Chapter 9
(A/N: Hehe, I had issues today, don't mind me, I'm just the crazy authoress, hehe. So, so out of it.)
Cole's POV
When Kale and I found the others and told them about how we had to go home ASAP, they thought we were crazy, but with some deep convincing with Kaleb as my punching bag, we left, but now we're waiting here in the airport for someone to pick us up so we can go to the hospital to prove how stupid our parents really are.
Normal POV
At the moment, Cole was literally sitting in the middle of the airport, legs stretched out in front of her scratching her head while she watched the others look for her. This was her way of getting amusement, seeing the others panic.
"There you are."
'Damn," Cole thought to herself as Kale came running up to her.
"What the hell were you thinking?"
"You wanna see my underwear?"
"WHAT?"
"Or do you want to take them off?"
"Not here, not now, later. WAY later."
"Okay!"
Cole quickly stood up, brushed off her skirt, and drug Kale to the nearest utility closet. (A/N: Oh yeah, we know where this is going, curse me and my dirty mind...by the way, has anyone ever seen a utility closet in an airport 'cause I've never been to one.
Kale had no time to react as the door shut behind him and Cole pinned him up against a wall.
"Cole, you don't want to do...what are you doing?"
"Hmm...I don't remember."
Kale looked at Cole and it finally hit him, Cole was DRUNK.
"Where did you get the alcohol?"
"The lady...on the flying this...she was really nice...she thought I was twenty-one."
Kale couldn't help but laugh, this was actually quite amusing, seeing Cole drunk.
'Note to self, get the others together and get Cole drunk for entertainment.'
"You think I'm funny mister...you're so sweet, hehe, your dad is SO cute."
At that moment, Kale's jaw had gone from beyond just hitting the floor to his whole body hitting the floor.
'That's probably the only reason she likes me 'cause I look like Yusuke.'
As Kale looked up at the drunk as hell Cole, he noticed that he could see up her short skirt, so seizing the moment, he "tryed" to look up it, but was stopped by Cole's boot hitting his face.
"Perv, I may be drunk, but you're ridiculous."
Before anyone could say anything more, the utility closet door opened and on the other side, there stood the others.
Cole piped up before anyone could say anything, "HE WAS TAKING ADVANTAGE OF ME!"
"You were taking advantage of me, you asked me if I wanted to see your underwear."
"I don't care who did what, our ride's here," Kaira yelled.
Cole brought her foot down and walked out of the closet behind Kaira, soon the others followed behind Cole.
Outside, Yukina stood by a giant van with no emotion on her face. Cole began to laugh, not at Yukina, but at the van.
"Kai, is she drunk?"
"Yeah, she sure is."
Yukina walked up to Cole so she could face her face to face.
"How stupid could you be, getting drunk, just another reason for us to look down on my brother and your mom."
"You can't talk about them like that. They're my parents."
"Yeah, and you're their little mistake."
"You...bitch," Cole muttered loud enough for Yukina to hear.
At hearing this Yukina raised her hand and brought it hard against Cole's face.
Everyone stood there, eyes on Cole, who was trying her best to hold back tears, but it didn't help as they began to spill down her cheek.
Yukina, realizing what she had just done tryed to comfort her neice, but Cole jerked away.
"Don't you touch me, none of you touch me."
Then Cole turned and took off running, leaving the others, who were glaring. Yukina caught their glares and she herself, began to cry.
"I didn't mean..."
"Too late mom, take us to the damned hospital and don't say a word to us."
With Cole
Cole sprinted down the street to her house just as it began to pour down rain. She ran up on her front porch and burst threw the door, to a dark and eerily quiet house. She then screamed loud enough to pierce glass.
She then ran up into her room and slammed the door behind her. She stripped of her clothes and went to her closet and pulled out a pair of baggy black pants that were lined with hot pink in the hems, she then pulled out a long sleeved fishnet shirt and put a hot pink tank top over it, then she stuck her thumbs threw a hole on each of her sleeves. She then ran to her dresser and grabbed a variety of silver chains and started hooking them on her pants and put on a black belt with hot pink spikes on it.
Cole then grabbed a big bag of make up and a jewelry box. In the bathroom she began to put on a heavy layer of eyeliner, followed by some black eye shadow with a hint of pink, then she grabbed a tube of pinkish purple lipstick and applied a heavy coat.
She looked down at the jewelry box sitting on the counter, it was time to show herself off, her true self.
She opened the box and pulled out a barbell and put it through the hole in her tongue, then she grabbed a her lip ring and put that in as well. She then grabbed another barbell, a smaller one, and put it threw the two holes in her eyebrow, then she grabbed her pink nose ring and put that in as well. Then she reached into the box and pulled out a handful of earrings, studs and hoops that now went all the way down her ear, some even inside.
She looked at her reflection, at her dark purple hair and laughed, she opened the medicine cabinet and pulled out a bottle of gell, she poured some in her hand, then bent over and began to spike her hair. When she came back up she looked satisfied at her self, except one thing, her bangs just hung there untouched, she put a little gell on her index finger and spiked her banged down so they hung in her face, now she was "happy".
Finally, for the last part of bringing her true self out, she grabbed a variety of black leather, spiked bracelets and chokers and put them on.
Before exiting the bathroom, she grabbed a pair of big, clompy boot and put them on, then she ran downstairs into the kitchen and grabbed her black leather duster and a set of car keys, then left for the hospital.
At the hospital
Columbia looked at Yukina with an expression even she couldn't explain.
"You mean Cole just ran off and none of you bothered to go after her."
The kids just looked down.
Columbia shook her head and turned back to Hiei, who was laying in a hospital bed after deciding to take Yusuke threw a patio door window, which they had a laugh about, meaning that everything was cleared up between the adults.
"Red, where is she?"
"I don't know, but she'll be here soon...I hope."
Kale watched how everyone was getting along so well, but he didn't feel as chipper as the others, so to get away from this he went out into the hall way only to run into some goth looking chick.
"Sorry."
The girl looked up at him through dark purple bangs, boy did she look familiar.
"Are my parents in there?"
"Who are you parents?"
"Duh, Kale and Columbia."
Cole just shoved around Kale as he stood there and watched as what had once been the happy, independent Cole walked into the room. He blinked, then followed her.
When Cole entered the room, everyone stared at the strange girl who had just entered the room. Cole shoved around everyone till she made it to the beds. She stood at the end of the one where her mom and dad were at.
Yusuke, who was in the bed next to Hiei's, just had to open his mouth.
"Whoa, goth girl, who are you?"
Hiei and Columbia look up at the purple haired girl at the end of the bed.
Hiei sighed, "Thanks alot Yukina, look what you did."
"What did I do, who is this?"
Cole looked up, her crimson eyes meeting her aunt's.
"Why, aunt Yukina, I'm deeply offended. You don't even recognize your own neice?"
A stunned silence went through the room, this couldn't be the Cole they had seen less than an hour ago.
"Cole?"
Cole turned around to face Kale who was apparently shock way more than the others.
"What's the matter Kale, you don't like what your girlfriend really is?"
"No, I'm just shocked a little bit, I actually like this."
Cole was a bit taken by that comment. He liked this, he wasn't afraid, initmidated. It seemed that her therapist was wrong, people did like her for what she really is.
"Mmm...Kale, come with me."
Cole grabbed Kale's arm and pulled him into the waiting room and made him sit down.
"You actually like the real me?"
"It's alot to take in, but yeah, it suits you alot better. You probably don't like me anymore 'cause I'm not some crazed goth."
"Okay, I won't say anything about the crazed goth comment, but just because I may dress different and my attitude, well hasn't changed, it doesn't mean I don't like you."
"Oh, okay, so what are you doing later?"
"Going home and sitting around."
"Okay, you seem to have your night all planned out, I'll just ask Liee if she..."
"My schedule just cleared up."
"That's what I thought, so ya wanna leave?"
Cole shrugged, that was her way of saying yes.
"Okay then what do you want to do."
Cole smirked, "You really want to know?"
"Well yeah."
"You're too naked, you need something."
"Naked, what are you talking about."
Cole smiled, she gently touched her lip ring, then touched Kale's lip.
"Nuh-uh, you are not piercing my lip."
"Who said I was gonna do it."
Kale shook his head.
"Come on, please do this for me, I'll even pay."
"If I do this, you're gonna pay for it."
Cole nodded.
"Fine."
Cole got a crazed smile on her face and drug Kale behind her.
(A/N: Sorry, no one's gonna get the graphic detail of the piercing.)
About an hour later, Kale sat in his living room with Cole laughing at him, due to the fact that he STILL had tears in his eyes.
"Why does it still hurt?"
"Oh come on, I bet you've had worse than this. It's not that bad, it didn't bleed as much as mine."
"Yeah, that makes me feel so much better."
Cole smiled, "You know there won't be any kissing for a while."
"Ooh, you're a sneaky one, aren't you?"
"Hn," was all Cole said just as she kissed Kale's forehead.
They both jumped as the front door opened and Keiko walked in.
"Kale, you here?"
Keiko then walked into the living room and looked directly at her son.
"Mom, before you jump down my throat, I did this out of my own free will and I'm eightteen..."
"I like it."
"WHAT?"
"What, you think I'm the boring kind of mom who doesn't let her son have his freedom and be himself."
Kale and Cole just stared.
"Just don't tell your brother I let you do that."
As Keiko was walking out of the room, she stopped and turned back.
"Oh and Cole."
Cole blinked, "What?"
"I'll pay you back."
"How'd you..."
"I'm just good."
Then she was gone, in the kitchen leaving Kale still in shock that his mom let him keep the piercing and not try to rip it out.
"Okay, if your mom didn't freak, what about Yusuke?"
"I have no clue."
"You're gonna get it, you're gonna get it, ha ha."
As Cole laughed, Kale pounced on her and began to tickle her.
"Kale, leave her alone."
"MOM, YOU'RE REALLY FREAKY!"
"I'm you're mom, I'm supposed to be freaky."
A silence then loomed in the room for a second, but was broken.
"Well Kale, I've gotta get going, mom's probably freaking out, so I'll see ya tomorrow."
Kale watched as Cole got up and grabbed her coat and went to the door only to be stopped by Keiko.
"Cole, your mom's staying at the hospital tonight with Yusuke and Hiei, so no one's gonna be home. Red already said you could stay here."
Cole looked from Keiko to Kale, who just stuffed his hands in his pockets and shrugged.
"Okay then...I guess I'll stay."
"Are you hungry?"
"Hmm...yeah, just a little bit, I mean I haven't eaten since, well, yesterday."
Keiko nodded and walked back into the kitchen, with Kale and Cole following behind her.
After they ate, Kale took Cole to the guest room.
"You can sleep here unless you want my room and I'll take this."
"Nah, it's fine. I just have one question, where's..."
"The bathroom's across the hallway, and I left a pair of my sweat pants and a t-shirt in there too."
"Black?"
Kale nodded, "Black."
As Cole began to walk to the bathroom, she stopped by Kale and hugged him tightly.
"I love you."
Kale stood there, yes he had said that before to her, but to hear it from Cole was something. Finally comprehending what she said, he hugged her back.
"I love you too, you psychopath."
Cole just laughed. She then let go of him and walked into the bathroom.
When she came back in, Kale was sitting next to the bed, obviously not paying attention, so being the "psychopath" she is, she jump on him.
"What the hell Cole?"
"That's what you get for not paying attention with me in your house."
"Thanks for the warning."
Kale looked at Cole now, she still had her piercings in but no make up and her hair was flat and plastered to her neck.
"What, you shocked at how different look without the make-up."
"Just a little, but it's cute. You're wearing my clothes, you're in the room next to mine, I'm happy."
"Heh, I bet you are. Well, I'm tired and I'm gonna sleep."
Cole got up and flopped down on the bed. She opened her eyes and looked at the end of the bed where Kale stood.
She sighed, "Come on. You're like a little kid."
Kale climbed under the blankets and wrapped his arm around the know stiff Cole.
"No funny stuff, got it."
When Kale didn't answer, she turned and saw that Kale was already sleeping.
'Cute, you're just to cute for your own good.'
Cole rolled back over and fell asleep in Kale's arms.
Can we honestly say, this is the LONGEST chapter ever? I had to make it long for the fact that today was really slow and I had to make the time pass quicker. Oh, and as for the description of Cole and her going back to her true self, I had to do it, so you'd slightly understand her "problem" that she and her parents keep talking about. So can ya honestly blame me.
I have no clue if the next chapter is gonna be this long, but this chapter I just laugh about 'cause it makes all my other chapters look sad. Doesn't it?
Oh, and for those of you who read my other story, "Sending Hiei Over The Deep End", well I won't update that till I finish this. I figure it would be less stressful on me to do one at a time, rather than rushing to get two done. So until then, this is it.
It's actually turning into summer here in Illinois, my parents put the, what I call, "Freeze Boxes" in and now I know it's summer, which for me sucks. Now I know I'm gonna get yelled at and get "Jen, why don't you go outside and get a nice tan instead of writing those stupid stories all day, you don't want to be pale." I have to be pale, wanna know why, well if I tan, I'll have to change my hair colour 'cause the red tints go better with pale skin...okay, that's just my opinion.
Yeah, so that's it for now, until next time my wonderful reviewers and non-reviewers.
Jen
