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ON WITH THE CHAPTER!
Chapter 15 – All a daze
"So that's the last bag?"
"Yeah," Hilary answered Kai, sounding rather depressed.
That was it; all of her bags were in the car ready to go off to her mothers. They both weren't happy with the decision. They had been living together for close to two months, they hand a friendship, a bond, maybe more and now Hilary was leaving. She blamed guilt for her choice.
"You know Kai I don't…"
"I know." He said quickly not letting her finish, he didn't want to hear it.
"My moms expecting me around 3, its 2, you wanna go get coffee?" she asked meekly.
He looked at her, she wouldn't even face him; she kept her eyes glued to the trunk of his car where her bags were. They were both unhappy, now that she was leaving, nothing seemed right anymore.
"Sure."
Tyson's Dojo
"Alright, something is defiantly going on with those two!" said Tyson suspiciously.
"Why would you assume that?" asked Chief
"Look at the facts, their both two hours late for practice, not that I'm complaining, always looking at each other when the other isn't looking, plus we caught them holding hands!" he said proving a point.
"He's right, I never thought I'd say this, but Tyson is right." said Rei.
"Thank you Rei for agreeing…HEY WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT! Are you calling me stupid!" hollered Tyson
"No I'm saying I never thought you'd make such good observation that's all." Rei remarked smartly.
"So your saying I'm blind!" Tyson inquired.
"You're hopeless." Rei continued
"Oh, now I'm hopeless!"
"Never mind you two! Just go out back at start your drills!" Ordered chief
"Yes chief." The three boys said a little scared.
With Kai and Hilary
They only shared small talk during their coffees, it now felt uncomfortable. It was strange how two people who felt so relaxed in each others presence could now feel so awkward.
Kai backed into Hilary's drive way, and parked.
For a couple of moments they just stared down at each others hands in silence. Finally Hilary spoke up.
"Kai, I'm going to miss-"
"Your mother's probably waiting." And with that he got out of the car, not giving her a chance to finish.
She just sat their as his door closed, her eyes starting to water up.
Why was he being so hard?
When she heard the hood of the trunk pop open she quickly wiped her eyes dry and got out of the car. She wouldn't brake down in front of him for a third time, she wasn't that weak.
By the time she got to the back of the car he had all her bags out, picking up two leaving her with one to carry to the front door. Standing at the door they placed down their bags,
"Are you going to knock?" asked Kai.
Hilary said nothing back, she thought for a couple of moments, silently staring at the door. The watery eyes started to come back. She didn't want to leave him, she didn't want it to look like she was betraying him and leaving.
And just like that she wrapped herself around him, hiding her head in his warm jacket on his chest,
"Please don't hate me…please." She begged.
Again he was incomplete shock, he didn't hate her. Deep inside he was hurting, hurting because he was going to be alone again, because she was leaving, and he knew deep down he could never hate her. Slowly he responded by wrapping his arms around her small body.
"Never." He whispered into her ear as he slipped a spare key into the pocket of her windbreaker.
They stayed like that for few more moments, and that's all it took for Hilary's mother to open the door and catch them.
"Oh my..." she spoke.
Startling them, they jumped out of each others arms,
"Mother…"
"Let me help with the bags," Kai put all three bags inside the door of Hilary's house,
"Good bye, see you around." And he left in his car as quick as a blink of an eye.
"Not a very polite boy is he now, didn't even say hello." Hilary's mother Remarked,
Hilary just stared off, in a daze, looking at the road Kai car drove off, her fingers outlining the key Kai had put in her pocket,
"He's special mom."
She just looked at her dreamy-eyed daughter as if she was crazy.
"Well, don't just stand there, take your bags up stairs to your room, and be ready in an hour for dinner, I have someone coming over for you to meet." Hilary's mother said as she left towards the kitchen, it smelt like she was cooking.
"What if I don't want to meet this person…?" Hilary said to herself, knowing that her mother couldn't hear her.
A half an hour later Hilary had only got one of her bags unpacked, looking at her watch she decided it was time for a shower and to start getting ready for this 'visitor' that they were expecting.
Tyson's dojo
From Hilary's Kai drove straight to Tyson's place, even with all that was on his mind he didn't forget about the boys training, even if he was 3 hours late. Surprisingly, he walked around to the back of the dojo and saw them already training, pretty hard too. He was impressed. He walked over and sat down beside chief,
"Training without me making them?" he asked.
"Well, I pushed them a little." mentioned chief.
"Have you seen Hilary, she hasn't been here yet, we thought she might show up with you."
"Why would she be with me?" Kai replied bitterly to chief.
"Just an assumption." Remarked chief
"Don't assume." Kai said angrily. Then got up from sitting beside chief and went to scream at the boys about something.
"What did I say…" Chief said to himself.
"…touchy touchy."
Hilary's
Pinning the front pieces of her hair back she looked over herself once more in the mirror,
"Well it's not getting much better then this…" she sighed
She was wearing faded tight jeans with a cute white peasant shirt, with little puffy white sleeves, and an elastic waste under her chest making the rest of her shirt flow out to the starting of her jeanss.
'I wonder who could be coming, must be someone important seeing as she didn't even have the time to greet me when I got home, she just got back to cooking god knows what.' Hilary thought.
She walked down the stairs to find her mother in a tight, red, long sleeve, v-neck dress that went to about her knees. Even though the dress was at a decent length, the tightness of the dress brought out her cleavage too much, she wasn't exactly proud to see her mom in this particular outfit.
"Oh dear your down, "She looked over her daughter and didn't give an impressed look but didn't say anything since the door bell disturbed her.
"Sit down and behave." She commanded and then left to the door.
Hilary looked over herself one more time before sitting down, 'What's wrong with me?'
Soon Hilary's mom walked into the dinning room with a rather handsome looking man linked in with her arm.
"Hilary, this is Higoshi, Tenchi, me and Tenchi have been seeing each other for quite some time now and I thought you should meet him, so Tenchi-Hilary, Hilary-Tenchi."
They both shook hands and exchanged hellos. Hilary didn't like to make quick judgments but from the first word that came out of his mouth she could tell he was unreliable and non-trust worthy.
Her mother had out-done her self with preparing a beautiful salmon for dinner and setting the table ever so elegantly. Conversation went on between Tenchi and her mother; very solemnly would Hilary say a few words. She was uncomfortable. Soon her mind drifted back to Kai, back into a daze.
"Hilary? Hilary!"
Her mother's voice brought her back to reality.
"Sorry," she apologized meekly
"Sorry about her, she's probably thinking about that boy again, you know the one I mentioned before."
"Mom, you told him about Kai!"
Hilary was disturbed to see that her mother was speaking about her to some strange man.
"Hilary, don't even think of raising your voice! You're not to see him again anyways, he's a rude boy." Her mother ordered back.
"Excuse me, he's my friend, I should have the right to see him!" Hilary argued back.
"Hilary, listen to your mother." Tenchi booming voice came in.
"You're not my father!" Hilary remarked bitterly towards Tenchi.
"HILARY, STOP THIS INSTINT!" and with that Hilary received a slap against the cheek from her mother.
Hilary then lowered her head in shame, being slapped in front of someone made her feel embarrassed as it would anyone else.
"Sorry about her, she gets out of hand, since her father left anyways. She never dared to raise her voice when he was there. That's another reason, Hilary, we, Tenchi and I, have decided it's best he moved in with us." Her mother announced
"You sound like you need a father figure around with that mouth of yours." Tenchi added in.
"Plus, we are very much in love." Added Hilary's mother
Hilary went speechless.
First, her mother made her feel guilty and got her to move back home, not even aware her mother was seeing anyone and after one evening she was told a strange man she had meet for the first time was moving in?
"Excuse me?" Hilary whispered.
"You heard, Tenchi will be moving in with us. Now finish your dinner, and then clear the table, we'll be in the living room." Her mother and Tenchi then walked out into the living room leaving her to clean up the dinning room, still trying to take in what had just been said.
She didn't bother to finish her dinner; she just threw out what was left, which was most, and started on the dishes. Slowly washing each dish in a complete daze she had finally finished, she peeked into the living room see what her mother and 'Tenchi' were doing. Quickly she turned away; she didn't want to see them slobbering all over each other the couch.
Checking the clock over the stove she noticed it was already 11:30. She creped her way up stairs to her room, closing the door she flopped down on her bed. She laid there hugging herself, not even bothering to change. But she couldn't fall asleep; she kept thinking how the hell she fell for her mother's guilt trips, now she was suffering.
After an hour and a half of staring at a wall she couldn't take it, she could still hear them down stairs doing god knows what now, she had to leave. Grabbing her windbreaker and slipping it on, she then opened the window over her bed. Slowly she put one foot on the vine fence her mother had up one side of the house, then another foot. Safety she reached the bottom, and now she left for the only place she knew where to go.
Morning
The sun rose on the east side, its warm gleaming light shimmered on their sun-kissed faces.
Kai and Hilary lay face to face in his bed, him under the sheets and Hilary lying beside, on top of the blankets in her clothes from the pervious night.
Slowly they both flickered opened their eyes due to the sun light. Then found them selves gazing happily into each other eyes, a small, joyful smile appeared on both of their faces.
"Good morning." Hilary whispered with a smile,
"Good morning to you too." He replied with that same smile.
A/N: FINTO, I don't know about this chapter…please review. Commentary is welcomed.
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