Long Lost Love
Chapter 6: Envi=Rei
'Who the fuck is this Envi person anyway? I don't understand what Kai is thinking!' Tala was thinking as he made his way to Mythology class, two weeks after the conflict that transpired in Envi and Kai's room (1). Walking into the classroom, he saw that Envi was sitting next the only open seat left in the room. 'You have to be shitting me!' he yelled in his head. Looking around the room one more time to make sure there was no other seat left, he reluctantly went to sit next to him. The teacher walked in.
"Welcome class, how was your weekend? Good? Good, today we are learning about a race of people who are said to have cat blood in their system. Does anyone know what they are called?" the teacher asked her class.
"They are called Neko-Jins, ma'am. They also have spirit animals, two in fact. One for themselves and one for their mate, usually a human." Tala said without raising his hand.
"Very good, Tala. But how did you know about the spirit animals? It is not in our text books and is very rare that anyone even knows of them."
"I know this because I have-" Tala was cut off by "Envi's" hand covering his mouth.
"Sorry ma'am. I don't think Tala is feeling very good. Is it alright if I take him to the infirmary?"
"Sure go ahead, Envi"
Getting the OK, "Envi" and Tala made their way to the infirmary. Sitting on the cot, "Envi" made a frustrated noise and glared at Tala, eyes slitting.
"Are you nuts, Tala? Do you know what would have had happen if you admitted to meeting a real Neko-Jin? They would have thrown you into the loony bin and throw away the key!" Rei started mumbling in Cantonese, mumbling about what a buffoon Tala was and started cursing between English and Cantonese.
"You just proved my point, Envi. Envi is not your real name, now is it? Nope, I was right, you are Rei."
"And why do you say that? I have already proven to you that 'Rei' is not my real name."
"You were mumbling to yourself in Cantonese and English. Well, you were mumbling in Cantonese, and then you were going between English and Cantonese when you were swearing."
"That doesn't prove anything…Damn it! I suck at these. It was Kai's idea!" Rei shouted.
"That's right, Kitten. You do suck you have never been able to convince me that you were this "Envi" person. Though I give you credit on your acting skills. A few times I was almost convinced."
"Besides speaking two languages at once, what else got you?"
"Your cooking and the fact that you paint. The painting in your room? I saw you painting that one."
"You were, weren't you. Damn… I don't have any more classes, do you?"
"Nope, I was gonna head to the coffee shop after this class anyway. You wanna come?"
"Sure."
1. It's been two weeks since "Tala's Confusion". I had writer's block and, for the life of me, could not think of how to fill those in. Basically, Tala tried to get 'Envy' to slip up and do something that Rei would do. I also apologize for the short chapter after a whole year of silence. It is 8.31 AM here and I have been up for two days straight with about an hour or two in the past 50-55 hours. Somewhere around there.
