I'M SO SORRY! It's been so long since I've updated! I've had HOURS AND HOURS of coursework to do, plus new found obsession with fruits basket! But anyway- I hope you like this!
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Max didn't actually know what to make of what had just happened to him.
He'd just comforted Kai. Kai- the emotionless, heartless bastard!
Kai had slept with Rei recently.
And on top of all that, he practically had to bat Kai away because his sexual advances were so forceful.
He held his hand above him as he lay on his bed, looking straight through it.
Why would Rei sleep with Kai? I know Kai's always liked Rei- even Tyson managed to pick that up- but I've always thought Rei hated Kai.
I always thought Rei liked Mariah? Just shows how out of the loop I am!
Maybe I should talk to Rei about it?
Or maybe I should even talk to Tala?
God! Tala loves Kai? Well, I guess we should have all seen that one coming, but, why is Kai letting it bother him so much?
Maybe, hidden deep within his self-conscious, this is what he's always wanted? Maybe he's always wanted Tala to love him, but he's just dismissed his own feelings?
God! Look at me now! Trying to slice open Kai's brain! What the hell do I know?
Why the hell do I care?
Max remembered Kai holding onto him tightly, and answered his own question by blushing.
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Rei let Tala down off of his back gently, and sighed at the chill from Tala's body's absence.
"Are you sure you wanna be here? We could always go back to the white tiger's apartment." Rei asked Tala. Tala gazed at the 'bladebreakers' sign longingly, and his hand twitched to open the door.
"Yes. I think this is where I need to be."
"You don't need to be anywhere now. You're with me now. You're free. We could even run away if you wanted to! I'd follow you to the ends of the earth!" Rei gasped as Tala grabbed his waist from behind of him, and hugged him.
"We don't need to run away." Tala said carefully. Rei's eyes widened, and he pulled out of Tala's embrace just to look at him.
"What! You mean, you wanna tell Kai? You wanna go out with me properly?" Rei couldn't believe what the Russian boy was telling him.
"I think we kinda have to. I think Bryan would tell him anyway, so it's best we get there first. I can deal with Kai hating me if I've got you, Rei." Rei nearly melted at Tala's words. "D-do you think B-bryan will be okay?" Tala stumbled on his own words, as if trying not to say them, but failing. Rei quickly became solid again.
"He doesn't matter. You don't need to worry about him." The bitterness Rei harbored for Bryan came through quite clearly in his voice.
"He's important…"
"He hurt you. He's worthless scum."
"Rei…"
"I don't wanna hear it!"
"You don't control me, Rei! If this is how it's gonna be with you, I'm going to get out while I can!"
"I'm sorry. You're right I guess. I suppose I just got a little jealous, that's all…"
Just as Rei put his hand on the door handle, someone from the inside opened the door for him.
"I heard voices, so I just wondered who it was." Max mumbled. "Please come in"
Rei and Tala slipped in guiltily after Max, and followed him to the living room, in which they all sat down.
"Is Kai in?" Tala asked.
"No. He went shopping with Tyson and Kenny. He holds the most bags you see…"
Silence.
"Do you guys want a drink?" They both shook their heads.
Silence.
"Are you hungry? I could warm something up." They shake their heads again.
Silence.
Even longer, more awkward silence.
"So what were you doing together then?" Max asked the question he knew he shouldn't have. Tala and Rei shifted timidly in their seats.
"You see, we were- kinda, sorta…" Tala stumbled, trying to think of something.
"We're going out." Rei cut in with, saying it as if it was normal conversation. Max gasped in horror, which forced Tala to blurt out…
"We're going out to a match tonight. We were just arranging it on our way up here." Tala smiled at his own cunning, only to realize he'd just told Rei that he didn't mind telling.
"Give it up Tala. I'm not stupid." Max said calmly. "But don't you think you're being a bit shitty to Kai? He was actually…" Max was about to say 'crying this morning', but didn't to save Kai's ego.
"What do you expect me to do? Love Kai hopelessly from the side lines for the rest of my life, all the while drowning in feelings he'll never return? I'm not going to be the one who's let on their own anymore! I'm not going to be lost and empty ever again!" Tala shocked himself- not only by his choice of words- but with the force of which he'd used to say them. Rei flinched, and Max sighed.
"You're not the one in the wrong, Tala. Rei is the pig here. He's slept with Kai." Max glared at Rei, who seemed unbothered by it.
"I know. I asked him to" Tala said.
"What?" Max yelled.
"Kai loves Rei, not me. I just wanted to make him happy…"
Max suddenly found himself in awe of Tala. The fact that Tala would ask Rei to do that, proved how much he loved Kai. Well, in a twisted way, which you'd only ever expect from Tala.
"And why did you do it Rei?" Max asked coldly.
"Because I love him."
"Kai? Then why…"
"Tala" Rei cut in.
"Rei, could you please leave the room for a while. Go to your room or something." Max asked nicely- maybe even a bit too sweetly.
Rei left without making a fuss, and closed the door behind him. Max was a little intimidated by being left alone with Tala, but he knew in his heart that this was something he had to do.
"Tala, I totally understand why you've ended up with Rei, and I'm not gonna talk you out of it. No one can blame you for this outcome, but…" Max looked up at Tala, who was blissfully unaware of the bombshell Max was about to drop on him. "You said that there was no hope with Kai. That you'd 'drown in feeling he'd never return', yes?"
"He loves Rei, man! I don't know why you're wiping it in my face like this!" Tala stood up and headed for the door.
"There's still hope, Tala."
"I gave up on 'hope' a long time ago…"
"That's not what Kai told me."
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Ha ha ha! You're gonna have to wait till next update to see what Tala thinks of that! Please don't hate me. Please review!