Chapter 8

Late Night Intruders

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I jumped in surprise as I woke to the sound of shattering glass. As I jumped, my body became tangled in the soft sheets and I crashed ungracefully to the floor. The now knotted sheets muffled the involuntary yelp that escaped my lips and a groggy moan soon followed.

I searched blindly for the bed and clung to it, using it as leverage to pull myself up. Shrugging the sheets off I tried to walk, only to crash back to the floor. Sitting up, I pushed the bundle of sheets off my feet to prevent any further tripping.

My numerous falls still hadn't managed to wake me up completely and I climbed, half asleep, to my feet once more. This time I managed to get a few steps before my foot collided painfully with an unseen object. Maybe I should think about sleeping with the lights on...

I winced as my foot began to throb and gritted my teeth against the pain. If you haven't noticed, I'm quite clumsy in the dark. And as if to prove this point, I somehow managed to trip over the sheets again. How the hell did the sheets get under my feet anyway?

I had nearly caught my balance when light suddenly flooded my vision and caused temporary blindness, which in turn caused me to topple to the ground for the third time in about thirty seconds.

My eyes adjusted quickly to the bright light and I tilted my head backwards to see who had cut it on in the first place. I felt my face heat up as a light blush spread across my cheeks. I 'eeped' in embarrassment and lifted my hands to cover my face in an attempt to hide my blush.

"You alright?" Kai questioned, an eyebrow raised in uncertainty.

I nodded my head vigorously while still holding my hands in front of my face. When he didn't move from the doorway I remembered that I was still lying on my back from when I had tripped. I hurriedly jumped to my feet and tossed the sheets onto the bed before turning back around to face Kai.

"Did you need something?" I asked slowly.

Kai shook his head, "I was just about to go see what all the noise was when I heard you fall."

Well that's just great; one of the only people that has ever been nice to me and I go and make myself look like a complete idiot. Today is just starting out great wouldn't you agree? I mentally slapped myself before returning to reality. Kai was still looking at me so I began hurriedly trying to come up with something to get his attention off of me.

"What broke?" I questioned suddenly, drawing both of our attentions back to what had woken us up.

Kai shrugged and scratched the back of his head. "Not sure."

I moved forward silently and was soon standing beside the sleepy Kai. Sticking my head out of the room, I looked up and down the hall. Nothing. The only thing I could see was the light coming from partially opened door that led to Kai's room.

The sound of glass breaking once more reached my ears and I pointed wordlessly in the direction of the living room. Kai has already jerked his head in that direction and the two of us began tip toeing softly towards the noise. I had placed myself safely behind Kai, seeing as my imagination had begun running overtime.

Was someone trying to break in? Had somebody broken in? Were they armed? Did they have any weapons on them at all? Were they burglars? Was there more than one person? How old were they? Are they after me? Wait why would they be after me? That letter had said that-

"Oomph." Kai had stopped so abruptly that I had accidentally bumped into him. What? I told you I was clumsy now didn't I?

I peeked around Kai, expecting to see some men dressed in all black with masks pulled over there faces and a gun in their hand as they piled Kai's stuff into some old bags.

I need to get a less wild imagination. Because unless four teens fumbling around in the dark with hands stretched out in front of them in an attempt to keep them from bumping into furniture was a disguise, the intruders looked fairly harmless. To me anyways...which was saying quite alot.

Kai flipped on the living room light much to the intruders' surprise. I looked up to see Kai's usual emotionless mask, though for a second I was positive that a look of pure annoyance flashed in his eyes. I looked back at the intruders in time to see the navy haired boy with a cap pulled on backwards fall backwards over one of Kai's couches.

"What are you guys doing here?"

I jumped as the sound of Ray's voice came from my right. My heart raced violently in my chest once more, having slowed down slightly from my imagination earlier. Ray looked sleepy as well, his hair ruffled and rubbing the sleep from his eyes as he watched the intruders.

I turned back to the teens and waited for their answer. Ray and Kai must've known them because neither looked incredibly upset about them being in the house, only irritated that they had decided to show up at like four in the morning.

"We caught an early plane," explained the short brown headed boy, a pair of glasses perched on his head.

"Who's that?"

The question had come from a blonde headed boy and seemed to be directed at me, seeing as he was now pointing a finger at me curiously. The others finally noticed me, turning their questioning eyes in my direction. I squirmed uncomfortably under their gaze but didn't retreat.

"Did Kai get a maid?" asked the navy haired boy as he recovered from his earlier trip.

Ray opened his mouth to reply but the brunette girl bounded forward before he got the chance to speak. She grasped my hands and shook them energetically. Waaay too much energy too early in the morning. My head started spinning as she pumped my hand up and down and I blinked repeatedly as I tried to get my eyes to focus.

"My name's Hilary! I'm glad I won't be the only girl here! Oh this is great! We can do each other's hair and give each other makeovers! What's your name?" Hilary ranted enthusiastically.

Still half dazed from all of the ruckus the teens had caused and over half asleep, I didn't even think before I replied. "It's Kita," I answered honestly, not even realizing my slip up until Ray snapped his fingers. I suppose he had just realized that he had forgotten to ask me for my real name, most likely because he had been so used to calling me Kuri.

"Well Kita, this is Tyson, Max, and Kenny a.k.a. Chief," Hilary introduced, pointing to each person in turn.

"They're going to be staying here for the fall break," Ray added.

And my day just keeps getting better. Ok so a little sarcasm there...but I'm not good with new people. Ray and Kai were the only two people I had really spent any time with since I had arrived. And now I had to worry about having to repay three more people as well.

"Well if you three are finished wrecking my house, I think I'm going back to bed," Kai snapped sharply.

I blinked up at him, now almost completely awake. I wasn't sure if I could have went back to sleep even if I had tried now. All the ruckus of the morning's events had finally managed to wake me up.

"Kita would you clean up these idiots' mess?"

My head bobbed instantly to Kai's request and I darted off to a nearby closest where I pulled out a dustpan and a small hand broom. Without saying a word, I jogged back to the living room and began sweeping up the jagged pieces of the lamps that the new visitors had so kindly knocked off the tables. I quickly dumped the sharp glass into a trashcan and replaced the dustpan and broom before returning to Ray's side.

Kai yawned and turned around as he mumbled a small goodnight over his shoulder. Moments later he had disappeared behind his bedroom door and any trace of light had been hidden from sight. Ray chuckled at his friend's behavior before turning back to our new visitors.

"Come on guys. I'll show you the guest rooms so you can get some sleep," he offered sleepily.

Tyson lurched to his feet and punched the air with a clenched fist as he celebrated the chance to sleep. I turned around to head back to my room. Who knows? Maybe I could get back to sleep if I tried hard enough. Any chance of that was instantly smashed, along with one of the last lamps left in the living room.

I turned back towards the living room and spotted the shattered lamp lying in pieces on the carpet, a goofily grinning Tyson standing nervously next to the mess. Ray gave a sympathetic smile as he began to ask me to clean up the mess once more but I cut him off, darting back to the closet to retrieve the cleaning utensils again.

This was really turning into a long morning...

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Once again I'm really sorry that it took so long to update! But I promise that the next update will be way sooner than this one was! And the next chapter will most likely be at least a little longer than this one was! Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Please review! See-yaz next time!

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