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Well, on with chapter two. I hope everyone likes it.
Tala slowly trudged down the stairs. He could here the sounds of Spencer and Ian's bickering drifting along the corridor and he guessed that they were probably playing on their newest games console. What else would a Blitzkrieg boy be doing when their captain wasn't around? Definatly not house work and certainly not training. At least now Tala knew whom he could rely on when he wasn't dishing out orders. That's right, no one. Oh well, he thought, let them play, just because he was miserable it didn't mean that they had to be too.
Reaching the bottom of the oak staircase Tala headed left down the hallway towards the kitchen. The hall was decorated by a vast supply of windows and Tala found himself unconsciously gazing out of one. So I was right, he thought, Kai's car is parked outside. The arial of Kai's pride and joy was peaking out over the freshly settled snow. He'll be lucky to drive back home tonight; the snow doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.
A fierce howling of wind pierced his current wave of thought and Tala pulled his jacket tightly around his lithe form as he continued toward the kitchen. The lights flickered dangerously for a couple of seconds but Tala thought nothing of it, Power cuts were a common occurrence in this house, especially with their current weather conditions but for once Tala would have welcomed the power failure with open arms as the lights were beginning to give him a rather unpleasant headache. He felt like someone had just taken a hammer to his temple and his head was throbbing. Gritting his teeth slightly he wearily came to the conclusion that he needed painkillers and he needed them now.
He knew that taking even more medicine wasn't the best of ideas but how much damage could it really do? After all, he was practically dying here and he didn't think that it was possible for him to feel any worse than he already did right now.
Tala pulled himself away from the window and hastily made his way toward the archway that would lead him to his destination. Passing into the kitchen the first thing he noticed was that both Bryan and Kai were quietly sipping what seemed to be coffee at the kitchen table, well, Tala thought. It certainly did smell like coffee. The musky aroma was circulating around the square shaped room and was accomplishing in making Tala thirsty once again, although coffee wouldn't be his first choice of beverage, to be honest he rather preferred tea. The two bladers were sat across from each other and both seemed to be locked in the middle of a silent conversation. They also seemed oblivious to Tala's sudden appearance.
Seems like another typical day then, the blue, eyed boy sighed inwardly. Kai is once again ignoring me and Bryan seems to be oblivious. They only ever notice me when they feel like it. A cloud of sadness seemed to suddenly descend upon him, surrounding him, choking him. It was like suddenly walking into a wall of fog. Everything else around him seemed to blur, to bend. It was as if Tala was being consumed by the dark and the light was only a ghostly flicker in the distance.
Tala took a deep breath, mentally scolding himself for his brief loss of control. Calming himself down, he shot a glance at the rooms other occupants, neither seemed to have noticed his sudden change in behaviour so he swiftly made his way towards the medicine cabinet. Choosing the strongest painkillers he could find he unscrewed the lid, grabbed two of the dusty white pills and popped them into his mouth, swallowing them dry. Grimacing at the bitter taste he strolled towards one of the free, high-back wooden chairs, pulled it out from under the table and slumped in it, resting his head in his hands.
Tala remained sitting in the chair half lying across the table for what must have been the better half of ten minutes. Once the pounding in his head had slowly started to clear Tala tentatively began to sit up properly in his seat. His efforts rewarded him with two equally accusing glares from the silent duo. Confused at what he must have done to offend them he decided to just give them a small smile before beginning to pour himself a cup from the left over coffee pot in the middle of the table. This time he received confused looks.
Bryan was the first one to break the silence.
"Why are you drinking coffee?" He made it sound like his team captain had just committed the worst sin imaginable.
Tala glanced into his friend's eyes before replacing the site of the lilac haired boys face with the drink he had just made.
"I'm thirsty." He didn't know what else he could say. He wasn't in the mood for conversation and the looks that he was receiving were starting to make him feel uncomfortable.
Tala started sipping the slightly cold drink, looking anywhere rather than at the two boys faces.
"What did you take?" Tala's head whipped towards Kai's face. The bluenettes eyes were narrowed and were currently focused in his direction.
"Excuse me?" Tala started to panic and the grip on his cup tightened. Did Dickinson tell Kai that he was on medication? Did Kai know that he had taken more than he was supposed to?
He inwardly let out a sigh of relief when Kai pointed over in the direction of the medicine cabinet that he had previously raided.
"Why do you want to know Kai?" The red head challenged. Tala didn't know why he was suddenly getting so defensive. Didn't he want help, for someone to notice that he needed them? He reminded himself that he did want help but Kai was just not that person.
"Just some painkillers." He found himself saying, Kai gave him another long hard stare before he went back to completely ignoring his presence. Tala glanced in Bryans direction to find that he too had gone back to staring, both boys once again caught up in their silent communications.
For some reason this left Tala feeling hurt. Feelings of loneliness and abandon filled him until he felt like he was slowly being suffocated.
He had to get out of that room.
Unintentionally slamming his coffee cup on the table, Tala stood so quickly that his chair nearly went toppling toward the hard stone floor. Without hesitating to steady it he made a beeline out of the kitchen and to the front door. The only time he slowed down was to throw on his shoes before he disappeared out into the snow.
Back in the kitchen Bryan and Kai shared concerned glances. Both were standing at the window watching as Tala's retreating form was slowly consumed by the swirling snow.
"I see what you mean." Kai said. Slowly going over the previous conversation the two boys had just had in his mind.
Bryan faced Kai. He looked troubled. "I'm worried about him." His voice was quiet and red eyes widened slightly at Bryan's blatant show of emotions.
"Me too." Kai replied softly, so softly that the words went unheard by Bryan's ears.
Well, there you go. I hope everyone liked it. Next chapters going to be in Tala's POV, maybe Kai's.
I'm not the best at writing in third person so I'm going to see which turns out to be the best one to use.
Please review and tell me what you think. :)
