Kaidon Cross, top-notch assassin of The Order of the Black Knights, had only one mission in his life, exact revenge for the death of his mother until he met the innocent Alice Reed, and his priorities changed to keeping her safe from the clutches of...
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Kai was one person who never scared me. He always felt like family. Ever since we were kids, he always looked out for me. I felt like I had some right on him. I knew he was strong, but he would always give in to my punches and kicking around. I took it all for granted.
For the first time in my life, he wasn't the same easy-going guy as always. He was different; he was stronger, angrier, darker, a complete stranger. Both my wrists fit into his single hand, and no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't break free.
He was right. I had been careless, running around without a second thought. As he said, it could have been anyone inside that room. I could have ended up dead. But I just couldn't let go of my worries regarding Kai.
However, he could have taken an easier route to put that in my mind.
I found it hard to accept. My best friend was part of The Order, a dangerous cult. And not just part of it, as Sey said he was one of the best agents out there. This was the same Kai I am talking about, who got cornered by the bullies when he first came to school, and I had to save his ass.
For the first time in my life, I actually feared him. I knew he would never harm me. He did care about me, but he could do more, something worse.
He dropped me home last night and didn't say a word throughout the trip. It started getting awkward. The next day we were seated next to each other in the class. Despite the closeness, we didn't talk. I didn't slide my notebook towards him, and he didn't pick up his pen to write anything either. We continued our silent quarrel.
In the last week, I had grown a little more comfortable with Sey, comfortable enough to eat together with him. I didn't even realise how that happened, that freak tried to kill me, and yet I forgave him so quickly. Maybe because I was lonely?
It wasn't like we never fought in the past. We used to fight like cats and dogs back at school. But this was worse than those days. Back then, we at least used to fight it out verbally and physically and resolve it in a day. This thing, this was strange, it wasn't even a fight. It was just, just some kind of an unwillingness to face each other, to face the truth. None of us was ready to budge. For him, he was in the right, and as for me, I knew I was in the wrong, but his behaviour didn't sit right with me. He needed to come out clean to me if he wanted my trust.
I was on my way to wash my hands before lunch when I heard Kai's name getting called out in a conversation. I stopped. The voices were coming from the boy's washroom. Curious, I stood outside to eavesdrop. It wasn't like they were making an effort to keep it down anyway.
"... son of a bitch, we lost face because of that football game. And then he just disappeared..."
"If all sections had lost to them with the same margin as ours, it would still be level."
"Where did he even disappear off to?"
"Who knows, probably got caught by the cops."
"I heard he often got detention at high school because he fought with people."
