Rimnerel: Hello everyone! Um...
Tala (brow rose): Lost train of thought already, geez, the story hasn't begun yet and you don't know what to write.
Rimnerel (_): Shut up. My head hurts. Okay, what was I saying...oh yeah. Well, APFMH is now over, so I can focus my attention on this one! Yay!
Tyson: We would like to thank B. Tiamat Atardecer (who by the way is still drooling), jen wit 1 n, Silverm, FREAK014, Cat in the web, and Angie for all their reviews. (gets evil grin on his face) Hey FREAK, you want to actually know what Rim met with the whole thing about Chief and Kai...just a few words, Kenny, Kai, food, and bondage.
Rimnerel (glares): TYSON KINOMIYA!!!!!
Tyson: What?
Tala (glares at Rim): You are going to die.
Rimnerel (^_^;): Um...everyone enjoy the chapter.
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"Kenny, hey Kenny wake up."
The young man with the brunette hair felt someone shaking him. Kenny buried himself deeper under the covers to get away from not just the sunlight streaming into the room, but his annoying blue haired cousin who should know better than to be waking him up. Tyson had tried that one time before and Kenny had nearly nailed the male with a shoe to the forehead.
"KENNY, ARE YOU AWAKE!!"
Kenny was about ready to hurl things at the male as he stuck his aching head from under the covers to stare at the loud teen. Cracking an eye open, he found that Tyson had the hugest grin on his face there ever could be. Why was he so happy? What exactly was there to be happy about? Sure Tyson may have had a good night dancing with a pink ball of hair, but Kenny didn't find too much to be so happy about early in the morning. Maybe if he had a good time, wasn't almost raped, his head throbbing from that drunk guy trying to yank out a patch of his hair, and meeting up with two of the most arrogant pricks ever.
"What time is it, Tyson?" Kenny muttered half asleep.
"Seven," Tyson chimed.
"Seven...in the morning..."
"Yep!"
"And you're waking me up, seven in the morning?" Kenny asked, wanting to make sure he was going to be justified for bashing Tyson's head into the floor.
"That's right. It's time for you to get up!" Tyson stated.
"I'm only going to ask you this once Tyson. Why are you waking me up seven in the morning again?" Kenny closed his eye, waiting for his cousin to answer me. "And don't scream it, because I'm still awake and I will kill you."
"Because, I want you to come with me to hang out with some of the guys that live around here," Tyson said. Oblivious to the fact that some people didn't start moving til after eleven o'clock during the summertime.
"Okay, and you couldn't come back around, let's say, ten because?" Kenny answered.
"Because...well...um..." Tyson didn't have a good reason, he just thought it would be fun for his cousin to come hang out with him and some of the guys that lived in town. Introduce Kenny and hope that he made some friends. After all, with exception to Kain and Rei, Kenny was a loner of sorts. Tyson only wanted to look out for his cousin, even if it meant waking him up early to be dragged around town doing practically nothing. "It's a good idea."
Kenny cracked open his eye again, scowling at the sunlight that stung it. "Tyson, go away. You may not need sleep, but I do. I didn't get back in til close to two and then I didn't sleep fall asleep until three. You and Emily may be use to doing things like that, but I'm not."
"But Chief," Tyson started until Kenny gave him ond of those patent 'leave-me-alone-or-I-will-kill-you' stares. Tyson shut up and backed away from the bed. "Fine! I'm only giving you one more--" Kenny gave the male another stare, backing him up towards the door even more, when Tyson saw his cousin reaching for a shoe. "Okay! Two more hours, but after that, you're going to get up and come out with me!"
"Don't make me have to hit you with a shoe," Kenny mumbled as he turned over and buried himself back under the covers. A moment later, he heard the door close and the room fell silent. Kenny soon drifted back into his slumber, for another couple of hours. When he finally woke up, he found a knock on the door. Making his way from under the covers, he managed to get out a come in before his head fell back into the pillow. The door was heard opening. Kenny lifted his head back up, opening sleepy eyes to see the blurred image of a girl.
He was about to ask Emily what she wanted, when the girl squeaked and threw herself at him. "You look so cute in the mornings!" Kenny, found himself fully awake as he was struggling to remove his head from the crazy girl that was at the rave, out of her embrace.
"Jordan, where are you?" Emily walked into the room followed by the pink haired girl. Emily stopped once she saw Jordan cutting off her cousin's air supply. "Hey, Jordan, you might want to let his head go. He does need to breeze."
"Oh, sorry, Kenny." The girl let his head go, his face falling into the pillow. Lifting his head up again, he gave her a slightly annoyed look which she obviously didn't see. She smiled down at him with a cute (though probably disturbbingly) sweet smile.
"So this is your cousin, Em?" the pink ball of hair asked.
"Oh yeah. He was at the rave last night," Emily said. "You probably didn't notice with Tyson drooling all over your shoulder." The pink girl, who was in fact wearing a pair of pink coveralls and a short white half top, blushed a shade of pink, giving Emily a slight shut up stare. "What? I can't help it if everyone noticed."
"Tyson and I are just friends. There's nothing more," the girl said. She turned her golden eyes on Kenny with a friendly smile. "My name's Mariah Shoran, Em's best friend, next to Jordan. It's nice to meet you."
"Hi, I'm Kenny," the young man said, supressing a yawn. "Mind telling me what time it is?"
"Time for you to get up!" Jordan chimed in.
"Thanks, Jordan...but actual time would be nice," Kenny replied.
"Oh, it's about eleven now," Emily said. "I'm surprised Tyson didn't come back and try to wake you up two hours ago."
"He knew that if he did, I would have left him bleeding on the floor from cracking his head open," Kenny said. The remark got a giggle from Mariah and Jordan, Emily had a feeling that Kenny would do exactly that. "I guess I should get up. Not that spending the day in bed would be nice right about now..."
"By the way Kenny, what happened to you last night. Did you get lost on your way to the bathroom. I waited for you until four," Jordan pouted, as she sat on the edge of the bed looking at him. Her bottom lip jutted out.
"Actually, I did," Kenny said. Like he was going to tell this psycho he wanted to get away from her, then got lost, then almost got raped, then was saved by two guys who had almost not been willing to help him. "You know how the woods are."
"Yeah," she agreed. "That's okay, I forgive you, Kenny!" She hugged him again, cutting off circulation to his brain. If not for the fact that Emily said let go, she probably would have hung on until his head was dislocated from his body.
"Um, I guess we'll give you some time to wash up and get dressed," Emily said, pulling Jordan from the room.
"See you later, Kenny!" Jordan waved as Emily and Mariah dragged her out the room. He wondered if she was always like that, or whether it was just because of her creepy infatuation with him. Maybe it was both. A shudder rolled down his back and Kenny got out of bed. The first order of the day was to get cleaned up, the second order was get something to eat. Next, find something to do that meant staying away from Tyson, Jordan, and everyone else.
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Kenny looked out the window of the little room up in the attic his uncle had told him about. This was the perfect escape from everyone and anything. For a second his eyes flickered over the scenery, but then went back to his laptop. He was looking up some ways to improve the balance between attack rings and the defense rings on beyblades, while talking to Kain and Rei in his IM box. They were in a conference chat currently, Kenny giving Kain some information about improving his blade.
{Thanks a lot, Kenny. It's really going to help me when I finally take on Rei, one day.} Kain wrote.
{You wish Kain.} Rei wrote in. {You'll be lucky to last a minute against me!}
Currently around their neighborhood, Rei had to be one of the best bladers around. A lot of kids liked to challenge Rei not just for sport, but to find out if they were better than him. No one was able to ever do it. Kenny and Kain both thought that Rei was good enough to join a tournament, when one was held. Rei had an air about him when it came to the game. Kain always bragged that he could beat Rei if he wanted to, but those two had never settled things. Either Kain was doing something, or Rei wasn't around when Kain wanted a battle.
{By the way, how was your first night there?} Rei asked.
Kenny made a face at the screen, thinking about everything that happened. {You really want to know?}
{Was it that bad?} Rei wrote.
{I went to a rave with Emily and Tyson.} Kenny wrote.
{You? You went to a rave? Kenny Shinoda? You can't be serious that you went to a rave?} Kain typed back immediately. {Way to go, I knew you had it in you, buddy.}
{Believe me, it wasn't at all fun. This crazy chick whose one of my cousin's friends has this huge creepy infatuation with me. She told me that she thought we were soul mates.} Kenny wrote, and sent into. There was a laughing icon inserted in the place of Kain writing. {Thanks a lot, Kain. Some friend you are.}
{Pay Kain no mind, Kenny. You know how he is. Maybe I should remind him of a certain girl in seventh grade who followed him home from school every day for five months and waited for him at the end of his street so she could follow him to school.} Rei wrote. He got an immediate response out of Kain.
{Dude, don't you even go there. That damn girl was a stalker! No one would believe me. I swore she was watching my house at night while I slept. She was trying to find a way to get in. I just know it!}
{Don't think it's funny anymore, now do you?} Rei wrote, with an evil smirking icon. {So, Kenny, what happened between you and the girl.}
{Ditched her, got lost, almost raped by some drunk guy.} To that comment, both young men exclaimed at the same time. Kenny knew that they would react that way if they found out. {Don't worry. I was saved by an empty gun totting gun who was smoking in a tree nearby. He even lead me back into town.} Kenny kept out the part with the young man, Tala, saying some rather off the topic things, or how he had been with some guy up in the tree, or that he was the same guy who helped his family out with the flat tire. That would come later, when Kenny was ready to tell that much.
{Well, that was nice of him. I didn't think good old country people hospitality still existed.} Kain wrote. {Well of course, I haven't been back to my hometown in maybe five years or so. So you're chill, despite the whole drunk guy rape thing?}
{Pretty much.} Kenny wrote.
{You better be careful. Not everyone living in the country will be nice to you. There is still some danger, so be careful and don't get yourself raped, shot, drowned, or otherwise.} Rei wrote. A smile came to Kenny's face, as he thought of the perfect thing to say.
{I won't mother. I'll look both ways before I cross the street by myself.}
{You little smart ass, you know what I mean.} Rei sent back.
{I will. I promise. As long as I stay indoors, I'll be fine. Let me go. I want to get a bite to eat, then maybe start reading that book that you gave me to read. What was it called again?} Kenny wrote. A past time of Kenny's, when he wasn't online doing some kind of work, was to sit back and read a good book. He didn't do it that often, but books were still a favorite of his. He can still remember his father reading him Macbeth and Guilliver's Travels when he was three.
{You're going to start The Tale of Genji already. Well, it is a long book. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.} Rei wrote. (A/N: For anyone who likes Japanese literature, I strongly recommend that story, even though it is like 1195 or so pages, damn, that was a great story. Lady Murasaki had to be the greatest writer of her time at that point in history.)
{Talk with you guys later.} Signing out, Kenny closed his notebook and got up from the table by the window. Walking down the spiral stairway that led to the floor where Kenny was roomed at, he walked in the room to find Tyson in there looking around. For a minute he continued to watch the blue haired male. Maybe he should help the male find whatever it was he was looking for.
"Tyson?" Kenny finally said.
The young man turned around. "Chief! Where have you been for the past hour and some change. I was looking for you. I thought you would be in here, but you weren't," Tyson stated.
"I found me a little place to go," Kenny smiled.
"What little place?" Tyson said.
"If I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret. So what were you looking for me for?" Kenny remarked.
"Well, for one, Emily said that Jordan was looking for you." Tyson saw the grimance on his cousin's face. "You don't like Jordan? Emily's known her since they were about ten. Mariah introduced them."
"Of course I like Jordan," Kenny said sarcastically. "I love the fact she's a psycho who thinks that I'm her soul mate and tries to suffocate me to death with her hugs, or that she has the creepiest smile, even when she's trying to be normal. Yes Tyson, there's a lot of strange things that I find attractive about her."
"If I didn't know any better, you didn't like her," Tyson said. Kenny rolled his eyes to the ceiling. Let it be Tyson not to ever know what the word sarcasm meant without him coming across it while reading one of his comics.
"No, Tyson, I don't," Kenny remarked.
"I've never seen her act like that with any guy," Tyson grinned. "Way to go Chief."
"I doubt that any normal guy would be alive long enough to go through hell's doors," Kenny replied. Tyson gave him a funny look, but Kenny shook his head. Sarcasm was definitely wasted on this one. "Was there another reason that you were looking for me?"
"Oh yeah. I was going to the store for your mom. I thought you might want to get out the house and come with me. It isn't that fair away. Just like fifteen minutes. So what do you say?" Tyson said.
"Can we come too?" Kenny groaned as someone latched on to his arm. Looking over, he found Jordan holding his arm, smiling at Tyson.
"Go where, Jordan?" Emily said, coming into the room with her pink lackey Mariah behind her.
"I was going to the store for Aunt Atsuko. She and your mom are making apple and cherry pies. They need some more flour for the last two pies," Tyson said. "That midget Ian's been down there bugging them for a slice, but they told him I got first dibs, so if I don't come back with the flour, he's going to try to sneak in a slice before dinner."
"Oh, leave Ian alone. He's just a kid," Mariah chimed. Unbeknownst to her, that little kid had the biggest crush on her. Next to Tyson that is. Which was why Tyson tormented his cousin even more. Fear of some embarrassing story continued to threat the boy with promises of being tied to a tree in the middle of the night and left there.
"That little demon isn't as innocent as you think he is," Tyson remarked.
"Oh, Tyson. Don't be jealous of Ian. I mean, he's a kid. He probably admires you."
"I'm telling you, he's not that innocent," Tyson said.
"Hey, are we going or what?" Emily broke into the conversation.
"Oh yeah. Yeah. Come on Kenny, there's no way you're going to get out of this one," Tyson grinned, pointing to the temporary arm piece attached to the brunette. With a sigh, Kenny nodded. What he didn't know was that this little excursion was leading up to some interesting discoveries and probbings of a certain unseen oleander so far.
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Tyson: Nice chapter, right everyone?
Rei: I think so.
Kain (looking around): Where's the writer?
Tala (smirking): She had to leave for a while. She said for one of you to do the ending.
Kain: Um...okay. Rim hopes that everyone enjoyed the chapter and will be looking forward to the next chapter which gets started with the really interesting parts. The next chapter of the story comes out Wednesday.
Rei: Hopefully Tala hasn't killed her, and Tyson can keep his mouth shut next time. See everyone then.
Tala (brow rose): Lost train of thought already, geez, the story hasn't begun yet and you don't know what to write.
Rimnerel (_): Shut up. My head hurts. Okay, what was I saying...oh yeah. Well, APFMH is now over, so I can focus my attention on this one! Yay!
Tyson: We would like to thank B. Tiamat Atardecer (who by the way is still drooling), jen wit 1 n, Silverm, FREAK014, Cat in the web, and Angie for all their reviews. (gets evil grin on his face) Hey FREAK, you want to actually know what Rim met with the whole thing about Chief and Kai...just a few words, Kenny, Kai, food, and bondage.
Rimnerel (glares): TYSON KINOMIYA!!!!!
Tyson: What?
Tala (glares at Rim): You are going to die.
Rimnerel (^_^;): Um...everyone enjoy the chapter.
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"Kenny, hey Kenny wake up."
The young man with the brunette hair felt someone shaking him. Kenny buried himself deeper under the covers to get away from not just the sunlight streaming into the room, but his annoying blue haired cousin who should know better than to be waking him up. Tyson had tried that one time before and Kenny had nearly nailed the male with a shoe to the forehead.
"KENNY, ARE YOU AWAKE!!"
Kenny was about ready to hurl things at the male as he stuck his aching head from under the covers to stare at the loud teen. Cracking an eye open, he found that Tyson had the hugest grin on his face there ever could be. Why was he so happy? What exactly was there to be happy about? Sure Tyson may have had a good night dancing with a pink ball of hair, but Kenny didn't find too much to be so happy about early in the morning. Maybe if he had a good time, wasn't almost raped, his head throbbing from that drunk guy trying to yank out a patch of his hair, and meeting up with two of the most arrogant pricks ever.
"What time is it, Tyson?" Kenny muttered half asleep.
"Seven," Tyson chimed.
"Seven...in the morning..."
"Yep!"
"And you're waking me up, seven in the morning?" Kenny asked, wanting to make sure he was going to be justified for bashing Tyson's head into the floor.
"That's right. It's time for you to get up!" Tyson stated.
"I'm only going to ask you this once Tyson. Why are you waking me up seven in the morning again?" Kenny closed his eye, waiting for his cousin to answer me. "And don't scream it, because I'm still awake and I will kill you."
"Because, I want you to come with me to hang out with some of the guys that live around here," Tyson said. Oblivious to the fact that some people didn't start moving til after eleven o'clock during the summertime.
"Okay, and you couldn't come back around, let's say, ten because?" Kenny answered.
"Because...well...um..." Tyson didn't have a good reason, he just thought it would be fun for his cousin to come hang out with him and some of the guys that lived in town. Introduce Kenny and hope that he made some friends. After all, with exception to Kain and Rei, Kenny was a loner of sorts. Tyson only wanted to look out for his cousin, even if it meant waking him up early to be dragged around town doing practically nothing. "It's a good idea."
Kenny cracked open his eye again, scowling at the sunlight that stung it. "Tyson, go away. You may not need sleep, but I do. I didn't get back in til close to two and then I didn't sleep fall asleep until three. You and Emily may be use to doing things like that, but I'm not."
"But Chief," Tyson started until Kenny gave him ond of those patent 'leave-me-alone-or-I-will-kill-you' stares. Tyson shut up and backed away from the bed. "Fine! I'm only giving you one more--" Kenny gave the male another stare, backing him up towards the door even more, when Tyson saw his cousin reaching for a shoe. "Okay! Two more hours, but after that, you're going to get up and come out with me!"
"Don't make me have to hit you with a shoe," Kenny mumbled as he turned over and buried himself back under the covers. A moment later, he heard the door close and the room fell silent. Kenny soon drifted back into his slumber, for another couple of hours. When he finally woke up, he found a knock on the door. Making his way from under the covers, he managed to get out a come in before his head fell back into the pillow. The door was heard opening. Kenny lifted his head back up, opening sleepy eyes to see the blurred image of a girl.
He was about to ask Emily what she wanted, when the girl squeaked and threw herself at him. "You look so cute in the mornings!" Kenny, found himself fully awake as he was struggling to remove his head from the crazy girl that was at the rave, out of her embrace.
"Jordan, where are you?" Emily walked into the room followed by the pink haired girl. Emily stopped once she saw Jordan cutting off her cousin's air supply. "Hey, Jordan, you might want to let his head go. He does need to breeze."
"Oh, sorry, Kenny." The girl let his head go, his face falling into the pillow. Lifting his head up again, he gave her a slightly annoyed look which she obviously didn't see. She smiled down at him with a cute (though probably disturbbingly) sweet smile.
"So this is your cousin, Em?" the pink ball of hair asked.
"Oh yeah. He was at the rave last night," Emily said. "You probably didn't notice with Tyson drooling all over your shoulder." The pink girl, who was in fact wearing a pair of pink coveralls and a short white half top, blushed a shade of pink, giving Emily a slight shut up stare. "What? I can't help it if everyone noticed."
"Tyson and I are just friends. There's nothing more," the girl said. She turned her golden eyes on Kenny with a friendly smile. "My name's Mariah Shoran, Em's best friend, next to Jordan. It's nice to meet you."
"Hi, I'm Kenny," the young man said, supressing a yawn. "Mind telling me what time it is?"
"Time for you to get up!" Jordan chimed in.
"Thanks, Jordan...but actual time would be nice," Kenny replied.
"Oh, it's about eleven now," Emily said. "I'm surprised Tyson didn't come back and try to wake you up two hours ago."
"He knew that if he did, I would have left him bleeding on the floor from cracking his head open," Kenny said. The remark got a giggle from Mariah and Jordan, Emily had a feeling that Kenny would do exactly that. "I guess I should get up. Not that spending the day in bed would be nice right about now..."
"By the way Kenny, what happened to you last night. Did you get lost on your way to the bathroom. I waited for you until four," Jordan pouted, as she sat on the edge of the bed looking at him. Her bottom lip jutted out.
"Actually, I did," Kenny said. Like he was going to tell this psycho he wanted to get away from her, then got lost, then almost got raped, then was saved by two guys who had almost not been willing to help him. "You know how the woods are."
"Yeah," she agreed. "That's okay, I forgive you, Kenny!" She hugged him again, cutting off circulation to his brain. If not for the fact that Emily said let go, she probably would have hung on until his head was dislocated from his body.
"Um, I guess we'll give you some time to wash up and get dressed," Emily said, pulling Jordan from the room.
"See you later, Kenny!" Jordan waved as Emily and Mariah dragged her out the room. He wondered if she was always like that, or whether it was just because of her creepy infatuation with him. Maybe it was both. A shudder rolled down his back and Kenny got out of bed. The first order of the day was to get cleaned up, the second order was get something to eat. Next, find something to do that meant staying away from Tyson, Jordan, and everyone else.
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Kenny looked out the window of the little room up in the attic his uncle had told him about. This was the perfect escape from everyone and anything. For a second his eyes flickered over the scenery, but then went back to his laptop. He was looking up some ways to improve the balance between attack rings and the defense rings on beyblades, while talking to Kain and Rei in his IM box. They were in a conference chat currently, Kenny giving Kain some information about improving his blade.
{Thanks a lot, Kenny. It's really going to help me when I finally take on Rei, one day.} Kain wrote.
{You wish Kain.} Rei wrote in. {You'll be lucky to last a minute against me!}
Currently around their neighborhood, Rei had to be one of the best bladers around. A lot of kids liked to challenge Rei not just for sport, but to find out if they were better than him. No one was able to ever do it. Kenny and Kain both thought that Rei was good enough to join a tournament, when one was held. Rei had an air about him when it came to the game. Kain always bragged that he could beat Rei if he wanted to, but those two had never settled things. Either Kain was doing something, or Rei wasn't around when Kain wanted a battle.
{By the way, how was your first night there?} Rei asked.
Kenny made a face at the screen, thinking about everything that happened. {You really want to know?}
{Was it that bad?} Rei wrote.
{I went to a rave with Emily and Tyson.} Kenny wrote.
{You? You went to a rave? Kenny Shinoda? You can't be serious that you went to a rave?} Kain typed back immediately. {Way to go, I knew you had it in you, buddy.}
{Believe me, it wasn't at all fun. This crazy chick whose one of my cousin's friends has this huge creepy infatuation with me. She told me that she thought we were soul mates.} Kenny wrote, and sent into. There was a laughing icon inserted in the place of Kain writing. {Thanks a lot, Kain. Some friend you are.}
{Pay Kain no mind, Kenny. You know how he is. Maybe I should remind him of a certain girl in seventh grade who followed him home from school every day for five months and waited for him at the end of his street so she could follow him to school.} Rei wrote. He got an immediate response out of Kain.
{Dude, don't you even go there. That damn girl was a stalker! No one would believe me. I swore she was watching my house at night while I slept. She was trying to find a way to get in. I just know it!}
{Don't think it's funny anymore, now do you?} Rei wrote, with an evil smirking icon. {So, Kenny, what happened between you and the girl.}
{Ditched her, got lost, almost raped by some drunk guy.} To that comment, both young men exclaimed at the same time. Kenny knew that they would react that way if they found out. {Don't worry. I was saved by an empty gun totting gun who was smoking in a tree nearby. He even lead me back into town.} Kenny kept out the part with the young man, Tala, saying some rather off the topic things, or how he had been with some guy up in the tree, or that he was the same guy who helped his family out with the flat tire. That would come later, when Kenny was ready to tell that much.
{Well, that was nice of him. I didn't think good old country people hospitality still existed.} Kain wrote. {Well of course, I haven't been back to my hometown in maybe five years or so. So you're chill, despite the whole drunk guy rape thing?}
{Pretty much.} Kenny wrote.
{You better be careful. Not everyone living in the country will be nice to you. There is still some danger, so be careful and don't get yourself raped, shot, drowned, or otherwise.} Rei wrote. A smile came to Kenny's face, as he thought of the perfect thing to say.
{I won't mother. I'll look both ways before I cross the street by myself.}
{You little smart ass, you know what I mean.} Rei sent back.
{I will. I promise. As long as I stay indoors, I'll be fine. Let me go. I want to get a bite to eat, then maybe start reading that book that you gave me to read. What was it called again?} Kenny wrote. A past time of Kenny's, when he wasn't online doing some kind of work, was to sit back and read a good book. He didn't do it that often, but books were still a favorite of his. He can still remember his father reading him Macbeth and Guilliver's Travels when he was three.
{You're going to start The Tale of Genji already. Well, it is a long book. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.} Rei wrote. (A/N: For anyone who likes Japanese literature, I strongly recommend that story, even though it is like 1195 or so pages, damn, that was a great story. Lady Murasaki had to be the greatest writer of her time at that point in history.)
{Talk with you guys later.} Signing out, Kenny closed his notebook and got up from the table by the window. Walking down the spiral stairway that led to the floor where Kenny was roomed at, he walked in the room to find Tyson in there looking around. For a minute he continued to watch the blue haired male. Maybe he should help the male find whatever it was he was looking for.
"Tyson?" Kenny finally said.
The young man turned around. "Chief! Where have you been for the past hour and some change. I was looking for you. I thought you would be in here, but you weren't," Tyson stated.
"I found me a little place to go," Kenny smiled.
"What little place?" Tyson said.
"If I told you, then it wouldn't be a secret. So what were you looking for me for?" Kenny remarked.
"Well, for one, Emily said that Jordan was looking for you." Tyson saw the grimance on his cousin's face. "You don't like Jordan? Emily's known her since they were about ten. Mariah introduced them."
"Of course I like Jordan," Kenny said sarcastically. "I love the fact she's a psycho who thinks that I'm her soul mate and tries to suffocate me to death with her hugs, or that she has the creepiest smile, even when she's trying to be normal. Yes Tyson, there's a lot of strange things that I find attractive about her."
"If I didn't know any better, you didn't like her," Tyson said. Kenny rolled his eyes to the ceiling. Let it be Tyson not to ever know what the word sarcasm meant without him coming across it while reading one of his comics.
"No, Tyson, I don't," Kenny remarked.
"I've never seen her act like that with any guy," Tyson grinned. "Way to go Chief."
"I doubt that any normal guy would be alive long enough to go through hell's doors," Kenny replied. Tyson gave him a funny look, but Kenny shook his head. Sarcasm was definitely wasted on this one. "Was there another reason that you were looking for me?"
"Oh yeah. I was going to the store for your mom. I thought you might want to get out the house and come with me. It isn't that fair away. Just like fifteen minutes. So what do you say?" Tyson said.
"Can we come too?" Kenny groaned as someone latched on to his arm. Looking over, he found Jordan holding his arm, smiling at Tyson.
"Go where, Jordan?" Emily said, coming into the room with her pink lackey Mariah behind her.
"I was going to the store for Aunt Atsuko. She and your mom are making apple and cherry pies. They need some more flour for the last two pies," Tyson said. "That midget Ian's been down there bugging them for a slice, but they told him I got first dibs, so if I don't come back with the flour, he's going to try to sneak in a slice before dinner."
"Oh, leave Ian alone. He's just a kid," Mariah chimed. Unbeknownst to her, that little kid had the biggest crush on her. Next to Tyson that is. Which was why Tyson tormented his cousin even more. Fear of some embarrassing story continued to threat the boy with promises of being tied to a tree in the middle of the night and left there.
"That little demon isn't as innocent as you think he is," Tyson remarked.
"Oh, Tyson. Don't be jealous of Ian. I mean, he's a kid. He probably admires you."
"I'm telling you, he's not that innocent," Tyson said.
"Hey, are we going or what?" Emily broke into the conversation.
"Oh yeah. Yeah. Come on Kenny, there's no way you're going to get out of this one," Tyson grinned, pointing to the temporary arm piece attached to the brunette. With a sigh, Kenny nodded. What he didn't know was that this little excursion was leading up to some interesting discoveries and probbings of a certain unseen oleander so far.
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Tyson: Nice chapter, right everyone?
Rei: I think so.
Kain (looking around): Where's the writer?
Tala (smirking): She had to leave for a while. She said for one of you to do the ending.
Kain: Um...okay. Rim hopes that everyone enjoyed the chapter and will be looking forward to the next chapter which gets started with the really interesting parts. The next chapter of the story comes out Wednesday.
Rei: Hopefully Tala hasn't killed her, and Tyson can keep his mouth shut next time. See everyone then.