Well I can see not a whole lot of people read the last chapter, 3 reviews? Come on people, I know I have more people reading this than that. I shall actually have something happen in the next chapters. Sorry about any grammatical errors for the chapter 5 cause I forgot to proofread again, oops. *guilty grin* Enjoy!
"Kaori." Zack called to her from across the lobby. Kaori looked up from where she, Mac, Zoe, Elise, Viggo, Griff, Allegra and Nate were playing Monopoly on the floor.
"I have something to talk to you about." Zack said as she wasn't making a move to get up.
"Okay Zack. Hang on a second guys." Kaori stood up and then looked down on her fellow players. "Don't steal my money either." She added sternly. They all looked at her with innocent faces.
She went over to talk to Zack and he led her into another room.
"You know when you asked me about a Christmas party?" Kaori nodded with a hopeful look. "Well, I decided that it would be alright. But! You have to plan it and everything." Kaori did not look discouraged.
"Thanks Zack! I have a great idea too! I think we should do a costume party. And everyone can dress up." Kaori spilled in an excited rush.
Zack watched her with amusement.
"Sure, whatever you want."
"Oh thanks!" she said and jumped up and gave him a bear hug, well as big of a bear hug that a 5 foot woman can manage. Zack just grinned. Kaori zipped back into the main lobby to tell her boyfriend the good news.
She ran over and plopped down next to Mac and opened her mouth to tell him, then noticed the absence of all her 5 and 100's. Kaori glared at the others.
"I though I said not to touch my money! Mac, why didn't you defend my stash?" She added with hurt look.
Mac looked at her with mock innocence. "I did, but they jumped me and stole it all." There was a derisive snort from Zoe.
"Oh sure blame us cause you're too chicken to face your girlfriend." She teased.
"Hey!"
"Yeah, and you're the one who took her money!" Griff added. Kaori turned her glare on her boyfriend. Looking at his pile of money she noticed it had by some unnamable force grown a fair bit, she gave him an evil eye.
"Protect my money eh?" she said sarcastically. Mac smiled charmingly. Kaori decided he was getting too cocky and speedily grabbed all his stash of fake money with a quick swipe and leapt up.
"No fair!" Mac shouted and jumped up as she dashed across the lobby.
"Oh come on you guys!" Zoe shouted trying to get their attention as Mac chased Kaori around. "Stop flirting and finish the game!"
"Honestly." Elise muttered.
Kaori stopped and thrust Mac his money, after taking hers back of course.
"Here, I'll beat you good for that." Mac snorted.
"Sure."
Half an hour later, Psymon and Moby tromped in from the ice world outside carrying their boards. They crossed over to others and fell onto a couch, watching with half-hearted interest as the game progressed.
"Who's winning?" Moby asked. Zoe came over and plopped on his lap, which Moby answered with an 'ooof!'.
"Only Kaori, Mac, and Elise are still in the game." She said by way of answer.
The rest of boarders were either watching with amusement and interest or detached boredom as the remaining three ducked it out.
Eventually, Mac landed on Kaori's 'Boardwalk' and lost all his money, with Elise sharing the same fate. Kaori had an undeniably smug look.
"That's it." Mac said and grabbed Kaori, throwing her over his shoulder with a squeal from said woman and proceeded to take her outside and dump her in the snow. The whole tour laughed.
Kaori jumped up from her involuntary made snow-angel and quickly made a snowball which she threw at Mac's retreating back. With a satisfying splat it made contact. Mac turned around slowly.
"So that's how you want to play it?" he asked in dramatic form. Kaori had another ready made snowball and once again hit her targeted enemy, this time on the arm. With a squeal she ran away as Mac picked up his own snowball and tried to hit her with it.
Zoe saw the workings of a snowball fight, and dragged Moby and Psymon out with her and hit each with her own snowball before taking off after the other two. Moby and Psymon glanced at each other with snow clinging to their coats and grinned the same evil grin. Before long the rest of the tour had joined, and they were all out in the snow and engaged in a massive snowball fight.
The recent heavy snowfall had added another foot to the mess so they had plenty to work with. Psymon and Moby had constructed a snow fortress and targeted everyone else with their seemingly unlimited supply of snow-bombs.
Kaori, Zoe and Elise had teamed up and were trying to sneak close to Psymon and Moby's fort, ready with their own barrage of snowballs. Moby happened to turn his head and see the three women about to attack and gave a shout of warning to Psymon. They both grabbed snowballs and started pelting the three no longer unseen. Elise gave a shrill yell and retreated out of range. Kaori and Zoe went for it and dove over the side of the snow fortress.
It was practically a stalemate for being in such close range it made it impossible to throw the snow. Instead Zoe grabbed a handful of snow and smashed it into Moby, then followed it with a tackle and more snow shoved down the collar of his shirt. Kaori mustered up her courage and followed Zoe's example by taking up a bunch of snow and throwing it into Psymon. For once it seemed Psymon had forgone his intense dislike of Kaori for the sake of fun and retaliated without viciousness.
Since he had much bigger hands he scooped up a lot more snow and dumped it on Kaori's head. With more bravery than the small 19-year-old had shown previously she jumped on Psymon, straddling him and gathering more and more snow started to pile it on him. Though he wasn't pleased, the psycho didn't put up much of a fight as she proceeded to, for lack of another word bury him in the white powder.
Zoe and Moby stopped their attack-turned-make out session to watch the young boarder bury her arch nemesis. They were in shock that Kaori would try something so daring and even more stunned that Psymon was letting her!
"Oy! Come here mates! You gotta see this!" Moby suddenly yelled out.
Moments later the rest of the tour had approached the snow castle and peered around to see the bizarre spectacle. Most everyone fell over laughing instantly. The sight of the sweet, energy-filled woman sitting on the psychotic, violent man while adding more and more snow on top of him while laughing was more than they could stand or comprehend.
When the 28-year-old was completely encased in snow, with the exception of his face, Kaori got off him carefully; then filled in the snow where she had been sitting.
"There." she said as she briskly brushed the snow off herself and looked on with approval of her feat.
The rest of the tour composed themselves enough to stand up again and see the finished product.
"Psymon?" Zoe asked careful to not let too much mirth into her voice. He grunted an answer.
"Were you super-high, asleep or have finally gone off the deep end when you let her do that to you?" Viggo asked in a matter-of-fact voice. Kaori giggled. Psymon sighed.
"None of the above." he consented. Mac watched his girlfriend with amusement and pride at her actions. She had finally bested her enemy with bravado.
"Come on you guys!" Zack suddenly shouted from the lobby door. "It's getting cold." Indeed they had been playing in the snow most of the afternoon and the sun was beginning to set. They all stood up to leave.
"Hey! You can't leave me here!" Psymon yelled indignantly. Zoe and Moby stooped down to heave some of the snow off their buried comrade. He jumped free as soon as enough of the powder was off and brushed the remainder from his clothes.
"Hope you enjoyed that brat, 'cause it's not happenin' again." Psymon told Kaori seriously. She and Mac had waited for the other three. Kaori chuckled.
"I sure did Psymon." He scowled and headed to the lobby.
"Didn't think ya had it in you love." Moby said and he and Zoe went inside.
Kaori started towards the lodge but Mac caught her around the waist.
"This moment will stay in my mind forever." He told her with relish. Kaori laughed outright at that. She kissed him sweetly.
"Let's go inside, I'm freezing." Mac took her hands in his and rubbed them. She smiled and they went inside as well.
(I could end it here, but I won't :))
Not too long later they were all sitting around on the couches drinking hot chocolate and watching "A Christmas Story" on the big screen in the lobby.
With Christmas approaching the tour seemed to have grown closer, and didn't mind spending their time together which previously had not been the case. Kaori was of course snuggled with Mac under a blanket.
"Mac." she said quietly for she didn't want to catch the other's attention.
"Hmm?"
"Zack said that we could have a costume party, if I planned it." she whispered, unable to keep the excitement out of her voice.
"I have a better idea." Mac said. Kaori got a hurt look on her face. Mac hurriedly finished his sentence. "We could have a Christmas party, with presents and stuff and have a costume party on New Years."
Kaori looked up at him with loving eyes. "You are too sweet sometimes." Mac laughed. A few of the other boarders glanced their way at Mac's laugh. Upon seeing the almost-too-cute couple kissing they rolled their eyes and turned back to the movie.
"I love it!" she whispered fiercely as they broke their kiss. Mac grinned. Kaori climbed in his lap, careful not to spill her hot chocolate and laid her head on his shoulder.
"I'll get you something really nice for Christmas." she promised. Mac dropped a kiss to her brow.
"Same here sweetness, something extra special." he answered.
The next day Kaori got Zoe to go with her into town to shop for Mac's Christmas present. Since Christmas was only 8 days away she was pressed for time and still had to get the parties together.
"What do you want to get him?" Zoe asked her.
Kaori thought. She didn't have any idea of what to get him to be honest. She knew he didn't like guy jewelry, or clothes, or candy stuff. Though she knew his taste in music she was hesitant to buy him a cd for she didn't want to get him something so obvious. Then a sudden insight struck her, she would get him a book! No one else knew or suspected that Mac was actually very well-read. After all, who would suspect the arrogant 18-year-old Dj to have a love for reading? Kaori smiled to herself, that's just what she would get him. Though, she couldn't let Zoe know his 'secret' for Mac thought it would ruin his reputation.
"I want to look around a bit." she lied slightly, for she didn't know what book to get him. "Why don't you go look for Moby's present and I'll see if I can find something for Mac?"
"Alright, meet you back here in an hour." Zoe answered. They were at the food court, the main entrance in the town's mall.
Zoe wandered off looking for shops to find something for her boyfriend in, while Kaori headed straight to the nearest bookstore for hers.
Kaori slowly perused the isles of books trying to find the right one. Suddenly a title caught her eye, "The Lord of the Rings" it was her favorite book. She knew Mac had not read it though, and wondered if he would like it. She felt kind of guilty buying him her favorite book, but pushed the thought away because she knew he wouldn't care. Mac was sweet like that. Besides, his favorite genre was fantasy so why shouldn't he like it? Pleased with her choice she went to pay for the book and left to find Zoe.
Spying the red and black haired woman she made her way over.
"What did you buy Moby?" she asked her friend. Zoe smirked.
"I don't think you want to know." Kaori looked at her curiously.
"How so?"
"Something for the bedroom hun." Zoe said suggestively. Kaori wrinkled her nose.
"Oh."
"Speaking of which, are you and Mac ever gonna....." she let the question hang.
Kaori shook her head vigorously.
"I don't believe in sex before marriage." she told her seriously. Zoe nodded.
"Well, I'll remind you when I'm your bridesmaid." Kaori gave Zoe a push.
"Hey! Who says we are getting married?" she asked. Zoe gave her a look.
"Please, I'd be surprised if you guys ever look at someone else. The way you two are together, it's obvious you were meant for each other."
Kaori blushed a sweet pink. It felt good to hear someone say that. Especially someone like Zoe.
"Thanks."
"So, what did you get for lover boy?" Zoe asked teasingly.
"It's a surprise, from me to him. I don't want to tell anyone else." Kaori said steadfastly. Zoe raised her eyebrows.
"Something along the same lines then?" Kaori laughed embarrassed and shoved Zoe out the door.
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Did you guys like it? I hope so, I love adding things that I do in real life to my stories: Monopoly, snow fortresses and watching "A Christmas Story" for example tee hee. Next chapter follows Mac in his search for Kaori's gift and the Christmas party. Please Review!
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elvenangel