Chapter Thirteen:
I had gotten back to the room and fell to my knees sobbing. I had let my guard down when I knew the heartsnatchers were still out there, they were looking for pure hearts for who knows what. I felt someone sit beside and bring me close to them.
"It's ok Rei." I heard Amys voice.
"Oh Amy, how could I let that happen?" I sobbed harder into her. She hugged me closer to her, telling me everything will be ok. I had no idea how long we were there or how I managed to get into bed but I awoke the next morning feeling like I was hit by a truck. I trudged to the bathroom, showered and changed. I had finished getting changed and saw the bruise on my rib cage, the pain echoed through my body. I groaned and finished getting ready. I heard a knock at the door, I raced over for some reason and threw it open. My heart sank a little when I saw Hilary on the other side. I weakly smiled at her.
"You ok Rei? You look awful." She commented.
"Yeah I'm ok." I moved to let her in but she remained outside.
"How about we go and get some lunch?" she offered.
I wasn't in the mood and tried to refuse but she wasn't taking no for an answer. She had asked Hiro to take us away from Beystadium and into the small town not far. I smiled when we were dropped off.
"So you sure you're ok?" she asked. I sighed, she had asked me that in total of four times, now five.
"Yes, Hilary. Please stop asking me." I allowed my irritation seep through my toe this time. She nodded and then smiled.
"If it were the other way round…." I cut her off.
"I know, I know but yes I am fine, a bruise is all." I bit my lip, not sure how to approach asking about Kai.
We sat down in a small little café and ordered. Hilary started to talk about how Tyson had asked her out and how she had agreed.
We started to eat our meals, talking about boyfriends.
"Yeah there was a guy, his name was Joseph. Such a nice guy but he moved away a few years ago. We were like 13 at the time."
"So why did he move?"
"His family….I think. I never asked."
She nodded, the waiter came up to see if we wanted anything else. We paid him and got up, wanting to look around the town. We found an arcade and headed in, I sat down and watched Hilary playing a shooting game.
"You are scary good at this." I commented.
"I know." She smiled back at me.
"So Tyson and you have a date tonight?" I questioned, giving her a slight smile.
"Yeah, should be interesting." She winked at me.
"What was that for?"
"You had a date with Kai." My mouth dropped open, how did she….? MINA!
"Mina needs to learn to keep her trap shut." I muttered.
"Soooo?" she dragged out the word.
"So what? We just had dinner and then went to rehearse for the play." I said honestly, my cheeks started to flame with what he had asked me the night before.
"You actually did that?" she asked, shocked.
"Yes." I replied.
"Did you practice the romantic scenes?" she asked, her voice going all lovey dovey on me. I shoved her away from me laughing.
"Not even."
We both laughed for a while, when we stopped I bit my lip and looked at her.
"How is he?"
"He's fine! I have been waiting all day for you to ask. I won't let him know you asked, he hates when people check up on him. Yet he is the worst when someone else gets hurt."
She put her hand into her bag and pulled out her phone.
"This thing is driving me crazy." She grumbled, she showed me the screen.
10 messages Tyson.
5 missed calls Tyson.
10 messages Kai.
2 missed calls Kai.
7 messages Ray.
2 missed calls Max.
1 message Kenny.
"You seem popular." I said handing her phone back. The reason I hate technology. I didn't need a phone really, I had a communicator which the scout could contact me on.
"Yeah well I don't feel like reading them but I may open one of each."
"Good idea."
I sat into the car game and started to play, it relaxed me enough.
"Hey stranger, thought you would be with the girls. They had another…crisis." Came Dariens voice.
"Are you serious?" I shouted, causing people to look at us. He nodded his head to follow him, I did so, before turning to see Hilary. She was on the phone, looking like she was getting pretty annoyed.
"Are they ok? Who did the creeps go after this time?"
"There was some girl, not to sure who. She's fine and so are the girls. They are worried about you. Mina even has given up on being heartsnatched."
I almost fell over hearing this, Mina was obsessed with getting her heartsnatched.
"I'm fine Darien." I was really getting annoyed with being asked if I was ok.
"Rei, it wasn't your fault."
"It was though. I should have been paying attention."
"You're meant to live as well. You're not meant to be on guard all the time. Things happen. Don't let this get to you, I know you."
I smiled, he was right. He hugged me and walked off, I watched him. I jumped when Hilary poked me in the back.
"Should we head back?" she asked.
"Yeah I guess."
"Kai's looking for you."