Chapter two- Greetings and get -togethers
"I still can't believe Roseate is letting nearly thirty people come to her Terra!" Piper was a bit baffled.
"But its Christmas...I don't see why not." Aerrow stood next to her, shrugging. Radarr was settled on his shoulders, a little peppermint candy cane sticking out of his mouth. Piper smiled at the little creature, and leaned in to give him a pet. Her face was beside Aerrow's, their hair brushing lightly against each other. Piper ruffled his blue fur, Radarr giving a contented whine when she had reached a spot behind his ear. She giggled.
"I think we all know each other too well." Piper's comment was meant for everyone, who continued with their business. Junko was trying to fix the radio, giving it little taps and twisting each knob. Stork slowly flew the Condor onwards, while Finn was somewhere trying to look good. For Jay... He had said.
Aerrow had noticed Piper being more clam these days, grace and beauty flowing around and surrounding her no matter what she did. As she smiled again as Radarr relaxed in her scratches, Aerrow saw the light catch her eyes with a glorious flicker and glow that took his breath away. Her dark colored hand dropped from the rabbit-monkey, and she was about to pull back. Aerrow grabbed her wrist, an action that left them both in surprise. He just wanted to kiss her so badly. Piper saw this, her gold eyes closing in acceptance. Aerrow moved closer to her, silence bestowed on them both. The boy could feel that he was close, but before they could meet, a jerk from the ship sent the two head over heels (haha... love pun!) and onto the floor. Stork looked back from the controls.
"Oops... I think we hit an air pocket." He nervously laughed. Piper, who was pinned under Aerrow, glared at him. Junko got back up from the floor, hiding one of the knobs that he had accidentally ripped off. The couple picked themselves up, Aerrow smiling sheepishly at the girl he had nearly crushed. Piper waved her hand at him, forgiving him.
"Are we ever going to get some time alone?" He asked her. Piper opened her mouth to say something more, but Finn at that moment waltzed in.
"Not until you guys get a room..." remarked the marksman.
"Thank you, Finn." Piper muttered sarcastically.
"HEY! I think I got the radio working!" Junko called, Piper turning around to him as a song began to fall feebly from the speakers. The Wallop punched the radio, Piper nearly flipping out. Its volume rose to a reasonable level, Aerrow gawking at the now proud Junko.
"Okay... I'm not even gonna ask how in the world you got it to work." Finn commented, and continued to look for something.
"I think we're almost there... Wasn't this the place we lost power last time we came to here?" Stork looked around frantically.
"Its okay, Stork. We'll be fine this time." Piper assured, but when she finished her sentence, the ship jerked, the team screamed, and snow suddenly swirled around outside of the windows.
"Really?" Stork said, trying to keep the ship steady as they tried to land in the snow.
"At least I hope we'll be fine." Junko sounded out Piper's thought as she looked at Aerrow, who chose that moment to look back.
"Well thank Atmos... That snow storm started about twenty minutes ago! Saphire and I thought you weren't gonna make it!" Roseate ran up to the team as they emerged from the storm and into her home. Aerrow and Piper were huddled together, Aerrow's face in front of hers to shield it from the wind. (I'm so sorry but.. Aww) Finn's teeth were chattering and he was muttering something under his breath. Junko shook the snow out of his hair and smiled at the people looking back. Stork was shivering completely, and Yuro who had opened the door watched in surprise as Stork walked past everyone and collapsed by the fire place. Saphire took a step back, shared a look with Rose's brother Jay-Jay then turned her eyes to her good friends the Storm Hawks.
"Hey!" Saphire called out.
Piper broke from Aerrow's grip to race to her friend. They greeted each other with a hug, laughing and saying welcomes all the while.
"How come girls hug when they greet each other?" Finn asked Aerrow, the red head shrugging.
"I'm not really sure. You could just ask them." He gestured to the two girls, who gawked back.
Piper sighed. "Finn, it's like our version of that ridiculous gun slinger sign you always use."
"Only a lot less..." Saphire put a finger to her chin, not sure how to end it.
"Egotistical?" Piper offered, the two giggling at the marksman's expense.
"Hey Aerrow." Saphire said after the laughs died down. "And, Finn, Junko, Radarr... Stork." Saphire smirked down to the Merb, who only waved his hand up in response. "So Roseate tells me that you two," She pointed back and forth at the Sky Knight and the navigator. "Are a couple. Piper girl, why don't you tell me these things!?"
"I don't know... Aerrow kinda took over my life." Piper said with a tone that encouraged that it was a good thing. The boy in question wrapped his arm around her waist as if to confirm it.
"Awww..." The brown haired young woman cooed. Roseate walked over, her brothers pretending to gag with Finn.
"I said the same thing!" The blue eyed girl added. The two shot comments of proof back and forth.
"It's so sweet!"
"He gets jealous when ever she babbles about some guy, you can tell." Rose grinned, remembering the time Max's cousin, Coby, flirted with Piper. Aerrow had been seething.
"Like she does that anymore!" Saphire finished, the two bursting out in laughs. "Aerrow will kill 'em!" The two only laughed louder, Piper giggling along.
"ROSE? I can't find that 'hidden dresser' you were talkin' about!" Jay's voice broke out from the stair case, creating physical quotation marks in the air for the certain words as she appeared. "Mikey's never gonna leave the kitchen, either." Jay stepped to the bottom of the stairs, and froze. "FINN?!"
"Jay!" Her loved one called back. Finn was then tackled, but maintained to stay standing, by Jay, the two blondes spinning around with the force of her speed. Jay-Jay and Yuro made gagging noises, Saphire trying to hold down a full blown laugh.
"Well," Rose's littlest brother said to everyone. "This Christmas is gonna be a bunch of mushy romantic crud!" Jay-Jay ended in a shriek like voice, Yuro nodding in agreement.
"The other people won't be here till much later, and they'll be in the huge sunroom in the back of my house. The party's actually tomorrow, Christmas eve." Roseate looked all around. Jay, Rose, Saphire, and Piper all exchanged looks. Aerrow stared down to his girlfriend, puzzled and a bit unnerved by the glances they were sharing. Fin was still holding onto Jay, and gave a frightened look to Aerrow. Junko and the two boys raced by, Yuro saying something about the mistletoe.
Crowe was sitting silently on the couch and at that moment, brushed some silver hair from her face and decided to yell:
"GIRL'S NIGHT OUT! Well in really..." It made every one jump out of their skin, Aerrow pulling Piper in by her shoulders by instinct, Finn doing the same with Jay. Then the five girls smiled and laughed, realizing the moment that they had in front of them. For Piper, it was like salvation from her boy infested world. The same with Roseate. The girls broke from the room, nearly knocking over Tex and Wes as they were coming down the stairs. Tex was kicked in the back by Crowe on the last step, her triumphant laugh ringing in her boyfriend's ears. He fell to the floor, Junko stepping back and holding up Yuro, who would've been crushed by the older teen.
"What in god's name did you guys say to them?" Wes questioned the small crowd of Aerrow, Finn, Stork, Junko, Jay-Jay and Yuro.
"Please tell me they're still sane!" Tex begged in a raspy voice, still trying to regain his breath. Mikey stuck his head out from the kitchen, a cookie in his hand.
"GNO." He simply stated before shrinking back into the warm kitchen.
"What?" Tex and Wes confusedly burst out with.
Finn's shoulders slumped as he muttered: "Girl's night out."
"Well in really." Stork put in.
Once again, this story would not be going as wonderfully if Jazzy Pony and DevilsAngelSaphire hadn't let me put their characters in the story. Jay, Mikey, Crowe, Tex, Wes, and the Jay X Finn pairing belong to Jazzy Pony, while Saphire belongs to well... Saphire! Thanks!