Oh shit a dog

The road was slick coming back, the rain pelted down in sheets making the air in front of them opaque even with headlights on. Something white dashed in front of the car Allison swerved to avoid it. The car thumped and the white animal yelped as they hit it. She let out a squeak and said "IS IT OKAY?"

"What have you done," he replied in a grave voice.

"I DIDN'T MEAN TO!"

"Allison, Allison, it's okay you're gonna be fine, and so is the animal," he placed his hand on her shoulder "We need to put it in the backseat, and while I do that you need to hop in the passenger seat, and google the nearest vet,"

She was crying and shaking but she managed to nod through sobs "o-*hic*-okay,"

He opened the doors and when they got out he wrapped the animal (a dog) in a towel and carefully placed it in the backseat, then he got back in the car soaked. Allison directed him towards the vet the panic soaking her voice, the dog whimpered in the backseat as they drove. They got to the vet and Allison pounded on the door as he stood nervously to the side. Scott opened the door and Allison and Kai started rambling at the same time "I didn't see it-" 

"she was driving-" 

"I took my eyes off the road for like two seconds-" "you couldn't see anything the rain was-" 

"I grabbed a fry-" 

"and a dog just-" 

"And then this dog, it just-" 

"ran in front of the car!"

"came out of nowhere!" 

Scott tried to calm both of them down

"It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. It's all right. Do you remember where it happened so I can send animal control to find it?"

"No! I mean, yes I know where I hit it, but the dog is-"

"It's in the trunk!" Kai sobbed "wait shit- no the backseat! It's in the backseat,"

Scott helped them take the dog inside to the exam room. They both hovered nervously around Scott as he checked the Collie for injuries.

"I think her leg is broken, I've seen the doctor do plenty of splints, I can do it myself and then give her a painkiller for now,"

Kai sighed in relief and Allison nodded soaked and shivering.

"I have some extra shirts in my bag…" Scott offered

"Oh, I don't want to trouble you,"

He grabbed two shirts from a backpack under the table and handed one to Kai and the other to Allison 

"Thanks" she blushed and went outside of the room to change. Kai turned away and took off his shirt making sure to carefully mold an illusion of skin around his torso and chest there was a mirror just in front of Kai and he could see Scott looking through the window at Allison

"Perv,"

"Wha- I didn't see anything!"

"Don't worry Loverboy, I'm not a snitch," Scott fell silent "looking at a girl changing is between you and her," he still didn't respond "Scott?" Kai turned around, Scott was staring at his exposed back and at the scars that marred his glistening white skin. He immediately tugged the shirt down and glared at Scott, who instantly apologized "I'm sorry"

"It's fine" Kai snapped

"Can I ask-"

"No, you can't,"

Allison walked back into the room. Kai turned to Scott "Thanks for the shirt man,"

He scratched behind the dog's ear and it gave a little wag in appreciation "I'll wait outside, 'kay Allison?"

"Ok,"

As he was leaving he grabbed an umbrella from the holder. The fender on his car was dented a bit, it would take 30 minutes maybe an hour to repair. He climbed into his car, the engine purred as he idled in the parking lot. Allison walked out with an umbrella and waved goodbye to Scott whose face was obscured by the closing sign in the window. She climbed in, closing the umbrella and putting it between her legs "I'll drive you home" she nodded and nothing more was said.

Kai closed the bedroom door behind him, leaned against it, and slid to the floor. His room was a mess clothes scattered across the floor moving boxes stacked to the ceiling, the closet door was half blocked by them. He got to work neatly folding the clothes and putting them back into the laundry basket, tomorrow he would go into the backyard and burn anything khaki. When he was done he started unpacking the boxes oddly most of them were clothes, he put them in the dresser and collapsed the boxes one by one throwing them onto his bed and out of the way. Eventually, the boxes stopped being filled with clothes, the first box that wasn't was filled with posters and paintings. Some of the paintings were Kai's own work, others were from moderately well-known artists, one wasn't, Kai almost couldn't place it until he found a sticky note on the back that read Claude Monet Wisteria 1916-1919 "Oh fuck me," he gingerly set it against a wall "It's a Monet,"

The Painting was hung up immediately on the second-floor common space where he played games with Allison earlier. The rest of the boxes were unpacked, and slowly a door was excavated from behind them, it led to a very pretty powder blue bathroom with a white clawfooted tub, cerulean shell sink, a very basic-looking toilet, and a large rococo-style three-panel vanity mirror. A single frosted window let in pale streaks of moonlight. Kai got in the tub fully clothed, it was big he could touch the ends with his head and toes but only when he stretched out his toes, the brim came to his collarbones when he sat up straight. "That's going to be super relaxing later" 

He changed into a sports bra and a pair of sweatpants pulled the covers up to his chest, and fell asleep.