Chapter 12

"One thing you should know about Alexis is that she's dumb." Hiei said to Kevin from behind the bush.

"She is?" he said.

"Yeah..." Hiei said.

"I didn't know that..." Kevin said.

"So... do you give up?" Hiei said a little too eagerly.

"No. Why would I?" Kevin said.

"Just testing" Hiei said.

"So, what do I do?" Kevin said.

Hiei thought a while. He remembered a while ago, he had asked the help of the others...

"Kurama, I have a problem..." Hiei said. He had gone to the place where Kurama was practicing at the middle of the night.

"And what problem did you indulge yourself into?" Kurama said as he calmly sipped some tea.

"Um..."

Kurama sighed as he put down his tea. "Hiei, we've been through so many things and don't tell me that you can't say a simple thing such as hi?"

Hiei took a deep breath. "Do you remember Kevin?"

Kurama raised an eyebrow.

"Oh yeah, you haven't met him." Hiei said as he scratched his back, "But he's a comrade of mine before and... well, we met each other and now..."

"He likes Alexis." Kurama said.

Hiei looked surprised at Kurama. "I'm not asking how you knew." he said.

"Ok." Kurama said, "So you like Alexis and Kevin likes Alexis. There's nothing wrong with that."

"Well, you see," Hiei said, "I kind-of agreed that I would help him um... what's the ningen word for that? Oh yeah, court her."

"You what???" Kurama said as the tea spilled in the grass. It was a good thing the cup was plastic if not, it would have been chipped.

"So what do I do?" Hiei said.

"Follow your heart." Kurama said.

"You sure?"

Kurama tapped his chest, over his heart, "Sure." he said in a sure way.

Hiei remembered what Kurama said.

Follow your heart...

He wanted Kevin out of the way and he would do just that. He and Kevin were comrades but long time ago, they argue almost about anything. It might make no difference.

"So, what do I do?" Kevin said as he turned to look at Hiei. Hiei looked at the boat and the lake before him. Then he had an idea.

"This is really nice of you to do this for me..." Alexis said, blushing a little. "I know TAT of people must have done it but the guy is never the same."

Kevin stopped rowing and looked at Alexis, "TAT?" he asked, enjoying wondering what her CL's mean.

"Thousands And Thousands..." she said. Kevin looked over the reed where Hiei was spying and mouthed if he, Kevin was doing all right. Hiei gave a thumbs-up.

Kevin inhaled and remembered what Hiei had said.

"What Alexis wants is someone who catches here by surprise in the form of pranks." Hiei had said, "When you are in the middle of the lake, overthrow the boat. Make her splash real hard in the water."

He didn't know Alexis liked that but he trusted Hiei on this. He slowly paddled to the middle of the lake and Alexis was chatting about how many nail polishes she had used already in her life.

They had reached the middle of the lake. It wasn't at the night anyway. It was three-o-clock in the afternoon and right now, Alexis was now complaining how much she needed an aircon.

"Now, it's like this," Hiei said, "The moment you reach the middle of the lake, say: Alexis, I have a surprise for you."

Kevin and Alexis talked a bit and after ten minutes, Kevin said, "Alexis, I have a surprise for you."

"Really?" Alexis said eagerly.

"Yeah." Kevin said.

"Then you overturn the boat."

And Kevin overturned the boat.

SPLASH!

"Keviiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Alexis shouted angrily from the water.

"Don't you like it Alexis?" Kevin asked as he swam to her.

Alexis was clutching the floating overturned boat.

"Of course," Hiei said, "At first she'll pretend not to like it."

"Baka!" Alexis shouted, "I don't even know how to swim! Bring me to the shore and carry me home! If I get a cold with this, I won't forget to haunt you when I die!"

"So you have to pretend that you didn't know she like it." Hiei said.

"Y-you don't like it?" Kevin asked.

"No, I don't" Alexis said, "I don't like it like a singly weeny yellow polka dot percent! Now bring... me.... hoooooooooooooommmmmmmeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Alexis' high-pitched scream pierced every ear.

"And even if she shouts, you follow whatever she tells you to do."

So, Kevin brought a drenched Alexis home.

Kevin waited for Alexis on top of a tree.

"Now, let's go to the next game-uh, I mean, step." Hiei said, "You will drop a large bag of flour on Alexis."

Kevin took the bag of floor and readied it when Alexis came out.

"Then you drop it bulls eye on top of her head." Hiei said.

Splat.

Alexis looked menacing to Kevin when she looked up, "Keviiiinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!"

"Then you do a peace sign." Hiei said, then after some thought, "And oh yeah, smile mischievously."

"Next, we scare-er I mean, you place real life spiders in her shoes."

Kevin slowly placed spiders in her shoes until the shoes were brimming with spiders.

"Kevin!" Alexis said.

"Make sure she catches you in the act of placing the spiders."

"Uh-oh..." Kevin said.

"And you say uh-oh." Hiei said, "Then you scurry away to leave Alexis to take out the spiders."

Alexis shook her shoes and shouted every now and then about evil spiders when the spiders would touch her. Soon no more spiders went out of her shoe.

"Although you should let her catch you placing the spiders..." Hiei said while pacing around the grass, "You should place a cockroach before she sees you placing the spiders."

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Alexis said. Kevin peeped to where Alexis was and Alexis saw him.

"Then you do a peace sign." Hiei said.

"The next trick- er I mean, step is to take a shirt from her closet while she's in the room."

"Kevin, what are you doing???" Alexis said when she suddenly realized Kevin had opened her closet.

"Then you get the prettiest looking shirt around."

Kevin took a pretty shirt that had a smiley face.

"Not my VINTAGE SHIRT!!!" Alexis said as she tried to grab the shirt.

"Then you play cat and mouse." Hiei said as he started pacing again, "Play around with Alexis and try to make her catch you. But don't get caught."

"Kevin!!!!!!!" Alexis said as she tried to grab the shirt and miss it by inches.

"Then the finale is..."

rrrrrRRRRRRRIIIIIIPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!

"You tear the shirt."

"Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Alexis shouted.

"Then you leave." Hiei said.

Kevin turned to leave but before that...

"You do the peace sign."

Now what will happen about Hiei and his works to let Kevin not like her? The next chapter might be nice.