a/n: Okay... here's the next chapter. The first bit of it might be a little confusing 'cause it's my first attempt at having a song in it, but it shouldn't be too bad. Don't forget to review!
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~ I turned around,
~and the water,
~was closing,
~all around,
~ like a glove... ~
Kai woke up to the sound of her grandmother's voice. She had sung that song to Kai ever since she was little.
~ Like the love,
~ that had finally, finally found me,
~and I knew... ~
"In the crystalline knowledge of you," Kai sung under her breath.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain.
~Drove me like a madness... ~
"To the sea..." Kai finished. She could still hear it even though she was awake. Getting up, she walked into the living room.
~ And I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you... ~
"To the sea... to the sea..." Kai murmured.
She opened the front door to find herself staring into darkness. Despite that, she stepped outside and closed the door behind her. She sat down on the porch and listened to the song that was playing in her mind.
~ Do you always,
~ trust that first initial feeling?
~ Special knowledge,
~ holds true... there's believing.
~~~~
~ I turned around,
~ and the water,
~ was closing,
~ all around,
~ like glove, like the love,
~ that had finally, finally found me and I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain,
~ drove me like a madness,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea, yeah.
~~~~
~ How the face of change turning the pages.
~ I have changed oh but you, you remain ageless.
~ I turned around,
~ and the water, ~ was closing,
~ all around,
~ like a glove,
~ like the love that had finally, finally found me, and I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain.
~ Drove me like a madness,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea, yeah,
~ to the sea, yeah,
~~~~
~ yeah,
~ yeah,
~ I turned around and the water was closing around me.
~ I turned around and the water was closing around me. ~ mmmhmmm,
~ sea,
~ sea,
~ I turn around and the water was closing around me,
~ uh, huh,
~ uh, huh,
~ around me,
~ around me,
~ around me,
~ I turn around and the water was closing around me. ~
Kai realized she had been singing as well and looked up to make sure no one was there. Naturally, there wasn't. She lifted her arm to look at her watch, then lowered it with an eye roll. She couldn't see anything out here. Even after her eyes had adjusted to the light all she saw was darkness.
Kai was amazed to find that her head still felt like there was a nail through it. She went back inside to get some Advil.
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Yami leaned around the tree when he heard the door close for the second time. He wasn't sure what that had been about. He didn't come out from behind the tree earlier because he knew it would embarrass her. But why did she come out here to begin with? He was hard pressed to believe she had come outside just to sing. There was a sinking feeling in his stomach that Kai was hiding something.
Though Yami's mind slowly drifted off that. He could still hear Kai's singing and he closed his eyes and replayed the song. Her voice was soothing and he felt very calmed by it. Of course, he could never tell her. That would mean telling her he had been out here when she was.
He had no idea how long he had been out here. Had it been long enough for the other guys to have fallen asleep? Should he take a chance? The last thing he wanted was for Joey to still be awake. That wouldn't be good.
He stood up and walked to the door. He turned the knob and entered. The door creaked as he shut it and he froze. Was Kai in her room yet? Did she hear that? There was no sound of movement from either his room or hers so he relaxed a little. He headed for his room and walked into darkness. He breathed in relief as he crawled into bed.
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Kai listened carefully in the night. She thought she had heard the creak of the front door. She lay in bed, listening for what seemed like hours. Finally, when she didn't hear anything else and her grandmother's voice had faded away, she fell asleep.
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"Hey! Tea! Wake up! I did it, I did it!"
Tea opened her eyes to Kai shaking her awake excitedly. "What?"
"I did it!"
"You did what?" Tea sat up and looked at her friend in confusion.
"I didn't burn the French toast! It's perfect! I did it!" Kai cried. "Hurry up, before it gets cold!" With that she ran out of the room to get the boys.
Tea rubbed her eyes and got out of bed. Now what had Kai been saying? It was the middle of summer; how could it get cold?
"Get up, get up, get up!" Kai exclaimed, shaking Yami awake. "Do you want your breakfast cold? Get up!"
"What is it? Is something the matter?" Yami asked. He sat up and watched her shake Tristan.
"What are you doing?" Tristan asked, rubbing his eyes.
"Come on!" Kai said, jostling Bakura, who sat up looking incredibly confused.
Yami had to suppress a grin when she shook Joey. He had been so shocked to see her that he nearly fell out of bed. Tea had picked that time to come to the doorway and she laughed.
"Were you hoping it was Mai?" she asked.
"No, why would you say that?" he asked quickly, sitting up. Yami turned his back to his friend so Joey wouldn't see the pained expression on his face as he tried not to laugh.
"Breakfast is ready!" Kai exclaimed, taking no notice of Joey's funny outburst or Tea's joke. She left the room and the rest of the boys got up.
Yami was the first out the door and Kai was already putting pieces of French toast on their plates with a huge grin.
"Kai, what -?" Tea started, sitting down between Bakura and Tristan.
"Try it," Kai said simply.
"Huh?" Joey asked, still half asleep.
"Come on, try it!" she insisted.
It looked okay, so Yami took a bite. He became very aware of Kai watching him with a grin.
"This is... very good!" he said. He hadn't meant to sound so surprised, but Kai didn't seem to hear.
"I know!" she exclaimed. "It's my grandmother's own recipe. I've never tried it before, can you believe it?"
"No, I can't," Joey said, trying his. "This is really good!"
Tea kicked him under the table. - That's right, stupid. Tell her she can't cook. -
But Kai took no notice of Joey's comment. She sat down and started eating as well. Yami couldn't help feeling proud of her. After all those mistakes, she must be feeling really great about this. And she had reason to be.
They ate in silence and as soon as they were done, Kai whisked their plates away and put them in the sink. She soaped up the sponge and started washing the dishes. - They have to get done sooner or later. -
Yami picked up a towel and began drying the plates she put in the rack. They caught each other's eye and grinned at the memory of their water fight. Kai went back over to the table to get Tristan's glass and Yami realized he was still grinning. His mind came to a sudden halt.
No, he couldn't... He didn't... Yami jumped a little when Kai came back to the sink.
"You okay?" she asked, looking at him. Yami realized he must look a little disconcerted.
"I'm... fine," he said as the dish slid from his hands. Both he and Kai reached for it and she caught it.
"I'm so glad you're fine," she laughed. Yami went a little red and went back to drying. He could hear Joey and Tea laughing in the background and he felt himself go a brighter shade of scarlet.
That was absolutely ridiculous. Completely absurd. There was positively no way. It was just his imagination running wild. Nothing. Why would there be anything else? Absolutely absurd.
The phone rang and Kai nearly tripped over herself in her hurry to answer it. wiping her soapy hands on her jeans, she picked up the receiver.
"Yeah?" she said, holding the phone between her shoulder and her ear.
"I've got the list of movies for next week," Carlos' voice came.
"Great! What are they?" Kai asked, pulling out the drawer of the end table to look for a pencil. The bottom of it fell out and papers were strewn everywhere. Kai groaned and ruffled through them until she found a pen. "Okay, I'm ready." She wrote the list on her hand as Carlos read them off to her. "Think about which one you want to go see and get back to me, okay?"
"Are you all right? You sound a bit preoccupied," Carlos said.
"Yeah, the bottom of my drawer decided to leave. I've got to clean it up," Kai said.
"Oh," he laughed, relaxing. "Okay. Call you later."
Kai hung up and scooped up the majority papers and tapped the on the table to get them going in the same direction. She reached down to get the rest but Yami had already picked them up. There had been something on them that caught his eye.
But before he had time to look at what it was, Kai took them. "Thanks," she said, putting them with the others and taking the whole pile into her room.
"What was on them?" he asked when she came back.
"Oh, nothing important," she said, waving it away. As Kai bent to reassemble the drawer, Yami tried to remember the glimpse he had gotten of what was on the paper.
Whatever it was, it had been very detailed. It had taken up the entire piece of paper and it had reminded him of something. Something from his past. Yami wanted to know what it was. He glanced at the doorway then went back to watching Kai as she put the drawer back into the end table.
"There. It's a temporary job, but it'll do until I get Carlos over here to fix it," Kai said, standing up and looking at the end table. She stuck her tongue out at it and went back to the dishes.
Yami picked up the dish towel and debated whether or not to ask her about the paper again.
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Kai sincerely hoped that Yami hadn't seen too clearly what was on those papers. It was a worthless hobby she had. Those were certainly not her best. If Yami was going to see any of it, she would want those to be her best. Carlos had seen them and he had been impressed, even with the ones she hadn't liked. But she never really listened to Carlos. Who did? But she had realized a little while ago that she wanted Yami to be impressed with her. Therefore, she'd only show him the best. And those things she had in her drawer weren't the best.
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a/n: Wanna' find out what was on those papers? I'll tell you next chapter, but you have to review first!
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~ I turned around,
~and the water,
~was closing,
~all around,
~ like a glove... ~
Kai woke up to the sound of her grandmother's voice. She had sung that song to Kai ever since she was little.
~ Like the love,
~ that had finally, finally found me,
~and I knew... ~
"In the crystalline knowledge of you," Kai sung under her breath.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain.
~Drove me like a madness... ~
"To the sea..." Kai finished. She could still hear it even though she was awake. Getting up, she walked into the living room.
~ And I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you... ~
"To the sea... to the sea..." Kai murmured.
She opened the front door to find herself staring into darkness. Despite that, she stepped outside and closed the door behind her. She sat down on the porch and listened to the song that was playing in her mind.
~ Do you always,
~ trust that first initial feeling?
~ Special knowledge,
~ holds true... there's believing.
~~~~
~ I turned around,
~ and the water,
~ was closing,
~ all around,
~ like glove, like the love,
~ that had finally, finally found me and I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain,
~ drove me like a madness,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea, yeah.
~~~~
~ How the face of change turning the pages.
~ I have changed oh but you, you remain ageless.
~ I turned around,
~ and the water, ~ was closing,
~ all around,
~ like a glove,
~ like the love that had finally, finally found me, and I knew,
~ in the crystalline knowledge of you.
~ Drove me through the mountains,
~ through the crystal like a clear water fountain.
~ Drove me like a madness,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea,
~ to the sea, yeah,
~ to the sea, yeah,
~~~~
~ yeah,
~ yeah,
~ I turned around and the water was closing around me.
~ I turned around and the water was closing around me. ~ mmmhmmm,
~ sea,
~ sea,
~ I turn around and the water was closing around me,
~ uh, huh,
~ uh, huh,
~ around me,
~ around me,
~ around me,
~ I turn around and the water was closing around me. ~
Kai realized she had been singing as well and looked up to make sure no one was there. Naturally, there wasn't. She lifted her arm to look at her watch, then lowered it with an eye roll. She couldn't see anything out here. Even after her eyes had adjusted to the light all she saw was darkness.
Kai was amazed to find that her head still felt like there was a nail through it. She went back inside to get some Advil.
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Yami leaned around the tree when he heard the door close for the second time. He wasn't sure what that had been about. He didn't come out from behind the tree earlier because he knew it would embarrass her. But why did she come out here to begin with? He was hard pressed to believe she had come outside just to sing. There was a sinking feeling in his stomach that Kai was hiding something.
Though Yami's mind slowly drifted off that. He could still hear Kai's singing and he closed his eyes and replayed the song. Her voice was soothing and he felt very calmed by it. Of course, he could never tell her. That would mean telling her he had been out here when she was.
He had no idea how long he had been out here. Had it been long enough for the other guys to have fallen asleep? Should he take a chance? The last thing he wanted was for Joey to still be awake. That wouldn't be good.
He stood up and walked to the door. He turned the knob and entered. The door creaked as he shut it and he froze. Was Kai in her room yet? Did she hear that? There was no sound of movement from either his room or hers so he relaxed a little. He headed for his room and walked into darkness. He breathed in relief as he crawled into bed.
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Kai listened carefully in the night. She thought she had heard the creak of the front door. She lay in bed, listening for what seemed like hours. Finally, when she didn't hear anything else and her grandmother's voice had faded away, she fell asleep.
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"Hey! Tea! Wake up! I did it, I did it!"
Tea opened her eyes to Kai shaking her awake excitedly. "What?"
"I did it!"
"You did what?" Tea sat up and looked at her friend in confusion.
"I didn't burn the French toast! It's perfect! I did it!" Kai cried. "Hurry up, before it gets cold!" With that she ran out of the room to get the boys.
Tea rubbed her eyes and got out of bed. Now what had Kai been saying? It was the middle of summer; how could it get cold?
"Get up, get up, get up!" Kai exclaimed, shaking Yami awake. "Do you want your breakfast cold? Get up!"
"What is it? Is something the matter?" Yami asked. He sat up and watched her shake Tristan.
"What are you doing?" Tristan asked, rubbing his eyes.
"Come on!" Kai said, jostling Bakura, who sat up looking incredibly confused.
Yami had to suppress a grin when she shook Joey. He had been so shocked to see her that he nearly fell out of bed. Tea had picked that time to come to the doorway and she laughed.
"Were you hoping it was Mai?" she asked.
"No, why would you say that?" he asked quickly, sitting up. Yami turned his back to his friend so Joey wouldn't see the pained expression on his face as he tried not to laugh.
"Breakfast is ready!" Kai exclaimed, taking no notice of Joey's funny outburst or Tea's joke. She left the room and the rest of the boys got up.
Yami was the first out the door and Kai was already putting pieces of French toast on their plates with a huge grin.
"Kai, what -?" Tea started, sitting down between Bakura and Tristan.
"Try it," Kai said simply.
"Huh?" Joey asked, still half asleep.
"Come on, try it!" she insisted.
It looked okay, so Yami took a bite. He became very aware of Kai watching him with a grin.
"This is... very good!" he said. He hadn't meant to sound so surprised, but Kai didn't seem to hear.
"I know!" she exclaimed. "It's my grandmother's own recipe. I've never tried it before, can you believe it?"
"No, I can't," Joey said, trying his. "This is really good!"
Tea kicked him under the table. - That's right, stupid. Tell her she can't cook. -
But Kai took no notice of Joey's comment. She sat down and started eating as well. Yami couldn't help feeling proud of her. After all those mistakes, she must be feeling really great about this. And she had reason to be.
They ate in silence and as soon as they were done, Kai whisked their plates away and put them in the sink. She soaped up the sponge and started washing the dishes. - They have to get done sooner or later. -
Yami picked up a towel and began drying the plates she put in the rack. They caught each other's eye and grinned at the memory of their water fight. Kai went back over to the table to get Tristan's glass and Yami realized he was still grinning. His mind came to a sudden halt.
No, he couldn't... He didn't... Yami jumped a little when Kai came back to the sink.
"You okay?" she asked, looking at him. Yami realized he must look a little disconcerted.
"I'm... fine," he said as the dish slid from his hands. Both he and Kai reached for it and she caught it.
"I'm so glad you're fine," she laughed. Yami went a little red and went back to drying. He could hear Joey and Tea laughing in the background and he felt himself go a brighter shade of scarlet.
That was absolutely ridiculous. Completely absurd. There was positively no way. It was just his imagination running wild. Nothing. Why would there be anything else? Absolutely absurd.
The phone rang and Kai nearly tripped over herself in her hurry to answer it. wiping her soapy hands on her jeans, she picked up the receiver.
"Yeah?" she said, holding the phone between her shoulder and her ear.
"I've got the list of movies for next week," Carlos' voice came.
"Great! What are they?" Kai asked, pulling out the drawer of the end table to look for a pencil. The bottom of it fell out and papers were strewn everywhere. Kai groaned and ruffled through them until she found a pen. "Okay, I'm ready." She wrote the list on her hand as Carlos read them off to her. "Think about which one you want to go see and get back to me, okay?"
"Are you all right? You sound a bit preoccupied," Carlos said.
"Yeah, the bottom of my drawer decided to leave. I've got to clean it up," Kai said.
"Oh," he laughed, relaxing. "Okay. Call you later."
Kai hung up and scooped up the majority papers and tapped the on the table to get them going in the same direction. She reached down to get the rest but Yami had already picked them up. There had been something on them that caught his eye.
But before he had time to look at what it was, Kai took them. "Thanks," she said, putting them with the others and taking the whole pile into her room.
"What was on them?" he asked when she came back.
"Oh, nothing important," she said, waving it away. As Kai bent to reassemble the drawer, Yami tried to remember the glimpse he had gotten of what was on the paper.
Whatever it was, it had been very detailed. It had taken up the entire piece of paper and it had reminded him of something. Something from his past. Yami wanted to know what it was. He glanced at the doorway then went back to watching Kai as she put the drawer back into the end table.
"There. It's a temporary job, but it'll do until I get Carlos over here to fix it," Kai said, standing up and looking at the end table. She stuck her tongue out at it and went back to the dishes.
Yami picked up the dish towel and debated whether or not to ask her about the paper again.
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Kai sincerely hoped that Yami hadn't seen too clearly what was on those papers. It was a worthless hobby she had. Those were certainly not her best. If Yami was going to see any of it, she would want those to be her best. Carlos had seen them and he had been impressed, even with the ones she hadn't liked. But she never really listened to Carlos. Who did? But she had realized a little while ago that she wanted Yami to be impressed with her. Therefore, she'd only show him the best. And those things she had in her drawer weren't the best.
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a/n: Wanna' find out what was on those papers? I'll tell you next chapter, but you have to review first!