Chapter Thirty-Five - (untitled until I can think of one)
Ray, wearing only his boxers, walked into the room after a shower. Zarine was just lying on her stomach with a book on his bed. For once, she didn't blush when he walked in half naked.
"Oh my," Zarine exclaimed. "You look like a girl!"
"What!" he demanded. "Is this supposed to be an insult?"
"No, it's just I haven't seen you with your hair down before. I like it," she smiled.
The last thing he expected someone to say when his hair was down was that they liked it. "What? You don't have to look like a man all the time," she said. His butt hadn't even made contact the bed before she touched his hair. "This is perfect! Can I play with it, pretty please?" she begged.
"Give me a kiss first," he told her slyly. "You can only play with it if you kiss me."
She kissed him once on the lips quickly. Ray quickly intercepted her hands as they moved toward his hair. "That wasn't good enough," he stated flatly. "I want a nice, long kiss."
Hesitantly, Zarine leaned closer to him. "Come on, you can kiss your own boyfriend," he grinned. She gave him a soft and gentle kiss. As she moved back to break it off, his arms wound about her waist tightly and he kissed her deeply. She melted against him instantly.
Jeff and Will walked in right at that moment. Jeff's heart was torn apart at the sight. Sure he knew that they were going out, but he couldn't stand the sight of them kissing each other.
"Ahem," Will cleared his throat. Zarine broke off the kiss and turned her head to the door, her face flushed with embarrassment.
"What's up?" Ray asked, both of his arms hugged Zarine even closer to him.
"We wanted to see what you two were up to," answered Will, who had a wide grin on his face. "Well, we should be going now. Come on, Jeff, let's see if we can get Kai to play video games with us."
Jeff followed Will slowly, casting a last glance at the petite girl who was still snuggled up to her boyfriend. If I can get her away from him…maybe… he thought.
As if he had read Jeff's mind, Will turned around to look at him. "Look, I know how you feels about my sister, but don't do try anything to break them apart."
"But…I thought you wanted her to come back with us!"
"Of course I do! Things have changed, and she is happier with him than she will be with us," Will said matter-of-factly.
"Whatever, I don't like Ray," his friend grumbled.
Ray rubbed his arm where Zarine had just punched him hard. "What was that for?"
"That wouldn't have happened if you would just let me play with your hair!" she said, while grabbing a handful of his black hair in her hands. "Now sit still…"
He groaned, he could just see the wheels turning in her head. "Please, don't do anything embarrassing."
Her reply was, "We will see how it turns out."
Zarine made him turn his back on the mirror, but after ten minutes of desperately turning around to see what he looked like, he finally caught a glimpse. "Zarine!" he gasped. "I look horrible!"
"No you don't," she lied. "I will make you look great!"
He struggled to get away from her, but all he succeeded in doing was almost pulling out his own hair.
"You asked for this!" she growled and led him into her room where she found some hair clips before making him beside her bed and continuing.
Finally, after fifteen long minutes…"You can look now!" the petite girl chirped happily.
He turned to the mirror and let out a scream that could be heard two streets over.
"What's going on?" Kai asked, as Jeff and Will appeared at his heels.
"Hey dude, what happened to you?" Will laughed at his hairdo. His hair was all braided intricately, and a pink bow tied the end of each braid. There were clips all over his head.
"Your sister!" the black haired boy yelled at him. "Now I really look like a girl!"
"It's not my fault that you have such long and tempting hair," Zarine grinned at him, while Will and Jeff laughed, even Kai was smiling in amusement. "Don't rip the ribbons out…we have to take a picture of my hard work!"
"I don't think so," he snapped.
She stuck her tongue out at him, "Fine!"
"You have no idea what you got yourself into," Jeff said, smiling at Zarine.
"I realized that a little too late," Ray sighed.
"What is that supposed to mean!" his girlfriend demanded.
Jeff's POV
"Jeff, Jeff, let's go swim in Kai's pool!" Zarine bounded into my room cheerfully the next day.
It took every ounce of my will to not stare at her in her bikini. She was so hot! And I wanted her to be mine more than ever. "I'll be just a second," I said.
"Okay, I'll see you there in a minute," she giggled, blowing me a kiss before shutting the door.
When my head broke through the surface of the water after I was shoved into the water by my other best friend, Will, a frog had somehow landed on my head.
I was positive that my hair was slimy for three days after I washed it. I looked around for my love and found her staring avidly at something. Her cheeks were so red, they were like giant cherries. I scowled upon discovering that she was looking at Ray, and his muscular body. Okay, so maybe my chest wasn't as filled out as his, but it shouldn't matter right? Why was he so great anyway? I knew her better than anyone except for her brother. She told me everything in her heart, her dreams, her fears, everything. I would do anything for her.
There he goes again, kissing her. He kissed her a billion times a day, on her cheek, on her hair, on her temple… It made me sick to watch how he is all over her! She is very happy with him though. There was always a smile on her face. Maybe I should tell her that …
"Ouch!" I muttered as a giant ball hit my head. I turned around and saw Carrie's wide grin.
"It took you long enough to wake up!" she told me before swimming away, no doubt playing tricks on another innocent friend.
"YEEHAA!" Tyson yelled as he cannonballed into the water, causing a huge splash.
Unfortunately, Hilary was the person who was closest to the diving board and received a big splatter of water in the face. She disappeared into the water and reappeared ten seconds later dragging Tyson by his ear.
"Ow, ow, ow! Hilary, I'm sorry!" he yelped. "My ears going to come off! Zarine, stop laughing! This is not funny!"
Finally, the brunette released his ear and he rubbed his ear furiously. "That was painful," he grumbled.
"And harsh," Carrie added.
"That too," Tyson agreed, still rubbing away at his ear.
"If Hilary didn't manage to twist it off, you are going to rub it off," Zarine informed him. Quite cheekily, I must say.
He scowled at her and stopped. Muttering to himself, he swam away. I was positive that he was sulking.
Later…
"A cake!" Tyson yelled as soon as we saw it on the table. He ran towards it but Zarine got to it first. She picked it up, and threw it at me.
SPLAT! It hit me on the chest before I could react. She took off like the wind, disappearing from sight.
"Zarine!" I yelled at her. I ran after her. I could hear her laughing just ahead of me. "You are not going to get away with this!"
She turned around and made a face at me, and tripped over a carpet. Grabbing my chance, I pinned her down. She giggled, "You look funny." She got some whipped cream from my face with her finger, and licked it. "And you taste good too."
She was not going to get away with this. I lowered my face and chest to her body and rubbed cake off of me and onto her. She protested, "Get off!"
"Not after what you did!" I told her, grinning.
"No, I mean it! Get off!" she snapped.
I got up slowly, and questioned, "What's your problem? I thought we were just having fun!"
"Ray wouldn't like it if he saw us," she answered casually. "We were a bit too close together."
"Does it always have to be about him?" I demanded. "That's all you care about!"
"No it's not!" she denied. "I care about you too! And Will, and my friends. If I tell you we shouldn't do something, it's because I'm with Ray now and he gets jealous. I don't want to make him unhappy; I want to make him as happy as he had made me. Back when we were in Hong Kong, everyone knew that we were close…"
I froze for a moment. "So we can't be close anymore?"
"No, we just can't do some of the things we used to when we were younger. I still want to share everything with you though. You are still my best friend and I love you very much still," she finished.
"Okay," I said. This was probably the best deal I was ever going to get for now.
"Let's get the cake off of us," she suggested.
As we started walking along the hall, she got some cake from her stomach and ate it. "It tastes so good, Louis is so good at baking."
Why did she have to fall in love with Ray?
Normal POV
"I can't believe her!" Tyson complained. "She wasted a perfectly good cake!"
"She and Jeff got ice cream all over each other yesterday. You should've seen Kai's face when he found them covered in eight liters of ice cream," Ray told Tyson.
"I can live without the cake," was the blue haired boy's reply. His stomach contradicted him by letting out a long growl.
Hilary laughed, "I don't think so. Let's find you something to eat before you die of hunger."
Tyson all but gaped at her. Normally she would be screeching about how he shouldn't eat and now…this? Girls were the most bizarre creatures he had even seen in his life. They were even queerer than the animal that looked like it had been beaten up and had a permanent black eye. (He doesn't know what a panda is, LOL!)
Zarine and Jeff reappeared clean and cake free while the others were eating a chocolate cake and chocolate ice cream in the kitchen.
"Ice cream! I want some too!" Zarine said. "And a piece of that cake."
"You will get none," the chef told her.
She pouted. "Why? Please!"
"Because you threw my cake at Jeff. Food is not meant to be thrown," he scolded her. "Really! You are almost a grown woman, be more sensible!"
"Aww…come on, Louis! I ate as much of the remains of the cake as I could!" the petite girl reasoned. "Please, let me have some of that chocolate cake."
Ray frowned. "What are you talking about, Zarine? You ate the cake off of Jeff!"
"Of course not!" she denied, her face flaming red.
"Excuse us," he said to the others, and dragged her out of the kitchen to talk.
Ray took hold of her shoulders and looked into her eyes. "Tell me the truth, what were you two doing?"
"He rubbed cake onto me and when we went to clean cake off of the both of us, I ate the crumbs and cream that was on me," she replied truthfully. She didn't want to lie, not to Ray. "I told him not to do it again," she added when she saw him looking extremely angry.
The petite girl took his hand and led him back into the kitchen. He was just sitting back down into his chair when Zarine motioned for him to make space for her too. She settled into his lap and asked quietly, "Can I please have some of your cake?"
"And I thought you wanted to sit here because you love me so much," he sighed and handed her the fork.
"That was part of the reason…" she told him. "You know that I do."
"I don't want you to go," he grumbled.
"You can get by without me for two weeks," she sighed, licking the icing from the fork. "Besides, I really miss my aunt and uncle."
"I know," he said, wrapping his arms around her. "But I will die without you for a day. I will miss you so much."
"I will miss you too. I promise to call you everyday." She told him, holding out her pinkie. "Pinkie swear."
He shook her little pinkie with his own. "You better call me or else!"
Here's your long awaited chapter. I think it's alright and hope you liked it. :)
