Whooo!! I'd love to thank all my reviewers! I guess complaining about not having any reviews worked. XD lol. This chapter is dedicated to TheRandomGirlUnderTheRock for reviewing first, but DarkAngelDreams13 and Neko Ed Lover get honorable mentions. (Especially Neko Ed Lover- you reviewed like eighty times. XD haha.
Later that night...
After some probing from Audrey, Kairi had described her "boyfriend." Audrey was awake long after everyone else fell asleep, so she slipped into a pair of pink flip-flops, and made her way outside. She'd seen this boy that Kairi had described; he'd been lurking around outside their house ever since Kairi had gotten there, along with a tall guy in a suit of armor.
When she was far enough away from the house, she called, "Ed! Edward!" When he didn't reply, she giggled, and yelled, "Shorty!"
He immediately jumped up from behind a bramble bush, yelling, "Who are you calling 'shorty'?!"
"Sorry. What are you doing out here?"
"What do you think? I'm making sure Kairi's okay."
"You can come inside and do that. Carson will let you stay. He lets everyone stay."
"That's not really a good idea..."
"We have a guest bedroom. Come one," She grabbed his arm, and Al stood up beside him.
"It's okay, brother. You need to sleep in a bed." They followed her into the house.
So the next morning...
Kairi had a nightmare that night. When she woke up, she searched the cabinets for something to eat, and then realized she wasn't hungry. Audrey appeared in the room, picked up an orange, started to peel it, and announced, "I found Ed last night. He's sleeping in the guest room with his friend in all the armor."
"What?" She left the room as Audrey was repeating her statement. She wasn't angry; more like excited, surprised, and a bit confused.
She opened the guest bedroom and closed the door bewhind her. Ed was sleeping in the bed, and Al was sitting on the floor in the corner. She got to her knees beside the bed and shook his shoulder. "Ed? Ed, wake up."
He rolled over, shielding his eyes from the light with his metal arm. "Whaaaaat?"
"Wake up. What are you doing here?"
"Uh- heheh," he grinned nervously. "You said someone was hurting you and I was making sure you were okay?" He searched her face, hoping he hadn't said the wrong thing. Girls were crazy like that.
"That's very sweet," she laughed, "but come in the house next time."
"Okay," he looked like a scolded puppy that had meant well.
"Now fix your braid and come downstairs. I was to show off my boyfriend." She giggled and skipped out of the room.
"Boyfriend?" Al looked at Ed, well, it would have been incredulously,but he's sort of a suit of armor, so he couldn't really do that.
"She told them that I'm her boyfriend to get that Travis guy off her back."
"Ohhh. And I'm sure you didn't mind at all," Al laughed.
And in the kitchen...
"So where's he at?" Serina asked. Obviously, it was time to eat, because everyone was in the kitchen, eating some sort of fruit. Fruit was their main diet, since no one knew how to cook (well, Kayle did, but he was lazy). Her gaze met Travis's for a second before she turned to Serina, who was prying a cross from Suki's hands as she aimed it at Travis.
"He'll be down in a moment. Don't say anything about his height. He has an automail arm and leg, pretend you don't notice them. I don't want you hurting his feelings. He's also got his brother with him. Big guy, suit of armor. Don't gawk at him. He's just tall."
"Okay, okay," Audrey laughed. "Sweetie, we get it. We'll be nice to Ed."
"Unless he's like Travissssss," Suki hissed like a cat, bending low to the table, in a tug of war match with Serina over the wooden cross.
"Whaaat?" Travis rolled his eyes at her.
"I will stop at nothing to expose you, demon," she squinted her dark eyes at him.
Kairi laughed. She heard Al coming down the stairs, so she hurried from the room, took a sharp right, and caught him at the bottom of the stairs. She whispered, "Be nice, okay? To everyone." She raised her eyesbrows, which meant, Including Travis.
"You don't have anything to worry about, Kairi," he gave a small smile, and she interlaced her fingers with his so she could drag him into the kitchen. She loved the way his entire tone of voice changed when he spoke to her. It got a bit softer, more gentle and quiet, and it made her heart speed up in contrast.
Sukie squeaked as Ed walked in. "Gawshezz, Kairi, he's a cutie."
Ed and Al laughed, and Kairi said, "This is Ed, and his brother Al. Ed, Al, this is Audrey, Serina, Suki, Kayle, Travis, and Carson." She pointed to each person as she said their name. Her hand was still in Edwards, but she reluctantly released it so she could make herself a cup of tea. She stole a glance at him from the counter opposite the table. He was starting up an easy conversation with Carson. She grabbed an apple and poured him a glass of milk. He accepted the apple, but took one look at the milk and announced, "I hate milk."
"Then I'll drink it," she replied indignantly, and giggled. She'd wanted a cup of tea, but she'd drink his milk for him.
"Where did you meet him?" Serina asked. She was trying to untangle the cross that had somehow wound up in Suki's hair.
"It was wierd. I'm pretty sure it was how I lost my memory. A woman named Izumi found me and she's an old friend of Ed's, so I met him when she helped me."
"Awww. When'd you get together?" Audrey giggled girlishly.
"Like a week later," Kairi replied. She touched the tattoo on her arm absentmindedly. "Do you know how I got this tattoo? And why?"
"Well," Audrey looked at it. The fancy black letters climbed up her upper arm. S-E-R-E-N-I-T-Y. "Kayle mentioned something about his cousin owning a tattoo and piercing shop the next town over, so we went together, and I got my navel done." She lifted up her shirt and revealed a dangling silver chain with a pink jewel at the end of it. Even her dark side is girly. But I remember the tattoo shop. The tattoo artist was missing one of his teeth. "When I came out of the piercing room with it done, the person at the counter told me you were getting a tattoo in the other room. You never told me what it meant."
She successfully hid her disappointment. "Ah, well, I'll remember it eventually."
"You played guitar," Suki announced, finally pulling the cross free from her hair and peeling an orange. "But you never wrote any songs."
"It's cuz you didn't actually know how to play," Serina laughed. "I just taught you how to move your fingers to like three songs."
"What songs did I know?" She closed her eyes, trying to remember. The guitar was very old; Serina's father had made her learn to play, but she played it well.
"Songs I wrote. They were called Fearless, Things I'll Never Say, and Another Heart Calls." Yeahh I know she didn't actually write those songs, but this is really the only time I mention it. I just don't think I should say they're cover songs because Taylor Swift, Avril Lavigne, and All American Rejects weren't really alive in like Year 12. XD
"Ohh, I remember. What else did I do?"
"You fell down a lot," Suki laughed. "All the time. You were always bruised up."
Kairi's stomach dropped, but she laughed. She pretended not to notice Travis glaring at her, but it must have bothered Ed, because he took his hand in her's and continued his conversation with Carson. But I was clumsy. It wasn't just him. "I remember. It's always Charlie that gets me." She patted the bandage wrapped around her left forearm.
Suki laughed peevishly. "Carson keeps trying to fix Charlie, but Charlie's feelings would be hurt, so I won't let him." She glared at Travis, her face dark, her eyes seething. "I believe Travis continues his efforts to lead Carson and Kayle into the darkness. Your dearest Edward is next."
"Keep me posted," Kairi gave a half smile. Something must have really messed her up. She's always been so... crazy.
"Just ignore him, Suki," Serina patted her arm.
So later that day...
Lonesome
stranger
With a crowd around you
I see who you are
There really was nothing to do at the house except go swimming, so everyone left around noon except for Ed, Al, and Kairi (who managed to convince Audrey that she wanted to spend a little time with Ed because she hadn't seen him in days).
Kairi started laughing as soon as everyone was gone. "God, that was hilarious. Travis just couldn't keep his eyes off you. You'd think he was gay."
"Yeah. I blame you." Ed pouted. "So how long are we stuck here?"
"A week, tops." She paused. "Poor Wrath. I hope he isn't too lonely."
"I'm sure he isn't," Al commented, sitting down on a couch in the living room. Ed and Kairi joined him. "Anyways, have you remembered anything else?"
"Yeah. I was worse than clumsy." She giggled. She was sitting on the far left, Al on the far right, and Ed was in the middle. Tucking her feet underneath her, she pointed out the bandage on her arm. "The other day I fell on top of a shattered cup."
"Brother did that once," Al commented thoughtfully. "It was on his birthday, except for he broke the window and..."
She didn't hear the rest.
You
joke, they laugh
Till the show is over
Then you fall so hard
"But Mommy, he promised. He promised, Mommy!"
"I know, Kairi, please be good. His job is so stressful, you know that. They have him busy." Her kind face was wrinkled around the edges, the face that meant she was deeply upset or in danger of crying. She buried her face in her hands and sighed.
She glared bitterly at the cake in front of her, white with pink icing. She didn't know why her mother always gave her such girly things. She hated pink. "It's my birthday. I'm three now and he doesn't even know it. He promised he'd come home. And he's at his dumb work. Why can't he just come home?"
She remembered the conversation they'd had earlier. It had ended in an argument, and Mommy had slammed the phone down.
"He just can't. It's the way things are, and there's absolutely no way to change it." Her mother's voice was firm and stressed. "Just eat your cake."
"I don't want it!" She screamed. "I hate it! I hate it and Daddy hates it! If he liked it he'd be here!" With those last words, she slammed her face down into the center of the cake. Mommy started to cry.
If
you're needing
A soul-to-soul connection
I'll run to your side
"Kairi? Hello?" Ed whistled and waved his hand in front of her face. "Anyone alive?"
"Huh?" She blinked, shaking her head. "Oh. Yeah, I'm here. And healthy. Sorry, I just had major brain freeze." She tried to laugh it off, but he kept a look of slight concern on his face. "Are you hungry? I'll get you something to eat."
"Nah, I'm good."
"I'm bored," she rested her chin in her hands. "I'm dying."
"Don't even joke like that," Ed laughed.
"What else do you remember?" Al asked. That's all he's ever interested in.
"I made my mom cry once. That's like it."
"What about your tattoo?" Ed asked, gently taking her arm so he could examine it again.
"Just that I got it done with Audrey and I never told her why." She sighed. "It'll come back eventually."
When
you're lost in the dark
When you're out in the cold
When you're
looking for something that resembles your soul
When the wind blows
your house of cards
I'll be a home to your homeless heart
"It's taking longer than I thought it would, though," Ed replied. "How do the memories actually come back?"
"Well..." She turned her head sideways. "Usually if someone says something that... reminds me of something I don't remember, I have sort of a flashback and I remember what it was." She paused. "And I think it's taking a long time because I have a lot to remember. I had a good memory."
"Ohhh," Ed commented. Their eyes met for a moment, and she blushed and buried her face in her knees, but he laughed and said, "I saw that!"
"Augh! You caught me!" It's so frustrating. I never used to blush.
"I'm leaving," Al replied. "Don't feel like watching all this. I'm too young." He pretended to cover his ears and ran out of the room.
Open,
close me
Leave your secrets with me
I can ease your pain
"We scared Al away." She laughed and sat up. "And we didn't even do anything."
"Yeah." He didn't say anything for a moment. She rolled her eyes. He was staring off into space. They didn't move for a moment, and then she put her feet in his lap. He laughed and pushed them off.
"What's your favorite song?" She asked him, her eyes looking up at the ceiling.
"I don't really have time to listen to music," he replied.
"Eghh." She giggled. "I always liked the song Homeless Heart, by Jennette McCurdy." Yahh she doesn't exist yet, but deal with it.
"Why?"
"It reminds me of someone." Her lips were curved into a small smile. "I wonder where Al went."
"Probably hiding somewhere upstairs." Ed laughed
And
my arms will be
Just like walls around you
Come in from the
rain
She smirked. He always makes me laugh. Isn't this how I felt about Travis before he went crazy? "Ed? What exactly happened to your arm and leg?"
"Just an accident I had a while back."
"Oh," she had no reason to doubt him.
"How come you never eat?" He was trying to distract her from the question.
"I hate food," she replied, her brow furrowed, and she crossed her arms. "It's so gross."
"Wow. I don't think I've ever met anyone that hated food."
"I don't know why. I just never liked to eat."
If
you're running
In the wrong direction
I will lead you back
"Kairi?"
"What?"
"Do you have any idea who was hitting you?" He knew full well who it was, but he needed to make sure she knew.
"Yeah. It was Travis. Apparently I deserved it." The sentence came out bitter, then she shook her head. "You know what? I feel like swimming. Let's go to the Lake."
When
you're lost in the dark
When you're out in the cold
When you're
looking for something that resembles your soul
When the wind blows
your house of cards
I'll be a home to your homeless heart
"Okay, but I'm not swimming," he replied.
"I know that, silly," she pecked his cheek. "I'm going upstairs to change. I'll be right down." She got up and ran upstairs to change into her black bathing suit. She's obviously not in the mood to discuss Travis. He knew how much she hated to swim from watching her at the Lake just the day before.
"Al!" He called. His brother appeared in the door. "We're going to walk with Kairi to the Lake."
"She hates swimming."
"Yeah, I know." At that moment, Kairi came downstairs, her hair pulled black in a clip and her black shorts on over her swimsuit.
Broken
Shattered
like a mirror
In a million pieces
Sooner or later
You've got
to find
Something, someone
To find you and save you
She hummed a tune under her breath on the walk there.
"What's that song?"
"Homeless Heart. It's stuck in my head now." Actually, right now it's in my head. XD
"Oh."
They were nearly there when they started to hear screaming. "That's Audrey!" Kairi jumped, then took off running toward the Lake. Audrey's earsplitting scream was filling Ed's ears, and Kairi was a few paces ahead of him.
When
you're lost in the dark
When you're out in the cold
When you're
looking for something that resembles your soul
When the wind blows
your house of cards
I'll be a home to your homeless heart
Why is she screaming? Ed thought, annoyed. Is there a freakin' spider or something? I don't think she usually screams like that, because Kairi looks like she's about to jump out of her skin. It was the kind of scream that made your flesh crawl and sent chills up your neck.
"Why is she screaming?" Ed asked Kairi, panting.
"I don't know, but it can't be good," Kairi gasped back.
When
you're looking for something that resembles your soul
When the
wind blows your house of cards
I'll be a home to your homeless
heart
When Kairi finally reached the Lake, she gasped and stared up at the waterfall. She could never have imagined what she saw.
I'll be a home to your homeless heart...
Sorry this has taken me forever to get up! I had it written, but I was at a friend's house. Sorry!! Thanks to all my wonderous reviewers! First reviewer for the next chap gets a dedication. You're probably not going to be expecting what's happening at the Fall. Song is Homeless Heart, by Jennette McCurdy. A cottonball of EdXKairi fluffys in here. It should get better. =] Thanks for reviewing! The more reviews, the faster the updates!
