Yin: And once again this chapter took forever... but without further to do...

Disclaimer in chapter one…..

One Love:

Last Time:

He paused for a moment to stare at Ginn's door; he knew she wouldn't forgive him anytime soon when she found out what he had done. He remembered he told her specifically that he wouldn't sleep with Hailey, and there was no way to keep it a secret, she would find out eventually.

He contemplated just going into her apartment right then and there and telling her the whole story and how sorry he was, but instead he simply shook his head in disgrace and stumbled drunkenly into the darkness of his own residence.

Chapter 11:

Ticking Toxin

It was still early morning when Kai's eyelids cracked open to gather in the sunlight shining through his bedroom window. It took him a few moments to remember where he was and what caused the pounding pain behind his eyes.

Flashes of Hailey's blond hair and naked skin ran through his memory with holes of darkness in between the images. He ran a hand through his tousled blue locks and pushed himself up from his bed with a heavy groan.

The need for a smoke outweighed his want to stay laying down nursing his hangover from all the tequila and vodka. He lazily pulled on a t-shirt and shorts, grabbed a forgotten pack of cigarettes from his dresser drawer and sluggishly made his way through the apartment to the wooden porch he shared with Ginn.

Normally he preferred the reefer to smoking cigarettes but after the night he had with Hailey he didn't think he could just waltz into Ginn's apartment and ask for weed. At least not without telling her about the party, and that was the last thing he wanted to do today, thus he was forced to stoop to smoke the nasty white sticks.

His fingers managed to pry a stick from the pack and while his other hand attempted to fish out a lighter in his pockets.

"Need this lover boy?" A male voice broke through the quite the morning seemed to provide in this particular part of the city, just a few cooing birds and the occasional car passing by. Kai turned to find Tala standing behind him shirtless holding out a lighter. Kai raised an eyebrow in amusement at the nickname, he wondered if Ginn said something about him to Tala.

"Thanks..." Kai said accepting the lighter and offering his pack of cigarette to the blue eyed male. Tala nodded in thanks and leant up against the wooden railing across from Kai, blocking his view of the tiny apartment parking-lot.

"So do you always hang out shirtless on her apartment porch in the early hours of the morning?" Kai asked in an almost accusing tone. He knew even if Tala and Ginn had something going on between them he had no right to say anything after the party last night.

Tala simply smiled at him with eyes that gave everything away, he didn't even have to say anything for Kai to understand what happened. A pain stabbed somewhere deep in Kai's heart, he simultaneously wanted to pat Tala on the back and punch him in the face. He quickly let the feeling pass over him as he took another long drag from his smoke.

"Do you always screw people the same day you meet them, and if so, what's the hold up on me huh? Not blond enough for you?" The red head said with little more than a playful joking in his tone as he sucked the harsh smoke from the cigarette; there was no malice in Tala's voice at all.

"I don't know what you're talking about… And will you get the idea of you and me out of your head already? You're giving me terrible metal images." Kai said as he exhaled deeply. He really knew exactly what Tala was talking about, but he had no idea how the guy could have found out so fast.

A mischievous glint sparkled in Tala's icy eyes, "Seriously? You don't know yet?" He questioned, his expression seemed to be growing more amused by the second. "It's all over Facebook(1), Hailey posted some nice pictures of you and her from last night… and by 'nice' I mean 'you lucky drunk slut.'" Tala's words took a few moments to sink in, the pounding in Kai's head intensified.

"Are you fucking kidding? I don't even remember that, she really took pictures of us? Fuck…Has Ginn seen them yet?" Kai's words came faster than Tala could follow; he took a few drags before answering.

"Hold up there Mr. Two Thousand and Two questions. She's not even awake yet, but there's really no way you can keep her from finding out for long. She doesn't have a page but by the time she gets to school, pretty much everyone that knows Hailey will know, and that pretty much means the whole campus population." Tala seemed less concerned about the predicament then Kai anticipated.

He felt a spark of hope crawling through him; maybe Ginn wouldn't hate him like he thought, and surely Tala would be more worried if she was going to be that upset, but then again Tala seemed to enjoy Kai's pain and suffering a bit more than anyone really should.

"So if she finds out what do you think she's going to do?" He asked in a calm voice, trying to sound less concerned then he actually was. He watched the red head suck on the smoke a little longer before he flicked the final ashes from the filter of the cigarette and put it out on the wooden rail beside him.

"Hey man, I'd just got back into my little abode and smoke till classes… There's no point in trying to tell her anything soon, she's going to be all 'Kill the world' with the hangover she's going to have when she wakes up. Not to mention, we'll have to deal with Kyle eventually." Tala said, he stretched his arms high over his head causing his toned chest muscles to bulge out more.

Kai couldn't help but be distracted for a split second as he admired the other man's physic. He ran his eyes down from the blood red hair to the curving contours of his calf muscles. He shook his head from his trance as he felt the heat from his own cigarette get too close to his fingers for comfort.

"That's right, I'd almost forgotten about him. Well my friend, it sounds like the two of us are pretty screwed in the Pink hair department." Kai said, "I'm going to go shower, I'll see you at school later?" The Russian said as he half waved to the redhead.

"Yea, later sexy…" Tala chuckled as he watched Kai retreat into the darkness of apartment 2B, "And don't think I didn't catch you looking at me just now, I could use a shower too you know…" He finished with a smile.

"You're not invited. Later Red." Kai smirked as he shut the door behind him and made his way to his bathroom. He still felt like he needed to wash away the hazy memories of the party that seemed as though it would haunt him all day.

He turned the shower on hot and shed his clothes haphazardly on the dingy tile floor around him. The bathroom had an old feel to it and was complete with puke-yellow colored fake tile and tiny bathtub/shower combo with a tiny sink attacked to the wall, a toilet and small medicine cabinet with a cracked mirror.

He stood naked with his hands supporting the majority of his weight on the sides of the small sink, he wanted to feel guilty for what he had done, but the guilt wouldn't seem to come. It wasn't as if Ginn and Tala didn't do exactly what he had done, but still he was scared that Ginn wouldn't be as forgiving as Tala was towards him.

The steam from the shower engulfed the room around him, causing trails of water and sweat beads to run rapid down Kai's exposed flesh. He rotated his aching shoulders and let the heat in the room caress his skin, until he felt a disturbingly cold breeze slice through the humidity in the small room.

"Fuck, don't tell me it's you, my headache was almost gone." Kai mumbled as he heard the hinges on the door creek open. He turned around, forgetting he was still nude, to come face to face with a pink haired, yellowed eyed and every red-faced demon that once resembled his next door neighbor.

Yin: Well guys and gals, hope you enjoyed it... the next chapter is already underway! Let me know what you think...