Disclaimer: I don't own KND and none of the characters of the cartoon (saying this just one time isn't enough??). Like I said, I just own the DCFDTL mother (she wouldn't appear on this chapter... sad...) and some others secondary characters. Please, enjoy the fic!


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Operation: P.I.C.T.U.R.E.

Problems
Involving
Complicated
Teenagers
Unable to
Release
Emotions

Writing Operative: Ukiby3000 a.k.a. KibyMoon

Chapter 6: Lane of Sorrows

Initianting Transmission……………


Sorrow (n.) 1. Sadness, melancholy. 2. Suffering, pain.

3. Regret

That weekend, many things happened. Abigail, her father and Kasen went to the beach, Nigel was invited (read obliged) to go out with Lizzie; Hoagie and Miette went out to buy CDs and they also would go with Nadine, Albin and Kuki to the amusement park.

At Nigel's house, while putting his clothes on after the bath, the bald boy was now thinking about the day he saw Lizzie again, after almost two years separeted from her.

Back to the Thursday night…

"So, when did you come back?" Nigel said, sitting on the same couch that the red haired girl was.

"I came back last week. It wasn't hard to find you because you still live in the same house! I was afraid that you had moved too."

"Well, want something to drink? A soda or a juice?" he asked, rising from the couch.

"A juice is OK. I cut the soft drinks."

"A can see," he said, looking at her. She was really thinner and even looked a little bit pretty. "So, I'll get the drinks."

He went to the kitchen and gave a deep breathe. She was really happy about seeing him again, but he couldn't say the same thing about himself. When Lizzie went with her parents to another state, he was kind of relieved that he wasn't going to be forced to go out with her every week and he would be able to 'work' on his little crush. But, on those two years, he din't make any progress and to make things worse, Lizzie was back.

He went out of the kitchen, faking a smile and with two glasses on his hands, one with orange juice and the other with Coke. He sat again and handed the juice to Lizzie.

"So, did you miss me too Nigy?" she asked giving a sip on her juice.

"Of course I missed you Liz!" he said.

It was a big lie. But he couldn't simply say that he was fine while she was out. That he was enjoying life more. He couldn't throw this right on her face. She was so happy. And it was real happiness. She wasn't a lying.

And, after talking a lot, they decided to go out on the weekend to remember the 'good old days' like Lizzie named the time when she and Nigel were 12.

Another person that was having some problems was Walabbe. Friday, around 9 P.M., he called Hoagie by the phone and said that he had something important to say. The brown haired boy then asked: "You are my best friend Wally. You can say whatever you want to me. I'm all ears."

"First I need to ask you: are you in your bedroom?"

"Yep."

"Are you siting down?"

"Now I am."

"OK, please, I hope that you don't tell this to anyone…" Walabbe made a long pause and continued: "Do you know that we started to be friends with the delightful children, right?"

"Yes! Miette is a wonderful person! We are going to go out together this weekend!"

"Really? Good luck!" Wally said giggling.

"What do you mean with this?"

"Nothing at all Hoagie, nothing at all."

"OK, let's forget me and let's talk about you again. So, we be friends with them. So?"

"Well… You know… You see…"

"I think I know where all this will lead…"

"Wha… What you… It's… I deny!"

"Deny what? I didn't say a thing."

"But… But you thought…"

"Look, you are too nervous. Are you sure you want to say what you want to say?"

"It's because is everything a little bit messed up in my head. I don't even know why I like…" the blonde stopped to talk suddenly.

"Hmm… 'Like'? Like what? Or better, who?"

"That's the whole point. This person isn't available. And it will never be. And, tomake things worse, I'm divided between two people."

"Hmm… a love triangle. Can I know the names of the players of the game?"

"Well, one is Kuki. But I think you've always suspect that I like her, right?"

"Well, to tell the thruth to you, all of us, knew that you had a crush on her since we were from KND."

"Why you never told me that you all knew?" Wally said nervous on the other side of the line.

"Because we thought that you had noticed."

A long silence passed and then Hoagie said: "So?"

"So what?"

"Your other crush? The one that isn't going to be available never in it's life. Who is it?"

More silence coming from the other side of the line.

"Are you still there Wally? Are you OK?"

A sound of someone blowing the nose came out of the phone and Hoagie started to understand the silence. Then some sobbing came as well.

"That's OK Wally. Let it all out," Hoagie said trying to comfort his friend.

"Why this things always happen to me? Why it needs to be with me? That's just because I went to that cruddy school to meet that cruddy…" more sobbing came. Hoagie had already understand everything. It wasn't necessary to be a genious to understand what Walabbe was trying to say with all that.

"I understood Wally. You don't need to say anything more, OK?"

"OK…"

"Look, do you want to go to the amusement park this Sunday? I'm planning to go there with Kuki, Miette, Albin and Nadine. What do you think?"

"I don't know…"

"C'mon, it wil be funny and it will make you forget this a little."

"OK, I'll go with you. Stay locked here in my house won't make the things better, right?"

"You are right. So, I'm gonna call the others to say that you are coming too, OK?"

"'K! So, bye Hoagie. And thankx for hearing me. I really needed to tell this to someone."

"I know. Bye! 'Till Sunday."

Hoagie hung up the phone and then turned it on again to call the DC's mansion.

When Saturday came, Abby, her father and Kasen were already at the beach and they were already in the little hotel room that Abigail's father reserved for them. When it was about 10 o'clock AM, the girl said: "So, are we going to the beach or we are going to stay here all day long?"

"I'm already prepared," Kasen said, going out of the bathroom already changed to go to the beach. He was wearing an aloha sirt and a pair of white bathing trunks. In his face he had a pair of black glasses.

"Where did you found that t-shirt?" Abby asked trying to hold her laugh.

"Hey, I bought it just to wear here in the beach! Don't make fun of me! I'm not going to make fun of you. In fact, you look really fine."

Abby smilled and blushed a little. She was wearing a white bikini and she was with a little pair of yellow shorts. Her hair was now in two big braids. She was wearing black sandals, just like Kasen.

"Are you going with Abigail, aloha boy?" Abby asked getting her bag.

"Of course!" he said, going to the door. He opened it and, before going out, he shouted at Mr. Lincon: "We are already going Mr. Lincon. We'll be back soon."

"OK my boy, don't worry. You two can come back any time you want," The man said. while he was in the other bathroom changing himself to go to the beach.

When the pair reached the beach, Kasen was almost crying with happiness . He had gone to the beach only twice when he was really young and, after his mother's 'escape', he didn't go anymore. It was really good for him to go to there.

"Liked it?" Abigail asked, when she realized that the boy was starring happy at the ocean.

"I loved it! Looks like I haven't been to a beach for almost a hundred years!"

"So, let's find a place under the sun and play in the water."

They started to look for a place to stay in the sand to put their towels, and managed to find a little place under two coconut palms.

"Well, it isn't under the sun, but it's a place," Abigail said, placing her towel properly on the ground and sitting on it. Kasen did the same.

"Nice towel," he commented when he saw Abigail's towel lying on the sand.

Abby's towel was blue with a drawing of two dolphins and some other fishes around then. She smiled and said: "Yours isn't bad too."

The boy's towel was black, with a drawing of a wolf on a cliff, howling at a yellow moon surrounded by lots of stars of the same color. He smiled at her too.

She took off the sunscreen from her bag and passed it around her dark skin and asked to Kasen to pass it on her back. He agreed and she turned to him. When he was done with it, he passed the cream around his own skin and asked the same thing to Abby. She agreed. When they were both protected, the girl laid down on her towel, and closed her eyes. Without nothing better to do, Kasen did the same.

For something about thirty minutes, they stayed there, laid under the shadow of the coconut palms, just enjoying the hot weather and the smell of the salty water that was coming from the sea. Kasen started to pay attention in all those things and started to think it was a good time to tell Abby that he liked her. His heart and his mind started to battle against each other. His mind was telling him to wait, to don't rush anything. To let them flow the way they needed to flow. But his hearth had some different opinions. The sooner he told her, the sooner he would enjoy that weekend even more, at that comfy beach, in Abigail's warm arms. But, his inner argumentation was broken when Abby said: "Wanna go swim?"

Kasen nodded his head in agreement and rose from the sand with Abby. They both went running to the water because they had took off their shoes and the sand was very hot. When they reached the wet sand, it was a relief to their feet.

Abigail entered in the water until her knees were underwater and looked back to see the boy that was with her paralized because of happiness and joy. She smilled softly and then called: "Hey, enter in the water too! It is really cool!"

The boy gave a few steps until his ankles were under the salty water and then he looked down, trying not to look too silly in front of the girl that he liked and hoping that wasn't a dream.

Suddenly, Abby pulled Kasen by the arm, almost giving him a heart attack. She pulled him to a deeper part of the sea, were all the lower part of his and her body could be underwater.

"How do ya feel?" she asked heppy.

"I fell... I can't even describe my happiness, really. I'm... Sorry. I can't find the right words," he said, always smilling.

"It's OK." she said, before diving in the water and emerging with her body and hair all wet. Then, she decided to untie her hair. The long pair of plaits turned into a jungle of wet dark brown hair that got glued to her skin.

Kasen looked at her and saw on the girl the personification of beauty and perfection. He sighed and Abby turned her attention from her hair to the boy's face. He gave a deep breathe and, gathering all his courage and strenght, he then said: "Abby, I know that we just know each other for a short time but, I need to say that I think you're a wonderful person and the you're really beautiful. And, I would like to know if you want to be my girlfriend."

The girl stayed in silence by some seconds, her smile had faded away and she was staring at him with her chocolate eyes wide open. Then she looked down and went back to the sand. But before she said to the boy, with a bored tone on her voice: "Let's go back to the hotel."

Kasen realized the terrible mistake he made and tried to repair it saying, going after Abby: "Sorry Abby! I didn't know that you would be sad with this. I should have known that you and Nigel were more than good friends. I should have know that you two had something else."

Abby stopped abruptly and turned to face the boy. She was with tears on her eyes and with and angry look in the place of her usual smilling and pretty face. Then she, without any hesitation, slapped him on the face and said: "You are a bastard!"

She ran to the sand and Kasen stayed some seconds surprised, still knee-deep inside the underwater, just looking to Abby go away in the middle of the crowd of the beach.

All that was because Abby and Nigel, just a couple of months before, were really dating. But, some things didn't go right and they needed to get separeted from each other and Abigail was trying hard to forget the bad ending of her relationship. But, Kasen didn't know nothing about it and, unintentionally, he hurt Abby with his words.

On the next day, Wally went out to go to the amusement park. He was kind of happy to go out and forget about his problems. While he was on the bus, he started to think in a lot of things, but nothing related to his most serious problem at the moment.

He stepped out of the bus and faced the park with a smile.

"Today I'll just have fun and forget everything!" he thought with himself and went to buy his ticket. Then, he saw Hoagie and Miette at the entrance.

"Hey you!" he said to them.

"Hi Wally!" Miette answered with her usual smile.

"Hey! Are you better?" Hoagie asked.

"I'm great! And where's Nadine, Albin and Kuki?"

"We are here waiting for them," Miette said, trying to find Nadine's digital camera on her backpack.

"So, I'll wait for them with you," Wally said, standing next to Hoagie.

They waited just a couple of minutes and the others arrived. But, there were four people instead of just three. When Walabbe finally indentified the fourth person from far, all his body became frozen and he tried very hard to look cool and not nervous.

"HEYYYY!! Hi!!" Kuki said when the two groups got together.

"Thanks for waiting for us!" Albin said "It's all Nadine's fault. She took ages to decide what kind of clothes she would wear."

"It isn't just my fault, you know! This guy here didn't want to come!"

"I said to you that I'm not the kind of person that like to go to this kind of place."

"But you need to go out more often Donovy!" Miette said hugging her taller brother.

Donovan looked down to his sister and smiled. Then he looked to Wally with the same smile and the Australian boy looked away, trying to think on something else.

Albin offered himself to go buy the tickets for everyone and, after picking the money, he went. He came back and gave a little piece of paper for each one of the teens there. So, they went inside the park.

The park was huge, with lots of rides and little stores to buy souvenirs and play games. Hoagie looked around and asked to Miette: "Wanna go somewhere?"

"Well... I would like to go to... Well... The Love Boat," she said the last three words very low and Hoagie blushed a little, but the two of them went.

Albin saw they two leaving and then said to Kuki and Nadine: "Let's go to the roller coaster or the ferris wheel?"

"ROLLER COASTER!" Nadine and Kuki shouted together.

"So, let's go!"

And the trio went, letting Donovan and Walabbe all alone.

It was a little plan that Hoagie made. After hanging up with Wally, he called Donovan and asked him of he wanted to go to the park too. The boy agreed, without too much enthusiasm, but he agreed. Then, he called the others and prepared a great plan: everybody would go somewhere to let Wally and Donovan alone, because they needed to solve some problems with each other. He didn't say what was the problem, but everyone agreed with the plan.

Donovan was as surprised as Wally when he saw that everybody was gone. He turned to the blonde boy and said: "Looks like nobody wants to hang around with us, right?"

"Yeah..." Walabbe answered without giving much attention and letting himself fall on a wodden bench. He knew that was all Hoagie's fault and he was going to kill that boy when he returned.

The other boy sighed and sat on the bench too, as far as he could from the blonde Walabbe. They stayed in silence for a long time and then Donovan said, without facing Wally: "You know that we can't stay like this forever, don't you?"

"Like this what? We always had been quiet."

"Yes, but we used to talk about lots of things when we were alone like this. Well, at least until last week, we were like this. But, this past week was just... so strange... I mean, you were always avoiding me. You were never returning my calls and wasn't talking to me very much. What changed?"

"Nothing changed. I'm just quieter..." Wally said, turning his back to Donovan to look at the people walking around.

"Why aren't you more sincere about your feelings?"

Walabbe faced Donovan and saw that the boy was with a very serious face. Even with the bangs covering his eyes, the blonde knew that he was looking straight at him, with those dark severe eyes that he had when he was angry.

At this time, Kuki, Albin and Nadine were going out of the ferris whell.

"Wow! That was something!" Kuki said jumping around her two friends.

"You're right," Nadine agreed with her camera on hand. "Hey, Albin, Kuki. Stay in front of that fountain for me to take a photo of you."

"OK!" Albin said going with the japanese girl to a little fountain with some stone bears and flowers, with water flowing from the animals' big mouths.

Nadine started to adjust everything when she saw on the little screen Nigel. She was about to open a big smile smile, when she saw Lizzie with him, with her arms around the boy's body, all happy. She stayed quiet for some seconds and then returned her attention to the photo. She took it and Kuki walked toward her to see how it was.

But, the japanese girl noticed that the blonde girl was kind of sad or disappointed. Then she asked: "What happened Nadine?"

"Nothing happened Kuki. I'm just feeling a little bit sick, that's all."

"But we didn't even go to the roller coaster yet," Albin, said listening to his sister.

"But, I feel a little strange."

"OK, so let's go back to where Donovan and Wally are for you to stay with them and..."

"No Albin! It would ruin Hoagie's plan!" Nadine said "I will be fine."

"Look, his plan will have to wait. We are going."

He grabed his sister arm and they went, followed by Kuki. He didn't care about the plan anymore. His sis' was sick, so he needed to do something about it.

At this time, Hoagie and Miette had already went out of their ride and they were walking hand in hand in the park, smiling. The boy was blushing a little. Three months ago, he could swear that he would never meet a girl, and now, he had just gone to the Love Boat with one. A really lovely one to be more specific.

"Do you think that Donovan and Wally already solved their problem?" Miette asked.

"Well, I think that they they did it. Let's go check it out."

And so they went.

Donovan and Walabbe were standing next to the bench, facing each other. They had argued and now they were both nervous.

"Why don't you admit your feelings your dumb blonde?"

"What feelings? You're talking bullshit!"

"Really? So, tell me, who do you like? Who do you love?"

The question hit Wally like a bullet on his chest and he satayed in silence, trying to find something clever to say. When he saw Albin, Kuki and Nadine coming, he had an idea. It wasn't the most smart idea on Earth, but at least the could escape from Donovan's questions.

"You want to know who I love? OK, I'll show you who I love!"

When the trio came closer, he passed by everyone and, when he reached Kuki, he kissed her. Kissed her deep, in front of everone.

Nobody said a world. Hoagie that was seeing evrything from far with Miette, wanted to say all the rude words that he knew. Miette looked very puzzled with the scene. Nadine was confused too. Albin felt an strange inner sadness. Donovan looked away and then looked down so his bangs could cover his wet eyes. Kuki felt someway happy and someway surprised. Wally felt guilty for doing this to Donovan.

In the end, everybody felt somewhat confused.


Notes:

1) Yes, review, please!!

2) Next chapter will come God knows when... Opinions about this sixthy chapter??

3) Thankx for reading! It means a lot to me!!

4) Special notes for special people:

FTiger: Thankx for another lovely review and I liked that you enjoyed the pairs!

Flaming Tsunami: Ah, but I think that the name Lenny don't fit's him, really...

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