Hello there readers, welcome back, here's the next installment to the story. I know I haven't updated for a little while, but I have my reasons, I got a new game and I just couldn't put it down for the longest time, can you guess what it is? ...No, three word, Last Of Us! That game was so good, I beat it one time and I still started it over just to play it again! If you haven't gotten this game yet, I highly recommend it. anyway, um, enjoy!

Chapter 10: Beach Time with Rika and Hanyu pt 1

I've always liked long car rides, especially on nice days when there was a breeze blowing through the window on the freeway. Almost a week had past since the fourth of July ended, after the block party things went back to normal; we got a few hot days after that so no one went outside much because of the heat. But, today was a different day, I sat in the passenger seat of my sister's nineteen-ninty-three Toyota Previa, wearing a white T-shirt and dark blue swim trunks. I was dressed liked this for one reason only.

Our Atlantic city beach trip.

We went to the shore almost every summer, though we couldn't go last year because Kim was busy with work at the police station. But, luckily for us, she got some off time for this year; so after she told us, me, Antoine, and the girls packed up our clothes and some food and here we were, driving on the New Jersey freeway for some fun in the sun.

"Mii~ so what's it like at the beach?"

"What you've never been there …?" Ant' asked as he glanced up at her from his Mario game on his Nintendo DS.

Rika shook her head. "Nope, the only places I've been to from swimming is the pool in Okinomiya and the creek near Hinamizawa. I've never been to a beach."

I couldn't help but look at her through the rear-view mirror, I was almost forgotten that Rika and Hanyu had never been outside of the Hinamizawa or Okinomiya area. It had never really come to mind that this was there first time doing something like going to the beach, I'd have to make sure this was a good first time for them.

"Wow, I didn't know that, I thought everyone went to the beach at least once in their lives by the time their your age," Kim said, keeping her eyes on the road. "But, hey, it's like I always say better to do it late then to do it never, right?"

"Kim ...you just made that up," I said.

She shrugged, leaning back slightly, keeping one hand on the steering wheel. "Whatever, Kev', I'm saying it now."

The loud sound effect of Mario dying came from the portable game in Ant' hands, he frowned and muttered, before holding it out the Hanyu, who was sitting to his right. The horned goddess happily took the game and started playing from where Antoine had left off. They had been doing this for a while, trying to see who could stay alive longer then the other, though Rika didn't join them, she just quietly starred out the window at the scenery of houses, trees and countless other cars that passed us by.

Not having much else to do, I decided that now would be a good time to start reading one of the voodoo books my grandma got me a few years back for a way to send the girls back to their world. I reached down into the blue duffel bag at my feet and pulled out a old, small book that's covered look to be made of leather or some other type of animal skin.

As I read the book, I came across quite a few things, but so far none of them had anything to do with spells to send the girls back home. There were instructions on how to do certain curses to give someone bad luck, some even mentioned something about human sacrifice, there was even one to turn someone into a zombie. Not the undead, walking dead type, but to actually control and brainwash someone into a mindless slave to do your bidding. It was some pretty hardcore stuff, nothing I'd ever use on a person.

That was when I remembered something, this book wasn't the only thing I took out of my closet.

"Hey, Kim," I said suddenly, looking up from my book at her. "Are you going to the casinos tonight?"

"Um ...I don't know, probably not," she answered, not taking her eyes off the road.

I gave her 'are you sure?' look and said. "Kim …?"

"Okay, yeah. I'm going," Kim admitted with a sigh. "Why did you want to know?"

"Oh, I just got you a little something to help with your luck," I said, grinning. "And you know you need all the luck you can get."

She frowned, glancing over at me out the side of her eye. "I'm not that bad ...am I?"

"Kim ...I'll put it lightly, you're not very good when it comes to casinos."

"Translation, you suck, Kim!" Ant' added smugly from the backseat.

"Shut up, Brat! Nobody was asking you!" She spat, glaring at him through the rear-view mirror.

He pouted, before turning back to watch Hanyu play the DS. "Okay, I was just kidding, damn. Some people can't take a joke."

"Uh, anyway, as I was saying," I continued. I bended the corner of the page I was on and closed the book, putting it back in the duffel bag. I dug inside it, feeling around for the other object I'd gotten. "I got you something to help, let's see, where is it. ...Ah~ here it is!" I felt a small bit of fur brush against my palm, before I pulled it out by the small chain, holding it up for Kim to see.

"What the hell is that?" She asked, quickly glancing at it, before turning back to the freeway.

I smiled. "What does it look like, it's a rabbit's foot."

"Mii~ does it do the same thing as the monkey's paw?" Rika asked as her, Ant' and Hanyu leaned forward to look at it. I shook my head.

"Nope, thing does something totally different," I explained to them. "Unlike the monkey's paw, which only grants wishes, a rabbit's foot brings the holder good luck ...an extremely unnatural amount of luck, actually."

Ant' frowned. "Wait, so you've had a rabbit's foot this whole time. Did you even ever use it before?"

I nodded. "Yeah, quite a few times."

"Like when …?" Kim asked, curiously.

I tossed up and caught the white fur covered foot in my hand. "Well, there was the one time last year, remember when I failed my math exam in the winter, right before break?"

"Yeah," she said, before the realization hit her. "...Wait, you didn't use that thing, did you."

"Um, I kinda did," I said, nervously. She glared over at me and I quickly continued. "But, I didn't know it would really work at the time, I always kept it in the box grandma gave me! So, just this one time I thought 'what the hell' so I took it to school and answered the questions on the retest as best as I could ...and I got a hundred."

"So you cheated, huh."

"Awe, come on, Kim. Besides, that was only a one time thing, I didn't know it was gonna work, honest," I reasoned with her.

She glanced over at me with a look of disapproval. "Sure, but you were hoping it would. That's why you took it to school, am I right." Kim said, frowning.

I sigh. "Uh ...y-yeah, that's true," I admitted.

"Mii~ for shame, you shouldn't cheat, sir, that's not fair to everyone else," Rika scolded, wagging her finger at me.

"Auau~ you could have just studied, Kevin, hard work always pays off in the end," Hanyu said.

"She's right, Kev', for shame," Antoine added smugly. "It really makes me wonder what else you used the rabbit's foot to cheat at."

"Hey, come guys, cut me some slack," I muttered. Great, now they were making me feel guilty for something I did almost two years ago. "I was fourteen, and under pressure. Have you ever even seen what geometry looks like, Ant'? Trust me, you'll be begging for this foot when you have to do it."

"Whatever you say, bro. I'm smart enough to do something like geometry, as long as I have the textbook I'm fine."

"You say that now, but you won't be saying that then," I said, before turning back to Kim. "But, this isn't about me ...or what I did with it, I was actually thinking you could use it for the slot machines or whatever you play when your at the casinos. I mean, gambling is rigged anyway, right. So you need all the luck you can get."

"I don't know, I'd rather try it myself," Kim said, unsure of if she should use it or not. "But, I'll think about it."

"Okay, then," I said, as I tossed the foot back in the duffel bag. "If you change your mind, just ask."

She nodded, "I'll remember that."

The car went silent a few minutes later, the only sound that could be heard was the sound effects from the DS and the engine of the car. I breathed out a huff of air upwards, and continued looking out the window, I could smell the faint scent of seawater in the air as the wind blew on my face. We were almost there, probably another half hour or so.

I heard Ant' let out a groan, before he leaned forward between the diver and passenger seats. "Hey, why don't you play the radio or something, Kim? Just sitting here's boring," he said.

"Fine, Kevin, look in the glove-compartment. There should be some CDs in there."

I did as she said and reached forward, opening the glove-compartment, there were about five or six CDs in it, three that didn't even have a cover or title. I noticed that two of them were from my mom and dad's song collection, I had no idea that Kim had those in here to listen to.

"Okay, so we've got a few choices," I said as I looked through the CDs. "We have The Jackson five, one of my mom's old favorites, Bob Marley, my dad's favorite artist and a few blank one that I have no idea what's on it." I leaned back and looked at the three of them, holding the disks in one hand. "Well, take your pick, which one?"

"Mii~ I think we should try the blank disk," Rika said.

"I think we should too," Hanyu agreed, not looking up from the hand held game. She frowned starring at the screen, her expression highly concentrated on whatever level she was on in the game. "...Auauau~ Why are the ice levels so hard! Mario keeps slipping over the edge every time I jump over the gaps."

"Don't worry, Hanyu, I sucked at the ice levels at first too," Ant' told her, before he added. "Oh yeah, and I third that on the CD, you know I like surprises."

I shrugged. "Alright then, mystery disk it is then." I picked a random disk out of the three blank CDs and put the rest in the space between me and Kim, I took the disk out of the case and slid it into the car's CD player. A moment later, lite up, green, digital words came up on the small rectangular screen that said track one on it; the first song wasn't something I was expecting.

How do I say goodbye to what we had?
The good times that made us laugh
Outweigh the bad.

I thought we'd get to see forever
But forever's gone away
It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday.

A sudden coldness ran over my chest, like someone poured ice water on my heart. I bit my lip and tightened my hands into fists, it just had to be this song …the same song they played at mom and dad's funeral.

I looked over and saw that Kim's expression changed too, her reaction was close to mine, and Ant' just got really quiet. A memory of that day came crawling into mind. Seeing my parents for the last time at the viewing, Ant' crying out for the both of them, my big sister was trying to stay strong for the both of us, and our other family members saying goodbye to them.

I didn't want to remember that day, I didn't want to remember any of it. I cried and grieved, probably more then anyone had, I'd let go.

So why the hell did I still feel like this?

I don't know where this road
Is going to lead.
All I know is where we've been
And what we've been through.

My eyes started to water, but I quickly rubbed them with both hands.

Kim must have seen my distress because she reached over and changed to track. "W-why don't we change this song," she muttered sadly. The next song was a much happier one, but that didn't change my mood much.

"Thanks ...I hate that song."

"Mii~ are you alright, Kevin?" Rika asked with concern, leaning between the two seats.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine."

"Auau~ are you sure, you look sorta upset," Hanyu glanced over at Ant', then back at me. "Is there something wrong with the song that was just playing. Because it was nice, I-I like it."

"It's not the song itself, Hanyu," Antoine answered, frowning. "There just aren't a lot of good memories that go with it, Kev' doesn't really hate the song, it's just hard to listen to ...that's all."

"I-I see," Hanyu stuttered out.

Damn it, my bad mood was rubbing off on everyone. I really didn't want to be the reason why everyone wasn't enjoying themselves. I'd have to change that, maybe some singing would lighten that mood, even if it was just a little bit.

"Hey, why don't we have a sing along with the next track, we need to do something to pass the time, right?" I said, trying my best to sound like my usual cheerful self. They agreed, and I pressed the skip button to track four, the song that came on was one that I hadn't heard in a long while, an old rock classic.

There was a short guitar solo, then the lyrics started. I was the first one to start singing.

I never meant to be so bad to you
One thing I said that I would never do.

One look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe this smile right from my face.

Do you remember when we used to dance
And incidence arose from circumstance
One thing lead to another we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung.

Once it got to the chorus, Ant' and Kim joined in with me, both of them smiling as the three of us sang together. The music blasting loudly out the van window.

It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
Heat of the moment shone in your eyes.

"Mii~ what's this song called?" Rika asked, we stopped singing as she continued. "I think I heard it before."

"That's because you probably did," I said to her, bobbing my head to the song. "It's by a British band from the eighties called Asia, Kim plays it from time to time, she gets her taste in music from my mom after all. She loved this song." As the van drove down the freeway, I turned my head and saw the first signs that we were almost to Atlantic city. I pointed towards the tall hotel and casino buildings. "And that's where we're headed over there."

"Make sure you've got your things ready, we'll be there in a few minutes," Kim said, before silently adding. "Maybe I should have brought a radio or something."

I couldn't help but agree with her, a radio might have been a good idea. But, it was too late now, we'd just have to have fun without it.

~ ~(Part2)~ ~

The clear blue ocean waves slowly climbed up the edge of the beach, the wet sand black and cool as the waves receded into the huge body of the Atlantic. I let out a heavy breath as me and Ant' carried on of big cooler filled with food and drinks from the car to our sitting spot on the beach. The sand that wasn't touched by the water was hot from being baked by the consistent sunlight, I really regretted forgetting to bring my flip-flops out for that reason, but I had on my sneakers so I was fine for the moment.

"God, I can't believe Kim is making us carry this heavy-ass cooler," Ant' grunted, shifting the cooler's weight a bit to get more comfortable. "She could have help us at least, she's strong enough."

"Yeah, but she had to take Hanyu and Rika so they could go change into their swimsuits," I said, shrugging my shoulder a bit to keep my duffel bag from sliding off. We walked a bit farther past a lot of people and an blonde woman wearing shades who was laying down in a bikini, most likely trying to get a tan from the looks of things, and dropped the ice filled cooler in the sand next to our spot, it was easy to tell it was our spot because of the blue flower designed beach towel and the huge red umbrella that was placed over it to block the sun.

After the cooler and everything was setup, I dropped my bag and took off my shirt, then kicked off my shoes and socks. I glanced over and saw Ant' do the same, he had one a pair of black and red swim trunks and tied his dreadlocks together with a rubber band.

A few minutes past and the girls still hadn't come back from the changing rooms yet, Antoine was about to go running into the water by himself, when he turned around and saw Kim walking over to us with Rika and Hanyu following behind her. She had on a black two piece bathing suit on with a towel wrapped around her waist.

Rika had on a hot pink two piece with two side strings tied on the bottom half and the top was tied around the back of her neck, as for Hanyu, she was on a light purple one-piece that looked sorta like a mix between a swimsuit and a ballerina tutu.

"Sorry we took so long, boys," Kim said as she walked past us and plopped down on the towel in the shade. "There was a line for the changing room, didn't expect to be standing there for that long."

"Mii~ we didn't make you wait too long, did we?" Rika asked, smiling cutely.

I shook my head. "Nope, not at all."

"Oh, that's good," Rika stood there for a moment, then asked. "So, how do we look, sir?"

"You look very cute, Rika," I put my hand hip, smiling. "You do to, Hanyu. I'm sure Ant' would agree with me, right, bro?" I said, nudging Ant' with my elbow, he'd been starring at her for a while now, I don't even think he blinked either.

He broke out of his stupor, and nodded. "Uh-huh ...you look awesome, Hanyu, you're bathing suit really brings out your eyes."

"Auau~ th-thank you, Antoine, that r-really nice of you to say," Hanyu stuttered out, blushing slightly from the compliment.

I clapped my hands together loudly, catching everyone's attention. "Alright, so now that we're all here, why don't we all hit the water. We might even play a game afterwords."

"Yeah, beach time, whoo~!" Ant' exclaimed, pumping his fist in the air, running towards the water, the girls ran after him and I just chuckled as I walked. Same old Ant', somethings never change. When we got in the water we played for a while splashing the cold water at each other, we even played Marco Polo for a little bit, then we had a race on the wet sand to see who would win running from one side line drawn in the sand to the other.

After that, me and Ant' wrestled in the water for a minute while the girls sat back and watched cheering us both on, I almost got the upper hand, that was until Ant' did some type of Judo move on me. Now, I easily weighted more then him, but he did some movement with his body to use that against me, and the next thing I knew I got a killer pain in my brain or whatever it was called from too much water going up my nose, along with a mouth full of saltwater ...not cool.

I sat up instantly and coughed, holding my head. "Oh God ...that's gross, I hate sea water!"

"Mii~ why did you decide to come to the beach then, sir?"

"No, Rika, you misunderstand," I stood up, trying to spit out the taste of ocean. "I love the beach, it's one of my favorite places. I just can't stand the taste of the water," I said. That was when I remembered I had to catch up on a lot of voodoo research and my books only covered so much, but you have to start somewhere, right? "Anyway, I'm gonna go take a break for a little while, are you three okay here by yourselves?"

"Kev', come on, look who your asking," Antoine said, smugly. "I'm almost thirteen, I can watch out for the three of us just fine, ya know."

I starred at him with a blank expression. "Um ...I see who I'm talking to, that's why I had to ask. Trouble seems to follow you like a stalker when I'm not around you in public."

"Aw, come on, that's not true," Ant' argued.

I sighed, and started counting all the things that happened to him in the past on my fingers. "Okay ...then, what about the skate park incident, or the fight you had with that one kid for God knows what reason or the time you scratched that car with your bike, or when-."

"Alright, I get it, damn, your making it like I cursed or something!" He said, running his hands over his dreadlocks. "Shit happens when I'm alone, I get that, but Rika and Hanyu are here, I'll be fine, bro!"

"Mii~ we'll watch out for him and keep him out of trouble, sir," Rika said, giving me a small push at my side. "So you have nothing to worry about, just relax and worry about yourself."

I sighed, before nodding. "Okay, but if something happens, come get me," I said before I turned and started back towards our spot on the beach.

Rika smiled, waving at me. "Sure thing, sir! Don't worry about us!" Then she and the other two ran off to play farther down the beach where there were tons of other people.

I plopped down on the beach towel under the umbrella with a huff, turning to my left, I opened up the cooler next to me and pulled a grape soda out of the ice before closing it. I drank down about half the can to get the salty taste out my mouth.

"I saw that, you know," Kim said from beside me, she was lying on her back, legs crossed with her head turned my way.

I simply shrugged, "I have no idea what you're talking about."

She gave a small smirk. "Oh, yes you do, the brat put you on your ass, I watched the whole thing. Some other people even laughed at you."

"You're kidding, right," I asked, feeling the chill of embarrassment climb up my spine.

Kim giggled softly at my facial expression. "Nope, I'm dead up, it had quite a few people laughing their ass off at that." She said, still smirking, "...come on, Kev', don't give me that look. You have to admit, the kid's gotten better with his shoulder throw. I mean, considering how heavy you are compared to him, I'm impressed. But, his nick name is Ant, you know they can left up ten times there own body weight."

I gave a nod, pouted. "Yeah, that's true."

After a few minutes of talking to sis, asking her about how things were going with David and work, among other stuff. I decided to start reading and pulled the voodoo book out of my duffel bag and began reading it from the page I left off, there still wasn't anything on how to reverse a wish or spell, but there were a lot of interesting things in it. Though the thing that caught my eye was how to make a voodoo doll, I mean those things were pretty dangerous, one piece of hair or a drop of blood, even having a full name and face, you could literally hex someone with some serious bad luck.

And don't even get me started on the hex bags, that was some really dark stuff. How people could actually practice this stuff on others was beyond me.

I was about at the end of the passage, when I heard a loud voice calling out to me from afar.

"Kevin! Kevin!"

I looked up from my book and saw that it was Hanyu, her purple hair flying behind her as she quickly ran towards me. I saved my page and put the book down besides me, "Hanyu, what's wrong?" I asked as she stopped in front of me.

Hanyu was hunched over, trying to catch her breathe as she answered. "Kevin …Antoine's in trouble."

"What ...why," I said with an eyebrow raised. "What did he do, tell me what happened?"

"Auau~ we were playing in the water, and a few minutes after you left this boy came up and tried to talk to me ...asking if I wanted to hang out with him and his friends ...auauau, I didn't know refusing would cause all this trouble!"

"Whoa, calm down, Hanyu," Kim said, sitting up in her spot. "Just slow down ...breathe, okay."

"Okay," Hanyu seemed to calm down a little, then she continued, saying. "...So, I-I told him that I was fine because I was playing with Rika and Antoine, but he kept asking me. Rika got annoyed and told him to leave me alone, then he started saying some really mean things to her! I really did try ...I told him not about talk to her like that. But, then he started calling me ugly names and ...auauau, he said my horns made me look weird and that I should take them off, and his friends started calling me 'Ramyu'."

Hanyu looked like she was about to cry at this point. I frowned and stood up on one knee, we came here to have fun, but kids are cruel, maybe even more so then in Anime, I know that for a fact.

"Hanyu, listen to me, okay," I said. I took one hand and patted her on the head, looking her in the eyes. "You're not weird, sometimes people just try to be mean and hurt your feelings, but what they say aren't true. You're a cute girl, sure you might be a little shy, but your not weird at all ...just different."

"S-so you don't think that my h-horns are weird, that I'm weird …?" Hanyu asked, nervously, touching the black curved outgrowths.

I shook my head, laughing. "Hanyu, how long have you been staying with us? Trust me, if you were weird, I'd have told you by now," I answered, truthfully. "There's nothing wrong with you, so don't let anyone tell you anything different, understand?"

"A-alright," Hanyu nodded, smiling a little. "Thank you, Kevin."

"No need to thank me. Now, stay here with Kim, I'll go straighten this whole thing out."

She nodded and went to sit under the umbrella next to Kim, who put a comforting arm around her shoulder. I turned and started walking the way Hanyu had come from, a frown slowly forming on my face, only a dick would make a person like Hanyu cry, and what really agitated me the most was that they even talked about Rika too.

As I made my way down the beach, I noticed a small crowd had started to form up ahead. I hurried along, hoping that things hadn't escalated too much, I pushed my way through the small crowd of beach goers and saw Antoine arguing with a taller blonde boy that was probably a year or so older then him, and two other boys were behind the other kid. Rika stood off to the side, the look of announce clear on her face. Walking towards them, I finally got to hear what they were yelling about.

"-Look, I don't give a fuck, ass-hat, you can't talk to Rika like that," Ant' spat. Now, my little brother had a harsh mouth, and he never held back when it came to arguing with people outside of his friends and family. "Keep it up and yo bitch-ass ain't gonna like what I do!"

"Really, and what are you gonna do, huh, midget?" The boy taunted him.

"Oh, wow, a short joke, I've never heard that before," Ant' said sarcastically. "Guess what, though, this midget can knock your teeth down your fuckin' throat!"

"Try me, then," the blonde kid said, bending over to Ant's level. "Or are you just gonna be a pussy and run off like that horned-weirdo did."

"You know what, fuck you!"

The second Antoine cocked his hand back to throw a punch, that was when I decided to step in. I heard all that I needed to hear to know where this was going. "Antoine, stop!" I said as I marched over to them, he looked over at me in surprise and dropped his fist.

"Kevin ...it's about fuckin' time."

"Don't curse at me, Ant'," I scolded him with a glare. "Now, what the hells going on here?"

Ant' frowned, then pointed at the blonde kid next to him. "This dick-head was trying to make a move on Hanyu, and you and I both know that she'd never go off with just anyone, especially this dick. She turned him down, and like an ass he kept pestering her, so Rika got involved and he started talking about her out of no where calling her a short, flat chest with mommy issues," he explained.

I could see now why Rika looked so upset, she loved her mother a lot, even though she could never save her from dying, that and her underdevelopment at her age was a very sensitive subject for her, and it didn't help that Hanyu was slightly more developed then she was, not to mention some other girls around her age on my block could easily pass for fourteen.

"Alright, so Hanyu turned him down," I then turned to the blonde kid and glared at him, he may have been taller then Ant', but he wasn't taller then me. "Why didn't you just leave her alone then, huh, then we wouldn't have this problem."

"Because, she was hot, I was trying to reel her in," he said in a cocky tone. "But, hey, it's not my fault she can't see a real man when she sees one."

"A 'real man', huh," Rika made a face, speaking in her adult tone, her annoyance clearly heard. "Your a child, a boy, a 'real man' doesn't talk about a girl once she turns them do. He accepts it and moves on, that's a real man," she said, before smirking. "In the words of Antoine, you're just a dick, and if you ever expect to even talk to a girl, that might be something you want to change."

"Yeah, Rika's right, you are a dick," Ant' agreed.

The blonde kid glared at the two, then just at Antoine. "You sure know how to talk shit, but your mom wasn't saying that when she got this dick last night."

That was the last strew, I was about to say something, but Ant' beat me to it. He acted, a rage filled expression on his face as he march up to the boy, and out of no where, he pulled his fist back and socked him right across the jaw boxing style. Next thing I knew, the boy fell sideways, face first into the sand, and the crowd was speechless ...it was an instant K.O.

"What's up now, huh, you got knock the fuck out, bitch!" Ant' yelled before he kicked the downed boy in his side for good measure. "Fuck you mean, dick-head!"

I could tell he wasn't about to stop with that, so I hurried and tried to pull him away, but he fought in my grip, hard. "Ant' stop, calm down!"

"No, you heard what he said about mom, that fuckin' ass-wipe!"

"Look, I know how you feel, but he's down," I argued with him, holding him by his arms. "Let it go ...let's just get out of here, okay, Hanyu and Kim are waiting for us."

He stopped fighting me, but he still had a frown on his face. "...Fine," once I let him go, Ant' turned towards the other two boys, who were helping there friend up, and said. "Tell your home-boy when he wakes up that if he ever comes to Philly, if I see him or any of y'all in my hood, I gonna smack the shit out you."

They didn't reply and just went back to helping there friend, the crowd had cleared out and I took Rika and Antoine by the hand and pulled them along as we made our way back to out spot on the beach. The entire walk was silent, and Rika still seemed sorta mad about what happened, she had calmed down a bit, though. Ant' was the real problem here.

"I can't believe that asshole said that stuff about mom, and what kind of person says things like that to a girl like Hanyu?" he muttered.

"A dick, pretty much," I said, not really answering the question. "You see what I mean now, right?"

"See what?"

"Bro ...I told you, you're a trouble magnet," I sighed.

"So, what, your blaming me for this," Ant' asked, frowned.

"No, I'm not blaming you, okay," I answered. "It just seems that whenever your alone and no ones around, something bad gos down."

Ant' gave a thoughtful expression, and sighed. "I guess your right, but it's not always my fault, ya know."

"Yeah, yeah, sure."

"I'm serious!" Ant pouted, before turning to our blue haired miko. " …Are you alright, Rika, they said some pretty nasty things about you."

Rika sighed, then touched her chest with her hand. "Am I really that flat like a boy ...I thought I'd at least grown a bit since I got to this world, why can't I have breasts like Mion?"

"Well, for one, your too small," I humored her. "And two, you're still growing, everyone develops at their own pace, besides there's nothing wrong with being flat-chested, your still cute, and you have a nice personality. A big chest ain't everything."

"Yeah ...well, I'm still a little jealous of Hanyu," she muttered, before she turned to me and added. "Don't tell her I said that, though."

I chuckled, and made a zipping motion over my lips. "My lips are sealed, Rika. Besides, I'm sure that one day you'll find someone who likes you for you, and not your cup size, like my mom said once to Kim, you've got to use what you have to your advantaged."

"Use what I have to my advantage, huh," Rika said in thought.

Once we got back to out spot, everything had calmed down. Antoine had hurt his fist a bit from punching that boy in the face, so Kim had to wrap his hand up using the first-aid kit from the van. We took some time to eat lunch, afterward we made sand castles and forts. Soon though, the sun came close to setting, coloring the sky in a nice orange glow. We packed up and left the beach, heading to our hotel where we would be staying for the night to change and get dressed for this evening.

Tonight was gonna be a long night, and not in a bad way either ...hopefully.

And that's it, until next time, remember to review and give suggestions, the next chapter will be out sooner then you know a plus this last episode of Attack on Titan was truly awesome!

Peace~!