Once again, thanks Cindy Fox! Aw, I don't mind I don't have many reviews, as long as one person is happy reading my stuff then that's fine by me!
Yeah, there'll be a bit more about Kai and Max being adoptive brothers soon, so it'll explain even more clearly.
Disclaimer: I have to refresh this because I use song lyrics in this chapter, and they don't belong to me at all.
I woke up on something comfy, and I could tell that the light was dim, which I appreciated, as my eyes didn't feel up to much light. My head felt bruised and hurt, and my mind was fuzzy and sleepy.
"Mum,
I think he's awake," I could hear someone whisper on my right.
Who was that?
"Sh Max," a softer, female voice said, and
I felt a hand on my arm.
"Ray?" that voice again, the female one. It was soothing. It didn't hurt my head.
Slowly, I opened my eyes, focusing on a woman's face. She was in her early thirties, with straight blonde hair.
Then another face appeared.
One I knew.
Max.
"Hey
Ray,"
I tried to say something but I felt like my tongue had
been ripped out, and my their was a disgusting taste in my mouth.
"Ugh,"
I managed to say. Wow, I sound intelligent.
"Are you OK?"
Max asked.
"Judy?"
a third voice sounded. I recognised it, but couldn't quite place it,
"The phone's ringing,"
The woman left, and I felt the
owner of the third voice enter.
"He's awake Kai,"
Kai!
Of course!
"What
happened?"
I didn't know if he was talking to me or Max. I
tried, again, to say something, but I ended up coughing, which made
my head ring.
I felt
myself being sat up.
"There," Max said. The coughing
stop, and I was handed a drink of water. I didn't have the best grip,
and my hand was shaking slightly, but I drank it gratefully anyway.
"Yeah Ray, what happened?" Max asked. His face was a mask of concern.
He took the glass of me when I had finished. I was too dazed to register much, and I would of clutched it in my hand until I had regained my senses.
"Er…" I tried to remember, digging into my mind.
Then…
"Lee.
Lee, we…got into a fight,"
Max winced, "Well, you
certainly look like you've been in a fight,"
I glanced
to my right. Kai was sat on an armchair across the room. He seemed to
bristle at the mention of Lee's name, much like I did when my cousin
came up in conversation.
"Where
am I?"
"Our house," Max, becoming cheerier, "We
brought you back here, you passed out at the locker. My Mom's a
doctor. She's bandaged up your head,"
I put a hand to the material on my head.
In the distance I could hear who I assumed to be Max's mom, talking on the phone.
"What
time is it?"
"Seven,"
"Seven!"
"Yeah.
You were asleep for quite a while,"
There was a pause.
"Thank you Max," I said, looking at my hands. I expected him to be put off about having to drag me back and get his mom to bandage me up. But…
He smiled.
"No problem Ray,"
I got home at ten. My mum was going frantic, she nearly burst a capillary or two when I came through the door with a bandage on my head, holding my bloodied clothes in my hand.
And yes, that is correct, I wasn't wearing my own clothes when I entered my home.
I was wearing some of Kai's.
Max had got his adoptive brother to go and get me some to borrow, because the ones I had were covered in blood.
I felt awkward, standing in the hall with Judy and my mum, with Kai's clothes on.
Judy had insisted on walking me home, so she assured my mother as I crept upstairs, wanting to crawl into bed and not wake up.
I had just reached the landing, when the door shut downstairs, and I gathered Judy had left.
"Rei!"
I growled. What did my mum want?
"What
Mum!" I shouted down, hand on the door handle.
"Who
exactly did you get into a fight with?"
"Er, no-one
mum," I mumbled, tugging on the sleeve of Kai's purple top. I
didn't want to tell her it had been Lee. She would just make too
much of a fuss.
"Oh…well. Just make sure…it doesn't
happen again, OK Rei? You scared me, walking through the door with
bloodied clothes in your hand and a bandage on your head, I thought
you'd be knocked down by a car or something,"
"Well I
wasn't, OK?" I snapped. Boy, I was really loosing my patience
with my family these days. I'd pretty much lost my respect for my mum
and step-dad, unintentionally. I tried to get it back but it wasn't
working, and it was worrying both me and my parents.
"Alright
Rei!" she cried, shaking her head, "Calm down! Anyway, I
also came up to tell you Lee came over today, to talk to you. You
weren't in, but he asked if he could borrow a CD from you. I let him
get it, you didn't mind did you?"
I stammered, "W-What!"
Lee had been in my room! Lee had been in the house when he knew I was locked in a locker at school! And I highly doubt he just waltzed over here to borrow a CD!
"OK Mum, thanks," I said, hurriedly.
I waited until she left downstairs, then turned and burst into my bedroom.
The light was off, the window thrown open.
It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the dark but when they did…
I screamed.
Stuck up on the walls, covering almost every inch of space I could see, were the pictures.
The pictures I thought I had hidden, the pictures I thought I had buried and got rid of from my memories.
There they were, tacked to the wall, hanging from the ceiling, looking down at me, pinning me from all sides.
All those memories, months of the things I never wanted to remember in glossy rectangle form, covering my sight.
"Rei!"
I could hear Shing coming up the stairs.
I couldn't move, I swear I had completely and utterly frozen.
Shing
reached the top of the stairs.
"Rei what's wro…"
"Nothing!"
I leapt
out of my room, slamming the door behind me, barring it from Shing.
"Rei…"
"It was nothing. I didn't know the
window was open when I went in and it slammed shut. It just made me
jump,"
Shing eyed me.
I could barely look at him in the
eye.
"OK then," he said, after a while, and left.
I sagged against my bedroom door.
So that was what that bastard Lee was in my room for! He wasn't borrowing a CD! He was uprooting everything I hated and had tried to bury! He knew I would be out, so he came over and found my old pictures, the ones I wanted to destroy but couldn't bare to burn.
I felt exhausted.
I heaved myself sluggishly into my room, shutting the door behind me, and sliding to the floor.
Lightning from the storm lit up the pictures.
Those pictures.
All of them burning more memories into the front of my mind.
How could he do this? How could he stoop so low as to haunt me by bringing back…this.
I stared up at the walls. I couldn't take my eyes off them.
I staggered up, using the furniture to help me get to my bed, unable to stand on my own. I knelt on my bed, my eyes fixed on the photographs.
How could he do this?
How could he do this?
How could he?
Tears traced their way down my cheeks.
I didn't want to be reminded, I didn't want to be shown what I had spent so long trying to forget.
My fingers touched the photos nearest to me, the cold feel of them sending dreaded shivers up my spine.
But I couldn't put my hand down.
I couldn't resist touching them.
I couldn't take my eyes away.
And I
suddenly realised:
I couldn't ever forget, either…
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed y all my childish fears
And if you have to leave, I wish that you would just leave
Because your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal.
This pain is just to real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I wiped away all of your tears
When you screamed I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
You used to captivate me,
By your resonating light
But now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice chased away all the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal,
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I wiped away all of your tears
When you screamed I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
And though you're still with me,
I've been alone all along
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