Chapter 3
You are walking down the hall, when you heard a strange noise. Like… panting… you think. It's coming from one of the rooms down the hall. When you walk by Keith's door, there, it was the loudest. You open the door, poke your head in and see that someone is under the blanket. You stand with a strange look on your face, when Keith's head pops out from under the blanket. He looks at you with a scared face. You hear a sexy "What's wrong, Keith-y?" from under the blanket, then Trace's head comes out from under the blanket. They have the same scared look on their faces. You slam the door closed and run away. When you're in the kitchen, you grab a glass of water and think "WHAT THE HEAK?" Then you see Keith and Trace kissing on the table. You freak out and run away again but you see them around the corner. Wherever you run, there's Keith and Trace having the best times of their lives. Then one of the Keiths runs up to you, grabs you and shakes you, yelling something.
And suddenly, you awake to see Flora shaking you. "Hey! Wake up!" she says.
"Ok, ok, I'm up! I'm up! Why were you shaking me?" You say.
"It looked like you were having a bad dream."
Then she laughs a bit and walks out from your room. You wonder why she laughed, and look at your blanket. You see that you wet your bed. You blush and get up, get some new clothes and go to the bathroom. You start to draw hot water for a bath, and you hear a gasp. You turn your head around, and you can't believe what you see. With an awkward look on your face, you suddenly realize that your dream wasn't really a dream...
You turn around and look into the next bath to see Kathrin and Flora in the tub, up against each other, 'washing' each others backs. "Oh gods, this can't be happening!" you yell as you jump out of your bath. As you rush out of the shower room, you slam into Natani, who, it seems, has, can it be? Are those... HE'S A SHE? "Nononnono, this can't be right at all!" You say, glancing behind you, as you run away from him, or her?
As you go around the next corner, you look over your shoulder for a second, then look back just in time to see a door.
WHACK
You wake up; your face against the floor. You fall the rest of the way off the chair and hit the floor. You sit up and look around, but notice that Kat isn't in your room. You stand up, your head throbbing from the hit against the ground, or was it a door? Confused, you shake it off, get into some clean clothes, and go to the table for breakfast. But, nobody is there. 'Where are they?' You think.
You look across the table to the clock on the wall. 11:30? Just then, you hear something up on deck. You go up to have a look.
When you get up on deck, you see everyone crowded around what looks like, a birthday cake? Just when you are about to ask whats going on, Natani comes up to you and says "Its Keith's birthday! Hurry up! You're gonna miss the cake cutting!" As you get up to the table, They just finished singing 'Happy Birthday' to Keith. Mike hands you a plate and Evals makes the first cut into the cake. Eric comes up from inside the ship with lemonade and iced tea. He pours some of each in the cups, and everyone takes their pick.
You sit down to eat your cake, when Eric pulls up a chair next to you. "I know what you did last night was just to comfort Kathrin, but she woke up this morning, VERY early and went into her room and closed the door. She hasn't let me in or talked to me much since then. I think that you could help her out of her state of shock. What do you think would help?"
"I think, that some 1on1 talk will help, seeing how it helped her last time. We could figure out what is happening."
Eric nods. "I think that that would help, since you to seem to get along fairly well, for example, she letting you carry her back to your room, and I'm also surprised that she even let you sleep in there with her. You two have some sort of connection, almost like some brothers and sisters have. But I don't know. You've barely been on this boat for 9 days, and every one but Keith seems to like you." You reply "Ill be on my way down shortly. I'll finish my cake, grab her a slice, and head on down.
As you walk into Eric's room and near Kat's door. It flies open and you get pulled in. The door slams shut, and a light turns on. You see Kat 3 inches from your face and she has you pinned against the wall "I couldn't wait a moment longer." She says. Just then, you recognize this strange smell. 'A Keidran in- But wait,' you ask yourself, 'wasn't she in it a few... oh. That was two months ago, like Eric said. Ah crap.'
You brace yourself for the impact as she starts ripping off your shirt. You think to yourself 'Oh crap.' as she throws you down on the bed, with such force, you think she might break it. She then throws off her ropes and almost pulls you off the bed, when she yanks off your pants.
She steps back a little, and jumps on top of you, once again almost breaking the bed. You two, mainly just her, then proceed to, ehem... with such noise, you wonder why the others don't hear you. As you stare into each others eyes, you notice a look that comes across Kat's face like a big weight was just lifted off of her.
As you two 'do the dirty deed' all around that little room, you two end up back on the bed, you both, (um, how do I say this with out sounding like a perv?) 'near completion' and Kat lets out a howl that seems to rattle the door, and faints. You roll off the bed and onto the floor in a sort of relaxed daze, stand up and put her on the bed. As you get ready to leave, you remember that Kat ripped up your shirt. So you put on your pants, pick up whats left of your shirt (which isn't much), put a blanket over Kat, and slowly open the door, and sneak back to your room. You throw on a new not-ripped shirt, and go back on deck.
As you get to the top of the stairs, Flora stumbles over to you and says "Hey, fox-Danny-boy! Whaat tok you sooo long down there wit' Kat?" She smiles, and leans on your shoulder. 'I better be careful,' you think to yourself. 'She seems drunk, and I wouldn't want Trace opening a can of whoop-ass on me.' She says "C'mon, foxboy! Er- *hiccup* Eric got out his wine and that milk I likes to celebrate Keith-y's birthday"
You ask her how long you were down with Kat.
Flora: * Hiccups * "Y-you and Kat was down there for a long time. Me thinks that you an' her got busy, if you know what I mean..."
"Heh, ok." You blush a little and hurry your way past her and up to the table. "Glad you could join us, Daniel!" Eric says as he hands you some wine. "Or would you prefer the milk?" He chuckles a little.
"Its ok. Ill just have some wine."
"Ok then. So, what did you and Kat talk about?"
"Um, you know, just some stuff."
"What kind of 'stuff'?"
You quickly make up a not-so-convincing lie: "Well, she said that being on this boat for this long of a time and not being at home is starting to make her a little home-sick."
"Ah, ok. Ill Talk to her later when the party dies down a little."
"Ok"
The party continues late into the evening as you and the others become closer friends, except for Keith, of course. As the evening dwells on, you start to think back to that dream you had where Natani was a woman. 'How can she hide those massive things', you think to yourself. You catch yourself staring at her and she, or he looks over at you and walks up to you.
"You're starting to creep me out. Why are you staring at me?" S/he says. "Oh, um, I dunno. I guess I'm just tired, or something." You reply, looking at the ground. "Well, just stop, please. Its really creepy." S/he turns around and starts walking away. You can't help but look up and watch him/her walk away. S/he looks back over her/his shoulder and you quickly look away.
After that somewhat awkward encounter, you go up to Keith to ask him a question,
"Hey Keith?"
"Oh, hey Daniel. What's up?"
"Um, I know this is a weird question to ask, but do you think Natani's a chick?"
"... I dont want to talk abou that." He gets up, and goes and pours himself more wine. You follow after him.
"I mean, he just seems so much like a woman." You say. "Just look at how skinny he is, and his chest looks a little larger than it should be, don't you think?"
Keith, already knowing the answer, gets a little un-easy. "Well, um, now that you mention it, she-I mean HE does look a little like a woman... I don't want to talk about this right now. Its, its just a little awkward, you know? You're been on this boat for only a little over a week, and you're already questioning peoples sexuality. Its... its just not right. Its like you just want to know just so you can 'do' Natani. Its WEIRD." He picks up his glass, grabs another slice of cake and sits down at a table.
After he sits down, Natani comes up to you. "What were you two talking about? I heard my name a few times. I just got curious, so I wanted to ask."
You blush a little. 'Oh crap.'
End Chapter 3