Day on the Town
Here it is! The long awaited chapter 13 of No Boundaries. Enjoy
The morning was bright and sunny, yet the chill of the air hung like a fog outside my window. I stood and stared at the horizon for a moment as a feeling of homesickness crept its way into the pit of my stomach. I looked at the clock and sighed it was ten after eleven- funny, I thought, Angel should have sent someone in to wake me by now. After I showered and dressed I headed down for my usual breakfast in the kitchens before searching out the rest of the team. They were nowhere inside the confusing mansion so I was forced to go looking in the vast garden for them.
We were going out on the town today. And damn it if we can't show our captain a thing or two about having fun no one would. I walked into the garden and pulled in a deep breath of air. The crispness of it stung for a few seconds but I held it until I could no longer see straight because little black spots were dancing in front of my eyes and let out the breath I was holding in one hell of an ear piercing scream. I was certain that I had made someone somewhere in the enormous mansion jump a few inches off the floor. I closed my eyes and collapsed on the damp grass- the heat of the sun adding to the burn on my oxygen-depraved face- and listened to my heart pounding in my ears.
From around the corner, I could just barely pick out Alucard's cursing as he was probably complaining about how I should have been Tyson's kid instead because I had inherited his big mouth. I smiled widely as a shadow fell across my face blocking out the light of the sun overhead. Grinning like a mad man, I opened one of my sapphire eyes and looked lazily up at Alucard's annoyed features. "Hey, how's it hanging?"
"You're way too loud, Ivanov, but you so sound as if your in a better mood than two days ago."
"Hell yeah, I am. What, you'd actually think that I'd hold a grudge like you? Ces't napa, mes amore, it takes more than what Angel-boy did to make me madder than what I can make you."
"Have you been talking to Josephine again?" I laughed at the mention of the French bureaucrat. I had been talking to her, but the only words I spoke to her were very few.
"Hey, it's not everyday that we get to both make fools of ourselves and show a friend a good time. We're gunna hit the downtown streets of this place like there's no tomorrow and we'll still be back on time for when our parents call." He nodded. Alixhi ran over to us from the rose patches. Out of breath and redder then my hair, he managed only one word before collapsing in a fit of giggles: "Bierfests!"
"Bare fists? What about bare fists?" I asked propping myself up on my elbows. He shook his head and gasped for breath while trying to talk. "For the sake of all that's holy man spit it out!" I yelled, but that only made him laugh harder.
"Bierfests means beer festivals." Angel said as he joined us. "I was over on the bench." He explained as we gave him a sly look.
"Sure you were." I replied. "And China's wearing a tutu to the New Years Ball."
"No, really, I was. Ask-"
"Nicholas." We all answered. Alixhi turned to me and whispered in my ear.
"Yeah, then we can ask Nikki how his below the belt job was." I cracked up as Angel's face went a whole new shade of red- but it wasn't from anger. He was BLUSHING! Heh, it was a good start to a fun-filled day.
Hang on; did he say that bierfests meant beer fests? Were we even old enough to visit that kind of festival here in Germany? I mean sure, a glass or two of wine with supper, but to actually have a BEER FEST in Munich with six teenagers who just love to party and blade? Okay, so five, but mark my words there will be six of us so help me, there will! My mind was already spinning with all the things we were going to do that day and here these two thought it would be fun to add a freaking beer fest to the damn list! (I'm so glad my parents won't ever read this journal. Papa would kill me!)
To my utter delight, we hit the streets with our rival team for a fun filled day without adult supervision. Lucas had the limo driver drop us off on a side street and told him that we would call when we were ready to go back to the castle.
"Trams," Lucas said we walked. "Are one of Germany's many international ways of transportation for many people. They are sort of like long buses that run on tracks in the middle of the street rather than on wheels." Helena giggled at the sound of the other boys' voice as the three girls spoke in whispers.
"So what are we going to do first?" China asked crisply.
"I know!" replied her twin as we climbed aboard the tram that was going to take us to the shopping mall. "How about we all play a game of Truth or Dare?"
"Zat would be wondervul!" Joey chirped. "It zis something we can play all day."
"Joey has a point." Alucard agreed. "We could play it all day while we're here in town so that the day never gets too boring."
"I'd go for a good game of hide and seek at the old Wax Museum in Lurditch." Angel said surprising us all. "What? You're the ones who said I had to loosen up and act my age for once."
"That would be kind of cool." I said. "We can even turn it into a House of Wax Fright Fest."
"Oh man, you didn't! Did you just say House of Wax? I LOVE that movie! Especially when that dumb blond chick got killed- that just goes to show that you never stop running when you're being chased by a psycho with a knife in his hand." Evan said with a laugh.
"Dude, we got something in common besides bey blading!" I said. "Because of that movie, I pulled three all-nighters in a row." The tram slowed to a stop and we stepped off in front of a very large mall.
"So," Diana said suddenly. "Truth or Dare, Angel?"
"Um…. Truth."
"Ow." Nikki said softly. "Depending on the question- that might not have been a very good choice."
"In whose room did ye sleep last even?" Angel went red again for the second time that morning. Our team paid very little attention to the question because we all knew the answer.
"Yez, who did you sleep with last night mes amie?" Joey chimed.
"Uh-h-h-h, damn, should have picked dare! Nicholas."
"Who? The others didn't 'ear you?" Diana said.
"I slept in Nikki's room with him last night." Angel repeated. "Anyone who has a problem with that can bite me balls!" We all laughed at his impression of Diana's Scottish accent- well, all of us except the girl in question. China grabbed her brother's arm and started to skip along joyfully.
"Aw-w-w-w, my wittle baby brodder's not a virgin anymore! How sweet." Nikki turned slightly pinkish as he tried- with difficulty- to escape his sister's "point blank" conversation. "Does papai know yet? Bet he doesn't does he?"
"Great grandfather doesn't need to know about my private life, Chi, now let me go!"
"Alucard," Angel said startling us slightly. "Truth or Dare?"
"Dude, I'm going with dare." My koi was in for it because Angel had gotten a look in hid eyes that said he was no stranger to the game of embarrassments. "Slap it on me, Angel, let's see what you got."
"I dare you, when we go into the mall, to try on a woman's dress then come out and let us see it in the middle of the store." Alucard's jaw dropped and as Angel passed me he whispered: "You're my next hit so watch your back,Ivanov." I suddenly had the sneaking suspicion that he was talking about the garden incident and shivered. If he was picking us off, that would mean that Alixhi would be after me. I had to find a way to warn him! Uh oh, I thought as I eyed Alix's shirt, Angel had already gotten to him by slapping a sign that read Schizophrenic on my best friends back.
"Angel hit you already." I said when I caught up to him. I tore the sign off his back and handed it to him. "He's out for vengeance because we laughed it up in his face this morning and I'm next on his hit list."
"Ow, that's gunna smart when he gets to you. Hey, didn't you say that the movie scared you?"
"Yeah, but you don't think that he'll try to freak me out at the Wax Museum do you?"
"Just watch your back."
Well, that was chapter 13 and chapter 14 will be here… should be posted actually, by next Friday at the latest. Consider this a teaser if you will.