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Sorry for not updating quickly, I've been caught up with editing and we just got a new puppy so I've been pretty busy. BUT HAVE NO FEAR. I AM GOING TO CONTINUE THIS STORY TO THE END. 8D
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{Amu POV}
"Guyyyyyyysss. When the hell can we go home?" I whined as I was dragged into yet another store.
"As soon as we find you a sexy bathing suit, of course." Rima replied. I scowled at the thought.
Earliar that day
"YAY! You're really gonna come, Amu? What made you change your mind?" Utau jumped up and down with excitement as I told her about the beach trip. I glanced over at Ikuto, smirking as always, and just frowned a bit.
"Nothing much…Just..A change of heart?" I said. She just continued with her squealing.
"So, what's your bathing suit look like?" Yaya asked as we were planning out the trip. I just sat there like an idiot with everyone watching me.
"You don't have one, do you?" Rima asked me with a blank expression. I just laughed a little and rubbed the back of my head sheepishly as I shook my head. Suddenly I was surrounded by the girls, all of them with smirks on their faces.
"You're free after school today, right Amu?" Yaya asked with a glint in her eye. I slowly nodded my head. 'Dad decided to take Ami on another little vacation so I wouldn't worry, they even left early. He's such a goof.'
"Good!" Utau said with a huge grin. "Then it's decided! After school, the four of us are going bathing suit shopping!" She finished off, leaving me with a scowl.
Present Time
I groaned again as I was thrown into another changing stall with about five different bathing suits stuffed into my arms. I slowly laid them all out and started to inspect them.
I just sighed and started to try them on one at a time before a certain one caught my eye.
The base color was black, and it had a pinks trawberry on the right side of the top. The ties for it were a hot pink , and it tied on both sides on the bottoms as well as the next on the top. I just stared it for a minute thinking. 'Strawberries…What does that remind me of?' I just couldn't figure it out. I pushed the thought aside as I tried on the suit. I looked in the mirror, and decided I didn't look all that bad. I peeked outside of the stall to see the girls sitting and waiting with smiles of anticipation on their faces. I slowly walked out into the open, as they stared blankly.
"Does it look that bad?" I asked with a timid smile. Just before I went back in the stall Rima spoke up.
"You look awesome Amu!" She said. I turned around to see them all ginning like idiots.
"I agree with Rima. That was made for you Amu." Utau said. I blushed a bit and said thanks. I quickly ran back and changed into my regular clothes to stop the embarassing comments and came back out.
"Can we finally go home now?" I groaned to the girls. They all looked at me with little frowns, but eventually agreed. I smiled at the thought of going home, and ran out of the store, this time me pulling them along.
Next Day At School [YES I GOT REALLY REALLY LAZY. SUE ME. ;-;]
Everyone was still excited for the trip, even more so when we found out that Nadeshko {LOL AM I SPELLING THAT RIGHT? I DON'T KNOW…IT LOOKS WEIRD?} was able to come along since her family is ridiculously rich and all. We were barely paying attention in class, always daydreaming out the beach.
I myself was in the middle of one of those fantastic daydream sessions in the middle of break time when a certain Annoyance interrupted me.
"We have practice today, so we're all going to go straight to my house after school today." He explained to me. I just nodded absently and tried to go back to my daydreaming. He just sighed. "Don't be an idiot and forget." He added as he walked away.
I jumped up at the insult. "Who's the idiot? Stupid-neko-pervert-useless-alien-thing!" I accidently yelled. He just smirked at the prolonged nickname as everyone stared at me like I was crazy. This just irritated me even more.
"'The hell are you people looking at? Don't you have anything better to do?" I said with an attitude. Which in turn made them all sequel like retards. I just sighed again in frustration.
"Are you alright Amu? You seem…." Rima tried to find the right word.
"Pissed off." Yaya said proud that she could think of a way to describe it. I just smiled faintly.
"I'm fine. Just people these days, you know?" I walked off to the roof after responding, hoping to get some peace and quiet. As soon as I got up there I slumped myself up against a wall and looked up to the sky. 'I wonder if I should go visit Moms grave. I think Dad had it in some graveyard here rather than back where we used to live.'
I slowly started to think about how things were back then. At the same time, the tears slowly started coming. As I remembered everything, I also started thinking about how things are now. Sure there are some bad things. Like annoying cats. But overall, I really love it here. 'I guess I'll go visit. Just to let her know that I'm doing alright. When though…'
I decide to go after the beach trip. Don't want to be a bummer at the beach, right? So I cleaned myself up and started heading over to the door back downstairs when I saw an almost shocking scene. Ikuto and that red haired bimbo – Saaya was it? Well whatever her name was, she and Ikuto were making out. They seemed pretty into it too. And for some reason, I was really annoyed by this scene, so I decided to make myself known.
"Excuse me, Love birds, would you mind doing that behind closed doors?" I asked with my 'Cool&Spicy' tone that everyone seems to like. Saaya glared up at me, and Ikuto just looked up in shock, and something else that I couldn't figure out. But it's not any of my buisness right?
Saaya just laughed. "Don't be jealous, Little Punk. Just continue walking away like a good little girl." She responded.
I slowly walked up to the two of them, feeling Ikuto's eyes on me, but keeping my hard stare on Saaya, who was still glaring at me. When I had finally reached them, I swiftly threw Saaya back off of the Annoying Cat, and walked over to where I had thrown her. I bent down and talked to her face to face.
"Little Punk, huh? If you don't get out of my sight in the next ten seconds, I'll show you just how bad this Little Punk can kick your ass." I said with a small smile. "Now scram, Slut." As expected, she ran away like a little girl. I bet she even peed herself. I giggled at the thought, as I turned around to go back downstairs. But I had forgotten one little problem.
"Amu I-" Ikuto said with a strange tone I hadn't heard before. Guilt? I just smiled bitterly and interrupted him.
"I'm so sorry I interrupted your little play date. But your little playmate needs to watch her mouth. Next time, try doing that in private." I left before he could say anything else and went back down to the classroom. Rima, Utau, Yaya, and Nadeshko all tried to talk to me to see what was wrong, but ignored them all. Trying to get back to the peaceful daydream that seemed to escape me.
After School
I was just about to leave for home when Kukai and Nagihiko showed up at my classroom. "Come on Amu! We're going to practice. The others are in the car already."
I mentally groaned. 'Great. Practice. That means he'll be there. Why is everything going against me today?' I'll just have to ignore him the whole time. Easier said than done.
As soon as we got to the car we saw Tadase and Ikuto leaning against the car, waiting for us. Ikuto jumped up as soon as he saw us and tried to talk to me. But of course I just ignored him and got in the car, getting questioning stares from the guys. I ignored those too, the whole time to the house.
It was dead silent in the studio, when finally Kukai decided to break the tension filled silence.
"So. Ignoring the killer intent and such, what songs should we practice today?" He asked with a small grin. We all stayed quiet.
"How about the one that Amu just wrote? It looked pretty interesting. We should try out a few verses."Nagihiko suggested.
"Alright, but I haven't written any male vocals for it yet." I responded. "Infact, I doubt I'll even add any." I added, throwing a small glare at Ikuto. He just had that same look of guilt and whatever else on his face. 'He's such a liar. Like he'd ever feel guilt.' I just ignored the thoughts as I got into singing. I waited for the music to start, and I sang my worries away.
[CrushCrushCrush – Paramore – I don't own]
I got a lot to say to you.
Yeah I got a lot to say
I notice you eyes are always glued to me
Keeping them here and it makes no sense at all.
They taped over your mouth, scribbled out the truth with their lies
Your little spies.
They taped over your mouth, scribbled out the truth with their lies
Your little spies.
{Crush…Crush…Crush…}
Nothing compares to..A quiet evening alone.
Just the one, two
I was just counting on.
That never happens, I guess I'm dreaming again.
Lets be more than, this.
The instrumental part finished up and it got silent. That was all that I had done, and I thought it was pretty good. Kind of ironic for the current situation, even more so when I realized that I wrote that song thinking of Ikuto, but I won't be the one to bring that up. I looked over at Ikuto and noticed him staring at me with a blank expression. I just ignored him as we continued on with our practice.
I left quickly left after practice was over, not wanting to hear the guys' interrogation of what happened.
{Ikuto POV}
As soon as Nagihiko declared practice over, Amu rushed home. I just slapped myself. 'When the hell am I ever going to get the chance to explain to her...' But my thoughts were cut short when the guys all threw me against the wall and started questioning me.
"What the hell did you do to Amu?" Nagihiko bluntly asked.
I just sighed. For the hundredth time today. "After Amu stormed out of the classroom during break today, I was called up to the roof by some Saaya chick. I had assumed it was just a love confession, since it was the fifth time this week that she had called me out like this. So I went up, she told me she loved me, again. And she suddenly jumped on top of me and kissed me. I tried to get her off at first, but after a while I just thought screw it, might as well enjoy it, right?" They all stayed quiet. "But anyway..I guess Amu was on the roof too, but the only part she saw was me and Saaya making out. Then Saaya and her has a little…Altercation. And after that, Amu still looked pissed off, and for some reason I felt bad. So I tried to talk to her, but she was pissed. Like total PMS pissed. A few more words were shared, and then the ignoring started." I finished up.
Then I was smacked on the head three times.
"Are you a retard?" Tadase asked with a straight face. I put on an offended look.
"I'd like to think not." I replied.
"Yeah? Well that sure was a retarded move you did. You're as stupid as a friggin' ape." Kukai responded. Okay, so that one hurt. You know you have it bad when Kukai is insulting you.
"What the hell did I even do?" I was downright confused, but they all sighed.
"There's no point if you don't realize yourself, Ikuto." Nagihiko said wisely.
"Cut the fortune cookie crap and tell me what I did wrong." I said back, a little annoyed at this point. They all just turned their backs and walked away. "Well screw you guys too." I muttered before going downstairs to finish up my homework.
{Amu POV}
I ran up stairs to my room as soon as I got home from stupid practice. I was so confused. 'Why do I care if that stupid Ikuto is off making out with other girls? He can do whatever he wants..' I thought with a small pout that soon turned into a frown.
'…Then why does my heart hurt so much?' I feel asleep, a thousand thoughts flowing through my mind.
The next week flew by super fast. I kept on ignoring Ikuto. Every time I think he gave up, he always shows up to try and talk to me. I just couldn't talk to him. Not until I figure out why the hell I'm so upset. As the fast week went by, it was finally Spring Break. Which also means-
"YAY! FINALLY! BEACHBEACHBEACH! THIS IS SO EXCITING! DON'T YOU THINK GUYS!" Yaya practically yelled while we were all on the bus, on our way to the beach. We just laughed at her over excitement, and started conversations with ourselves.
I had already told the girls about what happened with Iktuo, so they would finally stop pestering me about it. And I'll admit, it was good to talk about it with someone. But when I asked them what they thought about me being upset, they just grinned and told me that 'I'll find out soon enough.'
Like what the crap? I don't get females these days.
But anyway, we had finally arrived at the beach house, and let me tell you it was amazing. [A/N – I'm not going to really describe it in detail, because I simply suck at describing things, but as the story goes on you'll get the main parts.]
We all split up to explore around and call dibs on the rooms and such. We discovered that there were five rooms, meaning we'd have to pair up and share rooms. Then Yaya got a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"ALRIGHT PEOPLE. THIS IS HOW THE ROOMING IS GONNA WORK-
Amu with Ikuto, Utau with Kukai, Rima with Nagihiko, and Nadesko with Tadase." She suddenly announced. We all turned with wide eyes and shocked expressions.
"I'll have the one free room, since I have the most bags with my candy stash and all. No complaining or I'll hurt you." She finished off with a scary glare. We just nodded silently, too scared to oppose.
After the rooms were all set, we put our stuff away and headed out to the beach, some more excited than others.
All the girls except me were in their bathing suits in the water having a splash fight. Kukai, Tadase, and Nagihiko were some ways off, just kind of staring at the girls. I just sighed and stared up at the sky while sitting on my beach towel. I didn't really want to be out in public in that stupid suit, so I made up a lie saying that I was sick and sat out. I glanced around, wondering where Ikuto went off to.
"Ikuto hates water, so he's probably wandering around somewhere near here." Nagihiko sat beside me, almost reading my thoughts. I just nodded and stayed silent.
"You know, Amu. He's really torn up about what happened. I think you should give him a chance to explain it." He continued on, his gaze shifting over to Rima's direction. I just scoffed and stood up, going to walk around aimlessly on my own for a bit, to clear my head.
I was in the middle of clearing said head, when I saw a flash of blue in the crowd, and instinctively zoomed in. It was Ikuto, sitting on a bench in the middle of a park, right in front of a huge fountain. He looked deep in thought, and I started to walk over to him replaying Nagihiko's words from a little while ago in my head.
'I guess it wouldn't hurt to give him one little chance, right?' I stopped right in front of the bench, but he seemed to absorbed in his thoughts to notice, so I tried sitting down right next to him. He immediately snapped out of his thoughts and glanced over to see who had interrupted him, and I saw his eyes widen in shock. I don't really blame him, I had been ignoring for like a week, then I suddenly sit next to him?
"You have something you want to say, right?" I started with my 'Cool&Spicy' tone before he could open his mouth. "Well now's the time to say it."
He just stared at me for a while, 'till his mouth turned up into a small smile.
"Since you insist….The Saaya chick called me out to confess to me, but before I could reject her again she suddenly jumped on top of me and started to kiss me." He explain. Well I feel stupid. I mean it wasn't his fault – "And I tried to get her off but it wasn't working so I just kind of went with it…Then you showed up." He finished off with a look of 'guilt' on his face. All feelings of stupidity went out the window. 'So he was part of it. But then again it's not like he started it. So it's not that bad. I hear Saaya can be pretty persistent..' Then I caught myself. Why in God's name do I care who started it? I looked over and noticed Ikuto looking at me with a hopeful expectant look on his face. I quickly shook away my prior thoughts and focused on him.
"Well..I guess I could stop ignoring you..For now." I said with a small smile. He just smirked and stood up, stretching. Then he held out his hand to me and I looked at him with a confused expression.
"I'm guessing the others are wondering where we are by now. They might think we're doing something naughty." He said with a smirk. When I was about to protest, he quickly leaned down so his face with inches away from mine. "Unless…You want to do something naughty?" He asked with another smirk. I blushed like an idiot and shoved him out of my face.
"As if you stupid pervert." I said as I walked back to the beach. He just chuckled and walked right behind me. We got back to the beach to see everyone playing in the water together. As soon as utau spotted me, she ran up to me and gave me a big hug. Which made my clothes soaking wet.
"Oh come on Utau. Look what you did!" I complained.
She just laughed. "That was the point. Now take those off and lets go play!" She said dragging me along. I finally gave in and went back to my towel to put my clothes on. [A/N – FYI. SHE HAS HER SUIT ON UNDER HER CURRENT CLOTHES LOL.]
I decided to take my pants off first, since that was just less revealing. Kind of. In my mind. Then I quickly took off my top and turned around to see everyone in the group staring at me, and the girls smirking. I just blushed, again, and tried to get them to stop.
"It's really rude to stare at people you know." I tried with some attitude, but it didn't really work considering I looked like a tomato. I noticed Ikuto staring more than the others, which made me want to go hide in a hole even more. But I toughed it out. I wont be intimidated by stupid stares.
So I ignored the stares and grabbed Utau and the other girls and decided to start playing a random splash fight. Everyone slowly started to join in, except Ikuto who was sitting on a beach towel not far from us. I suddenly got an idea and went over to him, with an innocent smile on my face.
"You don't wanna play with us, Ikuto?" I asked standing right above him.
He seemed to stare a bit, but finally answered. "Not really..Waters not really my thing." He answered cooly.
"Huh. Is that so?" I ask innocently. I swiftly bent down and hugged him tight. 'Since I'm all wet, this'll made him soaked. He'll be so pissed off.' I stayed like that for a moment, then I released him. I looked down to see him soaking wet, and staring at me with wide eyes. After he got over the initial shock, he looked pissed off. He glared up at me as I started to laugh uncontrollably.
"Haha! Your face is priceless!" I teased him as he started to strip out his wet shirt with a small scowl on his face. "You're such…A cat…" I said in between laughs. I looked up to see his scowl once more and regretted it immediately. There he was, shirtless in his swimming trunks, staring at me with a small smirk on his face. Now if I wasn't caught up staring at his chest, I would've gotten the hell out of there. But for some reason I couldn't stop staring. Which made him smirk even more.
Soon he started to lurk towards me, which in turn made me snap out of it and start running away. Who knows the crazy crap he might do for revenge. And so that's how the first day ended. Me running away from Ikuto for my life, everyone else having their own little fun.
Then came the problem. Night time.
All the girls went to their respected rooms with a scowl on their face. Well except for Yaya since she had her own room. And Nadeshko since she's just calm about everything. But the others were like they were about to go through hell. Which they were, really.
I was not surprised to find out that there was only one bed. This school is really messed up. One house full of teenage girls and boys with single bed bedrooms and such. I will have to write a strongly worded letter when we get back. But first I'll have to deal with the problem at hand; Ikuto.
"I'll sleep on the bed. You sleep on the floor. End of discussion." I told him before any harassment could start. He just sighed, probably too tired from running after me in the water all day to argue with me.
We both laid down where we were supposed to and then it was silent. I just sighed, grateful for some peace and quiet. I thought about today and how fun it was.
'I hope the whole week can be like this…' And I drifted off into sleep.
OOOOOOOHHHHH BABY. IT TOOK SO LONG GOD I SUCK. AND THE CHAPTER IS REALLY BAD. AND IT RUNS ON. BUT I FELT BAD ABOU TNOT UPDATING FOR SO LONG. I SUCK. YES I KNOW. ;-;
BUT EITHER WAY;HOPE YOU LIKED IT.
OH AND I DO PLAN ON HAVING OTHER PAIRS AND MOMENTS SHOW UP IN THE BEACH TRIP. In due time, young ones. 8D
