Disclaimer: I don't own G-Gundam or any for the show's characters
By: Alimoe =0D
AN: At the bottom after my last AN I have a shout out to anyone who reviewed.
The Man with the Blue and Pink Hair, Chapter 10
"WOW! Chibs look! I think we've finally arrived at the cabin!" I say enthusiastically while looking to my left, out the window. "It's HUGE! It looks like it could be a hotel!"
Chibodee puts his left hand on my left shoulder as he comes closer to peak out the window. "Wow! That is big, but think about how many people are on this trip." He says rather calmly. "Plus there's the kitchen, dining room, and living room, I bet the whole bottom floor doesn't have a single bedroom."
"Thank you Chibodee for that brilliant observation. Please try to contain your enthusiasm." I say in response, my brow twitching a little. Couldn't he *try* to be a little more excited?!
"Hey I'm excited about this trip Bee." He says while leaning back into his chair. "It's just that I haven't been skiing for a few years, you know training for the Gundam tournament." Oh? Chibodee, 'master of *real* sports activities' hasn't been skiing for some time huh? "To be honest I hope I still remember." I can hear him murmur. I put my right hand to my chin with only my thumb and index finger supporting it, while the rest were neatly tucked in. My eye narrowed down, and sparked with the glee of mischief. Heh, a sign of weakness from the hotshot.
"Don't worry about it Chibs! You can always use one of your I.O.U.'s and I can help you!" I say enthusiastically while hitting him on the back playfully. Erk! Wait Please tell me that didn't just come from my mouth!
I see him look at me for a moment, as I wear a smile to be convincing. He gives me a faint smile while looking down and off to the side. "Okay Bee, but only if I really need help. And I mean desperate! To think I'll be needing help from you one day, who's not that great when it comes to fun- sports, I'm some-what surprise."
"Well you shouldn't be! I'm good in many other fields besides fighting and playing video games!" Actually Chibs I'm seriously hoping you won't use that I.O.U. for this case. I don't have half a clue when it comes to skiing.
"You're right Bee, there's much more to you than that; it's just that, if anything, I thought I'd be the one who'd help *you* with skiing, but it'd be kinda cool to have you help me. But only if I really need it."
I smile and laugh nervously "You thought you would be helping *me*? Heh, heh, heh . . . Well, not this time . . . And don't worry I know how stubborn you are, you probably wouldn't let me help you even if you tripped and fell down the mountain!" I finish still with that nervous laugh.
Chibs looks at me with a questionable expression on his face, before shaking his head. "You're probably right on that Bee, but you never know."
Heh, heh, heh. Great . . . What did I set myself up for?
~-*-~ T-R-O-U-B-L-E ~-*-~ A haunting voice in my head told me.
I mentally sigh, I know, I know. Stupid pride. The moment Chibodee shows weakness I just *had* to go and play off that. But there's nothing I can do now. Or rather nothing my pride and dignity would let me do now . . . I mentally sigh once again.
A huge log cabin redirects my attention to it and way from my fib.
"Wowie! It's even bigger in person!" I exclaim, a dumb and obvious statement I know, but when we're right next to it I couldn't help but for it to slip out! "It has a second floor!"
The bus pulls up to a long stretch way for the unloading and loading of people. It stops and Raymond pulls the small square microphone from the top of his seat to make one last announcement.
"Everybody! We're here!" He says with eagerness as he throws open the doors to let everyone out.
"YAY!" I shout. "Let's go Chibodee!"
He smiles and laughs at me, "Excited aren't we?"
"Well, it seems like I've been waiting most of this year for this trip, besides the tournament that is, so I want to get started!" I tell him all piped up with energy.
He smiles at me again before patting my head lightly. "You're cute." He simply says while sliding his hand from the top of my head to my cheek. He moves it away a little too quickly for me, but once again he decided to hold my hand off the bus.
"Lets go check it out!" He now shouts while hopping off the bus.
I giggle a little from his child-like action "Now look who's excited."
"Well now that I see the place *right* in front me it really gets me hyped up!" He says, as I step off the bus and into the soft pile of snow below it.
"And look at all this snow Bee!" He lets go of my hand as he bends down and gathers a pile of the fluffy white stuff into a ball. He stands back up and looks at the ball before looking back in my direction.
"Whoa no!" I quickly said as soon as I made the equation of what he was thinking. I raise up my hands in a precaution for defense. "Don't even think about it Chibs!"
He somewhat laughs as he threatens, "When you least expect it Beardsley."
"We'll see about that Crocket." I reply, with a doubting look on my face.
"Everyone! Come on in the cabin, it's too cold to stay out here!" I can hear Maria shout. "Besides I need to give a tour, it is a big place."
"Well let's go see our castle." Chibs motions towards the cabin.
"Fine with me, but I think it'd help if we get our bags." A look of realization comes over his face. "Ah! Well I guess we might want to do that." He says embarrassed.
"It's not like you to forget Chibodee; especially with something as big as luggage."
"I forget cause I'm having too much fun with you Bee."
"Oh?!" That was unexpected.
"Come on, we're already late on the tour."
"Oh! Right!" I hurry up to the double doors of the cabin.
" . . . And to your right is a big closet for everyone's coats and the room after that is the laundry room. With a big washer and dryer so you might want to combine laundry so we won't waste water or electricity. Now lets step down to the living area . . ."
The herd of people starts to move towards wherever Maria was taking them to, as Chibodee and I are now able to enter the cabin. We look for a place for our soggy shoes as we both take them off and place them to the left following the rows of the other shoes. There are four rooms two to the right and two to the left. I know what the right ones are, I guess I'll find out what the left rooms are for later. We both leave the semi-circle hardwood floor in the entrance, as we stand on a nice light brown-carpeted part of the entrance. We move towards the crowd and see a little black railing on the right and left.
I look down and see Maria with George in the front giving the tour. "Here is the living area. It's very open as you can see, and it's big enough for all of us when we spread out." Upon saying that some more people went down the stairs and spread out among the living room. I went to the stairs, sit down on the top step and continue to listen to George, Chibs just stood behind me.
"To your left, is a sliding glass door to the downstairs balcony. Out there are a few chairs if you wish to ever sit down outside and look at the view. It is a lovely view I must say it's of the lake, which is frozen right now since we're below freezing." Wow! A balcony with a view of a lake! I mentally sigh contently, how romantic that'd be!
Oops! I snap out of my thoughts and listen back to George. "Behind me is a small dip into a little more than a half of circle area where the fire, couches, and coffee table are. It's just an in general nice warm and cozy place to be especially in the evening." Hmm . . . sounds good to me!
"To your right is the kitchen and behind that is the dinning room where, we some how, managed to fit enough room and chairs for most of the people on the trip. We fit fourteen chairs in there so the chaperones graciously agreed to eat in kitchen on the round table in there." A round of 'thank you's were given to Keiun, Zuisen , and Raymond - our 'chaperones'. Thing is we're all adults so I don't see why they would want to come. Especially if they aren't even going to go ski, snow board, or sled. I know Chibs asked them if they even brought any of those equipment and both Keiun and Zuisen said 'no'.
"Now upstairs is everyone's room with the exception of the chaperones who will be sleeping in those three rooms." George points to the three rooms at the wall furthest from us. "As for everyone else as a warning some of you are sharing a room but most will have a room to themselves. And to avoid a huge crowd of people, Marie is going to send people based on room pairings. So from here on I'll hand it over to Marie."
"Please come up when I call you, and please make room for the person or group to come though. Thank you. Now the first pair is Domon and Rain. Please come with me." The pair followed upstairs through the one person, thin, black metal stairway. No wonder they couldn't have everyone up at once, these stairs are wide and it was difficult getting everyone down, but a one-person stairway? Heh heh, no way that's possible! Oh! Finally room to go down to the living room, now that people are staring to explore the place.
"Come-on Chibs let's see the place." I tell him as I grab his hand until we get past the groupings of our friends. "Wow, what a living room!"
"Yeah. It is."
I gleam while I look around. The ceiling of the perimeter must be the walkway upstairs, but other than that it's open. I mean there's not a ceiling directly above the room, it's an open square, and I can see black railing upstairs if you want to look down onto this room. This some-what half circle drop is nice too, to the left of both couches there's a little square wooden stand with a lamp on top. The coffee table is a little left of the fireplace as the seat dividers face the coffee table. The three- cushion couch is facing the fireplace and the coffee table. The couches are brown with a tiny pattern of rectangles dived into two triangles in different shades of dark and light brown that makes sure it doesn't look too solid and too blah-like. I like the color of this carpet compared to the entryway carpet, this one is a toffee color carpet, which really makes the room look brighter.
"Wow, love seats!" I hear Chibodee say as he plops down to the half nearest the fire. I take the other seat of the divider couch.
"Why is it 'love seats' they have this divider here so shouldn't it be a 'divider couch'?" I ask while opening and closing this little wooden compartment where you can place your belongings in. I can hear a faint voice calling for Argo and Nastasha to come up.
"Yeah . . . I guess, but, since they're together and it's a pair. It can also be called 'love seats' they're joined together, like when you're in love, you have that bond together."
"That's still an odd name Chibs."
"Eh, so? That's what I was raised with them being called." He shrugs while replying. He turns around to look behind him. "I guess that's where our chaperones are staying."
I also turn around as I see the three rooms George was talking about before.
"Shirley, Janet, Bunny, Cath, you four are next." I hear Maria.
I turn back around and look to the coffee table. It has six maroon-color sitting pillows around it, one at the head and end of it and two to the other two sides. I look around and see just about the greater amount of people went to their rooms.
"Let's go check the balcony out Chibs!" I say while removing him of his seat as we walk to the sliding glass door.
"Shouldn't we have something more on our feet? It's cold out there Bee!"
"Nah, come on!" We step outside and see Sai just standing at the edge of the balcony, leaning on the rail. He looks depressed . . .
"Hey kid what's wrong?" Chibs took the liberty of asking as he moves next to Sai as he leans his left elbow on the rail.
"Well, Chibodee . . . It's just . . ." He looks my direction before looking back down. This must be one of those guy talks; I'll let them be. Chibs looks my way as we exchange knowingly looks about Sai and me leaving.
I walk back in to take a quick look in the kitchen and dining room. The kitchen is nice, it has a small round table with four chairs surrounding it for a small group to sit, eat or prepare food. The oven, microwave, cabinets and such necessaries are against the wall in an sideways 'L' shape with the greater part facing the wall towards the laundry room and the smaller part facing the wall to the outside.
"Sai Saishi." I hear Maria call.
"Um . . . He's having one of those guy talks with Chibs so you might not want to disturb them quite yet." I tell Maria while stepping back in the open so she can see me.
"Okay, then come on up Allenby!" She does the 'lets go' wave with her left arm, and I head upstairs.
The thin hallway is enough for two slim people. It has rooms surrounding it except for the side opposite of the stairs where another sliding glass door is placed and a much larger balcony outside. There's black railing that goes to the middle of my ribs. It has fancy loopy and flower-ish designs and a round-ish wooden topping to lean on to prevent anyone from falling into the living room.
"Incase you need anything from anyone, I'm going to tell you the rooms okay?" I nod in agreement before Maria continues. "Towards the front of the house and nearest the balcony is Domon and Rain's room, then further left is Argo and Nastasha's room. The corner next to their room is where the shower, bath, and a sink are located. A wash room if you will. Now here to our right and next to the washroom is where Janet, Bunny, Shirley, and Cath are staying. Next to them is Sai Saishi, I'm next to him. George is in the corner room next to me, Chibodee next to him." She pauses and gives me a look.
"I'm getting it, please go on."
"Right!" She replies with a smile. "The bathroom is in between Chibodee's room and your own room, so that makes . . ."
"That corner room my room?" I ask while pointing to it across the open view of the living room.
"Right! But please keep your windows closed at night; the chimney is near your window on the balcony side so you don't want the smoke to get in. Plus you don't want the chill go in your room anyways."
"Right! Well I guess I'll get settled in."
"Oh! And Allenby, you might want to go get changed. Since we have a majority of the afternoon, we've decided to go skiing."
"WHAT?! When was this?" I ask in haste. I hope it wasn't too loud, wouldn't want the whole house hearing me.
"When everyone first entered the house, right before the tour. I wasn't sure if you were fully in that's why I reminded you, or perhaps informed you - I guess - based on your reaction."
"Oh, well . . . okay thanks Maria! I'll go get changed and settled in." I reply with a fake smile plastered on my face. "If you'll excuse me . . ."
"Of course, I'll go see how George is!" She hurries downstairs as I mope on over to my room.
I open the door a stand in the doorway just looking at it. Once again Maria is truly amazing, considering the budget and how much we paid this is probably far too nice of a room.
It has two windows, one across from the doorway, which I'm standing in, the other to my left behind a stand with a lamp on it. I'm guessing that's the window next to the chimney, Maria blocked it off, that's smart. To my left and against the wall is a wooden dresser. It's also rather large, enough for two people probably! To my right and against the wall is my bed. It has a white fluffy pillow on top of its maroon and white plaid comforter. I plop down on the mattress and see another bed identical to mine on the other side of the room. It's vertical to my view and is against the wall. The foot of the bed is near the window across from the door, and the head of the bed is next to the other window and the stand with a lamp.
Well that's does it, this bed may be close to the door, but it's only near one window not two so this one wins! I lay down on my belly and hug my pillow. I look to my top left and look out the window.
So I guess I'm going to be skiing within the next hour. I mentally sigh and clap my hands together. Oh PLEASE don't let me make a fool of myself!
I get up, unpack my clothes on the top two row of drawers and pull aside the clothes I'm going to ski in.
I already have my ski jacket on so I pull out some clothes to keep me warmer inside; I pull out an undershirt and a pair of 'long johns' as Chibodee would call them. Did a guy named John invent these things? I don't know but they do keep my legs warm so I'll wear them. I fully close my door and quickly change into my new layers of clothes before putting on my orange windbreaker jacket, my yellow pants and my white cloth gloves. I fold up the shirt and jeans I was wearing on the way down and leave them at the foot of my bed.
I sigh one last time, gather up my courage and walk out of my room. I look over the balcony and see most of the group ready to go.
"Hey Bee, let's get going." I hear
I take a glace over to my left and see him, gleaming with joy. Well at least one of us is happy.
"Come on! Let's go!"
I smile back and nod once. "Right! To the hills!"
He dashes down the stairs as I try to keep up.
Everyone grabs their pair of skis and we all head outside, bubbling with excitement. Joy, skiing, here comes my doom. But I blend in with the crowd and pretend to be happy.
We pack our skis back on the bus and travel about a mile down before we were at this skiing place.
"It's empty." Was the first thing to be heard from Cath
"More snow for me then!" Sai beams with excitement.
I look over to Chibodee "But it doesn't seem right to be empty. Most of the time these places are full."
"Well . . ." Maria said, "This is privately owned - along with the cabin. So since we've rented the cabin, we also rented . . ." She trailed off letting our own minds complete the sentence with our mouths agape. Once again HOW did Maria afford this place and this land with what now seem like our *tiny* contribution?
"It's a family friend! He let us have a discount since the Gundam leaders should have a proper break." She explained with a nervous laugh. "Now go on and ski! Please have fun!"
We both smile, finally knowing how this amazing place was obtained for such a low price of rent. Maria is so nice; I hope she never changes in that quality. Maybe her taking less pictures would be nice, but I'm sure she'll come around to that as she grows up a little more.
"Let's go! I want to beat Japan at a race down the slopes! Come on!"
I laugh as I put on my skis, too late to turn back let's go bunny slopes!
I stumble my way as I catch up to Chibodee.
"Yo Japan, let's race!"
"He can't Chibodee, he's teaching me to ski." Rain yells back for Domon.
A disappointed look appears on his face. Did he really want to race that badly? Uh-oh! Please don't ask me to race, I know my pride will not allow me to say no, but I really don't want to.
"I'll race you bro!" I can hear Sai shout as he speeds his way over to him in his yellow and blue windbreaker set. "My board is *way* faster than your skis will ever be."
"Fine! Let's go! From here to . . . pass that tree at the bottom."
As the boys start their little race I finally make it to the top of the hill. Okay Allenby, just make one little push off this ledge and . . .
I start moving down the hill, straight down, and not that fast. Whew, good, good. Now to gain a little speed . . .
I move my feet a little closer together and give myself a push with the poles. Instantly I gain speed. Ack! Too much! Umm how do you stop these things? Move your legs apart and dig into the snow?
I try doing just that but it doesn't work. Now I'm practical doing the splits and going down this small hill way to fast for my taste! All I want is to close my eyes and make it stop! I fidget around with the poles some more and try to get back in a standing position but these actions only make matters worse, finally I crash into something. I look up. Or rather someone.
Chibs turns around and looks at me "Hey Bee, guess what I won!"
"Oh?! That's great Chibs!" I pretend to smile back, actually I'm really uncomfortable need help . . .
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in while you can Bro cause wait and see I'll beat you next time." Sai replies with his arms crossed, but still a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eyes.
"Anytime, any hill." Challenges while putting his arm out in an almighty position with his fist clenched.
Sai returns the position. "Okay, well how about - "
"Hey guys come on we're going up this big one! Everyone is going - do you guys want to come too?"
"Sure!" -"Of course!" - "Heck yeah!"
Argo shakes his head; perhaps these two are too over energized? "Then hurry." He simply replies while walking over to where the ski ramps are.
"Meet ya there Bro."
"'Kay." He gives a nod to Sai before turn around to me - who's still clinging to his the back of his jacket if I failed to mention the embarrassing fact before.
"Am I that irresistible?" He asks me playfully.
"No! I just landed this way that's all." I reply trying to look the other way.
"So in a way you fell into my arms." He grins back. Erg, he knows how embarrassing this is for me huh?
"No, maybe I was trying to attack you from behind." I quickly reply with my eyes close as if it as one of those 'simple facts' being explained.
He shakes his head twice before picking me up and putting me back on my skis. "Come on, we don't want to be last." He takes my hand and holds it in his big covered gloved hands and sort-of glides me over to the ramp, as we plop ourselves down on the seat that just came and made our way up this REALLY big hill. Okay maybe it's not that big, but it sure seems like it to me.
I look at my hands. They're kinda cold, I have gloves on, but like I said before they're cloth gloves. Although they're thick, they're not water proof and snow and water are the same thing except one is frozen to a fluffy niceness. Everyone else has a nice little windbreaker set, gloves and all. Mine? Mine is just clothes bought on sale and mixed together. I feel kinda left out, everyone knew each other for longer, and they're all great friends I feel like I was brought into this place as a side person, not really part of the group - a little un-needed obligation. I fidget around with my fingers and palms as I mentally sigh once more.
"Hey Bee?"
"Huh? Yeah Chibs?" I leave my gaze from my hands to him.
"Thanks."
"For what Chibs?" I ask as I look at him a little more intently to pick up any clues.
"For just being you." Me? Being me?
"Meaning . . ." I encourage.
"You know, just for being, 'annoying', spunky, cute, original, loud, festival you." Huh? Now I'm confused. "It's been fun hanging out with you for the past few months, I'm sure anyone would agree with that." He looks back at me, waiting for probably any response or gesture.
I smile and lean into him. "Thanks Chibs."
He puts his arm around me "Although sometimes you are a little too loud." He says.
I sit back up. "Too loud! HEY! I'm not THAT loud!"
Chibodee laughs at my reaction, obviously he was expecting it, and just smiles back at me.
"Jerk." I mumble and pout while turning my head the other direction.
"Come on, this is our stop." I look down and out skis touch the ground once more. We both get up and move out of the way of the chair behind us and end up on plateau where we could dash off down the hill.
"Took you long enough Bro, now let's race down this hill!"
Chibs looks at me quickly, "You're going to be okay with this one?"
"Yeah, of course, you don't even need to ask." I reply confused if he was referring to the race or the hill I'll somehow mange to tackle.
"Fine by me Sai!"
"You're late Chibodee. Marie, your crew and Nastasha are already three quarters down the hill." George says with that same gesture of putting his right hand on his forehead and shaking his head back and forth. Hehe, that always seems to be common for George to do, especially with references to Chibodee.
"*Sorry* but thanks for waiting."
"We weren't waiting for you. We were waiting for Lady Allenby."
Hehe, the relationships with Chibodee here are quite funny, every one of them. George, Sai, Domon, even Argo from time to time - they're quite amusing.
"Domon, are you sure this work?" I can hear Rain ask to the side of this interaction between those two.
"Don't worry now just trust me on this. If you're right behind me coping my moves - which you'd be forced to do - then you'll learn in no time."
I turn my attention the happy couple as I see my sister exhale a sigh and look up to Domon and put her arm around his neck. "Right. Thanks." She gives him a quick kiss before getting behind him and rapping her arms around him.
"Let's go!" I hear Domon shout to the group, as everyone nods or gives a verbal recognition of yes.
"Sai Saishi!" A voice interrupts us. We all approach the edge of the flatter ground and see Maria waving her arms. I look at George and see him looking at her with fond eyes and a smile on his face. Is something going on that has to do with Sai?
"Yea-?" Sai starts to ask but stops dead in his sentence. "CECIL!" He shouts as he speeds down the hill. "Cecil you here!"
"Come on Domon, let's go!" Rain says cheerfully.
"Right." And those two dash off.
"Hey wait Sai, our match!" Chibodee now dashes off and I follow him.
"Chibs he's seeing his girl-girl - !" Ick! I'm skiing! I watch what Chibodee does and see him do a jump. I follow the jump seeing how we're on the same path. "Ick! Chibodee!" Lose my poles and grab onto his shoulders as my feet make an upside-down 'V' in back of me. Chibodee of course loses control of his skis as well and I'm just wondering how exactly are we going to land.
Snow from a high point in the bump gets caught in my left ski. It feels like it crashed into a wall, and I start to fall still holding on Chibodee.
'Let go!' My inner voice shouts at me, and I do so immediately. But immediately is half-way down the fall, and I can feel snow on my face a few seconds later. "Chibodee . . ." I look up, body still lying on the ground. I see him wobble trying to keep his balance, his arms are waving around in small circles, and he starts to fall towards his right side. He catches himself and leans towards his right, but then he's moving left now? His body seems to come back down slowly but he's still moving left. I look a little ahead of him. A tree! Chibodee you idiot look out for that tree!
I get my feet in the skiing position, squat, and try to push myself off with my hands since my poles are somewhere up this hill. I move on my left side, but I fall flat on my face again. "What?!" I look at my feet. My right ski is on the ground a little back. I guess my left ski must've pushed down on the lock. I look back forward, Chibodee . . . "THE TREE! CHIBS STEER AWAY!" I shout. But he crashes into it a second later. All because he lost his balance, because of me . . . The little snow that was on the tree falls onto him. Chibodee! I grab my other ski click it into a lock and squat ski my way down the hill. 'Dang it Chibodee, please, you better be alright!'
His crew is naturally the first ones to get to him. I can't even see him anymore. I try to stop where he is by digging my hands into the cold snow and making an upside-down 'V' again. I stop a little ways from him, unlock my skis and run towards him. 'Please let him be okay.'
I can see Shirley looking at Chibodee with the most tender of eyes. I move closer to see if I can help. "Get away from here! Haven't you done enough damage?!" Shirley yells at me with a bitter voice. Her icy glare seems to cut though me and pierce my heart.
I stumble back a little. "But . . ." But I want to see him, I want to know he's okay. I make a fist with my both of my hands and watch this scene. My heart feels strained and hurt, my eyes start to water up. Let me see him! I'm about to run back towards Shirley and push her out of the way to see Chibodee, if I have to. But I feel a hand on my left shoulder instead, I look to see who it is and I see Rain with compassion in her eyes. She shakes her head 'no' and I move by her side and lookup to her and she puts her right arm around my shoulder.
"Come on Allenby, let's go." She turns me around, and walks me back down the hill. I really want to cry from the guilt that I'm feeling, but it's not in my nature, I've trained myself not to show that weakness, only a few times have I failed myself in that trait.
I look back up the hill. Man what disaster have I caused? I'm sorry Chibodee. I'm so sorry . . .
~*~ End of Chapter 10 ~*~
A/N: Whoa boy, what a long chapter. It was originally going to continue to be even longer but I didn't want to torture you guys by another dozen of pages. =0) ::sigh:: And that was the good part too. So (end the end) it's like how it was first intended to be. By being two separate chapters. I just wanted to combine the two because well, lots of stuff happens in the next and I'm sure you guys would like that a whole lot more than this chapter.
This one was a lot of details and setting the stage up. I hope the house wasn't too confusing, at first I thought it was easy, but its layout is important for the next chapter on visualizing it so I went into detail. (I even drew out a blueprint so I know I won't be contradicting myself)
As for the skiing stuff I hope that wasn't too dramatized. And as for Allenby's falls, believe me both can happen based on where her feet were. (Trust me I know by experience ^-^ ' )
Anyway I babble on too much, I just overall hope people enjoyed this chapter, and the next one will be posted on Valentine's Day (February 14). Thank you for reading. ~ Alimoe =0D
~*~ Response to the Readers ~*~
~~~ Last chapter I got nine reviews! Lol! Nine reviews for chapter nine! Cooleo! THANK YOU to EVERYONE who reviewed, you guys are the best and every review made me soooooooooo happy! Thank you! (I really can't thank you enough.=0) )~~~
To: Allenby Beardsley
Hi Ms. Allenby! You had a bad week when this was posted? I'm very sorry to hear that =0( But I'm sooooooo happy that this 'made your week' ::smiles:: Yay, I feel like I made a difference! (Lol, j/p) Thank you for commenting on the scene between Chibs and Bee, I liked that part too, but I re-wrote it a few times (after Allenby finds out Chibodee is awake) so it wasn't too insensitive and wasn't too sappy. I think I had just the right mix - well maybe not, it is still pretty sappy isn't it? Still you do write good fan-fics so you can write 'good sap', better in my book! At least you have a balance; my story is full of sap so it's very unbalanced. ^-^ '
Lol, thank you for saying you'll leave a review for each chapter, but I still feel that I should earn a review - lol it makes me work harder! =0D
Lol, thank you for mentioning on the cowboy comment, lol, I thought it was good for some humor. Lol. Rebel? Lol, nice nickname. I just moved toward the southeast of the U.S. so I guess I can appreciate that a bit more. Lol, =0) Well, I should rap this up. I hope you get over your writers block soon (you mentioned before that you have it now) and that I hear from you again.
~Alimoe =0D
To: SaiSaiciAngel
Lol, thank you SSA your review made me happy, and laugh ("KEEP WRITING! . . . or else *Shifty eyes*" lol =0) ) I'm even more happy because now that I updated I can spend more time reading other fics! And a few of yours caught my eyes. I read one, and loved it (I hope you got my review) So be sure to expect some reviews from me coming your way, mainly after the next chapter gets posted, cause I should be editing it. ^-^ I hope you enjoyed this chapter, although I can understand if you didn't. And Lastly I hope to earn another review from you. Thank you for reviewing my last chapter!
~Alimoe =0D
To: Ms. Becky (starangel100890)
Lol, I'm glad the last chapter was 'interesting' hopefully not in a bad way. =0) Anyways I hope you enjoyed this information filled / dramatic chapter, hopefully you'll find the next one MUCH better, but still I hope this one wasn't too bad. And as for your story, I know you updated, I PROMISE I'll read the next chapter, just needed to get this chapter out, and the other two (other story and the other chapter of this one) But I really interested in it, it's quite good, and leaves me on the edge from time-to-time, perhaps I over analyze it, but that's the effect it has on me, you do a very good job. I hope to earn another review from you.
~Moey =0D
To: Black Joker Lady
Lol, Ms. Black Joker Lady I just adore getting reviews from you. You're always so funny and nice! So thank you. I agree with you on writers block, it sucks and impairs ones sleeping from time-to-time. I'm glad Neko is fine; say hi to her for me please. I glad that you liked the beginning of the last chapter, and (lol) I'm VERY happy to hear that you're starting to like Allenby. (Lol, I didn't like her at first either, so I can understand your feelings on that. Hopefully she'll continue to grow on you. ^-^) Sorry that I didn't update soon, I'm VERY bad at updating. (And I USED to be good in the very beginning) Anyways thank you so much for the review; I hope this chapter wasn't a big letdown and that I earn another review from you.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Ken no Kakera
Lol, 'update' is an evil word for me too. But hopefully since I did it, you'll update one of your stories? ::hint, hint:: =0) I'm glad the last chapter was great, I hope the same grace for this one as well, but if not the next chapter will be MUCH better in opinion I'm sure. The dream is an interesting one, I was debating on whether to leave it in or not, but I guess now it wouldn't hurt. Actually it does make sense under certain circumstances. -_- And the Chibodee from the dream was Chibodee, but umm . . . yeah. The dream can be connected to another fic, or it cannot it's one of those you don't need to read it to understand it only if you want to type of things. -_- o O (I guess that's the best way to describe it.) Any- who, Thank you for the review, I hope to earn another one for this chapter.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Shuffle Queen
Oh! I'm sooo sorry Shuffle Queen! =0\ When I looked to see who to reply to I looked at the Review alerts, and those don't change the name if you changed your pen-name. They do on the Chapter review but not the review alert, so my apologizes to you for that mix up. Still I would like to thank you for reviewing. In fact your last review on my other story (the first chapter, this was done by the second chapter review) kinda kicked my butt into finishing this. So feel happy about that if you want. This story is updated earlier than it probably was going to be because of you, so good job! Lol, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, and that I earn another review from you! Thank you for reading though!
~Alimoe =0D
To: Dreaming Wolf
Thank you for your review on the last chapter, I hope you enjoyed this chapter too. And I'm sorry I didn't read your story about Allenby's past, but I promise I'll read after I finish my own. But I'm looking forward to it very much. I noticed you had a lot of 'Jax and Dexter' fics up. I take it that's a good game? I was thinking about buying it, but now I can hardly find it. Lol, still thanks for the review and I hope to earn another one.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Sissi
Hi Sissi! Lol, yes I guess those types of dreams would freak people out. I would be freaked out if I had it, and I was debating on whether to put it in or not, but figured I should, after all without it I don't think Allenby's actions when she woke up would make much sense. But yes it is a creepy dream I suppose. Still I'm glad you caught his last words, they wont really come into play here, but rather look for a connection (which I give to you) in chapter 11. (Where A LOT of explaining gets done.) As for this chapter ::sigh:: it's a setting for the stage that's needed for the next chapter. Still I hope to hear from you again on this chapter. And thank you for specifically pointing out what you liked in the last chapter. That made me happy. Thank you again.
~ Alimoe =0D
Last but not least to Chibodee Crocket
Lol, just as charming as always. (j/k =0D) Anyways thank you for the review and the details of what you liked. I happy to hear that I paced the chapters well (although I probably broke that trend huh? =0) ) and that my detail is just enough. (Hopefully I didn't over do it on this one though.) So thank you on those details, and don't worry about reviewing late because of schoolwork, I COMPLETELY understand. (I'm a Jr. too, so trust me I can relate) I'm looking forward to an update from you, hopefully soon. ::hint, hint:: =0) Thank you for the review again. I hope to earn another one on this chapter as well.
~ Alimoe =0D
By: Alimoe =0D
AN: At the bottom after my last AN I have a shout out to anyone who reviewed.
The Man with the Blue and Pink Hair, Chapter 10
"WOW! Chibs look! I think we've finally arrived at the cabin!" I say enthusiastically while looking to my left, out the window. "It's HUGE! It looks like it could be a hotel!"
Chibodee puts his left hand on my left shoulder as he comes closer to peak out the window. "Wow! That is big, but think about how many people are on this trip." He says rather calmly. "Plus there's the kitchen, dining room, and living room, I bet the whole bottom floor doesn't have a single bedroom."
"Thank you Chibodee for that brilliant observation. Please try to contain your enthusiasm." I say in response, my brow twitching a little. Couldn't he *try* to be a little more excited?!
"Hey I'm excited about this trip Bee." He says while leaning back into his chair. "It's just that I haven't been skiing for a few years, you know training for the Gundam tournament." Oh? Chibodee, 'master of *real* sports activities' hasn't been skiing for some time huh? "To be honest I hope I still remember." I can hear him murmur. I put my right hand to my chin with only my thumb and index finger supporting it, while the rest were neatly tucked in. My eye narrowed down, and sparked with the glee of mischief. Heh, a sign of weakness from the hotshot.
"Don't worry about it Chibs! You can always use one of your I.O.U.'s and I can help you!" I say enthusiastically while hitting him on the back playfully. Erk! Wait Please tell me that didn't just come from my mouth!
I see him look at me for a moment, as I wear a smile to be convincing. He gives me a faint smile while looking down and off to the side. "Okay Bee, but only if I really need help. And I mean desperate! To think I'll be needing help from you one day, who's not that great when it comes to fun- sports, I'm some-what surprise."
"Well you shouldn't be! I'm good in many other fields besides fighting and playing video games!" Actually Chibs I'm seriously hoping you won't use that I.O.U. for this case. I don't have half a clue when it comes to skiing.
"You're right Bee, there's much more to you than that; it's just that, if anything, I thought I'd be the one who'd help *you* with skiing, but it'd be kinda cool to have you help me. But only if I really need it."
I smile and laugh nervously "You thought you would be helping *me*? Heh, heh, heh . . . Well, not this time . . . And don't worry I know how stubborn you are, you probably wouldn't let me help you even if you tripped and fell down the mountain!" I finish still with that nervous laugh.
Chibs looks at me with a questionable expression on his face, before shaking his head. "You're probably right on that Bee, but you never know."
Heh, heh, heh. Great . . . What did I set myself up for?
~-*-~ T-R-O-U-B-L-E ~-*-~ A haunting voice in my head told me.
I mentally sigh, I know, I know. Stupid pride. The moment Chibodee shows weakness I just *had* to go and play off that. But there's nothing I can do now. Or rather nothing my pride and dignity would let me do now . . . I mentally sigh once again.
A huge log cabin redirects my attention to it and way from my fib.
"Wowie! It's even bigger in person!" I exclaim, a dumb and obvious statement I know, but when we're right next to it I couldn't help but for it to slip out! "It has a second floor!"
The bus pulls up to a long stretch way for the unloading and loading of people. It stops and Raymond pulls the small square microphone from the top of his seat to make one last announcement.
"Everybody! We're here!" He says with eagerness as he throws open the doors to let everyone out.
"YAY!" I shout. "Let's go Chibodee!"
He smiles and laughs at me, "Excited aren't we?"
"Well, it seems like I've been waiting most of this year for this trip, besides the tournament that is, so I want to get started!" I tell him all piped up with energy.
He smiles at me again before patting my head lightly. "You're cute." He simply says while sliding his hand from the top of my head to my cheek. He moves it away a little too quickly for me, but once again he decided to hold my hand off the bus.
"Lets go check it out!" He now shouts while hopping off the bus.
I giggle a little from his child-like action "Now look who's excited."
"Well now that I see the place *right* in front me it really gets me hyped up!" He says, as I step off the bus and into the soft pile of snow below it.
"And look at all this snow Bee!" He lets go of my hand as he bends down and gathers a pile of the fluffy white stuff into a ball. He stands back up and looks at the ball before looking back in my direction.
"Whoa no!" I quickly said as soon as I made the equation of what he was thinking. I raise up my hands in a precaution for defense. "Don't even think about it Chibs!"
He somewhat laughs as he threatens, "When you least expect it Beardsley."
"We'll see about that Crocket." I reply, with a doubting look on my face.
"Everyone! Come on in the cabin, it's too cold to stay out here!" I can hear Maria shout. "Besides I need to give a tour, it is a big place."
"Well let's go see our castle." Chibs motions towards the cabin.
"Fine with me, but I think it'd help if we get our bags." A look of realization comes over his face. "Ah! Well I guess we might want to do that." He says embarrassed.
"It's not like you to forget Chibodee; especially with something as big as luggage."
"I forget cause I'm having too much fun with you Bee."
"Oh?!" That was unexpected.
"Come on, we're already late on the tour."
"Oh! Right!" I hurry up to the double doors of the cabin.
" . . . And to your right is a big closet for everyone's coats and the room after that is the laundry room. With a big washer and dryer so you might want to combine laundry so we won't waste water or electricity. Now lets step down to the living area . . ."
The herd of people starts to move towards wherever Maria was taking them to, as Chibodee and I are now able to enter the cabin. We look for a place for our soggy shoes as we both take them off and place them to the left following the rows of the other shoes. There are four rooms two to the right and two to the left. I know what the right ones are, I guess I'll find out what the left rooms are for later. We both leave the semi-circle hardwood floor in the entrance, as we stand on a nice light brown-carpeted part of the entrance. We move towards the crowd and see a little black railing on the right and left.
I look down and see Maria with George in the front giving the tour. "Here is the living area. It's very open as you can see, and it's big enough for all of us when we spread out." Upon saying that some more people went down the stairs and spread out among the living room. I went to the stairs, sit down on the top step and continue to listen to George, Chibs just stood behind me.
"To your left, is a sliding glass door to the downstairs balcony. Out there are a few chairs if you wish to ever sit down outside and look at the view. It is a lovely view I must say it's of the lake, which is frozen right now since we're below freezing." Wow! A balcony with a view of a lake! I mentally sigh contently, how romantic that'd be!
Oops! I snap out of my thoughts and listen back to George. "Behind me is a small dip into a little more than a half of circle area where the fire, couches, and coffee table are. It's just an in general nice warm and cozy place to be especially in the evening." Hmm . . . sounds good to me!
"To your right is the kitchen and behind that is the dinning room where, we some how, managed to fit enough room and chairs for most of the people on the trip. We fit fourteen chairs in there so the chaperones graciously agreed to eat in kitchen on the round table in there." A round of 'thank you's were given to Keiun, Zuisen , and Raymond - our 'chaperones'. Thing is we're all adults so I don't see why they would want to come. Especially if they aren't even going to go ski, snow board, or sled. I know Chibs asked them if they even brought any of those equipment and both Keiun and Zuisen said 'no'.
"Now upstairs is everyone's room with the exception of the chaperones who will be sleeping in those three rooms." George points to the three rooms at the wall furthest from us. "As for everyone else as a warning some of you are sharing a room but most will have a room to themselves. And to avoid a huge crowd of people, Marie is going to send people based on room pairings. So from here on I'll hand it over to Marie."
"Please come up when I call you, and please make room for the person or group to come though. Thank you. Now the first pair is Domon and Rain. Please come with me." The pair followed upstairs through the one person, thin, black metal stairway. No wonder they couldn't have everyone up at once, these stairs are wide and it was difficult getting everyone down, but a one-person stairway? Heh heh, no way that's possible! Oh! Finally room to go down to the living room, now that people are staring to explore the place.
"Come-on Chibs let's see the place." I tell him as I grab his hand until we get past the groupings of our friends. "Wow, what a living room!"
"Yeah. It is."
I gleam while I look around. The ceiling of the perimeter must be the walkway upstairs, but other than that it's open. I mean there's not a ceiling directly above the room, it's an open square, and I can see black railing upstairs if you want to look down onto this room. This some-what half circle drop is nice too, to the left of both couches there's a little square wooden stand with a lamp on top. The coffee table is a little left of the fireplace as the seat dividers face the coffee table. The three- cushion couch is facing the fireplace and the coffee table. The couches are brown with a tiny pattern of rectangles dived into two triangles in different shades of dark and light brown that makes sure it doesn't look too solid and too blah-like. I like the color of this carpet compared to the entryway carpet, this one is a toffee color carpet, which really makes the room look brighter.
"Wow, love seats!" I hear Chibodee say as he plops down to the half nearest the fire. I take the other seat of the divider couch.
"Why is it 'love seats' they have this divider here so shouldn't it be a 'divider couch'?" I ask while opening and closing this little wooden compartment where you can place your belongings in. I can hear a faint voice calling for Argo and Nastasha to come up.
"Yeah . . . I guess, but, since they're together and it's a pair. It can also be called 'love seats' they're joined together, like when you're in love, you have that bond together."
"That's still an odd name Chibs."
"Eh, so? That's what I was raised with them being called." He shrugs while replying. He turns around to look behind him. "I guess that's where our chaperones are staying."
I also turn around as I see the three rooms George was talking about before.
"Shirley, Janet, Bunny, Cath, you four are next." I hear Maria.
I turn back around and look to the coffee table. It has six maroon-color sitting pillows around it, one at the head and end of it and two to the other two sides. I look around and see just about the greater amount of people went to their rooms.
"Let's go check the balcony out Chibs!" I say while removing him of his seat as we walk to the sliding glass door.
"Shouldn't we have something more on our feet? It's cold out there Bee!"
"Nah, come on!" We step outside and see Sai just standing at the edge of the balcony, leaning on the rail. He looks depressed . . .
"Hey kid what's wrong?" Chibs took the liberty of asking as he moves next to Sai as he leans his left elbow on the rail.
"Well, Chibodee . . . It's just . . ." He looks my direction before looking back down. This must be one of those guy talks; I'll let them be. Chibs looks my way as we exchange knowingly looks about Sai and me leaving.
I walk back in to take a quick look in the kitchen and dining room. The kitchen is nice, it has a small round table with four chairs surrounding it for a small group to sit, eat or prepare food. The oven, microwave, cabinets and such necessaries are against the wall in an sideways 'L' shape with the greater part facing the wall towards the laundry room and the smaller part facing the wall to the outside.
"Sai Saishi." I hear Maria call.
"Um . . . He's having one of those guy talks with Chibs so you might not want to disturb them quite yet." I tell Maria while stepping back in the open so she can see me.
"Okay, then come on up Allenby!" She does the 'lets go' wave with her left arm, and I head upstairs.
The thin hallway is enough for two slim people. It has rooms surrounding it except for the side opposite of the stairs where another sliding glass door is placed and a much larger balcony outside. There's black railing that goes to the middle of my ribs. It has fancy loopy and flower-ish designs and a round-ish wooden topping to lean on to prevent anyone from falling into the living room.
"Incase you need anything from anyone, I'm going to tell you the rooms okay?" I nod in agreement before Maria continues. "Towards the front of the house and nearest the balcony is Domon and Rain's room, then further left is Argo and Nastasha's room. The corner next to their room is where the shower, bath, and a sink are located. A wash room if you will. Now here to our right and next to the washroom is where Janet, Bunny, Shirley, and Cath are staying. Next to them is Sai Saishi, I'm next to him. George is in the corner room next to me, Chibodee next to him." She pauses and gives me a look.
"I'm getting it, please go on."
"Right!" She replies with a smile. "The bathroom is in between Chibodee's room and your own room, so that makes . . ."
"That corner room my room?" I ask while pointing to it across the open view of the living room.
"Right! But please keep your windows closed at night; the chimney is near your window on the balcony side so you don't want the smoke to get in. Plus you don't want the chill go in your room anyways."
"Right! Well I guess I'll get settled in."
"Oh! And Allenby, you might want to go get changed. Since we have a majority of the afternoon, we've decided to go skiing."
"WHAT?! When was this?" I ask in haste. I hope it wasn't too loud, wouldn't want the whole house hearing me.
"When everyone first entered the house, right before the tour. I wasn't sure if you were fully in that's why I reminded you, or perhaps informed you - I guess - based on your reaction."
"Oh, well . . . okay thanks Maria! I'll go get changed and settled in." I reply with a fake smile plastered on my face. "If you'll excuse me . . ."
"Of course, I'll go see how George is!" She hurries downstairs as I mope on over to my room.
I open the door a stand in the doorway just looking at it. Once again Maria is truly amazing, considering the budget and how much we paid this is probably far too nice of a room.
It has two windows, one across from the doorway, which I'm standing in, the other to my left behind a stand with a lamp on it. I'm guessing that's the window next to the chimney, Maria blocked it off, that's smart. To my left and against the wall is a wooden dresser. It's also rather large, enough for two people probably! To my right and against the wall is my bed. It has a white fluffy pillow on top of its maroon and white plaid comforter. I plop down on the mattress and see another bed identical to mine on the other side of the room. It's vertical to my view and is against the wall. The foot of the bed is near the window across from the door, and the head of the bed is next to the other window and the stand with a lamp.
Well that's does it, this bed may be close to the door, but it's only near one window not two so this one wins! I lay down on my belly and hug my pillow. I look to my top left and look out the window.
So I guess I'm going to be skiing within the next hour. I mentally sigh and clap my hands together. Oh PLEASE don't let me make a fool of myself!
I get up, unpack my clothes on the top two row of drawers and pull aside the clothes I'm going to ski in.
I already have my ski jacket on so I pull out some clothes to keep me warmer inside; I pull out an undershirt and a pair of 'long johns' as Chibodee would call them. Did a guy named John invent these things? I don't know but they do keep my legs warm so I'll wear them. I fully close my door and quickly change into my new layers of clothes before putting on my orange windbreaker jacket, my yellow pants and my white cloth gloves. I fold up the shirt and jeans I was wearing on the way down and leave them at the foot of my bed.
I sigh one last time, gather up my courage and walk out of my room. I look over the balcony and see most of the group ready to go.
"Hey Bee, let's get going." I hear
I take a glace over to my left and see him, gleaming with joy. Well at least one of us is happy.
"Come on! Let's go!"
I smile back and nod once. "Right! To the hills!"
He dashes down the stairs as I try to keep up.
Everyone grabs their pair of skis and we all head outside, bubbling with excitement. Joy, skiing, here comes my doom. But I blend in with the crowd and pretend to be happy.
We pack our skis back on the bus and travel about a mile down before we were at this skiing place.
"It's empty." Was the first thing to be heard from Cath
"More snow for me then!" Sai beams with excitement.
I look over to Chibodee "But it doesn't seem right to be empty. Most of the time these places are full."
"Well . . ." Maria said, "This is privately owned - along with the cabin. So since we've rented the cabin, we also rented . . ." She trailed off letting our own minds complete the sentence with our mouths agape. Once again HOW did Maria afford this place and this land with what now seem like our *tiny* contribution?
"It's a family friend! He let us have a discount since the Gundam leaders should have a proper break." She explained with a nervous laugh. "Now go on and ski! Please have fun!"
We both smile, finally knowing how this amazing place was obtained for such a low price of rent. Maria is so nice; I hope she never changes in that quality. Maybe her taking less pictures would be nice, but I'm sure she'll come around to that as she grows up a little more.
"Let's go! I want to beat Japan at a race down the slopes! Come on!"
I laugh as I put on my skis, too late to turn back let's go bunny slopes!
I stumble my way as I catch up to Chibodee.
"Yo Japan, let's race!"
"He can't Chibodee, he's teaching me to ski." Rain yells back for Domon.
A disappointed look appears on his face. Did he really want to race that badly? Uh-oh! Please don't ask me to race, I know my pride will not allow me to say no, but I really don't want to.
"I'll race you bro!" I can hear Sai shout as he speeds his way over to him in his yellow and blue windbreaker set. "My board is *way* faster than your skis will ever be."
"Fine! Let's go! From here to . . . pass that tree at the bottom."
As the boys start their little race I finally make it to the top of the hill. Okay Allenby, just make one little push off this ledge and . . .
I start moving down the hill, straight down, and not that fast. Whew, good, good. Now to gain a little speed . . .
I move my feet a little closer together and give myself a push with the poles. Instantly I gain speed. Ack! Too much! Umm how do you stop these things? Move your legs apart and dig into the snow?
I try doing just that but it doesn't work. Now I'm practical doing the splits and going down this small hill way to fast for my taste! All I want is to close my eyes and make it stop! I fidget around with the poles some more and try to get back in a standing position but these actions only make matters worse, finally I crash into something. I look up. Or rather someone.
Chibs turns around and looks at me "Hey Bee, guess what I won!"
"Oh?! That's great Chibs!" I pretend to smile back, actually I'm really uncomfortable need help . . .
"Yeah, yeah, rub it in while you can Bro cause wait and see I'll beat you next time." Sai replies with his arms crossed, but still a smile on his face and a twinkle in his eyes.
"Anytime, any hill." Challenges while putting his arm out in an almighty position with his fist clenched.
Sai returns the position. "Okay, well how about - "
"Hey guys come on we're going up this big one! Everyone is going - do you guys want to come too?"
"Sure!" -"Of course!" - "Heck yeah!"
Argo shakes his head; perhaps these two are too over energized? "Then hurry." He simply replies while walking over to where the ski ramps are.
"Meet ya there Bro."
"'Kay." He gives a nod to Sai before turn around to me - who's still clinging to his the back of his jacket if I failed to mention the embarrassing fact before.
"Am I that irresistible?" He asks me playfully.
"No! I just landed this way that's all." I reply trying to look the other way.
"So in a way you fell into my arms." He grins back. Erg, he knows how embarrassing this is for me huh?
"No, maybe I was trying to attack you from behind." I quickly reply with my eyes close as if it as one of those 'simple facts' being explained.
He shakes his head twice before picking me up and putting me back on my skis. "Come on, we don't want to be last." He takes my hand and holds it in his big covered gloved hands and sort-of glides me over to the ramp, as we plop ourselves down on the seat that just came and made our way up this REALLY big hill. Okay maybe it's not that big, but it sure seems like it to me.
I look at my hands. They're kinda cold, I have gloves on, but like I said before they're cloth gloves. Although they're thick, they're not water proof and snow and water are the same thing except one is frozen to a fluffy niceness. Everyone else has a nice little windbreaker set, gloves and all. Mine? Mine is just clothes bought on sale and mixed together. I feel kinda left out, everyone knew each other for longer, and they're all great friends I feel like I was brought into this place as a side person, not really part of the group - a little un-needed obligation. I fidget around with my fingers and palms as I mentally sigh once more.
"Hey Bee?"
"Huh? Yeah Chibs?" I leave my gaze from my hands to him.
"Thanks."
"For what Chibs?" I ask as I look at him a little more intently to pick up any clues.
"For just being you." Me? Being me?
"Meaning . . ." I encourage.
"You know, just for being, 'annoying', spunky, cute, original, loud, festival you." Huh? Now I'm confused. "It's been fun hanging out with you for the past few months, I'm sure anyone would agree with that." He looks back at me, waiting for probably any response or gesture.
I smile and lean into him. "Thanks Chibs."
He puts his arm around me "Although sometimes you are a little too loud." He says.
I sit back up. "Too loud! HEY! I'm not THAT loud!"
Chibodee laughs at my reaction, obviously he was expecting it, and just smiles back at me.
"Jerk." I mumble and pout while turning my head the other direction.
"Come on, this is our stop." I look down and out skis touch the ground once more. We both get up and move out of the way of the chair behind us and end up on plateau where we could dash off down the hill.
"Took you long enough Bro, now let's race down this hill!"
Chibs looks at me quickly, "You're going to be okay with this one?"
"Yeah, of course, you don't even need to ask." I reply confused if he was referring to the race or the hill I'll somehow mange to tackle.
"Fine by me Sai!"
"You're late Chibodee. Marie, your crew and Nastasha are already three quarters down the hill." George says with that same gesture of putting his right hand on his forehead and shaking his head back and forth. Hehe, that always seems to be common for George to do, especially with references to Chibodee.
"*Sorry* but thanks for waiting."
"We weren't waiting for you. We were waiting for Lady Allenby."
Hehe, the relationships with Chibodee here are quite funny, every one of them. George, Sai, Domon, even Argo from time to time - they're quite amusing.
"Domon, are you sure this work?" I can hear Rain ask to the side of this interaction between those two.
"Don't worry now just trust me on this. If you're right behind me coping my moves - which you'd be forced to do - then you'll learn in no time."
I turn my attention the happy couple as I see my sister exhale a sigh and look up to Domon and put her arm around his neck. "Right. Thanks." She gives him a quick kiss before getting behind him and rapping her arms around him.
"Let's go!" I hear Domon shout to the group, as everyone nods or gives a verbal recognition of yes.
"Sai Saishi!" A voice interrupts us. We all approach the edge of the flatter ground and see Maria waving her arms. I look at George and see him looking at her with fond eyes and a smile on his face. Is something going on that has to do with Sai?
"Yea-?" Sai starts to ask but stops dead in his sentence. "CECIL!" He shouts as he speeds down the hill. "Cecil you here!"
"Come on Domon, let's go!" Rain says cheerfully.
"Right." And those two dash off.
"Hey wait Sai, our match!" Chibodee now dashes off and I follow him.
"Chibs he's seeing his girl-girl - !" Ick! I'm skiing! I watch what Chibodee does and see him do a jump. I follow the jump seeing how we're on the same path. "Ick! Chibodee!" Lose my poles and grab onto his shoulders as my feet make an upside-down 'V' in back of me. Chibodee of course loses control of his skis as well and I'm just wondering how exactly are we going to land.
Snow from a high point in the bump gets caught in my left ski. It feels like it crashed into a wall, and I start to fall still holding on Chibodee.
'Let go!' My inner voice shouts at me, and I do so immediately. But immediately is half-way down the fall, and I can feel snow on my face a few seconds later. "Chibodee . . ." I look up, body still lying on the ground. I see him wobble trying to keep his balance, his arms are waving around in small circles, and he starts to fall towards his right side. He catches himself and leans towards his right, but then he's moving left now? His body seems to come back down slowly but he's still moving left. I look a little ahead of him. A tree! Chibodee you idiot look out for that tree!
I get my feet in the skiing position, squat, and try to push myself off with my hands since my poles are somewhere up this hill. I move on my left side, but I fall flat on my face again. "What?!" I look at my feet. My right ski is on the ground a little back. I guess my left ski must've pushed down on the lock. I look back forward, Chibodee . . . "THE TREE! CHIBS STEER AWAY!" I shout. But he crashes into it a second later. All because he lost his balance, because of me . . . The little snow that was on the tree falls onto him. Chibodee! I grab my other ski click it into a lock and squat ski my way down the hill. 'Dang it Chibodee, please, you better be alright!'
His crew is naturally the first ones to get to him. I can't even see him anymore. I try to stop where he is by digging my hands into the cold snow and making an upside-down 'V' again. I stop a little ways from him, unlock my skis and run towards him. 'Please let him be okay.'
I can see Shirley looking at Chibodee with the most tender of eyes. I move closer to see if I can help. "Get away from here! Haven't you done enough damage?!" Shirley yells at me with a bitter voice. Her icy glare seems to cut though me and pierce my heart.
I stumble back a little. "But . . ." But I want to see him, I want to know he's okay. I make a fist with my both of my hands and watch this scene. My heart feels strained and hurt, my eyes start to water up. Let me see him! I'm about to run back towards Shirley and push her out of the way to see Chibodee, if I have to. But I feel a hand on my left shoulder instead, I look to see who it is and I see Rain with compassion in her eyes. She shakes her head 'no' and I move by her side and lookup to her and she puts her right arm around my shoulder.
"Come on Allenby, let's go." She turns me around, and walks me back down the hill. I really want to cry from the guilt that I'm feeling, but it's not in my nature, I've trained myself not to show that weakness, only a few times have I failed myself in that trait.
I look back up the hill. Man what disaster have I caused? I'm sorry Chibodee. I'm so sorry . . .
~*~ End of Chapter 10 ~*~
A/N: Whoa boy, what a long chapter. It was originally going to continue to be even longer but I didn't want to torture you guys by another dozen of pages. =0) ::sigh:: And that was the good part too. So (end the end) it's like how it was first intended to be. By being two separate chapters. I just wanted to combine the two because well, lots of stuff happens in the next and I'm sure you guys would like that a whole lot more than this chapter.
This one was a lot of details and setting the stage up. I hope the house wasn't too confusing, at first I thought it was easy, but its layout is important for the next chapter on visualizing it so I went into detail. (I even drew out a blueprint so I know I won't be contradicting myself)
As for the skiing stuff I hope that wasn't too dramatized. And as for Allenby's falls, believe me both can happen based on where her feet were. (Trust me I know by experience ^-^ ' )
Anyway I babble on too much, I just overall hope people enjoyed this chapter, and the next one will be posted on Valentine's Day (February 14). Thank you for reading. ~ Alimoe =0D
~*~ Response to the Readers ~*~
~~~ Last chapter I got nine reviews! Lol! Nine reviews for chapter nine! Cooleo! THANK YOU to EVERYONE who reviewed, you guys are the best and every review made me soooooooooo happy! Thank you! (I really can't thank you enough.=0) )~~~
To: Allenby Beardsley
Hi Ms. Allenby! You had a bad week when this was posted? I'm very sorry to hear that =0( But I'm sooooooo happy that this 'made your week' ::smiles:: Yay, I feel like I made a difference! (Lol, j/p) Thank you for commenting on the scene between Chibs and Bee, I liked that part too, but I re-wrote it a few times (after Allenby finds out Chibodee is awake) so it wasn't too insensitive and wasn't too sappy. I think I had just the right mix - well maybe not, it is still pretty sappy isn't it? Still you do write good fan-fics so you can write 'good sap', better in my book! At least you have a balance; my story is full of sap so it's very unbalanced. ^-^ '
Lol, thank you for saying you'll leave a review for each chapter, but I still feel that I should earn a review - lol it makes me work harder! =0D
Lol, thank you for mentioning on the cowboy comment, lol, I thought it was good for some humor. Lol. Rebel? Lol, nice nickname. I just moved toward the southeast of the U.S. so I guess I can appreciate that a bit more. Lol, =0) Well, I should rap this up. I hope you get over your writers block soon (you mentioned before that you have it now) and that I hear from you again.
~Alimoe =0D
To: SaiSaiciAngel
Lol, thank you SSA your review made me happy, and laugh ("KEEP WRITING! . . . or else *Shifty eyes*" lol =0) ) I'm even more happy because now that I updated I can spend more time reading other fics! And a few of yours caught my eyes. I read one, and loved it (I hope you got my review) So be sure to expect some reviews from me coming your way, mainly after the next chapter gets posted, cause I should be editing it. ^-^ I hope you enjoyed this chapter, although I can understand if you didn't. And Lastly I hope to earn another review from you. Thank you for reviewing my last chapter!
~Alimoe =0D
To: Ms. Becky (starangel100890)
Lol, I'm glad the last chapter was 'interesting' hopefully not in a bad way. =0) Anyways I hope you enjoyed this information filled / dramatic chapter, hopefully you'll find the next one MUCH better, but still I hope this one wasn't too bad. And as for your story, I know you updated, I PROMISE I'll read the next chapter, just needed to get this chapter out, and the other two (other story and the other chapter of this one) But I really interested in it, it's quite good, and leaves me on the edge from time-to-time, perhaps I over analyze it, but that's the effect it has on me, you do a very good job. I hope to earn another review from you.
~Moey =0D
To: Black Joker Lady
Lol, Ms. Black Joker Lady I just adore getting reviews from you. You're always so funny and nice! So thank you. I agree with you on writers block, it sucks and impairs ones sleeping from time-to-time. I'm glad Neko is fine; say hi to her for me please. I glad that you liked the beginning of the last chapter, and (lol) I'm VERY happy to hear that you're starting to like Allenby. (Lol, I didn't like her at first either, so I can understand your feelings on that. Hopefully she'll continue to grow on you. ^-^) Sorry that I didn't update soon, I'm VERY bad at updating. (And I USED to be good in the very beginning) Anyways thank you so much for the review; I hope this chapter wasn't a big letdown and that I earn another review from you.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Ken no Kakera
Lol, 'update' is an evil word for me too. But hopefully since I did it, you'll update one of your stories? ::hint, hint:: =0) I'm glad the last chapter was great, I hope the same grace for this one as well, but if not the next chapter will be MUCH better in opinion I'm sure. The dream is an interesting one, I was debating on whether to leave it in or not, but I guess now it wouldn't hurt. Actually it does make sense under certain circumstances. -_- And the Chibodee from the dream was Chibodee, but umm . . . yeah. The dream can be connected to another fic, or it cannot it's one of those you don't need to read it to understand it only if you want to type of things. -_- o O (I guess that's the best way to describe it.) Any- who, Thank you for the review, I hope to earn another one for this chapter.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Shuffle Queen
Oh! I'm sooo sorry Shuffle Queen! =0\ When I looked to see who to reply to I looked at the Review alerts, and those don't change the name if you changed your pen-name. They do on the Chapter review but not the review alert, so my apologizes to you for that mix up. Still I would like to thank you for reviewing. In fact your last review on my other story (the first chapter, this was done by the second chapter review) kinda kicked my butt into finishing this. So feel happy about that if you want. This story is updated earlier than it probably was going to be because of you, so good job! Lol, I hope that you enjoyed this chapter, and that I earn another review from you! Thank you for reading though!
~Alimoe =0D
To: Dreaming Wolf
Thank you for your review on the last chapter, I hope you enjoyed this chapter too. And I'm sorry I didn't read your story about Allenby's past, but I promise I'll read after I finish my own. But I'm looking forward to it very much. I noticed you had a lot of 'Jax and Dexter' fics up. I take it that's a good game? I was thinking about buying it, but now I can hardly find it. Lol, still thanks for the review and I hope to earn another one.
~Alimoe =0D
To: Sissi
Hi Sissi! Lol, yes I guess those types of dreams would freak people out. I would be freaked out if I had it, and I was debating on whether to put it in or not, but figured I should, after all without it I don't think Allenby's actions when she woke up would make much sense. But yes it is a creepy dream I suppose. Still I'm glad you caught his last words, they wont really come into play here, but rather look for a connection (which I give to you) in chapter 11. (Where A LOT of explaining gets done.) As for this chapter ::sigh:: it's a setting for the stage that's needed for the next chapter. Still I hope to hear from you again on this chapter. And thank you for specifically pointing out what you liked in the last chapter. That made me happy. Thank you again.
~ Alimoe =0D
Last but not least to Chibodee Crocket
Lol, just as charming as always. (j/k =0D) Anyways thank you for the review and the details of what you liked. I happy to hear that I paced the chapters well (although I probably broke that trend huh? =0) ) and that my detail is just enough. (Hopefully I didn't over do it on this one though.) So thank you on those details, and don't worry about reviewing late because of schoolwork, I COMPLETELY understand. (I'm a Jr. too, so trust me I can relate) I'm looking forward to an update from you, hopefully soon. ::hint, hint:: =0) Thank you for the review again. I hope to earn another one on this chapter as well.
~ Alimoe =0D