What does it take to make Hilary shut up? It was only when I threatened her did she get off my case. Irene and her friends avoided me that day and people were giving me these weird looks. Tyson and co hadn't heard about it, they were still a bit mad about what I did to Zeo. But I just didn't care and took everything in my stride.
Kai sat next to me in math later. "Hey." I said with very little emotion. I wasn't in the mood to be emotional today. He nodded and started his work. I did the same but could feel his eyes flicking at my hand every minute or so. "Are you waiting for a pool to appear under my hand?" I whispered and he shrugged. "Your girlfriends getting jealous." I saw Irene fuming when she spotted me sitting next to Kai. "She's not my girlfriend." He glared at me and I put my hands up pretending to surrender. He frowned at my immaturity and looked at my hand again. "It's not going to suddenly burst open so stop worrying."
"I'm not." He growled. "And here I was thinking you were the caring type." I said in a sarcastic sort of way. "Are you always this annoying?" He looked at me curiously. "You saying your not?" He smirked. "You find me annoying?"
"Not yet." I put my hand under the table, well out of sight from Kai. He stared at me for a minute before getting back to work. Unfortunately Miss. Bitch saw us talking so she gave Kai detention after school. Kai glared at her and I rolled my eyes. I already had detention for the week so it was no skin off my teeth. "Sorry." I whispered and he shrugged. "At least we won't be alone in detention." I smirked, Kai may not act it but he was pretty amusing to be with.
He showed up in detention as Hilary forced me to mine again. The week passed slowly with my detentions at the end of everyday. I think Kai was getting himself in to trouble on purpose. It was a bit silly as to why. I could get him to smirk but never to smile and he looked so depressed most of the time. If there was a record for brooding he would've broken it a long time ago. I know I didn't smile a lot but not even I compared to Kai.
When he came in on Thursday I was starting to get suspicious. At the end of the detention I half thought about asking why, but Kai didn't look at me through the detention so I thought there was no point.
He gave me a lift back to Hilary's everyday. We hardly spoke at all and I was going crazy trying to figure it out. "Why are you giving yourself detentions?" I finally asked on Friday. "I used to be able to avoid Irene that way. She doesn't wait for me anymore because you sliced your hand…how is it?"
I looked at my gloved hand and shrugged. "I have no idea. I can't feel it so I don't know." He pulled the car over and put a hand on my forehead. I jerked my head away from his hand and looked at him. "Um…what are you doing?"
He smirked and restarted the car. "I was checking to see if you had a fever, it could mean you have an infection."
"Kai, I may not be able to feel pain. But I definitely know when I'm sick, you can trust me on that." I smirked. "Ha." He raised an eyebrow. "And you said you weren't worried." Kai shrugged. "Well if you're that worried then let's take a look." I took off my glove and unwrapped the bandages. I knew how to keep dressings quite clean but Kai was surprised they were still white.
My hand was clean, the wound was starting to close and the stitches were doing their job. I showed him when we stopped by my house and he studied it. He gently took my head and moved it this way and that. I rolled my eyes. "Kai you could punch it and I still wouldn't feel it. I can feel people's touch but my pain receptors are nonexistent." Kai ran his finger along my hand, I immediately moved it away. "Before you ask, yes I could feel that." He wrapped my hand up again and I went towards the house.
Hilary was at the door but I shut it before she could get out. "Go Kai go!" I exclaimed. He started the car and zoomed off, I waited until he was out of sight before opening the door. "Ebony!"
"Sorry Hilary I didn't see you there." I got in to my room and locked the door. I liked the fact that I could do that and be alone.
I spent a lot of time in my room over the weekend. Until Hilary's mum unlocked my door and charged in with Hilary behind her. "You need to go outside!" I scowled and got up. I grabbed my board and rolled down the street before Hilary even made it out of the door.
KAI
I was with Tyson and Rei heading towards the skate park. Tyson stopped and scowled. "Tyson?" He answered Rei's query by pointing at Ebony. She was getting applause from the local skaters by her tricks. "Let's go somewhere else." He said but I came to skate so I continued towards the skate park. "Kai?"
"I came here for a reason Tyson." I said plainly and kept walking towards the park. "Fine! See you at the party later!" He growled and left with Rei following.
Ebony had just come up from the ramps and walked past me. "I thought people who knew each other usually said hello." She shrugged. "I've got a pool party at my place later, do you want to come?" She raised an eyebrow. "Why?" I scowled. "I'd rather talk to someone with more than one brain cell and you don't annoy me." She scratched the back of her head thinking about it. "Ok, when?"
"I'll meet you at your place in two hours to pick you up." She looked over to the park. "One more hour of skating and a party to look forward to later…sure, why not."
We got on our boards and skated around for a while. There was a guy who looked like trouble. He glared at her when she called him a 'fucking snake'. She was going down the half pipe when he tripped her up and Ebony landed badly. There were no broken bones but she landed on her hand. I came over to see if she was all right.
"Hey, don't ruin your rep now. You're supposed to be the uncaring type remember?" I looked at her hand. "It's fine, my hands not wet so I don't think it's reopened." I tried to take her hand in to mine but she stood up and walked away. "You shouldn't be concerned." She said behind me.