Chapter 13
'Nothing, absolutely nothing.'
Cole sat in her apartment staring at her computer hoping for an e-mail from her mom or anyone for that matter.
You see, it has been almost five years since that phone call to Kale's and Cole had, in her way, moved on and got on with life. This meaning that she didn't run away, but stayed and went to school as usual, stayed friends with the others, but never talked to Kaira or Kale.
After graduation, Cole and Yumi had partnered up and opened up a club called Pagan, but it's not a club for witches, just your ordinary club that became a big hit with the younger crowd, but the occasional older person did come in every once in a while and since Cole's birthday was tomorrow and she would be twenty-one, they where going to begin a new schedule where there would be days that the older crowds could come in and drink.
Giving up on the e-mail thing, Cole got up from the computer and went off to bed, but lay there till atleast three until she finally fell asleep. (A/N: Hmm...sounds like me, then after three, I DIE...or in better terms, I go into a deep sleep.)
The next morning Cole was awaken by her damned phone ringing constantly off the hook, she needed to learn to turn that damn ringer off before she went to bed.
Cole poked her head out from underneath the covers and looked at her called ID, no suprise to her, it was blocked, so she sighed and picked up the phone only to go deaf.
"HAPPY BIRHTDAY COLE!"
"Yumi, you do realize what time it is, right?"
"Um, Cole, it's almost two in the afternoon."
Cole sighed, "Exactly!"
With that, Cole slammed the phone down, leaving Yumi stunned in the other end.
'Damn people think I'm actually gonna be up before five, they're nuts, birthday or not.'
Cole pulled the covers back over her head and rolled over only to be disturbed by a knock at the door.
"Go away."
The knocking continued.
"GO AWAY MOTHER!"
Silence finally came. Cole smiled at her "victory" and started to doze off when it happened.
"You shouldn't have given me a key, 'cause I got in."
Cole silently cursed to herself and brought the covers down from her face to see the demoness herself.
"There's the birthday girl."
"You do realize what time it is?"
Columbia shook her head, "Do you realize that's the only question you ever ask anyone?"
"Shut up...where's dad?"
"He didn't want to come fearing you'd kill us if we woke you up."
"He thought right for once."
"Oh shut up," Columbia said as she walked into the kitchen and came back with two 20 oz cups of what Cole hoped was a cappuccino.
Cole stared, drooling at the two cups, "Cappuccino?"
"What else would it be."
"Well hand over the caffine woman."
Columbia shook her head and handed over one of the cup, watching as her daughter drank half of it in one big gulp.
'My daughter, the caffine addict.'
"Stop that?"
Cole looked dumbfounded at Cole, "What would you like me to stop?"
"I know you're thinking about my addiction to caffine. So, what kind of scheme are you guys gonna do this year for me?"
"Yumi agreed to close the club tonight and we're gonna have the party there."
"I feel like I'm six again and we're going to Chuck-E-Cheeses."
Columbia looked down at her watch and back up at Cole.
"I gotta go, more scheming to do."
Columbia then got up and left, leaving Cole to sit there and remember to tell her mom one last thing.
'Yep, I'm doomed, THEY'RE gonna come now.'
About an hour later, after attempting to fall alseep, Cole gave up and got out of bed.
Meanwhile, back with Columbia, she grabbed her cellphone and called the last person Cole would ever want to talk to.
"Hello?"
"Kale, it's Red, you know that party for Cole tonight, well you better show your cute little ass up tonight."
"Cole'll shoot you and me."
"But she doesn't know the truth, so I think you at least owe her that."
"...fine..."
"Good then, see ya then."
Click.
Later that night around eight or so, is when everyone started to show up. Cole sat at the bar with her head in her arms due to her "wake up call" earlier this morning.
Yumi and Kaleb sat on both side of Cole staring at the entrance to the club waiting for you-know-who to show up.
Kaleb glanced over at the door and saw Kale walk in, so he reached over and nudged Yumi who looked over at the door too, then she looked back at Kaleb and gave him the nod.
"Hey bro, 'sup."
Never had anyone seen Cole's head pop up as fast as it did when Kaleb mention Kale.
Kale slowly and cautiously walked up to where Yumi, Kaleb, and Cole were sitting.
"Hey guys, Cole."
Cole just shook her head and took off for the back office.
Yumi looked over at Kale and with her eyes, she motioned for him to go back there with her.
In the back room, Cole was pacing back and forth like a wild animal, mumbling many BAD things to herself.
"Cole?"
She stopped dead in her tracks.
"Cole, can we talk?"
"Talk, TALK, about what Kale, about how you ditched me for my cousin and thought it would be amusing is you didn't tell me?"
"That's not what happened, we..."
"What Kale, what 'really' happened?"
"It was a joke Cole, a big joke that me and Kaira thought you wouldn't take so seriously."
Cole just stared over at Kale.
"I swear Cole, it's the honest truth."
"...You mean, I am an idiot?"
"Yeah, basically."
"Oh my, oh my geez, why didn't you tell me instead of making me suffer for five years."
"Hmm...the suffer part."
"You're sick, you know that right?"
"So I've been told."
Cole shook her head.
"Oh, and your mom is really creepy, she told me that I better bring my cute little ass here tonight."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah, it was disturbing."
"I swear, the woman is loosing it, so sad."
"Yeah...so what do we do, where do we go from here?"
Cole shrugged.
"You wanna go out there and say you beat me unconcious or maybe...Cole, what are you staring at?"
Kale got a bit nervous as Cole got closer to him, apparently staring at something on her face.
"You kept it, I'm suprised."
"What?"
Kale finally figured it out when Cole touched his lip. He did keep the lip ring, why would he have gotten rid of it. At the time, it was the only thing that he had of Cole when she thought he was cheating on her.
"Yeah, I kept it, what, you thought I wasn't."
"No, I mean yeah, I mean...not really. I just thought, I don't know, I have a headache."
Kale patted Cole on the head, "Remember, if you think to hard, your head starts to hurt."
Suddenly Cole felt comfort and relief wash over her and she felt home and just as Kale began to take his hand off her head, Cole grabbed it and brought his hand to her cheek. She needed that warmth, that feeling that he was with her again and yet there it was.
"Am we interupting something 'cause we hope we are."
Kale and Cole looked over and saw Yumi and Liee peeking through the door.
"Hey Kale, should we, ya know, kill them?"
"After you, birthday girl."
Yumi and Liee both "eeped" and ran through the club with Cole and Kale tailing behind them.
Hiei, who was in a corner by himself, smiled at his daughter.
'Damn kid's gonna be way to happy for her own good now.'
The others on the other hand, made "cute" noises as the couple ran after Liee and Yumi.
So, everything was back to normal, more or less, but what was gonna happen next?
That is not a cliffhanger and it's not the end, honestly, I have no clue how many more chapters there are left, I just keep thinking of random things like that. What a mind I have, eh?
Hmm...yeah, this is all coming from a mind full of PMS and cramps, sorry, I'm just, yeah, PMSing. Let's just hope that doesn't get anyone killed, right? Plus, I know something's up 'cause I'm, okay, I'm not wearing all white, but a very light grey and it's making my mom scared, HA, yeah, she's really weird.
Yeah, this is what a crazy girl does when she's bored, she goes through all the videos that she has taped stuff on and watched two of the sadest, in my opinion, episodes of Angel, which is the one where Cordelia ends up dying in her coma, if you didn't know that I AM SORRY and the last episode of Angel and Wesley dies in that episode, yet again, I'M SORRY. Then I watched the last episode of Buffy, and yeah, Spike and Anya died in that, SORRY AGAIN, so I cryed alot last night, and that was around two in the morning.
Yeah, that's it.
Hehe...
Jen
