Chapter 8
Abduction, Juice, and Lavender
Sunday
Eiji was on his way to Britt's house/apartment thingy with her slightly beaten teddy bear under his arm. He was worried about her and a bit ashamed after the act he pulled at the fair, so he wanted to go and apologize. He walked up to the front door and knocked; Karley answered the door, looking somewhat dazed.
"Nyah, good morning Karley! Is Britt around? I really need to talk to her!" Eiji exclaimed.
"Umm..I don't think she's here. Lemme ask Mal. MAL!" Karley shouted.
"WHAT!" Mal shouted back, a bit annoyed.
"Did Britt come home yet?"
"No! She's at Oishi's for some strange reason."
"Kay," Karley turned back to Eiji, "No she's not here, she's at-" Eiji was not present at the moment, for he had made his way to Oishi's house.
At Oishi's house!
Oishi woke up to his alarm, and went down to make breakfast for him and Britt, because he's like that. He made his way to the kitchen, stopping first at the couch to wake up Britt.
"Hey Britt, you awake? What would you like for breakfast?"
"Grrgghhh…umm…pancakes sound good. I always want pancakes but Mal never makes them for me," mumbled Britt, attempting to wake up. Oishi went into the kitchen and made Britt her pancakes, set them on a fancy tray with some milk, to make sure Britt was getting a balanced breakfast. He brought the tray to Britt, who was delighted and instantly began wolfing down her food. Oishi laughed a bit, but then noticed that Britt looked a bit pale.
"Britt, are you feeling all right? You're not allergic to anything in the pancakes are you?"
"'M a'ight. 'M nuf uffgeric," Britt swallowed her food, "I'm not allergic to anything. Mallory's allergic to stuff like peanuts and latex, so she can't have balloons, which is sad cuz I like balloons."
"Well, you look kind of pale, Britt. I'm going to get a thermometer, just in case."
"Oishi! You worry too much, I'm feeling fine!"
"I have to worry about these things. It's been my job for quite awhile."
"Oishi, you'll be a great parent when you grow up." Oishi left and got the thermometer, and was about to administer the thermometer when the doorbell rang like 8 times. He went to the door and Eiji stood there looking frantic.
"Oishi! Is Britt here! Mallory-san told me she was here and I have to talk to her about yesterday and-" Eiji rambled.
"She's not here, Eiji. Umm..she left a while ago," Oishi lied.
"You're lying! (duh.)"
"I'm not lying, Eiji. Why would I lie to you!"
"Because your eyebrow twitches when you lie, and it's going nuts right now!"
"Oh snap."
"Well, even though you lied, I guess there's a good reason for it. She must not want to see me after what I did yesterday-"
"Yeah! After what you did yesterday, I wouldn't want to see you either!"
"Oishi! You're not making this any better! Anyway, I guess you can give Britt her teddy bear back, at least. She dropped it. And tell her I'm sorry..and I'll see her tomorrow at school if she'll let me." Eiji gave Oishi the teddy bear and with a hurt expression on his face, slowly walked away. Oishi shut the door and went to Britt to give her the teddy bear. Britt looked at the bear blankly.
"Eiji came to give this to you..and to apologize for what he did," Oishi said.
"Oh, that's…nice," Britt said softly. Suddenly, Britt collapsed backwards onto the couch. Oishi had a complete freak-out fest with that.
"OMG BRITT! I'M CALLING THE HOSPITAL!" Oishi franticly ran to the phone and try to dial the hospital, but he couldn't remember the number. He started to look around for the phone book, but then he remembered they had a long list of emergency numbers. He went into the kitchen, but alas, they were stolen! Oishi began to panic more. His sister walked into the kitchen.
"What's wrong, Oishi?" asked his younger sister.
"Britt just fainted and I don't know the number for the hospital and I can't find the phone book or the list of emergency numbers! What should I do?" Oishi rapidly replied.
"You know our uncle works at the hospital. You can just call him. We even have him on speed dial," said his sister.
"Oh, that's right," said Oishi. He called his uncle and told him what had happened with Britt. His uncle sent an ambulance to the house, even though the symptoms Oishi described showed that Britt might just have a fever. Nevertheless, his uncle sent the ambulance over to calm Oishi down. After Britt was sent to the hospital, Oishi called her house and told Mallory what happened, but he didn't tell Mallory that Britt just had a fever. Mallory freaked out and told Karley, who freaked out also. Mallory then called Steph, who still sleeping in Yuuta's room. Mallory quickly told Steph the situation with Britt. Steph jumped off the bed landing on top of Yuuta causing him to wake up to a frantic Steph.
"Was it necessary for you to land on top me?" asked a tired Yuuta.
"No, but I did it anyway. I have to go to the hospital! Something happened to Britt!" Steph replied. She gathered her things and ran out the door. Yuuta sighed and went back to sleep and had a dream about raspberry pie.
At the hospital
The three girls made it to Britt's room, where Oishi was pacing outside the door.
"Oh no! I think Britt might be in a coma! She hasn't woken up!"
"She…might just be asleep, Oishi," Mallory said calmly.
"Yeah, we ran into your uncle and he said that Britt only had a fever; she probably got it from being in the rain yesterday," Steph added.
"Oh…oh it's entirely my fault!" Oishi said with disdain.
"…Whoa, you have the power to make it rain?" Karley said with awe. Everyone stopped talking for a few seconds, and pretty much ignored Karley's question.
"…Let's go check on Britt," Mallory said. They walked into the room to find Britt sleeping with her teddy bear.
"Hey, where'd she get that bear? I want one!" Karley said. Karley tried to take the bear, but Britt woke up as soon as she tried. The girls and Oishi were quite relieved that Britt was, in fact, not in a deadly coma. When Britt had completely woken up, Mallory asked Britt why she had stayed at Oishi's house. Britt then began to tell her story about her awful time at the fair, with lots of drama. After that, Oishi told Britt that she had to stay in the hospital until her fever went down, so they all kept Britt company by watching soap operas on the TV and worked on jigsaw puzzles and other games. Britt wanted to play Twister, but obviously she couldn't if she was sick. Then it got late, and everyone went home, and Britt fell asleep, hugging her teddy bear.
Monday OMG
It was another average Monday with morning tennis practice at Seigaku. Except that a few members of the team weren't present.
"Hmm…Oishi is late today, strange. The girls aren't here either," Fuji said.
"What! Oishi-sempai is late! Wow, something major must've happened to make him late for tennis practice!" Momo said.
"Maybe he's helping another pregnant lady, or saving the rainforest," Horio said. Suddenly, Oishi showed up, out of breath from running, obviously.
"Oishi-sempai! You're late! Did you help a pregnant lady again?" Momo asked.
"What? Pregnant lady? No, I was checking on Britt because she's in the hospital."
"Nyah! Britt's in the hospital? Oh no, Oiiishiiiii what happened!" Eiji asked worriedly.
"She has a fever. It's my fault that I kept her out in the rain on Saturday," Oishi replied. Eiji wanted to leave practice to check on Britt, but a cold glare from Tezuka kept Eiji at bay. The team kept practicing, but there was less enthusiasm. The bell rang, and the boys changed into their uniforms and headed to class. Classes went by, and then there was lunch…
Lunch in the Sophomore class!
"Sheesh, Momo, you always bring so much food to eat," Steph said.
"This? No way; I still need to get some bread!" Momo said.
"I'll go with you. Knowing you, you'll take the whole kitchen if you could, and I want some bread too." Momo and Steph went to grab some bread, leaving Karley to eat her lunch alone. Karley began to eat her lunch, but was interrupted.
"Fsssh… can I sit here?" asked Kaidoh. Karley nodded her head 'yes' so Kaidoh sat down next to Karley. It become really quite between the two until a certain snake boy began to talk.
"Karley…ummm..I have a…. question to …ummm..ask you?" said Kaidoh.
"Okay, what is it?" said Karley, who until to eat her lunch.
"I was umm… wondering if… possibly… you might want to.."
"Just say it. I'm not going to bite,"
"Doyouwantogoonadatewithme?" Kaidoh quickly said.
"What? Slow down!"
"Do you want to go on a date with me?" Kaidoh asked sofly.
"What?"
"DO YOU WANT TO GO ON A DATE WITH ME?" Kaidoh shouted. The whole class became silent while Momo and Steph appeared at the doorway of the classroom.
"You didn't have to shout, but yeah I will go with you," responded Karley.
The classroom filled with 'OHS' and 'AHS' and Momo began to burst out laughing which caused him to drop all his bread on the ground.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA Mamushi asked a girl out! HAHAHA!" laughed Momo. The noise travel next door to Inui's classroom and Inui quickly stood up in the middle of class.
"My ii-data senses are tingling," announced Inui.
And...the school day ended on an uneventful note. Everyone pretty much left for home, except for Mallory and Tezuka, who stayed behind in the library to study together. After studying for some useless, boring subject, Tezuka walked Mallory home. Not much was said between the two…They stopped at a vending machine, and Tezuka bought some juice for Mallory and himself.
"Mallory."
"Hm?"
"…juice?"
"Sure, thanks." Mallory took the juice, and Tezuka turned to get one for himself. Mallory looked around, and suddenly, spotted Kabaji close by. A second later, Mallory saw someone fall..out of a tree. It turns out Atobe was trying to jump out of the tree dramatically, but ended up falling flat on his beautiful bishounen face. Kabaji and Mal stared silently at poor Atobe, while Tezuka was having issues with the vending machine. Kabaji grabbed Mallory and ran down the street when Tezuka wasn't looking. When he finally got his juice, he turned just in time to notice Kabaji stuffing Mallory into a lavender Volkswagen beetle. He spotted Atobe on the ground, who quickly got up and ran to the miniature car, trying to fit Kabaji in as well. Tezuka wasn't sure how that worked, but it did, and they swiftly drove away.
"…" Tezuka said, or you know didn't say.
OMG ZE DATE!
Karley and Kaidoh decided to get ice cream on the start of their date. They were heading to the local ice cream parlor (which is NOT Culver's because there are no Culver's in Japan, and no ice cream place is better than Culver's even though it's custard instead of-OWWW! Crap, okay I'm back on track), and little did the two know that they were being followed. Well, actually, they did know, but didn't want to say anything. Inui, Momo, Steph, Taka, Ryoma (he got dragged along), and Fuji were watching from across the street with high-tech binoculars.
"I'm really hungry right now!" Momo groaned.
"Be quiet! Do you only think with your stomach!" Steph snapped.
"Well…it always makes noise…" Momo began to say.
"GASP! Kaidoh…he…he..ordered a sundae! With OMG, Hot fudge and bananas!" Inui cried. Everyone gasped and turned to look, as Inui scribbled furiously in his notebook of doom and blackmail.
"What did Karley get!" Momo asked excitedly.
"Karley got…a dish of vanilla ice cream."
"How boring." Steph said. The two sat down and the group moved closer until they were peeking through the window, not very secretly of course. Suddenly, Steph's phone rang and everyone jumped. Steph checked her phone, Mallory was calling, oh boy.
"Hello, buchou, what's up?"
"Hey, Steph. Not much; I was having my date with Tezuka, got kidnapped by Atobe and now I'm being held in a really ugly lavender Volkswagen beetle."
"It's not ugly!" a voice said in the background.
"…purple Volkswagen? You mean, like the one sitting at the red light a few feet away?" Steph turned and saw the ugly, I mean, beautiful purple beetle sitting at the lights.
"Yes! I see you!" Mallory said, sticking her head out of the window and waving.
"Hi Buchou! Wait! Do you want us to come and rescue you?"
"That would be nice! So I can get on with my date..no not with YOU, Atobe! Get away! Help, he might try to molest me!"
"Quick everyone! We have to save Mallory!" Steph announced. The light turned green and the car sped down the street. All of a sudden, Tezuka ran by, but stopped when he got by the group.
"Have you seen Mallory? Atobe took her in a purple car." Tezuka asked.
"Yeah, the car just went by, sorry," Fuji replied. Tezuka sighed.
"Buchou! We'll help you save Mallory!" Momo said.
"Okay, but…be careful." Tezuka stated.
"You always say that," Fuji said.
"Well, I always say Mada Mada Dane," Ryoma piped in.
"Well, no one cares," Momo says.
"How are we gonna catch up with the car?"
"Hey! We can use Taka-san's truck..that carries all the fish and stuff!" Steph said.
"What! But..my dad won't let us drive it!" Taka exclaimed.
"Then we'll hijack it!" Takashi felt incredibly uneasy as the group "hijacked" the truck and drove off to find the flamboyant beetle.
At the hospital
After Britt got bored from watching stupid soap operas on TV, she decided to make a long distance call to Jordan, aka "Scoople".
"Scoople! I'm in the hospital!"
"…so?"
"Wha! I'm seriously ill, Scoople! I could die!"
"Wow, okay. Wishes do come true I guess."
"WHAT! You want me to die? I could be pregnant with your child and he'd die too!"
"…."
"Ha ha, made you freak out! Mindfreak! Scoople? Are you still there? He hung up on me!" Britt hung up the phone and Oishi came in on cue with some food. Not hospital food, of course, cuz you never know what's in that.
"Here, Britt. I brought you some lunch. No it's not hospital food."
"Are there strawberries in it?"
"Umm..no chicken noodle soup usually doesn't come with strawberries ."
"But I love strawberries! I'd feel better if I had some!" Britt's eyes began to water. Oishi panicked and looked around for…anything to make Britt feel better! Amazingly, also on cue, Eiji burst through the door, with strawberries!
"Look! I have strawberries nyahhhh!" Eiji said with a grin.
"Yay!" Britt jumped up and down with excitement. She got out of bed and snatched the strawberries.
"Waaa Britt! Get back into bed! You'll catch a cold!" Oishi cried.
"Sheesh, I get no 'thank you'?" Eiji said sadly.
"No, because I told you not to come," Oishi replied.
"But Oishi! I'm so bored; I'm sick of writing your soap operas! I wanna go out and play nyahhhh!" Britt whined.
"No, you have to stay here until you're better!" Oishi said.
"Oishi!"
"Oishi!"
"Nyahhh Oishi!"
"OISHI!" Britt and Eiji started tugging back and forth on Oishi, just to bug the crap out of him. Suddenly, the nurse comes in and pulls Oishi out the door.
"Quick Oishi! With your experience, we need you to help this pregnant lady!" the nurse said.
"But….I'm not a doctor! I can't help deliver a child!"
"Oh, it's easy. Come on!"
"Oishi!" Britt whined, but it was too late. Oishi was already rushed to the delivery room. (He was just helping the lady, not helping deliver the child. He'd probably pass out if he did.) Eiji and Britt were left alone in the room. Eiji looked left and right down the hallway. Then he turned to Britt.
"Hey, let's leave, nyah."
"Huh! But…we could get into a lot of trouble!" Britt said.
"Just get changed into normal clothes, and we'll walk out like we were just visiting. Oishi's gone anyway and so is the nurse." Eiji insisted. Britt looked unsure, but remembered the soap operas, and quickly changed and the two snuck out. The two ventured to the park and sat on the swings. They sat for a few moments in silence, then Eiji spoke up.
"Britt…are you still mad at me?"
"No. I'm not mad anymore. I decided to drop the whole thing. It was stupid of me to try and get you and Kajimoto to get along with each other."
"We can get along. It's just that…well.."
"What?"
"Well…Kajimoto always seems so close to you, and I get kinda…well..kinda jealous."
"Why are you jealous? We see each other everyday at school, and we hang out all of the time!"
"But..I want us to be…more than just friends."
"Oh…well I.." The two sat in silence as a purple Volkswagen drove by, and a distant scream was heard.
"Wow, what an ugly car." Britt said.
"Nyah, the color is so tacky. Well, I guess I'll take you home?" Eiji said.
"Not yet…I'm in the mood for some ice cream." So the two went to the local ice cream parlor(which wasn't Culver's) and Britt freaked out when she saw Karley and Kaidoh there together.
"Britt! You broke the moment; we were just gonna kiss…I think!" Karley cried. Kaidoh turned six shades of red. "And I thought you were in the hospital!"
"No, I decided to leave. I felt better a while ago. I'm supposed to be there, actually, but I'm…not…obviously," Britt replied. "You never told me you guys were on a date!"
"Really? The whole school knows, thanks to Momo."
"Well, the hospital doesn't keep up on the latest school gossip. Speaking of, I should probably go back before Oishi finds out I'm missing and has three heart attacks or something," Britt said. Eiji looked somewhat sad, but nodded and followed Britt out of the store. Karley and Kaidoh stayed and….tried to catch up on what they were previously doing. (ahh it hurts my brain!)
Meanwhile, the rest of the gang was still in hot pursuit of the lavender Atobe-mobile keeping Mallory hostage. Takashi was driving because he was too afraid that his friends would wreck it and he'd be forced to pay damages by doing some kind of depressing work. They had been following Atobe for several minutes until surprisingly, the car stopped at a Starbucks. The driver got out, while Atobe was heard yelling obscenities at him to get back in.
"Well, that's convenient," Momo said.
"Quick! Stop the car!" Steph cried.
"It's already stopped," Ryoma replied. Everyone got out of the car and rushed to the lavender beetle. Atobe freaked out and desperately locked all of the doors.
"Oh no! Atobe desperately locked all of the doors! What do we do!" Steph said.
"Let's tip the car over!" Momo suggested loudly.
"No." Tezuka replied, but "mobocracy" kicked in and his statement went unheard. The gang (Scooby Doo-esque eh?) proceeded in pushing the ugly lavender beetle upside down.
"WAAAGHHHH! STOP! I'M STILL INSIDE!" Mallory shouted.
"You'll be fine! Just put on your seatbelt!" Momo said pleasantly.
"NO! MY BEAUTIFUL CAR! STOP!" Atobe cried.
"We'll stop if you let Mallory free!" Steph said.
"NEVER!" Just then, Tezuka walked up, holding a set of keys.
"The driver gave them to me," he said dully. He unlocked the doors, pulled Mallory out and swiftly walked back to the sushi-mobile.
"Jeez, Tezuka…where's the drama in that?" Fuji said disappointedly.
"Fun-killer, fun-killer!" Momo complained.
"20 laps for all of you."
"WHAT! We're just trying to help!"
"50."
So the gang walked Mallory and Steph home after a long and exciting day.
"Hey, Mallory," Tezuka said.
"Hm?"
"I saved this." He handed her the juice she'd bought earlier. Mallory smiled and took it.
"Thanks." The two girls went inside to eat supper and discuss how pimped out Atobe's beetle was.
Karley and Kaidoh
After spending some time at the ice cream parlor, Kaidoh decided to take Karley home before anything…weird happened. The two stopped in front of Karley's front door.
"I had a really nice time," Karley said. Kaidoh began to mumble incoherently and blush deeply. Before Kaidoh's brain could process what was going on, Karley quickly gave him a peck on the lips and ran inside, giggling insanely. Kaidoh stared in shock at the door, feeling all kinds of….teenage boy feelings. He suddenly heard evil laughing close by..the sound of it was all too familiar. To confirm his suspicions, he found a rock and threw it into the direction of the sounds coming from a nearby tree. Soon after, he heard cursing and moving about in the branches.
"Yeah, I know you're there Inui-sempai. And I suggest you run pretty soon."
Inui stumbled out of the tree and ran, followed by Kaidoh, and the pursuit went on far into the night until Inui used his amazing disappearing skills and Kaidoh gave up and went home.
Britt and Eiji
Britt and Eiji were walking back to the hospital, where they found a not-so-happy Oishi waiting for them in the room.
"Where have you been!"
"Oishi, let me explain please!" Britt began.
"No, no, Britt. It's my fault Oishi! I suggested we leave the hospital. If you plan on taking your rage out on anyone, it's me, but please be gentle, nyah!" Eiji interrupted.
"Eiji! You should know better! How can you be so irresponsible! Britt could've…could've died or gone into shock! The nurses and doctors were so worried!"
"I wasn't really worried," one of the nurses piped in.
"That's not the point!"
"I'm fine, don't worry!" Britt said.
"I don't care if you were doing cartwheels in the street! You shouldn't have wandered off, and Eiji, you shouldn't have taken her! In fact, you should probably leave now."
"Ahh….okay…" Eiji said sadly. Eiji quietly walked out of the room.
"Oishi, that was so mean! How could you! We were just getting along…and…he said he wanted to be more than friends…and…I was stupid and didn't say anything….and…because…I really do like him!.." and suddenly Britt stopped and covered her mouth. Oishi simply sighed and left the room, leaving Britt alone to think about her complex situation.
End of Chapter
