Chapter 3- To Lose Everything
"I should have seen it coming..." Kai thought. He was sitting in a hospital waiting room, his clothes covered in Rei's blood. (Author- would the hospital let him walk around covered in blood?) "I can't just sit here... I need to call the others."
Kai walked out into the hall, on his way to a payphone he had seen earlier. Once there, Kai found his hotel room key and some change in his pocket. He dialed the hotel's number off the key.
"Hello? This is the..." a man answered.
"Can I talk to Max Tate?"
There was a pause and the sound of a keyboard clicking.
"Room 224?"
"Yeah..."
The next voice that came over the phone was Max's. "Hey-lo" Max answered.
"Max..." Kai said, his voice shaking.
"Oh, hey Kai! Are you okay? You don't sound so good. Are you and Rei gonna come back to the hotel soon?"
At the mention of Rei's name, Kai lost it. He began to shake and sob so much that Max wondered if it was really Kai on the other end.
"Kai... what's wrong?"
Kai finally calmed down enough to speak. "I'm at the hospital... it's Rei... he didn't see the car..."
Max's happy, energetic voice fell. "Oh God... we'll be right there Kai. Don't worry..."
"Yeah," Kai whispered.
"Okay, see you in a few minutes," Max said.
"Okay..." Kai replied, his voice still shaking.
Kai hung up the phone and began to slowly walk back to the waiting room. He had managed to stop sobbing at least...
"... that boy who got hit by a car." Kai heard someone say. He whirled around to see two nurses talking.
"Yeah," one said, "they just finished working on him in the OR. He almost didn't make it. He lost so much blood, and his heart stopped at one point too..."
"But he's stable now right?" the other nurse asked.
"Yeah," said the first, "that kid's got some will to live..."
Kai could no longer hear the conversation as the nurses walked on down the hall.
Rei had almost died...
That thought ran through Kai's head over and over and over as he walked back to the waiting room.
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"He's stable for now," Kai recalled the doctor saying, "but I'm afraid I can't tell you when he'll wake up. He might not wake up..."
Kai couldn't bear the thought of that. For almost two days he had sat a Rei's side, willing him to wake up. "Koneko please... please open your eyes. What will I do without you? I should have told you before... that I love you. I love you..." Kai buried his head in Rei's blankets.
"Kai..." came a sudden whisper.
Kai looked up and his eyes met with a pair of amber ones. Kai couldn't even speak.
"I ran out into the street, didn't I?"
Kai nodded.
"Baka," Rei said to himself.
Kai was crying.
"What's wrong?" Rei asked.
"I was so worried about you..." Kai said. "I thought... I should have told you before... but I couldn't... I... I love you Rei."
Rei smiled sadly. "I knew Kai."
"But..."
"It didn't matter that you never actually said it to me. I knew you loved me. Actions speak louder than words."
FIN
Author- Dramatic, ne?
