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chapter 8

Kie arrives ten minutes earlier than expected which did not make much of a difference. I had been ready for hours sitting around watching the clock feeling the excitement build up with every tick of the clocks hand. I had taken a shower and decided to sleep. Try to sleep I should say. I guess that they call it the city that never sleeps for a reason. It had taken me a while to put together an outfit. Putting together different t-shirts with diffrent pairs of jeans. Nothing seeming to take my liking. I settle on a pair of dark blue jeans that complemented with a dark brown short sleeve t-shirt with the symbol of a queens ruk on the right side of my chest.
I open the door and Kie walks in looking a tad confused.
"Sam hunt what are you wearing, you won't get in looking like that" I look down feeling offended by his judgment.
"Get in where" i ask but for the hundredth time today he ignores my question and walks past me brushing his fingers across the plum coloured wall paper and in to the bedroom.
"Put this on" he moans tossing a dark lime green shirt at me from the bed. To say I have been in the room for hours I was still yet to put my cloths anywhere else but across the bed.
Kie makes his way towards the closet opening the doors to reveal a full wardrobe of male clothing.
"Ah, I knew i still had it" he says holding up a black leather jacket that was slightly worn down on the inside of the arms but still looked in good condition. He waits for me to button up the shirt that was a size to small and made my muscles apear larger the normal before throwing the jacket at my head.
"Why do you have a wardrobe filled with cloths here" I ask.
"It's the guest room Sammy boy" there goes my teeth clenching together again  but I don't let Kie see in fear of offending him.
"The guest room?"
"Yeah when folks come to town they stay here or if I get wasted on a night out and decide I want some lady cuddles" he says.
Suddenly I feel a little strange sleeping in a bed that Kie has as he says lady cuddles in late at night. I know exactly what he means by lady cuddles but I didn't push for anymore details I already knew a lot more then i wanted to know or even needed to know.
"Come, were going to be late" I slip my arms into the leather jacket and sort out the coller, perfect fit.
"Late for what" I ask. One hundred and one. I shrug my shoulder and follow him out of the hotel room picking up the key card before we leave. I watch him as he walks down the hallway with such confidence. His shaggy hair had been jelled back against his head giving off the impression that he was older then he was. Eighteen going on thirty. I had not even thought of doing my hair. Up to this point I had just presumed that he would be taking me to his house to see mr and Mrs Cooper oh yeah and nikitah, I roll my eyes to the back of my head. We make it down the stairs in three minutes and then we're off, the famous Kie and Sam against the world reunited for an epic battle. A long black limozeen sits in front of the hotel with a showfur standing next to an open door. I look around for our car but kie begins walking towards the limozeen looking back at me with a devilish grin on his face.
Dam Kie what happened in past year did you win the fucking lottery or something. How he and his family were offording all of this was unbelievable. an all expense paid for trip to new York staying in a five star hotel and being driven around by a showfur.
I jump down from the marble steps and head towards the car to meet back up with Kie.
I hope in the car and to my surprise I am not alone two other people sit in the far end of the limo. A boy dressed all in black with hair to match. Red and blue party lights dancing over his caramel skin he couldn't of been as old as me and Kie his face was round and he still had a little of his baby fat left to loose. The other was a girl sitting silent with a smile on her face that could lighten a room, the second thing I notice is her dimpals small craters on either side of her face, her long pink dress fitting her slender body perfectly. I look down at my feet suddenly feeling nervous. I was in a new place no not just a new place a new city no not even that I was in a whole new country living the life of a celebrity with a boy I had bearly spoken too in a year and two people that I had never spoken to ever plus there was the lack of warning to prepare. They looked like nice people especially the boy in some ways you could say he resembled a large teddy bear. I guess that would be a stuffed toy. Dam it Sam you need to get this lingo down if you stand a chance of impressing anyone.
Kie jumps into the limo on the opposite side from where I got in looking extremely happy with himself.
"Oh Sammy boy what's with the face, were going to show you a good time" he grins. What, who, you and the two people I have never heard of before I think to myself.
"Sam this is Asher and v" Kie introduces us to each other Asher nods giving a polite smile and v offers out her hand.
"Is Veronica" she says shaking my hand firmly.
"Dam v what do you have to go be so polite, making the rest if us look bad per usual" Asher says in a deep voice that throws me off. Maybe he was our age and just looked a little younger.
"So where are we going" I ask Kie still waiting for an answer.
"Some place your going to like" one hundred and two. God I wish this boy would give me a straight answer for once. V must sense the worried feeling I have inside or at least see it in my face becuase she slide down the leather seats towards me.
"Here" she says handing me a thin glass filled with a cloudy liquid. I look at the glass for a long second before looking back at her. She must sense or see my un trusting to exept a drink from a stranger.
"Kie, I like this Kid, he's smart" she says taking a sip from the thin glass taking care making sure that I see the cloud liquid enter her mouth.
"See not poisoned" she says offering me the glass for a second time, asher laughs and v shoots him a death glear. this time I take the glass from her hand and take a sip. The liquid was cold and sweet when it hit my lips leaving a warm sensation in my throat as it slid down into my stomach. I take a second drink from v and this time take it down in one swig.
"Wow easy tiger, you don't want to get hammered before we get there do you" Kie asks pressing a button to his left which sets of a chain reaction, first music starts to pound through the speakers a Bruno mars classic and then a rectangular space of the limo's roof slides away reaveling the famous new york night life. The breeze feels good on my face. Another five minutes and the limo would have become to stuffy to cope with.
"I don't know, I still don't know where we are going do i" I say sarcastically and both Asher and v start laughing.
"All in good time brother" Kie replies before raising to his feet and lifting himself up out of the rectangular hole in the roof until his entire torso disappears from view.
"Woo" asher shout pressing an identical button next to him creating another hole in the roof only this time on his end of the limo, he does the same leaving me and v in an uncomfortable situation.
"You know Sammy boy, you are all he has talked about in weeks. You must be some guy" she says tucking a loose strand of dark brown hair behind her small ear.
"You seem shocked" dam this girl is good at picking up emotions.
"No, I mean yes, no i mean no, it's just that I haven't really spoke to him in a year. I was just suprised to know we had gone our sepret ways" i say probably opening up a little too much to a girl that i have never met before. Kie cheers from above putting a grin on my face.
"Ah I see" she pours more of the cloudy liquid in to two glasses before talking again.
"Well from what I have gathered he owes his life to you" I'm confused, owes his life to me. I have no idea what she is talking about but again she picks up on my emotions like some kind of machine.
"Wait you didn't know, come on you have to know" she sounds sympathetic. But I still don't understand what she is talking about, she takes my silence as her qeue to speak again.
"You where sixteen and from what he has said he wasn't in a good place. He was going to do something, something bad and well you called asking if some girl had come round for pizza as he was about to... Well you know" My heart cracks in half just like the day in the café all over again and again like last time there was no one there to push it together. She can't be saying what I think she is saying. Why didn't he say anything, why did he keep it to himself. I look away as tears fill my eyes. Hurt but not for me, for Kie for going through something like that on his own. I can not even begin to imagine what it must feel like to want to end it all.
"You okay kid" v says placing a comforting hand on my right knee. A single tear begins to roll down my face I try and wipe it away before she sees but I'm not quick enough.
"Hey don't get upset. Your the hero, it's unbelievable how highly he speaks of you. He cares for you very deeply" I look back up at v knowing know that the tears had left my eyes reterning back in to their glands. She looks worried like she should not have said anything.
"Don't worry I won't tell him you told me" she relaxes like I had just saved her from an awkward convocation between her and Kie.
"So do you know were we are going" I ask her hoping that I may finally get a straight forward answer.
"Sorry, under struck orders from the boss to keep it top secret" she says nodding towards Kie's legs. And at that momment he crouched down placing a hand on my shoulder.
"Come on Sammy you have to see this" he says pulling me upwards and out of the window. There is bearly enough space so it is a tight squeeze but I get through and see it. The night life. Holographic screens on each and every building for the as far as the eye can see. Building towering not like anything that I have ever seen in London and the buildings in London are quite big. I see Asher on the other end of the black strip of metal. I give him a wave and he throws his hands in the air cheering. Just seeing he joy on his face. In a complete strangers face filled me with that much joy that I do the same followed by Kie repeating. I look at the back of his head as she raises his arms in the air again. A smile creeps upon my face. Not so much a happy smile. It was more a  grateful smile. A new found apprictiantion. It was not everyday that you became the hero of someone's story. I felt a little ashamed of myself. Here Kie was in new York at a top college with a whole new group of friends he was telling a story that i had never been told when i had been back in london, still in the same college with the same friends and on the verge of almost forgetting him.
I climb back down into the safety of the limo where v has been sitting on her phone. I catch a glimpse of her Instagram feed before she clicks the button the top of the phone sending the screen black.
"Have fun" she say. I nod my head and place my hands on my face. The cold breeze and started the transformation of my skin from pale completion to a tomatoes shade of red.
"Are we almost there" I ask v now getting a little frustrated that I am driving to an unknown location.
"Erm almost, we just have to do one more pick up" a pick up who else had Kie not told me about. Less then a minute later the limozeen pulls to a hault. i expect Kie to come down from his hole and open the door but instead his legs dispear. He had lifted himself through the rectangular window. Another minute later and the door to my left opens up.
"Make room for the on comers Sammy boy" he says my teeth clench together again. V slides back down to were she originally sat and I follow sitting next to her. Two more people pile in to the limo almost filling it up to its copacity. A dark skinned girl with long straight hair climbs in over my legs and sits herself down next to v the end of her hair had been dyed blonde. He blue dress came just above he knees designed perfectly for her knee high black lace up heels that looked very uncomfortable.
I did not notice the second person instantly I was paying so much attention to the dark skinned girl. A boy. Not short but shorter then me and his hair shaved at the sides. It takes me by surprise that he too is hearing an almost identical pair of knee high heels exept his were blue and the girls were black.
"V, do the honers would You" Kie says taking a swig of the cloudy liquid straight from the bottle before pushing his body back through the hole in the roof. V introduces me to the girl first.
"Sam, Ashley. Ashley, Sam" and then the high heel wearing boy.
"Sam this is Tyler and Tyler this is sam" he gives me a wave and instantly I can tell that it was not one hundred percent his choice to be wearing the heels. A guy would not volenterrly go out wearing high heels if he wasnt comfortable with it and from what I can see I did not seem all that comfortable.
"Do you like my shoes" Ashley asks generally but looking at me while she speaks.
"Actually, I prefer the blue" I say being deadly serious. They were a much better colour then the black ones that she had on. She laughs then stands up and squeezes into the hole with Asher.
The car pulls to a stop and the voices from above shout.
"We are here" .