Digimon Adventure 02 – Summer in Alaska

Day Four

Skyy woke up with a jolt as the cabin shook around her. The room was completely dark and both of her two roommates were silent. The shuddering stopped suddenly and Skyy could feel the intense rocking motions of the ship as she lay stiff under the covers.

Skyy's eyes were wide and her heart was beating rapidly. She had been scared awake and was still getting over the shock. The boat shuddered fiercely again and Skyy could feel and hear everything in the room shaking. Then, just like before, the shuddering stopped and the deep rocking motions took over.

Skyy bit her lip. Were such big ships supposed to rock this much? Was it going to be like this the entire cruise? Her heart was still thumping in her chest and a slight hint of fear started to grip her. Skyy peeked over at Sora in the bed opposite her. It was very dark in the room but Skyy could see that Sora was still with her back facing her.

"Sora...Sora are you awake?" Skyy whispered. Another shudder shook the room and Skyy gripped the covers between her fingers. When the shuddering stopped Sora shifted a little.

"Yeah…." She mumbled.

"What's happening? Why is the ship shaking so much?" Skyy whimpered.

"I don't know…." Sora replied in a sleepy voice. Skyy shifted in her bed to see if she could see Mimi in the bunk bed above Sora. Skyy's eyes still hadn't adjusted to the darkness so all she could see was a dark void.

"What time is it?" Skyy asked in a hushed voice.

"It's almost 8:30 in the morning," Mimi's voice said from the darkness. Skyy's eyes widened.

"Really? It seems like its still nighttime…"Skyy mumbled. Once again another shudder shook the room and just when it stopped Mimi's weight began to move from her bed. Skyy listened as Mimi sat up and slowly climbed down the ladder from her bed. She heard her start to move around until suddenly a dim light lit up the room. Skyy squinted, and then she saw Mimi in her nightgown standing by the vanity table across from the beds. She clicked the light above the table on then moved into the bathroom, stumbling a bit on the way because of the rocking motions. Sora shifted in her bed and sat up, rubbing her eyes awake. Skyy blinked a few times to get used to the light and looked around the room.

It still felt like it was nighttime but that was probably because Skyy couldn't see the sun, considering they didn't have a window in their room. As Skyy heard the water start to run in the bathroom another shudder ripped through the entire boat until it stopped and Skyy heard Mimi stumble in the bathroom.

The rocking motions were much more intense then the night before. The previous night the rocking was very subtle and you could barley feel it. But now it was intense up and down swaying motions that Skyy could feel when she was just lying down.

Once Mimi was in and out of the shower she quickly rapped herself in a towel and sat at the vanity table. It wasn't until she stopped moving and started breathing very deeply that Skyy noticed something was wrong.

"Meems are you okay?" Skyy asked. Sora had already gotten up and was in the shower. Skyy was lying in bed waiting for Sora to finish in the bathroom. Mimi shook her head slightly.

"No, it's nothing…my stomach's just getting a little squirmy from the rocking," Mimi said as she took another deep breath. Skyy sat up a little bit.

"I don't feel that bad…"she said. Mimi smirked a little.

"Believe me; I'm not normally like this. I've never been seasick before…I've got a stronger stomach than that…but…the ships never rocked this much before," Mimi said in between breaths. And as if on cue a little ding dong sound echoed throughout the room and halls as the ship's intercom came on.

"Hello this is your Captain speaking from the Brig; the weather seems very lovely this morning with a high of 70 degrees, and moderate winds. But most passengers seem quite disturbed with the swaying and rocking of the ship," a British voice echoed throughout the inside of the ship. "We are sorry for the disturbance but the rocking is caused by the northern ocean currents in this costal area. The rocking won't last for a large amount of time, probably only until 6 or 7 o'clock this evening, once again we are very sorry for the disturbance and we hope you have a pleasant day otherwise on the Golden Princess," the voice finished and another ding dong sounded as the intercom turned off.

Skyy sighed deeply. After a while Sora got out of the shower and she and Mimi started getting ready. Sora had started feeling a little queasy as well but she continued getting ready for the day anyway. Skyy didn't think much of their queasiness. Skyy knew she had a strong stomach and had also never gotten sea sick before. She thought she would be totally fine. But when she started moving around the room and into the shower, as the ship rocked and shuddered more and more, a slight uneasy feeling started in the pit of her stomach. Skyy stood still for a moment in the shower but the uneasiness stayed. Skyy shrugged it off thinking it would go away, but when she got out of the shower and started getting dressed she started feeling like she was going to be sick.

All three girls were moving slowly that morning. Talking pauses in between things like brushing hair or putting on make-up so they could take a couple of deep breaths to keep from throwing up.

But the rocking seemed a little too much for Sora because halfway through drying her hair she suddenly bolted for the bathroom. Skyy squinted when she heard Sora's hurling sounds coming from the bathroom. Clutching her stomach slightly she started taking deeper breaths to stop the urges her stomach was giving her.

Sora came out of the bathroom shortly after washing her mouth and face and brushing her teeth again. Even after being sick, she still continued to dry her hair. Mimi was putting on make-up and Skyy was sitting on her bed.

"Guys…I don't think I'll be able to go upstairs with you…" Skyy mumbled. Mimi looked over at her.

"What? Why not? Feeling too sick?" Mimi asked worriedly. Skyy nodded.

"Yeah…I feel like if I start moving around I'm just bound to puke my guts out," Skyy explained. Mimi bit her lip.

"But if you go up stairs and start walking around, you'll get used to it and the uneasiness will go away," Mimi said. Skyy shook her head.

"That's if I even make it upstairs before being sick," Skyy snorted.

"Okay…we'll tell the guys, but…maybe later… try coming upstairs okay? It will be good for you," Sora said turning the hairdryer off and brushing her short red hair. Skyy nodded even though Sora probably wasn't looking at her.

"We're going to go upstairs and get some breakfast with the guys…we'll come down later to check on you if you haven't come up, okay?" Mimi said. Skyy nodded again.

Once the girls were both done getting ready they stumbled out of the room, leaving the do-not-disturb sign in the key slot. Skyy didn't bother changing back into her PJs and tied up her hair into a messy bun. She curled back up into her bed and clutched her stomach. She tried getting her mind to wander away from her stomach and the rocking of the boat. Soon her sleepiness returned and she drifted off to sleep…

Tai sat down at the table with a thump as the rocking of the boat made him sort of stumble into the chair. Luckily he didn't drop his plate of breakfast. Matt and Izzy sat around him with their plates as well.

They were sitting in the buffet and many of the tables were emptier than usual. When Tai and the rest of his friends had come up to check out the buffet yesterday, the place was packed with passengers gobbling down food. But this morning, the crowd seemed to have been cut in half.

Tai looked down at his food just as the boat shuddered for the billionth time. Suddenly the food didn't look very appetizing but Tai took his fork and started eating anyway. Just then Mimi and Sora walked up and sat down in two empty chairs. Izzy and Matt both looked up from their food.

"Hey girls, what's up?" Matt asked through a mouthful of food. Sora shrugged.

"Besides puking and having to hobble around the whole ship, not much," Sora groaned. Matt swallowed his food then reached over to rub Sora's back.

"Aww, don't worry, it's not that bad when you actually see the waves and walk around a little more," Matt said and he lightly rubbed Sora's back in a smooth motion. Tai looked up at the two girls and noticed Mimi first.

She was wearing a cute frilly pink top with dark skinny jeans that highlighted her long thin legs very well. She had a cute little white hat on over her hair with a couple red and orange buttons on the side. Tai suddenly realized how cute she looked and couldn't stop staring at her as she talked with Matt and Izzy. Then she looked over at him and noticed him staring at her. She jumped somewhat and have him a weird look.

"What are you looking at?" she said. Tai blinked stupidly and shook his head slightly.

"Ah…sorry it was nothing," he said nervously.

"Just take a picture next time," Mimi said giving Tai a crooked smile. Tai turned red.

"W-w-w-what!" he stuttered. Mimi turned a little pink as well.

"Ha ha! It was a joke! Your stuuupid," she said quickly. Tai frowned and changed the subject. He had to get over the embarrassment of Mimi noticing that he was staring at her.

"Sooo uhh anyway, where's Skyy?" Tai asked the girls, more Sora than Mimi.

"She's not feeling too well and decided to stay in the room, we're gonna go check up on her later though," Sora said.

"That's weird, she never gets sick…well besides the other day at the chocolate factory, but still," Tai said, confused. "I'll come with you to check up on her okay? I wanna see how she's doing," Tai said as he took another mouthful of his breakfast.

"Aww, that's sweet, you're so protective when it comes to Skyy!" Sora squealed. Mimi shifted uncomfortably in her seat. Izzy gave Tai a strange look but resumed eating his food. Tai quickly glanced from Mimi to Sora.

"Huh? What? No I'm not…am I?" Tai turned to ask Matt. Matt nodded silently. Tai cocked his head.

"Oh…I never noticed…" Tai mumbled.

"I think it's really means something when a guy is protective over a girl!" Sora sighed dreamily. Tai raised an eyebrow.

"What are you going on about? It doesn't mean anything; she's like a sister to me!" Tai said. Izzy suddenly put down his fork.

"Actually maybe I should go," he said. Everyone looked at him.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Matt asked.

"I mean maybe I should go check up on Skyy," Izzy said. A small blush was starting to form on his cheeks.

"Uh, yeah, we were all going to go," Sora said. Izzy shook his head slightly.

"It's ok, I'll go by myself, then you guys don't have to bother about it," he said. Izzy started to feel his face heat up in embarrassment. How did it look when a guy said he wanted to go alone to a girl's room?

Tai grinned mentally at Izzy's suggestion. Perfect! Why didn't he think of it? Skyy would love the alone time with Izzy. Tai was still on for setting up is two friends during this cruise. Slowly but surely Tai was definitely going to get these two to be a full couple by the last day on this ship. It made him so jealous of the two that they both liked each other but were both way too shy to do anything about it. If one of them just confessed they would have been a couple by now. So Tai immediately thought of something so that Izzy could go to Skyy by himself.

"But we wanted to check up on her too –" Mimi started but Tai interrupted her.

"That sounds good actually; there was something I wanted to check out with everyone up at the teen center. So Izzy goes to check up on Skyy and we go to the teen center, works out perfectly," Tai said.

"Yeah, I'll tell you guys how she's doing after," Izzy said, giving Tai a quick glance. Sora cocked and eyebrow and pointed to Tai.

"But you just said you wanted to check up on her to see how she was doing..."Sora asked. Tai shrugged.

"I can go check up on her whenever I guess,"

"But you were so intent on going,"

"Well I wanted to check something out at the teen center too," Tai said quickly.

"What did you want to check out?" Mimi asked.

"I meant to meet up with Aaron and Brandon and the girls."

"Why do we have to go too?" Mimi asked, frowning.

"It would be more fun with more people right?"

"Yeah, I guess…but Skyy –"

"She'll be fine! Izzy's going to see her so she'll be fine! Does it really matter that much?" Tai said, annoyed with all the questions and excuses. Silence fell over the table. Matt sighed loudly.

"Maybe you girls should go get some breakfast, you'll feel a little better once you get some food in you," Matt said. Both girls nodded and got up from their seats. Once they got out of hearing range Matt leaned closer to Tai.

"Dude, what's up with you?" he asked. Tai raised his eyebrows.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"He's referring to why were you so intent on seeing Skyy, then changed your mind in a split second, then totally brushed the whole idea off?" Izzy asked. Izzy was looking down at his plate of food, and eating without looking up when he talked.

"Oh… It's not a big deal. It's just Skyy. So she's sick? Iz will go see how she's doing; it's not essential that I go. He can just tell me how she's doing so it's not like I have to go see her," Tai shrugged. Izzy looked up at him.

"What do you mean 'it's just Skyy'?" Izzy asked, with a slight edge to his voice.

"I don't mean anything," Tai said raising an eyebrow at Izzy's tone.

"So you don't care that she's not feeling well? You don't care that she's all alone in her room?" Izzy asked. Matt stared on the maroon haired boy with a surprised expression on his face. Tai raised his hands in surrender.

"Holy cow, what's your problem dude? I never said any of those things! Why are you making such a big deal about it?" Tai asked angrily. Izzy slumped in his seat.

"I'm not….sorry…just forget I said anything…" Izzy mumbled. Matt looked back and forth between Tai and Izzy. He grabbed his plate and sat up from his chair.

"Man I'm surrounded by weirdoes, you guys seriously need to fix this love triangle going on…I'm outta here, I'll meet you up at the teen center later," Matt said. Tai whipped around to look at Matt.

"What do you mean love triangle?" Tai asked, but Matt ignored him and walked away towards the buffet where the girls were getting their food. Tai and Izzy sat in an awkward silence. Tai looked up at Izzy who was looking at the plate of food again, but this time, not eating it.

"I know you like Skyy, the only reason I changed my mind so quickly was so you could go see her alone," Tai muttered. Izzy looked up at him.

"Yeah I like her, but do you?" Izzy asked. Tai stared at him.

"Wha? Of course I don't she's my best friend! I like - …uhh someone else," Tai mumbled the last part.

"Sora?" Izzy asked. Tai shook his head.

"No…someone else…I think," Tai mumbled.

"Do you like Mimi?"

"No! I mean -…why are we even talking about this?" Tai spluttered. Izzy sat up straight.

"Because...are you really sure Skyy's just your best friend?" Izzy asked. Then he sat up and walked away with his hands in his pockets. Tai watched him leave.

"Of course she's just my best friend you idiot! Why the hell would you think otherwise when she's crazy for you?" Tai muttered to himself angrily. He was 100% never going to like Skyy in that way. When he thought of her, yeah he got a warm feeling in his stomach, but it was the same feeling he got when he thought of his little sister, Kari. Skyy was just – like family to him. That's all she ever would be. They were both totally grossed out at the thought of liking each other in that way. So it was never a possibility that they would ever grow those kinds of feelings. That's just the way things were.

Plus…more and more very day Tai couldn't get Mimi out of his head. Whenever he was picking out clothes for the day he'd think 'what would Mimi like?', and whenever he saw her he felt all embarrassed and self-conscious and got an electric jolt feeling all through his body. He kept noticing how pretty she looked, or the way her mouth curved when she laughed. Or the way her eyes sparkled when she was really happy or excited. He even started noticing all the little things she did, like how she always sat straight up and never slouched, or that she always looked you in the eyes when she talked to you, or even the way that she always put her fork and knife side by side when she was done eating.

Tai didn't know why, but he started noticing all these little things. And he liked them; he was drawn to her more than he had ever been before. He even would sometimes get urges to hold her hands or hug her from behind. He wanted to hold her, he wanted to play with her hair, touch her face, and kiss her cheek.

Tai's face started heating up as he thought of these things. He remembered what Skyy and Izzy had both asked him.

"So you like her right?"

"Do you like Mimi?"

Tai thought about it. He came up with one answer in his head and a slight smile curved on his lips.

"Yes."

Skyy awoke to a hesitant knock on the door. Skyy peeked over from her covers and her uneasiness suddenly came back in a split second. Skyy clutched her stomach and groaned quietly. When she was asleep she couldn't feel it, but now she was awake the sickness came rushing back.

The knocking sounded again. Skyy prayed that it wasn't the cleaning lady coming to clean the room. Skyy sat up to get the door and tell the lady to go away, when a faint male voice spoke.

"Skyy? Skyy are you in there? It's me, Izzy…" Izzy's voice said from the other side of the door. Skyy's eyes widened and she bolted from her bed. Her heart thumped in her chest and her face became slightly warmer than before.

'Eek! Izzy's here! He came to see me!' Skyy squealed in her head. Her face broke out into a wide smile. She almost ran past the vanity table before doubling back and checking her appearance in the mirror. Her hair was in a messy bun, but her clothes were fine and her face seemed passable. Skyy quickly skipped to the door and unlocked it. She swung it open and her eyes fell on a surprised Izzy with a white plastic bag in his hands.

He looked incredibly handsome. Skyy couldn't help checking him out up and down. He was wearing a white sweater that had a dark blue stripe going down the side of each sleeve that was rolled up to his elbows. He had a cargo vest on with straps and buttons all over it; it was an army green color. He also had on thin jeans, but not skinny jeans, they showed off how much longer his legs had gotten. On his feet were the same red sneakers he wore on the first day, and he had a couple black and brown bead bracelets on, and a small silver chain necklace on his neck. The whole outfit brought out his black eyes and maroon hair.

"Oh, wow, you came fast…how are you feeling?" Izzy said. Skyy opened her mouth to answer but suddenly something rushed up from her stomach and her eyes widened in shock. She held her hand to her mouth and whipped around and rushed into the bathroom. Izzy rushed in after her with a worried look on his face but Skyy slammed the bathroom door shut in his face. All Izzy could hear from the inside was Skyy's hurling sounds.

"Skyy! Skyy are you alright? Let me in! I can help!" Izzy said, panicking a little. Suddenly the hurling stopped and Izzy heard the toilet flush. He heard Skyy move and the water from the tap being turned on. About a minute later after Skyy washed her mouth and brushed her teeth she unlocked the bathroom door and hobbled out. She refused to look Izyy in the face. Izzy put the bag on the floor and started rubbing Skyy's back like Matt had done to Sora earlier. Skyy lightly pushed his hand away and went to sit on her bed. Izzy frowned and followed to sit beside her. As he fell onto the bed beside her she bounced up a little bit.

"Don't worry it'll be alright, it's habitual for people to get sea sick so you don't need to be upset about it," Izzy said quietly. Skyy sighed.

"That's not it…" she muttered. Izzy wrapped and arm around her shoulders. This time she didn't refuse him.

"What's wrong then? It's okay you can confide in me," Izzy asked looking down to her face. Skyy glanced at him.

"It's…it's just I didn't want to be sick in front of you…you probably think I'm a total loser now…" Skyy mumbled. Izzy raised his eyebrows and chuckled lightly.

"Yeaah, the loser of losers," Izzy gave her a quirky smile. Skyy pouted. Izzy squeezed her shoulders lightly.

"Of course I don't think you're a loser! Why would I? People get sick, it's the way things are," Izzy shrugged. Skyy smiled weakly. Suddenly Izzy got up from the bed. Skyy followed him with her eyes. He went back over to the bathroom and picked up the bag he dropped before.

"Here, I got some medicine, have some – it'll make you feel well," Izzy said taking a bottle of pills out of the bag. He handed them over to Skyy and she turned them over in her hand to read the label.

"You actually brought medicine?" she said with a surprised look on her face. Izzy shrugged and sat down beside her again, this time he rummaged through the bag and took out some cold jel peels.

"Yeah, Joe suggested I bring them in case," Izzy said taking the bottle from her and reading the label himself.

"Oh," Skyy mumbled as Izzy figured out how many pills she should take and clicked open the lid.

"Here, take two for now, I'll get you a cup of water," Izzy said and handed the bottle back to Skyy. He then got up again and headed for the bathroom. He got her a plastic cup filled with water and she swallowed two of the pills from the bottle. When she finished Izzy took off the rapper from one of the jel peels and gave it to her. Skyy smiled lightly and stuck the cold pack to her forehead where it stuck firmly to her skin. She sighed happily and the cold feeling against her warm forehead. They both sat in silence after.

Skyy glanced at Izzy then began fidgeting with her fingers, not knowing what to say next. She bit her lip. She did not want him to leave. She liked the company but he probably didn't want to be with a sick person all day. Still…she wanted him to stay.

"Maybe I should go…you should get some sleep," Izzy said then awkwardly got up and started heading for the door. Skyy hesitated but quickly grabbed the hem of his shirt with her fingers. Izzy jumped and looked back.

"Huh?" Izzy mumbled and Skyy quickly let go.

"Oh! Uh…s-sorry!" she stuttered. Izzy raised an eyebrow. Skyy bit her lip and looked down.

"Um…could you actually…stay with me for a while longer?" Skyy mumbled quietly, but Izzy heard her. Skyy's face started to get red with her embarrassment. Izzy grinned.

"Sure!" he said. Skyy looked up and smiled at him.

"Do you wanna watch T.V.? maybe a movie is on…" Skyy said. Izzy agreed and found the remote on the floor. He clicked the T.V. on and switched through the channels until Skyy spotted Benjamin Button and told him to stop.

Skyy shifted on the bed so she was sitting up against the wall and wiggled her legs under the covers. Izzy glanced from bed to bed and chose to sit on Sora's bed. Skyy raised an eyebrow as he tried to get in a position where he could see the T.V. from under the bunk bead. She laughed as he craned his neck to see. Izzy frowned and looked over at her.

"What?" he muttered. Skyy smiled at him and patted her bed.

"Here, come sit over here, then you can see," she said. Izzy blushed lightly but nodded and moved over to Skyy's bed. He hesitantly sat down beside her, on top of the covers. He put his arm around Skyy's neck and she easily slid her head into the crook of his neck.

Izzy's face got hotter and hotter as she cuddled closer to him. Her head fit so well in his neck.

Skyy's face was getting a little hot too as she felt Izzy's breathing and the warmth of his body, she was afraid her jel pack would get warm to quickly. He smelled good though, like soap, not like the gross men's cologne like Ax or whatever. He just smelled like soap. Skyy smiled lightly. She couldn't help thinking that Sora and Mimi would die if they saw her with Izzy right now. But she didn't want anyone interrupting them now. This was a rare opportunity that Skyy got to be alone with Izzy, also this was the first time she'd been so close to him. Nothing could break her insane happiness right now.

As they watched Skyy found out how to get Japanese subtitles with the remote and they cuddled in silence. About half way through the movie though they both got sleepy and dozed off, Izzy still with his arm around Skyy, and Skyy with her head still in Izzy's neck but with his chin resting on the top of her head. Both slipped into light sleeps and both of their breathing became synchronized.

A couple hours later Skyy woke up. She blinked her eyes a few times to get used to the light and shifted a little until she felt a warm mass beside her. Her eyes wandered over to Izzy who was still sleeping soundly beside her.

Skyy gasped lightly in surprise, but she then suddenly remembered that Izzy had come to see her. She relaxed in his arms. Skyy put a hand on her stomach…it didn't feel queasy anymore! Skyy smiled, glad the medicine had worked. She looked around Izzy and found her watch sitting on the night stand beside them.

"Hmm…what time is it?" Skyy muttered to herself. The watch read 2:15. She raised her eyebrows…they had slept together for a long time. Skyy blushed when she realized she had been sleeping with Izzy all this time. She looked over at his sleeping face. His breathing was rhythmic and his eyes were lightly closed. Skyy raised a hand to touch his face when he shifted his head a little and she snatched her hand back. Izzy scrunched his eyes and slowly opened them.

"Huh…ugggh where am I?" he mumbled sleepily.

"We fell asleep…it's almost 2:20,"Skyy said. Izzy sat up and took his arm from around her neck. He raised his arms in the air, stretching, and yawned.

"How are you feeling?" he asked, rubbing his eyes and getting up from the bed.

"Better, that medicine worked!" Skyy smiled. Izzy sighed in relief.

"That's great!" he cheered. Skyy kicked her legs out of the covers and bounced up off the bed. Izzy smiled at her. He reached out and stroked her hair; this took Skyy a little by surprise.

"I'm glad, you seem like you've returned to normal," Izzy said. Skyy grinned.

"Yep! You better watch out!" she teased. Izzy chuckled and lowered his hand. Suddenly the phone rang and Skyy walked over to go pick it up.

"Hello?" she answered in Japanese, because the only ones who knew her room number to phone was her Japanese friends. Tai's voice answered.

"Hey spud! How'er you feeling?" he asked. Skyy smiled when she heard his voice.

"Better! Izzy came and gave me medicine!" she said happily. Izzy glanced at her when she said his name. He was sitting on the bed and looking through a pamphlet that was stuck in the girls' door the previous night. It was a daily log of all the events being held on the ship.

"That's great! So are you gonna come upstairs now? I hear they got some sushi up at the buffet," Tai said. Skyy beamed.

"Sushi! I'm so there! Izzy and I will go check it out!" Skyy said giving and Izzy a look as if asking him if it was alright, he nodded signaling that it was fine.

"Oh? Izzy's still there?" Tai's teasing voice said.

"Uhh, yeah…we watched a movie…and some T.V.," Skyy said, leaving out the part of falling asleep together.

"Ah I seee, that means you definitely have to come upstairs now! It's not fair that Izzy has had you all to himself for most of the day, so come up and spend some time with your other friends," Tai laughed on the other end of the phone. Skyy smiled into the receiver.

"Okay, where are you guys?" she asked.

"We're by the pool, we're with Brandon and Aaron and all them as well," Tai said. Skyy remembered how Aaron acted with her the other night. How he was always trying to get her attention and asking her to dance with him so many times. She didn't mind him, in fact he was a cool guy, it was just that one thing he did that got on her nerves a smidge.

"Ahh…right…Aaron's there," she said. Izzy's eyes flashed over to her from the pamphlet. She didn't see the slight glare in his eyes because her back was turned and she was busy twirling the phone cord through her fingers.

"What? You don't like Aaron?" Tai asked.

"No, it's not that I don't like him, he's a nice guy. I don't mind him at all, it's fine," Skyy said. Tai sighed on the other side.

"It's okay if you don't wanna come up, we'll ditch them," Tai said in a more hushed voice. Skyy assumed that their friends were sitting close by. Skyy shook her head even though Tai couldn't see her.

"No! I said it was fine! We'll come meet up with you guys after we get some food," Skyy said, there was a pause before Tai spoke again.

"Okay…we'll see you soon then?" he asked.

"Yep! See you soon," Skyy answered and they said their goodbye's and hung up. She turned around to face Izzy.

"So! Wanna go get some grub? I'm starving!" Skyy said. Izzy chuckled and got up from the bed.

Skyy quickly fixed her hair, for it was in an even messier bun. She tied it into a ponytail, added a few red clips at the sides and tidy upped her clothes a bit. She was just wearing some skinny jeans and a long tank top with white a red stripes on it. She decided to put on some black arm warmers because Izzy said it had gotten a little bit cooler. She grabbed her camera and her card key and with that they both headed out of the room. Skyy removed the do-not-disturb sign and flipped it over so it said 'service, please'.

As they walked Skyy was incredibly temped to hold Izzy's hand but she decided against it, thinking it was too risky. He might get weird if she was all couple-like with him all of a sudden.

They didn't have to walk very far considering the pool deck was one floor up from their rooms, and the buffet was right beside the pools. As Izzy and Skyy walked they saw their friends sat at a pool table and goofing around. They said quick hello's then left to go find the sushi.

Skyy practically squealed when she saw the little separate tables filled with sushi beside the entrance to the buffet. She didn't get to eat sushi much, even though she lived in Japan. Sometimes her parents would by the pre-packaged sushi at the market, but they got pricey so they didn't buy them very often. Also they only went out to the sushi restaurant for dinner about once every four months. Sushi restaurants were also quite pricey to visit.

So now Skyy was really happy she could get a bunch of sushi without paying for it. She and Izzy grabbed plates and took what they wanted, some chopsticks, and a couple packets of soy sauce. They also got little helpings of wasabi and ginger. They made their way back to their friends and found some extra seats. Sora and Mimi both got up and gave Skyy hugs when she set her food down.

"Skyy! yay! Your feeling better!" Mimi said happily. Skyy hugged her back.

"Yeah! How have you two been? Are you feeling any better?" Skyy asked, looking from Mimi to Sora. Both girls nodded.

"Yeah, once we got up here, ate and walked around a bit we were fine, see! You should've come up with us!" Sora said. Skyy shrugged.

"I didn't want to risk being sick," she mumbled. Also if she had come upstairs with them that morning, she wouldn't have gotten to spend that time with Izzy back in their stateroom. Skyy smiled lightly to herself at the memory. Sora raised an eyebrow.

"What are you smiling at?" she asked and scooted a little closer. Skyy flinched a little bit.

"Uh! Nothing, It's nothing," she said nervously. Skyy turned from Sora and said her hello's to everyone there. Aaron winked at her when she said hi to him and she smiled back awkwardly. He seemed a little different today which gave Skyy a nervous twinge in her stomach. Izzy had already sat down and started eating so Skyy also made herself comfortable and cracked open her chopsticks. Suddenly a long arm wrapped around her shoulders and a knuckle began to rub into the top of her head.

"Heey! Glad to see you're back on your feet! It's no fun when you're not around to amuse us!" Tai laughed. Skyy growled and punched him lightly in the gut. Tai laughed again and let go of her.

"Get off of me loser!" Skyy giggled as she pushed him away.

"Owwww, now Skyy that's not cute!" Tai whined. Skyy snorted.

"Like I care about being cute," Skyy said and she popped a California roll dipped in soy sauce in her mouth. As Skyy ate and laughed and joked with her friends, she was starting to feel 100% normal again and back in the mood to have fun. She ate all of her sushi it about 2 minuets and went back for more.

What surprised Skyy was how well her friends were getting along with the American teens. Since most of them couldn't talk directly to each other because they didn't speak the same language, it should've been harder for them to bond. But everyone seemed to partially understand each other. Mimi had to translate a lot more than normal but Tai, Matt, Sora, and Izzy were doing a good job at using the minimal English they knew to communicate. Now that Skyy was there too of course she was helping in translating with Mimi, but they all still were having a good time. Personality wise, Tai and Brandon should have been twins. Sora and Mimi had loads of girly things to talk about with Sara and Hailey. Noami was more like Skyy and was getting along better with the guys than with the girls, but Skyy assumed that just because she was super cute. Even though she was younger, Matt and Aaron flirted with her a tiny bit (not as much as Brandon did). This got a couple of icy glares from Sora to Matt when she noticed him doing this, but he was very subtle about it and didn't really seem to mean any of it.

Skyy took many more pictures of all of her friends, and her new friends. She also took some pictures of the sky and the water. She even took a picture of her sushi so she could brag to her parents that she got to eat tones of sushi for free.

After Skyy and Izzy finished eating they all got bored of sitting by the pool. Izzy figured out that there was bingo going on in one of the lounges. He had remembered it from reading the daily log back in Skyy's room. Of course he didn't mention reading it in Skyy's room.

Not thinking of anything else to do, they all decided to go check it out. On their way there, they saw a bunch of small areas surrounded by caution tape and Tai explained to Skyy that it was all the places where people had puked. Skyy was grossed out and tried walking away from the cautioned areas.

The bingo was in the Egyptian jungle styled lounge called the Vista Lounge. There was a bar at the back of the lounge and Sora ordered a round of cokes for everyone, except for Aaron who ordered an alcoholic drink. Skyy remembered hearing Izzy grumble something about Aaron showing off how old he was. They all bought a pack of bingo cards each. There were 5 games and in each game you got three cards to play from. So in total they had 15 cards each to try and win from. They sat in a big circle on some chairs and couches.

Aaron sat down beside Skyy, she tried to slowly shift away from him so he didn't notice, but halfway during the first game he casually slid his hand on her thigh. Skyy jumped and pushed his hand away. When he asked what was wrong she passed it off as being ticklish. When she glanced around to see if anyone noticed, Mimi, Sora and couple of the other girls looked away quickly. But Tai and Izzy were both glaring daggers at Aaron.

Aaron didn't try to make any more moves on Skyy for the rest of the bingo games. Skyy didn't win any of the games, but Matt was one away from winning one game. No one else won any games either. Even after the bingo was announced over, the teens stayed and hung out in the lounge for a while, ordering more cokes to drink. Soon though, Matt realized it was 6:00, an hour away from dinner. When he announced this Mimi gasped and choked on her coke. Tai reached over and thumped her back so she would stop coughing. After she regained her composure she put her drink down on the small glass coffee table in-between all of the chairs and couches.

"Oh my gosh!" Mimi panicked. Sora put her drink down as well and raised an eyebrow.

"What? We still have plenty of time before –" but Mimi cut her off.

"It's formal night! We only have an hour to get ready!" Mimi said.

"What? It's formal night? Since when?" Skyy said.

"Since forever, it was in the daily log…didn't you read it?" Tai asked. Skyy rolled her eyes.

"Oh yeah! I remember reading that whilst I was puking my brains out," Skyy said sarcastically.

"Anyway, we have to go, girls take awhile to get drop dead gorgeous!" Mimi said dramatically getting up. Sora got up too.

"Especially in Skyy's case," Sora sighed. Skyy frowned.

"Hey! Shut up, I take offense," she cursed. Skyy took once last sip of her coke and got up to follow her two friends. She said goodbye to her American friends, and gave Tai, Matt and Izzy quick little hugs before being dragged away by Sora and Mimi.

Once they got back to their stateroom Mimi and Sora attacked Skyy with make-up and found one of the formal dresses she had brought with her. Skyy was squeamish but her friends held her down. Skyy had already given up trying to get away from them, so she just braced herself and let Mimi and Sora play with her appearance. What she'd look like after she didn't know.

As the three girls walked into the dining hall they were surrounded by the scent of gourmet food. Instead of the previous night, the girls went to their table by themselves without being seated because they already knew where their table was. The girls walked up to their guy friends who were already seated. All three boys looked up from their menus and conversations to gawk.

Mimi wore a black short dress with a flowing skirt and skinny shoulder straps. She had her hair up in a bun with some curled pieces coming down on either side. Tai's jaw almost dropped but he kept it up and shut, a light blush tinted his cheeks though.

Sora wore a green tutu styled dress with a sparkly flower right under her shoulder. The dress was strapless and Sora's hair was curled, which made it look a bit shorter than it actually was. Matt beamed when he saw her and his eyes were sparkling.

Skyy was wearing a short brown dress that showed off how thin she was. It had small ruffles in the breast area, but flowed down at the skirt. Is had some sparkles on the skirt and skinny shoulder straps. Her hair was down and some odd pieces were curled, and some were crimped, but most of her hair was its usual straight style. She had a little sparkly clip clipping back her bangs and a simple silver choker necklace on her neck. The only thing that remained totally in Skyy's character was her black finger nails that she had quickly painted when Sora and Mimi weren't looking. Izzy's eyes widened and he dropped the small bun he was eating. He blushed pink and didn't take his eyes away from Skyy's appearance.

The boys had also dressed up. They all had on formal shirts, Matt's was blue, Tai's was white, and Izzy's was orange. They all had on ties and black formal pants as well, no suit jackets though, it was too warm for them. Skyy loved how good Izzy looked in his formal outfit. She thought he looked quite handsome and sharp.

All of the other passengers were also wearing formal outfits and Skyy saw many penguin tuxes on the men. The dinner was mainly the same as the night before though except their waiter Gabrielle and his assistant Habier were more formally dressed as well.

Since the menu was different they all had new food choices to choose from. Skyy ended up ordering a Caesar Salad to start, Pasta with exotic mushroom sauce for her main meal, and the Princess Love Boat Dream for dessert (chocolate moose and brownie cake).

After they had eaten and were stuffed to explosion. They walked out of the dining room and into the Piazza where a bunch of photo booths were open. Photographers stood by large screens and took pictures of the passengers in their formal outfits.

Mimi begged to go take a picture with everyone. Tai automatically agreed and soon everyone else agreed to as well. They waited for a booth to be open and soon the female photographer told them to come over and where to stand or kneel or sit.

The photographer asked them if they were all couples, four of them shyly said "no", Sora and Matt were the only ones who confessed being a couple. Because there was only one couple the photographer scrapped the "couple" photo options.

Once they all got in their poses the photographer started clicking their pictures. They got four photos so the photographer did one with all of them, one of just the girls, and one of just the guys. On the last picture they all got in together again, but just before she clicked the picture they all got into goofy poses or made funny faces. The woman clicked the picture and laughed when she realized their change in positions.

When the photographer was finished the friends left the photo area with triumphant smiles on their faces, excited to see how the pictures looked when they were developed. Tai stretched his arms up and yawned.

"Gee I hope you're not getting tired already, you're our prime partier," Matt teased. Tai smiled.

"Nah, I'm just getting bored, I mean it's nice to see so many pretty girls walking around in gowns and stuff, but I prefer the more scandalous attire," Tai said shrugging. Sora punched him lightly in the shoulder.

"Hey! What do you think girls are?" Sora said frowning. Tai grinned.

"beau-ti-fuuulll," Tai said. All three girls glared at him but laughed at his answer. Skyy was starting to get bored of the outfits as well though. Her dress was itching her legs and her hair felt really crusty because of the vast amount of hairspray that Mimi and Sora sprayed on it. Her face felt heavy too with all the make-up.

"I think I'm gonna hafta agree with Tai," Skyy said bending down to itch behind her knee. Mimi raised an eyebrow.

"About the beautiful girls?" she asked. Skyy smiled.

"ohh yeaaaah," she said sarcastically, "no, I mean I'm getting bored, do you guys wanna go change into some normal clothes?"

"Yessss that sounds good!" Tai said, over exaggerating the word 'yes'. "I can't wait to get out of this, I don't do the whole black tie thing," Tai said. Mimi bit her lip for a second.

"I don't know I thought you looked good," she said. Tai looked at her. Wide grins spread all of the other friends' faces. Mimi started panicking under Tai's gaze.

"For a change, I mean," Mimi said waving her hand. Tai frowned and Skyy slapped her hand on her forehead.

"Gee thanks," Tai said sarcastically. Mimi stuck out her tongue teasingly. Skyy rolled her eyes and she grabbed Mimi's arm.

"C'mon Meems we need to teach you flirting, bye boys, meet up at the teen center in 10 minutes okay?" Skyy said and she waved goodbye to the boys whilst dragging Mimi behind. The boys looked at each other and waved back awkwardly.

As Skyy dragged Mimi over to the elevators Sora followed behind.

"Why does she need to know how to flirt Skyy? It's Mimi, she knows how to flirt," Sora said with a confused expression on her face. Mimi huffed.

"Yeah! I know how to flirt! And stop pulling me!" Mimi whined and she yanked her arm out of Skyy's grasp. Skyy sighed loudly.

"Not when it comes to flirting with Tai you don't, whenever you do flirt you cover it up as a joke or a mistake," Skyy explained. Mimi pouted angrily. Sora just stared at the both of them.

"What! Why would Mimi flirt with Tai? Wait, what's going on that I don't know about?" Sora said, her voice was getting edgier as her annoyance built.

"Just wait a sec," Skyy said. Sora frowned and pouted angrily, mirroring Mimi's expression. As they reached the elevators they were lucky to get to one that opened up right away. The girls climbed in and Skyy quickly pressed the 'close door' button so nobody would come in with them. Skyy turned to Sora, who was waiting expectantly. Skyy looked at Mimi.

"Do you mind?" she asked. Mimi shook her head.

"Whatever," She answered. Skyy took a deep breath.

"Okay, basically, Mimi likes Tai, for real. Not just a joke this time. Not that's a joke that Mimi likes Tai, I mean it's totally insanely awesome and I'm super stoked for her. But yeah, and now whenever she gets near him and tries to flirt she's a total floozy,"

"Hey!" Mimi snapped.

"Sorry Meems, it's the truth. So now we need to think up of a super love inducing plan to get them together so they can be a gushy couple for ever and ever!" Skyy finished. Sora's mouth was wide open. Mimi rose and eyebrow.

"Mushy gushy couple? Excuse me?" Mimi said. Skyy held up a finger.

"I said gushy couple, minus-ay the mushy-ay," she said. Sora suddenly started waving her hands rapidly.

"OH MY GAWD!" Sora squealed. She attacked Mimi with a hug that surprised her so much she almost fell over. This time Skyy raised her eyebrows and grinned at her two friends. Sora jumped up and down whilst still hugging Mimi. Mimi gave in and laughed, hugging and bouncing in time with her.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Sora said pulling away and holding Mimi's shoulders arm-width apart. Mimi shrugged.

"I don't know," she said. Sora put on a fake hurt expression.

"You didn't even tell one of your best gals your latest object of affection? I feel so alone," Sora whimpered.

"Tai's an object now?" Skyy questioned. Sora rolled her eyes.

"You know what I mean, so why didn't you tell meee!" Sora whined. Mimi opened her mouth to speak.

"Well! Well! Did Skyy tell you that she likes someone!" Mimi said suddenly pointing her finger to Skyy. Skyy's eyes widened and her grin fell. The elevator stopped on their floor and Skyy groaned and walked out as soon as the doors opened. Sora whipped around to look at Skyy.

"What? Skyy! Come back here! Why didn't you tell me either!" Sora whined as she ran/ jogged after Skyy. Mimi followed at a slower pace.

"Well, I didn't really want anyone to know exactly," Skyy said. She didn't really want to talk about this now; both of her friends would start pestering her about it for the rest of the night now.

"But Mimi knows! How come Mimi knows?" Sora said, actually sounding genuinely hurt this time. Skyy frowned and turned around too look Sora in the face. Mimi stopped walking behind Sora.

"Because she forced it out of me! I didn't tell her who it was," Skyy said. Sora paused before speaking again.

"So…who is it?" she said getting all giddy again. Skyy rolled her eyes.

"Gaah! I knew you'd do this! I'm not telling!" Skyy said and she turned around to continue walking to the stateroom. Sora frowned and scurried after, Mimi close behind.

"But…but…you know who Mimi likes, it's only fair that you share with her equivalent information!" Sora protested. Skyy turned on her heel and glared at Sora. Sora eeep'd and back off two steps.

"Don't bother, she's not gonna tell you," Mimi muttered from behind the now scared red-head.

"Okay! Okay!" Sora said raising her hands in surrender. Skyy turned again and walked up to their room door. She took out her card key and slid it in. the door clicked open and Skyy heaved it open. Both of her friends filed in after her and Sora collapsed on her bed. Skyy sat down at the vanity and started wiping off the make-up on her face with tissue. They were all silent for about a minuet. Sora glanced over to Skyy.

"So…what are you going to do about the guy sending those secret notes if you like someone?" she asked. Skyy threw the balled up tissue in the garbage beside the table and sighed.

"Well, when I figure out who the heck it is, I'll have to turn him down I guess," she mumbled. Mimi poked her head from around the closet; she had already changed out of her dress and was only in her underwear.

"So do you have any hunches on who it could be?" she asked. Skyy shrugged.

"No clue," she said, honestly. Sora quirked and eyebrow.

"What about Aaron? He obviously is attracted to you," she suggested. Skyy shook her head.

"Nah, we met him at the teen center, which means we didn't know each other when we were all talking about the truth or dare thing, when I said that notes would be the most romantic way of confessing," Skyy explained. Sora cocked her head.

"Yeah but he could've seen you then, and then purposely approached you at the teen center," she said. Skyy scrunched her face.

"Yeah but…do you seriously think Aaron is that romantic, or smart for that matter, to think of that?" Skyy said grinning. Sora smiled and Mimi giggled from behind the closet.

"Well no, but it still is possible, he's smart enough to put two and two together," Sora said. She got up from her bed and started changing as well. Skyy was done dabbing most of her make-up off so she started searching through her drawers for something cool to wear.

"Well, I hope it's not him anyways," Skyy mumbled.

"Maybe you should just ask him about it, it wouldn't hurt," Mimi said. She came back from around the closet and quickly skipped over to her drawers to find some clothes.

"I don't know. I'm kinda nervous for what his answer will be…" Skyy said.

"Well…I'm just sayin'," Mimi said as she grabbed some clothes and huddled back around to the closet again. Skyy took out some clothes as well and sighed again.

"Hmmm…." She looked down at her clothes and stood up to start changing. She was going to wear a red shirt with tassels going around the neckline. She had on short-short jeans with the edges frayed and ripped fashionably. She wore her black leather boots and an orange cap on her head. She didn't bother changing her hair and kept on the silver choker necklace she had had on with her formal outfit. When Mimi had changed she threw some of her dirty clothes in a pile of all the other dirty clothes. She looked at the pile for a second.

"Hey…do you guys think we should do a load of laundry…we've got a lot of dirty clothes…and I wanted to wear this shirt tomorrow…" Mimi said, picking out a yellow top from the pile. Sora stuck her head around the corner to look at the clothes as well.

"Yeaaah...I've got the detergent in my suitcase, we'll put in a load before we go to the club," she said and she turned to get her suitcase out from under her bed.

When all three girls were dressed they stuffed the clothes to be washed in a laundry bag they found in the closet. They left the room with the big bag full of clothes and walked down the very long stateroom hallway until they found the laundry room. They put in a load of laundry and set the timer on the machine. They left the bag on top of the machine and quickly headed out of the humid room.

After they walked all the way down the hallway again they headed upstairs to the Skywalkers Club. When they got up and into the club, music was already blaring and teens were already busting their moves on the glass dance floor. Skyy beamed and quickly dragged her friends over to start dancing; they didn't spot the boys so they just started blending into he crowd of dancing people.

Soon though Tai, Matt, and Izzy met them up on the dance floor and they all found a bunch of chairs to sit at. Soon the teen supervisor woman from the night before stopped the music again and announced the beginnings of a battle of the sex's game. When Mimi and Skyy translated what she was saying they all eagerly got up and got into two groups. One with all the guys, and the others with all the girls.

Skyy, Sora and Mimi quickly met up with Sara, Hailey and Naomi. And from what Skyy saw, the guys had already found Aaron and Brandon.

The first part was the questionnaire. Most of the questions were pretty easy for the girls. There was a couple sports questions that, even though she didn't play sports, Skyy knew the answers to. There were a couple of other 'guy' questions as well that some of the other girls there knew the answers to.

The boys mostly got all beauty questions. Things like, what does a French manicure look like, and what do girls put on their pulse points. Both of which they didn't get even though the answers were easy. French manicures are clear nails with a white tip, and girls put perfume on their pulse points (neck and wrists). The girls had an easy victory with that game, and they all got little prizes. Skyy got a rubbery thing that when you tied one end of it to your finger and flicked it like a yo-yo it would stick to things. Skyy kept flicking it at Izzy until he accidentally ripped it and Skyy got a little angry with him.

After that it was another game involving balloons. They got into two lines and stood facing a bunch of balloons on the ground. Red balloons were for the girls, and blue balloons were for the boys. When it was their turn the first person in the line had to go get the right colored balloon and try and pop it. Once they popped it they had to get the piece of paper from inside it and do what the piece of paper told them to do. Mimi decided to stay near the guys so she could help Matt, Tai, and Izzy to read their papers.

Skyy's piece of paper said to do 3 yoga poses for 5 second each. It was a little embarrassing because she kept collapsing it fits of giggles. Tai had to run from one side of the club to the other two times. He ran really fast but he tripped over a chair and went flying which made everybody laugh. Sora had to do the chicken dance and Izzy had to act like a monkey. Mimi and Matt both had to try and do handstands. It was a lucky thing that Mimi chose tonight not to wear a skirt.

The game was really fun at it was awesome to see everyone do stupid things. Skyy got pictures of everyone doing there things and she got Sora to take pictures of her. At one point her camera got lost and when she got it back it turns out that everyone in the club randomly took a bunch of pictures with her camera. She looked through the pictures and laughed at all the silly poses people she didn't even know were doing.

The boys ended up winning that balloon round. The last round involved a spoon and string. The spoon was tied to string and they had to put it through all of their tops until they got to the last person. the spoon and to go through the top of the first persons shirt, then through the bottom on the next, then the top, and so on and so forth.

Skyy wished she had worn a sweater so she could've zipped it down until it was almost undone so then she wouldn't have to spend much time getting the spoon through her top. She ended up getting the spoon when you were supposed to put it up through the bottom of your shirt. When she put the spoon through her shirt hiked up a little bit and her stomach showed. Skyy felt someone looking at her but tried to ignore it.

After they all got the spoon through their shirts and were all linked buy the string they had to feed it back and out of their shirts. The girls were fast and won the competition. The female supervisor announced the girls as the winners and gave them some more little goodies. Skyy got a plastic top but it didn't spin very well so she chucked it to the other side of the room into a group of people. They all looked around to see where the top came from and Skyy turned her head to pretend it hadn't been her.

After the battle of the sex's game, not much else had been planned. The DJ started playing music again and soon people started dancing on the dance floor again. Other people got out board games again or were playing foosball/air hockey. There were a couple groups of people playing cards too; it looked like they were playing poker without any "real" bets.

Everyone ordered some cokes from the small bar, and once again, Jeremy ordered an alcoholic drink. Everyone was having their own little conversations so Skyy started getting a little bored. She was watching the people on the dance floor and suddenly stood up and took both of Sora and Mimi's wrists.

"Heey! C'mon let's go dance again! We didn't get to do it for very long last time!" Skyy said excitedly. Sora and Mimi smiled and put down their drinks.

"Yeah! Totally!" Sora squealed and all three of the girls waltzed over to the dance floor. They shimmied through to the middle of the crowd of people and began swaying to the beat of the song.

They hadn't been dancing for very long until Skyy noticed Sora and Mimi drifting away with light smiles on their faces. Skyy stopped dancing and gave them a confused look.

"Hey where are you guys going?" she asked them but suddenly an arm rapped around Skyy's waist from behind. Skyy smiled.

"Jeez! Tai let…" but when she turned around her voice stopped. Aaron looked down at her with a big smile on his face. Skyy's eyes widened and she started getting nervous.

"Hey there beautiful, wanna dance?" he said and he turned her around and held her hips firmly. His breath smelt like alcohol so Skyy started getting even more nervous. Skyy put her hands on his chest.

"Uh, sorry Aaron, not right now, I actually need to go find the guys," she said and lightly tried to push away. But Aaron held her tighter.

"Why? You can find them later, let's just dance, y'know, like last night," he said and brought her a little closer to him. Skyy tried pushing again. Jeez! Why did Sora and Mimi leave her alone with him!

"But I really need to go find them," she tried again. Aaron brought her even closer, wrapping his arms around her waist so that her chest was pressed up against his.

"No you don't," he said, his tone made it seem final. Skyy was seriously wishing that Tai was here, he'd be able to help get her out of this. She wanted to get away from this guy as soon as possible.

Aaron brought his face closer and it wasn't until his lips were an inch away from Skyy's did she realize what he was trying to do. She turned her head away, balled her hands into fists and pushed him away as hard as she could. His arms were so firm around her though that she didn't even get him to budge. Her head was screaming for her to run away but his grip was so tight. He tried kissing her again but she moved her head away again.

"Please! Aaron I need to go! Let me go!" she said, her voice was distressed.

"C'mon Skyy, I know you like me," Aaron whispered into her ear. He stuck his tongue out and licked her earlobe, and his hands wandered down to her butt and he squeezed. Skyy froze. Her voice came out in a yell.

"No! Stop!" she yelled. Suddenly a tanned colored hand came out of no where and grabbed Aaron's shoulder. The hand pulled him away with much force and Aaron's arms were ripped from Skyy's waist.

Skyy staggered backwards into another pair of arms. These arms were much gentler though. They rapped lightly around her waist from behind. Skyy looked behind her and saw Izzy glaring at Aaron with more hate than she had ever seen him have before.

What the hell do you think your doing?" Tai's voice was ice cold as he gripped Aaron's shoulder. Aaron frowned and yanked his shoulder from Tai's grip.

"What they hell is your problem dude? We were just dancing…" Aaron said. Even though he hadn't understood what Tai said, the way Tai was glaring at him gave him the right message. Tai guessed what he was saying by the way Aaron said it.

"You were forcing her to kiss you and you licked her you ass hole!" Tai snapped angrily. Aaron gave him a confused look. Skyy turned to look at the two boys.

"Tai! Stop it he doesn't understand you," Skyy said in Japanese. Tai growled.

"I don't care! He needs to keep his hands to himself!" Tai said.

"Whatever, c'mon Skyy, now that you've found your friends we can dance all night," Aaron said seductively and he moved closer to her. Izzy's grip tightened and Skyy stepped back.

"Dude, stay away from her!" Tai growled. Aaron looked at him.

"Aww, are you angry? C'mon there's no problem," Aaron said. He moved and wrapped his arms around Skyy's waist and tried taking her away from Izzy.

"H-hey! Wait!" Skyy whimpered and tried to move away from him. Izzy clenched his teeth and balled his fist, he raised it to go and punch Aaron but before he could hit him Tai yelled.

"I said stay away from her!" Tai yelled and he balled his fist and hit Aaron square in the face. Aaron fell to the floor like a rock and a couple girls screamed around them. Everyone backed away.

"Tai! Stop it!" Skyy yelled. Izzy lowered his arm and continued holding Skyy.

"Don't ever let me catch you touching Skyy again got it!" Tai yelled. Aaron was clutching his face and Tai grabbed the collar of his shirt and raised his fist to hit again.

"Taichi!" Skyy yelled. Tai hesitated when she yelled his full name.

"Just stop it!" Skyy said. Tai clenched his teeth and let go of Aaron's shirt, letting him drop to the floor. Tai stood up and glared at Aaron again.

"Hey! Hey break it up boys!" the women supervisor came. A couple of other staff came up as well and held on to Tai to stop him from doing anything more.

"We don't care if you guys go at it somewhere else but not here! Now get your acts together and get out!" the woman yelled. Skyy glared at Tai.

"You idiot! Now she's telling us to get out!" Skyy snapped in Japanese and walked away from Izzy, who let her go as soon as she moved away from him. She grabbed Izzy's hand though and dragged him with her. Izzy was surprised but held her hand firmly.

Tai and Aaron were both escorted out by the club staff. Sora, and Mimi both rushed up towards Skyy and Izzy as soon as they got off the dance floor. When Skyy explained what happened Sora and Mimi showered her with apologies for leaving them alone and said they wished they'd never left them. Izzy's hand twitched in Skyy's a couple times when she had said that Aaron licked her, tried to kiss her, and groped her butt. When Skyy asked where Matt was Sora explained that he went and followed Tai as soon as he saw him being escorted out. Brandon and gone too to follow his brother.

"We're so sorry! We were confused before because when we returned to everyone else Tai had asked where you were. When we said we left you with Aaron, him and Izzy left immediately," Mimi explained. Skyy just nodded.

"Well…I guess we're not hanging out with those two anymore…" Sora said, referring to Aaron and his brother, Brandon.

"It's a shame, Brandon's a cute kid, he's funny too…so unlike his brother it seems" Mimi said. Skyy didn't say anything. She stood clutching Izzy's hand. They all decided to leave and said goodbye to Hailey, Sara and Naomi. Once they got out they saw Tai and Matt leaning on the wall by the stairs with serious looking faces. When Tai saw Skyy he looked down at the floor.

When Skyy reached the two boys she stopped walking. Izzy looked at her. Her lip started trembling and she crouched down quickly and buried her face in her arms. She had let go of Izzy's hand but he instantly knelt down beside her. Tai straightened up when he saw her.

She wasn't crying, but when Izzy started rubbing her back he noticed she was shaking.

"Skyy..." Izzy mumbled.

"God...It may seem silly but I was so scared," she mumbled, her voice was shaking and it sounded like she'd start crying but she held it in. Izzy frowned and his eyes looked a little pained. He leaned his forehead on her head. Everyone else watched them silently.

"Me too…I've never wanted to punch someone so badly…he made me feel so indignant," Izzy said quietly. Skyy laughed lightly.

"Izzy? Punching someone? Ha ha, that'd be different…..but….thanks…for worrying about me," Skyy said and she lifted her head. Izzy smiled weakly at her and she wrapped her arms around his neck. He wrapped his arms around her back and they hugged silently. Mimi and Sora both blushed and turned so they couldn't see. They both gave each other little smiles of excitement. Tai and Matt both looked at the floor.

Skyy let go of Izzy and they both stood up. She looked over at Tai and walked over to him. She leaned and tilted her head too look at his face. She smiled at him and he raised his head. He folded his arms and pouted angrily, looking away from her again. Skyy ignored him and wrapped her arms around his shoulders as well.

"Thanks Tai…you were stupid, but you were worried about me, so thanks" Skyy mumbled. Tai sighed and hugged her back.

"Are you okay?" he asked. She let go of him and nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine now, though now that I think about it I totally could've kneed him in the nuts," she said, he smiled. Everyone still stood their quietly and Skyy rolled her eyes

"Gawd! You're so quiet! C'mon lets go do somethin…" Skyy said but she was interrupted by a loud yawn. After she yawned Sora and Izzy yawned too. Skyy didn't realize how tired she actually was. Skyy smiled.

"Okay never mind then… I'm tiired," she said and she rubbed her eyes. Izzy grinned at her. Tai ruffled her hair.

"Yeah, me too, how about we hit they hay?" he said lifting his arms and stretching.

"Yeah, surprisingly it's almost 1:00," Sora said looking down at her watch. Mimi gasped.

"Really! Then I'm going to bed! A girl needs sleep y'know!" she said. They all agreed to go to bed and headed down to their staterooms. They were quiet the whole way down, and when they got to their rooms they all gave little hugs goodbye and went into their separate rooms.

Skyy was the last girl in her room and as soon and she turned from the door Sora and Mimi bounced up to her with excited faces. Skyy raised an eyebrow.

"What's with you two?" she asked. Mimi squealed.

"You got another one Skyy!" she said. Skyy gave them a confused expression.

"Another letter!" Sora filled in. Skyy's eyes widened.

"What!" she gasped. Mimi handed her a folded up piece of paper that had her name scrawled on it in English.

"Read it! Read it!" Mimi said and both she and Sora crowded around the letter. Skyy cleared her throat and read the note aloud in Japanese so Sora could understand.

"They say opposites attract, do you think that's true? Signed X," she read. Skyy stared at the letter for a second.

"Darn! This doesn't give us any clues!" Mimi huffed and walked over to the vanity table.

"No it does, it says that this person's personality could possibly be the opposite of Skyy's," Sora said.

"So that's why he's asking her if she thinks opposites attract? To see if she'd like someone who's the opposite of her?" Mimi said.

"No…because he doesn't actually expect me to write back….does he?" Skyy asked. Sora shook her head.

"I don't think so, even though he's asking you a question I don't think you're meant to write back, just to think about it," she said. Skyy nodded and looked back down at the writing. Could Aaron really be sending these? She didn't ask him tonight…or she just didn't want to, afraid of his answer. She wondered if it was Aaron, would he still send these after what happened tonight.

"I guess he's gonna stop sending these now…" she said. Sora raised and eyebrow.

"Why do you think that?" she asked. Skyy shrugged.

"Well, Tai punched his face in tonight; you seriously think he's still going to go after me?" Skyy said. She folded up the letter and walked over to the nightstand where she kept her sketchbook. She was going to throw out the notes…if they were from Aaron she didn't want them.

"Oh, are you talking about Aaron? There not from him," Sora said. Skyy turned to give her a surprised look, Mimi looked over too.

"What? How do you know?" they both said at the same time. Sora grinned.

"Because I went up to the bar with him and Matt when we were getting drinks, and I saw him writing something down on a piece of paper, god forbid what he was writing, but I saw it. His writing is a lot messier than that, and he doesn't curve his y's like this guy does, and his a's look different too," Sora said pointing to the piece of paper in Skyy's hand. Skyy suddenly felt extremely relieved.

"Seriously? Oh my gosh! I'm soo glad!" Skyy said and she flopped down on her bed. She took out her sketchbook, and instead of throwing out the both notes, she hid the second note in with the first one.

"Yay! That means there is still a chance of it being a decent guy!" Mimi cheered.

"I wonder, maybe it could be Izzy?" Sora said, grinning widely. Skyy turned red.

"Huh? Why would it be Izzy?" she stammered whilst putting her sketchbook away.

"I don't know, he was just as worried as Tai was tonight about you, a little too worried for just a friend don't you think?" Sora asked. Skyy shook her head furiously.

"No way! Besides, Tai is just a friend, what's the difference?" Skyy said. She stood up and walked over to the drawers in the vanity table and started rummaging for her PJs.

"I guess…but still, there is a possibility," Sora said. Skyy shook her head again.

"No there isn't….Izzy can't speak or write perfect English…this guy can," Skyy mumbled. Sora frowned.

"Oh yeah…bummer, it would've been more exciting if it was Izzy," Sora huffed and started changing into her PJs as well. Skyy suddenly felt incredibly sad. 'Of course it's not Izzy…so don't get my hopes up; it's only gonna be worse for me to deal with in the end…' Skyy thought sadly.

Mimi watched her out of the corner of her eye.

"Skyy…come with me to get laundry okay?" she said. Skyy looked over at her and said okay. The two girls left to go to the laundry room and they quickly moved the washed clothes into a dryer. They walked back to the stateroom and Sora was already in bed. Mimi and Skyy quickly got changed and washed up and climbed into bed as well.

Skyy shut off the light and soon sleep enveloped her much sooner than she expected. All three girls' breathing became rhythmic as they fell into deep sleeps. Totally forgetting that tomorrow they docked at their first port, the wonderful and beautiful capital of Alaska, Juneau.

End – Day Four