Oh jeebus, I'm soooo so so so so so so soooo sorry for anyone that has been waiting of for this chapter! ALMOST A YEAR. I'M TERRIBLE. TERRIBLE I SAY! Well, anyways, I digress.
I don't have much of any excuse except for...*ahem*: school, my chapter of Sing From the Heart (which I finally finished YAY/can be found on LatteCurlz's profile :D), my renewed love for Kingdom Hearts (omg kingdom hearts, I finished three games already yay), school, school, PIANO, and school. D':
Longest chapter, omg. lol, only 3000 words, though, not much. Although...it always seems longer writing it than reading it...
SIDE NOTE! I changed the summary, yay! :DD
I'm soooo sorry again! D':
I can haz forgivez? :'3
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I wonder if I'm still a man. Because all the way to Hikari's house, I couldn't stop wiping my tears away from my eyes...But hey! It takes a real man to cry!
...Just not if he got rejected.
...I know that you're probably mocking me in your head. Stop that.
I used my sleeve to dry my eyes as I walked up the dirt path to Hikari's house. When I got closer, I noticed that she was outside watering
her crops. It was almost 5:00 PM. Why didn't she do her chores in the morning? Ugh, she's as irresponsible as I thought she would be. Suddenly she paused and threw her watering can into the grass, spraying water everywhere. And you know what she did? She started to dance.
"Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down! Never gonna turn around and desert you!" she sang loudly while shaking her hips. I had to admit, it was quite the entertaining sight. I watched for a few minutes before I let out a snort of laughter, which made Hikari grin and run over to me.
"GILL! Perfect timing! Let's dance like Rick Astley!" she squealed, taking my hand and shaking it up and down vigorously, jumping in place.
"Isn't that what you were already doing?" I asked, the corner of my mouth twitching into a small smile.
"Heh heh...noooooo..." She scratched the back of her neck. "...Uh, how much did you see?"
"When you chucked your equipment aside and started to sing. So, pretty much all of it."
"Hey, Gill, it's not nice to spy on people...waaaaaait, why aren't you with your girrrrrlfriiiiiend?" the brunette teased, poking my cheek. I turned away. "...What? HEY! Don't you ignore me when I'm talking to you, young man! What happened?"
I sighed and rolled my eyes. "Well, if you must know, Mom...I got rejected."
"...NO WAY. NOOOO WAY. I never had a child in my life!" Hikari exclaimed, and I gave her an, 'are-you-stupid?' look. "Okay, okay, I get it...but why would she reject you? What did you do to deserve this...this heartbreak?!" She promptly buried her face in my sweater vest, fake sobbing. "What went wrong?! TELL ME!"
I smacked her head. "Get off me! Sheesh...well, she said that she liked someone else, and that she still wanted to be friends," I replied, not looking Hikari in the eye.
She frowned a bit and crossed her arms. "No one friendzones one of MY babies!"
I winced. "Please, stop. Thinking of you as my mother is very, very disturbing."
My friend (are we really friends yet...?) smiled at me and wrapped her arms around my body. "I'm sorry that you didn't get the girl after all...but look on the bright side! There are plenty of other people you can get married to and have little Gilly babies with on this island!"
I shook my head and laughed. "Now you sound like my father," I said, patting her back. "Thank you."
"For what?"
"Being a friend."
"...AWW! Yay, you're my friend!" Hikari hugged me tighter, and it kind of made it hard to breathe. That girl is stronger than she looks... "Hey! I know what'll cheer you right up!"
I raised my eyebrow questioningly after shoving her away. "I doubt it'll help me, especially if the idea is coming from you."
"Life Lesson #9: Don't knock it 'til you try it!" she scolded. I decided that arguing with someone like Hikari wasn't the best idea in the world, so I just rolled my eyes and replied, "...So, what're we doing?"
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"If I had known that this is what you had in mind," I grumbled into the phone, "I would have almost died of laughter and walked away. Is it really necessary for us to talk on the phone when you're just in the other room, while we eat straight from tubs of chocolate ice cream?"
"Trust me, Gill. I read this in one of Selena's gossip magazines. They say that talking to a BFF about your break up is one of the best ways of get over it," Hikari replied. "And the ice cream part is in all the movies. Uh, duh."
I rolled my eyes. "It's not even a break up if we weren't together in the first place. Besides, why can we talk like normal people, and eat ice cream from a bowl...like normal people? I don't care about little clichés from those magazines that no one reads!" I yelled into the speaker before shoving another spoonful of ice cream into my mouth angrily.
"Ugh, you're so difficult, Gilly. I don't even know why you're my BFF...Now, tell me. How do you feel about getting rejected by a girl?"
"Uh...sad? I guess. Jealous...?"
"Now we're making some progress here!"
I'm wondering why I even went along with this in the first place... "Can we do something else, please? This is one of the stupidest things I've ever done."
She sighed. "Fiiine. I guess so, since you're so unenthusiastic about talking about your feelings. I'll meet you in the living room.-BEEP!-"
...Ugh. Someone remind me WHY I even bother to talk to her...?
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And suddenly, I missed the phone and the ice cream. Hikari then turned the lights off and made me watch a girls' movies about love and feelings and useless things like that. Not to mention that she tied me to an uncomfortable wooden chair and refused to let me go until I had watched the whole movie.
I hated my life sometimes.
From what I could see through the darkness, Hikari was sitting on the floor with her back against the sofa and a whole mess of used, tear-soaked tissues surrounding her. She had her wet cheek pressed into the sofa cushion behind her, sobbing, "Stacy l-loved you, Brad! W-why would you c-cheat on her with...with another woman?!" Hikari acted like shewas the one being cheated on. I don't understand women. I never will.
"After all we've been through together...has it been a lie?"the woman in the movie, Stacy, said in a quiet voice.
"...No. It's just...I don't love you the way I used to anymore,"Brad replied, making Stacy run out of the room in tears, and Hikari wailed into the pillow she held to her face.
The rest of the movie was about Stacy trying to get over Brad, and failing miserably. She spent days upon days locked up in her bedroom, eating nothing but Belgian chocolates and staring at pictures of her ex-lover. Though, in the end, Brad came back to her when the other woman left him, and Stacy agreed to live with him again. That part just made me lose all my respect for her (not that I had any to begin with). Seriously, you're going to go out with the guy that cheated on you with some random lady? That was the worst romance movies I've ever watched...not...n-not that I watched romance movies before...
...Father has a collection, and I get bored with no work on Sundays, okay?
The brunette farmer to my left would beg to differ, of course. "That was so tragic! But I'm glad they ended up together again..." she sniffed, and stood up to turn on the lights. When it was finally bright again, I screamed in my manly voice.
Hikari looked horrible. Her eyes and nose were red from crying so hard, her hair looked like a tumbleweed and she had markings on her cheeks from the pillow. I felt terrible for screaming, of course, but I couldn't help it.
"What?! WHO'S ON FIRE?!" she asked me, panicked.
I took a few breaths to calm myself down. "N-nothing at all. It was...the, uh, pain from the ropes you tied me with. Which reminds me...can you let me go now?"
She yawned into her fist, and replied, "Oh, yeah sure. But afterwards, we're going to go to the next step in break-up/rejection recovery!"
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Hikari led me into her bedroom, where we sat on her bed and bashed and gossiped about other peoples' relationships (well, I didn't do it, she did). She talked about them even if they involved one of her friends.
It was slightly better than watching that horrible film, I guess. But I'd even rather spend "quality time" with my father than be here. Hikari didn't even agree to give me the ice cream back. That part was enjoyable for me. 'The ice cream would just distract you from the main point!' she said. Tch.
Nothing we did so far has done anything to cheer me up about Angela. It probably only works for girls. I think the only thing that would help me is if I knew who Angela liked. Who could it be...?
"-and can you believe that Candace went out with Julius? I mean, that man is the complete opposite of her!" Hikari said. "Candace is this quiet little mouse of a girl, and Julius is all like, 'BAM! I'M FASHIONABLE~~~ *heart* *star* *music note*' and he's quite a fruitcake! What's your opinion on this?"
"Huh? Oh, uh, they don't work well together...?" I said, uncertain.
She snaps her fingers. "Exactly! So, in order to save them both from heartbreak, you need to go sweep Candace off her feet!"
"Wait..w-what?!"
"That way, Candace can go date someone boring like you, you get to finally have a girlfriend, Julius can stop holding back his eccentric speeches, and I can be labelled as the best darn matchmaker on the island! It's a win for everyone!" She clapped and squealed.
"That...is one of the worst plans I have ever heard of...and I am notthat boring," I stated, frowning. I was starting to wonder why I was friends with someone like her...
"Life Lesson #10: Allof my plans work and are excellent ideas. Hey, just because I act like it, doesn't mean I'm stupid. And I know you aren't. You can be somewhat entertaining (usually unintentional), when you wanna be. You're just too uptight sometimes. Maybe if we did something even more fun...Ooh, I know! We should go to the bar and drink stuff! That would be soooo much fun!" She bounced on the bed, making me almost fall off.
Hikari being herself is quite bad enough. Imagine her drunk. I shudder in horror of the thought. If we went to the bar, it would no doubt give me nightmares to last me a lifetime. But then again, she acts like she's drunk all the time...no, I'm still definitely not going to the bar with Hikari. So I just raised an eyebrow in response and shook my head.
My friend (it's so weird saying that) just pouted. "No? Fine. Then how about we...go to the Inn and eat dinner? I'm starving..."
I laughed. "It'll be better than seeing you stoned. Let's go, then." I stood up and grabbed my jacket, and Hikari said she needed to go to the bathroom before we left.
A few seconds after she disappeared through the door, she shrieked.
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I ended up waiting in Hikari's bedroom for 30 minutes. After she saw her reflection, she had to wash her face and brush her hair and change into non-tear-stained clothing. She came out looking better than she did earlier. Her hair still stuck out funny like it's supposed to, and she wore a green set of work clothes, though her eyes were still slightly bloodshot.
"Okay! I'm ready, so it's time to go!" she cheered, grabbing my arm and dragging me out the door. Our walk to Harmonica Town was quiet. It wasn't like it was awkward, though. No. We just didn't have anything to talk about at the moment. It was nice, I guess, since it give time for me to think about all the things that's happened to me today. Let's see...I got advice from Hikari, confessed to Angela, got rejected by Angela, cried manly tears over Angela, ate chocolate ice cream, watched a terrible movie agaisnt my will, listened to Hikari smack-talk peoples' relationships, and now, we're going to the Inn.
Well, then. Let's see how the rest of it turns out.
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We were greeted by Maya right when we walked in, which wasn't such a surprise, since the girl doesn't have any other job there except as a waitress.
"Hey Hikari, Gill! Welcome to Ocarina Inn!" she exclaimed in her usually peppy voice, leading us to a table in the corner.
The Inn wasn't as busy in the evening as they were at lunch, most likely because the Brass Bar is more popular, concerning night life. I mean, what other places on our tiny island can people get cheap alcohol? There were a few people sitting down at tables. I recognized Toby and his brother Paolo, Anissa, Candace and Julius, and Perry, who was chatting with Yolanda.
"Here's your menus, and I'll be back to take your orders!" Maya said before walking towards Candace and Julius' table.
"So, I'm just gonna guess that you're getting...tomato risotto?" Hikari asked, smirking.
I grimaced. "Am I that predictable?"
She looked thoughtful for a second, then turned back to me. "Yes, yes you are..." She folded her menu and placed it on the table. "You should stop with the tomato obsession, dude."
I scoffed just when Maya came back holding two glasses of water for us. "So, you guys are ready? What are your orders?" she asked, smiling as she pulled out a pad and pen.
"Tomato risotto is fine," I replied, ignoring Hikari's snickers.
"I'll have vegetable curry and blackberry pie, thanks."
Our waitress nodded and wrote it all down, skipping off to the front counter. Hikari slapped my face, hard, making me wince and glare at her.
"And just WHAT was that for?!" I shouted, holding my red cheek.
She grinned. "I'm gonna ask some questions about you. Y'know, since we're BFFs and all, I thought I had to know about you," she stated.
"Then why'd you slap me?!"
The brunette shrugged. "Kicks. Okay, so, what's your favourite colour?"
"Grey," I replied.
"Booooooring. Favourite animal?"
"I don't like animals."
"...music?"
"None."
"Ugh, no wonder you don't have a girlfriend...which reminds me...sexual orientation?" she asked.
I choked on the water I was drinking and spit it back into the cup. "WHAT?! You know I'm straight!" I shouted, wiping my dripping chin with a napkin. The other tables stared at us (me) oddly and I blushed, ashamed and embarrassed.
"Can't a girl make sure of these things?" Hikari smiled 'innocently'.
A bell ringing attracted our attention. Both Hikari and I turned our heads to the door, where two people walked in: Angela and the town's doctor, Jin.
Oh. Great.
Hikari squealed quietly to herself. When I gave her a questioning look, she rolled her eyes like it was the most obvious thing. "Duh. My sister finally asked out the guy she liked!" she whispered. "I'm so happy! Ooh, we should spy on 'em, yes...here, Gill, take this wig, moustache and sunglasses...good thing I always carry my emergency disguise kit...hmm, where is that cowboy hat I stole from Calvin...?"
I tuned out the rest of her rambling. Angela...liked Jin?! Wait...it was pretty obvious...she didvisit him almost everyday...ugh, I'm so stupid sometimes. Maybe spying was a good idea...
I hurriedly put on the brown wig and pink sunglasses, gluing the grey moustache to my face. Hikari shoved a purple button-up shirt into my arms, which I threw over my suit. Hikari herself had a neon green afro on her head and was dressed in...Calvin's clothes. Where does she get these things?!
"Quick! A fake name, just in case!" Hikari said to me. "Just remember that I'm...uh...Spoon...Pudding...
I blinked. "Uh, I'll be...Axel...Charizard..."
She gasped. "Angela's walking over here! Hurry, pretend you're speaking another language!"
"H-huh? Oh, um...askeldsure peofduckaebnidontknowwhatsgo ingon asquerf?" Oh, Goddess, I felt so ridiculous spouting gibberish like that. Not that the outfit wasn't embarrassing enough.
Hikari nodded, as if she were responding to a question. "Fuslolidkwtfomgeuakbescoslty smdlfjustgowithitlwownver fakduerl smoptamldej."
I heard someone coming beside us and I turned to face Angela and Jin. "Hi, I've never seen you two around before," she said, smiling. "Are you guys tourists?"
"Oooh, yeees," Hikari replied with a fake accent. "Wee are joost veesiteeng dees island fooer de day."
I coughed trying to disguise my laughter. "Yar, wee be fooeraneers froom...de coontray Noornia," I said.
"Oh...Narnia, you mean?" Angela asked. "Like, from the books?"
Hikari shot me a look, before saying, "Yar, boot oeur coontray ees reel, not fecteeonal."
"Hm, cool...so what are your names?"
"I be Spoon Pooding."
"Ant I be Axeel Chayreezard."
Angela snorted with laughter and smirked with a knowing look. "Spoon Pudding? I thought your name was Hikari...right, Hikari? Gill?"
"Spoon Pudding" looked at me alarmed, before shouting, "SHE'S ONTO US! RUUUUUUN!" She leaped out of her chair, jumping on tables to make her way to the door. "HI, JIN! SORRYNOTIMETOTALK BYE, JIN!"
As I followed Hikari out the door, without all the jumping, I heard Angela say, "Now we can have dinner without eavesdroppers" while snickering. Hikari was already across the bridge by the time I was down the stairs, screaming, "FOOORR NARNIAAAA!" Once we both made it in front of Hikari's house, we collapsed onto the grass, laughing uncontrollably. The green afro was covering her eyes, and one side of my moustache was falling off.
"Your accent was- ha ha!- too good!" I choked out. "A-and Spoon Pudding?"
Hikari held her stomach. "OH MY SIDES. Ha ha, yo-you looked like some kind of...of pedo, ha ha!"
As we lied there together, literally rolling on the floor laughing, at nighttime, I wondered...how did I just become a totally different person in a matter of a hours? The Gill a few minutes ago was immature...loud...definitely not who I was yesterday. And when Angela came over, I usually would've been absolutely silent, considering what happened earlier that afternoon, but...something in me told me to act like I was before. It was so strange, and I didn't understand it...
But then again, at the time, I didn't really care.
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Ugh, this thing seemed so much longer when I was writing it on my phone... ;_;
If I offended anyone with an accent, I'm sorry, because I never intended that. In fact, I love all accents. :'D
I couldn't help myself, tee hee.
Not much else to say about this one, except that I hope people will still read this and that readers haven't forgotten about me. D': And to any new readers, I hope you can tolerate my suckyness! :D I'll try to be faster next time. Key word: try.
As you can tell, I SUCK at updating. xD
Ooh, and thanks to everyone who reviewed last chapter! You're what makes me keep going! :'D
Cheers to a new chapter!
-Middy