I start school on September 6th. I'm not sure if I'm excited or angry about the summer ending. Of course, I think I have many friends in many of my classes this year so it should be fun. Chemistry, ugh.
Point of No Return
Greece
Kyra's POV
"I think I know who we can call." Rob strolled beside me as we walked the beach. Since neither of us had shoes we opted not to walk on the crushed stone road.
"Who?"
"I have a few numbers we can try." He nodded his understanding and we changed direction heading for a nearby shop. Everything was beautiful and the shopkeeper seemed pleased to see customers. At school, my foreign language teacher had told us that French was the international language so I decided to try it out. "Excuse moi monsieur, un telephone?" His confused expression made my heart sink. I could speak English, but it had grown rusty from lack of use. "Is there a telephone here that we could use?"
"Yes, please come this way." His English was heavily accented but I could make out what he said.
"I didn't know you spoke English." Rob whispered to me as we followed the shopkeeper back into the store's depths.
"You never asked." The storekeeper left us after he showed us the phone. The first number I called was to the States.
"Hello?" His voice sounded tired and irritable. I inwardly smacked myself for forgetting about the time difference.
"Christian?"
"Kyra?" His voice sounded more alert now. Of course, he was probably worrying since the last time he got a middle of the night phone call I was in the hospital.
"Yeah it's me."
"What's wrong? Did something happen?" I was hesitant to tell him the whole story so I left certain parts out.
"Well, a friend and I ended up stranded on this island in Greece and neither of us have any money or clothes. I'm wearing a bathing suit right now. You know I hate to ask this, but can you forward me some money? I promise I'll pay you back as soon as possible." He was quiet for a minute.
"Sure, how much do you need?"
"How much do you think we'll need?" I asked Rob over my shoulder.
"Five hundred?"
"Five hundred," I spoke back into the phone.
"Who is the friend with you? I heard a male voice. It isn't Hatsuharu is it?" Christian's protective streak spiked and I cringed.
"No, his name is Rob and he is more or less my body guard. Can you send us the money?" There was another pause.
"Sure, where to?"
"Hold on a second." I ran over to the shopkeeper and got all the information. I relayed it to Christian and he said it would take about a half hour for him to get to the bank and send it. "Thank you so much Christian. You are a life saver."
"No problem Kyra, you know I would do practically anything for you. I love you." I froze and Rob felt my body stiffen. No words came to my mind. In a panic, I came up with a pitiful idea.
"Oh Christian cruiahaoihlk I can't chioaaaaaaehfjgjk hear you akjdhfiluj hbauligfb bye." I hung up the phone and practically laughed at the stupidness of my attempt. Rob gave me a weird look.
"Where you pretending to hear static or something?" I nodded and he laughed at me.
"Shut up, let's go wait for the money."
"Didn't you say you wanted to call someone else?"
"Right." I walked back to the phone.
"What made you stiffen when you were talking to that guy?"
"He said he loved me." I felt my face heat and I averted my gaze.
"Oh so you have commitment issues."
"I do not! I'm not even going out with him, he's just… a friend." Glancing back at him his skeptical look made the hair stand up on the back of my neck so I turned back to the phone and dialed another number.
"Hello?"
"Hi, may I please speak to Hatsuharu."
"Sure, I'll go get him."
Sohma Estate
Haru's house
Haru's POV
"Honey there is a girl on the phone for you." My groggy mind was hazed around the edges. Too many shots last night. I sat up straight and heard a few pops and clicks for my back and the beginnings of a hangover drummed behind my eyes. Grabbing the phone from its holder next to my bed I turned it on.
"Hello?" No one answered for an instant. "Who is this?" I felt a little peeved that someone had woken me up.
"Haru." My mind froze as the voice registered. It sounded slightly breathy but my mind welcomed it until reality splashed around me.
"Kyra." I restrained the anger in my voice but her letter screamed in my head. I had an urge to hang up but decided not to.
"How are you?" She sounded scared, my protective nature yearned to help, but Black Haru squashed any lingering emotion. Part of me expected that yesterday's incident was going to come back and bite me.
"What do you want Kyra." Her quick intake in breath made my heart lurch but I remained impassive.
"I was just calling to talk to you."
"Well, you're talking to me. Is there anything specific?"
"Well, Rob and I jumped off my dad's boat and are now stranded on a Greek island." She was trying to lighten the mood but the only word that stood out in my mind was Rob.
"Who's Rob?" My mind was screaming that he was the guy she wanted to see instead of me. "Actually, never mind I don't care. Want to know what I did yesterday?" There was a pause and I just pushed on. "Went for a walk and you wound never guess who I saw. Jackie. I took her out to lunch and we had a wonderful time. We're going out again later this week."
"I'm happy for you." Her voice quivered even though I could tell she was trying to sound strong and flippant.
"Yeah, she is an excellent kisser by the way. Wow, my head was practically spinning when we came up for air." I cringed on her behalf, that was for revenge for her hurting me but I instantly regretted saying it. "Kyra, I'm sorry that was…"
"You don't have to apologize. I see you moved on. That is fantastic Haru. I hope she makes you happy. Well, Rob and I have to go now. Don't we honey?" She giggled over her shoulder as if she was being tickled. "Well I have to go Haru, ha Rob let me finish. I'll talk to you later. Bye." She hung up, but I could have sworn I heard a faint sob.
Greece
Rob's POV
She turned to me and said, "Don't we honey?" I gave her a baffled look and she giggled as if she was having the time of her life.
"Are you ok?" There where tears brimming her eyes while she was giggling. The giggles where obviously being forced and they had a machine like ring to them.
"Well I have to go Haru, ha Rob let me finish. I'll talk to you later. Bye." As she was hanging up the phone, she left out a soft moan of despair as well as having tears cascade down her cheeks. I gathered her into my arms and hugged her as her body shook.
"It's ok. Shh, calm down. It's going to be alright." Gently I rubbed her back and she continued to sob into my shoulder. Eventually it subsided. "What's wrong?" Her big green eyes searched me face.
"Why do you care?" Anger flared and she shoved away from me. Before I could stop her, she was at the front of the store talking to the owner. "Is the money here yet?" What ever he said made her smile. "Thank you very much." He handed her the money and she walked into the various shelves. They held clothes and she chose which ones she wanted. Her choices included a pair of shorts, a tank top, and some comfortable flip-flops. I chose a pair of shorts a polo shirt, flip-flops, and a pair of sunglasses. The owner rung us up and we both changed in the back of the store.
Shigure's House
Kyo's POV
"And then he kicked you?" I asked Yuki for the millionth time. He was angry, but not at me for a change.
"Yes, he hit me in the perfect spot to render me unable to fight back. Only Haru knows where it is and he has never used it. We have never gotten in a physical fight before."
"Can you imagine if he had hit Tohru?" I paced back and forth across his room. This was probably the second or third time I had ever come in invited.
"If he ever lays a hand on her he would suffer the wrath of more then us. Uo, Hana, you, Shigure, Kagura, Momiji, Kisa, Hatori, and I would all attack. Maybe not in the same ways, but he would have been bombarded. That is why I think he chose me. He knew I would come, or you. Either of us would have been angry enough to not think straight."
"You're right." I hadn't thought that far into it. As usual, Yuki was one-step ahead of me, but this time I wasn't angry. "What should we do? We have to get White Haru back."
"The only thing I can think of would be to have Kyra herself confront him, but I don't know if she is emotionally stable enough to handle it."
"But even if she was we don't really have a way of reaching her." Yuki nodded solemnly and grimaced when he breathed too deeply. There was a shoe size bruise right below his rib cage where Haru had hit him.
"When is she coming home?"
"Three weeks."
Greece
Kyra's POV
I pulled the tank top and shorts over my bikini and scooped my hair into a messy bun. Glancing at the mirror my eyes looked slightly puffy and red, but not to bad. There was a knock on the door so I opened it.
"Are you ready to go?" There were still questions in Rob's eyes as we left but I ignored them as best I could. "So who is Hatsuharu?" He was probing and I wasn't sure how to respond.
"We was my first real friend since moving back to Japan."
"He sounded like more then that by the way you acted."
"Well maybe I don't want to think about it. Or maybe it's none of your business." I lengthened my strides and Rob matched his to mine.
"Why are you angry? I didn't do anything wrong. If we have to be stranded together I think we should at least know something about each other."
"We have spent the last five weeks together."
"So? I didn't try to get to know you, I thought you were a snobby little rich kid but you didn't try to get to know me either."
"Maybe there's a reason I didn't try to know you."
"And that would be?" I stopped suddenly and sat on a rock. He followed suit.
"I'm not really a people person."
"Bull shit you aren't. Everywhere you go people look after you and seem to want to know you. If you think you aren't a people person then you must try not to be." I drummed my nails against the rock I was sitting on before I continued.
"I was isolated as a child, so I never really developed a knack for making friends. I thought of you as a thing in order to not feel awkward around you since you followed me everywhere."
"Then how did you become friends with this Hatsuharu guy?"
"Originally I tried to ignore him and his cousin Momiji, but it seemed impossible. Haru sat next to me in class and Momiji constantly peppered me with questions during lunch. Eventually I was accepted into their group of tightly knit friends. It was nice."
"But you and Haru became more." It wasn't a question; Rob seemed able to read my mind.
"My father…he…" I couldn't figure out how to put into words how Haru had rescued me without ruining my father's reputation. "Haru saved me." It was simply said, but managed to cover almost all of Haru and my relationship.
"From who or what?"
"Myself, my life, my father, my dreams, my everything. I was drowning on the inside and couldn't really find anything to use for my own rescue. I just floundered expecting to be saved. Most people just ignored my inner anguish and I constantly hoped someone would look past my cold prickly exterior and save the suffocating soul. Haru was the first person to really understand me. He gave me a proverbial life jacket."
"So why did he make you cry tonight?"
"I felt like I was holding him back. He is such a wonderful person I couldn't understand why he stayed with me. He could be out saving other people and instead he just stood by my side. To set him free I told him to see other people. To look around, and that two months apart was a long time. Tonight he told me who the person he found was."
"Ouch, and this guy really liked you? You just pushed him away abruptly and told him to move on?"
"Yes, it was for the better."
"No, you probably confused and enraged him. He probably thinks you were cheating on him or something."
"But I wasn't…"
"That doesn't matter; he doesn't understand what is going on inside your brain and why you do everything that you do."
"But that doesn't mean he should pick up the first girl he sees who he knows is just using him for his popularity and reputation."
"Yet you told him to look for someone new. If you weren't ready to see him with someone else why did you let him go?"
"I don't know ok? Things where moving to fast. He was just too wonderful and I didn't feel I deserved him." I had sprung off the rock and paced while speaking, but when my statement rang true, I froze. "Omigod." Rob smiled slightly.
"There's a beginning."
I think that is a good ending for this chapter. Ha ha I surprised everyone with another chapter before I started school. Ha ha I still got it baby.
