This Isn't a Dance; it's Hell With Streamers
Chapter Three: Kiss De Girl…
I was going to do something else for this chapter, to do with karaoke (as I mentioned in the after-note of the last chapter) but I got a better idea and well…you'll just have to read and see. (evil grin } )
Anywho, you know the drill, I don't own nuthin', yadda yadda yadda…
* Thoughts *
* Telepathic communication * "Speaking" (duh)
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Sakura's POV:
I should have been worried about the Clow Card.
Should have been concentrating on sensing where it was, so that I would be prepared for when it eventually struck.
But all I could concentrate on was how damn fine Li looked in that 'Neo' costume.
Of course this left me wide open for teasing.
*ooh la la Sakura! Admit it, you want him, you need him…oh baby oh baby…*
I really need to learn how to block telepathy.
*Why can't you just leave me alone?*
We were walking to the Halloween Fair {AN: Pretty damn boring name, but my sugar high hasn't kicked in yet, so that'll have to do…},and I had been staring at my feet for most of it, except for the moments when I would catch a glance at Li, he was walking next to me; as was Madison. It was all kinda lame, like something from a movie, I would be looking at him, he would turn his head towards me, I would turn away, so he couldn't see me staring. Lame, but I just couldn't help myself. For once, Kalla's telepathic intrusion was actually helpful, despite how annoying she was when she used it. At least it kept me occupied enough so I didn't look like a lovesick puppy, eyeing off Li all the time.
*Sakura, you've been staring at him ever since we left the house… you can tell me, we're friends…c'mon…* she altered her voice so that it sounded like 'Fat Bastard' from 'Austin Powers' *you warnt his sex-ee bor-deee*
I blushed bright red, which must have looked strange, as to anyone else my face would have suddenly gone bright red for apparently no reason.
*WHY CAN'T YOU JUST DROP IT?! Nothing, I repeat nothing is or ever will happen between us, we're just friends *
*Why? Is his body too booty-licious for you?*
*Kalla please*
She mentally chuckled softly but agreed none the less to leave me alone.
For now anyway.
"…Are you okay Sakura?" Madison, for once not behind her camera, was looking concerned. "You're face is kinda red, you're not feeling sick are you?"
I smiled at her reassuringly before answering, "I'm fine Madison." She looked at me warily and said "Well okay, if you're sure…"
We were all walking in silence for a while when…
'jinglejinglejingle'
Ike slowed down in front of us, then spun around, "Did anyone else hear that?"
'jinglejinglejingle'
Li, who hadn't said anything for the whole walk, spoke up "yeeaahhh…you mean the jingling noise right?" At Ike's nod, Li frowned. "It's not magical, so I don't think it's a Clow card…"
'jinglejinglejingle'
Mei Lin clamped onto Li's arm, something she hadn't done since her 'Li obsession' period, * old habits die hard I suppose *, "I-I-it's getting closer…"
Li shook his arm to dislodge her grip, "Let go of me Mei Lin…"
The jingling got louder.
'jinglejinglejingleCRASH'
We all sweatdropped, as a miffed looking witch, dragging an unconcious jester, a ghost, and a medieval princess turned the corner.
The ghost smiled at us and said. "hey guys!! Wow you all look great!"
I gave the jester, who was just starting to come to, a rueful look, "he's been telling lies again hasn't he?"
Chelsea, the witch, sighed then replied "yeah, but at least this broom comes in handy" The broom in question looked like it had seen better days. The straw was sticking out at all angles, half of which seemed to be stuck to Zachary the jesters' costume. Rita, the medieval princess shook her head, as Nikki, the ghost, sighed and said, "you'd think he'd learn after she knocked him out the last time…"
Zachary finally regained consciousness, stood up and grinned, "hey everyone, cool costumes…did you know the first costume…" I eyed Chelsea. She was holding the broom handle so tight that her knuckles were going white. Zachary, getting into character, started to bounce around, as he continued his story "and that each year 'jinglejinglejingle' the evil spirits dressed as pink rabbits," 'jinglejinglejingle' "…took candy instead of children to eat…", 'jinglejinglejingle'…
"grrrrr…ZACHARY!!!" WHAM!!
The once again unconscious Zachary slumped to the ground. Chelsea grabbed him by the back of his costume, and started to drag him on. She paused and frowned at our stunned looks. "what? He was being annoying!"
Ike blinked, then shrugged "Right-o then" and we were once again on our way.
I really had to admit, despite all the fake cobwebs, ghosts, spiders etc. etc. the place did look good. Everything was covered in the Halloween theme decorations, from the Ferris wheel, to the huge area set up for the dance floor. And then there were the 'haunted houses'.
Lots of 'haunted houses'.
Nikki was practically bouncing with excitement. "ooh I want to go on the haunted house rides can we go please please please?!" Ike eyed my slightly frightened look, and replied, "why don't you guys go have a look at some of the rides, we're going to get something to eat first k?" Everyone seemed happy enough with that decision, so Nikki, Rita, Chelsea and the momentarily conscious Zachary, went off to try out the various attractions.
"Thanks Ike, you're a life saver."
"Hey no problemo."
We were walking over to the food area when someone bumped into me.
"oh I am soo, like, sorry for bumping into you" It was a girl, about Kalla's age, dressed as Barbie.
"umm that's okay, it was just an accident…"
I wasn't sure, but there was something kinda…strange about the girl.
"So like anyway I'm really sorry" and with that she stepped back, and disappeared into a crowd of costumed people.
Li eyed me from behind his dark specs, "Did any of that seem kinda weird to you?"
Briefly blushing from Li's gaze, I nodded, then muttered in a voice that only my friends could hear, "yeah, almost as if she had magic or something…"
Kalla was gazing off in the direction that 'Barbie' had departed and said distractedly "…we better keep an eye out for her…there's defiantly something up about her" she snapped out of her trance and grinned at us, "but for now, let's get some grub and sit down k?!"
A mumbled, but still very audible voice called out from somewhere in Ike's hood, "yeah I want food! Gimme Halloween candy!" earning more than a few strange looks from the people nearby.
After getting our food, most of which was a very attractive Halloween theme orange and black color, we sat down at one of the many tables surrounding the dance floor. Apart from a few more strange looks from people watching, as Ike stuffed food into his hood, (which, more often than not made chewing noises and sighed, a few seconds later) everything pretty much went normally.
Until Kalla suggested we should all get up and dance, or as she had put it 'go up and shake our groove thang'.
I suppose she was just staying in character, dressed as Satan and all…
It's not that I don't really like dancing. It's just that I couldn't quite ignore the look she had on her face, as if to say 'I'm up to something and you ain't gonna know about it till it's too late…heh heh heh', and the wink which she sent to Ike. Madison was pretty much ecstatic at the idea and had already made her way out onto the floor, Mei Lin in tow, and video camera on standby.
*Public humiliation, here I come…*
Kalla tried to smile innocently, which clashed terribly with the whole theme of her costume and grabbed my hand, at the same time sending me a mind message. *c'mon Sakura, ready to bust-a-move?*
*not particularly…*
She eyed me suspiciously, *give me one good reason why…*
I paused trying to think up any excuse to just sit back down, then said out loud "err I can't dance?" It came out sounding more like a question than an answer. She just raised an eyebrow then smiled, "look, all you have to do is listen to the beat, then shake your ass around accordingly…"
"um would you believe it's against my religion to dance in public places."
She raised an eyebrow again, as if to say, 'oh really"
"err err err, I'm ahh-allergic to dancing…yeah that's it, causes a terrible rash I'm afraid, such a shame too…eh heh heh"
She shook her head. "Man you are really scraping the bottom of the excuse barrel with that one…"
Then, just when I thought that there couldn't possibly be anyone more evil than Kalla, the DJ announced, "Okay everyone time for a SNOWBALL!!" {AN: For those of you that have no clue what that is, (and I dunno, it might be called something else where you're from, or I'm just wasting my time, but whatever), a snowball is a couple's dance. Guys and girls separate and go to opposite sides of the room (all guys one side, all girls the next…duh). You start out with a couple of-err- couples (mostly requests), and they dance around for a bit (To soppy romantic lurve songs of course) until the announcer dude calls out 'snowball.' Said couples split and go off to choose another partner of the opposite gender from the group on the side of the room, and then they dance around and what-not, then announcer dude goes 'snowball'…etc. etc. and basically the amount of people dancing on the floor 'snowballs'. Got it? yeah well you probably already knew that, but at least now my story looks longer and makes it seem that I can actually write…anywho, back to the point.}
I froze, as the guys and girls separated to opposite sides of the floor. A slow song started as the DJ said, "Okay, any couples out there willing to go first, come on downnn…"
I cautiously stepped back out of sight, trying to hide form Kalla, expecting her to try something, but she just turned towards where Ike and Li was sitting and looked expectant. Ike grinned, then got up, as Kero fluttered out and hid under a pile of food.
As I glanced down to find my seat again, I missed the look the Kalla and Ike gave Li.
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Li's POV:
I was glad about one thing from my costume…the glasses hid from everyone else where my eyes were looking. I knew Sakura was looking at me. She just didn't know I had been looking at her as well. She looked positively angelic, despite the fact that she was dressed as a fairy. But had I always thought that, regardless of what she wore. {AN: Hits small gong rhythmically, (Monty Python and the Holy Grail style) DONG …BRING OUT THE SAP…DONG…BRING OUT THE SAP…DONG….ooh the sugar is finally starting to kick in…maybe I shouldn't have ate a whole bag of jelly babies…* - *}. Unfortunately for me, it was getting dark, and I was finding it increasing hard to see anything, so I had to take them off. Right before the DJ announced that there was going to be a snowball, and Sakura came and sat back done in front of me.
Damn.
I'm not a pervert or anything, I don't just sit and stare at people, but I just couldn't help it. It was like some weird gravitational pull or something. I just couldn't keep my eyes off of her. Which confused, delighted, and annoyed me to no end. I usually wasn't this bad. Little did I know, worrying about being caught staring would be the least of my problems.
Not many people know this, but under Ike's mature, responsible and mostly quite exterior, was the mind of a completely different, more evil person…i.e. Kalla. Probably comes from living with her all his life, her personality rubbed off on him. Kalla and Ike where one of the few couples that had ventured out onto the floor when the DJ made the announcement. That, of course, was about to change, whether I liked it to or not.
A voice, sounding very much like Sebastion the crab from 'The Little Mermaid' started to sing in my mind.
'There you see her Sitting there across the way She don't got a lot to say But there's something about her And you don't know why But you're dying to try You wanna kiss the girl' I shot him one of my patented death glares, which technically should have reduced the dance floor into a smoking crater, or at least, just the area on which they were dancing. Unfortunately, that sort of thing just didn't happen, and they just ignored me, kept on dancing and telepathically singing at me. 'Yes, you want her Look at her, you know you do Possible she wants you too There is one way to ask her It don't take a word Not a single word Go on and kiss de girl' It must have looked pretty damn strange to anyone who was watching, as suddenly, for no apparent reason, my face went bright red. They split apart when the DJ called out snowball. Kalla grinned evilly and came towards me. Ike, ever the 'nice guy' in appearance, bowed to Sakura and offered his hand. She looked a bit surprised, but giggled and took his hand as he led her onto the floor. Kalla, never really the one for panache, smirked, grabbed my hand, and practically dragged me on, swinging me around in a sad parody of a waltz. That didn't stop the singing though. Kalla's mental voice sang out the chorus. 'Sha la la la la la My oh my Look like the boy too shy Ain't gonna kiss de girl Sha la la la la la Ain't dat sad? Ain't it a shame? Too bad, he gonna miss de girl' I wasn't stupid. Sure at times, I admit, I have been naïve, but not stupid. I knew what they were up to, even before the DJ once again announced 'snowball' and they left us standing, facing each other. Sakura was blushing prettily. My face was so red I could probably have been used as a flashlight. Someone, (give you three guesses who…) bumped into me, causing me to bump into Sakura. Trying to ignore the voices in my head, I stumbled over something to say. "uh-d-d-do you umm want to-err dance?" She blushed even more, but flashed me one of her hundred-watt-smiles, then shakily replied, "umm s-s-sure Li". She placed her hand in mine, as I slipped my other around her waist. 'Now's your moment Floating in a blue lagoon Boy you better do it soon No time will be better She don't say a word And she won't say a word Until you kiss de girl' I was finding it harder and harder to concentrate, and ignore the singing when I was holding a virtual goddess in my arms. Especially when she was looking up into my eyes like that. This time Ike joined in with the chorus. 'Sha la la la la la Don't be scared You got de mood prepared Go on and kiss de girl Sha la la la la la Don't stop now Don't try to hide it how You want to kiss de girl' I think the song was starting to get to me. Everything around us started to fade. Even the two signing voices in my head started to go quiet, although I think they where purposely doing that to make it seem more dramatic. But basically, all I could really concentrate on, was the girl I was holding, slowly swaying back and forth with, to a tune that I wasn't entirely sure I was listening to anymore. All I could concentrate on was Sakura. 'Sha la la la la la Float along And listen to de song De song say kiss de girl' I hadn't really noticed, but I had been leaning slowly forward. Didn't notice until I became aware that she was leaning in too. 'Sha la la la la De music play Do what de music say You got to kiss de girl' They got quieter, as we got closer. 'You've got to kiss de girl You wanna kiss de girl You've gotta kiss de girl Go on and kiss de girl' So close… Yet so far. I almost yelled out in complete exasperation when a burst of familiar Clow Card magic caused us both to jump back.
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MWAA HA HA HA HA HA! I AM EVIL…EEEEEVVIIILLLL! Hehehehe, Anyway that's it for this little chapter. I have to say, I'm kinda proud of it. : P More madness to come, the next chapter is going to be called 'Doin' it Karaoke Style'…'nuff said. Aaahh, what fun. Ooh, one more thing, PLEASE REVIEW!!! I NEED MORE REVIEWS!!! ^cough^ yes well, I'd really appreciate a bit of feedback, opinions, what I should improve on blah blah blah, and all that. Thanx muchly… : ) Toodles for now!