Thanks for the reviews once again. hehe XD This took me a while because I've been on a trip cause the last week has been my spring break but...T-T I'm back at school now. Why can't we just have 2 weeks like winter break, eh? Bet ya'll missed me though o haha just kidding.
Disclaimer: see chapter 1 for more detail.
Author's note: -blows kazoo- yay! I'm at my 5th chapter -sniffle- Who woulda thought I'd actually get this far? (Backround: before I stopped writing for a few months I normally really didn't get past 4 chapters cause...well I'm lazy.)
Chapter 5
"Riku! I don't know what's better, having my first kiss or having it with Satoshi!" Risa squealed at the breakfast table. The sisters were eating cereal on the Saturday morning and Riku was reading the newspaper. She looked over the top of the paper and stared at Risa annoyed.
"That's great." she muttered. Then Riku went on reading mummbling things like "Thanks for bragging about it for the hundreth time." and "At least you didn't have it with that horrible pervert, Dark.". She kept reading then laughed and shouted, "Hey some guy caught a huge fish, look at the picture."
Risa giggled and swallowed another spoonful of chocolate cereal. As she finished, she washed her dish and took Riku's to wash (she was in that good of a mood, even though Riku hadn't even finished her breakfast.). When she finished, she wiped her forehead with her pajama sleeve and sighed. "Hard work." Riku rolled her eyes. Risa skipped around. Her happiness was annoying Riku than it normally did. She found a little stone from one of their potted plants and threw it at Risa.
She yelped. "Ow! What was that for?" Riku shugged, hiding her grin behind the newspaper. "What did you throw at me?" Risa spun around a couple times, looking for what Riku had thrown at her. She spotted their message machine blinking and dashed over to it. "Hey, did you know someone left a message?" Riku shook her head, then continued to ignored Risa.
Risa pushed the button that played the messages. It said:
You currently have one new message.
"Hey Risa, Riku." a happy female's voice said. "It's Mom and Dad here."
"Mum!" Risa shouted to Riku, waving her arms frantically. "Riku, come listen. It's Mum!" She heard Riku grumbling something from behind the paper, she wasn't much of a morning person.
"I just wanted to say hi. I haven't talked to you, Risa, in a while. I talked to Riku last night. She said you had already fell asleep so we didn't want to wake you. Just call back ok?" Risa was nodding as fast as she could. "Anyway, I really want to hear about your new boyfriend." They heard her mom giggle. Risa instantly glared at Riku. "From what Riku said, I don't think I've met him but-" She couldn't say anymore because her father butted in.
"Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute. A boy? You mean as a guy...who's dating and kissing?"
"Isn't that all that there is?" their mom asked.
"Oh no no no no. I'm not going to have my daughter being manipulated. All these teenage boys do is try and get into your pants!" The girls were now looking at eachother. Riku muttered, "He doesn't know Satoshi, obviously."
"Honey, I'm sure he's not like that." they could tell by their mother's voice that she was trying to calm him down.
"Right," he said. Riku and Risa were now laughing loudly. They could just imagine the scene between their parents right now. "Alright Risa, I want a picture, profile, telephone or cell phone number and I WANT TO TALK TO HIM! I need to make sure that he won't put a hand on my daughter with wrong intent. GOT IT? I WANT IT BY-" There was a long beep. The twins were now doubled over with laughter. Their parents had wasted all the time on the message.
Once the two calmed down, Risa went upstairs to get ready for their date. She took a shower, then went to choose her outfit. "RIKU! CAN YOU COME UP HERE?" Risa screamed out.
Within minutes, Riku was in her sister's room. "What do you need?"
"Can you help me choose a good outfit?" Riku was already walking to the door. "Wait!" she stopped. "I just thought since you've been on more of these "dates" I thought you could help...because you have experience."
"Well, if you put it that way." Riku walked back by her sister.
Hook, line and sinker. Risa thought, smiling broadly. She watched Riku search through her closet when something caught her eye. The skirt she was wearing last night waslaying on her dresser, a white sphere sitting right next to it. She walked over to pick it up and look at it. "Hey Riku,"
"How about this blouse?" Riku said, ignoring her and pulling out a frilly daisy yellow shirt.
"Ok, but look at this." she showed her the pearl.
"Oh, it's probably a fake pearl or something. Maybe it's like a decorating marble or something."
"But Satoshi gave it to me. I don't think it's fake." Risa stared at the pearl.
"Last night he was so weird. Satoshi sure was in a rush to see you. Then, smack!" she clapped her hands together. "You two kissed so suddenly."
Risa's face began to burn as she started to blush. The image was flashing in her head. It was all she dreamt the night before. "Well, I want to see if it's real. We have quite a few hours 'till my date."
"Do we have to?" Riku whined. She growled at Risa who was giving her the puppy-dog-eyes treatment. "Fine, whatever." She threw the blouse at her and stormed out of the room.
After about fifteen minutes, they met at the front door. Risa was wearing the blouse Riku picked out with a dark blue short skirt. She was going to go straight from the jewlery store to the museum. Riku came down in a red hoodie and jean shorts. "Ready to go?" she nodded and followed her older sister.
When they walked into the store, a bell jingled. The store was outlined with glass cases and the floor was made of clean marble. A large crystal chandelier hung in the middle of the place. The girls walked up to the clerk but let him finish with his current customer. Once he was finished, he turned to them and asked, "What may I help you with?"
"Hi." Risa smiled cheerfully. "I was wondering if you could tell me if this pearl I've received is real or not."
The man nodded and said, "Sure. Why don't you let me see it?" She handed him the pearl. His eyes widened. "Look how white it is." he whispered to himself. He looked up at the two and nodded. "I will do what I can."
Risa and Riku waited for a little bit until he came back out with a look of astonishment spread on his face. Risa rushed up to him. "So?"
"It's-It's amazing." was all he said for a minute. "This is one of the purest around and it's real. Real, alright..." Risa stared at him for a minute. He sure is acting weird...her thoughts were inturupted by the sales clerk. "How much do you want for it. I can offer up to five hundred."
"But sir, I wanted-"
"I can raise it by another hundred. Is that what you want?'
"No sir." she could hear the man give a frustrated growl. "I was wondering if you could put it on a silver chain so I can wear it as a necklace."
He rolled his eyes. "Are you sure?" Risa nodded. "Ok, it will only take me about a half an hour. It will cost you about $100."
"No problem." she handed him the money and he went to work.
Another beautiful day. Risa held back her hair from blowing as she walked to the entrance doors. Her new necklace blew with the wind too. "Wow, what took you so long?" someone shouted at her. She looked up and saw Satoshi. He was wearing casual clothes, a gray t-shirt with a design on it and baggy pants. Seeing Satoshi smiling at her, she couldn't help but smile back.
Risa ran up to him and hugged Satoshi. "I'm so excited." she beamed. Satoshi nodded but he looked like he couldn't find his voice. She stared up at his face and noticed something. "Hey! You're not wearing you glasses."
"Yeah..." he thought for a minute. "I'm wearing contacts. It'd be better not to wear glasses here."
"Why?"
Satsohi sighed. "Fine, I guess I'll tell you. I work here, I don't fell like being interrogated while we're here. These thick idiots wouldn't be smart enough to notice me without my glasses at least."
"Really?" Risa saw something pass by her shoe and followed it then looked up. "That's all? That's fine! Come on, why don't we get inside. It's getting windy." Satoshi agreed and held the door open for Risa. Risa chortled and went inside.
The inside was very fancy. The floor here was marble too. There were paintings along the walls and statues in the middle. A gasp escaped her mouth with amazement. She had never been in here; Risa had passed by it so many times but never actually walked in. "Why don't we look around?" Risa approved, took his hand and walked around the place.
"What do you want from here? They have a large menu." Satoshi had asked Risa. They had looked around the museum for about an hour. Now they were getting lunch. There was just a food stand surrounded by a large grassy field. Satoshi said it was there for picnics and couple gatherings.
"Hm, how about a teriyaki sandwich?" she pointed up at the space that read it. "With a cup of lemonade?"
"Yeah, that sounds good." Satoshi took out his wallet and pulled out a five dollar bill. He then spoke to the cashier. "Can I have two teriyaki sandwichs. She'd like a lemonade but I'll have a cup of water." The cashier walked in the back to get the food.
"That will be $4.50." Satoshi handed him the dollar. "Fifty cents is your change. Thank you for purchasing." Satoshi picked up the tray and as they left, they heard the cashier say, "Now it's my turn for lunch."
The two ate in an empty space in the field. A large oak tree stood in front of them, providing a large shawdow for them. Risa and Satoshi took the spot and ate. Risa took a big bite of the sandwich and smiled widely. "Yummy." she giggled. Satoshi smirked and bent in close to her. Risa first didn't take any notice to his actions and raised the sandwich to her mouth. He pushed it down and placed his lips on hers.
Risa was at first suprised. A couple seconds later, she relaxed and responded back to him, tightening her lips on Satoshi's. Sooner than she wanted, he pulled away and found his own sandwich. He upwrapped the foil and took a bite of it too. "You're right, this is pretty good."
She looked down at her's, no longer craving it. With a resistance, she ate her own. Throughout the meal, she sulked. Satoshi was acting like he didn't do anything.
"I'm going to get another water. Want anything?" Satoshi stood up, motioning toward the stand.
"No." squeaked Risa. He took off, leaving Risa alone now. She scooted to the tree and rested her head on the trunk.
Everything around was just so...calm and relaxing. The temperature was warm, a cool, soothing wind was blowing and there were no loud noises. As she stared at the green grass, it started to become blury. She felt the wind overtaking her and saw the green swirling around.
Then next thing she remembered she was walking up stairs. Risa opened a door that led to a room overed in light blue and toys. Her eyes fell on a rocking chair, then a crib in the corner of the room. She stepped to the crib and looked in. There was a small baby in a white outfit, sucking on it's pacifier.
She breathed easy and smirked lightly. Suddenly the baby began to cry. With a mother's intuition, she picked up the baby and began rocking him in her arms. Immediately, he stopped crying and started giggling. Risa waved her finger in front of the baby and he laughed harder, trying to catch the finger.
Risa seemed so happy. What a beautiful child she had. She sat down in the rocking chair and rocked back and forth. The baby stopped laughing and laid back. Rock a bye baby on the treetop, Risa sang softly. When the wind blows, the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks the cradle will fall. Down will come baby. She noticed that he had finally fallen asleep. Cra-dle and all.
After Risa put him back in his craddle, she walked back down the stairs. Then she heard someone and rushed to the kitchen, where she thought where the voice came from.
"Yes?" she stopped at the opening. He- Risa couldn't find the words to say, or even think. There stood Satoshi, he looked tall and mature, yet he had the most horrible look on his face. Not one part of his face showed any sign of anything but misery and sadness. "W-what's wrong, Satoshi?" she finally was able to say.
He said nothing. For a few moments, they stood there, not saying anything to eachother. Nothing until he stepped foward. Satoshi didn't hug her or even touch her with his hands; he just let his head fall on her shoulder. "Sato-" Risa wanted to say something comforting to him but she couldn't. He started to break down on her shoulder. Risa felt his warm tears fall on her shirt and heard him weep. His short breaths controlled how his body twitched.
Risa's face twisted up. She couldn't stand seeing him like this. "This is it, isn't it?" she whimpered, her eyes began to fill with water. "We're going to die arn't we?" Satoshi cried even harder now. Tears were now streaming down Risa's own face.
The two stayed there and cried. They didn't stop, at least Risa never knew if they did. Slowly, everything faded to black and the sobs washed away. All Risa saw was darkness until she felt wind pushing on her cheek and began to stir.
She tried to open her eyes. It was seeming hard but she relized that she was laying on something soft. Risa saw that she was on something gray. She looked up and Satoshi was gazing down at her with a worried face.
"You had a dream so sad that it made you cry?" he said.
Risa froze. Her hands shot up to her face. "You're right! Why am I crying?" she wiped away the drying tears. "Or rather, when did I fall asleep?" While she began to freak out, Satoshi crunched together the wrapper he had in his hand.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah." Risa used her sleeve to get rid of the rest of the wetness. Satoshi was rubbing the tears if his shirt from where Risa was. Great, Satoshi saw me crying.When he was down, he looked up and smiled at her.
"I'm glad you are." Satoshi stood up and put the wrapper in his pocket.
"So, how long have you been waiting?"
"About an hour."
Risa jumped up gasping. "AN HOUR? Why did you wait?"
Satoshi smirked and shook his head. "Don't be so silly." he walked to the closest garbage can and threw away his trash. "I couldn't leave you alone." Satoshi walked back to her. "Now we don't want anything to happen to you do we?" he bent down, lifted Risa's chin and kissed her softly.
She looked at him dazed when they split. "I hope that I didn't ruin anything for you." Risa said in a quiet voice.
"Of course not." Satoshi took her arm and helped her up. "Why don't we head home?" Risa nodded and walked with Satoshi.
"Well, it looks like this is your stop." They had stopped in front of Risa's walkway.
"I guess." she stared at her feet. "I'll see you tomorrow ok?" When Risa looked back up at him, tears were built up at the corner of her eyes.
"Yup." Satoshi leaned over and smooched her on her cheek. "See you at school." Risa walked to her door and waved.
She opened up her front door and walked through it. The minute she got in, Riku ran up to her. She was jumping up and down and was really excited. "Wow, what's up Riku. Why are you so happy?"
"Look at this!" Riku shouted. She handed Risa a letter.
Risa unfolded the paper. It read:
Dear Risa and Riku,
Your father and I will be staying in Azumano for a few days. We miss you guys so we decided to drop by. See you in a couple days.
Love,
Mom.
"Mom's coming home!" Risa and Riku hugged eachother. "Can you believe it? We're gonna have to tidy up, you know."
The two knew they had to clean but they could do it another day. They ate dinner together, talking about all the things they could show mom and joke around about what dad was going to say about Satoshi and Daisuke. Risa also told Riku about the date. They shouted out of excitement everytime Risa said he kissed her.
When they finished, Risa told Riku that she was really tired. "Really? It's only seven."
"Yeah I'm sure." and without another word, Risa walked off.
She got into her lace pajamas and covered herself in her bedsheets. Risa fell asleep as the crying of herself and Satoshi, crying of a baby and hearing her voice screaming, "Please! No! Not my baby!" rang in her head and the warm tears wetted her pillow case.
...even though that very long, it still took me a week to write...i so busy with work. Hey, let's admit it, schools like to torture u because u get a break and they dont.
Author's Notes: With the chocolate cereal thing, i always figured that's how Risa was always hyper.
and it's kinda ironc that while i was writing the dream scene, the song "Tonight I wanna cry" by Keith Urban was playing...
lol well please Review! 6th chapter should come soon since its the weekend!