Moby Dick's Café (I'm not working today!)
chaos took a sip of his drink and analyzed KOS-MOS with his sharp eyes. Needless to say, he can nail where someone got their clothes, what kind of fabric it was made of, as well as other small details that no one would care about except himself. "I'm interested to know where you got these clothes, KOS-MOS. Something tells me that someone…no, maybe two people…helped you picked out your dress at…hm…I'm pretty sure I saw it at…the Federation Gap…"
"You caught us!" Miyuki held her hands in surrender. She motioned that I should too so I did.
"I must say, you actually did do quite a good job…"
"Of course! Girls have to shop for clothes too!"
Shion put her hand in the middle of the table all of a sudden and then shouted, "Girl power!"
We all looked at her strangely and then put our hands in, except the guys of course. "Girl power!"
"Oh yeah?" Jr. put his hand a couple of inches above ours. "Guy power!"
The other guys put their hands in and shouted the same thing.
"Go Go Power Rangers!" The table beside us chimed in.
Another table with some teens that also went to Xenosaga High said, "Go Go Gadget Suit with Lots of Stuff!!!"
A table full of nerds on the far end shouted, "Go Go Spiderman!"
The table beside us shouted back, "Spiderman doesn't have that theme you stupid nerds!!"
"We just gave him that one because he definitely needs one! And so do the other superheroes!"
"Like Go Go Superman Super Undies?"
All the nerds seemed to be insulted by that remark. "What the hell are you talking about? You're totally ruining the superheroes' names!"
The guy talking slams his hand on his table making everything on it jump an inch or two off the table. "Why don't you just go back to your lawns and mow them???!!!"
"Oh, that does it!" A nerd stepped up from their table and walked over to the table besides us. Each person there eyed the nerd seriously, as if they could rip every single one of his body parts off his body until there were none left.
"Somehow, I have a feeling it's going to get ugly…" Jr. slowly wrapped his arm around me, causing me to almost kick chaos in the shin.
"MOMO!" chaos hissed.
I mouthed sorry. I guess Jr. was being protective of me. It's not like I enjoyed it or anything…
The nerd and the table besides us were still at it, staring daggers for daggers until one side caved in. I wanted to do something but I was afraid that I'd probably have forks and knives thrown at me. I do not want to die at a restaurant.
KOS-MOS got up and walked to them. All the guys at the table suddenly drooled and forgot about their war with the nerds. "Could you please keep it down? I'm trying to eat dinner with my friends."
They looked at us and then back to KOS-MOS.
They all bowed their heads in shame. "Sorry about that…we didn't mean to disturb you."
You've got to be kidding me. This girl is a saint!
KOS-MOS walked back to us and continued eating her dinner like nothing had happened. This prompted us to eat as well. Plus we were all silent seeing that everyone in the restaurant was staring at us or more specifically, at KOS-MOS.
On the Road to Paradise Island!
We were still silent from the restaurant incident. It was like KOS-MOS got to us as well. Jr. decided to lighten the mood by saying, "That was some thing that KOS-MOS did. It totally quieted the entire restaurant. It's like she ruled over all of us or something…"
Sakura grabbed onto the back of my chair and leaned her head forward. "I have to say it was quite fun to watch everyone react like that."
"Indeed." Gaignun agreed. "She is truly a great person."
You don't know how right you are…
Jr. suddenly put his finger to his chin thinking about something. "If chaos and her hook up, it'll be quite the relationship…"
I started to picture how it would go. I saw flowers and rainbows and butterflies flying around for KOS-MOS. Then when I see chaos, I see lots of clothes raining down as well as a lot of malls.
I shook my head. "Somehow I doubt it'll be as pretty as I pictured."
"Same here," Gaignun said. "Rubedo! Turn on this street now!"
Jr. did as he was told and almost got us hit by a semi. "Geez! What the hell were you thinking, Gaignun!"
"You've been driving in circles for quite some time now."
Sakura and I both looked at each other in blank confusion and then at Gaignun and Jr.
Sakura started, "Wait, you're telling me that…"
"…for the past 10 minutes we've been driving over town?" I finished.
Gaignun sighs. "Didn't you girls notice? Rubedo has never had a good sense of direction. When he was younger, he actually thought that the bathroom was a park. The plunger was a tree and the toilet was a lovely bench to pee on."
Jr. blushes in embarrassment and quickly put both of his hands on the wheel and focused his eyes on the road. "Gaignun! You promised to keep that a secret, damnit! I am not that dumb!"
Sakura and I laughed hard along with Gaignun while Jr. tried hard to control his embarrassment. However, his tomato face was still there by the time we reached the activity center that they were going to host the dance at. Luckily, it was a reasonable distance from the school. I'd seriously have to kill Tony and Hammer if they did something to delay the dance.
Take the chance, time to dance on the floor! Can't touch these blue suede shoes anymore!
Jr. parked the car and then turned it off. "Here we are."
Gaignun and Jr. opened the door for Sakura and I and we walked to the activity center. We greeted the teachers on duty and headed to the dance floor.
The strobe lights were spinning around like mad while the DJ played the music. It was a nice techno beat. Everyone here was having a good time. The majority of them were talking while dancing. The rest were hanging out by the drink stand.
Sakura rushed forward pulling Gaignun with her. "Well, let's get to dancing then!"
Jr. and I followed after them and we were dancing in our little group. KOS-MOS and chaos joined us shortly and so did Miyuki and Togashi. We created a circle and pushed someone in the center to pull a few dance moves. However, the first one was me and I was lacking in the dancing department. Nevertheless, I started shuffling my feet like I was slipping on bananas and then waved a finger up in the air spinning around. Jr. pulled me back in and gave me a smile of approval.
Everyone applauded and the next person up was Gaignun. To my surprise, he was really good. He knew how to make the body flow so he pulled a robot maneuver. Sakura cheered him on and joined in on his dance. He did a wave with his arms and Sakura finished it. She then sent it back and Gaignun sent it at Togashi who responded by shaking his entire body as if he was being electrified.
I laughed at what he did and watched the next dancer perform: chaos. We all kept swaying our bodies to keep the dance beat going but chaos just didn't seem to want to dance. Jr. got in and started moving chaos' body for him. We laughed as Jr. made him pull some goofy moves but nevertheless, it was a dance. KOS-MOS seemed to enjoy it and was right after him. She did the robot dance that Gaignun did earlier but added in a few more moves. She actually did it quite well. For a second, I actually did believe that she was a robot.
Miyuki slid into the center and started to moonwalk. That surprised me. I didn't think she was an avid dancer. She started to disco out of the circle and pushing Togashi in. He was a bit nervous but started to dance like a hillbilly. He pulled up his pants and started spinning around like a cowboy. Miyuki came up from behind and started to act like he was a horse. He actually pulled off a good horse neigh too.
The music then changed into a slower tune. I didn't recognize but it sounded really sweet. Togashi and Miyuki wrapped their arms around each other and started to slowly sway back and forth. So did Gaignun and Sakura. She winked at me to tell me to go dance with Jr.
"Now put your arm right here…"
I turned to see chaos was teaching KOS-MOS how to slow dance. Aw, how sweet!
Jr. offered a hand to me for a dance and we started to melt into our own world. All we did was sway back and forth to the music. His crystal azure eyes were gleaming in the swirling lights around us. Suddenly, all of the people around us were gone and the music started to grow a little fainter. I didn't want this moment to end. I wanted to stay like this if I could for the rest of my life. I felt safe, secure. It was something that I…
The DJ's voice suddenly awakened me from my wonderful dream. "Alright everybody! It's time for a familiar tune for everyone to dance to!"
How dare he! I was enjoying my moment!
"Move forward! Move backward! Move your feet to dance to the beat! Listen, listen for the sweet rocking stuff, shuffle and swing till you got enough!" The music said.
"Well, how about we get some drinks? It's getting a little hot in here…" Jr. said as he unbuttoned his collar and loosened his sleeves.
I answered, "Sure. Sounds good."
They mostly had water at the drink stand. Then again, I don't think belching on the dance floor is really…dance material. Jr. grabbed me a drink and we went to sit at a table facing the dance.
"This has been quite some dance."
I took a sip of water and nodded. "The DJ's kind of good."
"Yeah, I agree. He's not good but he's not bad either. His music selection is definitely limited."
"Indeed it is," said a voice from behind. "Just what you'd expect from a male DJ."
"Citrine?"
"Hello, Rubedo. I was wondering when I'd get to see you and your date." She looked at me up and down. "No wonder you were acting like an idiot today."
Was that supposed to be a compliment? This sister of his was quite weird. I wasn't even sure if they were related. They didn't look like each other plus Jr. had red hair and Citrine had orange.
"What are you doing here?"
"What? I can't have fun myself?" Citrine sighed. "What do you think I am? Some boring uneventful Eskimo?"
Jr. scratched his head. "Well, I just don't see you as the type to actually go to something like this."
Citrine slaps him on the head.
"So, Citrine…who are you with?"
"Someone you would never guess."
"Really…?" Jr. said, sensing a challenge. "Are you with…Scott?"
"Hell no. Who would want to go out with the biggest loser in school?"
"Huh…well then, how about…Big Al?"
"He's dancing with five girls over there."
Jr. and I turned to look and sure enough she was right. I could tell both him and the girls were getting into it. It made me think of Shion. Come to think of it, I haven't seen her the entire dance…
"You rarely associate with guys anyway…so maybe you came by yourself."
"You really are an idiot brother. I am definitely here with a guy. He's definitely different from all of the guys. He's got balls to actually do what he wants."
"And who would that be?"
Citrine pointed up and both Jr. and I gasped. He was swinging on the lights as if he was Tarzan or something. But what surprised me more than his antics was the person himself. The orange hair and naked body….none other than Canaan, except…he somewhat had clothes on if you count a linen skirt covering his privates. Citrine must've done that or else the teachers probably wouldn't have let him in. I was surprised they even let him in at all.
"You're with Canaan?"
"Yeah. Got a problem with it Rubedo?"
"Uh, not at all," Jr. said carefully, trying to avoid another hit from Citrine. "You two, uh…make quite the pair…"
"Well, I have to go get him to dance with me." She left leaving Jr. and I to wonder how the heck this happened.
"Citrine…she sure is something…"
"Uh huh…"
"Hey guys," Miyuki said as she sat next to me. "What's up?"
"We just learned that Canaan has a date." I said.
"Really? With who?"
Jr. put a hand to his forehead and admitted, "My sister."
"Really? It's about damn time!" Miyuki squealed.
I started to put the pieces together. "Wait…were you the one who brought them together?"
"Of course! Those two were totally meant for each other!"
"And how may I ask does that work?" Jr. asked. "I'm seeing no connection here."
"It's easy," Miyuki explained. "Citrine totally detests any guy she meets because they're either too into making out, or that they're total losers."
"Got that right," Jr. muttered.
"So, through my connections, I figured out that she actually had extremely high standards for boyfriend material. One, he actually had to have guts."
"Canaan's got a lot of it seeing that he does go on his nudist rampages…" I pointed out.
"Yeah, no kidding," Jr. agreed.
"And two, he had to have the same hair as her."
"Wait, what?" Jr. sat up from his chair. "That's totally ridiculous! Canaan is the only person in the entire class to actually have orange hair!"
"That's why he's the perfect match for Citrine."
Jr. put his arms behind the back of his head and sighed. "Somehow, this doesn't surprise me. She always was quite specific when it comes to choosing. If you wanted to get her a present, you'd have to get the right color, right size, right whatever. It's rather bothersome."
"What about Canaan then? Does he even like her?" I asked.
"My sources tell me he's had a small thing for her for quite some time. So, by the power vested in me, I had to bring those two together!"
Miyuki…you scare me sometimes.
Jr.'s eyes suddenly looked confused as he looked forward. "Hey, what's going down on the dance floor?"
Miyuki and I turned to see what was going on. There was a huge group of people watching something.
Miyuki answered without hesitation, "Dance off."
"This should be interesting," Jr. said as he got up. "Let's go watch."
I followed after him with Miyuki tagging close behind. We all grabbed hands to make sure we wouldn't get separated and we traveled into the deep jungle of the crowd. After what seemed like forever, we finally had a good view of what was going on. KOS-MOS and chaos were nearby and they seemed pretty hooked on the dance off.
I turned to see who were the dancers were. It was Allen and Canaan. Canaan stopped doing the worm and made a motion for Allen to start his move. Allen adjusted his collar and then started dancing as if he was Michael Jackson. He started to moonwalk and then started moving his arms left and right as if he was a zombie. He spun around quickly three times and then started shaking his body left and then shook it back right adding in a snap at the end of the shake. He finished off with a disco point right and left and then pointed to Canaan.
Canaan was shaking his body violently as he thought and got shouts of approval by the girls. He suddenly started acting like a chicken…the chicken dance! He danced around Allen in a circle spreading his wings and shaking his butt. Everyone cheered for Canaan. Allen admitted defeat and gave Canaan a handshake.
Everyone then dispersed from the arena circle and started to dance again. Jr. and I went over to talk to Allen.
"Sup, Big Al?"
"Nothing much. Having a blast here." He looked at me. "So she's the one I've heard so much about…MOMO Mizrahi, right?"
I nodded. Did Jr. talk about me?
"Nice to meet you. Allen Ridgeley's the name." He held out his hand and I shook it. "Now if you'll excuse me, time to get my groove on!" He left to go find some girls to dance with.
"The dance should be ending soon. Wanna head out?" Jr. asked. "We could catch a movie at my house."
"My parents want me and Sakura back by the time the dance ends."
"Oh. Well, we should probably get going then."
"Yeah, wouldn't want us to get lost on the way back."
"Aw, c'mon…"
Jr. and I went outside of the dance room to find Gaignun and Sakura. Instead, we found Shion sitting by herself staring out the window.
"Shion?" She turned to look at me. "Were you out here this entire time?"
"No. I danced." I could see that she was right. I could see that she was glowing since we girls don't sweat like you guys do.
"Have you seen Gaignun and Sakura around?" I asked.
Shion pointed her finger towards the entrance. "Yeah. They're sitting down there."
"Thanks. We needed to get them so we could leave…"
"Well, have a good night then."
I gave Shion a hug and whispered in her ear, "You too. Tell me about it later."
"Alright."
There was nothing that couldn't escape my sight. I knew Shion was hurting about something but I couldn't figure out what. I didn't want other people to get involved since it was a private affair.
Jr. and I headed down to the entrance and met up with Gaignun and Sakura.
"Well, you two look like you had a good time," Sakura smiled.
Jr. scratched his head. "We had a blast!"
"Shall we be going then? Mom did say she wanted us back right after the dance ended."
"I know. I told Jr."
"Well, you made a good choice in leaving just about now," Gaignun said. "Because knowing Rubedo, he's going to get lost getting back to your house."
"Hey!" Jr. complained.
We all got into Jr.'s Asher and then drove off.
We are on the road again! Hopefully we don't run into biker gangs that throw banana peels at you...
"Hey, did you guys see the dance off?" I asked.
Sakura nodded. "Between Allen and Canaan?"
Gaignun shook his head in disgust. "Big Al got his skin handed to him."
"Canaan was quite the dancer." Sakura thought for a moment. "Unlike someone I know."
"You're not going to let me live it down, are you?" Gaignun sighed.
"What happened?" Jr. asked. He took a right turn onto a street I wasn't familiar with. Perhaps a shortcut? It was really dark and I could barely see what was in front of us.
"Let's just say my dress will need to be cleaned." Sakura mumbled. "Next time, dance with cleaner shoes…"
I guess that meant Sakura's dress was dirty. Strange, I didn't notice it.
"Rubedo, stop!" Gaignun shouted all of a sudden. "NOW!!!"
I wondered to what he was yelling stop for but I saw it before Jr. tried to stop.
"Shit!" Jr. cried as he slammed on the brakes.
We flew over the curve and into the great unknown which awaited us from the fall. Please don't let me die…I want to at least be Jr.'s girlfriend when I do…and finish my lifelong goals such as licking a pineapple without getting hurt and throwing watermelons off the Miltian Telecast People to feed the homeless...
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A/N: Suspense. You gotta love it. Anyways, they won't die! Just for your information, they are perfectly fine even if Jr. sucks at direction and can't see what's ahead of him! So for now, hope you enjoyed this chapter! Quickly gotta hide in my secret cavern before anyone finds me…
