I've had my half yearly exams, and now its the holidays!!
Woot!!

Chapter 14: The Valentines Day Dance.

Cosmo

I felt like an idiot.

Why?

Because I let Lilo talk me into going to the stupid Valentines Day Dance! I hate it how she's so darn persuasive! Now I have to sit and watch all the stupid lovesick people slow dance with each other. I think...I'm gonna vomit!!

I could think of ten billion more fun things to do.

"So, which shirt are you gonna wear?"

I turned to Lilo as she held up two shirts. One was red with yellow flowers, and the other was dark blue with white leaves on it. I raised an eyebrow in an attemp to show how uninterested I was and motioned to the blue shirt. "Dat one..."

Lilo smiled and put the shirt I wasn't wearing back in the cupboard. "I think you'll look better in this one."

I sighed, rolling my eyes , and flopped back on the bed. "I honestly don't care..." I shut my eyes, dreading the horrible evening. "How are we even gonna get in? I don't tink people won't notice da weird dogs dancin'."

Lilo laughed. "Kumu's used to having dogs there. Stitch and Angel have hone to a few Dances before, and we sometimes take some of the other experiments."

I made a gurgling sound as I pretended to hang myself. "Borin'."

"Not really." Lilo shook her head. "It's really fun." she glanced at the clock on the wall, and her eyes widened. "Whoa! Hurry and get dressed! We only have half an hour before the Dane starts!"

I groaned. "Damn."

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I growled as Pleakley tried smoothing my shirt for the tenth time that evening. I hated it! He kept complaining about the wrinkles in it.

IDIOT!

He was the reason we were an hour late. He couldn't find his favourite wig, and insisted that he couldn't go without it. I should've incinerated the stupid thing.

I could hear music from inside the Hula School and shuddered. It was a soppy love song. Jumba had left early to get there on time, seeing as he was the DJ. And now, he was playing that garbage.

"Igabba, Buchee-Bu!" Angel took Stitch by the hand and lead him toward the Hula School. I must admit...I felt sorry for him. He's stuck with The Spawn Of Satan for the whole evening!

"C'mon guys!" Lilo ran pastme. followed bu Rhanee, who turned back to look at me. "You coming, Cosmo?"

I slowly walked towards the stairs." Only if I can make fun of da dumb losers in dere."

Rhanee laughed. "I'm not stopping ya. Just don't run to me if someone throws a shoe at you." She tugged at her shirt. She was wearing a red shirt with blue fish on it.. It makes her look like a rebel...

I followed her up the stairs and froze in the doorway.

The disgusting love song was still playing, and the people were dancing with each other. Yuck!! If I see Kumu here, I will kill him. Of all the stupid things to organise!

"I tink my gag reflex is gonna be in..." I turned to look at Rhanee, but she wasn't really listening to me. "Overdrive." I finished to no one in particular. I tilted my head at her. She was watching Bonnie and Clyde dancing together. I blinked stupidly as I watchedd them. Despite Clyde's bulky form, he was pretty good.

Rhanee was still watching them when I turned my attention to her, and I lowered my ears nervously. "Ya...Ya wanna dance...like dem?" I ashed nodding my head in their direction. Don't ask me why I asked her to dance!! It just sorta came outta my mouth!

She looked at me shyly and nodded. "Yeah."

I swallowed the planet sized lump that had formed in my throat and turned to face her. I glanced at Bonnie and Clyde before placing my hands on her waist, and my heart leapt into my throat as she put her hands on my shoulders.

"N-now what?" I glanced around, hoping that nobody was watching.

Rhanee shrugged. "I...don't know. I guess we just sway to the music..."

I inwardly cringed. The music was horrible! It was so sicky and lovey-dovey. Out of the corner of my eye, I was Angel stop dancing and point in out direction.

My ears twitched as a small growl formed in Rhanee's throat, and I glanced down at her. "Ignore her." I muttered out of the corner of my mouth. "She's just tryin' to ruin everyones night."

I frowned slightly as I noticed people whispering about us. Some of the couples had stopped dancing and were now staring at us.

Yeah, stare at the dogs. Thats it. Don't make it obvious! Idiots.

I looked up as Jumba walked towards us, eyebrows raised. "This is being something new, eh?" He teased, bending down to walk quietly to us. "Your witnessing romantic side of 631. That, 399, is extremety rare sight."

I glared at him. "Shut up!" i said, ignoring the staring couples.

Jumba furrowed an eyebrow. "Is no way to be speaking on Valentines Day."
I rolled my eyes. "Ah, go dance wiv Pleakers." I said, grinning. "Ya know ya want to. And I'll speak however I want."

Shrugging, he climbed to his feet and turned to go back to his DJ stand, but stopped on the way there. "What? Have you never seen Earth dogs dance before?!?" he shouted at the people who were staring at us.

I grinned as they quickly went back to dancing. One point to Jumba.

"Angel's still pointing over here." Rhanee muttered. "I just know she's gonna do something to try and ruin the night."

I looked over at the pink experiment and frowned. "Don't worry 'bout it. She's just--OOOFF!" I stumbled forward into Rhanee as one of the dancing couples ran into me. I growled, rubbing my back. If they don't think they're the best dancer in the room, they take up the whole stinkin' floor!!

Rhanee scratched the back of her neck. "Meybe we should...wait until theres more room..." she moved out of the way of another dancing couple.

I nodded, heading towards a bunch of chairs against the back wall. As I sat down, I watched Rhanee slip through the crowd towards Stitch and Lilo.

I slumped down in my chair and folded my arms. Dancing with Rhanee was...kinda strange, but in a good way. She kinda made me feel all happy and---

Wait!! What the heck am I thinking?!? I shouldn't be thinking like that! Whats wrong with me??!!

Maybe I'm getting sick. Yeah. That must be it. I mean--

"Hey, Cosmo."

I looked up to see Swarley standing in front of me holding a cup of punch. "Yeah, hey..." The only reason I knew who he was, was because I heard Jumba and Pleakley talking about him.

"Having fun?" He asked, brushing a peice on imaginary lint off his shirt.

"Tons." I wanted him to go away. His purple and green fur was bugging me, and I wanted to incinerate the stupid bright pink shirt he was wearing.

He tilted his head. "You don't look like your having much fun..."

I mentally pointed a Plasma Cannon at him. "It only shows on da inside." I muttered, slumping further down in my chair. My eyes drifted lazily over the crowd of people as Swarley continued to talk to me. I don't think he even noticed that I wasn't listening. He was too busy talking about the decorations.

My attention flicked to a yellow experiment pushing her way through the people dancing, and it took me a few seconds to realise it was Rhanee! I leapt out of my seat as she disappeared out the door, and pushed Past Swarley, following her.

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"399?...3...399?" I stood behind Rhanee, ears lowered...and a sick feeling in my stomach.

She was sitting on the stairs with her back to me and her head in her hands.

I swallowed nervously, and slowly made my way to where she was sitting and sat next to her, unsure of what to say.

Beside me, Rhanee rubbed her eyes, and I immediatly saw that she was crying.

My stomach tied itself in more knots.

"Why does she do that?" she asked, sniffing.

I blinked. "Do what?"

"Renind you of stuff that you don't want to remember."

I was totally lost. I didn't have a clue what she was talking about. I sighed. "Uhh..I don't wanna sound like a jerk...but, where are you headin' at?"

Rhanee rubbed her eyes again. "You...don't know, do you?
"Know what?"

Sighing, Rhanee looked down at her feet. "Lilo told you anout the Leroy's right?"

I nodded. "Yeah. Jumba made a new experiment and Hamsterviel cloaned it, blah, blah, blah..."

"Well, when the Original Leroy was created, it was sent to capture all the experiments. When I found out, managed to get hold of Jumba in his lab. I was lucky to, because I got him at a time when Hamsterviel wasn't in the lab, listening in on our conversation."

I nodded, a slight frown forming on my face. I didn't like the sound of this Hamsterviel guy, but I didn't say anything and let Rhanee continue.
"Anyway, when I got hold of Jumba, I asked him if he could dehydrate me. He asked why, and I told him about how Leroy and how the experiments were bring caught. I told him...I was scared." she wrapped her arms around her and sighed. "Jumba came and got me after that. He took me back to his lab and dehydrated me in secret. The only people who knew besides him were Lilo and Stitch...that was until Angel overheard a phonecall explaining everything. When Jumba found out that Angel knew, he made her promise to keep it a secret."

There was a slight pause in her story. I couldn't believe that she'd gone through all this. I looked at her as she spoke again.

"Remember the day you stopped Angel turning me evil?"

"Yeah."

"That was the day I was rehydrated. And two days ago was a year since Jumba, well...you know. Thats why Angel called me a coward. I left all the other experiments to fight the Leroys, so...I guess what she said--"

"Your not a coward." I cut her off in mid sentence and she looked at me. "Your not a coward. If Pinky wants to tink dat, she can...even dough (though) its da stupidest ting I've ever heard come outta her mouf (mouth), but ya had ya reason for doin' what ya did." I put a hand on her shoulder. "Everyone gets scared sometimes, but...I'm sorry ya had to go trough (through) all dat." I glanced over my shoulder at the people inside. "Now, wiv your permission, Angel needs a good butt kickin'."

Rhanee laughed, making me smile. I didn't like seeing her sad. It just didn't seem right. A pretty face shouldn't be--

I'm thinking weird again! I must tell Jumba to fix that problem. I scratched the back of my neck. "Nah, if anyones a coward...Its me."

Rhanee tilted her head at me. "How?"

I...uhh, have my reasons. And its part of my design. Its just the way I am, I guess." I shrugged. "Besides, being a 'coward' isn't dat bad. It makes ya different from the overs (others). It makes ya unique..."

Rhanee suddenly wrapped her arms around my middle in a hug, and I froze, staring down at her in suprise. I wasn't expecting that, and I didn't really know how to react.

"Thanks for making me feel better." she muttered.

I awkwardly rested my hands on her back, then slowly hugged her back. "Uhh...ya welcome, Rhanee."

She looked up at me with wide eyes. "What did you say?"

I blinked. "...Ya welcome?"

"No. You called me by my name!"

"What? No I didn't." I teased, grinning.

A huge grin spread across her face. "Yes you did! You called me 'Rhanee'! I heard you!"

I shrugged. "Ok, I called you by your name. Its, uhh, no biggie." I couldn't help but smile.

"You know---" Rhanee was cut off as the stairs exploded beneath us and we flew through the air. I landed on the ground with a hard thud, grunting as the wind was knocked out of me. Great. The exploding stairs ruined the mood! I looked to my right as Rhanee landed a few meters away from me.

I climbed onto all fours, panting. "Ya ok?" I asked, moving to her side.

She shook herself as if she'd just had a bath. "What...What was that?"

I opened my mouth to relpy, but was thrown off my feet by something hot and bright green. I flipped backwards as it hit me in the chest, and my eyes darted around as I could feel the panic rising in my throat.

Suddenly, a giant hulking hand appeared out of nowhere and scooped Rhanee up.

It was Gantu. Geez, he certianly knows how to ruin the mood!

I watched as he tipped Rhanee into a containment pod, and I ran forward on all fours, my ears flattened against my head and my eyes narrowed. As he reached for the lid, I leapt onto his hand, struggling to pull myself up, and sunk my teeth into his large finger.

My ears twitched as he grunted in pain and dropped the containment pod. As he swatted at me with his free hand, I dropped to the ground and ran over to where Rhanee was crawling out of it. I grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. "Ya gotta get outta here! Now!" I shouted, leading her towards the bushes. We both ducked as Plasma shot past out heads.

I really, really don't like Gantu. Stupid Land-Shark.

I pushed Rhanee into the bushes as another Plasma blast hit the ground behind us. "Go! Run! I'm right behind ya!" I dodged another shot from Gantu, and turned to run after Rhanee when I was scooped up by a stupid Bola Net. Why do they even make the dumb things?! If I ever meet the person who invented them, I'll kick him in the shins. Damn idiot!

I winced as my head hit something hard as I rolled along the ground, and there were little shiny lights floating in front of my eyes. That...can't be a good thing.

My ears twitched as I heard Rhanee calling my name, and I knew she'd seen me be caught. "No Rhanee! Run! Get outta here!" I yelled, struggling against the Bola Net. It didn't feel right shouting at her like that, but I didn't want her to be caught as well.

My eyelids drooped slowly. "R...Run. Go nowww..."

Then, everything went black.

Whew!

That was a long chapter...Well it was when I wrote it down on paper.

I had so many ideas for this chapter, but if I put them in the chapter, it'd be way too long.

A/N: Swarley belongs to my sister.