Day 16

Months passed and missions went by

I grew accustomed to everything. How everything worked, who does what, the attitudes of everyone, how everyone is like. I was a real member of the team now. I didn’t think I would ever be here months ago but here I am. It was summer now and Kay and Riggs kept their distance and everything seemed to be going well. We were all playing guitar hero just goofing around. Even the Chief was there watching. Kay seemed pretty happy but I knew inside she was being eaten alive by something. But she hid it pretty well so I couldn’t say anything. Even I noticed my attitude changing. I actually became nice. I wasn’t a hardass. Even though in the beginning I was there to kill Her, I grew to really like Her. Literally. We were playing Paradise City, Ringo on drums, Takashi on base, Kayvroni on guitar and singing because no one would sing. She was surprisingly really good at both, what a shocker. She was going into college this September, so it was going to be a little harder for Her than one would like. “You’re beastin it with the combos Kay!” Takuya told her. I smiled and looked up at Kay to see her fingers moving at the speed of light with her little tongue sticking out. “Blah! Say whhhatttttt!?” She said when the game was over. When she was happy, she acted like a little kid. I enjoyed it as long as possible, because it went away very fast. I was still pretty closed, I didn’t really show true colors of emotion, but Kayvroni brought out the best in me when I didn’t even know it. “Not for nothing Al, but when you look at Her, your eyes get all dreamy. Just sayin,” Leeha whispered in my ear. I moved over and shot her a look. “What are you talking about?” I said confused. “What?” she said. “What?” “Your hair looks good,” Leeha said taking attention away from what she just said. I shook my head with a smirk and said “Thanks.”

     That night I was really beat so I went to bed. It was late and I went into my room to see Kay standing in the open windows. “What are you doing?” I asked her. She turned around and said, “Nothing?” She hopped down and shut the windows and fell on the couch. “Goin to bed?” she asked. “Yeah, I’m beat,” I went into the bathroom to find something, but I forgot what I was looking for. I went to leave and she appeared in the door. “Holy shit, you scared me,” I said. She had a sly look on her face and said, “My bad.” She slipped passed me and threw off her shirt. I never seen her without her shirt off but she had some sort of tattoos on her. I was kind of taken back when she did that so I couldn’t really say anything. I couldn’t even look at her for some reason; I got nervous somewhat. “What’s a matter? Cat got your tongue?” I looked up at her. She dropped her pants, and unclipped her bra and held her boobs. She walked up to me and said, “Are you gunna stare? Cause if you are you can touch, or you can just get out so I can shower.” It took me off guard and I honestly didn’t know what to say. She never said anything or acted like that before, but I guess we were just getting comfortable. But my heart raced like it never raced before. I just looked at her and left the bathroom. I stood in the middle of the room, thinking what was that all about. I found my pjs and put them on and got myself cozy in bed. She opened the bathroom door soaking wet with a towel wrapped around her. She leaned against the doorway and just stared at me. She walked to the side of the bed and sat down. She got up and looked through on of her draws. With her towel still on, she slipped on underwear and dropped her towel. With her back turned she slipped on a tank top with no bra. She turned around and said, “I don’t think I’ve ever been this comfortable in so long.” I managed to say, “Yeah, you look pretty comfy.” And we just laid in bed staring up at the ceiling.

A few weeks later

The team decided to go on a trip to Miami. We stayed at a nice little condo right off the water. We were supposed to investigate some mobile suit. I remember one day, we were all just laying in the sun by the pool, and it was hot out. I looked to the right of me where She was supposed to be but she wasn’t there. I got up and saw Her leaning against the railing that separated us from the intercostal. She was looking out at the water at something. So I got up and went next to her to see what she was looking at. “What are you looking at?” She just kept gazing and didn’t answer. “It’s not polite to stare you know,” I said. She took my head in her hands and pointed it to where she was looking. “Look. What is that? What is she doing?” It was some blonde chick that looked like she was standing up on a surfboard with a paddle paddling away at the water. “Huh… I don’t know what she’s doing. Why don’t you go ask her?” I said sarcastically, and turned around back to my chair. “HEY! HEYYYYYYYYYYY YOU! OVER HERE!!!!!!” I heard her screaming. I looked at her like she had five heads and we all started laughing. She turned at me with a look saying, “why isn’t she paying attention?” I shrugged my shoulders at her and said, “Try harder.” We were all laughing at the mere point she was being ignored. She didn’t like that very much. She turned back around and jumped over the railing into the water. “KAY NO! I said try harder not go after her!” But it was too late; she was already swimming off to the girl on the surfboard.

     We all watched what she was doing. She was swimming pretty fast towards the girl too. I think the girl saw Kay wanted to talk to her because she slowed down to a complete stop. Kay swam right up to her and started waving her arms. We could only imagine what she was saying to that poor girl. “She’s a pest,” Sato said chuckling to himself. “Aw stop. She’s curious, that’s all,” Takuya responded. She was swimming her way back and the girl began paddling up once again. I got up to see how She was going to manage getting back up, considering there was nothing to grab onto and it was low tide. She swam around to the seawall and climbed up there. She came back up to the pool and shook off like a dog. “Well?” I said to her. “Well what?” “Are you kidding? What did she say?” “Oh, she said the name of the paddling on the board but I forgot. I don know we were just bullshitting.” “That was an awful long time to bullshit. Anything interesting?” She just stared at me in a serious way. “…Or not. Well she must’ve thought you were crazy or something.” “Nah, actually she thought I was a pretty good swimmer,” she said with a huge smile on her face. “Was she hot?” Takashi asked. Me and the girls shot him a look and Ringo laughed and gave him a pound. “You’ll see,” Kay said and jumped in the pool. He looked over at me and I gave him a face.

     We spent the next three days in bliss. We went out every night, and every night we got closer and closer. We were a real team now. Riggs of course was a crank half the time, but I think even she had fun. It was a well-needed vacation. We had an apartment right on the corner of the condo, so we had a balcony. And every time I would fall asleep next to Kay, I would wake up in the middle of the night and find that she wasn’t next to me. I would get up and find her on the balcony looking at the water. “Shhh…” she would say every time I slid open the doors. “If you shut your mouth and you’re quite, you can hear the fish splashing around.” So I pulled up a chair next to her and we would watch the fish. Sometimes we even saw dolphins. She would go inside and bring back the blanket she would use if she actually slept and put it on me. “Here,” and she would throw it in my face. It’s better then nothing. It kind of made me smile.