Chapter 8: Gasp!

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Reivin ran out of the hotel room as she combed her hair. She had a piece of toast in her mouth and was tying her shoes as she jumped up and down.

"Hurry up guys!" she yelled as she swallowed some toast.

"Calm down Reivin." Tara said as she, Rei, Reivin closed the hotel room and headed to the hospital.

"How can I calm down? Tala is finally getting out of the hospital!"

"How long has he been in there now?" Rei asked as he held Tara's hand as they walked down the sidewalk.

"Two months three weeks six hours forty five minutes and five seconds." Reivin replied casually.

"You kept count?" Tara asked, a little creeped out by it.

"Of course." Reivin said as she smiled and they entered the hospital.

They went up to the front desk where a nurse was typing on the computer.

"Excuse me!" Reivin said with a smile that caused the nurse to look up.

"What can I do for you Miss?" the nurse said.

"Yeah, Tala Valkov is supposed to come out today." Reivin said and the nurse thought for a minute before nodding.

"Yes, please wait." The nurse said as she got up and went to the room area. The nurse came back a few minutes later and Tala was right behind her. Reivin ran to Tala and hugged him as he laughed at her actions.

"I missed you!" Reivin said as he hugged her back.

"You came to see me yesterday." He said as he pulled back and kissed the top of her head.

"I still missed you, you idiot!" Reivin said as she put her hands on her hips and looked at him.

"I missed you too then." He said as he put his arm around her waist. He looked at Tara and Rei and gave them a nod. "Where are Kai and Katana?"

"Err…Katana dragged Kai to go grocery shopping because Rei asked Katana to go get some ingredients for dinner but Katana didn't want to go alone." Tara said.

"Nothing has changed much, I see." Tala said as they started to walk out of the hospital.

"So, what do you want to do today Reivin?"

"I dunno." Reivin said as she shrugged. "Let's go to the cheese festival!"

"The what?" asked Rei.

"It's time for the cheese festival again?" Tala asked and Reivin nodded.

"The cheese festival is like a normal festival but everything is made out of cheese." Reivin said as she smiled.

"Have fun then." Tara said with a smile.

"You're not coming?" Reivin asked.

"Nah, Rei and I are going to the movies." Tara said as they headed in another direction.

"Have fun though."

Reivin sighed but then shrugged and her and Tala made their way to the nearby cheese festival.

The cheese festival was truly made out of cheese. The stands were made out of cheese, the tables were cheese, the chairs were cheese, the signs were cheese, the food was cheese, the drinks were cheese, everything was made out of cheese!

"It looks…" Reivin said as she stared at it starry eyed.

"Delicious" Good enough to eat…" Tala said as he eyed a nearby table made out of mozzarella.

"Don't even think about it Tala." Reivin said as she dragged him away and they started to walk around.

"Isn't that pretty?" Reivin asked as she pointed to a fountain that instead of water, it was nacho cheese.

"Yeah, let's go closer." Tala said and dragged her over there. Tala began to stare hungrily at the cheese and would have dived right in if he didn't have his arm around Reivin's waist.

Reivin rolled her eyes and dipped her fingers into the fountain. She smirked evilly as she then touched Tala's cheek and his eyes widened.

He smirked and she gulped. He got some of the cheese from his face and smeared it across Reivin's cheek.

"Ew! Tally, now I'm going to be all sticky!" Reivin said as she laughed.

Tala bent down and licked her cheek, which caused her to make gagging faces.

"Now you taste good too." He said as he licked his lips.

"Yeah don't I?" she said proudly.

"Let me make you taste even better." He said as he pushed her into the fountain. She grabbed his shirt right before she fell in and he fell in too.

The people that were around the fountain had left because of "demented teens terrorizing the fountain" and the two teens laughed at the looks on peoples faces. The two laughed and played happily inside the fountain until an officer cam and took them out.

"That was fun." Reivin said as she cleaned herself with the towel the officer gave her.

"Yeah, we got kicked out of the festival for the next two years, but it was fun." Tala said as he also cleaned himself up.

"Can we go get ice cream?" Reivin asked and Tala nodded.

They went to ice cream place after they cleaned up. The place was called

Frozen Treats and they sold every flavor of ice cream known to man. And several known to penguins.

"What will you be having today?" asked the boy at the ice cream place as he eyed Reivin. Tala glared at the boy and Reivin was too busy looking at the ice cream to notice.

"Can I get vanilla strawberry?" Reivin asked as she looked at Tala.

"You can get any you want." He said.

"Okay." Reivin said and turned to the boy at the register. "One vanilla strawberry please. With a cherry on top!"

"Right away." The boy said as he started to get the ice cream ready. It was served in a few seconds and he handed it to her. "Here you go Miss."

"Thank you." She said as Tala handed the boy the money. Reivin went to a table and Tala glared at the boy before he went to go sit with her.

"Here Tala!" Reivin said as she held a spoonful of ice cream to him. "Try some!"

"I'm not a big fan of ice cream." Tala said.

"Come on! It has strawberry in it"!" Reivin said as she held the spoon to his mouth. Tala sighed and ate it. Reivin smiled and went back to eating when she got her spoon back.

"Hey Tala?" Reivin said as she looked at her ice cream.

"Yeah?"

"I love you." She said as she looked at him. "And I'm glad that you stay and put up with me."

"I love you too Reivin." Tala said as he smiled. Reivin's cell phone started to ring and she sighed before answering it.

"Hello?"

"Oh, hi Claude. What's up?"

"What? Seriously? What happened?"

"I'm sorry…"

"What?" No?"

I'm kind of busy…"

"Okay, okay, calm down. I'll be right there. Bye." Reivin then hung up and sighed.

"What's wrong?" Tala asked.

"Alina got mad at Claude and their wedding was supposed to be in less than a month." Reivin said as she stood up. "He wants me to go over there and talk to her because she locked herself in their room and he's scared she might do something drastic."

"Well, where are they?"

"Their house. It's about three blocks from here."

"Do you want me to go with you?"

"No that's okay. Claude sounded hurt when he talked so if you go it'll make it worse. Guys and their prides…"

Tala decided to ignore the pride comment and nodded. "Be back at the hotel before nine okay? Its six now, so you should have plenty of time."

"Okay, bye sweetie." Reivin said as she kissed Tala in the cheek and left.

Tala sighed before he stood up and headed towards the hotel.

"I wonder what Claude did to get Alina so mad. She's usually very forgiving." Reivin thought as she walked down the sidewalk. She sighed and looked up at the sky.

It was already dark out and the sky was filled with stars. It was absolutely beautiful. She suddenly gasped when someone from an alley covered her mouth and pulled her in.

The person pulled her back so she could look at their face. "Hey pretty."

Her eyes widened in horror.