Kai shook his head as he stuffed his lunch in his mouth. "You'll be glad to know I'm not a shit boyfriend. I don't cheat," he looked at Lauren at the last part. "But come on Lils, we can be civil for atleast lunch." He took another few bites.
Lauren was watching him with a very pointed glare, not to mention the look she kept giving Lily. She didn't like how chill Kai was acting around the surfer's. She knew Kai was trying to get on her nerves, but if he kept it up he'd be on both their nerves.
"I'm gonna stop talking to you. Pay attention to your girlfriend so she stops staring daggers at my head, please and thank you." JC choked on a laugh, quickly recomposing herself before wrapping an arm around Lily's shoulders.
"As you wish," Kai dramatically bowed his head. He finished his lunch and stuffed his trash back in his bag. "We've got time before lunch is over," Lauren said seeing her boyfriend packing up already. "Why don't we do what we all do best" she stood, her glare still pointed at Lily. "Lauren-" Kai started, but she'd already knocked over someone's drink. It spilled twords Lily and her friends. "Whoops,"
Lily sighed and grabbed her stuff, standing up and stepping over the drink stream coming towards her. River and JC followed, and so did everyone else. "I know you take pride in inconveniencing us, Lauren, but let me tell you something. Green really isn't your color." Lily shot her an innocent smile and started back towards the main building, tossing out her trash along the way.
Lauren was fuming. "Lauren, chill out." Kai Stood, grabbing both their bags. Their next class was together and he always carried her bag for her. "No Kai, you chill out." Unfortunately their next class was also with Lily. And after that Kai wasn't sure the two should be anywhere near eachother. "Why don't we skip. The days near over there's only a few more classes. The surfers won't be at the beach yet." His parents would absolutely kill him if he did, but for Lauren. The girl he was sure he'd spend the rest of his life with, it was worth it. "Why, don't wanna see your surfer girlfriend and biker girlfriend fight?" She took her bag from him and stormed off. Kai sighed, he knew Lauren. She wasn't going to let this one go so easily.
To be honest, Lauren didn't get on Lily's nerves as much as she thought she did. Sure, the things she did were annoying but Lily and the rest of her friends had learned to ignore it.
Lily slid into her seat in her next class which she shared with River and Kasey. It wasn't exactly the most fun class but she sat next to River and River was funny in their own quiet way so she didn't worry too much about it.
The only person who's nerves Lauren was on, was Kai's. It looked like she took his invitation to skip, but not with him. She wasn't there when he walked in late, and she never showed up after. Kai was stuck sitting by himself to close to the surfer's for comfort. None of his friend's where in that class. Even if he was the "leader" of a high school bike gang. He felt uncomfortable without anyone else in the gang in that class.
The class moved slowly and honestly, Lily was just happy that Lauren never showed up. That girl needed to sort out her priorities. And River agreed. River was the only non-binary member of the surfers but no one else really minded. They were a good friend, there was nothing else to it.
As the class dragged on Kai found himself finding some kind of entertainment in flicking rolled up pieces of paper at Lily and her friends. It was fun seeing who might snap first. Kai's bets where on Kasey. If Lauren really had been messing with her this morning then she might still be tense.
River didn't care, Lily ignored it and Kasey was too busy stressing over her work to give even a shred of a damn. Lily refrained from looking back at Kai, not wanting to give him the satisfaction of her attention. "You know, if I didn't know any better, I'd say he likes you more than he likes Lauren." River quietly confessed and Lily nearly choked on her laughter. "Oh that sounds so correct but I don't want it to be."
Kai could hear them laughing, It annoyed him. He sat back in his seat giving up on seeing who'd snap first. He missed Lauren already. Would she even call him tonight? He tried not to think about it to much. Instead Kai focused his attention back on his homework.
Contrary to what most of his teachers believed, he was actually smart. He understood all the homework, he just never cared to waste his time on it. Unfortunately, he had the same thought process about most of his school work too.
After what felt like forever to Kai the bell rang, and a few more painfully boring classes later, so did the final bell. Which meant the rest of the day was his. Well atleast untill curfew. A new thing Katie and Rollo had brought up since all the kids where gone till the early mornings. Except Ash, he was to antisocial to bother annoying anyone else but their family.
"Later surfer's!" He called as he passed a group in the hall, almost knocking one of them over with a shove that wasn't meant to be so rough.
That person happened to be JC, who bumped into Lily who ended up getting her face slammed into a locker door. Hard. To the point where it nearly knocked her out on contact.
She dropped to the floor, blood dripping from cuts the cheap metal gave her in her lip and forehead, not to mention a pretty heavily bleeding nose. "Lily!!" She was so out of it that she couldn't even tell who said it. But was the world always spinning so fast?
Kai turned at the sound of someone hitting a locker. He didn't push the surfer that hard…did he? He saw JC and Lily, his heart sank. "Ah shoot." If he stayed and a teacher came along he was doomed. If they told a teacher, he was doomed. Katie was gonna murder him. "Is she okay-?" He asked even though he could see that Lily was not in fact okay.
JC helped Lily off the floor and looked up at Kai. "You!! What the hell has Lily ever done to you to deserve this? She's done nothing!" "JC, don't…" Lily's voice wobbled, her head still spinning too fast to really figure out what was going on.
"Hey I didn't touch her, you're the one who crashed into her." Kai really should have just left. Besides what did he care if Lily was a little out of it from getting a face full of locker. A small group of people had started to gather at the shouting.
"JC, drop it. He's not worth it." Her head started to clear and she finally laid eyes on Kai. "He's not even worth it to his own parents." Lily started her way towards the nurse with JC right by her side to help her walk.
Kai didn't stop himself from grabbing Lily's shoulder and spinning her around. He pointed an accusing finger in her face. "I dare you to say that again," because maybe if he heard it again he'd actually have the guts to do something about it. His anger boiled.
"Why should I? Huh? You've done nothing but bother and bully me and my friends since you got here. If anything, you deserve to be reminded that the world doesn't revolve around you. That some of us are actually wanted."
"You're so stuck up in your own little word I wonder how you even get air up there, I'm wanted. My parents wanted me." Because why else would they have adopted him? Katie and Rollo had given him a home.
"Oh is that so? Well it's damn shame it wasn't by the first ones, now isn't it?" She wiped some of the blood from her face, staring directly into Kai's eyes. She wasn't scared of him. She never had been.
He froze. He knew nothing about his real parents. He'd met his mom once on the day the Six's had adopted him and that was it. "You don't know me, I suggest you don't make assumptions about my life." He let go of her and backed off. Kai pushed his way through the crowd who'd come to watch a fight.
Lily just watched him go, waiting for the crowd to swallow him before finally heading to the nurse. Turns out the locker had fractured her nose but other than that, the cuts and bruises were nothing to worry about.
Kai could barely keep himself from running to his motorbike. He wanted to get home before someone told a teacher and they called his parents. He needed to explain first, maybe then they wouldn't be so angry.
On the other hand maybe he shouldn't go home yet. He could crash at Eithans, wait till Katie and Rollo calmed down. The problem with that was that they would look for him at Eithans. Lauren was out of the question after what happened at lunch, and frankly Kai wasn't close enough with anyone else. He decided he'd stay at the school for as long as possible. It was really the only place they wouldn't look for him.
Lily walked out about 15 minutes later, her nose bandages but starting to bruise, the rest of her cuts starting to scab over. JC wasn't with her, she had her own car and drove to and from school. She spotted Kai and contemplated confronting him about Kasey that morning but her heart wouldn't let her. Lily did walk over, but for a different reason.
"Hey, I know I'm probably the last person you want to talk to right now but I just wanted to say I'm sorry. What I said was completely uncalled for and you didn't deserve that. I was just upset."
Kai looked up from where he sat near his bike. He was half surprised to see her and even more surprised about the apology. Apologies weren't a thing they did. Especially not to each other. "You had a right to be," he shrugged, still a little hurt from what she'd said. "Sorry about your face by the way." Even though he didn't consider himself directly responsible.
