Chapter Three
"So what do you think, Rei?" Lizzy asked her cousin, while standing in front of a mirror in the room she and her sister shared. She was wearing a white T-shirt with blue and green butterflies on it, a khaki skirt coming midway to her knees, white socks with blue trim, and black semi-tennis shoes. Her light brown hair was up in a ponytail, held together by a white scrunchie. She had light pink lipgloss, and sparkly, light purple eyeshadow.
Rei smiled. "It looks nice... very you."
"Thanks!" Lizzy was getting ready for a date with Cody, and Mickey a date with Zack. "Okay, Mickey, your turn!"
Her sister came in, dressed in a black tank top with a heart with a sword through it. She had blue jeans, a bit tight, and black and white tennis-shoes. Her hair was tied back, too, but it was lower than her sister's, with a few loose strands hanging in her face. She had dark red lipgloss, a bit thick, and brown eyeshadow.
"Hey, Rei, why don't you come on our date with us?" Mickey asked. "It'll be fun!"
Rei looked up from her black and silver HP laptop. She had been reading an anime FanFic, but she could finish it later.
"I-I wouldn't wan't to impose on you. It's a bit... invading, ne?"
"No, not at all! We want you to came with us, Rei!" Lizzy told her. But Rei could tell she was up to something. Lizzy was a bad liar. But she went along with it.
"Okay, but I'll have to get dressed into something other than this." Rei told her, grabbing her suitcase full of clothes and going into the bathroom to change.
After about ten minutes, Rei came out dressed in a black tank top with blue and purple Japanese symbols saying things like "unique", "love", "luck", "dark", ect. and fishnet sleeves. She wore black pants with aqua-colored trim, and black lace-up boots. Her hair was in a braid, her blue highlight hanging loose. She had a hint of dark purple eyeshadow, and silver hoops in her double-peirced ears, and another one in her right cartalige. Her nails were still painted black, and she had a few silver bangles.
"Do I look okay?" She asked, "Is it too much?"
"No, it's perfect!" Mickey exclaimed. "You look really nice!"
"Thanks..."
Rei walked to the mall with Mickey and Lizzy. They were going to get pizza and then go to a movie. And if there was more time, they'd decide whatever else they wanted to do. She saw Zack and Cody, waiting for them at the entrance. And there was someone else... Bob?
"Hey guys!" Zack said as they approached.
"Hi Zack!" Mickey said, running up to him as they kissed. Rei stood back, a bit confused, but she acted like she knew what was going on as Cody and Lizzy did the same.
Bob walked up to her, taking the advantage of his friends making out. "Hey, um... I was wondering, um, if you wanted to, uh, you know, like, if you wanted to go with them, like, a, like, a, um, a, t-triple date?" He did that one weird smile of his.
Rei giggled, thinking, I've been set up! Well, better Bob than anyone else... "Wow, my first week here and I'm already going on a date with a guy. Nice."
"Does that mean yes?"
"Hai. That means yes." She was blushing, but not as much as Bob, who's face was crimson red by now.
They walked into the Pizza Place (Simply titled "Pizza") and all sat down. The boys on one side, and the girls on the other. A waiter came up to them, and they ordered drinks. Zack with a Dr. Pepper, Mickey ordered Diet Cherry Coke, Cody and Lizzy had Sprite, Bob got Root Beer, and Rei ordered water.
"Oh, come on, Rei! You can do better than that!" Mickey whispered. "Have a soda!"
Rei nodded. "On second thought," She said to the waiter, "I think I'll have, um... Orange Fanta?"
The waiter left to get the drinks, leaving them to chat.
"So, what movie do you guys wanna see?" Cody asked.
"Um... Exploding Pengiuns 3: Total Inialation!" Zack replied.
"Nah, I heard it was real dumb," Bob told him. "It's just, like, a bunch of Pengiuns, and then they explode one by one. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over..."
"We get it Bob!" Mickey said. "Okay, so no Exploding Penguins. What else is there?"
Before anyone could respond, the waiter came with their drinks, and asked them what kind of pizza they wanted.
"Meat Lover's!"
"Pepperoni!"
"Vegetarian!"
"Olives!"
"Sausage!"
It went on like this until the waiter decided to give them more time. They finally decided on half pepperoni, half olives.
"Like I said before, what do you guys wanna see?" Cody asked once again, taking a sip of Sprite.
"Um... no clue," Lizzy said.
"I don't care. I'm fine with anything." Rei said quietly.
"I know!" Cody exclaimed. "We could see Mr. Binky's Quest for the Silver Balloon!"
"Cody, I thought you were over those movies!" Zack told him.
"Well, I was, but how can you resist Mr. Binky!"
"All for Mr. Binky?"
Cody raised his hand.
"Okay, Mr. Binky's OUT!" Mickey said. Lizzy looked a bit disapointed.
"Karate Kid Grandpa?" Bob suggested.
"I've always wanted to see an American Kung-Fu film..."
"What's it about?" Lizzy asked, still miffed about Cody's choice not being picked.
"No clue," Bob replied. "I only know that it's the sequel to Karate Kid: Upcoming Ninja!"
"Sounds good to me," Zack said.
"But what's it rated?" Lizzy asked. "Mom doesn't like it when I see something over PG-13."
"I think it's PG-10 or somethng,"
"That's cool," Mickey said. "So, Karate Kid Grandpa?"
Everyone agreed as the pizza came.
The two couples (plus Reiko and Bob, who weren't offically a couple) made their way to the movie theatre halfway across the mall. They bought their tickets, got the popcorn (extra butter on one), and went into Theatre Number Ten.
Through the suspenseful parts in the movie, Lizzy and Cody nuzzled each other, Zack and Mickey held hands... and Rei got bored about halfway through the movie and leaned on Bob's shoulder. If the lights were on, you could have seen him blush and his weird smile.
The movie turned out to be real good (to Mickey, Lizzy, Zack, Cody, and Bob). But to Rei the plot was overused, the accents were fake, and nothing was authentic. It was real... phony. But she deicded to say it was a good movie, so she didn't seem like a stuck-up foreign kid.
"So... didja like the movie?" Bob asked her.
"Sure. It was real good. I mean, well, yeah. Thanks for taking me!"
"...But you paid for it."
"Oh, right! Well, thanks for going with me. I really enjoyed it."
Bob blushed, "Yeah well... heheh..."
Rei smiled and kissed him on the cheek before walking home.
