Singer In Disguise
Disclaimer: Look in the first three chapters.
A/N: Man I took a lot of tests this week! I hope I did well on them; after all I did not study for any of them. Well I guess I'll have to wait until Tuesday. I left a cliffie!?! I'm sorry, but sometimes I do not realize these things. Thanks for the reviews. I'll try to update faster, but I'm can't promise you nothing. Anyway here's chapter 4!
Chapter 4: To the Concert
Meryl drove up to a large circular white building and went to go park her car in the back. While parking her car she saw Legato's red mustang already there along with a few limos and other cars. As she parked she got out of her car and started walking toward a door. She saw two extremely huge guys blocking the door. They both had black shirts that said in white letters 'bodyguard' on them. She approached the door and tried to smile one of her brightest smiles to them, but only turned into a half smile. They moved out of her way and waved her off. She entered the building. She had to admit this was huge! The black ceiling looked like it was a good 50 feet above her head. The floor, well the floor still looked the same as did all the other concerts she attended to, it was red carpet. She glanced at the black walls and saw many famous singers' pictures hanging about the wall. As she walked a little more down the hall she suddenly stopped and had her attention on one of the pictures. She glanced at it and noticed the person instantly.
"Knives." She whispered quietly.
In the picture it showed he had short blonde spiky hair and blue eyes, much like what Vash looks like. He was not smiling in the picture, but looked calm. He wore a black suit with a red tie and his shoes were a shiny black. Oh how she remembered him. He was her very first boyfriend. He used to be so nice and innocent to everybody, but when he was offered to become a singer that's when he acted like nobody mattered but him and for that she broke up with him. He always acted mean and demanding to everyone who wasn't famous and Meryl hated it. Meryl was 15 and still a singer when she met Knives. Knives was so desperate to get Meryl back that he would stalk her every time she was alone and for that she moved out of Tokyo along with her crew. She left her family and friends behind in Tokyo. Meryl still keeps in touch with them. She moved to Miami, Florida in America and been here since.
"Hey Meryl." a familiar voice said behind her.
She turned around and gasped when she saw............
~~~~~~~********Vash's Apartment*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vash was sitting on his black couch waiting for Milly and Wolfwood to arrive.
10 minutes later.
"Where *yawns* are they?" Vash said now lying down on his couch.
~~~~~~~~~~~~********Where Milly and Wolfwood are*********~~~~~~~~~~~
They where walking along the street going to Vash's house.
"Hey Milly can I ask you something?" Wolfwood said.
"What is it Mr. Wolfwood?"
"Do you think that Kage is.....well, do you think he looks strange?" he said trying to think of the right words to say.
'Mr. Wolfwood always says the strangest things' Milly thought.
"No I don't Mr. Wolfwood. Why do you ask?"
"N-No reason." said Wolfwood.
They kept on walking. The awkward silence was making Wolfwood nervous that he was sweating a bit. 'How can she be so calm all the time?' Wolfwood thought glancing over at Milly.
"Oh Mr. Wolfwood before we go to Mr. Vash's house, do you mind if we go to a store first?" Milly asked sweetly.
'Oh how could I resist that sweet and innocent voice' thought Wolfwood.
"Oh I don't mind. What do you need there anyway?" he asked.
"Um...just a couple of things."
"Alright." was Wolfwood's reply.
~~~~~~~~~~~********Vash's Apartment********~~~~~~~~~
"What's taking so long?" Vash said sleepily.
He was sitting up from the couch. His eyelids started to go down that his head suddenly fell down and hit the table in front of him. (That happened to me once.)
"Ow, that hurt." He said while rubbing the middle of his forehead.
'That sure was a wake up call' he thought and laid back on the couch.
1 hour later.
"Must not fall asleep." Vash whispered.
'What is taking so long for Wolfwood and Milly to arrive? Maybe they're enjoying their 'little' walk to my apartment.' thought Vash before he dozed off.
~~~~~~~~~~~*************Back to Wolfwood and Milly*********~~~~~~~~~~~
They entered a little mini mart.
"Milly what are you looking for?" Wolfwood asked.
"Some pudding." Milly smiled.
Wolfwood sweat dropped. 'Milly and her pudding' he thought.
After they exited the store Milly was carrying two large bags of pudding.
"Do you want me to carry those for you Milly?" Wolfwood asked.
"No you don't...." Wolfwood cut off Milly.
"No, No I want to carry your bags." He said taking the bags from her.
"Alright." Milly said while a faint tint of pink appeared on her cheeks, but Wolfwood didn't notice.
'Mr. Wolfwood is always polite, that's why I like him' Milly thought.
"I hope Mr. Vash doesn't mind that we took a little detour." she said.
"Oh knowing him he probably is talking with Kage right now not thinking about us."
"Oh how could I forget? Kage lives next door to Mr. Vash." she said.
With that said they were headed to Vash's apartment.
~~~~~~~~~~~~**********Vash's apartment********~~~~~~~~~~~
5:00 p.m.
"*mumbles*" Vash was sleeping soundly on the couch.
It had already been two hours since Wolfwood had called. A knock was heard. Vash turned over.
*Knock Knock*
"*groans* Go away."
*Knock Knock*
"Leave me alone." Vash moaned.
*Knock Knock*
"Alright, alright I'm up already." He said getting up and walking towards the door only to crash into the table's legs.
Vash mumbled some things under his breath and held his left leg where it hit the table's legs. He let go of it and walked towards the door.
~~~~~~~~~~*********Outside Vash's Apartment*********~~~~~~~~~
"I wonder what's taking Mr. Vash so long to answer the door." Milly asked.
"Maybe he's asleep." suggested Wolfwood.
"Who knows, but maybe you can use the spare key Mr. Vash gave you."
"Oh yeah I almost forgot he gave me that." Wolfwood said reaching into his back pocket pulling out a key.
He stuck it into the key hole and turned the knob.
~~~~~~~~******Back To Vash********~~~~~~~~~
Just as he was about to open the door, the door came flying open and hit him in the face sending him to collapse on the floor. Vash was currently unconscious on the floor. Wolfwood and Milly stepped inside his apartment. As they walked further in they didn't realize that they were currently stepping on Vash.
"Hmm, I wonder where Mr. Vash could be." Milly said.
"Don't know, but does it feel like Vash's carpet's alive?" asked Wolfwood.
"Now that you mention it Mr. Wolfwood it does feel a little weird."
"Hmm?" Wolfwood replied looking down to notice that he was smashing Vash's face into the carpet and Milly was crushing his stomach.
"Umm.....Milly I found Vash." Milly looked down where Wolfwood was pointing and immediately got off as did Wolfwood.
"Oh my gods Mr. Vash, we are so sorry." replied Milly.
"......."
"Vash?" Milly tried again still getting no reply from Vash she smacked him on the head.
"I think he's unconscious Milly. Milly grab Vash's car keys and I'll drag him into the car." Wolfwood commanded and got a smile from Milly as she picked up Vash's keys on the small kitchen counter.
6:20 p.m
As they arrived at the concert, with Vash back to consciousness already, they waited in line for 30 minutes to get into Meryl's concert, mostly because all the parking lots were full.
"Finally." replied Vash.
"You said it." Wolfwood said.
Wolfwood, Milly, and Vash stepped inside the large circular white building. The walls were black and the carpet was plain red. They walked along the narrow aisle and opened the white door that came along their way. They stepped through the door and saw about a million people in the dark black large room all crowding over to the stage where Meryl was to perform.
"Wow what a crowd!" screamed Vash.
Vash was only screaming because of the fact that millions or what looked like of people were screaming their lungs out and most talking loudly.
"I think everybody is excited that Meryl Stryfe is actually performing in America!" shouted Milly.
"Well lets go head into the crowd!" Wolfwood said and without noticing he slipped his hand in Milly's and began to drag her into the crowd.
Vash grinned at them and followed after them. After Wolfwood found a good spot he stopped and noticed that he was holding Milly's hand. He blushed and looked at her to notice that her face was red as a tomato.
"Sorry about that Milly." Wolfwood apologized.
"Th-That's ok Mr. Wolfwood." She said with a faint tint of pink on her cheeks.
Wolfwood then looked over her and saw a grinning Vash approaching them. As Vash walked up to Wolfwood, he gave him a little push that sent him flying into Milly. As Wolfwood flew into Milly their lips brushed together only for a second and Wolfwood immediately separated himself from her. He turned away from embarrassment and looked at Vash with a threatening look. Vash tried his best to look innocent, but the look Wolfwood was giving him made him a bit uneasy. I mean he was satisfied that his 'little' push he gave Wolfwood worked well and at the same time he was regretting it.
"VASH!!!" screamed Wolfwood who was turning red and it wasn't from embarrassment either.
"Wolfwood calm down the concert is about to begin. I'm sure Mr. Vash didn't mean it." Milly said.
Wolfwood stopped what he was doing as Milly's words sank in. 'Did she just call me Wolfwood? What happened to Mr. Wolfwood?' thought Wolfwood.
'Wow I was right all along Milly does like Wolfwood otherwise she wouldn't have called Wolfwood, Wolfwood.' thought Vash as he grinned.
Milly was back to her calm self. 'I can't believe that he kissed me. Well even if it was an accident I still enjoyed it. I wonder if Mr. Wolfwood enjoyed that kiss.' thought Milly.
"How many more minutes do we have until the concert starts?" asked Vash.
"I believe we have until five more minutes until the concert starts." Replied Wolfwood calmly, glad that someone spoke up.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*********Back to Meryl************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meryl was in a large blue room sitting down on a black couch with her feet on the royal blue carpet. She was already prepared for her concert. Legato was going to come in any minute now and inform her when to leave to go and perform. She was a bit nervous to perform. Well she may have performed lots of times, but that still doesn't mean you don't get nervous.
"What time is it?" Meryl asked herself glancing at the clock on the black marbled table.
It read 6:27.
"*sigh* three more minutes till I perform."
"I can't believe that I actually saw 'him'." Meryl said to herself remembering what happened as she entered the building.
'I thought I would never see 'him' again. I thought he was going to stay in Tokyo.' Thought Meryl.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~********With Dominique and Legato********~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They were in the hall way with all the famous singers' pictures hanging about the room.
"Is it me or does Meryl look a bit pale to you today?" Dominique asked Legato.
"Yes she did seem to act unusual today." Legato replied.
"Hmm, I wonder what's bugging her?" she said.
"Who knows probably it's the fact that she lives near the boy who goes to her school, remember she did mention that." He said
"Yeah you're probably right."
Legato looked down at his watch and cursed under his breath when it read 6:29.
"I go to go and get Meryl, bye." Legato said to Dominique as he rushed to Meryl's room, well her dressing room for the concert.
As Legato rushed down the room he remembered that he 'accidently' got her favorite parakeet bird eaten by her cat.
~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back In Meryl's Manshion~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was nighttime and Legato was having trouble sleeping in her bedroom, mostly because of the fact that Meryl's favorite blue and white parakeet would not shut up and the fact that its cage was on top of the brown end table near her large dark blue bed.
"*whistles* Stupid ass! Stupid ass!" her parakeet, Angel, said.
'What the hell has Meryl taught that stupid bird to say? Did it just insult me?' thought Legato as he sat up from the bed and glared daggers at the bird.
"Quit staring asswipe." The bird said to Legato.
Legato's stare turned into a evil look.
"Why you stupid little bird." Legato said coldly.
"Look whose stupid talking to a bird, stupid." Angel said.
After about five minutes of arguing with Meryl's bird, Legato finally snapped and knocked the cage over as he smacked it to the floor. He smiled, pleased with himself for his actions and laid back in bed to fall asleep.
"Meow." An orange cat approache the bird's cage slowly.
"*squeaks*" Angel thrashed around and kept squeaking as the cat's paw went through the cage's door.
"Shut up you stupid bird." mumbled Legato.
The cat finally clawed the bird and pulled him out of the cage. With one final squeak from the bird Legato turned on the lamp on top of the end table and saw as the cat gulp Angel down.
"Oh shit. Stupid cat." muttered Legato.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***********End Of FlashBack********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'I just hope she forgives me.' thought Legato as he reached the door to her dressing room.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~To Meryl~~~~~~~~~
She was depressed. She couldn't believe that 'he' followed her to America.
"Maybe its best if I don't tell Legato." she said.
She heard a knock at her door and replied with a 'come in' and saw Legato at her door way. She noticed that he changed out of his clothes from earlier and was now currently wearing a tuxedo.
"Meryl hurry up lets go!" he said.
"Why the hurry?" she getting up slowly from the couch.
"No time to ask questions, come on!" Meryl just followed Legato.
~~~~~~~~~~Vash, Milly, and Wolfwood~~~~~~~~~
Suddenly the lights flashed into the middle of the white stage and showed a slightly short man holding the mike in his hand smiling brightly. Everyone knew that he was about to announce for Meryl and they started to scream louder than before.
"Hello everyone are you all excited!?!" said the announcer.
In response everyone screamed.
"Are you all ready to hear some wonderful music!" he said into the mike.
The screams got louder.
"What was that I can't hear you." He said putting a hand behind his ear.
Everyone screamed twice as loud.
"Alright then. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Miss. Meryl Stryfe." They all applauded and roared with excitement as they saw the announcer walk off the stage.
Then the bright lights turned off and the dark blue ones came on as did the green ones positioning to the front and middle of the stage. A figure slowly approached to the middle of the stage. The crowd roared louder as they recognized the figure as Meryl.
"Wow she looks more beautiful in person." muttered Milly.
Vash nodded and heard Wolfwood blurt out 'not as pretty as you', but Milly didn't hear him.
'Wow she does look more beautiful in person' thought Vash as drool came out of his mouth.
Wolfwood snapped his fingers in front of Vash to snap him out of la la land. Vash wiped the drool away and looked at Wolfwood who was smirking. Then his attention was back to Meryl who started to sing.
'Hanging by threads of palest silver
I could have stayed that way forever
Bad blood and ghosts wrapped tight around me
Nothing could ever seem to touch me'
She sang as the beat started to pick up.
'I lose what I love most
Did you know I was lost until you found me?'
A stroke of luck or a gift from God?
The hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You came to me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
It's falling down and
All around me falling
You say that you'll be there to catch me
Or will you only try to trap me
These are the rules I make
Our chains were meant to break
You'll never change me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
You're falling down and
All around me falling
Stroke of luck or a gift from God?
Hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You come to me now
Don't ask me why
Don't even try
A stroke of luck or a gift from God?
The hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You came to me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
It's falling down and
All around me falling
Falling, falling
Falling, falling
Falling, falling.'
As she finished that song the crowd was abruptly roaring again. Then her next song started as blue mist covered the stage and only the blue lights flashed upon her.
'You pretend you're high
You pretend you're bored
You pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
And what you need
Is what you get'
She started dancing as the rhythmic music played.
'Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
Her fans started to sing along with her.
What drives you on (What drives you on)
Can drive you mad (Can drive you mad)
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had
Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't believe in anything
That you can't waste'
She smiled still dancing and singing at the same time as she gracefully moved across the stage, the lights still following her movement.
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
You stupid girl.'
As she ended everybody cheered and screamed for more. (Yep too lazy to think of other songs, so I just chose garbage)
The concert finally ended (too lazy to write down anymore songs)
Meryl smiled and said into the mike, "Well it was nice performing for you wonderful fans, but I got to go!"
The fans just roared and saw Meryl walking off the stage. Once she left the announcer came back on.
"Ok give one more round of applause for Meryl Stryfe." He said clapping his hands together as did everyone else.
"Well folks have a good night." The announcer said as everyone started to leave the building.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outside~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"That was a fantastic show, don't you agree?" Milly asked sweetly to Wolfwood and Vash.
They just nodded and walked over to the parking lot. Just as Vash was about to open his blue dodge ram (truck) he heard voices that sounded remarkably like Meryl's and some other voice. He looked at the others and replied,
"Should we go check it out?" questioned Vash as they both nodded.
They left the parking lot and went to go around the large circular white building near the parking lot. They saw Meryl Stryfe with some guy who had long blonde hair that was up in a pony tail. He had light blue eyes. Then they glanced over at Meryl and saw tears in her eyes.
"I wonder what happened?" whispered Wolfwood.
No one answered him they just gaped at the strange guy and Meryl who was breaking into uncontrollable sobs.
'I wonder what happened to her?' thought Vash.
Meryl turned her head and noticed that Vash, Wolfwood, and Milly were staring at her. She gasped from shock. Then the blonde haired guy turned to look at what had made her gasp. He just gave threesome (not in that way) a cold stare.
"What are you three doing here?" the blonde man spoke.
"....." was their answer.
"You have no right to be here, now I have to call the security guards." He stated still showing no emotion on his face.
Meryl looked dumbfounded for a moment And spoke up,
"N-No it's..... ok Jack." Meryl said through sobs to the blonde haired man known as Jake. (thought it'd be knives, huh?)
'Wow Meryl seems to be a really nice person, but I wonder why she is crying.' Thought Vash
"Whatever you say Meryl, you three must immediately leave though." He demanded.
They nodded dumbly and left.
Meryl looked at their retreating forms. 'Oh now what a big surprise! I can't believe that they were at my concert!' she thought.
"Are you sure that you're going to be alright Meryl?" Jack said referring to the news he told her when he met up with her in that hall way were all the singers' pictures hung.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*****Flash Back********~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Meryl." Jack said from behind Meryl.
She turned around and gasped when she saw her really good friend, Jack.
"I thought you were going to live in Tokyo, Jack." She said.
"Yeah, but you know some things turned up and so here I am, happy to see me?" he said smiling.
Meryl returned his smile and ran up to hug him and he in return hugged back.
"I'm so happy to see you again! So what turned up and made you come visit me?" Meryl said pulling away from him.
He frowned at her.
"Well.......about that, you see..........um well....your brother is in the hospital." He said.
Meryl's eyes widened. They started to become watery.
"In the..........hos-hospital?" she managed to choke out.
"Yes, there was a car accident...." he was cut off from Meryl.
"Is my family ok?" Meryl started to sob more.
"Meryl we'll discuss this later, seeing as you are tearing up right now." He replied slowly and left her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After hearing that her whole family died today Meryl was so torn apart. Today was supposed to be the day that they had their first family reunion in America; I mean she hasn't seen her family since she was 15. Wow what a big shocker to find out that after 2 whole years apart from your family you find out that the day on one of your reunions they died in a car crash, also that your little brother lost oxygen in the hospital. Meryl was too depressed to do anything and only cried harder.
Vash, Milly, and Wolfwood listened to the whole thing how Meryl's whole family died. They felt sorry for her and decided to not eavesdrop anymore.
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Disclaimer: Look in the first three chapters.
A/N: Man I took a lot of tests this week! I hope I did well on them; after all I did not study for any of them. Well I guess I'll have to wait until Tuesday. I left a cliffie!?! I'm sorry, but sometimes I do not realize these things. Thanks for the reviews. I'll try to update faster, but I'm can't promise you nothing. Anyway here's chapter 4!
Chapter 4: To the Concert
Meryl drove up to a large circular white building and went to go park her car in the back. While parking her car she saw Legato's red mustang already there along with a few limos and other cars. As she parked she got out of her car and started walking toward a door. She saw two extremely huge guys blocking the door. They both had black shirts that said in white letters 'bodyguard' on them. She approached the door and tried to smile one of her brightest smiles to them, but only turned into a half smile. They moved out of her way and waved her off. She entered the building. She had to admit this was huge! The black ceiling looked like it was a good 50 feet above her head. The floor, well the floor still looked the same as did all the other concerts she attended to, it was red carpet. She glanced at the black walls and saw many famous singers' pictures hanging about the wall. As she walked a little more down the hall she suddenly stopped and had her attention on one of the pictures. She glanced at it and noticed the person instantly.
"Knives." She whispered quietly.
In the picture it showed he had short blonde spiky hair and blue eyes, much like what Vash looks like. He was not smiling in the picture, but looked calm. He wore a black suit with a red tie and his shoes were a shiny black. Oh how she remembered him. He was her very first boyfriend. He used to be so nice and innocent to everybody, but when he was offered to become a singer that's when he acted like nobody mattered but him and for that she broke up with him. He always acted mean and demanding to everyone who wasn't famous and Meryl hated it. Meryl was 15 and still a singer when she met Knives. Knives was so desperate to get Meryl back that he would stalk her every time she was alone and for that she moved out of Tokyo along with her crew. She left her family and friends behind in Tokyo. Meryl still keeps in touch with them. She moved to Miami, Florida in America and been here since.
"Hey Meryl." a familiar voice said behind her.
She turned around and gasped when she saw............
~~~~~~~********Vash's Apartment*****~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vash was sitting on his black couch waiting for Milly and Wolfwood to arrive.
10 minutes later.
"Where *yawns* are they?" Vash said now lying down on his couch.
~~~~~~~~~~~~********Where Milly and Wolfwood are*********~~~~~~~~~~~
They where walking along the street going to Vash's house.
"Hey Milly can I ask you something?" Wolfwood said.
"What is it Mr. Wolfwood?"
"Do you think that Kage is.....well, do you think he looks strange?" he said trying to think of the right words to say.
'Mr. Wolfwood always says the strangest things' Milly thought.
"No I don't Mr. Wolfwood. Why do you ask?"
"N-No reason." said Wolfwood.
They kept on walking. The awkward silence was making Wolfwood nervous that he was sweating a bit. 'How can she be so calm all the time?' Wolfwood thought glancing over at Milly.
"Oh Mr. Wolfwood before we go to Mr. Vash's house, do you mind if we go to a store first?" Milly asked sweetly.
'Oh how could I resist that sweet and innocent voice' thought Wolfwood.
"Oh I don't mind. What do you need there anyway?" he asked.
"Um...just a couple of things."
"Alright." was Wolfwood's reply.
~~~~~~~~~~~********Vash's Apartment********~~~~~~~~~
"What's taking so long?" Vash said sleepily.
He was sitting up from the couch. His eyelids started to go down that his head suddenly fell down and hit the table in front of him. (That happened to me once.)
"Ow, that hurt." He said while rubbing the middle of his forehead.
'That sure was a wake up call' he thought and laid back on the couch.
1 hour later.
"Must not fall asleep." Vash whispered.
'What is taking so long for Wolfwood and Milly to arrive? Maybe they're enjoying their 'little' walk to my apartment.' thought Vash before he dozed off.
~~~~~~~~~~~*************Back to Wolfwood and Milly*********~~~~~~~~~~~
They entered a little mini mart.
"Milly what are you looking for?" Wolfwood asked.
"Some pudding." Milly smiled.
Wolfwood sweat dropped. 'Milly and her pudding' he thought.
After they exited the store Milly was carrying two large bags of pudding.
"Do you want me to carry those for you Milly?" Wolfwood asked.
"No you don't...." Wolfwood cut off Milly.
"No, No I want to carry your bags." He said taking the bags from her.
"Alright." Milly said while a faint tint of pink appeared on her cheeks, but Wolfwood didn't notice.
'Mr. Wolfwood is always polite, that's why I like him' Milly thought.
"I hope Mr. Vash doesn't mind that we took a little detour." she said.
"Oh knowing him he probably is talking with Kage right now not thinking about us."
"Oh how could I forget? Kage lives next door to Mr. Vash." she said.
With that said they were headed to Vash's apartment.
~~~~~~~~~~~~**********Vash's apartment********~~~~~~~~~~~
5:00 p.m.
"*mumbles*" Vash was sleeping soundly on the couch.
It had already been two hours since Wolfwood had called. A knock was heard. Vash turned over.
*Knock Knock*
"*groans* Go away."
*Knock Knock*
"Leave me alone." Vash moaned.
*Knock Knock*
"Alright, alright I'm up already." He said getting up and walking towards the door only to crash into the table's legs.
Vash mumbled some things under his breath and held his left leg where it hit the table's legs. He let go of it and walked towards the door.
~~~~~~~~~~*********Outside Vash's Apartment*********~~~~~~~~~
"I wonder what's taking Mr. Vash so long to answer the door." Milly asked.
"Maybe he's asleep." suggested Wolfwood.
"Who knows, but maybe you can use the spare key Mr. Vash gave you."
"Oh yeah I almost forgot he gave me that." Wolfwood said reaching into his back pocket pulling out a key.
He stuck it into the key hole and turned the knob.
~~~~~~~~******Back To Vash********~~~~~~~~~
Just as he was about to open the door, the door came flying open and hit him in the face sending him to collapse on the floor. Vash was currently unconscious on the floor. Wolfwood and Milly stepped inside his apartment. As they walked further in they didn't realize that they were currently stepping on Vash.
"Hmm, I wonder where Mr. Vash could be." Milly said.
"Don't know, but does it feel like Vash's carpet's alive?" asked Wolfwood.
"Now that you mention it Mr. Wolfwood it does feel a little weird."
"Hmm?" Wolfwood replied looking down to notice that he was smashing Vash's face into the carpet and Milly was crushing his stomach.
"Umm.....Milly I found Vash." Milly looked down where Wolfwood was pointing and immediately got off as did Wolfwood.
"Oh my gods Mr. Vash, we are so sorry." replied Milly.
"......."
"Vash?" Milly tried again still getting no reply from Vash she smacked him on the head.
"I think he's unconscious Milly. Milly grab Vash's car keys and I'll drag him into the car." Wolfwood commanded and got a smile from Milly as she picked up Vash's keys on the small kitchen counter.
6:20 p.m
As they arrived at the concert, with Vash back to consciousness already, they waited in line for 30 minutes to get into Meryl's concert, mostly because all the parking lots were full.
"Finally." replied Vash.
"You said it." Wolfwood said.
Wolfwood, Milly, and Vash stepped inside the large circular white building. The walls were black and the carpet was plain red. They walked along the narrow aisle and opened the white door that came along their way. They stepped through the door and saw about a million people in the dark black large room all crowding over to the stage where Meryl was to perform.
"Wow what a crowd!" screamed Vash.
Vash was only screaming because of the fact that millions or what looked like of people were screaming their lungs out and most talking loudly.
"I think everybody is excited that Meryl Stryfe is actually performing in America!" shouted Milly.
"Well lets go head into the crowd!" Wolfwood said and without noticing he slipped his hand in Milly's and began to drag her into the crowd.
Vash grinned at them and followed after them. After Wolfwood found a good spot he stopped and noticed that he was holding Milly's hand. He blushed and looked at her to notice that her face was red as a tomato.
"Sorry about that Milly." Wolfwood apologized.
"Th-That's ok Mr. Wolfwood." She said with a faint tint of pink on her cheeks.
Wolfwood then looked over her and saw a grinning Vash approaching them. As Vash walked up to Wolfwood, he gave him a little push that sent him flying into Milly. As Wolfwood flew into Milly their lips brushed together only for a second and Wolfwood immediately separated himself from her. He turned away from embarrassment and looked at Vash with a threatening look. Vash tried his best to look innocent, but the look Wolfwood was giving him made him a bit uneasy. I mean he was satisfied that his 'little' push he gave Wolfwood worked well and at the same time he was regretting it.
"VASH!!!" screamed Wolfwood who was turning red and it wasn't from embarrassment either.
"Wolfwood calm down the concert is about to begin. I'm sure Mr. Vash didn't mean it." Milly said.
Wolfwood stopped what he was doing as Milly's words sank in. 'Did she just call me Wolfwood? What happened to Mr. Wolfwood?' thought Wolfwood.
'Wow I was right all along Milly does like Wolfwood otherwise she wouldn't have called Wolfwood, Wolfwood.' thought Vash as he grinned.
Milly was back to her calm self. 'I can't believe that he kissed me. Well even if it was an accident I still enjoyed it. I wonder if Mr. Wolfwood enjoyed that kiss.' thought Milly.
"How many more minutes do we have until the concert starts?" asked Vash.
"I believe we have until five more minutes until the concert starts." Replied Wolfwood calmly, glad that someone spoke up.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*********Back to Meryl************~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Meryl was in a large blue room sitting down on a black couch with her feet on the royal blue carpet. She was already prepared for her concert. Legato was going to come in any minute now and inform her when to leave to go and perform. She was a bit nervous to perform. Well she may have performed lots of times, but that still doesn't mean you don't get nervous.
"What time is it?" Meryl asked herself glancing at the clock on the black marbled table.
It read 6:27.
"*sigh* three more minutes till I perform."
"I can't believe that I actually saw 'him'." Meryl said to herself remembering what happened as she entered the building.
'I thought I would never see 'him' again. I thought he was going to stay in Tokyo.' Thought Meryl.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~********With Dominique and Legato********~~~~~~~~~~~~~
They were in the hall way with all the famous singers' pictures hanging about the room.
"Is it me or does Meryl look a bit pale to you today?" Dominique asked Legato.
"Yes she did seem to act unusual today." Legato replied.
"Hmm, I wonder what's bugging her?" she said.
"Who knows probably it's the fact that she lives near the boy who goes to her school, remember she did mention that." He said
"Yeah you're probably right."
Legato looked down at his watch and cursed under his breath when it read 6:29.
"I go to go and get Meryl, bye." Legato said to Dominique as he rushed to Meryl's room, well her dressing room for the concert.
As Legato rushed down the room he remembered that he 'accidently' got her favorite parakeet bird eaten by her cat.
~~~~~~~~~~~Flash Back In Meryl's Manshion~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It was nighttime and Legato was having trouble sleeping in her bedroom, mostly because of the fact that Meryl's favorite blue and white parakeet would not shut up and the fact that its cage was on top of the brown end table near her large dark blue bed.
"*whistles* Stupid ass! Stupid ass!" her parakeet, Angel, said.
'What the hell has Meryl taught that stupid bird to say? Did it just insult me?' thought Legato as he sat up from the bed and glared daggers at the bird.
"Quit staring asswipe." The bird said to Legato.
Legato's stare turned into a evil look.
"Why you stupid little bird." Legato said coldly.
"Look whose stupid talking to a bird, stupid." Angel said.
After about five minutes of arguing with Meryl's bird, Legato finally snapped and knocked the cage over as he smacked it to the floor. He smiled, pleased with himself for his actions and laid back in bed to fall asleep.
"Meow." An orange cat approache the bird's cage slowly.
"*squeaks*" Angel thrashed around and kept squeaking as the cat's paw went through the cage's door.
"Shut up you stupid bird." mumbled Legato.
The cat finally clawed the bird and pulled him out of the cage. With one final squeak from the bird Legato turned on the lamp on top of the end table and saw as the cat gulp Angel down.
"Oh shit. Stupid cat." muttered Legato.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~***********End Of FlashBack********~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
'I just hope she forgives me.' thought Legato as he reached the door to her dressing room.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~To Meryl~~~~~~~~~
She was depressed. She couldn't believe that 'he' followed her to America.
"Maybe its best if I don't tell Legato." she said.
She heard a knock at her door and replied with a 'come in' and saw Legato at her door way. She noticed that he changed out of his clothes from earlier and was now currently wearing a tuxedo.
"Meryl hurry up lets go!" he said.
"Why the hurry?" she getting up slowly from the couch.
"No time to ask questions, come on!" Meryl just followed Legato.
~~~~~~~~~~Vash, Milly, and Wolfwood~~~~~~~~~
Suddenly the lights flashed into the middle of the white stage and showed a slightly short man holding the mike in his hand smiling brightly. Everyone knew that he was about to announce for Meryl and they started to scream louder than before.
"Hello everyone are you all excited!?!" said the announcer.
In response everyone screamed.
"Are you all ready to hear some wonderful music!" he said into the mike.
The screams got louder.
"What was that I can't hear you." He said putting a hand behind his ear.
Everyone screamed twice as loud.
"Alright then. Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for Miss. Meryl Stryfe." They all applauded and roared with excitement as they saw the announcer walk off the stage.
Then the bright lights turned off and the dark blue ones came on as did the green ones positioning to the front and middle of the stage. A figure slowly approached to the middle of the stage. The crowd roared louder as they recognized the figure as Meryl.
"Wow she looks more beautiful in person." muttered Milly.
Vash nodded and heard Wolfwood blurt out 'not as pretty as you', but Milly didn't hear him.
'Wow she does look more beautiful in person' thought Vash as drool came out of his mouth.
Wolfwood snapped his fingers in front of Vash to snap him out of la la land. Vash wiped the drool away and looked at Wolfwood who was smirking. Then his attention was back to Meryl who started to sing.
'Hanging by threads of palest silver
I could have stayed that way forever
Bad blood and ghosts wrapped tight around me
Nothing could ever seem to touch me'
She sang as the beat started to pick up.
'I lose what I love most
Did you know I was lost until you found me?'
A stroke of luck or a gift from God?
The hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You came to me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
It's falling down and
All around me falling
You say that you'll be there to catch me
Or will you only try to trap me
These are the rules I make
Our chains were meant to break
You'll never change me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
You're falling down and
All around me falling
Stroke of luck or a gift from God?
Hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You come to me now
Don't ask me why
Don't even try
A stroke of luck or a gift from God?
The hand of fate or devil's claws?
From below or saints above?
You came to me
Here comes the cold again
I feel it closing in
It's falling down and
All around me falling
Falling, falling
Falling, falling
Falling, falling.'
As she finished that song the crowd was abruptly roaring again. Then her next song started as blue mist covered the stage and only the blue lights flashed upon her.
'You pretend you're high
You pretend you're bored
You pretend you're anything
Just to be adored
And what you need
Is what you get'
She started dancing as the rhythmic music played.
'Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in faith
Don't believe in anything
That you can't break
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
Her fans started to sing along with her.
What drives you on (What drives you on)
Can drive you mad (Can drive you mad)
A million lies to sell yourself
Is all you ever had
Don't believe in love
Don't believe in hate
Don't believe in anything
That you can't waste'
She smiled still dancing and singing at the same time as she gracefully moved across the stage, the lights still following her movement.
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
Don't believe in fear
Don't believe in pain
Don't believe in anyone
That you can't tame
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
All you had you wasted
All you had you wasted
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
You stupid girl
You stupid girl
Can't believe you fake it
Can't believe you fake it
You stupid girl.'
As she ended everybody cheered and screamed for more. (Yep too lazy to think of other songs, so I just chose garbage)
The concert finally ended (too lazy to write down anymore songs)
Meryl smiled and said into the mike, "Well it was nice performing for you wonderful fans, but I got to go!"
The fans just roared and saw Meryl walking off the stage. Once she left the announcer came back on.
"Ok give one more round of applause for Meryl Stryfe." He said clapping his hands together as did everyone else.
"Well folks have a good night." The announcer said as everyone started to leave the building.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~Outside~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"That was a fantastic show, don't you agree?" Milly asked sweetly to Wolfwood and Vash.
They just nodded and walked over to the parking lot. Just as Vash was about to open his blue dodge ram (truck) he heard voices that sounded remarkably like Meryl's and some other voice. He looked at the others and replied,
"Should we go check it out?" questioned Vash as they both nodded.
They left the parking lot and went to go around the large circular white building near the parking lot. They saw Meryl Stryfe with some guy who had long blonde hair that was up in a pony tail. He had light blue eyes. Then they glanced over at Meryl and saw tears in her eyes.
"I wonder what happened?" whispered Wolfwood.
No one answered him they just gaped at the strange guy and Meryl who was breaking into uncontrollable sobs.
'I wonder what happened to her?' thought Vash.
Meryl turned her head and noticed that Vash, Wolfwood, and Milly were staring at her. She gasped from shock. Then the blonde haired guy turned to look at what had made her gasp. He just gave threesome (not in that way) a cold stare.
"What are you three doing here?" the blonde man spoke.
"....." was their answer.
"You have no right to be here, now I have to call the security guards." He stated still showing no emotion on his face.
Meryl looked dumbfounded for a moment And spoke up,
"N-No it's..... ok Jack." Meryl said through sobs to the blonde haired man known as Jake. (thought it'd be knives, huh?)
'Wow Meryl seems to be a really nice person, but I wonder why she is crying.' Thought Vash
"Whatever you say Meryl, you three must immediately leave though." He demanded.
They nodded dumbly and left.
Meryl looked at their retreating forms. 'Oh now what a big surprise! I can't believe that they were at my concert!' she thought.
"Are you sure that you're going to be alright Meryl?" Jack said referring to the news he told her when he met up with her in that hall way were all the singers' pictures hung.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*****Flash Back********~~~~~~~~~~~
"Hey Meryl." Jack said from behind Meryl.
She turned around and gasped when she saw her really good friend, Jack.
"I thought you were going to live in Tokyo, Jack." She said.
"Yeah, but you know some things turned up and so here I am, happy to see me?" he said smiling.
Meryl returned his smile and ran up to hug him and he in return hugged back.
"I'm so happy to see you again! So what turned up and made you come visit me?" Meryl said pulling away from him.
He frowned at her.
"Well.......about that, you see..........um well....your brother is in the hospital." He said.
Meryl's eyes widened. They started to become watery.
"In the..........hos-hospital?" she managed to choke out.
"Yes, there was a car accident...." he was cut off from Meryl.
"Is my family ok?" Meryl started to sob more.
"Meryl we'll discuss this later, seeing as you are tearing up right now." He replied slowly and left her.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~End of flashback~~~~~~~~~~~~~
After hearing that her whole family died today Meryl was so torn apart. Today was supposed to be the day that they had their first family reunion in America; I mean she hasn't seen her family since she was 15. Wow what a big shocker to find out that after 2 whole years apart from your family you find out that the day on one of your reunions they died in a car crash, also that your little brother lost oxygen in the hospital. Meryl was too depressed to do anything and only cried harder.
Vash, Milly, and Wolfwood listened to the whole thing how Meryl's whole family died. They felt sorry for her and decided to not eavesdrop anymore.
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