Dreaming Alone
-Chapter 4-
Journey With A Fool

Julia was now supposed to meet up with Xiaoyu, Nina and Nina's sister Anna in London. However Julia was having trouble at the station.

"Oh, where is Julia? she's never late!" Xiaoyu sighed, her normally soft childish face was now in worry. Her strawberry pink dress which was velvet was looking beautiful and her hair was down, she had a matching velvet hair band.

"This is kind of worrying," Nina agreed with Ling. She had cornflower hair, wearing a lot of make-up with short top and tight black jeans and stalk black heels more than a few male heads swiveled in her direction.

"Maybe she might have slipped in the bathroom?" Anna said biting her lip. She was 2 years younger than Nina and even though she looked a lot different she was still an auburn beauty. She had a scarlet tube dress which the make-up followed the theme and a red hair band with a net rose blooming from the side.

"Shat ap!" Nina and Xiaoyu replied finally.
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"I told you to wake Jin up," Law said. He was wearing a smart black suit which made him look so adorable, it almost looked like he was going to a wedding, he had a bow tie to add to the look.

"Yes, " Paul replied chewing gum. He unlike Law made no effort to look smart, he was wearing faded blue jeans and a black leather jacket with black leather boots, one part of his shirt stuck out of the jeans while the other tucked in, his hair though were down and his face was shaved.

"So did you?" Law questioned checking the watch then to Paul.

"...No!" Paul gasped.

The two friends looked at each other aghast and answered in unison. "Damn!"

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Jin had got off to a stressful start, first by waking up late, then in asking what looked better, Denim or Leather. Finally he had arrived with light blue denim jeans, leather shoes and a black leather jacket, his mountaineer rucksack at his back, with his banjo sticking out. With his attire and mysterious face there was more than one face that looked and admired his beauty but were a bit put-off when he looked through his eyes and struck a glance so powerful and vain that it struck fear in the onlookers heart. He stared at the timetable and with one glance and noting his train was just leaving, he ran off towards the right.

Julia just emerged right after Jin. she had went to use the ladies room for her hair, deciding the oriental look was too naive and made her appear childish. Now her light brown hair were let down since she hadn't decided on a hair style. She was wearing a blue denim skirt with black boots and a black full sleeved top which wasn't particularly loose, so she had put on a denim jacket to match her skirt, her purse was towards her side, but she was also carrying a small suitcase. She also was looking at the timetable, biting her lip one last time she went and headed towards the left. However, as she went that way it certainly was the wrong way. So she headed towards the right.

Jin having such an athletic figure he had, ran whilst the train was in motion and just managed to grab an empty compartment with the door open and was about to go inside when he noticed someone running...a girl running. He brushed his fingers through his hair and motioned her to run on, then he let his hand for her to grab onto. She ran carrying her luggage faster, very determined as she saw the late-teenager steadily give her his hand. It wasn't that Julia was slow, it was just the amount of luggage and now the train was moving faster as it was just leaving the station, but Julia wasn't giving up. she raced on and grabbed onto Jin's hand, he pulled her inside just as the train left the station.

Julia was pulled and she found herself in a small boxed compartment, the one used for...storage she thought. The suitcase wasn't used to such violent speed and being pulled so it fell open, Julia quickly grabbed her clothes and items and shut it.

As Julia was sorting out her suitcase, Jin was trying to open the door of the boxed compartment, he was sure it lead to the original compartment. He heaved and pulled, but all in vain.

"Open the door, Open the door!" Jin was singing, then he let out a yell, "Ahoy! Open sesame!"

He tapped on the door and then looked at Julia as she had just snapped the suitcase shut, smiling he asked, "Do you have the keys for this?"

As he soon saw Julia's confused look he added, "just joking!" in a playful manner. Julia smiled sarcastically at him while her delicate hands dragged the suitcase to a stand still.

He went onto pulling the handle next while resting on his knees, then he tapped onto the door and bellowed, " Is anyone there? Is anyone at home?"

He stared back at Julia who seemed to have gotten her problem sorted and went over to sit near her. He laughed and gestured towards the door, "Nobody home!...Hi!"
Julia smiled approvingly. She took her attention off him, got her reading glasses out and her novel and started to read. Jin clasped his hands together with his rear on the floor and his knees skywards while Julia read. He wasn't feeling exactly comfortable since there was something pinching him from underneath. He lifted his bottom and felt for whatever it could be his hands landed on something...a very private something. He stared aghast at the white net brassiere in his gaze, he poked at an unknown Julia who was deep in her story.

"Erm excuse me...Is this yours?" He asked pointing at the clothing, Julia looked up and grabbed it, quickly placing it in her suitcase, her skin had suddenly rose in colour.

"Thought so, " Jin smiled uncomfortably twiddling his thumbs.

Julia then sat a bit further away from Jin and went back to her reading. while Jin was trying not to look at her, he was fiddling with his fingers and started to sing again.

"Me and you, are trapped in a box! Rum pum rum pum ru-" He stopped as he met a stern glance from Julia.

He smiled again and coughed a small sorry as he sat up and stretched his legs. He gave a quick glance at Julia and looked away again smiling. Then as he looked at her again a thought crossed his mind. He took out some shades from his jacket and put them on in style. He leaned his head closer and began.

"It looks like I've seen you somewhere," He said coolly, then as Julia tore her eyes away from the book he smiled and pointed, "ROBBY'S PARTY! Yeah? No?"

"I don't go to parties!" Julia replied sternly.

"Um... Very good!" Jin answered a bit put off. "Me neither, I don't like them at all!"

He waved his hands as if to say parties stank he looked away and started muttering some things as he took off his shades. Then he leaned in even closer and his fingers went through his hair again.

"Erm, you know you're eyes..." Jin said dreamily.

"What happened to my eyes!" Julia snapped taking of her glasses.

"They remind me of someone!" Jin said still in that dreamy manner.

"Oh really, whose?" Julia answered sarcastically.

"My grandmothers, her eyes were just like yours...a little bit blue and a little bit of pink..."Jin said dazed off.

"Excuse me, please leave me alone!" Julia replied annoyed.

"Ok, I don't mind!" Jin said laughing dorkily, "I mean it's alright with me!"

Julia opened her book again but her eyes weren't on the words, she was muttering under her breath until she saw Jin's head on her lap, she looked at him shocked!

"No, no!" Jin said sarcastically. "Please keep reading, I just want to know how you read a book upside down, very interesting style!"

Julia's jaw dropped.

"Listen!" She shouted, "This has gone too far o.k.!"

The boxed compartment door slid open and there was Xiaoyu in her dress. She nearly tripped over Jin's legs, the fashion that he was sitting in was looking bad on Julia's behalf.

"Oh Julia, you're here?" Xiaoyu teased.

Jin stood up not taking his eyes of Xiaoyu.

"Hi, " Xiaoyu flirted.

"Jin!" He said still looking at Xiaoyu.

"We had thought you'd missed the train!" Xiaoyu said addressing Jin.

"No no! I got on!" He said putting his shades back on.

"Oh...good thing too!" She said gazing into his eyes.

"Anyway, what's your name?" Jin said looking at her.

"Ling, but you can call me Xiaoyu!" She said smiling cheekily.

"Xiaoyu, I'm here!" Julia gave her a little wave, "Shall we go?"

"Come on!" Xiaoyu finally noticed Julia.

"Ah ah!" Jin said holding the door, "allow me!"

He slid it open for the two girls to go through, Xiaoyu gave him a playful wave and he smiled back while Julia accidentally on purpose hit him with her suitcase on his leg.

"Ow!" Jin said closing the door, then he struck a pose and said to no-one in particular. " I hate girls."

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Law and Paul were near the train window sitting opposite one another. Paul was showing off his muscles while Law was watching childishly.

"Come on! Make it bigger!" Law piped out.

"It is bigger! Just look-" Paul argued until an extremely heavy bag hit him, to make it worse the banjo stuck out and hit him in his nose.

"I'm back!" Jin high-fifed unaware that Paul had just been hit by his bag. Paul took the bag off his face, there wasn't even a bruise to prove that something had hit him apart from the pain. Law turned to face Jin who was sitting beside him.

"Oy, Jin where were you?" Law said angrily.

"Oh you know where I always end up!" Jin answered. " A girl had stopped me!"

Paul suddenly became interested in the conversation.

"A girl?" He said ecstatically.

"Yeah pal! To get the train I gave her my hand but the poor thing gave me her heart!" Jin lied calmly.

"Oh ok," Law said not listening then he made sense of the words Jin had spoken, "WHAT?"

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"Ugh, I sat down and was so bored by his talking!" Julia complained., "When he saw me alone, he started flirting!"

Julia was sitting reunited with her friends, she was just telling them what had happened on The Journey.

"You know the old line: I've seen you somewhere," Julia mimicked, while Xiaoyu, and Anna were laughing hysterically at Julia's girly imitation of a boy.

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"...Then looking and looking she came closer to me!" Jin said getting the spin of his lies.

"WHAT!" Law said aghast.

"Yes pal!" Jin reassured him, then went back to his story. " I was so scared, I mean such a small space, if I go where?"

"Then what?" Paul asked who was eating it up as much as Law.

"Then what? She fell for me!" Jin said finishing his enthralling story.

"OH!" Law and Paul said after the gripping moment was over. Paul grinned at Jin and gave him a high five.

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"...Then he got after the eyes!" Julia said still complaining with a small trace of I-wanted-to-slap-the-idiot but she carefully concealed it. Anna and Xiaoyu were tutting while Nina was having a nap.

"And he wasn't showing a sign of shutting up! Stupid!" Julia tutted, "I'm telling you the boys these days..."

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"Oh pal...the girls these days are a wonder! Me, I just ran and was holding onto my innocence by the skin of my teeth!" Jin said re-enacting his tale after he told them of some more juicy lies of 'what happened in the boxed compartment'. Jin sat back amused at his buddies, when he saw Law fanning himself with a card.

"What is that you're faffing with now?" Jin sighed.

"Party invitation, it reads: Euro-rail Cordially invites you to a dinner and dance party in Paris!" Law said smiling.

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"In Paris!" Xiaoyu said grabbing the card off Anna and looking at it while Julia and Nina (Who'd woken up by these words) were looking awestruck at each other and could only just gasp a wow.

"There'll be singing, there'll be music, there'll be dancing and...BOYS!" Xiaoyu said dreamily.

"OOOOOOH!" All the other girls giggled.

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