Tarot Tells All

CHAPTER 14

"Kayla!"

Kay opened one groggy eye at her brother, who was standing beside the hotel bed dressed and ready to go. Just as she had predicted, she and Ariel had stayed at the club until sunrise. During the night, Kay danced her heart's content on the back room dance floor as Ariel hopped around donors. They did meet up a few more times during the night, and then headed back to the Hotel just as the sun was beginning to rise.

"Kayla, are you awake yet?" Dave asked again.

"No…" She rolled over on the bed and pulled the covers over her head.

"Where did you go last night?" She could hear him messing around with his suit cases.

"At a club…" She replied in a melancholy tone.

"Who did you go with?"

"A girl."

"Did you have fun?"

"Yes."

"How did the car handle?"

"Like a dream…" She opened her eyes as she just realized that she was busted.

"I knew it!" Dave pulled the covers off his half naked sister and threw an ice bucket full of cold water and ice on her.

She screamed as the water shocked her body and froze her to the core, "What the fuck was that for?" She was awake now!

Dave handed her a towel as he glared at her with an angered look, "What the hell do you think? There's no more rubber left on my tires! There are peel marks all over the parking lot! Were you racing last night with MY car?"

"Not really…" Kayla got off the now soaked bed and walked into the bathroom of their hotel room.

"Kayla…" Dave walked over to the bedroom door, "…I've told you a hundred times not to race, and not to race around town in my car."

"Yeah well, I didn't have mine here, and the Viper begged me to drive it hard anyways." He could hear Kay say from the bathroom as the shower was turned on, "Why do you have so many nice cars and not drive them the way they should be driven!"

"Because they are an investment!" Dave answered back as he began to pack his sister's bags for her.

"Investment my ass! My Charger is worth more than your Viper and Porsche put together! It's a numbers matching car with the original factory paint! Now that's an investment!"

Dave laughed, "Not after you crash it!"

"I'm a very good driver and you know it!"

"If you're on the race track, Kay! There is no speed limit of two hundred miles an hour in city limits!"

"It's only wrong if you get caught! And if I do start to get chased by cops, it's nothing for me to teleport the car out of there."

"Kayla, I am more concerned about your life than the car, really. Do you realize how many unnecessary chances you take?"

The shower was shut off, a wet looking Kayla looked out from behind the bathroom door, "In or out of magic? I've lost count a long time ago."

"Both! Look at what you're dating!" That last comment reminded Kay of something very important she had to tell her brother.

She moved her head back and wrapped herself in a house coat, the look on her face was quite serious when she came out, "Dave? I have to tell you something…"

Dave didn't like that look on her face, "What now?"

She sat on his bed since hers was still drenched, "Ok, don't fly off the handle like dad would…"

Dave placed his hands on his hips, "What did the Undertaker do now?"

"Nothing, why do you have to assume he did anything?"

"Because he's the Undertaker!" Dave tried to smile, truth be told, he would rather see the Deadman far from his little sister.

"I'm just going to spill it out. I'm moving in with Mark." There, she finally said it, it wasn't so bad…was it?

"You're what?!?" Dave starred at her with eyes wide open in shock, "You're moving in with him? When?" Why?"

Kay sighed, "Yes, I am moving in with him, I've already moved everything from the Manor there, and because I love him. What else do you want to know?"

"What the fuck are you thinking?" Dave exploded, "I know for a fact that Kane still lives with him! You remember Kane? The guy who killed our parents?"

"I'm not a retard, Dave, I know what Kane did. But Mark is NOT Kane and he would never hurt me! Why can't you just get that through your thick skull?" Kay replied as she looked threw her newly packed bags for some clothes.

"He's Death, Kay. I have a big problem with you dating Death, and now you're going to move in with him and his sick mental brother who is a killer! Tell me if that sounds normal?"

"Ah..." Kay grinned at her brother, "…but normal is not me! I'm a witch, remember? What's normal about that?"

"I still don't trust him, Kay."

Kay threw her bag on the ground and spun around to face her brother with a look of anger on her face this time, "When? When are you going to stop telling me you don't trust him, or he's bad for me and anything else you can tell me that's wrong with him?"

Dave never liked her angry, "Kay I…"

"Kay nothing!" she shouted at him, "It's been way over a year and a half now since I've met Mark and I've still yet to see any harm befall me from his hands. And I am fully aware that Kane lives with him, he and I have come to some sort of peaceful co-habitation. I am sick and tired of hearing this crap from you! Give me shit for driving the shit out of your car, give me shit for leaving all the lights on in the house! Hey, give me shit for not putting the little stupid cap back on the toothpaste tube, that's fine…but knock it off with Mark. He's going to be a member of this family weather you like it or not!"

"I'm sorry Kay, I'm just having a hard time dealing with all of this." Dave sat on his bed and looked up at her with a pitiful puppy dog look.

It always melted her heart, she sat down beside him and gabbed his hands into hers, "Dave, I know you feel you should keep on protecting me from the cruel world, but think about it with a different view. Who would be stupid enough to fuck with Death's girlfriend?"

"Dating the Undertaker is not a free get out of jail card, Kay." Dave grinned back at her.

"I know, and I try not to use him like that, it just happens like that. But Mark really loves me, let him protect me now. Please cool it with him, I would love it if all the men I loved could get along."

"There's only two men you love…right?"

She laid her head on his shoulders, "Of course there's only two, Mark and Reaper!"

"Why you!" Dave dropped the empty ice bucket on Kay's head as he laughed, she let the bucket drop off her head and leaned her head back on his shoulder.

"I love you Dave."

"I love you too, Kay."

To be continued.