Disclaimer: I don't own KND and none of the characters of the cartoon (...). I just own the DCFDTL mother (she will appear in this chapter, and she's going on a trip!) and some other 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 9: Next to your Heart
Initianting Transmission……………
Heart (n.) 1. Center, pulp. 2. Soul. 3. Vitality, courage.
4. Love, affection.
"Ah! In three days we are going to have our 18th birthday! Isn't it exciting?" Miette asked, all hyper with a little pile of invitations on the table where she was sat at.
"It's really nice!" Kasen answered, sitting next to her like the others.
The others just nodded in agreement but said nothing. A couple of weeks have passed since the 'accident' at the park and things haven't changed too much, except that now things looked a little bit less tense than before. It was true that Donovan and Walabbe haven't talked to each other since that, and Nadine didn't talk to Nigel too, but things looked a little better.
"OK, we are going to invite two or three close aunts, one close uncle, a couple of cousins..."
"Hold on Miette! Why we need to invite a bunch of relatives that we had never seen in our lives anyway? I think we should invite only our school friends," Kasen said.
"Hmm... yeah, I think you're right. So, who are you going to invite? I'm inviting Hoagie and Samantha."
"Well, I'm invitating Abby and Billy"
"I'll invite Leona and Sally," Albin said, with a serious look on his face.
"Aren't you inviting Kuki?" Miette asked.
"NO."
"OK, you don't need to be rude"
"Well, I'm gonna invite Amanda and Liz," Nadine said.
"Who's Liz?" Kasen asked, pretty curious.
"None of your business."
"And you Donovy? Who are you going to invite?" Miette asked before Kasen could answer something rude to her sister. The tall boy didn't speak a word and Miette felt a little bit displaced by her brother. Then she remembered that he didn't have many friends, except of Wally and she knew the problems that both of them were going trough.
Suddenly, Nadine rose from her chair and said that she was going out. Everybody looked confused as she walked out of the door and then looked back at each other, trying to figure out if someone knew where she was going.
Nadine then started to walk down the street, thinking about a lot of little things. It took some minutes until she reached a nice small house with wooden roof and walls. She walked by the white door and knocked two ot three times. A medium height girl with red hair answered.
"Hi, are you Lizzie?"
"Yes. Do I know you"
"Well, in fact, I think you just saw me walking around the school. My name is Nadine and I'm Nigel's friend."
Lizzie looked down, a little bit sad and said: "What do you want?"
"What's wrong? Why you became sad when I mentioned Nigel's name?"
"It's because... he kicked me. That's it. He doesn't love me and never did."
Nadine felt terribly sad about the girl, but a great happiness grew on her too, because, once that he didn't like her, she had a hope. So she said, trying to comfort Lizzie: "Don't worry Liz. You will find someone that loves you, I'm sure of this."
"Well, if you're saying so. But, why did you come here?"
"It's because I need to tell you two things, the first one is that I'm inviting you to mine and my siblings birthday and if you don't come I'll never forgive you."
"And the other thing?"
"Can I come in? This is a really delicate subject, and I hope you understand."
Lizzie than let the blonde girl come in and closed the door.
Back to the DC mansion...
"I WILL invite Wally, Kuki and Nigel, 'cause, they are my friends in first place, and in second, they used to be your best friends!"
"If you invite Wally, I'm going to be away on the birthday day," Donovan said, angry at his small sister.
"You can do whatever you want! I'm not changing my mind."
"Miette, I can't stand looking at Wally as well, 'cause he's with Kuki and you know that I like her!" Albin said.
"I don't care! If you two want to run away like little children, fine. I think Nadine won't complain like you too."
"I'm going out too. I'm really tired of all this bullshit," Donovan said walking to the door, opening it and then slamming it.
"FINE! If you're going to run away like a little girl, GO!" Miette said angry. Then she faced Albin and asked: "And you? Are you going to run away too"
"N... No," Albin said, a little bit scared.
Donovan started to walk fast down the street with his angry eyes hidden by his bangs. Why Miette needed to invite him afterall?
He didn't notice that he was walking unconsciously to a very known place for him and Wally: a small and peaceful park with many trees and flowers in the center of the town. When he realized that he was there, he started to walk slowly, appreaciating the place. He remembered how they used to go there to make him fight against his fear of flowers and how it worked out very well, once that now he was there all alone and the flowers didn't look as menacing as before. In fact, the manace was only in Donovan's head.
Sitting on a bench, he started to look to the sky and realized that it wasn't the same to go there without the Wally. It looked too quiet and solitary like that, without having someone to talk to. Then, without nothing better to do, he got a cigarette from his back pocket and lightened it up. He had started to smoke for almost two months, but he needed to make it far from his mother, or she would be very angry at him. And Wally also didn't like it.
"Don't you know that you're destroing your lungs?"
The brown haired turned to see who talked to him and saw the blonde boy next to a tree, looking at him with an angry look on his face.
"Like you care about me..."
"Of course I care. Specially now that I'm free."
"You're what?"
"Free. Do I need to spell it for you?"
"No thankx. Your spelling skills are quite poor."
Wally then went to the bench and sat by Donovan's side. When the blonde tried to catch the other boy's hand, Donovan took it out fast and turned his face to the opossite direction. That made Walabbe angry and he said: "You wanna play like this? OK! So we are going to play the couple that want to be together but will not because one of them is acting little a total jerk"
They both stayed in silence for some time and didn't want to face each other. It was like Donovan didn't listen to what Walabbe said about beeing free. But then, Donovan said, without looking to the blonde boy: "What did you mean with 'free'?"
"Kuki sent me this celphone message just some minutes ago. It's all finished between me and her. We are going to be friends, but we aren't dating any-" Wally didn't have opportunity to finish what he was saying because Donovan kissed him. He didn't care if someone was looking at them or not. What Walabbe had just said was the best thing that he heard in months. All that he wanted was to enjoy that moment. If the other people didn't like it, they could turn and go away.
He then broke the kiss and, with his eyes full of tears, he said, looking straight into Wally's eyes: "Why did you do this to me? If you knew how much I missed you these weeks..." He then held Walabbe strongly and continued to cry. The Aussie just wrapped his arms around Donovan and stayed in silence.
At Kuki's house, some minutes before, the japanese girl was facing a really hard problem: who she liked the most, Wally or Albin. Sure she liked the Aussie boy a lot, but the former DC was also a good company and everytime that she went out of ballet class, he was there, to take her home or share a soda with her. He was acting in a more loving way to her than the one she was now calling boyfriend. She then started to look at a picture of Wally and then to a picture of Albin.
"OK. Wally is funny, all active, has really nice green eyes and it's my actual boyfriend. Albin is calm, pacient, very smart and have amazing blue eyes. The only thing that's almost equal in them is the hair and nothing more... What will I do? They are both so lovely to me..." Kuki looked down to her feet and sighed. How to solve something so delicate? Then, she tought about making a very "scientific" way to decide: she picked up two pieces of paper and then wrote down Wally's and Albin's names. She then put both of the papers inside of one of her hats and mixed then.
"OK," she thought with herself taking a deep breath "The name that I get it's going to be the name of my boyfriend," She put her hand inside the hat and picked up a paper. She unfolded it and, after reading it, she smilled. Somehow, she knew that she was taking off a big weight of some people shoulders. So then she grabbed her celphone and sent messages to two people, one to Wally and other to Albin.
At the DC's house, Albin went out of his bedroom singing in joy. When he passed by Kasen, the dark-skinned boy asked, a little bit confused with the scene: "Why are you singing in joy and happiness? Weren't you sorrow-boy with Donovan?"
"You won't believe if I said!"
"What?"
"Kuki isn't Wally's girlfriend anymore and want me to stay with her now!"
"No way!"
"WAY! I'm so exited! I'm going to her house right now to ask her to come to our birthday. I've never been so happy in my whole life!" Albin then walked out of the house and Kasen just stayed there, smilling happy because of his brother. A couple of hours later, Nadine, Albin and Donovan were back from where they have gone, now happier than ever in their whole lives.
The blonde girl had a long conversation with Lizzie and learned more about Nigel. After that, they two become kind of friends and the red-haired said that she was going to Nadine's birthday, just to show Nigel that she wasn't a weak girl and that she was doing great without him.
Albin had gone to Kuki's house and declared his love for her before asking the girl to come to his birthday. But, they didn't kiss or did anything, because Kuki said that was going to be her present to him.
Finally, Donovan had solved his problems with Wally and stayed almost all day long sat on the park bench with him, just chatting or watching the people pass by them.
Things were finally getting back on their tracks. Now, Nigel just needed to know that Nadine liked him a lot and everything would be great. But he was just going to know three days later, at the DC's birthday.
Three days later, the Saturday sun rose bright and all the DC where with their hearts full of happiness. That was going to be their first "normal" birthday after Father's insanity. But, one thing: their mother couldn't stay with them because she needed to solve some things in another state. But, before going, she left some presents to her child.
To Kasen, she bought a beautiful black guitar with amplifiers and everything. To Miette, she left a CD box with all Janis Joplin CDs. To Albin she left the Lord of the Rings trilogy and other Tolkien books (he was fascinated by the movies and wanted to buy the books). To Nadine, she left a beautiful Motorola cell phone that she was planning to buy some months before. And, to Donovan, she bought a beautiful black and shinning motorcycle. The boy had wished for that since he started to see some magazines about the subject.
The five teenagers were happy and couldn't ask for nothing more. They just were wishing for everything to go right at the birthday party.
Notes:
1) Review, please!
2) Next chapter will come probably soon... Any comment about this ninth chapter?
3) Thankx for reading! It means a lot to me!
4) Oh, the kids grow so fast! Next chapter will be the last one!
5) Special notes for special people:
FTiger: First of all, thankx for your lovely reviews on my other fics! And, now I'm gonna read YOUR fics and I'm gonna REVIEW them (I've been so mean for not doing it...). Anyway, the story is almost in the end and Operation: D.R.A.G.O.N. is in progress here in my computer! Please, be pacient (I'm kind of lazy, you know...)
Ginny Hates Them: Thankx for the lovely review and I'll try to update the story as soon as possible, 'cause it's almost in the end (but, like always, I'm such a lazy person... Sorry about the late update...)
LASHAY-ISAAC: I also agree that Wally and Kuki are cute together, but, well, I think that Wally and Donovan are better, sorry!
