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What Are Feelings?
Chapter 7: That was Horrific!
It had been a week since 18 had opened up to Krillin about her feelings towards him. Everyday for that week, she had been less cold towards him and almost nice when they were alone. He, on the other hand, became more threatening towards his master's and Oolong's lecherous behavior towards her. It was surprising for them; he had always been tolerant of their actions before, so they thought he was bluffing at first. At least until he burned some of their pornographic books and films. Then they kept close watch on their hands as to make sure they didn't unconsciously grab something. Krillin was gaining the courage to ask 18 out for the first time since she came clean.
The day was a nice day. A nice, warm day. A nice, warm, bright day. The perfect day to ask someone out for a nice day. It was 4:00 PM when Krillin decided it was time to ask her. Luckily, the day was still a nice, warm, bright day. 18 was outside on the shore, enjoying the day's warmth. He walked out into the daylight and began to speak.
"Hey, may I ask you something?" asked Krillin. He noticed 18 was in an especially good mood this day, and thought it would be a good day to ask her.
"Of course" she responded. She motioned for him to come sit with her.
"So, would you like to go into the city with me today?" he asked.
"Yes", she said, "but to do what?"
"Anything you want to do" said Krillin. He hadn't thought out what to do, so he just winged it and let her take the lead.
"Just let me change" she said. She walked into the house and so begun Krillin's waiting game. He passed the time by building sand castles, looking under rocks, and counting grains of sand. He always counted up to twenty or so, but then lost count because he would always pick up two by accident and forget. He started to feel like Chiaotzu.
18 finished changing and walked out onto the sand. She wore her casual blue jeans, boots, and a striped shirt under a sleeveless black tee. Krillin gawked at her. He seemed to think she looked amazing in anything.
"Are we going to go or are you going to keep staring at me?"
Krillin shook himself back into reality. She took off first and Krillin flew after her. He was trying hard not to stare at her rear, which was challenging for him. I guess learning to be abstinent from his years as a monk didn't really pay off. It was hard to tell if she noticed him staring or not, but maybe she did.
"Enjoying the view?" she mordantly said. Krillin started to blush redder than a fire truck, stuttering out things along the lines of "I didn't mean to!". A small smile formed at the edge of her lips. Who knew it was this fun to get him so embarrassed?
They landed on the outskirts of the city, like usual. Only this time, it was just for fun. 18 spotted a clothing store and decided to pay it a visit. She motioned for him to follow her into the store.
'I feel sorry for you, wallet' Krillin thought.
By the time he had found a pleasant place to sit down, 18 had appeared in front of him with a load of clothes. Pants here, shirts there, and even some skirts scattered around.
"Come over here" she said. He obediently stood up and followed her to the dressing rooms. Krillin could only imagine how she looked in all those clothes, then felt a slight feeling of dread, because this could take some time. He couldn't begin to count the number of clothes she had in that pile. 18 took a white blouse with a pink flower embroidered on the front. Looked like a lotus. 18 also brought in a pair of boot cut jeans into the dressing room. After a few mminutes, she came back out.
"So," she said, "what do you think?". He thought it was breathtaking on her. The blouse showed off her waist quite nicely, and so did the jeans. He could only stare, mouth agape, without words to describe how he thought she looked. 18 took this the wrong way though, and thought he had no words for how bad she looked in it. Despite her beauty to others, she is insecure about herself.
"You don't like it?" she asked, a bit gloomily.
"What? No! I mean, I don't not like it, uh" he stuttered out, "I mean I do like it. You look great in it!". She breathed a sigh of relief. She walked back into the dressing room and changed back. This went on for a while, sorting the clothes out into piles of the ones she wants and doesn't want. It burned a hole in Krillin's wallet. Literally, he had to extinguish the fire, and buy a new wallet afterwards. By the time they left the store, it was 7:00. Not too late; the other inhabitants of Kame Island usually returned after dark, or even the next morning. Carrying about half of 18's new clothes, he asked her what she wanted to do next.
"We should bring all of my clothes back to your place and come back here for a while" she suggested. Krilllin had to agree, and flew back to the Kame House with her, being careful not to drop anything in the ocean. After that was done, they took off for the city, again. They got back at 8:00 because of her tremendous wardrobe and problems from the lewd master and pig.
"So now what?" he asked her.
"I don't know, maybe walk around until it seems late." So it went on like that for about an hour or so. Krillin had to explain so many things to her, like why they couldn't see any stars, or how the moon looks so bright. He explained it was just the sun's light reflecting off the moon, when she asked how that's possible when the sun was nowhere to be seen. He then had to explain about the Earth's rotation. It was past late by the time he finished; they just didn't notice because of the still many people out on the sidewalks and stores.
While Krillin finished informing her of how the Earth moves and the sun doesn't, she noticed something in particular, that was attracting many males.
"What is a stag movie?" asked 18. She had heard nothing of the word; excluding stag beetles. Krillin was shocked. Was he really going to explain to her what that was?
"It's, well, the stuff Master Roshi reads" said Krillin. He certainly didn't want to go into the details. 18 had only seen Roshi reading that science book when she asked to stay. Krillin had burned his master's pornography when she wasn't around. His master would always look on in horror. Krillin only did this when he or Oolong did something bawdy, which is why he never did anything around 18. So in turn, she thought he was a scientific man.
"I want to see what one is like" she told Krillin. He almost had a heart attack. She actually wanted to see one?
"If you say so" he said very anxiously. He had a bad feeling in his gut.
17 had enough of this. He wasn't going to find his game piece. It was so small it probably moved when anything happened around it. It probably was crushed by something already. He decided to just head home.
"That was a huge waste of time" he said to himself. His latest search had brought him nothing but pain, rash, pain, itchiness, more pain, and even some blisters. Did I mention pain? He had been attacked by a swarm of killer hornet-wasps. If it weren't for his body's healing properties, he would've been a goner.
He trudged through the foot-tall grass hundred-foot tall trees. The poison ivy next to some plants didn't help. He spotted his home in the forest's clearing. The first thing he thought was sanctuary.
He wearily made his way up the steps when he found three notes made out for him on the door. The first one said:
17,
You have probably wasted a year of your immortal life, judging by your behavior, because your queen is stuck in a tree over to the west of the house, covering the horizon. That is most likely the reason as to why it looks like it was catapulted over the horizon.
18
17 glanced over his shoulder to see it lodged between some branches. His queen! He can finally have all of his pieces! His mission was finally over. The second one read:
17,
I have also moved to Krillin's place. I think it is called Kame Island. So you're on your own for a while now.
18
'Well that's nice' he thought, 'she's with the chrome dome.'. And finally, the third note:
17,
And just to inform you, Krillin grew his hair out. It turns out he's been shaving it his entire life.
18
'Correction. She's with the shrimp'
He made his way inside and fell asleep, letting his body do all the healing for him. He's catching up on his rest. No noise to keep him up this time. Excluding the sound of birds chirping like there's no tomorrow outside his windows.
It was maybe an hour or so later when a very stunned 18 and a blushing Krillin walked out of the movie theatre.
"That was horrific!" exclaimed 18. "If that's what your master reads and watches everyday, how do you survive?" asked 18.
"I just ignore his many hoots and sounds" said Krillin. Truth be told, he sometimes tries to stab his eyes out when he walks past the living room into the kitchen.
"I thought he was a scientific person!" she said.
"He probably had his books inside that thing. Did you notice how thick the book was?" he insinuated. 18 dry heaved.
"Let's get out of here" she hastily said and they flew off to the island.
The second Roshi got up to answer the door while getting some tea, he received a smack to the face.
"You are a lecherous pervert!" 18 shouted at him, then proceeded upstairs to her room.
"How did this happen?" asked Master Roshi.
Krillin shrugged. "She wanted to know what a stag movie is, I told her it's what you read, she wanted to see one, and this happened." He gave an acknowledging nod. Krillin walked up to his room, and Roshi took out his science book. It may be science after all. No, wait, something fell out.
End of Chapter 7
A/N - That was the conclusion of 17's adventure! And review! Press the hypertext that says Review and do what it says: review!
