Hey all…Sorry for being so slow…but I was in France for all of July and away in various places for August thus far. I will hopefully update again before September…but we will see.
And if anyone cares I have updates my bio and it now contains more info on these stories and me in general…as well as future stories.
Chapter two - The Nightmare
After dinner Kaie and Max returned to Max's room where they talked about everything that happened. Emily and Michael had avoided her completely; they probably needed time to adjust.
That night, after finally ending her conversation of five hours with Max Kaie lay in her bed and sooner than she thought dreams claimed her.
Kaie was traveling through a black world similar to the Other World except that there were sparks flying across the sky. Kaie let out a silent scream as one exploded near her shoulder. Then she saw IT.
Flying rapidly toward her was a ball of white fire. Kaie could only helplessly watch as IT came at her. She attempted to shield herself from the fire, but to no avail. IT hit her and a white hot pain exploded through her, and Kaie screamed.
Max bolted awake and threw off his covers and sprinted to Kaie's room. He scanned himself through and entered to see Kaie writhing in pain on her bed. He immediately went to her side and put a hand on her in an attempt to calm her down.
"Calm down Kaie. It is all right…it is only a nightmare." Kaie bolted upright, breathing hard, her face glistening in the moonlight. Kaie intercom was then filled with the worried voices of Michael, Judy and Joel and rather annoyed voice of Emily.
Max seeing that Kaie was alright…or at least no longer thrashing around…answered the intercom and told everyone he was with Kaie calming her down. The intercom became silent again and Max turned his attention back to Kaie.
"You have a nightmare?" Max asked quietly, placing a hand around her sholders.
Kaie said nothing, just stared blankly at the covers.
"Kaie?" Max asked. When he received no response he pulled out his blade and said, "Draciel …What is wrong with Kaie?"
Max's turtle spirit emerged and stood next to Kaie. "Max…I know what is wrong with her, but I am probably not the best person to explain this to you…"
"What do you mean?" Max asked.
But before Draciel could reply a blue bit-beast revealed it's self.
"Hello Draciel, Max." Blue Dranzer said, and then turned his attention to the girl in the bed.
After looking at Kaie for a long moment Dranzer turned to Draciel again. "So then…?" Dranzer asked.
Draciel gave a curt nod and Dranzer sighted. "Kaie is going to hate me for this…"
At that moment the said girl jolted and her eyes truly opened. She looked at the three beings in her room and asked what was going on. Dranzer looked at the ground, Draciel gazed at a spot on the wall and Max looked confused.
Kaie looked at Dranzer and the dream/nightmare came flooding back. "Dranzer? What - " but she was cut off by Dranzer.
"Kaie I should have warned you this might happen."
"What might happen?"
"When we sent you back to your world we opened a time portal to return you to a mere hour after you had left. We figured that it would be easier for you to move on from there.
When we brought you back here the plan was to gradually close the portal then allow the other world to speed up again.
Unfortunately as the portal closes it gets harder and harder to gradually close, and tonight as you slept it rapidly sucked its self shut."
"What was the white fire that raced at me in my dream?" Kaie asked
"You had white fire race at you?" Dranzer asked
Kaie nodded.
Dranzer said nothing then said, "If you need anything…either of you" said addressing Max as well, "Don't hesitate to call either myself or Draciel." Draciel nodded and both spirits disappeared leaving the humans alone.
"But…"Kaie started, but there was no one to answer.
"You alright?" Max asked
Kaie shrugged. "A bit shocked, but nothing serious." Max nodded.
After an awkward silence Max said, "Well I'll go back to my room and if you need anything buzz me."
Max turned to leave but then from the bed came a timid, "Wait…"
Max turned to see Kaie staring at the floor unable to believe she had said something.
"Yes Kaie…" Max asked.
"Would you mind staying here…just in case…I mean if you don't want to…not in that way, I swear…but…"
Max cut off her ramblings by saying, "I'll stay if you want."
Kaie nodded, and then moved over on the bed, gesturing for Max to join her. He slid in next to her finding to his surprise that the bed was rather cold. Kaie stared at the ceiling, then as he watched Kaie's eyelids began to droop, her eyes closed, and she drifted off into a deep slumber. Max soon followed.
Max was awoken by sunlight on his eyelids and he groggily opened his eyes, and jolted awake when he didn't recognized his surroundings. Seconds later he recalled the events of the night before and relaxed. He looked down at Kaie to discover that she was snuggled right against him.
He felt uncomfortablely hot where she was touching him, and could feel a blush creeping up on his cheeks. Max carefully tried untangling himself from Kaie, but she nearly woke up, so he shut his eyes and pretended to be asleep. He felt Kaie stir then move around as she was waking up. When she realized that she was curled into Max's chest she quickly moved back and began muttering under her breath,
"Thank goodness he didn't wake up…I can't believe I did that…it must have been cold or something…"
Max decided it was time to fake waking up, so he put on a big show of waking up and stretching and looking sleepy.
"Sleep well?" Max asked
Kaie nodded and looked away and Max could see that there was a slight blush on her face.
"Well…"Max said, "I'm going to go get dressed, so I'll see you at breakfast."
Kaie nodded and dressed then went down to the kitchen. Everyone was there before her and regarding her with a cautious look. Kaie realized they all must have heard her scream. "Good morning everyone" she said in as cheerful a way as possible.
All that did was cause them all to look at her even more crazily. Kaie sighed. "I'm fine really. I just had a nightmare."
They continued to look at her so she said; "I will be fine!" then stormed into the pantry to get her breakfast.
She sat at the table with her cereal, eating it, staring only at her bowl. Judy flipped through the mail which was on the kitchen counter, opening the odd one and simply moving the rest aside.
She let out a cry as she read one of them. "Listen to this!" she said excitedly.
"'The official closing ceremonies for the Other World tournament will take place at the Crystal Plaza Hotel on June first beginning at five o'clock in the evening. Formal wear is mandatory. Please RSVP by April 28th by calling (476) 395-3945.' Doesn't that sound so exciting!" said Judy.
Emily, Michael, and Joel were grinning from ear to ear trying to decide what to wear, while Max and Kaie looked at each other…hoping they would die before having to wear something formal.
Judy rummaged through the envelope and flipped another piece of paper out. "Kaie, this is addressed to you." She said and handed to her.
Kaie read it, a look of disbelief crossing her face. "He has got to be kidding." She said in a disbelieving tone.
"What?" asked Max
"Mr. Dickenson says that I have to 'open' the second part of the evening, which is a dance because I won the tournament…therefore I actually have to a partner because I take the first dance!" Kaie was almost hysterical. Max said nothing
She didn't want to go in the first place – as it was required for her to wear a dress, and to actually be committed to dancing with someone…
Then she blushed a bright red as she understood Max's silence. She has messed up big time.
"Max?" Kaie asked
Max looked at her, though she could tell that the blond was slightly upset.
"Would you like to go to the dance with me?" Kaie asked him.
Max said nothing. He obviously thought that she had meant she didn't like him in 'that' way. Because she had said she needed to 'actually have to a partner', inferring that she didn't like him.
In fact she did like him in 'that' way but she always had hated public declarations of love simply because of the rumors that accompanied it.
"Please Max? I really would like to go with you. I said what I said because I don't really like public dancing…too many rumors."
Kaie was suddenly aware of the eyes from everyone on her so she stopped talking, then put her bowl in the dish washer and after whispering something to Max she went to her room.
Max arrived about eight minutes later. She invited him to sit down, and then had to explain herself.
"Max" she said hesitantly "I like you…I really do. I would give up anything for you. Seriously. My problem is that I don't really like dancing with people because everyone always gets ideas and run away with them and then if we are seen talking to anyone else we are thought to be cheating on each other. And…I don't want that to happen for us. I always want to be by your side."
Kaie stood quietly waiting for Max to speak. Note to self: Always think before you speak. Kaie thought.
Max spoke after along while. "You really like me?"
He looked at Kaie, his blue eyes studying her. When she returned his gaze he looked at the ground, evidently embarrassed. Kaie walked lightly over to him and knelt so she was even with his eyes.
Delicately, using her index and middle finger of her right hand she tilted his face up to look at hers. His eyes avoided hers, and she smiled as she saw his cheeks were a light pink.
Kaie then kissed him gently on the lips, and then pulled back, searching his face for a flicker of emotion. His eyes finally met hers, and he spoke in a whispery voice. "I guess that means you like me huh."
Kaie smiled. "Yes."
Max smiled his best smile. "Then you have a date for the closing ceremonies."
Kaie smiled at him again then locked his lips in hers as both were lost in the moment.
They broke apart when they heard Judy's voice uncomfortably close yelling, "I need all of you in the kitchen to schedule appointments for the closing ceremonies. Bring your clothing for the night with you. Including shoes!"
Kaie sighed, her head landing in Max's lap. Max let out a little laugh and brushed his hand through her hair. "Come on…time to face the torture."
Kaie got up, as did Max and headed down to the kitchen, clothing and shoes in hands.
They had no idea what Judy actually had in store for them.
And that is the end of the chapter!
Reviewers,
Princess Fey – Thank you for your complement! Yeah…I couldn't kill off Kaie for too long…after all she was my OC. I actually had a hard time deciding whether or not to kill her…but I decided it would be more fun to kill her…
Luna-chan - A MaSk Of LiEs – Yep…Kaie is back. I found your review from when I killed her so I guess you wanted her back…Keep Writing! And sorry for the excessively slow update…
Forfirith The dark angel – I'm glad you liked that chapter. . I probably put the most time into that one…I'm glad you found my explanation understandable…I kina killed the plot of this one with it due to a HUGE plot hole…but I think I have got it figured out now… And I couldn't leave Max sad…and Kaie is a heroine…again. Well that won't be happening for too long…mwhahaha ' And I read your bio…I didn't know you are dyslexic. One of my best friends is also dyslexic and I have listened to her rant multitudes of times on people who don't understand her being dyslexic. Anyway, I'm glad you like my story…please review!
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