Jon was just about to sit down but Soul casually walked by and snatched his chair.
"Ow!" Jon yelped when his bum hit the hard titled floor. "Where's my chair?!" he yelled annoyingly as he glances all around him. Soul was already sitting on it, facing the other way with his hands behind his head, whistling.
Francis was coming back with two ice-cream cones when suddenly they both melted with incredible and impossible speed, even for the tropical weather. Kid stood back, watching both vanilla and chocolate drip to the floor while Francis asked someone what the temperature is right now.
"Everything alright?" Liz asked Francis when he just stood there very confused. He gave a nervous laugh.
"Hehehe everything's fine. It's just that the more I approach you the faster they melted, damn you're hot!" he grinned at his own quick compliment to win her over.
Liz smiled but truly she was disappointed, she really wanted that ice-cream.
Maka gave Jon a hand in getting up, but as soon as he was on his two feet, someone kicked him in the back of his knee which caused his legs to bend forward and down again to the floor.
Maka turned around, looking at him worriedly until he too made a nervous laugh. "I kneel to your beauty" he announced unashamed. Soul and Kid were both getting aggravated.
As the day progress, unexplainable tragedies keeps happening to the two handsome tourists whenever they get overly friendly to the girls. At a quarter past one, the girls picked an all-you-can-eat buffet for lunch.
"I am starving!" Liz stretched her arms over her head, not realizing the reaction she was causing from both Francis and Kid who just entered the restaurant.
"Me to" Maka agreed as she allowed Jon to pull out her chair then he pushed her chair forward so she may sit. She also watched him keep a firm hand on his chair while continuously looking around himself as if expecting something to happen. When he finally sat down and turned his attention back to Maka, she gave him an awkward sweet smile that he mistook for admiration and cast an arm around her shoulders. Soul to frown from his place beside the front counter. Deciding that he's had enough, he boldly marched to their table and sat down at the other side if Maka and knocked Jon's hands away. Kid follow suit by taking the open chair on the other side of Liz.
Jon and Francis frowned disapprovingly at them while the girls pretended that nothing unusual had just taken place.
"Aloha!" a young waitress greeted, "Would you like to order from our menu or eat at the buffet?" she asked.
"We're all taking the buffet, four separate checks please." Kid said politely.
"Include this one's bill in my check," Soul told the waitress while his arm snacked around Maka's shoulder possessively, she shrugged it away.
"Hey!" Jon stood up, furious at the intruder.
"Hello" Soul simply said.
"Her bill in with me if you please," Kid kindly ordered her but the waitress tensed when Kid smiled in a way that made her experience unusual fear towards a customer.
"Ri-right away sir," she then asked for their beverages then walks off stiffly.
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Francis demanded,
"Why, how rude of me. The names Death" Kid said charmingly, though the aura in the air suddenly became cold and dangerous.
Francis's mind automatically pictured a dark foggy graveyard with the skies bloodshot red and crows squawking evilly. He shivered.
"Soul Eater" Soul said and bared his pointy shark-like teeth, "Nice to eat you, I mean meet you"
Jon felt a slight tremor run over his body but he ignored it. This was clearly a challenge and there was no way he'd allow himself to be intimidated.
"Can we eat now?" Liz asked irritably.
"Of course," Kid got up again and waited for Liz to move ahead of him. Francis trailed after Liz but kept a good space between himself and Death the Kid.
"Maka" Soul said but she stood straight up and ignored him. Jon smirked.
When they came back, Soul carried a total of four large plates containing nearly everything and a small dish for his desert. Maka held a medium plate with anything but seafood in it. Jon had a bowl of salad, Liz and Kid basically had the same things of some meat, potatoes, green vegies, except Kid added extra meat. Francis's had stir fry rice, white rice, and long noodle rice.
"Is that all you're gonna eat?" Soul eyed out Jon's salad.
"You got a problem?" Jon raised a competitive brow. "I take care of myself, I am a grown man."
Soul snickered at the remark, and when a different waitress inquired for anything more, Soul asked for her to give Jon a bag of nuts. "You see, he seems to have lost his" he explained and Maka giggled softly.
"Um, would you like some meet with that?" Kid asked Francis.
"No, I like rice" he said proudly,
"Clearly" Kid agreed, bothered at the fact that he's the one who's skinny when his appetite should suggest otherwise. Pushing the thought aside, Kid then asked them what they do for living.
"We live for a living!" Francis said, trying to use deep words to impress Liz.
"So do most people but what are your jobs?" Kid asked, wondering if he had been clear enough.
"Our job's motto is to have fun," Jon pitched in, winking at Maka for an extra implication.
Soul and Kid nearly slammed their heads at the table. 'Their idiots' they both thought in unison.
Liz, now honestly curious rephrased Kid's question. "What sort of work do you do?"
"We travel the world and do all sorts of sports, like bike riding, sky diving, surfing" Jon said.
"So in other words, you're both rich and basically do whatever you want while mommy and daddy pays it all" Soul concluded.
"I think what you do sounds great!" Maka defended for them, "It must be nice to simply go out and have fun, I wish that I could live like that." She said dreamily, imagining herself doing whatever she wanted, which was reading quietly back home on the couch.
Soul snickered, already knowing the image in her head.
"Then what's your job, if you have any" Jon sneered at them.
"We do investigative work and clean off the streets from…. Bad guys," Soul summarized.
"Kind of like law enforcers," Kid said thoughtfully.
"Right" Francis laughed, "Good one"
"You think I jest, well Elizabeth here happens to be my personal assistance."
Francis looked at her and she meekly nodded.
"Maka and I are partners," Soul said, suggesting more than one meaning as his arm snake around her shoulders again.
A phone sounded off, "excuse me, that's probably my dad" Maka stood up and walked outside.
"Speaking of which, does your parents ever gets worried?" Kid wondered.
"We moved out of our parents' house at soon as we turned seventeen" Francis said smugly, "that's a year before the legal adulthood age."
"I moved out after six summers," Kid casually informed.
Jon and Francis twisted their faces, Liz looked down to hide the pain in her eyes.
"I don't have any parents that I can say I moved out of" she said softly.
Kid instantly felt like a cad for forgetting all about Lizzy's painful past.
He touched her shoulder while at the same time, Francis touched her other shoulder. "Please forgive me,I was thoughtless." They both said then glared at each other.
Liz, startled by the double physical contact and apology was embarrassed "Don't mind me" she said after accepting their apologies.
"Okay, alright papa" Maka walked back in and out of habit stood behind Soul, "alright alright, I'll do it right now." She clicked the phone off and turned to Soul, momentarily forgetting that she was mad at him, "he wants another picture, except with the mountain in the back of me" Soul nodded, stood and followed her out the door. Jon matched his strides on their way out.
"Lizzy babe, there's a dolphin show going on in a couple of hours at the zoo. Wanna see it?" Francis was trying to win back her attention because Kid was trying to keep it all to himself.
"Before that, I need to talk to you Elizabeth" Kid said, using her first name to indicate the level of seriousness.
Liz ignored Kid and grabbed ahold of Francis's hand, "We'll meet you guys there" she called over her shoulder, acting much like her sister by dragging along Francis.
Kid sighed irritably, "that's it"
"Tsubaki look!" Patty pointed at the monkeys, laughed and clapped her hands.
Tsubaki was sharing a pink cotton candy with BlackStar when Patty hollered for her, "Aww, look those two seems like lovers" she said when a male monkey kissed a female on the cheek.
BlackStar wasn't paying attention though, he was too busy having a stare down with a huge gorilla that was making growling noises at him. "I'll show you" BlackStar said and walked off, Tsubaki still absorbed by the sight of the monkeys making kissy faces at one another to notice.
Crona was just walking back from the drink stands with a bottle of juice that he intended to give to Patty until Leilani, the good witch bumped into him. "Oh excuse me, I-" she stopped. "Crona!" she squealed and gave him a big hug.
A familiar crowd of attractive Hawaiian females surrounded him, fighting to get their hugs.
"I've missed you honey!"
"Quit hiding from us"
"Sit next to me during the show!"
"No, he'll be with me"
"No, me!"
On away was Crona in the mist of females without a say, Patty had just realized that he hasn't come back yet.
"Tsubaki, have you seen Crona?"
"Umm, sorry I was looking for BlackStar"
"Hey you! Get out of there!" Someone yelled and Tsubaki sighed in half relief and half worry. "I'd better get him" she scratched the back of her head as she bows formally and moves towards the direction of people yelling.
Tsubaki found him on the other side of the gorilla's cage, both circling each other challengingly. "BlackStar!" she yelled, horrified not for him but for the poor animal.
"Tsubaki?" a voice that sounded like Masuda from the Nakamura clan came from behind her. When she turned to face him, he was holding his little sister Mya on his shoulder as she sits prettily. She recognized Tsubaki and reached out her arms.
"Baki! Tsubaki!" she corrected herself.
Tsubaki walks towards them with a smile, "hello angel" she reached out and Masuda handed to her his kid sister.
"What the hell are you doing here" BlackStar demanded, already finished with the gorilla and now standing directly in-between Tsubaki and Masuda. Masuda laughed and BlackStar scowled dangerously at him, readying himself for another fight.
"BlackStar, please" Tsubaki begged, recognizing the stance.
"Lani said we could com' an see her show" Mya informed cheerfully.
"Lani?"
"Leilani" Masuda said with an obvious affection, "she invited us and since Mya seemed attached to her, I didn't have the heart to refuse."
"Didn't realize you had any after kidnapping Tsubaki"
"That's all in the past, I'm a changed man now."
"It was just yesterday that I got her back!" BlackStar's nostrils seems to flare, Masuda coughed diligently.
"The show is about to start!" he said distractedly, "come Mya"
Tsubaki let the girl down and watched her run to her brother's side. BlackStar gripped Tsubaki's hand and followed them, wanting to keep a close eye on Masuda incase he does something stupid.
"Crona!" Patty called out as she walked through the place, "We're going to miss the show! Don't you want to see the dolphins?"
"Patty?"
"Hey sissy!" Patty dashed towards her, not noticing the honey blonde stranger beside her. "Umm" she looked around, "Where's Kid?" she asked.
"He's with Soul and Maka" Liz said unflappably.
"That's weird, he's been saying that he wanted to clear up some misunderstanding but oh wells!" Patty skipped away to continue her search. "Crona!"
Lizzy remained where she was, 'misunderstanding? What does she mean?' she then remembered that before she left the restaurant, Kid did say he wanted to have a word with her. 'Could that be, what he wanted to talk about?' she wondered, feeling horrible for not giving him the chance to explain.
"There you are!" Maka called out, Jon and Soul marching right behind her, still glaring at one another.
"Hi" Lizzy said and looked around, "Where's Kid?" she asked.
"Don't know, we thought he left with you guys." Soul tore his attention from the 'pest' to looked around, Liz was now feeling much worst. Her eyes were nearing to tears as she silently prayed that he hadn't actually left but that he's probably in his room.