CHAPTER SIXTY
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song: need you tonight by INXS

"OH SHIT." Was the first thing that came to mind when Daisy awoke the next morning, Kai asleep in the bed next to her.

She was frozen, her eyes wide in a panic as she tried to put some logic behind last night's actions. Not sure if it really happened or if she was just dreaming, she glanced around the room, seeing both all their clothes flung around the room.

Her hand flew to her mouth to muffle any noise of surprise she was about to let out. Of course she knew it happened, but there was something about waking up the morning that was still so shocking.

She slowly turned her focus back to Kai, as began to move. She shut her eyes quickly, pretending to still be asleep. She heard a quiet snore escape his lips as he turned over to face the other direction, and when the bed was still, she opened one eye to make sure he wasn't awake.

With his back to her, she got a good look at the numerous deep scratches on his back and her eyes widened further. "Oh shit." She whispered.

Her heart was racing as she quickly thought of what to do next. Was it going to be awkward? Was she going to make it awkward? What was he going to think? What were they now?

Before she could risk any awkwardness, she felt herself slowly sliding out of the bed, trying to make as little movement and noise as possible in fear of waking him.

As her bare feet hit the cold floor, she tip toed across the room to gather her clothes one by one, slipping everything back on. When she was fully dressed, she turned to Kai who was still sleeping soundly in the bed.

Her hand still lingered on her mouth. Whether that was a reflex of shock, or just a way to muffle any words that might accidentally slip from her mouth. She had no idea what to do in these situations. Is he going to wake up and they have to congratulate each other on sleeping with each other multiple times in one night? Do they not say anything at all and carry on as normal? Is there a certain code of conduct that she didn't know about?

The awkwardness of it all wasn't even the problem, it was the fact that she did it. She wanted to bang her head against the nearest wall, but a part of her was a little surprised this hadn't happened earlier, so she cut herself some slack.

Kai shifted in his sleep again and she felt herself freeze, sucking in a deep breath and not letting it back out until she was positive he was still asleep. That's when she knew she had to go, the thought of him waking up and seeing her and talking to her after last night— she didn't want to even think about it.

Quickly spinning around to open the door, she twisted the doorknob as slowly and quietly as possible before slipping into the hallway, shutting it behind her.

"Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit. Oh shit." Daisy whispered as she frantically looked around the house like that would give her any clue on what to do. "Oh shit!" She let out, a bit louder than intended. She smacked her forehead with her palm.

As she heard shuffling coming from the room she thought she had left quietly, her first instinct was to of course, panic. Backing up quickly, she bumped into a side table, to which she knocked a lamp off, and it fell to the ground with a loud glass shattering burst.

"Oh shit!" She whisper-yelled, then before she could process her thoughts any further, she found her feet carrying her out the front door.

She heard the bedroom door creak open as soon as she shut the front door behind her. Rushing out to the driveway, she struggled to put her shoes on at the same time. Almost tripping over her own feet a few times, she made her way to the car parked out front, getting inside and starting the ignition before rationality could kick in.

Inevitably, Kai came into view, stepping in front of the car she was about to kick into drive, with his hands out in a 'stop' motion. "Oh shit." She whimpered.

He was barely dressed, buttoning his jeans as he came around to the window where Daisy sat. She felt her eyes glued to his bare chest, where an assortment of necklaces dangled from his neck. When she felt eyes lingering for too long she quickly glanced up to him, swallowing harshly as she rolled down the window.

Kai leaned against the window, waiting for her to meet his eyes, but she just stayed focused on the steering wheel. He took a deep breath. "Where ya going?" He asks, in a chirpy tone.

Daisy swallowed again. "I'm..." She thought for a good excuse as quick as she could. "I'm getting breakfast." She nodded proudly like that was believable, as she turned to face him.

Kai narrowed his eyes and nodded slowly. "Getting breakfast?" He asked.

Daisy kept nodding. "Mhm."

Kai saw right through her, and it's not like it was hard, she'd always been a shit liar. "Where?" He egged her on.

"Where am I getting breakfast?" She asked, trying to relax her eyes that just wouldn't stop widening in a panic.

"Mhm." Kai responded.

Daisy thought as quick as she could, trying not to make it look obvious that she had no idea. "McDonald's." She blurted out, when it was the first thing that came to her head.

Kai nodded slowly again, eyeing her suspiciously but hiding the smirk that so desperately wanted to show. "McDonald's?" Kai raised an eyebrow, he then turned and looked around at the completely empty desert that surrounded all of them. He turned back to face her and she was once again avoiding his eye contact.

Daisy felt her mouth begin to move and spurt words before she could even process them. "Yeah, I— I saw one a few miles away." She mumbled, still not looking up to face him.

"You did?" Kai would be lying if he said he didn't find amusement in watching her struggle to lie. Daisy didn't respond, so he thought to egg her on further. "You've got something on your neck."

Daisy snapped her head up to the mirror that hung above her head, her eyes widening at the sight of numerous hickeys that lined her neck and collarbone. Her hands running over them in a panic like she'd be able to wipe them off. Kai stifled a smile as he watched.

She inhaled sharply before speaking. "You know what," she began as she opened the car door, Kai moved out of the way as she hopped out. "Why don't you go get breakfast I'll— I'll be here." She nodded quickly as she made her way back to the front door.

Kai stayed in the driveway for a few seconds, before he followed her inside. He found her rushing back into the bedroom, only to come outside a second later with Kai's shirt, which she threw at him.

Kai caught it with a scoff, throwing it back on as he watched her scramble around the house for anything to keep her busy. "What are you doing?" He asks, unamused as she frantically searched through the drawers of the side tables in the living room.

Daisy swallowed harshly, her shaky hands shuffling through the assortment of papers and pens that seemed to fill every drawer she searched. She eventually leaned up, looking at him with a deep sigh. "Do you have a cigarette?"

Kai scoffed, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a pack. He tossed it to her and she caught it, her trembling hands struggling to open it and pull one out.

He watched as his mind raced with a million questions. He replayed the events of the night and he couldn't recall one time that she acted like this wasn't something that she didn't want, so he was unsure why she was acting this way.

"Daisy—" he started as she pulled out a cigarette and placed it in between her lips, only then beginning to search the same drawers for a lighter. He let out a sigh. "Daisy."

She looked up and he pulled a lighter from his pocket. She closed her eyes in a sense of defeat, stepping towards him like him lighting her cigarette somehow meant defeat.

He eyed her as she leaned forward. He then flicked the lighter and held it up to the cigarette that she held out towards him with her lips. His eyes stayed glued on her, though hers stayed focused on the ground.

He pulled away, turning off the lighter as Daisy pulled the cigarette from her lips, blowing out a puff of smoke. "Thank you." She muttered.

He was once again completely lost in trying to read her. One moment she's literally on top of him, and the next she's in a completely different universe.

"Were you just about to take the only car for miles and abandon me in the middle of the desert?" He questioned.

She glanced at him, biting the inside of her cheeks as she thought about her next answer. "I wasn't abandoning you." She responds, like he was being dramatic.

"Right, you were just taking the only car for miles and leaving me in the middle of the desert." He retorts. Daisy brought the cigarette back to her lips, taking a long drag before blowing the smoke back out, not sure what to say next. "You were gonna disappear again."

Daisy swallowed, watching as his eyes tried so hard to read her expression. "I never disappeared before." She shrugged a bit.

He wanted to scream with frustration, but instead he just rubbed his eyes, stepping back a bit as Daisy walked past him and into the kitchen. If there was a spell to stop someone from being so stubborn, he'd use it.

"How about that time I didn't hear from you for three years?" He retorted as he followed her to the kitchen.

"That was a mutual thing." She nodded, opening the fridge.

"You throwing away your pager, and forbidding me from using magic on you so I can't do a locator spell is a mutual thing?" He questioned.

She didn't want to admit he was right, that was actually the very last thing she wanted to do as she'd already done it too many times in the past twenty four hours. So she just searched through the fridge frantically as if that made it look like she was acting completely natural.

Kai stepped in front of her, blocking her view. "Will you sit down?" He asks, frustratedly. "I'll make breakfast."

Daisy hesitated for a few moments, but there really wasn't going to be an easy way out of this no matter how many times she tried to convince herself there would be. She walked over to the kitchen counter and sat down at one of the barstools.

Kai sighed as he turned back around, grabbing a few things from the fridge. He poured a glass of orange juice and slid it across the counter to her. She caught it and nodded in thanks as he went back to preparing food.

Daisy caught glance of herself in one of the decorative mirrors that hung on the wall in the kitchen. Her hands trailed up to the love bites that colored onto her skin, grazing her fingers over them as she recalled each moment of his lips on her body. She felt her breath hitch, and she then felt Kai's eyes on her.

She quickly brought her hands down as she realized he was watching her. She stretched a bit, trying to make it seem that she wasn't reminiscing and just being completely and totally normal.

"So last night..." Kai began as he turned back around to crack two eggs onto the pan on the stove.

"Was just a hook up." Daisy interrupted him before he could go on any further. "Between two very sexually deprived people. Perfectly normal and— rational." She wasn't sure if she was trying to convince him or herself.

"You were really good." He spoke, with his back to her.

Daisy choked on the orange juice she had just brought to her lips to take a sip of. She covered her mouth with a balled fist as she caught her breath, completely thrown off guard. "What?" She swallowed, wanting to make sure she heard him correctly before she made a total fool of herself.

Kai stifled the smirk that was still on his lips before turning back around to meet her gaze. "You were really good." He repeated. "Last night." He was finding too much amusement in watching her like this.

Daisy's breath hitched as a pit grew in her stomach. "Thank... you?" She mumbled, not sure what to say.

She felt like a total idiot. It's not like this was her first time, and it definitely wasn't her first time with him— why did this feel like such a big deal to her? And why did it not feel like a big deal to him?

Kai turned back around to the stove. "I especially liked hearing you scream my—"

"Kai!" Daisy interrupted.

"No, not like that," he turned around to face her. "More like—"

"Do you find joy in this?" Daisy interrupted, narrowing her eyes at him. "Torturing me?"

She knew as soon as she let the words out that it was the wrong move. She just had to helplessly watch his face shift from a smile to a more suggestive look. She let out a deep groan as she face planted on the counter into her arms.

Kai put the cooked eggs on a plate and walked back over to Daisy, sitting the plate and a fork in front of her at the counter. He then leaned against the opposite counter and crossed his arms.

Daisy took a deep breath, before putting her cigarette out in the ash tray that sat on the counter. She didn't even want to turn towards Kai, let alone look or speak to him. She just grabbed the fork by the plate and picked up a piece of scrambled egg.

"You're welcome." Kai spoke.

Daisy just felt a tinge of the most powerful urge to clock him in the face. "Thank you." She somehow got out, even though it was clear in her voice that it pained her to say it.

He scoffed. "You know, you don't have to act like you regret it."

Daisy snapped her head up towards him. "Well— what if I do?!" She argued.

Kai's eyes never shifted, and his mouth never twisted into a menacing smile. "Do you?" He asked quietly.

She felt her heart pound against her chest at the question. She swallowed harshly as she redirected her attention back to the undeniably well prepared scrambled eggs in front of her. "No." She let out as she angrily forked a bite.

She could practically hear him smirk. "Then do you want to tell me why you were about to up and leave?" He asked.

Daisy chewed harshly, leaning back in her seat with a sigh as she thought of her response. She swallowed the food before speaking. "Because—" her mind abandoned her and she was left without any snarky responses or retorts. "Because... I..." She didn't know what to say. "Because I told myself that no matter how— how bad it gets that I won't— we won't— do that again."

Her response was genuine, and it looked like it really hurt her to admit. Kai watched her for a few seconds, he appeared understanding but his response certainly wasn't. "Well that's stupid." He says with a huff, leaning off the counter and out of the kitchen.

Daisy's eyes widened at the less than empathetic response. She lingered in her seat for a few moments, glancing at the eggs she wasn't done with and then back to the hallway he just slipped into. Her feet carried her up and out the kitchen before she could process it. "Stupid?!" Daisy shouts as she followed him.

Kai turned around to face her, frustratedly. "Yes. Stupid." He responds. Daisy tried to process his words and he kept speaking. "You afraid you're gonna be judged by someone?" He asked, shaking his head. "Who?! There's no one here!"

Daisy swallowed. "I—"

"You said it yourself, 'nothing matters here'!" Kai interrupted, flailing his arms out a bit.

"This is different!" She shook her head as she attempted to gather a rational argument.

"So different that somehow sleeping with me is worse than murdering an entire town?!" Kai retorts confusedly. Daisy shut her mouth quickly at his comment as she was about to respond. "Admit it. You feel more guilty about what we did last night than what happened in Winslow." Kai spoke angrily. Daisy didn't know what to say, her mind was racing with responses but she just couldn't land on one for the life of her. He scoffs when she didn't respond, understanding that he was right. "And what does that say about you?" He lets out as he shook his head.

"What does that say about me?! What does that say about you?!" She corrected, her eyes widening. "Remember the last time we were in a relationship I was so miserable I tried to kill both of us?!" She screamed the words, her voice scratchy at the sudden rise in volume.

"Oh, so we're in a relationship, now?! I thought this was just a hook-up?!" Kai yelled back, flailing his arms out confusedly.

She ran her hands through her hair, wanting to yank it all out. "God, you're such a dick!" She yelled.

"You're just pissed because you know I'm right!" He yelled back.

Daisy felt herself shake with anger, as she pushed past him and towards the front door that stood behind him. He grabbed onto her arm before she could reach the door and turned her back around to face him. Her eyebrows were furrowed in an angry expression. "Let me go." She said.

Kai didn't dare lift his gaze off of her. "Make me."

She hated how much his words had control over her, she hated how quickly she melted and how badly she wanted to— before she could process what was happening their lips had already crashed into each others, and her back was slammed into the front door.

She clung to his back, pulling him into her in an attempt to feel more of him. Sloppy, fast kisses trailed from her lips to her neck. He pushed her jaw upward with a free hand as he devoured her, their heavy breathing mixing into one ball of fast paced panting.

She ran her fingers through his hair, tugging on it as he dug his strong hands held her body in place. She leaned her head back and closed her eyes. "We shouldn't do this." She let out, but that was the last thing she wanted.

Kai spoke into the kisses as he found himself taking her shirt off once again. "Why?" He whispered, and his breath tickled against her skin. She helped him lift the shirt off her head before she grabbed his face and pulled him back in. He pulled away for a second and stared deeply into her eyes. "Give me one good reason why, and I'll stop." He whispered.

Daisy's felt like her heart was going to explode if she didn't feel his lips on her again. And that was tell enough. She grabbed him again, connecting their lips.