Rating: PG-13
Genre: Romance/Action/Adventure/Humor
Language: English Romances: 3/4, 1/5, 2/Lizzie
Summary: The kids are teenagers now, but they start to remember their lives as KND members. What happens when old romances come back?
Chapter 4: Blah
The game is over & the Lions, unfortunately, lost. All the cheerleaders are comforting the players. Kuki is hugging Austin at the moment, but can't help but think of Wally.
She blushes & shakes her head. 'Why am I thinking of him?' she thinks. She looks up at Austin & smiles. 'I have Austin. That's all I need.' But she felt like she was lying.
Tiffany came over. "Hey lovebirds."
The two part, embarrassed. Tiffany, oblivious, goes on. "Some players & cheerleaders are going out for food. You in?"
"Yeah! Aren't we, babe?" Austin asks, hugging Kuki to him.
Kuki nods. "Totally."
Tiffany smiles. "You two are so cute!" she squeals & runs off.
Kuki blushes. "Tiffany, you are weird." she says out loud.
Austin smiles & looks down at her. "Well, we do, don't we?"
Kuki nods. "Yeah, we are the best looking people here." she jokes.
Austin nods. "Let's go. We'll take my car."
Kuki's hair is blowing in the wind from Austin's convertible & she is having fun listening to music. She sees something from the corner of her eye.
"Austin, stop." she says.
Austin pulls over. "What's wrong?"
Kuki shakes her head. "I'll be right back." she jumps out & runs back a few feet.
Wally is walking, looking down, when he sees feet. He looks up to see Kuki, standing in front of him, hair blowing in the wind.
Wally blushes, then curses. "What do you want?" he grumbled.
Kuki smiles & bows. "I'm just here to say I'm sorry about calling you shrimp. And thanks for helping me, again." She turns, then stops. "Do you want to come with us?"
"Us?" Wally asks, eyebrows raised.
Kuki gestures to Austin. Wally looks at him & Austin starts cracking his knuckles. Wally looked back at a hopeful Kuki & couldn't say no.
"Sure." he gave him.
"Yeah!" she squealed, hugging him.
Wally blushed & Austin got out of the car. Kuki realized what she did & pulled back, face red as a cherry. "Sorry." she mumbles.
Before Wally can say something, Austin comes up behind her & hugs her to him. "Ready, babe?"
Kuki looks up. "Sure. But Wally's coming with us."
Austin cringes. "He doesn't have to."
Kuki frowns. "But he said he would."
Wally spoke up. "It's OK. I actually have to go home."
Kuki frowns. "But you said…"
Austin interrupted her. "He said he had to go. Now let him go & let's go." He pulls her away.
Kuki looks back to Wally & waves. "Bye, Wally. See you in school."
Wally waves back, feeling his face get redder. He watched Austin & Kuki get in the car & drive off. He mumbled to himself. "Why did I say yes?"
He thought. 'It can't be I like her, can it?' He shakes his head. "No way, I just felt hot." But he knew he was lying. He felt something about that girl, he wasn't sure what, though.
Meanwhile, Abby is at home, chilling in the bath, when her cell rings. She groans & gets out. "Hello?" she answers.
No answer.
"Hello?" she tries again. Still no answer. She got angrier. "Either say something or I'm hanging up!"
Nothing. "Fine! Goodbye!" she turned off her phone & stood in her towel, thinking. The phone rang again & she freaked, throwing it at the wall.
It kept on ringing though. She slowly walked over to it & answered it. "Hello?" she answered, warily.
"Abby, what's up?" her friend Nancy says on the other line.
Abby lets out a breath. "It's just you Nancy. I thought you were…" she stops.
"What? Tony?" Nancy teased.
"No." Abby blushed.
"Sure. I saw you two making out at the game."
Abby turned even more red. "We weren't making out. We kissed."
"Sure…" Nancy said.
Abby changed the subject. "What do you want?"
"I just wanted to see if you were up for going out tomorrow?"
Abby looked at her calendar. "Can't. Sister's coming home tomorrow."
"Cree! She is so cool! You're so lucky. My sister is such a loser. Did I tell you what she did today?" Nancy rambled on, but Abby stopped listening. She was thinking about the call before. 'It was probably nothing.' she told herself. 'But still…' she sighs.
Nancy stops. "What's up?"
Abby, realizing what she did, smiled "Nothing. Though I'm kind of standing her in a towel, dripping."
Nancy laughs. "Bet Tony would like that."
Abby turned beet-red. "NANCY!" she screamed.
Nancy laughed. "Gotta go! See you tomorrow." she hangs up.
Abby watches her phone, still red as a beet. She sighs, throws it on her bed & walks back into the bathroom.
Nigel is walking around with Lizzie, holding hands & talking.
"It's just…that…you always seem to be working. Even when we were kids, you worked." Lizzie confessed.
Nigel frowned. "Really? I'm sorry."
Lizzie nodded. "That's right. You don't remember your childhood." she nods.
Nigel sighs. "Yeah, unfortunately. Now, why can't you tell me about it?"
She shakes her head. "No, I'm sworn to secrecy."
"By who?" Nigel prods on.
"No one you know." she giggles & hooks arms with him.
Nigel shakes his head & hugs her to him. "You are so weird."
"And you're a work-a-holic." she smiles.
"We're perfect together." Nigel says, bringing Lizzie into a kiss. But when he shut his eyes, he saw a pair of brown eyes & a long black braid.
He pulls back, shocked. Lizzie's confused. "What's wrong?"
Nigel shook his head. "Nothing." he sees Lizzie looking at him in worry & smiles. "Don't worry. I'm fine."
Lizzie nods. "OK, if you're sure."
Nigel nods. "Let's go." he pulls her along, holding hands.
Hoagie is at home, looking through his yearbook. He stopped at Cree's picture & sighed. "You're gone." Then he looks at Lizzie's picture & smiles. "Maybe…"
He shakes his head. "No, she's going out with Nigel Uno."
"Hoagie!" his mother called.
Hoagie groaned. "What!" he exclaimed.
"Come down, here. We need to talk!"
"Fine!" Hoagie gets up & walks downstairs. In the living room is none other than Lizzie! Hoagie is surprised. "Lizzie, what are you doing here?"
Lizzie hands him something. "You forgot this."
Hoagie takes it, smiling. "Thanks." He didn't even look at the object, he was looking at Lizzie.
His mother cleared her throat. "Well, I'll get you two some cake."
"It's OK." Hoagie said, but his mom waved & walked into the kitchen.
Hoagie stood, awkwardly, watching Lizzie looking around his house. She stops at a picture. "This your dad?" she asks, picking it up.
Hoagie nods. "Yeah." He walks over to her.
"Where is he?" she asks.
"Dead." Hoagie said, simply.
Lizzie's eyes widened & she covered her mouth. "Oh my God, I am so sorry!" She blushes.
Hoagie smiles. "It's OK." He sighs & takes the picture. "He died in war. He promised he'd be back. But that was a promise he couldn't keep." Hoagie stares into space.
Lizzie did the only thing she could think of, she walked over & hugged him.
Hoagie blushed, but didn't pull away.
"I'm sorry." Lizzie pulls back. She has tears in her eyes. "My mom died when I was little, too."
Hoagie's eyes widened. "I didn't' know that."
Lizzie sighed. "No one did. You're the first one I told."
"But why didn't you tell Nigel?"
Lizzie smiled. "Nigel is sweet, but I don't think he could handle it."
Hoagie nodded. "I'll keep it secret." he zipped up his mouth & threw away the key.
Lizzie started laughing & had to sit down. "Thanks, Hoagie. You know, you're sweeter than I thought you would be."
"Ditto for you." Hoagie smiled, blushing.
"Cake all around!" his mother came in & broke the moment. The three of them sat & talked & ate cake for about a hour.
Lizzie thanked Miss Gilligan & walked toward the door. Hoagie followed her. Lizzie turned. "Well, I better go."
Hoagie nods. "Yeah, you should. It is late."
Lizzie paused, "Thank you again, Hoagie. It felt good getting that off my chest." She paused & then kissed him on the cheek!
Hoagie instantly turned red & Lizzie turned & ran out. "Bye, Hoagie!" she waves, running down the street.
Hoagie waves, weakly, hand still on his face. "Bye, Lizzie." he says, in a daze & shuts the door.
Starting to form relationships & memories. Something will happen in the next chapter & it might be good or bad. It depends on how you look at it. I'll update as soon as I can, but in the meantime, pleaz RR!