R&R please. Omg, a 19 page chapter I hope your all happy with it.
At the school's café, Tala was sitting alone by a window booth when Johnny and Enrique approached him holding latte's.
"Morning!" Enrique greeted putting his drink down and taking a seat.
"Morning." The redhead greeted back.
"Is your cold better?"
"A little." He replied taking a bite of his cinnamon bun.
"Oh yeah, I just saw the bulletin board.
"Bulletin board?"
"You apparently had a date with Kira and stayed out all night only to return in the morning, is that right?" Johnny asked with a mischievous smirk.
"What?" Tala asked, blinking his blue eyes in innocence.
"Come on! Tell me the truth, what happened?" Johnny asked, both Enrique and himself leaning closer to Tala in anticipation.
"What, what happened?" Tala asked confused.
"Stop playing dumb! It's that. What happened with that?" Enrique rolled his baby blue's in exasperation.
"What that!" Tala asked getting annoyed.
"God! Yesterday night!" Johnny said rather loudly.
"Held on till morning." Tala answered
"Held on till morning?" Johnny asked incredulously, as Enrique's baby blue eyes widened enormously. " A WHOLE night!" Where then?" Johnny asked shocked to the core.
"At the stairwell." Tala replied off-handedly.
"At the stairwell holding on till morning?" Johnny and Enrique exchanged shocked, but happy glances. "So intense?"
Enrique and Johnny tried to get more details out of their red headed leader, but unfortunately for them, the red head was oblivious to what they were hinting at.
"It was fine. It wasn't that intense." Tala answered taking a drink of his orange juice.
"I didn't know you have such a good imagination! I lose." Enrique held up a hand in defeat.
"Tala, we always thought you were a blockhead. It's all my fault. You're definitely worthy to be B4's leader." Johnny added pridefully.
At this moment, Kira is walking around the corner with Mariah and Hilary, all of them holding lunch trays.
"Give us a little bit more details." Enrique pried.
"I feel that this is too much." Kira protested lifting her lunch tray.
"Of course not."
"Forget it!" Tala yelled.
"Tell!" Johnny urged.
Enrique nudges Tala on his arm and starts singing as he looks over and makes Kira's presence known. Mariah, Hilary and Kira stop walking and looks over to B3's table. Tala looked up and both him and Kira see each other and get embarrassed. He looked away and pretends to go back to eating his lunch.
"What are you getting red-faced for? Hurry up and go and say hi." Enrique grinned at Tala's embarrassment.
"Yeah." Hilary urged Kira when she heard Enrique.
"Hurry up and go!" Johnny pushed Tala.
Tala put down his fork. "I have to go to class."
He grabbed his glass of water to took a drink.
"Come on, don't be like this."
Tala put down his glass and gets up from the table.
"Hey!" Enrique called after his friend, stopping his singing.
"Stop acting like a kid!" Johnny yelled also chasing after their friend.
Mariah quickly moved aside so that Tala could walk pass.
"You guys only spent a night together." Johnny called out from behind the blood red hair.
Tala stopped at Kira's side, not bothering to look at her. "I'm going to class first."
Then he quickly walked away, while Hilary stood next to the red-faced Kira, smiling over the whole incident.
"You guys are acting like high school kids in a relationship!" Enrique called out.
"That's so romantic, Kira!" Mariah commented putting a hand on Kira's arm like they were old friends.
"Why were you so shy for?"
"Enrique was singing for you! I can't believe the blonde hottie of the B4 sang so well! Kira, you're the goddess within my heart! Come on, let's go eat lunch!" Hilary urged after all her sucking up.
The three of them head off for a table.
Hilary put her tray down on the table. "That's so cool!"
Mariah followed suit. "You are so lucky!"
"You are our idol." Mariah praised.
"Really! Look, everyone is looking at us."
"You are our glory! From now on, the three of us have to constantly come over here to have lunch, ok? Or how about this? Bakuten's three sisters!"
Emily came next to the table with a tray in her hands, "Kira, you're over here too?"
Mariah looked up. "Emily? What are you doing here? You also want to get on Kira's good terms? Let me tell you. Don't even think about it. Kira is now Tala Ivanov's girlfriend. Her status and position is different than yours."
Hilary backed up her pink friend. "Exactly. Kira is now a part of us. Besides, we're Bakuten's three sisters! You should hurry up and leave!"
Kira stood up next to Emily. "Hey, don't be like this. Emily's also my good friend."
Mariah stood up as well. "But in the beginning, wasn't it her fault that you were red-tagged!"
Hilary also stood up and stood next to Kira. "Exactly! Besides, she didn't even help you then!"
"Neither did you." Kira answered quietly.
"Um… I… We… God! Isn't it because of this that you got to meet Tala?" Hilary stuttered.
"That's right! We've become good friends now. How about this then? We treat you two to go dancing tonight, how about it?" Mariah offered.
At the disco/pub that night, Hilary and Mariah are out on the dance floor dancing, while Kira and Emily are sitting aside looking very out of place.
"Any interest to go dancing together?" A guy asked walking up to their table.
Both Kira and Emily shook their heads quickly.
"No. Thank you. We would just like to sit here." Kira replied politely.
The guy walks away and Hilary and Mariah come back from the dance floor.
"Kira? Why are you still here? Come and dance with us. It's so boring sitting here."
"I don't know how to dance." Kira responded timidly, with a sheepish smile.
"So? Knowing how to dance or not is not the important thing."
"Right. The important thing is that we are standing under the spotlight and letting all those people who admire us, look at the name brands that we are wearing." Mariah agreed with the brunette.
"And also our stunning figure."
"I don't have those either."
"That way it would set us apart from you." Hilary said quietly to Mariah so that Kira couldn't hear.
They both laugh at the remark.
"Huh?" Kira asked oblivious that they were laughing at her.
"Nothing." Hilary and Mariah replied quickly.
"Hey, isn't that our favorite song? Let's go." Hilary urged Mariah.
Mariah turned around. "Kira, you're really not dancing?"
"No, that's ok. Thank you."
"Fine, then we'll go."
They both head off for the dance floor again. At this moment, the DJ suddenly gets on the dance floor and started dancing, his white ponytail swinging with his body. During one of his dance moves, he does a handstand and Kira, who was looking over, stares at him in surprise. His handstand reminds her of Kai and she remembers his words, "When you can't stop your tears from flowing out, then if you can do a handstand, that way, the tears that originally wanted to flow out… will not be able to." As the DJ continues to dance, Kira continued to stare at him. When he stopped dancing and gets off the dance floor, Kira put down her drink on the table and got up from the sofa.
"Kira, where are you going?" Emily asked.
"I'm just going over there for a few minutes. I'll be right back."
She walked over to the DJ and stood there staring at him. He looked at her, smiled and looked away. When he doesn't seem to pay any attention to her, Kira tried to get it from him.
"Hi."
"Hey."
"Why did you do a handstand?"
He took off his headphones. "HUH?"
Kira leaned closer. "Why did you do a handstand?"
"Why did I do a handstand?" He repeated.
Kira nods her head at him.
"Doing a handstand everyday is good treatment for a sagging stomach." He joked.
"Oh, then you are not the same as my friend." Kira backed up looking slightly disappointed.
"Huh? What did you just say?"
"It's nothing. Thank you." Kira gave a small smile.
Then she turns and walks away.
He smiled at her silly question. "Why do a handstand?"
When Kira got back, Hilary and Mariah had already returned from the dance floor.
"So tired." Mariah complained.
"I know, and it's so hot too." Hilary joined.
"Kira, where did you just go?"
" Oh, nowhere."
"Let's not dance anymore. Let's play a game." Mariah suggested.
"Ok, ok." Hilary agreed.
"Hilary, go and get everyone over here."
"Ok, ok. Hey, guys!" She got up and called loudly.
Everyone gathered around the table and Hilary pulled over the DJ, Rick, who was dancing on the floor before.
"Hey this is Rick!" Hilary introduced.
"Rick, this is Mariah."
Rick
politely shook hands with her. "Hi, Mariah. Nice to meet
you."
"This is Kira. And this is Emily." After the
introductions were done, they all settled down.
So the game starts and they were playing Truth or Dare.
"Rock, scissor, paper." Everyone said loudly.
Mariah loses.
"You lose!" Everyone pointed at her.
" You have to accept the punishment! Truth or dare?" Hilary grinned.
"Dare."
"Dare, right? Fine. Then you go over to the table over there and show them your elegant Chanel underwear!"
Everyone cheered and urges Mariah along.
"Fine, fine, fine. I'll go."
Everybody claps and cheers as she gets up from the sofa and walks over to the other table. Going up to a guy who is sitting at a table with a girl, Mariah stands in front of the table, pulls apart her shirt and leans over so that the guy could see her bar inside. Back at the table, everyone is cheering loudly.
Mariah came back and sat down casually. "Fine. Let's do it again."
"Fine."
"Rock, scissor, paper."
This time Kira is the one that loses and everyone points to her: "Kira, loses!"
"Are you choosing truth or dare?"
Kira thinks for a moment. "Eh, truth."
"Fine. How much is your allowance each month?"
"$300."
Everyone laughs.
"How can that be!" Hilary asked in disbelief.
"You're lying! Why is it so little?" Every asked.
"$300 is not even enough to have dinner!" Hilary exclaimed.
"Yeah." Mariah agreed her golden eyes flashing pure delight.
"Lying! People who lie need to drink." Hilary announced pushing a glass towards Kira.
Kira looks at the alcohol filled glasses disdainfully. "Really have to drink?"
"Of course!" Everyone shouted.
"You lied! Hurry, hurry." Hilary urged.
Kira held the glass of blue liquor in her hands and closing her eyes tilts the tube and pours it down her throat as Emily watches, sitting next to her. Everyone cheers and claps.
Next round…
"Rock, scissor, paper."
This time, Emily is the one that loses.
"Truth or dare?"
"I'll pick dare."
"Dare, right? Fine. Then show everyone the color of the underwear that you are wearing today!"
"I can't, I can't." Emily shook her head blushing vigorously.
"Why can't you? If you can't, then you have to drink. Here. Drink it up."
Emily reaches for a glass of blue liquor and looks at Kira.
"Drink, drink. Hurry up."
Tilting the tube up, Emily poured the alcohol down her throat and everyone cheers and claps again. The game continues on and they continue drinking. Finally, Emily gets drunk and she passes out on the table.
Kira shakes her. "Emily. Emily, are you ok? She turned to Daichi. Can you take Emily home first?"
"But I have to take you home!" The short red head protested.
"I'll be fine. Look at how she is now. Can you please take her home first?"
"Really? Are you really ok?" Kira nodded. "Ok."
So, Daichi leaves with Emily first while the others stay behind.
Later, a drunken Mariah and Hilary wobble over to the bar counter and the bartender puts two bottles of beer in front of them.
" where are we going in a bit? Continue?" Mariah asked a little tipsy.
Hilary leaned her head against Mariah's shoulder. "Still continue? I didn't find a rich guy today. Hey, look at the bartender. He looks like Tala."
"Maybe it really is Tala."
Hilary giggled. "How can it be? Bartenders are very poor. Let's go… let's go and find a rich guy."
So, the drunken Hilary and Mariah walk out of the pub and leave Kira, who is passed out on the sofa, all by herself. Rick walked by and sees Kira lying there.
Rick kneeled down beside the couch Kira had passed out on. "Hello." He taps her on her arm a couple of times. "Wake up. They're closing." He got no answer… he looks around and can't find anyone. "Where are your friends? Do you want me to call a car for you?"
There was still no answer from Kira so Rick takes her out of the pub.
Walking down the street with a drunken Kira wobbling and leaning heavily against Rick for support.
"Do you remember where you live?" Rick asked softly.
There was no answer from her so Rick brought her to a hotel instead. As he was helping the drunken Kira through the door of the hotel, there were a couple of flashes from a camera as someone is secretly taking pictures of them.
The next morning, Kira slowly starts to wake up. She blinks her eyes slowly and then opens them wide as she wakes up fully. Rolling onto her back on the bed, she looks around in surprise at her surroundings.
"What is this place?" She asked herself.
She quickly sat up on the bed, holding the bed sheets to herself and grabs her dress from the side of the bed and then reaches over to the bed dresser to grab her shirt. Holding her clothes to herself, she takes a peak underneath the covers and finds her clothes changed.
Kira gasps and tries to calm herself, "Wait a minute, wait a minute…I have to calm down. Last night… Nothing could have really happened!" She then takes another look at her disheveled appearance. "HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?" She cried out.
Arriving in school later that day, Kira is slowly walking down the road and mom's words are running through her head.
"You are a student! And didn't return home all night! The smell of alcohol all over you! You really don't have any self-respect!" Kira rubbed her cheek where is was still a little red.
Kira starts muttering to herself, with her hand over her cheek, "She didn't have to hit so hard."
"Why are you coming just now!" Tala yelled out from a bit in front of her.
Kira stops short and stares in surprise at Tala who is standing in front of her on the road.
Tala walked over in big strides to stood in front of her, "What are you doing? Coming to school in the afternoon."
"What business is it of yours?"
"I…" Tala paused.
Kira looked up. "Hey… You were standing over there. You couldn't have been waiting for me."
Tala looked quickly for an excuse at being caught, "Are you a crazy! How can it be? I was going to the cafe and just happen to pass by here, ok?" He quickly answered giving her an icy glare.
"Cafe? it in the opposite direction?"
"You're so mouthy! I like to take the long way, can't I? Stop words on my picking!"
"It's picking on my words, stupid." Kira corrected.
"You…"
He suddenly noticed the redness on the left side of her face and reached out a hand toward her with concern.
"Hey…"
Kira quickly pulled back. "What do you want to do?"
"I want to ask you what's the matter… why such a big reaction." He grabbed hold of her chin and slightly touches her face. "Why is this side so red?"
Kira pushed his hand away. "I was hit by my mom."
"Your mom?" Tala asked raising an eyebrow.
"Because yesterday night I didn't return…"
Her voice trails off and she doesn't want him to know about what happened last night.
"Didn't return what?"
Kira quickly thought of an excuse. "Didn't return her phone call. So she hit me."
"It's because of that, that your mom hit you like this?" Tala asked amused.
"Well, you know that my mom is very violent. She also constantly hits my dad."
Tala gave a small smirk in amusement. "Your mom is very much like you."
"Who's like her!" Kira demanded putting her arms on her hips.
"Let's go." Tala grabbed her arm.
"Going where?"
Tala kept pulling her along. "To have lunch."
At the restaurant, B3 and Kira are sitting at a table full of food.
"You've order too much! There are only a few of us. How are we going to finish it?"
"You constantly eat poor, cheap stuff. And you're so skinny, eat more." Tala urged.
A waiter came over with more food to be placed on the table.
Kira looked at the dishes incredulously. "Still more!"
"Tala Master. Your check." The waiter held out.
Kira reached over and grabbed the check before Tala could. "I'll pay for it myself."
Tala snatched it out of Kira's hands, "You want me to lose face? Give me a pen. Under the education that I received, there is nothing that says to let women pay." He signed the check and handed it back to the waiter. "Eat. Why aren't you eating? Eat more."
"Thank you." Kira replied quietly picking up her fork.
Johnny was sitting and watching the whole scene while Enrique was helping himself to all the food on the table.
"Hurry and eat, hurry and eat." Enrique urged Johnny.
Tala put more food on Kira's plate. "You have to finish eating this too."
At this moment, Daichi is walking with a whole armful full of food.
"Eat more. There's still chicken over here." Enrique pointed out to Kira.
He reached over for more food and Tala scolded him.
"Hey! I ordered all these for her to eat and not ordered them for you! Why are you eating so much for!" He asked irately.
Daichi looked around and sees Kira, and starts to call out to her "Ki…"
Tala sees him and gave him a deadly icy stare which quickly made Daichi shut up on the spot. He then quietly turned away and walked towards a table all by himself. Sitting down at the table, he sneaks little peeks over at Tala's table.
Tala turned to Kira after he made sure Daichi wasn't coming towards Kira. "Hurry up and eat. Why aren't you eating? Is your face still hurting you? I'll order you something that's easier to chew."
He puts down his fork and starts to signal the waiter but Kira stops him.
Kira grabbed his arm quickly. "There's no need. I'm just not too hungry."
"Even if you're not hungry, you should still eat more."
"Fine."
"He's so gentle. Kira, let me tell you. I don't think I've ever seen a Tala like this before, who cares about others with such concern." Johnny teased smirking.
"But you must be careful. His possessiveness is very strong. If you speak to other guys besides us… then he could possible kill you and this other guy." Enrique laughed.
"Would it be that serious?" Tala asked the blonde.
Kira stared at Tala, thinking about that situation this morning. 'What happens if the situation this morning is discovered? Not only will I be killed by Tala, but…'
She started imagining a scene where she is wearing a paper-made hat and wearing a cardboard paper in front of her. She gets down on her knees and is handed a paper made banner to hold in front of her. The students that are surrounded around her are throwing stuff at her and bullying her again, while Mariah and Hilary are standing around smirking happily.
'That way I would once again be living in those days when I was being bullied!' She suddenly burst out loud. "I DON'T WANT IT TO BE LIKE THIS!"
Tala looked at her in surprise. "You… what's the matter?"
"Oh, nothing. I want to go to the bathroom." Kira answered sheepishly.
She gets up and quickly runs away while B3 are sitting there looking at each other wondering what that was all about.
In the bathroom, Kira was washing her hands at the sink.
'That was so close. I shouldn't have been found out. Since I won't be meeting up with this DJ again. Then I should just pretend that last night was a secret that has never happened. When I woke up, even though I was only wearing my underclothes, but I think nothing could have happened. As a rule, with a first time, I should feel something."
Finishing washing her hands, she shakes off the excess water and walks restlessly around the bathroom.
Kira stops in front of a windowpane, and talks to herself. "If it doesn't hurt, then nothing could have happened." She reassured herself.
She sighed heavily and then walks out of the bathroom.
Outside the bathroom, Daichi is holding up an envelope up against the sunlight and trying to read the contents that are inside.
Kira comes out and sees him. "Daichi? Why are you here?"
"Nothing. When I was coming to school, I met up with that foreigner from last night. He told me to give you this letter. Why is he writing a letter to you?" He asked holding the letter out.
Kira quickly snatches the letter from him. "I don't know. Oh, I think I need to go to the bathroom again."
Grabbing her stomach, she quickly runs back into the bathroom.
"Kira, you have a stomachache?" Daichi called out.
Kira ran back into the bathroom and quickly opened the envelope to read the letter. Just then, one of the bathroom stalls open and a girl comes out so Kira quickly hides the letter. She waited until the girl left then she quickly opens the envelope to take the letter out.
Kira quickly scans the letter, with a shock tone, "What! 2:00 o'clock this afternoon!"
Meanwhile, Daichi is still waiting for Kira outside of the bathroom when Tala walks up to him.
"What are you doing in front of the girl's bathroom for?"
Daichi quickly backs away in fright, "Uh, nothing. I was just studying the history of why the girl's bathroom is beside the guy's bathroom. It's nothing, nothing."
He quickly runs away from Tala before anything happens.
Tala stood there with his arms crossed. "Guy's bathroom? Why is there a guy's bathroom?"
At this moment, Kira charges out of the bathroom and runs into Tala who is standing there.
"W… why are you here? Why did you bump into me for?" Kira stammered.
"Why were you in there for so long? Enrique and Johnny want to leave."
"Then you should leave too. I also have to go. Goodbye."
She turns and walks away.
"Where are you going?" Tala called after her.
Kira stops and turns "Oh, I have something important to do so I'm leaving now."
She continues walking a few steps then stops and turns around.
Kira passes Tala. "Oh, sorry. I should have gone this way. Bye bye."
Tala stared at her totally confused.
Kira ran outside and stops when she sees Rick waiting for her.
Rick turns and sees her "Hey, Kira!"
An angry Kira strides over to Rick while he opens up his arms wide as if to hug her.
Kira pushes him away. "What are you doing!"
"What do you mean what am I doing? We have already…"
Kira covers her ears with both hands and screams, "AHHHHHHH!"
"Hey, Kira. You are shouting too loudly!"
"I want to shout this loudly and so what! Don't you have any standards! Taking advantage of a drunk person and taking her to a hotel!"
Rick held out both of his arms. "I don't know where your home was! So of course all I can do is to bring you to the hotel."
"Then did you do anything to me?"
Rick looked Kira up and down and teases, "Yes. I helped you take your clothes off."
Kira looks at him in shock and reaches out and gives him a punch.
Rick tries to duck away, "OW! Why did you hit me for!"
"Why did you take my clothes off! Shameless!" Kira shouted.
"You were so drunk yesterday and also threw up all over yourself! It was so dirty and smelly! I had to help you clean up a bit so that you could sleep."
"Then you must have seen me naked!"
"No. I asked the hotel's female servant to help you take it off. And help you clean up." Rick confessed.
"Really?" Kira asked raising an eyebrow.
"Really." Rick nodded his head.
Kira gave a big smile of relief and then turns back to face the guy with a serious face, "Then what are you here today for?"
"I came to give you back your ID."
"ID? Why did you take my ID for!"
"Because when I was checking you in at the hotel yesterday, they needed to register your name. When we finished registering, I forgot to put the ID back."
He reaches in his pocket and takes out her ID and hands it back to her.
Kira smiled. "Oh. So what you are saying is that nothing happened between us."
"Of course."
Kira grins widely and grabs Rick's hand to jump up and down in relief, "Ha ha ha, that's great! Ha ha ha!"
"Kira!" Tala called out.
Kira stops jumping and snaps around with eyes widening in surprise and shock to see Tala standing there.
/ Flashback//
"But you must be careful. His possessiveness is very strong. If you speak to other guys besides us… then he could possible kill you and this other guy." Enrique teased.
/ End of flashback. /
Tala walked over to where Kira and Rick are standing. Kira quickly pulls her hand back from Rick's clasp.
Tala glared at Rick "What is this guy doing?"
"Uh… he was only asking for directions."
Tala continued glaring at him. "Does asking directions need to hold hands?"
Kira grabbed Rick's hands. "Holding hands is to express thanks. Thank you, thank you."
Tala looked at their clasped hands and shouted. "Let your hands go! Do you guys think that using such a stupid excuse would be able to lie to me! What kind of joke is this!"
Rick quickly thinks of something and starts to speak German, "Hey, how are you? I just came from Germany. I'm not familiar with the roads. Please tell me, is there any suitable hotels nearby?" He asked as Kira stares at him in shock.
'Wow! This guy's reaction is very quick. Tala definitely won't understand what he is talking about!' Kira thought to herself impressed.
Tala starts to reply back in German and Kira gets the shock of her life as she turns to looks at him with wide eyes and a stunned look.
"I don't know any suitable hotels around here. But I do know some 5 star hotels though. If you want to know, I could tell you where it is." Tala replied back in German.
"Wow, that is so impressive! Tala, what are you guys speaking?" Kira asked thoroughly impressed.
"German."
"German? You know how to speak German? So impressive!" Tala smiles at her with an arrogant expression on his face.
"Of course! I studied it in Switzerland when I was young. Besides, they teach four different kinds of languages. Being the successor of the Ivanov Corporation, I have to know at least 5 different languages." Tala boasted.
"This is the first time that I'm starting to have some feelings of respect for you."
"You just realized now that I'm a person with this much size?"
Kira rolls her eyes. "It's sense! You know how to speak five languages, but yet your English is still so bad. Hey! What other languages do you know how to speak? Say it and let's listen to it." She asked, wanting to get his attention off of Rick.
"How about we start with Italian first?"
Kira nodded her head enthusiastically. "Ok, ok."
He proceeds to say something in Italian.
Kira looked at him with an impressed expression. "Wow! That was so impressive! What does that mean?"
"I only know a little bit of Italian."
"Then what else do you know how to speak? Say something and let's see."
"How about French?"
As Tala's attention is distracted at speaking his French, Kira looks at Rick and makes movements of her head as if trying to tell him to hurry up and leave. Rick finally gets the idea and walks away from them.
"What did that sentence of French meant?" Kira asked relieved that Rick was far away now.
"I feel that French is a very romantic language."
"Oh, that's just so impressive!"
"Well? You should be watching me with new eyes, right?"
"Shouldn't it be looking at with new eyes? You should get your English right before you try to learn all these other languages.."
Tala looks away to the side and finds Rick not standing there anymore. Seeing him off a distance, he starts to yell out at him.
"HEY! FOREIGNER! Where are you going!"
Kira stood in front of Tala pushing his chest to prevent him from chasing after Rick. "What are you doing!" She asked.
"FOREIGNER! WHERE ARE YOU GOING!"
Kira pushes Tala back. "What are you doing! He finished asking for directions, so of course, he would leave. What are you calling him back for?"
"Why do you like striking up conversations with people everywhere! Besides, you have such a cordial look on your face. What exactly is wrong with you!" Tala demanded narrowing his turquoise eyes.
"I am not!" She protested.
"Yes, you are!"
"And so what if I am! What right do you have to control me! We're not dating!"
Tala stared at her. "We aren't dating?"
Kira doesn't answer as Tala strides away in anger.
"Tala! What a strange person. Made me feel like I have something to be guilty about." She muttered to herself.
That night, Enrique is cutting his hair at a hair salon while Johnny and Tala are sitting around waiting for him.
"Hey, Enrique' Tala asked with a bored look.
"What?"
"My home has a high class hair stylist. Why did we come this long way over here?"
"Well, that's because Bella cuts well, so that's why I come here."
Johnny got up from his seat. "Oh please. Don't we know the truth? It's because you wanted to get to know girl #5 over there that's why you ran all the way over here to cut your hair."
Enrique smiled at his hair stylist. "Then it's all in your hands Bella."
"Bella can't help you. You've been here for half a day already and she hasn't even paid any attention to you." Johnny laughed.
"That's what you don't understand. Women always say one thing and mean another. The younger the girl, the more that she will not express her love in front of the one that she likes."
Tala thinks a while on Enrique's words. "What you are saying is that… usually a girl that doesn't mean it when she says it out loud – in actuality, she likes the other person in her heart?"
"Kira is that type of person." Johnny and Enrique said in unison laughing.
"Did I say Kira?"
He looks away but is actually feeling very happy after hearing this. He controls his emotions and gets up from the chair that he was sitting on. Walking away from Enrique and Johnny, Tala finally lets loose the smile that's been trying to break through on his face.
Meanwhile Hilary is meeting up with Mariah at a pub.
"Mariah!" Hilary called running to the table.
"You're the one that called me out and came so late!" Mariah pouted.
"It's all because of this!" Hilary smiled.
She takes out a white envelope and hands it to Mariah to see.
"What is it? Bringing out your boy toy's love letter?"
"It's not. Take a look first."
Mariah opens up the envelope to take out some photos and looks up at Hilary with wide eyes of surprise.
Mariah looks at the photos and smiles happily. "What is this? Why is there something like this?"
"I don't know. Anyway, when I was leaving the house, I found it in the mailbox. I think that someone must want to give us a chance and have us bring some justice to this world."
"There's going to be a good show to see." Mariah smiled showing her fangs.
"Show time!" Hilary exclaimed happily.
At school the next day, students are standing around the bulletin board once again and looking at something that has been posted up.
"It's a hotel." A student pointed out.
"Is that Kira?"
"With a foreigner!"
On the bulletin board are posted pictures of the Kira and Rick entering the hotel on the night that they went to the pub.
"Oh my god! What's going on?"
"Who knows, it's really hard to tell."
Meanwhile, Kira is walking down the school road when Emily runs up to her.
"Kira!" Emily called out.
"Emily?"
Emily stopped in front of Kira. "Hurry up and go home! Don't go to class!"
"Why?" Kira asked confused.
"What happens if Tala comes after you?" Emily asked worried.
"Tala? Why would he come after me?"
"Don't you know that the photos are posted on the bulletin board?"
"Photos? What photos?"
Kira goes over to the bulletin board area to see what photos Emily was referring to. She pushes through the students that are still standing around.
"Isn't that Kira?" A student pointed out.
Kira stared at the bulletin board in shock as she looks at the photos, "Why are there these types of photos?"
"Pretending otherwise and pretending to be Tala's girlfriend." A student muttered.
"And Tala still doesn't even know!" Another student whispered excitedly.
"If he knew, he will definitely send out a red tag."
The students slowly start to disperse, leaving Kira standing there facing the bulletin board.
"Don't wait for him to stick it. Let's start today!" A faceless voice said excitedly.
"Isn't this fun? We can start playing our games again!" Another student exclaimed happily.
In Kira's home that night, while her mom is singing outside, Kira is sitting in her room on her bed, worrying about the events that might happen tomorrow.
Kira pokes at the small bunny on her bedside table and murmurs to herself, "Strange. Why do I feel my heart hurting? I obviously hated this guy. If it wasn't because he asked me to some date out of the blue, then people wouldn't think that we were dating. It's all his fault. But I don't want to see his sad face. No. I have to go tomorrow. If I don't go, then it's like I did something wrong. I definitely have to go. I will not be beaten this easily!"
The next morning, Kira is pushing her scooter over to the parking space in school.
"It's such a beautiful morning. Only I alone, look like a prisoner that's about to be pushed into the execution stand."
She pushes the scooter over to the parking space.
"I can definatly get through this!" Kira cheered herself on.
She looked around suspiciously to see if anything weird has started happening as she slowly takes off her helmet. After she puts her things away, she starts to walk down the road to school. Strangely enough, there seems to be an eerie silence all around school, with not a student in sight.
"Strange. Why haven't they made any movements yet?" Kira asked herself as she walked down the empty road.
She stops walking and slowly turns around to look behind her before slowly continuing walking again.
Later, the first act of bullying starts again. The students tied Kira's scooter to the back of a car and dragged it along the road. Other students were standing around looking while Kira and Daichi push through the crowd and stares at the scene in front of them.
"YOU BUNCH OF BASTARDS! YOU DARE TO DRAG MY SCOOTER!" Kira screamed at them.
The guy driving the car stops and stuck his head through the window.
"This type of cheap scooter that only poor people would ride, I like to play with it. What are you going to do about it?"
"Why are you people going so far!" Daichi asked.
"PARASITES! GIVE ME BACK MY SCOOTER!"
She starts running toward the car when Daichi called out to stop her.
"Kira! It's dangerous!"
Kira ran up to the trunk of the car and started pulling on the rope that is tied to her scooter. "Give me back my scooter! Let it go!"
"Let go!" Daichi begged trying to get Kira to let to of the rope.
"YOU BASTARD!" Kira screamed at the guy in the car.
"This is very dangerous!" Daichi urged.
"LET GO!"
"Kira, it's dangerous!" Daichi pushed Kira away.
But Kira ran back and tried to untie the rope holding her scooter to the car. "GIVE ME BACK MY SCOOTER! GIVE ME BACK MY SCOOTER!"
At this moment, Tala pushes pass the crowd of students.
"What are you guys doing! You don't want to live anymore!" Tala demanded.
He makes a move to go over to Kira, but Mariah grabbed his arm and stopped him.
"Tala, don't tell me you don't know. Kira has betrayed you! Look at these photos! They are only helping you to get revenge. Just take a look at these photos." Mariah handed the envelope to Tala.
Tala grabbed the envelope from Hilary's hands.
"Do you see? They look so affectionate. They went to the hotel too!" Tala scanned the photos rapidly his bright turquoise eyes widening by the second.
Tala looked up and over at Kira, while she stands there and looks back at him.
"We were all lied to, do you know?"
"HILARY! YOU'RE TRYING TO DO ME HARM AGAIN! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO DO THIS! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO HARM ME LIKE THIS!"
Hilary sneered at Kira "Don't tell me you don't know what you have done? You still want to blame it on me? Told you early on that she's a bad girl." Tala crushed the photos angrily.
Tala turned to stare at Kira with anger and hurt in his eyes.
"YOU'RE LYING! Tala! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK! AS LONG AS YOU TRUST ME! THIS IS ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING! I DON'T CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK! YOU CANNOT NOT BELIEVE ME!" Kira shouted with tears streaming down her face.
"Tala. Don't let her lie to you again. She's only doing this because she wants your pity! Just take another closer look at this photo. This photo, do you see it? This foreigner, have you seen him before? If they really didn't go to the hotel, then how can there have been these photos? Take a closer look. Don't let her lie to you again. I'm only doing this for your good." Mariah informed him harshly.
Tala looked up at Kira. "Kira… You betrayed me." He said quietly holding up the photos.
He throws the photos to the ground in anger and turns and walks away.
"Tala! YOU BASTARD! YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THE WORDS OF THAT WOMAN! YOU IDIOT!" She shouted hurt that he took Mariah's words over hers.
Hilary looked at Kira with a triumphant smile.
"Tala!"
"So loud! You preposterous woman! Been discarded? Come, come." The guy started his car again, dragging her scooter around the parking lot.
"YOU BASTARD! GIVE ME BACK MY SCOOTER!" Kira turned her attention back to the guy.
She starts running after the car as Daichi follows her.
"Kira! It's dangerous!" Daichi called.
"GIVE ME BACK MY SCOOTER!" Kira screamed.
A bit later, Kira and Daichi are hurt and lying on the ground of the road with Kira's scooter, black and burning a couple of feet away from them. Kira slowly pushes herself up and reaches out to check on Daichi.
"Daichi! Daichi, are you ok?" Kira asked shaking his arm.
Daichi starts moving slowly and Emily comes over to help them.
"Daichi." Kira called out again.
Emily helped Kira sit up and checked on her injuries for her.
That afternoon, Emily accompanies Kira home. Kira opens the front gate slowly and they sneak in quietly.
"Kira. You have injuries all over you. What happens when your mom asks in a bit?" Emily asked worried.
Kira fixed her hair so that it's falling to the front as if she's using it to cover up "My hair is like this covering the front, can it still be seen?"
Emily nodded her head and looks at the big bruise on Kira's forehead.
"Then we should just try to avoid her as best as we could and don't let my mom see."
They quietly walk through the front door and towards Kira's bedroom. Just as Kira opens the door to her room and is about to close it, her mom pops out and sneaks into the room before the door closes.
"Kira! My God! Kira, why is your face like this? How did it become like this!"
"Mrs.Tagoshi, it's because… it's because when Kira was riding on her scooter. Suddenly a homeless dog ran out, Kira couldn't avoid the dog in time. The scooter swerved to the side, she couldn't step on the brake in time, so she ran into a tree… therefore, that's why…" Emily said quickly.
"Ran into a tree!"
Kira nodded her head. "Right."
"So that's why she got hurt." Emily finished.
"Then did anything happen to the tree?" Her mom asked incredibly worried.
Emily shook her head. "No, no, no."
"Nothing's wrong with it? Thank god, so close. I'm just afraid that the school would ask me to pay for this tree. How am I going to pay for this tree? Kira, sorry! Mama is really concerned about you too. Come, come, come. Sit down. Mama is going to get the first aid kit. Put some medicine on it and it will be better very soon. If not, then it will be very ugly to look at. Really. All because of this dog and this happened. Dog, dog, dog. Trying to save a homeless dog and almost became a homeless girl. And still… Kira, really. From now on, you have to be more careful. This face, is a girls' most important part." She opened the first aid kit. "Use iodine, use iodine. Emily, huh? Thank you. For taking care of our Kira. Thank you. Thank you. Ah, do you know that our Kira is in a relationship with Tala Master?" The smile on Emily's face disappears. "You have to help them and provide more opportunities for them at school. Help her and Tala to... to…"
"Ma!" Kira interrupted.
"To not get hurt again." Her mom finished quickly.
Emily helped Kira hold the hair away from her forehead while her mom dabbed a Q-tip with iodine onto Kira's bruise.
Mom: "Put a little bit on. It will hurt. But hurting means it will get better. Don't be afraid." Her mom dabbed her wound forcefully.
"OW!"
Her mom continues poking on Kira's forehead. "Hurting will make it better! If it doesn't hurt, then how will it get better? You have to endure it."
That night, Tala is sitting by the riverside and drinking himself silly over the incident at school. Feeling hurt and betrayed, Tala tries to get himself drunk and drinks as if there is no tomorrow. Johnny and Enrique try to keep Tala company and are sitting a couple of feet away from him drinking beer too.
"Hey! Tala! How much longer are you going to drink?" Johnny called out.
"We feel so bored. There are so many mosquitoes here. And there are no girls. There's nothing to do here." Enrique whined.
"We aren't the type of people to come here and drink." Johnny added.
They got no answer from Tala.
"People who are suffering from love love to do this kind of thing. Sitting by the riverside, being blown by the cold wind, drinking beer." Enrique pointed out.
"And then, eyes are looking far in the distance, then suddenly drink a sip of beer." Johnny laughed.
"It would be best if there is sad music playing in the background too. It seems like, if it's not like this, then it won't be able to show the bitter pain of suffering from love. Take a look over at that side." Johnny pointed out to Enrique.
There were lots of guys sitting around drinking beer, all of them in pretty much the same state as Tala is in.
"If you didn't point it out, I wouldn't have noticed. Love makes so many people suffer." Enrique signed.
Johnny looks over at Tala, who is continuing to down the huge bottle of alcohol in his hand.
Enrique turned to Johnny suddenly. "Hey, Tala really seems like he's had too much to drink. If he continues like this, I'm afraid he won't be able to stop."
"Then what should we do?" Johnny asked furrowing his eyebrows.
Enrique thought for a bit. "There are two ways. The first one is to fill him up with two more bottles and get him drunk." Johnny ponders over this idea and shook his head "Then we can only use the second way. We use the beer bottles and knock him over the head with it until he faints. That will put him out too. So as to save us from sitting here in this miserable atmosphere."
"Then… are you going to make the move or will I make the move?" Johnny asked hesitantly.
"Of course it's you! I've never hit one of us before!" Enrique exclaimed.
Johnny raised an eyebrow at Enrique. "Then that means I have to? What happens if Tala comes after me for revenge tomorrow?"
"Then… then we make the move together. Then it won't be unfair to you and it won't be unfair to me." Enrique suggested.
Johnny nodded his head. "OK."
They both grab an empty beer bottle and turn toward where Tala was sitting, only to find him missing. They both stood up and looked around.
Enrique scratches his head with the beer bottle in his hand "Where's Tala?"
Johnny puts the bottle down and walks over to where Tala was sitting before.
Johnny held up two 12 oz. empty vodka bottles. "They're both finished!"
Enrique walked over to stand next to Johnny and they both look around as if to try to find Tala.
Meanwhile a drunken Tala is walking around the streets all by himself. Emily, on the other hand, is just leaving from Kira's house and slowly walking down the road when she runs into the drunken Tala. She sees Tala leaning against a pole for support and runs up to him.
"Tala, are you ok? Why did you drink so much beer?" Emily ran up to him concerned.
Tala pushed her away weakly. "Leave me alone."
"But you… this…"
Tala grabbed Emily's hand, mumbles, mistaking her for Kira. "Tell me. Why did you betray me? Why are you so heartless! You took my heart and crushed it in one night. If trampling on my self-esteem is your motive… you've reached it." He suddenly grabbed Emily's arms. "How can you open your eyes and say for me to believe in you! What exactly do you want to do?" He asked softly leaning forward and leaning his head on her shoulder.
"I'm not…" Emily stuttered.
Unexpectedly, Tala grabbed hold of Emily by her neck and roughly starts kissing her. Emily tries to push him away but Tala's strength is too strong, so she succumbs to his kisses and doesn't resist anymore.
Afterward, Emily brings the drunken Tala to a hotel. While Tala is lying on the bed, Emily gets up from where she is sitting and walks over to sit on the bed next to the sleeping Tala.
Emily stares at Tala's face and thinks to herself, 'Being able to see you at such a close distance, I feel very happy. This kind of happiness that use to only show up in dreams… it feels so very real right now. You must not know that I've always liked you very much. I really wish that time can stop at this minute. Because when you wake up, it could be that this will all have to end. It's also when I hide everything up again.'
Suddenly Tala wakes up and sits up on the bed with a start, causing Emily to gasp in surprise and back away from the bed falling onto the couch on the side.
Emily looked at him cautiously. "You're sober now? I'll get you some water."
"No need." Tala said abruptly stopping Emily's movements. "What is this place?" He asked, wincing a little at his massive hang over.
"This is a hotel." Emily answered timidly.
"Hotel? Why am I here?"
"I… I brought you here. Because you said you didn't want to go home." She answered looking at the floor.
Tala looked at his wrist for the time, only to find none. "What time is it now?"
"About a little past 9 a.m."
Tala threw the covers away and turned to the side of the bed "9 o'clock!"
He reached down and starts to quickly put on his shoes.
"Why did you drink so much beer? Is it because of the thing with the photos?" Emily asked softly against his back.
Tala turned angrily at her. "It's none of your business! What right do you have to bother about me!"
"Do you know? You kissed me before!"
Tala is silent for a couple of seconds before speaking up.
"And?" He asked with a blank expression on his face.
"I understand. Even though you have kissed me before, but in your eyes, you only saw Kira and not me. But I don't mind at all. Because I can see through to your pain." Emily said softly.
Tala scoffed and turned away from her.
Emily shook her head sadly. "I'm so foolish. I'm actually looking for my own humiliation. But I don't blame you at all! Because I know that when you love a person, it doesn't matter how that person treats you, you will only remember that person's beauty and good. At that time, you don't see anybody else in your eyes. Only just that one person. You don't care what other people will think."
Tala starts to think of Kira and the words that she shouted to him at school.
/ Flashback//
"TALA! IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK! AS LONG AS YOU TRUST ME! THIS IS ALL A MISUNDERSTANDING! I DON'T CARE WHAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK! YOU CANNOT NOT BELIEVE ME!" Kira shouted.
/ End of flashback. /
"No matter what, you can't extinguish every bit of love that you have for that person. I'm the same as you!" Emily shouted.
Tala got up from the bed and walked over to the door.
Emily quickly got off the couch and called out. "Tala!"
Tala turned around from the door to find Emily running straight for him. She threw herself in his arms and starts kissing Tala.
Tala pushed her away and Emily fell onto the bed "Get away!"
Emily lay on the bed. "Why do you have to treat me this way? Whatever Kira can do, I can do also! I can be just like her! Speaking loudly, walking in big strides, put up an 'I'm very strong' look! As long as you like it, I am willing to change anything for you! Change everything for you!" Emily shouted as tears welled up in her eyes.
Tala narrowed his eyes. "Kira and you are not the same. If you continue speaking on, I won't be courteous with you anymore. Also, don't ever bring up what happened today again." He added before leaving.
He turned and walked out of the room leaving Emily, sitting on the bed and crying to herself.
Meanwhile, Kira is being surrounded by a group of guys out at the school's athletic field and fighting with them. She threw out a punch at one of the guys.
"Damn! This bitch can still fight back!" the guy shouted.
"Where does she store all this energy?"
"I won't lose to you feeble and weak monsters! I tell you guys! Your fists are softer than a mosquito's!" She glared at them. She was quite a site, her hair was completely messed up from it's original ponytail, sticking up in every direction, and along with her bruise from yesterday, she has two more on her face, one on her cheekbone and one on the side of her chin, add some dirt and she looked like a mess.
"Still talking!" Another guy threw a punch at her.
Kira rose up and glared at the guy that punched her "You bunch of…"
Another guy threw a punch at her "Still talking!"
Kira rose up again panting heavily. "I will…"
"Still talking!" the guy punched her again.
Kira looked up and around and suddenly couldn't take it anymore. She dropped to her knees on the grass and the guys started closing in on her. Having no more strength to fight back, she falls face down flat on the ground.
"Kira?"
"Kira? Can't take it anymore?" The guys taunted.
Another guy raised his foot to kick Kira while she was down. "You bitch!"
At this moment, Tala arrived and pulls the guy away before he could kick Kira.
"Tala!" The guy whimpered, Tala's deadly icy glare fixed on the guy.
Kira's shining knight in white armor finally comes. Tala/Kira fluff in the next chapter. And I wonder who took those photos huh? I'll let you wonder, though it's revealed hopefully in the next chapter.
