AN: finally! Here is the second half! XD Like I said. XP So, yeah. Was in a hurry, because I had too many things going on in one day and now I'm exaughsted! =_= But, I've got the energy to add things in this and post it, so... If it sounded too weird, I'm sorry. I'm tired and need to sleep now. I bet I'm going to be sore in the morning from the karate. XD Anyway! with all the whining aside, here is the second half of the chapter. Enjoy! ^_^
Oh, yeah. *smacks Lola across the cheek* That's for causing so much trouble! 8(
Enjoy! ^_^
Chapter 11: Carnivals Part 2
Pinky couldn't believe how lamely dressed Kei is, she told Pinky she wanted to dress like a ghost and she only came out in a white dress (which isn't one of her nice dresses, it seems) and her hair messily in front of her face with black eye shadow under her eyes to act as bags. Sure she scared Pinky when she just stood behind her, but now that she got used to it, and got a better look, Kei's costume isn't so scary. It's not her fault she didn't own a costume. She doesn't even celebrate Halloween. The only thing close to Halloween where she lived is a festival called the Obon Festival and it's celebrated around July and August, but since Japan doesn't really celebrate Halloween where she used to stay. Maybe Tokyo, but not where she used to live, she felt awkward for not having a Halloween costume when stay in Bullworth. Pinky could feel the awkward atmosphere and tried to comfort her,
"Uh, you know. It's alright if you don't have a costume… I mean, a girl in a white dress is scary. When they act creepy, right? Though, I guess we should have bought a devil costume so we can match!"
Kei just stared blankly at Pinky. The Prep girl decided to dress up as an angel for Halloween, Kei doesn't really understand why Pinky wants her to dress up as a devil for Halloween she doesn't really see the appeal. And if it were her choice if there are two costumes. One Angel and one Devil, she'd choose the angel. Just because it looked cuter.
They finally made it to the theme park and paid for their tickets. Pinky was acting a little strange when she started looking around,
"What's wrong?"
Pinky could see the Greasers enter the and quickly turn to Kei,
"Come on, Kei, let's go look at the front of the fun house!"
She then grabbed her by the arm and dragged her to one of the fun houses.
Johnny doesn't know why, but, they're acting weird. Ricky spotted Pinky and turned to Johnny and the others,
"So, uh. Let's have some fun!"
They then followed Pinky to where she's going with Johnny not knowing it of course.
Pinky sees them approach and spoke,
"Oh, I need to find the restroom, you stay here, okay?"
Kei raised her eye brow and nodded. She then left Kei to search for the 'restroom'.
Ricky could see Pinky leave and went to Peanut,
"Okay, this is it. We gotta make Johnny get to that Kei girl."
"Okay…"
They made it to where the fun house where Kei is but a few feet away, the three Greasers were planning to lose Johnny in the crowd so he would have to look for them and when he does, he will be heading toward Kei and the fun house. They waited for a bit and went for it, the three of them scattered. Johnny wondered didn't know what they were doing and tried his best to keep up with them by following Peanut,
"You guys! Slow down will ya?"
And to his dismay, he lost them. He looked around and sighed,
"The hell is with that?"'
He started walking and accidently bumped into someone who is a head smaller than him,
"Watch it!"
The one he bumped into didn't like his tone and snapped back,
"You're the one who should watch where you're going, you buffoon!"
He growled and looked at the person and could see who it is. At first he couldn't recognize who it was, by the messy hair in front of her face and lame looking white dress, but her body structure is recognizable. Of course he would never tell Kei he was staring at her around the chest area at all.
Kei looked up to the jerk with no manners when she sees who it is. Of course, she should have known. His way of talking is distinct and besides he's the one, who does all the talking,
"Ah. Kei! Didn't know it was you."
She just glared at him and spoke,
"Well, you should learn not to be rude to people in the first place."
Her talking to him like this is just painful to him, it just feel like she's being more unfriendly on purpose,
"Uh… Yeah. Got it."
Kei could see his face expression and turned away and ask,
"So, what are you doing here?"
He looked away from her and answered,
"Jus' hangin' around with my buds. How 'bout you?"
"I came here with Pinky. And like you, the same thing."
The two of them didn't say anything and just looked around their surroundings,
"Uh. Anyway. I'm goin' to look for my buds."
He was about to leave when some popcorn machine tipped over and nearly fall on Johnny. Luckily, he jumped backwards from the falling machine,
"Holy-"
Kei went to see if he's okay. He's okay. She sighed and spoke,
"Well. That was strange."
"That's all you gotta say?"
"Why? Do I have to say anymore?"
He glared at her and snapped,
"Why the hell are you so damn cold?!"
Kei just glared at him,
"You should know."
He didn't know what to say. She then turned around and was about to leave when some guys started fighting, causing one of them to bump into her, making her fall back. Johnny caught her before she fell to the ground and went to yell at the two guys,
"Hey! What where you're goin', asshole!"
Those guys glared at him,
"Why don't you mind your own business, asshole?!"
It evident they're piss off from whatever they were fighting about. Johnny of course wouldn't hear it and grabbed one of the two guys' shirt,
"Shuddup! You better say sorry for knocking over my girl, or else!"
Kei's gave him a questioning look and ask,
"What do you mean, your girl?"
Johnny tensed by what she pointed out on what he said and shook his head,
"Uh! It ain't like that! I mean… "
He then turns to the two guys all flustered and annoyed and yelled,
"Just apologize, damn it! You wanna get the tar beaten outta you?!"
The two men stopped glaring at the flustered greaser and didn't say anything. Kei thought the situation is getting ridiculous and butted in,
"Whatever. Let's go."
She then grabbed Johnny by the arm and started dragging him away from the awkward situation.
They found a table that's far away from the crowd and the two men and sat down. The lead Greaser didn't know what to say and Kei is just resting her chin on her hand, staring off into a distance. The silence between the two of them is unbearable,
"You so know what your friends have planned, right?"
He just looked at her, not getting what she meant, she could tell,
"They're trying to get you to talk to me. Pinky is trying to do the same thing."
"What? You mean, they're working together?"
Kei nodded,
"I can tell from a mile away. She makes all of this too obvious, I don't know why you didn't find any of this suspicious."
His eye brow twitched and then remembered how Peanut was acting,
"Now that you mention it, Peanut was actin' weird."
She nodded and spoke,
"Yeah, so that means, Pinky and your friends planned this out."
"What?! Why the hell would they do that?"
She didn't answer him and shook her head. He didn't understand until he thought about yesterday,
"Ah. That's it."
Kei then looked at him. He just didn't say anything afterwards. Kei sighed and got up,
"I guess I'll be going now."
"Wait."
She turned to him waiting for whatever he's going to say,
"Sorry for yesterday."
He kind of didn't know what else to say but continued,
"You already know how my clique ain't so friendly with her kind, so I acted on it. And… Tellin' you that you're part of my clique is kind of selfish of me, I get it. It's just. I didn't want someone else hangin' around you."
She didn't get it. What does he mean? She still got that questioning look and he just didn't want to explain himself,
"A-anyway, that's what I had a problem with…"
So, that all he'll say. Kei nodded trying to piece together what he meant and then looked down,
"I-I want to apologise to you as well. I didn't mean to say all of that. It's just, Pinky is my friend, too and she isn't what you think she is. She's actually really nice even though she can be a handful… I just felt angry when you wanted me to stop being friends with her."
He scratched the back of his head looking away from her,
"Yeah, sorry. I guess I'm just makin' you break the only friendship you had made outside of ours, right?"
Kei nodded,
"I just felt protective of Pinky. She's like a little sister to me. I don't know what she would do if I wasn't there."
"Ah, I get it. She does look like the type to forget stuff."
She chuckled and nodded,
"Yes, that's why."
From far away, Pinky smiled feeling triumphant,
"We did it!"
It's obvious she's oblivious of what they were saying about her. The greasers just nodded in agreement with her,
"Yeah. Thanks, Ricky for plannin' this."
"Ah, It's nothing' I didn't want Johnny to mess it up Like I have."
Pinky couldn't believe them,
"Hey! I was the one who had this idea!"
He just gave her a blank stare,
"Yeah, sure. Makin' me humiliate myself in front of that girl."
"Well… I gave you an idea! So, I helped you with this!"
Peanut and Lefty just watch those two argue then went back to watching their leader and that ghost girl when they just found empty seats,
"Uh, guys? We lost them."
Pinky and Ricky stopped bickering and turned to them.
So, Johnny decided to bring Kei to one of the fun houses because he thought they should ditch the guys that were watching them, which are their friends. Kei agreed of course, she doesn't like the idea of this whole idea, anyway. She thought it's childish and stupid. But it worked. They apologized to each other and they're friends again, but having their friend spy on them is just a little too far, so, the Fun House it is. They've to go to the one that's the scariest. It was Kei's idea and he agreed. He was hoping to hold her hand if she was scared, but that didn't happened,
"So… You ain't scared?"
She shook her head,
"No. These are fascinating, though. I'm impressed with how they decorated this place."
He's kind of disappointed,
"Oh. Anything you scared of?"
She was thinking about what she's afraid of and couldn't get anything,
"No."
Well. He isn't satisfied with that answer and started naming things that might scare her and she just shook her head at each one. She's amused by this until it kind of got old,
"Are you getting tired of asking what I'm afraid of?"
"No."
The answer is just amusing. She shook her head with a small smile, they didn't say anything for a while until he spoke,
"Do you… Um…"
He tried thinking up a conversation and struggled with his words. She waited for him to speak, he finally did,
"W-what kinda music you listen to?"
She thought of it for a bit and answered,
"…I like… Music."
He gave her a blank stare,
"Any specific kind?"
She blushed and turned away,
"Um… I don't have a specific kind…"
She felt awkward and he could feel it in the air. He sighed,
"Well, what kind of music do you play on the piano?"
"Oh, simple songs, like the Moonlight Sonata and… um… Beethoven's…"
She then went inaudible after that. He tried straining his ears and started wondering, Huh? You not into music?"
"No, it's nothing like that! I just don't know what I like."
"Oh, so you don't have a preference?"
She nodded. Well, he sort learned something new about her; though he's happy he got her to soften up around him again. She then asked him,
"How about you?"
"Me? Rockabilly's the way to go."
He didn't even have to think about it,
"Oh, really?"
"Yeah. Call me old fashioned, but music today kinda sucks."
"Oh, I guess so."
"You know. Here."
"I... I understand."
He looked up at the sky and asked,
"So, do you celebrate Halloween?"
She shook her head,
"No, not where I used to live at least."
"So, no ghosts or anything?"
"Well, there's a festival called Obon…"
The two of them talked until they got to the entrance of the carnival where they see their friends,
"Kei! There you are! I was looking all over for you!"
Pinky scolded her; Kei stared blankly at her until she felt uneasy,
"Uh… What's with that look?"
Kei then gave her and the three greasers a suspicious look,
"So, why are you all together?"
Peanut, Ricky and Lefty tensed when Johnny spoke,
"Yeah. And why does it look like you were lookin' for us? Together?"
All four of them tensed and Ricky stuttered,
"W-well… It's just-'"
"Okay! Fine! We couldn't stand the weird mopey atmosphere you give off, Johnny! So, we planned on bringin' you and that Kei, girl together to fix things with you!"
Peanut explained to him finally feeling the pressure. He couldn't hide anything from Johnny. He just couldn't. The ones with him started sweating, Pinky too is sweating. Kei just stared at her until she confessed herself,
"Uh! I-it's not what you think…"
"Pinky, you're so obvious it hurts. Besides, I already figure it out from the beginning."
"What?! Why didn't you say anything?!"
"You left in a hurry."
While that was happening, Johnny is scolding his friends as well,
"Don't do this again! One a' these weird, sappy match up crap! What are you, kids?!"
"Sorry, boss…"
So, after that, they decided it's time to go, Kei and Johnny are ahead of them talking while Pinky and the others are in the back. Ricky took a glance at Pinky and spoke,
"Uh… thanks for helpin' us out."
"Don't take it the wrong way."
He looked at her questioningly and she continued,
"I only did this for Kei. She's my friend. I know she was miserable since that whole thing with the jocks and Earnest, especially with that whole thing yesterday. I didn't do this for Johnny Vincent and you greasers remember that."
He stayed silent and understood. But does saying that help? Won't Derby Harrington know about this? Who knows? And she hopes it never reaches him.
Johnny remembered something he wanted to say to Pinky so he excused himself to Kei and asked if he can talk to her friend for a while, Pinky had no idea why this greaseball want to talk about when,
"So… Uh, Pinky."
"What is it?"
"It's about you and Kei."
She doesn't understand what he's trying to say. He scratched the back of his head and asked,
"Are you into Kei?"
"What do you mean by that, anyway?"
"What I mean is do you have feeling for Kei?"
Smack! Pinky slapped him across the face. Everyone turned to him and Pinky, wondering what had happened,
"Oww! The hell was that for?!"
"You pervert! I didn't know you're into that sort of thing! And no I don't see her that way! I happen to like men! Not other girls! And definitely not boys!"
She then turned away from him and walked back to Kei, who is completely confused,
"I… Guess I shouldn't be asking?"
"Yes."
Pinky while looking straight ahead,
"Let's go now. The school is right there."
She then went ahead as Kei said good bye Johnny and his friends,
"It's a great first Halloween, Thank you."
Johnny's ear then started getting warm,
"Huh? It's nothing, we can hang out anytime, if you want."
"Alright, I guess I want to meet everyone."
"Yeah. I'm sure they'll be more nicer next time."
She nodded and ran after Pinky waving to them.
The two girls are now heading to the girl's dorm when they bumped into Lola,
"You!" Pinky growled,
She really doesn't like her at all. She even couldn't believe what the girl greaser chose to wear for Halloween as well! Kei didn't understand why she's responding to this girl so strongly than before,
"How dare you wear that!"
Lola gave her a cool, but confused look,
"What do you mean?"
"That!"
Pinky then pointed at her outfit. The devil costume; Kei seriously doesn't see the problem,
"Why are you wearing that?!"
"Oh, this? Obviously It looks great on me. And… Oh. I see you've dressed as an Angel, how cute."
Pinky's fists tightened so hard they quivered. The situation is getting unnecessarily tense. Over costumes. Kei needs to do something fast,
"That costume deserves to be dressed by Kei!"
'What?'
Kei gave her a blank stare. Pinky just continued,
"Me and her were supposed to dress as the Angel and Devil! Not you and me!"
So, it's too late. This has already gone out of hand and there's no turning back. Kei let out a sigh and started heading to her room, Lola and Pinky just continued arguing,
"I'm going, now. It's really nice that we get to go to the carnival. Good night."
Pinky didn't hear her. Kei sighed again and entered her dorm room, trying her best not to wake Mandy up. She slipped into her night attire and went to bed, happy she got to make up with Johnny,
'I'm happy me and Johnny are friends again. Maybe it's time to make amends with Earnest again. I want everything to be alright between us. I guess I finally know not to give up so easily, now. Guess I have to thank Pinky for that…'
She smiled and went to sleep.