Beyblade Fan Fiction ❯ How we came to be ❯ Confessions ( Chapter 4 )

Chapter 4

 

After they had left Kai looked at Faiths back and from the way her muscles were tensing he could say that she was pretty pissed. He felt guilty. He was the one that had asked her to stay with him and now his team members were thinking wrong of them.

“Faith, I'm s…”

“The nerve of them, how can they fucking think that way? What gives them the right to think that we're more than friends `cause we're lying in the same bed. How many times haven't we found Tyson and Kenny in the same position? And we all know that Tyson has the hots for Hilary…”

He softly put a hand on her shoulder. She turned and looked around in surprise.

“Faith, you're rambling. And never mind what they think. Just go get dressed and I'll meet you downstairs, alright?”

 

Nodding at him, she gave a reassuring squeeze in his hand and went towards her own room. As he looked at her retreating form he noticed she was wearing one of Tala's old shirts. She'd gotten that from their old friend when she decided that she'd been too old to keep running to her friends whenever she had a bad dream. Obviously she still believed that the trinket of a loved one chases dreams away.

Even though she had gotten that shirt years ago, it was still too wide for her. Tala had very broad shoulders, and the way it slipped made her look very …sensual… to say the least.

As his gaze went lower he noticed she was only wearing a pair of girlie boxers. He had to admit that it complemented her bottom half quite nicely.

 

It was his turn to mentally slap himself. -for gods' sake man, what has gotten into you? She's your best friend. Ever since the convent. She'd kill you if she ever found out you just looked at her that way.- but a part that had liked Faith in his arms and that had just steered his gaze towards her countered that. = you're right she is your best friend, but what makes you think she doesn't want the same thing? Don't tell me you didn't see her blushing when she saw you in bed yesterday=

He was knocked out of his thoughts when he heard Faith call out his name. Directly he turned his gaze back towards her face. She had obviously asked a question.

 

“Huh?”

“I asked if you were alright. You look a little dazed.”

“Oh, no, I mean, yeah, I'm alright. Just thinking.”

“K, I'll call you when you can use the bathroom, ok?”

“Sure, gives me some time to wake up fully.”

And with that left she closed the door and left Kai alone in his room. What was he going to do? He had to figure out what to say bout him and Faith in the same bed, and secondly there was his “problem”. How were his friends going to react?

-stop it, you went over this yesterday. They have the right to know. And if they decide to hate you, they're not really your friends.-

While thinking he fell into a light sleep again, till a knock disturbed it.

“Kai, you can use the shower now.”

 

When Kai came down he saw Faith holding Tyson in a headlock, obviously not kidding, her face was set on kill mode. Around them stood the rest of the team, trying to pry her off Tyson. But what they didn't know was that she had a vice grip, and is never eager to let go. He let out a sharp whistle, which made everyone stop dead in their tracks.

“Could anyone here please tell me why Faith wants to kill our little airhead over there? And Faith, let go of him, we all know what a loudmouth he is, but he's not worth rotting in jail for.”

Reluctantly Faith let go, quickly hissing a threat in Russian to the blue haired.

“I don't know, all I asked was if she had fun last night and then she launched at me all of a sudden.”

 

“Serves you right I'd say. How many times do we have to tell you? Nothing happened, alright? Now just give it a rest.”

“Then what did happen, and why are you both so secretive about it? If you two are together as a couple, you don't have to hide. But we'd appreciate some honesty…”

“I had a nightmare alright? I've been having them ever since I was in the convent. Tala and Kai used to be my living teddy bears when they got too ugly. I went to him yesterday because not even Tala's shirt could stop that one. You happy now? Satisfied your curiosity?”

And without another word Faith stormed off into the training room.

“Smart move Ray. Now you got her in the “don't look at me or I'll kill you mode” for the rest of the day.”

“Hey, you were the one that got her into it in the first place, I was just curious. If I'd known that that was the reason I would've just shut up.”

“Look guys, just leave her alone ok? You all know the past is something neither her nor me like to talk about. And to pry into reasons for us lying in the same bed isn't a smart thing to do. You all know how far her nightmares can drive her. Don't go prying no more; I don't want to carry her to the hospital again.”

“We know, and we're sorry Kai. It's just that, you guys know more about each other than we do, and sometimes we don't really know how to act towards you guys. We know you had a rough past, but would it kill you to tell us a little bit more about it?”

“It wouldn't kill me, but it might get her nightmares back, and I don't want that happening. Now quit chatting, we got some training to do.”

 

“But Kai…”

“End of discussion, or do you want to do some penalty push-ups?”

They made their way towards the training room quickly. While the rest of them were changing Kai moved towards the place Faith was sitting. Tyson was wrong, she wasn't pissed, she felt sad. She was always like that when someone was prying into her thoughts. That was one of the reasons he never asked for Tala's death. It just felt wrong when she was sad.

 

“Hey, you alright? Sorry, I should've been downstairs sooner. I know they can be very annoying. I should've never asked you to stay with me.”

She placed a hand on his shoulder as he had done this morning.

“Kai, you're rambling. I know how they can be, but that doesn't mean I won't get pissed on them.”

She looked in his eyes meaningfully, but it all stopped when Hilary came to sit next to her.

“Go, you got to train those guys, I'll be fine.”

 

After the training the guys were patiently waiting in the training area because Kai had told them he had something important to say. They were all looking at him expectantly. Seeing his difficulty Faith gave him a reassuring squeeze in his shoulders.

“K, here it goes. I got summat important to say to you guys.”

“You finally decided to tell us that you and Faith are together?”

“Tyson, one more wise crack comment like that and you'll get a knuckle sandwich for dinner.”

“Sorry”

“Eum, could you please listen? This is kind of hard for me. It might explain why I've been acting funny lately…” he looked at Faith and saw the bruises”… and why Faith and I look like we've fallen down a flight of steps. I don't know how to say this, so I'll show you.”

And he slowly rolled up his sleeves, and found the ground more interesting than to see their looks of disgust. Faith however was looking at the whole group pissed and with her eyes she was daring anyone to laugh. Not that anyone had the intention of doing so.

 

“Well, this certainly explains why you're not showering together with us anymore.”

Everyone was shocked, but there was a lot of understanding in Ray's voice. But Max who was looking at him with those puppy eyes was confused the most.

“Why? Why did you do it Kai? How long have you been doing it? Why didn't you tell us something sooner? Just tell us.”

Just before Kai could answer, Tyson had launched himself on Faith and was ready to smack her.

“You knew didn't you? Why didn't you tell us? You fucking knew that your best friend was taking drugs and you never told us why? How the fuck could you keep going with the knowledge that you're friend could die if you didn't stop him?”

His fist was descending towards her face and Faith made herself ready for impact. But it never came. Inches before her nose Kai had stopped Tyson's fist. When Faith opened her eyes she saw Tyson looking at him confused.

“She can't tell you if she doesn't know Tyson. I beat her half to death yesterday when she found out. Which is the reason why she looks like that. Do you really think she would've let me continue on using if she had known earlier?”

Kai crouched down and glared at Tyson. The latter swallowed. Hard.

 

“Look here airhead; she's the reason why I told you guys. Now if you hate me cuz I use drugs, and don't want me as a member of the team anymore then fine. But you dare to even think about hitting Faith again and I swear to god I'm going to hurt you very badly.”

After a long and heavy silence Ray picked up the courage to speak.

“We don't want to know the whens and the hows Kai. We kind of started to suspect something when you stopped wearing those sleeveless shirts. But what we want to know is why. We're not disgusted by you. Not by a long shot. We only know so little of the life you had to lead in the abbey, but why start using so long after you escaped that hell?”

“Months ago I got a letter from Boris, threatening to take Faith away from me. I guess that was the final straw.”

 

“Do you still have the letter?”

“No, I tore it to pieces when I asked him for it. but the reason why doesn't matter anymore what matters now is that he is quitting and that he'll need your understanding and support to do so. I for one am not going to let him down.”

She looked determined to them all, but Kai, who had known her a lot longer than the rest of them, saw doubt in her eyes. She had told him yesterday that she didn't know how to help him. But from what he saw now he knew that, even if she didn't know how to, she would always help him, no matter what.

 

“Well neither are we. You've always been part of our team Kai. You helped us through a lot of rough times, and even though you can be a rotten bastard some times we are going to stick with ya. After all, if Faith can stand you, why can't we?”

It seemed like the first time that Tyson got away with saying something like that to Kai. He looked at them all with a lot of gratitude in his eyes. This was one of the rare moments that he showed he actually cared for them. But Kenny decided to ruin this moment with his logical way of thinking.

“Kai, I really appreciate it that you tell us this and all. But what are we going to do with the press conference in two weeks? I mean, if you're in rehab you're not exactly going to look fit and ready. We have to think bout the press as well.”

“Don't worry bout that. We'll figure something out. Our biggest concern is getting Kai clean and keeping Faith safe.”

“That sounds good in theory Ray, but how are we going to do it without the rest of the world getting suspicion?”