Hello. Sorry I haven't updated, it's just that I'm depressed cos I haven't
got any reviews. ( WHAAA I was thinking of giving up cos no one is reading
it so I might as well not write as I'm just wasting my time if people don't
read. Ahhh but I have nothing to do right now so I decided to write,
besides, I like writing. But no body likes my stories!!! WHAAA!!!!
Any ways,
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or Kai or meh but I do own Lan.
Meh... depressed. Just read...
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For once in their entire team life, Kai was not the one to wake up first in the morning. Ray had woken up first and was surprised that Kai was still in bed. Everyone had woken up except Kai and Lan.
When Kai had finally woken up he went through a stage of continuous sneezes. After doing about seven sneezes in a row he slumped back down on his pillow and moaned at the light shining in his face.
"Come on Kai! You're the one who's always telling us to get out of bed, now it's your turn to be pushed and yelled at!" Tyson said indignantly.
"Errrgggghhhhh. . . Go away Tyson." Kai slurred turning over.
"Come on Lan! Wake up!" Ray said going over to her and gently nudging her.
"Ug." Lan blurred
"Come on! We'll be late!" Ray said.
"Meh." Lan felt groggy and cold and ill. But Kai felt worse. After what happened last night neither of them wanted to move or see anybody or be forced to be pushed out of bed.
"Blag. I'm shick." Lan managed to blurt out.
"I feel bad. Hot, sweaty, bloated and. . . . I have to get out of bed. Beyblading match. But I'm not even in it. You guys go ahead, I'll be here alone." Kai muttered under the blanket.
"Wow, I've never seen Kai like this before." Max said scratching his head. "What did you guys do last night? Go swimming?"
"You could say that." Lan said her face squashed to the pillow. "It was raining last night and I didn't bring a coat. It was cold. . . And I was being an idiot. Hmm.." Lan started to whisper now, feeling depressed, "Why am I so foolish?" Lan closed her eyes and felt the pain in her ankles and her stiffness. She also started to think about Kai. She still didn't forgive him though.
"So how come Kai is ill? Thought he brought a coat." Max asked.
"I did bring a coat." Kai mumbled.
"Then how come you're ill?" Ray asked.
Neither of them said anything, they both thought it would be too embarrassing to tell the others that Kai gave him her coat. It would just bring up a load of questions and jeering and probably wolf noises from Tyson.
"Let me take your temperature." Ray said trying to pry Lan's blanket away from her face.
"Uh."
"Wow, your head feels hot. Let me feel your head Kai." Ray said walking over to Kai's bed.
"Go away." Kai muttered trying to hide his face.
Ray had finally managed to break Kai's grasp off his blanket.
"Get lost! Stop looking at me!" Kai yelled before going into a fit of sneezes again.
Ray felt his forehead. "Your head is even hotter than Lan's. I think you guys should both stay home and someone should stay with you.
"Well not me!" Tyson said, "I have to Beyblattle you know!
"And it's a three against three so that means me and Max can't stay."
"But we need Kenny to help us!" Tyson said.
"It doesn't matter, you guys can just leave us, and we can look after ourselves. Just go and make sure you win." Lan said.
"But Lan, what if something goes wrong? You're going to need someone." Ray said concerned.
"Listen, just go alright? We'll be fine; besides, I'm in better condition than Kai so we'll be fine." Lan said she bit her tongue because she knew that was a lie. She could barely walk when they went home last night. But maybe her wounds might have healed a little bit through the night, but they were still stinging.
"Well if you're sure then OK then, do you want us to call a doctor? But remember, this is for your own health, if you're hiding something then that's just bad for you guys." Ray said.
"I know. . ." Lan whispered closing her eyes again.
"Lan?"
"What? Oh no, don't call a doctor, we can just take some aspirin, just go, you're going to be late."
"Yeah, come on Ray, the two lovers and look after each other." Tyson said reaching for the door handle just as he got hit in the face with a shoe, thrown by Lan.
"Bye guys." Max and Ray both said.
"Yeah, bye and get well soon." Kenny said leaving with Tyson who said nothing.
The door closed and Kai and Lan were left in bed feeling like Hell.
"Are you OK?" Lan said timidly to Kai looking at him.
"I've been better." Kai said turning around to look at Lan. "How're your wounds?
Lan looked under the blanket to see her bandaged ankles. She didn't dare remove them, they were stinging and painful.
"They're fine." She lied. For some reason she wanted to climb into bed with Kai and snuggle down with him, but she didn't forgive him but it was really tempting.
"Kai."
"What."
"I. . . Am sorry I slapped you, but you did deserve it. I can't stay mad at you forever Kai. I don't know why. But I can not forgive you. For a long period of time" Lan said looking at him.
Kai's eyes started to glimmer.
"Stupid boy." Lan said.
"What!?" Kai said.
Lan laughed, "Stupid boy, why do I have to like you so much?"
"I don't know. I don't understand why I like you so much; I'm not supposed to have feelings."
"Why not?"
"I don't know. I just don't usually have any. I don't know why. But you came along into my life and changed everything." Kai said looking at the sheet cover of his bed.
"Is that why you hate me now? You realized that having me around, makes you lose your concentration?"
"I. . . I used to think that, but now I'm not so sure. Wait. I am sure. I just don't like it. I don't like being parted. . . OK, this is so corny and crap. Ignore me.
"Hah, wish I could." Lan smiled.
Kai looked back up at Lan. He could see bags under her eyes and she looked really tired, but she was still pretty to him.
Lan could see Kai's lines under his eyes, but that just made him look cute and huggable.
Lan gingerly started getting out of bed; she placed her feet gently down on the ground.
"What are you doing?" Kai asked.
"Coming over to you."
"Why?"
"I dunno; just want to know what it feels like."
"But you already know what it feels like." Kai said knitting his eyebrows.
"I know, but this time I'm sick, that makes a difference."
"Uh." Ka muttered but let her climb in with him.
Lan sank down into his warmth and felt really comfortable with him, especially when he put his arm around her and held her tight.
"This sure had been a topsy-turvy romantic drama for us hasn't it been?" Lan said resting her face on his chest and putting her arm on his breast. (Mind you, not breasts, breast, his chest in other words duh).
"Yeah, and I don't like it, I'm just trying to figure out my real feelings and look deeper inside trying to figure myself out." Kai answered resting his chin on her head and stroking her hair.
"I want to go back to sleep." Lan muttered breathing heavily.
"Go then." Kai said looking down at her. He could feel her rhythmic breathing and heartbeat against his chest. "I want to sleep too."
"Uh huh." Lan moved her hand up and hooked it around Kai's neck and shuffled up so her head was on the pillow and not the mattress.
They looked at each other for a while before closing their eyes and falling into a deep dreamless sleep.
When they had woken it was already eleven o'clock. The others hadn't come back yet but neither of them expected them to be back already. The two were getting extremely hungry and the hotel ran breakfast from 7 - 10. They weren't able to get food from the hotel that was for sure; they looked in the fridge and only found Tyson's stolen food from the restraints they went to.
Lan quickly gave up in looking for food and said she wouldn't be able to taste anything anyway because all her taste buds had gone so Kai might as well have fed her banana skins. She just needed something to go inside her stomach.
Kai said banana skins won't be very edible so he tried to call up room service to see if they would bring anything up, it would cost a lot but they didn't care, they were hungry.
Lan and Kai went into the bathroom to brush their teeth before the bell boy would come with a plateful of leftover croissants and cereal. It was the cheapest thing they could get.
Kai was first to finish brushing his teeth, he held Lan by the waist after he dried his face and gently kissed her on the cheek. It was an automatic movement; also, he wanted to do it. Lan didn't seem to mind, she just blinked at him.
The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it" Kai said going to the front door. He peeked through the keyhole and saw the spotty bell boy holding a silver tray with a silver coloured lid over it.
"Room service!" The young man said.
"Yeah, yeah I'm here." Kai said opening the door.
The bell boy gave Kai the tray and then held his hand out for a tip.
"Humph, forget it man." Kai said and then shut the door in the bell boy's face.
"Oi you! Give me a tip!" The Bell boy yelled through the door.
"OK then! Here's a tip! Bother me again asking for money and you'll find your face doesn't only have spots on it, but about five or six black and blue bruises as well!" Kai answered back rudely.
"Wow, you're certainly going to be the Bell boys' favourite customer." Lan said leaning on the door frame of the bathroom.
"Humph." Kai said. He laid the tray on the bedside table and opening lifting up the lid showing a tray full of bread, croissants, and a basket of butter and two bowls full of cereal and a jug of milk.
"Gee, they give us all this and all you do is give them a rude comment." Lan said smiling at Kai.
"Just eat." Kai muttered. Lan smiled and they both ate their food.
After they had finished Lan started to feel a little dizzy so she went to the cupboard and found some aspirin Ray had bought a while ago.
"Heh thanks Ray." Lan said to herself. "Kai, do you want some?"
"Fine."
Lan returned to their beds with two aspirin tablets and two glasses of water.
She handed Kai a tablet and a glass of water. After they drained their glasses they settled down again and took another nap in their separate beds.
When they woke the rest of the team hadn't arrived yet, it was around 1 o'clock and the two sickly people were becoming extremely bored and frustrated. Lan climbed back over to Kai's bed again out of boredom, she snuggled up to him and tried to go back to sleep in his arms but she wasn't tired, just bored.
"KAI!"
"What?" Kai answered startled.
"I'm bored." She said thickly.
"I know. Why are you complaining to me?"
"Because you're the only person here thicky."
"Uh." Kai was glad that Lan stayed faithful to him and didn't ignore him that much and had come over to him. He now knew that Lan still cared, it was just her temper but that just made things a little more interesting.
"Hey Kai, I was wondering really. Do you take what you said back?" Lan asked looking at him anxiously.
"Take what back?" Kai asked looking back at her.
"What you said, last night. About everything being pointless, do you still think that?"
"I. . . I. . ." Kai stuttered trying to find the answer.
"Yes?"
"I don't know. I guess. I. . . I'm not sure Lan."
"You should be by now! Come on Kai! You have to think! How can you not know?" Lan said, her eyes glittering in anxiety.
"I just don't Lan! Now stop bugging me!" Kai burst out.
"Kai." She said firmly. "Just think. Do you take it back or not? Are you sorry? I want to know. I need to know if I should keep trying to get close to you, if you don't even give a damn at all, I'll know so I can stop trying."
Kai ran his fingers through his tousled hair. He could say he could take it back, he wanted to so Lan would stop persisting, but his pride was the only thing keeping him back. He had too much pride to say he was being an idiot and he was wrong. He couldn't say it.
"No. I don't take it back." Kai said finally.
"You don't?" Lan breathed, her face looking down. "That's ok, I just needed to know. Thanks Kai." She then broke away from his grip and lay down farthest away from him in the bed muttering something about needing to get comfortable, but Kai knew she was hurt.
"Why do girls have to be so sensitive?" Kai thought in his head. But he disliked seeing Lan hurt, he was lying to both of them, but his ego, pride and stubbornness just halted him back. He could never admit he was wrong.
"Lan."
"Yes?" Lan tired to sound casual but her voice shook slightly.
"Tell me I'm wrong." Kai said looking at his shaking hands.
"What?"
"Tell me I'm wrong."
"Why?"
"Just say it, we can forget all of this and relax. You just need to tell me I'm wrong and we can get back together if you want, closer than friends, but not that close as in. . . . You know." He said looking at her.
"Tell you you're wrong? But why cant you?" Lan said frowning.
"I just can't. You have to."
"Well I'm sorry but I can't just be the one to avoid your stubbornness and 'pride' you have to do it yourself, if not then you're on your own." Lan said looking away.
"What? But you want me to say I take it back!" Kai's eyes widened in shock.
"So you only want ME to say you're wrong because you can't and you want to please me? Well sorry Kai but I can't accept that, I can't live in a relationship that's a lie. I'll only accept it if you really mean it." Lan said turning back at him frowning.
"But I do mean it!"
"Then why don't you say it then? If you want me Kai or if you figure out how to say 'I'm sorry Lan, I was wrong I take back what I said' then I'll be at my bed." And she left Kai sitting on his own bed hating himself.
"Lan."
"Yes." It wasn't a question.
"I. . ." He screwed his face up in anger. "Because of out illness, we're one lesson short so tomorrow when we go back, you're taking a coat and we're training extra hard. Is that clear?" He could have thrown himself out of the window.
"Yes Kai, I'll make sure I'll push my body extra hard just to get better for training tomorrow. I need aspirin." Lan looked angry, let down, stressed, betrayed and of course, ill.
Kai didn't just see pain in her ankles and knuckles, but somewhere much deeper into her body, a pain only he could heal and was one of the deepest pains ever.
For the rest of the afternoon Lan had just been living on aspirin and she had started to feel slightly woozy.
"You should stop taking those you know, they're bad for you if you take too many." Kai said watching her drink down her water with a pill running down her throat.
"Whatever Kai."
"I am sorry."
"You know what I want Kai and it's not an apology."
"I know. . ."
"Do you think you ever will be able to tell me you can take it back?" Lan said draining her glass.
"Maybe. Maybe not."
"That's just great Kai." Lan looked at him sharply and he smirked. She put her glass down with a clink and walked over to her bed and started to read a magazine about Beyblading.
"You're ignoring me." Kai said stating the obvious.
"Wow, nothing gets past you Kai." She muttered sarcastically turning a page.
"You know, you shouldn't really ignore me. If you just want me to say 'I take it back' and you're acting as if I stole something of yours then I think you're acting pretty desperate, you must really fancy me." Kai said smirking again.
"Excuse me? Me desperate? Don't make me laugh."
"But you are." His smirk widening.
"The only reason why I'm ignoring you is because I know you want to say you take it back and you're wrong but you're just being a child and not saying it, you're just being immature so that's why I'm ignoring you." Lan said simply.
"Nah, I think you just fancy me loads. It's so obvious you know. You always trying to hug me and get me to love you." He put his hands behind his head and stared at her, he was trying to confuse her by acting queer, he was that bored.
"Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I'm that desperate." Lan made a huge fake over exaggerated yawn facing Kai.
"Of course. I'm sorry but I'm not interested but you having a crush on me if pretty fun." He had to control himself not to laugh. "Heh, I pity you Lan, don't worry I love you too but not the way you love me."
"Uh. Whatever Kai." But she started to wonder if what Kai was saying was true. She did like him a lot. But she couldn't admit it, not ever.
"Shit." Something in Lan's brain clicked, she just realised something. "Damn. . ." She whispered.
"What?" Kai asked, "you finally realised how much you fancy me?"
"Shut it Kai." She looked at him, "Kai I'm sorry."
"Huh."
"I'm just like you, I'm such a hypocrite!"
"You're calling me a hypocrite?" Kai asked stunned.
"No. I'M such a hypocrite. I'm sorry Kai, you're right. I'm sorry; we both have too much pride to admit we're wrong. That's why you're finding this hard. I'm sorry Kai."
"So you found out why I'm finding it hard. Well that's good. So can you just accept it then instead of making me feel uncomfortable and guilty? You know I take it back and I'm sorry I ever said all that stuff. C'mon, just accept it."
"I can't Kai; I want it to come from you. I'll admit it then, I really do like you, I have to admit I never have felt this way about any other guy before, this sounds like such a cliché but it's true, I guess you could cal me desperate, but not for a boyfriend, just to be YOUR friend or something closer, to break that heavy barrier of yours. That is my desperation. I can admit that, now why can't you admit yours?"
"Because I have more pride than you Lan. Simple as that. My ego is stronger than yours. And you have to admit that."
There was a silence between them. "I don't want to hurt you Lan. You know that, but sometimes I can't help it. That's just me, face it."
"OK Kai, I'll have to accept it. You know I care for you. You know more than ever now. Humph, my confession was pointless." Lan muttered looking slightly annoyed.
Kai grinned he felt like he wanted to comfort her and call her silly. So he got up from bed, a little wobbly, walked over to her and put his arm around her.
"Get off Kai." She tried to push him off but she wasn't trying that much and she just let him hug her.
"Did you know you're the only girl I've ever felt close to?" Kai asked trying to cheer her up.
"Kai, I'm the only girl you know. Well, I'm the only girl who you know more than just their name or their Beyblading skills." She thought back to Mariah and Emily.
"Hey, I'm just trying to make you feel special you know." He said indignantly.
"I know." She smiled and hugged him back finally. "I wish I could hate you for a longer amount of time."
"Well that would be hard since you fancy me so much." He grinned at her while she smirked back then pummelled his face with her pillow.
After a few minutes of wrestling with each other they calmed down and relaxed on Lan's bed panting.
"I'm still mad at you, you know." Lan said looking at Kai.
"I don't care."
They were silent again. All that could be heard was their rhythmic breathing. Kai wanted to say it but he didn't like to hear him say he was wrong.
"Lan. I have something to say."
"Hmm?"
"I guess if I don't say it then you're never going to appreciate me being around you and you'll just try and beat me up whenever you get the chance." He stayed silent for a while, while Lan waited patiently. "I was . . . wrong. And I take back what I said."
"There now, that wasn't that hard was it? Feel better?" Lan asked.
"Not really." Kai said.
Lan laughed feeling glad that Kai wasn't all that bad and he wasn't such a tough guy, well he was but he could be tamed. She turned around to look at Kai, who was looking at the ceiling trying to pray for his pride to come back, and she kissed him on the cheek, she hadn't done that in a while and felt relaxed so she put her arm around him and held him tightly.
"Why couldn't you just say that earlier Kai?" She asked kissing his cheek again.
"I was just playing with you." He smiled.
". . . Oh shut up Hiwatari." She said thumping his chest.
"Oi!"
"You deserved it." But Lan still smiled and her smile broadened as Kai threw away all of his broken pride, lifted her up, held her chin and kissed her for real. . . Just as the handle of the door started to turn.
Lan quickly broke their kiss and hastily threw Kai off her bed and he landed with a painful thump.
"Uh. So much for affectionate love." He thought in his head rubbing his butt.
"Hey guys! How're you feeling? Did we interrupt anything?" Ray appeared from the door smiling and then looking down on the floor at Kai who was scowling and looked menacing.
"Why is it that RAY always has to interrupt anything passionate me and Lan are doing?" Kai thought in his head glowering at Ray.
"We're fine Ray. How was the match?" Lan asked just as Max, Kenny and Tyson walked in the room all grinning.
"We lost 3 - 0!" Tyson said.
"Oh shut up Tyson, what was the real score?" Lan said turning to Max.
"We won, 2 - 1. It was pretty tough but we pulled it through.
"Was that the score for both matches?" Kai said getting up from the floor then sitting on the bed.
"Yeah, pretty much." Ray said.
"Who lost?" Kai said.
"Tyson lost one and Max lost the other." Kenny said, "And that wouldn't have been if only Tyson had listened to me instead of trying to be fancy and show off to some girl.
"Hey! She still looked at me!" Tyson said.
"It was more like she was laughing at you Tyson." Kenny said.
"Whatever! Gees I'm starving! Let's go eat!" Tyson said grinning and rubbing his huge stomach.
"Yeah and bring some food back for us OK?" Lan said. "We're starving."
"Hey Kai, what were you doing on the floor?" Max asked turning to Kai who was leaning against the wall against his bed.
"Break dancing." Kai answered back rudely. Lan laughed, she seemed to feel much better, her illness also seemed to be going away, and some of her illness was caused by depression. Kai's was ill because he cared too much. About Lan that is, you couldn't pay Kai to look after poorly babies.
Max:????
"Well let's get going now!" Tyson said happily.
"Don't worry; we'll bring you back some food. If Tyson doesn't eat it all that is!" Ray said
"Thanks." Lan said timidly.
So the rest of the guys left leaving Lan and Kai alone again.
"You OK?" Lan asked Kai.
"Yeah." Kai looked away, he wasn't mad of course, but he didn't feel like talking anymore.
"OK." Lan said.
They didn't talk until the others came home; Lan wondered why Kai was ignoring her again.
"Weird boy." Lan thought in her head.
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Woo hoo. I finally finished it. Ahhh its crap I know. I couldn't really think of nothing to write so I was just rambling really, its crap I know. (
Any ways,
Disclaimer: I do not own Beyblade or Kai or meh but I do own Lan.
Meh... depressed. Just read...
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For once in their entire team life, Kai was not the one to wake up first in the morning. Ray had woken up first and was surprised that Kai was still in bed. Everyone had woken up except Kai and Lan.
When Kai had finally woken up he went through a stage of continuous sneezes. After doing about seven sneezes in a row he slumped back down on his pillow and moaned at the light shining in his face.
"Come on Kai! You're the one who's always telling us to get out of bed, now it's your turn to be pushed and yelled at!" Tyson said indignantly.
"Errrgggghhhhh. . . Go away Tyson." Kai slurred turning over.
"Come on Lan! Wake up!" Ray said going over to her and gently nudging her.
"Ug." Lan blurred
"Come on! We'll be late!" Ray said.
"Meh." Lan felt groggy and cold and ill. But Kai felt worse. After what happened last night neither of them wanted to move or see anybody or be forced to be pushed out of bed.
"Blag. I'm shick." Lan managed to blurt out.
"I feel bad. Hot, sweaty, bloated and. . . . I have to get out of bed. Beyblading match. But I'm not even in it. You guys go ahead, I'll be here alone." Kai muttered under the blanket.
"Wow, I've never seen Kai like this before." Max said scratching his head. "What did you guys do last night? Go swimming?"
"You could say that." Lan said her face squashed to the pillow. "It was raining last night and I didn't bring a coat. It was cold. . . And I was being an idiot. Hmm.." Lan started to whisper now, feeling depressed, "Why am I so foolish?" Lan closed her eyes and felt the pain in her ankles and her stiffness. She also started to think about Kai. She still didn't forgive him though.
"So how come Kai is ill? Thought he brought a coat." Max asked.
"I did bring a coat." Kai mumbled.
"Then how come you're ill?" Ray asked.
Neither of them said anything, they both thought it would be too embarrassing to tell the others that Kai gave him her coat. It would just bring up a load of questions and jeering and probably wolf noises from Tyson.
"Let me take your temperature." Ray said trying to pry Lan's blanket away from her face.
"Uh."
"Wow, your head feels hot. Let me feel your head Kai." Ray said walking over to Kai's bed.
"Go away." Kai muttered trying to hide his face.
Ray had finally managed to break Kai's grasp off his blanket.
"Get lost! Stop looking at me!" Kai yelled before going into a fit of sneezes again.
Ray felt his forehead. "Your head is even hotter than Lan's. I think you guys should both stay home and someone should stay with you.
"Well not me!" Tyson said, "I have to Beyblattle you know!
"And it's a three against three so that means me and Max can't stay."
"But we need Kenny to help us!" Tyson said.
"It doesn't matter, you guys can just leave us, and we can look after ourselves. Just go and make sure you win." Lan said.
"But Lan, what if something goes wrong? You're going to need someone." Ray said concerned.
"Listen, just go alright? We'll be fine; besides, I'm in better condition than Kai so we'll be fine." Lan said she bit her tongue because she knew that was a lie. She could barely walk when they went home last night. But maybe her wounds might have healed a little bit through the night, but they were still stinging.
"Well if you're sure then OK then, do you want us to call a doctor? But remember, this is for your own health, if you're hiding something then that's just bad for you guys." Ray said.
"I know. . ." Lan whispered closing her eyes again.
"Lan?"
"What? Oh no, don't call a doctor, we can just take some aspirin, just go, you're going to be late."
"Yeah, come on Ray, the two lovers and look after each other." Tyson said reaching for the door handle just as he got hit in the face with a shoe, thrown by Lan.
"Bye guys." Max and Ray both said.
"Yeah, bye and get well soon." Kenny said leaving with Tyson who said nothing.
The door closed and Kai and Lan were left in bed feeling like Hell.
"Are you OK?" Lan said timidly to Kai looking at him.
"I've been better." Kai said turning around to look at Lan. "How're your wounds?
Lan looked under the blanket to see her bandaged ankles. She didn't dare remove them, they were stinging and painful.
"They're fine." She lied. For some reason she wanted to climb into bed with Kai and snuggle down with him, but she didn't forgive him but it was really tempting.
"Kai."
"What."
"I. . . Am sorry I slapped you, but you did deserve it. I can't stay mad at you forever Kai. I don't know why. But I can not forgive you. For a long period of time" Lan said looking at him.
Kai's eyes started to glimmer.
"Stupid boy." Lan said.
"What!?" Kai said.
Lan laughed, "Stupid boy, why do I have to like you so much?"
"I don't know. I don't understand why I like you so much; I'm not supposed to have feelings."
"Why not?"
"I don't know. I just don't usually have any. I don't know why. But you came along into my life and changed everything." Kai said looking at the sheet cover of his bed.
"Is that why you hate me now? You realized that having me around, makes you lose your concentration?"
"I. . . I used to think that, but now I'm not so sure. Wait. I am sure. I just don't like it. I don't like being parted. . . OK, this is so corny and crap. Ignore me.
"Hah, wish I could." Lan smiled.
Kai looked back up at Lan. He could see bags under her eyes and she looked really tired, but she was still pretty to him.
Lan could see Kai's lines under his eyes, but that just made him look cute and huggable.
Lan gingerly started getting out of bed; she placed her feet gently down on the ground.
"What are you doing?" Kai asked.
"Coming over to you."
"Why?"
"I dunno; just want to know what it feels like."
"But you already know what it feels like." Kai said knitting his eyebrows.
"I know, but this time I'm sick, that makes a difference."
"Uh." Ka muttered but let her climb in with him.
Lan sank down into his warmth and felt really comfortable with him, especially when he put his arm around her and held her tight.
"This sure had been a topsy-turvy romantic drama for us hasn't it been?" Lan said resting her face on his chest and putting her arm on his breast. (Mind you, not breasts, breast, his chest in other words duh).
"Yeah, and I don't like it, I'm just trying to figure out my real feelings and look deeper inside trying to figure myself out." Kai answered resting his chin on her head and stroking her hair.
"I want to go back to sleep." Lan muttered breathing heavily.
"Go then." Kai said looking down at her. He could feel her rhythmic breathing and heartbeat against his chest. "I want to sleep too."
"Uh huh." Lan moved her hand up and hooked it around Kai's neck and shuffled up so her head was on the pillow and not the mattress.
They looked at each other for a while before closing their eyes and falling into a deep dreamless sleep.
When they had woken it was already eleven o'clock. The others hadn't come back yet but neither of them expected them to be back already. The two were getting extremely hungry and the hotel ran breakfast from 7 - 10. They weren't able to get food from the hotel that was for sure; they looked in the fridge and only found Tyson's stolen food from the restraints they went to.
Lan quickly gave up in looking for food and said she wouldn't be able to taste anything anyway because all her taste buds had gone so Kai might as well have fed her banana skins. She just needed something to go inside her stomach.
Kai said banana skins won't be very edible so he tried to call up room service to see if they would bring anything up, it would cost a lot but they didn't care, they were hungry.
Lan and Kai went into the bathroom to brush their teeth before the bell boy would come with a plateful of leftover croissants and cereal. It was the cheapest thing they could get.
Kai was first to finish brushing his teeth, he held Lan by the waist after he dried his face and gently kissed her on the cheek. It was an automatic movement; also, he wanted to do it. Lan didn't seem to mind, she just blinked at him.
The doorbell rang.
"I'll get it" Kai said going to the front door. He peeked through the keyhole and saw the spotty bell boy holding a silver tray with a silver coloured lid over it.
"Room service!" The young man said.
"Yeah, yeah I'm here." Kai said opening the door.
The bell boy gave Kai the tray and then held his hand out for a tip.
"Humph, forget it man." Kai said and then shut the door in the bell boy's face.
"Oi you! Give me a tip!" The Bell boy yelled through the door.
"OK then! Here's a tip! Bother me again asking for money and you'll find your face doesn't only have spots on it, but about five or six black and blue bruises as well!" Kai answered back rudely.
"Wow, you're certainly going to be the Bell boys' favourite customer." Lan said leaning on the door frame of the bathroom.
"Humph." Kai said. He laid the tray on the bedside table and opening lifting up the lid showing a tray full of bread, croissants, and a basket of butter and two bowls full of cereal and a jug of milk.
"Gee, they give us all this and all you do is give them a rude comment." Lan said smiling at Kai.
"Just eat." Kai muttered. Lan smiled and they both ate their food.
After they had finished Lan started to feel a little dizzy so she went to the cupboard and found some aspirin Ray had bought a while ago.
"Heh thanks Ray." Lan said to herself. "Kai, do you want some?"
"Fine."
Lan returned to their beds with two aspirin tablets and two glasses of water.
She handed Kai a tablet and a glass of water. After they drained their glasses they settled down again and took another nap in their separate beds.
When they woke the rest of the team hadn't arrived yet, it was around 1 o'clock and the two sickly people were becoming extremely bored and frustrated. Lan climbed back over to Kai's bed again out of boredom, she snuggled up to him and tried to go back to sleep in his arms but she wasn't tired, just bored.
"KAI!"
"What?" Kai answered startled.
"I'm bored." She said thickly.
"I know. Why are you complaining to me?"
"Because you're the only person here thicky."
"Uh." Kai was glad that Lan stayed faithful to him and didn't ignore him that much and had come over to him. He now knew that Lan still cared, it was just her temper but that just made things a little more interesting.
"Hey Kai, I was wondering really. Do you take what you said back?" Lan asked looking at him anxiously.
"Take what back?" Kai asked looking back at her.
"What you said, last night. About everything being pointless, do you still think that?"
"I. . . I. . ." Kai stuttered trying to find the answer.
"Yes?"
"I don't know. I guess. I. . . I'm not sure Lan."
"You should be by now! Come on Kai! You have to think! How can you not know?" Lan said, her eyes glittering in anxiety.
"I just don't Lan! Now stop bugging me!" Kai burst out.
"Kai." She said firmly. "Just think. Do you take it back or not? Are you sorry? I want to know. I need to know if I should keep trying to get close to you, if you don't even give a damn at all, I'll know so I can stop trying."
Kai ran his fingers through his tousled hair. He could say he could take it back, he wanted to so Lan would stop persisting, but his pride was the only thing keeping him back. He had too much pride to say he was being an idiot and he was wrong. He couldn't say it.
"No. I don't take it back." Kai said finally.
"You don't?" Lan breathed, her face looking down. "That's ok, I just needed to know. Thanks Kai." She then broke away from his grip and lay down farthest away from him in the bed muttering something about needing to get comfortable, but Kai knew she was hurt.
"Why do girls have to be so sensitive?" Kai thought in his head. But he disliked seeing Lan hurt, he was lying to both of them, but his ego, pride and stubbornness just halted him back. He could never admit he was wrong.
"Lan."
"Yes?" Lan tired to sound casual but her voice shook slightly.
"Tell me I'm wrong." Kai said looking at his shaking hands.
"What?"
"Tell me I'm wrong."
"Why?"
"Just say it, we can forget all of this and relax. You just need to tell me I'm wrong and we can get back together if you want, closer than friends, but not that close as in. . . . You know." He said looking at her.
"Tell you you're wrong? But why cant you?" Lan said frowning.
"I just can't. You have to."
"Well I'm sorry but I can't just be the one to avoid your stubbornness and 'pride' you have to do it yourself, if not then you're on your own." Lan said looking away.
"What? But you want me to say I take it back!" Kai's eyes widened in shock.
"So you only want ME to say you're wrong because you can't and you want to please me? Well sorry Kai but I can't accept that, I can't live in a relationship that's a lie. I'll only accept it if you really mean it." Lan said turning back at him frowning.
"But I do mean it!"
"Then why don't you say it then? If you want me Kai or if you figure out how to say 'I'm sorry Lan, I was wrong I take back what I said' then I'll be at my bed." And she left Kai sitting on his own bed hating himself.
"Lan."
"Yes." It wasn't a question.
"I. . ." He screwed his face up in anger. "Because of out illness, we're one lesson short so tomorrow when we go back, you're taking a coat and we're training extra hard. Is that clear?" He could have thrown himself out of the window.
"Yes Kai, I'll make sure I'll push my body extra hard just to get better for training tomorrow. I need aspirin." Lan looked angry, let down, stressed, betrayed and of course, ill.
Kai didn't just see pain in her ankles and knuckles, but somewhere much deeper into her body, a pain only he could heal and was one of the deepest pains ever.
For the rest of the afternoon Lan had just been living on aspirin and she had started to feel slightly woozy.
"You should stop taking those you know, they're bad for you if you take too many." Kai said watching her drink down her water with a pill running down her throat.
"Whatever Kai."
"I am sorry."
"You know what I want Kai and it's not an apology."
"I know. . ."
"Do you think you ever will be able to tell me you can take it back?" Lan said draining her glass.
"Maybe. Maybe not."
"That's just great Kai." Lan looked at him sharply and he smirked. She put her glass down with a clink and walked over to her bed and started to read a magazine about Beyblading.
"You're ignoring me." Kai said stating the obvious.
"Wow, nothing gets past you Kai." She muttered sarcastically turning a page.
"You know, you shouldn't really ignore me. If you just want me to say 'I take it back' and you're acting as if I stole something of yours then I think you're acting pretty desperate, you must really fancy me." Kai said smirking again.
"Excuse me? Me desperate? Don't make me laugh."
"But you are." His smirk widening.
"The only reason why I'm ignoring you is because I know you want to say you take it back and you're wrong but you're just being a child and not saying it, you're just being immature so that's why I'm ignoring you." Lan said simply.
"Nah, I think you just fancy me loads. It's so obvious you know. You always trying to hug me and get me to love you." He put his hands behind his head and stared at her, he was trying to confuse her by acting queer, he was that bored.
"Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. I'm that desperate." Lan made a huge fake over exaggerated yawn facing Kai.
"Of course. I'm sorry but I'm not interested but you having a crush on me if pretty fun." He had to control himself not to laugh. "Heh, I pity you Lan, don't worry I love you too but not the way you love me."
"Uh. Whatever Kai." But she started to wonder if what Kai was saying was true. She did like him a lot. But she couldn't admit it, not ever.
"Shit." Something in Lan's brain clicked, she just realised something. "Damn. . ." She whispered.
"What?" Kai asked, "you finally realised how much you fancy me?"
"Shut it Kai." She looked at him, "Kai I'm sorry."
"Huh."
"I'm just like you, I'm such a hypocrite!"
"You're calling me a hypocrite?" Kai asked stunned.
"No. I'M such a hypocrite. I'm sorry Kai, you're right. I'm sorry; we both have too much pride to admit we're wrong. That's why you're finding this hard. I'm sorry Kai."
"So you found out why I'm finding it hard. Well that's good. So can you just accept it then instead of making me feel uncomfortable and guilty? You know I take it back and I'm sorry I ever said all that stuff. C'mon, just accept it."
"I can't Kai; I want it to come from you. I'll admit it then, I really do like you, I have to admit I never have felt this way about any other guy before, this sounds like such a cliché but it's true, I guess you could cal me desperate, but not for a boyfriend, just to be YOUR friend or something closer, to break that heavy barrier of yours. That is my desperation. I can admit that, now why can't you admit yours?"
"Because I have more pride than you Lan. Simple as that. My ego is stronger than yours. And you have to admit that."
There was a silence between them. "I don't want to hurt you Lan. You know that, but sometimes I can't help it. That's just me, face it."
"OK Kai, I'll have to accept it. You know I care for you. You know more than ever now. Humph, my confession was pointless." Lan muttered looking slightly annoyed.
Kai grinned he felt like he wanted to comfort her and call her silly. So he got up from bed, a little wobbly, walked over to her and put his arm around her.
"Get off Kai." She tried to push him off but she wasn't trying that much and she just let him hug her.
"Did you know you're the only girl I've ever felt close to?" Kai asked trying to cheer her up.
"Kai, I'm the only girl you know. Well, I'm the only girl who you know more than just their name or their Beyblading skills." She thought back to Mariah and Emily.
"Hey, I'm just trying to make you feel special you know." He said indignantly.
"I know." She smiled and hugged him back finally. "I wish I could hate you for a longer amount of time."
"Well that would be hard since you fancy me so much." He grinned at her while she smirked back then pummelled his face with her pillow.
After a few minutes of wrestling with each other they calmed down and relaxed on Lan's bed panting.
"I'm still mad at you, you know." Lan said looking at Kai.
"I don't care."
They were silent again. All that could be heard was their rhythmic breathing. Kai wanted to say it but he didn't like to hear him say he was wrong.
"Lan. I have something to say."
"Hmm?"
"I guess if I don't say it then you're never going to appreciate me being around you and you'll just try and beat me up whenever you get the chance." He stayed silent for a while, while Lan waited patiently. "I was . . . wrong. And I take back what I said."
"There now, that wasn't that hard was it? Feel better?" Lan asked.
"Not really." Kai said.
Lan laughed feeling glad that Kai wasn't all that bad and he wasn't such a tough guy, well he was but he could be tamed. She turned around to look at Kai, who was looking at the ceiling trying to pray for his pride to come back, and she kissed him on the cheek, she hadn't done that in a while and felt relaxed so she put her arm around him and held him tightly.
"Why couldn't you just say that earlier Kai?" She asked kissing his cheek again.
"I was just playing with you." He smiled.
". . . Oh shut up Hiwatari." She said thumping his chest.
"Oi!"
"You deserved it." But Lan still smiled and her smile broadened as Kai threw away all of his broken pride, lifted her up, held her chin and kissed her for real. . . Just as the handle of the door started to turn.
Lan quickly broke their kiss and hastily threw Kai off her bed and he landed with a painful thump.
"Uh. So much for affectionate love." He thought in his head rubbing his butt.
"Hey guys! How're you feeling? Did we interrupt anything?" Ray appeared from the door smiling and then looking down on the floor at Kai who was scowling and looked menacing.
"Why is it that RAY always has to interrupt anything passionate me and Lan are doing?" Kai thought in his head glowering at Ray.
"We're fine Ray. How was the match?" Lan asked just as Max, Kenny and Tyson walked in the room all grinning.
"We lost 3 - 0!" Tyson said.
"Oh shut up Tyson, what was the real score?" Lan said turning to Max.
"We won, 2 - 1. It was pretty tough but we pulled it through.
"Was that the score for both matches?" Kai said getting up from the floor then sitting on the bed.
"Yeah, pretty much." Ray said.
"Who lost?" Kai said.
"Tyson lost one and Max lost the other." Kenny said, "And that wouldn't have been if only Tyson had listened to me instead of trying to be fancy and show off to some girl.
"Hey! She still looked at me!" Tyson said.
"It was more like she was laughing at you Tyson." Kenny said.
"Whatever! Gees I'm starving! Let's go eat!" Tyson said grinning and rubbing his huge stomach.
"Yeah and bring some food back for us OK?" Lan said. "We're starving."
"Hey Kai, what were you doing on the floor?" Max asked turning to Kai who was leaning against the wall against his bed.
"Break dancing." Kai answered back rudely. Lan laughed, she seemed to feel much better, her illness also seemed to be going away, and some of her illness was caused by depression. Kai's was ill because he cared too much. About Lan that is, you couldn't pay Kai to look after poorly babies.
Max:????
"Well let's get going now!" Tyson said happily.
"Don't worry; we'll bring you back some food. If Tyson doesn't eat it all that is!" Ray said
"Thanks." Lan said timidly.
So the rest of the guys left leaving Lan and Kai alone again.
"You OK?" Lan asked Kai.
"Yeah." Kai looked away, he wasn't mad of course, but he didn't feel like talking anymore.
"OK." Lan said.
They didn't talk until the others came home; Lan wondered why Kai was ignoring her again.
"Weird boy." Lan thought in her head.
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Woo hoo. I finally finished it. Ahhh its crap I know. I couldn't really think of nothing to write so I was just rambling really, its crap I know. (