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Shower Curtains
Chapter 9
"Whoopee!!! The Beach!" yelled Tyson.
The beach was very vacant for this time of year. There was lots of space to run around in, and the ocean stretched out to what seemed to be forever. A warm breeze blew across the water, creating little ripples that rolled up the sand. Little critters could be seen scuttling by the edge of the sand, as well as large seashells. The sun was bright and fluffy white clouds drifted across the sky.
Everyone unloaded off the van… everyone except for Kai, however. Ray was busy trying to pry Kai away from the van. Kai was clinging on to the bus door like a leech, while Ray was pulling his legs. Once the others had unloaded, they helped Ray in to pry Kai off, though Mariah really only wanted to get Ray off Kai.
"Noo!!! I'm not going!"
"Oh come on. You've come this far already! Just let go!"
"No!"
"What's so bad about the beach?!"
"I'm not going!!"
"You're already here!"
"Am not! I'm in the air!"
"Let go!"
"NO!"
"Geeze… you're starting to sound like Tyson!"
THUMP. Everyone tumbled backwards while Kai fell on his face.
"Don't you guys EVER compare me to that… that…"
"No name calling, Kai."
Kai glared.
"Well, since we're all here. Let's get changed!" said Max happily.
Everyone headed for the change rooms while Kai tried to sneak back into the van.
"Oh no you don't!" said Ray, grabbing onto Kai's arm and dragging him backwards. "Now you go in there, and change!" Ray pushed Kai into a stall, and pushed the door close.
"Lemme out, Ray!" said Kai, banging on the door.
"Not 'til you've changed!"
"How the heck am I supposed to change if I don't have anything to change into?!"
"Oh yea." Ray threw a bag over the top of the stall. "Now change!" A faint grumbling could be heard from the other side of the door. Ray grinned triumphantly.
"I'm done, now let me out!"
"You can't be done that fast!"
"And why not?"
"It's not possible!"
"Of course it is, now let me out!"
"Change, then!"
"I did!"
"Prove it!"
"How am I supposed to prove it when you can't see me?!"
"You're the captain. Think of some way!"
More grumbling could be heard, then all of a sudden a bag flew over the stall door and hit Ray on the head.
"What was that for?!"
"What do you mean?"
"You hit me in the head!"
"Really? Hmph… You deserve it."
"Excuse me?!" Kai didn't answer, so Ray tried again. "Why'd you throw your bag at me?"
"My clothes are in there, you idiot. My 'proof' that I changed, now let me out!" Kai started to bang on the door once again. Ray picked up the bag and unzipped it. Sure enough, Kai's clothes were inside. Ray slowly pulled the door open, but once Kai saw the door start to open up, he forced it open quickly, squishing Ray between the door and the wall.
"Augh!"
"Hn." Kai grabbed his bag and went outside. Ray sighed and changed, himself. The things he does sometimes…
"Darn Ray. Who does he think he is, dragging me out here in this darned beach with his darned 'friends.' Curses," thought Kai. Lying a large beach towel on the sand, he propped up a large beach umbrella. Kai looked around. There was no escape. "Might as well stay here. Those darned people won't let me out of their sight." Kai replaced his glasses with a pair of light coloured sunglasses from his bag. Sitting on the towel, he pulled out his book and read.
"Ooo! Kai's a NERD!" exclaimed Tyson when he burst from the change rooms. "He's got a big girly parasol there too!!!"
"Calm down, Kai. You should not mess with little pests. They do not deserve to be around the likes of you. That's right… calm down. Be absorbed into the wonderful world of books. That's right. Good," thought Kai, as he took deep breaths.
"Hey Kenny!" called out Tyson to another who emerged from the stalls. "You've got competition for nerd of the Bladebreakers!"
"No no. Don't beat the crap out of Tyson. He's just a lucky weakling. Lucky he gets to live at all." Kai grinned at his last thought.
"Mariah! You look… very… pink," said Tyson. Mariah met up with Kenny and Tyson.
"You think? Pink's my favorite colour, I don't know if you could tell," replied Mariah cheerfully.
"Yea… anyways, do you like Kai's parasol?" asked Tyson.
"Just a little bug… an itsy bitsy little bug that can be squished with a single hair. Isn't worth any of my time. One little itsy bitsy ANNOYING bug that's not worth my time… I must not think about their pettiness," thought Kai, trying to calm himself down.
"Parasol? That's not a parasol. Geeze, Tyson. And besides, it's not pink, so why would I like it?"
"Dunno… oh, it's Max and Ray! You guys! Over here!" yelled Tyson.
"All right. Ready to hit the waters, you guys?" asked Max.
"YUP!" They all raced to the ocean, but Ray stopped at Kai.
"You too, Kai!"
"I came to the beach, now leave me alone." Ray frowned, and ran off into the ocean.
LATER
The sun was lowering itself in the sky, and they all had to leave soon.
Everyone except Kai was splashing in the water. Mariah would squeal loudly once in a while to try to get Kai's attention and make him jealous, but to no avail. "Oh well… at least I get time with Ray," smiled Mariah.
Ray looked up on the beach to see Kai contently reading his book. Noticing Ray's lack of attention towards her, Mariah said, "Ray! Chase me!"
"Huh? Just a minute."
"Eh?"
Ray climbed out onto the beach and to Kai with his book. "Hey, Kai."
"…"
"Why don't you come in the water for a while before we have to leave?"
"No thanks."
"The water's great!"
"Nope."
"Why won't you come with us?"
"Don't want to. Got a problem with it?" Kai glared at Ray, before returning his gaze to his book.
"You got your swimming trunks on, already. Why are you wearing them if you're not going swimming?"
"You made me."
"Oh yea."
"Gay idiot," thought Kai as he rolled his eyes. He paused for a while, before thinking, "oh, crap. I'm in my trunks! And gay Ray was the one who forced me into them! That means I'm practically naked! Oh geeze… this is great. Now he wants me in the water. He'll probably want to play tag, no doubt. That means he'll touch me! An excuse to touch me! Oh no! Stupid. I should have tried harder to stay at home." Kai began to hit himself on the head repeatedly with his book, "baka baka baka baka baka baka baka baka…"
"Kai, you okay?"
"Huh?" Kai snapped out of his thoughts. "Oh yea, he's still there," thought.
"If you have a headache, you shouldn't hit your head, you know. Come in the water. It'll help."
"No no, I'm fine."
"What, can't you swim?"
"Of course I can swim."
"Then come on!" Ray went up behind Kai, and pulled off his sunglasses and snatched the book from his hands, placing them on the towel. Grabbing Kai's arms, he began to pull Kai towards the ocean.
"What do you think you're doing?! Let go of me!" Kai wasn't going down without a fight. Yanking his hands from Ray's grip, he surprised him. "Hmpf."
Mariah watched Ray go on shore and approach Kai.
"Oh no… Ray's trying to get Kai to come in the water with us!" thought Mariah, "I must get keep them away from each other! A plan… a plan… I need a plan!" With that in mind, Mariah decided to swim farther out into the ocean, keeping an eye on the two boys. Seeing Ray grab Kai's arms, Mariah started to swim faster. Clearing her throat, she began to spray water.
"HELP! RAY! I'M DROWNING! RAY! HELP ME!!" screamed Mariah, thinking to herself, "heh heh… Ray doesn't know I finally learned how to swim a few weeks ago. This plan is fool-proof! He's going to come and save me like he usually did when we were little. I'm going to feel his arms around me! Those strong, muscled arms of my hot god…"
"Oh come on, Kai."
"It's not like I wanted to come here in the first place, you know. I'm only here 'cuz you made me."
"Yes I did. It was to make you have fun. Now you're going to have it." Ray made an attempt to grab Kai's arm once again, but failed as Kai moved them out of his reach. "Fine, have it your way." Ray bent down and wrapped his arms around Kai's chest. Kai gasped. Out of everything Ray could have done, this was not what he expected.
Mariah opened her eyes wide with horror when Ray wrapped her arms around Kai's chest. She began to shriek loudly for help and splash around wildly.
"Come on, Ray! Help me!" thought Mariah. She shut her eyes tightly and screamed her lungs out, bobbing in and out of the waves.
Snapping out of his daze, Kai began to struggle against Ray's grip.
"Ray! Let go of me! As your captain, I order you to let go of me!"
"Not until I get you into the water!"
"I don't want to be in the water!" Both boys had started to raise their voice. Kai tried to loosen Ray's grip, but it was too tight. He desperately dug his heels into the sand, slowing Ray down considerably.
"Grrr… Kai!" yelled Ray, tugging Kai along the sand.
"Then let go of me!"
"No way!" Kai dug his heels further into the sand. Ray growled and used all his strength to pull Kai. "Why do you hate the water so much?!"
"What's it to you?!"
"Just tell me!"
"No!" Ray almost had Kai in the water. Grunting, Ray gave one final heave and Kai flew up and fell on top of Ray, causing both of them to fall into the water with a loud splash.
Mariah felt a pair of arms encircle her waist, pulling her up to the surface, towards shore.
"Yes! Ray!" she thought, "I knew you'd save me!" She gloated, keeping her eyes closed. "Hehe… I think I'll pretend to be unconscious. Then Ray'll have to kiss me while he's doing CPR!" Mariah felt herself being pulled onto the sand and being laid down gently. Holding her breath, she felt two fingers on her neck, checking for a pulse, before shifting to under her chin, tipping her head up and opening her mouth. In moments, she felt someone's lips against her own and she snapped her eyes open. Looking up at her savior, she—
The boys got up, spluttering.
"Naughty naughty naughty," clucked someone.
Kai and Ray glanced up to see none other than Tyson.
"Huh?" asked Ray. Kai just glared at the grinning Tyson.
"Why you little—" A high-pitched scream pierced through the warm air. They boys got up and ran towards the source.
Seeing Max and Kenny on their kneeled down by a body, they increased their speed. Nearing their friends, they saw it was Mariah on the ground, hunched over, coughing and spitting.
"What happened?" asked Ray.
"Well… I heard someone scream for help. So I looked into the ocean and I saw Mariah there. I dove in and pulled her out of the water. She didn't seem to be breathing, so I gave her mouth-to-mouth, and then she screamed, and… well, you've got eyes," said Kenny. (A/N: I don't think I can say the same for Kenny.)
Ray and Tyson couldn't help but snicker, while Kai smirked. Kenny giving mouth to mouth? No wonder Mariah screamed.
"Come on, Mariah. Let's go home. It's getting late, too," said Ray after a while, grabbing Mariah's arm and pulling her up. Staggering away, she disappeared into the change rooms. The boys followed suit.
LATER
Tyson, Max and Ray exited the change rooms together and saw Kai packing everything and putting it into the van. Mariah was leaning against the side of the van, clutching her stomach, looking very sick.
"You okay?" asked Max as the boys neared the van. Mariah nodded.
"Hey hot stuff," came a voice. Everyone looked up to see a beach bum dressed in a long gray and raggedy cloak clutching a large bottle in one hand. He swayed back and forth dangerously and hiccupping once in a while.
"Um… can we help you sir?" asked Ray politely.
"Watch it, kid. Can't you see I'm busy?" he snapped, poking Ray's chest and swaying, "Now. Back to you missy."
"Me?" asked Mariah faintly.
"Yes, you. Who else? As I was saying, you wanna come with me and hang out at my box? It's a great 2 footer made of the nicest cardboard around." The boys started to snicker.
"No, thank you," Mariah simply said.
"What? Is my box not good enough for you?"
"I think we'll leave you two alone," said Tyson grinning, as the boys disappeared into the van.
"Well, I never really wanted you anyways," continued the man, "you go take your crazy hair to some other place then, you good for nothing, b----! (A/N: CENSORED! I couldn't think of anything else to call her, heh heh.)
"Excuse me?" asked Mariah, steaming up.
"That's right. You heard me. You're a filthy little brat who can't get a decent hair cut. And I thought mine was bad," said the man who pulled off his hat revealing a scraggly haircut. The next thing the poor man knew, he was flying off into space. (A/N: Think of Team Rocket from Pokemon "blasting off again," or Keitaro in Love Hina being beaten up by Naru.)
Mariah opened the van door to a bunch of boys laughing their heads off, except for Kai who had a large smirk on his face. The boys looked up at the fuming Mariah and shut up immediately. Climbing in, Mariah said, "We are never to speak of this." The boys grinned and nodded, chuckling to themselves as they drove back home.
Hehe. A quick update. But it's one LONG chapter. Stupid… I can't used asterisks, the little caret things or the squiggly tildes. Well, I don't think I'll update for a while. My ideas have been drained out of me.