With a Little Red Ribbon -2
IceAngelDarkMoon
~~~~I know that only K-Dub has read this, but I will press on!! You cannot stop me, MWAHAHAHAHA!! I will keep writing until it turns everyone's brain to mush!! Sorry, I got a little carried away.~~~~
Due to school exams, I'm not sure how fast the next few chapters are going to be up, but don't count on much of a break!
RING RING
The doorbell rang at a little after seven, Christmas Night. I smiled because according to my calculations of who all was already here at our apartment, this meant the last and most important guest had arrived. The door creaked as I opened it to let him in.
"Hey Ice, I thought I'd drop by for a little bit at least." Otogi said looking a little nervous at being here. I took the opportunity to give him a Merry Christmas hug, it would be my only chance, K-Dub would have been jealous, but I was really happy that I had been right and K-Dub's present had come!
"Hey Otogi, Merry Christmas! Of course you dropped by, I was right; I knew you would show up! Get use to it because I'm always right!" I said cheekily, while smiling happily. "What made you change your mind?" Otogi looked a little lost still, almost like he didn't know how he had ended you here. His cheeks were a little pink from his cold walk to our apartment. I took his coat from him while he thought how to answer me.
"I guess I thought this might be better than spending Christmas alone. Besides like you said the entertainment should be really good!" He smiled more like the Otogi I knew. (I love all this angst; it makes the world go round!)
"Hey K-Dub, come see who came to our party! I meet this bum on the street yesterday and invited him to come to our humble party!" I yelled to K-Dub who was at the moment acting like a temporary referee for Joey and Seto (Mokuba had been invited; he was still a little too young to really be coming but as he was now in High School he had plans anyway!) Then when he wasn't really looking I put a little red bow in Otogi's hair, just like I had promised.
"What strange, weird and crazy bum did you pick up this time…?" K-Dub muttered as she came over towards the door, but as she caught sight of Otogi she stopped dead in her tracks. Then she ran and launched herself at him, almost knocking him over in her glomp! "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! How in the world did you get him to come, Ice? You better not have threatened him; I swear I will get you if you harmed him in any way!" She was squeaking in her excitement. I noticed then that Otogi was starting to turn a little red and then blue.
"I think your glomping him a little too hard, K-Dub, he's turning blue!" She turned a little pink as I pointed this out and released him a little, at least enough for him to breath. "And I swear I did nothing to him (we'll maybe the cage was a little threatening, but he wouldn't talk to me)." I would have gone on but Otogi interrupted me to talk to K-Dub for the first time.
"You must be K-Dub, Ice asked me to come and at least meet you. And Ice didn't do anything wrong, or threaten me, the only thing she did I deserved anyway. Besides I came of my own free will." K-Dub looked up at him incredulously.
"You know my name? And you wanted to come?" K-Dub really looked dazed. She then turned back to me. "You got me the best Christmas present ever; you even got the little red bow on him! And he knows my name!"
"Yes of course he does, and he has a picture of you, too. But now let's do this the right way, you two have to be introduced properly! K-Dub release him for a moment!" K-Dub gave me one of those confused gazes but let go of Otogi. "Ok now I can properly introduce you two! Otogi, this is K-Dub, K-Dub this is Otogi. Now greet each other, shake hands or something!" K-dub and Otogi reached forward tentatively and shook hands. "Now go and get to know each other, you two have a lot in common. And don't worry I'll let you know when Joey and Seto start fighting so you won't miss the fun! And remember, if I will be keeping an eye on you two, so don't try anything funny." With that I left the two now blushing young adults to 'get to know each other'. K-Dub grabbed Otogi's hand and led him to a more secluded corner of the party to talk and really get to know her dream guy!
While K-Dub got to know her dream guy I hung out with everyone else who was at the party (with the exception of Tea who I avoided like she was deadly to my health, which she probably was!). I got the chance to finally talk to Malik for a little bit when the door bell rang again. I left Malik, who was now talking to his darker half out loud, a very peculiar sight if you didn't know he had a yami and it was like having another person lives inside of you!
I peeked out and saw K-Dub's brother standing out in the cold. It had begun to snow and there were lots of flakes sticking to him.
"Merry Christmas Reklaw let me call K-Dub." I let him come in and took his coat from him, he didn't say anything, but then he had never talked much to me or any of K-Dub's friends! Actually one of K-Dub's friends who has known her for a long time and gone on vacations with her has only heard Reklaw talk to her four times! And he had always thought I was a little weird, because he meet me for the first time when K-Dub and had drawn little people and made them into puppets and were playing with them (we were only eighth graders at the time, I don't see what is so weird about that!).
"K-Dub your dear older brother is here!" I was being sarcastic like I was usually. K-Dub reluctantly came over, on her way she picked up one of the few presents still under the tree. While she and her brother exchanged the gift their parents had sent for them to give to each other I went to go talk to Otogi again. He was watching K-Dub and Reklaw with a look of jealousy.
"Who is that, the one who just came in?" He tried to hide the jealousy in his voice but I heard it any way. I laughed at him and he glared at me for a moment but he didn't really mean it.
"That jealous one would be Reklaw, her older brother." I teased him; it was too good of a chance to pass up. I smiled at ho obvious he had been. "You're going to need a friend besides K-Dub when you start dating her." He looked over at me a look of confusion and wonder crossed his face. But I continued before he could think how to phrase his question. "I just want you to know I'm here for both of you. You will have questions and problems you just won't be able to ask or talk about with her. I just want you to know I'll be there for you." I mentally hit myself for sounding a little too much like the brunette bimbo I was avoiding.
"Thanks, I've never really had any friends, like I said before. Nor have I had any real girlfriends." He looked like he was retreating inside his mind to contemplate what he had just said. Then he smirked and looked at me "Are you sure you're always right?"
"Of course I know that you already like her and she loves you. Besides you will ask her out, but I don't know how long it will take you to work up the courage to ask her." With that I started to walk away, I had a bet to make with Malik and Ryou! But just before I was too far away Otogi spoke one more time.
"Thanks Ice, I think I'm going to have to take you up on that offer later on."
"You didn't think that I would disappear after I set you two up. Trust me I want to see the show." I smirked at him and then went over to where I had left Malik, who was now talking to Ryou and his Yami.
******************* K-Dub and Reklaw talking!!!*******************
"Who's the weird guy with the black ponytail, thing?" Reklaw asked glancing over K-Dub's shoulder. Anyone who didn't know the two were related would not have known they were brother and sister. Reklaw is a big football player, who is actually smart (sorry but most football players I know aren't the brightest crayon in the box!) and quite. K-Dub is a much more petite person who can get very hyper, but she is also very bright!
"That would be Otogi, the guy I really like, so don't even say anything." K-Dub almost growled at her brother. Reklaw just shrugged his shoulders and headed for the door, he still had the rest of the drive to their parents' house that night. He had his action figure he had gotten from K-Dub in his hand and opened the door.
"I wasn't going to say anything, but you might want to tell the parents when you start going out, he doesn't have elf ears so you might have to get approval." With that Reklaw left to brave the storm to get home for Christmas. K-Dub laughed at the inside joke with her brother. (K-Dub is allowed to date the first elf she meets; her dad has already given his consent, now if only she could find one! Maybe one for me too!) K-Dub closed the door after her brother and headed back to the party!
********** Back to my point of view (I almost feel sorry for you poor people who aren't use to my point of view, oh well!).
K-Dub came back from talking with her brother and went over to where Otogi was sitting staring off into space. He about hit the ceiling when she touched his shoulder. I saw her then lead him to the little balcony overlook thing, the only good view in the house. I smiled my evil smile, the one that just happens to come over me when I am feeling especially evil or mischievous! It was now time to give them the last part of their Christmas present! (K-Dub, you had better be worried!!!) They had just started to step out into the snow to go to the balcony when I stopped them.
K-Dub, wait a minute!" I said and she turned to look at me very confused at what my motives were. I pointed to a spot just above her head and she slowly looked above her to what I was pointing at. I small shocked sound escaped her mouth and she got a slightly evil grin on her face! (I can picture you doing that K-Dub!). Otogi looked adorably confused at what we were doing, and what was going on. Otogi then slowly followed to where K-Dub was looking and a look of shock came over him.
"Otogi, you do know what mistletoe means, right?" I asked innocently as I could manage, while still looking like the cat that swallowed the canary!
"D…Doesn't the two people under it have to k…k…kiss?" He asked and looked a little bit worried. I smirked and nodded my head.
"Merry Christmas K-Dub, enjoy your present!" I teased while I held a little halo over my head. K-dub then leaned forward towards Otogi and he slowly leaned in towards her. Then their lips met and they were kissing. I turned away, I never watched any of the kissing scenes in any movie and real life was almost worse. That mushy stuff really could make you sick to your stomach sometimes! But what I did know was that right before I turned away they were still kissing and Otogi had his arms wrapped around K-Dub and she was in turn holding him. I didn't figure they would be breaking apart anytime soon! I went to prepare some hot chocolate for when the 'love birds' stopped kissing and came in from the cold. Besides we still had a lot more to do that night, namely finding a way to get rid of Tea once and for all! I had some pretty evil ideas in mind!
K-Dub came in just as I was adding the marshmallows to the hot chocolates. She had Otogi by the hand and was dragging him into the kitchen with her. Both of their cheeks were pink and they looked almost a little guilty.
"Thank you so much Ice! This has been the best Christmas ever! I don't now how I'll ever thank you!" She said (Sorry K-Dub I just had to add this in, I do deserve some credit!).
"Me neither! You were right again, we're going out!" Otogi looked really happy, probably the only time I had seen him genuinely happy yet.
"Well of course I was right, I'm always right! And don't worry about thanking me; I'll come up with some way you can repay me. I only ask one thing," I said while I handed them the cups of hot chocolate to warm them up.
"What's that?" they asked at the same time, causing me to smile.
"Just don't get too mushy while I'm in a room. I don't go for all that mushiness!" That caused them both to laugh but they both nodded their consent to my one request. I smirked evilly as something regained my attention. "We still haven't decided what we're going to do to Tea yet!" We all got that conspirator look on our faces and started plotting how to get rid of Tea. I still had to go collect my money from Ryou and Malik; I had won the bet for how long it would take Otogi to ask K-Dub out!
TBC
I know that probably only K-Dub is going to read this, but I'm writing the next chapter anyway, I want to make Tea suffer! If any did actually read this, please review. And give me all the ways you think we should make Tea suffer! MWAHAHAHAHAH! IADM