Chapter 22: 10 Question Rule

Emily's Viewpoint- Comic Relief Chapter

2 Weeks Before Wedding "You almost ready, Kai? This is the biggest step we're ever going to take in our relationship together." Kai pouted.

"I happen to think that becoming a couple was the first that was the first step and we just kept walking and got here, it wasn't anything major. There were bumps in the road but just walking was the hardest then the normal steps to the end." I sighed.

"You are too technical for your own good Kai. But, I guess you're right. We couldn't have got engaged if we didn't take a huge leap by becoming a couple. It was a guess, and a huge leap and this is just another leap that we have to take completely together." Kai nodded, giving his concent.

"But the true question is, are we ready?" Kai made it to point to stretch we in that sentence because if we both were not ready then we better stop now.

"Well the only way is to ask, right?" Kai nodded.

"So are you, Emily Dennison ready to be my wife?" I nodded, and gulped. "You sure?"

"Yep, I'm sure. It's just that I'm not sure that everyone's behind me in the leap of ours. I feel like people are against it." Kai laughed.

"Haven't you ever seen a wedding on TV, Em. You have pre-wedding jitters, it's so normal. Also, in every relationship there are people against it, some for good reasons, some for stupid reasons, like grudges and secret lovers. It's okay, just remember it us together no matter what." I laughed, he looked at me.

"You're right, I just feel that something horrible is going to pull us apart and I'm going to be horribly sad for the rest of my sad, pathetic, miserable life." Kai jumped to attention.

"Em, you seriously need to calm down because you are thinking of the worst possible thing ever, aren't you?" I nodded and started crying, hoping that Kai was right, and my mind and better judgment is wrong.

"I know I am but look how our relationship has been so far. We're in danger constantly and we both always in pain, is this how weddings are suppose to be?" I asked, wondering.

Kai's Viewpoint

What could be wrong with Emily, she's falling apart at something she created, from the first time she talked to me. She created this relationship, is she the one who is meant to destroy it too? She has to get a hold of herself.

"If that's the way you feel then maybe, we shouldn't have it, got it Emily. So pull yourself together or the wedding's off." Emily burst even deeper into tears, except instead of tears of fear they were of sadness which meant I messed up. "Emily, I'm really sorry. I just well…

"No Kai, maybe this is a big mistake, good-bye. I'll be back later, maybe, but maybe not if that's how you feel." Emily madly stomped off.

I had only ever seen this behavior from one other person in my life. It was this girl Linda at O'daylawn. She was pregnant and we were learning about normal signs of teenage pregnancy. She was normal for a pregnant women, she had mood swings, and was constantly falling apart. It described Emily for sure, except Emily can't be pregnant. She just can't; for her own good and mine.

It had well been 6 hours and yet Emily hadn't returned. There was a knock on the door and an angry couple barged in the door. "What did you do to poor Emily?" Dani was very upset.

"Me, I didn't do anything." I said coolly, understanding everything completely.

"Then mind explaining to us Kai, what's wrong with Emily." I sighed and told them to sit down.

"I wish I knew Dani and Andy, she was just fine then she asked me was I ready, and then stuff about this being a big step for us. Then she doubted that we'd make it, and she thought everyone was against our marriage. Normal pre-wedding jitters but then she freaked out."

"How so, Kai?" Andy said concerned.

"Then she started saying that she'd be all alone for the rest of her, well as she say sad, pathetic, miserable life because fate is always trying to tear our relationship apart. Then I told her we'd be fine. It's just we have a lot of enemies and such. Then I needed her calm because somehow she knew our relationship would never last." Dani was now crying into Andy's shoulder.

"Wow, it seems that Emily's gone completely mental. So why did she leave, what did you say next Kai?" Dani asked wiping her tears on Andy's shirt that was covered in tears.

"It must have been something pretty harsh for her to feel like that. I mean she came into the training room crying and crawling and wouldn't calm down." I felt really bad for what I said but this is too much.

"I told her, 'If that's the way you feel then maybe, we shouldn't have it, got it Emily. So pull yourself together or the wedding's off.' That's exactly what I said." Dani got up and slapped me.

"How dare you, do that to Emily in her delicate mental stage. I'd run off crying if I was Emily too." Andy laughed and she looked at him.

"You know what, I think that Emily should be in a mental hospital." Dani gasped and I laughed.

"Have you no sympathy for Emily, she's very easily mentally damaged right now. You laugh at her?" I nodded. "Ha."

"I happen to think she's pregnant. I wouldn't know how, but the mood swings are the only common thing that could explain this."

"Yep, I'd say the same thing Kai. It's the only thing that makes sense to fit her condition. I too don't see how she could become pregnant. I mean different rooms and everything, it's pretty impossible." I nodded, and we thought.

"You should go talk to Emily, she's pretty pathetic at this point. Anyone could kidnap her and she'd be gone for good. She's also useless to defend herself." I nodded and walked over to the research facility, then to Emily's room.

I knocked on the door. Then after no sound, I hoped to find her sleeping as I entered. No one was there. I walked into the open door of the secret passage. Emily turned around to see me, then turned back to her work.

"Kai, nice to see you again; couldn't wait to be mean again?" I walked up to Emily and spun her around.

"Just listen Em, I don't know what's wrong with you lately but it's sort of scaring me."

"Me, scare you, ha."

"No honestly you are, you're falling apart at the seams. You can't handle yourself." She looked away.

"I can handle myself Kai, you just don't know it. I promise you that without you I'll be fine and I'd prefer if you wouldn't talk to me, any more."

"I'll solve things your way okay? If I win in a Bey-match then you have to talk to me, okay?" She nodded.

Within second she lost and she fell to the floor in front of her blade that fell to the floor. "How, how did I lose? I never lose to you, we always tie."

"Emily, you have two large seams, one is your beyblading, and the other is our relationship. You control your blade by feeling, so without Tri-gator feeding off your emotions, then she'll lose. You taught me that." She nodded.

"10 questions, is all. Then I want to sort things out by myself." I nodded, understanding her ways.

"Do you really want to get married to me in 2 weeks?" Emily gave a faint nod.

"I really do want to marry you Kai, it's just that I'm as you say, falling apart at the seams. It scares me how far you can fall when you're at the top."

"Then don't fall, stand. Are you pregnant?" She started chocking and I tried calming down her and soon she did calm down.

"Of course not Kai, if I was, you'd be the second to know, got it." I nodded. "Next question please Kai?"

"What are you so afraid of?" She thought about this one, it was hard for her to understand herself, she knew me, and I knew her, but did we know ourselves.

"I'm afraid to have to ever leave you. I feel that if I get too close then I'll be ripped apart from you for good. I fear that if I do get close and then ripped apart from you. It'll hurt too much. I don't want to hurt Kai, that's all it is really."

"Do you love me?" She looked at me as if it was not a question, and if I was abusing the questions.

"Of course I do Kai, I love you with all my heart, I just have put fear above the love. Fear isn't a feeling of the heart, it's of common sense, which I happen to listen to more then my heart."

"Then don't, you're heart is very smart, it's smarter than your brain. You have to trust your heart on loving me like you do with loving your parents. Dani struggles because her Dad left her to protect her family. Would you let your fear take you away from everyone you love?"

"I don't want to Kai, it just happens that way." I could see the tears falling down. I wiped them from her face.

"People get married for some stupid reason, and stupid ways but this is something I don't plan to do stupidly. Emily Dennison, despite your fear and better judgment, will you marry me?" She looked at me with tears of joy.

"Yes Kai, I will because my heart says that's how it's supposed to be." I nodded and hugged her and placed a ring on her finger. "What is it?"

"It's the wedding ring you left in your jewelry box at home, I just thought you should have it with you when I did this again. I believe I have 3 more questions since you used up one of mine." She laughed.

"Can I ask the last three?" I nodded, wondering what she was going to ask.

"Two." She was about to say what. "If you asked what, you'd lose another question. So just ask." She laughed and nodded.

"Do you Kai Hiwatari, love me?" I laughed, and then looked at her.

"I do Emily, and why because you are the most amazing person, even through her fear she knows what to do with some simple guidance. She is loving, nuturing and beautiful." She smiled.

"Thanks, last question, when did you become so reliable on matters of the heart?" I laughed.

"When I first met a girl who could read me like an open book; she knew everything about me, from one look. She was young and smart but she was stronger than any girl I've ever met." She looked concerned about this.

"Who is it Kai?" She asked wondering

"Emily, you made the rules. If I answered that I'd be going over you're 10 question limit." She sighed.

"10 questions asked a day is the limit." I nodded, it wasn't a question, and it was a statement. "Actually from now on, no limits on questions or we're going to be crazy by the time we die." I nodded. "10 is good for today though."

"We're going home." I said strongly as I walked away.

"I don't want to Kai, I'm staying."

"Emily, I'm warning you. You're coming with me." She had a questioning look again. "One, because it wasn't a question, it was a statement. Two, because I'll carry you home if I have to." I picked Emily up and carried her out of the research facility, to the house.

"I'm beginning to hate the 10 question limit rule, even though I made it. One, it's a limit to how much I can learn. Two, I don't get to make decisions about anything. Three, I get carried around everywhere by Kai. Wait, that's a good thing." I laughed as she contemplated with herself out loud.

"I quite like the rule because I get to ask you questions that you have to answer and you have to answer honestly. I don't see why you hate it so much Emily." She kissed me. "What was that for, Em."

"I can't tell you Kai, we use up all of our questions for the day, remember." She began to laugh. "See, that's my point." After a few minutes' walk we arrived at our house.

"Emily, are you okay? We were so worried about you. Are you pregnant? What's wrong with you? Are you going to live?" Emily and I burst out and laughing. "What?"

"Emily and I can't answer any of those questions until tomorrow Dani." She was flabbergasted.

"And why not Kai," She asked angrily.

"10 question rule." Emily said walking next to me calmly.

"What's that Kai?" Andy asked. We broke out in laughter again.

"We can't tell you, 10 question rule." Andy got annoyed and lead his girlfriend out of our condo.

"We'll be back tomorrow, got it." We both nodded.

"Okay, whatever. We can't tell you no. It wasn't a question." Emily and I laughed again.

"Andy, we will never understand that couple. I think it's impossible." Dani said while walking away with Danny.

"What's with you, Andy, and Dani and thinking I'm pregnant?" I put my finger over her lips.

"If I answered that Emily, that would be breaking the 10 question rule, wouldn't it?"

"I can't answer that because it would be breaking the 10 question rule."

"Emily, you're pregnant. The doctor's sent a letter today. I'm just saying this. It doesn't have anything to do with our last attempted question."

"What, why didn't you tell me, what, I am." I laughed. "Kai, if this is some cruel joke you won't live to our wedding." I kept snickering. "Where's the letter Kai, I want to see it?"

"If I did, I'd be…she began chocking me.

"Give it to me now." She commanded.

"No."

"That wasn't a question, Kai. That was a command."

"And no was a refusal, not an illuminate answer."

"In one day we drove each other crazy."

"Yes."

"What is that?"

"An acknowledgement of a truthful comment; not a question."

"We both have gone mental."

"Yes we have; and that's an acknowledgement."

"I give up."

"I'd think you would after you making this stupid rule."

"Kai, I'll be glad at 12:01 when I wake you up and ask you so many questions, it will make your head spin."

"I'm ready, but are you?"

"We'll find out at 12:01, won't we?"

"I can't answer that, 10 question rule."

"Can I just go to bed, please?" Emily cried as she gave up.

"I can't answer that, 10 question rule." Emily cried as she finally fell over.

"I'm going to bed, go it." I shrugged and she stomped sadly to bed.

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That is what I call a true Comic Relief. Shakespeare wrote his plays with many of these in stores. For example Romeo and Juliet had a comic relief where Romeo was told a story of a magic fairy of good dreams which happened because Romeo had a dream. My comic relief to this crazy story was the 10 Question Rule which limited the number of questions.

Hint: A comic Relief Chapter or Scene could not be read and the reader could still understand the whole story, it's a meaningless chapter. This was also a very important chapter. Aniecä