So yea the last chapter? A bit dramatic wasn't it, but don't worry hopefully it will be the only big drama chapter, I kind of want to focus more on comedy here after all, but anyway here we go with chapter 4 of...not sure how many in total I'll end up with, obviously it's not gonna go to like 20 chapters or anything like that so we'll see as we go along. Just be warned the end of this chapter gets a little...risque, well only in description anyway.
Also with my new college classes starting up, updates may take some time sad to say but I won't neglect this story like I have 'others'...(PvsV...)
That night, PaRappa's dad heard a knock at the door and found a upset Sunny with her suitcases on the other side of the doorway. After explaining what happened and, not having the heart to turn her away, let's her stay for the night, then they could discuss the situation later on in the morning.
That very morning, the first person up was Pinto, who was still not fully aware of what was going on... "Brush my teeth, brush my teeth, brush my teeth" she happily sings to herself as she skips to the bathroom, but hears something from within. She opens the door ever so slightly and sees Sunny puking inside.
"EEP!" she closes the door quickly and pretends to forget what she saw.
"Pinto? It's alright, I'm fine..." Sunny responded and opens the door for her, trying to smile.
"Sunny-Chan, did you stay the night here?" she asked in a naive childlike tone.
"Yea, you could say that..."
"Does Sunny-Chan know how to make breakfast? Dad always burns the toast..." she asked again.
"Burnt...toast..." this causes Sunny to clutch her stomach again and prepare to throw up again, closing the bathroom door behind her.
"Pinto, come with me and leave Sunny alone, she needs a bit of time to herself." PaRappa comes out of his room and grabs Pinto to take her downstairs.
When living in a small but a very active town, news tends to travel fast...
"OMG Lammy, it's so chaotic!" Katy exclaims over her cellphone. "Sunny's mad at her dad, her dad is mad at everyone, PaRappa's dad doesn't seem to want to take sides...Sunny's considering moving out and moving in with PaRappa and his family..."
"It's too much pressure I can barely keep up!" a exasperated Lammy replies on the other line.
"I know, I just hope Sunny doesn't have to be forced into making decisions she doesn't want to make. We need to support her no matter what happens though, and let's just count our lucky stars that this story hasn't been blown out of proportions yet..."
"Actually I wouldn't say that..." someone on the other line perks up, quickly identified as Paula "Have either of you two seen the latest edition of the "Chinquirer?"
"Joe Chin's tabloid mag? Yea I did..." Lammy sheepishly replies and holds out a copy to read. "PaRappa The Rapper: From Bling-Bling to Baby Bottles? The self-professed Hip Hop Hero reportedly expecting a child with longtime girlfriend and fellow rising singer Sunny Funny..."
"WHAT!?" Katy exclaims in surprise and shock "How did the press find out!? And the Paparazzi!?"
"Well to be fair we weren't doing a very good job at keeping it a secret..." Lammy deadpans "Maybe they ended up taking a peek at the chirps you sent..."
As seen on the social media website known as "Chirper":
KittyKT: Big congrats to PTR and Lovely_Sunny-Chan expecting their first child! #LoveTogether
Lovely_Sunny-Chan: KittyKT OMG Thanx! XOXOXO! #LoveTogether
Re-Chriped by: Um_Jammer_Lammy, Ma-San-247 FoxxyPaula
"Actually, it's not THAT bad..." Lammy began reading the actual article,"It says 'Of all the songs that PaRappa the Rapper and forgot, did he forget a certain line in the old K-I-S-S-I-N-G song?"
#...Really, that's what they're most concerned about?# Ma-San, who was also listening in on the conversation, shook her head in bewilderment.
"That's pretty much the worst of it...and as of now no one seems to be whispering behind our backs or trying to slander Sunny and/or PaRappa, so that's a plus." Paula nodded.
"Well, nevermind it then" Katy simply shrugged. "Any which way, I told Sunny she should just ignore what everyone else thinks and only do what she and PaRappa felt was natural...you know how these people tend to over-exaggerate these type of stories..."
Downtown, another certain someone was reading the latest edition of "Chinquirer" for themselves, but not for the article previously mentioned.
"What is this...they reduce the story of my big concert to 'relevant events'?" the annoyed Rammy read. "So two punks who couldn't keep it in their pants get the front page and the advertisement of my upcoming concert tonight is REDUCED TO BEING A SMALL PUFF PIECE!?" she crumples the paper up and throws it in fury.
"Rammy sweetie, relax, don't worry about it" Gaster walks next to her; the two of them were off to the location that Gaster and Gruber had booked for Rammy to perform at. "Just focus on your performance in a few moments, it's gonna be big, big BIG!"
"Oh yea, real swell..." she looks up at a building, the same place that she was to be performing at and to say the least, it wasn't exactly a place that someone like Rammy would want to sing at; it was a fancy looking bookstore, albeit a small one at that. "Of all the places you had to advertise me for, you had to pick THIS PLACE!? How did someone like you even manage to book this?"
"Let's just say that I know some people...namely myself and Gruber, who caused the original person that was scheduled to...disappear...and by that I mean we had his car towed, and then by pure luck the two understudies had prior engagements. It's your lucky day sweetie!"
"Don't call me that perv..." Rammy glared at him and then walked inside. There was a small cafe area from within the bookstore and in that area one could spot a small stage area, the place that Rammy would play. 'Playing for a bunch of bookworms...seems beneath me but a paycheck's a paycheck' she thought to herself as she waited for her mini-concert.
"Alright, you're on next miss...uhm, sorry I didn't catch your name..." one of the bookstore employees, a woman who's head was literally a book, tells Rammy.
"Then why should I care who you are..." she replied to the book woman and slowly walks up to the small stage, where her attitude changes to a more serious tone; if she had to play, she might as well make the best of it.
"Hello my people! Are you ready...to...be ruled!?" Rammy strums a bit on her guitar and the few people at the tables clapped, others seem distracted by their phones and laptops and blackberries. Shrugging it off, Rammy begins to play and sing a song.
Wait and Bleed-Slipknot
I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander over where you can't see...
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed... (repeated twice)
Goodbye!
I wipe it off on tile, the light is brighter this time
Everything is 2D (as opposed to 3D) blasphemy
My eyes are red and gold, the hair is standing straight up
This is not the way I pictured me...
I've felt the hate rise up in me...
Kneel down and clear the stone of leaves...
I wander over where you can't see...
Inside my shell, I wait and bleed...
Though as the little concert went on, nobody seemed to be paying full attention to Rammy, much to her chagrin 'the spotlight should be on ME!' she thinks to herself again and continues on.
After the concert, there was a bit of applause and there were even two or three people who asked for autographs, but it wasn't satisfying enough for Rammy. "Well, that was somewhat pointless..." she glared across the table where Gaster and Gruber sat.
"Hey now, I told ya, you have to start somewhere..." Gaster tried to re-assure her.
"Well...that's just it, this isn't how I wanted to start...I wanted to break out on my own in a big way..." Rammy trails off for a moment, much to the guys confusion.
"Break out? What do you mean by that?" Gruber asked her, but she glared again when he did
"That is a part of my past that you do NOT need to know, got that!?" she tells him bluntly and they simply comply. In her head, Rammy is thinking to herself, 'there is no way I am going to let them know...'
Back at PaRappa's house, Pinto wanted to know what was going on between her older brother and Sunny; they seemed to be talking a lot with Papa Rapper and later on when PaRappa left for Club Fun to perform, Pinto was left alone with Sunny as their dad went with PaRappa.
"Sunny-Chan, do you still have a tummyache?" the little pup girl asked.
"I'm fine now Pinto but thank you for asking...and it wasn't really a tummyache per say..." she scratches the back of her head.
"Well..." realizing there was no point to keeping a secret from the little girl, she decided it was best to tell her now "I suppose you have a right to know, but if your dad asks, your brother told you..." she playfully smirks, then thinks for a moment about how to explain."So, did your dad ever tell you about where babies come from?"
Sitting on her lap, she replies, "I think so yea, but I didn't quite understand the whole part about where bees fit in...I mean the stork is a bird so that sort of makes sense but-"
Blushes she pauses her, "Right right, well, putting it bluntly they come from inside the belly of a girl, do you seem to understand that much?" the young girl nodded.
"Well, that's essentially what's going on with me...that clear things up?"
"I think I do but don't you have to be a mommy and a daddy to have a baby?"
"Actually, when you have your first, you immediately become one."
This causes Pinto to get a big smile on her face "So wait...are you saying...that you're going to be a mommy Sunny?"
Returning the smile she looks up and nods "Pretty much yea. You see, your brother and I discussed this: we thought about letting someone else raise it but...I didn't like the idea, so after your brother and I talked with your dad, we explained that while we know it might be a challenge, but we want to raise the baby ourselves...and he told us that if we were truly serious and understood the responsibilities, which we are and are willing to take, then he accepted our decision."
"Oh...uhm, Sunny? Would it be OK if I helped out too?" the pup looked up at her in delight.
"Of course you can!" there was a knock at the door "Why don't you go answer that for me, I'm getting ready to make dinner for everyone when they return."
Pinto gets up and answers the door, to which Sunny briefly glanced over her shoulder to see who it was...only to turn back around upon seeing her dad on the other side.
"Uhm, hi Pinto...could I perhaps come inside..."the General spoke up slowly stepping inside. "if it's OK I think I may want a moment alone with Sunny...please?" Pinto nodded and left the room. "Hi sweetie..."
She briefly turned around "Sir..." she spoke without emotion before turning back, obviously still a bit miffed about what happened between them.
Sighing, he began to speak again "Alright pumpkin, I can tell you don't wanna talk to me but can you at least hear me out? Because I have to tell you something, starting with...I'm sorry..."
This causes Sunny to stop what she was doing and turn around once more "I'm listening..."
"When I head what happened between the two of you, I lost it...I mean, you of all people. When I think of someone ending up in this type of situation, I imagine those who make even worse decisions both before AND after..."
"But you know I am a very sensible person, and I would never do any sort of drugs, or drink, or have...well, OK two out of the three, but again you've known me for all my life, have I ever done anything wrong?"
"No and honestly that's what shocked me the most about how this happened...which is why I first thought PaRappa..."
She shook her head. "It wasn't his fault, not entirely anyway, we both lost it...maybe it was just the situation and..." she looked down, feeling embarrassed to be talking about it, and of all the people to be discussing it with.
But, I didn't come here to argue...I came here to ask you to come home...no, I'm not going to make you stop seeing PaRappa...I just want to ask you if what you said was serious..."
Sunny notices his voice and can tell it was not easy for her dad to speak after everything that's happened. "I didn't mean to hurt you...or disobey you. Everything just happened so fast and it felt as though you were controlling me."
"Well, I'm sorry for that too...but were you being serious about raising this child with PaRappa?"
Sighing, she begins to speak again. "It's just...you taught me to take responsibility for my actions, both the good and the bad, and that's what I am doing. I want to raise this baby and PaRappa wants to do it with me...that is what we decided on...but as soon as I suggested it, you immediately shot it down...like I shouldn't even be considering my own choice and only do what you wanted...what someone else wanted, but it's our baby, and our choice...I know it won't be easy but it's something I want to do, something that this child needs...a loving family." she looks up. "It just feels like the right thing to do...if you don't accept it, then I'm sorry but if you do...then thank you..."
After hearing what Sunny had to say, her dad nods and finally speaks once more. "I guess there's no sense in trying to change your mind...guess you always were a bit stubborn deep down inside...you remind me of your mother like that..."
"So...what do you think...?" she softly spoke up.
"Well, it may take some getting used to but if this is your choice...I will accept it nonetheless"
Gasping and her eyes starting to water, Sunny suddenly gives her dad a enormous hug "That's...all I needed to know..." she smiles weakly.
This was when PaRappa had returned from Club Fun. "Oh hi PaRappa..." was what PaRappa was first greeted with from the General as soon as he gets inside, much to his surprise.
"Uhm is this a bad time..." PaRappa noticed Potter being in his house and wondered what he was going to do "Oh no, you came back to kill me didn't you!?"
"No, please PaRappa, I won't hurt you...I just came here to make amends." was the response.
"Well, why don't you start by joining us for dinner." Sunny smiles...
"Wait are you sure you wanna eat?" PaRappa asked with caution fearing Sunny might throw up again.
"Oh relax I got it out of my system for the time being...if anything I'm starving now"
Meanwhile, Rammy was pacing around her building once more, before she sighs and goes to the large dresser she had and reaches into the bottom drawer. She pulls what looks like a rolled up poster out of said drawer and unrolls it.
"Hmmph...I can't believe I'm actually looking at this old thing again..." she unrolled it to reveal it was a poster of someone she was quite familiar with; The singing idol Teriyaki Yoko, the person she had previously played guitar for, before 'creative differences' came up and caused her to leave...those creative differences that popped up after that very night
That very night that changed everything...
"What do you mean I'm fired!?" Rammy angrily stomps her feet at a emergency meeting with her now 'ex-employer', Teriyaki Yoko, who had just finished up another successful concert...another one without Rammy.
"Let's see...it means you are no longer working for me, which means I don't have to deal with you constantly being late all the time, nor hear any of your flimsy excuses." the singer replied in the backstage area.
"Hey! I had a perfectly good reason why I wasn't at the last concert!"
"Lemme guess, you were watching a marathon of Metalocalypse again weren't you?"
Rammy tries to speak again, but realizes that Ms. Yoko guess right on the dot. "What's your point?"
"The point is" Ms. Yoko continued, "had it not been for that Lammy, my show would have been disastrous! Again! And frankly I'm getting tired of it...so now you have to get lost...you don't have to go home but you can't stay the hell here in hell..."
"You honestly think you can make it without me? HA! That's a laugh!" Rammy rolls her eyes doubting that her employer was actually being serious.
"I think we'll find a way to carry on without you...but you on the other hand, with that attitude, will never be a big success..." Sighing she continues "Which is a shame to be honest, I think you had tons of potential to make it on your own, but with the way things are and the way you act, you'd be lucky to even sing one song let alone release a album...So I'll work you a deal as I always had a soft spot for you...if you are willing to admit that you have your flaws...and your short-comings, and are willing to work on them, then maybe I might consider letting you come back...but if not, then..." she pointed towards the exit.
Her words only riled up Rammy more "How DARE you! I AM a big star! I have NO short-comings, and I CAN make it on my own! I'll prove you and all of your naysayers wrong! Starting with that show-stealer Lammy! Tell me where she is! I'll find her and beat her so badly she'll never play a single note again!
"Oh fine, if you won't listen to common sense then I guess I'll just tell you and let you find out yourself. If I do then will you leave?" Ms. Yoko shakes her head.
"Yea yea, I honestly can't wait to leave now..."
Teriyaki Yoko closes her eyes and upon opening them again, they emit a strange glow, evidently like a sixth sense allowing her to take a look at wherever Lammy currently was. "Hmm...my sources are telling me that Lammy hails from a place known as PaRappatown...if you truly want to find her, and challenge her, then I suggest looking there...oh but there is one thing you should know..."
"Oh, and what would that be?" Rammy raises a eyebrow
"My money is on her..." she grins.
Rammy grows red in the face at this statement. "Just...give me the fax machine! I'll travel through that!"
"No, you don't work for me so no transportation for you...you're on your own so you'll have to travel there yourself...oh but I will give you a little consolation gift..."
Heading over to a nearby bookshelf, she pulls out a large book. "Here, you never read this but perhaps if you did, then maybe you might find somethings that will spark your interest.
Not even bothering to look at it for more than 10 seconds, Rammy shrugs and stuffs it in her guitar bag. "Alright whatever, and will you let me keep the lighter?" she pulls out a lighter, identical to the "reverb" lighter Lammy received from Teriyaki Yoko, only black in color.
"Yea sure, now then, I think you've spent enough time here...now run along now...don't let the door hit you on the way out..." she shooed her away as Rammy merely did everything in her power not to flip her now ex-employer off. As soon as Rammy had walked out the door, Ms. Yoko merely said to herself "Will she ever learn?"
"Why? Why can't I escape your shadow..." Rammy merely cursed the poster containing her former bandmate. "Who do you think you are..." she paused again, staring into the poster's 'soul'
"STOP MOCKING ME!" throwing the poster she looked back into the drawer and noticed something else...it was a book, the same one she had received from Teriyaki Yoko.
"Oh what the hell, I guess I have nothing else to lose..." she flips through the book and begins reading. "Vital Idol, written by...oh I should have guess she wrote this..." Rammy muttered and flips through a few pages...but pauses when she someone's cellphone go off followed by a very familiar voice outside
"I told you she was gonna call..." the voice said...and it was way too familiar to ignore. It was her...
"Lammy relax, I'll handle this..." Matt picked up his cellphone, shaped like a heart, and answered it "Hello? Oh hi Mrs. Paige...we're on our way home now, we just had to make a quick stop at Ma-San's pharmacy to...pick up some calamine lotion, yea that's it...I'm babysitting a kid tomorrow with the chicken pox...
"Your boyfriend lying like that? No way Lammy..." Rammy peeks out the 'window' or rather the open hole in the building, and listens in.
"Did you honestly have to lie to my mom like that?" Lammy pouts.
"Now now, we'll make a stop at the pharmacy on the way back, that way it's not a lie, just a small little semi-truth. Besides that, I just wanna hold your hand for a few more moments is all..." Matt smiles.
"Oh, well, I guess it's fine..." Lammy blushes at this and lets him hold it "But do we really have to be down this way...these buildings give me the creeps..." she looked specifically at Rammy's, not knowing her rival was inside. "I mean isn't this one supposed to be condemned? It's kind of a eyesore..."
"No problem, we'll take the shortcut...just follow me..."
As they walk away, Rammy curses at Lammy as she departs "Eyesore? No that drink of water your with is a eyesore..." she pauses "And yet..."
"So wow, you and your dad finally made up huh?" Katy spoke over the cellphone.
"Yes, I'm so glad all of that drama is finally behind us...he's behind our decision and is gonna support it!" Sunny smiled on the other end.
"That's fantastic...so, now that all of that's behind us...and we can safely say you're truly expecting...I always wondered which one of us would be the first but I have to say, it makes me wonder how you actually were able to get together and..."
"You want details on how it happened don't you?" her friend could tell where this was going.
"Oh and please make it juicy!" Katy exclaimed in excitement.
"Well, alright I suppose we can talk about it but no bragging to anyone, OK?"
"It doesn't matter, we're all on the same line anyway" a voice rang in, this one being from Paula, who was at Katy's house listening in.
"So is it wrong to pop in now Katy?" Lammy, having just returned home after her night out, also spoke out on another line with Ma-San nearby.
Meanwhile on another cellphone conversation...
"Well, I'm not exactly one to kiss and tell about it..." PaRappa spoke to his two friends on the other line.
"Come on, spill it, you know you want to..." Matt grins while PJ sat by eating a doughnut listening in as well.
"Alright, let's see...after we had gotten into the hotel room...well, you probably know how bad the rain was...but I wasn't disturbed by it, honestly..."
"The poor thing was frightened of the lightning...must have thought it was going to attack him, but I told him he had nothing to fear with me around."
"...So when she got scared she cuddled up close to me...of course I didn't want to actually take advantage of her...she is a lady after all
"Being the gentleman he was he didn't want to force himself...though I could tell it was hard to resist for him...* giggles *
"As it got darker and things more quiet in the eve of the night..."
"...Getting closer we began to make out...I was feeling a bit naughty so I ran my fingers through his hair..."
"...and well, you guys do recall when she said I was already a grown-up as long as I kept trying...I showed her how grown up I could be that night...I was a force to be reckoned with!"
"...he was so gentle, such a sweetheart, he probably knew it was my first time after all...and for him for that matter."
"She couldn't keep her hands off of me...I probably could have went all night, though only if she could"
"...he may have tired himself out the first time but I told him 'Uh Uh boy, if we're truly going to do this, no way am I letting you stop on me now!' "
"I only stopped when she wanted me to...again, I am the gentleman after all..."
"He was so dreamy...even if none of this was planned..."
"I guess you never can truly predict when these things happen...It was magical..."
"...magical...and wonderful..."
"...wonderful...in fact..."
"it was so nice, I'd actually go so far as to call it..."
"The best night of my life..." they both finished up their respective phone calls smiling.
TBC