Hiya, chumps! About the fic that I mentioned in the last chapter, I'm not promising anything. I haven't decided yet, but if I do, it'll be short, maybe like 10-15 chapters. My main priority is to finish this story and the next one. If I don't come up with any good ideas for new stories then I'll write it.
Wreckless Spirit: Yeah, that story's line is going to carry on into the next story too.
Demolition Girl: Read and find out what evil plans I have. As for Mariam, I've already said she's going to appear after Kai and Jewels escape. I'm positive that she's going to appear in the next chapter, but then again, nothing goes according to plan sometimes...
Eden: I don't think I have mix up with my tenses, where did you notice that? I also asked 0bs3ssi0n about it and she said she never noticed it....so I'd really appreciate it if you give me an example or something.
John: Interesting idea.............I'll try to think of how it can fit into the story.
Kais-true-love: He didn't get tortured, all he got was a cut on the arm. Well, and a broken leg from the rubble.
Minijkitty: I honestly don't know how I do it. Lol.
Giro Wolf: Lol, that was an awkward place to make out, but it was the perfect time! I can't think of everything. Even though I think that's my job...
The-unknown-freak: It's going to be a fic, not just a chapter if it ever happens. I know what you mean. I love writing the story so don't worry, I'll try to update as soon as possible.
Clio: Why does everyone think that I'm going to forget about this fic if I write the Kai/Jewels one??? :S
Diamond Core: Inspire someone, now that's a bit.....overdoing it. I mean, it's not an inspirational story or anything. Yeah, you get my drift? I'm just confused this summer.
Crimson Shadow: I didn't write them on the same day. I posted the last chapter the day after I posted Chapter twenty-one. I didn't have that much trouble with it, unlike this chapter. Frustrated sigh
Launcher Strike525: There are tons of fics with Kai making out with a girl. I know what you mean though. I suppose he couldn't help himself when he looked into Jewels' eyes.
Puppalupp2008: I can't believe how many reviews I have either. It's like AMAZING! Lol.
a-A-a: Oh, well, they were only supposed to get one kiss, but instead, they got several. How good of a deal is that?!
0bs3ssi0n: Dirty Dancing was so good! When the parents saw them dancing, the expressions on their parent's face were sssooo funny! I laughed whenever the camera turned to them.
Sorry if I didn't reply to your review, but honestly, what can I say to someone that said, I vote for #2? Thanks for all your reviews though! You guys are the best! No, I mean THE best.
Chapter Twenty-Two – No One Said That Recovery was Fun
"WHAT?! What do you mean I'm confined in bed?!" Zarine yelled on Thursday. "I wasn't yesterday, so why today?"
"Sorry, but it was Master Kai's orders," said Chief Louie answered.
"What am I supposed to do all day?" she demanded.
"Sleep," he replied. "You need it, you still have a fever."
"I don't care about that! It's boring just to sleep all day," she pouted.
"Please, Zarine, go back to your room. If Kai sees you here when he comes back, he'll get angry at me," he pleaded.
"Fine," she huffed before stalking out of the kitchen. Muttering curses, she vowed to make sure that Kai will get an earful from her when she gets her hands on him. Confined in bed, indeed!
Halfway back to her room, she suddenly felt dizzy. Her head swam and she felt sick to her stomach. Sliding onto the floor, she sat down and decided to wait until the wave of nausea had passed before continuing.
"What are you doing out of bed?" Kai demanded, irritated, as he walked down the hall towards her with crutches. He had a new cast on his right leg and he was not happy about it.
"I was going to, but then I felt sick," she replied defensively. "Besides, how should I know that I was confined in bed before anyone had told me?"
He planted himself right in front of Zarine, and stared down at her. "Ray told you to stay in bed."
She shrugged, "He didn't say I wasn't supposed to get up."
"You should've learned your lesson after you nearly collapsed before you even got to the stairs yesterday morning!" he said sternly.
"But," she protested, "I actually made it to the kitchen this time."
He sighed, "Just go back to your room, and stay in your bed, alright? Don't get up to wander around."
Zarine scowled at his back as he limped down the hallway. "You'd think he would show me a bit of sympathy," she muttered to herself.
'You know he's right though,' Xeora told her.
'When did you get back?' she demanded. 'You shouldn't have taken so long this time!'
'Sorry,' her bit-beast apologized. 'But it's hectic here in my world. I'm the leader of my group so I need to take care of things when they get out of hand.'
'I know,' she sighed. 'I just wish you came back sooner.'
'Same here. What do you say to swimming in the lake tonight?' Xeora asked eagerly. 'We haven't visited our friends for so long.'
'Sure, I need something to look forward to!' Zarine answered, just as enthusiastic about the whole thing.
'Eh, you already have something to be excited about,' the ancient being reminded her.
'What?' the silver haired girl questioned, puzzled.
'You are looking forward to Ray's return,' Xeora answered smugly.
'Whatever,' Zarine said, sending a mental picture of her sticking her tongue out to her bit-beast.
"I'm so bored!" Zarine complained to Carrie and Jewels on the phone. "I have nothing to do."
"You can play video games," Jewels suggested. "Kai has Playstation 2 and Gamecube."
"If I ask him for it, all he'll say to me is 'Go to sleep,' or 'Go back to bed,'" Zarine grumbled. Ray was at school and Kai was still sulking in his room.
"Poke around in Ray's room then. I mean, most guys do have a game system," Carrie said, spooning some ice cream into her mouth.
"But it wouldn't be right for me to just snoop around in his room," Zarine protested.
"You're his girlfriend, he wouldn't mind," Carrie pointed out.
"I suppose," Zarine said thoughtfully, resting her head on some pillows. "I want to see you two tomorrow. I'm going to see if I can get Ray to let me come."
"Stop asking permission from him for everything," Jewels sighed. "You can't let him control your life. Well, to some degree, maybe, but don't let him have total control over you."
"Yeah. I'm going to look for a game system in Ray's room. I'll talk to you later," Zarine said hurriedly before hanging. The portable phone dropped from her hands to her lap. She didn't want to do anything to make Ray unhappy. What if he breaks up with her? That was more than she could stand.
Walking into her boyfriend's room, she noticed that there was a pile of letters on his desk. She made her way to it to see who they were from. Flipping through the letters, she found out that they were all from the same person, Salima.
She fought the temptation to read one of them. It was Ray's and if he wanted to share them with her, he would sooner or later.
She found the Gamecube after searching the cabinet under the TV, and chose to play Harry Potter and the Quiditch World Cup.
After a couple of hours of whacking Bludgers, shooting the Quaffle, goalkeeping and trying to catch the Snitch, she stopped and yawned. Feeling too lazy to get into her own bed, she settled herself in Ray's. She hoped that by the time she woke up, Ray would be back.
"Where's Zarine today?" Leo asked Ray in the hallway at lunch.
"She's sick," Ray answered curtly.
"Oh, it isn't anything too bad, is it?" Leo questioned, pretending to be concerned. Quite frankly, he didn't really care. It's his plan that he was more worried about.
"It's none of your business," the black haired boy snapped. "It's not like you care about her."
"Of course I do! She's my friend," Leo lied. Then he smirked, "Besides, she's so pretty, I wouldn't mind getting a taste of her."
Ray wasn't even aware of what he was doing. All he knew was that he was furious. He grabbed Leo by the collar and slammed him into the wall. "She's mine!" he hissed. "If you try to steal her away, I promise you'll be sorry!"
"Touchy, touchy," Leo sneered. "If you work on your temper, you might have a slight chance of keeping your girlfriend."
"Ray, what's going on?" Tyson asked when he saw them.
"Nothing," he answered before letting go of Leo and sending him a death glare
Kai was replaying the make out session with Jewels over and over again in his head. He still couldn't believe that he had kissed her. She was his best friend, but surprisingly, it didn't feel weird.
'Admit it, it felt great,' Dranzer said in a bored tone.
Kai's cheeks turned crimson at that comment. 'It did NOT feel great. It was awful,' he denied.
'Whatever, you know the truth in your heart,' his bit-beast told Kai.
The blue haired boy blocked Dranzer from his mind. He didn't need thoughts like that floating around in his head. He didn't even like Jewels that way.
'Then why did you do it?' a little voice in his head taunted. "You know very well that for a fact you were the one who kissed her first.'
'It was an accident,' Kai tried to use that as an excuse.
'What about at the sleepover? You would've kissed her if Max didn't barge in. Just admit the fact that you like her.'
'I don't!' he thought, frustrated.
'Denial, the first stage,' the voice laughed before leaving.
"So was it awesome?" Carrie asked her sister eagerly.
"I don't know. Everything was a blur," Jewels answered, blushing furiously. "All I know is that one minute the bomb exploded and the next we were kissing each other."
"Do you like him now? Do you think you're going to go out?" the green eyed girl questioned.
"I don't know," Jewels replied uncertainly. "I mean, I haven't really talked to him much lately. Besides, you know that Kai doesn't want to go out anyways." She looked a little miserable when she said the last sentence.
"He might change his mind," Carrie pointed out.
Jewels smiled a little, looking dreamy. "Yeah, maybe."
When Ray arrived back at Kai's, the first thing he did was go see Zarine. That was the only thing that occupied his mind. "Hey," he said when he found her in his room, standing by his desk. He felt happy to see his girlfriend.
"What's this?" Zarine demanded, holding up a letter from Salima.
"What?" he asked, bewildered as he looked at her angry face. What did he do? Looking at his desk that was covered with letters, he understood. Zarine had read the letters without asking him!
"You...you read them? Without asking me? I thought, I thought you wouldn't do that. I trusted you," he said, feeling a little angry himself.
"If I haven't read it, how would I know that you were having another girlfriend behind my back?" she yelled, the strain making her cough.
"I don't! She's just my friend. You weren't supposed to read them anyway!" he snapped.
"Then how would you explain all the 'I love you's at the bottom of the letters?" she shouted.
Despite himself, Ray started laughing. "What's so funny?" his girlfriend asked darkly.
"Look, we meant it like friend love, so you don't have to be so jealous," Ray told her, smiling.
"Maybe you don't mean it that way," she snarled, "But what about her? She totally have a crush on you, just listen, 'Ray, you have the most beautiful black hair I've ever seen. I dream of touching it one day.' Or, 'Do you know how good you smell? What cologne do you use? I want to buy it so I can be reminded of you every time I smell it.'"
He blinked. "I thought it was just cute. I didn't think it meant that she has something for me."
"How dense are you? She had hinted it in every letter, for god's sake! But I guess guys always have to have everything spelled out for them before they're get anything," she said, rolling her eyes.
Ray closed their distance with a growl and claimed her lips in a rough and demanding kiss, wrapping his arms possessively around her. She tried to break away, but he only put his hand on the back of her neck to stop her from moving.
After breaking off the kiss, Zarine thought that if Ray hadn't been holding her up, she would have fallen onto the ground. Her knees felt weak and her whole body felt unsteady.
"Does it matter who likes me just as long as the one I want is you?" he asked, his eyes burning into her soul.
She just stared at him, speechless. Giving her head a shake, she said, "You shouldn't have kissed me. I'm still sick."
"I had to make you see that I don't care about all the other girls out there, because you're here," he told her, his eyes softening as he saw the blush creeping up on her cheeks.
"Alright," she smiled, leaning on him. "Let's do something."
"What? Kissing," he teased before stealing one from her.
"No, I want to go swimming," she responded , looking up at him with puppy eyes. "Please, can we?"
"You're not suppose to get your hair wet for a week," he told her. "Anything else?"
"Rollerblading," she answered hopefully.
"You can barely walk around," he said exasperatedly. "Choose something that you're capable of doing right now."
"Fine, then biking riding," Zarine said.
"You can't," Ray stated flatly. "I'm not going to let you get yourself killed out there."
"There's nothing to do," she complained, looking disappointed. "I want to do something that's outdoors."
"No one said that recovery was fun." Ray said, then an idea coming into his mind. "Maybe there's a way to change that. Come on!"
"Are you sure that this is going to work?" she asked dubiously after he told her that she can sit on the bar in front of him while he pedaled.
"Yes," he assured her. "I'm not going to let you fall."
She nodded, still looking doubtful, before sitting down on the bar. "Wait," Ray said, running back into the house.
He came back a few minutes later with a sweater. "Here, put this down before you sit," he said, making a cushion for her with the sweater.
"You're so sweet," she remarked with a bright smile before pulling him into a warm hug. "I'm sorry I got so jealous earlier."
"Don't worry about it. Let's go and have fun," Ray grinned.
In a few moments, they were zooming down the street. Zarine laughed with delight as the crisp wind caressed her hair, cooling her hot face. Looking at Ray, she found him smiling at her. She returned the smile before turning her gaze back to the street again. She knew then, that she had made the right choice, coming to Japan to be with the one she loved.
This isn't the end of the story. Lol, just in case some of you thinks that it is the end.
Instead of compliments, I need a bit of criticism. It's not that I don't like compliments, I love them! But I don't want my head to get too big, ya know. No flames or anything like that though.
Poll: Have to think of one.... Do you think Kenny will get together with anyone in the story?
Yes, of course. You wouldn't leave him single while the others are paired up, would you? (Considering how evil I am..........this can be a possibility.)
2) No, he's too geeky to have a girlfriend anyway.
