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It would be simple to look up the information that Kai had given her in her instagram DM. The internet was a perfect place, she could find her hacker friend Twilight626 to ask around about what people had heard about the two men in her life. She was sure that there were several gossip bloggers that would be very knowledgeable in this aspect.

She had taken a lot of pains to become an ordinary person now and she didn't want to be caught up in something awful again.

The Afuru siblings were always bundled together with the strange and slightly insane but to think they had made up a whole plot to mess with Mario was just too much, based on everything she had dealt with today in her heart she felt like they were good people who wanted the best for her. If this was not a lie, then obviously why would they hoodwink her? She was a complete stranger to them and what would they get out of it?

The DJ started the next set as the whole suite thrummed with the vibration of the bass. Kai looked at the ground with an annoyed expression on his face as he tittered on his feet. Was it giving him motion sickness?

Candida blew out one final puff of vape before sheathing the pen and walking out of the room.

"Hey dude, are you feeling okay?"

Kai's eyes rolled into the back of his head as he put both hands to right himself in front of him. Yuliya could tell quickly that her voice wasn't doing much to calm him so she used her own hands as in her head she imagined a set of handlebars so he could brace his hands while he shook delicately. Eventually the tremors subsided and he threaded his hands through hers.

Yuliya's attention was drawn to his eyes down as Kai was frozen. He couldn't sway to the music or stomp lightly with his feet as he had been previously. Words were still not something he was able to do and intimacy was of course out of the question. She felt like his brain was caged and unable to free itself. It was impossible to know how he was feeling. She hoped that he didn't feel embarrassed by this as she really did not think less of him for having reactions like this.

Although his mind was far away, his body was still there with her. The hands touching hers tightened and she could feel that he was rubbing circles into her wrist. Her vantage was so close to him that she could really enjoy the planes of his features, the almost alien quality to how chiseled his jaw was and the matching sharp cheekbones. To have him look up at her while he was holding her and telling her all the things he wanted to make her feel while he was in his bed. The words came to her even though he had not spoken them to her yet, his intentions were all honest with her and she was attracted to the thought of him being below her as she did what she wanted to him.

Yuliya pushed his tousled hair out of his face to see his expression more clearly.