A/N: Hey guys! Here's Chapter 2 of Mi Amor, Aerrow!

Disclaimer: I don't own Storm Hawks or its characters. Now on with the story! Enjoy! =)

Piper's POV

"Prepare for landing!" I hear Stork call out as I feel the small jerk of the Condor landing under me.

"TROPICA!" Junko and Finn shout in unison. I can already hear them running off of the ship.

"Piper, are you ready?" Aerrow called to me from the direction of his room.

"Just about!" I call back, grabbing my sunglasses and my beach bag. Before I walk out of my room, I take one final look in the mirror. My new two-piece swimsuit seemed to fit ok- not too loose, not to tight though either. It's blue with a streak of orange and purple across the front of the top.

I'm also still wearing my crystal necklace. I never take it off, and I probably never will, but I don't want it to get wet. It was given to me on my fifth birthday by-

"Piper, c'mon already!" Ugh, Finn. Just because he's off of the ship doesn't mean that he doesn't know that I'm taking too long for him to stand.

I step out of my room, deciding to keep it on, take it off if I go for a quick swim, and then put it right back on again.

No one's in the Condor's main room, so I just veer left and head for the platform to get off of the ship.

The only person I see is- you guessed it- Aerrow. He's the one I can always count on to be patient with me, despite his jump-on-it attitude. "Hey, are you ready?" He says, his eyes bright with excitement. It's always his eyes that I notice first.

"Yep, I've got everything." I say.

"Is that a new swimsuit?" He asks as we walk down the platform ramp and onto the beach.

"Yeah, I just got this one. Didn't think I'd be wearing it this soon." I blushed, and turned away a little so he wouldn't notice. I know that he notices things, but I didn't think he'd notice my new swimsuit.

Ok, so maybe I'm lying.

As we approach the others, we see Stork spraying a can of whatever his latest phobia will be repelled by. Not even bothering to ask what he actually is trying to repel, we move past him and find Finn and Junko fussing over the grill, with Radaar as their eager audience.

"What's going on?" Aerrow asked them.

"Junko's cooking something, that's what's going on!" Finn said as he tried to get the spatula away from him.

"What? It's just some grilled sky squid tentacles." Junko said plainly, holding one up with spatula for all to see.

I glanced at Aerrow, but he was keeping a straight face, as any good friend would for someone who can't cook too well (well, in our case. Junko told us his dishes are delicacies on Terra Wallop, his home). "Er, keep up the good work Junko." He said, earning him a look from Finn. I giggled quietly as Junko re-adjusted his chef hat and continued to cook.

"You do realize that since you're the leader, you're going to have to take the first bite, right?" I whisper to Aerrow.

Aerrow gazed at me in mock horror. "Oh, no. What should I do?!" He said, placing the back of his hand on his forehead, as if he was about to faint at the thought.

I laughed. He always knows just how to make me laugh.

***

Later on, after we're all thoroughly soaked- chilled by any small breezes and still trying to keep down Junko's "delicacies", I sit back in one of the six hammocks that the guys had set up earlier, lounging in what's left of the sunlight. It helps me to endure the chilling wind, but only just.

I gaze up at the multicolored sky, thinking about the day's events.

For starters, I'd found a new crystal for my collection buried in the sand. It's pink, and it may be just me, but I'm positive it changes shapes when I'm not looking. I'm not sure what kind it is yet, but I intend to find out soon enough.

As Finn and Junko continued to fight over the right to be the chef, Aerrow and I went surfing. I didn't even know he knew how to surf. If he doesn't, then he didn't show it. I fell off of my board and straight into the water before I even caught a wave.

He started giving me lessons, teaching me how to stand on it and not fall overboard.

By the end of the day though, I ended up riding on his board, holding onto him for dear life as we caught the final wave of the day.

It was nice, holding onto him like that. I focus on that comforting thought, not counting how we wiped out because he couldn't maneuver as easily with two riders on the board. I skip that part to afterwards, when we came up to the surface and started splashing each other despite how soaked we already were.

After we dried off, Junko served us his main dish for dinner, since everyone had refused the appetizers he had offered us earlier (it was something green and slimy on toothpicks. Somehow, I figured it wasn't Jell-O). It turns out I was right, Aerrow was offered the first taste.

He took it and, without cringing like the rest of us, and politely took the first bite. He chewed it slowly, and then swallowed it. The rest of us froze, waiting for a reaction- any reaction, but particularly a reaction that would have made one of us have to get the first aid kit.

"It's… pretty good, Junko," Aerrow said as the rest of us continued to gawk at him, all except for Junko of course, who was smiling a proud smile.

Slowly and cautiously, everyone else started to accept the food, not wanting to hurt his feelings. And actually, I think to myself now that my stomach's settled, it wasn't so bad.

Coming back to the present, I take the crystal I found out of my bag and inspect it again, wondering if Aerrow might like it since his birthday's coming up soon. I haven't found anything that I think he'd like, but maybe this could be it. It's got a healthy-looking glow to it, even in the sunlight. But that's not what makes me do a double-take and almost shriek.

Just as the sun sets, I swear, I swear that it's in the shape of a heart now.

A/N: Ooooo, got ya hooked yet? If I haven't, there's going to be some action coming up soon, I promise you. See ya! =)