Lloyd's p.o.v

"So, let me get this straight. You want to throw Kai a birthday party for the first time in his seventeen years of living." Cole asks. "Yep, I want to make hem happy." I say. Jay sits up. "Dude, have you noticed how he's been. He doesn't want to celebrate it. Don't cha think there might be a reason behind it." Jay said. "Yall are just being a stick in the mud. He needs this." Cole covers his face "Look, just cause your his boyfriend doesn't mean you have to shield hem." I said. "True, but, Kai's gotten to a point where one small thing can can destroy everything we've worked for. I'm telling, don't do this." Cole said. I walk out.

Over the course of the week, I get the stuff and hide it. Than, the night if Kai's birthday, I set the stuff up. In the morning, I wake the others and they come into the dinning room. Cole shakes his head "I'm telling you, this is a bad idea." Cole says. I quiet hem as Kai walks down the hall. He steps in, yawning and when he opens his eyes, they go wide. "Happy birthday, Kai." I shout.

Kai's p.o.v

I'm frozen in fear. How'd they find....my records. Only Lloyd shouted out meaning only he planned this. Panic sets in, Cole comes to me. I jerk away, running down the hall to my shop. I can hear Cole yelling at Lloyd. Slamming the door, I retreat to the far corner, sitting with my knees drawn up and head in my arms, in the fiddle position

I hear the door open,  I don't look. Shuffling sounds as my creations are shifted. One is placed over my left hand, I grab it and pull it close. It's mama. I know who's in here now, my beloved boyfriend. He wraps his arms around me, I clime in his lap, curled up inbetween his legs with my head tucked in his chest. He rubs my back as I shake. He gently rocks than, soft vocals sound

I listen as Cole sings. It calms me down, I look at my beloved. He continues till ending the song. "Your okay. We tried telling hem but, once Lloyd's got his mind set, there's no stopping hem." Cole softly says. "Where'd you...learn the song." I hiccup in a small sob. "My mother. She use to sing it to me. Even when she got metastatic breast cancer, she sanged. I sanged at her funeral and there wasn't a dry eye in the place. I was only eight." Cole says.

I hold the sculpture of mama, stroking her cheek. "I hope to find you one day, mama." I say, holding her close. I look like a kid holding a teddy bear but, she's the only thing that calms me down. Looking at Cole, I give a smile. "Thank you." I say. "Anytime, anywhere. I'll do what ever you need." Cole kisses my cheek. I stand up, he follows. "On my birthday, he would wrip, beat, cut, burn and rape me, I want to make new and happy memories. I want an actual birthday." U say. Cole hugs and I purr. We leave the room, mama still in my hands. Walking in, Lloyd and Jay are taking the stuff down.

"Leave them up, I want party." I say. Jay almost falls off the ladder. Lloyd walks over, he hugs me. "I'm sorry. I wanted to give you an actual birthday for once." He says. "I don't have the best birthday memories so, let's make some new ones." I said. The rest of the day is spent having fun. I enjoy celebrating a party, turns out, not all bad things stay bad. I fall asleep at the table, the sketch book from Jay infront of me. Hands gently take my shoulders and I'm picked up. Layed down, Cole curls into me.

A few days go by, I wake up gruggy. A spitting headache, throat hurting... I sit up, hacking into a tissue from beside the bed. Cole gently rubs my back, he feels my forehead. "Your hot. Let me get Zane." He gets up. We had the day off from training and me and Cole are the only ones in the room still. Something rises up, I reach for Cole bedside trashcan and throw up in the bag. Zane and Cole come back as I throw my guts up. Zane waits as I finish, rubbing my back. "Open." Zane asks, holding a flashlight. I open my mouth, Zane looks at my throat. He puts a thermometer under my tounge, it beeps. "102.5, yeah, your staying in bed." He says. Cole nuzzles me, I gag again, throwing up in the can.

Around noon, I'm curled under the blanket. Grabbing a tissue, I cough up green slime. Zane said that's a good thing. Balling it up, tossing it in the new bag, I roll over. I'm dozing off when a cold rag touches my neck. "Just me, love." Cole says as he lays it over my forehead. The fever hasn't rose, much to Zane's delight. Closing my eyes, I fall asleep. This goes on for two weeks. I'm able to hold down saltines with milk to coat my stomach. Today, I feel better, not one-hundred percent but enough to take a bath. Running the water, slipping my shirt off, I look at the scars on my back. I never was beaten, I learned from a young age obedience. No, I got these during our sessions, our....play dates, if you will. Anytime I looked at them, they made me feel like I was a plaything. Now, they give me strength, cause I survived. I'm here today cause of Cole and the guys. Reaching to my cheeks, I pull off the fake skin, the slits seen. He put them there when I was born so I would stop crying and never cry. Turning off the water, I slip in, sighing as the warm water seeps into my body, washing everything away. Water is poured over my hair, I lean up as cole shampoos it. "Do you want to cut it." He asks. It's the length of my elbows. "Yes, to my neck." I say. He rinses the shampoo out, I wash and get out. Boxers and shorts on, I take the towel and a shirt with me. Cole grabs a kit and we go out to the deck. On a crate, Cole begins to cut my hair.

He finishes, handing me a mirror and I love it, it's not to short nor too long. We go to my shop, I'm almost finished with all the sculptures I'm doing for the guys. Another hour and the last one is done. Placing them in boxes, I set them at the dinning room table where the respected person sits.

Jay's p.o.v

Coming in from training, Kai is up and about. He's making dinner. I notice boxes are placed where we sit, we take our places. Kai comes out with chicken and dumplings with a pot of rice. "Open them. I'd like to watch y'all before we eat." I open mine, it's like a room. It's of me and Kai in the living room, I'm showing hem how to play the x-box. "Turn yours Jay." I turn the stand and it's of me tickling Kai on the floor. He has even the smallest detail in detail. "This...this is amazing. Your incredible at this." I say. Lloyd's is when he threw the birthday party for Kai, Nya when she taught hem to swim, Zane when he patched Kai up. I notice Wu doesn't have his yet "still working on it." Kai says. Now, it's time for Cole's.

Cole's p.o.v

I open my box and the first scene is my and Kai in his old shop at the camp. I'm helping Kai with boxing his sculptures. He even made tiny versions of the sculptures. Turning the next one, it's when I carried Kai to the medbay for Zane to patch hem up. Next is Kai in our room, pulling back the covers and laying in bed. The fourth, when I stood up to Mikey for dunking Kai, Austin and Tris in the background. The next one is when I comforted Kai after his panic attack when Lloyd threw the party.

I get up, going to Kai and kiss hem right there. "I have something else." Kai pulls out a box, handing it to me. Opening it, it's the necklace I was wanting. I went to buy it the other day and it was gone. "Mr.Collen gives me the money he gets from selling the sculptures I give hem. Has even offered me a job there, which I took. I know you wanted to buy it but, I wanted to show how much I love you." Kai says. I clip the necklace on, pulling hem to me for another kiss. "You don't have to show, I already know how much you love me. But, I'd have something for you, love." I say, backing up.

Kneeling, Nya and Jay gasp and Lloyd and Zane go wide eyed. "Kai." I reach into my breast pocket. "When I found you in the camp, I didn't see a boy scared out of his mind. I saw someone lost that needed to be found. Someone who needed love and a home to call their own. It's been a uphill battle but, I've been there for you and I'll continue to be. I don't want to lose you so, I ask this." I open the ring box. "Kai, will you marry me." He has tears falling. "Yes, yes, a million yeses." He says, I slide the golden red ring on his finger. Standing, Kai beats me to the kiss. The others cheer, coming over to hug us. With Kai here, our family is complete, but, the fire master is still out there. Right now though, my mind is on Kai. "I'd like to ask something of y'all." Kai says.

He holds a sculpture, it's his mama. Kai sets it down "This is the sculpture of mama, my birth mother." He pulls out the picture, laying it down. "That's what she looked like twelve years ago. What I'm asking is. Help me find my mama and birth family. I will never leave this one, but, I want to know where I come from." Wu walks up, placing a hand on his shoulder. "We'll gladly help you. Your family, ours is complete but yours is not. We will help in any way we can and we won't stop till your reunited." Wu says. Kai smiles a smile from ear to ear. I hold my beloved to me, he holds me.

Next up, mission reunite Kai with his family.