Chapter 6-Trapped! part 1
Rain poured down the ashy streets, while cars drove by furiously, splashing the pavements and anything else in between. It was only seven thirty am in the morning, but the weather and atmosphere was dead. The sun was barely visible, while the crying wind only whistled through the trees. At this time, Jinora and her younger sister Ikki were walking their way to school. Ikki insisted on having her dad drive them, but couldn't convince Jinora otherwise. Besides her love of books, and her secret passion for dance, Jinora loved taking walks. Especially when it's raining. It sort of soothed her soul, and helped her to feel tranquil, which is why Jinora loved walking in the rain. ''Jinora hurry up! Were almost there and I don't want so stay in this rain for much longer'' Ikki complained to Jinora, shaking her orange umbrella in the air, ''If you want to go on fine. I'll rather take my time, so take the umbrella I'll put on my hood'' Jinora said while putting on her hood as Ikki took the umbrella running forward as she turned to say ''See you later'' leaving Jinora to wave.
Class was all blur for Jinora, she found herself not being able to focus as she found herself zoning out. Jinora kept banging the tip of her pen on her desk, while breathing and sighing heavily. She didn't know why but she couldn't concentrate at all. Time seemed to be slowing down and everything else between, making Jinora feel extremely uneasy. A few hours ago Jinora felt complete and whole, however now she just felt the opposite. As her teacher went on, Jinora found herself staring at the rain outside of the window. Her mind kept returning back to the night before, to her talk with Kai. 'Why did he ask me that? And why does he feel the same way?' were some amongst a thousand thoughts, Jinora kept regurgitating in her mind. All of these thoughts and feelings were not making anything better for Jinora, since she knew she had to meet Kai soon to hangout with him at lunch. And oh was she dreading it. ''If only I could walk outside in the rain.'' Jinora thought, staring at the rain pour down endlessly.
Ding! Ding! Ding! The bell echoed through the hollow classroom, making Jinora flinch automatically out of her daze. ''I guess it time'' Jinora mumbled slowly, finding some courage and altitude to stand up. Jinora started packing away her class books and notes into her bag, wishing class never ended. Kai on the other hand couldn't wait for class to end, since he had algebra that period, but also because he desperately wanted to get on with the plan. So much time had passed since Kai made the bet with Skoochy, and knowing he hadn't made any drastic development worried him. The 1000 yuans was too much to pass up, since Kai needs the money desperately for his own welfare. With this notion in mind, Kai new he had to try with his best efforts to convince Jinora to date him. Kai made it his mission to make it to the lunch hall as fast as he could. Walking dreadfully to the lunch hall, Jinora felt her heart beat out of her chest. It was like it was beating at 500 miles per an hour, like a race car dashing through a track field. Reaching her destination, Jinora took a deep breath to calm her nerves. Looking at the large red door before her, she made a mental note to herself which was to learn more about Kai. It was only fair that she tried to contribute to the friendship, since Kai was putting in his best efforts. And with closed eyes, and a deep breath, she went to push down the horizontal pillar connected to the red door, therefore opening it.
A beam of light flushed into Jinora's eyes, when she opened the door. Before she could close her eyes, the light blurred down into a vision of adolescents sitting down and eating. The lunch hall was full of loud voices roaring through the horizon, and utensils tapping and clicking against plates. For some odd reason 'Deja vu' occurred for Jinora, in terms of the first day of semester on the bus, as students were sitting in cliques. Normally with Opal, Jinora would get lunch and eat outside on the grass, but today was different as Jinora got to see first hand how eating in the lunch hall felt. Two steps were made before Jinora's eye locked on to a pair she knew. Kai's. He was already sitting down with his lunch waiting for Jinora to come. His eyes seemed to open up in awareness at the sight of her, giving Jinora a small smile. Despite her confusion, Jinora shot one small back to seem polite, making her way to the food selection. As a vegetarian, there wasn't much to offer on the lunch menu, so it was either a veggie burger with water cress salad, or rice with red beans mixed with a tomato based source. Placing a veggie burger and water cress salad on her lunch tray, and putting on the best smile she could, Jinora made her way to Kai's table and sat on the opposite side of him. His green eyes locked onto hers again, beaming at the sight of Jinora. How could someone like him, have eyes so full of life? ''Hey, I thought you wasn't going to show'' Kai slightly chucked, now taking a sip of cream soda. Jinora greeted Kai with a respectful nod and lowered her head towards her food, keeping eye contact from Kai ''Well neither did I to be honest'' ''Oh is that so?'' Kai said in deep thought while eyeing Jinora ''So…why did you come?''. With a deep breath Jinora turned her head up, and promised herself that she wouldn't let those eyes get the better of her, ''I don't really know. But what I do know is that I do want this friendship to work. I…kind of pegged you wrong when I first met you, and I'm sorry I did that…'' Jinora struggled to speak '' You know that is the nicest thing you've ever said. Oh and apology accepted.'' Kai said with true happiness, because Jinora was letting her guard down. And he couldn't deny that he wanted to know more about her. ''Ok now that's under the bridge, tell me something? Why are you eating a veggie burger? You vegetarian or something?'' ''I am actually, and judging from your lunch I guess your not.'' ''That's true but why are you one anyway? I can't go a day without eating meat, it's too tasty so I don't get how or why someone would choose to not eat meat.'' Kai as in a puzzled expression. For the rest of the time, Jinora and Kai were discussing vegetarianism, which lead them to discussing the concepts of life and spirituality.
''To me I believe that all live is sacred. Even a life of a tiny spider monkey caught in his own web is sacred.'' Jinora proudly while playing with her straw in her water bottle, ''You really believe in that stuff?'' ''Yeah I do, I mean we're living beings, we have life in us and that's the same for any other animal. So animals lives matter just as our lives matter.'', in this moment Kai couldn't anything but amazed at Jinora's words. She sounded so self assured, intelligent and spiritual at the same time. To Kai life was nothing but sacred, but he had never met anyone with different ideals and values than he had, and was interested to see how someone saw this crummy world in a positive light. If Jinora could see life as something positive, maybe Kai could. ''Wow! That's amazing Jinora'', Kai's eyes now locked onto Jinora's for the millionth time, but this time was different. It was like a electric shock passed through them both, which sort of created a weird tension. However the two seemed to be enjoying it, as they both continued to stare at each other warmly, not wanting it to end.
''Hey baby! How are you I've missed you'' cried out a voice, causing Kai and Jinora to snap out of their little trace. They both turned the heads up to the right side of the table to see a girl with long black hair, dark brown eyes and peach skin, who was wearing a leather black dress which was rather tight and revealing. The raven haired girl then flicked her long luscious hair, and put her hands on her hips waiting for Kai to reply. ''Ying?'' Kai practically whimpered now shaking his head in disbelief as her stared back to Jinora, who looked rather chilled. Ying now tapping her large dark cobalt boots onto the ground, was starting to get frustrated, as she was still waiting for Kai to make a proper response towards her. However Kai was just looking at her annoyed. ''Ying what do you want? Kai asked while waving his hands in question ''I wanna sit you with you. I haven't seen you in a while and I miss you.'' . Ying now eyed Kai suspiciously and looked straight at Jinora angrily. ''Your a new face'' Ying started off politely ''I'm sorry who are you? Kai who is she.'' Ying finished off sternly '' Jinora cleared her throat, stood up and put her hand out ''I''m Jinora and I am Kai's friend. It's nice to meet you.''. Although Jinora said this calmly, she couldn't hide the deadpan expression on her face. Who was this girl, and why is she so possessive over Kai? Ying had ruined Kai and Jinora's lunch and this made Jinora a bit unpleased. Having to get to hear Kai's view on a important topic, interested Jinora and she would be lying if she said she didn't want to hear more. It took a few seconds before Ying accepted Jinora's handshake, now giving Jinora a dirty look which made Jinora let go of Ying's hand. ''I'm Ying, I'm Kai's girlfriend.'', after hearing this Jinora instantly felt weird. If he had a girlfriend why did he try to make those advances on me before? Why do I even care if he has a girlfriend, Jinora thought. After Ying said this Kai automatically stood up from his seat, making his drink spill in the process. ''No! Jinora, this is Ying my friend.'' Kai corrected, making Ying a little upset ''Friend, boyfriend it's all the same. I'm feeling hungry, so I'm just going to sit and have lunch with you guys'', after saying this Ying sat next to Kai and put her arm around him, much to Kai's displeasure. Seeing as this made the situation more weird and uncomfortable Jinora decided to leave, ''Um Kai this lunch was great, and I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually had fun'' ''Really!?'' Kai now had a huge smile on his face, the ice queen was starting to melt a little and Kai couldn't deny that he felt happy she enjoyed his company, since he enjoyed hers. ''Yeah, but I better go now. Thanks for inviting me Kai. I'll see you later, and it was nice to meet you..Ying. Bye.'' Jinora said quickly as Kai waved while she left the scene. ''Kai why didn't you tell that girl we are dating?'' Ying asked impatiently, ''Because we're not'' Kai now got loose of Ying's grip, ''What about the other day? We slept together!'' ''I told you that we should just enjoy what we had, you know it's complicated right now Ying.'' Kai spat at Ying as she looked concerned ''Look I got to go, I'll see you later.'' ''FINE!'' Ying yelled walking away furiously while Kai sighed in disbelief.
There was only 15 mins left of lunch, and Jinora was now at her locker trying to get out her history books and notebook for her next class. Opal was out sick today and she promised her she would take extra notes for her, so she had to make sure she was prepared. At the corner of her eye, a familiar figure came out of the blue. Oh no, not her again. With those black leather clothes it couldn't be anyone different. However this time Ying had a bunch of friends. The girls look familiar to the girls that Jinora had an altercation with a couple of weeks ago, as they were drenched with Gucci, Prada and other named brand clothing. Ying and her posy had arrived at Jinora's locker, which caused things to heat up a little. ''Hey.'' Jinora stopped getting books out of her looker, took a deep sigh and turned to Ying, trying her best to not be angry. ''Hello. Excuse me may I help you?'' ''Oh don't play dumb with me.'' Ying yelled in a rude manner now getting a bit close to Jinora, while Jinora looked at her confused. ''Excuse me? I'm afraid I don't follow.'' ''Are you stupid? I know you like Kai, and I just want to tell you that we both have something going on. So stay back.'' Ying now flipped her hair again, which now making Jinora even more angry. '' Look I don't really know you, so you have no right to speak to me so disrespectfully. And whatever business you have between Kai, well that's between you and him. Not me! I have no feelings for him, Kai is just my friend.'' ''Oh whatever, just shut the hell up. I saw the way you two were looking at each other when I got there. Don't lie to me.'' Ying was now in Jinora's face, and Jinora's was now boiling in anger. A girl she barely knew was verbally attacking her over her friend. ''Your evading my personal space, could you please move back?'' while Jinora was distracted, one of the girls from Ying's posy stole Jinora's book held in her hand. Jinora only realised some seconds later, and tried to leave but Ying was still trying to argue. ''Where are you going? We're not done here, you need to back off Kai!'' Ying carried on yelling, but Jinora ignored her as she ran to get her book back from the girl who stole it.
''So Kai how is the plan going?'' Skoochy asked leaned against a blue locker while drinking out of a soda can. ''You know what, I think I'm making progress. Your advice worked.'' Kai replied. Kai was sitting on the floor, with his back leaning against the locker. ''She really opened up to me, and I even got a stare out of her. Did you know some people cherish life, and think it's sacred? Because Jinora does and that's sort of amazing and…'' Kai was cut off by the sight of a girl in fancy clothing running in at the end of the hall. The girl was followed by another girl with a simple white top, denim jeans, sneakers and a black panama hat. ''Panama hat….Panama hat? Jinora! Jinora?'' Kai instantly thought and blurted out as he got up, from the ground ''Hey did you see that Kai?'' Skoochy asked ''Yeah it looks like Jinora is in trouble, Skoochy I gotta go.'' Kai was already running off before he could finish, leaving Skoochy alone and confused. ''How did he know it was Jinora? I barely noticed. Is Kai into Jinora?'' Skoochy mumbled. The designer dress girl continued to run off, as she hit into other students. Jinora did the same while she desperately called out the girl. Kai was close behind and not so far away from the two like had been before, as he called out for Jinora. Jinora could hear her name but she decided to carry on chasing the girl. ''That voice sounds familiar'' Jinora thought while running, and finally stopped to see the girl throwing her book through the janitor's basement. Jinora quickly ran and stopped beside her ''What are you doing?'' she yelled and only got a laugh out of the girl. With no choice Jinora went in leaving the girl on her own. The fancy dressed student now moved from the janitor's basement, pulled a pink phone from her pocket and called Ying telling her plan to get Jinora locked in since the Janitor would be back to lock the basement before lunch ends. But to her dismay Kai had already seen Jinora going in there, and quickly ran in there too after without any thought.
The 15 mins of lunch were now over, and the janitor now looked the doors to the basement, leaving Kai and Jinora trapped!