor!' Chakita muttered, glaring at her sister.
Yet, however much Kara seemed out of it, all she had been doing was thinking.
What the hell was wrong with me?
Why am I vomiting all the time? Especially during the night and morning.
Why do I feel so tired today?
Why hadn't I blown a fuse when Hiwatari had gotten up to his own tricks?
What the hell was wrong with me!?
Realisation hit her like a brick wall.
'SHIT!' she yelped, sitting up straight. Everyone stared at her, but she didn't notice. Her mind was whirling.
This can't be happening! She thought.
The world was whirling around her, as she drew ragged breaths. The classroom disappeared into a cloud of thick black smoke until she was blind.
Chakita and Ray ran through the school halls, both were afraid and both were deadly worried. They crashed into the entrance door of the school, forcing it open.
Ray ran out just in time to see the revolving lights of the ambulance head of into the distance before disappearing all together. He faced Chakita and noticed something was wrong.
Chakita's face had gone a ghostly white and her eyes were glazed, almost as if there was no life left, and she fell crashing into the dirt beneath her.
'Chakita, we have no time for this!' Ray pleaded; with a worried look he made a decision.
With one look back at the defenceless teenage girl behind him, he got into his convertible and rode off at high speed after the ambulance.
The wind blew through Ray's jet black hair as his thoughts battled in his head, yet no matter what he came up with, it seemed illogical.
Ray pulled up in the hospital car park and rushed inside crashing into everything that got in his way. He stopped in front of the receptions desk and hurriedly asked about his girlfriend.
'Where...is Kara Chang?' He panted.
'Third floor, on the ward.' The receptionist replied.
Ray ran in the direction of the stairs, not bothering to wait f0r the lift. After hurtling himself up the stairs, three steps at a time, he managed to find Kara's room without much difficulty.
The doctor was there already. Ray pushed open the door, and gulped once he had seen Kara's motionless figure underneath the pure white sheets. He barely noticed the doctor acknowledge him.
'Hello...you are?'
'Ray Kon,' he replied, his cat-like golden eyes never leaving Kara. Her skin was paler than it had been that morning, if that was possible, and her elbow-length wavy black hair was splayed across the pillow.
'Family?' the doctor asked.
'No...friend. Kara's dad lives in Russia and her mum's at work. Her sister's probably on her way now.'
There was a faint groan from the bed, and Ray was at Kara's side instantly. Her amber eyes slowly flickered open, gazing blankly at Ray until her golden- flecked eyes came into focus.
'Ray...' she muttered, squeezing her eyes shut again, 'Too bright,' she groaned. The doctor dimmed the lights, and Kara opened her eyes again. With new found strength, she managed to sit up against the pillows.
'What happened?' the question was not only aimed at Ray and the doctor, but herself too.
'You fainted, Miss Chang. Mostly due to lack of sleep and food,' the doctor told her.
Kara scowled 'Not my fault if I'm throwing up half the night,' she muttered.
'Well, we believe we have found the reason for that,' the doctor began, and Kara was already paling, remembering what she had realised before she had fainted. Ray, however, had no idea what news was about befall them. The doctor sighed before saying the words that proved Kara correct:
'You're pregnant.'
The ground beneath Chakita felt like it would swallow her whole, at least that's what she wished would happen. All the things that Chakita had dreaded were coming true, Kara was ill, she was alone, and the thoughts of Kai would not get out of her head.
'Pull yourself together Kita,' She said to her self, 'what use are you to Kara if you're drowning in self-pity?'
'But you know what's wrong with her don't you? You know why she's been sick every night!' She shouted at herself.
'NO! NO!' At that Chakita seemed to gain new strength, pushing herself of the ground she ran, she ran as fast as she could to escape the thoughts that were haunting her.
Tears began to fall from her swollen eyes as her feet struggled onwards not caring where she went, until she fell into someone.
Her vision blurred through tears, Chakita didn't even bother to look up and see whom she had crashed into, all she knew is that more tears were spilling from her glazed eyes.
'Watch where you're going!' She heard a masculine voice exclaim. She recognised the voice immediately.
'Kai?' Kita whispered.
'Chakita! What's wrong with you?'
'What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG?!? I'll tell you what's wrong! It's all my fault, I knew what was going on but I didn't say anything! Now Kara is in hospital and she's pregnant!' Chakita regretted saying it as soon as it left her lips.
'She's pregnant?!?' Kai said obviously he was expecting that.
Chakita couldn't take it anymore, all her fears must have fallen on her at one time, she fell like a child into Kai arms, with not much effort Kai picked her up in both hands and carried her to his car, a Dodge Viper.
Kai couldn't believe the scene that had unfolded in front of him, this was what him and Tala wanted but somehow he didn't want it anymore. Kai had left his lesson to find out why Kara had been taken to hospital but now he knew he hoped for Chakita's sake that it wasn't true.