Chapter four: fear
"Tyson!" yelled kai "for god sake FOCUS!"
Tyson mouthed obscene words towards kai's back.
"I saw that! You're never going to get anywhere if you don't learn to respect others and focus on the match" snarled an irritable kai.
"I don't see you telling her to focus on her match" yelled Tyson pointing to cassy who was using her free time to stretch and practice her cheerleading match.
Kai looked over to where the young girl was doing back flips and summersaults, she could even do the splits, kai blushed as he caught himself staring at the toned teenage girl.
I cant help watching her she's so beautiful and sexy, he smirked to himself what the hell am I thinking I'm a hard core blader not some stupid little wuss!
He suddenly snapped out of his daydream.
"cassy please, even if its just to keep Tyson quiet will you quit it?" asked kai impatiently.
"sure whatever" answered cassy sitting down next to rai.
I could kill Tyson right now I don't have a decent view! Hey, is that being soppy or just a guy? wondered kai.
later that evening at dinner
"I feel sick I'm off back to the room" stated cassy getting up taking one last look at Tyson shovelling food into his mouth.
"sumfng ii jiid? (something I did) asked Tyson between mouthfuls.
"Tyson you have to learn how to eat in public!"
Cassy heard Kenny say as she walked towards the lift, she shook her head in disgust.
ewwww how can he eat like that? I might go train, I'll have to get changed…………….oh crap! It's laundry day and because TYSON didn't do his turn I don't have any clean clothes. Just great, great, great! thought cassy sarcastically.
Cassy walked into the lift and jumped as she saw the most beautiful big sparkly orbs staring back at her.
"where are you going?" he asked quietly.
"I thought about training my blade on the lake" she answered feeling a bit exposed.
"you mean by the lake" he corrected her cocking her eyebrow.
"no, I mean on the lake" she said smiling cheekily.
He frowned at her slightly.
"you want to come with? It's good training your blade in different environments" she added.
Kai nodded curiously.
"you'll need your swim stuff, towels and that" she said to kai.
They walked silently together to the hotel room.
I wonder what she's planning to do exactly thought kai.
Half an hour later they both stood at the edge of the river, having rented the boat for the evening kai was in the process of pushing the boat from the riverbed. They both jumped into the boat and helped each other row into the middle of the river. Cassy stood up gently in the boat and raised her blade into the air. With one flick of her wrist the blade went spinning across the glassy water.
Kai copied what she had done and impressed cassy first time by not letting it sink.
"nice one kai!" cassy said gently.
He looked across and smiled at her, a genuine non-fake smile.
She smiled back at him prettily.
After a couple of hours of watching the blade spin on the surface of the water, the sky started darkening and the wind had turned cold. Kai noticed cassy shivering in the cold, he reached down surprising even himself as he placed his warm jacket over the cold girl.
"thanks" cassy said surprised at his sweet gesture.
"your speed and balance increases with this kind of training." she said trying to make conversation after their stony silence.
"yea" said kai not looking away from his spinning blade.
Kai jumped up making the boat rock violently.
"oh god! my blade," shouted kai as both blades started sinking in the water.
"it's ok!" she said watching kai sit down uncertainly.
"how is it?" snapped kai.
"you can swim can't you?" smiled cassy with the cheekiest grin kai had ever seen.
"yea course" replied kai watching in shock as cassy started stripping off until she was only wearing a pale pink, kai stood up feeling the boat swaying slightly, he took off his clothes to his blue swimming trunks. Once they were in their swimming clothes they stood waiting for each other to move. On the spur of the moment cassy leaned forward and gently pushed both kai and herself off the boat and into the cool water.
The two of them spun through the water gliding, watching each other intensely. They were only distracted by the glimmer of their blades still spinning at the bottom of the lake. Cassy swam to the sandy surface watching as small fish swam round her.
Kai, mesmerized by cassy was watching her long hair floating in the water, she looks like a mermaid or something. He followed her to wear the blades were, he was smiling more than he ever had in his life.
He stopped treading water about a meter away from her. Her expression had changed.
something's wrong, very wrong!
Cassy had frozen, kai went cold as he as he saw the fear in her eyes. Nothing moved. Until, a dark matter formed he could see the outline of what had scared cassy so much. He had to do something it was getting closer, he looked down moving quickly grabbing both blades from the ground, and then he shot up picking cassy up in his arms. He swam fast gaining speed, he didn't know if it was following him but he had to get out of the water fast.
later
"a bull shark" repeated kai.
"yes young man it properly wouldn't have even touched you unless it was desperate." replied the boat rental man.
"what the hell was a shark doing in the lake" demanded kai. "they live in the sea don't they?"
"bull sharks can live in seawater and salt water lakes it's not uncommon, now where's my boat?" asked the irritable man.
"well…well…we don't really….know...because we were nearly eaten by a shark, I had to swim us to land" explained kai slowly.
"what the bloody hell were you playing at? Why were you even in the water? it's a fishing lake not a swimming pool." yelled the rental guy.
"we…we….we were attacked, cant you go get the boat back, all our stuff is on that boat like money and clothes, if you haven't noticed we're only wearing swimming stuff." yelled kai.
"look I can give you coats and shoes, I'll bring the boat back tomorrow morning" said the rental guy looking at the time.
"what do we do till then?" asked kai.
"you know what, that's not my problem because I'm off shift now." smiled the man nastily. "now here's two coats and a two pair of trainers, be back in the morning at nine-ish, till then get out of my shop!" he snarled nastily.
They watched as he drove away from the boat rentals hut. now they were outside it was much colder, the thin swimsuit material was useless and the coats weren't much better. They slowly started walking back to the hotel.
Kai was worried cassy hadn't spoken since he'd dragged her out of the water, she seemed pretty shaken.
"are you ok, shall we stop and rest?" he asked not able to hide the concern in his voice.
He didn't get a reply just a feeble shake of her damp head.
"I know" he said they came up near a busy main road there had to be taxis or even cars they could hitchhike from.
Kai ran forward to get a clear view of the traffic. Twenty minutes went by and then suddenly a bright yellow taxi came by. Kai flagged down the taxi driver and quickly got in followed by cassy, he stated the hotels address and then they were on their way. Cassy leaned her head on kai's shoulder and sighed quietly.
Halfway through the journey cassy raised her head sleepily and whispered.
"how are we going to pay for this?" before resting her head back down.
As they arrived at the hotel a doorman ran to open the car doors and kai in his best grown up voice said,
"can you pay this man cash and charge it to our room please?"
"of course sir" smiled the doorman.