Chapter 3: Lady's…and man's man?
Regal yawned slowly, as he stretched his way up off the couch. He turned his head and saw the small boy looking at him…evilly.
"What?" the man asked scratching his head.
"You pervert! You slept with my sister!" the small half elf screamed.
"…She put the moves on me!" the man whined like Lloyd would.
"…Now you're pressuring the lady! What a man…" the boy said sarcastically (Well, the last part was sarcastic…)
Raine stretched and opened an eye, batting it at Genis. Genis had not noticed.
"Well, whatever, just don't go near my sister again!" the boy shouted once more at the angered man.
"Genis! I will flirt with hot men and you cannot stop me!" Raine shouted.
Silence spread across the room.
Regal coughed, "Right…"
"What, you don't think you're hot?" Raine asked Regal.
Regal stared at her, "Well—"
"I could've sworn you had the highs for Kratos…" Genis said, cutting off Regal.
"No, he's too uptight." The woman replied shaking her head.
Kratos had been peeking from the hallways again, "Too uptight huh?" he whispered to himself.
Then suddenly the four from Lloyd's room came bursting out the door. At the same moment Kratos pretended to walk down the hall.
The five walked into the door, "Professor, Is there anything special we're doing today?" the kid in red asked.
"No, do as you please. I am going to study on how to make some cash." The white haired woman replied.
"Okay, I'm going to the lake, erm, pool then." He cheered loudly.
"Me too!" Presea, Sheena, Zelos, Colette, and even Kratos cheered back.
"Dad, you too?" Lloyd asked, very confused, not like it takes much to confuse that stump anyways…
"Yep! I need to start and enjoy myself!" Kratos said, keeping in mind, 'don't be uptight anymore!".
The others just walked off to get dressed, wearing shocked expressions.
The door shut behind them, "Well, you wanna help me research?" she asked him.
"Of course." He replied happily, 'more time with Raine! Woohoo!'
"I don't know where to start, so let's just take a walk around town." The woman suggested.
"Uhh, sure." He answered her with a smile.
Shortly after the small conversation between the two, they headed down the stairs, and out the hotel doors.
At the pool and hot tub…
Lloyd came dashing in, and cannonballed right into the pool, and water came gushing out and covered the floor.
"Ouch!" the brown haired boy cried.
"Lloyd, for one, that was the shallow end stupid, and two, your gonna get in trouble again." The smallest boy scolded.
A man came rushing into the room as soon as Genis got done talking, it was the man from yesterday.
"Argh! That's it! This time you're coming with me!" the man screamed at Lloyd, his face completely red with anger.
Back to Raine and Regal…
"So, you wanna try asking people around again?" Regal suggested.
"Good idea." She aprroved.
Raine turned around and tapped some man on the shoulder.
"Uh! How rude!That wasth stho unexthpecting!" he screamed , obviously frightened.
"Um, I'm sorry…sir…but I was just trying to---" she was cut off by the man.
"Oh!My!God! That is one scthcrumptiosth man you got there." He squealed.
Regal looked at him in horror, "Uh…oh! Raine, he's gay!".
"…Gay people scare the hell out of me…" Raine rudely remarked.
"Uh! Stho rude!" the man whined, offended.
Regal grabbed Raine's wrist and ran across the big black path without looking, but luckily did not get hit.
"Call me big boy!" he screamed at Regal, whom was just so utterly disgusted, he felt like he was going to throw up.
"Good thing there's not too many gay people in Sylvarant or Tethealla." Raine said crossing her arms.
"I feel like I'm going to throw up…" Regal told her, holding his stomach.
The man was still blowing kisses and waving at Regal. Regal had never seen or been hit on by a guy, so it made him feel, well, he wasn't sure what to feel, so sick and horrified would do for him.
Back to Lloyd…
"Young man, do you know how to follow rules?" the man behind the desk hissed.
"This place is for adults, so if kids are going to be dragged along, then atleast act like an adult. Kids are rude little snobs that nobody needs." The man said in a very angered voice.
"Screw you, you're the snob!" Lloyd yelled.
"Grrr! You impudent little brat! Next time I see you, you and your friends are out!" the mad yelled back at Lloyd.
"Man, your immature for an adult! Ohwell, see you later pops!" Lloyd laughed slowly walking out of the door.
Back to Regal and Raine…
Raine turned around and tapped some old lady on the shoulder, " Hello ma'am, could I have a moment of your time?"
The old woman turned around smiled "Sure little missy, why, you look just like I did when I was your age, except I just got white hair recently. How old are you?"
Raine sighed and began, "I am twenty three."
"Why, you look a bit older than that! How old are you?" the old woman asked, still smiling.
This time, Raine and Regal sighed really deeply, "No, I am twenty three, now could you tell me—" Poor Raine, always getting cut off!
"I think your lying to me youngun', tell me the truth." She answered, still smiling.
Raine started getting fustrated, "Hell, I'm one hundred and sixty four! Happy?".
"See, the older the wiser, I knew you were older than that. How tall are you?" she said, stiiill smiling.
Regal started to get fustrated as well, "Forget the old hag Raine."
"Sure thing!" Raine said walking away with Regal.
Raine then turned to some man, waiting for a bus at the bus stop.
"Hello there good sir! Could you please help us?" Raine asked, ready to give up.
"…"
"Hello!"
"…"
"I'll blast your head off with my own hands!"
"Yeah right." The man said childishly.
Regal's exsphere started glowing as he backed up and positioned his hand.
"No Regal! There's always conciquences!" Raine cried.
"…Humph, I guess so…" Regal replied, a bit sadly.
"Just tell us!" Raine yelled.
"Fine, this bus takes you to library." The man said, quite annoyed.
"Heaven!" Raine shouted.
"Oh boy, a library… and going there with Raine! Hell…" Regal said, looking at the ground.
"It's a big one too!" a woman sitting next to the man on the bench blurted.
"Oh goody-goody!" Raine cried jumping up and down.
Regal sighed, "Looks like we'll be there for quite a while."
The bus just arrived after Regal's statement. Raine rushed in to find a seat, desperate to get to the library quickly. Regal sulked up the stairs of the bus and plopped himself in the front, next to Raine, jumping from her seat.
Finally all the people got in, there were two teenage girls, across the walkway from Regal, on the outer part of the seat.
The girls started whispering and looking at Regal. Regal just stared a bit at them.
"Oh my god! Look how hot that guy is!" one of them whispered.
Regal blushed slightly and turned his head forward. He was always used to Zelos getting that kind of treatment, not him.
"I bet he has a great ass!" the other girl said, making the other laugh.
Regal just blinked and scooted closer to Raine, "Heh, they're talking about me." He whispered to Raine.
"What!" Raine screamed, turning to the girls.
"Don't even think about hitting on my Regal!" Raine screamed at the girls, horribly frightened.
Regal shut his eyes, and shook his head slowly.
Raine sat back down and brushed her lap, "Hmph!"
Regal just looked at her, "Wow…"
The bus came to a sudden hault and everyone gotup from their seats and walked out. Except Raine, who as soon as she discovered they were there, she ran out with Regal's hand in her's.
They made it to a room with books galore. Raine squealed and ran off to some random bookshelf. Regal just sighed and sat down at some table near her.
One of the teenage girls, saw Regal, sitting there, at the table, ALONE! She told the other one and they walked over to Regal and sat down next to him.
" Hello? May I help you?" Regal asked.
"Sure hottie, how about you go on a date with me?" one of them asked.
"…" was Regal's reply, if that is considered a reply, oh, he also narrowed his eyes, or that anime expression, that I think is called 'flat eyes'.
"I'll take that as a ye—" she stopped, noticing Raine raging out of the aisle, and ran.
"Hmmm, she left, how about you date me then?" the other one asked.
"Back off, hussie!" Raine told her in a library voice.
The girl whimpered and ran off, Regal just looked at her.
"Wow, I kinda' thought last night when you slept with me you had a crush on me, but this is just…" Regal stopped when he noticed a few people around him giving him weird looks.
Raine just shrugged and walked up to the desk, "Ma'am, is there anything on how to get cash?"
The woman laughed, "Yes, there's local job listings right over there." The woman said, pointing to certain book.
"Thank you ma'am." Raine said, rughing off to the book.
Regal got up and stood next to Raine, who was curiously turning the pages.
"A job offering at Domino's Pizza™…what's pizza?", Raine pondered for a moment.
She then quickly rushed over to aq dictionary to look for the word 'pizza'.
"Pizza: A baked pie of Italian origin consisting of a shallow breadlike crust covered with seasoned tomato sauce, cheese, and often other toppings, such as sausage or olives." She read aloud.
"Sounds good, I might try making it." Regal said, smirking.
Raine then walked, yep, not ran, but she walked over to the job listings, "Maybe, we could get Genis a job there."
"Yeah…oh wait, it says you have to be twenty one or older…" Regal explained, slightly frowning.
"Damn…" Raine fussed.
"Well, there's a cashier available, should be simple enough for Lloyd or Colette." Regal suggested.
"Great idea! So let's see, Lloyd or Colette could be a cashier, you could be a chef, Genis and Presea are and look too young to get a job…wait, Paperboy?" Raine said, pointing to the available paperboy job, "Atleast 12 years of age, but only one of them could work."
"Well, we'll just have to see who's up to it." Regal said, scanning the page.
Raine flipped a few pages and stopped, "Okay, I got it, I'll be a librarian, you can work as a chef for Olive Garden™, Colette could stock shelves at the library with me, Sheena could work as a waitress at Olive Garden™
with you, Lloyd and Kratos could be cashiers at Gamestop™, Genis could be paperboy, Zelos could be a cashier at Arby's™ , and Presea…could be the house keeper.".
"Seems like a great arangment." Regal approved.
"Well, let's head back." Regal suggested, heh, like he's was gonna leave with Raine.
" First I wanna take out some books!" Raine told him.
"Hmm, I guess I will aswell…but only a few, we'll be busy with our new jobs." Regal remeinded her.
Raine looked at him and frowned, "Your right."
Raine headed over to the nonfiction area, and Regal went over to the fiction, both in the adult section. Raine was getting various books about almost everything, while Regal was picking out some horror fiction.
"Resident Evil: Code Veronica by S.D. Perry. Hmm, sounds interesting." Regal said scanning the book.
"Just two more…"Regal started, taking out some more books in his interest, "Dracula by Bram Stoker…"
Regal took another one out and looked at the cover weirdly, " The boigraphy of Micheal Jackson, by himself, by the looks of the man on the cover, I'm sure it belongs in horror…just not fiction…I think."
Regal took his books (there were more than three, just unmentioned) and walked over to Raine, "Almost done?…I think that's a bit too many…" Regal said looking at Raine's big pile of books.
"Oh, Regal, phew, could you hold these for me?" Regal asked handing the books over to him.
"Umm, sure." Regal accepted, taking the books in, surrounding his face.
"Okay, that's all…for now." Raine said.
"Well, let's hurry up and check them out." Raine ordered, poor Regal.
They walked over to the counter and Regal unloaded the books onto the shelf, which made a big thump sound.
"Where's your library cards?" the man asked.
"Um… unfortunetly we do not have them yet, could you make us some now?" Regal asked.
"Okay, sure." The man replied.
After a few moments of answering question, they left, Regal holding all the books.
The got on the bus, as it was conveniently there already and sat back in the same seats from before.
Regal sat down and put the books down infront of him. Behind them were the girls from earlier, and across from him was the same gay from earlier. Regal gasped and covered his face with his Resident Evil book.
"Oh, it's you hottie! Whatcha' doin sthcrumtiosth." The queer squealed.
"Ew! You gay! He's our hottie! We found him first!" the two girls yelled.
"Your all wrong! He's my sexy man!" Raine screamed.
Regal, feeling agitated, he buried himself deeper into his book and wondered how he had so many fans.
After the three's huge agrument on who belongs with the sexy man, the bus stopped and oh, Raine won by the way. Regal picked the books up and left the bus first. Raine came down after him and grabbed his arm.
"I'm sorry If I embarrassed you or anything Regal…" Raine apologized.
"No, I wasn't embarrassed, but—" He was cut off this time.
"Sthee ya' sthexy!" the gay screamed to Regal and ran off before Raine could get him.
"I was—" he was cut off again.
"See you hottie!" the girls shouted, before running away from Raine, who was giving evil glares.
Raine just held onto his arm, full of books, and layed her head against is shoulder. Regal sighed and just kept walking. 'What a day…' Regal thought.