NOTE: Hey again! Well, I apologize for another title change. I have 2 reasons for this. One, the entirety of this story won't be focused on the "Ex." Second, I wanted the title to have some kind of transition to the title of the first one. I feel that "Wishing Well" fits better with the series; especially with the twist I'm going to add towards the end of this story. You have Natalie and her "wishful" thinking in trying to take Hunter back…and then another thing that will happen, which I won't mention. You'll have to wait and see! Plus, this story is far from over! So ENJOY, folks!
"Too Much To Ask"
"Night, Cam." Tori exits Ninja Ops and headed towards her van parked somewhere in the forest near the waterfalls. Once the blonde was inside, she drove off and headed home. Along the way, she thought about what Hunter would be up to at the very moment to even forget about their dinner date that he planned earlier that morning. This made Tori sigh as she decides to stop by at his apartment. She had no clue why, being the kind of concern girlfriend and friend she is, but Tori was curious.
She made a turn to his street as she stops her van at the driveway. Tori looks up at his apartment window and saw light coming from the inside. Hunter's truck was parked nearby as she turns off the ignition to her van and gets out of it. As soon as she reaches the front door, Tori knocks on it a few times. When there was no answer, she puts her ear against the door to hear if anyone was there and fortunately, she heard giggling that sounded quite girlish. Tori squints her eyes as she grabs the key from her back pocket and inserts it in the doorknob. She opens the door as Natalie came popping out on the couch. "Natalie?" Tori questions her as she comes walking closer to see if Hunter was around.
"Uhh..." The brown head presses her lips together and looks away.
"Hunter?" She calls out as he immediately picks up Natalie off him and stood in front of Tori. "Oh my God..." She gasps.
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"What?!" Tori immediately gets up from bed once her alarm clock went on. She began breathing heavily as she slams the alarm clock off with her fist. Tori sighs deeply as she brushes her hair back and gets out of bed. She walks towards the window to open the curtains and there stood the view of Natalie's house across the street. Tori turns around and thinks back on her dream. "It couldn't be..." She mumbles under her breath and shook her head.
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The next morning, Hunter woke up quite earlier than usual. He was going over in his head how he'll explain to Tori about the incident that happened between him and Natalie at the beach. It wasn't going to be very easy, but he figured that it was best if he hadn't kept the secret from her. The key to a great relationship is honesty and Hunter wasn't going to ruin that by not telling Tori the truth. But the thing that's worrying him the most is her reaction. Was she going to leave him for kissing another girl? Will she ever forgive him? How will she take it? Hunter shook his head as he gets up from bed and started washing up for work. As the day seems so close, he finds himself unreleased and completely nervous. Dustin even notices the uneasiness his roommate was going through as he walks past the open bathroom. He watches Hunter stare at himself in the mirror as drops of water came trickling down his face.
"Dude, are you alright?" Dustin asks as he knocks on the bathroom door.
Hunter looks down as he grabs a dry towel to wipe his face. "Yeah, I'm fine." He replies under them.
The goofball stares at him in concern. "You sure? Because you're sweating like Cam whenever his computer crashes, dude."
"Dustin, I told you I'm fine." Hunter answers in annoyance. "Just give me a minute."
He pursed his lips and leaves him. From then on, Dustin wished he could do something to help, but there is really nothing he could do to fix the situation. It was just a kiss right? He thought to himself. What could possibly go wrong? Moments later, the phone rang. Dustin went to the living room to get it.
"Hello?" He picks up.
"Hey, Dustin. It's me Blake." The voice on the other line answers back.
"Oh hey, man! What's up?! How's the tour coming along?!" He asks anxiously.
"Awesome. I'll tell you all about it later." Blake replies in a rush. "Listen, is Hunter there?"
"Uh yeah, but he's busy right now. Why?"
"Oh. Nothing really. Just wanted to let you guys know that I'll be stopping by sometime this week for a few days."
"Cool! I'll let the others know." Dustin makes sure of it.
"Thanks. So how's everything?" He asks all of a sudden.
Dustin scratches the back of his head. "Well...fine I guess."
"Fine? Dude, what's up?" Blake felt something was wrong so he just went ahead and asks anyway. "How's Hunter and Tori?"
Dustin knew that was coming. "Great." He says.
There was a moment of silence.
"Okay...then why do I have the feeling that something is wrong?" Blake observes from the sound of his voice.
Dustin chuckles. "Dude, don't worry about it. Catch you later. I got to go."
"Alright, man. Later."
"Bye." He hangs up.
Moments later…
"Who was that?" Hunter comes out of the bathroom all dressed up in his street attire.
Dustin looks up at him and smiles. "That was your brother. He's coming sometime this week to visit."
"Cool. You ready to go?" He asks, wanting to get this over with.
As much as the dirty blonde loves his brother, Dustin knew Hunter couldn't think of anything or anybody else, but Tori. "Yeah." He nods. And the two headed to Storm Chargers.
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"Sensei?" Tori slowly walks in Ninja ops, hoping she wasn't disturbing anyone since it was a bit early to start class. "Sensei?" She hisses once again as the lights suddenly went on. Tori turns around and finds a sleepy Cam in his green polka dotted pajamas. She slightly chuckles at the sight of him.
"Yes?" He asks with a yawn.
"Sorry to wake you, Cam, but I need to talk to your father." Tori replies with a laugh. Cam rolls his eyes as she coughs and gives him a serious look. "Where can I find him?"
"He's outside meditating. Give him a few moments." He answers, rubbing his eyes. "In the meantime, I'm going back to sleep, but before I do...what in the world are you doing here so early?"
Tori pursed her lips. "I couldn't go back to sleep."
"Right." Cam turns around. "I'll talk to you later then."
"Okay." She nods.
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Dustin and Hunter finally arrived at Storm Chargers. While the two were unbuckling their seatbelts, Hunter had the urge to go to the beach to get some advice from a new friend he met months ago. He turns to Dustin. "Listen, man. I need to do something real quick."
The goofball grabs his shoulder. "Wait. Where you going?"
He shrugs. "Don't worry about it."
"No way." Dustin chuckles. "You are so not leaving me here like last time. And besides," he adds, "you can't back out now from telling Tori."
Hunter sighs. "I will tell her, but I must talk to someone first, okay?" He says, while shutting the door to Dustin's van. "Later, man."
He groans. "Great."
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"Tori?" Sensei suddenly enters Ninja ops, in the middle of interrupting his former blonde student training on her own. She turns around and bows to her mentor.
"Sensei."
He nods. "What can I do for you?"
Tori bit her lip. "I need to talk to you about something personal."
"Personal?" Sensei lets out a small laugh. "Why do you come to me?"
"Well..." The blonde shrugs, "because you know all your senses more than I do and I'm hoping that you'll help me..." She pleaded with a smile.
He frowns. "Have you tried conquering this on your own?"
Tori groans in annoyance. "Sensei, I can't exactly control my own dreams now can I?" She questions him with her arms crossed.
He stares at her with his eyebrows raised. "Oh I see."
The blonde sighs. "Look, I've got this crazy dream about Natalie and Hunter together--" Tori trails off and looks at her mentor. She felt embarrassed just by the look Sensei was giving her. "What?" Tori laughs.
"Oh nothing." He smirks. "I apologize if I'm making you feel uncomfortable, but it surprises me that you would come here and ask for my help on this when Hunter had the same exact problem last year."
Tori squints her eyes with a smirk. "Oh really?" She chuckles. "What kind of dreams did he have?"
"It's not my place to say, Tori." Sensei smiles at her. "But that doesn't matter. You'll just have to hear from him."
She frowns. "Sensei, do dreams mean anything? Like…could it all come true?"
He presses his lips together and shrugs. "I'll tell you what I told Hunter. Dreams are dreams, Tori. If you notice…let's say, anything suspicious to you…then there's that great possibility you'll be thinking too much about it. I always remind Cam to not think so much to the point where it will start haunting him in his sleep. Like I said it's all in the head, but be careful." He adds with a smirk. "The mind can play tricks on you."
She rolls her eyes and smiles. "I guess. Whatever that means."
"May I ask, did that help at all? You know, I'm thinking of pursuing life as the master of solving teenagers' problems."
Tori looks up to think for a bit. "Not really." The blonde nods her head in dismay as he lets out a disappointing sigh. "But thanks anyway." She waves off to Sensei and leaves Ninja ops to prepare a lesson for class.
"Oh well." He shrugs. Thank goodness my son is single." Sensei mumbles to himself once she left. "Who knows what kind of dreams these kids are getting now a days?" He thought for a long moment and shuddered.
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"Madame Teresa?" Hunter silently hisses as he enters her tent at the beach. He looks around and sees no sign of her. "Hello." He whistles. Still, there was no answer. "Great." Hunter scratches his head and sighs. "Where could she be?"
"HEY, CUTIE!" She suddenly comes out of nowhere, startling the dirty blonde from behind. Hunter lets out a sigh of relief as Madame Teresa went to pinch his cheeks. He stares at her weirdly as he gently pushes her arm away from him.
"Uh yeah. Hey." Hunter smirks.
"Well, sit down." She says excitedly while making her way on the other side of the table. "What can I do for you?" Madame Teresa asks with a smile.
"Well I--"
"But first!" She interrupts him abruptly. Hunter sighs. "How are things going with you and Tori?!"
He smiles at the sound of her name, and then frowns. "Yeah...about that..."
The psychic gasps. "Oh my God. Don't tell me you guys broke up!"
"No, b-but--"
She held her breath exaggeratedly. "NO WAY!" Madame Teresa opens her eyes wide. "What did you do?!"
Hunter stares at her blankly. "Can you let me finish please?"
She looks away and pursed her lips. "Sorry."
"Thank you." He clears his throat and continues. "Anyway, Teresa...or uhh I mean Madame Teresa." Hunter suddenly trails off and sighs. He began rubbing the back of his neck nervously and slowly made eye contact with her.
"Okay, this can't be good." She assumes right away. "You did something that might jeopardize your relationship with Tori huh?"
Hunter narrows his eyes at her curiously. "How did you know?"
Madame Teresa rolls her eyes. "Well duh I'm a psychic!"
He scratches his head. "Oh yeah. I forgot."
She chuckles. "Okay, pretty boy. What's going on now? What did you do?"
Hunter sighs deeply. "My ex-girlfriend Natalie moved here across from Tori--"
"Oh boy." She says aloud without him finishing. "Please don't tell me you two did anything."
"Well...that's the thing. We kissed." He replies uneasily. His psychic friend groans. "She kissed me first though and when I opened my eyes I see Tori kissing me."
"So then you started kissing her back." Madame Teresa says as he nodded. "And I'm assuming that you haven't told Tori any of this," she adds, "So you came here for my expertise advice."
"Well, that and the umm future that olds for the both of us. I want to know what happens." He answers honestly.
Madame Teresa nods her head in dismay. "Hunter, I'm afraid I can't do that. You'll have to figure this one out on your own." She says getting up.
"What?" He rises from his chair and follows her outside the tent. "But you have to help me. You did last time."
"I helped you last time, but I never told you what happens." She smirks. "The truth will eventually come out, son. But I'll say this," the physic pauses. "You must tell her the truth."
"I know that and I will. I just want to--" Hunter trails off and sighs. He stares at Madame Teresa pleadingly. "Just please tell me what I'll be facing. Give me a warning or something." He exclaims. She sighs and stares at him remorsefully. "Please?"
Madame Teresa presses her lips together and smiles. "It's hard to say, Hunter." She lifts her shoulders up. "But soon enough you'll find yourself making a tough decision that may affect your relationship with Tori."
He wrinkles his forehead in confusion. "I don't understand. A decision?"
"Yes." She nods reassuringly. "And it won't be easy."
Hunter was still confused. "But on what?"
Madame Teresa shrugs. "That's for you to find out."
He looks down to think. Did she mean choosing between Natalie and Tori? Hunter thought to himself. He closes his eyes and shook his head in dismay. "No way." He quickly turns around and finds himself alone. "Madame?" Hunter looks around and sees no sign of her.
She was gone.
