Me: I almost never want to go to on another FBLA trip again.

Karson27: Yeah. Bad things happen for you.

Me: And if I NEVER hear a fire alarm again, it'll be too soon.

Karson27: Amen.

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"You!." Marx shouted barging into Tailyr's room.

"Shut Up! You idiot she's sleeping!"

"Because of you and I nearly died today and I'm way too handsome to die. Ever."

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I said rolling my eyes.

"Oh! I know what you did!"

I smirked devlishly and ignored him. Marx made a face but he knew I was victorious. He also knew that I'd fooled him with the hooker thing. He'd try to get me back later but that wouldn't work because I was just too smart for him.

-Marx-

Karsyn left to go do whatever, which left me alone with my sister. She was awake, sort of. She really wasn't ever there completely, like she had been the first day we'd come back from America. She was mostly out of it or coughing like crazy.

"So, what have you guys been doing without me?" she asked.

"Suffering in delusional pain and nightmarish agony while taking on our frustrations out on the world around us," I said.

"Karsyn told you to say that, didn't she?"

"Why yes. Yes she did and I practiced every night since she told me to."

Tailyr laughed and started hacking. I quickly got the bed pan to catch the blood. She looked so miserable, not that I blamed her. I almost wondered if she knew that she was dying but then I thought, how could she not know?

If she didn't, I wasn't going to be the one to tell her.

-Kyoya-

Karsyn pushed the door of my office open. She wore a slightly irritated look but there was another emotion mixed it there that I couldn't quite identify.

"C-Can I help you?" I croaked, suddenly feeling very hot. I knew that I was about to get a chewing worse than I'd ever gotten in my entire life. That scared me because I knew that I deserved it.

"You're an ass," she stated simply.

"I know."

"And you're like half the reason I left."

"I know."

She cleared the space between us very quickly. The next thing I knew, my cheek was burning and stinging. I barely managed to keep my glasses on. She's smacked me. She'd really smacked me. It was like the Ouran festival all over again except this was much worse than my father smacking me. There weren't tons of people around to see it but it was still embarrassing.

But this was more than just embarrassing. It hurt. Emotionally. Physically. In every way possible that smack hurt. I could feel it puffing a little. She'd hit me hard. She was that angry.

"Kyoya Ootori!" she snarled. "HOW DARE YOU? Why didn't you tell me? Why'd you keep making excuses for everything? Why didn't you just tell me what was wrong?"

"Wh-What?" I stammered. "What are you talking about?"

"Your family!" she yelled. "Why did you make me think that it was just because you were embarrassed by me?"

"B-Because-"

"And why did you act like such a snot? I mean, I know you have money but when we got back you were a totally different person!" she continued not giving me time to explain my actions. I had a feeling she didn't want an explanation. I knew she just needed to yell. "You didn't tell people we were together! You acted like you didn't even like me at all anymore!"

"I-"

"I'm not done!"

I hung my head.

"Don't you think I would've understood your situation? Even just a little? I mean, look at who my friends are!"

"I-"

"Shut up. You are not to speak until I give you permission!"

"What do you want from me, Karsyn?" I demanded. "What? Please explain it to me because frankly, I can't figure it out!"

"I want you to be the Kyoya I knew back in America!" she said. "I don't want you to be embarrassed by me! I don't want to have to find out from everyone else about you! I want you to tell people that you have a girlfriend!"

"I am that Kyoya! They're the same person!"

"No they're not! The Kyoya I knew didn't care what other people thought. HE didn't care what people thought of him! He was happy to have me around and supported me no matter what I did! Where did that guy go?"

"I didn't have to impress people there," I shouted. "They were all simpletons!"

She glared at me and I realized what I said.

"That's not how I meant that to come out," I said stiffly.

"Really," she said crossing her arms in front of her. "Then how did you mean it?"

I almost gave up on life right then. I was an idiot and I never learned. How many times was I going to fail with her before she just stopped giving me chances? "I mean … When I was in America … I was happy. I didn't have to impress them there because they didn't have anything to do with my future really. I have to make an impression here. I have to be this … this person because I have to make my own future. It's not getting handed to me like it is for everyone else."

She took it into consideration. "Tailyr … she told me somethings," she said. "She told me about meeting your family. She said that if you had let me meet them and she found out … she would've messed you up. I … guess that gives you some merit …"

"What did Tailyr-sempai tell you?" I asked cautiously.

Karsyn looked at me like I should've already known. I didn't know how much detail that she'd been given. "She just said that it wasn't pleasant."

"My family isn't like yours Karsyn. They're more like Tailyr-sempai's. It's not AS bad but … not very good. I wish she hadn't met them. I didn't want you to meet them because I didn't want them to say bad things about you. I didn't want them to make you feel anything less than perfect …"

She didn't say anything. I started to pace.

"I mean … I don't know what else to say … You mean a lot to me and I … I don't want you to have to be around my family … They're tear you to pieces and I don't want you to go through that."

"You know how bad I want to hit you?" she yelled. "Again? You know how hard it is to be mad at you when you had good intentions for once?"

I chuckled a little. "Most people would be insulted by that," I said, smiling despite myself.

She snorted tearfully and looks at me. "I really did try to hate you," she said. "Really I did."

I rubbed the back of my head. "I hated me. Everyone else hated me. I don't know why it was so hard for you to hate me."

She sighed. "I guess part of me wanted to believe that you weren't doing this just to be an ass. Part of me still wanted to think that you were a good guy for some reason."

I looked away. "I'll do anything," I told her painfully. "Anything you want. I'll shoot the moon down. I'll get on my knees and beg and broadcast it for all of Japan to see … just … stay. You don't even have to start dating me again. I just … I don't want you to leave …"

She eyed me seriously. I could see her studying me through my bangs. I didn't know what was going to happen and my heart started beating painfully against the inside of my ribs. It felt like it was going to pound it's way out of my chest and run off. I hated the anticipation.

"I'll stay," she said after a long silent moment.

I looked at her, trying to keep my face serious. Karsyn stepped closer to me. My face heated up and I vaguely wondered if she was going to hit me again. She didn't. She stretched up on her toes and kissed my cheek.

For a moment, my entire brain shut down but it fired right back up and I kissed her again.

She pulled away and looked at me seriously. "This is only conditional to your behavior," she warned. "You understand?"

"Yes ma'am."

"Good." With that she left.

I sighed and sat back down. What a life.

Well … this took a lot longer than I expected. For that, I apologize. I am truly sorry. Sighs. NO FIRE ALARMS! spazzes. It's so dreary lately.