Chapter 14: One Night to Remember--Part I--Confessions

It was now nighttime and a week later here in the little town of Peach Creek as we come upon the local school known as Peach Creek Middle School. Here, we could see some adults preparing for the Fall Dance that the school usually does every fall semester. This year's theme for the dance was 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Naturally, all of the kids were excited about going to this years dance.

Anyway, we soon come upon the nearest neighborhood to the school, the Peach Creek Cul-De-Sac. Here, we soon see someone walk out of the second house to the right of the entrance. It was Eddy; he was all dressed for the dance, tuxedo and all (AN: I'm thinking this as I'm typing… Tuxedo Eddy! XD). He soon started to walk towards the bus stop, where he soon saw all of the Cul-De-Sac kids. They were all dressed for the dance too; even Plank, who wore a little tux himself! (O.O)

They all waited for about a minute before the town's bus arrived for them. As everyone got on the bus, the Ed's glanced around the bus, only to see that the five girls from the other neighborhood were not riding. This made all three of their hearts drop a little; why aren't they on the bus? The bus then started to move as the three Ed's soon sat down in a bus seat; all of them stared out of their windows beside them.

It was about five minutes later that the bus arrived to the school. And when everyone started to get off the bus, the three Ed's then noticed someone standing at the front of the school on the school's front steps. The Ed's smiled at who those people were; it was Corina, Bridget and Kikki. It was as they came to greet each other that Eddy noticed something about Corina, 'That dress she's wearing… it's the same one that she wore in that freaky dream when that kid came and…'

"… Eddy?"

"Huh?" he questioned as he looked to see Corina and the others looking at him with confusion, "It looked like you dazed off on us for a moment," Corina started to say, which started to make Eddy blush a little, "Is there something bothering you?"

"Oh, nope; t-there's nothin' wrong with me! It's just…" Eddy started to reply back, turning even redder in his cheeks at what he was going to say, "You, uh… y-you look beautiful."

That's when Corina blushed to Eddy, almost as red as he was, "T-Thank you Eddy."

The six of them soon walked into the school, unaware that they were being watched by three figures; Raiki, Crizum and Pangia.

"So, I suspect you're gonna go after your little Lorikeet, aren't you Raiki?" questioned Pangia to the white haired Raiki.

He could only nod his head, "Right," Raiki then turned to Crizum, "And you're going after Ruby; but why not Lettuce? She seems to be weaker of the two."

"I'm going after the stronger of the two for the 'entertainment' factor," Crizum stated as he then turned to Pangia, "And what about you?"

"I'm going to do the same thing as you, of course; only with Mr. Greenie Knight," Pangia replied.

They all nodded their heads as they turned back towards the school, where all of the student's were inside, having a good time…

Meanwhile, inside the gymnasium of the school, we could see all of the students standing around, doing random things. We could see Kevin, Nazz, Jimmy and Sarah standing around in a group, with Kevin and Jimmy discussing an irritating pain that struck their necks last night while Nazz and Sarah listened on without thinking much about what that really meant towards them.

Meanwhile, over with Johnny and Plank, Johnny was talking with his inanimate friend about the pain that he had on his neck last night when he stopped talking to see the table where the refreshments were being served at. He saw a black haired girl with natural white highlights in them.

"… What's that buddy?" Johnny started to question as he raised Plank up to his right ear, "… You want me to go talk to her?" he paused again, as if Plank were responding to him, "Okay!" he replied with a smile as he stood up from where he sat and went over to the girl serving the punch and food.

Johnny finally arrived over to where the table was as the girl was fixing more punch in paper cups, "Hi there!" he greeted.

The girl looked towards him, her eyes were brown and slightly covered up by her oval shaped glasses, "Oh, hello there. Do you need a drink?" she then asked.

"Plank and I just wanted to say hi, that's all," Johnny replied as he then showed her Plank in his tux, "… Huh? What's that buddy?" he then put Plank back up to his ear as he then looked back at the girl, "Plank wants to know your name."

The girl made a warm smile to him, "My name's Amelia."

Meanwhile, over with Mark, Ichigo and Renée, Renée was watching Mark and Ichigo conversing with one another when she felt a sudden tapping on her shoulder. She turned around to see Rolf, "Rolf?" Renée questioned; she could see a few dark circles under his eyes, indication that he hasn't had enough sleep, "What's--"

"Why?" he finally started to ask her, "Why do you remind Rolf of Regina?"

Renée made a shocked face; no one has called her that name in ages, "How do you know my real name?" she asked.

Rolf made a sad face; it was bringing back a memory, "Rolf had a friend-who-was-a-girl named Regina," he said, "Rolf and Regina were friends until something happened to her; Regina disappeared, along with her family."

"… Where did you use to live?" Renée start to question.

"In the Alps," Rolf replied as he gave her a confused look, "Why?"

"… I use to live there once as well," she replied back, "… I was called Regina back then too."

Rolf turned pale at where this was leading too, "T-Then Renée is…?!"

"Yes Rolf," Renée stated as she turned to him, "It's me, Regina; your girlfriend."

Meanwhile (AN: Oh my god, don't you hate it when that happens?! 8D), we could see Ed and Kikki dancing out on the dance floor… while there was no music on. They were both laughing as they did all kinds of dance combining moves (AN: One of them being the infamous Chicken Dance, much to Ed's joy). It was while they were dancing that some people started to mimic them, think that it was some sort of new dance, "What do you call this dance?" asked a random kid.

The two preteens looked at each other before they both laughed and said, "It's the Emerald Pudding dance!"

"Emerald Pudding dance, eh? That's cool!" the kid said as he then went off to do the Emerald Pudding dance.

Ed and Kikki both started to laugh again for a moment before Kikki finally stated, "You're too funny, Ed. I like you like that."

Ed seemed to freeze up at her statement, "I-I like you too, Kikki!"

They both smiled at each other as they then went back to doing the Emerald Pudding dance; their dance.

Meanwhile, back over to where the tables were we can see Double D and Bridget looking over at Ed and Kikki, dancing away to their hearts contents. They soon start to hear slow music coming on as Ed and Kikki then left the dance floor; they don't like slow songs anyway.

Bridget soon felt a hand being placed on her right shoulder as she looked up and behind to see Double D behind her, "Would you like to dance, Bridget?" he asked.

Bridget blushed a fever red in her cheeks at the question, "A-Alright…" she finally stuttered as she got up from where she at while she and Double D went out onto the dance floor, along with other random kids.

They swayed back and forth in a waltz as the slow song was being played. It was while they did this that Double D noticed Bridget; she was being awfully quiet, "Bridget, is there something wrong?" he asked.

"… Actions speak louder than words, Double D," she stated as she then did the unexpected; she came in closer to his face and gave him a peck kiss on his right cheek.

This caught Double D completely off guard as he blushed red as a beet at her sudden actions towards him, "Bridget…" he muttered as he then did the unexpected himself; he embraced her as they continued to dance.

This also made Bridget blush red as a beet at his sudden actions towards her, "Double D…" she started to ask him, "Do you… feel the same way?"

"… Yes Bridget; I do," Double D replied with a smile. She smiled back as they continued to dance to the slow song…

Meanwhile, outside and away from the dance, we could see Eddy and Corina sitting on the stairs in front of the entrance to the school, gazing at the stars above them. They both had sort of content faces to them, until…

"So, uh, Corina…" Eddy started to say as Corina turned her attention towards him, "There's, uh, something I gotta say to ya now…"

Corina could feel herself starting to blush in her face, "… What is it?" she asked.

"I, uh, well, you see…" Eddy started to say again as he finally turned to her and said, "I love you."

And before Corina could do or say anything, Eddy leaned in towards her face and gave her a long, kiss on her lips. Corina widened her eyes and blushed even more while he continued his kiss. And when he finally separated from her, you could see both of them blushing as red as a tomato.

"So, Corina?" Eddy started to ask with his usual, slightly boastful attitude, "What did ya think of--?!"

Before Eddy could finish her sentence, Corina replied to him with a kiss of her own, making Eddy stop his sentence short. Eddy blushed like the color of a beet while she continued to kiss him. And when Corina finally separated from him, she muttered, "I love you too, Eddy…"

Wow, what a lovely chapter! O3O Everything is now set into place for the next chapter... 83