A black Box...................what could be in it? Kai never told her anything about a black box.............................She slowly drifted off to sleep.
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She pushed the door silently open, tip-toeing quietly over to his bed. She gazes at the sleeping figure wrapped up in the large duvet. She gently pulls herself up at the end of the bed in attempt to let the sleeping person lie. A soft mumble and a slight shift of the body froze her in her state. After hearing the regular pattern of breathing, she treads softly up towards the head of the bed. Slowly, she sits down and then curls close to his chest. Instinctively, the arms wrapped around her small body and held her close. Saskia was always allowed to snuggle up with Kai, the time and place didn't matter. Just as long Kai knew Saskia was happy. They laid in a couple hours more, since it was a Saturday, no school or work. But eventually, they had to get up to have breakfast.
"....................Sassy, wake up........." Kai kisses her forehead softly and watches as his sibling stretches out her limps.
"Kaaaaaaai?"
"Yes Sassy?"
"................................Your really hot, like fire." Kai smirks. She gently pushes his arms away and hops off his bed. He changes into his casual clothes and walks into the living room. He spots her lying on her front watching TV yet again.
"Sassy, you should've got changed, and what do you want for breakfast?" She turns her head towards him with a beaming smile.
"Scramble eggs and Bakey!"
"At your service, now go get changed." She jumps up and starts to skip down to her bedroom. She puts on a t-shirt and some jeans. She exits and skips past her Brother's bedroom. Halting, she notices the door slightly ajar. Then she remembers. She walks in and leaves the door slightly open; she looks around on the table, on the bed and on top of the wardrobe, nowhere to be seen. She thinks for a while, and then it was obvious. Underneath HIS bed!! Literally jumping down all fours, lifting up the bed covers, she looks underneath his bed. Hmm........nothing here...... She puts her hand inside and feels up, down, left and right. But still, nothing. Hmm...................... She stands back up and looks around the area. Checked the bed...............the desk.......................the wardrobe..............OOooooooo!! IN the desk!! She jogs over to his desk and starts to pull out all his draws.
Pulls out draw Hm....nothing.........
Pulls out second draw Hm....................Lifts up a few documents ..........Nothing.
Pulls out third draw Hm.......................Looks around and pulls out a green box Hm..............She opens it to find old pictures of her and him. Returning the box to where it was before, she closes all the draws and thinks again.
Hm.......................Under the bed, in the desk.................Oooo!! IN the wardrobe!! She jogs over and tip-toes to reach the high handles.
"Saskia!"
She immediately spins her head around towards the door.
"What are you doing in my room?" She looks at her hands holding onto the wardrobe handles and lets go, she looks down with her hands behind her back shuffles her feet around.
"Nooooooooooooothing........."
"What are you looking for?"
"I wasn't looking for nothing."
"You was about to go into my wardrobe."
"Wasn't." She continues to examine her socks shuffling around on the floor.
"Your hands were on the handle."
"...................................................."
"What was you looking for Saskia." It wasn't a question anymore, more like a demand.
"......................................................"
"Saskia." Kai folds his arms and looks at the lowered head.
".......................................-sniffles-"
".................................Saskia?"
"....................-sniffles sniffles-..................."
"Saskia, look at me." Her head slowly rose up just enough for him to see her face. Her eyes were thinly coated with tears.
"Sassy, why are you crying?"
"...................-sniff sniff-............" She attempts to wipe away her tears with her sleeve. Sighing, Kai walks up to her and picks her up. She automatically burrows her head on his shoulder and wraps her small arms around his neck, continuing to sniffle. He figured he'd ask her later, when she was much happier. He gently places her at her seat across from him; in front of her were freshly made scrambled eggs and bacon, sitting neatly on a white plate. All the sniffling and tears are instantly removed and replaced by happy sounds of approval. She immediately picks up her knife and fork and starts to cut up her eggs, with the bacon and places it in her mouth. Kai could only smirk at how simple things like food could amuse her so much.
"Good Sassy?" Only a furious nod and more food shoved in her mouth was seen. Kai then begins to eat his breakfast, reading the morning paper. There was a comfortable silence, the sound of rustling turning paper and clinging of metal to plate was heard throughout the living room.
"Finished!" Saskia had her arms resting on the table and was beaming at Kai.
"Take it in and put it in the sink, I'll wash up." She jumps off her chair and proceeds to carry her plate towards the kitchen.
"And wipe your mouth with a tissue, NOT your sleeve."
"Hmph!" She places the plate beside the sink on the countertop. Seemingly if she even tried to chunk the plate into the sink she'd probably break the china. She wipes her mouth with a tissue and walks over to Kai, peering above his arm and looking at the grey paper.
"...........................................yes?"
"Nothing!" She runs to her room and closes the door shut.
"......................................weird..." Kai continues to read the paper and eat in peace. Inside her room, Saskia starts to pull out everything from underneath her bed. Old dolls and plastic toy cars were thrown aside her bed, even a stray piece of clothing was dug out from underneath. Hm.................nothing........... She couldn't find anymore boxes hidden underneath her bed, nor could she find something that wasn't hers underneath the bed. She started to shove everything back underneath, except for the clothes. She pushed opened her door a tiny crack and peeked through, Kai wasn't at the table anymore. She tip-toed quietly out and peeked around the corner looking into the living room, hm................no-one there! She then notices the kitchen door shut; smirking to herself she spins on her heels and walks straight into Kai. Shocked at the sudden stop, she lands backwards on her butt.
"Sassy, why are you acting so suspicious?" Saskia immediately gets and dusts off the imaginary dust, just to avoid eye contact.
".................Sassy, you've been acting all strange all morning, what's up?" Maybe I should just ask him.....................
"..................Hello? Sassy??" Maybe he would tell me what's in that box.............................
"...........Sassy? Are you even listening?" Saskia looks up from her day dreaming and notices Kai trying to wave his hand in front of her face. Sighing, he knelt down level with her height and spoke in a slight whisper.
"Sassy, tell me what's up, something is definitely going on." He rested his hand on her head and gently brushed away the stray strands of hair.
"I will help you, no matter what Sassy, you know that." She lowered her head and started to shuffler her feet around, she held her hands behind her back and then look back up into the eyes of her brother.
"Well..............................."
".............................................Go on Sassy...."
"......................I.....um............."
"....................................................."
"....................I sorta..............sorta................" she mumbled the last part out.
"..................What Sassy? I didn't hear you."
"........................Isortalostmyplushiedolphinandithoughticarrieditinmyroomwithmebutididn'tandistillhaven'tfounditsoi'mlookingeverywhereforit."
".................................................Is that it Sassy?" Saskia nods, Kai seemed a little......disappointed he guessed. Something as simple as misplacing a toy made her act like that, but then some things are really important to some people.
"Well, shall I help you look around?" Another nod.
"What does it look like?"
"Ithinkit'sinyourroom!!!" She darts into his room. Confused, Kai only follows behind and watches as she looks underneath his bed and atop his desk. After a while of searching, Kai finds it a little too suspicious.
"Why would it be in my room?"
"I think I took it in here last."
"I thought you said you took it in your room last?"
"..................................................." Silence, Kai knew something was wrong now. She never was really a good liar.
"...............Sassy.........What are you –really- trying to do?" Knocks sounded down the hallway, someone was at the door.
".............Saskia Hiwatari. What are you –trying- to do." The person knocked harder this time on the door.
".................Answer me when I get back, understand?" Saskia could only nod again. Kai walked briskly out and in the distance, the front door opened and a conversation began. When he came back he would ask her again, and this time she would have to tell him. She wasted no time, she pulled open his wardrobe only to be greeted by................................clothes. It didn't surprise her though, a wardrobewas meant to have clothes in it. She pushed aside one of the many suits hanging inside, and looked around. Hm........................Most of the ardobe was just crammed with suits, so figuring a solution; she reaches her two hands forward. Blinded by clothing, she feels around the bottom of the wardrobe. Hm...........shoes..................hangers.........................slippers..................furry................?! Reaching back at the place she felt "Furry" she moves her fingers over the object. Hm.........................flat! She pulls out the object with one hand.......................Jackpot! The black velvet box was being cradled in her hands. She set the box down on the floor and felt around the surface and corners of the box. Unmistakably, it was that same black box her brother was holding the other night. Turning it around, she sees a latch in the middle, with two golden flat cubes further to the sides. She has seen this mechanism somewhere before, it was just like the one on Kai's briefcase! She put her thumbs on the inner side of each cube and pushed outwards. Instantly, the latch in the middle flipped open.
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