I read my letter through, I've surprisingly written quite a lot. I push away the table, allowing myself to get up off the floor before proceeding to search the apartment for some kind of envelope. After succeeding in finding one, I look out the window, nights still clear and the moonlight shines in through the window bathing my floor in it's silver light. I figure I might as well take it to Kai's apartment now; neither of us go to bed this early. I quickly pull on my shoes before grabbing my leather jacket; a present from Kai.

It's cooler out side but I soon find myself walking hastily along the streets that would lead me towards Kai's apartment. Once there I take the stairs which are all to familiar for me, before reaching the third floor, I look down the hall way; 2nd on the left.
"Well here goes nothing," I mutter to myself before knocking on the door. I hear the sound of someone moving around within the apartment then the sound of two voices reach my ears, ones Kai's the other's familiar but I cant manage to pinpoint an owner, nor what they're saying.

Kai opens the door wearing nothing but a tight pair of black pants, and the spiked collar I had brought him for his birthday this year. I watch his reaction, and it's clear he's surprised to see me.
"Tala..."
"...Hey Kai," I say after a pause, Kai's face is expressionless though his eyes seem to smile, but then there's that voice from before. It's calling out to Kai from somewhere within the apartment, asking him who's at the door. Kai's expression turns to a somewhat agitated one as he turns to look over his shoulder, allowing a frustrated 'hn' to escape his lips. I too look over his shoulder only to see the half naked neko-jin standing in the hall and any hope I had for Kai and me is shattered in an instance.

No wonder Kai didn't want anything to do with me, I turn to leave but feel Kai's firm grip around my wrist pulling me back to face him.
"I know you came here for a reason, Tala, I saw the envelope," Kai says, he's crimson eyes searching my ice blue ones for something but I don't know what.
"... it's not important, I'm sorry for interrupting, I wont ever again," I mutter. However Kai frowns at this.
"To me it does matter, especially if you actually bothered to write me a letter," he tells me specifically and now I'm wishing that he didn't know me so well, its to awkward for me to go through with this with Rei here. I'm confused when I look into Kai's eyes to see genuine concern and allow him to take the letter from me before turning and walking in the direction of the street.

...Normal POV...

"What is it?" Rei asked as he hovered over Kai's shoulder, glaring at Tala's retreating form, annoyed at the interruption when he was so close to getting what he wanted.
"A letter," Kai told the Chinese boy as he pocketed it before closing the door.
"Well. Are you going to open it?" Rei persisted as they walked along a hallway in Kai's apartment. He was eager to get Kai's attention away from whatever it was Tala had brought him.
"Yes," Kai said coldly, thinking that he might as well give the boy an answer. Rei followed as Kai went to enter his room only to have the door slammed shut in his face, narrowly missing his nose. Slightly confused, Rei tried the door handle but it was locked.
"Kai? Kai open the door!" he yelled slamming a fist against the door in emphasis of how unfair he though he was being treated; he had been so close.

...Kai's POV...

I fall onto my bed and open the envelope as I try and block out Rei's repetitive complaining; it's giving me a head ache. I read the letter through once, trying to take everything in and by the time I'd finished the noise of Rei at my door had subsided. I pause and wonder if he had gone away but the sound of him sitting down, back lent against the door, strumming his fingers on the ground, shatters any hope of that.
"Fine! I'll wait here then," I hear him whine.

I begin to read through Tala's letter once more, now that my roommate has given me some peace and quiet. However, I can't help but think, 'Why is Rei here... still here... anyway?' A part of me knows the answer to that question, the part of me I wish I could destroy and burry into the deepest darkest part of my memory where it would never bother me again, for I am ashamed of what I have done and what I could have done.

As I read I experience a strong feeling of guilt mixed with a stronger dose of self hatred, because here Tala's bearing his heart, his soul to me and for what? To come to my apartment and find me with the Chinese blader whos name I doubt I had mentioned since I left that team again. I'm amazed at how much Tala has kept buried deep within his heart for so long, however something towards the end is still bugging me like it had the first time through; I hadn't recieved any answering machine messages since I came back.