Chapter 2: Conversations, Lunch, and a Bad Bag of Potato Chips

The two relatives seemed content to stay in their room, planning. They were in there ten minutes before Sage asked his relative, "Are you ready Ji?"

"Ready as I'll ever get Say," 'Ji' replyed, looking at the door nervously.

Sage put his hand on Ji's shoulder, and smiled. "You were always good at this. You'll do fine, just remember what I told you and it'll be perfect." Ji smiled back at Sage and nodded. The two walked out the door to the hall, and began their next prank.

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Meanwhile, the rest of the guys were still discussing the problem of Sage's new pranking habit, when he walked into the room. "Hey guys, what's going on? Something important?"

The rest of the group just looked at him. Then Rowen spoke. "Hey, when are we going to meet this relative of yours?" The rest of them looked at him expectantly.

Sage looked a bit nervous. "Mia, I did tell you that you wouldn't even know he's here, didn't I?"

Kento, who had been munching on a bag of chips, now looked disappointed. "Awww, man! He? I was hoping it would be a girl!!" The rest of the group stared at him for a moment. Then they shook their heads and continued with the conversation and Kento shrugged, and continued with the food.

"Well, yes. You did say that, but I was hoping that we would at least get to meet him," Mia was saying. Kento looked at the door and what he saw made his heart stop. It was only for a moment, but he was CERTAIN he had just seen Sage dash by. He looked back at Sage, who was deeply involved in a conversation with Mia and the other guys. He then looked back at his bag of chips. He stared at them for quite a while, and then started looking for an expiration date. After a few minutes of searching he came up empty handed.

He was interrupted when he heard Yuli ask, "Kento? What are you doing?" It was then that he noticed that everyone was looking at him.

Kento looked up at him, wide eyed, and looking very nervous. "Nothing! Nothing at all! In fact, since I'm doing nothing, then I think I'll do nothing in the other room." He was getting up and slowly backing into the kitchen while waving his hands about nervously. Once he finished saying that, he dashed into the other room away from any more prying eyes.

Sage looked worried. He looked at the others, mumbled something about finding out what was wrong, and then followed Kento into the other room. The others were left to worry.

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Kento threw away the bag of chips and got out a bag of pretzels instead. He also got out some Tums in hopes of doing something about what he was seeing. He ate three. He had another one as soon as he saw Sage enter the room. He looked at his friend nervously. "Hi. Ummm… I'm fine, just a bit edgy… Must have been something I ate…" He expected Sage to make a remark about an elephant or something, but instead, he just nodded. Kento's eyes widened. "Are you alright? I mean, you must not be feeling well to not make a joke about that…"

Sage's visible eye widened, and then quickly returned to normal. "I'm fine. Only 4 hours of sleep will do that to a person. I'll be wittier tomorrow." With that, he left the room.

"Ummm… Oh, kaaayyyyy…" Kento looked really confused as he left the room, leaving the bag of pretzels forgotten on a cabinet.

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Ji walked into the guest room, closing and locking the door behind him. He leaned back onto the door and closing his eyes, let out a huge sigh of relief. "So Ji, how did it go?" He opened his eyes at the sound of Sage's voice, and smiled.

"That gave me ideas Say. That gave me ideas…" Between the two of them, the evil grins would be enough to make Talpa nervous.

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Cye was happily humming a tune as he pulled his bread out of the oven. The bread was the last thing he needed before lunch was ready. After letting it cool for five minutes (he did this while guarding it, and all the other food, from Kento with a frying pan,) he put everything on the table. "Lunch is ready," He called out, already in his chair. In ten seconds, everyone was sitting at the table, except for Sage and his 'relative.' He frowned, and was about to get up when Sage walked in. But instead of going over to the table, he went to the fridge. Cye was very confused, and a little bit hurt. "What are you doing?" He asked this trying to sound normal and keeping any hurt out of his voice.

Sage looked up and shrugged. "We're not that hungry. We wouldn't eat anything at all right now, but I know that you'd worry about us and insist that we eat something, so I'm just going to fix us a couple of sandwiches. Don't worry. We'll have supper with you though…" He shrugged and went on fixing the sandwiches. Cye nodded. No longer feeling hurt, just disappointed.

Kento frowned when taking a bite out of the fresh bread. "Cye? Whatever you put in this bread, you shouldn't do again. It makes it taste bad…" Cye's eyes widened as he ripped a piece of bread and stuck it in his mouth. It tasted WAY too salty. He grimaced. Kento looked at him guiltily. "You didn't do this on purpose, did you?" Cye shook his head in confusion, and forced himself to swallow. He turned when he heard Sage laughing.

"You might want to replace all of the flower in the little container. It's half salt…" Sage had finished making the sandwiches and he walked off laughing. The table was silent with the exception of a few people dropping their forks in shock.



Ok. This chapter should give you a few more clues as to who Ji actually is. *giggles* I'm enjoying myself… I'm torturing one person in particular and enjoying it to the fullest. Hehehehe…. I hope everyone enjoys this and gives me plenty of advice in their reviews!!! Thanks Wildefyre for the suggestion on cleaning up the formatting. This better? Any more tips you can give? *clamps hand over mouth as she realizes she's babbling again…* I'd better get to writing the next chapter rather than writing author's notes…. Ja ne!!!