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Rei: You sound a bit melancholy today, what's up?
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Tyson: And the story will be out before ten tonight?
Rimnerel: I promise to have it out by then. Okay, so...hey, I know who I can get to do the reviews for me. Emily, do the reviews for me.
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So, here he was, back in Massachusetts with his parents. His grandmother came down with summer flu symptoms this year. The one-year that he was not attending computer camp and staying at her house until his parents came back from the country from visiting relatives. It was funny, since he began attending computer camp each summer since he was nine, his grandmother never got sick. She was in peak health, now this year she decided to get sick.
The year that he was dragged to visit relatives he hadn't seen since he was maybe ten, with exception to Tyson and Ian, who he use to wish not to see so often. Well, at least now he still didn't feel like seeing Ian. Since he and Tyson began hanging out this summer, the two had become close friends, and Kenny now valued the teen as more than just a cousin. It was still irony within this whole situation.
This year when he was dragged to visit his aunt on his mother's side, he expected to spend the summer inside the house working on his computer and stuff. Yet, because of Emily and Tyson, that same night he arrived at the place he would be staying until early August, the two managed to drag Kenny out of the house to a rave party. That part set about one of the strangest events ever.
That of course was crossing paths with Tala Ivanor and his cousin Kai Hiwatari. Both were supposed to be the black sheep of the town, with a reputation about as long as the year's Grammy nominations. Everyone told him the two were bad luck that Kenny shouldn't hang around them, but...Kenny saw something that no one else could. There was a glow surrounding the teens' pasts that Kenny couldn't ignore. The more he hung with them, was more time he realized that what other's thought were real was only masks.
Eventually, those masks came down almost completely. Which led to Kenny falling in love with Tala. Yes, Kenny fell in love with someone. A person that became very important in his life. But like it was said before, irony fell upon the whole situation, and he was now back home. Though Kenny knew how he felt about the red haired teen, he didn't know how much Tala felt for him. The older teen never fully let down his mask, allowing Kenny to know who he really was.
'And now it's over. I probably won't see him again.' Kenny thought with a sigh as the elevator dinged. The doors slid open, allowing Kenny and his parents to get off the elevator, walking down the hall to room 378, his grandmother's hospital room. Maybe he could send the mail a letter when he got the chance. Tyson probably would deliver it for Kenny even though he still couldn't stand Tala despite he was now going out with Tala's cousin.
Then maybe Tala would write back to him, and they could correspond for a while. Maybe when Kai went back home or wherever he stayed most of the time, he and Tala could come up to Massachusetts to visit Kenny and Tyson. Or this really was the end of things, at least for Kenny and Tala, who knew about Tyson and Kai, since the two have known each other since elementary.
'Well, I guess I should move on with my life, knowing Tala as I do, he will probably do the same. We both knew it would have to end sooner or later, just not sooner than expected. It wasn't just a summer fling...at least, I hope it wasn't.'
"Kenny, don't worry, I'm sure Grandma is all right," his mother said, looking down noticing the slight reflection in his eyes. Mistaking it as concern for his grandmother. Not that he wasn't concerned, but being like any teen his age, his mind wandered over the lines of first love and break up despite there was other things more important.
"Yeah," Kenny said, as they turned the corner to room 378. His father opened the door for Kenny and his mother then walked in himself. The trio saw Kenny's grandfather sitting by the bed talking to the woman who seemed in good enough spirits.
"Mother," Kenny's father said, going over to the bed.
"How are you feeling mother?" Kenny's mother said with concern. "Are you feeling any better? We came as soon as we heard that you were sick."
"Oh, I'm fine now!" the woman chimed. "You didn't have to come all the way home to make sure that I was fine. It was just a small summer bug, nothing major like the doctors fretted over. But I am glad that you are here. My summer vegetables are ready to be picked. Would you be dears and make sure it gets done while I'm here."
"Of course mother," Kenny's mother exclaimed.
Grandmother Hina looked over at her grandson with a smile. "Kenny, you're looking well, the summer looks like it treated you well." She was referring to the light tan that graced his skin from his time outdoors with Tyson and the others.
"Yes, I guess it was. I had a good time," Kenny said with a smile.
"I'm glad you did. Did you make some nice friends?"
"Actually, I did. I met a lot of people. I hope you get better soon."
"Oh, you know your grandmother, nothing can keep her down. I'll be out of this bed in a few days," the elderly woman said with a giant smile.
"Do you need me to bring you any thing at all?" Kenny's mother asked.
"Just get those vegetables picked for me. I think the summer peaches are ready also, so check on them for me. If they are ready to pick, go ahead and do so for me." Kenny's grandmother said.
"Why don't you come help me?" Kenny's mother said.
"Okay, I guess I could," Kenny said.
"Mother, we'll be back soon to visit you again, all right. Make sure you get plenty of rest and don't try to do a lot, all right? Oh, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids also. You don't want to get dehydrated. And eat so—"
"I know, I know," Kenny's grandmother said, trying to shoo away her daughter-in-law. "I'm not that forgetful. Now be off with you. And make sure that you do as you're told." Shaking her head, she watched as her family left the room. Outside the room, Kenny tuned out his mother's voice going over things with his father. Today he had been expecting to find out where Kain and Rei were and tell them about the summer, but he supposed he would be picking vegetables for a while.
He hoped that Tyson told Tala, and that Tala understood. The last thing he needed was Tyson calling him and saying he forgot and that Tala was a bit upset with him for not saying a word. Well...who knows, the red head still may be mad with Kenny for leaving so suddenly. He had no choice in the manner. If anything, if he had one more night or just a few hours with the male, that would have suffice.
'Fate is a cruel bitch I suppose.' Kenny thought to himself amusingly. Not only had she allowed him to meet such a great person, she found it amusing to break them up whenever she felt like it. Hell, he wouldn't be surprised if next she made him fall in love with somebody else, then made Tala find a way up here only to discover this little trickle of information. He could just see the headlines on that scandal. Well, he supposed it could be worst by having his parents find out he lost his virginity to a guy.
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Tala sat by the window of his temporary room. His ribs were almost completely healed now. So there was no point in sitting around in bed like he was doing a while ago. Leaning his head against the windowsill, he looked at the sky. Why couldn't he get his mind off of Kenny? No matter what he told himself, his thoughts always went back to Kenny. No matter if he convinced himself that he was going to move on and forget about the brunette that said brunette continued to haunt his mind.
Everything about him seeped into his soul, mind, and heart. It got to the point that last night he did something he never figured himself to do. Just because his thoughts were so intensely on Kenny, that in the moonlight he pleased himself. Crying out the male's name when he hit his climax. Whispering the brunette's name falling asleep, a pang in his chest he could not get rid of.
"You know, maybe you should just call him," came a voice behind Tala. Turning around, he found Kai watching him from the doorway he was leaning into. Auburn eyes met azure ones, before the azure pair shifted away. "Are you persisting on being that stubborn?"
"It's over between us. We both knew it couldn't last longer," Tala shrugged. "There shouldn't be a reason we should try to carry on a fling."
"A fling, is that what it was too you? Just a fling?" Kai said, pushing himself away from the door, walking into the room. "It was nothing more to you? It wasn't love for you to have him accept you just the way you are? Which is why you wouldn't tell him? Because you were afraid he would turn away from you?"
"He doesn't need to carry my burden on his shoulders," Tala countered. "He'll find someone else, someone that might be better than me. Then he'll forget all about me and we can go our separate ways."
"You idiot! How can you give up so easily when you haven't tried yet? How do you know he couldn't carry the weight? You never gave him a chance to help you. You don't give anyone a chance to help you, not even me," Kai stated. "I know how much pain you suffer from, I won't deny that I don't know what to do, but I know that I can be here for you if you open up."
"Lesson you learned from Tyson?" Tala frowned.
"What if it is?" Kai said.
"Then I don't want lessons from that idiot," Tala stated.
"That idiot happens to be my boyfriend," Kai countered. "And you may think it's a stupid lesson, but I think that it's allowed me to rest the weight on my shoulders some. When we leave here, I want to live somewhere I can be close to Tyson until he graduates. Then I want him to live with me."
"I am not sharing a house with that idiot," Tala glowered.
"Well, then maybe I will move out and me and Tyson can find a place of our own. I love him, with my entire heart and soul. I'm not going to throw that way because you want to be stubborn and bottle everything up for the rest of your life," Kai argued. "Tala, you know that I love you."
"You don't act like it!" Tala said haughtily. "Ever since you and Tyson got together, you hardly spend any time with me anymore. We use to be on a level, now I don't know where we stand. You could care less about me now." Tala felt Kai wrap his arms around him, placing his head against the red head's neck.
"You're my best friend, my brother, my first love, my number one confidante. I know you just about as well as you know me. When we were younger and uncle use to beat you, or when you were molested, I was always there to let you cry on my shoulder. Remember how I use to stick by you no matter what? I promised that I would never leave you if it were possible. I still feel that way," Kai murmured hugging the teen.
Tala turned his head slightly, catching the auburn gaze he knew better than this entire world they lived in. It was true, that Kai had yet to leave. That under all circumstances he was by Tala's side, yet...he felt like Tyson was taking away the one person that was his. "Things aren't going to be like when we were ten are they?"
"We have to grow up some time," Kai smiled.
"So why does it have to be now? I missed the days we spend just you and I riding places. Smoking cigarettes, sneaking out whiskey, and playing a good game of Poker," Tala admitted.
"We can still have fun like that," Kai grinned. "Even though our fun can include more people to corrupt into our ways. Isn't that what we always strived for?"
"With you, it was always fucking people," Tala said, his usual smile returning. "Someone once said you would be the death of a nation."
"Funny, I think I heard that about you?" Kai countered.
"I think it was the same person, if I'm not mistaken. And that person was Tyson if I remember correctly. Now look at the turn of events." There was a pause in the conversation before a foxy grin rose to Kai's lips. "But you have no reason to be jealous of Tyson. You'll always be my first wife no matter what, and he'll be the second. Does that make you feel better?"
"Sure," Tala said sarcastically. "That's what I've always wanted to hear."
"I know it was," Kai kissed his cousin behind the ear with a playful nip, only to have Tala try to swat him away. "I didn't know you were sensitive behind your ears. I'll have to make a note to tell Kenny that one day."
"Shut up," Tala scowled lightly as Kai moved away from the red head.
"You know, you should really give him a call. The next time I wake up to hear you masturbating to thoughts of him, I'm not going to be so passive and cover my ears. I'm coming in your room to suffocate you," Kai remarked. "If you want, when we move, he can move in along with Tyson so you don't have to listen to us, you can have him to do."
"Oh, well at least you didn't say you would help me out with that problem," Tala said.
"If you weren't my cousin, then we would see," Kai joked.
"That didn't stop you one time before from trying to get some from me," Tala said, remembering a time when they were sixteen and Kai slipped into his bed one night. Tala waking up to Kai's hand in his boxers trying to get Tala aroused, while Kai's own arousal rubbing against Tala's thigh in fast, short movements until Kai moaned something out and went to sleep.
The red head watched a flush come to his cousin's cheeks. "I was drunk that night! I didn't know what I was doing. When I woke up in your bed...you know I had no clue what I did until you reminded me with the stains in your sheets."
"Do you know that's exactly how rumors about me are started? I swore the next time you drank Vodka and Tonic straight I was going to snap your balls off with my bare hands, remember that?"
"I told you that I wasn't going to do it again. And if I do ever do that again, you can. Man, are you really still carrying that grudge against me? It was the alcohol, I swear to you," Kai stated.
"What was the alcohol?" Tyson came into the room, staring that the two.
"We were just reminiscing about Kai getting drunk and creaming all over my leg and sheets after climbing into my bed trying to fuck me," Tala said with a short smile to the corners of his mouth. Tyson's eyes widened with shock, horror, and disturbance as he stared at Kai.
"Don't tell him that! I was drunk, Tyson," Kai said immediately.
"Then why would you say I was the first wife and Tyson would only be second?" Tala was amused about putting his cousin in this sort of spot. He deserved it for deciding to pick someone like Tyson in the first place.
"You evil!" Kai said with a slight evil glare in his cousin's direction.
"I think I lost my will power to do anything today. I think I'm going home to bathe, I'm feeling a little bit dirty now," Tyson said, turning around and leaving out the same door he walked into.
"Looks like he's going for today," Tala smirked.
"You are low. You know you could have told him I was drunk! Go call Kenny and worry him, instead of sabotaging my perfectly happy romance. You keep getting jealous like that, I'm going to have to divorce you. Now I'm going to clear up a large misunderstanding before he starts calling me a pervert again."
Tala watched his cousin leave the room, chasing after Tyson. With a short sigh, he looked back over in the direction of the dresser he shoved Kenny's number in. Maybe...he could call the male. Maybe...
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Kenny headed downtown to the pizza pallor, one of his friends' favorite hanging places besides the beystadiums in the park and the arcades near their school. No more than a few minutes ago, Kenny went by Rei's house, his mother answering the door telling Kenny that Kain and Rei headed for the pizza pallor no more than twenty minutes ago. He supposed the two would be surprised to see him so soon.
The night he got back in town he hadn't felt like calling the two, and the day after he spent with his mother picking vegetables and peaches. Washing them, putting them into storage, making some pickled vegetables for later on. That left him with no time to call either Tyson or Rei and Kain. Managing to get his mother to release him for the day, he decided to spend it with his two best friends.
There was just so much he wanted to tell them. Not just about the summer in great detail, but about Tala and Kai. About the things that went on and him losing his virginity finally. That would probably be the greatest expression in the world. He doubt that either numbskulls decided to check his online journal to see what he posted. They only did when he told them to. He received emails from the other four people that were allowed to view what he wrote, about his little adventures.
His friend in Finland shouting at him for losing it at such a young age, and ranting about how he could be so foolish. His friend in Japan...well half cousin in Japan telling him that he was impressed with Kenny. Then his friend in Normandy that had mixed feelings about what she thought about it. Then his last friend, a young girl by the name of Joni exclaiming that she wanted to kill the male that took her slave away from her. But of course she was an S & M queen in the first place. Each one he met...through Rei's IM messages, except for Masanori, his half cousin in Japan.
Rounding the corner, Kenny pushed open the door to the pizza pallor. The cool air from the central air-conditioning system wrapped around Kenny as he stepped into the pallor. Many of the teens that frequented the place were missing from the scene. More than likely, still on vacation with their parents or friends. The few kids that were eating or playing video games came from the local middle school.
Looking around, he immediately spotted the black and blue hair of his friends in their usual spot at the back of the pallor. As quietly and unnoticeable as he could, he approached. Well...they wouldn't have noticed him anyway exchanging spit as they were doing and all. Sitting down across from them quietly, he grabbed a slice of their still hot pizza, watching for a long second before clearing his throat and starting to eat the pepperoni, sausage, pineapple, banana pepper, bacon, and onion slice in his hand.
The two jumped away from each other, blushing before their eyes widened to see who it was. "Hope you don't mind I eat it before it goes cold, do you?" Kenny said between bites.
"Kenny, what are you doing here?" Kain said.
"Eating," Kenny remarked.
"Smart ass, I meant, what are you doing back in Mass. so soon?" Kain rolled his eyes as he moved away from Rei just a little.
"Gram Hina got sick, so my parents had us pack up and come back to make sure she was okay," Kenny said, finishing the slice, and going after another one. "I leave and you guys forget to add olives."
"Is your grandmother okay?" Rei asked, concern in his golden eyes.
"She's fine. She'll be out of the hospital in two days."
"That's good to know," Rei sighed with relief.
"You know, Kenny, just because you're our friend," Kain started. "That doesn't mean that you can just eat our pizza."
"Well you obviously weren't going to eat it anytime soon, now were you?" Kenny grinned. He really did miss these two while he was away, despite having Tyson, Zeo, Johnny, and Max to make up for the little bit of homesickness he was plagued with. "I hope you don't plan to do this all the time, or I will eat the whole pizza by myself."
"You know, you keep that up and I think we're going to have to ditch you," Kain teased.
"Oh just try it. And I promise to have other people hunt you down and interrupt your time. Oh like let's say Miriam and another person I'm sure you don't want me to mention," Kenny grinned. He watched Kain glower at him for a long minute.
"That's why we hardly missed you this summer, you little demon," Kain stated, snagging a slice of pizza from the tray and taking a huge bite out of it.
"Don't listen to him, he missed you more than I think I did," Rei smiled. "So, you seem like you had a good time. You weren't on as much as I thought you would be."
"Neither were you, for obvious reasons," Kenny indicated to the blue haired teen next to him. Rei blushed lightly, laughing a little.
"Yes, I guess we both had a good summer then," Rei said. "So, what did you do sense the last time I talked to you?"
"Not much...if you call losing your virginity not a really big deal," Kenny shrugged, thinking about that day with Tala back at Doctor Tate's private office. Kain, who had been ready to take another bite of his pizza immediately dropped onto the table, staring at Kenny with huge eyes. Rei was almost pretty much the same.
"No you didn't. You better be fucking lying to us," Kain said. "You know I was just joking when I told you to go out and lose it this summer you know. You better be lying to me."
"What if I said I'm not," Kenny smiled slyly.
"I'm going to fucking kill you! You're supposed to be the one that's straightforward and reserved! How, when, who, and why?" Kain gaped.
"Remember that guy that I was telling Rei about that I met?"
"You mean that guy named Tala?" Rei answered.
"Yes, Tala."
"You lost your virginity to someone named Tala...when and where so I can know how long I should kick his ass for taking away your innocence," Kain demanded.
"You know, I gave it away freely, so it wasn't like rape. We were at one of mine friend's there, mother's private office. She's a doctor and he was there getting a little medical help. It was probably back at the end of June. He wasn't rough with me, or anything." Kenny pulled out a picture he decided he wanted to carry around for a while. It was of Tala sitting back with Kai, both smoking a cigarette and playing cards.
"And which one is the bastard?" Kain said.
"Tala is the red head," Kenny simpered.
"Damn, not bad looking, though not as sexy as Rei, though I can understand now why you would lose your virginity to someone like that in a doctor's office no less. Who's the guy playing cards with him?"
"That's Kai Hiwatari. Tala's cousin...and Tyson's boyfriend."
"The fuck!" Kain swore. "Tyson's boyfriend! When did Tyson start liking guys?"
"Well...you'll probably have to ask Tyson, if he has a minute from detangling himself from out of Kai's embrace. You know Tyson isn't like you think either. He lost his virginity the same day that I lost mine," Kenny smirked.
"You freaks, I don't think I'm ever going to look at either one of you the same way again," Kain said. "You leave for a summer and you come back grown as hell. What are we going to do with him Rei?"
"I have no idea," Rei shook his head. "I suppose we'll have to hear how exactly this came about." Leaning back, he grabbed a slice from off the tray, but not before cleaning up the mess of pizza Kain made in dropping his half eaten slice on the table. "So, start from the beginning young man and tell us everything that happened up to now."
"Fine, since you already have food, I think I can oblige," Kenny grinned, grabbing another slice once he was finished with his second one. Thinking back over the summer, he thought it was appropriate to start from he and Tala's first meeting when Kenny didn't realize that the male would play a significant role in his life so far. Yet he wondered, would his story end here? Tala having the potent to play that role, or would Tala come through and play out his role?
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Rimnerel: There we go. The chapters are not as long as they usually are, I know, that's because I'm running low on material to use. And the material I have is trying to be stretched to work into maybe two or three more chapters. If you want this story long, then give me some ideas, people!
Mariah: It's not nice to yell at the reviewers.
Emily: She's right.
Rimnerel: Then how about I yell at you two if you don't leave me the hell alone.
Kai: Rim is currently going through hunger withdrawal everyone so before she crashes we're going to let her go get something to eat. The next chapter comes out next week.
Rei: You sound a bit melancholy today, what's up?
Rimnerel: Actually, I'm sort of happy. I'm having a nice day. I finally cleaned my room and it looks so much better.
Tyson: And the story will be out before ten tonight?
Rimnerel: I promise to have it out by then. Okay, so...hey, I know who I can get to do the reviews for me. Emily, do the reviews for me.
Emily: Er...okay. Rim would like to thank SelenaWheeler, FREAK014, Midnight Insanity, Silverm, The-Dark-Fire-Elf, Cat in the web, russle, and as always B. Tiamat Atardecer. We hope everyone enjoys this chapter as much as the last one.
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So, here he was, back in Massachusetts with his parents. His grandmother came down with summer flu symptoms this year. The one-year that he was not attending computer camp and staying at her house until his parents came back from the country from visiting relatives. It was funny, since he began attending computer camp each summer since he was nine, his grandmother never got sick. She was in peak health, now this year she decided to get sick.
The year that he was dragged to visit relatives he hadn't seen since he was maybe ten, with exception to Tyson and Ian, who he use to wish not to see so often. Well, at least now he still didn't feel like seeing Ian. Since he and Tyson began hanging out this summer, the two had become close friends, and Kenny now valued the teen as more than just a cousin. It was still irony within this whole situation.
This year when he was dragged to visit his aunt on his mother's side, he expected to spend the summer inside the house working on his computer and stuff. Yet, because of Emily and Tyson, that same night he arrived at the place he would be staying until early August, the two managed to drag Kenny out of the house to a rave party. That part set about one of the strangest events ever.
That of course was crossing paths with Tala Ivanor and his cousin Kai Hiwatari. Both were supposed to be the black sheep of the town, with a reputation about as long as the year's Grammy nominations. Everyone told him the two were bad luck that Kenny shouldn't hang around them, but...Kenny saw something that no one else could. There was a glow surrounding the teens' pasts that Kenny couldn't ignore. The more he hung with them, was more time he realized that what other's thought were real was only masks.
Eventually, those masks came down almost completely. Which led to Kenny falling in love with Tala. Yes, Kenny fell in love with someone. A person that became very important in his life. But like it was said before, irony fell upon the whole situation, and he was now back home. Though Kenny knew how he felt about the red haired teen, he didn't know how much Tala felt for him. The older teen never fully let down his mask, allowing Kenny to know who he really was.
'And now it's over. I probably won't see him again.' Kenny thought with a sigh as the elevator dinged. The doors slid open, allowing Kenny and his parents to get off the elevator, walking down the hall to room 378, his grandmother's hospital room. Maybe he could send the mail a letter when he got the chance. Tyson probably would deliver it for Kenny even though he still couldn't stand Tala despite he was now going out with Tala's cousin.
Then maybe Tala would write back to him, and they could correspond for a while. Maybe when Kai went back home or wherever he stayed most of the time, he and Tala could come up to Massachusetts to visit Kenny and Tyson. Or this really was the end of things, at least for Kenny and Tala, who knew about Tyson and Kai, since the two have known each other since elementary.
'Well, I guess I should move on with my life, knowing Tala as I do, he will probably do the same. We both knew it would have to end sooner or later, just not sooner than expected. It wasn't just a summer fling...at least, I hope it wasn't.'
"Kenny, don't worry, I'm sure Grandma is all right," his mother said, looking down noticing the slight reflection in his eyes. Mistaking it as concern for his grandmother. Not that he wasn't concerned, but being like any teen his age, his mind wandered over the lines of first love and break up despite there was other things more important.
"Yeah," Kenny said, as they turned the corner to room 378. His father opened the door for Kenny and his mother then walked in himself. The trio saw Kenny's grandfather sitting by the bed talking to the woman who seemed in good enough spirits.
"Mother," Kenny's father said, going over to the bed.
"How are you feeling mother?" Kenny's mother said with concern. "Are you feeling any better? We came as soon as we heard that you were sick."
"Oh, I'm fine now!" the woman chimed. "You didn't have to come all the way home to make sure that I was fine. It was just a small summer bug, nothing major like the doctors fretted over. But I am glad that you are here. My summer vegetables are ready to be picked. Would you be dears and make sure it gets done while I'm here."
"Of course mother," Kenny's mother exclaimed.
Grandmother Hina looked over at her grandson with a smile. "Kenny, you're looking well, the summer looks like it treated you well." She was referring to the light tan that graced his skin from his time outdoors with Tyson and the others.
"Yes, I guess it was. I had a good time," Kenny said with a smile.
"I'm glad you did. Did you make some nice friends?"
"Actually, I did. I met a lot of people. I hope you get better soon."
"Oh, you know your grandmother, nothing can keep her down. I'll be out of this bed in a few days," the elderly woman said with a giant smile.
"Do you need me to bring you any thing at all?" Kenny's mother asked.
"Just get those vegetables picked for me. I think the summer peaches are ready also, so check on them for me. If they are ready to pick, go ahead and do so for me." Kenny's grandmother said.
"Why don't you come help me?" Kenny's mother said.
"Okay, I guess I could," Kenny said.
"Mother, we'll be back soon to visit you again, all right. Make sure you get plenty of rest and don't try to do a lot, all right? Oh, and make sure you drink plenty of fluids also. You don't want to get dehydrated. And eat so—"
"I know, I know," Kenny's grandmother said, trying to shoo away her daughter-in-law. "I'm not that forgetful. Now be off with you. And make sure that you do as you're told." Shaking her head, she watched as her family left the room. Outside the room, Kenny tuned out his mother's voice going over things with his father. Today he had been expecting to find out where Kain and Rei were and tell them about the summer, but he supposed he would be picking vegetables for a while.
He hoped that Tyson told Tala, and that Tala understood. The last thing he needed was Tyson calling him and saying he forgot and that Tala was a bit upset with him for not saying a word. Well...who knows, the red head still may be mad with Kenny for leaving so suddenly. He had no choice in the manner. If anything, if he had one more night or just a few hours with the male, that would have suffice.
'Fate is a cruel bitch I suppose.' Kenny thought to himself amusingly. Not only had she allowed him to meet such a great person, she found it amusing to break them up whenever she felt like it. Hell, he wouldn't be surprised if next she made him fall in love with somebody else, then made Tala find a way up here only to discover this little trickle of information. He could just see the headlines on that scandal. Well, he supposed it could be worst by having his parents find out he lost his virginity to a guy.
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Tala sat by the window of his temporary room. His ribs were almost completely healed now. So there was no point in sitting around in bed like he was doing a while ago. Leaning his head against the windowsill, he looked at the sky. Why couldn't he get his mind off of Kenny? No matter what he told himself, his thoughts always went back to Kenny. No matter if he convinced himself that he was going to move on and forget about the brunette that said brunette continued to haunt his mind.
Everything about him seeped into his soul, mind, and heart. It got to the point that last night he did something he never figured himself to do. Just because his thoughts were so intensely on Kenny, that in the moonlight he pleased himself. Crying out the male's name when he hit his climax. Whispering the brunette's name falling asleep, a pang in his chest he could not get rid of.
"You know, maybe you should just call him," came a voice behind Tala. Turning around, he found Kai watching him from the doorway he was leaning into. Auburn eyes met azure ones, before the azure pair shifted away. "Are you persisting on being that stubborn?"
"It's over between us. We both knew it couldn't last longer," Tala shrugged. "There shouldn't be a reason we should try to carry on a fling."
"A fling, is that what it was too you? Just a fling?" Kai said, pushing himself away from the door, walking into the room. "It was nothing more to you? It wasn't love for you to have him accept you just the way you are? Which is why you wouldn't tell him? Because you were afraid he would turn away from you?"
"He doesn't need to carry my burden on his shoulders," Tala countered. "He'll find someone else, someone that might be better than me. Then he'll forget all about me and we can go our separate ways."
"You idiot! How can you give up so easily when you haven't tried yet? How do you know he couldn't carry the weight? You never gave him a chance to help you. You don't give anyone a chance to help you, not even me," Kai stated. "I know how much pain you suffer from, I won't deny that I don't know what to do, but I know that I can be here for you if you open up."
"Lesson you learned from Tyson?" Tala frowned.
"What if it is?" Kai said.
"Then I don't want lessons from that idiot," Tala stated.
"That idiot happens to be my boyfriend," Kai countered. "And you may think it's a stupid lesson, but I think that it's allowed me to rest the weight on my shoulders some. When we leave here, I want to live somewhere I can be close to Tyson until he graduates. Then I want him to live with me."
"I am not sharing a house with that idiot," Tala glowered.
"Well, then maybe I will move out and me and Tyson can find a place of our own. I love him, with my entire heart and soul. I'm not going to throw that way because you want to be stubborn and bottle everything up for the rest of your life," Kai argued. "Tala, you know that I love you."
"You don't act like it!" Tala said haughtily. "Ever since you and Tyson got together, you hardly spend any time with me anymore. We use to be on a level, now I don't know where we stand. You could care less about me now." Tala felt Kai wrap his arms around him, placing his head against the red head's neck.
"You're my best friend, my brother, my first love, my number one confidante. I know you just about as well as you know me. When we were younger and uncle use to beat you, or when you were molested, I was always there to let you cry on my shoulder. Remember how I use to stick by you no matter what? I promised that I would never leave you if it were possible. I still feel that way," Kai murmured hugging the teen.
Tala turned his head slightly, catching the auburn gaze he knew better than this entire world they lived in. It was true, that Kai had yet to leave. That under all circumstances he was by Tala's side, yet...he felt like Tyson was taking away the one person that was his. "Things aren't going to be like when we were ten are they?"
"We have to grow up some time," Kai smiled.
"So why does it have to be now? I missed the days we spend just you and I riding places. Smoking cigarettes, sneaking out whiskey, and playing a good game of Poker," Tala admitted.
"We can still have fun like that," Kai grinned. "Even though our fun can include more people to corrupt into our ways. Isn't that what we always strived for?"
"With you, it was always fucking people," Tala said, his usual smile returning. "Someone once said you would be the death of a nation."
"Funny, I think I heard that about you?" Kai countered.
"I think it was the same person, if I'm not mistaken. And that person was Tyson if I remember correctly. Now look at the turn of events." There was a pause in the conversation before a foxy grin rose to Kai's lips. "But you have no reason to be jealous of Tyson. You'll always be my first wife no matter what, and he'll be the second. Does that make you feel better?"
"Sure," Tala said sarcastically. "That's what I've always wanted to hear."
"I know it was," Kai kissed his cousin behind the ear with a playful nip, only to have Tala try to swat him away. "I didn't know you were sensitive behind your ears. I'll have to make a note to tell Kenny that one day."
"Shut up," Tala scowled lightly as Kai moved away from the red head.
"You know, you should really give him a call. The next time I wake up to hear you masturbating to thoughts of him, I'm not going to be so passive and cover my ears. I'm coming in your room to suffocate you," Kai remarked. "If you want, when we move, he can move in along with Tyson so you don't have to listen to us, you can have him to do."
"Oh, well at least you didn't say you would help me out with that problem," Tala said.
"If you weren't my cousin, then we would see," Kai joked.
"That didn't stop you one time before from trying to get some from me," Tala said, remembering a time when they were sixteen and Kai slipped into his bed one night. Tala waking up to Kai's hand in his boxers trying to get Tala aroused, while Kai's own arousal rubbing against Tala's thigh in fast, short movements until Kai moaned something out and went to sleep.
The red head watched a flush come to his cousin's cheeks. "I was drunk that night! I didn't know what I was doing. When I woke up in your bed...you know I had no clue what I did until you reminded me with the stains in your sheets."
"Do you know that's exactly how rumors about me are started? I swore the next time you drank Vodka and Tonic straight I was going to snap your balls off with my bare hands, remember that?"
"I told you that I wasn't going to do it again. And if I do ever do that again, you can. Man, are you really still carrying that grudge against me? It was the alcohol, I swear to you," Kai stated.
"What was the alcohol?" Tyson came into the room, staring that the two.
"We were just reminiscing about Kai getting drunk and creaming all over my leg and sheets after climbing into my bed trying to fuck me," Tala said with a short smile to the corners of his mouth. Tyson's eyes widened with shock, horror, and disturbance as he stared at Kai.
"Don't tell him that! I was drunk, Tyson," Kai said immediately.
"Then why would you say I was the first wife and Tyson would only be second?" Tala was amused about putting his cousin in this sort of spot. He deserved it for deciding to pick someone like Tyson in the first place.
"You evil!" Kai said with a slight evil glare in his cousin's direction.
"I think I lost my will power to do anything today. I think I'm going home to bathe, I'm feeling a little bit dirty now," Tyson said, turning around and leaving out the same door he walked into.
"Looks like he's going for today," Tala smirked.
"You are low. You know you could have told him I was drunk! Go call Kenny and worry him, instead of sabotaging my perfectly happy romance. You keep getting jealous like that, I'm going to have to divorce you. Now I'm going to clear up a large misunderstanding before he starts calling me a pervert again."
Tala watched his cousin leave the room, chasing after Tyson. With a short sigh, he looked back over in the direction of the dresser he shoved Kenny's number in. Maybe...he could call the male. Maybe...
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Kenny headed downtown to the pizza pallor, one of his friends' favorite hanging places besides the beystadiums in the park and the arcades near their school. No more than a few minutes ago, Kenny went by Rei's house, his mother answering the door telling Kenny that Kain and Rei headed for the pizza pallor no more than twenty minutes ago. He supposed the two would be surprised to see him so soon.
The night he got back in town he hadn't felt like calling the two, and the day after he spent with his mother picking vegetables and peaches. Washing them, putting them into storage, making some pickled vegetables for later on. That left him with no time to call either Tyson or Rei and Kain. Managing to get his mother to release him for the day, he decided to spend it with his two best friends.
There was just so much he wanted to tell them. Not just about the summer in great detail, but about Tala and Kai. About the things that went on and him losing his virginity finally. That would probably be the greatest expression in the world. He doubt that either numbskulls decided to check his online journal to see what he posted. They only did when he told them to. He received emails from the other four people that were allowed to view what he wrote, about his little adventures.
His friend in Finland shouting at him for losing it at such a young age, and ranting about how he could be so foolish. His friend in Japan...well half cousin in Japan telling him that he was impressed with Kenny. Then his friend in Normandy that had mixed feelings about what she thought about it. Then his last friend, a young girl by the name of Joni exclaiming that she wanted to kill the male that took her slave away from her. But of course she was an S & M queen in the first place. Each one he met...through Rei's IM messages, except for Masanori, his half cousin in Japan.
Rounding the corner, Kenny pushed open the door to the pizza pallor. The cool air from the central air-conditioning system wrapped around Kenny as he stepped into the pallor. Many of the teens that frequented the place were missing from the scene. More than likely, still on vacation with their parents or friends. The few kids that were eating or playing video games came from the local middle school.
Looking around, he immediately spotted the black and blue hair of his friends in their usual spot at the back of the pallor. As quietly and unnoticeable as he could, he approached. Well...they wouldn't have noticed him anyway exchanging spit as they were doing and all. Sitting down across from them quietly, he grabbed a slice of their still hot pizza, watching for a long second before clearing his throat and starting to eat the pepperoni, sausage, pineapple, banana pepper, bacon, and onion slice in his hand.
The two jumped away from each other, blushing before their eyes widened to see who it was. "Hope you don't mind I eat it before it goes cold, do you?" Kenny said between bites.
"Kenny, what are you doing here?" Kain said.
"Eating," Kenny remarked.
"Smart ass, I meant, what are you doing back in Mass. so soon?" Kain rolled his eyes as he moved away from Rei just a little.
"Gram Hina got sick, so my parents had us pack up and come back to make sure she was okay," Kenny said, finishing the slice, and going after another one. "I leave and you guys forget to add olives."
"Is your grandmother okay?" Rei asked, concern in his golden eyes.
"She's fine. She'll be out of the hospital in two days."
"That's good to know," Rei sighed with relief.
"You know, Kenny, just because you're our friend," Kain started. "That doesn't mean that you can just eat our pizza."
"Well you obviously weren't going to eat it anytime soon, now were you?" Kenny grinned. He really did miss these two while he was away, despite having Tyson, Zeo, Johnny, and Max to make up for the little bit of homesickness he was plagued with. "I hope you don't plan to do this all the time, or I will eat the whole pizza by myself."
"You know, you keep that up and I think we're going to have to ditch you," Kain teased.
"Oh just try it. And I promise to have other people hunt you down and interrupt your time. Oh like let's say Miriam and another person I'm sure you don't want me to mention," Kenny grinned. He watched Kain glower at him for a long minute.
"That's why we hardly missed you this summer, you little demon," Kain stated, snagging a slice of pizza from the tray and taking a huge bite out of it.
"Don't listen to him, he missed you more than I think I did," Rei smiled. "So, you seem like you had a good time. You weren't on as much as I thought you would be."
"Neither were you, for obvious reasons," Kenny indicated to the blue haired teen next to him. Rei blushed lightly, laughing a little.
"Yes, I guess we both had a good summer then," Rei said. "So, what did you do sense the last time I talked to you?"
"Not much...if you call losing your virginity not a really big deal," Kenny shrugged, thinking about that day with Tala back at Doctor Tate's private office. Kain, who had been ready to take another bite of his pizza immediately dropped onto the table, staring at Kenny with huge eyes. Rei was almost pretty much the same.
"No you didn't. You better be fucking lying to us," Kain said. "You know I was just joking when I told you to go out and lose it this summer you know. You better be lying to me."
"What if I said I'm not," Kenny smiled slyly.
"I'm going to fucking kill you! You're supposed to be the one that's straightforward and reserved! How, when, who, and why?" Kain gaped.
"Remember that guy that I was telling Rei about that I met?"
"You mean that guy named Tala?" Rei answered.
"Yes, Tala."
"You lost your virginity to someone named Tala...when and where so I can know how long I should kick his ass for taking away your innocence," Kain demanded.
"You know, I gave it away freely, so it wasn't like rape. We were at one of mine friend's there, mother's private office. She's a doctor and he was there getting a little medical help. It was probably back at the end of June. He wasn't rough with me, or anything." Kenny pulled out a picture he decided he wanted to carry around for a while. It was of Tala sitting back with Kai, both smoking a cigarette and playing cards.
"And which one is the bastard?" Kain said.
"Tala is the red head," Kenny simpered.
"Damn, not bad looking, though not as sexy as Rei, though I can understand now why you would lose your virginity to someone like that in a doctor's office no less. Who's the guy playing cards with him?"
"That's Kai Hiwatari. Tala's cousin...and Tyson's boyfriend."
"The fuck!" Kain swore. "Tyson's boyfriend! When did Tyson start liking guys?"
"Well...you'll probably have to ask Tyson, if he has a minute from detangling himself from out of Kai's embrace. You know Tyson isn't like you think either. He lost his virginity the same day that I lost mine," Kenny smirked.
"You freaks, I don't think I'm ever going to look at either one of you the same way again," Kain said. "You leave for a summer and you come back grown as hell. What are we going to do with him Rei?"
"I have no idea," Rei shook his head. "I suppose we'll have to hear how exactly this came about." Leaning back, he grabbed a slice from off the tray, but not before cleaning up the mess of pizza Kain made in dropping his half eaten slice on the table. "So, start from the beginning young man and tell us everything that happened up to now."
"Fine, since you already have food, I think I can oblige," Kenny grinned, grabbing another slice once he was finished with his second one. Thinking back over the summer, he thought it was appropriate to start from he and Tala's first meeting when Kenny didn't realize that the male would play a significant role in his life so far. Yet he wondered, would his story end here? Tala having the potent to play that role, or would Tala come through and play out his role?
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Rimnerel: There we go. The chapters are not as long as they usually are, I know, that's because I'm running low on material to use. And the material I have is trying to be stretched to work into maybe two or three more chapters. If you want this story long, then give me some ideas, people!
Mariah: It's not nice to yell at the reviewers.
Emily: She's right.
Rimnerel: Then how about I yell at you two if you don't leave me the hell alone.
Kai: Rim is currently going through hunger withdrawal everyone so before she crashes we're going to let her go get something to eat. The next chapter comes out next week.