EDIT: As of 6/11/07 several things have been changed in this chapter.
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Chapter 5: I'm confused!
Every one except Riku and Jenny were sitting on the floor in Sora and Riku's room at the hotel. Jenny was asleep in her bed across the hall, and Riku was staying with her in case she woke up. We were all discussing different ideas on why Axel seemingly randomly attacked Riku and Jenny, yet no one else, and why he would be back for her. (We had asked Riku exactly what happened when we got back to the hotel) Some of these ideas were a bit more…outrageous than others.
"What if…Axel built a robot that looked exactly like Jenny and he some how switched them, but now he wants his robot version of Jenny back 'cause the real Jenny is too loud and annoying!!" Veena said, all in one breath. Okay, talk about random. We all stared at her.
"AHHHH! THE STARES! THEY BURN!" Veena cried dramatically.
"Veena, no offense, but that was a really stupid idea." Sora finally said.
"You kinda reminded me of Beast Boy from the Teen Titans when you said that idea." I commented. Beast Boy does come up with a lot of those kinds of ideas.
"Is that a complement?" Veena questioned. Hmm… I dunno…
"Maybe…" I said evasively. Veena seemed to find this answer satisfactory, to my relief, and didn't keep pestering me about it.
Heather sighed. "This makes absolutely no sense! Why is he so interested in Jenny! I mean, he only attacked the two of them, but not any of us! I mean we were just as unsuspecting as they were!"
Now that I think about it, why DID Axel only attack those two and then run?
"Maybe if me and Jill had stayed a bit longer we would've been able to help. After all Riku said the Heartless attacked right after they kissed, and we left DURING their kiss." Sarah piped up, sounding a little guilty.
"Nuh-uh! I refuse to feel guilty about this! Even if we had stayed, I doubt it would've made much difference, since Riku and Jen were separated because of all the little Heartless and the same would've happened to us! And I mean, Jenny wasn't THAT badly injured! A couple of potions and a good nap is all she's gonna need!" I declared, poking her on her knee.
"Jill's right, Sarah, don't feel guilty about this. Besides, Jen had Riku to help her!" Heather backed me up.
"Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll stop feeling guilty." Sarah replied with a small smile.
"That's the idea!" Veena proclaimed cheerfully.
"Okay, before we all get distracted by something completely random, anyone have any other reasonable," Sora looked over pointedly at Veena, who ignored him, "ideas as of why Axel is after Jen?"
"Nope! I gave up thinking of anymore ideas when I started getting a headache, so I've just either been listening to your ideas and waiting for inspiration, or going off into my own little world until someone addresses me." I chirped. We all have our own little worlds, some more orderly than others. For example, if you went to Sarah's world you'd need to bring food, water, shelter, a map, a flashlight, and a guide; not Sarah though, she'd get lost; and there is STILL no guarantee you'd make it back out! That's pretty much the same deal with my little world too, 'cept, there's a guarantee that you will be scared for life. But enough with the tangent, let's get back to reality, shall we?
"So that's where you were when you were staring blankly into space!" Veena realized.
"Well duh, where else would I be? Finland?" I replied.
"I'd much rather go to Belgium, that's where they have chocolate. Mmmm…" Sarah spoke up.
"I wish that I had my own horse, a house in Canada, and could rule the world." Heather stated.
"Me too! Oh and all the smarties in the world too!" Veena exclaimed.
Sora sighed. "Too late," he muttered, referring to the fact that we had gotten sidetracked (again). "I'm gonna go for a walk, okay guys?" We nodded, only sort of paying attention, then returned to our conversation, which had some how gone from dream houses to the curse of evil social studies teachers.
Seconds after Sora left, I glanced up at a clock on one of the bedside tables and noticed it had been another 11 minutes, which meant that someone was supposed to go check on Jen and Riku. Since we were worried about our friend we had been taking turns checking up on her every 11 minutes, since Riku had pushed us all out the door, to give Jen some 'breathing room.' Honestly, who is he kidding. He just wants to be alone with Jen when she wakes up.
"Hey, where'd Sora go?" Veena suddenly asked, bringing me back to the conversation.
"He's in a better place." Heather said with a straight face.
"YOU MEAN WE BORED HIM TO DEATH!?!?!?!" Sarah screeched, amazed (and proud.).
"No. He probably went to the kitchen." Heather rolled her eyes.
"As much as I hate to admit it, that's better. We DO need him to seal the keyholes…"
"Guys, it's been eleven minutes, who's gonna check on Jen now?" I asked.
"I think it's your turn now Jill." Heather replied, immediately going back to the conversation (which was now talk that would make any respectable boy bang his head on a wall.) as I stood up and headed towards the other room. I walked into the room and found Sora standing open mouthed at Riku and Jenny, who were kissing passionately, oblivious to the fact that they had company. Aw! How cute! Hmm, I wonder when Jenny got up though, I thought idly, but I noticed Sora was about to say something and ruin the Kodak moment. I sprang into action and quickly, yet quietly, crept up behind him, probably appearing out of no where from his point of view, and clamped a hand over his mouth before he could make a sound. I then dragged him out the door and hissed in his ear,
"You say a word and ruin the moment, I break your windpipe." As I dragged him down the hall a cool word popped into my head that I should've used instead of 'break' in that threat. After all, the word 'pulpify' sounds so much more…more…me-ish. Why do these sorts of things always pop into my head AFTER the event?
Anyways, when I had dragged him far enough away not to be heard anymore I let go of him and he immediately whirled around to face me.
"What the hell? Why was Jen kissing Riku?" I blinked. Did he already forget our little conversation about Jenny and Riku and his conversation with Riku over Jenny?
"Cause she likes him, stupid." I replied, still not entirely believing that he had forgotten.
"What? When did that happen?" I slouched slightly in exasperation. I've lost all hope of him remembering. Did he hit his head or something and get amnesia? Naminé mess with his head again? Or is he really this stupid?
"Well, Jen's had a crush on him since she saw him in the real world and…I don't know about Riku. But he loves her, Sora! You should be happy for him. Hell, once he got over it, he was okay with you and Kairi." Good, let's distract him with Kairi to prevent him from making an even bigger embarrassment of himself, even if it was just me.
"K-Kairi?" stammered Sora, a light blush spreading over his face.
"Yes. Kairi. The one who's waiting for you on Destiny Islands. My God you are dense!" I exclaimed, referring to both the Riku-Jenny thing, and the Kairi thing. I threw my hands up in exasperation and turned to leave. I left Sora to his thoughts and walked to Jenny's door and carefully peaked in. They had stopped kissing. Jenny's head was now on Riku's chest, and Riku's head was on top of hers, and one of his hands was running through her hair. The other was cradling her body, pulling her closer to him, like he was protecting her. Awww! How cute/fluffy/romantic! I sighed happily at the romantic scene, and for once I wasn't laughing. Thank goodness. I closed the door, giving them some privacy so no more unwanted people (like Sora) would walk in on them. Before the door was completely closed I saw Jenny catch my eye for a second and seconds later I heard her voice once again in my head.
"You rock my socks, Jill." She said in my mind; thankfully, she was talking normally.
"That I do. And by the way…don't get too carried away." I also replied in my mind, figuring the connection worked both ways.
"JILL! HOW COULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT?" She shouted. Okay, so maybe it didn't really hurt my ears, but in still felt like someone inside my head had poked me really hard.
"My mind lives in the gutter, remember? Just don't okay."
"Shut up and get your mind out of there now."
"All right." No use arguing, I'll just leave her to have some time with Riku. Hey, I just realized, I was right about Riku wanting to be alone with Jen! Ha! Score one for Jill! Whoohoo!
I made my way back to the room where everyone was still sitting, wondering vaguely why Jen could hear some of my thoughts, but not others that I didn't want her to hear. When everyone asked why it had taken so long, I told them first that Jenny was up, and second that she was spending some "quality" time with Riku. Then I preceded to explain the whole event, 'cause I figured they'd want the details, and they would bug me to no end to get them (especially Sarah). Me and Sarah then decided that we would let Riku and Jenny keep our bedroom so they could cuddle with each other and stuff (No, nothing else beyond snogging you perverts!). We then had to decide where the two of us would sleep and we finally settled on me taking Riku's now vacant bed, and Sarah taking the spare bed in Heather's and Veena's room. We chatted for a bit longer, until we were all tired enough to go to bed. A few minutes after I had climbed into bed Sora came in and gave me a questioning look, but he soon realized what was going on on his own. Thank goodness, too, I didn't want to have to explain it all to him, I was way too tired.
((The Next Day))
I woke up early the next morning, though why I did, I don't know, I usually sleep in. I looked over at Sora and saw he was still asleep, snoring slightly. As I looked over at him, an evil plot started to form in my head. Oh yes, I could finally get my revenge (for the clothes. I hate that skirt). I snuck out of the room and into Heather, Veena, and temporarily Sarah's room, an evil smirk playing across my face. I crept over to Sarah's bed, careful not to wake anyone else up.
"Sarah…Sarah! You gotta get up!" I whispered, shaking her slightly. She just mumbled something unintelligible and rolled over. I sighed.
"Guess what! Harry Potter's here and he wants to see you!" No response from Sarah.
"Jesse Spencer?" She opened one eye, and seeing he wasn't there, closed it again and turned away from me.
"James Roday?" I asked in a last desperate attempt for her to move. Sarah didn't even bother to twitch. I grumbled. If James Roday couldn't wake her up, nothing short of a cold shock would…
"I really didn't want to have to do this, but apparently I got no other choice." I muttered. A small sphere of cold water formed in my hand as I grinned. I let it splash over Sarah's face, and she shot up in bed.
"WHAT TH-"She started to yell, but I clamped my hand over her mouth so as to not wake anyone up.
"Shhh, you don't want to wake anyone else up!" I whispered, removing my hand from over her mouth.
"Well, why the heck are you waking me up then!" She whispered forcefully. I smiled an evil little smile at her.
"Cause I need your help." She raised an eyebrow.
"And what is so important that you couldn't have waited for me to get up on my own?" She questioned irritably, though I could see that she was interested in what I had to say. I just grinned some more, and motioned towards the door. Sarah sighed, but followed me out the door nonetheless. Once the door was safely closed behind us she turned to me once again and asked why we were up so early.
"Weeelll…" I started, drawing out the word, "I figured to would like to join me on exacting our revenge on a certain spiky-haired keyblade master." Her eyes lit up, and she grinned evilly.
"Of course I would like to join you, do you have anything in mind?" At this I cackled menacingly, yet softly, and proceeded to tell her my evil little plot. Her eyes danced as she listened, and a smirk that could quite possibly make Leon nervous spread across her face.
"So you think we can do it?" I said as I finished.
"Heck yea! Of course!" She exclaimed.
"Great! Now. How 'bout you go raid the bathroom for supplies, and I'll go raid the kitchen! Meet me back in front of Sora's door after you're done and we'll see if we need anything else." Sarah and I ran off in opposite directions, me heading for the kitchen, Sarah for the bathroom. After taking several wrong turns (I'm notorious for my very bad sense of direction), I finally reached the kitchen. I flipped on the light switch and looked around the room.
"Now, where would they keep punch bowls, peanut butter, honey, apples, chocolate syrup, and possibly rope?" I started searching the large room, and eventually found everything I needed. Surprisingly, I actually found a length of rope in the kitchen. Not wanting to know why it was there, I shrugged it off and, placing my materials inside the punch bowl, I headed back towards the hallway with our rooms. I met Sarah in front of Sora's room, and we piled our supplies in a heap.
"Okay, I found a punch bowl, honey, peanut butter and a spoon, chocolate syrup, an apple, and, strangely enough, rope."
"Wait, an apple?"
I shrugged. "Hey, I was hungry. You want me to get you one?"
Sarah slapped me on the backside of my head before continuing. "Well, anyways, I got the towels, the camera; which weirdly enough, was in the bathroom; and all the tooth paste I could find. Which, actually, is quite a lot." I grinned.
"Perfect. Now, how do we wanna go about setting this up?" We discussed some of the finer details of our revenge prank, and began to set up. Finally it was finished. Sarah and I stood back to admire our handiwork.
"Hmm, do ya think we should invite the others to come and watch? Or would that possibly give it away."
"Nah, I think it should be just us, so he doesn't get suspicious. Besides, we can show everyone the end result! And take pictures to sell on eBay!"
"Excellent!" Sarah cackled softly.
"Now, all we gotta do is wake Sora up and get into position."
"Right-o!" We both moved to either side of the door, Sarah holding the honey bottle, me with the chocolate syrup. Then I knocked loudly on the door, while Sarah said,
"Sooraa! We got something for you!" We held in our snickers as we listened to the mumbles and grumbles from inside the room, and the sound of shuffling feet. The door swung open revealing a tired-eyed Sora.
"Waddaya wa- WHOAH!" Sora tripped over our well placed trip wire-err rope, and his eyes widened as he fell straight towards our now filled punch bowl. His head connected with the filling of the bowl with a funny squelch-y noise, coating all but the back of his head in blue-green. For, as you can tell, this punch bowl was not filled with punch, or even a liquid of any kind.
Sarah and I giggled as we drizzled our thick liquid toppings all over Sora's back. Sora shifted and slowly lifted his head out of the bowl, with a slight sucking noise, like when you pull a boot out of mud. He spit out a large blob of the blue-green substance and it landed back in the bowl with a small plop.
"OK, I'll bite. Why is my head covered in toothpaste, and what the heck are you putting on my back!" he yelled, slightly panicking, just now noticing the semi-liquids on his back.
"Quick Sarah! Start snapping pictures!" I said to Sarah, who darted over to where we left the camera, picked it up, and started taking pictures of Sora's…predicament. Then I addressed Sora, who was now sitting up and trying to wipe the toothpaste off his face with one hand, and the substances on his back with the other. Unfortunately for him, it didn't help much.
"Ok, first of all, what's on your back is honey and chocolate syrup. Secondly, the reason you are in this situation is because you put me in a skirt, and Sarah in…well, her whole look, basically."
"So…this whole thing was your twisted idea of revenge?! For something I really had no control over?!" Sora asked incredulously.
"Yup!" Sarah replied while still taking pictures. "Oh oh! Jill! Do the peanut butter!"
"The w-what!" Sora's eyes widened as he saw me pick up a spoon loaded with peanut butter and, holding the handle with one hand, bend the tip back and take aim. He tried to scramble away, but it was too late. I had released the peanut butter, and it went flying to land smack dab on the middle of the back of his head. I practically fell over laughing, it was so perfect. Sarah had collapsed onto the floor, laughing uncontrollably, abandoning the camera on the ground.
"Man…this reeks." Sora complained.
"Yeah! Of mint!" Sarah choked out between laughs. We laughed even harder at his expression.
"I'll never use mint toothpaste again." Sora groaned as he ran a hand through his hair. Except, his hair didn't pop back up afterwards. It was now laying flat! Sarah and I gasped.
"Quick, get the camera!" Sarah leapt up and began snapping pictures wildly.
"I cant believe it! We didn't even have to do it our selves!" Sarah exclaimed between clicks.
"I know! Guess we didn't need the towels after all!" Sora just stared at us in disbelief, before turning on his heel and stomping off towards the bathroom, probably to take a well needed shower. Sarah and I just sat on the floor, laughing hysterically at the results, and priding ourselves for our success. And, the most amazing part is, no one else woke up to see the spectacle. Aw well, we'll show them the pictures later. Speaking of which, a door just opened, and a sleepy eyed Jenny stepped out, her gold-brown hair tousled from sleep.
"What's going on out here?" She questioned.
"Just a little revenge plot!" Sarah and I said together, laughing our heads off.
Jenny just stared. "Ooookaaay…" And with that she headed back into her room, leaving us to laugh wildly in the hallway.
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End of chapter. And before anyone says anything, I know this isn't everything that happend in Jenny's chapter 5. But this seemed like a good place to stop, and I felt that I was keeping my readers waiting too long. So I'll get the rest up soon, but for now, I hope you enjoyed this!
Signed, EG