Chapter 11:
HEY GUYS! Sorry for like the...month wait?..or was it longer?...not sure...but yeah things are still crazy on this end but I was able to get this done ^-^! And it's extra long to make up for the time you had to wait! And sorry for any spelling errors, the usual person who proof reads all my stuff is not available and I really wanted to post this sooo yeah I did my best but I'm horrible at proof reading and grammar and...yeah...Soooo onto the next chapter! Reviewing and Favoriting is appreciated!
It was the next day at practice and we were already preparing for the prefectural tournament. Thankfully I was able to get in a call to Miko asking him about what we were going to do about our next play for drama club and thankfully he had a few ideas. So I was also able to squeeze in a short drama club meeting to discuss the matter now that I had Niko's input and we had finally come to a conclusion.
Looks like we're doing another Black Butler play~
Other than me and my deep thoughts about the upcoming play, Gou and I had just shooed the boys out of the little changing/meeting/I-really-don't-know-what room/small building. And soon after we did, a huge gust of wind had made its way into the room causing some of Gou's papers (papers that count down the days until the tournament) to fly across the room. She squeaked a little but then let out a small sigh of annoyance.
"Don't worry I'll help," I said kneeling down the floor collecting some of the scattered papers.
Only a few seconds in, after I started to gather just a handful of papers, Gou called me over.
"Catori, look what I found!"
"What?" I questioned crawling over.
She then held up a rather old looking magazine and had waves on it.
"Iwatobi High School Swim Club…Summer training camp from hell on a deserted island?" I read aloud.
"Is this an old magazine or like journal thing from an old swim club of Iwatobi?"
"Seems like it," Gou replied staring at it in awe.
"Come on," I said gently taking if from her hands, "let's show it to the guys."
Making my way out the door I called out to the swimmers.
"Hey guys! Look what we found!"
Walking right in front of them I looked over to Gou, "Well technically Gou found it, but yeah, look."
I then held up the cover of the magazine for them to look at. After looking it over they all looked rather confused.
"Hell?" Rei said with a confused look.
"Deserted Island?" Haru added in.
"Sounds FUN!" Nagisa exclaimed leaning forward as his eyes sparkled.
"Yeah well evidently it's a poster from when Iwatobi had a swim club."
"What's your point?" Rei questioned.
"Well we should use their training regimen and hold a summer training camp on the deserted island!"
"Wait what?" I stuttered out unaware that we were even considering to train on a deserted island.
"Too much effort," Haru mumbled out sitting at the edge of the pool.
"This is not time for complaining!" Gou shouted over at Haru.
"Well-um," I said taking the magazine and turning the page to the map, "here's the regimen they used."
"Huh looks like it would increase our stamina," Rei said putting his hand to his chin.
Looking down at his feet Makoto mumbled out, "the ocean…."
"Yep the ocean," Gou chimed out.
I couldn't help but notice the expression and tone Makoto had.
Did it bother him that the regimen involved the ocean?
Somehow we decided that we were going to do this training regimen that involved deserted islands and now Miss Ama-chan had just informed us that we don't have enough money to do so…
Well this plan is turning out great~.
After school we stopped at a convenience store and bought some icy treats aka good old ice cream and icepops.
"But I really wanted to go to the deserted island with everyone~…" Nagisa whined as we walked down the sidewalk.
Letting out a sigh myself an idea popped into my head.
UH DUH…why haven't you thought of this before!?
"Hey guys," I breathed out stopping in my tracks, "I can't believe I didn't think of this before but I can get us there!"
"Huh, how?" Makoto said turning towards me.
"My parents own this boat and I never thought about it because we had it back in Italy for when we visited Miko's grandma, BUT we brought if back because we used it last summer!"
"HUH? Really?!" Nagisa exclaimed jumping forward.
"And we have a lot of camping gear. We never really use it anymore," I said shrugging.
"Oh well I have some camping gear too," Makoto added.
"As the team captain I can't let you do everything," he continued with a giggle.
"WAIT," Nagisa said jumping between us, "we have a boat, and camping gear…THAT MEANS THERE'S NOTHING STOPPING US FROM GOING!"
"Whoa whoa, calm down. I have to check with my parents first before I use the boat. I don't need my head bitten off, but they'll probably say yes so…yeah I guess we're all set."
"YAY! Deserted Island here we come!"
After making a short pit stop at Makoto's and getting his camping gear, we headed down to Haru's.
"Who gave you permission to use my place for storage," Haru deadpanned as he all of Makoto's camping Gear was laid out on his floor.
"But there's so much room here!" Nagisa said giving him his signature smile.
Letting out a yawn I felt my phone vibrate and…it was Kiwi.
Oh great…
"Yhello?~" I answered.
"Where are you!?"
"I'm at Haru's…"
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"
"Again Kiwi this was not planned…we just had to drop some stuff off at his house. I'll be home in a bit."
"You better because I need a ride to the store."
"Wha-can't you just ask Chang?"
"He's taking a nap right now and he's just too kawaii to wake up," she whined back.
"Why do you need to go to the store?"
"Oh ya know to-meet up with friends."
"List late?"
"Yeah they're going to spend the night."
"Well why would you meet them at a store? And wait, what store do you want me to take you to?"
"Seiyu." (just to let you know Seiyu is almost like a walmart)
"Why Seiyu?"
"Just cuz."
"Well why would you meet up with them there? I mean just tell them to meet you back at the house."
"I don't know. It's just what we decided! What's with all the questions?!"
"What are you planning now?..."
"Nothing."
"Never mind I don't have time for your schemes right now…I'll talk to you when I get home."
"But-"
"When I get home," I said after bidding her goodbye and hanging up.
Leaning back I slid down the wall.
What could she possibly be doing now?...do I even want to know?...
"What's wrong Cati-chan?"
"Nothing…I just think my sister's up to something."
"Huh?"
"Never mind it's nothing important. What are you guys talking about?"
"Having a barbeque on the deserted island!"
"I figured."
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Walking through the front door I had walked home from Haru's house, since his house is on my way home. Makoto asked if I wanted him and Haru or just him to walk me home but I said it was fine. It only took me like five minutes until I was home.
"Kiwi I'm home I-Kiwi?" I called out hanging the keys on the hook and walking further into the living room.
"Chang?"
Chang wasn't in his usual napping spot, the recliner.
"Kiwi…." I growled knowing that she knew I was on to her, so she decided to wake up the sleeping Chang.
"Do I even want to go after them and find out?...or do I want to watch anime?"
Well the choice seemed pretty obvious AND besides I could always give Miko a call too.
I wonder what time it is in Italy.
Taking out my phone, I was about to dial Miko's number.
"Wait I have to ask mom and dad about the boat… I wonder how they'll take that I'm a part of a swim club now. Well to say the least they're going to be surprised."
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Beep beep beep beep
"Ugggh…." I groaned out slipping my hand out of the warm cover attempting to silence the loud alarm.
After slamming my hand around my side table a few time I finally made contact with the alarm.
Really? I had to wake up this early?...maybe I should just not go…WAIT I can't…I'm their ride…crap.
Letting fatigue take over me I started to doze off again….that is until I heard the lovely anime ringtone burst from my cellphone.
SEID IHR DAS ESSEN? NEIN, WIR SIND DER JÄGER!
It's too early in the morning for attack on titan….
"UGH…." I finally sat up and rubbed my tired eyes.
Eyeing the illuminating device I picked it up and answered it.
"Hmello?..." I mumbled.
"Good morning sunshine~."
"Miko what do you want?..."
"Well I was informed that you had to wake up early this morning so I thought I'd give you a call to make sure you got up. You're their ride aren't you~."
"Yeah yeah…."
"Yeah well, I'm off to bed~."
"Lucky…wish I could go back to sleep."
"Hey you decided to join the club."
"Yeah I know….goodnight~."
"Good morning~. Talk to you later."
Hanging up the phone I couldn't stop the smile from my face from fading.
You have no idea how much I miss you bud….
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"Haru-chan! Mako-chan! Over here!" Nagisa's loud voice rang out.
Uggghhh…so loud….
"Cati-chan keeps on falling asleep," he continued with a giggle as I leaned, half alive, on his shoulder.
"I'm nuht aseep'…" I mumbled out, creaking open my closed eyes.
As Haru and Makoto approached us, Makoto looked at me with his usual motherly concerned expression.
"Are you ok?"
"Mhyeah…"
"You sure? You seem tired."
"Yeah why are you so tired Cati-chan?!"
"….I have a us'al tendency tah stay up late…'nd I forgot I had tah wake up really early…" I murmured, rubbing my eyes, trying to wake up.
"Doing what?"
Dangit nagisa just let me be…
"Anime…..well…and tumblr."
Just then a car flew by and, well, that woke me up.
"HOLY SNAP!" I exclaimed clutching onto Nagisa's shirt having my entire life flash before my eyes.
"Sorry to keep you all waiting!" I heard a voice ring out as a figure got out of the car.
Sure enough it was Miss Ama-chan in her cute little dress and sun hat aaand luggage.
"Well now that everyone's here let's get on the boat," Makoto said walking towards the boat beside us.
"Oh, no that's not our boat," I said walking over to the bigger boat beside it, "this is."
"WHOA." Naigsa yelled out running up to me, "IT'S SO BIG! CAN I DRIVE IT CATI-CHAN CAN I?"
"No actually Chang is already on it and ready to get us there. And besides if you did, I'm pretty sure we'd all die."
"You're such a meanie Cati-chan…."
*****time skip****
It didn't take us that long to get there and the ride was actually kind of nice. Miss Ama-chan and Gou lounged out on deck while Haru and Makoto looked at the view. Haru found the lower level the most interesting because it actually had little port holes that you could look through. Needless to say he was down there most of the time. Chang loved being "Captain" and did little voice overs every so often on the intercom…he even wore his captain's suit that I bought him for his birthday. Nagisa was trying to be king of the world, by standing at the edge of the boat, but thankfully Rei was tending to him soooo I could go pretty much pass out and fall sleep on one of the chairs. Somehow no one noticed my lifeless body until we got there.
"Cati-chan?" I heard a muffled voice call out.
"Catori-senpai?"
"Catori? Catori wake up we're here."
Ignoring the voices I decided to stay in my peaceful slumber.
"Awww man, what should we do? Do we really wake her up?" Nagisa whined letting his arms hang.
"Hmmm well she might be mad if we told Chang to take her back…maybe-"
"Don't worry~," Chang said coming out from his captain quarters.
Putting his hands under my unconscious form, he hoisted my up into his arms.
"See no problem~."
Chang then started to exit the boat.
"Chang wait, we have to get our stuff first!" Gou called out grabbing her bag.
"And Rei doesn't look too good…." Makoto added in as Rei shakingly exited the boat.
"Are you ok Rei?" Makoto said putting a hand on Rei's back as Rei keeled over.
"I'm ok….I just need to go the restroom..." he mumbled out running off to the nearest bathroom.
Chang decided to plop me down next to the luggage and consider his job well done.
"Well, see you all later~," he said putting the last of the luggage on the dock and getting back onto the boat.
"WAIT BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT CATORI-and he's gone….."Makoto sighed putting a hand up to his forehead.
"So who's gunna wake her up?" Gou inquired kneeling down by my body.
Crossing his arms and shaking his head Nagisa said, "Well I'm not going to do it."
"Huh?! Why not?!"
"Because she's scary when she's mad and I'm not taking any risks Mako-chan."
"Nagisa she's not gunna be mad. There's no reason to be scared."
"Then why don't you do it?"
Makoto looked down at my body and back at Nagisa.
"No you do it."
"No yooouu do it!"
"You do it!"
"You do it Mako-chan!"
"No you!"
"FINE. Haru-chan you do it."
Haru didn't seem fazed gave Nagisa his usual cool expression and walked off.
"Huh? Why haru? He wouldn't do it anyways. He doesn't like things that require-"
"Move Makoto," Haru said walking between the two of them with his hands cupped together.
"Haru what are you-"
Opening his cupped hands, glistening water rained down on my face.
Sputtering, I sat up and wiping my face.
"Wha-pfsst peh! What the heck?"
After giving my eyes a good wiping I looked up at the huddled group around me.
"Can someone give me a good reason why I'm laying down on the ground, by a bunch of suitcases, with a wet face, and not on the boat…"
Makoto offered his hand to me which I gratefully took. Surprisingly he pulled me up with little to no effort at all.
Well he does do the backstroke.
"Well ya see-"
"Hey come over here!"
As well all looked in the direction of the voice we saw Rei motioning for us to follow him.
"What is it?"
"It's the other swim team, Samezuka."
"What?!"
It only took a few minutes for Rei to take us to his desired destination. Looking through big glass windows, we peered into the large swimming facility.
"Why the heck are they here…hmm let's see.." I said with my hands plastered on the glass as I scanned for my target, "There he is…"
"You found Rin-chan?! Where?" Nagisa said tugging on my arm.
With a glare I jutted my finger against the glass in Rin's direction.
"There," I said with a glare.
Everyone looked in his direction, intently staring at him once their eyes found him.
"Did you say something again Gou-chan?" Makoto inquired.
"Huh? I didn't know anything this time," she said putting her hands up in defense.
"We should go say hello then," Nagisa suggested.
"No," Haru strongly stated.
"Huh? Why not?"
"I promised him that we would meet at prefecturals."
"Oh NO I think he's gunna look up here!" Nagisa exclaimed so everyone started to hunch down or proceed to hide behind the trees and vegetation behind us.
"I'm not going anywhere. Let him-"
"NO CATI-CHAN! RIN-CHAN CAN'T KNOW WE'RE HERE!"
"What—who cares if he—NAGISA!" I yelled out as he tackled me down on the ground just before Rin's gaze looked up to where we just where.
Grunting on impact, Nagisa fell right on top of me as we flew down to the unforgiving earth.
I swear…
After a few seconds of lying on the hard ground I sighed out through my nose.
"Nagisa…."
"Yeah," he mumbled with his face planted in the crook of my neck.
I could feel his lips move against me skin, which unfortunately tickled. I had to fight back a giggle as I ignored his warm breath against my neck.
"Get off."
"But what if Rin-chan's still looking?"
OH MY GOSH STOP TALKING...
Clearing my throat from the giggles that were bubbling not too far down my esophagus, I narrowed my eyes.
"Ok let me rephrase that. If you don't get your body, which is laying flush against mine, off of me…I'll skin you."
Quickly scrambling off of me Nagisa backed off of few feet still on his hands and knees.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean to squish against you Cati-chan! Don't kill me!" he said with a clear blush illuminating his cheeks.
Standing up I brushed some dirt off myself.
"Just he happy your face didn't land any lower. Then we would have a problem."
So one awkward walk back to the beach area, and a mama-makoto scolding for nagisa since he should 'think before he acts,' we started to set up the tents. Of course with me hating the hot sun's Rei's (hey see what I did there~) I settled for lounging under a tree and playing and drawing in the sand.
"Hey Catori, let's go check in at the lodge!"
Looking up from my doodles I saw Miss Amakata.
"Huh? I thought we were just gunna camp out here."
"Lodge?" All of the boys questioned walking over towards us.
"What do you mean?" Rei asked.
"We booked lodging for ourselves," Miss Ama-chan said glancing over at Gou and then motioning over to the cabins up ahead, "over there."
"What?" They questioned again.
"You can't expect a couple of girls to sleep outside."
"Hey I can sleep outside just fine," I said with a raised eyebrow, "and besides wasn't this supposed to be a camping experience and all that?"
"They have wifi, air conditioning, and a gift shop which I'm pretty sure has anime stuff in it," Gou said folding her arms.
She knows me so well.
"Well see you later guys," I said grabbing my bag and getting up off the ground.
"Awww~ don't leave Cati-chan! No fair…."
"What it's not like I'm going to be there all day and you guys will be training, aaand I'll still be here when we do the campfire and all that other jazz. I mean it's not like we were going to share a tent."
"We weren't?!"
"Wha-well NO…."
Sighing I pinched the bridge of my nose shaking my head.
"Hahaha I was just kidding Cati-chan," he said laughing with a smirk on his face.
Rolling my eyes I started to walk in the direction of the lodge, "Come on, mama needs air conditioning."
I could hear Gou snicker under her breath before she called out, "We're coming."
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After putting all our stuff in our hotel room (and me checking out the gift shop), Gou and I got our swimsuits on and we all headed back down to the beach. As we arrived at the beach, the boys were already way out in the water doing their swim training.
"Well got to take some photos for Kiwi," I said bringing out my cannon camera from my bag.
Focusing on the boys way out in the crystalline ocean, I snapped a few shots. Moving my camera in Gou's direction I focused in on her.
"Say cheese."
"Huh?"
I ended up snapping a photo of her surprised expression.
"Catori! I wasn't ready," she whined putting her hands up, blocking my view of her face.
Giggling slightly I waved one of my hands up.
"Alright, alright, fine here."
Leaning over by her, I put my arm around her shoulder, and faced the camera towards us. We both put up a peace sign before I took the photo.
"Oh," I exclaimed pulling away and rummaging through my bag again, "I forgot about this."
Camera in hand, I placed it on the tripod I brung with me to the beach.
"You really had to bring the tripod?"
"Yesh, so that way I don't miss anything that happens, that and kiwi wanted me to make sure I captured any funny moments."
"Well why didn't she come?"
"Well I told her that she would mainly be watching the boys train and she already had a sleep over set up with her friends so she figured it was ok as long as I took A LOT of pictures."
"Heheh yup that sounds like Kiwi."
"Alright now come on," I chimed grabbing her wrist, "Let's go in the ocean!"
"What? Why?"
"Becaaasuse we're on a beach and you're supposed to play in the ocean when you're at a beach~."
"But-"
"Oh come on~," I whined dragging her down the sandy shoreline, "It'll be fun and I don't want to splash around all by myself!"
"Bu-ut I don't want to get wet and-AH- it's cold! CATORI!" Gou squealed as the cold water met her ankles.
"No it's not and besides you put on that bathing suit for a reason!"
Letting out a sigh she let me drag her further out, "You're just like Nagisa in a girl's body…"
"WHAT?"
After spending some time in the ocean, Gou and I actually had a lot of fun. It consisted of mainly splashing around and looking at the little fish below the water but it was still nice. As we started to come out of the water we decided that we wanted to make a sand castle. Sitting on the warm beach we already produced a fairly big mound of wet sand which was slowly being formed into our castle. As Gou continued to build the castle and I started on the moat, we noticed that the boys were now back on land and were running. And it appeared that Rei was beating all of them in that category. He might not be the best swimmer but that boy can run. Despite being afraid of getting my camera full of sand I had to capture this moment. I mean Rei was like in all of his glory!...or at least it looked like it to me. Quickly getting up I carefully picked up my camera with my sandy hands, focused on them, and snapped a few shots.
"CATORI! HELP! THE CASTLE IS STARTING TO CALLAPSE!"
"NO! I'M COMING KINGDOM CATI-GOU!"
"KOU!"
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It was around 6 hours later and in that time Gou and I had built an entire Cati-go-I mean Kou empire. It was huge. The empire had a moat, a big castle, a bell tower, a wall surrounding it, and we even built all the little houses of the commoners. Yeah we went all out. After we did all that we nibbled on some snacks at the table that Miss Amakata was lounging by and after convincing Gou we watched some anime on my laptop that I brought down. Then after watching anime, we walked back to the shop and walked around at the hotel doing some silly-if-you-would-even-consider-them-vlogging-videos, and returned back ready to make some dinner. I. Was. Starving.
Groaning, I fell back on the now slightly cool sand, since the sun was now not at a high point anymore, and threw my hands above my head.
"Uuuggggh when are they getting back….I'm so bored…"
"Don't whine Catori, they'll be back soon," Gou giggled rolling her eyes.
After a few minutes passed, I heard Gou gasp out, "Catori they're back!"
Sitting up on my elbows I saw four figures coming towards us in the distance. I got to my feet and grabbed two towels as Gou did as well. I'm not sure why they were small towels, but I guess it's just so they can dry their face and head…yeah I don't know.
"Good work guys," Gou said handing Haru and Makoto their towels and as I handed Rei and Nagisa theirs.
"Thanks," Makoto replied to the both of us.
"So how did the training go? It wasn't too hard was it? Didn't you guys only do half of it?" I inquired making sure they weren't exhausting themselves.
"Well it's only the first day," Makoto said.
"I-I'll do better tomorrow!" Rei said standing beside Nagisa.
"You'll do great Rei-chan!"
"Yeah don't worry Rei! From my point of view you did awesome, not to mention I saw you killing those guys when you were running," I snickered walking over to Miss Ama-chan who was getting out the food.
"Hey, I ran just fine!" Nagisa exclaimed putting his hands on his hips.
"Yup, you were huffing, puffing, and gasping for air the whole way~."
"Oh yeah, I bet I can run better than you."
"Of course you can, duh, I'm just an otaku who only played baseball like years ago~."
Before the conversation could go any further I heard Miss Ama-chan gasp.
"What is it?"
"I forgot the seasoning!"
Seasoning? For what?! The mackerel?
"Don't worry Cati-chan and I will go and borrow some from the lodge," Gou offered.
"When did I volunteer?..."
"Ever since you dragged me into the cold ocean," Gou said pursing out her lips.
"It wasn't cold!"
It didn't take long to walk to the lodge's little convenience store and we were about to enter, buuuut we practically almost ran over someone as they were coming out of it….since Gou thought it was a good idea to run…
"Whoa-sorry!" I stuttered regaining my balance as I skidded to a stop.
"Hey, aren't you from Samezuka?" I continued saying as I recognized the gray haired boys face.
Wasn't he the guy standing next to Rin when-WAIT….
"Uh yeah…and aren't you," Nitori said pointing over to Gou, "Matsuoka-senpai's sister?"
Yup he's his kohai….which only meeaaaans.
"What's wrong?" I heard an all too familiar voice say.
Well, well, well what do we have here?...
"Oni-chan?"
"Gou? Catori?"
"Rin…."
After we did our little greeting, Rin groaned to himself and said to Nitori, "Nitori, you head back first."
"Uh…yeah sure," he replied slowly walking away.
With a very nervous expression on her face Gou grabbed my wrist.
"Huh yeah Catori, you should go head back OR maybe take a walk with Nitori-or ya know I think they were having a sale on those anime beach towels at that store at the lodge!"
I opened my mouth about to protest but she pushed me along.
"Go on I'm sure the boys are waiting for their seasoning! Here's the money you go get it!" she said with a crooked smile, pushing the money into my hands.
"They can wait for their seasoning."
"Please…for me…PLEASE," she said practically begging and giving me a look that said 'please don't cause trouble yet.'
Letting out a sigh I narrowed my eyes.
"Fine."
Walking past Rin I shot him a glare.
I then growled out in English, "We'll have our little talk later…"
Entering the store, I knew he knew what I said, but I knew Gou had no clue…which I knew scared her even more because she could only imagine what I said. So after quickly purchasing the seasoning I was hoping I could catch them before they left so could follow them…..but they were long gone…
Man now I got to walk back all the way by myself….WAIT GOU SAID THERE WAS THAT SALE!...NO, FOCUS CATORI. Be reasonable. You can always go back later and look at the sale but right now you have a bunch of hungry teenage boys who are relying on you to get this seasoning…man that anime sale sounds so much better right now but I just better go back to the beach anyways~.
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We all decided to make pizza…and Nagisa and Haru decided it was best to use the mackerel on their pizza's. Sitting at the picnic table I was checking up on my youtube channel. Usually Miko and I would do it together, but since he's spending time with family right now, I have to do it. Humming to myself I scrolled through the new comments that were posted on our "Ship happens" CMV. It was made by Miko, me, and some other drama club members who wanted or had time to participate. I giggled to myself as people talked about and fangirled over the ships we had it the video.
"So what'cha doin' Cati-chan?" Nagisa asked slipping beside me.
"Oh ya know just on Miko's and mine's youtube channel," I said motioning to the video playing.
"Wait so that's you guys!? Cool and wait…Why is he so close to your face?! WHAT IS HE DOING?! HE'S CARESSING IT. AND YOUR—ARE YOU TO TOGETH-"
"Nagisa CALM DOWN. It's just a CMV. A cosplay music video. We're being one of the paired couples in the video."
"Oh…." He curtly replied leaning back from hovering over my laptop.
Letting out a sigh I continued to reply to the comments.
"Soooo what do you do on your channel?" Nagisa inquired trying to start up another conversation.
"Uuuum mainly CMV's, cosplay skits, music videos, and sometimes we record our plays so we post them on here."
"Cool~! I wanna do a video with you Cati-chan!"
"Heh yeah sure. I'd like to do a video with you, well actually, all of you. I've had this Arabian music video idea for the past month and I think you guys would actually be really nice for it."
"Oh I don't know if I'm good on camera," Makoto said rubbing the back of his neck.
"OH PSHH, you're just camera shy Mako-chan~."
"Wha-n-no I'm not!" Makoto countered back.
We all continued to giggle and finished eating our pizza's. During that time, Nagisa watched a few of my videos and kept on insisting I was hiding a secret relationship with Miko, which I kept on denying. Haru found it interesting that we had a video where we actually made mermaid costumes. It was for more of a fantasy music video we made during the summer. It took forever to make the tails since they were individually fitted but it was worth it. I practically had to tear the computer from Haru's hands since he watched that video like 6 times.
It was now getting dark and everyone was heading back, but I couldn't shake the feeling that Rei wasn't feeling alright. He was mainly quiet throughout the evening, but made a few comments at how beautiful our videos were. Even so, I just had to make sure he was ok otherwise it'd kill me and I wouldn't be able to sleep.
Finally peeling myself away from Haru's questions as to how I 'turned into a mermaid' and comments like 'don't keep the secret to eternal happiness to yourself' I approached Rei.
"So you feeling ok Rei?"
"Uh, yes Catori-senpai."
"Ok, I just wanted to check, you seemed a bit down."
"No I'm alright."
"Ok if you say so, but remember I'm always here if you need anything, m'kay?"
He nodded his head giving me a small smile.
"We'll we're off to bed," Gou yawned stretching her arms above her head.
"What? But it's not even 11:00 o'clock yet!" I exclaimed thinking we were going to do some kind of bonfire.
"Some people like sleep Catori…."
"I like sleep…I just go to bed a bit later than you all is all..."
"Yeah and wake up late."
"NOooo I wake up at 7:45 every morning and 8:30-9:00 on weekends so Nah~."
"Well come on the boys need their sleep for training tomorrow," Gou stated grabbing my wrist.
Sighing, I lolled my head back, "Fiiiiiinnnne~. I'm coming…but it's only like 10:30….but just as a warning I will be up on tumblr for the next 2 hours or so…"
Gou groaned out as we started to walk back.
"Maybe you should have just camped on the beach."
Soooo that's about it~ I already started on the next chapter but am not sure when it will be posted. Hope you liked this chapter and as always any comments or suggestions are always welcome! Comments usually motivate me to write more so the chapter might come quicker that way, buuut either way it will eventually will be posted ^-^. C U in the next update! Cly****