Authors Note: For this chapter, I made a songfic, just to add a little atmosphere and because I've had the song in my head all day.
Wally rowed the boat slowly and with great difficulty, his arm was really hurting with the motion that he used to steer the oars, yet he knew that Kuki was too weak to do it and they had to get back somehow.
He kept his mind off it by watching Kuki as she examined her refection in the water.
"I hope I don't stay looking like this. Do you know how much makeup it will take to cover these dark eyes?" She moaned.
Wally chuckled and continued to row. To him, she'd always be as beautiful, no matter how dark her eyes were. He had one thing on his mind, which he wanted to do.
Wilbur would have done it. But Wally wouldn't.
He was too scared to even attempt to kiss her.
There you see her
Sitting there across the way
She don't got a lot to say
But there's something about her
And you don't know why
But you're dying to try
You wanna kiss the girl
She smiled and turned to face him.
"Well, at least your arms not broken, if it was, you wouldn't be able to move it like that."
He listened to her and nodded.
Kuki leant over and touched it gently. Although it was painful for Wally, he didn't mind.
"Wow, it's pretty swollen." She said in a worried tone.
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It's possible she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
It don't take a word
Not a single word
Go on and kiss the girl
They said nothing for a while. Just sat and looked around, at anywhere but at each other
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
My, oh, my
Look at the boy too shy
He ain't gonna kiss the girl
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Ain't that sad
Ain't it shame, too bad
He gonna miss the girl
Wally stopped rowing for a while and began gently rubbing his arm, the pain was getting worse.
"Is it hurting you too much?" Kuki asked.
"Yeah, I think it's the rowing." Wally replied quietly.
"Oh, you want me to take over?" She said casually.
"You can try." He nodded, handing her the oars. She tried to use the oars to paddle the boat, but was too weak and uncoordinated to do so.
Rain began to pour down onto the water and got heavier and heavier, until in a few seconds flat, Wally and Kuki were soaked.
Wally grabbed onto the oars and continued to row, still ignoring the pain.
He looked around for somewhere to go.
"I'll just take it under that tree." He told her, nodding his head towards a small island with a weeping willow covering it.
"Wow, that's so beautiful!" Kuki stated as they got closer to it."
He steered the boat through the trees branches and left it to float once they were underneath it.
"We can wait here until the rain goes. Hopefully the pain in my arm will have gone by then." Wally said calmly. Placing the oars next to his feet. He looked up at Kuki, who was smiling back at him.
Now's your moment
Floating in a blue lagoon
Boy, you better do it soon
No time will be better
She don't say a word
And she won't say a word
Until you kiss the girl
He slid off the bench and onto the floor of the boat and made himself comfy, half lying down, resting his upper back on the bench.
Kuki also slid off and joined him, at first she lay the opposite side of him. But decided that she was cold and eventually snuggled up to his chest.
He allowed her to do it, blushing madly as she nuzzled his neck with her nose.
Feeling her shivering, he wrapped his arms around her, trying to warm her up.
"Kuki, I'm sorry." He whispered.
"For what?" She whispered back sleepily.
"Lying to you...Pretending to be 'Wilbur' " He sighed.
Kuki also sighed and rolled onto her side so that she could look him in the eye.
"Wally, don't you think that I know my best friend no matter what his clothes of hair colour are like?" She said, staring into his eyes.
"Didn't you even guess that I knew it was you the whole time?" She added with a small smile.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't be scared
You got the mood prepared
Go on and kiss the girl
"You did?" He asked in disbelief, also rolling to his side to make better eye contact.
"Yeah, especially with that ridiculous accent!" She laughed.
Wally also chuckled and then sighed.
"Well, Chase and Dylan will laugh at all the lies we thought of then." He smiled.
"...Chase knew." Kuki admitted. "Dylan didn't know anything."
"What?" Wally looked at her, shocked. "Chase knew that I was acting like somebody else for nothing because you already knew?"
Kuki nodded and giggled. Wally smacked his head goofily and started to laugh.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Don't stop now
Don't try to hide it how
You wanna kiss the girl
Wally and Kuki stared at one another for what seemed like hours, when only a few minutes passed by.
"Hey, your back to looking like the Kuki I know." Wally smiled.
The delightful effect had worn off and Kuki now looked like she always had.
Kuki sat up and looked at her reflection.
"Thank goodness for that." She sighed and lay back down. "I wasn't looking forward to facing Numbuh 5 and looking like that, I never would have lived it down."
Wally smiled and then thought of something.
"If you knew that it was me the whole time, then why did you act like you didn't know? And why did you kiss me, back at my house?" He asked.
She blushed slightly as she got herself comfortable to answer him.
"Well, maybe we were both acting. When I first saw you as Wilbur, I didn't know how to act, so I tried to make you show yourself...you know by making you skate when I knew you couldn't and, asking where you lived and stuff like that." She smiled.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Float along
Listen to the song
The song say kiss the girl
Wally listened intently as she told him her story.
"Then after you walked me home, I called Chase and asked him about it. When I finally got him to tell me the truth...well I guess that I thought it was real sweet...And well, when we kissed, I just figured that Wally would never have the guts to do it. So Wilbur would be good enough." She smiled.
Sha-la-la-la-la-la
Music play
Do what the music say
You wanna kiss the girl
Wally took a deep breath and swallowed his fear. Then reached up his hand and cupped it around her cheek.
She gazed back at him and followed his lead to move closer towards him.
You've got to kiss the girl
Why don't you kiss the girl
You gotta kiss the girl
Go on and kiss the girl
Their lips met and both of their fears went away as they both relaxed.
Kuki wrapped her arms around his waist as she rolled onto her back, both still bound by their lips.
This was nothing like the kiss that they shared in Wally's house. This was a full make-out.
The only time their lips would break would be for a millisecond to take in air, before they once again crashed lips.
Wally used his good arm to hold himself up and was careful not to put all of his weight on Kuki as he hovered over her.
After about five minutes, they broke apart. Wally rolled onto his back and Kuki cuddled up to him.
He wrapped his arms around her again and soon they fell into a peaceful and happy sleep.