A/N: Aaaaand I have it up!Fourth Chapter is uploaded and running so go ahead and enjoy this one while you can. My finals is next week and you know what that means. Winter vacation. Maybe I'll finally get to relax a bit more...

Chapter 4

Still Getting Acquainted?

"Hello every-body!" JP greeted as he walked in through the doorway. JP, and the rest of the gang came walking in behind him to see the group of teens that they would be sharing rooms with for the time being. The place was cramp and messy as the unwary lot of strangers laid around doing nothing much except playing cards and video games.

"NO! NO! NO!" Kenta yelled as he threw the game controller on the floor. He had lost against a guy wearing goggles in a heady snowboarding video game.

"And hello to you too!" Kouichi muttered.

Kazu then walked up in between the two groups and decided to connect the social bridge.

"Guys! These are the people I was talking about!" Kazu said to his friends as he got their attention.

They all looked in his direction and behind him to see whom the guys he was talking about.

"Who are they?" one kid asked with a pointed finger.

"I'll get to that." Kazu replied. "Alright Takuya and friends, meet my posse!" Kazu pointed his hands toward his friends, as they lied motionless for him to introduce them.

"That guy that just had a PMS moment is Kenta Kitagawa, as yall already know." Kazu reminded.

Kenta waved carelessly with no emotion due to Kazu's remark. He was an awkward and quirky character with forest green hair and black-framed glasses to match his personality. His mood sporadically changed once he saw Zoe as he walked up to her and gently took her hand and kneeled before her. "Madam we meet again." He gently kissed the back of her hand as if she was a princess, but she was unpleased by his action.

Takuya, feeling uncomfortable, coughed loudly to get Kenta to stop.

"And that guy over there by the window is Henry Wong. He's in deep thought at the moment."

Henry barely acknowledge the others presence as he sat on his bed looking outside the window and mumbled something that sounded like "Hey". He was tan skinned with navy blue hair and loved wearing puffy vests.

"… And that guy over there is Ryo Akiyama. Just about every girl worships the floor he walks on."

Instantly, Zoe and Rose were right next to him with googoo eyes, getting acquainted.

"See what I mean." Kazu whispered to Takuya.

Ryo was what girls would say tall, dark, and handsome with natural charisma to top it off. He had coarse brown hair and piercing blue eyes. Of course a guy like him had no trouble getting any girl to notice him in a room full of subordinate people.

"And this," Kazu patted a browned haired teen with ruby red eyes, and yellow goggles mounted on his head, "Is Takato Matsuki, our goggled head boy."

Takato and Takuya confronted each other and analyzed the other with serious eyes. They walked in circles and looked each other up and down then stopped and reversed the process. They finally looked at each other square in face with a similar feeling.

"I feel like we're already friends." Takuya grinned.

"I know…" Takato replied, "We pretty much have the same taste."

They both checked themselves to make sure.

"Must be the shoes." Takuya replied with a toothy grin, looking at the same shoes they were wearing. "Favorite color?" he asked with an arched eyebrow.

"Red." Takato answered, "You like wearing goggles?"

"All the time." Takuya chuckled. "Favorite sport?"

"Skateboarding. You?"

"Soccer."

"I guess that's one difference." Takato replied.

"You ever feel like your friends don't get you?" Takuya randomly asked.

"Yeah! Exactly! You feel that too?"

"Yep. Just earlier I told my buddies about a talking GPS. They still don't believe me."

"Really? Well I believe you." Takato joked.

Both of them laughed in their own little world as the others watched them from the outside.

"Ugh!" Kouji was disgusted as he threw his head back.

"So you got a girlfriend?" Takuya asked after he stopped laughing.

Takato hesitated as he searched for words. "Well uhm… actually… its-its complicated." his eyes were darting all over the place. "What about you?" he turned the question around.

"Same here." Takuya replied as his eyes glanced over at Zoe who was still talking to Ryo.

"WELL! I'm sorry to intrude on y'alls happy little reunion, but the rest of us would like to unpack and get ready to sleep soon." Kouji rudely interrupted as he set his bags on a bed mattress.

"That's what I'm saying!" Robby yelled as him and Jack ran over to claim a bunker bed set.

"Where am I gonna sleep?" Bobby wined.

"On the floor." Robby said as he handed him his belongings.

Meanwhile, Zoe and Rose were finishing their deep conversation with Ryo.

"Um, Kazu?" Zoe called out, "Would y'all happen to have any friends that are girls?"

She and Rose wanted a group that they could relate to on this trip.

"Yeah they're in the other room across from here."

On cue, JP sprang up and ran out the door as if he had to use the restroom.

"What's with him? Bladder problems? Kenta wondered.

"He heard the word 'girls' so he went to go see for himself." Kouichi explained with a lethargic tone as if he explained it a million times.

***

JP knocked on the girls' door frantically, waiting for someone to answer. Suddenly the door finally opened, revealing its occupants.

"What the hell is going on?" a fiery orange haired girl in a purple cami and black pj bottoms opened the door only to see a huge guy standing in front of her, blocking the doorway. She forcefully punched JP in the face by instincts and watched JP flail to the floor like a sack of potatoes.

"AAAH! AAAh…. aah…. awh.." JP wailed as he rolled on the floor in pain, legs twitching.

"Oops, I should have warned you about her, dude. Her names Rika Nonaka and she can be a real... fireball." Kazu came walking up to JP's side. JP slowly got up holding his nose in between his fingers with blood trickling down.

"What the hell Kazu? You should have told me you were having guests!" Rika yelled. She was half sleepy, half angry, and half confused. (I know that equals 1 and a half)

"Actually, these are our new roommates." Kazu informed. Rika looked at him and couldn't believe what she heard.

"What do you mean roommates?" Rika asked. "I thought Takato said this place was ours for the trip?"

"Can some one get me an ice pack? She hit me hard!" JP complained in the background, staggering over to a couch to sit down.

"It's a long story, so just say hello to these dudes so we can get on with the rest of our day!" Kazu demanded as he watched Rika rub her eyes.

She sighed with annoyance and decided to go along with his plan

"Come on e'rybody! Lets get to know each other! Tell me all you names!" Rika said exuberantly with sarcasm in her voice. She had a sudden ingenuine smile stamped on her face.

Kouichi slapped Kouji on the back for him to go first. "Oh um… my names Kouji Minamoto." He quickly stepped back.

"And I'm Kouichi Kimura, his twin brother."

"No kidding…" Rika remarked.

"JP… the one you punched in the face." He had a stern look on his face while an ice pack covered his nose.

"Oh shut up. I didn't hit you that hard. Besides, my grandmother can take a hit harder than that."

"Well I'm not your impervious grandmother!" He said out of mockery. "I have feelings too."

"Hey," Tommy changed the subject, "My names Tommy Himi." he beamed.

Rika tried hard to smile back but wound up barely smirking. She wasn't really good at giving unprepared genuine smiles.

"And I'm Takuya Kanbara." Takuya had a ridiculous toothy grin on his face.

"Oh no. Not another goggle head." Rika groaned, holding her forehead in her palm. "Are you related Takato by any chance."

"Uhm…"

"UHM is not an answer!"

"No mam!" Takuya answered quickly out of fear.

Rika paused then started walking circles around him with an evil smirk on her face. "Now that's more like it. In fact, that is what you shall call me from now on. 'Mam'."

Takuya looked unpleased. "What do you mean? Why can't I call you Rika?"

"Listen goggle boy…"

Suddenly Takato came running in the room "Did you call me Rika?"

All the guys were astonished to see how much control she had over the goggle boys; everyone except Kazu who was use to seeing this.

"Not this time now go back, goggle boy!" Rika ordered and Takato skid addled back into his room. Rika looked back at Takuya with a smirk on her face.

"Since Takato already has that nickname, goggle boy, I'll have to call you goggle boy 2. How's that?"

"But my name is…"

"I said how's that? NO OBJECTIONS!" Rika yelled to show him who was boss.

"Yes!"

"Yes what?"

"Yesmam!" Takuya stood erect and saluted like a soldier in the army.

"That's more like it." She slapped him hard on the butt and walked off into her room. "The rest of you girls come on in. You guys stay out.

Zoe and Rose followed behind her with grins on their faces, especially towards Takuya. Rika closed the door behind them and left the guys alone.

"Whoopish whoopish!" Kouji and Kouichi were making whip lash noises, demonstrating how Takuya was being whipped and manhandled by Rika.

"What?" Takuya asked.

"Hahaha you got owned!" JP howled.

"Hehehe," Takuya laughed sarcastically, "Look who's talking. You're the one that got KOed by her earlier." Takuya retorted.

"Alright then… goggle boy 2." JP quipped.

***

Inside the girls' room, Rika was introducing Zoe and Rose to her little girl group that was still sleeping.

The place was smaller than the guys' room since there wasn't that many of them, and the room was also much neater too with twin beds neatly aligned.

"How'd you do that?" Zoe asked Rika out of curiosity.

"Do what?" Rika replied arrogantly as if she didn't know what she was talking about.

"Manhandle Takuya like that?" Rose finished Zoe's thought. The two girls were amazed by Rika's performance of male dominance.

"Oh pish. I could sense fear all over him." Rika bragged. "I don't know what it is about them goggle heads, but I just don't seem to like 'em. They're too immature."

Zoe and Rose looked at her and could understand what she was talking about.

"That is why I'm going out with Ryo." Rika confessed with dreamy eyes. She sighed out loud and clasped her hands together. "He's such a hunk with that rugged smile… and that nice bod…" she sighed again.

Zoe and Rose exchanged glances, not knowing whether to join her little world of infatuation or if they should snap her out of it.

"Are you still talking about you and Ryo, again?" one of the girls that were still sleeping remarked. The girl fully woke up out of her bed and stood before the three of them with a bewildered expression on her face. She was around Rika's height and had brown hair rolled up to the side in a short ponytail. Her hazel eyes tried to focus on the two strangers that were in the room with them.

"Who are they?" she asked.

"Oh, these some friends of Kazu's that some how got invited to this cabin." Rika replied.

"You mean they're staying?"

Rika simply nodded her head.

"Oh goody! That means more girls for us to hang out with!" the girl cheered in jubilee. "My names Jeri Katou by the way."

Both Zoe and Rose were nearly frightened by her bubbly personality.

"Are you always this… happy?" Zoe wondered.

"Oh don't mind me. I'm just… peachy." Jeri beamed a bright smile once again.

After that, all four of the girls gathered close to each other to get to know each other better.

"Oh there's one more girl in here, but she's still resting." Jeri mentioned. The four girls walked over to an occupied bed. In that bed laid a girl with blond hair and very fair skin that was two shades shy from being snow white. The girl finally woke up, revealing her glimmering blue eyes as they concentrated on the four girls before her. She abruptly got up out of fear, which then turned into confusion.

"Her name is Alice McCoy, and she's really shy." Rika pointed out.

***

The night was young but was getting old as the sun set in the western sky and darkness began to follow. The temperature steadily dropped further than its already wintry cold, and the northern winds started coming in.

The whole group got ready for bed as they slept in their designated rooms. Tomorrow was going to be an exciting day.

(Ending Song: Prologue, Lady in the Water Soundtrack)

A/N: Yeah I know that's a weak way to end it, but I must admit I was getting sloppy. I think I'm starting to have those dry spells or whatever, where I can't think straight when I'm writing, and lose material. I usually alternate updating my two current stories, but it looks like I'll be updating this one sooner since I have half of chapter 5 ready. I just need more time to work on it cause I'm pooped from all this studying that I'm doing that might not wind up being on the finals lol (I really need to find my fire of motivation).

And poor Takuya. How is he going to deal with Rika? Tune in next time on the next chapter.

Tah tah for now! – Alvin Chip (I just realize how retarded my penname sounds)