"Come on,admit it!If you had to lose 'it' to someone to a certain song,then
to which song?!"
Neo sighed."I don't know,I already said.Deep River and Give Me A Reason by Utada are good candidates right now.If only they made something long enough," he laughed,but then clamped a hand to his mouth.
Pan smiled at him knowingly.
"Riiiiiight....suuuuuuure," she said,her smile devilish.Neos blush became pinker and then red.
"Oh god...." he muttered.
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Sorry for the short chap,ladies and gents,but this was last minute and lasted an hour!Now I've gotta get some sleep.I have school tomorrow,durn you!
(Just kidding,BTW)
I want you to review!Reviews are the only thing making me update right now!!
Fayes Love
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I SHOULD be doing math homework,but I was inspired to write the next chappie!Another hour long,I hope,so it might be eight pages like last time,sorry!!
Again,I don't own DBZ or DBGT,but I DO own this story and that's good enough for mee!!*nods*
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Pan was quiet as the trio waited for their plane to board.
Pan sat on the left,Lyric on the right,and Neo between them.
Pan faced the left,her body facing forward while her upper torso twisted to the left,her right hand on her right cheek as she gazed wistfully out the window,a midnight sky greeting her,almost invisible.
Lyric had her legs bent apart,her elbows on her knees and her hands in fists digging into her cheeks by way of holding her head up,a slight pout gracing her eyes and lips.
Neo's body faced straight ahead while he leaned back into the chair he was sitting in with his legs apart as well,his hands behind his head and his head leaned over the back of the chair.
Finally, numbers were called and the three stood up when their row was announced.
Shuffling into the plane,the three made their way to their seats,Neo getting the window seat,Lyric in one of three middle seats and Pan next to Neo,oddly enough.
Not soon afterward the three were nodding off,Lyric being the first to let the sandman knock her out.
Pan looked down at her shoes from her bent position over her knees in her seat.
"Neo," she murmured quietly.
"Hhhhh,yes?" he answered finally.It was obvious that he was tired but didn't want to go to sleep.
Pan wanted to laugh,but she needed to talk to him and it was a serious subject.
"I....learned something interesting this morning," she continued,mentally snorting at how moronic she sounded to herself.
"Really?What'd you learn?" Neo asked,obviously tired but curious.
"Maybe I should tell you when we get off the plane," she said while she yawned.
"Aw,come on,tell me!"
"When we get settled at Stanford...maybe..."
Neo pouted but said nothing more.
5:00 AM~
Lyric yawned and opened her sleepy blue eyes.Looking around her,she saw Pan already standing and getting her baggage out of the compartment above her seat.
Lyrics eyes bulged and she squealed in surprise.Pan turned around,very confused,but turned bac to her task when she saw Lyric awake.
"Your brother is awake too,but I need my stuff.Time to wakey wakey,Ly," Pan said,trying hard not to giggle and yet succeeding tremendously.
"We're here?!ALREADY?!"
"Five hours have passed!I could have sworn it was only supposed to be two!!"
Pan said irritatedly.
Neo laughed in the way only he did:Deep and playful,though it held potential to be seductive if he would only let it be. "What the heck are you in such a good mood for?" Pan said,trying not to make her voice snappish.She needed to tell him before she lost her nerve,but she didn't want to make a scene. "You're over exxagerating,Pan!It's two hours from the mainland TO Hawaii,not from!From is usually about four hours," he laughed."Calm down,kiddo!"
Pan snorted at his use of the word,her lips twisting into an ironic smile. "I'll show you calm down," she muttered to herself,Neo not hearing her angry words.
Lyric looked at her, head tilted in a confused but cute way,then straightened,a look of enlightenment crossing her face,her mouth in an 'oh!' of understanding.
Budging over,she made her way to Neo while on the stopped plane and slapped him,then walked off.
"Lyric,your stuff!" Neo yelled while rubbing his already pink cheek.
'What was that all about?" Pan asked curiously.Neo shook his head."I have absolutely NO idea!" he said,a genuinely clueless look on his face.
Exiting the plane,the three made their way to the baggage claim.
After twisting and turning,dodging through the crowd and getting to the 'slide',the two girls and boy finally got the rest of their bags.
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Walking out,they waited on metal benches, Pan generally clueless about the arrangement. "So,uh,what are we waiting for?" "You'll see," Neo said mysteriously.
Lyric laughed,hers being a fair pitched girlish giggle.
Pan frowned and jumped visibly when she heard 'La Cucaracha' play in a car horn.It was a song she'd never heard before and it scared the crap out of her.
(AN:Come on,she's Japanese!Don't expect her to know EVERYTHING in or about America,especially the Mexican culture in California!I don't (Expect her to understand everything,nya) ,and I'M mexican!!)
Looking around she saw a red Subaru in front of her.Inside were a woman with red hair and blue eyes in the passenger seat with a young face,the driver a youthful looking but older man with silver hair,a silver mustache and smiling crimson eyes.
Pan caught her breath while Neo and Lyric laughed at her earlier reaction and told her that this was their ride."Get your stuff in the back,Pan!You're staying with us!" Lyric said happily,putting an arm around Pans back,under which Pan stiffened considerably. Neo smiled and told Pan what she needed to hear of the odd couple in front. "Ah,Pan?Meet our parents,Eira and Julius," he said with a flourish of the hand towards his parents whom had turned around in their seats to smile at their son,daughter and guest.
The man with the silver mustache spoke first,"My name is Julio,son,and who may this lovely woman be?" he asked politely with an audible spanish accent,though his english was well pronounced.He reached out to shake Pans hand, which she did willingly. "THIS is Pan.We met her at the hotel in Maui.She's going to Stanford as well!" Neo said excitedly,as though hoping his warmth might travel to his parents.It was in vain,for his parents had already taken to Pan. "It's 'A-e-r-a',as in 'Air-rah,' not 'eye-rah'!" she said politely,while throwing daggers with her eyes at her silver haired son.who was sitting in the corner in the back seat of the minivan. His shoulders squeezed tighter as he tittered sheepishly,his eyes closed and his teeth showing in a clenched smile.
She shook Pan's hand and with a trace of an Irish accent asked,"And where've ya come from?Bejeesus and begorra,lassie,I do believe yer asian,am I right?"
she asked curiously.Pan nodded politely."I'm Japanese!" Aera squealed excitedly and shook Pans right hand vigorously with both hands now. "Ye know,I've never met a Japanese woman before,this is such an honor,lass!"
Pan laughed nervously and cast nervous glances back at Neo,who only smiled sheepishly and mouthed 'I'll explain later,please don't kill me!'
Pan sweatdropped while Aera continued. "Oh,ya see Asians everywhere lass,it's somethin' beautiful!Koreans,Vietnamese,Chinese,and even Filipinos,but never a Japanese!!" she said incredulously.
Settling herself back into her seat contentedly,Aera gave a sigh.
"Oh,we're a definitely going ta be a-gettin' ya settled in,now!" she said excitedly.
Pan gave another nervous laugh,high but tight and dorky in a adorable way. "Hee hee hee hee hee!"
The whole way afterwards Pan had tuned out and looked out window wistfully. She kept wondering about what she was going to tell Neo... and now his sister and parents. Sighing,she turned to look ahead to see the father pulling into the driveway of a large house.
Sweatdropping,she turned to Neo and asked,"You never told me you were rich.... so how?" she asked,somewhat at a loss for words. Neo put a hand behind his head and laughed sheepishly."Ah,slipped my mind?"
"No no,hon!He moved out already.Oh,I wish you'd stayed though," Aera whined,turning to her son as she finished her sentence with whining,pleading eyes.Neo only smiled wider,though the embarrassment became even more apparent as he did so.
Lyric jumped over Neo and out the door from her seat in back,ironically shouting,"FREEDOM!" as she went.
The father simply sighed. "Ly still lives with us.We're gonna miss the company," he said,with a grin and a lecherous smile toward his wife. Aera blushed in a flustered manner.
"Julio!Not in front of the kids!" "Ah,come on woman!You know I hate it when you pronounce my name the wrong way!Just call me Julius if ya don't pronounce it right," he said,finally turning to Pan."I'm sorry,but it really is annoying."
Pan laughed."It's okay,people get my name wrong all the time!It's only three letters,so it gets annoying for me too!"
As the conversation between Pan and the parents went on,Neo grabbed his stuff out of the back and began hauling it into the large cream-colored house. He opened the door with keys of his own and disappeared into the bright light of the inside. Pan and Julio kicked it off immediately when they discovered they could pronounce eachother's names correctly. Aera and Pan easily became friends,although Pan was somewhat irked by Aera's preference of the Japanese culture.
Finally walking in,Pan looked up at the high white ceiling,a chandelier above. The floor was marble and everything erradiated with a white glow. "Aera is always cleaning," Julio said as though he had known Pan would ask about the cleanliness of the house.
"Yeh might want to take yer shoes off and aside," Aera suggested,pointing at something behind the door. Pan walked over and closed the door,revealing an alcove behind it,built into the wall made up of the arc that the alcove made into the wall and the floor.
Pans mouth made an 'O' of understanding, and she took her shoes off,skidding as she tried to return to the companionship of Lyric and Neos parents.
In the center of the living room she had walked into was a large white stone stairway in all its magesty.
"Our marriage is a peculiar one,lass,but it was made in heaven for sure," Aera said with a reminiscent smile.Julio grinned in a silly manner,but the cute couple led Pan upstairs and into a large room."Yeh can stay in here,Pan!It's not much,but I hope it serves its purpose well!" Aera smiled.
Pan dropped her bags in shock and gaped. The room was quite possibly three times Bras room,and Bra's room was fairly big in itself. Stuttering,Pan finally spoke. "Ah,gah,gah,thanks!I, yai, yaiii....I mean it!Really!" she said,trying her hardest not to sound stupid.
Julio laughed heartily and managed, "Ask Aera,Neo,Lyric and I for help if you need it!For now,Aera and I have business to attend to," giving his wife a lecherous grin. Aera blushed,slapped her husbands shoulder with the back of her right hand and whispered,"Not in front of the girl,Julius!"
Pan giggled and sat on the large white bed."Domo arigatou !!" she called after them as they closed the door to leave.Pan stood up just so she could jump into the bed on her back,laughing mirthfully as she bounced,playfully pounding her fists into the blankets.
As she lay there,letting her eyes drft close,her mind meandered through the week she had spent in Maui.The snorkeling had gone well,aside from the fact that Neo revelled in the ocean water and Lyric feared it.Neo laughed and splashed at her from his position next to the boat while his green haired sister leaned over the railing shaking her fist at him with an enraged look in her blue eyes.
The silver-haired young man's london blue eyes danced playfully as he duck under the water,once more avoiding a deliberately thrown snorkel goggle that was attached to an actual snorkel.
"Miss, we're going to have to ask you to stop that," said the captain as he neared the manic teen. Turning around,she instantly cooled and proceeded to flirt with the ship's owner,causing Neo much grief.
"...If only they made something long enough..."
Pan broke out in gales of laughter at the memory.She knew he regretted not choosing his words carefully.The joke was probably going to stick with him forever,if not until he...
Pan sighed and sat up."But what if he lost it already?" she thought,almost panic stricken.
She stood up from the white bed and walked to the door,opening it.Peering out into the hallway,she closed her door behind her and wandered the halls.At some point she found a library,and eventually what she thought was Lyric's room,but she payed no mind to what she found.She only knew that she was looking for something.She just didn't know what.
Pan stopped as she heard two short but poignant guitar riffs,followed by a tapping of cymbols,then two more guitar riffs,though at different notes.Pan walked toward the music,feeling herself float at the oddly pleasant song.She walked to a black door and set her hand on the brass knob.She stared at the door in shock: The walls and everthing else in the house seemed white,or cream colored.This door was the only one with a different color.Suddenly the song took on a slightly louder,but nonetheless pleasant flow.
She opened the door and stuck her head in to see Neo stretched out on his bed, CD player on his chest,one leg bent with his foot on the bed and knee pointing upward, a blissful expression on his face as he nodded and waved his head left to right in tune to the song.
Pan had to bite her lips to keep from laughing,though she had to admit that the scene being unwittingly displayed before her was strangely adorable.He was wearing a white button up shirt,the buttons of which had gone unbuttoned at the top close to his neck, and tight black jeans.He was indeed barefoot, but although what he was doing was cute,he also looked handsome.
Pan sighed and shook her neck-length black hair.
She walked over to the bed and jumped onto the bed, startling Neo and making the young man fly up in shock.In doing so, he cause his CD player to go flying to the ground.It kept playing the song, unbroken. Pan laughed at him from her place on the bed.Neo looked to his left and shook his head angrily."Please don't do that anymore Pan..."
Pan looked upset but nodded in understanding when he elaborated, "I don't like too many surprises.I'm sure you'd hate it if your parents walked in you while you were doing something private in your room,like,say...dancing to a dancing to a DDR song in your pajamas?"
He looked at her seriously,but scowled slightly when she giggled.
"Actually,it already happened and I feel your pain, Neo, " she said,amidst giggles.
Neo smiled then and let it go.
"So what are you doing here anyway?Is it dinner time already?"
Pan shook her head and answered Neos question.
"Well,I got curious and started walking around.I heard the song and decided to check it out," she nodded.
"I'm actually into music,but my sister hasn't quite figured it out yet.You'd think she'd get a clue ever since I became her piano player," he mused aloud.
Pan cocked her head."Piano player..?" she trailed off.
From his position on the bed he turned his head to face her,on eye open.
"Yeah. Our kareoke bar. Poetry nights, kareoke, dancing. Little bit of everything, ya know?"
Pan's eyes widened and she glomped him on instinct. Neo fell back on the bed from the force of the hug while Pan sat on him, holding him around the middle. He grunted in pain when Pan banged his arms with her elbows.
"Pan?Pan!It's starting to hurt!" he groaned.
She sat back up and crossed her arms. Neo looked up at her helplessly, his eyes matching his smile: nervous. "You, good sir, are a wimp, " she stated simply. Neo stared at her for a second with a blank look on his face before he fell onto his back once more, this time in laughter.
Pan raised an inquisitive eyebrow and got off him at last.
Seriously, she said, "Neo, there's something you need to know."
Neo stopped laughing and sat up."Did you want to stay at another place?If you don't feel comfortable with us-"
" No, no...it's something...else," she trailed.
Neo gulped and sat on the edge of the bed to Pan's left side,his legs bent apart and his hands clasped between his knees.
"What happened?" he asked after his moment of silence seemed to be through.
"Remember that night we got drunk by accident?" Pan murmured quietly.
Neo's eyes flickered with memory, but he simply nodded once, saying,"Yes, why?"
Pan sighed and put a hand to her head.
"Well, that morning after you left,I went into town and...when I came back I took a test."
Neo sighed as well, wincing as he did so. "I have a feeling I'm going to regret this,but what kind of test and what was the result," he asked, his pulse quickening as he did so.
"I took a pregnancy test, just to be safe, Neo." Pan snorted then."If you want 'good' news, here it is: You are NOT sterile!"
Neo simply nodded.
Pan looked at him in disbelief."Aren't you going to say anything?! I'm pregnant! We did something that night, Neo. Despite the fact that we can't remember crap about what took place the evening we got high off our minds, it left us with a souvenir!" she said angrily, motioning at her stomach as she did so.
Neo simply nodded again, his eyes wide.When he finally spoke,his voice was wavering. "I don't want to speak...for fear of not only incriminating myself...but in fear of wetting myself."
Pan stared once more."In this case,the bathroom is a good option,Neo," she said,gesturing around her.Neo nodded once more and took off in a rush.
Pan blinked twice before she realized she had barely seen him get up in the first place.Hearing a flush, she turned to the door and blushed. Neo's face was red, his eyes downcast,and his stride slow, depressed.
"Now that my problem is taken care of, we need to discuss ours further," he stated in a business like manner.
"What do we do?!" Pan almost shouted after geting over the initial shock of seeing Neo act with such steadiness since she first told him the news.
Neo stood in front of her and stuck his hands into his pockets,his face cast upwards towards the ceiling.
" Do you want to keep the baby?" he asked.
Pan snorted. " I am not going to kill my first child,dude. This goes against everything I believe in!"
Neo then shrugged. "Then i guess we get married," he said simply.
Pan exhaled frustratedly.
"I like you,Neo.I don't love you.Dude,I hardly know you!" she ended, her voice whining.
"So you're not getting an abortion, and you refuse to marry the father of the child...what does that leave me with?!" he thought aloud,his voice generally calm but nervous.
Sighing once more, he asked, "You would rather be a single mother,then?"
Pan shook her head."No, I'm saying I don't know you well enough to be married.DUDE!" she said loudly, though it was not a shout.
"I'm going to college in about a month and I'm pregnant!Pregnant!!What the hell am I supposed to do now?!I'm on a scholarship, man!I can't just not show up for the four years I'm attending!"
"Wouldn't you think that Stanford might have a place for young mothers?" Neo asked hopefully. Pan looked at him with her eyes narrowed and her face tilted. "Neo, think about it.You've been there for two years already and going on your third,yet you don't know?!"
Neo shrugged sheepishly in response. There was suddenly a sound of a door opening slowly, the hinges creaking. Neo and Pan turned around skittishly, and two pairs of eyes, one set london blue and the other midnight blue, widened when they saw Lyric, paler than usual, standing in the doorway.
Inhaling deeply, she shakily spoke. " I know, Pan. And," she gulped,her voice rising nervously, "You're not the only one."
Her short but poignant speech said, she fell forward in a faint.
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Another chapter?!At last?
OMG, is this a dream?! *bangs her head on her desk*
*squeaks and puts a hand to her head*
Ow, ow, ow...I guess not! *shrugs and laughs sheepishly*
Hope you guys liked this chapter! I won't be writing anymore for a while, what with school and all, but this fiction is FAR from over, and even though I have my own reputation for never finishing a story physically but having it planned beginning to end mentally, there will be so many twists and turns that it'll make your head spin!!
Anything else? *thinks* Oh yeah!
In case you were wondering....
The 'song' that Pan hears coming from Neo's room was the beginning of 'Beautiful Morning WIth You' by The Pillows,from Furi Kuri.
The 'inside jokes' here should be easily explained from reading this chapter.
It would just make me feel better to explain them in depth, since a lot of them are slight innuendo. Not to mention that even though a lot of the jokes are obvious, the funniest ones are actually quite vague.
"But what if he lost it already?"-Pan
I believe Lyric had already made a referrence to Neo's 'purity' a few chapters ago...
"At least I'M not a virgin!"-Lyric
(Pan was thinking out loud. She was asking no one in particular if he was no longer a virgin.)
There was another 'inside joke' that questioned Neo's 'purity',and it was made by Pan. Pan instigated that he had a ...how do I put this... libido (?) of sorts,and it embarrassed him because his wording did sound quite tempting to twist, lol.
"..if only they made something long enough..."-Neo
In this case, Pan questioned not only his 'purity' but his 'stamina' as well,lol.There are a lot of sex jokes here,and that's one reason it is rated R.The other reason is Pan's experiences while pregant and taking care of her child when she is born. I was going to write a lemon, but in order to do so I had to read others.I'm 'pure' myself, but I could have such a dirty mind if I chose to. Otherwise,I keep myself innocent, lol. Mind you, I don't think I could bring myself to write a lemon, and I read somewhere that FF.net was cracking down on the lemons *sighs* No lemon from me, then? Ask if you want one, and I'll see what I can do...*sighs*
*grins cheesily*
I'm such a doof,hehehehe!Yeah,I mean 'doof'. Not 'Goof,' not 'Dufus.'
Tis a combination.I am being doofy! *laughs like the Dory she is*
Don't worry!I had a weird dream last night about reading a fiction (It was the same way I started writing THIS fic!)I'm inspired to write more!
But it was about Ayashi No Ceres.I might start writing it, since I actually remembered the name of the 'fiction' I was reading (I was dreaming, remember?)
I remember the general story....who the hell is Ashioshe Aogiri?! According to what I rememeber of my dream (It switched from real life, to reading the fiction, to anime-All of the same story!), Ashioshe was a guy that Aya had a crush on...maybe I'll start typing it up the following weekend, but I need to sleep!In twenty minutes it'll be midnight!!
Oh yeah, I couldn't remember what this fiction was called in the dream I had of it's first chapter (Hence the reason I started writing this fic in the first place.I had a similar dream about it as well!) so I made it up.I won't have to do that with the Ceres fic because I actually remember it's name!
It shall be called 'Voulez Vous.'
Don't be confused by the name.I sure as hell am.Yes, I said 'don't be confused.'
Neo sighed."I don't know,I already said.Deep River and Give Me A Reason by Utada are good candidates right now.If only they made something long enough," he laughed,but then clamped a hand to his mouth.
Pan smiled at him knowingly.
"Riiiiiight....suuuuuuure," she said,her smile devilish.Neos blush became pinker and then red.
"Oh god...." he muttered.
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Sorry for the short chap,ladies and gents,but this was last minute and lasted an hour!Now I've gotta get some sleep.I have school tomorrow,durn you!
(Just kidding,BTW)
I want you to review!Reviews are the only thing making me update right now!!
Fayes Love
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I SHOULD be doing math homework,but I was inspired to write the next chappie!Another hour long,I hope,so it might be eight pages like last time,sorry!!
Again,I don't own DBZ or DBGT,but I DO own this story and that's good enough for mee!!*nods*
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Pan was quiet as the trio waited for their plane to board.
Pan sat on the left,Lyric on the right,and Neo between them.
Pan faced the left,her body facing forward while her upper torso twisted to the left,her right hand on her right cheek as she gazed wistfully out the window,a midnight sky greeting her,almost invisible.
Lyric had her legs bent apart,her elbows on her knees and her hands in fists digging into her cheeks by way of holding her head up,a slight pout gracing her eyes and lips.
Neo's body faced straight ahead while he leaned back into the chair he was sitting in with his legs apart as well,his hands behind his head and his head leaned over the back of the chair.
Finally, numbers were called and the three stood up when their row was announced.
Shuffling into the plane,the three made their way to their seats,Neo getting the window seat,Lyric in one of three middle seats and Pan next to Neo,oddly enough.
Not soon afterward the three were nodding off,Lyric being the first to let the sandman knock her out.
Pan looked down at her shoes from her bent position over her knees in her seat.
"Neo," she murmured quietly.
"Hhhhh,yes?" he answered finally.It was obvious that he was tired but didn't want to go to sleep.
Pan wanted to laugh,but she needed to talk to him and it was a serious subject.
"I....learned something interesting this morning," she continued,mentally snorting at how moronic she sounded to herself.
"Really?What'd you learn?" Neo asked,obviously tired but curious.
"Maybe I should tell you when we get off the plane," she said while she yawned.
"Aw,come on,tell me!"
"When we get settled at Stanford...maybe..."
Neo pouted but said nothing more.
5:00 AM~
Lyric yawned and opened her sleepy blue eyes.Looking around her,she saw Pan already standing and getting her baggage out of the compartment above her seat.
Lyrics eyes bulged and she squealed in surprise.Pan turned around,very confused,but turned bac to her task when she saw Lyric awake.
"Your brother is awake too,but I need my stuff.Time to wakey wakey,Ly," Pan said,trying hard not to giggle and yet succeeding tremendously.
"We're here?!ALREADY?!"
"Five hours have passed!I could have sworn it was only supposed to be two!!"
Pan said irritatedly.
Neo laughed in the way only he did:Deep and playful,though it held potential to be seductive if he would only let it be. "What the heck are you in such a good mood for?" Pan said,trying not to make her voice snappish.She needed to tell him before she lost her nerve,but she didn't want to make a scene. "You're over exxagerating,Pan!It's two hours from the mainland TO Hawaii,not from!From is usually about four hours," he laughed."Calm down,kiddo!"
Pan snorted at his use of the word,her lips twisting into an ironic smile. "I'll show you calm down," she muttered to herself,Neo not hearing her angry words.
Lyric looked at her, head tilted in a confused but cute way,then straightened,a look of enlightenment crossing her face,her mouth in an 'oh!' of understanding.
Budging over,she made her way to Neo while on the stopped plane and slapped him,then walked off.
"Lyric,your stuff!" Neo yelled while rubbing his already pink cheek.
'What was that all about?" Pan asked curiously.Neo shook his head."I have absolutely NO idea!" he said,a genuinely clueless look on his face.
Exiting the plane,the three made their way to the baggage claim.
After twisting and turning,dodging through the crowd and getting to the 'slide',the two girls and boy finally got the rest of their bags.
~~~
Walking out,they waited on metal benches, Pan generally clueless about the arrangement. "So,uh,what are we waiting for?" "You'll see," Neo said mysteriously.
Lyric laughed,hers being a fair pitched girlish giggle.
Pan frowned and jumped visibly when she heard 'La Cucaracha' play in a car horn.It was a song she'd never heard before and it scared the crap out of her.
(AN:Come on,she's Japanese!Don't expect her to know EVERYTHING in or about America,especially the Mexican culture in California!I don't (Expect her to understand everything,nya) ,and I'M mexican!!)
Looking around she saw a red Subaru in front of her.Inside were a woman with red hair and blue eyes in the passenger seat with a young face,the driver a youthful looking but older man with silver hair,a silver mustache and smiling crimson eyes.
Pan caught her breath while Neo and Lyric laughed at her earlier reaction and told her that this was their ride."Get your stuff in the back,Pan!You're staying with us!" Lyric said happily,putting an arm around Pans back,under which Pan stiffened considerably. Neo smiled and told Pan what she needed to hear of the odd couple in front. "Ah,Pan?Meet our parents,Eira and Julius," he said with a flourish of the hand towards his parents whom had turned around in their seats to smile at their son,daughter and guest.
The man with the silver mustache spoke first,"My name is Julio,son,and who may this lovely woman be?" he asked politely with an audible spanish accent,though his english was well pronounced.He reached out to shake Pans hand, which she did willingly. "THIS is Pan.We met her at the hotel in Maui.She's going to Stanford as well!" Neo said excitedly,as though hoping his warmth might travel to his parents.It was in vain,for his parents had already taken to Pan. "It's 'A-e-r-a',as in 'Air-rah,' not 'eye-rah'!" she said politely,while throwing daggers with her eyes at her silver haired son.who was sitting in the corner in the back seat of the minivan. His shoulders squeezed tighter as he tittered sheepishly,his eyes closed and his teeth showing in a clenched smile.
She shook Pan's hand and with a trace of an Irish accent asked,"And where've ya come from?Bejeesus and begorra,lassie,I do believe yer asian,am I right?"
she asked curiously.Pan nodded politely."I'm Japanese!" Aera squealed excitedly and shook Pans right hand vigorously with both hands now. "Ye know,I've never met a Japanese woman before,this is such an honor,lass!"
Pan laughed nervously and cast nervous glances back at Neo,who only smiled sheepishly and mouthed 'I'll explain later,please don't kill me!'
Pan sweatdropped while Aera continued. "Oh,ya see Asians everywhere lass,it's somethin' beautiful!Koreans,Vietnamese,Chinese,and even Filipinos,but never a Japanese!!" she said incredulously.
Settling herself back into her seat contentedly,Aera gave a sigh.
"Oh,we're a definitely going ta be a-gettin' ya settled in,now!" she said excitedly.
Pan gave another nervous laugh,high but tight and dorky in a adorable way. "Hee hee hee hee hee!"
The whole way afterwards Pan had tuned out and looked out window wistfully. She kept wondering about what she was going to tell Neo... and now his sister and parents. Sighing,she turned to look ahead to see the father pulling into the driveway of a large house.
Sweatdropping,she turned to Neo and asked,"You never told me you were rich.... so how?" she asked,somewhat at a loss for words. Neo put a hand behind his head and laughed sheepishly."Ah,slipped my mind?"
"No no,hon!He moved out already.Oh,I wish you'd stayed though," Aera whined,turning to her son as she finished her sentence with whining,pleading eyes.Neo only smiled wider,though the embarrassment became even more apparent as he did so.
Lyric jumped over Neo and out the door from her seat in back,ironically shouting,"FREEDOM!" as she went.
The father simply sighed. "Ly still lives with us.We're gonna miss the company," he said,with a grin and a lecherous smile toward his wife. Aera blushed in a flustered manner.
"Julio!Not in front of the kids!" "Ah,come on woman!You know I hate it when you pronounce my name the wrong way!Just call me Julius if ya don't pronounce it right," he said,finally turning to Pan."I'm sorry,but it really is annoying."
Pan laughed."It's okay,people get my name wrong all the time!It's only three letters,so it gets annoying for me too!"
As the conversation between Pan and the parents went on,Neo grabbed his stuff out of the back and began hauling it into the large cream-colored house. He opened the door with keys of his own and disappeared into the bright light of the inside. Pan and Julio kicked it off immediately when they discovered they could pronounce eachother's names correctly. Aera and Pan easily became friends,although Pan was somewhat irked by Aera's preference of the Japanese culture.
Finally walking in,Pan looked up at the high white ceiling,a chandelier above. The floor was marble and everything erradiated with a white glow. "Aera is always cleaning," Julio said as though he had known Pan would ask about the cleanliness of the house.
"Yeh might want to take yer shoes off and aside," Aera suggested,pointing at something behind the door. Pan walked over and closed the door,revealing an alcove behind it,built into the wall made up of the arc that the alcove made into the wall and the floor.
Pans mouth made an 'O' of understanding, and she took her shoes off,skidding as she tried to return to the companionship of Lyric and Neos parents.
In the center of the living room she had walked into was a large white stone stairway in all its magesty.
"Our marriage is a peculiar one,lass,but it was made in heaven for sure," Aera said with a reminiscent smile.Julio grinned in a silly manner,but the cute couple led Pan upstairs and into a large room."Yeh can stay in here,Pan!It's not much,but I hope it serves its purpose well!" Aera smiled.
Pan dropped her bags in shock and gaped. The room was quite possibly three times Bras room,and Bra's room was fairly big in itself. Stuttering,Pan finally spoke. "Ah,gah,gah,thanks!I, yai, yaiii....I mean it!Really!" she said,trying her hardest not to sound stupid.
Julio laughed heartily and managed, "Ask Aera,Neo,Lyric and I for help if you need it!For now,Aera and I have business to attend to," giving his wife a lecherous grin. Aera blushed,slapped her husbands shoulder with the back of her right hand and whispered,"Not in front of the girl,Julius!"
Pan giggled and sat on the large white bed."Domo arigatou !!" she called after them as they closed the door to leave.Pan stood up just so she could jump into the bed on her back,laughing mirthfully as she bounced,playfully pounding her fists into the blankets.
As she lay there,letting her eyes drft close,her mind meandered through the week she had spent in Maui.The snorkeling had gone well,aside from the fact that Neo revelled in the ocean water and Lyric feared it.Neo laughed and splashed at her from his position next to the boat while his green haired sister leaned over the railing shaking her fist at him with an enraged look in her blue eyes.
The silver-haired young man's london blue eyes danced playfully as he duck under the water,once more avoiding a deliberately thrown snorkel goggle that was attached to an actual snorkel.
"Miss, we're going to have to ask you to stop that," said the captain as he neared the manic teen. Turning around,she instantly cooled and proceeded to flirt with the ship's owner,causing Neo much grief.
"...If only they made something long enough..."
Pan broke out in gales of laughter at the memory.She knew he regretted not choosing his words carefully.The joke was probably going to stick with him forever,if not until he...
Pan sighed and sat up."But what if he lost it already?" she thought,almost panic stricken.
She stood up from the white bed and walked to the door,opening it.Peering out into the hallway,she closed her door behind her and wandered the halls.At some point she found a library,and eventually what she thought was Lyric's room,but she payed no mind to what she found.She only knew that she was looking for something.She just didn't know what.
Pan stopped as she heard two short but poignant guitar riffs,followed by a tapping of cymbols,then two more guitar riffs,though at different notes.Pan walked toward the music,feeling herself float at the oddly pleasant song.She walked to a black door and set her hand on the brass knob.She stared at the door in shock: The walls and everthing else in the house seemed white,or cream colored.This door was the only one with a different color.Suddenly the song took on a slightly louder,but nonetheless pleasant flow.
She opened the door and stuck her head in to see Neo stretched out on his bed, CD player on his chest,one leg bent with his foot on the bed and knee pointing upward, a blissful expression on his face as he nodded and waved his head left to right in tune to the song.
Pan had to bite her lips to keep from laughing,though she had to admit that the scene being unwittingly displayed before her was strangely adorable.He was wearing a white button up shirt,the buttons of which had gone unbuttoned at the top close to his neck, and tight black jeans.He was indeed barefoot, but although what he was doing was cute,he also looked handsome.
Pan sighed and shook her neck-length black hair.
She walked over to the bed and jumped onto the bed, startling Neo and making the young man fly up in shock.In doing so, he cause his CD player to go flying to the ground.It kept playing the song, unbroken. Pan laughed at him from her place on the bed.Neo looked to his left and shook his head angrily."Please don't do that anymore Pan..."
Pan looked upset but nodded in understanding when he elaborated, "I don't like too many surprises.I'm sure you'd hate it if your parents walked in you while you were doing something private in your room,like,say...dancing to a dancing to a DDR song in your pajamas?"
He looked at her seriously,but scowled slightly when she giggled.
"Actually,it already happened and I feel your pain, Neo, " she said,amidst giggles.
Neo smiled then and let it go.
"So what are you doing here anyway?Is it dinner time already?"
Pan shook her head and answered Neos question.
"Well,I got curious and started walking around.I heard the song and decided to check it out," she nodded.
"I'm actually into music,but my sister hasn't quite figured it out yet.You'd think she'd get a clue ever since I became her piano player," he mused aloud.
Pan cocked her head."Piano player..?" she trailed off.
From his position on the bed he turned his head to face her,on eye open.
"Yeah. Our kareoke bar. Poetry nights, kareoke, dancing. Little bit of everything, ya know?"
Pan's eyes widened and she glomped him on instinct. Neo fell back on the bed from the force of the hug while Pan sat on him, holding him around the middle. He grunted in pain when Pan banged his arms with her elbows.
"Pan?Pan!It's starting to hurt!" he groaned.
She sat back up and crossed her arms. Neo looked up at her helplessly, his eyes matching his smile: nervous. "You, good sir, are a wimp, " she stated simply. Neo stared at her for a second with a blank look on his face before he fell onto his back once more, this time in laughter.
Pan raised an inquisitive eyebrow and got off him at last.
Seriously, she said, "Neo, there's something you need to know."
Neo stopped laughing and sat up."Did you want to stay at another place?If you don't feel comfortable with us-"
" No, no...it's something...else," she trailed.
Neo gulped and sat on the edge of the bed to Pan's left side,his legs bent apart and his hands clasped between his knees.
"What happened?" he asked after his moment of silence seemed to be through.
"Remember that night we got drunk by accident?" Pan murmured quietly.
Neo's eyes flickered with memory, but he simply nodded once, saying,"Yes, why?"
Pan sighed and put a hand to her head.
"Well, that morning after you left,I went into town and...when I came back I took a test."
Neo sighed as well, wincing as he did so. "I have a feeling I'm going to regret this,but what kind of test and what was the result," he asked, his pulse quickening as he did so.
"I took a pregnancy test, just to be safe, Neo." Pan snorted then."If you want 'good' news, here it is: You are NOT sterile!"
Neo simply nodded.
Pan looked at him in disbelief."Aren't you going to say anything?! I'm pregnant! We did something that night, Neo. Despite the fact that we can't remember crap about what took place the evening we got high off our minds, it left us with a souvenir!" she said angrily, motioning at her stomach as she did so.
Neo simply nodded again, his eyes wide.When he finally spoke,his voice was wavering. "I don't want to speak...for fear of not only incriminating myself...but in fear of wetting myself."
Pan stared once more."In this case,the bathroom is a good option,Neo," she said,gesturing around her.Neo nodded once more and took off in a rush.
Pan blinked twice before she realized she had barely seen him get up in the first place.Hearing a flush, she turned to the door and blushed. Neo's face was red, his eyes downcast,and his stride slow, depressed.
"Now that my problem is taken care of, we need to discuss ours further," he stated in a business like manner.
"What do we do?!" Pan almost shouted after geting over the initial shock of seeing Neo act with such steadiness since she first told him the news.
Neo stood in front of her and stuck his hands into his pockets,his face cast upwards towards the ceiling.
" Do you want to keep the baby?" he asked.
Pan snorted. " I am not going to kill my first child,dude. This goes against everything I believe in!"
Neo then shrugged. "Then i guess we get married," he said simply.
Pan exhaled frustratedly.
"I like you,Neo.I don't love you.Dude,I hardly know you!" she ended, her voice whining.
"So you're not getting an abortion, and you refuse to marry the father of the child...what does that leave me with?!" he thought aloud,his voice generally calm but nervous.
Sighing once more, he asked, "You would rather be a single mother,then?"
Pan shook her head."No, I'm saying I don't know you well enough to be married.DUDE!" she said loudly, though it was not a shout.
"I'm going to college in about a month and I'm pregnant!Pregnant!!What the hell am I supposed to do now?!I'm on a scholarship, man!I can't just not show up for the four years I'm attending!"
"Wouldn't you think that Stanford might have a place for young mothers?" Neo asked hopefully. Pan looked at him with her eyes narrowed and her face tilted. "Neo, think about it.You've been there for two years already and going on your third,yet you don't know?!"
Neo shrugged sheepishly in response. There was suddenly a sound of a door opening slowly, the hinges creaking. Neo and Pan turned around skittishly, and two pairs of eyes, one set london blue and the other midnight blue, widened when they saw Lyric, paler than usual, standing in the doorway.
Inhaling deeply, she shakily spoke. " I know, Pan. And," she gulped,her voice rising nervously, "You're not the only one."
Her short but poignant speech said, she fell forward in a faint.
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Another chapter?!At last?
OMG, is this a dream?! *bangs her head on her desk*
*squeaks and puts a hand to her head*
Ow, ow, ow...I guess not! *shrugs and laughs sheepishly*
Hope you guys liked this chapter! I won't be writing anymore for a while, what with school and all, but this fiction is FAR from over, and even though I have my own reputation for never finishing a story physically but having it planned beginning to end mentally, there will be so many twists and turns that it'll make your head spin!!
Anything else? *thinks* Oh yeah!
In case you were wondering....
The 'song' that Pan hears coming from Neo's room was the beginning of 'Beautiful Morning WIth You' by The Pillows,from Furi Kuri.
The 'inside jokes' here should be easily explained from reading this chapter.
It would just make me feel better to explain them in depth, since a lot of them are slight innuendo. Not to mention that even though a lot of the jokes are obvious, the funniest ones are actually quite vague.
"But what if he lost it already?"-Pan
I believe Lyric had already made a referrence to Neo's 'purity' a few chapters ago...
"At least I'M not a virgin!"-Lyric
(Pan was thinking out loud. She was asking no one in particular if he was no longer a virgin.)
There was another 'inside joke' that questioned Neo's 'purity',and it was made by Pan. Pan instigated that he had a ...how do I put this... libido (?) of sorts,and it embarrassed him because his wording did sound quite tempting to twist, lol.
"..if only they made something long enough..."-Neo
In this case, Pan questioned not only his 'purity' but his 'stamina' as well,lol.There are a lot of sex jokes here,and that's one reason it is rated R.The other reason is Pan's experiences while pregant and taking care of her child when she is born. I was going to write a lemon, but in order to do so I had to read others.I'm 'pure' myself, but I could have such a dirty mind if I chose to. Otherwise,I keep myself innocent, lol. Mind you, I don't think I could bring myself to write a lemon, and I read somewhere that FF.net was cracking down on the lemons *sighs* No lemon from me, then? Ask if you want one, and I'll see what I can do...*sighs*
*grins cheesily*
I'm such a doof,hehehehe!Yeah,I mean 'doof'. Not 'Goof,' not 'Dufus.'
Tis a combination.I am being doofy! *laughs like the Dory she is*
Don't worry!I had a weird dream last night about reading a fiction (It was the same way I started writing THIS fic!)I'm inspired to write more!
But it was about Ayashi No Ceres.I might start writing it, since I actually remembered the name of the 'fiction' I was reading (I was dreaming, remember?)
I remember the general story....who the hell is Ashioshe Aogiri?! According to what I rememeber of my dream (It switched from real life, to reading the fiction, to anime-All of the same story!), Ashioshe was a guy that Aya had a crush on...maybe I'll start typing it up the following weekend, but I need to sleep!In twenty minutes it'll be midnight!!
Oh yeah, I couldn't remember what this fiction was called in the dream I had of it's first chapter (Hence the reason I started writing this fic in the first place.I had a similar dream about it as well!) so I made it up.I won't have to do that with the Ceres fic because I actually remember it's name!
It shall be called 'Voulez Vous.'
Don't be confused by the name.I sure as hell am.Yes, I said 'don't be confused.'