Sarah: OMGsh Its been almost a month since I've updated YIKES! Don't kill me I promise this chapter is really good!!! I swear! Its my favorite one so far. I am so surprised at how well it turned out I am very proud of it! -beams-
The song in the chapter is "Stolen" by Dashboard Confessional
"Shut up, you idiot, you're going to wake her up," the shady voice whispered.
"Sorry, but could you ever expect her to snore? I mean come on, it's priceless!" the immature voice retorted in defense. The shady character made a gesture to stay quiet.
"Hey. I dare you to go take the covers off of her so we can she what she's wearing," the sly person announced amused.
"Are you crazy! She'll have a fit!" the shady character said not so amused.
"Fine you wimp. This means I get bragging rights."
"You already brag way too much. God fine I'll do it."
He approached the bed where the snoring girl lay peacefully. Her arm rested limp over her eyes and her chest rose up and down in synch with her breathing. The man crept over to the side where the girl was sleeping and reached out his hand. Suddenly, she shifted on her side causing him to quickly draw back his hand. When she stopped moving, he slowly curled his fingers around the edge of the thin sheet. He slid it down the length of her body as the cloth caressed her curves.
There she lay quietly as the two intruders gawked at her beauty. She was dressed in lacy purple underwear and a baggy long sleeved thermal. Her silky hair was spread about her. The man was so tempted to feel her skin. So reached out his hand and traced his fingers over her smooth skin.
Bad move.
The girl awoke slowly and felt a breeze about her. 'Something is peculiar about this,' she thought to herself. Finally becoming vigilant of her surroundings, she saw two men floating beside her… The bed sheets were placed at her feet, leaving her body exposed. Her eyes widened.
"OH MY GOD!!!" Zakuro screamed at the top of her lungs throwing things left and right, from the pillows on the bed to her stiletto heels.
"GET THE FUCK OUT!" the irate woman screamed hitting Kish with an extremely heavy alarm clock and Pai with an open tube of lipstick. The two perverted aliens quickly dematerialized and left Zakuro's room, bloody and bruised.
"What a great start to the day, having two freaking peeping toms checking me out while I'm asleep. That's just peachy. If they did anything to me they are in for a rude awakening." Zakuro said combing her hair at record speed.
"I fell asleep with no pants on right?"
Mint was enjoying the island shopping and looking at native skirts and colorful dresses. She walked around a street filled with shops and natives trying to catch her attention.
"Hey pretty girl, you like blue no?" a shriveled old woman beckoned her from a rocking chair.
Mint looked over at the withered building hesitantly. Then she shrugged her shoulders and decided to go over. "Yes. Blue happens to be my favorite color," Mint replied quietly.
"Child, you're eyes tell me a story untold. Why don' you sit wit' me and tell me all about it." The old woman offered Mint a seat. Mint took the seat and laid her bags down beside her feet.
"Well ma'am I don't really know what you're talking about, but I will give you my company." Mint said and leaned back in her chair. 'I've got nothing else to do anyways.'
"You be distinguished and refined. I admire your maturity. Let me make you something pretty, huh?" The woman reached down and grabbed her bucket of shells and hemp thread.
"Oh no miss, you don't have to do that." Mint tried to talk her out of it but to no avail.
"Child de price may only be words. Dis' chose you, I'm not makin' it for me own health." Then the woman began to weave the piece of jewelry.
Mint sighed and watched in silence for continuous long minutes. The woman looked up at the blue haired girl and smiled. "Be you in love, child?"
"I would hope so. But ever since you started making the bracelet, I've been feeling a bit unwell."
The woman stared at minute and chuckled. "I see child. You know what dat is? Dat's your soul cryin'. Dese shells are unique, you know. Dey come from a legendary lagoon on de other side of de island." Mint looked intently at the wrinkled shrew.
"Dey only affect special girls. You be special it seems." The woman continued her jewelry making. As each white shell was added to the hemp, it turned a different shade of blue.
"Do you know why your soul be cryin'? Your lover be on the island, lovin' something else." Mint gasped.
"N-no. He isn't. He is back in Tokyo." Mint whispered in denial.
"Well let's see den. Dey be five shells upon de thread, if de center shell turns black, what I say be true. Now, let de truth be told." The woman tenderly tied the bracelet upon Mint's wrist. Upon contact with Mint's pale skin the innermost shell's color went black.
"O-oh my god…" Mint whispered in disbelief. "It's not true." Tears threatened to spill from Mint's eyes. She let them. Her wet face looked up at the woman. "Why?"
"He don't feel for you, like I do," the old woman proclaimed. Mint looked confused.
"Excuse me?"
The old woman's appearance quickly evaporated as if it was a hologram. Out of the false picture came a tall man with pointed ears. His blue hair was tied back in a ponytail behind his head. His clothing was similar to Kish and Pai's, tied together by a dark blue belt.
"You're an alien?" Mint's tears stopped on the spot. "I don't understand." The alien leaned in and softly kissed her lips.
"I am Gyoru. It was my life's purpose to love you. And at first I didn't. But upon seeing you I instantly fell in love."
"Oh my god," Mint's spirits (literally) lifted. "I think I might just love you to!" And upon the sunset, the two shared their first real kiss.
Lettuce leaned over the balcony of the spa room awaiting her treatment specialist to arrive. "Aren't you excited, Raine? We are going to be pampered and relaxed!" Lettuce told her protruding stomach.
"Lettuce Akasaka?" a slender woman, with cornrows in her hair came into the room with bags of equipment.
"Ah yes that's me!" Lettuce quickly retied her soft robe and sat down where the specialist asked her.
"Are you expecting soon?" the lady asked as she rubbed Lettuce's feet with lotion.
"Oh mhmm, a girl!" Lettuce replied proudly.
"That's lovely darling, the name?"
"My husband and I decided to name her Raine," Lettuce said closing her eyes.
"That's is so coincidental. I myself am pregnant. We are having a boy child, we have decided to name him Rian." The woman replied while pulling out her manicure kit. (A/N: Raine means Queen and Rian means King)
'She is so skinny I couldn't even tell she was pregnant!' Lettuce thought to herself in shock. "Oh my god! Its destiny!" Lettuce joked. Then she gasped, Raine was moving around at extreme speed inside of her. The woman suddenly touched at her stomach, grasping herself so tenderly.
"Its..."
"A…"
"Hand…" Lettuce finished as she rubbed her finger around the spot where Raine was pushing out.
The other woman grabbed Lettuce's hand in her own and placed it on her stomach. Lettuce had done the same.
"They are calling out to each other!" The woman spoke in surprise.
"Oh my god!!! They really are!" Then the movement in both women stopped suddenly and they both sat there breathing heavily.
"That was miraculous," Lettuce said amazed.
"Yes it was. Now I have a job to finish, would you like a hair cut as well?"
"Why not? After something like that I guess it was a sign for me to get a change." Lettuce replied happily.
The woman smiled, "What style shall you get done then?"
"Hmm lets see… this one!" Lettuce pointed at the picture in a book the woman offered to her.
Then the woman began to snip at Lettuce's luscious green hair.
Lettuce met her husband at the shopping square where they agreed they would meet up.
"Oh my god… Lettuce what did you do to your hair?" Keiichiro asked in surprise.
"Don't you like it? I had 15 inches cut off! I never realized my hair was so long." Lettuce spun around showing off her new haircut.
Lettuce's hair now hung just above her shoulders and came down in angles. Side bangs covered her left eye and rested upon her cheekbone.
"You look beautiful darling," Keiichiro replied with a genuine smile.
Then the two walked hand in hand looking at intriguing trinkets in shop windows and admiring the natural scenery of the island. Sooner than the couple thought, dusk came to shove them along on their dreamy walk.
Oh Lettuce before I forget, before when we were in one of the shops I bought something for you." Keiichiro said pulling out a wooden box.
"Sweetie, you didn't have to do that. But thank you!" Lettuce smiled brightly as Keiichiro slowly untied the ribbon.
"Here, its your present you should be the one to open it," he handed the box over to Lettuce and watched her delicately curled her fingers under the cover. When she slid the lid off of the intricate box, glint of jewelry caught Lettuce's eyes.
"Oh Keiichiro! This is simply beautiful!" Lettuce said taking the green beaded necklace out of its case.
"Yes," he chuckled, "You are." And he surprised his wife with a passionate kiss and clasped the shimmering piece of jewelry around her neck.
We watch the season
Pull up it's own stakes
And catch the last weekend
Of the last week
Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced
Another sun soaked season fades away
You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart
It was approaching nighttime and everyone was invited to the island's feast. People had already begun to arrive and Ryou and Ichigo were still in their room.
"Ichigo we are going to be late!" Ryou shouted in an exasperated manner. He exaggerated by tapping his foot and checking his imaginary watch.
"Would you stop? I want to look good so you can shut up and wait!" Ichigo called out from the bathroom.
"Ichigo you are so—" Ichigo walked out of the bathroom with her hair straightened and down, caressing her shoulders. Her off the pink tank top hugged tightly to her body and stopped just above her midriff area. Her skirt came right below her belly button and flowed out in an array of flowery patterns and sequins that stopped around her knees. She finished off the look with strappy cork sandals that swirled all the way around her shins and tied in a sloppy bow at the top.
"Beautiful…" Ryou finished his revised sentence. "Oh my god you are the most gorgeous thing I've ever laid eyes on."
Invitation only
Grand Farewells
Crush the best one
Of the best ones
Clear liquor and cloudy eyed
Too early to say goodnight
You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart
"How cheesy," Ichigo said ruining the obvious romantic rush that Ryou was attempting to create, "But I'll take the compliment anyways."
Ryou snorted. "Lucky its still being offered."
"Did I hurt your feelings? Aww I'm sorry honey!!!" Ichigo exaggerated by falling onto him and crushing him with hugs and kisses.
"Now we are going to be really late, lets go." The two walked off hand in hand and after a short walk in the cool night air, they heard music.
"The party is getting started!" Ichigo exclaimed. "Lets go!"
Ryou rolled his eyes and chased after his love. When the two entered the luau, lights flashed and native island dancers were dancing in the center.
"I'm starving lets get some food," Ichigo shoved her way through to the food table. And the two enjoyed the party.
After talking and laughing with friends, everyone heard a slow song come on. Couples walked out into the middle of the garden. Ryou wrapped his arms protectively on Ichigo's waist as she slunk her arms around his neck.
And from the ballroom floor
We are in celebration
One good stretch before our hibernation
Our dreams assured and we all
Will sleep well
Sleep Well
Sleep Well
Sleep Well
Sleep Well
The slow song slowly came to an end. Ryou and Ichigo ended it with a kiss, as did many of the other couples. "I'm going to dance with the girls okay?" Ichigo told Ryou. He gave his sign of permission and allowed his love to dance with her friends.
"Come on girls lets go!" Ichigo met up with Lettuce, Mint, Zakuro and Pudding. All of them went onto the dance floor and were clearly the most beautiful people present.
You have stolen
You have stolen
You have stolen my heart
An upbeat song came on and the girls all jumped up and danced to the beat, each one swaying their hips and raising their arms in the air for all to see.
"This is so fun!" They all laughed and continued to dance. The guys all sat at one table admiring their loved ones.
Watch you spin around
In your highest heels
You are the best one
Of the best ones
We
All
Look
Like
We
Feel
As the song ended, the girls all hugged each other and then went back to their table. Ichigo found a seat on Ryou's lap. He leaned over to her ear. "Come on I have something to show you."
They both walked away from the crowds as their friends wondered they could have gone.
"Leave them be," Zakuro said, "They are probably making out somewhere."
Ryou took Ichigo far off, away from the music, away from the lights, and away from the people. When he brushed away some vines and leaves, he revealed a beautiful waterfall pouring into a clear lagoon. They both sat down on an eroded rock and Ryou placed his hand on Ichigo's.
"I love you with all of my heart. Did you know that?" Ryou turned to her to see her smiling.
"Yeah, I think I did." She replied in a humorous manner.
"Want me to prove it to you?" he asked quietly.
"Ryou, you've done so much for me! I don't think there is anything else you can—" he silenced her with a soft kiss. He brought himself down on one knee and reached into his jacket pocket.
You have stolen my…
He opened the box and presented a diamond ring with braided pink gold. Her eyes widened and tears were emerging.
You have stolen my…
He slowly took the ring out of the box, and lifted her hand. "Ichigo. I want you in my life forever. Will you marry me?" Ryou asked with hope gleaming in his icy eyes.
You have stolen my heart.
"Oh… my… god…" Ichigo whispered as he slid the ring down her slender finger.
Sarah: So what did you think? It was such a long chapter... I hope you all got through it with out falling asleep -sweatdrops- please review I want to know how I did. This is my absolute favorite chapter so tell me how it was.. Maybe its your favorite chapter as well? Well let me know! Till next time!!!
