Emerald dusk eyes filled with gloom and sorrow met brown ones evenly matched, and the tension in that particular area of the library stiffened up in a matter of minutes. Neither Kai nor Jinora could find in themselves to talk, as they continued to stare each other down. Jinora's heart started to beat faster in reaction to the evident tension; she knew Kai was here to talk about what happened. She knew he was there out of guilt and pity for dating her for yuans, and this made Jinora heart sink down to the deepest depts. of her stomach. Jinora couldn't dare to talk or address the elephant in the room, and she just didn't have the strength in her to walk away from him, therefore she decided to read her book as a last resort. Her mind told her to ignore Kai, even if her heart was screaming against it, making her at conflict with herself.
''J-Jinora.'' Kai cried breathlessly as he opened his arms out in plea, ''Jinora...Jinora please talk to me.'' Kai's voice wavered as he began to walk slowly forward towards Jinora, but she just held her book up close to her face and curled up her legs protectively. Jinora hoped and prayed that Kai would just go away; she just couldn't take it seeing him like this. Jinora hadn't seen Kai or talked to him in weeks, and seeing him again just strikes flashbacks of all the tragic events that happened at the party. Even though Jinora didn't budge Kai wasn't going to give up without a fight, so he kneeled down right next to Jinora and stared hard at her, but Jinora just sat there completely motionless with her book to her face. Running out of patience Kai slowly but swiftly, held Jinora's wrist down to remove the book frame from her face, therefore revealing a face on the brink of tears.
Jinora, his best friend and the girl stole his heart was crying, her eyes rimed with red blotches that leaked out water all the way to the ends of her face. And this was all because of him; he was the reason why Jinora was acting this way. It was almost like Jinora was shutting off herself from the world again, Kai could see the ice queen resurfacing onto Jinora out for fear, and this did nothing but kill him deep inside. Kai worked damn hard to get Jinora to open up to him, and to see her forcefully putting up a force-filed around herself tore him apart. If it wasn't for Jinora tearing up in front of him, Kai might have lost it right there and then, but Kai just automatically grabbed Jinora into a tight hug, and cradled her softly in his arms.
It was 7 o'clock in the afternoon, as the sun began to set in the horizon the luminous orange in the clouds began to fade into purple. Kai and Jinora were at the abandoned park (Kai's hideout) alone, as they sat on a wooden bench with some space created between them. After comforting Jinora, Kai begged/pleaded with her to meet him after school at the park to discuss everything, and she reluctantly agreed to it (which Kai was thankful to God for). Kai had pleaded his case to Jinora hoping she'd understand how he truly felt, and now he had no choice but to patiently wait for Jinora's response. Kai could barely read Jinora, her face had no emotion and looked lifeless to him, which made him wonder how much he'd hurt Jinora. ''I...I don't know what to say'' Jinora whispered out almost inaudible, as he eyes looked downwards towards her shoes, ''Say anything. Do anything. Just...tell me how you feel, tell me the honest truth. You have every right to be mad at me for what I did by doing that plan.'' Kai replied back softly causing Jinora eyes to sting with pain.
That word, hearing say the word 'plan' instantly took Jinora back to that moment. She remembered the fire that built up inside her, the fire that engulfed her stomach, and the thought of Kai being behind all this led her to unleash her emotions right there and then. Although a side of Jinora felt this way, she just couldn't push away those feelings for Kai, and a part of her just couldn't be mad at Kai. ''You want me to say how I feel'' Jinora said sternly and she stood up from the bench to look Kai in the eye, ''Ok I will. Do you have any idea how I am feeling right now? I barely slept through half term break, because I've been thinking about YOU!'' Jinora yelled causing Kai to stand up in arms of a plea, ''Jinora I...'' Kai started ''DON'T INTERUPT ME KAI!'' Jinora cut in as Kai stopped ''you wanted me to say how I feel, to say the honest truth'' Jinora said mockingly ''so I will. You expect me to just forgive you, when you know that I have trust issues? Really? You knew all that and you had the chance to tell me about you're plan, but you didn't. I had to find out from that Ying, or whatever her name is. And you failed to tell me that you had something with her, and you'd still pursued me?'', ''Wait me and Ying'' Kai broke in again only to see Jinora glaring the crap out of him, so he quickly shut up and took a deep breath. Jinora started to walk closer to Kai to finish off her point, ''It's not only me that was hurt Ikki is too. Ikki really liked Skoochy, and now she's just been avoiding him like the pledge. She felt awful and guilty about all of this, when truthfully it was your entire fault.'' Jinora finished hardly as she stared Kai down.
Emerald eyes met dusk brown ones and neither of them talked, as tension rose up in the air. Jinora broke eye contact as she felt her angry demeanour slip away ''I...It just hurt to know that someone who finally understands me, who likes me for me, was set up to do so for Yuans? I really like you Kai but I...I don't know if I can trust you'' Jinora whispered tearfully. Hearing this made Kai fell depressed. He had hurt Jinora, and now he has lost her trust. Jinora's trust meant everything to Kai, and to top it off he officially knew that she liked him. He had really screwed up big time, but he knew he had to fight for her; Jinora was too precious to lose. Acting on train of thought, Kai slowly grabbed Jinora's hands, looked her in the eyes and went on to state one last plea. ''Jinora I know that I've broken you're trust, and I am SO sorry for doing that. Yes I originally went in with the plan of getting Yuans, but I don't want that anymore. I want to have you're trust; I want to make you happy again. I want you Jinora, only you''. Hearing this made Jinora's heart skip faster as she looked at Kai with open eyes breathlessly.
''I will do whatever it takes to fix all of this. To amend Ikki and Skoochy's relationship, to get Ikki to not feel any remorse over something she is not a fault at. And most importantly I promise to get back you're trust, because that means everything to me.'' Kai finished off sternly and emotionally as he let go off Jinora's hands, leaving her to make a decision. ''F..Fine'' Jinora stuttered with a blush of red hinted on her cheeks, as she turned away and quickly walked out of the park leaving Kai alone.
Although things were still bad between Kai and Jinora, he now had a glimpse of hope and he now knew what he had to do.
He had to achieve his promise; he had to get Jinora's trust back and made her happy.
