Behind the lie

Chapter 4

Hey everybody it's me kari10 well this a new story hope you like it, by the way I just deserve half credit the other half goes to my friend Velika, I only own Kira and Velika owns Velika, lol. Enjoy the story!!. OH! And sorry for taking sooo long it's just that velika was on vacation and well I was in final exams hope you like it R/R. Don't forget to give you're opinions about tala and velika and Kai and Kira, bye bye.

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Two weeks had passed by, it was now Friday August 27, 2004, and everything was pretty much the same. Velika walked through the parking lot, classes had just ended and her cousin had just declined her offer for a ride home. She took her keychain out of her black backpack and walked to her red jeep. She tossed her backpack to the back seats and climbed onto her car. She grabbed the steering wheel and turned on her car, but stood still for a few seconds before resting her head on it. She sniffed and turned on her CD player, and listened sadly to the lyrics of 'Paperdoll' by Kittie. She cleaned her eyes, hit the gas and got out of the parking lot.

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Just after she started her car, a silver BMW 330i did the same and followed out of the parking lot and out to the street. Tala had watched her ever since she stepped out of their school and walked toward her car. His aquamarine eyes never felt her as she made her way out of the school. He followed her several blocks, he just had to try and make a move with Velika, he figure out that it wasn't going to be an easy task. First, she barely let him talk to her; she either ignored him or walked away. And second, she seemed she didn't like to be around people a lot. He needed to get close. He needed to speak to her. He needed to get her to like him. He needed to know were she lives. He smirked, he had no idea where that thought came from but he didn't really care. It would be oh so perfect if he knew where she lived... maybe he could ever go to her house and sing to her outside, kind of like a serenade. Girls think that's romantic... yeah, I'll have her on her back before the school year is over. Hell, if I'm lucky I'll have her before Christmas. He chuckled to himself and kept following her.

A few minutes later, she stopped the car in the street, and got out and into the largest park of the town. He frowned, what the hell was she doing? He didn't think he lived in a house in the middle of the park. He also parked his car and followed her. He lost her just before he reached the lake. He looked around but saw no one. "Damn." He cursed. Then he saw a petal of a cherry flower fall from the tree next to him. Then another petal followed... and another and another... until he saw the tail of the flower fall near his foot. He lifted an eyebrow and looked up... there was Velika, seated on a branch, pulling the petals of a cherry flower, looking at the river.

Great! She has no idea I'm here! He smirked and climbed up quietly.

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Velika kept pulling the petals out of the flower, when she ran out of petals, she grabbed another flower. She looked at the lake, so much going on in her mind. Well, not much... just a handsome nineteen year old guy with messy curly dark hair and gorgeous navy blue eyes. She sighed, "David..." She was staring at the lake with longing in her eyes when suddenly a hand poked her rib. She jumped and cried out, "Aaarg!" She lost her equilibrium but before she fell, the hand that had poked her grabbed her waist and pulled her back until her backside was rested against the chest of someone.

"Calm down, Velika... it's me, Tala." Tala's unmistakable voice whispered against her ear, almost in a smoothing tune.

She frowned and turned her hear to see the flame haired boy smiling behind her. She was furious, to say the least. "Are you fucking mad? You almost made me fall! What the hell are you doing here?" She hit the side of his head with her palm, not hard, but just enough so he could feel it.

"Excuse me? I think a 'thank you' would be more appropriate." Tala looked at her, as if she had done something irrational as he rubbed his head.

"Thank you? You want me to thank you?!" Velika couldn't believe this; she was furious at the boy's nonsense and glared daggers at him.

"Yeah, for saving you... don't forget I didn't permit you to fall of this branch." He stated as if it was the most obvious think in the world.

"Saving? Arg! Don't forget that it was you on the first place that almost made me fall down!!!" She roared.

"Well, I think it's matter of how you look at things." He simply stated and smiled at the girl in his arms.

"Oh, I officially have a headache know." She pushed her fingers to her temples and rubbed it in small circles, trying to suppress her anger and frustration towards this boy. "Ok... I'm calmed again. Now, tell me what the hell are you doing here?"

"Well... I saw you drive by and I stopped-"

She cut him off, her eyes widened in disbelief. "You were following me?"

"I wouldn't call it following; it was more like to tag along with you." Tala smiles sheepishly at her,

"Why the hell where you following me?" Velika screamed at him, her lower lip pulled up in a pout, her brows furrowed together. She crossed her arms waiting for an answer.

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Kira was at her locker getting the books she needed for homework, a few minutes ago she had refused a drive from her cousin, but she didn't quite know why she did that. School was almost empty. She finished packing and decided to go home; she walked down the partially deserted parking lot of the school. What she didn't expect was that, almost at the end of the parking lot, Kai was leaning on his car; his eyes were closed and he had the keys on his hand.

Kira frowned at him and walked until she was in front of him. "What are you doing here? I thought you were already gone" Kira said and Kai looked at her whilst he remembers what Tyson said to him just a few minutes ago.

Flashback

Classes were over and Kai closed his locker and rushed to the door, he was going home.

"Well, see ya..." Kai said goodbye to his friends and grabbed his notebook.

"Hey man, aren't you going to wait?" Tyson asked, making his friend stop and turn around.

"What? Why?" He asked with a puzzled look.

"Is the great Hiwatari Kai backing off?" Tyson teased him. He knew him, when he wanted a girl he always was hitting on her every minute he could but... there was Kira and Kai was already going home? I better spice things up. "I knew you wouldn't be able to, you're too chicken... and she's just too good for you, she would never fall for someone like you."

Kai turned to look at Kira, who was talking with Velika near the water fountain. He hadn't tried to make a move on her since their little emotional episode they had two weeks ago. He wasn't so sure about the bet, but he hated being called a chicken. He frowned and looked back at Tyson. "We'll see that."

End Flashback

"Kai..? Earth to Kai..!" Kira said waving her hand over his eyes.

He snapped out and focused his gaze at the girl in front of him. "Sorry, just thinking." He answered.
"Sure, whatever..." Kira still looked at him with her eyebrows raised; Kai looked at Kira and then grabbed her wrist, then he pushed her against the car door. He looked at her with those deep eyes, Kira sucked in her breath for a moment. "…Kai…" Was all she could say, and it was enough to make Kai smirk. He leaned in closer to her lips. She could fell his breath and was so close, she blushed when she looked how close his lips where to hers, Kai looked at Kira lips then at her eyes. Kira felt her heart beat faster, she could hear her pulse in her ears, everything seem to be in slow motion. She slowly closed her eyes and smiled in anticipation as she waited.

"Get in the car." He said and suddenly let go of her, and was making his way to the driver's door.

Kira opened her eyes and looked at his retreating form and sighed. For one second she actually thought he was going to kiss her. She sighed again and got into his car.

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Velika kept staring boringly at Tala who was babbling for the last twenty minutes or so, all the words coming out of his mouth where nonsense and incongruent. He began telling her he wasn't following her, but that he amazingly had happened to come across her before entering the park. Then he started talking about how little the world was... before he started debating on whether or not Interpol was a good thing. It was when he mentioned that he had a theory that the CIA was spying students by putting microphones and mini cameras in the blackboards when she exploded. "Stop it! I've had enough of this shit. I do not care about your stupid hypothesis about the CIA planning a complot to reduce recess and increase school hours, which by the way, doesn't make any sense. All I asked you is why where you following me, and when I ask questions I expect direct answers." Tala opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off before he started. "Save it, I don't wanna hear more. Just what I needed... a stalker with stupid ideas of world-wide paranoia." She sighed as she ran a hand through her hair.

"I'm not a stalker." Tala defended himself.

"Then describe yourself and your attitude."

"I... I'm... I'm just a friend that cares about you. Yeah, a friend..." Tala silently hoped she would buy it.

Velika kept looking at him, then raised her left eyebrow and leaned closer to him. "A friend..." Tala nodded, "that cares...?" Tala nodded again. "What would you care about?"

Tala stammered a bit. "W-well, uh, you've been kinda... down... lately. You seem sad all the time... you've been ignoring me and punching me twice as more." A sharp look from Velika warned him not to go too far. "Well, to sum up... you've been um, grumpier..."

The girl with dark hair looked uneasy, as if having an internal debate on whether or not should she open up with him. Finally, she sighed. "I'll admit I've been much more of a bitch than usual."

"Admitting it is the first step to recovery."

She gave him a lopsided grin and turned around to look at the lake. She took her time, and a couple of minutes later she spoke. "I came here to think." She made a pause and looked at him. "It's my special place to just sit and think, no one knew about it. But now, thanks to you, I'll have to find another one."

"Why?"

"I can't pretty much come here to think if I know I can be interrupted by you anytime." She explained as if it where the most obvious thing in the world.

"I promise I won't drop by a lot." He chuckled at her and looked down. "Uh... but isn't this a dangerous place to think."

The red-eyed looked down and knew what he was talking about. "I used to climb trees a lot when I was a kid. I still like to climb. Plus..." she grabbed his jaw and gently made his head turn around, "it was a wonderful view."

Tala looked at the enormous lake, serving as a mirror for the vain sky and the tops of the trees. Even though it was still high in the sky, the sun was beginning to set; the sky's beautiful blue was being painted with orange and yellow, while the white clouds began to resemble pink and purple sugar cottons. Several birds where returning to their nests in the trees, saying good-bye to the sum and preparing themselves to sleep and for a new day tomorrow. "It's still early, almost five thirty. Sunset begins 'till almost seven." The turquoise eyes set upon her and admired her beauty while she contemplated the scene. "It's even more beautiful at sunset."

"Yeah... it's beautiful." He whispered not tearing his gaze from her. It wasn't until the girl turned to look at him when he quickly turned his head towards the lake, pretending to be more interested in the land in front of him than the nymph next to him.

Velika noticed he was staring at her and turned to look at him. The face he did when he quickly turned around and the soft blush in his cheeks made her almost want to laugh, it was just too cute. She suddenly stopped. Did I just say... cute? She shook her head. I can't think of him that way, or anyone, for that matter. I don't wanna be heartbroken again. She looked at her feet, which where hanging in the air. She jumped out of the branch and landed on her feed. "Velika?" she heard Tala speak. She turned to look up at him and he opened his mouth again, not looking at her. "So are we cool?" She looked at him curiously, and then he turned around he also jumped down. "Friends?"

She studied him for a few moments before she smiled a little. "Friends," she repeated, and was going to shake his hand, but before she did she stopped. "But this won't mean I'll be nice to you."

"All I'm asking is to not be ignored and hit all the time."

She grinned, "Deal."

Meanwhile Kai was still driving home; he looked at Kira who seemed to be in deep thought. He smirked when remembered what happened just a few moments ago... the site of her with her eyes closed patiently waiting for a kiss. This is going to be much easier than I thought. He thought as he looked at Kira from the corner of his eyes, she was just sitting there, but suddenly she brought her hand to her lips and blush. Heh, she's still thinking about it, huh? That's cute... Hey! Where did that came from? Why the hell am I thinking? I just have to get between her legs to win that stupid bet, and it will all be over. I can get as far away as I can from her. Yes he will do that, that's the perfect plan but...Do I really want it to be over..? No! Stop thinking like that, she's just one woman more, she's no different from the rest, you can't fall for her, not her! He frowned and shook the thought out of his head.

I can't believe how stupid I am, to believe that he would kiss me! I just wish he had... Whoa! What? He will never... where did... that came from? We're just friends... right? Ok, who am I kidding? Are we even friends? Kira looked at Kai, she was so confused, she needed to sort this out. "Hey Kai" She asked when she saw that they were already in garage.

"What?" was his answer.

"Are you still mad about well... you know..." she said not really wanting to touch that nerve.

"What...?" He asked and suddenly realized what she meant. "Oh.., of course, what did you expect?! A little chat could fix it all? Well guess what, it doesn't!!" He yelled at her.

Kira clenched her fists in anger. "Well, what do you want me to do? I already said I was sorry... its not that big deal, its-"

She was cut off by Kai. "Well, it is for me!"

"What exactly is your problem?!" She yelled.

"My problem?, you wanna know what my problem is?!" he screamed at her.

"YES!"

"Fine! My problem is you!!!" After he said that, the only sound that could be heard was that of the engine. Kira had her mouth open in disbelief as they stared at each other in the eye. She was shocked to say the least; he was mad, really mad at her. He hated her, she knew that much, but why did he act like that? Why was he like all nice one day and royally pissed the next? Meanwhile, Kai was a little shocked at himself. What gotten into him? First he waited for her at school so he could give her a lift home, and kept thinking about her reaction when he almost kissed her. Hell, the he even thought she look cute! But then... she asked him if he was still mad about that "tea party" many years ago, and he just lost it. He feared he was becoming more sensitive lately and would jump to the slightest provocation. Kira sniffed indignantly and stepped out of the car but didn't make it to her house. Kai kept still for a few seconds until he just turned and went inside his house. He wondered if his thoughts had something to do with Kira's reaction.

Flashback

Heh, she's still thinking about it huh? That's cute... Hey! Where did that came from? Why the hell am I thinking? I just have to get between her legs to win that stupid bet, and it will all be over. I can get as far away as I can from her. Yes he will do that, that's the perfect plan but...Do I really want it to be over..? No! Stop thinking like that, she's just one woman more, she's no different from the rest, you can't fall for her, not her! He frowned and shook the thought out of his head.

End Flashback

"Damn it!!" He half-yelled when he closed the door behind him.

"Oh! Honey, you're home... do you want something to eat?" Kai's mother said from the kitchen.

"Whatever..." he muttered as he walked down the aisle to the stairs.

Kai's mother smiled as she stepped from the kitchen, wiping a glass with a piece of cloth. "I already told the maid to cook you something... oh! Isn't Kira coming in?" Her mother asked.

"Huh?" He stopped and looked at her puzzled.

"Well honey, she's been standing like that since you arrived." Kai looked at the window and saw that Kira was still standing there looking somewhat shocked, but then started to walk to her house, with her head down.

He looked at her for a while. "No mom, she's going home." Was all he said and then disappeared up the stairs to his room.

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He hates me... I thought he wasn't mad anymore... I guess… I guess its best if I don't bother him anymore. That way I'll be guaranteed that I won't fall for him... I just..." She opens the door to her place. "Mom I'm back!"Kira yelled and made it quickly to her room.

Well that's all for this chapter hope you enjoy it R/R people XD.