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Chapter 20

It was pretty late and so when Kai had actually reached the hospital he had been asked to leave several times by different people. He had agreed to leave, but just went in a different direction to get to Lilita's room. He didn't care if he was going to cause stress to the girl he just wanted some solid, truthful answers. Kai didn't bother to knock as he managed to slip inside without any of the nurses looking up from their paperwork.

"Kai?" Lilita was surprised that Kai had actually managed to get inside without causing such a fuss, however there was something about him that made her slightly anxious. He hadn't turned around to look at her, he was just standing near the door, looking out the near-by window as if he were looking for something else.

"Are you okay?" Kai had sounded so angry on the phone and then the sudden decision to come here... Lilita watched Kai as he slowly pulled the curtains over and grabbed a nearby by chair and shoved it at an angle – wedging the door closed. It wasn't something that she has ever happening and so was worried at why Kai needed the door locked and the windows obstructed.

"What's wrong...?" Kai couldn't help but wonder if he was over-reacting, maybe there was a good explanation for this? He doubted it, however he couldn't get over the way that Lilita was speaking to him - she was quite an actress – since they weren't really friends. With that thought in mind he glared at the door, hoping that no nurses or doctors wanted to check on her.

Kai didn't come anywhere near her, which was odd – usually he would at least acknowledge her with a slight nod or even a glance right now he was just standing there near the bottom of the bed. She caught a glimpse of something in his hand from what it looked like it was a few pieces of paper. He finally 

looked at her and Lilita regretted the thought of wanting him to: he wasn't glaring madly but the look on his face was definitely one of irritation.

"You're kind of scaring me, come here." She forced a smile and waved Kai over trying to get him a little closer so she could inspect his expressions and find out what really Kai was feeling instead of trying to block his emotions out, not as if that was something he never did.

Kai complied with what Lilita had asked, although he kept the same expression even though he felt a little...nervous about what would happen. Would Lilita just laugh and tell him it was just a private joke or would she point and him and accuse him of being an inconsiderate moron? "What's wrong?" She tilted her head trying to see Kai's face a little better it must have been raining outside since some strands of hair had stuck to his face.

"You both lied." Lilita blinked at the reply. What had she lied about? She mentally went through everything that had happened in the past few days and if she hadn't told the truth about it. She frowned when she couldn't think of what Kai was talking about.

"Who did?" Maybe it was someone else he was talking about? Surely he had just heard a fragment of something petty and had jumped to the wrong conclusion...still that didn't sound like Kai, he never really jumped at any conclusion until he was certain.

"You and Selene..." Kai saw Lilita frown for a minute until she too ended up blank of emotion before forcing yet another smile. Lilita had thought of something but she obviously had dismissed it believing that Kai couldn't know about whatever it was.

"What did we lie about?" She was still smiling at him and he couldn't help but release some anger at her as she kept looking at him as if she really cared: she didn't she got paid to care, she was just doing her job.

"Don't speak to me as if I'm a little kid!" He hadn't meant to raise his voice so much, so much that made Lilita flinch and stare up at him stunned. She had been in multiple arguments, even with Kai but it was the way he had so easily dismissed what she had said like it was somehow belittling.

"I'm sure it's just a big misunderstanding... And even if we did lie about whatever, I'm sure they'd be a good reason for it." She wasn't someone who would take the time to lie to everyone's face. She wasn't good at lying and so having to lie every day must have been hard for her, or so Kai thought.

"I'd like to believe that." He muttered under his breath, Lilita was a little concerned at the fact that Kai had locked the door. What was this all about, and what was in his hand? He was meant to have been at the police station so how could he get something like that?

Trying to ease the tension that had begun to build in the room, "How exactly did you get in here? It's not even visiting hours, if they find you in here they'll--." However Kai didn't want Lilita to agree to what was in his hand, in fact he hoped it was a joke so he didn't have to hate her – or Selene.

"--Shut up." Kai was now glaring fiercely at Lilita, the grip on the document got tighter and all Kai could keep thinking about was to leave quickly, he could always just through the damn files at her and storm off and not speak to her or Selene again.

"I don't even know why I'm so angry but..." Kai wanted to believe that he was just having a terrible dream, a nightmare that was going on and on never letting him wake up from its cruel grasp. "I hate you." He didn't catch the hurt that spread across Lilita's face before it turned into bewilderment.

Maybe her voice had decided to fail her as she managed to utter a confused reply."What?" She didn't know why Kai was so angry, so she and Selene had done or said something that wasn't exactly truthful? But even so, usually Kai could shake little things off, but he looked really, truly, livid at whatever she had meant to have done.

"When were you told to befriend me?" The words registered, Kai knew that Lilita knew what he was talking about as she opened her mouth to say something and her eyes widened. "Or rather how much did you get paid over the years?" Kai hissed, he felt so angry he wanted to hit something why had she agreed to do something so heartless, did she do this for a living?

They were both silent as Lilita looked away from Kai not too sure what she should say. She had thought that he wouldn't ever find out about the whole arrangement which was why she continued to speak to him even when she admitted to actually liking the boy.

He didn't want to believe it but he had no choice to – what he had read was true and accurate, how Lilita was acting was pretty much how he had expected her to react. He threw the file to her, it landed on the bed and she slowly picked it up dreading what was inside.

"Kai, this..." She saw her signature, she saw the agreement in which she had signed. Although how on earth did Kai get a hold of these? Only three people were supposed to know about it, even Enya made sure that Voltaire wouldn't be able to lay eyes on these.

"You're mother was worried, she just wanted us to...keep an eye on you." It wasn't as if Enya was forcing them both on him, they were to just mainly observe and make sure he at least had a friend in any kind of situation. Kai didn't think of it like that: all he had believed it was, was a joke, a humiliating joke to have two people be friends when really they weren't.

"Why should I believe you?" Kai hissed at the girl wondering if this was all what it was. Yet if his mother had done this to keep an eye on him why had he paid them? Couldn't she just ask someone or did everything that involved him and his safety involve money? "Apparently you got 'paid' to keep being my friend." How did he know she wasn't lying now? How did he know this wasn't part of some other arrangement that she had made?

"It was the only way...to convince our parents. Well my parents, for me to keep going to a country they had no idea about." It was something that her parents loved more than anything else, and she was sure that they liked not having to work as hard as she got more than several thousand through the mail every few weeks or so.

"You think that makes me feel any better?" Kai shook his head and rubbed the bridge of his nose trying to make himself calm down, this would be all okay if she had just told him personally instead of his enemies the actual people that wanted him dead to tell him about something like this.

Kai began to mutter to himself he had wondered why Selene had bothered to even stay in the same household, "Anyone else, if I'd strangled them they wouldn't even speak to me - no wonder you and Selene stayed." Any girl should have been intimidated by such an act of violence, they should have turned their tail and fled as quickly as possible. No wonder they had stayed there was money in it for them.

"What would you have liked to have happened?" Lilita had at one point been worried about what would happen if Kai had found out. She had thought about speaking to him but when she had said she would Selene went mental and she decided to not speak of it again. Who would have known that Kai would have found this skeleton in the closet? "I couldn't just walk up to you and tell you that I was being paid to be in the same country or town as you."

"I'd have preferred having you tell me face to face than..." Kai stopped himself from saying where he had got the documents from. If anyone knew that he had actually spoke to those killers he would no doubt look even more guilty in the media's eyes.

"Kai? Where did you get this?" She had stopped looking over all the information, which she already knew, and had looked up again to watch Kai. Yet he did seem able to hear her question as he continued to glare and rant about how much he hated her. She sat there unable to speak for a while as Kai ended up losing some of his temper she managed to utter out a few words.

"Kai. Please, where did you get this?" She was worried about how Kai had gained this information, worried because it wasn't something that Enya or Selene would have discussed not unless someone had over heard them discussing it?

"Kai what's wrong with you?" She muttered to herself trying to think about what had happened to the boy, he was being cruel for the sheer sake of it. He was stressing her out and was also making himself more and more frustrated as he asked questions.

"You're different..." She had to admit that he was acting very strange since he would usually have a conversation if he needed to and would stay quiet if not. Now he had changed into some angry, diluted boy who just didn't know what to think. "You know if the police--" Kai silenced Lilita again.

"You think I care?" Kai snapped he wasn't sure what he would do after this little meeting was over since he had disappeared from the police station he'd probably have to answer even more questions and seeing as the dojo was probably a crime scene then he couldn't go back there.

"If you don't at least tell them then they'll think--." Kai didn't care about anything at this point in time, he was sure that this was a ploy by those killers to make him go and jump off a bridge or at least do some harm to himself but he in spite of that he really didn't care of his life ended.

"They can think what they want: they don't need to worry about me." Lilita hated anything related to death or even sadness, she didn't like being around people who were sad since she would be so easily affected herself. She couldn't handle Kai going on and on about he didn't care about himself or how other people didn't matter to him.

Her curiosity was growing too quickly and being ignored so obviously was infuriating. "Kai! Where the hell did you get this!" He must have got it from someone else, but who was there that knew about this – Selene wouldn't have told him and that only left someone who could have witnessed the signing.

"What right do you have to be angry?" The other teenager yelled back, silencing the girl once again. He didn't understand why this was tearing him apart so much. He'd had friends betray him before, he'd betrayed them too so why was this cutting so deeply? "I just found out that two 'friends' are being paid to even speak to me!"

"Stop it! It's not as if we did it to spite you!" What did he want her to say? He had found out and she had admitted it, "We didn't know you! For all we knew we could have been asked to befriend a complete bastard that was all the money was for!" Although Kai didn't seem to happy with her outburst and ended up yelling back.

"So what: if you didn't like me, you at least got money out of it?" Which made Kai think about whether of not she was still receiving money, surely if she was still getting hand-outs from his dead mother it meant that she didn't like being around him?

"Yes..." Lilita uttered and slowly nodded her head knowing that there was no way this conversation could end with Kai being calm and accepting what had been done behind his back. She couldn't really believe that this was happening, it was surreal.

Kai didn't bother to take the files back, he'd read them and both of them knew what they contained he just hoped that she wouldn't let anyone else read them. He walked away from the bed and back over to the door, he slowly opened the curtains again, peering out hoping that there wasn't anyone walking up and down the corridors.

"I'm sorry." Lilita wasn't sure what she could do, Kai was a person who distrusted everyone and didn't necessarily like knowing that someone else knew more things about him than another person did. Lilita still had a cast on for her arm: she never would have thought that Kai would be yelling at her about this after he had saved her. "Kai, please--." She didn't want him to leave, she needed him to stay in the room since she didn't quite know what he would do if he was alone...

"Kai. Where are you going?" Lilita asked desperately but Kai didn't seem to phased at the girl who was sobbing pretty loudly, he'd have to leave quickly if he didn't want to be caught by the night-staff. He 

looked over his shoulder and snarled an answer which only made Lilita feel even worse about the entire thing.

"No where that you'll be able to find me." Kai snapped and pulled the chair out of the way of the door and left the crushed Lilita where she was. He didn't even believe he could speak to Selene, he'd probably hit the girl – which was probably better than strangling her... He needed to escape, who did he know he could confide in?

He thought about it: there was no one, sure he trusted Sota but she was young and what kind of older brother would make a child carry his burdens. He couldn't call her just yet. He would go back to the police station just say he was worried about his friends and hopefully they wouldn't lie to him.

Everything was dull now that he looked at the world. He wasn't the best at beyblading, Tyson was, he wasn't the richest family in the world or even the most successful. Why was he even here? To be some amusement for two demented men that lied to think they were working for God? How pathetic Kai hissed at himself, he was in a foul mood and not one that could be calmed during one of his walks.

Author's Note: I think I hacked-and-slashed about half of this chapter away since it was just ramblings, so that's my excuse for it being shorter than average. Still thank you very much for spending some of your life reading over this fiction, means a lot so it does. Well drop a review if you think of anything to say, or rather type... Well Later!