Me: Hi! ^.^
Pai: HIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZZZZ *bouncing off walls*
Everyone else: W-T-F…
Me: Oh, Pai just had chocolate. He's very prone to sugar rush.
Pai: I'm gonna sing the doom song now! Doom doom-doom doom doom doom-doom doom doomy-doomy-doom…
Me: ANNNND now he's acting like GIR…
Pai: WHEEEEEEEEEE!
Me: Kisshu, come here!
Kisshu: *submissive pose* Yes, mistress… *walks over*
Me: DISCLAIMERRRRR!
Kisshu: Mew Tapix does not own anything in Tokyo Mew Mew, but she does own him. *points at Pai*
Pai: Doo—NO SHE DOESN'T!
Me: Yay! No more sugar rush!
Pai: Doom-doom-doom-DOOOOOM~~~~
Me: Or not… TT_TT
(BTW, some of you were wondering- how old are they? I've made up a list~
Pudding: 16
Taruto: 17
Berry, Tasuku, and Lime (my OC with green hair): 19
Mint: 20
Ichigo, Masaya, and Pepper (my OC with red hair): 21
Lettuce, Kisshu, and Cake (my OC with violet hair): 22
Zakuro and Ryou: 24
Pai: 25
Keiichiro: 29
I threw in my OC's ages. Yep, though Pepper's the shortest, she's actually 2 years older than Lime…)
Love, Lies, and Those That were Forgotten…
Chapter 4: Moving forward
Lettuce was going to throw up. The stress was just too much. "Deep breaths, deep breaths," she told herself. She managed to gain a cool composure as she stepped into the little café where she worked, only to lose it as a certain someone teleported to a spot right behind her.
"You really should get your blood pressure checked," a deep voice said. Lettuce shrieked and spun around, coming face-to-face with the purple-haired alien that had been floating casually behind her. "It's coming to dangerously high levels these days."
"N-not exactly my fault, though, is it?" Lettuce stuttered in her unusually feminine voice. "I m-mean, with all the stress I've been under…" She trailed off, a blush coming to her face as, once again, the realization of what she had to do hit her.
Pai had to suppress a chuckle. I wonder why she finds this so hard, he thought. Usually, they're jumping for joy… "Shall we go, then?" he inquired the nervous, green-haired woman (YES : ) SHE'S A WOMAN NOW~), stretching out a hand to her.
"I… I guess," she answered in a quavering voice. "Get it over with now…" She slowly took his offered hand and walked further into the café. She raised her voice and, trying hard to keep if from trembling, cried, "Everyone! Can you p-please gather in the sitting r-room?" Her friends, who had been sitting at the table waiting for opening time, looked up, then complied, filing into the adjacent room. Once the café's main room was empty, Lettuce and Pai followed and closed the door behind them.
Lettuce gazed about the room, trembling. She opened her mouth to speak, but no sound came out.
"Well?" inquired a young woman with shoulder-length blue hair that was not yet in its twin buns.
"We don't have all day," said a snide, green-haired man. "Get on with it."
"Oh, shut it, you snobs," hissed a heavily pregnant strawberry blonde. "It's harder than you think." Ichigo said this with an air of seriousness, but her hazel eyes twinkled with internal laughter as she winked at Lettuce.
"I-I…" Lettuce faltered. She didn't know what to say. A heavy blush crept up her face. "Um…" She looked at all her friends lined up in the room: Ryou in the very corner, trying to pretend he didn't care what was happening in the least; Keiichiro, still wearing his apron; Ichigo and Masaya, sitting on the couch and holding hands, with Mint seated regally on one arm rest and Kisshu lounging on the other; Zakuro sitting calmly in the plush armchair, hands laced together and on her lap; Pudding and Taruto were standing, hand in hand, trying to be inconspicuous for once; and Tasuku and Berry were quietly holding each other around the waist.
"My friends," she started again, "I have some good news…" And she lifted her hand, back facing them. One of her fingers glinted in the light. All was silence, and then:
"Ohmigod, no way!"
Suddenly, in a rush of color and joy, Lettuce and Pai were surrounded by their friends, screaming congratulations and wanting to see the masterpiece that was Lettuce's engagement ring. It was a fine piece of jewelry; crafted out of silver, it twirled ornately around her finger and sported two stones: an emerald and an amethyst set in the silver to look like the yin and yang. In the very middle of the yin and yang was a pure-white diamond, which, as Pai said when he had proposed, "symbolizes the mixing of these two otherwise non-combinable colors." Lettuce blushed as she thought about the proposal day: a bright sun, the tang of salt on her lips, the wind in her hair… it had been the first time she had ever gotten Pai to go to the beach. Of course, he had covered himself in ridiculous amounts of sunblock to keep his pale skin from burning to a crisp; but though he hid behind a mask of disdain, she thought that he had liked it. He had seemed awed that there were any unpolluted beaches left on Earth, and whenever he saw a piece of trash on the beach, he would go and throw it away, muttering all the while about how the humans "won't know what they've got until it disappears completely."
And then, he had led her under the shade of the trees that lined the beach and, without haste, gotten down on one knee and proposed. Just like that. No subtle hints, no warning of any kind. None of the marriage magazines Lettuce had been reading had prepared her for such a straightforward gesture. She did love the ring, though; and when he had asked, she had immediately said yes without thinking, for though it had been unexpected, she had already prepared her answer in advance.
Coming back to the present, Lettuce looked around. Her girl friends were still screaming over the ring (except Zakuro, who doesn't scream about anything), and her guy friends were talking to Pai, trying to look nonchalant, but humming with quiet excitement nonetheless. Even Ryou, who had at first seemed jealous of Lettuce and Pai's relationship, was talking to the violet-haired alien.
Out of nowhere, Ichigo let loose another shrill scream. But instead of grinning at Lettuce, her brown eyes stared at the floor, startled at what she saw there. A puddle had formed at the cat mew's feet. Her water had broken.
Immediately, everyone rushed to get her in the car to the hospital. Masaya had, for some paranoid reason or another, brought with him Ichigo's and his suitcases for the hospital stay. They scrambled in and peeled away from the curb.
I hope they'll be alright… Lettuce worried. She looked up at the tall alien beside her. Smiling, she took Pai's hand in hers, and they walked back to her house, letting the day's excitement blow away with the steady wind.
Me: You can tell I was in a hurry to finish that one… -_-|||
Kisshu: Yep! ^.^
Pai: Doom I'm done! OOOOOO, FLUFFY! I LIKE LETTUCE FLUFFY!
Me: *pulsing vein* …
Pai: WE IS GETTING MARRIED! THEN I GET TO LOVE LETTUCE FOREVERS N FOREVERS N FOREVERS…
Me: ENOUGH!
Pai: *screech* WAH! *snaps out of sugar rush* …What happened?
Me: YOU. D:
Pai: Ah ha ha ha ha… *talking really fast and scared* R&R, everyone!
Me: *death glare*
Pai: Ehhhh… O\\\O"