Chapter 7: The Horrible Day(s)
Neru's POV
I stared at the note it didn't have the date of the party. Then I squinted some more then I saw the date Thursday that means two more days. I looked at Miku who was looking at me, "We only have two days to get ready," she said with her big eyes.
"Then let's go shopping!" Rin said.
"Should we bring the guys too?" Teto asked.
"No we should keep it a secret for who we are at the party!" Miku said.
"That's a good idea," Rin said.
"Looks like we are going shopping!" Teto said.
"I don't want to!" Haku yelled.
"Then don't," I said.
"I'm coming too," Luka said.
At mall
At the mall there was a bunch of clothes there. Miku and Rin were bouncing around looking at clothes. Teto was looking at a pretty nee high dress with dazzling sparkles, with a printed rose on it. Miku was wearing a green ankle high noodle strap dress with a blue stripe on the waistline. Luka got an ankle high pink drass, with a dark pink ribbon on the waist, it had a pink rose printed on the top corner of the dress it was a strapless dress. Rin was wearing an orange strap nee high dress with light and dark orange stripes with white leggings. Everyone else picked a dress for me. After a few minutes they came with a bright yellow dress that was short, it had a pattern of a beautiful yellow flower on the bottom of the dress, it was a strapless dress and was sparkling, and finally for Haku, we got her an ankle high dress that was gray with a purple ribbon on the back. Then we bought the clothes. The next part was shoes… we came to a shoe section of the store. Rin found a bunch of shoes that were orange. Miku got a bunch of sparkly blue shoes, Teto got a pair of red high heels, Luka got a pink high heal shoe that had a strap on it that was in the shape of a ribbon, and I got a yellow shoe with a three centimeter heel. We bought those too.
We went out for some food after the shopping day. We went and at a fast food place. We sat at a table near the door. I glanced around. I couldn't believe my eyes! It was Mikuo, Len, Kaito, and Ted! Here! At the mall! I shook Miku's arm and told her. She looked around and found them. She waved at them and called their names. They turned and waved back. They walked over to our table. Miku was eating her fries, Teto was eating her burger, Rin was drinking her soda and I was drinking my shake. When all of a sudden another straw came into my drink. I glanced up, it was no other then Mikuo.
"Mikuo what are you doing?" I asked.
"Can I have a sip of your drink?" he asked.
"No you can't," I said while taking out his straw from my drink.
But before I could take another sip, Mikuo put his mouth on the straw!
"Mikuo! Hey, that's mine!" I said while pulling my drink away from Mikuo..
The straw was in his mouth the shake was dripping from the straw. I pulled it out of his mouth giving him a glare. I put it back in my shake and started drinking it again. For some reason… it tasted like… leeks! I looked up at Mikuo he was sticking out his tongue at me. I rolled my eyes and kept on drinking.
"You do know if you drink out of the same thing it counts as kissing… right?" Miku asked.
"I don't care," I said while drinking my shake, "Besides what are you guys doing anyways?" I asked Mikuo.
"We were just you know… out," Kaito said with his hand around Miku's shoulder.
"We went out to buy clothes for the masquerade," Mikuo said, "We aren't showing you our clothes though," Mikuo said with a smirk.
Mikuo's POV
To tell you the truth, the clothes we got was too fancy I guess in my opinion. I had a tux A TUX! I, Mikuo, never wears a tux! Kaito had a fancy suit with a blue flower printed on the back. Len had a button down white t-shirt and black pants. Teto on the other hand had a black suit with a red rose on the right shoulder.
"Do you think we should go in separate vehicles to the party? You know to keep ourselves secret?" I asked.
"That's what I was thinking," Miku said.
"Okay so it's settled, we take separate ways to the party so we don't know who's who!" Kaito said.
"Yeah we should get home now let's go guys!" Ted said
"Yeah see you guys at home then?" Neru asked.
"Yeah, let's go guys!" I said.
Then we left.
At Home
When we came home, I went in my room and fell on the bed.
"THAT WAS SO EXAUSTING!" I yelled in my pillow.
I took the pillow off my face. I looked at the clock 4:10 I decided to take a nap. I slept for a while then woke up I looked at the clock 5:30. I must've slept for about and hour and twenty minutes. I mean, we just came home from camp, and then we have to go shopping? I started to hear singing out side my room. I saw Rin singing on the karaoke on the T.V. She was singing Su-Su-Su Suki Daisuki! Len was sitting right by her. Neru was just sitting on the couch listening with her eyes close. I decided to sit next to her and annoy her. That's what I do all the time. I started poking her in the cheek. She opened her eyes and looked at me with her honey colored eyes. When Rin finished singing she handed the mike to Neru.
"Come one Neru, sing a song for us!" Rin said.
"Yeah, I've never heard you sing before," I said.
"But what will I sing?" she asked.
"Don't worry I'll pick the song…" I said and pushed some numbers.
"Mikuo…?" Neru said staring at me.
When the Music started she knew what the song was, World is Mine. Then she started to sing. Her voice was like Miku's but higher when she sang.
When she stopped singing she handed the mike to me, "Now you sing mister," she said with an evil smile.
"I take that challenge Neru!" I said and grabbed the mike.
Later…
After about an hour of singing, we had dinner. I ate like a pig. I stuffed my whole face. Neru kept on telling me to stop eating like that. But I just ignored her. After dinner we went to bed early because of the hectic day. When I went to bed I smelled something… fowl… I looked around I found a skunk on the corner of my bed! I ran out of my room, "Urgh! Whoah!" I yelled stumbling out of my room.
"What's wrong?" Miku, Kaito, Rin, Le, Ted, and Teto said.
"A skunk was in my room!" I yelled covering my nose.
"Not it!" Miku, Kaito, Rin, Len, Ted, Teto, Dell, and Haku said.
"Yawn… what's going on guys?" Neru asked exiting her room.
"Mikuo sleeps in Neru's room tonight!" everyone said pointing at her.
"What? No way!" Neru and I yelled.
"It's too bad! Everyone said not it!" Miku said.
"Can we do it again?" Neru asked.
"Not it!" everyone yelled.
"Dang it!" Neru scolded, "Come on Mikuo," she slunk.
We entered her room and I just fell on the floor to sleep. I heard Neru snicker and go to sleep.
Next Morning
I woke up in Neru's room with a blanket over my body. I got up and Neru wasn't in her bed. I got out of the room and saw that Neru was awake and eating breakfast. I decided to have waffles. Then after breakfast I decided to go to the garden and sit by the pond. I whistled to myself and thought about the party. I wondered what the girls where going to wear at the party. Then, a shadow casted over me, I turned around to find Neru standing there with her arms crossed.
"Mikuo, your room is de-stink you can go back in it," she said and left.
I got up and ran to my room. When I came in it, the entire room was a mess! "Holy cow…" I said.
"Yeah I know," I turned around Neru was there laughing to herself.
"Well… this sucks," I sulked.
"Don't worry I'll help," Nerus said.
"Really? I thought your favorite things were slacking of and texting," I said staring at her in the face.
"Yeah… but you need the help Mikuo," she said while leaning on the door frame.
"Okay, let's get started," I said while clapping my hands together.
Later…
When we were done cleaning my room, we were exhausted. She fell on the bed moaning in the pillow, and then I fell on my back on my bed yawning, "That was hard," I whined.
"No kidding…" she said.
"Thanks Neru for the help," I said sleeply.
"No problem, besides I had nothing to do, my phone was dead, and I lost my charger," she said looking up at the ceiling.
I glanced over to Neru, when I realized what position we were in bed, I shot up in a sitting position, "That must stink Neru," I said looking at her.
"Meh… the only reason why I text is because of my little brother, he's a cry baby," she said.
"Oh? What does that have to do with anything?" I asked.
"He needs someone to talk to and that stuff, he's younger then Rin and Len," she said
"Wow, he must really love you as a sister," I said.
"Yeah, when he cries I give him a tissue to blow in, and sometimes he wets himself…" she said looking at me.
I snickered and got up from the bed, "I'm going out," I said.
"Where too?" she asked.
"I don't know, maybe the mall?" I said.
"Can I come?" she asked.
"Sure, why not? Let's go!" I said while taking my keys from the rack.
We left the house and went in the car. We drove all the way to the mall. We decided to go to the music store. There we listened to music there (No duh!).
"Mikuo, what's your favorite song?" Neru asked.
"I don't have one really, I like all songs, jazz, pop, rock, R&B, and all that," I said with my hands behind my head.
"Oh! Mikuo listen to this," she said while handing me an ear plug. I took it and put it on my ear, bad idea. She took of the ear plug and raised the volume.
"!" I winced and took out the ear plug, "Neru!" I said while pointing at her.
"He, he!" she said with her big smile.
Neru's POV
It was fun to mock Mikuo. It was my special. If it was an Olympic sport, I would get the gold! I was standing there laughing while Mikuo was standing there frustrated. Even though we hate each other, we are best friends! I punched him playfully in the shoulder and grabbed him by the wrist and dragged him out.
"Come on Mikuo we are going to go shopping," I said and dragged him to a clothes shop.
"Neru why are we here?" Mikuo asked.
"We are going to go buy some clothes," I said with a smile.
"Why?" he asked.
"Because I want to, I also want to annoy you!" I said dragging him to a dress section of the shop.
Later…
"Why do you touchier me?" Mikuo said while shaking me.
"Did you peek at me when I was changing?" I said pointing a finger in his face.
"No of course not!" he said, he mumbled something else but I didn't hear, "Anyways let's go home," and he walked off.
At home
When we came home, Mikuo ran into his room and screamed.
"What happened to my brother?" Miku asked with a confused face.
"We went shopping," I said while walking to my room.
"Cool, what did you do there?" Miku asked with her big eyes.
"We bought some stuff, I bought some clothes," I said while shrugging, "Nothing special."
"Was it a… DATE?" Miku asked giggling with a note pad in her hand, "Give me all the details!"
"What? No! It wasn't a date! We were bored so we went out to the mall nothing else!" I said with my face red.
About 15 Minutes Later:
"So are you ready for the party Neru?" Miku asked.
"Yeah, I'm kind of excited," I said taking a seat by the TV, "but not too excited, because I don't know how to dance."
"What? How can you not know how to dance? Well I don't know how to dance either… but I can have Kaito help me!" Miku said.
"I can't dance either!" we heard Kaito say in his room.
"What now Miku? We only have like a DAY left before the party. How are we supposed to learn how to dance by then?" I asked.
"Maybe I can be of assistance?" Gackupo said while opening the front door, "After all… I am the dancing samurai!"
"I can help too!" Luka said while coming out of her room.
"Hey! You have to teach me too!" Kaito said.
"I can dance better than my sister so I can help too," Mikuo said.
"What about the rest of us?" the rest of the people said. (Note: I just want to say that all Vocaloids and Utauloids live together)
"Okay then we have one day to learn. Let's go out in the garden to learn!" Kaito said while pulling Miku's wrist outside.
Gackupo gave a gesturing hand to Luka, "Ladies first," he said with a wink. Luka just rolled her eyes and went out to the garden.
"Neru you can't dance?" Mikuo asked me.
"No, not really. I never learned," I said walking to the garden.
At garden:
"Okay we are assigning partners so at the masquerade; you can dance with a special someone!" Luka said.
"We are picking people from this hat!" Gackupo said while showing a hat that looked like Luka's.
Results:
Mikuo and Teto
Dell and Neru
Miku and Ted
Kaito and Haku
Rin and Len
(Note: Meiko is also a dance teacher and I just wanted to choose the most random pairings besides Rin and Len. Also Mikuo wasn't able to teach because everyone knew he only knew how to pop and that music.)
"Okay let's dance!" Luka said while pulling out a whip and lashed it.
We all flinched at the whipping sound. Luka laughed like a maniac and Gackupo flinched, Meiko readied them in their position.
"Meiko, does this seem a bit too close? This isn't the salsa," Mikuo said.
"We are practicing the salsa FIRST!" Meiko said.
"But it's a ball… not a dance competition!" I yelled.
"But just incase! Now dance my pretties DANCE!" Luka said while lashing her whip.
"Gwah!" everyone yelped.
"Gackupo help us! These are mad women!" Kaito yelled.
"Wish I could. But I like a feisty Luka!" Gackupo purred.
"Okay I'm done…" Luka said returning to her old self.
"Aw, I was having lots of fun watching you be feisty!" Gackupo whined.
"Anyways… ON WITH THE DANCING!" Meiko said.
Later
We were all tired of the dancing. I laid on the couch moaning. I heard some people groaning and moaning. Teto whined and ate some French bread. Mikuo drank a glass of water, Miku fell on the ground sleeping, Kaito shoved his entire face in the ice cream bucket to cool himself off, Rin and Len sat in their road roller with the air conditioner on after all that sweating, and the rest of the people ran into their rooms to take a nap.
"That… was… horrible…" I moaned while closing my eyes when I opened them I saw Mikuo right in front of my face hanging over it.
"No kidding. I would have more fun if it was pop or dance music. At least we don't have to do that again because the party is tomorrow," he said with aqua hair dangling down touching my nose.
"Good thing I learned how to dance. I don't want to look like a fool if I dance with a cute guy," I said closing my eyes again for five seconds when I opened them Mikuo wasn't there.
"Cute guy huh?" I sat up Mikuo was sitting on the edge of the couch, "Dose that mean me?" he said pointing at himself smiling.
I threw a pillow at him and then said, "No not you, I want to dance with a cute, handsome, and tall man!" I said flipping my hair.
Mikuo put his finger to his chin then said, "So Ted? He is tall most girls call him cute and handsome without his glasses," he said running his hand threw his hair.
"No! Someone I don't know… it's a masquerade, you might not know, you might find your soul mate!" I said, "Masquerades are mysterious, you don't know who you dance with until they take off the mask!" I said.
"Enough with the mushy gush! Let's get on to the posture and that stuff and table manners!" Kaito said taking his head out of the tub of ice cream.
"Oh no! We are going to learn by ourselves!" I said.
"Yes, I agree! I don't need to go threw the touchier again!" Mikuo said standing up from the couch.
"Okay read this book then," Kaito said while tossing a book to Mikuo who caught it then yelled, 'OOF!'
I looked at the book and grabbed it. I flipped threw the pages and ran outside to the garden I heard Mikuo protest and follow me out. I sat by the mini pond we had and opened it up. Chapter One: Knowing the Spoons and Forks. "Lame!" I said flipping threw the book more.
"Neru! I was going to read that!" Mikuo said.
"Fine, we can read it together," I said patting a space in the grass for him to sit on.
Later
"Okay, I think we have it down now…" Mikuo said while lying on his back.
"Yeah, I'll give this book back to Kaito," I said while standing up.
When I walked in the room Kaito was napping on the couch. I walked over to him and dropped the book on his gut. He shot up and winced in pain. I snickered and left him in his pain. I walked back out to the garden to sit on the swing.
"Neru, do you want to practice some more dancing before the party?" I turned it was Mikuo. He held out his hand with a warm smile on his face.
"Why? I think we have practice enou-!" I was cut off when Mikuo took my hand and brought me close to him.
"Just one little dace won't hurt," he gave me one of his sly smiles.
"Fine, but this is for practice only! One dance, that's it!" I said, "Let's practice the moves Luka told us step by step okay?" I said while tightening my grip in his hand.
"Oh Len! We should practice too!" we heard from the window, I glanced Rin was there.
She burst out of the doors with Len holding her hand, "You guys don't mind. Do you?" Len asked glancing over to us.
"Of course not," I said, I looked at Mikuo his face wasn't so satisfied, "Mikuo are you okay?" I asked.
"Huh? What? Oh yeah! Of course! What makes you think that?" he said.
"Well it's just that-," I was cut off when Mikuo said.
"No time for chit-chat let's dance," he said while pulling my closer to him, "Now, Neru, follow my lead," he whispered in my ear.
We danced and danced. Mikuo pulled me closer every time I would move back. Before I knew it we were chest to chest. I didn't know what he was doing. We went back and forth back and forth then all of a sudden, DIP! He dipped me his hand on my back cradling it. One of my legs were up Mikuo's other hand wrapped around my waist. My face started to redden. We stayed in that position for a few seconds which felt like FOREVER! Then he pulled me back up.
"Sorry! I didn't know what came over me!" he said with his face all red.
"I-It's okay Mikuo," I said looking away with one hand holding my arm.
"Wow! That was so cool!" we heard Rin say.
"I didn't know Mikuo could do that," Len said.
Crud, I forgot they where there! I felt my face heat up.
"Don't. Tell. ANYONE." I said.
"No need!" I turned around…
"Gyah!" everyone was standing there looking at us.
Kaito was eating an ice cream, Luka was eating popcorn like she was watching a movie.
"Wow brother! I didn't know you were so feisty!" Miku said with a wink.
"You really know your moves," Luka said.
"Some type of dance you got there!" Meiko said.
Both of our faces go all red. Mikuo covered his eyes with his hand. I did the same thing. I turned and left the garden. Oh my gosh! I didn't know they were there! I mean we even turned in circles and we didn't see them? Stupid! Maybe I was too focused on him… I went in my room and locked the door. I fell on my bed.
"We are just friends! What's up with people thinking we are more then that?" I said.
Ring, Ring, Ring!
My phone was ringing. I checked who was calling, Mikuo…
"Yes Mikuo?" I asked.
"Well I wanted to see if you were okay. Your door was locked," he said.
"Well I didn't want to se anyone. You know because they would make fun of us," I said while twirling my hair.
"Well, anyways, I'm sorry for that whole dip thing. I'm REALLY sorry," he said.
"It's okay Mikuo! You already apologized! I'm okay. But I had no idea that you can do that," I said with a mischievous smile.
"I- er… ANYWAYS! Do you have your mask ready?" he asked.
"Yeah, I do. You don't have to yell into the phone to change the topic Mikuo," I said
"Sorry 'bout that," before he could say another word I heard Miku yell in the back round.
"Mikuo! Brother! You need to help me! I need your conditioner for my hair! I want it to be soft for the party!" She yelled.
"Okay sister! Sorry Neru," then he hung up.
Conditioner huh? Mikuo is such a girl. I got up and I unlocked my door, but when I opened it, Kaito, Luka, Rin, and Len fell into my room.
"Kaito! Luka! Rin! Len?" I said, "What were you doing?"
"Well!" Kaito said.
"You see!" Luka said.
"We wanted!" Rin said.
"But we!" Len said.
"Spit it out!" I said while crossing my arms.
"We wanted to spy on you!" they all said.
"Wow… you guys really need to mind your own business," I said while pushing them out of my room.
When they were gone Mikuo was standing staring with a confused face, "What happened?" he asked with his big aqua eyes.
"Luka, Kaito, Rin, and Len, spying on me," I said.
"Wow… anyways, lunch is ready," he grabbed my wrist and dragged me to the dining room.
Later:
After lunch, I decided to watch some TV with Luka, Rin, and Len. Every channel we looked at had Miku singing. I moaned and Luka kept on flipping threw channels.
"WHEN IS THIS NOT ON?" I moaned listening to Miku sing 'World is Mine' on TV.
"It's not my fault that I'm so famo- HOLY COW! STOP AND LOOK AT THE TV!" Miku yelled while pointing at it.
"What? It's just- OMG!" Luka said dropping the remote.
"What?" I said while looking at the TV, my jaw dropped.
"What's going on?" Mikuo asked while entering the room, "Oh! TV- WHAT THE?" Mikuo yelled.
"Today on the News, we find the handsome Mikuo on a 'date' with the beautiful Neru Akita at the mall. They were buying clothes and more. On the other hand, we found Rin and Len Kagamine having a kissing session in their road roller!"
"Holy cow! You did what now?" Mikuo yelled at Rin and Len.
"I thought no one would see us!" Rin said blushing.
"Also IT WASN'T A DATE!" I yelled.
"This is so humiliating!" Mikuo and Len said.
"Wait guys, SHUT UP! There's more!" Kaito said.
"Also, the power couple, Kaito and Miku was found at the carnival in the tunnel of LOVE!"
"Say what now! That was private!" Kaito said.
"H-HOW DID THEY KNOW!" Miku said while blushing.
"Also the dancing samurai, is actually a man! A cross dressing man! (no offence Gackupo)"
"Well… I don't mind that because it's true," Mikuo said.
"Yeah! And- wait, HEY! I was always a dude!" Gackupo said
"Turn it off!" Meiko said, "I don't want to see anything bad about me!"
She grabbed the remote and turned off the TV. We all were in major shock of that new surprise. Rin and Len were blushing like mad. Mikuo and I were banging our heads on the wall. Kaito and Miku were so mad and turning redder by the seconds. This was so not happening! But it was!
"THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING! IT'S SO URG!" Mikuo said while punching the wall.
"Mikuo calm down!" I said while slapping him in the face.
He stared at me with a blank stare. I rubbed his face and nodded.
"No need to worry Mikuo," I said.
"Worry? WORRY! We are going to a ball, we will be humiliated!" Kaito said.
"Dude… it's a masquerade, NO ONE will know who we are!" Mikuo said
"Yeah… good point Mikuo," Meiko said.
