The two of them had stopped at a cafe joint that was pretty well known for it's shakes and ice cream mixtures. Azriel and Rin had plopped themselves down in a booth. Rin ordered herself a Banana shake while Azriel ordered himself up a Mango flavored one. The two sat there and talked about the school and things that'd happened to them. They both laughed and held their stomachs tightly as they found something funny about each others stories.
"Oh man, and there was this one time my UNCLE got his nose stuck in the vacuum cleaner..! I swear it stretched it out to like here!" Azriel laughed and gazed deep into Rin's eyes.
"Oh my god, That must've been hilarious!! Are you serious..?? It was really that long!? Hahaha...! I wish I could've seen THAT!" Covering her mouth Rin laughed a little more. Azriel just soaked it all up as out of the corner of his eye he noticed something, It was Stretch! The poor kids face turned about as pale as his ghost form as he stared in the direction of his Uncle and swallowed. It was within that second that Stretch noticed the kid and raised an eyebrow at him.
"GAH!" Quickly Azriel looked away having not wanted to make eye contact with him. He knew his Uncle pretty darned well and he knew he'd NEVER hear the end of this from him. Stretch finally noticed Rin sitting across from him and slowly but surely a mischievous grin formed across the lengthy Specters face. So his nephew was out on a date...! Well, at least he'd assume it was a date.. Seeing as he'd never really seen this girl around him before. Rin stared at Azriel a moment and then looked over her shoulder, only when she did she'd found NOTHING there.
"W-what...? You look like YOU'VE seen a ghost now..." Smirking Rin folded her arms over her chest and stared at Azriel with her eyebrow perked up high.
"HAHAHA, A GHOST! Haha, THAT'S A GOOD ONE! Haha, PFFT, N-Nooo... I just, I just remembered I forgot to do something..! Haha, Which I did... I promised my Cousin that I'd hang out after school and here I am, but Oh well. I.. I prefer this over hanging with him. I mean, you're so much... cooler..!" Azriel fumbled around with his words as he hoped that meant his Uncle had left.
"Oh... cooler, or HOTTER...?" Deciding to pull on Azriels 'chain', Rin grinned slyly at him.
This caused the poor kid to turn a DEEP shade of red. "A-Aw I uh... I ... pffft, I mean, I ...you a-are uhm... What I mean is... t-that... " Azriels eyes darted from one area to the next as he tried to stop tripping over his tongue. Though the poor kids eyes soon landed directly on Stretch who floated behind Rin and grinned down at Azriel. He'd morphed himself to look just like her to the best of his ability and acted all 'sexual' if you would, by pretending to rub his hands around on his newly formed ' breasts' and made kissy faces. Azriel stared with his mouth dropped at his Uncle, his eyes bulged out of his head. "HNGH...!" the kid whined as Rin looked around her shoulder and over the seat to see nothing again. It was at that point that Azriel turned into his 'ghostly form', pretty much going invisble and melting to the floor Due to the embarrassment.
"W-what...?? I don't get it...? What'd you see...?? There's nobody... O-ozzie??" Worried because she couldn't find him Rin looked around with a frown.
"I'm here...! DOH!!" As he raised back up the kid slammed his head on the table and laughed nervously. "PFFT, I j-just thought I saw a rat... and i... I just wanted to.. make sure..!" Looking at her he blushed and hoped she didn't think he was too weird now. After all it was embarrassing enough to know that his Uncle was there and that he was teasing them.
"Uh-huh, so... You never answered my question..." Smirking she leaned back on the table and grabbed his collar playfully. "Do you... think I'm cool... or... hot..?"
Oh it was a time like now that he realized just how badly he'd hit puberty a few years back. There was something he'd have to go over with his Uncle later on for sure as he squirmed and was happy for loose pants. "I... I think you're... " Azriels eyes again landed on his Uncle Stretch who'd morphed himself into a sign that pointed an arrow at Rin saying, 'HOT'!!. ..."Hot...! I MEAN... I ... I er... " He clamped his hand over his mouth and now even prayed she didn't think he was a jerk. "GAAAH...! I...I've gotta go to the bathroom, Be right back!" With that the poor boy darted off to the restroom and slammed the door shut behind him, " ARRGGH!! " He collapsed himself to the floor his face completely flushed over from everything that'd just happened to him. "Why of all... HIM?! WHY HIM!? Why ..no-o-oooww..?" Bashing his head against his hands he cried out in frustration. In the midst of his head banging Azriel hadn't noticed that his Uncle floated in on him. With that reaction there was no doubt in his mind that his Nephew liked this girl now.
"Aw, C'mon kid... Dun take it so hard da girls still out dhere! Yer Uncle Stretch is jus' tryin' t'have some fun!" The ghost grinned at Azriel before he ruffled his hair. "SO, Looks liek you really like dis chick! Why didn' ya's tell me about 'er before??" Stretch looked down at the boy curiously.
"Unc, I just found 'er again today! I met her way back in Kindergarten, but, this is the first time I've seen her in 10 years..! She just joined my school today.. But I... I do like her! She's a lot cuter than I remember her..." Laughing a moment he blushed but then snapped right out of it. "YOU!! Don't you do that to me again while I'm... I mean, what if she'd seen you!? She would've screamed and run off and then... Please don't scare her..! I'm beggin' ya...!!" Azriel grabbed onto his Uncles arms and stared desperately up at him as he shook him. Stretch at first didn't know what to make out of all of this as he pulled himself together.
"Gah, Sheesh, kid...! Dun worry 'bout it I won't scare 'er off..." The towering figure smirked at him. "In fact, If y'wanna ... show 'er around Whipstaff dat'd be okay too... I could get da udders outta dhere so you's can get her in if you'd like..." Rolling his eyes he kinda squirmed a moment. Azriel just kind of stared at him a moment as he waited to see if his Uncle had been joking or not. When he noticed that serious tone to his Uncles face he laughed and hugged onto him tightly.
"HAHA, YOU'RE THE BEST! Thank you so much..! I .. I didn't think you'd ever allow it..!" Azriel grinned widely.
"Yea' yea' yea', Gah, Stop it wit da gushin' get out dhere...! Before she thinks ya fell in..!" Quickly Stretch shoved the kid out the door and blushed a little afterwards."Damn it, I'm growin' freakin' soft ..." He grumbled and then grinned widely as he moved out into the main area having dressed up like a worker for there. He watched and waited for Azriel to get to his seat and start talking to Rin before he proceeded with this next part of his plan. Fixing up a smaller strawberry shake with some special looking sprinkles he placed two straws in it and strolled over to the two. "Well, well, well, aren't YOU two a cute couple!" He grinned widely. Azriel who'd been drinking his shake inhaled a little too rapidly after he saw his Uncle "Standing" there and started choking. The boy coughed and grabbed his throat as he stared wide-eyed at his Uncle, trying to figure out what exactly he had planned here now. "Dis he'e's on da house t'any couples dat're lookin' as cute as you two are...! Two straws t'share from da same drink... Now you two love birds enjoy, heheheee..."
"I ...i uh... but... We... I... " Azriels eyes shifted from the drink to Rin who blushed just about as much as he had been. "W-well... uh... T-This is...awkward... but... Wanna... drink it anyways..? Hahaha.."
"Might as well...! It's a free drink..! Though that guy was ...really..Pale..!" quietly she whispered as she started on this drink. Azriel just laughed and went along with it. This was all a part of Stretch's plan, after all he didn't want those two getting to Whipstaff before he had time to clear out his brothers and Fiona. Making sure he brought Ghastly's drink she'd wanted he soared back to Whipstaff in a hurry. There was no time to waste! When he arrived there his brothers and the two girls had argued about what they wanted to watch or do for the moment. In fact when Stretch had flown in Ghastly had been about an inch away from rearranging Fiona's face.
"WHOA... What's goin' on he'e...? Why don' we take out our frustrations in a more creative way shall we...?" Stretch grinned. "Dis means whether you air-heads wanna or not, we're goin' scarin'. NOW. Dere's a big pahty dat's takin' place down town...I got yer shake Darlin'... but uh, It'll have t'wait until latah. I put it in da cooler t'keep it ... fresh." He shrugged and placed an arm around Ghastly's shoulder.
"Hrmpg, GOOD, but as long as I don't have to scare in the SAME room as that.. dim-witted ghost... I'll be fine." With that Ghastly started out through the wall with Fatso and Stinkie close behind.
"Dim-Witted?? At least I don't let my breasts do the talking...! Whatta tramp..." Fiona grumbled and was quickly greeted by Stretch face to face.
"No-ONE... and I MEAN NO-ONE... calls MY Abigail A TRAMP!" Fiercely Stretch grabbed Fiona by the neck. "Keep yer pointed tongue off of my girl y'snake... or YOUR gonna have...a...BIG...big... problem. KAPEESH...? I've been pretty tolerant of yer STUNTS, but dat's one thing I dun allow in -MY- manor." With that he let her go and floated out of the room. It wasn't in his general nature to physically harm a woman, but when they provoked it out of him by means of un-womanly conduct, he'd forget his boundary. This chick was no different, even if it was Stinkie's old flame and best friend. He didn't care who the hell she was, no one walked over him, his family nor his friends like that. He'd dealt with what she'd been doing to Melle, but when it traveled to HIS girl..? Ohhh no. Fiona just stared frightenedly after Stretch as she clenched her throat gently. He'd actually managed to scare the daylights out of her. It'd been a very long time since she'd been treated in such a manner, and the last time she'd been treated in that way it was by...Chad. Tears filled her eyes as she followed and pushed them out having not wanted Stinkie to see them.
Meanwhile Azriel and Rin had finished up their shake and had started on their way towards the Manor joking about how they'd never have another shake again. Well, at least for awhile..! When they arrived Rin just stared at it amazed by it's size alone. She knew that it was big but never had she imagined that it was like THIS! "Whoooa..." The girl blinked as they walked towards the front door. "This is... this is HUGE...!! It's really creepy looking too... I almost expect Dracula to greet me at the door..." Laughing she looked at Azriel who hid his bike out of sight from anyone.
"Yeah, Well y'never know with this place... It was built back in the 1800's or better.." Gently he smiled and walked her inside. "Here's the Main room... Down that hall's the kitchen, over there's a restroom, that's the way to the library... and both stairs lead to the second level, though only one leads to the third on up.. The others are located elsewhere in the house. "First I'm going to go check up on my Mother okay...? I don't like leaving here alone for too long. " With that he started on up the stairs and towards his mothers "studio". Rin agreed and tagged along not wanting to be left behind. "MOM...?? MOM YOU UP HERE...??" He called down the hall. When he heard his mother answer he grinned and raced towards her. "C'mon..! This way...!" Azriel laughed and pulled Rin along behind him as he held her hand. Rin blushed a little it was cute the way he was excited to see his mother. With how he acted, she expected him not to be like this at all. It was nice to see how much he cared about someone..
"Hey there, How was school honey...? Ooh... I see.." Melle giggled as she covered her mouth and stared at Rin. "You brought home a friend...? Does your Uncle know...?" With how badly Stretch liked to scare fleshies, that's one of the first things she wanted to know. She wasn't so concerned on Fatso or Stinkie doing it on their own.
"Yeah, This is Rin...! I used to know her from Kindergarten. I'm going to take her on a tour of the manor. Though I thought that I'd introduce ya first..! Well uh, we've got a lot to cover before they get back so uh, I'd better take her and go.. but I just wanted to check up on ya..." He grinned nervously and hugged her tightly.
"Aawww... honey, You didn't have to... I'm fine, Now you two go and have fun okay..? Don't do anything I wouldn't do! " Laughing Melle waved after them sticking out her tongue. It was from there on that Azriel showed Rin his room, the library, introduced her to Dr. Harvey and Kat. Though he steered away from her being introduced to any ghosts to the best of his abilities. In fact he even traveled to spots with her that the Trio nor Fiona ever wandered to for some reason or another. Though that was just perfect for him. This allowed them to spend some time alone together.