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Fate

Chapter 6

""Talking

''Thoughts

This kind of love might be like a little breeze in the afternoon to you.

The curtains are waving lightly, you don't even have the urge to go and close the window.

This kind of love is like a sumer storm in a dark summer night to me.

Not holding back anything, presenting everything to you.

Flashback

Art Room

"You've been playing that game forever! Aren't you finished with it yet?" Celestia asked, puzzled. She dragged Kai into the art room, trying to get him to pose for her. After many complaints, she had him sitting on a chair, his legs straddling the chair, leaning forward on the back of the chair; and he's playing a Beyblade game of some sort while Celestia is trying to do a sketch.

"No, I've started over again." He answered shortly.

"Kai... can't you look up from time to time?" It's awfully hard to draw his face when he has his head bowed all the time.

"If I look up, my Dranzer will die." He said calmly.

Celestia sighed and rolled her eyes before returning to her sketch again, trying to figure out how his face is going to look like in detail. They spent most of their afternoons in quietness. He's just playing his game; she's trying to figure out how she'll draw his face.

"Kai, can you please move your hair?" Celestia asked without looking up, she heard no reply. She looked up and looked at his still form, he's asleep. Putting down her pencil quietly, she walked over to him. She passed by a large set of windows, her long hair flying a bit, her dress swirling a bit. She knelt down in front of Kai and looked at him.

His eyes are closed tightly; his lips pressed together, softly breathing in and out. She gingerly reached up a hand and moved the strand of hair out of his face. Her hand lingered on his face and slowly traced a finger down his face, slowly down the left side. Her finger lingered on the corner of his mouth. Suddenly, his cell phone rang, Celestia gasped and pulled her hand back quickly, Kai snapped his eyes open and looked right into her blushing face.

Celestia smiled shyly and stood up as Kai grabbed his cell phone from the nearby table and flipped it open.

"What?"

Celestia walked towards a random table and leaned back onto it softly as Kai stood up and talked into the phone.

"Fine, fine, I'll be there! Yes!" Kai said impatiently, and with a sigh he shut his phone.

"Kai?" She called out softly.

Kai turned towards her. She pushed away from her table, and walked over to him slowly. Her expression is questioning. "Something wrong?"

"My grandfather is waiting for me at the front door." He said dully.

"Do you... want me to go with you?" She asked carefully, taking in his somewhat tense face.

"Will you be okay walking home by yourself?"

Celestia nodded, but said nothing.

"Sorry, I have to go; I'll pick you up tomorrow, okay?"

Celestia nodded again, this time with a little smile. Kai leaned down and kissed her left temple. "I'll see you tomorrow." Grabbing his cell phone, he turned and walked out of the art room.

Walking home by herself used to be a routine thing, however... as she walked down the street, she suddenly feels very lonely. Just these past weeks, she has gotten used to Kai walking home beside her.

"Celestia!" A voice rang out behind her; she turned in surprise and saw Ray coming up behind her.

"Ray, something wrong?" Celestia asked as Ray fell into pace beside her, they began walking again.

"No... Kai called me to walk you home." Celestia turned to him surprised. "He really... cares about you." Ray continued on, watching as a faint blush spread across her face. "Actually, I have something to talk to you about."

"What is it?"

"Next week, we'll be out of school, Kai and I are going to graduate. We were planning on going to an amusement park, but Kai doesn't want to go..."

"And you want me to convince him, right?" Celestia finished his sentence for him.

Ray turned and they both smiled at each other.

End of Flashback

Casino Heaven

"And let's take it from the top again. This time, I want everyone in their positions; this will be the last time we're practicing before we perform tonight." The music director yelled from the bottom of the stage.

A collective sighs of relief were heard all across the stage as the back-up dancers got up from their position on the floor and stretched themselves out. Celle smiled at them and went to the edge of the stage on the signal of the music director and sat down on the stage to talk to her.

"Celle, you mentioned that you wanted to do a piece by yourself. Something that's not in your album that was just released." The music director talked to her while flipping through the papers on her clip board.

Celle nodded her head and looked at her seriously. "Yes, it's something I just wrote."

"Then... will you just be singing it? With no music?" The director looked at her with a little frown.

"No, no. I know how to play the piano; I have the music sheets all worked out and everything." Celle shook her head immediately. She's not stupid enough to perform a song without any background music. It'll either drive the crowd wild... or insane... knowing her crowds, they'll probably go insane.

The music director chuckled and shook her head funnily, looking at Celle through somewhat questioning eyes. "You really want to perform this piece, don't you?"

Celle smiled sweetly and nodded, almost stunning the director for a second. She has never seen Celle smile like that before. Celle's smiles were usually full of mystery and seductive. However, her smiles nowadays are full of sweet and innocent auras, nothing like the old Celle. Something... or someone must have changed her.

"Anyways, I think we can squeeze you in at the end of the show. However, watch my signal, we might run out of time." The music director was right back on business again.

"Okay, got ya."

"Good. Now, let's go back and practice some more for tonight's show!" The music director patted Celle's shoulder and walked away from the stage to sit in her regular seat.

Celle exhaled loudly and stood up while doing stretches. Walking back to the middle of the stage, she silently went through all the song titles that she was supposed to be performing tonight.

Looking at her back-up dancers, she saw the couple within the group. They were talking to each other quietly, so much love in their eyes. The guy moved over to kiss the top of her head, and the girl just smiled and let him. Celle's arms dropped from their out-stretched positions and she just looked on.

I loved her.

That's what Ray said to her last night. He was so clear, so definite, and so confident with his answer. Yet... there was an air of uncertainty, vague, and almost opaque feeling to his emotions. It was the first time that Ray had told her about his feelings throughout this entire situation. The first time that he had admitted something to her.

She doesn't know what she felt at that moment. She's in love with Kai, she's certain of it. However, after hearing Ray say that... it made her heart drop to the endless pits of her stomach. The faraway look in his eyes, the weak twirling of his glass, and the silence that fell over them. They were all factors that she stopped asking him all sorts of questions.

After all, she did get the answer that she was looking for. She decided to split up everyone's life into the past life and the present life. Everyone's life with Celestia is the past life, and the present life is with her. She suddenly realized how out of reach their past life is to her. She can see it, she can smell it, she walks so close to it, but she cannot touch it. She cannot grasp it.

No matter how much she wants to change the past so that the present would be much better, she has doubts about her actions. She doesn't believe in God, but she believes in fate and destiny. She believes that it's fate that allowed Kai and her to meet, and if his past life was wiped out, then maybe they wouldn't have met.

After all, Kai did open this casino for Celestia.

Celle frowned at that inside herself. Everything they do seem to be for Celestia. Even her life is mingled up with theirs because of Celestia, the girl that everyone loved and still loves. The girl that stole away both Ray's and Kai's hearts and took them with her.

The girl that disappeared and never came back.

Celle's frown deepened at that thought. The girl seemed to have the perfect life, why would she just disappear. That's the one point that she doesn't get out of this entire mess. Why would Celestia disappear?

The familiar introduction music sounded in her ears. Celle had half a mind to care about what was going on here, she's now obsessed with her new-found question. Absent-mindedly, she turned around to face what would be the audience tonight and opened her mouth to sing the song that she has burnt into her memory.

Why would Celestia disappear?

And most importantly, what role does she play in this mess?

Kai's office

Celle wiped at her face unconsciously. She doesn't want sweat to be covering her face when she sees Kai. Walking down the empty hall way, she realized that Kai's secretary must have left early today. Walking up to Kai's door, she raised up a hand to knock, but a voice stopped her. A familiar voice. Celle frowned and quietly walked closer to the door, she heard the voice again. After a second, her eyes widened in realization, it's Ray's voice.

Celle bit down on her bottom lip and looked at the door. Kai's obviously busy with Ray, but... should she knock and interrupt? After all, both of them know her and her relationship with Kai. Then again, they might be busy, it's not like she has anything important to tell Kai. After a moment of debating, she decided to leave them to be, until she heard her name. Then she looked at the door in surprise and put an ear up against the door.

"What about Celle?" It's Kai's voice.

"I told Celle that..." Ray started and then trailed off uncertainly.

"That?"

"Kai... I told Celle that I loved Celestia. I did love her." Celle's eyes widened at Ray's candidness. She had heard from the others that Ray and Kai are best friends, and here he is, telling his best friend that he loves his... ex-girlfriend.

The room was silent; Celle's held her breath, waiting for Kai's reply.

To her surprise, Kai actually laughed at that. She has never heard him laugh before. It's a deep laugh, filled with humor.

"I was waiting to see how long it would take you to tell me." Kai said after a few seconds of laughing.

"You knew?" Then Ray laughed as well and she heard the sofa shift. "When?"

"Don't remember, but it was when Celestia was still with us."

"And you still let her hang out with me alone?"

"Why not? You're my best friend. She's my girlfriend. I trust both of you."

Is. Celle's heart flinched at the tense.

"Celestia isn't your girlfriend, Kai. Celle is." Ray said at length.

The room was silent again. Celle looked at the door, holding her breath, even forgetting how to breathe.

"She is... but... all I see is Celestia in front of me. Especially after she dyed her hair, it's getting worse and worse."

"Kai, you can't do this to her. It's unfair to her."

"Ray... you said you loved Celestia. Who do you love now? Celle? Is it because she looks like Celestia?"

Celle's eyes widened as she starred at the door. Ray... is in love with her? Is that even possible? Then again... she looks exactly like Celestia, so that's possible.

"Kai, she's your girlfriend."

"Celestia's my girlfriend also, isn't that right? That didn't stop you."

"Kai." Ray's voice sounded shocked.

Another lengthy silence, before someone sighed.

"Sorry Ray, that was uncalled for." Kai said quietly. Celle then heard the chair squeak, she knows that's when Kai's getting out of his chair to walk around in his office. "I just want to tell you that, the only person that I ever consider to be my girlfriend is Celestia. Not Celle. Not even when she looks exactly like Celestia, and acts like her. I have my doubts about the relationship between Celestia and Celle, but those are just assumptions. I guess... I'm telling you that you can do whatever you wish with Celle, I couldn't care less."

It was like a bomb that dropped straight at her. Celle slowly moved away from the door, her entire body is numb. Her boyfriend just gave Ray permission to do whatever he wants with her. She doesn't know how she got into the elevator; she heard the door close behind her. She has still yet pressed a button.

Slowly, she sank down onto the ground and just starred at her reflection in the mirror.

Night- Concert

"Is it ending yet?" Kenny asked as he sat in the VIP box bored out of his mind. Malarin glared at him and he closed his mouth immediately.

"You just want to finish your new program, don't you?" Max looked sideways at Kenny and gave him a disapproving look. Kenny rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything. Truth is… he never liked Celle. And after she slapped Malarin, things just got worse.

He glanced at Malarin's upright posture. The mark on her face is completely gone, but he still remembers that red hand mark.

"Never knew she was actually a good singer." Aeris commented and earned nods from the girls.

"And this is the last song." Tyson commented as he looked through the song list.

Kenny wanted to say something, but under the stare of Malarin, he decided against it. He looked over at the others, wondering how they can listen to such... a person. Obviously, Malarin's as polite as ever. Making notes about how her voice is very soft here, and she can hit a high note there.

Aeris is excited about this concert, she's happy that everyone's together and seeing this concert. She's more accepting of Celle than she used to be. Perhaps, it's because she has talked things out with Ray, and that helped her clear her mind. Jamice is still mad at Max, whom has been trying to serve her for the entire night. Seriously, he had never seen Jamice so mad at Max before.

Lianna and Tyson are acting strange. She's ignoring him while he's been sending her looks throughout the entire concert. Something definitely happened between them, Kenny noted mentally. As for Kai and Ray... they're their usual selves. Although, Ray is quieter than usual. Something must have happened between Kai and Ray, Kenny noted mentally again.

"Wait, Celle's making a comment." Jamice held up a hand to stop everyone's talking and listened on to Celle.

Celle walked around the stage and under everyone's gaze, she sat in front of the piano and adjusted the microphone so she can play the piano and talk at the same time.

"I just want to start off by saying how much fun this has been." Celle started off and fans cheered under the stage. "This is a little encore I prepared for you fans especially. I wrote and composed this song all by myself, and I want to share it with all of you. Most importantly, I want to share it with the one that I love the most. I know he's watching somewhere. I just want to tell him that no matter what I have to go through, no matter how he treats me, I'll always love him. So don't give up hope on me."

Then under everyone's attentive attention, she hit the first note of the song and closed her eyes half way, drowning herself in the music she has webbed out for herself.

The wind blew your hair around your ear,

The wind softly covered your eyes.

It's a tender look; it's a somewhat tired but beautiful gaze.

My sight is directed at your face,

You missed it because of the concentration in your eyes.

That sparkling look, who is it for?

I don't want to see you fatigue and tear because of love.

So I give you my comfort, let you lean on me silently.

I want to be with you every day, every day.

I want to love you forever, forever.

In this life time of yours,

When will you realize?

I just want to hold you every day, every day.

I just want to love you forever, forever.

You said you have a wish,

I'll make it come true for you.

The song ended on a light note, the little hit of the note at the end wrapped up the song and silenced the crowd. Celle breathed out and closed her eyes to calm herself. Then she stood up and walked to the middle of the stage again. Taking a look at the crowd, she bowed deeply and soon enough, the entire place filled with cheers and applauses.

Upstairs, everyone was stunned by the song. Slowly, their eyes all turned towards Kai simultaneously. Kai just looked on at the scene calmly, a little frown playing on his forehead. He sits in his usual posture; he can feel everyone's eyes on him. He was never told that she had prepared an encore at the end of the concert. Guess it really was meant to be a surprise for everyone... but more like a scare for him.

"Very nice lyrics, wonder how long it took her to come up with them." Lianna commented. The beautiful melody and the deep lyrics combined with the desperation in her voice. How many people on this Earth can resist her tonight? Lianna looked at Kai intently, starring at his profile. How can he resist her tonight?

Kai looked on as Celle bowed again and again, waving and smiling at her fans. He felt Lianna's eyes on him, starring at him, as if trying to read him. As if wanting to see into his mind and his thoughts. Turning his head, he starred into Lianna's eyes. They both just starred at each other from across the room. He sees the unspoken message in her eyes for him.

How can he resist her tonight?

Club

"Cheers!" The girls' voice rang through crisply as they clicked their glasses together.

Celle smiled widely and tilted back her head to down yet another glass of wine. The lively music outside of this room is loud, it's even booming in her ears as this suite's walls are quite thick.

"You're so good! I loved the last song you sang!" Jamice announced excitedly as she's sitting right next to Celle.

Celle smiled sweetly and looked down at the empty glass in her hand. "Thank you... I had real inspirations for that song." The corner of her eyes lifted up and she glanced towards Kai.

What did he think of the song?

Aeris looked at her and then looked at Kai's ice cold expression. She put down her glass and leaned forward to look back and forth between Celle and Kai. "So, Kai, what did you think of the encore song?"

The suite was silent as everyone waited for Kai's reply. Celle looked at Kai through her thick eyelashes, nervously waiting for his reply. Kai put down his glass of alcohol and looked at Celle, whom is seated across from him. "The melody is very nice."

"What about the lyrics? How did you feel about the lyrics?" Aeris pressed on.

"Was I supposed to feel something?" Kai turned his gaze onto Aeris.

As if a winter storm of January hit this suite, the atmosphere chilled down immediately. Aeris's eyes widened at his reply, disbelief filled her eyes. Kai's eyes are still cold and calm, not even a little wave of emotion running through them. Aeris's heart dropped into her stomach, how can he say this in front of Celle?

Jamice blinked and immediately turned towards Celle, wanting to say something, but nothing came out at all. No one knows what to say. Surprisingly, it was Celle who broke the silence with a slight laugh. "Oh? I guess I really should stop writing lyrics then."

Lianna immediately snorted and looked towards Celle calmly. "Don't let him get to you. Even when my books are the number one sellers in Japan, he still says that they're crappy beyond belief."

Catching on with Lianna, Tyson feigned a shocked and angry looked for Kai. "Kai! I can't believe you said that to Lia."

Everyone snickered around the room, breaking the tension. Celle smiled slightly at that, hiding the pounding pain her heart. She reached for another drink. This time instead of pouring the beer into her glass, she just grabbed the bottle and drank it straight up. The strong smell and taste of the alcohol sending tears up her eyes, she blinked rapidly and faced the light dead on, forcing back the tears.

And then she was drunk.

Never knew that being drunk would feel this good. She feels this incredible amount of energy bursting through her body, her mind swirling, and her thoughts scattered everywhere. She doesn't know what she's doing; she doesn't know what she's saying. It's a strange sense of relief and a strange sense of freedom.

Then, after the burst of energy is spent up, fatigue over-took her body as her mind cleared up, but her emotions are running high. Everything is foggy and misted up for her. She can't see where she's going anymore. And then everything was black...

She groaned as she felt herself falling, sliding down against something. Before she has the chance to fall down completely, she felt herself being hoisted up again, arms tight around her, urging her forwards. She cracked open her eyes and saw a familiar face. She laughed in delight and threw her arms around him.

"Kai, you're here."

"Don't talk too much, you're drunk." Came his cool reply.

Celle giggled and shook her head from side dazed, her head falling backwards from time to time. She twisted and turned in his arms, making his job ten times harder. Finally, he kicked open her bedroom door and dropped her onto her bed. She bounced up and down a little before settling back and she giggled again, at nothing really.

Kai loosened his tie and looked at the drunken girl in front of him. Reaching down, he wanted to brush the loose hair away from her face. Her hand shot up and grabbed onto his, his action froze in mid-way and they looked at each other. Clear, cold eyes met misty and dazed eyes.

With new found strength, Celle pulled him down to her and hugged him tightly. First time not being in control of the situation, Kai supported himself upwards by placing both of his hands onto the bed. He tried straightening up, hoping that Celle would slide off, but she locked her arms around his neck and has her face buried in the crook of his neck.

Without a choice, he sat up and pulled her up with him as well. So, he is now sitting on the bed with her sitting in his lap. Celle then started laughing again, her voice a bit raspy. "Kai, I love you. I love you Kai." Then suddenly, she was still, she was silent, she wasn't doing anything.

"Kai..." She started, her voice breaking off. "I'm doing everything just to prove that I can be as talented as Celestia. So then, why don't you at least give me a smile? Just a smile... Kai..."

No one knows how long they sat there that night. She called out his name again and again, her tears smeared across his shirt, her arms around his neck, not wanting to let go...

How can he resist her tonight?

TBC...

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