...I am feeling somewhat brave today. I've decided to post chapter three as well. Nyeh, but I don't have much to say for another introduction. So just read it.
Chap. 3: Only The Beginning
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Rain splattered against the window in Kasey's "bedroom". She listened to the soft sounds of the pelting rain... she always did love that sound. Rainy weather was her favorite, and she enjoyed watching it like a TV show.
She put one paw on the window, the glass being the only thing keeping her from making contact with the rain water. Then she began to think of what had happened only some time ago.
Susan, Lilo, and Stitch had been here hours ago to take her back to the Pelekai's with them. But something had held Kasey back, had prevented her from leaving here. She had not been sure what that was, she just knew that something drew her here. And because of what Susan told her, she might just know what that thing was now.
It might be because... she was in love. She had denied it to Susan, of course, and she would deny it to anyone else who asked her. But she wasn't sure if she could deny it to herself. She did feel something... but she didn't know if it was love. She had never loved anyone romantically before, so the feeling was new to her. Could it be possible that she had feelings... romantic feelings, for 625? Was she crushing on him? Susan seemed to think so.
But she shouldn't just take Susan's word for it, she told herself. She should find out on her own. If she really was in love, she would discover that on her own. Her heart would tell her, and she would follow it.
So many things... so many new feelings and things she had experienced since their crash on Earth. She had never felt like this, or even thought of feeling like this, before then. And she wasn't sure if she was ready for such new experiences yet. As for Susan, she welcomed change with open arms. She was always ready to try new things, and was, or seemed to always be, in the driver's seat. Kasey, however, wasn't comfortable about change. She was almost afraid of it...
She shivered, and pulled her blanket up around herself. Well, at least Susan agreed to visit once in a while, and she agreed to visit her, too. So at least they could have talks once in a while on their visits. But as for now, Kasey never felt so alone. She felt alone in a world she did not know, full of things she did not recognize.
A knock then came, but not on the door, as Kasey didn't have one, but a knock on the wall. Which gave off a strange, peculiar sound, for the wall was made of some sort of metal. Kasey turned around to see who had knocked.
She didn't know why, but she felt a little embarrassed when she saw that it was 625. He was holding some sort of package, a package with cloth tied up with rubber band. He looked a bit embarrassed, too, but he went up to her and handed her the package. "Susan insisted I give this to you..."
Kasey gingerly accepted the package from him, and as soon as she did, he quickly disappeared from the room. She looked at the package curiously, stroking the cloth fabric with her paws, very careful not to snag a claw on it. Then, finally, she took the rubber band between her claws and lifted it from the cloth. The cloth automatically fell flat, revealing what was in the package.
It was a sandwich. A simple ham and cheese sandwich. Kasey smiled, not at all disappointed at the simplicity of her gift. She giggled. That was just like Susan, to tell 625 to give her something. Kasey wondered what Susan bribed him with in order to get him to give her something. Well, it didn't matter. Even though this gift had been bribed out of him, it made Kasey feel good. Which brought her to wondering once more if she had feelings for 625. She would usually be annoyed at getting a gift that she had only received because the giver had been bribed.
She picked up the sandwich and bit into it, her eyes full of light, unknown to her. For some reason, she felt as if her soul had just been lifted to heaven as she ate it. Nothing could make this moment more perfect, she thought. Nothing except... if 625 were here right now.
She stared in astonishment at what she had just thought, and swallowed. She stared back out at the rain, which was pouring much harder now. Had she... just thought that? Yes. She had. She gulped. She... WAS in love. She was almost sure of it. She wrapped the uneaten half of the sandwich back up, planning to save it for later. But she knew that that sandwich would always be the best she would have ever eaten. She smiled... she was tired, but she did not want to go to sleep yet. She was going to get to the bottom of this now.
She roamed the halls of the ship once more, now more accustomed to where everything was than she had been before. Silence seemed to coat the ship like a thick fog, but she knew no one was asleep yet. Finally, she got to the room she was looking for. "The living room", if that's what you wanted to call it. Well, it had a sofa and a TV, so Kasey supposed that made sense. This was the room that her and 625 had only been in earlier, when it had still been afternoon time. But the sky was darkened now, and full of rain.
Kasey's ears drooped, disappointed, as she realized he wasn't there. She didn't feel like looking any longer, so she collapsed on the sofa, which was more warm and inviting than her "bed". She sighed, beginning to close her eyes...
"Hey, what're you doing here?! Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you live in the storage room?" Kasey looked up, and was happy to see who was looking down at her. 625.
Kasey tried to hide the fact that she was glad to see him. "I don't live in there. And I can sleep out here if I want to. I am free to do so."
"Fine. Stay there. Just don't bother me as I watch late night TV." He took a seat next to her and switched on the TV.
Kasey knew he was expecting her to go to sleep, but she wanted to find out... she wanted a sign, or something, showing her that she really was positively in love with him, and that she wasn't just kidding herself. And she knew she wouldn't find out if she went to sleep. "So... what are you watching?" Casual conversation. Perfect, she told herself.
"Some old black and white movie." 625 mumbled as a reply.
Kasey cocked her head, and her left ear twitched a little. "Cool." She thought that a lame answer, but she couldn't think of anything else better to say. Like he was really paying attention to her, anyway. Kasey pouted. If 625 really was in love with her like Susan said he was, why wasn't he paying her any mind?
Kasey fell back against the couch, her eyelids suddenly feeling very heavy. She was tired, and here was the perfect place to fall asleep. She was warm and the flickering light of the TV seemed to lull her into slumber...
"Hey! Watch it!" 625's voice right in her ear made her snap back awake. She groaned and stretched a little... and felt strangely warm, but in a different way. She was lying against something soft, something soft, warm, and furry... she began to nod off again, but 625 stopped her. "Get off of me!"
Kasey snapped completely awake. Then she noticed... she was leaning against 625's arm! She immediately sat up straight in the middle of the sofa, looking embarrassed. "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just..." She yawned.
"You should go off to bed, Sleeping Beauty. I'm not your pillow, and I don't intend to be." He complained.
"Don't worry about it. It won't happen again." Kasey yawned once more. It was still difficult for her eyes to stay open...
She ended up falling back to sleep, but not on 625's arm, thankfully. When the movie was over, 625 turned off the TV, then looked down at Kasey sleeping peacefully on the sofa. He smiled at her with an amused look, and grabbed a nearby blanket, placing it upon her. Then he started to walk away...
As soon as he did, however, she unconsciously grabbed his arm, making him freeze in place. He looked over at her, turning around. She still slept peacably, but she was still holding on to his arm. Finally, he stirred her awake. "Let go!"
"Huh? What?" Kasey opened her eyes, looking around. Then she noticed whose arm she was holding onto. She was more embarrassed than ever. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" She quickly took her hand away, freeing her grip.
"Ya know, I'm beginning to think you see me as more than a friend, although I don't know where you got that since I didn't even know we were friends." 625 exclaimed.
Kasey swallowed. Then she tried to look cool, as if it were no big deal. "We're not. I was just really tired, so that's why those things happened. I don't see you as a love interest. Why would I be in love with some lazy slob for?" Of course, those words she didn't mean. But she couldn't let him know she might be interested in him!
"Well, you're not exactly a prize pig yourself!" 625 shot back.
Kasey felt a little hurt. If he was crushing on her, he had a funny way of showing it! "I can't believe that Susan said you---" She quickly shut her mouth. What was she thinking?
"Go ahead, Valentina. What DID Freak Face say?" 625 asked curiously.
"Nothing..."
"Come on, it has to be something."
"It's nothing, okay?" Kasey insisted, getting up from the sofa. "Nothing important!"
"And yet you have such a strong defensive reaction..." 625 noted.
Kasey sighed. There was no point. He'd eventually drag it out of her anyway. "Well... she sort of said that you were in love with me."
625 blinked, staring at her for a moment, speechless. Then he burst out laughing. "Whatever gave her such a crazy idea?!"
Kasey knew he wouldn't admit it even if it was true, but him saying this still made her feel a little disappointed. But she shrugged. "It's because she was created to attract all males except those in love, and since she definitely didn't attract you, she knew you already had a crush."
625 was still laughing. "But what made her think---it was YOU?!"
Kasey pouted. "Hey! What's wrong with me?"
625 looked at her seriously, although he was still obviously trying to contain his laughter. "Do you REALLY want me to answer that?"
Kasey thought about this. "No. On second thought, I don't."
"Good. Because you wouldn't like it." 625 started to walk away again, but Kasey again grabbed his arm, stopping him.
"Wait."
"There it is with that again. I told you you are the one in love! Not me." He insisted.
"No. Listen to me. I think we can find out if we really are in love." Kasey said nervously.
"How? Are you going to shoot me with an arrow or something, Cupid?" 625 asked, half-joking, half-serious.
Kasey looked at the floor as she spoke. "No... I think, that um, we should... you know, kiss?"
625 looked at her as if she had just fallen out of the sky and asked how his day was. "Kiss?! Have you completely lost what little brains you have?! There's no way I'm kissing you!"
"Well, I just thought if we kissed it would tell us whether or not we liked each other! Sheesh!" Kasey complained.
"How can a sloppy smack on the lips tell anyone anything?! It's disgusting, if you ask me." 625 told Kasey.
"I wouldn't expect you to understand. Don't you know that a first kiss is special? And if it means something, it'll be like fireworks going off?" Kasey daydreamed, sighing pleasantly.
"You know what your problem is? You watch too many soap operas and cheesy sitcoms." 625 pointed out. "Like anything REALLY happens like that in real life."
Kasey was annoyed. "Any MORE of my hopes and dreams you want to crush?"
With a satisfied smile, 625 said, "No, I think that pretty much covers it."
"Yeah, and if we just kissed to see if we were in love... well, I wouldn't want to waste my special first kiss on YOU..." Kasey smirked.
"Well, I wouldn't want to waste mine on you, either! I bet you kiss like a horse." 625 smirked as well.
"I bet you kiss like a frog! Too bad you wouldn't turn into my handsome prince." Kasey shot back.
"Even the handsome prince wouldn't want to kiss you!"
"Well, I wouldn't kiss you even if you WERE a handsome prince!"
...And then the impossible happened. After this line of insults being thrown back and forth, their faces got so close that... yes! They touched lips and kissed! Neither one of them had seen it coming, it just... happened. The kiss wasn't very long, and ended rather painfully when Kasey received a nick on her lip, though.
"Ow! You bit me!" Kasey complained.
"Well, I've got a worse complaint! YOU kissed ME!" 625 shot back. "I was right! You DO kiss like a horse!"
"Well, I still think you kiss like a frog! But with teeth. Ow..." Kasey rubbed her lip, which was bleeding just a little.
625 rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on! Whoever heard of such a thing?"
"Well, look at this nick you gave me!" Kasey pointed out the sore on her lip to prove her point.
"Oh, gimme a break! You're just being a baby." 625 snorted.
"I am not! That really hurt! Do you know what it's like to get bitten on your first kiss?" Kasey complained more.
"Hey! It's not my fault if I have an overbite!" 625 pointed to his teeth. "And let me just get some things straight here so that your oh-so-colorful imagination won't go into overdrive. Firstly, just because we kissed, doesn't mean we're going to be a couple from now on. The last thing I want is a girlfriend. I'll never be interested in you, okay, Love Princess? As far as this kiss thing goes, it NEVER happened. You tell no one. Not even that scatterbrained, uppity friend of your's."
"Susan?" Kasey guessed automatically.
"Who else?"
Kasey thought these things over. Then she nodded. "Okay. Okay. The kiss never happened. Like there's much to tell, anyway."
"And means nothing."
"And means nothing." Kasey repeated, although she wasn't really sure if that were true. She started to back out of the room, and finally ran back into her own. She collapsed in the blankets, and looked back out of the window. She noticed that the rain had lessened a little.
Which was how she felt. She felt that the weather in her own soul had turned less gloomy. Even though she had been bitten on her first kiss, she... she still had her first kiss! Sure, it could've been better. It could've been WAY better. But, as mushy as Kasey thought it was even by thinking it, it still meant a lot to her. She knew that she couldn't forget it just like that. She picked up the partially eaten sandwich from earlier and smiled.
No. She would never admit it, no way, no how, but now she knew for sure she was in love. She was in love with 625, and she knew it, but she would never admit it. Kasey and 625, for now, would be nothing but friends, if you could even call them that. Partners or allies, maybe. But they weren't a couple, and if they ever would be, it wasn't anytime soon. Which was just fine with Kasey.
Satisfied with her thoughts, Kasey bit into her sandwich, and started polishing off the rest of it. She watched the lessening rain for a few more minutes before she went to sleep, and had one last thought. This was only the beginning. There was much more down the road for them all to face. The kiss couldn't be forgotten forever. Three words, those three words rang throughout Kasey's mind as she slept... only the beginning.
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Susan sat on the fence at the Pelekai house, looking up at the stars. It was barely raining now, although some drops still fell, and Susan's fur was soaked. She had snuck out of the house when she was sure everyone had gone to sleep. She had needed to think, raining or not.
Like... was she doomed to live in a fantasy life? She had tried everything she could think of to get Stitch's attention. Nothing had worked. Susan didn't enjoy rejection, especially from someone she really liked! But what could she do? She had tried numerous things already.
Then, a noise caught Susan's attention. It sounded like someone was walking quickly across the ground... towards her! The fact that someone could find her out here startled her, and she knew she had to get down from the fence. But she was spooked so that she didn't have time to think, and she flipped over the side of the fence!
She covered her eyes, but instead of hitting the ground painfully like she imagined would happen, she felt herself fall into someone's arms! She had been caught! But by who? She uncovered her eyes.
Oh my gosh, she thought. She thought she was going to faint. Yup, you guessed it. She fell right into the arms of experiment 626, or otherwise known as Stitch. She couldn't believe it. She had been trying to get his attention all day, and here she was, in his arms. She should've thought of falling off a fence before! Not that it had been intentional.
"You all right?" Stitch asked her.
Susan felt like squealing when she heard his voice. "Yes, I'm fine! But you can carry me back inside."
Stitch didn't have any problems with this. He gladly carried her up to the house, although this meant more to Susan, more than Stitch would ever comprehend. But Susan knew... if she ever expected Stitch to even consider her, she had to say something. But it had to be less awkward than blurting out, "I love you."
"Stitch, wait..." Susan stopped him as he was about to go through an open window.
"Yeah?" Stitch cocked his head curiously.
"Would you like to..." Susan considered her words carefully, then said, "maybe go to a restaurant tomorrow? Just you and me?"
Stitch looked confused. "Uhhh... sure."
Susan couldn't help beaming. She had a date with Stitch! Although, he didn't know it was a date. Actually, she wasn't sure what he thought it was. But it was like a date to her! And she definitely couldn't wait until tomorrow.
When Susan was deposited in her crate bed and the covers pulled over her by Stitch, she watched him as he went across the room and got into his own bed. She sighed, wondering if tomorrow would make things different. Would a date change things between her and Stitch? Would he finally begin to look at her in a new light? Would he finally forget about whoever he was already in love with? And just who was he in love with? As she went to sleep, she was positive of one thing. This was only the beginning, for Stitch and Susan, and for 625 and Kasey.
THE END
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To be continued
Okay. Ech... just to clear some things up, this fanfic will NOT center solely around romance. Just the beginning chapters kinda' do. I PROMISE that other things happen, too. I'm not the kind of person that writes sappy love stories without any real plot. So don't worry about that. Okay? Okay. Review and be nice.
Chap. 3: Only The Beginning
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Rain splattered against the window in Kasey's "bedroom". She listened to the soft sounds of the pelting rain... she always did love that sound. Rainy weather was her favorite, and she enjoyed watching it like a TV show.
She put one paw on the window, the glass being the only thing keeping her from making contact with the rain water. Then she began to think of what had happened only some time ago.
Susan, Lilo, and Stitch had been here hours ago to take her back to the Pelekai's with them. But something had held Kasey back, had prevented her from leaving here. She had not been sure what that was, she just knew that something drew her here. And because of what Susan told her, she might just know what that thing was now.
It might be because... she was in love. She had denied it to Susan, of course, and she would deny it to anyone else who asked her. But she wasn't sure if she could deny it to herself. She did feel something... but she didn't know if it was love. She had never loved anyone romantically before, so the feeling was new to her. Could it be possible that she had feelings... romantic feelings, for 625? Was she crushing on him? Susan seemed to think so.
But she shouldn't just take Susan's word for it, she told herself. She should find out on her own. If she really was in love, she would discover that on her own. Her heart would tell her, and she would follow it.
So many things... so many new feelings and things she had experienced since their crash on Earth. She had never felt like this, or even thought of feeling like this, before then. And she wasn't sure if she was ready for such new experiences yet. As for Susan, she welcomed change with open arms. She was always ready to try new things, and was, or seemed to always be, in the driver's seat. Kasey, however, wasn't comfortable about change. She was almost afraid of it...
She shivered, and pulled her blanket up around herself. Well, at least Susan agreed to visit once in a while, and she agreed to visit her, too. So at least they could have talks once in a while on their visits. But as for now, Kasey never felt so alone. She felt alone in a world she did not know, full of things she did not recognize.
A knock then came, but not on the door, as Kasey didn't have one, but a knock on the wall. Which gave off a strange, peculiar sound, for the wall was made of some sort of metal. Kasey turned around to see who had knocked.
She didn't know why, but she felt a little embarrassed when she saw that it was 625. He was holding some sort of package, a package with cloth tied up with rubber band. He looked a bit embarrassed, too, but he went up to her and handed her the package. "Susan insisted I give this to you..."
Kasey gingerly accepted the package from him, and as soon as she did, he quickly disappeared from the room. She looked at the package curiously, stroking the cloth fabric with her paws, very careful not to snag a claw on it. Then, finally, she took the rubber band between her claws and lifted it from the cloth. The cloth automatically fell flat, revealing what was in the package.
It was a sandwich. A simple ham and cheese sandwich. Kasey smiled, not at all disappointed at the simplicity of her gift. She giggled. That was just like Susan, to tell 625 to give her something. Kasey wondered what Susan bribed him with in order to get him to give her something. Well, it didn't matter. Even though this gift had been bribed out of him, it made Kasey feel good. Which brought her to wondering once more if she had feelings for 625. She would usually be annoyed at getting a gift that she had only received because the giver had been bribed.
She picked up the sandwich and bit into it, her eyes full of light, unknown to her. For some reason, she felt as if her soul had just been lifted to heaven as she ate it. Nothing could make this moment more perfect, she thought. Nothing except... if 625 were here right now.
She stared in astonishment at what she had just thought, and swallowed. She stared back out at the rain, which was pouring much harder now. Had she... just thought that? Yes. She had. She gulped. She... WAS in love. She was almost sure of it. She wrapped the uneaten half of the sandwich back up, planning to save it for later. But she knew that that sandwich would always be the best she would have ever eaten. She smiled... she was tired, but she did not want to go to sleep yet. She was going to get to the bottom of this now.
She roamed the halls of the ship once more, now more accustomed to where everything was than she had been before. Silence seemed to coat the ship like a thick fog, but she knew no one was asleep yet. Finally, she got to the room she was looking for. "The living room", if that's what you wanted to call it. Well, it had a sofa and a TV, so Kasey supposed that made sense. This was the room that her and 625 had only been in earlier, when it had still been afternoon time. But the sky was darkened now, and full of rain.
Kasey's ears drooped, disappointed, as she realized he wasn't there. She didn't feel like looking any longer, so she collapsed on the sofa, which was more warm and inviting than her "bed". She sighed, beginning to close her eyes...
"Hey, what're you doing here?! Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't you live in the storage room?" Kasey looked up, and was happy to see who was looking down at her. 625.
Kasey tried to hide the fact that she was glad to see him. "I don't live in there. And I can sleep out here if I want to. I am free to do so."
"Fine. Stay there. Just don't bother me as I watch late night TV." He took a seat next to her and switched on the TV.
Kasey knew he was expecting her to go to sleep, but she wanted to find out... she wanted a sign, or something, showing her that she really was positively in love with him, and that she wasn't just kidding herself. And she knew she wouldn't find out if she went to sleep. "So... what are you watching?" Casual conversation. Perfect, she told herself.
"Some old black and white movie." 625 mumbled as a reply.
Kasey cocked her head, and her left ear twitched a little. "Cool." She thought that a lame answer, but she couldn't think of anything else better to say. Like he was really paying attention to her, anyway. Kasey pouted. If 625 really was in love with her like Susan said he was, why wasn't he paying her any mind?
Kasey fell back against the couch, her eyelids suddenly feeling very heavy. She was tired, and here was the perfect place to fall asleep. She was warm and the flickering light of the TV seemed to lull her into slumber...
"Hey! Watch it!" 625's voice right in her ear made her snap back awake. She groaned and stretched a little... and felt strangely warm, but in a different way. She was lying against something soft, something soft, warm, and furry... she began to nod off again, but 625 stopped her. "Get off of me!"
Kasey snapped completely awake. Then she noticed... she was leaning against 625's arm! She immediately sat up straight in the middle of the sofa, looking embarrassed. "Oh, I'm sorry, I'm just..." She yawned.
"You should go off to bed, Sleeping Beauty. I'm not your pillow, and I don't intend to be." He complained.
"Don't worry about it. It won't happen again." Kasey yawned once more. It was still difficult for her eyes to stay open...
She ended up falling back to sleep, but not on 625's arm, thankfully. When the movie was over, 625 turned off the TV, then looked down at Kasey sleeping peacefully on the sofa. He smiled at her with an amused look, and grabbed a nearby blanket, placing it upon her. Then he started to walk away...
As soon as he did, however, she unconsciously grabbed his arm, making him freeze in place. He looked over at her, turning around. She still slept peacably, but she was still holding on to his arm. Finally, he stirred her awake. "Let go!"
"Huh? What?" Kasey opened her eyes, looking around. Then she noticed whose arm she was holding onto. She was more embarrassed than ever. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" She quickly took her hand away, freeing her grip.
"Ya know, I'm beginning to think you see me as more than a friend, although I don't know where you got that since I didn't even know we were friends." 625 exclaimed.
Kasey swallowed. Then she tried to look cool, as if it were no big deal. "We're not. I was just really tired, so that's why those things happened. I don't see you as a love interest. Why would I be in love with some lazy slob for?" Of course, those words she didn't mean. But she couldn't let him know she might be interested in him!
"Well, you're not exactly a prize pig yourself!" 625 shot back.
Kasey felt a little hurt. If he was crushing on her, he had a funny way of showing it! "I can't believe that Susan said you---" She quickly shut her mouth. What was she thinking?
"Go ahead, Valentina. What DID Freak Face say?" 625 asked curiously.
"Nothing..."
"Come on, it has to be something."
"It's nothing, okay?" Kasey insisted, getting up from the sofa. "Nothing important!"
"And yet you have such a strong defensive reaction..." 625 noted.
Kasey sighed. There was no point. He'd eventually drag it out of her anyway. "Well... she sort of said that you were in love with me."
625 blinked, staring at her for a moment, speechless. Then he burst out laughing. "Whatever gave her such a crazy idea?!"
Kasey knew he wouldn't admit it even if it was true, but him saying this still made her feel a little disappointed. But she shrugged. "It's because she was created to attract all males except those in love, and since she definitely didn't attract you, she knew you already had a crush."
625 was still laughing. "But what made her think---it was YOU?!"
Kasey pouted. "Hey! What's wrong with me?"
625 looked at her seriously, although he was still obviously trying to contain his laughter. "Do you REALLY want me to answer that?"
Kasey thought about this. "No. On second thought, I don't."
"Good. Because you wouldn't like it." 625 started to walk away again, but Kasey again grabbed his arm, stopping him.
"Wait."
"There it is with that again. I told you you are the one in love! Not me." He insisted.
"No. Listen to me. I think we can find out if we really are in love." Kasey said nervously.
"How? Are you going to shoot me with an arrow or something, Cupid?" 625 asked, half-joking, half-serious.
Kasey looked at the floor as she spoke. "No... I think, that um, we should... you know, kiss?"
625 looked at her as if she had just fallen out of the sky and asked how his day was. "Kiss?! Have you completely lost what little brains you have?! There's no way I'm kissing you!"
"Well, I just thought if we kissed it would tell us whether or not we liked each other! Sheesh!" Kasey complained.
"How can a sloppy smack on the lips tell anyone anything?! It's disgusting, if you ask me." 625 told Kasey.
"I wouldn't expect you to understand. Don't you know that a first kiss is special? And if it means something, it'll be like fireworks going off?" Kasey daydreamed, sighing pleasantly.
"You know what your problem is? You watch too many soap operas and cheesy sitcoms." 625 pointed out. "Like anything REALLY happens like that in real life."
Kasey was annoyed. "Any MORE of my hopes and dreams you want to crush?"
With a satisfied smile, 625 said, "No, I think that pretty much covers it."
"Yeah, and if we just kissed to see if we were in love... well, I wouldn't want to waste my special first kiss on YOU..." Kasey smirked.
"Well, I wouldn't want to waste mine on you, either! I bet you kiss like a horse." 625 smirked as well.
"I bet you kiss like a frog! Too bad you wouldn't turn into my handsome prince." Kasey shot back.
"Even the handsome prince wouldn't want to kiss you!"
"Well, I wouldn't kiss you even if you WERE a handsome prince!"
...And then the impossible happened. After this line of insults being thrown back and forth, their faces got so close that... yes! They touched lips and kissed! Neither one of them had seen it coming, it just... happened. The kiss wasn't very long, and ended rather painfully when Kasey received a nick on her lip, though.
"Ow! You bit me!" Kasey complained.
"Well, I've got a worse complaint! YOU kissed ME!" 625 shot back. "I was right! You DO kiss like a horse!"
"Well, I still think you kiss like a frog! But with teeth. Ow..." Kasey rubbed her lip, which was bleeding just a little.
625 rolled his eyes. "Oh, come on! Whoever heard of such a thing?"
"Well, look at this nick you gave me!" Kasey pointed out the sore on her lip to prove her point.
"Oh, gimme a break! You're just being a baby." 625 snorted.
"I am not! That really hurt! Do you know what it's like to get bitten on your first kiss?" Kasey complained more.
"Hey! It's not my fault if I have an overbite!" 625 pointed to his teeth. "And let me just get some things straight here so that your oh-so-colorful imagination won't go into overdrive. Firstly, just because we kissed, doesn't mean we're going to be a couple from now on. The last thing I want is a girlfriend. I'll never be interested in you, okay, Love Princess? As far as this kiss thing goes, it NEVER happened. You tell no one. Not even that scatterbrained, uppity friend of your's."
"Susan?" Kasey guessed automatically.
"Who else?"
Kasey thought these things over. Then she nodded. "Okay. Okay. The kiss never happened. Like there's much to tell, anyway."
"And means nothing."
"And means nothing." Kasey repeated, although she wasn't really sure if that were true. She started to back out of the room, and finally ran back into her own. She collapsed in the blankets, and looked back out of the window. She noticed that the rain had lessened a little.
Which was how she felt. She felt that the weather in her own soul had turned less gloomy. Even though she had been bitten on her first kiss, she... she still had her first kiss! Sure, it could've been better. It could've been WAY better. But, as mushy as Kasey thought it was even by thinking it, it still meant a lot to her. She knew that she couldn't forget it just like that. She picked up the partially eaten sandwich from earlier and smiled.
No. She would never admit it, no way, no how, but now she knew for sure she was in love. She was in love with 625, and she knew it, but she would never admit it. Kasey and 625, for now, would be nothing but friends, if you could even call them that. Partners or allies, maybe. But they weren't a couple, and if they ever would be, it wasn't anytime soon. Which was just fine with Kasey.
Satisfied with her thoughts, Kasey bit into her sandwich, and started polishing off the rest of it. She watched the lessening rain for a few more minutes before she went to sleep, and had one last thought. This was only the beginning. There was much more down the road for them all to face. The kiss couldn't be forgotten forever. Three words, those three words rang throughout Kasey's mind as she slept... only the beginning.
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Susan sat on the fence at the Pelekai house, looking up at the stars. It was barely raining now, although some drops still fell, and Susan's fur was soaked. She had snuck out of the house when she was sure everyone had gone to sleep. She had needed to think, raining or not.
Like... was she doomed to live in a fantasy life? She had tried everything she could think of to get Stitch's attention. Nothing had worked. Susan didn't enjoy rejection, especially from someone she really liked! But what could she do? She had tried numerous things already.
Then, a noise caught Susan's attention. It sounded like someone was walking quickly across the ground... towards her! The fact that someone could find her out here startled her, and she knew she had to get down from the fence. But she was spooked so that she didn't have time to think, and she flipped over the side of the fence!
She covered her eyes, but instead of hitting the ground painfully like she imagined would happen, she felt herself fall into someone's arms! She had been caught! But by who? She uncovered her eyes.
Oh my gosh, she thought. She thought she was going to faint. Yup, you guessed it. She fell right into the arms of experiment 626, or otherwise known as Stitch. She couldn't believe it. She had been trying to get his attention all day, and here she was, in his arms. She should've thought of falling off a fence before! Not that it had been intentional.
"You all right?" Stitch asked her.
Susan felt like squealing when she heard his voice. "Yes, I'm fine! But you can carry me back inside."
Stitch didn't have any problems with this. He gladly carried her up to the house, although this meant more to Susan, more than Stitch would ever comprehend. But Susan knew... if she ever expected Stitch to even consider her, she had to say something. But it had to be less awkward than blurting out, "I love you."
"Stitch, wait..." Susan stopped him as he was about to go through an open window.
"Yeah?" Stitch cocked his head curiously.
"Would you like to..." Susan considered her words carefully, then said, "maybe go to a restaurant tomorrow? Just you and me?"
Stitch looked confused. "Uhhh... sure."
Susan couldn't help beaming. She had a date with Stitch! Although, he didn't know it was a date. Actually, she wasn't sure what he thought it was. But it was like a date to her! And she definitely couldn't wait until tomorrow.
When Susan was deposited in her crate bed and the covers pulled over her by Stitch, she watched him as he went across the room and got into his own bed. She sighed, wondering if tomorrow would make things different. Would a date change things between her and Stitch? Would he finally begin to look at her in a new light? Would he finally forget about whoever he was already in love with? And just who was he in love with? As she went to sleep, she was positive of one thing. This was only the beginning, for Stitch and Susan, and for 625 and Kasey.
THE END
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To be continued
Okay. Ech... just to clear some things up, this fanfic will NOT center solely around romance. Just the beginning chapters kinda' do. I PROMISE that other things happen, too. I'm not the kind of person that writes sappy love stories without any real plot. So don't worry about that. Okay? Okay. Review and be nice.