Episode # 7- Vacation

A.N- Hey sorry it took so long been busy here so haven't had a chance to type the rest of the stories up! I'll be updating every chance I get during the summer. So hope you stay tuned to see what happens next!!!

The Camera shows scenes from the last episode, Kristen's voice comes in and says " Last time on Ah My Goddess, Goddess up Above!" showing everyone's pictures. " Chris and Mark invited us to a Halloween masarade party, they were nice enough to invite Peorth, Skuld and Belldandy. We had fun until Jim was being a snot nose and sticking shrimp tails up his nose. Then Urd and Daisuke show up and ruin the party. He used his power and turned us into what we were dressed as. We were against each other and a bunch of us were knocking out, the ones that were still awake fought Daisuke and Urd. Peorth defeated them and dragged them both back to the Goddess Center. The party ran late so we rented hotel rooms and slept downtown. The next morning we got home and we al fought over the 2 showers. I decided to wait and get the mail, and sort it for all 22 of us. I sat by Bell, who was sitting upside down on the leather sofa, watching tv. I started reading my 10pg letter from my aunt. Kristen comes behind me reads the first 8 pgs then read over my shoulder reading the rest with me. I stood up and my elbow accenditly hits Kristen in the nose, I scream and everyone comes running and stands there and waits for me to tell them why I screamed and why I swore and hit Kristen.

We see the dorminatories – it was painted white with a brown roof. We pan up over the house and go to the backyard and the camera goes and finds Keiichi, he turns around and waves his name appears. Then the camera finds, Morgan Le Fay sneaking around the corner, she blushes and waves, her name appears, and then she disappears. The camera looks for Kristen and finds her sitting in the grass listening to her CD player, sunbathing, and with her eyes closed her name appears. The camera looks over to the right and sees Martin, Alex and I were playing with the Squirt Guns, sneaking around the yard the camera finds all 3 of us, we smile and wave our names appear, it disappears, I appear from behind the bushes and get Alex soaked, giggling and hiding again. Alex screams and the tries to soak me but missed and hits Martin, but Martin ducks quickly and Alex misses hitting Kristen, she screams and jumps in the air a little bit. Alex comes and yells " Sorry Kristen" she yells back " It's ok" But stupid me wasn't watching where the guys were and they both got me, I yell and run after them. Martin and Alex ran for it, I ran after them running all around the yard, the guys ducked under the clothesline and didn't stop until they ran into the football game that Ootaki, Aoshima, Senbee and Daisuke was playing football, Martin got whacked in the head and fell down. Alex fell on top of him. Meanwhile I wasn't watching where I was going, I was waving to a guy that I know from one of my classes. I ran into the clothesline and got flown into Devin and Nick who was hanging clothes out to dry in the sun. We all fell over. Devin and Nick were yelling at me because all the clean wet clothes were now on the ground, I apolized, I rolled my eyes, Devin's and Nick's name appears, they wave and blush a little, Devin grabs Nick and gave him a big kiss, meanwhile I get off those 2 and yell " oh get a room or cool off!" spraying them with freezing cold water in my squirt gun, sticking my tongue out then running to make sure the guys were ok! I bent down putting my water gun down and pulling Alex off, he rolled over on his back with his eyes closed. I shook him awake, he woke with a start and sat up rubbing his head " owww that hurt, what happened?" I laughed a little saying " you weren't watching were you 2 were going so you guys got in the middle of the football game, then you fell on Martin!" He jumped up on his feet and pulled Martin out of the middle of the game, then said " sorry guys" They said " No prob, watch him!" Alex said "yep" and bent down shaking Martin a little, he woke and stood up, looking at himself to check for bruises, he found some on his elbows and knees, shrugged his shoulders, grabbing the water hose, spraying Alex and I, I screamed " not as bad as I tripped over the clothesline and landed hard on Devin and Nick and got yelled at by them about the laundry!" Martin said, " Oww ok you win that would hurt more!" I giggled and as soon as Martin threw the hose down grabbing his water gun ran for it again. I grabbed mine and Alex did the same. The guys that were playing football continued and the camera watches the boys play. There is a pass to Ootaki and everyone piles on him, they wave and smile their names appear. The camera sees Megumi doing cheers for the guys playing football, she does a little cheery dance for the camera, turns around and her name appears. As the camera goes in a window in the living room, it finds Jim playing a video game, yelling at the TV, looks around, blushes and waves, his name appears. Then Jim goes back to his game. The camera turns and sees Alex, Martin and I still with the water guns running around the yard chasing each other. The camera goes out the living room window flying up and goes in one of the girl's windows and sees Sayoko and Sora in Sayoko's room. Sora is standing on a stool while Sayoko is fixing Sora's skirt, they wave at the camera and their names appear. The camera goes through Sayoko's door and down the stairs and goes in the kitchen seeing Belldandy, Helen, Skuld, and Peorth in the kitchen making a cake the camera pans over all the ingredients and the girls faces, then all of a sudden Skuld turns the blender on really high and flour and other dry ingredients cover the girls heads and the kitchen counter and floor. The girls have a really angry face on and ready to kill Skuld, Skuld points to the camera, the others turn trying to smile, their names appear, then the girls take off chasing Skuld. The camera looks out the kitchen window seeing Martin, Alex and I still chasing after each other with the water guns and Devin and Nick chasing after me with the other water hose, Kristen on the grass laying there, the guys still piled on each other from the football game, Helen, Belldandy and Peorth chasing Skuld around the yard trying to get their hands on her. The camera goes out of one of the windows and sees Mahlerin, Jim, Sora, and Sayoko, standing on the porch watching everyone, Mahlerin laughing, she looks over and waves to the camera, her name appears, the camera goes through the porch door and finds Urd in the office talking on the phone, walking and slamming the window because there was so much noise outside from us, she turns around looks up and smiles, her name appears and the her hand covers the lens. The camera goes to a black screen, saying " Written By Candi" goes back to a black screen and then the camera shows Benpai out in the front watching everyone chases each other, sighs, he waves and smiles, his name appears, then the camera pans up and then shows everyone in a position, Kristen, Martin, Devin, Nick, Candi, Alex and Helen in the back. Jim, Morgan, Keiichi, Belldandy, Urd and Senbee in the middle. Megumi, Tamiya, Ootaki, Sayoko, Aoshima and Sora kneeling down towards the fount. Lying on their stomachs besides Benpei, Skuld, Daisuke, and Peorth in fount. They all wave and start laughing; pushing, and tickling each other and the people in the back were putting bunny ears on each other. The ones in the back fell forward making it a chain reaction so the ones laying on the ground are on the bottom and the ones in the back are on top. We all are laughing, the screen goes black and the episode begins

There was complete silence and everyone was staring at Kristen and I. Megumi came up to Kristen and put her hand on Kristen's shoulder and asked " what happened? Your bleeding, come on we should get you some ice!" Kristen and Megumi walked past everyone else and Kristen sat on one of the kitchen chairs and Megumi went into the freezer and took out a couple of ice cubes and wrapped them in paper towels, then handed them to Kristen to put on her nose. Then Kristen told Megumi what happened. Meanwhile Tamiya came up behind me and put his hand on my shoulder and shook me a little asking " What is wrong?" I finally snapped out of it and said "huh?" He asked again and I said " my aunt told me something sorry about the swearing, I was just surprised. She wants us to come visit her in London, for our break!" Tamiya said " really?" being very surprised. Alex came over to me and grabbed the note out of my hands and read where my aunt invited us to come up to London during our break. Everyone was pleased, they wanted me to call my aunt right away and tell her yes.

I had to tell them to slow down and wait for a couple minutes. Kristen and Megumi came back in the living room and saw everyone jumping up and down and wondering what was going on. Tamiya told them what happened then they were jumping up and down. I asked " Guys, where are we going to get the money from? Our vacation is still a week away." When we looked back at the letter in Alex's hands something fell out of the letter and fell to the ground, Ootaki bent down and picked it up, he looked at it and then handed it to me " Here Candi it came from your aunt's letter!" I looked at it and said " wow my aunt paid for our cruise tickets!" Aoshima game me this look and so did everyone else "wow." I gave everyone a questioned look I knew something was up when I looked at each one, Keiichi, Alex, Jim, Martin, Nick, Tamiya, Ootaki, and Aoshima put their heads down and wouldn't look the girls and I in the face, Kristen gave the boys a cold stare. Then she asked them " Guys, why won't you look at us?" Nick picked his head up a little and started " well when your aunt called the other day after we got back from the Goddess center, well you were still sleeping and your aunt was asking me a bunch of questions. She was asking why were you guys were still sleeping in the middle of the day and stuff like that. So I told her that we got taken to the Goddess Center and got hurt up there by fighting with a couple bad people but she didn't believe me so I said that we got into a accident and that is why everyone was sleeping! What else was I supposed to say, Candi and you girls skipped school and slept in! I don't think so. She asked me when our break was and I told her when and she thought we could use a breather so there is our breather, 2 weeks in London!" Nick blushed then said " well I tried covering it up, but it was hard."

Devin spoke " Nick, you don't tell her aunt that we were at a Goddess Center then tell her we got in a accident! Now she is going to think we are crazy." I sighed and said " ok ok guys chill, I go and call my aunt and tell her that a week from Saturday?" Everyone cheered and ran outside jumping around in the backyard. I went and called my aunt and talked to her for a while, having to listen to her complaining about me not calling her or not writing. But she was happy that we were coming. I told her that we weren't on break until the week after, she said that was fine and we should go and get the tickets right away before they all sold out." I agreed and said goodbye and talk to you soon and thanks again and hung up. She said the same thing and hung up, I looked out the patio door seeing everyone still running around, yelling and hugging each other, thinking to myself, this will be a great break, we need something like this.

I laughed at the guys and then went into the front hall closet and grabbed my coat and left a note for everyone else that I was going to get the cruise tickets, I'll be back later! Then ran out to go downtown and go to the travel agent. I got on the train and then went on my journey. Alex comes back in to get something to drink and saw my note. Then runs out to the others and tells them what is going on and everyone knew I should do it and everyone then played football while waiting for me until an hour later when it started to rain, the guys wanted to continue with the game, then the girls talked them out of it. They all ran in soaked with rain and dried themselves off. Ootaki looked into the closet and saw that I forgot my umbrella, he told the others and they were getting really worried about me.

Meanwhile, I'm running under the canopies, then get to the travel agent and getting in all soaked. I shook hands with a lady by the name of Ms. Tanor, she gave me a couple towels and some tea. We talked and set up our tickets and gave her my aunt's checks and got everything set up for all 22 of us. I told her thanks and got the tickets, then got my coat above my head and headed back to the train station. It was still raining hard so I made a dash for the station just making the train and sat down and caught my breath. For the moment, it was Megumi's turn to cook so she made shrimp stir-fry. Everyone was sitting down and at first waiting for me to come home, but the guys got hungry, they took their plates in the living room and while they ate they watched a football game on tv. The girls sighed and started eating. While I'm on my way home the train gets stuck high up in the air, 5 feet off the ground, because of the rain. Since the train uses electricity and the water was flooding up to the tracks, so we had to stop. I looked out the window and see the water coming up from under us. I couldn't believe that. I thought I would be fine by myself but I guess I was wrong. Thinking to myself " boy am I going to get it from everyone when I get home."

Back at the house, everyone had finished eating and Megumi did the dishes. The guys screamed all of a sudden for everyone to come in the living room and they all did. Alex told them that the news cut in the middle of the their football game, everyone ran in as the anchorwoman said " Because of the rain all trains are shut down, there is one line, train #3 going to the Hinita Apartments and the Butterfield 's apartments that is stuck ad the water is coming up towards the tracks. Let's go to chopper 5, who is above the train watching the scene" Aoshima turned down the volume on the tv, so they can still hear and talk at the same time. Sayoko spoke up first, " oh my god, I feel bad for Candi, what's going to happen to them on the train?" Nick stood up and looked at the window" I don't know they will probably rescue them." Sayoko said " what! Your really helpful right now! Bell can you do anything?" Bell shook her head with facing the ground" no, I can't we have new rules that we can't help like that, right Peorth?" Peorth nodded " yep, unfortunality I know, Candi wished Bell and Skuld to live here but if our wisher is in trouble we can't go and help, we are not supposed to use our powers on earth!" Keiichi and Martin sighed and stood up and started pacing. Devin looked out of the patio door watching the rain come down, thinking to herself " Candi, why did you have to go toady to get the tickets? Why didn't you wait for one of us to go with you?"

While everyone at home was watching the news and waiting for me to come through the door, wanting to help but can't. Everyone in the cars of the train and standing up and getting hysterical some are even calling their families, friends and relatives. I'm standing there very worried and I have no cell phone. I sit down and look for our 2 way radio and find it. I press the button and yell in it " guys can you hear me? Hello? What the hell are you guys, deaf?" Sora jumps 3 feet off the sofa because of my voice and runs and trips over a table and falls face first into a glass table. Jim runs and grabs the radio " Candi? Why did you go by yourself? Are you in the train? What is going on in there?" Tamiya went to check the unconscious Sora, turning her over and grabbing a face cloth and starts dabbing her face, wiping away the blood from her cheek. I started tearing up and listen to Jim then say " I thought the weather would be fine, didn't realize it was going to be sunny all day. I'm in the train, but things are going all bad here, people are upset and calling their families, friends and relatives. The train is starting to rock!" Jim turned around and looked very worried; Devin looked at him and asked "what's the matter? What did she say?" he told her what I said and made her well up in tears whispering " poor Candi" I yelled " Jim, are you still there? Is there anything on the news? How is everyone doing over there?" Jim hugged Devin then said " yes I'm still here, they cut the game short and the news is still talking about it. Everyone is worried about you and the others on the train. Sora tried to grab the radio but she tripped over the table and fell into the glass table, everyone is really worried and pacing."

I sighed tearing and wiping the tears away " I'm sorry to worry you guys I thought it would be good to get the tickets right away like my aunt said, well I got them but now I'm stuck in a train!" just then the conductor told all of us to get out of the train and go on top of the train. I told them " bye guys" Jim then said " wait Candi? Don't leave! Candi? Shoot she's gone! " turning to everyone else, then walking to Sora and Tamiya and bending down next to them " how is she, Tamiya?" Tamiya looked up " the blood stopped but she hasn't woken up yet, how's Candi?" Jim said " not good let's just say that everyone is so scared, I think we should mover her then watch the rest of the news!" Tamiya said "right." Then Jim and him carried Sora to the couch and watched the news. Bell and Skuld stood in the corner, crying, wanting to help and couldn't.

As everyone is watching the news, back in the train, water is starting to come in, everyone in the train we head and climb to the top of the train then as soon as we all got on top of the car, half of it flooded, making us float down the river of water; after a couple of minutes later, the coast guard came with a couple of helicopters and rescued us. By the time I walked home drenched in rain coming through the door, looking around seeing a mess all over the floor behind the couch, everyone was asleep with the news on, the lights on. Sora was waking up and looked at me walking over by me asking " I heard what happened to you, are you ok? Those bruises look bad?" I nodded and hugged her " yeah a couple scratches that's all really! I heard about you, are you ok? How's your head?" she said " it's ok, just got a headache! I guess we should clean this mess up, god they all fell asleep! Wait a minute where is Peorth, Bell and Skuld?" she looked around and didn't see them either then said " maybe they went to bed, I'll go check!" I said " ok" and put my coat to dry and hang my purse up, then grabbed a broom and dust pan and started cleaning up the glass.

Meanwhile Sora goes up to Bell's, Peorth's and Skuld's bedroom and opened the door Bell wasn't in her room, Skuld wasn't in hers, but when she opened the door of Peorth's room she saw 3 people sleeping on the floor in their butan's, when Sora quietly went closer to the sleeping girls she saw they had cried themselves to sleep, she sighed and put a blanket on all 3, then walked back downstairs saying to me " I found them they are in Peorth's room all sleeping, it looks like they cried themselves to sleep." I said " oh jeeze" then threw the glass away. Sora turned the tv to watch the music video's that were on, sitting on the couch, carefully not to wake up the guys. I headed for the kitchen to get some tea to warm up whispering out of the kitchen " yes, please!"

A couple of minutes later I came out with 2 cups of tea and handed one to her then found a spot on the floor, sat there and watched a little tv. I looked over at her a couple minutes later, she was asleep with her cup of tea in her lap. I put blankets on everyone then sat back down by Alex and must have falling asleep. In the morning, Bell was shaking me awake. I rubbed my brown eyes and said " good morning Bell how did you sleep? " she said sitting on the floor next to me " Good, what time did you get in last night I didn't hear you come in?" I nodded " yep, I tried to stay quiet but I woke Sora but a little later on she fell asleep. Come on let's get some breakfast" she agreed and went into the kitchen. Everyone was in there and we all sat down and ate. Keiichi spoke up with a full mouth " Candi, when are we leaving for London?" I swallowed and said " in two days, it's almost Spring Break!"

We all finished breakfast and ran out of the house to either go to school or work, later on we all come home and all that go to school, ran upstairs and studied for all our midterms. Jim ordered pizza for all of us, and we all ate quickly and studied again. Later that night we all went to bed early and went to sleep. The following morning we all got up early and had to run to school to make midterm exams. The ones that didn't go to school, slept in. we got home about 4pm and we all packed for the early morning cruise trip. The guys helped us bring all of our suitcases down by the door. We ate and then watched some tv. Later on in the night, we tried to go to sleep but couldn't so we just watched some tv. I guess we fell asleep because the next thing we knew Bell was yelling that we were going to miss the boat, luckily we were already dressed in our travel clothes. We ran out of the door and just made the boat and put our suitcases in our room. We all shard rooms- Candi and Bell, Keiichi and Senbee, Morgan and Kristen, Devin and Helen, Alex and Jim, Martin and Nick, Megumi and Sayoko, Tamiya and Ootaki, Aoshima and Banpei, Mahler and Sora and Peorth and Skuld.

Anyway, we wanted to look around the ship to see what it offered. We found a lot of activities- pool, swimming pool, bar, slots, exercise room, dining room, an outside pool on deck and a shuffleboard on deck. We went back to our cabins and got into our bathing suits and went swimming in the on deck pool, the guys decided they didn't want to swim in the heat so they played pool inside. We sunbathed for a while, I looked at the boat's brochure to see what was coming up. I looked at the brochure and found out this cruise will take 3 days. I shook the girls awake and told them what I found. The girls couldn't believe it, I told them " my aunt's travel agent must have done something wrong, I hope she set up the place schedule right?" they said " us too" I sighed and laid back down on the lawn chair and continued reading " I think she would have, let's just relax." They agreed with me and all relaxed. I looked up and watched the people go by- a couple older couples, about 2 families with children and about 3 pairs of newlyweds! I watched the older couple play shuffleboard and walk together on a stroll on deck watching the sunset. We all went back in our rooms and changed into nice evening wear and went into the dining room to eat and then do some dancing. They had 3 live bands- one that plays slow music, another did rock and roll, and the last one did salsa. It was about 2am when we got out of there, we all took a moonlight stroll on deck and relax. We fell asleep after we hit the pillows on our beds. In the early morning, the girls and I got up early and joined a exercise group, about a hour later we got in and took showers. While the guys were still sleeping and the other girls were taking a shower, I decided to take a walk on deck and look around more. The old couple from the day before waved to me and wanted me to come over to them. I did and they asked me "my name? And how my trip is so far?" I thought it was just to make conversation, I talked to them for a while. They even taught me how to play shuffleboard! A couple other older couples stopped over by us and introduced themselves and we all decided to have a tournament.

I looked up and saw Skuld and Bell looking sea sick, rocking along with the way the boat is. I put the pole up against the railings and went and helped the 2 sit down on two of the lawn chairs. I told the older couples " that I would be back in a couple of minutes, I have to get my friends some sea sickness pills." I went to the nurses cabin ands and asked her " can I have some sea sickness pills? My friends have it." She got up and wanted to follow me to make sure my friends were sick. She checked them out and gave them to Bell and Skuld then told then to go lay down. They did.

Later on in the day, everyone came to find me. Ootaki asked me " where is Bell and Skuld?" I told them what happened and they said " oh" then the guys went off and we found out later that they found a ping pong table and versed each other. The girls and found a couple shopping store, we also bought some flowers for Bell and Skuld. I snuck in our room and put the flowers by Bell. Meanwhile Peorth did the same for Skuld. When we were looking at the sunset on the deck to see another day go by, we saw the clouds were looking funny! The intercom came on and said "Everyone please come to the dining area there is a thunderstorm coming and all passengers stay inside that is all!" Everyone ran for the dining hall and waited for the cruise director, he came a few minutes later, and turned the mic on " Everyone, listen carefully, there is a bad storm coming our way. So all passengers please stay either in the dining room or their cabins. That is all. Enjoy the night"

Everyone awed and then decided they better eat. I looked over at Peorth, nudging her " hey Peorth, Bell and Skuld don't know about the storm will they be ok?" Peorth nodded " yea, I think the will be fine, the director said to stay in the cabins or in here, so they probably will sleep the night away." We all sat down and ate. Alex brought some playing cards, so the boys and some of the other passengers played poker. The girls and I sat down and talked to the older women, who's husbands were playing poker with our guys. Everyone else was either talking among each other, dancing or heading towards their cabins.

When I was getting something to drink, I looked out the glass windows and saw the wind whipping around and the cruise ship crew are trying to catch the lawn chairs, the shuffleboard poles and the pucks. I felt bad for a couple of older couples and young women trying to hold their skirts down with the wind. There was one your women running on the slippery deck, running after her hat. I went back to where I was sitting and continued talking to the older women. Later on I went over to the guys and told them I was going to head for my cabin, they all said " goodnight" I headed back whipping in the wind, struggling to get the door open and it slammed shut. I tried to be very quiet but with the door slamming poor Bell woke up. I told her " sorry go back to sleep, I'll be quiet. Oh don't go outside there is a bad storm out there." I changed clothes and got into bed, Bell fell back to sleep.

A couple of hours later, I was woken by a hard knocking on our door I stumbled to the door and opened it. The sun was just rising as I opened the door and found it was the cruise nurse coming to check on Bell. I yawned and motioned her in whispering " she's been sleeping ok!" she nodded and I got changed to my exercise clothes, warming up while the nurse checked Bell out. I walked out and ran to the exercise class. Later on the day, the captain made a announcement that we would be arriving in Europe at 10pm, their time but right now there is a movie playing in the great hall. The movie was " The Sound of Music"

We changed into our summer dresses and went to watch the movie. After the movie was over the captain told all of us to pack and make sure we all have our travel stuff. We all ran to our rooms and started repacking. When we laded in the docking area of London, we got off and Nick decides to take out the London Map and try to find my Aunt's house. I told him to look for Rustic Avenue. We found it after many arguments, and rang my aunt's doorbell. My Aunt opened the door and told us to come in. Her house was huge almost like a castle, 3 levels, 10 total rooms including a bathroom. She gave all of us hugs. She asked us how our trip was on the ship. We said " ok." She insisted we forget about our hotel rooms, and that we probably missed our deadline to hold it and stay with her. I asked her if we can pay her since there was 22 of us. She didn't want to take our money but I knew where she kept her money hidden so I would put the money with it from us for the 2 weeks that we were visiting

For all us girls we would have to split 6 in 2 rooms, but for the guys we would have 5 in 2 rooms. Then it wouldn't be hard on my aunt. The guys carried our luggage up to our rooms then we all said " goodnight" to my aunt. When we got to the rooms we had a argument on who was staying with who! Aoshima spoke loudly because he was tired and didn't want to hear arguing and said " ok listen here we go- Bell, Skuld, Mahler, Morgan, Helen and Megumi sleep in one room. The other room there will be- Kristen, Devin, Sayoko and Sora. Now for the guys-Keiichi, Alex, Jim, Martin, and Nick. Now in the last room- Tamiya, Ootaki, Senbee, me and Banpei! Goodnight all" and he slammed the door and fell asleep.

We all hugged and said " goodnight" the next morning we got up at 9 in the morning, ate and tried to figure out what we were going to see the first day. My aunt was funny she said " you don't want to hurry your trip along." Devin asked " what would you recommend?" My aunt smiled and said " how about you girls go shopping with me and for the guys your uncle got free tickets to go see a football!" The guys were so surprised but we agreed it would be fun.

We left before the guys, and my aunt drove with us to the mall, but since we never been to England, we were worried about her driving on the wrong side of the road. She laughed and told us not to worry. Unfortuntality, since it was Sunday the mall was packed. My aunt tried to keep us together but after a bit we lost Devin. We went back and found her in a dress shop. I rolled my eyes and whispered to my aunt "there goes 2 hours" she looked at me funny and asked me why. Megumi headed in the store turned around and said "she'll be asking us about every dress in the store and trying them on." She sighed and then Morgan, Bell, Skuld and Peorth came over to us and Morgan told me that they were going to the cd store and asked my aunt where it was. She told them and they went off. My Aunt turned around and looked at me asking " I thought your friend, Skuld, wanted to look for a summer dress?" I shrugged my shoulders " I thought Bell, Skuld and Peorth wanted some stuff too but I guess they needed to get away from miss shop-alolic." Devin squealed and said " now wait one minute, Candi, you are the same way ! don't blame me all the time."

We all looked through the racks of dresses. The 4 came back after a while and Skuld, Bell and Peorth picked a couple dresses and we all paid. We had lunch and continued going to the stores. Meanwhile the guys took the trolley to get to the stadium they all sat in one row and the game started. They were getting into how England cheers for their teams. The day went o and we all meet back at my aunt's house. Of course, my uncle and the guys complained because they had to help us take bags out of the trunk. What complainers! Even if we got things for them. The guys were picking on us with the fact the boat will sink with all the new clothes we bought. We laughed then teased them " Fine, we won't give you the things we bought for you." And ran upstairs.

The guys stood there dumbfounded then yelled " hey" and ran up after us. We all ran into Devin's room and locked the door so the guys couldn't sneak in, we all opened our bags and looked at each other's dresses. The guys gave up pounding our door and went to bed. After listening to the news on the radio, I looked around Devin's room and everyone was asleep. I sighed and got up went to my bedroom, grabbing my shower supplies and headed for the bathroom, tried to open it but found it was locked, figuring it was either my aunt or uncle. I leaned against the wall next to the bathroom door, took out my book and started reading. It took an hour for someone to get out. I looked at the clock and it was 2 am. I sighed and the person would not come out of the bathroom, I kept on reading. I must have falling asleep because when I woke up I was in my bed with covers over me and Skuld shaking the day lights out of me. I sat up laughing " ok, Skuld, I'm up. Why don't you get the others up?" Skuld shook her head and smiled " the others are up and gone already, your Aunt is downstairs, I'm baking cookies with her." I got up and patting her head, smiling " we always did that when I was your age, I'm happy for you. Where did the others go? Don't tell me they went to see the historical sites" Skuld looked up at me and said " they might have but not sure the guys sounded like they were dragging everyone to a game or something. Are you coming down?"

I nodded my head and followed her down, ate breakfast and helped my aunt finish the cookies, took a hour shower and took my aunt's shopping list and left a note to tell my aunt where I was, I said ''bye" to Skuld and she shushed me, I gave her a look and she told me that my aunt fell asleep on the couch, while watching British tv with Skuld. I went down to the corner market. Man that place was busy! I never been in something like that, I found all the things that my aunt wanted to get plus I had some money left so I bought some flowers for my aunt after putting up with us for a week. I put one in my hair and started walking home, I started humming and almost getting home when I'm crossing at the street before my aunt's house as I'm in the middle of the crossing way. I almost get hit by this motorcycle that's going to fast! Anyway, I get spun around and fall right on my face and the groceries that I bought for my aunt went flying all over the street. The motorcycle that almost hit me spun out and hit a light pole. The policemen saw the whole thing and knelt down beside me as I was on all 4's shaking and trying to catch my breath. He asked me how I was holding my hand and helping me up. I nodded and shaking said "I'm ok, just spooked. I thought it was my turn to walk! I'll be fine in a couple minutes, but my aunt's groceries are gone!" he looked on the ground and saw all the fruit, bread and vegetables squished, and looked back at me and shook his head " It's ok miss, as soon as I'm done here we'll go back to the market and replace all you bought. You were right it was your turn to walk, he did the wrong."

As we were talking and helping me up, 4 other policemen came on the scene. 2 went by the motorcycle, guns ready in case the driver tries anything. They took off the helmet and the girl was unconscious. The policeman told me to go on the sidewalk and wait for him. I looked around and saw a big crowd of people watching the scene unfold. I blushed a little and went to the sidewalk. A older lady looked me up and down and shook her head. She took her bottled water and took her husbands handchief, putting water on it and dabbing my face, hands and arms to clean my scratches. She scared me at first, because she was talking another language with her husband and staring at me, but then I understood what she was doing for me, I smiled and nodded my head " thank you" she then opened my hand and gave me some pounds, I told her I couldn't take it but she insisted. I didn't want to fight with a older women but what could I do? Her husband wanted me to take the money also. I still had the flowers, I bought and separated it in half and gave the one half to the older couple. They wouldn't accept it at first but when I insisted they accepted it. I asked them " are you sure about the money, I don't feel good about taking a old couples money." They wouldn't take it back. I looked over at the biker and saw she was being put into a ambulance and taken to the hospital, the policemen came by me and asked where I got the money from and I told him about the people standing next to me. He whispered in my ear " they know you are a traveler and felt bad for you, so don't fight with them, just take the money lets head back to the market."

I told him " but I feel bad about taking money!" He said " forget about it." I said bye to the couple they wove back. The sun was going down and it was beautiful, he helped me rebuy all the food that I bought earlier, but lost when I almost got hit. He started walking home, I asked him what is going to happen to the biker and he told me once she gets out of the hospital she is getting a huge ticket for not obeying traffic signals and almost hitting a good looking American women. I blushed and said " I'm not going to get a ticket for leaving the mess on the ground?" he shook his head no.

When we got to my aunt's house, my aunt and uncle ran out of the house, and so did Alex. They asked me what happened and just as I was to speak the policeman told them. I went inside to put the stuff down and put the flowers in a vase. Everyone asked me what happened and told them, they couldn't believe it. We all ate diner and watched fireworks on my aunt's deck. We went to bed and got up early. For the next few days, we went to museum's, the tower of London and all the other sites.

During the last week of our trip, it was so sunny and warm so what we did mostly was go to the beach! On the very last day of our trip we packed up the stuff that we bought and we went to the postbox and sent it home ahead of us. We repacked and ate dinner and watched tv. We went to bed and had to get up early to get to the ship on time. By morning, we were racing around eating breakfast and taking showers. We got to the ship and we thanked my aunt and uncle for putting up with us and got on. We got to see the beautiful sunset. For the two days we were at sea. We were good we all played games, exercised, shopped and ate. We got home and started walking home with our bags. Skuld and Banpei were running ahead not wanting to wait any longer to get home which I think we all wanted to get home.

As soon as they turned the corner they stopped and froze, as the rest of us turned the corner we all froze and dropped our bags not believing what is happening to our apartments!

end of episode

The camera pans over all our faces and the screen goes blank and "The End" appears. The credits roll and it shows everyone's names and that I wrote it. Then it goes blank again. Sayoko's voice comes on and as she is talking the screen says " Next time on Ah My Goddess" the screen shows our pictures and her voice continues " why did we all stop and drop our bags? What is going on to the apartments? Find out in the next episode, What happened to the Dorm Rooms! Hope you enjoyed this story. Have a great day!