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Steer Life
Chapter 2
The rest of the journey to the Hiwatari mansion was uneventful.
Kai looked out the tainted window as the great house came into view. It looked exactly the same. Not a blade of grass was different.
The limo swiftly rode up the long winding driveway of the great house until stopping in front of it.
Kai opened the car door himself, not bothering to wait for the driver to open it for him.
His hands in his pockets, Kai walked up the steep steps of the house and towards the door.
Once there, he knocked on the hard wood three times.
He didn't have to wait long for someone to come. The waiting came when the door was being opened. The door was huge and stiff and a pain to open and shut. Kai had told his Grandfather many times to change it, but for some reason the old goat refused to change any part of his house unless it was absolutely necessary.
Finally, the door finished its movement and in the doorway stood a pale house maid. She had long blonde hair with a few strands of grey visible and her eyes were watery blue. She seemed to be in her mid-forties.
As soon as the maid saw who had knocked, her face widened into a delighted smile.
"Master Kai!" she cried happily, her hair waving from side to side in her excitement.
"Hi, Selena" Kai greeted.
Out of all the people that worked at the mansion, Selena was the only one that treated Kai like a human.
Since Kai was a small boy, it was Selena that took care of him. She was even there when Kai went to Balcov Abbey. She was also the one that helped him when his Grandfather was angry and healed his wounds when he needed the help. Right from the moment she met Kai, Selena had treated him like the son she never had and Kai was very grateful to her.
"It's wonderful to see you again, child" She said warmly, moving to the side so Kai could walk in, "How was the Championships?"
Inside Kai's mind, he was telling her about everything that happened at the tournament, but his cold mask kept the words locked inside his mind. All he managed was a "Fine"
Selena smiled again, she was too used to Kai's anti-social behaviour to mind his lack of info.
"Well, I'm glad it was fine, even though that doesn't tell me squat."
Kai let an apologetic glance appear on his face before covering it up again, but it didn't matter, Selena got the message.
"Will you be heading up to your room, young one ?" Selena was the only one in the house besides Voltaire that got away with calling him anything but 'Kai' or 'Master Kai'.
Kai gently nodded his head before asking, "Is my Gran-… is Voltaire here?" For some reason, Kai found he couldn't stand to call that man his own flesh and blood.
A look of pure hatred appeared on the kind lady's face, "Luckily enough, no. He is off on a special trip and wont be back until 10.00 tonight. Special trip my ass." she added under her breath, but Kai caught it.
Kai knew fully well that Selena hated Voltaire and Voltaire hated her. Kai was the only reason why she stayed at the Hiwatari mansion, if it weren't for him, Selena would have left the day she came.
"Would you like something to eat, young one?" She asked as happily as if they had never brought up Voltaire at all.
"Not right now, I'm gonna take my stuff upstairs." Kai answered, indicating to the rucksack on his back.
"Very well, call me if you wish for anything"
Kai nodded to her once before walking towards the massive stairs and making his accent.
He looked behind him for a few seconds and watched as Selena's form disappeared into the kitchen. A small smile appeared on his face, knowing that Selena had gone to get him some food despite his answer to her question.
Kai had to go up three flights of stairs before reaching his floor. The mansion truly was huge. There was a built in elevator but Kai would never use it, ever. The only elevators he would go in were ones with transparent sides. Selena was the only other person that knew that Kai was extremely claustrophobic. Kai shivered involuntary as he remembered just why he hated enclosed and dark spaces so much.
It all came from the hundreds of times Voltaire locked him in the tiny cellar at the back of the house. Kai hated it there and Voltaire knew it.
Every time Kai was in trouble and Voltaire couldn't be bothered to punish him himself, he would just throw Kai in there and only come back when Kai was screamed to be let out again. Some times his pleas were ignored and he was left in there for hours.
Kai's miserable memories stopped as he reached his room.
He pulled out his key and opened the door. He always kept the door locked when he wasn't around. The only other key belonged to Selena. She was the only one in the house besides himself allowed in his room.
Kai's room was the biggest bedroom in the house. But he had nearly nothing in it. The only reason it was big was because of his phobia and it gave him great comfort to go back to it after being in the cellar.
He look ed around his black and silver coloured room. Selena had kept it the same for him. Kai's massive room held a king-sized bed in the centre a computer on the one side and a drawer/wardrobe on the opposite wall. Next to the drawer was the door leading to the also-very-big bathroom.
Kai walked in and dumped his rucksack on the ground and flopped onto the bed.
He sighed in content from the softness of his giant bed.
Selena and his large bedroom were probably the only reasons why Kai could stand living at this house for even a second. He was very grateful to both.
Kai sighed one last time before he fell into a pleasant nap.
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