Thanks for all the reviews. And I realized I've been spelling Mistel's name wrong, so now its spelt Mystel.
Kai smirked slightly.
"Am I that famous that there are fan clubs in my name on the other side of the country?" He asked no one in particular quite amused.
Milena snorted as she delivered a well-placed slap on the back of his head. "I'm serious! Just be careful of some of those girls." Milena warned shuddering at the thought of her brother with one of those whores.
Cathy laughed. This was why Kai wasn't really her type, despite being drop dead gorgeous, because, despite being silent more often then not and keeping to himself a lot, he was just as vain as her other guy friends such as Tala, Johnny or Enrique. Cathy burst into another fit of laughter as she tried to imagine Kai acting like Johnny, or even better yet, Enrique.
Kai raised a blue eyebrow at Cathy. "Do I even want to know what, or should I say whom you're laughing at?" He asked suspiciously. Cathy grinned conspicuously, as Milena caught on as well.
Kai scoffed. "I am not like Enrique!" He retorted before turning towards Mystel to explain what was going on.
Cathy blinked twice. "How did you know?" She demanded to know.
"You're way to easy to read." He answered before going back to his conversation with the blonde.
Milena sighed. It was well known in their clique that Cathy was completely readable by her expression, thus wasn't very good at keeping secrets, that it, if she didn't blurt it out already by accident.
"Oh yeah!" Cathy started. "Enrique, Johnny and I decided to ditch Tala." Cathy stated as if it were nothing. "After what he did to you that is, Johnny felt as if he could never forgive him. What about you?" Why are you still having around Tala anyways? Especially since Milena is your sister after all." Cathy asked curiously, not noticing a shadow pass over Milena's face at the mention of the red headed god.
"I couldn't ditch Tala. Even if he hurt you, Milena, he's my best friend. Besides, you should have prepared yourself for that if you were to like him, you know first-hand how much of a player he is." Kai replied with a tiny bit of sympathy in his voice for Milena.
Milena didn't answer, but kept Kai's words in her head, because she was still glaring intently at Cathy for bringing up this subject.
Once they got to the skate park, Michael, Rei, Ashley and a couple of other guys Milena recognized but failed to name were already there waiting for them. Milena still couldn't get over the fact that Ashley actually knew how to skate, let along like it, and it seemed that Cathy shared the same sentiments.
"You know how to skate?" Cathy asked incredulously.
"No, I just came here to hang out with my boyfriend." Ashley replied coldly, sneering at Cathy's sports shorts and tank. Milena sighed, she figured just as much, considering Ashley was wearing a white, almost see thought tank top and an impossibly short-layered pink skirt.
As if to prove her point, she latched onto Michaels arm to Milena and Mystel's surprise. Milena grinned, if Ashley was going out with Michael that meant then end of Michael flirting shamelessly with her! She thought happily, though she felt a bit guilty at the ill thought.
Later
"Heads up!" Mystel called stopping in front of Milena, kicking his board up so he could catch it about a centimeter away from Milena's face.
"What the hell Mystel?" Milena screamed as she jumped a safe distance away from the tan blonde.
"Sorry!" Mystel laughed. "I couldn't resist! You were so zoned out!" He laughed heartedly as he jumped back into the half pipe and sped away.
Milena smiled lightly as she shook her head. Mystel really reminded her of a little kid at times.
A sudden scream interrupted Milena from her thoughts as she looked over to the slowly gathering crowd beside the railings. Milena could tell that Kai was amongst them, near the middle, after all, the pointed blue-ish gray hair was hard to miss.
"Move!" She demanded as she pushed her way to the middle. Once she reached the center, she tolled her eyes. Ashley was in the middle, clutching her ankle and whimpering pitifully. Michael and another guy were trying to support her, trying not to let her put any weight on that ankle, which didn't exactly look hurt to Milena.
Cathy seemed to notice that too, so they both glared at Kai, who was in the middle of the whole scene and left.
They went to a local Tim Horton's across park and they each ordered an iced cappuccino and a pastry.
"Can you believe that girl?" Cathy asked in disgust.
"Che. I had to put up with her for the whole two months I had left in school." Milena replied.
"Haha. I wouldn't have wanted to be you!" Cathy laughed and took a huge slurp of her cappuccino.
"Sure." Milena said, giving an all-knowing smile.
Cathy glared at her blue haired friend. "I don't trust you with that grin on your face." She commented raising an eyebrow.
They stayed there for another half an hour, before Kai and Mystel came in and told them they were going somewhere else.
"Where are we going?" Milena asked curiously.
Kai and Mystel exchanged a smirk.
"It's a surprise." Mystel said and nothing more, commenting on how he had to concentrate on driving, while Kai just leaned back and closed his eyes as usual.
When they pulled up to an enormous sprawling mall Milena and Cathy groaned.
"Your big secret was taking us to the mall?" Cathy asked in disbelief. It was a known that Cathy hated shopping.
"Nah, I'm just stopping here to get something and to waste time, since we can't get in until after 9." Mystel replied grinning, purposely leaving out what wasn't going to open until 9.
Once they went in Kai and Mystel wandered off, telling the girls to meet them at the food court at 7. Cathy glanced at her watch. They had an hour to kill.
The first place they stopped at was HMV. They didn't actually intend to buy anything, just to wander around and listen to some music, or at least that's what they planned to do, but their plan was ruined when they found out that all the music in the CD players were oldies.
A sign above them explained it all in giant black block letters.
"60's week! Blowout sale!" Milena read aloud, as they both sighed and left.
"Hey! Look! A toy store, want to go in?" Milena asked unusually cheerful.
"Ugh, why not, since we have nothing better to do." Cathy replied unexcitedly.
"Yay!" Milena cheered laughing.
"Sugar high?" Cathy asked raising an eyebrow.
"Not really, just plain cheerful." Milena laughed.
"Ooh! Look! It's Pumba!" Cathy exclaimed hugging a giant 4' Pumba doll.
"Look who's hyper now." Milena commented sarcastically.
They began feeling a bit awkward after about 6 parents gave them odd looks.
"Haha! That was fun. Where do you want to go next?" Milena asked happily.
"I don't really care. Want to just keep wandering/" Cathy suggested.
"Sure." Milena agreed getting on an escalator.
After a while, for some reason, they didn't catch a glimpse of Kai or Mystel, which Milena found a bit weird. Although Cathy could have sworn that she saw the top of Kai's head in some dark, almost deserted run down store.
"Do you really think you can pull this off?" Kai asked cynically, trying to suppress an urge to smirk evilly.
"It should, considering we spent a small fortune on these ID's." Mystel argued holding up the small stack of laminated cards.
"I think the money we spent on Cathy was a waste though." Kai commented monotonously.
"Why? After all, Milena's going, so we can all drag her there!" Mystel pointed out laughing.
"I'd rather not, after all, I love my life and I don't want to lose it at the age of 18." Kai told the blonde.
"Just by dragging her…?" Mystel started.
"That can lead to death." Kai informed him.
"Yo!" Cathy called out running down the escalator as Milena followed suit. Mystel quickly shoved the cards in his baggy jeans.
"We're done here, do you guys want to leave?" Mystel asked casually.
"Hell ya!" Cathy exclaimed all to quickly.
Later, as they pulled up into the parking lot of a new trendy dance club, Cathy took one look at it and was about to jump out of the car.
"Why the hell are we here for?" She demanded to know while trying to unbuckle her seat belt.
"I made some fake ID's so we can get in to the club." Mystel told the girls grinning.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Cathy growled narrowing her eyes.
"Hmm, I just thought of something. Mystel and I can probably get in with no problems since we look 21, but Cathy and Milena might have a little problem." Kai realized, especially Milena, considering she had a cute baby face, and the same went for Cathy, though now as badly.
A solid thud was heard as Cathy punched Kai square in the jaw. She the got up and brought her face close to Kai's.
"What the hell was that supposed to mean?" She screamed in his ear.
"It means you're immature." Kai replied as a matter of factly. Though he earned another solid punch on the back of the head for that comment. He growled threateningly. It was bad enough to get hit, but when he couldn't even defend himself? That was just low, but for Cathy…His left eye twitched a little, but other then that, he decided wisely to keep his mouth shut.
"So are you going?" Milena asked hopefully.
"Fine, but I'm going to be a rock that's eating…wait, I don't trust the food."
"Who cares, let's just go." Mystel urged parking the car and getting out.
As soon as they walked in, trouble had found them. Once they got past the ID check and walked into the pumping music, Kai punched a guy for leering at Milena in a very wrong way.
"Yo man, you think you're so great, bet you'll just get beat. You're such a fuzz and I'm gonna kick your ass!" A group of guys around 25 approached Kai, the leader rapping.
Kai looked at the guys. Stoned punks. He thought sneering, but the sneer was wiped clean off his face when he got a smooth punch in the gut.
"Screw you!" he yelled clutching his stomach. That seemed to trigger everything as two guys ganged up on Mystel and the other two on Kai.
Cathy and Milena stood in the front looking at the scene worriedly, not sure how to interfere. Mystel was sporting a bleeding nose and lip, as well as a black eye, not to mention other bruises that would be all over his body. His usually neat braid was in shambles and coming undone.
Kai's situation was even worse. He had never looked so pathetic in his life. Apparently, he was doing fine with the two guys until more of the gang members joined in. He was being held firmly on the ground, with six guys circling around him, all kicking his, and one guy was even stepping all over him. Finally, the leader, an incredibly muscled man of about 27, was going to deliver the final move by jumping onto the now stomach up Kai.
Milena cringed as she waited for the agonizing scream, but one never came, thanks to an interruption by Cathy.
" Why are you beating him up?" She asked, though the answer was fairly obvious. Her eyes were filled with worry and concern for her blue haired friend.
"We were the most popular kids in town. Every girl would trip for us. Then came this clown, who came on a bus they took away our crown." The leader rapped to the beating music.
Cathy raised an eyebrow, sighed then rapped back. "You all just jealous of him. Keep down you wish you were the clown. But you guys all have no way of solving without fist. You can't do anything with out a hass'." Milena eyes popped open. Let's just say Cathy didn't exactly have the greatest rapping skills… scratch that, she had no rapping skills.
Suddenly, Ashley and a few of her friends walked up, as well as a few of their boy toys. Although Ashley wasn't exactly happy when Michael ran off somewhere when they heard the commotions, Ashley went straight there and saw a guy who looked extremely like Michael.
"Where did you go?" She screamed and slapped the guy, having mistaken him for the Michael who deserted her in the dark club.
"What the fuck?" The guy complained but when he got a fairly good look at Ashley he put on a sleazy smirk. But Ashley wasn't paying any attention to him. She was staring at her hand going in shock. She had broken a $50 nail that she had just gotten done that afternoon. She started shrieking and bringing justice to her deceased nail.
To everyone's surprise, she somehow managed to scare the guys off.
Cathy would have never admitted it, but she was fighting a losing battle. Four punks against one. If it weren't for Ashley's feminism, they might have gotten beaten up pretty badly, or worse killed.
"Ashley! You did something useful for once!" Mystel praised holding a hand to his stomach.
"Shut up Kehl!" Ashley retorted.
Cathy and Milena decided to see how Kai was doing, considering he was having a difficult time getting up.
"You ok?" Cathy asked kneeling down.
"My head…" He moaned.
"Ow!" Kai protested painfully.
"Shut up, I'm doing the best I can." Milena scolded placing an ice pack on Kai's back, though it was more like dropped it 4 feet.
"Remind me to never go to you for medical help." Milena didn't reply. She hated how the night ended.
Mystel went home with quite a few shoeprints and bruises on him, but other then that he was ok.
Milena rolled her eyes and checked her watch. It read 2:32.
Cathy still wasn't back from her walk. Milena knew that she wondered off a lot of the time but she usually knew the area pretty well. That and she didn't have any money or a cell phone on her. Before Milena's worry got out of hand, Cathy came walking in holding a mint chocolate chip flavored ice cream cone.
"Leave it to you to only get one." Kai commented dryly.
"It would have melted while I was walking back." Cathy shrugged as she turned on the T.V.
"Is there anything good on?" Milena asked while cleaning up the ointments while Kai went to go take a shower.
"Um…Hey, isn't that Hilary Tatibana the news?" Cathy asked
"The actress and heir to Tatibana Inc.?" Milena asked, "the whore right?" She rolled her crimson eyes.
"Look at the crowd…hey, isn't that Tala?" Milena glanced closely at the flat screen. Cathy was right, it was Tala all right; the twin spikes of his were definitely one of a kind. He was accompanying Hilary as she stepped out of her stretch limo.
"Hey!" Cathy protested as Milena grabbed the remote away from her and switched to an infomercial.
"What's wrong?" Cathy asked densely.
"Tala Ivanov." Milena mumbled.
"Come on, get over it, it's not like the guy doesn't care that you left without a word."
"He what?" Milena asked so she could hear it again.
"Huh?" Cathy asked not getting that her friend was asking.
"He cared that I left?" Milena grabbed Cathy by the collar.
"Well, he's known you for as long as he knew Kai so of course he cares."
"What did he say?"
"God, practically strangled me, same with Tala." Cathy rolled her eyes. "He also demanded to know where you were. He said something about you owing him $70 and he thought you were hiding it from him and yeah." Cathy, who was obviously not good at cheering people up, had no idea how much those words hurt Milena.
"Did he say anything else?" Milena asked hopefully.
"Well, I told him that you were gone for good and he said, no more uh…um cat got my tongue." Cathy rolled her eyes. "I'm really tired." She got up and went to her so-called room, despite Milena's protests. Since here eyes were barely open, she walked in to Milena's room instead. A few moments later, she came out with a rugged, old, brown teddy bear.
"What's this piece of rug doing in my bed?" Cathy asked yawning.
"Hey, give me that!" Milena demanded grabbing the bear into her arms.
"You still have that piece of shit?" Kai asked rubbing his wet blue locks with a white towel.
"So, I don't know where I got it, but I somehow know it's special to me…" Milena just barely whispered hugging the bear tightly to her chest with a serene yet melancholy look on her face.
Kai rolled his eyes. "Stupid, you actually forgot."
"You know then?" Milena asked hopefully.
"Oh yeah, I just happen to keep track of all your toys and where they come from." Kai answered sarcastically.
"Whatever, I'm going to sleep now if you don't' mind." Cathy mumbled and actually walked in the right room.
The days came by as quickly as they went. Cathy and Kai left before Milena could say "yay." After they left Milena missed them a lot, but University starts in a week, which left all of Milena's spare time preparing.
Milena had decided to live in a dorm for easier access to campus and friends, since her apartment was about 20 minutes away from campus.
The University of Toronto was great. Milena had decided to take a master's degree after the first four years. She had decided to become a psychiatrist. She had decided on that after she had left Vancouver.
Relationships. Big word. She couldn't understand it. But she was sure that she could figure it out. After all, it wasn't just her that had these problems. Milena sighed. She had to admit she really did miss the red headed boy. Even though he broke her heart and all, she still cared for him deeply. Though, even though she wouldn't admit it to anyone, she still cared about him as much as she did 2 years ago when she first fell in love with those bright turquoise eyes.
Week later
Milena groaned. How hard could it be to find a single room in a single dorm? Apparently very hard.
"398…" She muttered to herself. "Ah ha!" She cried out loud as she inserted the key in the lock. She walked in and saw a girl with spiky red hair.
"Salima!" She exclaimed happily. She raced to her and gave her a hug.
"Hey Milena! I didn't know that you were going to University of Toronto!" Salima smiled returning the hug.
"Well, we're roommates, how coincidental!" Milena exclaimed happy that her friend was also going to be her roommate.
"Not just me, Rei, Mystel, Michael are here too!" Salima informed her.
"Michael!"
"Yeah, he figured out which courses you'll be taking and he's taking the same ones." Salima smiled slightly at Michael's tactics.
"Greeatt." Milena muttered.
"What are you taking?" She asked changing the subject.
"I want to be a teacher, hopefully one for the littler kids." Salima replied. "What about you?"
"Psychiatrist."
"Oh really? My cousin Brooklyn wants to become one too! You might just be in many of his classes!" Salima exclaimed.
"Then why don't you bring him to the café and I'll bring Rei, Mystel. And why not, Michael." Milena asked.
"Ok, how about after our first class? What do you have?" Salima asked.
"Human relations…you?" Milena asked checking her schedule.
"Same, haha, we might be in more of the same classes then we thought!" Salima pointed out at their schedules, they also had English and History together.
Human Relations Class
"Milena! What a pleasant surprise!" Michael exclaimed pretending to be innocent.
"Cut the crap, you totally planned this." Milena raised an eyebrow.
"So?" Michael asked smirking.
"Hush class, I'm Mr. Motrey and I'll be your Human Relations professor.
Milena quickly scanned the class for a place to sit. The only empty space left was beside a boy with flaming orange hair, almost the exact same as Tala's. Milena stopped dead in her tracks, she couldn't sit there, it would feel to weird, considering that's where she sat in another social studies class back in Vancouver. She also felt another pang of sadness at the reminder of Tala.
"Miss, please get a seat." Mr. Motrey snapped.
'Short temper." Milena thought and sighed, guess she would have no choice. She managed to avoid talking to the guy for a whole period. As soon as the bell rang, Milena went straight to Mystel and Michael to head over to café.
"Hey, what dorms are you guys in?" Milena asked the guys. "We're all in Drigger Dorm." Mystel told her. "I'm roomies with Michael. Unfortunately." He added laughing. "And Rei's with some…" He paused trying to remember the guy's name.
"Brooklyn Kingston." Rei interrupted.
"Brooklyn…isn't that Salima's cousin?" Milena asked.
"Yeah, you were sitting next to him." Rei informed her.
"What…" Milena thought in horror…the guy that looked unbelievably like Tala was actually the 'Brooklyn' she was talking about…Salima's cousin…café…Milena's eyes widened in horror, she had been so rude to the guy and now she was going to meet him. Milena sighed; she wasn't exactly looking forward to this meeting, especially if their personalities were also replicas of each other's.
R&R please. What do you think of it so far? Brooklyn finally comes in…sort of;;. And check out my other fic Meteor Garden, we finally got a one of the climaxes.