A/N: Thank you for your reviews, I can never get bored with them. I'm really glad you seemed to like the lime, I was kind of scared because it was my first lime ever :) And I know some of you wanted the lemon but I'm afraid I won't put lemon in this story, sorry.

This is the second last chapter. Meaning there will be only one more coming after this.

Warnings: OOC:ness, Shounen-ai

Disclaimer: I only own the storyline.

I stare at the ceiling above my bed, the only thing I've been doing for the last fifteen minutes. In addition to scolding myself mentally, that is. I woke up some twenty minutes ago and for the first five of them I was really out of it. That was until I remembered… well can't say remembered, more of had a series of flashbacks about last night. I can't believe myself being so… irresponsible. And the worst part being that I have no memory of what happened after Kai took the lead from me.

I growl, rolling over to lie on my stomach and burying my face into my pillow. I can smell Kai in the pillow. He's nowhere to be seen though, which I'm really grateful. Now I can just wish for the pillow to suffocate me to death so I wouldn't have to face him anymore.

"I will never get drunk again," the pillow muffles my pledge.

"A hangover, is it?" I flinch at the sudden voice coming from the doorway. I didn't know there was someone else in the room. I turn my head to see Max standing beside the bed, smiling and holding a glass with some clear liquid in it in his hand.

I frown, "You could say that," I force myself to sit up. Max raises an eyebrow as his eyes move to my bare neck. I raise a hand to where my friend's attention is directed, wondering what he's looking at. I feel a little pinch as my finger grazes a sore spot on my skin, immediately remembering what caused it. My face flushes bright red. "I… it's not–"

Max giggles, "Sure," he holds out the glass for me, "I thought you might want some painkillers," he places a couple of little pills in my hand. I stare at the pills for a brief moment. Max really thinks of everything.

"Thanks," I smile at the boy in embarrassment, "my head is killing me," I throw one of the pills in my mouth, taking a big gulp of water from the glass with it. The other pill I place on my nightstand, in case I will need it later.

"That's what they are for," Max says alluding to the painkillers. Then he grins, "So, wanna tell me about it?"

I raise him an eyebrow. I know perfectly well what he's talking about. "No," I answer.

"Aw, come on," Max pouts a bit, "I always tell you my stuff…" hearing the hurt in the younger boy's voice makes me feel a bit guilty. Still I'm not going to tell him, that's how much I want even myself to forget the whole incident. Also the part that I do remember, that is.

"How long have you been awake?" I change the subject.

"An hour or so," Max answers, his voice still holding some pout.

I nod slowly, "What about the rest?" I mean Kai, where is he?

Max seems to think for a moment before answering, "Tala is awake but Bryan and Takao are still asleep," he glances at Kai's empty – and may I add – untouched looking bed, "haven't seen Kai." "That's what you wanted to hear, right?" his mental voice is somewhat bitter. I frown. Yes, I get it, I should tell him.

Max blinks, his eyes widening slightly, "Oh right… shit," he shifts his weight from one foot to the other a bit nervously, "Umm, Rei… do you really–"

My blush deepens as I remember telling the others about my little secret. I slap myself mentally, nice going, Rei! "I was only joking, I really had you going, eh?" I force a smile on my lips.

Now Max giggles, relieved, "Yeah, you really did," he stops giggling, "but Takao really believed you, you know, might be difficult to change that…" he trails off.

I sigh, great. I will definitely not touch anything including alcohol ever again.

"Oh," Max's voice drags me back to my senses, "you want some breakfast? I made pancakes."

I nod, "Sure," I glance at myself and notice that I'm only wearing my boxers. "I'll just put something on and come right after," I get a nod from the other boy before he turns and leaves the room, closing the door after him. I fall on my back onto my bed, burying my face in my hands. This can't be happening. What am I going to do? Guess I'll just have to bear my shame and hope that Max doesn't tell anyone.

I sit back up only to notice that the clothes that ended up onto the floor last night are gone. Kai must have taken them away. I blush once more and shake the thought out of my head before heading to the bathroom for a quick shower.

After the shower I dress myself in a pair of black baggy pants and an equally black sleeveless top with turtleneck to hide the mark on my neck. To that, I add white shoes and white wristbands before wrapping my hair up with a white band. I look at my reflection in a mirror, nodding to myself approvingly before heading out of the room to the kitchen.

As I enter the kitchen, I find Tala and Max sitting at the table in silence, the latter sipping his tea and reading some magazine. He raises his head as he hears me coming, "Hi," he greets cheerfully, returning to reading the magazine.

"Hey," I respond casually as I walk to the stove to boil water for my tea in a kettle.

"You slept quite late, Rei-Rei" I hear Tala inform from behind me. I merely nod. Then I pour the already hot water into my mug taking a teabag with me as I take my seat at the table opposite to Max. "Have you seen Kai?" Tala asks as he takes a sip of his coffee. Is it just me or is there a tension in the air?

"No, have you?" I return the question while pouring some syrup on my pancake. I'm not that hungry but I know I won't stop feeling sick unless I eat something.

"Swiftly a couple of hours ago," then the Russian smiles at me, placing his mug on the table, "did you sleep well?" I look at him questioningly. Has Kai told him something? I'm so going to avoid every Russian from now on. They all are pure evil.

"Yeah, did you?" What's with the chitchat?

Tala's smile turns into a smirk, "I bet you did," Damn it, he knows. More than I actually… I feel like slapping myself around the head but decide it would be smarter not to. "Well, not really," Tala doesn't sound too sad about it.

A yawn from the doorway makes all the three of us to raise our heads. A very sleepy looking Takao walks in, dropping himself onto one of the chairs around the table. He throws an accusing glare at the red-haired Russian.

"Then you're not the only one," the navy-haired boy yawns again, "Ever heard of self-control?"

Tala looks fake ignorant, "No, what fun would that be?" Takao rolls his eyes, not saying anything. I smile and take a sip from my mug. "I bet Rei and Kai didn't have much sleep either," the red-haired boy adds offhandedly.

I feel a tint of red colour my face as I turn my gaze to Max.

The said blond shakes his head quickly, "I didn't tell him, I swear." I smile at him. Not that I even doubted it, I know I can trust him. Takao yawns again, not shoving any signs of getting Tala's point.

"No, with you being so vocal we didn't," a new voice joins the conversation. I look up to see Kai walk into the room, ignoring me completely. He pours some coffee into his cup and takes a seat next to Takao, still not wasting his precious existence to cast even a one little glance at me. Who does he think he is?

"Old habits die hard, they say," Tala says, not even trying to defend himself.

"Well they are wrong, you are just too easy to satisfy," Kai replies monotonously before sipping his coffee.

Tala snickers quietly, "Don't underestimate Bryan," "Or yourself." I try my best to ignore the last statement.

"Did someone with extremely hot voice just mention my name?" a voice coming from the doorway makes everyone but Kai turn their attention to its owner. Immediately Tala jumps up at the now yawning lavender-haired boy.

"Morning sugar," the redhead kisses his boyfriend lightly on the lips, "did you sleep well?"

"No, I had much more fun things to do," the older boy answers smirking while pulling Tala close to him. The latter chuckles slightly.

"Please, save us," Takao pleads, "we heard enough last night."

"Speaking of fun," Tala begins, completely ignoring the navy-haired boy, "are we going to the amusement park today?" he asks hopefully, "Kai?"

"Yeah, whatever," the slate-haired Russian answers offhandedly, not taking much interest in his supposed-to-be best friend.

"Great, I'll go take a shower," Tala informs and snuggles even closer to Bryan, "Wanna join me?"

The other Russian smirks, "Gladly," with this he pulls his boyfriend with him as he disappears from the doorway.

Takao sighs and piles a great deal of pancakes on his plate before starting to stuff them into his mouth with astonishing speed. Then he glances at me suspiciously, "Ah, the demon… must not think," I usually am not violent, but right now I really feel like hitting Takao around the head for being so stupid. The mentioned navy-haired boy throws me an another angry look, "Aha! I'll think about a brick wall… a nice impervious brick wall…" and the mantra continues, making me sigh and turn to look at Kai.

Kai just sips his coffee composedly, still ignoring me. I try hard to read his mind but he's just blocking me out of his thoughts. Maybe he too really did believe me yesterday. Every now and then Max glances at Kai and me by turns. Guess he's waiting for another one of us to crack. Well, that's not going to happen.

Finally when Takao seems sure to have eaten enough, he exits the room without saying a word after throwing one last glare at me, Max following close behind, leaving me alone with Kai.

I let my gaze lock on our team captain. Why is he ignoring me? Is it because… was I that bad? Did we even…? At least a thousand questions occupy my mind, demanding me to address the other blader.

"Uh… Kai?" my voice sounds fragile. Kai just raises an eyebrow, not looking at me. Well, at least I know he's listening… "About last night… I–" now he's looking at me. Piercing my soul with those cold crimson eyes. I hesitate but I know I have to ask no matter how much I prefer not to, "You know I was quite drunk and–" now Kai is smirking. I hate this. I bite my lip, "Did we… you know?"

Much to my surprise, Kai bursts out laughing madly, almost dropping his coffee cup. I feel my eyes narrow as I look at him not getting over the laughing fit. I think there is absolutely nothing funny about the situation.

"You–" due to the laughing, Kai pauses, "don't remember?" More laughing. The dual-haired boy stands up, trying to stop laughing by covering his mouth with his hand. And he fails.

I feel like strangling the extremely uncharacteristically behaving Russian, "You can only blame yourself for that," I growl, "Could you just answer my question?" this draws even more laughter from the other boy who now walks out of the room, leaving me trying hard not to run after him. I clench my fists. Just who the fuck does he think he is?

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About half an hour later I find myself standing in a queue for buying tickets to the amusement park on the other side of the gates. Tala is jumping slightly up and down in excitement. On our way here, he told us how he has never been on a Ferris wheel and how he has wanted to go for a really long time.

Everything is somewhat weird right now. Takao and Kai are both avoiding me while I'm avoiding Kai and Tala. And it's just natural for Takao and Max to avoid Bryan and Tala. Somehow, I have the feeling that this might become an interesting day.

Now Tala skips over to me, wrapping his slender arms around my neck. Why don't my avoiding plans ever work? "Hey Rei-Rei, I'll give you the honour to be the first one to come to that thing with me," it's called a Ferris wheel.

I raise an eyebrow at him, "I'll pass," the answer comes in exactly right tone, coldly. I feel like grinning but manage to keep the irritated expression.

Tala pouts slightly, "Aww, come on," is it just me or is he begging? "You have to come," yup, he's definitely begging. Now the grin breaks free on my lips.

"I made you beg!" I can't help chuckling. Max is doing the same next to me.

Tala raises one of his red eyebrows, "Are you making fun of me?"

I nod, "Yes," and chuckle a bit more, "I am."

Tala glares at me for a moment before nodding and sighing, "I deserve that," then he smiles, "but please come, I need to talk to you."

I sigh, "Fine," with this I get a bruising hug from the red-haired Russian before he skips back to sexually harass Bryan. I'm left to stare after him in total confusion. Did I miss something?

Suddenly there is another pair of arms around me and I feel a body been pressed against my back. I stiffen and force myself to turn my head so that I see Kai's head resting on my shoulder. Doesn't anyone know what avoiding means? Kai's looking at me from the corner of his eye and there's a smug smirk playing on his tempting lips. I have to remind myself that I'm still angry with him before I do anything I should regret later.

"A little lost, my kitten?" the Russian's whisper drifts into my ear softly.

I gasp and reluctantly struggle myself out of his arms, turning around to face him, "I am not your kitten," I hiss so quietly that only Kai is able to hear it. To my surprise, my resistance only makes his smirk widen.

"Be whatever you like but everyone else is already gone," Kai's statement makes me turn around to find that everyone else is, indeed, nowhere to be seen. The queue has moved forward possibly many meters while I've been spacing out. And did it even cross anyone's mind to take me with them? Well, Kai's obviously…

I feel the mentioned Russian's hand touch mine lightly as he places a little piece of paper in it while walking past me. I can't help staring at him as he walks composedly away from me. What does he want from me? First he can't keep his hands off me, then he makes fun of me and now… he's teasing me.

"I would also drool after him but at least I'm a girl…" a voice coming from behind me snaps me back to the reality. I turn on my heels to see a girl about my age looking at me before she turns away quickly as she notices my eyes on her. I frown. I wasn't drooling, was I? I blush and move my eyes to my hands, noticing I'm still holding the piece of paper. I take a better look at it and recognise it to be my ticket to the amusement park. I find myself smiling and sprint after Kai.

As I'm inside the area, I find Tala, Kai and Bryan just standing there and chatting. I walk up to them, glancing around the area filled with people.

"Where are Max and Takao?" I ask, drawing their attention to me.

"Oh there you are!" Tala exclaims, "Don't know about the kids," the kids? The red-haired Russian grabs my hand and starts dragging me towards possibly the biggest Ferris wheel I've ever seen.

Soon I find myself travelling up towards the sky as the wheel is moving slowly.

"So, Rei, um… I want to apologize," Tala's voice comes colourlessly from beside me.

I turn to look at his ice-blue eyes, "For what?"

"For being such a bastard yesterday, sometimes I become like that when I'm drunk," Tala's beautiful eyes are sparkling in the sunlight, "I can't help it."

I smile. I can't believe Tala's actually apologizing to me, "If you mean revealing that I'm gay, I should have done it earlier myself."

The redhead nods, "True, but I should have let you do it," the boy turns to look at the landscape. From up here you can see really far, I notice, "along with many other things…" Tala's voice fades into a whisper.

I glance at the serious looking boy who seems to be rather lost in his thoughts. I wonder how long will it take for me to fully start understanding how his mind works. He seems to be switching channels or something. One moment he can be unbearably annoying, then irresistibly sweet and even deathly serious at times.

I chuckle quietly, "Actually, I should thank you," I turn to look away from him quickly, a red tint on my cheeks.

I can almost hear Tala smirk, "No problem," the other boy's voice now holds a hint of amusement. A comfortable silence falls upon us. That is, until Tala breaks it, "You know, in movies people are always making out on a Ferris wheel," he states casually.

I chuckle again and turn to look at him. He's still looking serious, "I'm not going to make out with you," I inform with amusement clear in my voice.

Tala casts me a fake hurt look before grinning, "Yeah, thanks to the almighty me, you have Kai," I have to keep myself from laughing, "Too bad," then he sighs, "well, guess I'll just have to content myself with Bryan then."

I also grin, "What a loss," I say sarcastically.

"Hey! Are you scolding my favourite boyfriend?" Tala accuses, though the tone of his voice reveals he's joking.

"Nope…" we fall into silence again. This time it's my turn to break it, "So… when did you and Kai–"

"It was years ago," Tala cuts my question quickly, "you two hadn't even met yet, or you and I for that matter," he smiles at me.

Suddenly I have dozens of questions in my head screaming for answers. I decide now that I'm actually having a real conversation with Tala, maybe I could ask some of them, "Has Kai always been like that?" I get a questioning look from the Russian, "Has he always been…" I trail off. The right word would be heartless but I don't want to say it aloud.

Tala raises an eyebrow at me, "You mean cold?" I nod, a bit embarrassed. Tala hides a snicker behind his hand, "He's not really cold at all," the boy says, "you just have to pulls the right strings," "we had to find our ways to manage in the abbey, Kai chose to block his emotions."

"Oh," what a clever thing to say, "Is that why you broke up?"

Tala shakes his head. Then a brief moment later he opens his mouth to speak, "He loved me as I loved him. I was the only one he let to see the true Kai."

I can't help staring at my Russian friend in surprise. Kai can really love someone? I can't believe I'm having this discussion with Tala. "Then," I pause to collect my thoughts, "why did you break up? Did you stop loving each other?"

Tala snickers again, making me feel rather stupid, "You can't just stop loving someone," he explains, amused, "our love just changed its form." I remain silent, internalizing the information I just got. Tala continues to view the landscape.

Soon the Ferris wheel stops and we stand up to get off it. Then a thought crosses my mind, "Oh, by the way, I forgive you," I say, making Tala turn around and jump to hug me almost violently.

"Thank you, Rei-Rei," he almost purrs into my ear. Then he lets go of me and sprints over to Bryan, wrapping his arms around the other boy's waist. He earns a few glances from passer-bys but ignores them smoothly.

I also walk over to them, however, stopping as a sudden wave of dizziness washes through me. I have to use my whole concentration not to fall. I frown as I notice the loudening of the really quiet sough that I've been hearing in my head ever since the accident. What's happening to me? I close my eyes for a moment, making the dizziness slowly leave me. The sough remains though. Then I open my eyes to see Kai in front of me. He just glares at me, not saying a word. He's also still blocking his thoughts from me.

"I need to… get some water," I manage to say, "bye." I turn and start walking quickly to the opposite direction. A few minutes later I take a quick glance over my shoulder, only to see the slate-haired Russian walking a few meters behind me, weaving smoothly amongst people. Damn it. I fasten my steps, rounding a corner of some toilet building.

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