Chapter Ten:

I had made a fool of myself, I had sucked so badly that Kai practically laughed me out of his mansion. I had felt so embarrassed that the next day I chucked a sickie, even though it was the last day of term and we were discussing either going on the camp or to the competition. I had ignored my phone all day, it had constantly been going off.

"WHAT?" I yelled into the damn thing since it wouldn't stop.

"Why hello to you to." Came the voice that spoke to me in my dreams. I flushed and face palmed myself.

"Hi." I replied.

"What happened to you today?"

"I wasn't feeling well, guess you took me to a dodgy place." I lied.

"Right the food was awful and yet I am at full health."

What. A . jerk!

I didn't respond and waited for him to say something. We probably waited about five minutes until I caved, not being able to take it.

"Seriously, what do you want?" I asked a little annoyed. I was having a nice relaxing day at the pond, Darien even showed up and we had a chat.

"Someone doesn't seem to be happy. You missed rehearsals so you owe me since it was one of our scenes."

I shuddered. I really hope it wasn't a kissing scene.

"Which one?" I asked gulping.

"The start of the party, don't worry though, Emily covered for you." I shuddered again.

"I'm sorry." I meant it to. No one deserved to go through that, wait I was wrong, the heart snatchers do.

My communicator went off.

"Look I have to go, I can call you later and we can discuss the play then?"

"Alright but you owe me BIG time for today!" he emphasized the word big and I couldn't blame him. We hung up and I checked where to go.

O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O

The fight seemed to take a lot longer this time around since Serena was the one who lost her heart crystal. We had finally won our battle and seemed to draw a crowd too. To my surprise I saw that they were people I knew. I heard Mina grumble beside me about some stupid red. I turned to where she was and my eyes bugged. Kai and Tala were standing there, watching us.

"What should we do?" I heard Lita ask.

"Teleport?" I suggested.

"We have just enough power." Ami confirmed. Nodding we took our formation and set the destination to my place. I glanced one quick look at Kai and winced, how long had he been there?

We arrived at the temple collapsing as soon as we got there. My legs ached badly and I could tell everyone else's did too.

"You guys can stay here tonight." I offered. They nodded and agreed. No one made a move just yet, I got to my feet as did Lita. We helped the others up and we stumbled into my room.

O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O.O

We had crashed pretty much after having a shower, I went last and got all the cold water, I wasn't fussed. It felt a lot better anyway. I had started to drift off to sleep when someone came barging into my room. I hissed away from the light and instantly covered my face.

"Rei, someone is here to see you. Well a lot of someone's." My gramps informed me.

Groaning I stumbled out of bed and woke Mina up.

"Seriously, some nerve these people have!" she huffed. She looked awake so I let her open the door.

"Oh, it's you." She said, letting her voice drip with more venom then I have ever heard.

"Why yes it is, did you ladies forget about our plan?" came a voice I couldn't place. Lita came up behind me and pulled the door open, revealing the three of us.

"Hey Rei!" came Hilary's voice.

"Hi." I mumbled and yawned, I was not cut out for this. I was sore and everything hurt more than it had ever.

"Someone still grumpy?" came an all too familiar voice.

"Yes." I mustered my glare toward his blue hair and red eyes. He smirked at me.

"Nice ducks." He commented on my pj pants.

"I thought so."

"As fun as it is watching you two lovebirds snipe each other, can we please get going?" Tala said, looking annoyed.

"Where?" I asked, not bothering to defend myself.

"Yeah Red, where? You planning on taking us to your torture dungeon?" Mina asked.

"Only you baby." He smiled at her, she went to go and slap him but I caught her, waking up.

"Not worth it. Can't you just answer my question?"

"We have the competition, you're all coming, remember?" Ray said, stepping before everyone.

"Competition?" I questioned, now I was really confused. I hadn't agreed to going.

"Oh yeah." Mina laughed and slapped my back, causing me to fall slightly. Lita caught me, helping me to stand, my legs weren't wanting to work at the moment.

"I thought we were leaving tomorrow?" Lita asked.

"You are with Michael but we are tonight." Ray answered.

"Well I better get Ami and Serena." Mina sung and spun back around.

Lita and I watched in horror, we shook ours heads and laughed at our private joke. There was a cough and we turned back round.

"Would you like to come in?"

They all came inside and Grampa and Chad served us drinks, I went to help but Chad scowled me.

"Rei, you need to catch a few Z's"

"I know." I laughed in response. Chad was like an older brother to me, always looking out for me and irritating me. I sat down with a hot cup of tea when someone sat beside me.

"You didn't call."

"I'm sorry, something came up."

"It's ok, are you coming?"

"Where?" I asked, my brain really wasn't working tonight.

"The competition." Kai looked at me seriously, I sighed and gave a weak smile.

"Sure but I will head down with Lita and crew."

He nodded and looked at to where Mina and Tala were in a heated argument.

"They are friends but have more than friendship on their mind." Kai whispered to me.

I looked at him in shock and then back at the two currently arguing.

"No!" I whispered back.

"He likes her. Really likes her." Kai confirmed. Come to think of it, Mina hadn't been dating anyone recently which was a shock. She had also be secretive about boys as well which now made sense to me.

"Wow, now it makes sense." I muttered.

I watched for a few more minutes and smiled, yeah they liked each other.

"How was today?" I asked, feeling like small talk.

"Sport was interesting and rehearsals would have been good if you had shown up." He nudged me.

"Sorry about that but I am sure Emily would suit Juliet better then I." I grinned at him.

"Not even close."

"We need to get going." Tyson said checking his phone. Everyone nodded and got their stuff. I told Amy and Serena I would swing by their houses and bring their stuff down. Max had gotten Mina's already.

I stood up and turned to Kai.

"Will see you tomorrow?" I offered.

"Sure you're going to show?"

"I'm sure." I answered with a smile.

"Then tomorrow."