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Chapter IV… Date

After recording some more of her new song, Lily got another ride back home. Her same driver, David, kept grinning at her through the rearview mirror.

"What?" She asked, fed up with his annoying stare.

"Getting friendly with that boy, eh?" He replied with a teasing sneer.

Lily rolled her eyes. "Yeah, very."

"Did I spy you two exchanging notes back there?" He laughed. "What was his name, Kai? Didn't I see that name on a Chinese menu?"

Lily didn't bother to reply and looked out the window. She spied a few paparazzi photographers readying their cameras. When she was in range, she hid her face and looked the opposite way, leaving the photographers with a wasted picture. She smirked her small triumph, mind laughing.

"I mean you act as if you had seen him from before…" David almost seemed to glare at her as he said this. Lily put on her best poker face as she thought out a plan to deal with him.

What would Kai do? She asked herself. The light in the attic turned on.

Abandoning her plain, straight, "I don't give a shit" face, she slipped on the sourpuss mask and glared right back at him.

"Yeah, and it is any of your business?" She snapped. David immediately looked on the road and never spoke.

So that's how Kai got his fearsome routine going on. When she met the Bladebreakers, she couldn't understand why they avoided him so often.

Back at home, Lily treated herself to a microwave cake and some T.V., all the while her mind on Kai. For the first few hours, her hope and anxiousness simmered down to nothing. He would probably call tomorrow. After all, tomorrow was Saturday.

But then he did call. Acting unsuspicious, she picked up the phone and answered, "Alo?"

"Hey, Lily." Kai replied. His way of saying "hey" sent chills down her spine and back up. She kept her cool and didn't act on it.

"Hey, Kai, what's up?" Lily asked absently. She glanced over at her stuffed cat, Fred, and decided to pick him up.

"You should know what's up." He said in a teasing, yet fierce tone.

"Um, my ceiling?" Lily asked, joking right back at him.

"No—"

"Or is it that 'date' you were going to take me on?" She grinned like the Cheshire cat, sharp teeth flashing momentarily. Lily could see his face already; she knew how much he disliked being interrupted.

"We were calling it 'hanging out', remember?" Kai hissed. Lily's brows knitted together in confusion. Why did he sound so serious? He wasn't faking it, either.

"What's wrong?" She asked, concerned.

"Nosy people may be screening our calls, you know." He warned.

"Well, pretend they're not, okay?" Lily told him, giggling slightly. He was never this paranoid before. Maybe because the both of them were now famous and paparazzi was always in their face… "Anyhow, what about that 'hanging out' date of yours?"

Kai hesitated before replying. "Well," He said finally, "What do you think about dinner?"

Lily grinned. Typical of him to take her on a dinner date. She decided to pressure him, "I'll take it, but what do I wear?"

"Nothing fancy, unless you want to." Kai replied coolly. "And I'm taking you somewhere else after that."

Lily's stomach churned. Somewhere else… special? She closed her eyes and hugged Fred tightly. She then opened her eyes and grinned into the phone.

"Uh-oh," She teased, "Should I grab the Electric Reindeer?" Electric Reindeer was their favorite wine to get drunk off of. Maybe some crackers to go with it… She thought absently.

"Nah, I'll get that." Kai replied. Lily couldn't decide whether or not he really meant it or if he was joking around. "Anyway, I'll pick you up at seven-thirty, okay?"

Seven-thirty? That was late. Maybe he really did…

"Okay." Lily agreed. "See you then."

"Bye." Kai said. Lily shuddered. Kai had a scary way of saying "bye" as well. It made him sound like a serial killer at times. A sexy serial killer…

Lily hung up before she could hear Kai's phone beep off. She then tossed Fred onto the couch, turned off the T.V., and went to her room to get ready.

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Uh-oh! A date! And what's this talk about their "favorite" wine? I don't know myself what's going to happen next, but I bet it'll be juicy!