Christie's Life on Zack Island
Chapter Four
Extreme........VICTORY!!!!!
a/n: Check out my sister's fan fiction If you like. Her username is alennademi688211. Yes, and her's is way better! I was wrong last time. Helena's hair is down to her knees, NOT down to her waist! Sorry about that!
Day 3: Christie went down to the dining place to have breakfast with Hitomi. She was incredibly hungry. The theme today is Japanese, which meant sushi, sashimi, large amounts of udon noodles, and green tea ice-cream were prominently displayed on the long buffet table. She came over to Hitomi's, scooping some thin noodles into a bowl.
'Good morning! Slept well?' Hitomi said cheerfully, eating an eel sushi whole.
Christie ate her noodles, dry. 'Yeah, kind of.'
Hitomi smiled. 'You need sauce to eat that.' She poured some black sauce into a dish and dipped Christie's noodles into it. 'There!'
Christie looked bewildered. Noodles with sauce?
'Er...thanks.' As Hitomi was her new partner, manners were important. Hitomi smiled and stuffed a tuna sushi into her mouth. She seemed to enjoy the Japanese food. Christie scanned the area. Lisa and Tina were chatting animatedly. They ate their eggs and toast as usual. Helena was sitting in her seat, stirring a cup of mocha coffee. Ayane and Kasumi were nowhere to be seen, and Lei Fang seemed to enjoy her green tea ice-cream a lot.
Christie waited for Hitomi to finish her huge breakfast before talking to her, so that she can prevent seeing the bits of rice and seaweed wobbling in her mouth.
'Who are we playing today?'
'Are you really that concerned? I think......' Hitomi flapped her catalog. That damn catalog. Christie wondered who wrote it.
'No, I dunno....' Hitomi mumbled. Christie saw why. She can't see Tina because it would be so embarrasing. Lisa wasn't a choice as well because she had only split up with Christie yesterday. Lei Fang was her best buddy, and Ayane and Kasumi had just humiliated Christie the day before yesterday. Christie almost sighed. Oh well, for Hitomi's sake then...
'We'll play with Ayane and Kasumi then. Let's split them up. Once they lose, Ayane wouldn't be too keen to stay with Kasumi any more.' Christie suggested hopefully.
'Is it okay with you? I mean the article that day......' Hitomi trailed off, aware of making Christie angry. Instead, she shook her head.
'No...it would make me happier to see them-' She almost said 'die'. She continued. '-lose.'
Back at the Private Beach, Kasumi was playing on the swing. Ayane was pacing slowly on the sand before Christie and Hitomi arrived. Ayane tried her best to hide her surprise.
'I knew you'd come. Revenge or what?' She smirked. Kasumi was still playing on the swing like a little lass. Christie decided to get things done with.
'Shut your purple mouth and let's start.' Christie snapped. They stood in their positions. Ayane served the ball swiftly. Surprise, surprise, it was purple.
It was a light serve. Christie had discussed the tactics with Hitomi earlier and they were going to flatten them. Yes...
She passed the ball softly to Hitomi. Hitomi passed the ball with huge force toward above the net. Christie jumped up. Ayane and Kasumi were both slightly in back court. They feared Hitomi's strong spikes would hit them. Christie feinted the spike, letting the ball topple over the net.
1-0
'Hey, you can't do that!' Ayane cried out, simply filled with anger of their easy score winning.
'Oh yes we can.' Christie said softly in her low voice, not trying to hide her triumph. Without waiting for Ayane to continue, she did an easy over-hand serve. Ayane passed the ball to Kasumi. In normal circumstances Kasumi should pass it back to Ayane to let her spike. But Kasumi didn't. She tossed it over the net. The ball landed gently in Hitomi's hands. Time to let them see Hitomi's great strength. Hitomi passed it to Christie. Christie threw the ball towards the net. Ayane was positioned in front of the net, ready to block Hitomi's spike. Hitomi spiked real hard and the ball smacked into Ayane's face. Ayane toppled backwards. And there goes 2000 nice points into Hitomi's pocket. Kasumi looked down right scared. Ayane avoided their glances.
2-0
Time to tease.
'Ruined your little powder-caked face?' Christie muttered.
Hitomi made a powerful jump-serve. As Ayane hadn't recovered yet and Kasumi thought Ayane would get it, none of them caught the ball. In fact, it bounced off the ground with force it hit Kasumi in the stomach. She let out a soft yelp. Ayane's eyes scolded her. Ha!
3-0
Hitomi did an over hand serve to make things fair. An over hand serve doesn't carry much force. Ayane passed it forcefully to Kasumi (she felt like smashing her with the ball). Kasumi obediently tossed it toward the net. Ayane spiked – unfortunately Hitomi was trying to block her – but feinted it. It landed behind Hitomi. Practically the worst nightmare of a blocker's.
3-1
Now they've got to win! Hand me over those points, Ayane!
The game went on until it was 6-2. Match point time...la la la! Christie's heart was dancing...one more point and they would beat them...and be history!
She told Hitomi to do a simple under hand serve. Over hands and jump serves have too much risk. Hitomi obeyed. She, too, realized how important this game was to Christie. Ayane handed the ball over to Kasumi, and Kasumi Ayane. Ayane tried her very very best to spike harder, but Christie had already sensed it. She passed the ball safely to Hitomi. Then Hitomi to Christie. Christie looked once more at their positions. Good God, they were leaving this beautiful gap between them. She would just have to spike it there. But Ayane sensed Christie's motive too. She hurried closer to Kasumi. HAHA! A bit tooo close, huh? Christie changed her mind. She spiked it to where Ayane was standing before! YES!!!!!!!
And they won!!!
Hitomi slapped Christie a high five. Ayane and Kasumi left the place without a word. When they thought Christie was out of earshot, Ayane started shouting at Kasumi loudly. Christie heard them and felt relieved. Finally they can split up!
Christie couldn't stop smiling.
She heard clapping hands. She turned. Lisa and Lei Fang were clapping, heading towards them. They were wearing big smiles – and beautiful swimsuits too. She nodded to Lisa. Hitomi did the same to Lei Fang.
'That was real super, Chris!' Lisa said, patting her on the back. What was she doing and where was Tina? Christie nodded, without saying a word.
'Well, I guess we can be team mates again, huh?' Lisa said. WHAT?! So she split up with me because I looked like a fool in the article and she thought I was no use at all? Christie stared at her.
'I think I'm happy with Hitomi here, thank you.' Christie burned Lisa's eyes with hers. She hated these kinds of people. Betraying. Judging people from the outside. Lisa looked as if Christie was meant to be with her all along. Lisa lowered her voice.
'You can make up a story for Hitomi. She can pair up with Lei Fang. Tina would understand.' The rage in Christie's eyes grew harder. She knew words were no use already. She high kicked into Lisa's face.
'Did you like that? Would you like it if I throw you away after using you?' Christie said softly into Lisa's ears, holding her head in her hands. Hitomi and Lisa looked surprised, but not scared. Things like this were common in the tournament. Lisa's shimmering lips trembled. Good Vibes from Benefit with Spice lip liner from MAC and horrible GLITTER. Doesn't she know that there's shimmering lipstick on sale nowadays? She didn't cry. Christie wanted to squeeze her head...squeeze her until the tears came out. She wanted to rip off that beautiful black swimsuit – Leto – Lisa was wearing and tear it to pieces. There were many things she wanted to do, but instead she held her by the neck and threw her as far as she could. Lisa fell in the shallow water, the waves gently lapping at her face. Nobody came to her rescue. So everybody knew that she was bad after all. If Christie remembered clearly, Lisa did not try to revive her the day before yesterday.
Smiling, she accompanied Hitomi and Lei Fang to lunch.
She was starving to death already. Lunch was brilliant – bowls of 'egg' noodles, udon noodles, sushi, sashimi, green tea ice-cream, tea, tempura, the sort. Christie felt anything was appetising so she got some of everything. She got back to her seat with Lei Fang and Hitomi. Lei Fang was eating a bowl of noodles. Hitomi was stuffing her face with sushi and dipping huge amounts of tempura into the sauce. They both smiled at Christie. Lei Fang was wearing Peacock – an adorable blue checked thong bikini with white frills on the side. Hitomi was wearing Orion – a one-piece with black, and brown cutting into the black like grass in the middle. Christie herself was still wearing Lapis Lazuli, but with a towel around her neck.
'How are you doing, Christie?' Lei Fang asked. Lei Fang had beat her in the tournament and she was really surprised. Lei Fang was 5 years younger than her. She was cute with a sense of humour. They haven't seen each other since...Christie forgot. They were quite good friends actually, despite the two different personalities.
'Fine. You?'
'Wonderful.'
'How's it doing with Lee?' Lee is Jann Lee, Lei Fang's rumoured crush.
Lei Fang blushed in her Peacock suit.
'What do you mean by that?'
'Nothing.'
Hitomi looked quizzically from Christie to Lei Fang. Apparently she didn't understand. She wasn't there in the second tournament.
'Huh?' She said quietly. Christie liked the atmosphere. She nodded to Lei Fang.
'You explain. I don't want to mess things up.'
Lei Fang faked fury.
'There's nothing going on between us!'
Christie smirked.
'Aha. You confessed yourself. I never said there was anything going between you two.'
Lei Fang blushed harder.
'Well, we went out once or twice...we sat down and talked.......'
Christie looked at Lei Fang drowsily with her head in her hand. 'Is that it?'
'Um...'
'Ah!! I remember now. Jann Lee is the guy in the tournament! The one bouncing around and making those bird-shriek noises!' Hitomi exclaimed suddenly. Christie rolled her eyes. What a bad memory.
'He was practising Jeet Kun Do, and the bird noises are the main point!' Lei Fang said, as if explaining something simple to a two-year old.
'Funny, eh?' Christie wondered out loud. 'Jann Lee makes bird noises and Fang's swimsuits have birds' names.'
'Well, Zack's somehow a matchmaker then.' Hitomi said. Lei Fang's Violet Ice lips pursed.
After lunch they went to the Sports Shop for some new swimsuits.
Lei Fang was running her hands through the rack when Hitomi yelped out.
'Oh that's so cute!!' She pointed at Heron. It had a pale blue top like underwear and a panda on the backside.
Christie cringed at the sight of it. EW.
'Look, I don't want to upset you, but...that's disgusting!'
'Really?' Hitomi's eyes grew wide and asked worriedly.
'Well, I think it's okay.' Lei Fang said. 'But the price is so not worth it. 170,000 Zack bucks! Holy guacamole.'
'Now, this one's more like it.' Christie said, taking out Amber. It was a shiny orange one-piece thong with a layer of transparent black see-through from the neck down to the lower abdomen.
'It's so revealing! I mean, it's totally see-through!' Hitomi said, examining the see-through part.
'Well...what colour do you like?' Christie asked Hitomi and Lei Fang. Hitomi said sky blue, Lei Fang lemon yellow.
'I don't think there are any blue suits here, but yellow......' Christie went through the rack and pulled out Citrine. It was a two-piece underwear-like thingy, and it was yellow. Lei Fang didn't know what to say.
'You like it?'
'Ya! It's time I have some thing other than cute swimsuits.' Christie knew Lei Fang wasn't hinting. But she was feeling pretty generous today.
Hitomi was looking at her swimsuit rack now. She picked out Hydra, a black, grey and white camouflage bikini. Christie fell in love with it instantly but didn't say anything.
'Have you seen Blue Lagoon? It's Helena's.' Hitomi said dreamily, still searching for a suitable swimsuit. They both shook their heads. 'It's really, really beautiful, you know!! It's one-piece tied by string around the neck and those blue patterns...it fits the name totally! Sometimes I just wish I am Helena. Her swimsuits are sooo beautiful.' Christie decided not to say anything. Helena's swimsuits were surely attractive. Maybe because she was rich. Her swimsuit names had names of cocktails.
It turned out that Christie bought Alexandrite, a black marble-like one-piece thong. Hitomi finally bought Dolphin, a pale blue bikini with tiny white spots after a good bit of hestitating. Me? Kiwi, a lime green bikini top with green, yellow spotted hot pants.
Christie wore Alexandrite for the rest of the day, winning a match against me and Helena. In the evening, Christie, Hitomi and me- Lei Fang, held a pyjama party and invited all the girls except Tina, Lisa and Ayane. The other girls all agreed to come. Kasumi needed a little pushing, as she feared Ayane would be angry for her being with the 'enemies'. But Christie convinced her that Ayane doesn't need to butt in. We all believe that Ayane has split up with Kasumi anyway.
We all gathered at the Private Beach at seven, because Christie said her room was boring and Hitomi's was way too small. How does Zack divide the rooms anyway? We've thought of staying at the poolside because it was really romantic, but we needed a campfire.
We all skipped dinner as Zack of all Trades opened a day earlier. We purchased some cheap food: tomato juice, a tomato, French bread, British bread, doughnuts, strawberry millefuelle, sachetorte, Chinese dessert (super yum), a meat bun, blancmange, mineral water, strawberry juice, milk, salad and strawberries. Fortunately, like I said, Zack of all Trades opened a day earlier, so there was lots of food to buy. But we only bought the ones that we liked.
I led Christie and Hitomi to the Private Beach. They were so tired and zombie-like that they were totally useless. Once we got there, we laid on the sand and gazed at the stars. Reminder: Hitomi's swimsuits are the names of constellations and things of the universe: Andromeda, Little Bear, Galaxy, and a weird one called Giraffe.
Christie closed her eyes as Hitomi built a campfire with some of the wood that fell from the palm trees. She specialised at these things...I saw her built a campfire all by her self once, here, and started dancing the hula. And that was what she's doing now. A large shadow loomed over. I saw that it was Kasumi and Helena, but Hitomi didn't see. She stepped on Christie's outstretched hand in shock. Christie moaned in agony and dipped her hand into the water as she accepted Hitomi's nervous apology.
'Hi,' Kasumi mumbled in her soft, breathy voice.
'Bonsoir,' Helena said. Does she always has to use French? Is 'hi' or 'hello' that hard to say?
We sat in a circle around the 'campfire', using the Chinese fans that I bought to fan the fire. It sometimes takes hours to make it like a real campfire, Hitomi says.
'SO. What shall we do?' I asked first.
'What? I thought you planned it all.' Helena looked surprised. Oh, and that was a polite 'what'.
Hitomi piped up like a little kiddo wanting her bottle of milk. 'Truth or dare! Truth or dare!' She started chanting.
My large eyes flashed through the group. Nobody seemed to object......
a/n: HA...I entertained myself with these sentences I used before, but changed:
It had a pale blue top like underwear and a panda on the bum. A panda on the ass. A panda on the rear-end. A panda in the back. HA.
I promise there'll be a very, very detailed chapter about the Truth or Dare thing they'll be doing. Bye and please review!