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Chapter 31

"Fine," sighed Ray. "I'll talk to Kai."

Ray, Tyson and Mariah had been having a debate in the kitchen from the morning. Ray's idea of talking it out had been accepted with much gusto and now Tyson and Mariah wanted Ray to talk to Kai because talking to Diana, for obvious reasons, had not paid off and, for obvious reasons, was not going to pay off for quite some time. To say no to your best friend is easy but to say no to your wife, a pink and blue head with sharp nails, is inviting death. So Ray agreed.

"But first we have to get Diana out of the way," Ray crossed his hands across his chest stubbornly.

Tyson nodded most intelligently and turned to Mariah expectantly.

Mariah looked around thoughtfully and then smiled wickedly, "I got it." She pointed to a replica of Mona Lisa which hung beside the fridge.

Tyson stared at Mariah, aghast, "You're going to give here my Mo Nal Isa (ya Tyson loves Mona Lisa but he never quite got her name)? Apart from my disagreeing to this idea how is it going to get Diana out of the house?"

"I am not going to give Miss. No Brows to her, dunce! Look at what stuck on the painting's nose," Mariah replied.

The two men examined the painting more closely and realised that there was a key stuck to Mona Lisa's elegant nose. Ray clapped Mariah's shoulder, "Well done."

Tyson made a defeated face, "I still don't get it. It's just a key."

Mariah smiled, "It's not just a key, Ty? Its Diana's house key, the one she said she lost and on finding it she would go back to her house. I suppose she must have put it there so that she wouldn't forget it but we all know her memory!"

Tyson face lightened up with a glow of knowledge and then dropped, "But what if she never came back?"

"He has a point, you know," Ray agreed.

"Ah men! I tell you I know they are made for each other. She will come back, very soon too. In the future, today will be seen as the sacrifice Matchmaker Mariah made in order to get two hearts together."

Twenty minutes later, Diana was bundled into a taxi, minus her bags, by the trio who told her that Mariah would get her stuff later. Amid great confusion, refusal and pure force, Diana made her exit. Needless to say a certain someone missed it, oversleeping. And that certain someone was woken up brutally by Tyson. An hour later Kai was seated on the dining table surrounded by our Matchmaking trio.

"So...," Ray started, "we were going to discuss you and Diana."

"What about us?" Kai snapped.

Tyson smirked, "So, now its 'us', huh?"

A faint blush graced Kai's pale cheeks, "I am a busy man. I have to go to office."

"You'll sit down," Mariah declared in a low menacing voice.

Kai, in the process of getting up, dutifully sat down.

Ray continued, "I er we were thinking that maybe you two need a little help with your love story."

The toast Kai was eating suddenly developed resistance to swallowing and Kai glared at Ray amid coughs.

Tyson immediately jumped forward and thumped his back, declaring in a nervous voice, "Very funny, our Ray is. Just ignore him ok?"

Kai seem to prepare himself for a massive Kai-special and then suddenly the storm was gone. Kai actually smiled, "On the other hand, my dear friends, I feel we are doing quite well."

He didn't get a reply because the matchmaker trio were busy looking for their fallen jaws.

"I mean," Kai continued in a very un-Kai-ish way, "it was only yesterday that she was quizzing me about the type of girl I liked. That's a good sign, right?"

The jaws of the other occupants of Kai's humble abode came back to their respective places with amazing speed. Disappointment clearly showed on their faces but the new Kai was oblivious to such small things.

Mariah commented sourly, "That's because she is thinking of finding the perfect girl for you."

Kai seemed to consider this and then said, "But isn't it always like this. When people want to say they love each other, they say 'my best friend this' and 'my best friend that' but all the time they are talking about themselves because they are just too shy to say all that." Kai stopped to look at his friends who were giving him weird looks. "Isn't it like that?"

Tyson spoke, "He's got a point too. I mean, maybe Diana's just too shy to admit that she likes Kai that way."

Ray and Mariah looked a bit disagreeing but after some more pestering on both Kai and Tyson's part they started believing in this theory quite strongly.

"Then shouldn't you give her something to show you love her?" Mariah asked. "One of the best things I liked about Ray was that he was such a dear."

It was Ray's chance to blush and smile as Tyson whistled.

"You needn't worry about that," Kai said near-cheerfully. "I'll think of something." He glided out of the room.

Ray said, a little uneasily, "Is it just me or is Kai acting really weird today?"

"Leave that, I can't believe we had that conversation. No wonder they say it's 2012," Tyson said before buttering what looked like his hundredth toast.

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