Chapter 13: Revenge for life
Anya pondered what Kira was up to. It was another Friday. Next Monday would be the day that the next number of Code Red came out to the public. It meant that this would be the day Kira would take action with what ever she had planned for Stacy.
They were sitting at the cafeteria. She was in the same table with Veronica, Rei and Kai. Kira was in the other table with Hilary, Max and Tyson. Veronica was sitting opposite to her as Kai and Rei were on each side of her.
Kai had been treating her coldly and she was losing the hope of ever getting him back. Although every once in a while when she looked into his eyes she saw the same longing that she was feeling.
'Why doesn't he come back then? He must be afraid I'm going to hurt him. I would never do that. How will I get him to see that? I'll have to find a way.'
Anya snapped to reality as Rei poked her in the arm.
"Coming?" he asked.
"Yeah," Anya replied and got up to leave with the others.
She saw that Kira and Hilary were having an intense conversation about something as they left the cafeteria too. Was Hilary helping Kira or was she trying to convince her not to do anything? Anya walked over to them.
"Hi Anya!" Kira greeted cheerfully.
"What were you talking about?" Anya asked suspiciously.
"Just about the fact that Code Red is coming out on next Monday," Kira whispered.
"I hope you aren't doing anything I wouldn't do," Anya said.
"What do you mean by that?" Kira responded, avoiding the subject.
"Remember that you getting back at Stacy is just what she wants. You'll be expelled from school if you're caught and who knows what else will happen," Anya stated.
Kira stopped smiling. "Just stay out of my way. I can take care of myself," she replied icily and walked away.
"She will do it," Hilary said.
"I hope not. If she goes too far something will happen even if she doesn't get caught," Anya responded.
"What?" Hilary asked in confusion.
"I hope it doesn't come to that," Anya answered and headed back to Veronica.
Anya knew Kira too well. She knew there was no stopping her anymore. They had tried to talk sense into her but without any success. She had even gone as far as to lecture Kira. This had only made Kira unwilling to talk to her so much.
'What is happening?' she wondered in her mind.
Anya couldn't concentrate on anything. Her head was filled with worry.
'Where was the Kira she once knew? The cheerful girl who joked and made people laugh?'
She didn't know.
'It must have something to do with her past.'
During the next break it happened. A loud scream went through the whole school, followed by other screams. Kira came to the corridor and you could see she was hiding a smile.
"What did you do?" Anya asked accusingly.
"Gave the bitch what she deserved," Kira stated.
Anya rushed the way Kira came from. A crowd had formed outside the girls' bathroom. Anya tried to see what was going on but couldn't.
"Call an ambulance!" someone yelled.
Anya went back to Kira.
"Kira, what the hell did you do!" she snarled.
"You'll find out next Monday," Kira told her coldly.
Anya couldn't believe her ears. How could Kira treat her like this? Wasn't she her friend?
She turned around and headed to the girls' bathroom again. She got there just in time to see Stacy all covered in red spots and complaining about the pain.
'What happened to her?' Anya wondered. Then something came to her mind...
The bell rang and the students went into the classrooms. Anya had troubles concentrating.
'How could Kira do something like that? To hurt other people?'
She
felt like she had never even known her, that she was a stranger.
Sure
Kira had a temperament but that she would go this far... Anya felt
like a part of her was missing. Kira was her best friend.
Anya jumped up from her seat as soon as the bell rang. She rushed out of the school without telling anyone where she was going. After some time she arrived to her destination. The hospital.
She went in and asked the receptionist where she could find Stacy Springfield. She continued her way to Stacy's room. She listened before she went in. She didn't hear anything so she assumed Stacy was alone and she went in.
She looked at Stacy's motionless figure on the bed. She looked awful with the red spots covering her skin everywhere that it was visible. Stacy opened her eyes suddenly.
"What are you doing here?" she snapped.
"What happened?" Anya asked, returning the question.
"Your sick-minded friend did this!" Stacy snarled. "There were bees in the girls' bathroom. I'm allergic to bee-stings, I could have been killed."
"Veronica could have been killed too," Anya retorted. "Besides, what makes you think it was one of my friends?"
"Oh please! What do you think I am? Stupid or something? Just because I'm blonde doesn't mean I'm stupid," Stacy snapped back. "It's obvious."
Anya swallowed her anger. Stacy may have deserved what she got but it still wasn't right for Kira to do something like that. Stacy could have been killed! That would have made Kira a murderer.
"I hope you aren't in too much pain, although I think this might give you a chance to think what you did to my friend Veronica," Anya said and left.
She had to talk to Kira. This time she went too far. Anya was trying to figure out what to say to Kira as she walked into the house. She found Kira coming down the stairs.
"We need to talk," Anya said seriously.
"Fine," Kira replied, sensing what was about to come.
They walked into Anya's room and Anya shut the door.
"This is about Stacy, isn't it?" Kira said.
"Kira, you went too far. You have no right hurting other people like that." Anya lectured.
"Well excuse me!" Kira responded, her temper rising. "It was Miss Springfield who hurt Kitty. Do you think that's right?"
"No!" Anya exclaimed. "Nobody should hurt other people, except in self-defense."
"So I should just let her get away with it?" Kira asked sarcastically.
"You should have told the teachers or the police," Anya said calmly.
"Like that would have helped," Kira stated. "Stacy's family has bribed the police and most of the teachers."
"Still, it was wrong for you to do something like that to Stacy," Anya argued. "Did you know that Stacy was allergic to bee-stings?"
"What about it?" Kira responded.
"She could have been killed Kira!" Anya shouted at her friend.
"The world would be a much better place without her," Kira snarled.
"You wish she was dead?" Anya asked, not believing her ears.
"Yes," Kira said, her voice and eyes as cold ice.
"Why?" Anya whispered.
"Back at the abbey, when they were training me to be a spy, I had to watch other people get tortured – mentally and physically. After that I was forced to torture them myself. I didn't want to do it, but they said that if was to become a good spy I had to learn how to get the information out of people, even if it meant torturing it out of them," Kira explained as a tear fell down her cheek.
Kira took a deep breathe before she continued.
"When I escaped the abbey, I made a promise to myself, the people that I once was forced to hurt and all the people that were being hurt at the time. I promised that I would protect the weaker ones wherever I would go, to make up the hurt I did. I wanted and still want justice for those people. They didn't deserve it," Kira stated.
"But if you are against hurting other people then why did you hurt Stacy?" Anya questioned.
"Stacy hurt Kitty. She will hurt her again if nobody stops her," Kira explained.
"How can you be so sure?" Anya asked.
"She has hurt a person that I care about very deeply. She has tried to hurt him again, but I've stopped her," Kira said.
"Who?" Anya asked, getting confused.
"That's none of your business," Kira snapped.
"Fine," Anya snarled. "But you do realize that what you did was wrong..."
"Whatever," Kira replied.
"Don't you start that, not with me!" Anya shouted angrily.
"I'll do it to anyone I like, even you," Kira snarled and did something that nobody would have thought she would or could do...
She made a REAL death glare at Anya and stormed out of the room.
Anya stood still, looking at the door that had just slammed shut.
She felt so bad, so lost. She wanted to cry. She walked to her bed and fell on it, after that she let her tears soak the pillow. She had lost her life-long friend. What was she going to do now? How was she going to become friends again with her?
Would she ever be able to get Kai back without her help? She had lost the two most important persons in her life. Was there any point living after that? Did she have any reason to live? Her heart was aching. She wished the pain would go away, but it didn't.
Kira was in her room, the door locked. She wanted to be alone.
Nobody was supposed to see her cry, not even her closest friends.
What was wrong with her? Crying was for the weak, she wasn't weak.
Memories from the abbey flowed to her mind and filled it...
Flashback
"I don't wanna do it! He hasn't done anything wrong!" a 10-year-old Kira yelled.
"You will do it if you don't want it done to you," a male voice said calmly.
"No! I won't do it!" Kira yelled back.
"Fine then. Put her in chains," the man ordered.
Kira was chained to the wall.
"You will be chained here, knowing that you will be punished after someone has taken care of the job you didn't do," the man told her.
Kira didn't answer the man.
She moved her eyes to the small boy lying on the floor in front of her. She watched as the whip hit him. After a while she couldn't look anymore but the screams echoed in her head.
She opened her eyes as the screams stopped and saw the lifeless boy being carried out of the room, his brown curls moving in the air with his head.
Kira's face was soaked in tears as the whip slashed to her back and made her cry out in pain.
End of flashback
Kira reached her hand to her back. She would never forget it, never. She couldn't. That boy reminded Kira of a special person.
'There's too much at risk. I have to find a way to stop Stacy before it's too late. It's not just about Kitty anymore. Stacy will pay for what she has done, not just to Kitty but to the two of them – Shadow and...'
