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Kai breathes out his chest heaving calmly while he lays on my lap. His eyes are trained on me despite the fact that we are supposed to be watching a movie.
I can see him in my peripheral vision and he doesn't know I'm watching him. The way he looks at me is as if I'm a puzzle waiting to be solved. It gives me chills but not in a bad way.
"What is it?", I ask staring down.
"I don't know you tell me", he says with mischief in his voice while a deep blush appears on his face, a result of his getting caught.
I mean Kai always tries to sneak looks at me but I had a feeling this time was a bit different and deep down I knew why.
It had been a week since the confrontation with Rick and his crazy followers but surprisingly everything had been calm. At school, they avoided us completely which seemed weird because they didn't care at all before. It was as if the same fire they had before had now gone out completely.
Although that's far from the reason I'm stressing.
Killian had actually just told me about my cousins and how they plan to visit my house at exactly 7:00 pm sharp tomorrow.
My cousins were like my second family and loved my father, their uncle, and brother—past tense of course. That was all in the past because after my father died it had changed all my bloodline relations. They hadn't visited me once although I'm not sure if I even take high offense to that. My mother on the other hand was an only child and her parents died a few years before they got married.
The family on my dad's side were now strangers to me but every year we still upheld a tradition my father had started. Dinner with some traditional Greek foods and simply just talking although it had no problem becoming toxic and turning into petty gossip after he died. The only reason we still did the tradition was for him, that was the cold truth. I know he would be ashamed of what we've become.
Now the difficult part and why I've been stressing for the last few days was how to tell Kai that he would now become part of that shit show I had to endure for a year. Kai felt like real family to me if not more so including him in this tradition would give me more comfort than I could ever imagine.
"What makes you think something's up?", I question with my walls up trying to deflect.
"You've had this certain look in your eyes at school and every time I see you", he says staring up at me from my lap.
Yup, he's got me.
"I hate how much you've begun to know me better than myself", I say giving him a small smile as I begin to run my fingers through his hair.
"You don't hate it", he says smirking up at me.
"Your right", I say with a light chuckle.
"so I have a family dinner tomorrow.", I say a bit hesitant.
"Ok and?", he questions.
"I want you to be there but that's not the problem obviously", I say more anxious than usual.
"It's not just my regular family but also all my cousins, aunts and uncles. They can be...well extremely judgemental", I say finally looking back down at him.
I observe his face after I state what's been on his mind and I see his eyes flash with some nervousness.
Trust me I'm just as scared.
"Now I know why you've been so nervous to tell me because family is definitely one of my greatest fears somehow", he says exhaling nervously.
I look at him with some sadness in my eyes briefly remembering what he's been through.
"I'll be fine though", he says a faraway look in his eyes.
I nod softly looking back to the movie with a terrible terrible feeling for tomorrow.
A/N: I would be scared if I were you all. DOUBLE UPDATE SOON GET READY (Since this chapter was a bit short..although it was meant to be short and impactful leaving you all with an ominous feeling;)
get ready for the next chapter drama, I'm a writer who loves drama I can't tell if that's a bad or good thing.
