Thanks for all the people who reviewed. Okay, I know that some of you want Zarine and Kai to be together, though I have no idea why...just send in a couple of reasons, so I can see how they're better than the Zarine/Ray couple. Email me or whatever. If you're emailing, type something in the subject to indicate you're not sending a virus to me. I've been getting a lot of those kind of junk mail lately.
Don't judge Jewels yet because you barely know what she's like. Okay, so she's cold to Kai, that doesn't mean that she's cold to everyone.
Oh ya, and no, Kai and Zarine aren't going to get together in this story because it'll just ruin the whole thing...maybe in another story. I'm not promising anything because right now, I don't have a new idea for a story, except for the sequel to this. Yes, people, there will be a third story after this.
Chapter Ten – Mission Accomplished?
"So, does anyone have any objections or any other suggestions?" Carrie asked, looking around at Max, Tyson, and Hilary. They were at her house coming up with a plan to get Ray and Zarine back together.
The others shook their heads. It sounded like a good plan to them.
"You know, they're probably going to kill us for this," Tyson said. He had been on the receiving end of Zarine's anger before, and he knew better than to make her angry.
"If we get them back together, then they wouldn't have an excuse to," Max reasoned.
"Let's hope so," Hilary said.
"Zarine, can you come early to my house to help me prepare for the sleepover?" Carrie asked the next day at school.
Zarine smiled. "Sure! I can't wait till tonight!"
"Me neither," the red haired girl said. [For you and Ray to make up with each other.] she added silently.
Then she remembered something. "Is Kai even going to come? He hasn't told me and I don't see him as the type that would leap at the idea of a sleepover."
Her friend said sheepishly. "Oops. I was supposed to tell you two days ago. He is going. Do you actually think he would stay at home alone while we are having all the fun?"
Carrie grinned. "He's an old sourpuss after all, or he's just extremely good at hiding the fact that he likes to have fun with his friends."
"Ha, he's probably both," Zarine said, her eyes twinkling with laughter.
"What's gotten you two so amused?" Kai asked.
"Nothing," the girls answered with the same innocent look.
"Yeah right. I bet you two were talking behind my back again," Kai said. "Or else making fun of me."
"How could you suggest such a thing?" Zarine asked, pretending to be shocked.
"Yeah, Kai. We'd never dream of it," Carrie said.
"Do you guys know how much alike you are? Carrie, sometimes I think you're twins with Zarine rather than Jewels," he remarked.
The hazel eyed girl shrugged and put an arm around her friend. "Who knows? Maybe I'll adopt Zarine as my sister, then Jewels, Zarine and I can be triplets!"
Kai just rolled his eyes and sighed. He turned around to go to his next class.
"You could've said bye or farewell or something to let us know that you wouldn't grace us with your divine presence anymore!" Carrie called dramatically, "Farewell, my holy father!"
Zarine burst out into laughter. Carrie joined in, laughing hard. She gasped, "God, I love annoying him!"
Kai grumbled as he plopped himself into the seat next to Ray.
"Was Carrie annoying you again?" Ray asked with a chuckle. "What had she done this time?"
Kai grimaced as he heard an echo of 'Farewell, my holy father!' in his head. "I would rather not be reminded of it," he said.
"It must've been pretty bad," Ray said sympathetically. He had seen the ruthless teasing of Carrie, and he knew how much it embarrassed and irritates Kai, being the kind of person that he was.
"You have no idea," Kai said, and glared at the figures of the two girls entering the room.
Later that day at Carrie's house...
DING DONG! Carrie yelled, "Jewels, can you get the door for me? It's Zarine."
Jewels opened the door, and Waffles immediately went up to Zarine curiously with a wagging tail.
"Hi!" Zarine said with a smile. "So, what's her name?"
"She's Waffles," Jewels replied.
Carrie came running after a moment and told her friend, "Come on in." She led Zarine to a guest room with a double bed.
"Put your stuff in that closet," she said, pointing to the closet farthest to the door. "The other one has loads of stuff in it."
Her twin sister raised her eyebrows questioningly. Jewels knew perfectly well that the other closet was in fact, empty. Carrie just shook her head and winked. Jewels nodded in satisfaction. She knew that Carrie must have something planned. Zarine, who was busy putting her stuff in the closet, saw none of this for her back was turned.
"Let's go get the junk food," the shorter twin suggested. (That's Carrie if you didn't know.) "Jewels, are you coming?"
Jewels shrugged and followed them. She had nothing better to do. However, she regretted it after. Zarine and Carrie went all out on the junk food. By the time they were making their way back, there were three big bags for each person to carry. Three of those bags were containing ice cream, popsicles, or ice cream sandwich bars, in other words, frozen treats.
"I didn't know you guys liked ice cream so much," Zarine said.
"Well, Jewels and I are just crazy about ice cream," Carrie told her.
Zarine cheered, "Finally, I have found someone with ice cream obsessions!"
"Ya, and you are the first person we met that loves ice cream as much as we do," Jewels said.
"How do you plan on fitting all of these into the freezer?" the silver haired girl asked.
Carrie and Jewels looked at each other and grinned a little guiltily. "Uh...well...Jewels and I cleared out the freezer of all the ice cream last night so we would have room for more."
"And how much ice cream was there before you ate it all?"
"About...three liters each."
"WHAT?! Even I had never eaten so much ice cream at once. It's a wonder you guys aren't sick from it."
After they had managed to fit all the ice cream into the freezer with much difficulty, the door bell rang. "Who can it be? The others aren't supposed to be here for another half an hour," Zarine said, puzzled as she followed Carrie to the door.
"Hey!" Hilary, Max, Tyson, and Chief were standing outside. "We thought we would come early to help," Hilary lied.
"That's great! We are almost done, but the quicker we get it done, the quicker we can have fun!" Carrie said, winking at her friends.
They all helped pour chips into bowls, and set up pillows in the living room for the scary movie. Carrie glanced at the clock, it was a minute to six. Knowing Kai, he would probably arrive not a second later than six.
"Zarine, can you call the pizza place and tell them that we want three extra large pizzas, pepperoni, cheese and Hawaiian," she asked.
"Okay," she answered, going to the phone in the kitchen.
As Carrie had predicted, Kai and Ray arrived right when the cuckoo came out of the clock, announcing the next hour. Hilary made sure that Zarine was still busy on the phone before waving and saying loudly, "Hey guys!"
"Okay, Ray, follow me and I'll show you where to put your stuff. Kai, Max will show you where you put yours," Carrie said.
Ray followed the redhead to the guest room. "Put your stuff in the closet," she said, pointing to the one closer to the door. "The other one has loads of stuff in it."
When Zarine finished ordering their pizzas, she went back into the living room and collapsed onto the soft, squishy loveseat. "So, what should we do now?"
"Let's get changed into our pajamas, so we wouldn't have to do it later," the brunette suggested.
"Okay," the girls said, standing up. "Aren't you going to follow us?" Jewels asked at the doorway.
"We don't need to change yet," Tyson answered.
Zarine rolled her eyes and remarked, "Right, you guys just stripe until you're only wearing your boxers before going to bed."
Once the girls were gone, Max asked, "What should we do while they find a suitable outfit to wear as pajamas?"
"I know!" Tyson exclaimed. "We can, show Ray that thing...that Carrie told us we weren't supposed to..." (If you haven't realized by now, this is all just an act. It's a set up...)
"What aren't you supposed to show me?" Ray asked, frowning.
Kenny looked at Tyson with a mortified expression on his face, "No....she would kill us!"
"That's why we have to do it now!" Tyson insisted. "So she wouldn't find out."
"Fine," Max gave in. "Ray, follow us." Kai rolled his eyes, and thought, [How childish can they get?]
Ray was, um, intrigued by this. The poor guy had no idea what Max and Tyson, or the others, were planning.
"Ray, close your eyes, don't peek! It's a surprise," Tyson said.
Ray obediently closed his eyes. Tyson's eyes widened, and looked at Max incredulously, trying to hold his laughter in. Who knew it could be this easy?
Suddenly, Ray felt someone shove him. He immediately opened his eyes and heard someone screaming.
"AH! What the hell are you doing in here? I'm changing for goodness sake!" Zarine yelled at him. She only had her pajama pants on, and was covering herself carefully with the tank top in her hands.
"Sorry," Ray gulped. The door slammed abruptly and they heard people laughing outside. He went and tried to open the door, but it was locked shut.
"Haha! You guys are not coming out until you make up with each other!" Tyson said loudly over the laughter of the others.
Forgetting the fact that she only had a bra on, Zarine threw her top onto the bed and yelled, "Let us out!" Her fist pounded furiously on the door.
"Not until you make up with each other," Max's reply came.
"Ah!" she clenched her fists and sat down onto the bed, fuming. How dare they do this to her!
"Have fun in there!" Carrie called.
Zarine looked sullenly at the door, refusing to answer. Ray was having the most difficult time trying not to look at her. Unfortunately, she noticed him staring, and snapped, "What are you looking at?"
"Um, do you mind putting the rest of your pajamas onto yourself?" he asked, blushing.
She looked down at herself and realized that she hasn't put her top on yet. She had been in Ray's presence with only a bra on for nearly five minutes! Feeling the color rising in her cheeks, she hastily threw the tank top on.
"It looks like we're not going to get out of here until we smooth things over with each other," he sighed. "Tell me what the problem is."
Zarine felt disbelief at his question. Didn't he know? "I'll tell you what my problem is. My problem is that you're always with that bitch, Shea!" she said angrily.
"Don't call her that, she's nice!" Ray protested.
"Yeah, as nice as a bitch can be," she muttered.
"What about those creeps you always talk to?" he demanded. He couldn't help but feel anger rising in him. He normally didn't get mad easily, but somehow, Zarine always manage to make his blood boil when they're disagreeing with each other.
"They're not creeps! They're nice!" she said.
"Well, Shea is nice too," Ray stated simply. "You haven't even talked to her!"
His girlfriend snorted. "I had. I told her to stay away from you and guess what she said? She said that it's not her fault that you find her more attractive and like her better than me. Obviously, she was overjoyed at the fact that you spend more time with her."
He was taken aback. There was a long and uncomfortable silence before Ray realized what Zarine felt. "Are you...jealous?" he asked slowly.
"How can I not?" she asked softly. "You are always with her and you're never with me. Even at night, you don't come and talk to me, despite the fact that your room is right next to mine, and is connected by a door." She turned away, surely, Ray was going to end things between them now.
"I'm sorry," Ray said quietly. "I thought...I thought you didn't want me anymore because I always see you around a couple of guys, and you avoid me. I suppose I should have talked to you first before jumping to conclusions. I felt angry and jealous that they always had your attention and I didn't."
Hesitantly, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her in a tight embrace.
"I'm sorry too," she said, hugging him tightly.
Ray gently lifted her chin up to look into her eyes. "You still have doubts, don't you?" he said, frowning. He leaned down to kiss her.
"What are you doing?" she asked softly.
"Removing your doubts," he answered before capturing her lips in a passionate kiss. He moved his hand from her chin to the back of her neck, weaving his fingers into her hair. Zarine's arms slowly wrapped themselves around his neck, lost in the touch of his lips.
"So, are you convinced that my heart belongs to you and only you?" he asked breathlessly after.
She nodded almost dumbly. His kisses always managed to take her breath away. However, he had never kissed her like that before. They had always been soft and tender, but this one was deep and passionate.
"Good," he said, smiling. He leaned in for another kiss.
Outside the door, their friends had their ears pressed against the door, minus Kai and Jewels, who just thought the whole idea was too immature for them.
"Guys, do you think they've killed each other?" Tyson asked worriedly.
Hilary scoffed, "Get real, Tyson. They wouldn't kill each other. Even if they were, we would hear screams and everything."
"They might have strangled each other," he said. "I'm going to go in and check."
"Tyson, no!" Max hissed at him.
"I don't care!" Tyson said. "I don't want my friends to hurt one another!" He quickly opened the door.
Ray and Zarine didn't notice the others watching them since they were...um...they had their minds on something else.
"What are you doing?" Tyson asked, shocked. "We told you to make up, not make out!"
The couple broke off their kiss and saw that the others were staring. "News flash, Tyson, when you get into a fight with your future girlfriend," he said, his gaze flickering onto Hilary, "making out is always part of making up. The best part of it."
Zarine blushed at his words, but said with a huge grin, "Now if you'll excuse us, we were still making up with each other. You said that we weren't supposed to come out until after we're finished...so..."
The others got the message, but Tyson was still saying, "I still can't believe it," as the others dragged him out.
Ray closed the door and turned to his girlfriend with a smile. "Let's get back to what's important."
Don't judge Jewels yet because you barely know what she's like. Okay, so she's cold to Kai, that doesn't mean that she's cold to everyone.
Oh ya, and no, Kai and Zarine aren't going to get together in this story because it'll just ruin the whole thing...maybe in another story. I'm not promising anything because right now, I don't have a new idea for a story, except for the sequel to this. Yes, people, there will be a third story after this.
Chapter Ten – Mission Accomplished?
"So, does anyone have any objections or any other suggestions?" Carrie asked, looking around at Max, Tyson, and Hilary. They were at her house coming up with a plan to get Ray and Zarine back together.
The others shook their heads. It sounded like a good plan to them.
"You know, they're probably going to kill us for this," Tyson said. He had been on the receiving end of Zarine's anger before, and he knew better than to make her angry.
"If we get them back together, then they wouldn't have an excuse to," Max reasoned.
"Let's hope so," Hilary said.
"Zarine, can you come early to my house to help me prepare for the sleepover?" Carrie asked the next day at school.
Zarine smiled. "Sure! I can't wait till tonight!"
"Me neither," the red haired girl said. [For you and Ray to make up with each other.] she added silently.
Then she remembered something. "Is Kai even going to come? He hasn't told me and I don't see him as the type that would leap at the idea of a sleepover."
Her friend said sheepishly. "Oops. I was supposed to tell you two days ago. He is going. Do you actually think he would stay at home alone while we are having all the fun?"
Carrie grinned. "He's an old sourpuss after all, or he's just extremely good at hiding the fact that he likes to have fun with his friends."
"Ha, he's probably both," Zarine said, her eyes twinkling with laughter.
"What's gotten you two so amused?" Kai asked.
"Nothing," the girls answered with the same innocent look.
"Yeah right. I bet you two were talking behind my back again," Kai said. "Or else making fun of me."
"How could you suggest such a thing?" Zarine asked, pretending to be shocked.
"Yeah, Kai. We'd never dream of it," Carrie said.
"Do you guys know how much alike you are? Carrie, sometimes I think you're twins with Zarine rather than Jewels," he remarked.
The hazel eyed girl shrugged and put an arm around her friend. "Who knows? Maybe I'll adopt Zarine as my sister, then Jewels, Zarine and I can be triplets!"
Kai just rolled his eyes and sighed. He turned around to go to his next class.
"You could've said bye or farewell or something to let us know that you wouldn't grace us with your divine presence anymore!" Carrie called dramatically, "Farewell, my holy father!"
Zarine burst out into laughter. Carrie joined in, laughing hard. She gasped, "God, I love annoying him!"
Kai grumbled as he plopped himself into the seat next to Ray.
"Was Carrie annoying you again?" Ray asked with a chuckle. "What had she done this time?"
Kai grimaced as he heard an echo of 'Farewell, my holy father!' in his head. "I would rather not be reminded of it," he said.
"It must've been pretty bad," Ray said sympathetically. He had seen the ruthless teasing of Carrie, and he knew how much it embarrassed and irritates Kai, being the kind of person that he was.
"You have no idea," Kai said, and glared at the figures of the two girls entering the room.
Later that day at Carrie's house...
DING DONG! Carrie yelled, "Jewels, can you get the door for me? It's Zarine."
Jewels opened the door, and Waffles immediately went up to Zarine curiously with a wagging tail.
"Hi!" Zarine said with a smile. "So, what's her name?"
"She's Waffles," Jewels replied.
Carrie came running after a moment and told her friend, "Come on in." She led Zarine to a guest room with a double bed.
"Put your stuff in that closet," she said, pointing to the closet farthest to the door. "The other one has loads of stuff in it."
Her twin sister raised her eyebrows questioningly. Jewels knew perfectly well that the other closet was in fact, empty. Carrie just shook her head and winked. Jewels nodded in satisfaction. She knew that Carrie must have something planned. Zarine, who was busy putting her stuff in the closet, saw none of this for her back was turned.
"Let's go get the junk food," the shorter twin suggested. (That's Carrie if you didn't know.) "Jewels, are you coming?"
Jewels shrugged and followed them. She had nothing better to do. However, she regretted it after. Zarine and Carrie went all out on the junk food. By the time they were making their way back, there were three big bags for each person to carry. Three of those bags were containing ice cream, popsicles, or ice cream sandwich bars, in other words, frozen treats.
"I didn't know you guys liked ice cream so much," Zarine said.
"Well, Jewels and I are just crazy about ice cream," Carrie told her.
Zarine cheered, "Finally, I have found someone with ice cream obsessions!"
"Ya, and you are the first person we met that loves ice cream as much as we do," Jewels said.
"How do you plan on fitting all of these into the freezer?" the silver haired girl asked.
Carrie and Jewels looked at each other and grinned a little guiltily. "Uh...well...Jewels and I cleared out the freezer of all the ice cream last night so we would have room for more."
"And how much ice cream was there before you ate it all?"
"About...three liters each."
"WHAT?! Even I had never eaten so much ice cream at once. It's a wonder you guys aren't sick from it."
After they had managed to fit all the ice cream into the freezer with much difficulty, the door bell rang. "Who can it be? The others aren't supposed to be here for another half an hour," Zarine said, puzzled as she followed Carrie to the door.
"Hey!" Hilary, Max, Tyson, and Chief were standing outside. "We thought we would come early to help," Hilary lied.
"That's great! We are almost done, but the quicker we get it done, the quicker we can have fun!" Carrie said, winking at her friends.
They all helped pour chips into bowls, and set up pillows in the living room for the scary movie. Carrie glanced at the clock, it was a minute to six. Knowing Kai, he would probably arrive not a second later than six.
"Zarine, can you call the pizza place and tell them that we want three extra large pizzas, pepperoni, cheese and Hawaiian," she asked.
"Okay," she answered, going to the phone in the kitchen.
As Carrie had predicted, Kai and Ray arrived right when the cuckoo came out of the clock, announcing the next hour. Hilary made sure that Zarine was still busy on the phone before waving and saying loudly, "Hey guys!"
"Okay, Ray, follow me and I'll show you where to put your stuff. Kai, Max will show you where you put yours," Carrie said.
Ray followed the redhead to the guest room. "Put your stuff in the closet," she said, pointing to the one closer to the door. "The other one has loads of stuff in it."
When Zarine finished ordering their pizzas, she went back into the living room and collapsed onto the soft, squishy loveseat. "So, what should we do now?"
"Let's get changed into our pajamas, so we wouldn't have to do it later," the brunette suggested.
"Okay," the girls said, standing up. "Aren't you going to follow us?" Jewels asked at the doorway.
"We don't need to change yet," Tyson answered.
Zarine rolled her eyes and remarked, "Right, you guys just stripe until you're only wearing your boxers before going to bed."
Once the girls were gone, Max asked, "What should we do while they find a suitable outfit to wear as pajamas?"
"I know!" Tyson exclaimed. "We can, show Ray that thing...that Carrie told us we weren't supposed to..." (If you haven't realized by now, this is all just an act. It's a set up...)
"What aren't you supposed to show me?" Ray asked, frowning.
Kenny looked at Tyson with a mortified expression on his face, "No....she would kill us!"
"That's why we have to do it now!" Tyson insisted. "So she wouldn't find out."
"Fine," Max gave in. "Ray, follow us." Kai rolled his eyes, and thought, [How childish can they get?]
Ray was, um, intrigued by this. The poor guy had no idea what Max and Tyson, or the others, were planning.
"Ray, close your eyes, don't peek! It's a surprise," Tyson said.
Ray obediently closed his eyes. Tyson's eyes widened, and looked at Max incredulously, trying to hold his laughter in. Who knew it could be this easy?
Suddenly, Ray felt someone shove him. He immediately opened his eyes and heard someone screaming.
"AH! What the hell are you doing in here? I'm changing for goodness sake!" Zarine yelled at him. She only had her pajama pants on, and was covering herself carefully with the tank top in her hands.
"Sorry," Ray gulped. The door slammed abruptly and they heard people laughing outside. He went and tried to open the door, but it was locked shut.
"Haha! You guys are not coming out until you make up with each other!" Tyson said loudly over the laughter of the others.
Forgetting the fact that she only had a bra on, Zarine threw her top onto the bed and yelled, "Let us out!" Her fist pounded furiously on the door.
"Not until you make up with each other," Max's reply came.
"Ah!" she clenched her fists and sat down onto the bed, fuming. How dare they do this to her!
"Have fun in there!" Carrie called.
Zarine looked sullenly at the door, refusing to answer. Ray was having the most difficult time trying not to look at her. Unfortunately, she noticed him staring, and snapped, "What are you looking at?"
"Um, do you mind putting the rest of your pajamas onto yourself?" he asked, blushing.
She looked down at herself and realized that she hasn't put her top on yet. She had been in Ray's presence with only a bra on for nearly five minutes! Feeling the color rising in her cheeks, she hastily threw the tank top on.
"It looks like we're not going to get out of here until we smooth things over with each other," he sighed. "Tell me what the problem is."
Zarine felt disbelief at his question. Didn't he know? "I'll tell you what my problem is. My problem is that you're always with that bitch, Shea!" she said angrily.
"Don't call her that, she's nice!" Ray protested.
"Yeah, as nice as a bitch can be," she muttered.
"What about those creeps you always talk to?" he demanded. He couldn't help but feel anger rising in him. He normally didn't get mad easily, but somehow, Zarine always manage to make his blood boil when they're disagreeing with each other.
"They're not creeps! They're nice!" she said.
"Well, Shea is nice too," Ray stated simply. "You haven't even talked to her!"
His girlfriend snorted. "I had. I told her to stay away from you and guess what she said? She said that it's not her fault that you find her more attractive and like her better than me. Obviously, she was overjoyed at the fact that you spend more time with her."
He was taken aback. There was a long and uncomfortable silence before Ray realized what Zarine felt. "Are you...jealous?" he asked slowly.
"How can I not?" she asked softly. "You are always with her and you're never with me. Even at night, you don't come and talk to me, despite the fact that your room is right next to mine, and is connected by a door." She turned away, surely, Ray was going to end things between them now.
"I'm sorry," Ray said quietly. "I thought...I thought you didn't want me anymore because I always see you around a couple of guys, and you avoid me. I suppose I should have talked to you first before jumping to conclusions. I felt angry and jealous that they always had your attention and I didn't."
Hesitantly, he wrapped his arms around her, holding her in a tight embrace.
"I'm sorry too," she said, hugging him tightly.
Ray gently lifted her chin up to look into her eyes. "You still have doubts, don't you?" he said, frowning. He leaned down to kiss her.
"What are you doing?" she asked softly.
"Removing your doubts," he answered before capturing her lips in a passionate kiss. He moved his hand from her chin to the back of her neck, weaving his fingers into her hair. Zarine's arms slowly wrapped themselves around his neck, lost in the touch of his lips.
"So, are you convinced that my heart belongs to you and only you?" he asked breathlessly after.
She nodded almost dumbly. His kisses always managed to take her breath away. However, he had never kissed her like that before. They had always been soft and tender, but this one was deep and passionate.
"Good," he said, smiling. He leaned in for another kiss.
Outside the door, their friends had their ears pressed against the door, minus Kai and Jewels, who just thought the whole idea was too immature for them.
"Guys, do you think they've killed each other?" Tyson asked worriedly.
Hilary scoffed, "Get real, Tyson. They wouldn't kill each other. Even if they were, we would hear screams and everything."
"They might have strangled each other," he said. "I'm going to go in and check."
"Tyson, no!" Max hissed at him.
"I don't care!" Tyson said. "I don't want my friends to hurt one another!" He quickly opened the door.
Ray and Zarine didn't notice the others watching them since they were...um...they had their minds on something else.
"What are you doing?" Tyson asked, shocked. "We told you to make up, not make out!"
The couple broke off their kiss and saw that the others were staring. "News flash, Tyson, when you get into a fight with your future girlfriend," he said, his gaze flickering onto Hilary, "making out is always part of making up. The best part of it."
Zarine blushed at his words, but said with a huge grin, "Now if you'll excuse us, we were still making up with each other. You said that we weren't supposed to come out until after we're finished...so..."
The others got the message, but Tyson was still saying, "I still can't believe it," as the others dragged him out.
Ray closed the door and turned to his girlfriend with a smile. "Let's get back to what's important."
