Chapter 9

I turned my attention back to Willy for the moment though. "All right…Well Onward…" I giggled as he tugged me along. I heard vaguely behind me. " Is that boy going to be all right Alexandria?" I practically heard her flinch from here at the use of her full name. "Yes he is going to be perfectly fine. You just wait and see." As Charlie looked away appeased Alex got this look of fright. I winked at her as she looked towards me.

I walked while holding Willy's hand happily. "Do you have a high metabolism?" I asked as I realized how skinny he was. He smiled down at me and I almost became a puddle of radioactive ozze. "Yes. I eat very large meals because sometimes I forget to eat when I am working." I smiled happily as I learned more about him. "I don't have a high metabolism per say. I just am able not to gain fat if I do at least a little bit of walking afterwards." He continued smiling.

"What's your favorite candy?" He asked me. "Oh I have different favorites but of the basics I love chocolates and popsicles. What's your favorite animal?" He smiled happily at me. "I like cats, but I don't like the scrunched up faces of some of them."

"I like wolfs and some other animals.-" I was interrupted as my sister came up beside me. "Hey Destiny can I talk to you for a second? Charlie and I have questions that absolutely have to have an answer now." I smiled happily. "Sure. But first, Willy, this is my sister, Alexandria Fate Bucket." He smiled at her a little cooky and Alex just smiled right back before she just grabbed me by the arm and pulled me almost to the back of the group and with Charlie.

"Alright, tell me whats going on? Oh Charlie you owe me a favor, I won the bet she couldn't last without molesting him." Alexandria spoke quickly. "Alex! I take offense to that… he asked me!" She laughed at first and Charlie as well, then she must have realized that I was serious because she stopped laughing. "So he asked you un-pressured? Oh wait….you two had a past a long time ago right?" I smiled at her and I ruffled Charlie's hair who was still paying attention to the room and only half listening. I walked forward back past the others and while walking by grabbed a candy cane that looked straight enough to be a cane.

I walked beside Willy and as he turned I grabbed his hand happily. "All right my sister's curiosity has been satiated." He smiled at me and squeezed my hand. Then he saw my cane. "What a wonderful way to use candy. I should make some of those." I looked around as he went off on a candy daze. Willy and I started talking about random things as we continued walking towards the chocolate river slowly getting to know the small things about each other. As we reached the river I noticed a great candy boat that looked wonderfully detailed with a seahorse as the front. Little Ommpa Lummpa's (I can never decide how that's supposed to be spelt)were inside and in rowing lines. All the ompa lumpas looked at me and Willy then the other group and laughed hysterically. "What are they laughing at?" Alex said offended. Willy started to speak to the other guests after having ignored them in my favor. "It must be all those dog on cocoa beans. Did you know that chocolate gives one the feeling of being in love." He pecked me on the top of the head and I felt warmth spread from my head to my toes. We had gotten more natural around each other since not even 20 minutes ago.

I heard an aw coming from the direction of my sister and almost smacked her. Before I could even turn to do so I heard something that would make Violet's mother rue the day. "You don't say" She said doing the glance down then back up thing. I would have shanked her, but then I would have had to let go of his hand. I felt and saw him almost dive behind me nervously. "Well get in" He said with a nervous giggle still holding my hand. I squeezed his hand and smiled as Alex had to sit beside Violet's Mom just in front of the only spare seats. As Charlie sat down on the outside I was about to sit next to him when Willy seemed to get an idea.

He stepped in front of me and held out his hand to me. I blushed uncharacteristically and put one foot in the boat and as I put the next one on I kissed him chastely on his lips. I sat down and after a moment Willy joined us. He grasped my hand in his hand and kissed my hair. "Onward" He called in a slightly dazed way. I smiled as his body slightly tilted towards mine in his seat. Suddenly Violet's mother let out a yelp. I saw Alex smile evilly and hide a fork up her sleeve. Violet's mom looked around in confusion.

I had to hide my face in Willy's chest to keep myself from laughing and my heart skipped a beat as he wrapped an arm around me. I smiled happily and pulled our conjoined hands together on my lap. I almost lost myself in glee as he kissed my cheek. The boat was rolling a long towards a darkened tunnel like thing.

Willy suddenly kissed me on the lips as I had him. I smiled as he pressed his soft smooth lips against mine. He brook it off not shortly after (we are in public) and I pouted at the lose and he reached under the seat for a second and I leaned my head against his shoulder. He brought out a ladle from seemingly nowhere dipping it in the chocolate river. He brought it out and handed it to me smiling. "Go on try some. You three look starved to death." I blushed brightly and took a sip.

The taste was of a wonderful hot chocolate that ran smoothly down my throat. I passed it to Charlie. He took it and sipped it before passing the last of it to dear Alexandria. "It's wonderful!" Charlie nearly shouted.

"It is isn't it? Quite wonderful not including the fact that Augustus just fell into it. You mustn't worry though by the rate this is flowing and the amount of time it took us to reach the river the contaminated chocolate would have been so dilated that there isn't a chance that in that one ladle you would have gotten a contaminated piece." Everyone looked at me like I had turned into a flying purple people eater. I just blinked. Alexandria smirked at me. "What? I can have intelligent thoughts every once a while. Not all my thoughts are child-like. Thank you very much most of them aren't but you people just make me rebel against high society." They just continued to stare. Then they went back to looking around as if I had never spoken. Except Alexandria whose head was slightly tilted.

"You amuse me." She stated before turning back around to the front. "Mr. Wonka?" Charlie asked hesitantly. "Do you remember what it was like as a child?" Willy went into a daze. "Oh boy do I!…Do I?" Alex and I were the only one who knew what was going through his mind right then. "Way to go Charlie, bring up bad memories why don't You? It's ok though, he'll live, mostly."

I smiled at him to lessen the burden of my words. He blushed before looking away. "You're all quite short." Willy said suddenly.

"Well yea. We're children we're supposed to be." Mike said in a condescending voice. I narrowed my eyes analyzing this little kid. He would need some work and I was going to have to worry about it later because now I would worry about the conversations. " That's not true. I was never as short as you." I blinked getting a mental image of a rather tall baby Wonka. I giggled.

Willy spared me a glance and a smile.

"You had to be short at some point." Mike said still not giving up. I had grasped that Willy Wonka's mind just didn't work the same way as most people's minds. "Nu-uh know why know why? Because I distinctly remember putting a hat on top of my head. Look at your little arms. You'd never reach." He smilied smugly. I smiled touching my hat on top of my head that I had almost forgotten.

I giggled. "See? Now I'm not as short either! My hat is gorgeous!" I smiled crookedly at them sprinkling a little bit of enjoyment on their emotions. They smiled at me and in a daze Veruca asked me, " It is quite pretty where did you get it." I leant forward so my butt was 'accidentally' in Willy's face (and consequently Alex and Violet's mom's face.) I heard him stop breathing and shuffling.

"I got it as a present! From my sister, if your good I might make you one but you have to deserve it. You see this hatter is slightly mad, doesn't make hats for anyone but his beloveds! Luckily him and I are close! You wouldn't believe how wonderful his hats are. He gave me this hat special!" I was however interrupted. I glanced up realizing that Alexandria must be slowing time down because it hadn't taken this long in the movie.

"But if he made it and gave it to you then how could she also give it to you?" Violet asked popping her gum. I got distracted as I sat back down. I heard Willy let out a breath. As I was distracted by the fact that Willy was shifting an awful lot and was covering something up with his jacket, it took me a second to respond to her.

"Well you see he is more than slightly mad. Tarrant and I had a bit of a falling out recently. He insulted a friend of mine (time) and refused to apologize to him. For a please forgive me present, he made me a hat like his because I so enjoy his. I was unable to retrieve it so Alex gave it to me as a present from her also!" I smiled at him. Before she could comment again though Charlie said something.

"Mr. Wonka! We're heading towards a tunnel!" He said panicked. I let out an epp, before grabbing Willy's Charlie in panic. "Save me from the deep hole of disaster, Charlie!" I yelled. I was however ignored.

"Oh yes…Full speed ahead!" Willy called distracted. I let go of Charlie as he tried to wiggle out of my death grip. I huffed indigently.

These people need to loosen up I thought just as Willy wrapped his arms around me. I got an idea and quickly, before we went down the vastly approaching tunnel I wiggled in between Willy's legs and sat down scooting him back so I could sit on the chair. I felt him tense but forgot for a second as I braced my feet against the boat and wrapped his arms ack around me.

Suddenly I understood why he had been trying to hide something and why he had tensed…let's just say there was something poking me in the back and it wasn't a cane.

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Hello people of the universe! I am so tired. This chapter was going to be longer but I cut some of it off to put into the next one….enjoy!