OK I just had an idea, and I had to get it down before I forgot it. Well this idea came to me while I was listening to the rain last night. Well the idea is about Jordan wants to ask Molly(AKA:Eva) out. The rest you'll just have to find out.
All Tangled Up
Eva stormed out of Don's room and past Jordan. Jordan caught sight of her. Her face was red from yelling back at Don Wei. That's the fourth time this week. Those yells could be heard throughout the whole module. Jordan stopped and turned around to follow her, but decided she should be left alone for awhile. Jordan thought about going back to their room to take a nap, considering that he was up till two the night before, but made a U-turn to a certain someone's office.
Don sat in his office, very disturbed from what Eva had said. The conversation started out with him yelling at her about not winning the race that day. then it went on to relating her to his daughter back on earth. Then she got furious and screamed at him that if he was her daughter, she would rather kill herself. There was something about her that bugged him. the way she raced and the way she acted. When Eva raced, it was like watching his wife all over again. By how she acted, Eva sometimes acted like Maya, but the rest of the time she acted like him. He was so caught up in his thoughts that he didn't realize that the door to his office swung wide open. Jordan marched through the door with a serious look on his face.
"Mr. Wei, I would like to have a word with you, if you wouldn't mind." ,Jordan said in his most formal voice he could muster.
Jumping slightly out of his trance, Don answered, "Cretainly. Please take a seat."
"It's about the race. I think we could do better. Don't you agree?" ,Asked Jordan.
"Well I would love for us to do better, but as for the racing part you should tell this horrible pilot what the rules to being a good pilot are." ,Don stated.
"You want to a rule that I have always known? It's that every good pilot needs a good trainer and leader. I don't think you're a bad trainer, but I do think you're a horrible leader. You shouldn't yell at Molly for doing her best. You know something else, you're suppsed to be supporting her as a pilot, and trying to find the good things that came out that race. You don't need to tell Molly what she's doing wrong. Let me tell you something(Jordan poking Don in the chest with his first finger), she knows exactly what she is doing wrong. She tells me all of the time about what she should have done in the race. I'll leave you before I start throwing punches, but for once think about what I have said."
And with that Jordan stomred out of the room. He was proud that he actually stood up to Don Wei. He checked his watch, it was almost nine in the evening. Jordan went back to their room to see if Eva was back yet. He pushed the curtain back to see if Eva was in her hamock. She wasn't. This bothered Jordan he hadn't known Eva to stay out this late on a race night. He figured that she was by the lake. He got a couple of blankets, becaus it was cool outside. He past his pack. Knowing what he had bought a few weeks ago, Jordan dug around in his pack to find the present he had got for his crush. Stuffing the package in his pocket,(and kissing his grandfather's dogtags for luck) he headed down to the lake. Just as he thought Eva was sitting on a rock by the lake with her arms around legs.
Hearing her mumbling under her breath, Jordan put a thick blanket around Eva and sat down next to her. Eva jumped hard enough that she almast fell in the lake, but she was caught around the waist by Jordan's arm. He helped her back onto the rock. She resumed her sitting style. She continued to look up at the stars.
"You want to know something, I actually stood up to Don for you. He was speachless when I left." ,Jordan exclaimed in a proud voice.
"Awsome and thanks." ,Eva said with her hand in a high five motion. Jordan slapped her hand. Eva started shivering uncontorlably, and her teeth were starting to chatter. Jordan notice this, and wrapped his blanket around her and himself, pulling her closer to him, so see could be warmer. Eva didn't cringe away like Jordan thought she would. Eva thought Jordan is really warm, and she snuggled closer to him.
Jordan was nervous about what he wanted to ask Eva. He had been nervous about the whole subject of dating and coulpes. I can't believe what I'm doing,but here goes nothing. Jordan thought to himself.
"Um...Molly? Do you want to...um...go do...something...tomorrow night...just the...two of us?" ,Jordan asked hopefully.
Eva was surprised, Jordan was actually asking HER out on a date.
"You mean like a date?" ,Eva asked.
"Yeah, I guess." ,Jordan said his knees shaking. Good thing he was sitting down, or he would have surely fallen down into the lake.
Eva said in a shaky voice, "I'd love to go with you."
"Great! Well aren't you kind of tired? I mean we can go back." ,Jordan said.
Blushing Eva said, "You can go back, but you're really warm. I wouldn't want you to go."
"I guess we could stay warm in our room. I don't think we should get into anymore trouble than we need to get into." ,Jordan said with a blush creeping up to his cheeks. Both were glad it was dark out so as the other wouldn't see them blushing madly. Eva could only nod. So,walking close together, they made it back to their room without making a sound. They both stood there for a few minutes.
"I'm not really that tired. I don't think I could go to sleep in this cold wind." ,Eva said.
"I know." ,Jordan left Eva for a minute. When he came back he had one the heaters that they could use for theit room.(Everyone got a heater with their room.) Eva smiled a big smile at him. After Jordan got it started, they sat on Jordan's bed trying to get warm. Jordan saw that Eva was pulling her blanket around her tighter so, he scooted over as close as he could to her, and put his blanket around Eva and himself again. Almost instinctively, Eva cuddled up closer to Jordan. Jordan was blushing again. Eva looked up at Jordan's face and saw that he was blushing and smiling. Looking down, Eva felt her face grow warmer. Jordan placed his arm around Eva's waist, and she laid her head on his shoulder. Jordan was about to say something when he felt Eva lean into him more. He looked down and saw that she was asleep. He just smiled and closed his eyes to sleep.
The next morning Stan and Koji got up early as they always did. They were going to wake up Jordan as a prank. They turned down the hall and walked silently to the room. Stan went into the room first, to see if Jordan was still asleep. He came back out with a wierd face. Koji asked in a low voice, "Is he in there?"
"Oh he's in there alright. Just go see what I mean." ,said Stan when he saw the expreesion Koji had on.
Koji walked in and turned towards Jordan's bed. Instead of seeing Jordan cuddling to a pillow as usual, he saw Eva cuddling up to Jordan and him cuddling back. They both wore a small smile in their sleep. Taking out a camera that he always carried around, Koji took a picture of this. He still couldn't believe it. Koji came out of the room and said, "I got a picture of them. Now we can use it against Jordan."
The mechanics gave each other a high five and left to do the rest of the repairs on the Whizzing Arrow three. A half an hour later, Don came out of his room. He walked around to see if he could find Eva to apologize to her. when he couldn't find his pilot or gunner, he went to their room. He found them cuddling each other on Jordan's bed. Don got Jordan's attention by clearing his throat loudly. Jordan rubbed his eyes and looked up at Don in his room.
"Good morning, sir." ,Jordan gretted him and looked down. He saw Eva clinging to him. "Ah." Jordan pushed Eva off of him and put her on the bed alone.
Eva turned over, still asleep, and hugged Jordan in a death hug, "Don't go keep me warm." ,Eva mumbled.
Trying to pry Eva away from him, Jordan explained, "We wer just talking. It was late and I guess we fell asleep." Jordan finally got Eva off of him. Eva was rubbing her eyes.
"Well when your partner wakes up fully, tell her that I came to apologize." ,Don said and then walked out of the room.
Letting out a deep breath, Jordan was never that scared in his entire life. Looking at Eva, he grabbedhis pillow and threw it at her.
"OW. What was that for?" ,Eva moaned.
"That was for getting us in trouble. I had to bail us out again." ,Jordan said.
Blushing at what he meant Eva said, "Oops, sorry about that."
They got dressed for the day and then headed out to see what part of Oban that they had to race next. Walking up to the Arrow, Jordan was pulled backwards to the hall by a four arms. The machanics were smirking at Jordan. Koji had his camera out, and was looking for the picture that he had taken that same morning.
Giving it to Jordan, Koji said with a snicker, "So, how's your girlfriend?"
Turning red in the face, Jordan said, "Molly's not my girlfriend."
Stan said with a pout on his face, "But you two make a great couple."
Freeing himself from the mechanics' arms, Jordan stormed off.
"Where have you been? I've been looking for you." ,Eva stated. Jordan felt his face turn warm, because Stan and Koji were giggling behind him.
"I was dragged off by those two." ,Jordan explained, "Pranksters."
"Well let's go to the control room to see where the race is." ,Eva said and grabbed his hand to pull him along the way. Jordan was shocked that Eva had actually grabbed his hand. This just made the mechanics laugh harder. Eva understood what they were laughing at and let go of Jordan's hand right away. Both were blushing hard.
"Sir, where are we racing, today?" ,asked Jordan.
"Well, the readings say that we're racing in this treacherous storm. I don't understand. How can anyone race in this storm?" ,Don mumbled to himself.
"Don't worry, sir, we'll get first place today. I can feel it." ,Eva ventured to say, "I'll keep us going as long as you don't yell."
"If you get first, I'll even celebrate." ,Don said that as if they werenever going to win. Everyone stared at him. Nobody thought he would ever celebrate.
(Well I'm not all that good at writing about the races, so imagine the exact thing that happened in Optomize like Ondal.)
The Earth Team had gotten first place, and as promised Don was celebrating with them. Everyone was having a great time. Eva went up the stairs to the edge of the Module. Jordan had noticed this over the brim of his mug of hot chocolate. He walked carefully up the stairs, because of ice and saw Eva sitting on the ground. Sitting next to her, he gazed out at the stars. He thought he should give Eva something since they had won their first Oban finals race. He only had two dogtag neckalaces, his grandfather's and his own. Thinking it would be more romantic to give him his own dogtag neclace, he took it off.
"Hey Molly, I have something for you, since you won the race." ,Jordan said. He raised up the necklace. She took a good look at it.
"It's your dogtag necklace. I couldn't take it." ,Eva started.
"No, no I want you to have it." ,Jordan said. Eva finally agreed and scooted closer, so Jordan could put it on. Fumbling with getting it on, he latched it. When she started to sit up straight again, "Ow,ow,ow"
"I guess we're all tangled up" ,Jordan joked.
"Just get me out of this. Ow." ,Eva complained.
Eva's hair had gotten caught in Jordan's other necklace. She fell into his chest. Jordan saw what had happened and was trying to get her hair out of his necklace. It took about ten minutes, but Jordan finally got them untangled. Eva fell all the way forward. Jordan tried to catch her,but this time he missed, and their lips met in tne middle. Both very surprised, were sitting there in shock. They finally came to their senses and leaned away from each other.
Wow. That kind of felt right. Wierd. I can't believe I actually liked it, and his lips are so sweet. Eva thought.
She tasted even better than I thought. I wish that would happen more often. Jordan thought.
Thinking of a scheme, Eva asked in a confused voice, "Um Jordan...I wasn't sure on how that happened. Can you show me again?"
Surprised on what she had said, Jordan replied, "Sure. Just fall towards me."
Eva didn't fall, she jumped into his arms and kissed him long and hard. Jordan was also kissing back. Their moment lasted for only a minute. They heard a click from a short distance away, and parted to look towards the noise. It was Koji, he had taken a picture of them kissing. Jordan and Eva tackled Koji to the ground and got the camera.
"Thanks for the souvenier, Koji. I always wanted to see what my first kiss would look like." ,Eva said, waving the camera in front of Koji's face.
The new couple went down the stairs hand and hand. Koji was laughing his head off after a while. Don was furious at Jordan, when he grabbed Eva around the waist and kissed her. They both got in trouble, but they agreed it was so worth it.