Later the same night, about 8:00. Yes, we're still on this damn island

Roasting marshmallows! Guess what that means? We throw all the neighbor's dead cats on some kindling, pour gasoline over them, and then make some sparks and stand back (Kyo got into a fight with Mr. Next-door-neighbor's cats on the island; this is his revenge on them?). All our marshmallows smell like burning cat.

Yuck.

5 minutes later

Kyo put some gasoline on his marshmallow and stuck it in the fire.

Marshmallow go BOOM.

9:30

My marshmallow lit on fire, so I acted on instinct and threw the flaming marshmallow into Shigure's hair.

9:32

Shigure's hair smells like burning cat.

Later

We heard Ms. Next-door-neighbor's mom calling in a crackly voice from their porch, "Mr. Cream Puff? Where is you? Heeerre, kitty-kitty-kitty-kitty."

I yelled back at her, "Mr. Cream Puff is covered in gasoline and burning!"

Shigure snorted.

Ms. Next-door-neighbor's mom didn't call for Mr. Cream Puff again.

10:30

Shigure opened up his supply of beer, and Yuki has a blackmail tape now of me singing, "Man, I feel like a woman – round two" on his digital camera. It's much more funny now, apparently, because the end of my shoe caught on fire and I was hopping around crazily, still belting out the lyrics.

Uhhhh.

11:00

Shigure says that we all have to play ring-a-round-the-Rosie or he will broadcast on the internet videos off all the following:

Me singing Shania twain with my burning shoe

the pictures of Yuki in the dress

the video of Kyo spilling leeks all over the kitchen floor and looking like he was doing an Irish jig as he tried not to touch them

so we all glumly joined hands and sang ring-a-round-the-Rosie in a monotone.

Later

The neighbors heard us singing loudly, "A POCKET FULL OF POSIES, A TISSUE, A TISSUE, WE ALL FALL DOWNNNNNN!!!!"

They wanted to know if we had been drinking.

If only they knew.

12:03

We've been joined by a munch of surfers down from the pier. They've brought their giant boom box and fifteen gazillion bags of Doritos.

1:30

Wow! This place has turned into party central. All the teenagers from all over the island are all here playing ring-around-the-Rosie and eating Doritos. Someone also brought beer, so everyone's drunk, and more marshmallows, so everyone's sugar-high.

WHEEE!!!

2:00

Hmmm. Yuki is very popular with all the teenage girls. They were all whining, "Yun-chaaaan, please dance with us!" and he was like, "No, I'm kind of tired."

"what are you doing?" I hissed at him. "this is your big chance!"

"Nooooo!" he said, and looked very scared.

Baka.

3:00-ish

Finally, we headed back to moldy-cabin central to sleep. Shigure was all drunk and we could barely get him into bed.

KYO IS SNORING LIKE A PIG. OH MY GOD. HE WON'T SHUT UP!!!! Yuki is muttering in his sleep; it's stuff like, "no! Akito, not High School Musical! I'm begging you.... not High School Musical... Nooooo..." and I can hear Tohru talking to herself next door. She's like, "Wow, mom! What an exciting day! I guess it goes to show! Anything can happen if you just-stay-positive! Do-do-do... do-do-do-DO-do... do-do-do... do-do-do-DO-do.... do-DO-do-do-DO-do... –DO-do-do-do-DO-do... do-DO-do... do-do-do-DOOO....

And then there was this NOISE. It was like, AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND I SCREAMED LIKE A GIRL.

Normally, I try to pitch my screams lower than they actually are. But I didn't have the forewarning this time, so what came out what the most high-pitched, flutey, most feminine-sounding scream I've ever heard. Or seen. Or ever known could come out of me!

(and Kyo or Yuki did not wake up, at all. Scary).

And then I ran to the last place I should ever run, which was Shigure's room.

"SHIGUREEE!!!!!" I screamed, not even bothering to pitch my voice again.

"zzz... Wha... Akito?!" he said, actually waking up. "You sound... you sound like.... a girl."

"shut up!" I said, carefully pitching my voice this time. "there's a creepy thing outside that's making this noise!!!"

Rubbing his eyes, he listened. "Akito... it's a wolf."

"no!" I shrieked, sounding like a girl again. "it wants to eat me!"

"don't talk like a girl. You're making me lose concentration and focus too much on forming sick thoughts in my mind."

Pervert! "Pervert!" I said. "it wants to eat me!"

He listened for a minute, and then said, "No. He doesn't. He's talking to his pack about a bunch of deer on the other side of the island. Now will you go back to sleep?"

Humph.

So I put in giant headphones to block out Kyo snoring and went back to sleep.

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Sorry about the random ShigurexAkito moment =_=0 I really like that pairing and I'm kind of jammed in romance-mode ever since I started this Shugo Chara fanfic... anyway, thkuxgazillion to PurpleRanchDressing0987, Obradroxmysox, and cherrichan13 for loyally reviewing on almost every chapter since you started reading... you all get confetti and an imaginary muffin! YAY!

We're into the double digits now, koollness... see you in chapter 11~!!