...Kai's POV...

I stand, realising that I urgently need to speak with Tala before he loses all hope in me. I have a lot to tell him and a lot to explain, starting with the fact that just because he announced his love for me doesn't mean I'll think he's weak. Sure I'm not all to found of that emotion or any as I've only recently been coming to terms with the fact that showing emotions is human and that it's not a sign of weakness. My old team my have started me off on this idea but it was Tala who showed me, like I showed him, the brighter side of life; our time together.

However, one thing that really disgusts me is teenage crushes, like Mariah's pathetic attempts at winning over Rei, I cant believe she hasn't got the hint he's gay! I know that nothing Tala feels for me would be like that, we weren't brought up like that. What he feels for me and what I feel for him would be nothing far from genuine love as we would know it, no pathetic crushes and no lust; I've had enough of that within the past two weeks to make me sick.

I listen, Rei's still strumming his fingers on the floor, the noise is agitating. Guessing I would be wasting to much time trying to explain a situation, that is really none of his business, to him I decide I'd just go out the window. Grabbing my shirt that had been lying loosely on the end of the bed I step out of the building into the crisp night air.

...Tala's POV...

I lie on my back, arms folded under my head as a watch the silver moon whos light shines through the tree leaves above me. I haven't made it back to my apartment, and I don't really want to... it's to dark, to cold, to lonely. So now I lie here, alone in our favourite, and now deserted park in Russia. My mind is teaming with thoughts on what had happened tonight but sadly things are beginning to make sense, just not the way I had hoped.

I roll onto my side, my eyes beginning to fill with tears...why did having the ability to experience emotions have to hurt so much... maybe that's why Boris taught us to block them out... I could laugh, I doubt that was anywhere near the reason. I curl up slightly as a cool night breeze whips around my body... sadly I cant seem to find it in me to blame Kai, I saw Rei's body... he had so much more to offer... I can only wish that Kai hadn't forgotten all the moments we had shared.

A twig snaps nearby and I turn my head to one side only to be looking up into Kai's crimson eyes, I had been so wound up in my own thoughts that I had failed to notice his approach. He kneels here beside me still wearing the dog collar and leather pants with the addition of a white, unbuttoned, long sleeved shirt.
"I read your letter," He tells me with a sigh, as he lies down beside me, micking my previous position. I roll onto my other side so I'm facing him, though I don't speak, I don't know what to say. I watch his eyes, tired, worried eyes that stare up into the night sky before he speaks to me again.
"Me and Rei... we're not a couple, an item, together... what ever it is you want to call it... its not that, if that's what you thought when you saw him..."

He doesn't look at me, seemingly content with staring off into space but I can see the pain in his eyes as he speaks, it moves me to see something other then pride and arrogance in those crimson orbs.
"Then what... why. Why didn't you call me!" I sit up quickly in my frustration to get a better look at my two-time traitor... "...why didn't you return my calls?" I ask more softly spoken after the severe harshness I heard in my voice moments before; for some reason I no longer seem to like my voice like that.
"Because I didn't get them... I had checked, believe me I had, but there was never a message. I had to read your letter through an extra time to be sure what I was reading was correct." He tells me as his eyes harden, I shift my position so that I could rest my head on his chest.
"Why is he here?" I ask though there's something I'm more curious to ask... I just don't know if it would hurt Kai to much for me to ask it.