[hr][hr][center][h2][b][color=cc5200]Ka[/color][color=a187be]da[/color][/b][/h2]
[img]http://i.giphy.com/jAd8zYNdoktNK.gif[/img][hr][b]Location:[/b] Grimm HS: Outside the Gym Hall
[b]Interacting With:[/b] Each other.[hr][b]Interaction Tags:[/b] [@Lady Amalthea][/center][hr]
	When her eyes rose up to meet his, Kai lost all sense of himself. He froze in place like he was in high school again, his hands were numb and his breathing was nearly non-existant. His eyes darted from one chestnut coloured orb to the next and back again, over and over again as if he were seeing her for the very first or very last time again. It took a good mental yelling inside his head to bring him back to reality before he got lost in the depths of her soul like he had all those years ago.

	Clearing his throat, he pushed his shoulders back a little as he prepared to talk again but Ada began to speak. [color=a187be]"I... Um... That was Marc... Jessica Flaggstaff was murdered last night..."[/color] Jessica Flaggstaff had been murdered? That couldn't be right. He caught the face in his mind now, she'd been so quiet and dedicated to her studies. Who in their right mind would target Jessica? Kai's mind was reeling as he saw the pain in Ada's face, her fingers running through her hair and her eyes began to glisten. He averted his gaze as the memories of their last encounter flooded into his mind. No, this was not the time to get lost in memory, he had to be here for Ada right now. It was the absolute least that he could do.

	When he looked back to her face, her eyes had shifted away before flicking back to him. [color=a187be]"She was dressed in my prom dress Kai..."[/color] His jaw tensed as it pushed out in anger and fear. He chewed his bottom lip, a crease forming between his eyes. [color=cc5200]"I don't know what to say... Ada..."[/color] His thoughts and words were interrupted by his phone beeping in his back pocket. He stood up but kept his eyes on Adelaide; her own eyes following his form as he stood up before she looked away quickly and stared at the ground. He glanced at the sender and saw that it was Marc. Opening the message up, his ears pulled back and his left brow rose as his eyes narrowed at the message. Cunning bastard, but Kai knew that this was no ploy to get the two of them to talk. This was serious.

[center][color=cc5200][b]To Marc[/b]
I'll keep her safe and with me even if she hates me all the more for it. You have my word.[/color][/center]

	He slipped the phone back into his pocket and crouched down in front of Ada again. He wanted to reach out to her and comfort her even more than he had moments before but he knew that it was not a wise move. Ada just blinked a few times as she turned her head and kept her eyes averted from Kai's. She couldn't bring herself to look directly at him, she knew she would get lost again, and him being so close made her nervous. It didn't matter the years that had passed, nothing had dulled over time. Not her feelings for him, not the pain remembering that night which kept flashing in her mind. Shaking her head she stumbled a bit in her heels and ended up falling onto her rear end, twisting her ankle slightly in the process. Kai started forward to try and grab her before she fell but his reactions were too slow, just like his mind right now.

	[color=a187be]"Damn it.."[/color] she grunted in a frustrated voice as she pulled her leg out from beneath herself; pulling her knee to her chest as she rubbed the sprain and picked out pieces of gravel and such that had pressed into her skin. Lowering her head, she closed her eyes and bit her bottom lip as she felt her breathing stagger. Jessica was murdered, she was injured now and Kai was so close. The feelings were fogging her mind, swirling together. Her hair covered her face as she tried not to cry but her shoulders started to bob gently; showing she was trying to fight from crying. [color=a187be]"I just want to lay here and forget the world,"[/color] she said under her breath and from behind her clenched teeth. 

	He couldn't help himself now, he had to do something, the words rung something in his mind that made him need to act. Kai crouched down on Ada's right side and rested his left hand on her shoulder, his eye caught sight of the hemp hanging around her neck and all words left him. Ada felt herself stiffen up slightly as his hand touched her; she hadn't felt his touch in so many years. She had nearly forgotten how it felt but right then everything came rushing back to her. He just crouched there, staring silently at her neckline with a mild look of confusion on his face as his left hand sat limply on her shoulder from the shock. It was only a moment but it felt like forever in her clouded mind till she suddenly snapped out of it. Her hand coming up and and ripping his from her shoulder, shoving it back away hard. Shame erupted across Kai's face and he took an unbalanced step backwards in his crouched position, his hands holding onto his knees.

	[color=a187be]"Don't touch me!"[/color] she snapped at him, her head coming up and her eyes finally coming back to his. They were swirling with anger and pain as she brought her hand up, a single finger pointing directly at him. This hurt, it really fucking hurt. Kai didn't know what to do, he remained there in his submissive position as she let loose on him. [color=a187be]"You lost the right to touch me a long time ago. You haven't given a damn about me in all these years, don't you fucking try to pretend you give a shit about me right now. You wouldn't stop the pain then, don't try now."[/color] Her voice was so cold as she spoke, the memories of that night flooding her mind. 

[center][color=a187be][i][b]Ten Years Ago....[/b][/i][/color][/center]

	[quote]Ada smiled to herself, biting on her thumb nail as she stepped over to the CD player and put on [url=https://youtu.be/GemKqzILV4w][i]Their Song[/i][/url]. The song just seemed to fit them so well and fit the moment. Tomorrow she would leave for college and as much as she probably should have been scared she wasn't. She was excited and it showed in the way she swayed her hips to the music and the smile that played on her lips. Spinning around, her hair fanning out around her, she danced her way over to Kai who was stretched out on the futon in his room. Tonight was going to be perfect and in the morning she would start a new chapter. She wasn't afraid because she knew she wouldn't be doing it alone. Sure they would be apart some but they loved each other; they would make it work, she knew that in her heart. 

	Laying on his futon, his eyes tracing every crack and crease in his ceiling, Kai winced when he heard the song that Ada had chosen. The melody caused his heart to race and he began to chew the inside of his cheeks as he listened to the telltale sounds of Ada dancing. He hazarded a glance in her direction and he couldn't help but smile at her. She was everything to him, he had to keep telling himself that fact. That was the reason that he had to do what he was building up the courage to do.

	Giggling at how goofy she must have looked she slunk down onto the futon, straddling him as she leaned over; her hair cascading down about them. Gazing into his eyes she let out a content sigh; every time she looked into his eyes it was like the first time. [color=a187be]"Smile, everything is going to be great. I promise,"[/color] she said in a cheerful voice. Resting her hands on his chest she came closer and brushed her lips against his; savoring a slow lingering kiss. As her lips peeled away from his she whispered, [color=a187be]"I love you Makana."[/color]

	Kai pulled himself away, a small smile betraying the joy he felt at their kiss. He shuffled his weight backwards, shifting himself away from being beneath Ada but not pushing her off completely from him. He leaned back on the palms of his hands and he looked into her sparkling, deep brown eyes. Ada's brow arched deeply as he slowly sat up, her hands still resting on his chest; fiddling with the soft cotton fabric of his shirt. That moment was one that he wanted to drink in completely, before he continued on with his plan. He swallowed the lump that was forming in his throat and he gently nudged her body from his so that they were sitting side by side on his futon, her hands slipping away from him as they rested in her lap. He rose his right hand up and cupped her face, his thumb lightly stroking the soft skin of her cheek which caused her eyes to drift close and enjoy his touch. Could he do this? He didn't feel like he could do this. His face was mostly blank but there was sadness in his eyes that caused concern to flash across Ada's as she opened her own and looked at him.

	He cleared his throat, his deep voice cracking slightly as he began to speak. [color=cc5200]"Ada... I... I have something we need to talk about..."[/color] His voice trailed off as it threatened to crack again. His gaze shifted down to stare at his plain, threadbare bedding. He had to do this, there was no choice. She deserved the best and he wasn't it. He steeled himself, no emotions betrayed his face now. He was shutting himself off from it all, he had to in order to get through this. [color=cc5200]"You're going off to college tomorrow. You're about to start the rest of your life and you deserve absolutely everything amazing in life. You should have and will have the best of everything you could possibly imagine."[/color] 

	[color=a187be]"I have the best, I have you silly,"[/color] she said reaching out and resting her hand on his knee as she looked at him. What was going on with him?

	He took another deep breath and let his hand and eyes fall from her face. [color=cc5200]"I've got no plans for my future. I don't know what I'm going to have for my breakfast tomorrow nevermind what I'm going to do to keep food on my table for the rest of my life. I'm irresponsible, unprepared and, to be perfectly honest, pretty god damn dumb."[/color] His jaw was set in a stubborn line as he continued trying to say the hardest sentence that he would possibly ever say in his lifetime. He continued to hesitate, his resolve wavering for a second as he looked into her beautiful eyes once again.

	Ada's leaned back slightly and shook her head, squeezing his knee lightly. [color=a187be]"You are not dumb, stop saying that Makana. You graduated. Sure it took you a bit but you worked hard for it, you earned it. You are a lot smarter than you give yourself credit for,"[/color] she said in a soft and caring voice as she reached over and pushed his dreads back. [color=a187be]"And tomorrow you are having pancakes with bacon with me before I leave remember? So breakfast is taken care of,"[/color] she joked, trying to cheer him up a bit; he seemed so sad and it worried her. Maybe he as just worried he wouldn't get to see her as much as he wanted, she was worried about the same thing but she had it all planned out; every weekend trip, every holiday for the next semester. It would be great. 

	He frowned at her response and shook his head. She didn't understand because he wasn't being clear, he knew that but he felt mad. Not angry exactly, just regular old, immature mad. [color=cc5200]"No... No!"[/color] His voice rose slightly and he shoved her hand off from his knee as he shuffled off of the futon. Ada jumped back slightly, he had never acted like this around her and it startled her. She wasn't afraid though, she knew in her heart of hearts that he would never do anything to hurt her. His feet thumped on the floorboards and he ran his hands into his dreadlocks, gripping them in sheer frustration with himself. He couldn't bear to look at her and he paced back and forth until his ridiculous mood calmed. It took a good ten seconds but he felt it ebbing away. He took deep breaths and licked his lips before stopping his pacing. He turned, standing in front of the CD player and looked to Ada.

	[color=a187be]"Kai... what's going on?"[/color] she asked nervously as she slowly stood up, running the palms of her hands down her thighs, pressing down to smooth out the wrinkles in her pants.

	[color=cc5200]"Anela, you know you're my guardian. It's the reason whole reason why I call you Anela. You're my own angel."[/color] He threw his hands up as if praising whatever powers that be for sending her into his life. He sighed and let them slap back down against his sides before continuing on. He couldn't hold her gaze again as he spoke. He was too weak to bear her scrutinizing look right now, he had to keep his resolve for this. It was the best option for both of them. [i][color=cc5200]This isn't how I planned for this to come out. I can't keep my words straight. I need to stop just pussy footing around it and just say it.[/color][/i] He tried to get his words together in his head. [color=cc5200]"Ada, we're at a turning point in our lives and you're set for so much more than this small town. You're off to Yale, for crying out loud! You have everything ahead of you, a whole fresh start after this disastrous end to your high school year."[/color] He was almost there, the final line before she hated him forever.

	Biting her bottom lip she stepped over to him, timid in her actions but taking a long breath as she reached out to him. He needed to calm down, what ever was bothering him was really eating at him; she could see this. [color=a187be]"Yes but we got through the year together. We can get through me going off to Yale. I promise, don't worry. I have it all planned out. Sure, it's a turning point but that happens in life. Turning points make thing happen. They brought us together. So they aren't always bad. It's a new chapter, for the both of us. Together,"[/color] she chimed in as she took his hand and ran her fingers over the back of it as her free hand reached up and palmed the small medallion he had given her that hung around her neck. [color=a187be]"Right?"[/color] she asked as she stepped in front of him and looked up; searching his eyes for an answer. She still couldn't figure out why he was acting like this, they had talked about all of this, about how it would be okay.  

	He pulled his hand away and silently shook his head, his eyes holding hers. He was past the point of no return now. He took a deep breath and swallowed the last remnants of his emotion. This was it. [color=cc5200]"I'm going to hold you back if we stay together. Our turning points aren't going to be leading us down the same path after tonight."[/color] He let his words hang in the air, hoping that was all he had to say. He would take any slaps, hits, kicks or screams in his direction. He was expecting them and he deserved them but he was doing this for her. It was the best thing that he could ever imagine doing for her.

	[color=a187be]"Of course they're not. We're turning down a different path starting tomorrow. Sure it is a road we don't know but we'll have each other so we'll be able to lean on each other and discover whatever lay ahead together. You've never held me back, you never will. Now will you please explain what is going on? You're making me worry. Do you want me to ask your mom if she can make us some tea?"[/color] she asked as she gripped the medallion. Something in the back of her mind poked at her but she refused to let it come to the front of her thoughts. She was just worrying over nothing, wasn't she?

	His heart sank into his stomach when he realised he was going to have to say it bluntly. He had hoped that she would realise what he was saying, that maybe she'd even agree to it on some level but that wasn't going to happen. He breathed in and exhaled slowly through his nose as he stared her down. He had to stop himself from biting his tongue and just going back and ending things with her once she had left. No, he wouldn't do that to her. It had to be now. [color=cc5200]"No, Adelaide,"[/color] He never used her full name, hopefully this would show her how serious he was. [color=cc5200]"We need to end this. Us. We have to travel different paths in life. Alone. Not together."[/color] His hands sunk into his pockets and formed into fists. He was angry at himself but this was right, he knew it in the depths of his heart.

	Ada took a step back from him as he spoke, shaking her head slightly. She couldn't believe what he had just said, the words cut into her like a knife; a hot blade burning into her chest and trying to rip into her heart. He couldn't be serious, she couldn't; she wouldn't believe the words that he had just said. He had to be joking, it had to be some sort of set up. Some stupid joke he came up with when he was hanging out with Mr. Black. Something he thought would be funny at the time. That had to be it. [color=a187be]"Don't joke around with things like that, it's not funny,"[/color] she said quickly, her breath shaky as she spoke; she could feel her face warming in anger and her body begin to tremble. 

	Kai walked away from her then, he was growing more and more frustrated that she wasn't getting this. He walked past her and stood by the window. The rain was lashing down now, the water trickling down the glass and pooling on the ledge. He stood there, staring out into the darkness as he shook his head, his dreads shaking with each movement. [color=cc5200]"I wouldn't joke about this. We're over."[/color] His hands were still balled up in his pockets but his fingers began to pick at his nails to get rid of this irritated energy that was flowing through him now.

	Ada felt her heart drop into the pit of her stomach, the cut of his words severing it finally and she stood there in a daze for a long moment as she tried to process what he had said. They were over... It didn't make any sense. At least not to her. Everything between them had always been wonderful, why this? Why now? Slowly she turned to look over to him, his back to her. [color=a187be]"W...Why?"[/color] she whispered, her voice cracking in pain as she forced out the single word over the dry pain in the back of her throat and the numb feeling in her mouth. 

	[color=cc5200]"I already told you. I refuse to hold you back in your future path. We are two different people who helped the other to grow..."[/color] He trailed off and slid his hands from his pockets and leaned on the windowsill. He rolled his neck and cracked it, unsure how else to continue. The words came to him slowly and surely. [color=cc5200]"We've grown so much that we'll only hurt each other if we stay together. I'd rather we have the happiness that we have had to remember than to remember us growing ever further apart. This is the best choice. Right here, right now, to end things. You deserve better and I absolutely refuse to be the reason that you don't reach your future goals."[/color] 

	[color=a187be]"Stop saying you are going to hold me back!"[/color] she snapped towards him as she stormed over and slipped under his arms, placing herself between the windowsill and Kai. If he was going to do this she sure as hell wasn't going to let him keep his back to her. [color=a187be]"Goals? And what if those goals include you? What am I supposed to do then? Just forget them? I'm just supposed to walk away and go it is better this way? Forget that I love you? Forget all the times you told me that you loved me? I'm just supposed to take this in stride and let it go? Let you go? No, that's not how it works Kai. When you love someone, you get through the bad times. You try for fucks sake! You don't just throw it away as if it meant nothing because you are too afraid to see what might happen! Maybe we will grow apart but damn it, at least give us a chance! What if we don't? What if we have that happily ever after you read about in fairy tales? The debutante falls in love with a lowly servant and despite everything working against them they live the rest of their lives together deeply in love? Why can't we try for that?"[/color] she demanded to know as the first of the tears finally began to roll from her eyes and down her cheeks one at a time. 

	He pushed off from the windowsill and faced her from a small distance, showing the lack of emotion that he was showing. He crossed his arms over his chest and breathed as calmly as he could despite the daggers piercing into his chest and head. The anger was bubbling up inside him too, they always did this to one another. He tried and tried to keep his uncaring demeanour but he broke when he saw that the tears were still rolling down her cheeks. She shouldn't be doing this to him! HE WAS DOING THIS FOR HER! [color=cc5200]"You really want me to say it, don't you?!"[/color] His voice growled as he controlled the volume of it. Despite it coming out no louder than his usual speaking volume, it resonated around the room as the music played on behind them both.


	[color=a187be]"I want you to say you didn't mean it. I want you to change your damn mind. I want to hear you love me. I want to know I haven't been deluding myself this whole year. I want you damn it, fuck Yale. Fuck goals! They don't mean shit to me compared to you Kai! Rich, poor. A life in a shack or in a mansion. I don't give a damn! Money doesn't buy happiness, it doesn't buy love. It... it doesn't buy you..."[/color] she screamed at first, her words rising over the music, till they trailed off. Her face was red and the tears fell heavier than the rain outside the window. She felt like she was in the middle of the storm, wings clipped and she couldn't fly. She felt lost and she knew she always would if he ended things like this.

	Her words should have made him happy but they just wound him up even more. This was it. He had to do it the hard way, he didn't want to but there was no other choice. His voice was low and steady as he said the words that he knew she was dreading to hear. [color=cc5200]"I do mean it. I am not changing my mind. I don't love you anymore."[/color] It was a downright lie and he hated himself for it. He watched her face as he let the words sink in. It was the only way she'd believe him.

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	She didn't believe him or at least she didn't want to believe him but she had never heard his voice so serious, so stern, so.. [i]cold[/i]. Whatever anger had been rising within her dropped away and in its place fell the simple look of a woman whose heart had just been broken. What could she do now? She couldn't think, the pain in her chest was too overwhelming. Her lips parted to say something but no words came. He had rendered her speechless.

	His words had done precisely what he had intended and it killed him in as many ways as he imagined that they would. His hands were in fists, his nails digging into the palms of his hands as he watched her lose the fight within herself. He didn't want to be the one that was responsible for breaking her like this, he despised the fact that this was because of his words and actions. But this is what had to happen, so she would be able to make the most of her life and be happy. He wanted her to be happy not just for now, but forever. He didn't feel that he could provide forever happiness for his Anela. This was how it had to be even if he did feel dead inside.

	Slowly she turned and headed for the door, picking up her purse as she went. All the fire within her was being doused by the tears. Her fight gone, the wind knocked out of her by his words. Her hand fell to the knob of the door and she stopped. Her head turned, just revealing her profile to him. She couldn't look at him then. [color=a187be]"I.. I'm sorry..."[/color] she choked out. [color=a187be]"I'm sorry for what ever it was I did to cause this. For not being good enough for you. For not being the Anela you deserved. I'll never darken your door step again..." [/color] she said quietly, trying to stop the tears. Turning the knob she pulled the door open and stepped out into the storm. It was nothing compared to the one raging inside of her.

	Kai almost lost his conviction as she said her last words to him. If he bent now, this would all be for nothing and she would never get what he wanted for her in life. He simply remained stoic and still in the middle of his room, his mind was reeling despite the calmness that appeared on the outside. He didn't understand precisely how much he had broken her until she began to apologize to him. His Anela never apologized for something that was not her doing. The knot in his chest dropped into his stomach as he watched his kuuipo leaving his life.

	Ada moved like she was on auto pilot at that point, just walking as the rain that poured down seemed to try to wash away her tears but even for the storm it was a futile battle that it lost. Slipping into her cherry red [url=https://streetselecttxblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/lotuselise.jpg]Lotus Elise[/url], a gift from her parents on graduation, she pressed the starter button and the engine purred to life. The radio was on and Ada just sat there as the tears continued to fall; listening to the [url=http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/pink/whoknew.html]lyrics[/url]. They only fueled the pain in her chest and the last sound of Ada as she left was the squealing of spinning tires on the wet concrete as she tore off into the night.

	As Ada left, the anger and sadness inside him bubbled to the surface. As he walked to the window, watching her walking to her car, Kai gripped the curtains just for something solid to hold onto as he watched his life walking away from him. As he heard her car engine starting up, the CD Player changed tracks and begun to play a [url=https://youtu.be/TEXBmw2jBcA]song[/url] that was far too fitting for Kai's liking. It pushed all the wrong buttons as he screamed out along with the squealing tires outside, his hands yanked his curtains from their railing on the wall. The wood clattered against the windowsill and landed on the floor behind him as he stormed over to the CD player and unceremoniously threw it to the ground as his legs gave way. He knelt on the floor, tears unwilling to brim in his eyes as he stared at the broken circuitry and plastic strewn out in front of him.[/quote]

[center][color=cc5200][i][b]Present Day....[/b][/i][/color][/center]

	Flinching at her raised voice, Kai's hand recoiled for fear of being bitten. He stood up and folded his arms across his chest defensively. [color=cc5200]"You know what, you're right. I don't have any right to touch you but you can't tell me what I have and have not felt for all these years. You don't know me anymore, Ada. Same as I don't know you anymore. The one thing that I [i]do[/i] know is that you're shaken up and need someone to be here for you now. I might have been a dick to you a decade ago but now is not the time for you to be alone. We can go get Ash to mediate if it'll make you more comfortable, but you're not getting rid of me just yet."[/color] He pinched the area between his eyes with his finger and thumb as he debated internally for a minute. Marc was going to hate him for this... [color=cc5200]"Besides, Marc would kill me if I let you out of my sight right now. Especially after what he's dealing with right this very second."[/color] He kept his eyes on her face, refusing to back down on this.

	[color=a187be]"I doubt I even knew you back then, I doubt I ever knew you,"[/color] Ada hissed through her clenched teeth. 

	Slowly standing up, she put her weight on her good foot and wobbled slightly as she shook her heel at him. [color=a187be]"What I know is you didn't love me back then, those words came from you're own lips. I seriously fucking doubt you have had a wealth of feelings spring from within for me since then. So take your guilt trip and shove it right up your Hawaiian ass! And I am just fucking fine alone, been alone the last ten years, what makes you think I need you now? So go meditate on that. If Marc kills you, so be it. He's been wanting to stomp a mudhole in your ass for ten years,"[/color] she said as she hopped to turn around and began to hobble away from Kai. After about three pathetic hops she turned, revealing that same profile she had all those years ago.

	[color=a187be]"And for your information, I am the same woman I was the night you kicked me out of your life. The very same woman."[/color] Her voice cracked the same way it did that night, the same pain and agony crawling over each syllable that slipped over her tongue. Turning she continued to hobble away from the gym and Kai. 

	His jaw clenched and his fingers cut into his arms through his jacket sleeves. He snorted at her words derisively and he shook his head as he actually laughed, a gentle but angry chuckle that emanated from his throat. [color=cc5200]"Clearly you didn't listen to me back then and only heard what you wanted to hear. I said I didn't love you [i]anymore[/i]. I d-did love you."[/color] He almost said it out loud but he managed to catch himself just in time. She'd never let him near her if she knew. Maybe she deserved to know, after all these years though? Nothing had changed with him really, he was just a little older and a little more mature even if he wasn't showing it right now.

	Ada spun around and chucked her heel at him, it connecting right above his groin; a bit too close for comfort but she didn't care. She was furious and it showed as a fire lit in her chocolate eyes. [color=a187be]"I didn't want to hear it then and I don't want to hear it now! Those words have held me back from everything I ever wanted in life! I remember them clear as crystal! They haunt my dreams and chain like Jacob Marley,"[/color] she screamed as she pulled the medallion out from under her top. [color=a187be]"And they'll never let me go."[/color]

	His winced at the thrown heel but it wasn't as bad as some hits he'd had. He grimaced and then froze as his eyes connected to the medallion. He thought the hemp had looked familiar. That was it then, that was the sign he needed. He didn't care about her anger right then, he bent down and picked up her heel that was laying at his feet and walked towards her with purpose in each step. He bent down and grabbed her, fireman lifting her onto his back without a single word and walked her towards the parking lot.