Digimon Adventure 02 – Summer in Alaska
Day Five
Skyy's eyes fluttered open and they were greeted by darkness. The only light she could faintly see was the hallway light glowing from the crack in the door. She shifted from under her covers, relaxing in the warmth of the sheets. She glanced over at her watch on her nightstand and reached over to click the light on so she could see the time. It was 6:17 in the morning. Skyy smiled to herself, 'good, I get to sleep longer," she thought snuggling into her pillow.
Suddenly the shrill sound of the phone rang through the small stateroom and Skyy scrunched her face. Mimi shifted from her bunk bed and moaned.
"Skyy you get it!" she grumbled. Skyy sighed in annoyance and in a burst of energy sat up and pushed her covers up. If she moved slowly she'd just fall back and snuggle into the bed more. She walked over to the vanity table where the phone was. She picked up the receiver and answered in a sleepy voice.
"Hello?" she said. Tai's excited voice answered.
"Skyy! You have to come outside! It's amazing!" Tai said. Skyy frowned.
"Why?"
"There are whales out here! Come you guys have to come see them before they leave!" Tai said. Skyy perked up a little.
"Seriously? Whales...I'll ask the girls, one sec," Skyy put her hand over the receiver and turned to look at Sora and Mimi through the darkness.
"Hey guys, there are whales outside! Come check them out with me!" Skyy said. Sora made a muffled sound in her pillow which Skyy assumed was a "why?"
"Because! These are whales! When was the last time you saw a whale huh!" Skyy urged. She heard Mimi move in her bed.
"I'll come, but I'm not getting dressed, I'm wearing my housecoat," Mimi said sleepily as she climbed down the ladder and wandered over to the closet. Sora groaned in her pillow. Skyy frowned.
"Jeez I'll take it as a 'no' from Sora," Skyy shrugged and put the phone receiver back to her ear.
"Hey Tai, me and Meems are coming up, but, we just got out of bed," Skyy said with a 'that-means-you-don't-make-fun-got-it?' kind of tone.
"Ohh scary, we'll beware," Tai teased. Skyy rolled her eyes and snorted.
"Whatever, I've seen you when you wake up, your 10 times worse so you shouldn't be talking!" Skyy countered. Tai was silent.
"True….so we'll see you two soon then?" he asked.
"Yep, be up in two minuets, where are you?" Skyy asked. When Tai informed her they were on the deck that was one up from the pools, they said their goodbye's and hung up. Skyy quickly found her blanket that she brought with her from home and wrapped it around herself. She found her slippers, her camera and card key. She and Mimi sleepily got out of the room and Mimi was grumbling saying that the whales better be worth looking at. Skyy just laughed at her, despite her own sleepiness. They hobbled up one floor to the pool deck, then up one more floor to the deck that their friends were on.
It was a lot colder outside than it had been the day before. Not fridged or anything, just cooler. And it wasn't cold enough for snow, definitely not cold enough for snow. It was more like a cool, rainy, crisp kind of cold. Skyy's legs were bare and she shivered a little bit.
They both spotted Tai, Izzy and Matt leaning over the railing clicking pictures with their own cameras. They were also in their PJs.
"Yo boys! What's up?" Skyy asked when the boys got in hearing range. Matt looked over excitedly.
"Come! Come look at these whales!" he said. Skyy walked a bit faster and squidged in-between Tai and Izzy. Mimi stood beside Matt and Tai and Matt pointed out at the water with Mimi following the path of his finger with her eyes.
"Where are they?" Skyy said. Izzy grinned at her and wrapped his arm around her waist lightly. He pointed out at the sea like Matt was doing. Skyy blushed at his touch but followed the path of his finger. Then she saw a grey, smooth, wet looking tail slap the water and make a huge splash. Skyy gasped.
"Oh! There they are!" she said. Izzy smiled at her but when she looked at him he quickly looked over to the whales again.
There was about 3 or 4 whales out swimming about 10 miles away from the ship. There was two big ones, a medium sized one, and a smaller one. Every now and then a puff of mist would come up from their blowholes as they breathed for more air. Skyy immediately got her camera out and started taking pictures.
"Tai, let me take a picture, please?" Skyy heard Mimi say. She glanced over at the two. Tai grinned and gave Mimi the camera, she turned to take the picture and Tai watched her for a second. Just as she was about to click a picture he suddenly wrapped his arms around her and put his hands on top of hers on the camera. Mimi eep'd a little bit and blushed bright red as she felt his warm chest press up against her back as he leaned over her. He was so warm even though he was wearing a big rain coat over his PJs. Tai chuckled and raised her hands a little higher, bringing the camera up higher as well.
"Here, you're shaking the camera too much, you need to hold it still," Tai said smiling at her. She just nodded and clicked a picture just as a whale lifted its tail out of the water. Skyy grinned widely and held up her camera to the both of them.
"Say cheese you two!" she said and they both looked over and smiled, still in the same position. Tai was grinning widely, and somewhat triumphantly, and Mimi was smiling weakly with a bright red face.
Skyy smiled at her picture and turned towards Izzy. He looked over at her and she held up her camera.
"Cheese!" she said and clicked a picture. Izzy frowned.
"Jeez…I'm starting to think that telling you not to take pictures by surprise is just a lost cause," He sighed.
"That's because it is," Skyy grinned. Izzy couldn't help but smile back.
"Heey, your nose is red" Skyy chuckled and poked the tip of his nose. Izzy scrunched his nose.
"Well it's cold out heeere," he whined. "How about you? Aren't you cold? You've just got shorts on," Izzy said looking down at her bare legs. Skyy looked at them as well and felt her fingers.
"Yeah I'm a little cold, here feel my fingers!" she said and she held her palm against his cheek. Izzy was startled a bit because she touched his face so suddenly; he blushed bright red just as Mimi had done.
"Holy! Your fingers are like icicles! How did they get cold that rapidly?" Izzy said, shivering at her touch. Skyy gasped.
"Heey! Your face is so warm!" she said and held up her other hand to his other cheek. Izzy blushed a little bit more and held his hands over hers.
"Is it really? Ha ha that's weird," Izzy said nervously. Skyy smiled up at him. Tai arched over and gave the two of them an odd look.
"What are you two doing?" he asked. Izzy glanced at him but then looked back down to Skyy. Skyy grinned and turned slightly to face Tai, still keeping her hands on Izzy's cheeks though.
"He's warming my hands!" she said happily. Tai grinned and raised an eyebrow.
"I see …did you get any good pictures?" he said to Skyy. Skyy nodded.
"Yeah! Some really good ones of their tails and backs, I even got some of the splashes!" Skyy said. Izzy smiled down at her even though she wasn't looking at him.
"Well good for you, Mimi here unfortunately isn't that great of a photographer and totally wasted all my pictures," Tai said sarcastically and Mimi turned to face him.
"Hey! Don't you say that! You helped me take them so you're half to blame!" Mimi said hitting him playfully. Skyy smiled at the two of them. Tai restrained her arms and she huffed, giving up against his strength. Tai chuckled and she turned her back to him, leaning on the railing. He leaned beside her and whispered something into her ear. She blushed and Tai grinned to himself, looking up and out to the sea. Skyy raised and eyebrow. Well…he certainly was making moves on her…more than usual, and more and more frequent. He already flirted with her three times already since they'd been here. Skyy's chest felt warm when she thought of Tai and Mimi being together. She hoped Tai would like Mimi real soon so they could get together. But he couldn't possibly have fallen for her yet…he would've told her right away, just as she had done to him when she figured out she liked Izzy.
She turned to face Izzy and was slightly surprised to see his eyes closed. He still had his hands over hers, which were still on his face.
"Hey, Iz?" she said, he opened his eyes.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Why were your eyes closed?" she asked. Izzy just shrugged.
"Nothing, your hands are just really soft, it's soothing," he said closing his eyes again. She rose and eyebrow.
"Seriously?" she asked, he nodded.
"Wow….those hand creams that Sora gave me actually work…who knew," She mumbled. Izzy grinned and opened his eyes. He let go of her hands and wrapped his arms around her back, hugging her.
"Jeez! You're too cute for a tomboy!" he said digging his face into the crook of her neck. Skyy blushed more than she ever remembered blushing before.
"Wh-wh-what? Izzy what are you saying?" She stuttered. Izzy chuckled and let her go, holding her shoulders at arms length.
"Ha ha! I caused you to be nervous didn't I?" he said slyly. Skyy blushed deeper, if it was even possible.
"N-no!" she snapped. He grinned wider.
"But you're stuttering and your face is all red, the physical signs prove that-"
"Shut up!" Skyy huffed and turned away from him to lean on the railing and look at the sea and whales again. Izzy smiled and wrapped his arm around her waist again.
Skyy couldn't believe it…why was he acting all couple-y with her all of a sudden? Holding her waist, hugging her, telling her she was cute. It wasn't extreme couple behavior…but he didn't usually do this kind of thing…in fact he never did. Usually it was Tai who did those things to her, except for holding her waist, and he all meant it in a brotherly way. Not that she was really complaining or anything that Izzy was acting this way. She relaxed at Izzy's warm touch and became entranced with the view of the sun rising and the whales swimming further away.
When Izzy noticed Skyy's finger tips getting red from the cold he unwrapped the scarf he had around his neck and wrapped up her hands. She laughed at him but she didn't take off the scarf . He resumed holding her waist until Matt made a sly comment about it and Izzy got embarrassed. Skyy was a little disappointed but even though Izzy wasn't holding her waist anymore he always remained in physical contact with her with their shoulders or arms always touching each other.
Soon the 5 of them left after they couldn't see the whales anymore. It was around 7:21 and they were all pretty wide awake now. Skyy didn't think she would've been able to go back to sleep. However they all went back to their rooms to get washed up and changed into some normal clothes and out of their PJs.
Sora was still sleeping when Mimi and Skyy walked back into the stateroom. Skyy quickly picked out some clothes whilst Mimi hopped in the shower. Skyy tried to be quiet when she moved around, making sure not to wake Sora.
Once Mimi was out of the shower Skyy jumped in, once she washed herself quickly she got out and dried herself off. When she got out she started blow drying her hair. Mimi was singing some sort of song as she got ready so Skyy didn't bother being quiet for Sora's sake because Mimi had probably already woken her up with her singing.
Skyy then got dressed after finishing her hair, which she just left down. She put on a long-sleeved blue shirt with a shorter long sleeved sweater-like shirt over top that stopped just under her chest. It had little black strings crisscrossing in the front. She wore long jeans with fashionable rips in them. And lastly she put on a white cap with a black stripe going around the rim.
Skyy finished getting ready early, like she usually did, and sat on her bed clicking through all of the pictures she had taken on her camera so far. She laughed at some and smiled at others. She sighed loudly when she reached then end.
"Can you believe I've already taken more than 300 pictures?" she said. Mimi paused as she came out of the bathroom with some bobby pins stuck in her mouth and her hand holding up her hair.
"Actually, no it's not hard to believe, you take pictures of absolutely everything!" Mimi chuckled. Skyy smiled. Just then the ding dong sounded through the ship and the intercom came on.
"Hello this is your Captain speaking from the Brig. Today is a beautiful day and we've just docked onto the lovely shores of Juneau, Alaska. It is a little foggy outside but nonetheless beautiful. Tours will be waiting for passengers outside on the pier, and passengers will be able to begin getting off the boat in about 30 or 40 minuets. We hope you have a pleasant day on board the Golden Princess and a marvelous time here at Juneau," the British captain's voice echoed throughout the ship.
"Hmm we should wear our raincoats then…" Skyy said, getting up from her bed and putting her camera back in its case. Mimi nodded as she stuck the rest of the bobby pins that were in her mouth into her hair. Her hair was in a high ponytail with her bangs scraped back and bumped up a little bit.
Weird, they had docked; But Skyy never felt the ship stop moving at all. Then it suddenly hit her how smooth the ship was sailing this morning, the exact opposite of the morning before. The ship had gone back to the same barely noticeable rocking that it had been like on the first night.
Skyy went and grabbed her white raincoat just as Mimi was finishing up her last minute make-up touches. Sora got up soon after Mimi finished getting ready and she wandered into the shower telling them not to wait for her.
Skyy and Mimi decided to go up to the buffet and get some breakfast. Both of their stomachs were growling and once they had food on the brain they didn't want anything else. They chatted all they way up to the buffet. Okay it was mostly Mimi gushing about how Tai was 'hugging' her whilst she was taking pictures. She also told Skyy what Tai had whispered to her.
"'You're kinda cute when you're angry' he said! Man! It was so awesome! Do you think he likes me! Has he told you anything?" Mimi asked excitedly. Skyy grinned and shrugged.
"Honestly, he hasn't told me anything, and I'm not sure, but I'm happy to hear that you're all happy about this," Skyy said. Mimi beamed.
"Ohh! I hope he likes me! That would be great!" Mimi swooned. Skyy smiled and rolled her eyes.
"I'm really happy for you Meems, If he tells me anything today I'll let you know, he usually tells me that kind of stuff," Skyy said Mimi squealed. Actually Skyy was most likely not going to tell Mimi if Tai said anything to her. She wouldn't want to betray her best friend's words but the promise slipped out of her mouth before Skyy could take it back.
"Yay! Thanks Skyy! Anyway, I saw you and Izzy!" Mimi said slyly. Skyy tried to refrain from blushing.
"Huh? What are you talking about?" she acted surprised, she was good at it.
"I saw you guys hugging! And you had your hands on his face! And he was holding them there! It was soo cute!" Mimi gushed. Skyy raised an eyebrow and gave her a confused look.
"So what? Lots of guys hug me, Matt, T.K., Tai, Cody, even Davis hugged me once," Skyy explained, "and I only had my hands on his face because his face was warm, and my hands were cold, he was like the perfect heater."
"Uggh, whatever! I thought it was cute, maybe you two should hook up?" Mimi said, her eyes were practically sparkling with excitement. Skyy looked away nervously, a blush daring to creep onto her cheeks.
"But...ughh…well," Skyy mumbled fidgeting with her hands, but then Mimi groaned.
"Oh yeah! I forgot you like someone…daaarn," Mimi frowned angrily. Skyy mentally sighed in relief. Thank goodness she didn't push the subject. She'd tell her about her liking Izzy in due time…just not yet.
As soon as they walked through the doors to the pool deck did Skyy finally get her first view of Juneau. Skyy gasped when she saw the view.
On the entire right side of the ship was a wall of rich green trees. Fog drifted in-between the branches and a low cloud covered the sky so you couldn't see any higher. The air smelt incredibly fresh and wet. The pier was right beside a large mountain that was covered with the trees; they looked so close to the ship. Skyy took out her camera and took pictures of the trees in contrast with the whiteness of the ship. There was a fresh layer of rain on the deck and all the chairs and tables. It must've rained whilst they were down getting ready.
"Wow! It's so pretty!" Skyy gasped. Mimi nodded.
"Yeah! It's like something from the movie Twilight!" Mimi said in awe. Skyy scrunched her nose. She didn't really like that movie much…the guy who played the main character was ugly, when the character was supposed to be breathtakingly handsome, like a Greek god. Sora and Mimi really liked the movie though.
"Okay we're going…you just ruined the view for me…" Skyy said sarcastically. Mimi rolled her eyes and followed as Skyy marched over to the buffet entrance. All of her friends new she hated two movies with a fiery passion, Twilight, and High School Musical. They were cheesy and she just hated them. Everyone loved them, she hated them, there was no budging her opinion and her friends knew that. Why they were so incredibly popular in America blew her mind.
When they crossed the pool deck and into the buffet the guys were already sat down and eating food, like the day before. Mimi and Skyy said quick hellos and left to go get there own food.
Once the girls came back with there food they sat down and happily chatted with the boys until Sora came up. She had come up a good half and hour later but nonetheless her friends waited for her to get food and eat. Izzy decided to go get some hot chocolate that was only served in the mornings. Skyy, and Matt volunteered to go with him and they came back with hot mugs for everyone.
Soon the ship's intercom came on again and the captain announced that passengers could start leaving the ship. Matt suggested walking around for a while first so Sora wouldn't feel all bloated and full of food when they got off the ship. Izzy also predicted that there would be a huge crowd of people getting off right away...and that would be troublesome to get through. They all agreed and when Sora finished eating they got up and wandered out to the pool again.
Skyy stared in awe at the view again. The trees and the fog together…they just looked magical and full of secrets. Skyy blushed when she thought how silly her opinion was. She held her mug of hot chocolate tight in her hands. It was warming her fingers like Izzy's face had been doing earlier that morning.
"Hey! Let's take some pictures with this view!" Tai said getting everyone's attention. Skyy smiled and got out her camera. As everyone got into funny poses she held up the camera to take a picture. Tai frowned.
"Skyy! No you have to be in the picture with us!" Tai whined, "Give the camera to someone!"
"Oh! Uhh, okay," Skyy said and she quickly found someone to take a picture. She quickly scurried over to her friends and Tai scooted over, leaving a space for her. They all made peace signs and the man that Skyy gave her camera to laughed and clicked the picture.
After they got their pictures taken they went down to the Piazza to get in line and get off the boat. Skyy could see all the passengers on the pier and was itching to go out and shop and stretch her legs.
Juneau was truly a beautiful place. All of the shops along the main street were somewhat older, and all were individually unique. The 6 friends decided to take a wander around the shops before deciding what exactly they wanted to do that day. They went in one store that just had a bunch of random souvenirs from dolls, to card decks, to knives, and head ornaments.
They eventually got bored looking at all of the cheap stuff and headed out of that store. Then Matt found a store that specialized in gun and knife making, they went in and Skyy eep'd when she saw all of the stuffed animal heads decorating the walls. Mimi commented on how disgusting they were. The knives were pretty cool though, they had very intricately carved handles. Matt saw a big one and said how cool it looked, so one of the shop keepers came over right away and started asking him if he was interested. Mimi started translating for them and then both boys started chatting about hunting and such. When Skyy heard the shop keeper say that if he saw a big grizzly bear he would be "glad to shoot its head off" she quickly urged the others to leave and they headed out of the store. Damn Americans…always with the hunting and shameless killing of animals, it freaked Skyy out. Though, she was Japanese, and the Japanese weren't well known for their "kindness" to animals – so she shouldn't be talking.
Sadly most of the other stores were all selling the same souvenirs and so the 6 teens just started walking around instead of actually going in the stores. Just then Tai stopped in front of a restaurant. The restaurant had loud cheery piano music leaking from its doors. The outside was made to look like an old cavern type restaurant. The doors where the half-sized- shutter type doors that you'd see in a cowboy movie or something and it had large moose antlers above the name of the restaurant. Skyy clicked a picture of the building that looked like a blast from the past.
"What's up Tai? You want to go in?" she asked as Tai stared through the doors to the inside of the restaurant. The others stopped walking as well.
"I smell chicken fingers," Tai said and disappeared through the doors. Skyy raised an eyebrow and Matt laughed.
"Well, I guess that means we're stopping for a lunch break," Matt said and they all followed Tai through the doors. When Skyy saw the inside she couldn't help but smile. It was just as much a blast from the past on the inside as it was from the outside. The floor was covered in sawdust and large chandeliers made from tree branches hung from the ceiling. There were old style sleds, guns, clothing and dead stuffed animal heads on the walls like bears and deer. There was a long bar on one side that covered the whole wall. It was filled with all types of beers, whiskies, and ale. In one corner there was a small piano with a man happily slamming on the keys as he created a very cheery and bouncy song that suited the whole air to the cavern. The restaurant was a little dimly lit, like a pub, but it suited the atmosphere.
They all sat at a table that would fit the six of them. After the waiter came and got their drink orders Skyy skipped off to take pictures of the restaurant. Her parents would be in awe when she told them she had eaten in a place this amazing.
They all ordered rounds of fish and chips and chicken fingers and chatted happily over the sound of the piano. Soon though they had all gotten full and Mimi and Skyy helped pay for the check. Skyy did one more look around before they all headed out of the restaurant. As they started walking down the street again Sora looked at her watch.
"So what do we want to do now, we don't have any tours scheduled for today….so what should we do?" she asked.
"How much time do we have before the ship leaves?" Skyy asked.
"About 5 hours," Sora said.
"Actually, we guys were talking about it last night; do you guys want to check out Mendenhall Glacier?" Matt asked. Skyy perked up.
"Ohh! A Glacier! Ya I wanna go!" Skyy said bouncing up and down.
"I'm in, but how do we get there?" Mimi asked. She was hugging her shoulders to keep out the cold.
"Well, Izzy looked it all up and found out that the local bus can get us there," Tai said. Sora smiled.
"So! We're off to the bus stop then?"
When the bus reached its stop the 6 teens and some other passengers got off. They were a lot further from the Glacier than they'd hoped they'd be. They all ended up having to walk about 2 miles to get to the reserve center beside the glacier. By the time they reached the viewing point Skyy's legs were cramping up. Mimi of course had complained the whole way, but as much as she wanted to Skyy kept her complaints in her head. They knew they had reached the Glacier because they saw tonnes of tour busses on the side of the road and mobs of people in separate tours being led by tour guides. They pushed through all the tourists and found one of the view points that was just on the edge of a small cliff that looked out to the glacier. Skyy got out her camera and started clicking pictures. Her friends all gasped in awe at the giant glacier.
The Mendenhall Glacier was a huge slab of ice that sat between two mountains. At the foot of the glacier was a small lake that had fallen ice bergs floating off. The ice was a brilliant white except for the icebergs that had streaks of electric blue in them. There was also a waterfall coming down one of the mountains beside the glacier. When Skyy noticed people wandering around at the foot of the waterfall on a small beach she persuaded everyone to go down and check it out with her. They had to hike for a while again to get down to the waterfall. But when they got down they all spread out to explore.
Skyy took some pictures then skipped over to the edge of the lake. The water was incredibly clear and there were some odd small chunks of ice floating not too far from the edge of the water. Skyy touched the water with her fingers and shivered at how cold it was. She withdrew her hand and quickly tried to warm it up.
"Ha ha, its cold isn't it?" Izzy's voice said from behind her. Skyy jumped and looked back at him.
"Woah! Jeez you scared me! I didn't know you were there!" she said. Izzy grinned and knelt down beside her.
"Oops, my apologies," he said. Skyy punched him lightly. Izzy chuckled; he looked down at her hands. She was rubbing them together to get some heat from the friction. He took her hands in his and cupped them around her fingers. He slowly breathed some hot air onto her fingers and rubbed them together. Skyy blushed and couldn't help but notice how much bigger and wider Izzy's hands were compared to hers.
"You seriously need to get some gloves or I'm going to have to continue warming up your fingers like this," Izzy said smiling. Skyy smiled back.
"I don't mind you warming them," she mumbled, but Izzy caught her words and blushed slightly. He kept hold of her fingers but turned and looked out to the lake and gazed at all the floating ice bergs that had fallen off of the gigantic glacier. Skyy looked at him from the corner of her eyes. She smiled. She withdrew one of her hands from his and poked his cheek with her index finger. Izzy moved away from her finger.
"Heey what was that for?" he whined. Skyy laughed and put her hand back into his.
"It's mesmerizing isn't it? The scenery I mean," she said and she turned to look out at the lake as well. Izzy smiled back at her though she didn't see him.
"Yeah…it is," he mumbled. The both looked in silence before an unfamiliar voice spoke out to them.
"Skyy? Skyy Tsutsumi? Is that you?" a voice asked in English, but pronounced Skyy's name with an accent. Skyy's eye's widened and she turned around.
"That voice..." she said and Izzy turned around as well. A strikingly handsome boy stood behind them. He was clearly Asian but oddly enough had short blonde hair that was sticking out at odd angles from under his woolen cap. The boy smiled a brightly, showing off perfect white teeth.
"Skyy! I knew it was you! I can't believe you're here!" the boy said excitedly, his eyes lighting up. Izzy suddenly felt the boil of jealousy bubble up in his stomach and he stood up protectively, letting go of Skyy's hands.
"Hey, how do you know Sk –" but he was cut off and Skyy stood up and ran for the boy.
"Oh my gosh! Jeremy is that you!" Skyy squealed in English and she opened her arms and hugged the boy, who returned the hug. Izzy frowned and glared at the boy. How did she know him? Where did he come from? How come he never knew about this guy?
It didn't get any better when they both broke out into Korean. Izzy was shocked; he didn't even know that Skyy knew Korean. She hadn't told anyone that she knew more than just Japanese and English. Izzy started feeling like a third wheel and unbelievably bothered by this surprise relationship Skyy had with this good looking guy he had never met before. They were chatting for a couple minuets and Izzy huffed and crossed his arms. Skyy suddenly noticed Izzy's presence again because she turned to Izzy and returned to speaking Japanese.
"Oh! Izzy I'm so sorry, I forgot, this is Jeremy Lee!" she said as she introduced the boy. Izzy didn't greet him back.
"This is Izzy Izumi," Skyy introduced him because he obviously wasn't going to do it himself. Jeremy nodded.
"Is he your boyfriend?" Jeremy winked to Skyy. Both she and Izzy blushed bright red.
"Uhh, no he's just a friend!" Skyy said, "We're here with a bunch of our friends."
Izzy wanted to say so badly that he was her boyfriend…but Skyy would get upset with him so he kept his mouth shut. Also he wasn't her boyfriend so he'd be lying to a complete stranger.
"So, what is he to you?" Izzy said with a bit of annoyance in his voice and he jutted his chin towards Jeremy's direction. Skyy ignored his tone and continued on happily.
"He went to the same school I went to when I lived in Canada! He grew up in Britain, then moved to Korea for a couple years, then came to Canada. We were close friends before I moved back to Japan," Skyy explained.
"What do you mean? we're still good friends!" Jeremy said in Japanese. Skyy turned to him.
"Hey! You're speaking Japanese so well now! You've definitely gotten better since I last saw you!" Skyy said. Jeremy chuckled.
"Naah, my girlfriend loves the Japanese culture which made me want to finish learning it even more," Jeremy explained. Izzy perked up when Jeremy mentioned he had a girlfriend. Skyy gasped again.
"You have a girlfriend! Since when? Who is she? How old is she? Does she go to your school?" Skyy said. Jeremy laughed.
"Her name is Crista. Here I have a picture of us together, she's so cute!" Jeremy said and suddenly started digging in his pockets. He took out his wallet and slipped out a small picture. Skyy took it and aww'd when she saw it. Izzy shuffled over and peeked to look at the picture.
It was a picture of a very cute Caucasian girl with dark blonde hair. She had brown eyes and was making a peace sign whilst smiling. Jeremy was beside her and kissing her temple.
"She's so pretty Jeremy! But I thought you liked older girls? She looks younger than you…" Skyy said looking at the girl more closely. Jeremy scratched the back of his head.
"Yeaah, she's actually 17 years old," Jeremy said. Skyy's eyes widened.
"What? That young? But you're what, 19 now? I could've sworn you didn't like younger girls," Skyy said. Jeremy blushed and shrugged.
"Yeah well I don't usually, but she…I don't know it's just different with her. She's pretty mature…but not mature, and she's really nice and funny and easy to talk to, and she's learning Korean for me," Jeremy said with a dreamy look in his eyes. Skyy raised and eyebrow and smiled.
"How come you didn't tell us you knew Korean Skyy?" Izzy asked. Skyy looked at him.
"Oh…I don't know, the subject never came up…I learned it when I went to Canada, it was actually because of this guy I learned it," Skyy explained pointing to Jeremy, who grinned widely. Izzy nodded. Skyy turned and looked back to Jeremy.
"So wait, if she's 16, how can you go to the same school?" Skyy asked.
"I stayed back a year because there was some courses I didn't get to take that I wanted to," Jeremy said. Skyy smirked.
"And I bet you just wanted to stay with Crista for longer huh?" she said and she elbowed Jeremy lightly. Jeremy blushed.
"Yeah that too…" Jeremy muttered. Izzy smiled. Great! This was great! This guy had a girlfriend; he had nothing to worry about. There was no way this guy was going to make moves on Skyy whilst they were here. He was so obviously in love with his girlfriend back home. Izzy's past jealousy was still there, but had calmed down a great deal. It bugged him a little bit that Skyy was close friends with such a handsome guy before she had met him though, but it was the same way with Tai too. Except for the handsome part. Tai had known her since she was 11 so he beat the pants of both Izzy and Jeremy.
"So where are you staying? You're on vacation I assume," Skyy asked the handsome Korean boy.
"I'm here on a cruise actually," Jeremy said. Izzy glanced over to the boy, his smile faltering. Skyy's smile got wider.
"So are we! Which cruise line are you on?" she asked.
"Princess Cruises, we're on the Golden Princess," Jeremy said. Izzy mentally slapped his forehead as his jealousy rose again. Skyy bounced up and down.
"Seriously! That's the same ship we're on! How come we haven't seen each other before?" Skyy squealed. Izzy grumbled to himself but neither Jeremy nor Skyy noticed. Jeremy's face lit up.
"No way! That's great! I'm here with my family so I'm always following them around or taking care of my sister. That's them over there," Jeremy turned and pointed to a group of three people standing a little ways away. There was a cute little girl with a pink raincoat on standing with a couple. When the family noticed them both Skyy and Jeremy waved giddily.
"Ohh! She's so big now! Your sister is still soo cute!" Skyy said. Jeremy smiled. Just then Sora, Matt, Mimi and Tai walked up to the three of them. Matt was holding a rather large chunk of ice and he looked at Jeremy, not recognizing him. Tai rose and eyebrow when he saw Skyy and Jeremy talking so familiarly with each other.
"Who's this?" Tai said. Skyy bounced up and down.
"This is Jeremy! He is one of my good friends from Canada! He went to my school!" she said happily. Jeremy grinned, showing off his teeth.
"Pleasure to meet you," he said. Both Mimi and Sora blushed at Jeremy's good looks. Tai noticed Izzy's discomfort and smiled mentally. It seemed maybe Izzy had some competition?
"And guess what! He's on our cruise ship! We have to let him hang with us! He's all by himself so we need to show him a good time!" Skyy said. Mimi and Sora nodded furiously and quickly huddled up to shake Jeremy's hand and introduce themselves. Matt and Tai gave him slight glares. Now they knew how Izzy was feeling.
"Hey, hey, back off girls, he's got a girlfriend," Skyy said smirking at her two female friends. Mimi and Sora pouted and Jeremy laughed nervously. Tai and Matt perked up a little at this statement. Skyy had said it not only to get Mimi and Sora's prying eyes off of her friend, but to ease both Tai and Matt's minds. It was only then when Skyy actually noticed the chunk of ice that Matt was struggling to hold onto.
"Wow! Matt where did you get that?" she asked and skipped over to him to look at the ice. Matt grinned.
"I found it just on the shore over there, I thought you'd like to take some pictures with it," he said and he lifted his knee to push the ice up higher because it was slipping from his hands. Skyy grinned.
"Maan you know me well, I want pictures of everyone with it!" she said. Tai rolled his eyes. She took individual pictures of all of them with the ice; she even forced Jeremy to take one. Skyy scolded Tai when he held the block of ice up above his head saying he'd die if it slipped through his hands. He just ignored her of course. Mimi didn't want to hold the "dirty" ice so she just put it on the ground and crouched beside it. Jeremy hugged the ice and smiled like he was hugging a teddy bear which made Skyy laugh at him before taking the photo. Skyy gave her camera to Sora so she could take a picture of her holding the ice. Skyy stuck her tongue out a pretended to lick the ice. Sora laughed as she clicked the picture.
"Wow Skyy, you've got a Gene Simmons tongue," Sora laughed when she gave Skyy back her camera. Skyy frowned.
"Shut up it's not that long, now! Everyone get together!" she said and everyone sighed and stood in a huddle. Skyy looked around for someone to take the picture.
"Here let me take it," Jeremy offered. Skyy shook her head.
"No way man! You're gonna be in this picture whether you like it or not, go get your mom or something so she can take a picture of all of us," Skyy said. Jeremy sighed and rolled his eyes, but he was grinning regardless. He jogged over and spoke with his mother for a second before they both made their way back. Skyy and Jeremy's mom exchanged quick hellos and Skyy gave the woman her camera. Skyy dragged Jeremy into the middle of the huddle. Jeremy smiled and put his arm around Skyy's shoulders and they all put up peace signs as Jeremy's mom took the picture.
After they all got tired of looking around they decided it was time to head back to the ship. Jeremy left with them, saying goodbye to his family and that he would meet them on the ship later. Skyy and Jeremy chatted the entire way back to the bus stop, and on the bus, and on the way back to the ship. Izzy watched them with jealous eyes but kept quiet.
Why was she giving this guy all of her attention now…sure they haven't seen each other in a couple years…but still. Just last night she was holding his hand, and giving him hugs. Even this morning she was with him most of the time, and giving him her attention. And just a while ago they were sort of holding hands, and she said that she wanted him to hold her hands. Not that this guy was particularly competition, but he was competition for her attention. Izzy wasn't worried about her falling for the guy, she was so happy when she found out he had a girlfriend that there was no way she was interested. But….he was very good looking…and seemed to be a cool guy. What if she started liking him despite his girlfriend? Izzy's jealously returned with a fiery passion. Now he had another guy to worry about besides Tai. Sometimes he didn't like that Skyy was so well liked by guys, but hey…wasn't that how he fell for her in the first place?
When they boarded the ship again they all decided to get some food. They were all hungry and hadn't eaten since lunch, which was about 4 hours ago. They went to the buffet and got a seat besides the windows. They could see down to the docks and the edge of the mountain which was greeted by clear waters. In the middle of eating Mimi cried out saying that she saw something in the water. They watched the water intently for about a minute before Jeremy recognized a small seal dipping up for air once in a while. Skyy was the last one to finally see it. Tai was calling her stupid because it took her so long to find the seal, Skyy replied with flicking Tai's head quite fiercely. Skyy got excited seeing some more wildlife though. She decided to name the seal Slick and kept watching it from the corner of her eyes whilst she was eating. Only until it never came up for air again, or she just didn't see it anymore, did she pronounce him dead and stop watching the water.
When they were all full they realized that it was already 7:30 and they had missed the beginning of dinner. They decided to split up and get ready to change and go up to the teen center. Jeremy left to go call his girlfriend, he called her every night. Skyy told him where to go to get to Skywalkers and Jeremy agreed to meet them there later. Skyy was a little iffy about going up there, just in case Aaron showed up. She just was mentally praying that he wouldn't be there. It seemed Tai and Izzy were on edge too because she could've sworn them talking in hushed tones, and she distinctively heard the name Aaron in their words as they turned into their stateroom.
As the girls entered their own stateroom Sora and Mimi began drilling Skyy with questions about Jeremy.
"How long have you two known each other?" Sora asked. Skyy shrugged.
"Well, I met him in middle school, I was sitting in the hallway alone and he just approached me. I was kind of upset and he noticed it because he immediately tried to cheer me up and he took me out to lunch. We talked a lot and soon just became good friends," Skyy said with a far off look in her eyes. Mimi smiled wide.
"So you liked him?" she asked. Skyy blushed lightly. They all spread out and started picking out clothes to wear.
"Well yeah! I mean he was totally hot and he was being really nice to me, not to mention he was older," Skyy said. Mimi grinned.
"Thought so, so did anything happen?" Mimi asked. Sora leaned in close too, eager for the answer. Skyy cocked her head.
"Well I confessed to him one day, he didn't seem fazed at all. He agreed to go out with me but somehow I can hardly call it dating. I mean we didn't act any differently besides holding hands. We never kissed but he'd walk me home and we'd go out on dates and stuff. Then when I need to move back to Japan we broke up smoothly and decided to stay friends," Skyy explained.
"That's boring," Sora sniffed. Skyy nodded.
"It was, I think we only agreed to date each other because we were already close friends and somehow it seemed natural, and everyone else at school assumed we were dating so we just made it official," Skyy shrugged.
"So why does he have blonde hair?" Sora asked. Skyy laughed.
"Gaawd, that dude has had sooo many hairstyles it's not even funny! When I first met him his hair was longer, to his shoulders, and it was brown. That's his natural hair color. Then about three months later he cut it short and dyed it black. Then in the beginning of our next school year his hair was even shorter but with long bangs, and it was red! Then near the end of that school year his hair grew out a bit, it was still short though, and he had dyed it blonde. I guess if it's still blonde he must like it that way," Skyy said. Mimi gawked.
"Wow, he's dyed his hair more colors than I have mine," she said.
"At least he hasn't dyed it pink like you have!" Sora said. Skyy smiled.
"Thank god for that!" she laughed.
"He looks really good as a blonde though, like it really suits him! Kinda like blonde suits you Skyy. I can't even imagine seeing you with your natural hair color," Sora laughed. Skyy shrugged.
"That's because you've never seen my natural hair color. No one has, not even Tai! Me and my sis loved being blonde so we kept dying it so our natural hair color would never show again," Skyy explained. Sora nodded.
"So what are his hobbies?" Mimi asked. Skyy rolled her eyes.
"Jeez what are you? He'd be totally creeped out if he found out you guys wanted to know so much about him," Skyy smirked. Sora and Mimi shrugged.
"Hey, he's a hottie, we want to know!" Sora said.
"Well, he's pretty smart, oh! He's an extremely good singer! He's in a band, it's called F.T. Island and he told me that they already have an album out, it's been released in Korean though so it's probably only available in Korea…" Skyy said. Mimi and Sora grinned.
"Man! A band? That's soo hot! And he sings!" Sora gushed. Skyy raised and eyebrow.
"So? Matt's in a band and he sings," Skyy said looking at Sora. Sora shrugged.
"Yeah, but Matt doesn't have an album out," Sora winked.
"We definitely have to get him to do karaoke one night!" Mimi squealed referring to Jeremy. Skyy sighed. Her friends were weird…though she kinda wanted to hear Jeremy sing again.
They asked more questions as they got changed into different clothes. So much that it was making Skyy annoyed with them. She ended up telling them every single detail she ever knew about Jeremy. She mentally apologized to him for telling them so much when he didn't know her friends that well.
Skyy wore a large purple tank top that was baggy and reached her mid thighs at the bottom, but hugged her figure near her chest and shoulders. She wore some black hand-gloves that had her fingers poking out holes. She wore some black leggings that went to her knees and she wore some purple sandal heals on her feet. She wore some long silver necklaces and small black stub earrings. She decided to leave her down with no clips or hats or headbands in it.
Skyy was done getting ready first, considering she wasn't putting on extra make-up or doing her hair, which Mimi and Sora were. Sora was putting her hair up in some kind of intricate bun thing, and Mimi was curling her hair, and putting on some colorful make-up. As Skyy waited the phone suddenly rang. Skyy got up and answered.
"Hello?" she asked in Japanese.
"Skyy? Oh whew, it's you! I was worried Mimi would answer the phone," Tai's voice came from the other end. Sky raised an eyebrow.
"What? Why would it matter if Mimi answered?" Skyy said a little hushed, she assumed Tai wouldn't want Mimi to overhear the conversation. She stretched the phone cord over to her bed and lay down on her stomach.
"Ohh, uh, it's just she's gonna get surprised tonight…so I didn't want her finding out," Tai said nervously. Skyy furrowed her eyebrows. What was he going to do?
"What do you mean surprised?" she asked.
"Maan I want to tell you soo bad, and usually I would tell you this sort of thing because you'd do the same to me. But in this case I can't, so I'm sorry Skyy. But I couldn't keep this much from you," Tai rambled. Skyy was getting confused. What was he talking about? Something he wanted to tell her but couldn't? And she would tell him if it was the other way around? She didn't get what he was talking about.
"Tai, I really don't understand…what are you going on about?" She asked. Tai sighed.
"I'm going to surprise Mimi tonight, I just wanted you to know," he said. Skyy hesitated.
"Uh…okay? Is that all?" she asked. She heard a rustling movement rubbing against the receiver. She assumed it was Tai nodding his head.
"Yep, that's all," he said.
"Okay, we'll see you letter then," Skyy said. Tai said good bye and Skyy went to hang up the phone with a dumfounded expression on her face. Tai was being weird. She wondered what he was going to do tonight. Surprise Mimi? Why would he surprise Mimi? She had a feeling she wouldn't want to miss going to the teen club tonight. Something big was going to happen.
When the three girls entered Skywalkers night club the entire place was decked out like a casino. There was a roulette tale and a couple black jack tables. There were already some people playing poker with some chips and all of the teen staff was wearing clothes that casino staff would wear. Apparently it was casino night so the staff had brought out all of the casino games they had and gave out $200 worth of chips to everyone. Of course it was all fake and they weren't actually betting money. Skyy was excited because she had never been in a casino or played casino games before. There was a casino on the ship but they weren't aloud in because it was 21+.
Skyy and her friends went over to the usual table and chairs they sat at and she was relieved to see Aaron wasn't there. Brandon was sitting there chatting with Naomi already though. As they all set in to the grove of the teen club again Skyy was starting to feel less nervous about Aaron showing up. If he wasn't here with his brother already, chances are he wasn't going to show up at all tonight. She still noticed Tai and Izzy scanning the crowd every so often with slight glares in their eyes. Skyy couldn't help but notice Izzy had brought his laptop. He always had that thing with him. He even had it when they went outside to Juneau today, and he had brought it every other night to the teen center. Skyy smiled, that was her Izzy, always with his laptop at his right side.
At first they all just sat and chatted, being a little hesitant about going and playing the casino games. Skyy kept scanning the club for Jeremy and when she saw his blonde hair she leaped up and went to go greet him and bring him over. This earned a scowl from Izzy but he pleasantly said hello to Jeremy when Skyy lead him over anyway. When Jeremy was finished being introduced, the teen center supervisor came around and gave them all cups with some plastic gambling chips in them, encouraging them to go play. Skyy grabbed Jeremy's hand and dragged him over to the nearest game, which was Roulette. Since Skyy had never played casino games before Jeremy had to explain it to her first. Soon Izzy, Sora and Mimi wandered over to the Roulette table as well. Skyy assumed the girls had come because Jeremy was there, but she was happy that Izzy had come over as well. In the beginning Skyy was doing well and kept landing on the right numbers or colors that would double or triple her bet. But near the end she got inpatient and started betting large amounts, and losing it. When she only had about $10 left she gave up and wandered around to look for a new game to play. Jeremy instinctively followed her considering he didn't really know anyone there as well as he knew Skyy. Jeremy was actually pretty good with casino games and came away from Roulette with more chips then when he had started.
Soon Skyy found Tai and Matt playing poker with a bunch of other dudes and she stuck around to watch for a while. The casino night didn't last long because a lot of people were gambling newbies and lost all of their money right away. When there was no more hope for the other players the staff called the casino night to and end and tallied up all the winners. Tai and Matt both tied for second place with the most money. Skyy always knew they both were experts with gambling, but she didn't know they were that good. A couple of other people got the first and third places, but Skyy didn't care because she didn't know them.
When the staff put away all of the casino games it was back to the usual. Dancing, playing board games, or foosball and air hockey. One boy took out a guitar and started humming a song that surprisingly, Skyy recognized. It was called Wonderwall and it was buy an American band called Oasis. She sat in one of the squishy chairs and hummed along until the boy stopped playing and started playing something else. They all sat around and chatted for a while before Skyy got incredibly bored and sprang from her seat. She caught a couple people's attention by moving so fast from her seat.
"I'm bored!" she announced. Tai chuckled.
"When are you ever not bored?" he said sarcastically.
"Well come on! We have to go do something! I wanna walk around I'm tired of sitting here," Skyy whined, she spoke in English so her other friends would understand. Mimi quickly whispered the translation to Tai and the others. Jeremy bounced up from his seat, he had been chatting with Brandon for a while. It seemed he was also catching the attention of Naomi, Hailey and Sara because they kept trying to get in both of the boy's conversations.
"Let's go outside and play! Maybe get some drinks? I have an ID," Jeremy grinned. After that Skyy and Jeremy managed to get all of the others out of their seats and they all left in a big group out of the teen center. Mimi quickly reminded them of karaoke afterwards. During the casino games the woman supervisor announced that later on they would be holding a karaoke free-for-all. Mimi was a good singer and she liked to show it off, no doubt she wanted to show off to all of their new friends and all the people at the teen club.
They all took the elevator and walked around for a bit, chatting and goofing off. The eventually found themselves at the pool deck and all gathered around the bar. Jeremy ordered a couple light alcoholic strawberry drinks for those who wanted them. That included Mimi, Tai, Matt, Sora, Hailey, and Sara. Jeremy ordered a Dirty Banana for himself saying that he loved alcohol. Skyy and Tai burst out laughing when he ordered his drink. It took only a couple seconds for everyone else to catch on to the two best friend's dirty minds.
Skyy never knew Jeremy when he was old enough to drink but yet it didn't seem odd to her at all how much Jeremy loved drinking. She knew he wasn't the type to get drunk stupid, but he'd drink until he got a light buzz. Skyy was still a little hesitant about drinking alcohol, as well as Izzy who refused to have a drink. However Skyy had a couple sips of Jeremy's drink. But once she felt herself getting a little too hyper and dizzy she stopped drinking it. They sat down and put their feet in the pool for a while whilst they finished their drinks. After they left the bar and wandered around for a bit longer. They at least went from one end of the ship to the other because Skyy remembered seeing the adult pool at the back of the ship that was underneath the suspended Skywalkers club, and looking out to sea from the front of the boat as well, whilst imitating the famous Titanic pose which gave everyone a big laugh. Tai had gone up and stretched his arms out, laughing. Then Jeremy came up behind him without Tai knowing and slid his arms around Tai's waist like a girl would have and gave Tai a good scare, which made everybody erupt into more laughter.
Soon though wandering around got boring too, there wasn't much to do when it was late outside. And they kept getting shameful stares from older adults when they were too loud or were just plain goofing around.
When they returned to the teen center everyone was sitting around the dance floor and some girl was belting out the lyrics to an English song. They quickly scurried over and found some spots to sit at. They whole room of teens was cheering, some even when they didn't know the song, or the girl singing it. Mimi skipped over to the staff and got two large binders full of all the karaoke songs. Skyy grabbed one too and looked at it. Izzy came over and sat with her and looked at the songs too. Skyy was listing all the songs she knew, and all the ones she didn't – which was most of them. Izzy would sometimes recognize songs, or he would after Skyy hummed the tune for him. When the girl who was singing finally finished, Mimi wasted no time going up and singing a song.
She sang Sk8ter Boy by a Canadian artist named Avril Lavigne. Skyy was wondering if there was possibly a hidden message in the song, because it was about a skater boy and a straight laced girl. The song was about how the guy liked the girl but the girl refused him because her friends didn't like him. But in the end of the song she grows up and sees that the guy became really famous and has a new hot girlfriend. Skyy imagined Mimi being the straight laced girl, and Tai being the skater boy. She laughed at this.
Everyone cheered for Mimi, because honestly, she was a really good singer. She had gotten better since Skyy last heard her sing. When she finished her song though she surprised everyone by introducing Jeremy to the crowd and saying he was in a band. Skyy saw Jeremy's face stiffen and a nervous smile appear on his face. The crowd immediately cheered and whistled for him to come up and sing. When he heard the crowd cheering though he bounced up from his seat and went over to Mimi. She handed him the mic and whispered a good luck to him. Jeremy announced his apologies for the song being in Korean but the crowd didn't seem to care what language it was in. He seemed very normal and at home with a microphone.
As soon as he started singing though the crowd fell silent and Skyy's breath was caught in her throat. He was an amazing singer. Skyy could feel all of the girls in the room staring at Jeremy. She sort of felt a little jealous, but she ignored the feeling and cheered loudly for her friend. The song was an original song that was done by Jeremy's band, so there was no music in the background. But that way you could hear Jeremy's voice better. It must have been one of their new songs because Skyy didn't recognize it. Jeremy said the song was called I Hope, in Korean it was Barae.
When he was finished the crowd erupted with the loudest cheers of the night. Jeremy gave them cheeky smile and bowed. He blew kisses to the audience and laughed as he jogged off the stage and the next brave person went up to sing.
The karaoke went on for a long time. Skyy even went up to sing a song. She sang Fireflies by a one man American band called Owl City. She got loud cheers as well but no one was able to beat Jeremy's cheers yet. When Skyy finished and went back to sit down Izzy whispered that she was really good at singing and she blushed bright red.
The singers started drifting down as less and less people went up to sing. Just before the staff were about to announce the end of karaoke Tai shot up from his seat beside Mimi.
"Wait!" he yelled. Everyone froze and turned to look at him. His face was beat red and he stuttered a little bit when he spoke. Skyy suddenly remembered the phone conversation she had had with Tai before they came to the teen center. A burst of excitement bubbled in Skyy's stomach and she felt the ends of her mouth curving up into a grin.
"I-I would like to sing a song!" Tai announced, in Japanese unfortunately. Skyy quickly turned to face the staff.
"He wants to sing!" she said in English. The staff member shrugged.
"Okay but this is the last one," he said and held out the microphone. Tai stumbled over, tripping on someone's foot on the way. He hesitantly took the microphone and the DJ asked what song he wanted to sing. He whispered the song title and turned to face the crowd again. Skyy watched him with anticipating eyes. Was this the surprise he was giving Mimi?
Tai gulped and opened his mouth to speak.
"U-um…this is a song…uh dedicated to a friend, or, well this song is for Mimi," he said the last part fast and his face grew bright red. Skyy yelled out the translation so the crowd would understand. Some people whistled when she finished talking. Skyy turned to see Mimi's reaction. Her eyes were wide and her face was beat red as well. Sora reached over and shook Mimi's arm with excitement. Mimi ignored her though; her eyes were locked on Tai. His eyes were also looking straight at her. Skyy beamed and turned back around to watch Tai. She took out her camera and turned it on, ready to take a dozen pictures. The music started and Tai took a deep breath.
"Hey Juliet, Hey Juliet" Tai sang. Skyy's eyes widened. English? Tai was singing in English? Since when did he know English? It was cute though because his Japanese accent was so strong. Skyy peeked over at Mimi, she took a deep breath and held it in, and her face was still as red as a tomato. Skyy looked back over to Tai again and began clicking pictures every 5 seconds.
"Hey I been watching you,
every little thing you do.
Every time I see you pass
in my home room class, makes my heart beat fast.
I've tried to page you twice
but I see you roll your eyes.
I wish I could make it real
but your lips are sealed, that ain't no big deal."
Tai seemed to be getting more confident because he started moving around on the dance floor and even came up closer to where Mimi was sitting. He smiled his famous mischievous grin as he sang and Skyy's mouth dropped open. This song…it was about a guy confessing his love. Tai was singing this song to Mimi! Skyy gasped and put her hand over her mouth. 'Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my GAWD!' Skyy squealed in her head. Mimi was completely thrown for a loop and she stared at Tai, and he gazed at her when he sang. But what nobody noticed was the complete shock on Izzy's face.
"'Cause I know you really want me.
I hear your friends talk about me.
So why you tryin' to do without me,
when you got me,
where you want me?
Hey Juliet!
I think you're fine!
You really blow my mind!
Maybe someday, you and me can run away.
I just want you to know,
I wanna be your Romeo.
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet!"
At this point Tai had come as close to Mimi as the microphone cord would let him. He held out his hand to Mimi and the audience all looked over to her. Just then the DJ turned on a spotlight and shawn it on Mimi. The light didn't faze her; she was still locked in a trance as she stared at Tai with complete shock and happiness on her face. Even though she wasn't smiling her eyes danced. For the next line he sang, Tai literally got down on his knees.
"Girl you got me on my knees
beggin' please, baby please!
Got my best DJ on radio waves saying
'Hey Juliet why do you do him this way?'
Too far to turn around,
so I'm gonna stand my ground.
Gimme just a little bit of hope,
with a smile or a glance, gimme one more chance.
'Cause I know you really want me.
I hear your friends talk about me.
So why you tryin' to do without me,
when you got me,
where you want me?
Hey Juliet!
I think your fine!
You really blow my mind!
Maybe someday, you and me can run away.
I just want you to know
I wanna be your Romeo.
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet!
I know you really want me
I hear your friends talk about me
So why you tryin' to do without me
When you got me
Where you want me?
You don't have to say forever
For us to hang together
So hear me when I say
Hey, Hey, Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
I think your fine!
You really blow my mind!
Maybe someday, you and me can run away.
I just want you to know
I wanna be your Romeo.
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
I think your fine!
You really blow my mind!
Maybe someday, you and me can run away.
I just want you to know
I wanna be your Romeo.
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet! Hey Juliet!
Hey Juliet!"
Tai finished and the music went quiet. His breathing was heavy from belting out the lyrics and his eyes were locked on Mimi. The whole crowd erupted in to cheers. And this time, they were louder than Jeremy's cheers. Skyy squealed super loud and bounced in her seat. Tai liked Mimi! Tai liked Mimi, Tai liked Mimi! And he confessed it through a SONG! Skyy was so unbelievably happy for her best friend that nothing could bring her down from her high right now.
Tai didn't move from the stage and soon the crowd fell quiet as Mimi stood up from her seat. All eyes were on her. She walked over to Tai on the dance floor and looked up at him straight in the eyes. She stared at him for a full minute before he shifted uncomfortably and nervously looked out and the crowd. He opened his mouth to speak, reverting back to Japanese.
"Uhh…well I'm pretty sure you got the message, so I-I don't really know what to do now so –"
"Shut up," Mimi stopped him, speaking in Japanese as well. Tai looked taken aback. Mimi's face was serious but her cheeks still flushed red. Suddenly her mouth broke into wide grin and she rapped her arms around Tai's neck. Tai was about to say something before she shut him up by pressing her lips against his.
The crowd erupted again with wolf whistles and cheers. Skyy and Sora stood up and started bouncing up and down hyper-actively whilst screaming in each other's ears. Matt, Jeremy and a couple of the other guys stood up and clapped whilst wolf whistling. Tai rapped his arms around Mimi's waste and deepened their kiss. They didn't seem to notice anyone else at the moment. Skyy looked over to Izzy and noticed him just sitting there with a dumfounded expression on his face.
"Izzy! Isn't this great! This is soo awesome! Aren't you happy!" Skyy yelled over the screams. Izzy looked up at her.
"Tai likes Mimi….Tai likes Mimi," Izzy repeated. Skyy cocked her head.
"Yeah?" she said. Izzy suddenly leaned back and started laughing, as if he was relieved.
"Tai likes Mimi! Man! That's great! That's SO great!" Izzy laughed. Skyy smiled and raised and eyebrow.
"Yeah! Come on let's go congratulate them!" she said and she grabbed Izzy's hand. She dragged him out of the seat as his laughs were ceasing. She took him over to Tai and Mimi who were making-out on the dance floor. Skyy pulled them apart, much to their disappointment.
She leaped on Tai and hugged the life out of him.
"Yes! Tai! This is soo insanely awesome! Why didn't you tell me you liked her?" Skyy said. Tai grinned and shrugged.
"I wanted it to be a surprise!" he laughed. Skyy rolled her eyes.
"Who cares about your surprises! I'm your best friend you need to tell me these things right away next time! Got it!" Skyy scolded, but her face was beaming. Tai chuckled.
"Yes m'am!" he said and saluted her. Skyy giggled and hugged him again. She then moved over to Mimi and attacked her with hugs as well. Soon the rest of their friends came over and it seemed everyone was giving Mimi hugs or slapping Tai over the back. Even people who didn't know them were congratulating them. Skyy was so absorbed in the blob of cheering people she didn't notice Izzy and Tai walk away for a moment and speak in hushed tones. She didn't hear Izzy's apologies for mistaking Tai's actions. Or when Tai slapped Izzy over the back and wished him "good luck".
The rest of the night was a complete blur. People dancing, playing games, and just having fun. Jeremy was stuck with a crowd of girls, who soon started to leave him as he went on and on about how much he loved his girlfriend and how he refused to talk about himself. Izzy sat in his chair and had his laptop out. He was playing a video game and Skyy was leaning over him to watch and helping him by telling him what to do at certain points or to 'watch out for that guy!'
Skyy had about three cokes and got really hyper. She was bouncing around the whole room when she wasn't with Izzy. At some point Tai and Mimi disappeared for a while and didn't come back until late when everyone had already gone back to their rooms. Skyy was joking the whole way down to the state rooms that they had gone off to make-out, and that they'd probably find them in a dark corner somewhere. As they parted ways Skyy gave Jeremy a hug goodbye, as well as Brandon, Naomi, Hailey and Sara. They were a little surprised by the hugs but hugged her back anyway. Jeremy was used to hugs – for having grown up in Britain- so he returned her hug enthusiastically. It wasn't until Izzy grabbed the back of Jeremy's collar and pulled them apart that they finally left each other.
Skyy didn't hear Mimi come in the room later on because she was so drugged up on sugar that it totally wiped her out and she fell into a deep sleep as soon as her head hit the pillow. It was pretty much the same with Sora but, of course, that was after they had read yet another note that had been left behind in their stateroom. In the same English writing and folded paper with Skyy's name scrawled on the flap, it read:
You sang beautifully tonight Miss Foosball champ. Signed, X
Skyy wondered who was this guy? He wasn't Aaron…who else could it be? It definitely wasn't Brandon, he was too young and he liked Naomi. She had no doubt in her mind that it wasn't Jeremy because he didn't even know about the Skywalkers club before today, and he had a girlfriend that he was very much in love with. Also for obvious reasons it wasn't Matt, Izzy or Tai. But it was someone who went to the teen center because he knew about her winning the foosball tournament the other night, and saw her sing a while ago. Skyy racked her brain for the answer but she didn't know any other guys who went to the teen center. She had vowed before she fell asleep that tomorrow at the club, she would scan all the guys and look for possibilities. Thinking so much about the whole situation made her even sleepier.
She wished she could talk to Tai about it, but he might spill something. She didn't want Izzy finding out. She had to find this guy, reject him, and pretend nothing ever happened. Keep the whole thing a secret.
As the ship slowly rocked, all three girls were lulled into very deeps sleeps. Today had been tiring, and tomorrow, they were docked at Skagaway, Alaska. What awaited them there? Neither of them knew. But it was another full day with friends and things to happen.
End – Day Five
AN: do not own the song, it's called 'Hey Juliet' by LMNT, look it up whilst you read to make it seem better ;P
