Info: Romance (My apologies to the fans about the mushy/luffy duffy stuff on here.)
Chapter 20 – Raj & Nina
Nina the giraffe was walking in the woods, looking for Raj. While searching, she started thinking about the night, when he helped her, with the scum mess covering her, and saving her before she, maybe, suffocate. As obvious the whole time then, she felt appreciated about it. Then as soon as she opened some bushes to walk through them, she heard sobbing. She found it coming to her right. So she let go of the opened bushes and then walks to the right direction. As she kept walking on that direction the sobbing gotten a bit louder in distance, notifying her that she was getting closer. She paused in front of some bushes, slowly moving her hands up to move them out of the way. Then once she opened the bushes slowly, she saw that there was the elephant sitting near the lake sobbing. She studied on him, standing there watching. Next she started thinking about the incident again, and then the next thing some sort of felicity was growing on her, due to his rescuing maybe.
Meanwhile, Raj had his head rested on his knees, with his arms wrapped around his upper legs. "Why…?" asked Raj, in a weak voice, "What did I do?" Raj asked himself, not believing what's been happening and what happened earlier between him and the moose, Lumpus. "How could I say something like that to him?" Raj asked himself, still sounding weak on his voice. He felt real guilty on his own action against Lumpus. "I didn't really want to do it…" Raj said, sobbing once more. Nina on the other hand, was still hiding from behind the bushes, looking at Raj. Then once she moved, a certain snap sound occurred, obviously stepping on a twig by accident.
This made Raj lightly jump from the sound, as he looks up with a consternated look on his face. Then next he quickly turned around, shivering spinelessly. "Wh…who's there?" asked Raj, looking left and right from the area, sweating cowardly. Nina just sighed, obviously there was no use hiding since the elephant was alerted. "It's me Raj…" said Nina, as she steps out of the bushes from hiding. Raj turned to his left and then saw the squirrel scout giraffe nearing him.
"AHHHHHH!!" screamed Raj, stepping back quickly and then trips on a rock causing him to fall on his bottom. "Are you okay?" asked Nina, seemingly sounding a bit worried. Raj on the other hand didn't answered, but had his arms & hands up near his face cowardly in defense. "I didn't do it! I had nothing to with the cheap incident last night! It was all Edward's idea! And I didn't throw any coconuts at you the night before, neither the rest of the squirrel scouts!" Raj exclaimed, cowardly.
"If you going to call the cootie monster to get me, just get it over with!" Raj exclaimed, shivering but in preparation. Nina raised an eyebrow on what he just said. "Cootie Monster?" asked Nina, in a tone of confusion. "You know, the cootie monster, where it gives up terrible cooties, just go ahead and do it!" Raj exclaimed, shivering everywhere and his eyes clenched shut. But then Raj slowly opens his eyes, hearing a light giggle coming from the giraffe.
"What…?" asked Raj, as his hands was still held in front of his face. "Raj…there is no Cootie monster, and there is no such thing as cooties," Nina said, giggling from his stupor-worried manner. "Of course there is!" Raj exclaimed. "Raj, cooties is a slange word, prove to be a fictional disease. Therefore, cooties doesn't exist…" Nina explained, where Raj blinks few times and then slowly moves his hands out of the way. "Really?" asked Raj, staring in awe at her. "Yes." Nina answered, as she sits down, in front of him, which he's still sitting close to the wavy lake. "Wait…why should I believe you…you're a girl," said Raj, pointing at her, admonishing himself who's he hearing the myth of cooties from.
Nina sighs, telling herself, "Boys…" And she shakes her head. "Well anyways…I guess it was really rough about what happened a second ago," said Nina. Raj starting thinking about what happen again, "Well…well…" then Raj covered his face. "I'M SO CONFUSE!" Raj shouted, "The boat incident, stranded in a island, Lazlo is gone, Clam trying to hurt Gretchen, and me talking to Scoutmaster Lumpus like that…but mostly is that Clam only have a few minutes to live before the rest of us!" Raj exclaimed, as he starts to whimper. Nina only frowned, looking at the disappointed bean scout.
"Poor Clam," said Nina. This made Raj to look up from his face rested on his hands and open his eyes, staring at her in awe with his moist eyes. "Oh um, I meant there's a possibility that they'll stay away from each other," said Nina, giggling nervously. Raj just keep looking at her with the same look on his face. "Well…um anyways…what you did back there…well….that did seemed fascinating," said Nina. Raj blinks a few times, examining what she just said. "It was?" asked Raj. "Yeah…It probably was something to make you stand up to the moose," said Nina. Raj just raised an eyebrow and asks, "Like what?"
"Well, bravery I guess," said Nina, as she looks down, "Sorry about what happen though, and of course what's going on." Raj looks down, regaining some thoughts. "I wish Gretchen wouldn't have to be so mean to Clam, and talk about Lazlo like that…just because we miss him…" said Raj, yet still looking down. "Yeah…I mean it is sad that our friends are missing right now." Nina said, looking down as well, digging her fingers into the sand to grab a hand full. "I miss Patsy myself, and I'm sure Gretchen does too," said Nina, letting the sand lightly pour out of her hands back on the ground.
"Raj…I also want to…I don't know…thank you for helping me yesterday," said Nina, smiling. "Well…um, really scoutmaster…" Raj paused, finding her smiling at him appreciatively. Raj looks down without a word to say at the moment, seeing that she was happy for him doing that. "You're welcome…" said Raj in a low tone, lightly forming red tinges on his cheeks. "That was nice of you though, I probably wouldn't have live if nobody would've help me," said Nina, smiling more and developing red tinges on her cheek as well. Raj starting thinking about when he did save her from the disaster scum incident, led by Chip & Skip, under Edward's plan. Then he started gaining some thoughts, reminding him something about Chip & Skip.
"Hey I just remembered something…Chip & Skip once told me that you had them one night and-" Raj was stopped by Nina covering his mouth, with his trunk lightly bent from the trunk pressed against his mouth. "Don't bring that up…please don't…not ever," said Nina, hesitantly. She could never forget that night, when she was convince that her soul mate(s) was none other than the dung beetles, Chip & Skip. She was having a bit of a hard time picking herself up after the crash from the rocket that the dung beetles made, after it flew uncontrollably. Nina then lets go, letting Raj's mouth free to be able to speak again.
"Sorry…I also wonder if Lenny's okay himself," said Raj, just now thinking about him, and knowing that he was in danger as well. He also remembered one last thing Lenny said to Miss Mucus, before the crash, "Rubella I really want to kick your- AAAHHH!!" It made Raj clench his eyes just looking back at when they were crashed by the large amount of water. "Maybe he is, maybe he's in a different island, doing okay…you think maybe he may met up with Miss Mucus?" asked Nina. "Maybe, if they did, they might just tear each other apart one by one," said Raj, remembering also that they hate each other and always will.
"Nobody would even probably find it remarkable of them even liking each other," said Nina. "I wouldn't…" Raj said, starting to make a repulsive look, thinking of those two to even being positive around each other.
"And what about Lazlo & Patsy? What if they're caught up with each other?" asked Nina. "And what would they might do? Would they be up a tree staring a night star together with one of them receiving a gift?" asked Raj, laughing. "Yeah maybe," Nina answered. "Um…you know I was being sarcastic right?" asked Raj, staring at her with one of his eyebrows raised. "You were? I thought you were serious. I mean that may happen if it's possible. That's probably, basically what Patsy ever wanted since she likes him so much," said Nina, smiling.
But Raj just crossed his arms with a grunt. Nina on the other hand, tilts her head in curiosity. "Is something wrong Raj?" asked Nina. "Why in the world would they rather bother doing that?" asked Raj, with a stern look on his face. "What, I thought Lazlo liked her too, I don't know." Nina said. "Lazlo has better things to do other than that." Raj said, with his arms crossed and looking away with his eyes closed. "Well you might never know if Lazlo likes her too Raj," Nina stated. "But Lazlo has us though, we always have fun together. She's just his friend. I'm his BEST friend. There's no way that could happen, it'll be even dumb for Lazlo to even accept it."
"That sounds a bit selfish there," said Nina, frowning at Raj for saying that. "Selfish? I'm trying to save my friendship. Just like the time she tried sit with him in the bus seat. If he did accept that, then he would start paying more attention to her more than me and Clam and the rest of the bean scouts…" Raj kept going on and on, with many reasons why Lazlo shouldn't even bother dating her. Nina on the other hand, had a annoyed & impatient look on her face, sighing. She suddenly started to grow oblivious about what Raj was saying, and began thinking about the night he saved her again. And then some feeling started flushing through her mind. On the other hand, she still wanted to do something in return from him being generous & nice for doing what he did last night.
"I could never see a bean scout trying to date a squirrel scout, even you guys could never show peace to us…" Raj kept talking and talking, and Nina was starting not to take anymore of this herself. Then with that Nina leaned over to his face, which he wasn't fully paying attention since his eyes were closed and making a lot of statements. By surprise, she immediately pecked her lips on his forehead.
"And…" then Raj stops talking, and opened his eyes wide and his mouth opened, from what just happened. Nina on the other hand leaned back, and looked down completely at the sandy ground. Raj on the other hand, was just standing there completely quiet, and still had his hand up from when he was talking. Nina then got up and then turns around. "Good night Raj…and thanks," said Nina, talking about when he helped her last night. Next, Nina walked off leaving Raj there, still standing there with his hand up, eyes wide open, and his jaw dropped. Nina, while walking, thinks to herself, "Did I do it…did I just…do it?" Nina couldn't believe it herself that she just did that. It was shocking for herself to do that to Raj.
Meanwhile, Raj just stood there looking the same. Only thing heard was the sound of waves from the water running on the surface of the lake, and the sound of wind blowing. A few seconds later, Raj's eye starts twitching. Next his body starts shaking uncontrollably.
"AAAAHHHH!!" Raj screamed. He shrieked, running his head on the sand, as he continues screaming, "AHH!! AHH!! AHH!!" Next he cups his hand full of water splashes it on his face repeatedly, and then violently rubs his forehead. Then he started rolling around the sand, seemingly like he has lost his mind now. Several seconds later, he started to calm down. But he curled himself into a ball, wrapping his arms around his, now bent, legs and lays on his side, shivering.
"She…she just…she just kissed me," said Raj, with his eyes twitching again. He couldn't believe himself about her doing that, and nothing to counter it.