Chapter 4
She was crying again. Again she was crying. Crying agian she was. Either way she was still crying only this time she was crying on Tala instead of him. In the bottom of his stomache he felt a pang of pity for the small girl. 'Suck it up and take it like a woman!' echoed through his head. It was one of her favoritelines when someone was complaining. He remembered vaguely that she had said that to Hilary when she had started complaining about a grade she had gotten in Social Studies. Kai looked up when Tala exited the room he was in while shaking his head sadly.
"Well? How is she?" Kai asked with a cold voice, and didn't notice how Tala's eyes flickered to his own and gove a knowing look in his direction. Kai was covering it well but he was worried for the small girl that had started to grow on him.
"She's asleep right now. Apparently her mom disowned her and her dad died 5 years ago so she didn't and dosn't have a place to stay. Andy's going to be with me and dad when she calms down some. She seems to like it here a lot. She said that she really likes your room and that it had a peaceful aura or something or other." Tala chuckled a little. That was always Andy, always caring about where she was. Tala's face however darkened a little. "Only... we have two problems."
"And they would be? Look Tala you need to hurry up, cause I have to pick up Monique in a few. Voltaire took her car away last week."
"Alright alright it's just that her mom burned all of her clothes except fot the ones she's wearing and her pet cat Lou was also burned up with it. She's mostly depressed becase of Lou; her dad named him and they had been really close since it was the only evidence that she actually had a father."
"Lou?" Kai rose an eyebrow at the name.
"Don't ask. anyway I was wondering if you could lend me some cash."
"I...uh..." Kai sighed and ran a hand through his blue locks of hair. "How much are we talking?"
"Um... a couple hundred?"
Kai thought a moment before sighing heavily. "Alright..." he handed Tala $600.
"Thanks Kai! Would you like to come with us? We could bring Serenity along with us. It'll be fun, besides I think Andy would want you to come."
A shrug was Tala's answer and then a nod. "Alright I guess. Well I gotta go, see ya in an hour or so." Kaiu grabbed his black leather jacket seeing as it was almost winter and left outside to his car that Tala had brought back the day before.
Monique was Kai's older sister who went to the local college. The reason her little brother was picking her up was because their grandfather found out that Monique Scarlet Hiwatari was 4 or almost 5 months pregnant. While Kai was 17, Monique or Unique as everyone called her was 24. Kai stopped at the college and got out of his car to wait for Unique. Passing girl's giggled as they saw him and some even pointed at him or in his direction. Kai rolled his eyes at their immature behavior.
"Yo little bro!" a voice called out from behind himand he turned around to see Unique running over to him. Monique Hiwatari had dark blue hair like Kai'sthat went down to her waist and warm chocolate brown eyes stared back at him once she had come to a stop. She was wearing the school uniform and todayher hair was up in a bun with two strands framing her her face.
"Yo Unique! Hurry up we gotta get home fast before Voltaire finds out I picked you up."
"Okay okay, don't get your boxers in a bunch." Unique rolled her eyes and got into the car as did Kai.
"Do you if it's a boy or a girl yet?" Kai started the car and took off down the road.
"No... not yet but something tells me that it's a girl. I've got bruises and remember what mom used to tell us when she was pregnant with me? She told us that I gave her bruises while you made her crave pickles and ice cream." Unique smiled at the memory of their mother.
"Yeah... I remember..." Kai sighed heavily. He missed his mom a lot. "Ever since us, she always bruised easily and her favorite foods were ice cream and pickles. I remember this one time I went into the kitchen for a snack and there she was. Eating ice cream with an open jar of pickles right beside her. She had a bruise on her arm from when I grabbed onto her. Eariler that day she took me to the park while you were at school. I was mad cause you were away and she cheered me up by taking me there. I was scared of the slide, mom told me to go up there and just slide down..." Kai trailed off for a moment and after a small while he started again. "I made her go with me and I accidentally hit her arm with my foot when I slipped at the end of the slide. I started crying... and she just smiled and started laughing... she picked me up... and she got me some ice cream... I rememeber that I got chocolate ice cream all over my face... and she laughed... before cleaning me up..."
Unique listened to her little brother talk about that day. It was very rare to see or hear Kai talk about his feeligs or memories. He and their mother were very close. When she disappeared Kai didn't talk to anyone for almost a whole year... then Tala came and brought him out of his silent state. Kai and Tala had a lot in common but she thought that the most important one was that they were both close to their mother's and that they both lost them as well.
She looked up when the car came to a halt in front of their home. She went wide eyed as did Kai when they saw an ambulance and firetruck. Their home lay in ruins and both Andy and Tala were loaded into the ambulance. Kai was out of the car in seconds.
"What happened! What's going on here!" he went over to a paramedic. "What happened!"
"The house burst into flames with two people inside. Luckily we got them out in time but it's bad... real bad." the paramedic guy got into the ambulance.
"I'm coming with!" Kai threw his keys at Unique who caught them. "Tell Tala's dad what happened and get over to the hospital!" Unique nodded and Kai climbed into the ambulance. The last she saw and heard were the sirens that went off as the van raced to the hospital.
Finally! Damn that was a long time since I wrote... I know this chappie isn't very long and Kai was a little OOC but it's still good right? Right? -stares at empty crowd- oh fine! I didn't like you guys anyway... -pouts- ANYWAY if you liked this chappie and you really are my friend you'll REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!
Untimely Demise
