Authors Notes: I'm so sorry about the long wait for this chapter. Thank you for your reviews I agree with you about the lack of Kai/Max slash. Anyway again sorry about the long wait. bows There's no excuse apart from the fact I had forgotten where I had saved this so... Here it is the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I own nothing apart from the plot and the carboard box i lived in.
Warnings: Swearing, SLASH
Pairings: Max/Kai, Tyson/Rei others undecided.
Finding the Light
A few hours later Max was lounging in his room reading an Anne Rice novel. He had decided that he wouldn't go to the cliff tonight and he didn't know how happy that had made his mum. The worst thing in the world for any parent was watching as their child became miserable and sad when they should be happy and smiling. The phone rang but Max ignored it, continuing to read the novel. Anyway it wouldn't be for him, he hadn't given anyone his number. Also no one liked him so who would want to ring him?
"Max it's for you!" his mother called happily up the stairs shocking Max. He soon frowned though because he hadn't given anybody his number. He put down the book and walked to the phone on his desk. He picked up the phone gingerly as if it would bite him any second and held it to his ear.
"Hello?" he said cautiously as he heard the click on the other end, which signified his mum, had put down the phone, and waited for a response.
"Hey Maxie!" came the bright happy voice that belonged to Tyson. Max sighed with relief thinking it had been Michael wanting revenge for Kai earlier on. He then grinned when he finally realised who was talking to him.
"Hey Tyson! One question how did you get my number?" Max asked.
"Well buddy we looked in the telephone book and found your number!" came the happy response. Max had to wonder if Tyson was on drugs. How could anyone be that…chipper?
"Oh ok so what do you want?" Max asked taking the phone to his bed and laying down on it.
"Oh nothing just wanted to chat to my new friend," Tyson responded.
"Tyson be serious," came Rei's voice.
"Rei how are you speaking at the same time?" Tyson asked his voice sounding as if someone was talking to him from the dead.
"We do have more then one phone," came the sharp response. Max smothered a laugh. Tyson was kind of an idiot.
"But you're in the garage with Kai and there's no phone in there," Tyson stated.
"Because you idiot we have the cordless phone in here with us," shouted Kai from the background. Max couldn't take it and burst out laughing. Both Kai and Rei were speaking to Tyson as if he was a child who had to be taught to stop wetting the bed.
"Don't laugh that's really mean," Tyson stated. Max just continued to laugh, imagining the boy pouting.
"Ok it seems that Tyson isn't going to be serious so it's up to me. The reason we are calling you is because we wanted to know if you wanted to come over. We're having a movie night like we usually do on Fridays and Tyson wants you to come over," Rei explained. Max smiled. He felt happy for once, although he still felt a bit cautious which made him hesitate. What if this was just a clever plan of Michaels to make him drop his guard and then when he least expects it pull a hurtful prank on him.
"Come on Maxie say yes please don't leave me with Mr Sourpuss and Rei. They like all those movies that have a story when I prefer horror with action and Kenny likes the Matrix. What type of movies do you like?" Tyson asked quickly. Yes that proved it. Tyson was on drugs.
"I don't mind I like all type of movies but yeah I'll come round," Max stated. After all he could deal with anything Michael threw him. He couldn't let the fear of Michael stop him from having a life and maybe, just maybe this was the real thing and they truly did want him to be their friend.
"That's cool. I'll come and pick you up in ten minutes. Kai told me where you lived. You'll have to stay over, as it'll be late when the movies finish. Is that ok?" Rei asked. Max knew that Rei was the practical one who always thought things through.
"Let me just ask," Max went to his bedroom door and shouted down to his mum asking if he could sleep round his friends. His mum, so pleased that he had friends, readily agreed.
"I'm allowed," Max exclaimed when he got back to the phone. A large grin was plastered on his face making him look like a blonde Cheshire cat.
"YAHOO, you better get ready then see you when you get here. Bye Maxie," Tyson exclaimed in a childish voice. Max laughed as Tyson hung up.
"Like the idiot stated be ready. See you in ten minutes," came Rei's response and then he too hung up. Max grinned and grabbed his sports bag shoving in his pyjamas and underwear. He went to his bathroom and grabbed his toiletries. He looked at himself in the mirror and saw how the sparkle in his eye was starting to return. All because of some people who had only came today. He couldn't believe how fast everything had happened. He didn't care though he was just glad he had some friends. He only hoped that this wasn't a trick. He wouldn't be able to deal if his friends were taken away from him. Having had something and then have it taken away from you was a lot worse then never having it in the first place.
Ten minutes passed and Max heard the loud horn from a car. He looked out his window and noticed Rei was out there. Max ran down the stairs saying goodbye to his mother and was out the door in a second. He was literally bouncing to the car.
"Hey Rei!" Max greeted chirpily.
"Hey Max get in then," Rei stated smiling, amusement shining in his amber eyes. Max got in the car and watched as Rei expertly drove the car though he couldn't help but compare Rei to Kai. Whilst Rei was talented in driving he didn't seem as natural as Kai. All the movements Kai used whilst changing gear seemed to flow and as if he was part of the car whilst Rei seemed a bit jerky and as if he had been trained to drive since he was young, not from natural talent. Max shook his head, why was he so interested in how Kai drove or how he seemed to flow with the gears? That sounded corny. He hoped he didn't say that in front of Kai. He could just imagine his face. He shook his head. He had to get Kai out of his thoughts. Otherwise he might slip one day and say something very embarrassing. He looked out the window and saw it had started to sleet.
"I knew it would snow," Max sighed. Rei looked at him.
"It's sleet so it isn't really snow," Rei stated as if it had heard him the weather changed to full snow and it was falling heavily.
"Ok so maybe it is snowing," Rei grinned and Max grinned back.
"I told you," Max said sticking his tongue out at Rei who raised an eyebrow in return. Max looked out at the snow before turning back to Rei.
"Rei why do you want to be my friend? You all seem the type who wouldn't want to hang around with somebody like me," Max stated sadly, snow always made him despondent. Rei turned to Max and saw the sadness in his eyes.
"Max we may seem that type but we're not like that. We saw you and thought you would seem a good friend and Tyson instantly liked you. When we saw you getting bullied by that guy Michael I think Kai said well we figured that you were like us. We all got bullied once well maybe not Kai but we don't know anything about his past. Max trust us we can always tell who would be a good friend and that's you so stop worrying ok," Rei stated smiling softly. Max smiled and nodded and soon turned his attention to the road. When they turned down a road that seemed for the well off. He instantly knew where they were. Michael and Emily and all his friends lived down here.
"Why are we here?" Max asked.
"We live here that's why," Rei stated. He came to the house right at the end of the street that seemed the biggest.
It was a large manor that had ceiling to floor windows and three garages. There were about five cars on the drive. All with different designs and Max saw Kai's car and there was also a sleek black motorbike with red slashed down the side like blood. All around the manor was a large black gate that had electrical wire on the top.
"All the gates are electric so don't ever touch them unless you have pressed in the code," Rei stated. Max nodded and looked at the manor with large eyes. There was what seemed to be a large garden around the back, which was perfectly manicured. Rei punched in a code and the gates opened. Rei drove in.
"Whose cars are these?" Max asked.
"The Phoenix, the plain fire and the grim reaper cars are Kai's and the blue lightning and the tri dagger cars are mine," Rei said stopping the car.
"Who's the motorbike?"
"Oh that's Kai's as well. He first drove motorbikes then turned to cars," Rei said shrugging going to the boot of the car and grabbing Max's bag. He handed it to Max and walked to the house. The front door opened and out ran Tyson, he ran up to Max and hugged him.
"Maxie!" he exclaimed. Max laughed as they walked into the house, Tyson keeping a tight hold on Max's arm, who was sure that his arm was going to go blue from lack of circulation. They started telling jokes to each other. He turned around and noticed that Rei was still out there.
"Aren't you coming Rei?" Max asked noticing out the corner of his eye that Kai had come out of the garage and was looking deliciously manly in blue overalls that were tied around his waist, black boots, a white wife beater shirt that had oil stains all over it as well as over his jean overalls and face. He noticed that without his scarf Kai seemed to have a very powerful neck and his arms seemed very muscular. Max could just imagine being held in those arms. Max tore his eyes quickly away from Kai, horrified by what he had just though after all he wasn't gay!
"No me and Kai are going to put the cars away in the garages. We don't want to get them wrecked in this weather," he stated pointing to the snow, which had gotten heavier. Max noticed that he was getting colder. Tyson dragged him in.
"Max you are shivering and you've only been standing out there a few minutes," Tyson stated. Max just shook his head.
"I feel the cold easily."
"Wimp!"
"Am not!" Max cried before cutting off as he felt the warmth from the manor. He looked around at the entrance hall of the manor and saw how rich it looked instantly feeling out of place. After all his house wasn't even half the size of this manor.
"Come on I'll show you around whilst Kai and Rei move the cars. Max followed Tyson as he showed him upstairs. Thankfully Tyson had let go of his arm and Max winced slightly as he rubbed at the elbow to bring back the circulation. Tyson sure did have a tight grip.
"We'll start upstairs because then when we come down we can go straight to the room we have dubbed the cinema," Tyson explained seeing Max's inquisitive glance as to why they were upstairs. Not that he minded. Upstairs was as beautiful as what he saw downstairs but don't people usually show the bottom of the house before going to the top. They walked up the grand staircase, which stopped so you could get off at the first floor and then started again so you could go to the second. The top of the second flight of stairs was pitch black and Max hoped Tyson would turn on the lights when they walked up there, otherwise there was going to be an accident. Due to Max thinking they were going to the very top he put a foot on the bottom step of the second flight of stairs before instantly being pulled back by Tyson. Max looked at him his eyebrow raised.
"Aren't we going up there?" Max asked curiously. What was so back about the top floor, which would cause Tyson to react like that?
"No Max that's Kai's area. We're not allowed up there. He has taken the whole top floor. None of us know why he needs the whole top floor but when we asked he became so angry it was scary. He said it was his business so we just left it," Tyson explained pulling Max away from the stairs, his face showing fear. Max took one last look at the stairs then followed Tyson to the bedrooms all the while thinking about the secret floor. For some odd reason he started thinking of beauty and the beast but Kai was no beast.
Max loved all the bedrooms he was shown. All the rooms had large four-poster beds and were all styled to fit their owner. Tyson's was blue and silver with a picture of a large dragon that was called Dragoon. In Rei's room it was silver and green like his car and the same white tiger was on the wall, which Tyson said was called Drigger. Kenny's room was like any computer fanatics would be. There were computer parts everywhere. Max had to be careful where he trod otherwise something sharp could end up embedded in his foot or crushed, and because he didn't know how much each thing was worth he didn't want to take the chance.
They then walked downstairs and Max was shown the gym, which had a bey dish and was top of the range with every part of gym equipment you could think of. The kitchen was humongous and modern and then they went to the living room, which had a computer and a large CD player, a large T.V and pictures were all over the walls. Max went up to one large picture and smiled when he saw it. It showed Kenny and Rei sitting on the hood of Kai's car whilst Kai was arguing with Tyson who seemed embarrassed.
"Like the picture?" Tyson asked. He turned and smiled.
"Yeah what's Kai shouting at you for?" Max asked.
"Well I kind of scratched his car with a key and then put in the wrong petrol," Tyson replied. Max laughed. He looked at the other photos and he smiled by how normal they seemed, how much like friends they were. All the pictures, which had Tyson and Kai in, usually showed them arguing. Max loved this room. They walked back out and Tyson showed him to the games room that had air hockey and Tyson cast a guilty look at Max's bandaged up hand. Max though noticing Tyson's look said nothing, just wanting to forget about the whole incident and about how it felt for Kai to hold his hand.
"Tyson there you are," Kenny stated coming out of a side door, causing both Max and Tyson to jump.
"Hey Kenny don't do that. You'll give us a heart attack."
"Good because then maybe I'll get some peace and quiet," retorted Kenny and Max had to admit that was a good comeback.
"Fine, be that way you Meany don't expect me to save you any food at breakfast," Tyson pouted.
"Like you do anyway?" Kenny snorted.
"Oh leave me alone. What do you want anyway?" Tyson was in a mood a now, even Max could tell that.
"We're going to put on the movies so you better get ready," Kenny stated.
"Get ready what do you mean get ready?" Max asked finally speaking up after the little argument.
"Well we watch so many movies they don't usually end till three in the morning and we are all dead tired. We once stayed in our every day clothes and they became so wrinkled and dirty and we had pressure marks from belts and such we decided that every time we have a movie fest we wear our pyjamas because then we can go straight to bed," Kenny explained. Max nodded and Tyson, who was still sulking, led him to the spare room where he would be staying. It was just like all the other bedrooms apart from the fact it was done in neutral colours, just white and cream.
Max then changed into his baggy black checked bottoms and his very large Avenged Sevenfold t-shirt he had gotten from an old friend a long time ago. He walked out of his room and met Tyson in knee length shorts with a baggy white t-shirt and shin length socks. They walked down the stairs and into a door Max hadn't been in. It seemed he was in an actual cinema. Kenny was already there in shorts and t-shirt both grey and he still had his laptop. Max wondered if Kenny ever went anywhere without it. Rei was also there in baggy black bottoms with a blue t-shirt his hair was still wrapped. Then Max looked over at Kai and inwardly gasped.
He looked normal and dare he say it, hot. Max groaned when he thought that but decided he would think about it later in more detail. Kai had washed off the blue triangles so he seemed human and was wearing a baggy khaki green army top (tank top) and long baggy dark blue cotton bottoms he was also bare foot. Max saw that Kai was actually really muscular. He also noticed a small black tattoo on his right arm. He couldn't make out what it said but the picture looked like a phoenix. Max was shocked. Kai actually had a tattoo, which were supposed to hurt like hell. He wondered if Kai cried or moaned from the pain or was he his usual emotionless self.
"We've got pizza and as we didn't know if you like the same as us so we also got plain," Rei stated breaking Max from his reverie.
"Huh? Oh thanks. I like all pizza really," Max grinned hoping no one caught him staring at Kai, he could see that going over well with all of them.
"A man after my own heart," Tyson spoke up already gobbling up pizza. Max sat down in a comfy red chair, which coincidently was next to Kai. Kai nodded his head in greeting then turned back to the scene, which had started with the opening credits of The Chronicles of Riddick. Max folded his legs up beneath him and watched the movie munching on his pizza and drinking from the bottle of coke Kai had given him from the small cooler by the side of him. He had really gotten into the movie and by the time it ended he wanted to see the prequel to it, Pitch Black. Also he was now a fan of Vin Diesel.
"That was a really good movie," he said when it had finished. All his new friends looked at him and agreed, even Kai though he wasn't as vocal as Rei or as hyper as Tyson and they then put in the movie wrong turn. It started and Max watched morbidly interested as the blood and guts were spilled, and the deaths of the characters and laughed when Kenny became so scared he hid behind his laptop.
"Scared Kenny you never know one of them could be outside this house at this very moment and coming for you wanting to suck your blood," he said in a Dracula tone of voice, pulling back his lips showing his teeth. Kenny cried and scrambled out of the room. Max laughed, as did all the others there.
"You wouldn't think he was sixteen would you?" Kai stated. Max turned his head and shook it.
"Good one Maxie. You are definitely one of us now," Tyson spoke up and Max smiled widely at that. They had admitted it, he was one of them. He couldn't believe he actually had proper friends now. He couldn't believe that he had thought this was all a prank of Michaels. Kai then stood and put in the movie of his choice. It was called Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Max was shocked to see that it was a deep story with good action and it even made him cry at the end, not that he would admit it afterward. During the movie he had looked over at Kai and noticed how deep he was into the movie. When the little girl was taken and then Denzel Washington's character was blamed Max had to smile when he saw Kai gripping the arm of the chair tightly as if it had happened to him.
He was just about to say something when Kai covered his mouth with his hand. Max was so shocked his mouth opened and his face heated up feeling the hand on his face. He cleared his thoughts before turning and looking at him. Kai pointed to Rei and Tyson who was fast asleep. Max had the sudden urge to go aww. Tyson had his head on Rei's shoulder and was hugging him like one would a teddy bear. Rei in turn had put his head on top of Tyson's and wrapped his own arms around Tyson's waist, almost possessively. Max smothered a laugh and looked at Kai who smirked and held out a digital camera. Max had to put both hands over his mouth to stop his laughter from waking them up. Kai took a picture of the two and then walked out the cinema room motioning for Max to follow him. Max stood up and looked over his shoulder and giggled again as he saw that Tyson had rolled onto Rei his arms moving from around his waist to his chest and curling a fist into Rei's top.
"Are you coming?" Kai whispered, poking a head back into the room before smirking at the scene in front of him, he took another picture. Max then padded out after him and down to the room with the computer in it. He turned on the computer connecting the camera to it.
"What are you going to do?" Max asked leaning over Kai's shoulder trying not to think about how close he was Kai but instead watching as said male opened up the camera program. He laughed as he saw the two pictures.
"What should we put on it?" Kai asked turning his head to Max. Max became so absorbed in Kai's eyes his mouth responded before thinking.
"L-love," he mumbled. Max watched in horror wondering what Kai would do but he thought he was talking about the picture.
"Love, mm, how about young love just like a teddy bear?" Kai stated. Max nodded not trusting his mouth. All he kept seeing was Kai's eyes so close to him. Kai typed it in and then printed out a large A3 print as he had one of those large printers. He smirked then stood up taking the picture.
"What are you going to do with it?" Max asked following the taller and older male.
"Just watch," Kai said mysteriously going out into the hall. He walked to the large blank wall and put the large pictures up on it. Max grinned.
"Perfect," Kai stated smirking back at Max.
"Well I'm going to bed goodnight Max," Kai stated and walked up the stairs and then up the other set. Max watched him go then looked at the picture wishing that it were him and Kai.
Back up where did that thought come from. He groaned as he walked to the bedroom he was staying in and getting into the bed. That was all he needed to be even more of a loser. He couldn't be gay could he? After everything that has happened fate wanted to screw with him even more by making him fancy the one person he could never get. He groaned loudly punching at the pillow before lying back sighing. Yes fate had definitely screwed him over this time.
Authors Notes: Here you go Fall Angel I told you i would put some Rei/Tyson action although partly. I hope you all like this chapter. Please review it makes me want to continue.