A/N hey I know there hasn't been much time for you to review, so I'll let you off this time. I have also worked out why Dylan had to go, he was just too nice, don't you think, I mean there's sweet and then there's sickly and Dylan could be a bit sickly, although he's got a bit more kick-ass since dying, in my mind anyway! Hehe, anyway here's the next instalment, oh and sorry these chapters have been building up and introducing more people, I think there'll be a bit more action in this one.
"So were your parents ok with you coming out?" Yasmin said, turning round to face Keaira who was sitting in the back of Ali's car. They had just picked up Tom, who was sitting next to Keaira in the back; the others were going to meet them at the beach. The boot was full of stuff, beach ball's umbrellas and even a mini fridge. Keaira had a big bag of different clothes on her knee, Yasmin had said to be prepared but it was so hot that Keaira couldn't see the need for the woolly jumper she had packed.
"Yeah they were fine, call if you're late but that's about it." Keaira left out the fact that she would actually witch message her mum. She didn't really feel comfortable discussing Wicca with these people.
"Oh cool, we'll be there in about half an hour, I think other people from college are going too." Yasmin said, spinning back round to face the road and comment on Ali's driving.
About 45 minutes later (they'd got caught in a bit of traffic) Ali pulled into a small car park, it was already quite packed but he quickly manoeuvred into a small spot, there was no space on Keaira's side so she had to climb over to get out. When she was out she felt a chilly wind blowing of the sea that was a welcome change to the stuffiness of the car journey. She shielded her eyes from the sun and looked out at the beach, there were umbrellas and towels dotted everywhere. The sea was a bright blue and she could see some people were swimming and surfing. It was a really pretty place, and great for teenagers to hang out. She sighed thinking how good it would be if she'd been able to come here with Dylan, then she remembered how mean he'd been in the dream.
"Keaira, you coming, we want to get a good place by the water before this place really gets busy!" Yasmin shouted and pulled Keaira over to some steps, they carted the stuff down onto the sand then found a nice place to put the towels and a big beach umbrella. Keaira had 2 towels, one to lie on and one for if she went into the water, she felt she was definitely prepared. A few minutes after they'd sat down other people began to join them, some she recognised vaguely from college and some she'd never seen before, they all seemed nice though and most made an effort to try and talk to her.
"So who's coming in the water?" Ali said, surprising Keaira because he hardly ever spoke.
"Me!" said Yasmin and Keaira together, Keaira pulled off her T-shirt and shorts, she had a new bikini that Moira had bought for her after college yesterday. Half the group did the same and they ran into the water. It was freezing. There were a lot of screeching from the girls and splashing from the boys. Keaira smiled, and looked back at the group at the beach a couple of others had joined them, both with surfboards. She was dragged back to where she was as Tom jumped on her, dragging her under. She came up spluttering and hitting him with a stray flip-flop that had floated past,
"Who's is this?" she said laughing.
"Ow, that's mine! You hit me with my own flip flop!" Tom said, laughing. Keaira was getting cold so she decided to head back in, Yasmin caught up with her.
"Hey, having a good time? Wanna sunbathe, I've got like a whole range of suncream, although I bet you only need 15, I need like 40 or I just completely burn!"
"Yeah thanks," said Keaira, still a bit baffled from the pace at which Yasmin's mind raced.
They waded through the water to the towels, and then Keaira realised who had joined them, Kai. She almost stopped but then kept going she wasn't going to let some stupid guy stop her from sunbathing with her friend!
She went and sat down, and started covering herself with the suncream Yasmin had brought. She felt the back of her neck prickling and realised someone was watching her. She looked up and saw it was Kai, she almost looked down but again caught herself and held his gaze, scowling. He looked down and Keaira smiled as she saw he was blushing slightly. Then he and his friend grabbed their surfboards and headed into the water.
"Hey, why you looking all, grr at Kai? Don't you like him or something?" asked Yasmin, passing Keaira a bottle of lemonade.
"No its just, he was horrible to me for no reason and he doesn't even know me,"
"And now you're going to be horrible to him, even if you don't know him?"
Keaira scowled at Yasmin, "that makes to much sense!"
A little bit after Yasmin said she was going for some ice cream with Ali. Keaira decided to stay there, lying in the sun. Suddenly she started getting wet.
"Hey what do you think you're doing!" she shouted sitting up suddenly.
"Sorry!" said Kai; "I just got back from surfing, yikes!" Keaira sat with her arms crossed glaring at him. Then noticing no one else was there she said;
"Oh is Sarah not here, what ever will she do without you protecting her!"
Kai's face darkened, "shut-up, like you'd know anything, you're stupid enough to be put under a spell for 3 years, by your own father!"
"You bastard!" Keaira screamed, jumping up and punching Kai hard in the stomach, he doubled up and she kept hitting and scratching him, he tried to shield his face but she kept whacking him until he fell over, pulling her over too. He rolled over and tried to pin her arms to her side.
"Stop it, you're so bloody crazy!" Keaira stopped thrashing,
"Get off me!" She growled.
Kai rolled to the side, gingerly feeling his face, it was cut and bruising already.
"I'm gonna have a black eye because of you!"
"You deserve it, why did you say that?"
"Well why did you say that about my cousin,"
"Excuse me you said the first thing, yesterday, I didn't do anything, she came over to me!"
Kai looked down, "oh I didn't know that, I guess I'm sorry, I did kind of start this," he smiled slightly, "but did you really have to beat me up! You better not tell anybody!"
Keaira tried not to smile, "oh yeah and what are we gonna tell people,"
He thought for a second, "shark attack?"
Keaira laughed, shaking her head at him, "I doubt they'll believe that, but not my problem! But seriously, why are you so protective over Sarah "
"I guess it's just because well my mum used to look after her so we grew up together, and she took losing Dylan really hard,"
"She doesn't seem that upset to me really,"
"People grieve differently," Kai said,
"Yeah someone else told me that," Keaira said smiling,
"Who?"
"Oh erm, never mind, anyway I'm sorry too, for beating you up,"
"We agreed never to talk about that!" Kai said laughing. He has a nice laugh thought Keaira,
"So what's with the hair I mean are you going for the surfer look?"
"Well yeah don't you like it?" he said, running his hand through it,
"Yeah but does it have to cover your eyes? I don't even know what colour they are!"
"They're green look," he pushed his fringe back and moved his face right next to hers.
"Yeah now I think I'm blind," he smiled and laughed.
"Look you seem really nice, but my cousin thinks that you…" he was interrupted by Yasmin and Ali coming back.
"Hey what happened to the grr thing? I bought you an ice cream but I was hungry so I ate it sorry!"
Keaira laughed. She was staring to feel really happy, she had some nice friends, and Kai seemed to like her now too.
That night she dreamed of the meadow again.
"Oh so it's ok for me to be here now is it?" she said pouting.
Dylan smiled, "I'm sorry, how was the beach?"
"It was good, I've made some very nice friends,"
"Yeah Kai's nice isn't he?"
"How do you know about Kai, have you been spying on me Dylan?"
He blushed, "what me, no I just erm… well"
Keaira laughed "that's ok I know you just can't bear to be without me!"
On Monday morning Ali and Yasmin picked her up,
"So are you 2 going out, you're always together!" Keaira finally asked, and they both blushed,
"No, no of course not we're just… good friends." Yasmin said
"Yeah ok, good friends, of course!"
That lunch Keaira got another visit from Sarah, this time she was standing in the queue when she heard a voice behind her.
"Hello Keaira, if it isn't our little,"
"Sarah, stop it!" Kai interrupted her, putting a hand on her shoulder, "come on leave her alone."
"Look Kai I don't know why you're defending her, we all know what she is."
"And what exactly is that?" Keaira asked, she knew that Sarah and Kai were blood witches too so it couldn't be anything to do with that.
"Well the police might not be able to prove it, but I know the truth, Dylan told me!"
"What? The police? What are you talking about Sarah?"
"Sarah stop it now!"
"Well we all know you're a murderer, you killed your father and you killed Dylan, I guess its not your fault, it is in your genes after all!"
Keaira couldn't say anything, she looked at Kai, "and you think this too, you were talking to me yesterday thinking I was a murderer? I... how could you!"
"Keaira I…"
"Oh shut up, shut up!" Keaira shouted dropping her tray and running off.
A/N well hope you liked this chapter, I want loads of reviews, and I hope you can see how the action is going to start! But I still have twists up my sleeve for you yet!