Chapter 14 Intervention (Your Panic Stricken Blood Will Thicken Up Tonight.)
He had been a mess when they had found him. Kenny had to admit that Kai sure knew how to shock them.
They had thrown a glass of water over his face to try and wake him and all they had got were some swear words directed at Bryan (Kenny hoped that Kai wasn't having an affair with Bryan as well) so now they were resorting to plan B.
It had been Rei's idea to put Kai in the shower but it was Max and Tyson doing all the dirty work. While Rei watched on a haunted look in his eyes.
Mr Dickenson looked stricken, he was blaming himself for being such a bad guardian. Even though the problems had started before he even got the job.
Kenny was actually more worried about Rei than Kai. He was pretty sure that Kai could handle a little hang over, but Rei looked paler than the dead.
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Rei slipped in the bath as he tried to move his fathers limp body under the spray of the shower. His fathers dead weight made it hard to breathe, he was too small to move the body off him on his own, there was no one else there that he could ask for help.
The elders of the village had told him that his father was sick, they had said that he could get the help he needed in Hong Kong. They were only supposed to stay there for a week. They had been there two months. In all that time Rei was now almost positive that his father had not been to the doctor.
He grabbed the shower attachment by the pipe and pulled it down hoping that the sudden burst of cold water would wake his father up. If not then they would just drown.
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Kai watched them as they fussed around fixing him black coffee and throwing him furtive looks of sympathy. He hated being babied and if he could walk better he would have left.
"Do you want sugar Kai?" asked Max.
That was it. "What the hell are you lot doing?" Kai almost shouted.
"Making you coffee." answered Max confused.
"Why did you do this Kai?" Rei broke in "Why are you doing this to yourself."
"I can do what I want to myself Rei. It's none of your business anyway, I don't care what you do in your free time you should extend me the same courtesy."
"I'm not the one trying to drink myself to death." Rei argued back "I will not stand here and watch you kill yourself!"
"Then stand somewhere else because what I do is none of your concern."
"Now my boy, I think that it is time we address some of these problems…" Mr Dickenson started.
"What problems?" asked Kai.
"The drinking, the sex and the eating. Kai I think that we should try and get you some professional help."
"I don't need any help. Who do you think you are my grandfather?" asked Kai wobbling to his feet his voice raising above it's usual gruff tones.
"Now Kai I am you legal guardian now that your grandfather is in jail…"
"Oh I get it they told you to care. Don't get in my way old man I won't put up with any parental shit you try to pull."
"Now Kai you are being unreasonable…" Mr Dickenson started.
"Stop it!" Kai shouted trying to get to the door, his head felt like the floor after a flamenco dance.
"Kai why are you doing this?" asked Max upset at how badly this was all going.
"Don't start. You all came here to start didn't you? Just leave me alone."
Rei blocked the doorway "Kai don't leave. Please don't leave, why won't you let us help?" he asked the bravado all gone now that his friend was threatening to leave.
"Move Rei. I need some air. I won't be back tonight." Kai growled pushing the Chinese boy out of his way.
Rei wanted to cry. Every thing had gone wrong. But Kai had only said that he would not be back tonight. He hoped that meant he would be back tomorrow. Maybe they could discuss things properly then.
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"I need to talk to Tala" Kai muttered to himself as he walked the hall.
He needed to talk to Tala true, but what he really wanted was the peace that he knew he'd find losing himself in Tala's arms.