Chapter 15
Kai's breath had stopped the minute he walked through the door. Brooklyn froze behind him his own eyes being drawn to the flashing light. Bryan and Tala were too deep in their conversation to notice and ran into the two. "Ow jeeze can you walk into the place please?" Bryan asked and shoved the two out of his way. When he saw the light he froze as well. "No it couldn't be…" Shock took them all in as they slowly walked towards the answering machine.
"What are the chances that it is just the bar calling for Kai?" Brooklyn asked.
"Very slim." Kai said. "I know my schedual and they very rarely have me cover a shift."
"Damn so it has to be the school board." Brooklyn said taking a few steps closer to push the button.
Everyone held their breath as he pushed and the machine whirred to life. "Hey Tal it's Rey can you give me a call back I'd like to talk to you about what happened." The machine beeped and whirred again. "Kai you wouldn't by any chance know where Melinda is would you? She didn't show up for work today. I had to call Max in to cover her shift." The machine stopped. Everyone took one collective breath.
"Thank god." Bryan sighed and sunk down onto the couch that was behind him. He pulled Tala's hand and pulled him into his lap. "This is such a relief." He said and held his boyfriend closer.
"Those slim chances saved our asses." Tala said looking up at Kai. "Do you know where Melinda is?"
Kai thought about it and had to smile. "She probably just forgot she had to work today and nothing can wake her up if she doesn't want to wake up." Everyone laughed. Kai looked back to Brooklyn who was laughing but didn't have his usual smile.
"So now what do we do?" Bryan asked.
Brooklyn looked at Kai and smiled. "We do nothing. Someone reported us and I'm doubting it's Rei though he isn't fully ruled out. I'm leaning more towards my brother." He walked closer to Kai and looked him in the eye. "I'll have to leave town to find him. I don't doubt this." Kai's eyes widened. "I don't know how long I'll be gone. But the sooner we figure this out the better."
Kai nodded his head once. He understood. It didn't mean he liked the idea. "You'll keep in contact right?" he asked not wanting to loose him completely.
Brooklyn smiled. "Of course." He said and hugged his love. Kai hugged him back and sighed. "I've gotta go." Brooklyn kissed his forehead then his lips gently before turning and walking out the door.
Tala stood up and walked over to Kai. "He'll be ok." He said putting his arm around his roomie's shoulder. Bryan stood and headed for the kitchen.
"I don't know about you two but I'm starving what would you like me to cook?" Bryan asked automatically lightening the mood.
"Anything is fine." Tala said and he turned Kai into the kitchen. "Well anything so long as it's food." They all laughed and Bryan set to work cooking mac and cheese home made.
It wasn't long before the meal was ready and they all started eating and laughing. They were talking about old times when the phone rang. It made all of them jump. Tala laughed and picked up the phone.
"Hello?" he said into the phone.
"Tala?" Rei's voice said from the other end of the line.
"Yes." Tala's voice was now not so caring.
"Can we meet up? I want to talk to you about what happened." Rei said unphased by the tone.
"I'm busy right now Rei." Tala said.
"Not now then but how about tomorrow or something?"
"What is there to talk about?" Tala asked not really caring.
"About the thing with you and me and then Bryan of course."
"There never was a you and me Rei." Tala growled.
"Then we need to talk about that because I disagree."
"Fine we will meet tomorrow." Tala said and hung up.
"That wasn't very nice." Bryan said with a smile.
"Oh yeah like you care." Tala teased back.
"Don't see why you agreed to meet him." Kai said taking seconds of the food and refilling everyones cups.
"To get him to finally stop. And maybe see if he did do it." Tala pointed out. All of them agreed with that.
