It was like something in the background, something to keep her safe, normally that something would be Kai, but he already walked out and left her. A tear rolled down her right cheek.
".................Kai...................." She started to cry silently into the pillow.
----Chapter 5----
.............I just don't know anymore........... He pulled his jacket around him tighter; this particular afternoon wasn't a very good time to take a stroll. The icy Moscow wind blew against Kai's face, stray paper along the sidewalk was blown aside. People were walking quickly, wanting to get inside as soon as possible. After zipping up his jacket, he jams his fists into his pockets and continues walking forward, with his head hung, thinking.
................Have I lost control of myself already?..................I........I nearly hurt her...................So close............too close.......... He turned a corner, further down the road, he saw a place where he could just forget all this, drown himself in a carefree world, clear his clouded mind. He pulls out his cell phone and flips it open, swiftly, he quick dials the first number set on his phone.
".........-Ring ring-.................."
"...............Hello?"
"Hey, Tala...?
"Hey! Kai! How are ya?"
"Fine, you free now?"
"Erm, yeah I guess. Why?"
"I'm gonna head out for a while, do us a favour and look after Sassy for me, I trust that you still have my house key?"
"Yeah sure, where you heading?"
"...........................Thanks for babysitting." Kai hangs up instantly; he takes in a deep breath, smelling the faint frost in the air, then exhales. Heading across the road, he goes into the small building.
Back at the Hiwatari Residence
It's been about half an hour since she finished weeping into the pillow, she figured that there's no use in crying, it wouldn't change anything now. The pencil she pressed harshly against the white paper snapped for the fifth time, examining the shortening pencil, she hops off her bedroom stool and walks over towards her bin with a sharpener. Satisfied with the pointed end, she climbs back onto her stool, resting her chin on her arm, lying over the desk. She begins to draw a circle, then adds two small black circles and a semi-circle facing downwards within. She then starts to draw lines from the head, flowing down, not feeling the need to add anymore. She writes beside the rough drawing:
"Saskia"
She drops her pencil and rests her forehead on the paper.....................I don't understand...........................
She looks up, and rests her chin on the hard desk. ...........................I don't know what I've done wrong.............
She sits up properly, and looks down at her clasped hands........................Don't hate me Kai.............................
A thought struck her mind, she moved every paper on her desk away and pulled out a plain piece of paper from a tray, she pulls out all her felt tips and pencils. She begins to write and decorate the plain piece of paper, making sure the artwork was colourful, she folds it in half and folds it again. Then on top, she writes each letter in a different colour:
"To: Kai"
She hops off her stool and out of her bedroom; she walks down the corridor still holding the finished work in her small hands. Tip-toeing, she places one hand on Kai's bedroom door handle. ...........................He said not to go in here............... She draws back her hand and walks back into her room; she places the folded paper on top of her desk and stares at the colourful letters on top.
"Click!"
That sound was all too familiar to her, everyday, she waiting to hear that sound after school.
"...........Hey Saskia? Where are you?"
............That's not Kai............. ".......................Unkie Tala?"
"Yeah! It's your favourite and only uncle! So where are ya?" The front door softly clicks shut in the background, shuffling of shoes followed.
"Here!!" She bolts from her bedroom into the living room and straight into the opening arms of Tala.
"Hey! You've grown quite a lot lil lady! So how you been?"
"I'm good!!" All recent depression had been wiped away, now plastered on her angelic face was the brightest smile of the year.
"Hey listen kiddo, I need to um, use the toilet, mind waiting here and watch the TV or something?"
"OKs!" She instantly skips over to the couch and jumps onto it, switching on the TV, she starts to flick through the many channels that she has. Tala removed his other shoe and walks along the corridor, down towards the bathroom. This was like his second home so he knew where everything was like the back of his hand. He had known Kai for some long while, since when they were in the abbey, training together and looking out for each other like brothers.
He dries his hands on the provided towel and starts to walk back into the living room, but a flicker of light catches his eye. He steps back a little and peers into Saskia's bedroom, her desk lamp was on, shining onto her desk. Upon her desk, were scattered paper and one folded note that stood out from the plain white rest. Glancing back at the living room, he saw Saskia still focused at the TV. He pushes the bedroom door silently and walks in. The desk was unusually untidy, scribbled paper was scattered all over the surface, felt tips and pencils were lying as if someone had just thrown them there. One sheet stood out from the scribbled rest, he uncovers it from the pile and sees a child's drawing, filling half of the A4. A simple drawing, a girl with a sad expression, but the name next to it was what caught his curiosity. He pulls out other scribbled A4 sheets and tries to make out the writing. Various sentences such as "I don't understand." And "Have I been a bad girl?" were scrawled over paper after paper. One sheet even had a few blotches at the bottom. .......Tear stains...... he didn't even know the child outside, greeting him with the biggest grin ever and bouncing everywhere she went could even do the emotion "sad." He holds up the folded note and reads the two words brightly coloured. "To: Kai"
He opened it anyway.
Tala scanned through the writing at first, then re-read the whole thing again, more carefully this time.
"..........Unkie Tala.....?"
He quickly folded the piece of paper and placed it back on the desk, he sees her bouncing to a halt just outside.Seeing him standing inside, she pushes open the door and with the most innocent smile on her face, she stands in front of him, tilting her head up.
"Watchaaaaaaa dooooooooing?"
"Nothing kiddo, just seeing if you've been a good girl and tidied up your room."
"I am a good girl!!"
"yeah well......" He looks around the room. "Well, how comes you haven't folded up your duvet properly?"
"....Um..........." She looked down, she started to shuffle her feet around while holding her hands behind her back.
".........Um....Because.............." Tala smirked. He totally had the power over her now.
"No answer? Well that's not a good girl, and bad girls get punished........" She gulps, looking upwards slowly, she sees his face looking down at her, on his face was one of the most sinister smiles she has seen. She decided not to risk it, she spun on her heel and about to open the door, Tala grabs her by her sides and swings her high up, he tosses her onto the bed and starts to tickle mercilessly, making her shriek and laugh loudly. She kept on shouting for mercy between the giggles and laughter, only to receive even more tickling to her sides and tummy. Eventually, he stopped, letting her re-gain her breath. More maturely compared with that tickling torture, they walked out of the bedroom and sat at the couch, watching TV. Being the adult he is, Tala stretched out his arms and rested them across the top of the couch, and Sassy being the small child she is, sat with her legs out in front of her while leaning onto Tala's side.
There was a thump at the door.
Tala spun his head back, looking at the door, nothing happened. Saskia stood up and peered over Tala's resting arm on the couch and also glanced at the door.
".........Wassat Unkie Tala?"
"Dunno Kiddo........" Both turned their gaze back to the commercial break on the TV.
Another thump hit the door.
".............I think someone's at the door Unkie............" Tala turned the television volume down a couple of notches and listened, Saskia stood and stared at the door, then turned her gaze on Tala's concentrated face.
"...............Stay here Kiddo." He stands up and walks cautiously towards the front door, he looks through the hole but only sees pitch black. Curious, he latches the chain on the door and rests his hand on the handle. He slowly turned the door knob and pulled open the door as far as the latch could let him.
".....................The Fuck?!!"
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