It hadn’t taken Kai long to locate pictures of his family. He had done the same for Luke and Olivia and had even bothered doing it for his extended family. The Parker children didn’t have many known cousins floating around and not ones he bothered to remember, but Kai remembered this girl. “Technically, you don’t know me too well which is lucky since you’d be dead like the rest of your cousins. But I know enough about you, Davina.”

There it was, her name. He knew her-- obviously. But she didn’t know him. She had no memory of him, or of what he had done. It was as if she had found a blank space in her life. Davina didn’t take her eyes off of him, Olivia was right; he was psychotic, but something else altogether. “You do? Wow. Looks like I’ve got myself a stalker.”

“What should have been done the moment Kai merged with Luke. I’m sorry, Davina, but this is something that I have to do, there’s nothing you can do to help.”

“I know what you are.”

“Ordinary teenage girl stressed about her upcoming math test? Correct.”

“I would just hire you to light my birthday candles though twenty-seven may be a lot..I suggest you get some more practice.”He said with a small smile on his lips. “I don’t look that stupid do I?”

“Stupid? I’m sorry, I don’t know what you mean.”

“Impressive–do you do birthday parties?”

“Whaa--” turning her head, now paying attention the flame goes out, “No-- I mean I can try, but well, not very good. It’s battery powered. I’m just good at raising my hand at the right time.”

“No….I don’t. Right, I forgot you were still in pigtails the last I saw you.” Kai paused to press his lips together. “Does the name ‘Kai’ ring a bell?”

Kai. Here he was, in the flesh. She had no memory of him whatsoever, apart from the stories she’d hear floating around. She had to play it cool. Pretend as if she had no clue who he was. She had no choice. Olivia had told her to stay away from him, even showed her a picture... how stupid could she be. “Nope. Heard of you, yes. Know you? No. Sorry to disappoint.” 

“Yeah, thanks to him our family name is ruined. Lucky you, you don’t have to deal with that.” She swiped her tongue over her lower lip before stuffing her phone back into her back pocket. “You just worry about school and practicing magic. I’ll worry about Kai and whatever he has planned for what i’m about to do.”

Her eyebrows furrowed, “What? I can’t help? Wait, what do you have planned?”

You heard me.

Yes. I did and no, I’m not staring at you. Sorry to break it to you; but the world doesn’t revolve around you.

Liv pressed her lips together before grabbing her phone out of her pocket, it was a big if but hopefully she had at least some kind of picture to show her. There was one, facebook really was an archive of the bad and ugly. She turned the phone to show her cousin the picture. “Him. That’s Kai. I know your not stupid, but we’ve lost enough people in this family because of him, he’s not stupid either. Psychotic, but not stupid.”

She made sure she took a good look at the picture of him, memorizing the image. Kai. She’d remember the name. She couldn’t not. It was spoken everywhere. “I know,” she drifted off, she didn’t know. She couldn’t remember. She didn’t have a memory of him. He was a stranger to her. “Psychotic. Got it.”

Is there something you actually want to say or are you just going to keep on staring?

Erm... excuse me?

Yeah, it is a shame. What person doesn’t come to her own cousins’ birthday party?

She laughed. “You have me confused with someone else.”

“We’ve all been there.” She noted, wiping down the bar before looking back up to her cousin. “Good. It’s still hard without Luke but I’m not planing on letting him die in vain. Speaking of, you need to stay away from Kai.”

“Glad to hear it,” she smiled. The witch’s eyes gave a little role, “I don’t even know who this person is. But I’ll do my best. I’ve heard everyone’s whispers, I’m not stupid.”

“Relax, lass. Jus’ making sure.”

Good. But thanks anyway for ruining my work.

You skipped out on the best birthday party of the century. Your loss.

“I did? Oh. Shame.”