Oh yay!!!! Part 4!!

Dear Bunnychan360: Thanks for the ideas! I loved them! (And I'll probably use them sometime in the next few chapters so watch out!) And yeah…I can't stand Maya either….she will never join the group if I can help it… HAHA! Thanks oh so much for your review!

Dear Random Jelly Beans: I love you. That's all I can say. Reading your review made me laugh, I'm so glad you are liking the story so far! I'm torn between Chase and Gill as well. They are both just so loveable! And I added more Chasyness with you in mind. Of course I would have added more Chasyness anyway because really, how could the story be good without Chasyness!?

Dear all other reviewers: I love you all as well. I'm just too lazy to write anymore.

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(I don't own these characters. If I did Gill and Chase would be on my couch drinking lemonade….real Gills and Chases, not cartoon ones…)

Truth or Dare

Luna-Lina-Loo

Elli sat on her couch, the dim bluish glow of the television screen lighting up her face. One hand held a tissue to her cheek, the other tried to still her fluttering heart. On the screen were a pair of star-crossed lovers in their final embrace as their yacht sank.

"I love you Victoria…I always have…and always will." Said the male figure.

"Oh Demetrius!" the woman supposedly named Victoria gasped. "I love you too! But I need to tell you something before we die!"

"What, my love?"

"Before Dorothy died of emphysema, she told me that you were her son!"

The supposed Demetrius gasped. "Why did she never tell me! She was the mother I have been searching for all my life!"

"She was ashamed, my love. She thought your would never forgive her for leaving you in Venice when you were two! But her dying wish was that you knew how much she loved you!"

The man then buried his face in his lover's hair trying to hide the remarkably loud sobs that were escaping his muscular frame.

"Its okay, my love, we will join Dorothy in heaven soon." she whispered into his ear.

Suddenly an announcer's voice was heard. "Will Demetrius and Victoria escape from the sinking yacht in time!? Will Oswald and Bruce come to their rescue or get lost on the sea!? Will Treasure tell Jeremy her true feelings before he marries Heather!? Find out next time on I COULDN'T HELP BUT LOVE YOU!"

The screen swapped to a taco commercial as Elli brushed away the last of her tears and glanced at the clock.

"Oh no! It's two in the morning!" she gasped. Her hand reached for the remote just as the theme song of "I couldn't help but love you" came on. Yay! A marathon!

"Oh I don't suppose one more could hurt." she mumbled as she wrapped the blanket tighter around her shoulders and pulled the tissue box into her lap.

There she was in her favorite corner of the world, surrounded by romance novels, chocolate fudge ice cream, and the entire twelve seasons of "I couldn't help but love you" placed shrine-like on a shelf. All where guilty pleasures she loved….until the next morning when she woke up late…

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"Elli!" Spat the blond boy when she burst through the doors of Town Hall. "This is the third time this week that you were late!"

"I-I'm sorry, Gill…I-I've just had some problems sleeping…." Liar. She thought. I've been having some problems waking up!!

"Its fine…" he mumbled returning to his book with a wave of his hand that meant for her to sit in her chair. "Just don't be late anymore, it's not like you…"

"Yes…" she set her bag down, unable to pull her eyes from the boy she worked with. He was such a beautiful boy; the way his white blond hair curled across his brow, and the deep intensity of his blue eyes were simply piercing! She found that he resembled a character named Daniel in her favorite soap opera. And just like Daniel, she suspected Gill harbored a secret love deep in his heart, hidden so that even the stars couldn't see. She blushed at her poetic thoughts, a slight giggle escaping her lips. Said giggle caused Gill to look up sharply, causing her to stumble back into her chair, causing it to tumble over with her in it.

She stared up at the ceiling, waiting with an embarrassed blush for the kind tendencies of Daniel to shine forth through Gill as he came to help her up.

Gill didn't move.

She sighed and pulled herself to her feet. "So much for Daniel…" she muttered under her breath.

"What was that?"

"N-Nothing!" she squeaked, a fresh blush lighting her cheeks.

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The hours passed slowly. Gill flipping through a book mechanically while Elli daydreamed.

Where was Akari?

It was a good twenty minutes since the time she normally bust into Town Hall.

How strange…

Just then the doors burst open bringing Akari, Luke and Chase into the room.

Elli's eyes flew up to the two tall handsome young men with the short girl. Well, I had no idea Akari was this popular with the boys! she thought, suddenly her heart going out to Gill who wouldn't stand a chance.

"Hey Elli!" Akari said cheerily too her. "You know Chasy-Roo and Lukie-Pukie, right?"

"Y-Yes, of course…" she managed to chirp out. "H-Hello…"

They smiled at her, making her heart beat fast and her knees shake.

"Gilly-Kins!" Akari squealed as she bounced over to the blond boy who was ignoring her. "Lookie! I brought our friends, they want to go play!"

Gill glanced up at the two boys who began shuffling uncomfortably under his gaze. "No." was all he said.

She whipped her head around to look at the others with an expression on her face that said "see what I have to deal with?"

"When will you just give up, Gilly? You know I'm going to make you come."

"I'll give up the day I die."

"So overly dramatic." she mumbled as she came up behind him and tried to heave him up out of his seat. But Gill became dead weight, making her attempts be in vain. She sighed heavily, then suddenly perked up as she leaned forward and whispered seductively into his ear, "I'll give you a …..tomato."

Gill was up so fast and propelling himself toward the door with his arm strung through Akari's, (Yes, that's right.) that the others where still staring at his desk long after he had disappeared.

"Does he like tomatoes…?" Chase mumbled to Luke with a shocked expression on his face.

"I don't know….sure seems like it…" Luke said with a cock of his head.

A sting of gasps for breath caught their attention, they slowly turned around.

Elli was hyperventilating.

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Akari and Gill were seated in their usual spot when Luke and Chase made it up the hill.

"Sheesh! You could have told us you were going to make a break for it!" Luke complained, wiping the sweat from his brow.

"Even if I would have told you, you still would have been far behind me." Gill muttered staring at the grass.

"Ohhhhhh…. Thems fightin words…." Luke said, eyes narrowing, twirling invisible guns into an invisible holster.

"Come on guys, sit down so we can play." Akari said, patting the grass next to her.

They sat, one on each side of her.

"So whose turn is it?" she asked.

"Chase's I think." said Luke.

"Oh that's right! So, go ahead Chasy!"

Chase glanced around the circle….or rather, square…

"Akari, Truth or Dare?"

"Dare!!"

"I dare you to….to…."

"Spit it out Chase!" Luke exclaimed.

"to….to….oh I know! I dare you to rip Luke's bandage off his nose!"

Luke gasped.

Chase smirked.

Gill rolled his eyes.

Akari shrugged.

"Well okay…" she reached over, one hand outstretched to Luke who was leaning back with his hands covering his nose protectively.

"NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO!" he wailed as if she were going to rip off his fingernails instead of a band aid.

"Come on, Lukie! Don't be such a baby! It's just a band aid. Here, I promise I'll get you another one, I cool one even, like one with dinosaurs on it." she coaxed him like a two year old.

"N-No! You don't understand! I cant take it off!"

"Oh bull crap!" Chase exclaimed. "I'll rip it off myself!"

"NOOOOOOO!"

By now both Akari and Chase were wrestling Luke to get at the bandage. Luke whipped his head about wildly, shouting incoherent death threats while he was being mauled.

"Hold still would-ja!" Akari yelped, as the boy's jaws nearly clamped over her hand.

Gill stared. Arms crossed over his chest.

"Sheesh! You sure are squirmy….here, I'll pin him down." Chase said as he push all his weight on Luke's chest.

The air suddenly whooshed out of his lungs from the pressure and from the fit of laughter he broke into.

"GYAHAHAHAHAHAHA! OH STOP! YOUR KILLING ME!"

"Akari!? What are you doing!?"

She laughed. "Tickling!"

"BWAHAHAHAHA! NO AKARI NO! STOP S-STOOOOP! TEEEHEEEHEE!"

Her fingers were flying at his sides, tickling him until the tears ran down his eyes.

"This is better than I imagined…" Chase commented with a grin, also tickling the boy who was pinned beneath him.

"OOOOOOOH! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOU!" Luke cried, "HAHAHAHAHAHA!"

He kicked frantically trying to be free of his two torturers, Gill scooted away, eyes closed, brow furrowed in annoyance.

And then….

Rip

Luke's hand flew to his nose where his bandage had been a second before.

"Oh, Lukie! You look so cute without your band aid!" she cooed, waving the bandage in the air triumphantly.

Luke blushed underneath Chase.

"What are you talking about!?" Chase exclaimed. "He doesn't look any different!" He got up off the blue haired boy, allowing him to breath. "There is not even a cool scar or anything!"

Luke's blush deepened.

"Yeah there is, look!" she pointed to a little spot on his nose.

Chase took a closer look.

"It's a…..it's a heart!?" he exclaimed.

Luke's face turned violet as he shoved Chase away from him. "Bo did it to me! He drew a heart on my nose while I was sleeping!"

"Silly little Bo-Bo!" Akari said with a grin.

"Are you serious?" Chase raised his eye brows.

"YES! He was trying to get me back, because I drew a star on his forehead once, but then he did THIS (pointing to nose) in permanent marker!!!!!!"

"I don't think its permanent…" Akari said. Then without warning she licked her thumb and rubbed the heart right off his nose.

Luke's face flushed anew and then he asked, "Is it gone…?"

She nodded.

"I'VE BEEN WEARING THIS BLASTED BAND AID TO HIDE THAT STUPID THING FOR--FOR---FOREVER! AND IT CAME RIGHT OFF!?"

She nodded.

"GYAH!"

They all stepped back while Luke had his little temper tantrum, then sat down, waiting for him to join them.

"It's my turn?" he finally asked after calming down.

Two heads nodded.

"Okay. Hey, Gill wake up!"

One blue eye snapped open.

"Truth or dare?"

"Dare…"

"I dare you to race me."

The blue eye narrowed.

"Your on." Gill hissed.

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They wandered further up the hill of their Special Spot on the edge of the forest.

"First one to the beach and back wins!" Akari declared, raising Luke's flame bandana in the air like a flag. "On your mark!"

Gill and Luke crouched.

"Get set!"

Their muscles tensed.

"GO!"

The bandana fell to her side and the two runners shot down the hill as if the devil was chasing them. Luke pulled into the lead at the base of the hill but soon Gill was nipping at his heels. Akari and Chase watched, holding their hands up to shade their eyes as the two disappeared around a building.

"Well, now what?" Chase asked.

"We wait."

They went back over to the tree and lounged in the shade. The breeze ruffled their hair playfully and made the tree itself seem to sigh. The conversation of the leaves was a soothing sound, one that made them want to close their eyes and sleep. They didn't have to say anything, and that's what she liked about Chase, they could sit in silence and with him it would not be an awkward silence. But a peaceful silence.

"Chasy?" she asked finally.

"Huh?"

"Truth or dare?"

He smiled. "Truth."

"Do you have any secrets?"

He looked at her. They were laying side by side and the light dancing on her eyelids made her look soft and angelic, so unlike her usual energetic 'go get em' attitude.

"Yes." he said in almost a whisper.

"I'm not going to ask you what they are." she said reassuringly, eyes still closed. "But…is it ever hard to keep them…like, sometimes does it seem as if they are going to burst right out of you whether you like it or not?"

He thought for a minute. "Yeah…" His violet eyes were worried as he watched her lips move again.

"Oh…"

"What is it Akari?"

Her eyes slowly opened and met with his. "Nothing."

"You can't trick me. I know when there is something wrong….tell me please…"

She looked into his eyes. "Well…I--"

"What cha guys doing!?" a high cheery voice sang above them.

Their eyes flashed up to see the big blue eyes of Luna blinking down at them.

"Luna-Lina-Loo!!!" Akari squealed, all worries dashed away, as jumped to her feet and wrapped the smaller girl in a tight hug.

"Oh Akari! I cant breath!" she gasped from under her arms.

"Oh Lu-Lu, do you want to play with us!?" she said releasing the petite frilly thing.

Luna glanced down again at Chase who was staring up at them blankly.

"Are you sure this isn't a game for two?" she teased.

"Of course not, Lu-Lu!" Akari didn't get it. "We are playing Truth or Dare, and Truth or Dare is always better with more people! Gill and Luke are playing too but--" She glanced in the direction they had left. "It looks like they aren't finished with their dare yet…"

"Gill and Luke, huh? Playing together? Well, that's something I thought id never hear…" Luna said with a disbelieving look. "Not playing nicely I assume…"

"Of course not." Came Chase's voice from the ground.

She laughed. "Truth or Dare… I haven't played that in so long. Can we start without them?"

"Sure!" Akari exclaimed, and plopped down on the grass next to Chase.

Luna sat next to her and then tipped her head to the side. "Can I go first?"

"Yeah!" Akari cheered, tugging on Chase's foot.

"Okay…Chase." She leaned over to look into the eyes of the boy still sprawled on the ground. "Truth or dare?"

"Dare." he mumbled.

She frowned, apparently not happy with that. "I dare you to…trip Luke when he comes back."

A mischievous grin curled across his face, he would only be too happy to oblige.

"Alright…" he said, then sat up and looked at Akari. "Akari, truth or dare?"

"Truth!" Akari said with a huge grin.

"Tell me your deepest, darkest secret." he said, hoping she would tell him what had been bothering her just before Luna came in and interrupted.

She tipped her head to the side and racked her brain.

"A secret…huh…? A deep, dark secret…." she scratched her head. "Well…Iv never told anyone this….you see, I keep my dirty socks under my bed….really deep…."

Chase smacked himself in the head. He would have to be more blunt next time.

"And its really dark under there too…" she finished, with a thoughtful finger to her lip.

Luna snickered. "Well that sure fits the criteria, now doesn't it, Chase?"

"Yeah…" he mumbled.

Akari grinned at him, making an involuntary smile appear.

"Yay! My turn!" She turned to Luna. "Lu-Lu, truth or dare?"

"Truth." she said with a flip of her purple pigtails.

"Ohhhhhh…..DOYOUHAVEASECRETCRUSH!?!?!?!?!?!?" Akari exclaimed, punching both fists into the air and narrowly missing Chase's face.

Luna nearly fell backwards with that sudden explosion. "What did you say?"

"She wants to know if you have a secret crush…" Chase translated with a blank expression.

"Oh yeah….that's always the first truth question…" Luna muttered while Akari nodded exaggeratedly. Her face suddenly flushed and her eyes searched the grass as if she lost something. Akari searched the grass too looking for whatever Luna was. "I do like someone…" she eventually whispered.

"Oh, really?" Akari said, her eyes turning up from the grass and landing on something far off that was neither here nor there.

Luna still stared into the grass, a lovely expression on her face.

Time seemed to move slower, the breeze tossing their hair in slow motion, the seconds between Akari's blinks became longer and longer as she spaced out.

Chase's eyes shifted from girl to girl. Awkward…. "Well then…" He finally said to break the silence. "Isn't it your turn Luna?"

"Oh yes!" she gasped, then, "Wait what's that?"

"What's what?" Chase asked as he looked over his shoulder at the object Luna was pointing to, the same object Akari had been staring at for a solid minute without blinking. It looked to be a large dust cloud…that was hurtling toward then at a remarkable speed. Soon arms that were pumping wildly could be made out in the mass. Then legs, and eventually heads. The heads of Luke and Gill, of course.

"They're back…." Akari said in a creepy possessed voice.

The two stared at her in terror for a moment before she returned to her normal self and snatched Chase's face in both of her hands.

"It's time for your mission! Now make me proud!" She exclaimed with a quick kiss on his forehead before leaping to her feet and pointing at the dust cloud spiritedly. "Now go! GO!"

Chase stumbled to his feet awkwardly, looking over his shoulder at her with a bewildered expression, then hid behind a bush.

Luna stared wide-eyed at the other girl who was brushing away fake tears. "What's with you…?" She breathed.

"I'm a good actress, huh?" Akari said with an animated wink.

"I wouldn't say that…" Luna mumbled under her breath.

"Oh! This is so exciting!!!!" Akari exclaimed, picking up Luke's bandana and running up the hill to be the finish line, with Luna right behind her. "Here they come! Here they come!!"

Luke was in front, hurtling up the hill with sweat dripping down his red face and into his golden eyes. Gill close behind, his face stolid, his breathing regular, not even breaking a sweat.

"Wow, Luke is in the lead!" Luna exclaimed, with genuine excitement on her face.

"Not for long." Akari said confidently.

As if on cue, Gill suddenly became twice as fast as he had been running the entire race. His legs seemed to grow and bound over the ground as effortlessly as breathing. Luke's eyes widened as he was left in the dust, using all his strength to close the increasing distance between him and the cyborg.

"Wow! What is he!?" Luna squeaked.

"Inhuman." Akari stated matter-of-factly.

It was down to the wire. Gill slowing down slightly to give Luke some false hope before he decided to fly the rest of the distance on wings that would spring from his back.

It was then that Chase leapt out of his hiding place.

He landed on the ground, directly in front of Luke's path, and suddenly Luke was on the ground too, his face planted firmly in the dirt.

Luke spat out his mouthful of sand and opened his eyes in time to see Akari drop the bandana as Gill jogged past her. She and Luna were jumping up and down trying to congratulate the boy who was brushing the dirt off his sweater vest nonchalantly. Luke kicked the ground as hard as he could and was surprised to find that the ground groaned and twisted underneath him.

"CHASE!!!!!" he bellowed, catching sight of the peach colored hair. He sprung to his feet and kicked the tall boy in the gut then ran before Chase had the chance to get up and pummel him.

And pummel him he did.

Luke was running toward the group with a silent scream of "HELP!" just as Chase leapt onto his back and brought him crashing back into the earth again.

The others watched, mildly amused, while Luke scrambled to get out from under Chase for the second time that day. Chase just sat, smiled, and waved.

"Dare completed!" He called to Luna who was grinning wickedly.

"Cheater! Cheater! CHEATER!" Luke screamed into the dirt. Chase leaned back until no audible ranting was heard from his victim. Luke still twisted violently until he had lost all his strength and decided to play dead. Chase got off him then, actually worrying that he had killed the boy, and helped Luke to his feet. Of course Luke had the audacity to swing one last punch at Chase's jaw, which he dodged and used his off balance to string him into a choke hold.

"Gyah! Let go Chase!" he screamed.

Luna giggled at the look on Luke's face. "Looks like you've been beaten twice!" she taunted.

Luke bared his teeth at her.

"Come on everybody, calm down, lets finish the game." Akari said, playing the part of mediator.

Chase released him and sat next to Akari on the hillside, then Luna, then Gill, then Luke who was rubbing the back of his neck.

"It's my turn." Luna announced. "Lu--"

"Wait! Who said you could play!?" Luke exclaimed.

Luna eyed him. "Well, for your information, Akari said I could."

Luke frowned. "But who said we would want you to play!?"

Akari gave Gill a look and a nod. Gill read the look, nodded in return, then properly smacked Luke in the back of his head.

"What was that for!?" Luke complained, grabbing the sore spot.

"Your stupidity." Gill answered numbly.

Akari nodded in thanks. Gill nodded back.

"Anyways…" Luna began. "Luke, truth or dare."

"Truth." he spat.

She stared at him for a minute then asked. "Why is there a heart on your nose?"

"WHAT!? YOU WERE LYING TO ME!?!?! IT'S STILL THERE!!!?"

Four heads nodded.

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Elli ran home the second Gill and the others had left Town Hall. She closed the door behind her and leaned up against it.

What should she do first?

Pop some popcorn…?

Make herself a smoothie…?

Naw!

She plopped down on the couch and turned the television on, switching to the "All Soaps All The Time" channel. She grinned to herself.

Nothing gets better than this….

An idea suddenly struck her.

She dashed for her "I couldn't help but love you" stash and snatched season six off the shelf. Opening it up and letting it's contents spill over her bed, she plucked disk nine from its resting place and put it in her DVD player.

"Episode, 217!" she exclaimed, selecting it from all the others and waiting impatiently for it to start playing before she pressed the fast forward button repeatedly.

Then there he was!

"Daniel!!!"

It was amazing the resemblance between him and Gill. The same blond hair and blue eyes. The same blank stare, and haughty voice.

On the screen, Daniel was staring into a book. A girl popped up behind him suddenly, she had long brown hair and hazel eyes.

Elli gasped. "Bridget!!!!"

Bridget leaned forward, looking over Daniel's shoulder at what he was reading, Daniel pointedly ignoring her.

"That's familiar…." Elli commented with a tilt of her head.

Bridget then snatched the book out of his hands and waved it over her head teasingly. "Come on, Danny! Stop reading this dumb book and come hang out with me!"

"No." was all Danny said.

"Oh please, please, PLEASE!" She begged. "I'll die of boredom if you don't!"

Elli gasped and paused the screen. She had seen that before! She quickly pushed play again.

"I don't care, Bridget. Go bother somebody else."

"But you're the only fun person to be around, Danny! If you don't come play I'll be forced to go have lunch with Vanessa. Ick!"

Danny smiled slightly. "That's a fate worse than death."

She nodded exaggeratedly. "Yes, yes, so please come!"

He sighed as if he really didn't want to when really is was obvious he did.

"Alright. On one condition."

"What!?" she squeaked, trying to hold in her excitement.

"Don't call me Danny."

"Than what do I call you?"

"Daniel."

She thought about it for a second, clearly not liking the idea.

"I don't think so. Danny just fits you better."

He sighed again, this time as if he were annoyed.

"Fine, whatever. Lets just hurry and get this over with."

He stood and she strung her arm through his.

Elli gasped.

The began to walk toward the door of the room, the camera suddenly zooming into the back of Daniel's head as he glanced over at Bridget with a strange expression on his face.

Was it kindness, no….

Friendliness, no…

Not even love…it was adoration.

Elli pressed pause again and focused on that face.

That's what Gill is missing…She thought, Gill doesn't know love…

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And so ends part 4.

On a high note I hope.

I like beginning and ending with Elli. I can't help but make fun of her. (In a loving sort of way)

I have realized that I have put more emotion in this chappie than just plain silliness….I wasn't planning on doing that but it just happened. I really hope it didn't drain any of this chapter's light hearted mood.

Anyways….please review!!!!

And any advice on what to truth or dare is also a great help too!