A/N: I'm ba–ack! Miss me people? Here's an extra lengthy my longest ever chapter to make for the delay!

Anyways on with the chapter enjoy!

My Roomie

By Stunstar

Chapter 4 At the Carnival

"Michael?"

"Definitely"

"Emily?"

"Oh all right"

"Hilary?"

"Sure"

"Tala?"

"Sure! What the heck!"

"Um… grandpa?"

"Count me in little dude"

"Bryan?"

"…"

"O-kay Kai?"

"Hn"

Okay so you must be wondering what on earth that was about and no it wasn't roll call. We are all currently gathered in our living room, no surprises there and Tyson is asking to see who's going to the parade, carnival, fete, fair, whatever the hell it is. So far you must have noticed the various responses and while five of them are affirmative we don't know what to make of Kai and Bryan's reply, if you call it a reply. I don't think not responding at all counts as a reply but Bryan seems to think it does, go figure. And I'm not sure exactly what this particular 'hn' of Kai's means. To think that we should have learnt to interpret his different 'hns' by now, shame on us. And here's me thinking of being his lover, double shame.

From the looks of it Tyson's decided to take them on last as he turns to Kenny.

"Kenny?"

"Oh I don't know Tyson, I could spend the holiday to do some useful research" Talk about a major geek, Gods I swore I wouldn't mentally diss my friends, triple shame.

"And besides I still have my hypothesis to complete"

"Hypothesis shmypothesis" says Tyson airily waving a hand about as if to dismiss the entire thing. Shmypothesis? you're so imaginative Tyson, I wish I had your talent. Note people that was sarcasm. According to some people coughcoughKaicoughTalacoughmecoughthe rest of the worldcough cough Tyson has no talent, not even in beyblading field. Kai swears he wins by fluke, while Tala claimed he let Tyson win just to get him to shut up on his speeches and to stop Boris' utterly jobless plan of taking over the freakin' world for goodness knows what. Okay that's enough Tyson bashing. I'm really ashamed of myself now - that is no way to talk about a friend even mentally. I take it all back Tyson's a great dude a tad annoying at times but really nice and besides where else would we get comic relief without him?

"You are coming" Tyson states and he seems to consider it as final and besides it's easy to convince Chief, if he doesn't agree at all you can just drag him with you, he's too small to protest. Ah, but Chief is the least of my worries now. My goal is Kai and the goal to that goal is to interpret that 'hn' as a 'yes, I will go because I want to be in your company Ray and I don't want to deny you anything and if this gives you joy then yes, I will most definitely go'. O-kay that was just my imagination on overdrive, I doubt if Kai would say that even if he were in love with me, for that matter that sentence was way too textbooky for any one to say sincerely. My imagination needs serious modification. Anyways for now a simple 'yes' will suffice. How to get out that yes is a challenge. You need extreme caution and a whole load of tact.

"C'mon Kai are you coming or what?" and so much for tact! That most definitely wasn't me talking, you can obviously guess that such a impatient question without any tact or subtlety whatsoever in a situation as delicate as this could only come from Tyson. But if it gets the job done then I will indeed have something to be grateful to Tyson for.

"No" fool on earth that Tyson is. Now there's probably no chance of that wonderful fantasy I had planned to come true. If he could only have been a little more patient we could have wheedled Kai into coming. But does he have any tact or grace whatsoever? Nooo. However I don't think all is lost if we could just persuade Kai a teensy bit with appropriate techniques. Technique no. 1 Max's puppy dog eyes, from the look on Max's face I just know that he's readying himself for the challenge. But I think Kai has noticed too. But never fear, you simply must not underestimate Max's gift, believe me I have experience.

"Come on Kai please? Everyone's going" Max says. Kai doesn't answer.

"Oh just say yes Kai and stop being such a self centred jerk" that was Tala sounding irritable (he keeps having mood swings, and no he isn't pregnant, besides it's categorically impossible though I have heard a few mpreg issues flying about and – I'm getting way out of track here). I think being a childhood friend has certain privileges seeing as he is still in one piece after such a reprimand, anybody else coughcoughTysoncough would have been headed for the ICU. I'll desperately need cough drops if I keep this up.

Kai doesn't respond, okay methinks its time to add in my two cents.

"Kai please come, it won't be the same without you" as in who else can I eyeball and secretly drool over and have perverted thoughts about if you don't come?

Kai seems to ponder over it for a while. Is he avoiding trying to look at me? Maybe I should try kitty eyes. Oh please come Kai pretty please with me on top - hey I'm sweet and it beats the usual sugar or cherry on top saying - though in another sense I guess Kai would like to be on top, he seems like it… serious mental headshake and getting back on track - please say yes. Are my thought processes reaching over? Not the perverted ones the wheedling ones.

"Whatever" Yes! My thought processes did reach over (not the perverted ones)! A miracle of nature! I should stop with the exclamations but I'm so happy! Incase you aren't yet familiar with Kai in his language a 'whatever' can be presumed to be a 'yes'.

That left Bryan. And from the looks of it he can't escape because everyone's eyes are now on him. If Kai has said yes he should too right? Right? Wrong. Apparently he doesn't agree because he walks off, out of our apartment and from the sound of the opening and closing of doors he is in his apartment now. Looks like he isn't coming then.

"You guys get ready. I'm going to go get Bryan" said Tala and walked off as well. Wonder how he's going to get it done? It's quite impossible if you ask me.

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We're all gathered outside our all eleven of us. Yes, eleven Bryan included. Apparently I don't know much so it wasn't really impossible for Tala to get him to agree. I have no idea what Tala did to persuade him but he's with us now. Broody and moody as usual but he's there. Okay now the reason we're all gathered outside doing nothing is because we can't decide on transportation. The parade includes some show or the other which we've decided to skip. We thought we'd go see the main carnival with the stalls and rides which is on an open ground. Tyson insists we call a cab. But for eleven people? We'd need like almost three of them and they are hard to come by so that idea went down the drain. Somebody else suggested we just head back home, possibly Kenny. Then there was a grunt which I presumed to be Bryan. And then there was a cacophony of sounds which I suppose were Hilary and Emily arguing. Then there was some weird sound which I suppose was grandpa speaking, I swear I can never truly understand what he says. But all those voices are an incoherent jumble in my ears as I stand facing Kai wondering if he'll make a suggestion. Whatever it is I'll go for it.

"Kai what should we do?" Tala asked wise person that he is, because everybody stopped to listen.

Kai shrugged, "the bus?" he suggested offhandedly. Oh no not the bus anything but the bus. I know I said I'll go with whatever Kai says but a bus is too much. Why am mentally overreacting? Well there is a very good reason for that- I despise buses simple as that. I hate travelling in them simply because those monstrous contraptions have something against me. Don't believe me? Let me go over a few of my bus experiences.

Instance no.1. me a happy carefree young lad, was getting ready to get into a bus, which was to be my very first bus ride. That was right after I'd left my village for the first time to explore the outside world. I was happily waiting for the bus thinking of my freedom and all the wonderful things I'll get to see and experience. I saw the bus appear, it was huge and I was excited as we never got to see vehicles like this when I was in the village. I waited for other people to board then I got up, went to the bus, climbed on, the bus started, I fell off and was found sitting on the sidewalk looking dazed. People were laughing too, cruel heartless beasts.

Instance no.2 I was a little more wary this time. Caution had to be exercised you see. And I wasn't going to be so courteous anymore. The bus came I got up first and boarded and got a seat. The bus started, the ride was okay save for a few nasty bumps and the fact that the bus driver was the right hand man of Satan bent on killing all his passengers, in fact there was a lady beside me reciting her rosary. The bus stopped at my stop and I got up following the people waiting to get off. I reached the door, was about to step out, the bus started, I fell out.

Instance no. 3 it took a whole lot of courage to get on that thing again as I had vowed I never would. It was a few weeks ago when I first moved into this place to join the university. I had to use a bus there was no other transportation. I got on and found no seat. And when this happens you have to clutch the poles or hold on to the handles at the top and clutch on for dear life while the driver (all bus drivers are Satan's minions) started the bus. Things went fine. My stop arrived I even got onto safe ground but I couldn't move further as the zipper of my bag got caught. I tugged and pulled, the bus started, the zipper snapped, my bag hurtled towards me, I was sitting on the road.

And remember that time during the Asian tournament when Tyson hailed down a bus? If it weren't for the fact that we were getting late and that I was with Tyson meaning that I'd have to explain to him then I'd never have gotten on. But the bus didn't get a chance to be evil to me then because the landslide stopped it before it could. But I still didn't fare very well that day did I? And the other times I got on buses during our tour was merely from lack of choice.

Ah yes, so to conclude those wonderful experiences I must say that I hate buses and their drivers with the same passion as I hate alarm clocks, mornings, Mondays, cockroaches and frogs. The latter two also hold a tale. Actually no they don't they are just gross so that's an explanation in itself. They are just…creepy. Okay so no buses I am simply not getting into those damn things.

"Guys, how about we walk, it's a pleasant day." I don't care if the clouds burst into a torrential downpour and we all die of pneumonia I'm not getting into a bus.

"Walk?" Tyson asked. Yes Tyson, walk as in when you move your legs and place them one in front of the other to move forward or backward.

"I think it's a nice idea" bless you Max!

"But why not the bus? It'll save the energy" Tyson protests, please Tyson buddy of mine stop arguing for heaven's sake you don't know the torment I went through. But to my dismay the others seem to think that Tyson has a point, even Max. If I can get Kai to agree I know I'll be safe.

"Kai, what do you say? Wouldn't it be nice to walk?" okay I know the bus was your suggestion but please pretty please say yes to the walk. I'm trying my best kitty eyes here.

"Hn" that was definitely his 'yes' hn. Thank you Kai I could kiss you! But I think I'll hold that in for now.

Tyson's still grumbling.

"How about those who want to go by bus go by bus and those who want to walk can walk" Michael suggested which I think is pretty clever. The others nodded.

"Okay so who's coming by bus?" Tyson asked waving his hand and everybody else lifted their hand, except me that is and Kai and Bryan, but Tala lifted Bryan's hand for him and was rewarded by a glare which he promptly ignored.

"Come on Ray everyone's voting for bus so let's go by bus" Max says. I sighed, I really don't want to. I don't think I have a choice now.

"I'm walking" do my ears deceive me? Kai wants to go walking with me? li'l ol' me? I could kiss him- again. And I'll have to hold it in- again. Bummer. I'll have to do something soon; I won't be able to hold it in forever.

We walked towards a bus stop and the other got in yelling 'see you guys later'. And I smile and waved. I'm so happy!

Now Kai and me together, walking hand in hand, not literally. I think I'm trying hard not to skip.

"What's with the fuss?"

"huh?" I give intelligent replies don't I? And Kai has that tad impatient look he has when he's forced to repeat something.

"What was the whole bus deal about?" if I could only begin to tell you.

"I don't like buses" I replied.

"As in?"

"As in I don't like them. They are evil" that last part I did not intend to say. I looked at Kai slightly embarrassed, what's he going to make of that? Dear God he's smirking, he's amused. I amuse him. I'm nothing but a clown now, the depths I've sunk to. But anything to see that gorgeous smirk. See how quickly my thoughts contradict each other?

The rest of the walk passed in considerable silence, but not an uncomfortable one, I could never be uncomfortable around Kai, except when I'm wearing tight pants. Nothing quite eventful happened except I saw this cutest litter of kittens. There were really awwwww inspiring. Moving on the sudden yet slightly muffled noises reaching our ears told us that we had arrived at our destination. The annual carnival normally lasts for a few weeks and it is situated in a huge open ground. The entrance has been made to resemble a giant dragon head; we have to walk in through its mouth. It must have taken a hell lot of time and patience to do that, some people are just naturally jobless; I mean it won't even be there after the next couple of weeks, but I guess one must commend them for the imagination and hard work.

We bought our tickets and entered through the dragon's head. We didn't spot any of the others; they probably got here a long time before us. I'm not too upset. I have Kai. The first thing we come across are the various stalls selling things from bags to shoes, from accessories to clothes. Some of the stuff is pretty fascinating, oooh a cute tiger plushie! Act your age Ray Kon! I'm scolding myself? I'm so going nuts. Wow, some of these stalls are really good. Wait, what's that? I just spotted the most pretty yet cool looking chain for guys. It's a tiger's tooth on a fine chain, wow it's nice. I'm not that great shakes at descriptions but it's nice. I think I'll get it for myself. I looked at the sign saying 'fixed price'. I asked the man the value of the chain and he showed me its tag. That's pretty pricey but I think it's worth it, I'm definitely getting it for myself, but I don't have that much money on me now. Wait, this carnival's there for another few weeks right? By then I can collect my next paycheck from work. I'm so going to come back later to buy this.

I left the shop keeping it in mind to come back later. Kai was looking at some of the leather pants looking bored out of his gourd. I feel guilty he came here on my saying and I don't think there's anything here that he likes. All his clothes are designer or branded ones despite their simplicity I hardly think he'll find something here befitting his status.

"You are getting bored aren't you, sorry" I mumbled as we moved ahead. He didn't say anything, probably didn't even hear it.

"hn" he should really learn to expand his vocabulary, what am I supposed to make out of that 'hn'? I'll think about that later. Right now I've spotted a cotton candy stall, and if there is anything as good as that sticky wonderful sweet I can't think of it.

"Cotton candy?" I asked Kai grinning gleefully, you have no idea how much I enjoy that sticky treat.

Kai looked at me strangely; don't tell me he's never heard of cotton candy.

"Haven't you tried it before?" I asked aghast as he shook his head.

"In case you haven't noticed I'm not really the carnival going type" he says, but still!

"Wait here, I'll get some for us right now" I said and went to the stall. I paid the man and my eyes went round and round the machine as I watched him scoop the tiny wisps of pink cotton around the stick and hand me the two sticks of cotton candy.

"Here" I said giving Kai one stick as I started eating from mine. He looked at the strange pink fuzz with an expression that made me want to laugh.

"Go ahead its not poison"

"I know its not, it just reminds me of something… pink" he said and he looked at me while adding the last part. Was he indicating Mariah? Well that would explain the slight look of disgust, he never really liked Mariah and I can't blame him I really like her as my friend and I consider her as my little sister (she is of another opinion however) but she is too… pink. We walked some more till we reached a slightly deserted area, which separated the goods stalls from the food stalls and the rides. We stood under a deserted awning to enjoy our treat. Kai seemed to like it.

"It disappears" he commented almost childlike, I can't believe he never had something like this before.

"Yeah, it does that." I said finishing off all the cotton candy on my stick and throwing it into a nearby dustbin. Kai finished his as well and I noticed some of the pink wisps were stuck to the corner of his mouth. I pointed out to my own face to indicate that he had some stuck on his face. He tried to take it off but didn't quite get the spot considering he couldn't see his own face. I have no idea where I got the courage to do this but some insane urge possessed me to lean forward and put my hands on his chest as I licked the candy off his face, my tongue darting out and picking at the sticky pink fuzz with the tip of it only I had to put a little force to get the sticky treat fully off. It was for some strange reason sweeter despite being the same cotton candy. And now I'm mortified, Kai is staring at me. It isn't often that a friend of yours licks your face. I think I'm going to die, but what a sweet death that would be, at least my last moments were good.

"I hate wasting cotton candy" is that the best I could come up with? Gods he's so going to kill me.

"There you guys are!" saved by Tyson and his loud voice. I looked away from Kai and withdrew my hands suddenly realising that they were still on Kai's chest, God they felt good. I looked towards Tyson who is running –no- galloping towards us.

"Glad I found you guys there are some amazing rides and food stalls here, you gotta check em out and Michael's already won stuff for the girls. I mean he's got such a good arm, being a baseball player and everything, knocked all the cans down in one go…" Tyson grabbed my hand and dragged me off still rambling. I looked back once to see Kai following us his face as impassive as ever. Maybe that didn't mean anything to him at all. I don't know why I feel so bad thinking of that. I have to forget that, maybe Kai actually bought that 'I hate wasting cotton candy' bit; I mean I was acting like a complete addict to it.

"This is for you Ray" said Michael stuffing a tiger plushie into my hands, aww how cute. I beamed at him.

"Thanks Michael"

"No probs" he said grinning at me, "won some for everyone" he added waving a hand at the group, to see everyone apart from Bryan and Tyson holding different kinds of prizes. Grandpa wasn't to be seen.

"Tyson wouldn't want any prize unless it was a eat-all-you-can food coupon and Bryan would throw me along with the ball if I gave him one of those" he said pointing to assorted stuffed animals. The mental image of Bryan throwing Michael made me chuckle. Michael gave his trademark cocky grin as self congratulating for making me chuckle. He can be a pain at times but he's quite the charmer. I hope he's not serious about me though because he's getting himself into a no-entry if he is.

"Hey Ray, Michael get over here Grandpa's won us all ice creams" thus solved the mystery of the missing Grandpa. Apparently he was putting on a show just like he had when we had been to America for the first time to participate in the American tournament. One of the stall owners was impressed (for whatever earthly reason, possibly insanity) and decided to treat us all to ice cream.

Everyone was shouting for their favourite flavours. Mine is chocolate, the chocolatier (if that is a word) the better. Kai didn't say anything at first which resulted in grandpa coming over and slapping him on the back and speaking to him in his whatever language (definitely not a language belonging to planet earth). Kai kept his composure during all the rambling and back slapping but standing next to him I could swear I heard him mutter 'must respect elders, must respect elders.'

Soon we were all holding a cone of ice cream happily licking away (Grandpa finally having left Kai alone). Tyson was on his tenth cone wanting to try all the flavours and I'm sure the vendor is regretting his rash generosity. It is quite fun to watch his face actually, it started out with a nice healthy complexion and after Tyson's fifth cone started turning the same shade as his vanilla ice cream. Funny! Oops my preoccupation has resulted in my ice cream melting into my hands I'd better lick it off and huh-?

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My disorientation for a certain while was due to the fact that Kai just licked the ice cream off my hands. Kai just licked the ice cream off my hand? Kai just-? I should stop but Kai just licked the ice cream off my hand? I looked at him totally bewildered. I looked at the others too but nobody seems to have noticed anything especially since they were busy watching to see when the ice cream man would have a heart failure. But I don't care Kai just licked the ice cream off my hand!

"I hate wasting ice cream" he says licking his lips and smirking and I'm looking at him as if he just proclaimed that he was a martian. Wait a minute, is he kidding me? He just said- that's the same thing I said with the cotton candy more or less. Is he making fun of me?

"And I suggest you eat the rest before it melts" he says and walks off. Goddamnit that hurt! He was just making fun of me. I stare at my ice cream, it's not fair, was Kai making fun of me or wasn't he? I'm so confused. When confused taste the delicious goodness of chocolate I say, no sense in wasting it. Chocolate doesn't make you any less confused but it's tasty.

I got up from where I had been sitting and made my way towards the others but not before some person stamped my foot real hard and walked away without so much as an apology. I hissed in pain. What am I an ant? Can't he see where he's going the big stupid muscled moronic burden on the planet!

"Is that really a way to react Ray?" I looked around to see Tala approaching me a grin on his face.

"What do you mean?" I asked confused, I get confused a lot lately. Tala shook his head and sighed as if disappointed with me.

"Listen to me Ray" Tala said putting an arm around me as if he wanted to have a good long discussion, "what I'm saying is, I saw what happened there" oh my God does he mean with Kai?

"Look, that simply isn't the way you react when someone steps on your foot or suchlike" whew! He doesn't seem to know about me and Kai after all.

"What do you mean Tala?" I asked wondering what in the world he was leading up to.

Tala grinned; "you are so naïve kitty, you should learn to curse and swear" is that what this is all about?

"There are some very simple curses you can use for people like him and in various languages too. Ah, you must see Bryan when he's all riled up! Great guy, knows to swear in fifteen different languages"

"Seventeen actually," Bryan grunts, gah! Where the hell did he come from? The guy nearly gave me a stroke. He should warn people you know- and wait- he spoke! He actually spoke where's the confetti people and the trumpets?

"Our Bryan has finally spoken in public –sniff- I'm so happy!" Tala exclaims making Bryan scowl and leave disappearing just as fast as he had appeared, I'm telling ya that Russian is weird.

"Now where were we?" Tala asked in a business like tone, "ah yes, the importance of swearing, I think you know how to swear in English and Chinese but you should learn to be more verbal and I could teach you some Russian try Zhopa or Zalupa or try French Merde or Hindi Saale Kutte-"

"You know French and Hindi?" I asked surprised.

Tala looked incredulous, "I'm a cyborg Ray I could download Arabic for you if you wish. Okay now repeat after me" he said looking mock serious, "its not hard zho-pa repeat after me zho-pa."

I chuckled at this and he looked at me his face an expression of mock anger "now Ray, here I am teaching you things of utmost importance and you laugh, this is extremely important for future reference you know." This only made me laugh harder and he grinned.

"You are hopeless" he said throwing up his hands in surrender. I was about to comment on it when Tyson called us.

"Hey you guys taste this!" he said holding out something…something. What the hell is that? Please don't tell me it's edible.

"Go ahead try it" Tyson said waving it under my nose.

"Tyson I don't think I want to-" but I was cut off as he stuffed some in my mouth. Blech! that was so hot and awful. I think my mouth is on fire. I swallowed it with immense difficulty but regretted it instantly. The stuff burned my throat and I started coughing, tears filling my eyes.

"Tyson what was that?" I managed to gasp and then went into another coughing fit. Doesn't anybody have the courtesy to get me some water?

"Here drink this" Tala said holding out some water and looking concerned. The water made my mouth feel so much better but I think I'm going to be sick.

Tyson looks pretty upset, "I thought that was pretty good."

"You would find it pretty good, you don't care what the taste is like as long as its edible" I said angrily which caused everyone to stare. Oh come of it people! Like me getting angry is the biggest shock in the world, I'm human after all! But now I regret that as Tyson looks pretty upset I know he didn't mean that to happen.

"Sorry Ray" he mumbles and I find myself saying the perfunctory "it's okay". I can't be mad at him he didn't mean it but I don't feel so good now.

"Um how about we go on the rides now?" Max suggested as a tension reliever but that only made me feel worse. I had so wanted to sit on the rides and scream my lungs out to rid myself of unnecessary tension. I think that screaming on rides is very good and the people who do not scream are the ones who are really scared. But I don't think I can sit on any ride now, my stomach feels so bad I'm sure I'll hurl if I do and I don't intend to be sick in a carnival, Gods the mortification of it all.

"I'll pass guys," I said, "I think I'll go home I'm not feeling too good". They all looked at me concerned.

"Should I come with you?" Max asked, he's so sweet but I don't want to ruin his day.

"That's okay Maxie. I'll manage."

"I'm coming with you" I hear a voice close to my ear say making a pleasant shiver run up my spine-Kai!

"You don't have to" I said turning to look at him.

"I want to" he said simply and I swelled up within, "I didn't want to come here in the first place," and I deflated just as fast. He just wants to get away from here. He's doing it for himself not for me. That's pretty upsetting too but who cares as long as I get time to spend with him but mind you I'm still not feeling well. Hopefully Kai will prove as enough distraction from my churning tummy.

I wave at the others and we leave, I did not want to, yet I did. By now you must have realised I'm an extremely self contradicting person. I've got quirks too after all I am human. That is the second time I've said that today. Strange.

We were walking a little away from the carnival the noise of it muffled once again when my stomach gave a particularly nasty quease and I gave an involuntary groan. Gods what was that awful thing Tyson fed me?

"Are you all right?" Kai asked as we continued walking.

"Fine" I mumbled, biggest lie in the whole world I'm feeling anything but fine.

"We could take a bus we'll reach faster."

"No, no bus I'm fine" anything but that dreaded contraption. You are familiar with my history of it aren't you? Unfortunately Kai isn't. He stopped at the next bus stop and before I knew it dragged me into one of the buses before I even knew what was happening. The bus started just as we got in and thanks to the fact that Kai had a grip on me I didn't fall. There weren't any vacant seats -just my luck. I clutched at one of the posts willing myself that I wouldn't fall this time and trying not to puke all over the aisle. I looked at Kai and he was standing still leaning against the post his arms folded. How in the world does he manage to stay in an upright position in the swaying motion of the bus without using his hands for support? Swaying motion I should not think of that. Please stop soon.

To my luck it did and I got down after Kai and nothing happened. Miracles! I didn't fall off. That doesn't mean I'm any fonder of buses than before. They are still evil, I think being with Kai had something to do with my luck.

We got into the lift (elevator) and Kai pressed the number of the floor our apartment was in. I'm really feeling sick now; I think the bus ride had something to do with it. I have to hold on till we get in. I can't vomit here that'd be gross. My vision is starting to blur, I'm feeling so clammy. The lift (elevator) came to a halt. We got out and Kai got his keys out and the moment he opened the door I pushed past him quite roughly and ran inside my hand on my mouth and heading straight for the bathroom skidded to a halt next to the toilet and hurled.

You know something? that actually makes me feel better. At least whatever the crap that Tyson passed off as food is now down the drain (literally). I stood up shakily feeling the unpleasant taste lingering in my mouth. I felt another retch and bent over again but nothing happened. Now that's frustrating standing by the toilet wondering if it's safe to leave. I finally decided it was and flushed the toilet and went to the wash basin and splashed some cold water on my face. Now that really felt good. Still slightly shaky I made my way back to the living room and plonked down on the couch- The empty living room. Where was Kai? Oh my God did I push him too hard during my mad dash to the bathroom? What if he's mad at me? What's a glass with lime green liquid doing in front of my face?

"Drink it you'll feel better" says Kai. I stared at the glass.

"Lime juice" he said explanatorily. Awww he made it for me how sweet! And here people say he doesn't have a heart -I could shoot them. I took the glass and murmured a thank you while inside I was chaotic with jubilance. This has to show that he cares a teensy bit doesn't it? I don't care if you say he's doing it because we are "friends" please allow me my little fantasy.

Just then I noticed a small paper bag on the couch. I set down my glass still half full and looked at it curiously.

"Yours?" I asked Kai dumb question I know. He nodded. Did he get that at the carnival?

"What is it? Did you get it at the carnival?"

"A book and yes" was the answer I got.

"Can I see it?" he shrugged so I took it as a yes. I upturned the paper bag on my lap and a book fell out. That was it. I looked at the book it was just a notebook nothing great but it had a very handsome leather cover. What would Kai need a book for? I should really stop it with the dumb questions, it's obvious he'll write something in it, I wonder what though.

I caught my glass again deciding to finish the rest of my drink (it really helped ease my tummy) but I think I got too caught up in my musings because I took an unnecessarily large gulp and started choking. I coughed rather badly trying to get the irritating feel out of my throat. Immediately I felt a hand caressing my back. I momentarily forgot my bout of coughing as I turned to look Kai who was gently rubbing my back a look of concern on his face.

"You should really watch what you eat" he said a tad amused referring to that thing Tyson had shoved down my throat the cause for everything.

"Wasn't me it was Tyson" I mumbled watching his face turn into an expression which said 'I know what you mean', suddenly the world was perfect for me. The exhausting events of the day, the gentle motion of Kai's hands on my back. It was bliss and I found myself drifting off to sleep.

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I opened my eyes blearily feeling as though I just had the most wonderful sleep of my life. My forehead felt strangely tingly. I opened my eyes fully to see the table in eye level with me. That's strange. I noticed my feet and realised I was lying full length on the couch. That's stranger. I definitely fell asleep while I was sitting up. My head was resting on a slightly higher level than my feet. That's strangest. But gods it's comfortable. I shifted and turned my head to see the ceiling but I was met with a pale face with closed eyes and spiky hair. I shot up.

I was asleep on Kai's lap? For-I looked at the clock nearly five hours ever since noon! No wonder I had the most wonderful sleep of a lifetime. But Kai allowed me to sleep on his lap? Miracle of nature! I looked at him ready to spew apologies if necessary but he was still in the same position eyes closed. He was unmistakably asleep. He looks so.. so .. angelic. I know I just want to touch him. I cautiously extended my hand towards him –

Trrrrriiing

Okay now the phone is also officially on my shitlist. It's now in the same league as buses, mornings, alarm clocks, Mondays, cockroaches and frogs. Talk about bad timing. I grabbed the stupid device before the second ring so as to not wake up Kai. Maybe I could talk to whoever this goddamn person was as quickly as possible and then get to what I wanted to do.

"Hello?" I whispered, its really surprising Kai hasn't woken up. The reply I received was a string of Russian.

"Um hello?" I repeated cautiously.

"Kai?" the person asked, it was a female, I don't know why it made me tense.

"No" I said and received a string of Russian which sounded more or less like obscenities. Maybe she's Bryan's sister. They certainly share a liking for swearing.

"Then give it to him you moron" now that was so rude I utterly resent it, who does she think she is Kai's girlfriend? (let's hope that never happens).

"He isn't here" I snapped there was no way I was going to wake Kai up for this lady. This got me another string of curses. You know I'm really starting to believe in the 'she's Bryan's sister' bit.

"And who might you be?" she sked and I could almost feel a sneer.

"Ray Kon" I said starting to hate this bitch (Tala's going to be so proud of me) even though I didn't know her. She mumbled something once again in Russian then slammed the phone down without so much as a warning.

I turned around to see that Kai had woken up and was looking at me a tad sleepy aww so cute! I replaced the receiver slowly. That stupid girl had ruined my moment with Kai and I don't even know who she is.

"Who was that?" Kai asked.

"I dunno some Russian girl" I answered truthfully. He gave me steady gaze for a moment I couldn't make anything out of his expression – or lack of it. Then he got up and went to his room shutting the door behind him.

I looked at the closed door then back at the phone. What the hell was that all about?

Tbc…

A/N: Zhopa – asshole (I think most people know that since it's used in many fics)

Zalupa – dickhead (got it off a site so sorry if its wrong)

Merde – shit

Saale kutte – bloody bastard (I had the strangest desire to put in something in my national language:shrugs:)

The bus incidents happened to friends of mine, buses are a bane where I live. Everything else was my imagination, ain't it sweet?

Please review (I love each and every one of you who do, you guys are angels!) The response for the last chapter bummed me out a bit especially since so many have it on alert so please review because it inspires me to give a faster update.