Rumi: GET READY FOR SOME FEELS
Ryouma: Everyone loves feels regardless of sad or happy.
Cracker: That was deep...
Cookie: What did you teach him?
Rumi: ONLY THAT FEELS ARE ACCEPTABLE AND IT'S OKAY TO CRY WHEN IT HAPPENS
Cracker: O-okay?!
All: ENJOY
Rumi's POV
"I wonder where they went..." I wonder aloud.
"Maybe they went on a date. They're the type to plan like that." Ryouma replies.
I nod in agreement. "True true... Anyway, now what do we do?" Awkward silence. "
More truth or dare?" Ryouma asks.
"Truth." I chirp.
He sighs happily and we sit down on the couch. "Hmmm. This'll probably get you blushin'. Am I," he leans closer. "Your first boyfriend?" he finishes. I blush a pu~re red and he laughs. "Knew it! So, am I?"
I glare at him. "Maybe.."
He blushes a bit too then sits back normally. "Truth or dare?" I ask him.
"Truth."
"Am I your first girlfriend?"
He blushes. "N-no..." he replies with a sad expression. I wonder what happened to make him look sad like that... "So, truth or dare?" he asks. "Mmm dare!"
"I dare you to... Run outside and yell that you love me." I feel the heat flow to my face and Ryouma laughs.
"F-fine! I'll be right back." I say as I get up and walk to the open door. I take a deep breath and run outside. When I look around, there were so many people walking! "I LOVE RYOUMA!" I scream, then I walk back inside as if nothing happened. While people are staring at me as if I'm weird, which I am. Anyway, when I walk into the house, the door closes behind me and I get a surprise back hug.
"Haha, I knew you would do it." Ryouma says. I blush a deep scarlet.
"T-truth or dare?" I ask.
"Mmmmm, truth." he simply replies. Well, let's try to figure out more about the girl
"What was your first girlfriend like?" I carefully ask. For a second there, I thought he had a pained look on his face.
"W-well, I'd rather not dig into that but if you really want to know..." he looks at my curious face. "I'll tell you. Let's sit down first." We walk back into the living room and sit down on the couch. I nervously look over to him and I see that he has a serious expression on his face.
"S-so..." I trail off.
He sighs then starts. "A few years ago, when I was about 15, there was this girl. We were happy and such. Used to hang out every day when we both had free time. She was really nice to everyone and smart. Everyone loved her. But then," his expression got more serious, pained, and sad. "she wasn't there for a few days. She called and said her family had problems with money and such. I didn't believe it with the way she was speaking. A few days later, at night, she knocks at my window and asks if I could come out for a bit.." he was starting to tear up. "We started walking and we went to the park. She asked if I could buy some water so I went. When I came back, she was on the edge of a building. I screamed at her to get down. She did, but not the way I wanted her to." he started crying but he was still going on. "It was cruel. She made me watch her commit suicide. Right there... I don't know why she did it. Her parents didn't know anything, her closest friends didn't know anything. I had no clue. Everyone liked her, was nice to her, was close to her, and didn't get jealous of her. And I just can't..." he trailed off, sobs interrupting his voice. I reach over and hug him. I stroke his hair as he cries silently, slightly shaking.
"It's okay... I'm sorry I asked... Shh sh. It's okay it's okay Ryouma. I'm here for you." I say to try and comfort him. After bout 5 minutes, he calms down.
"S-sorry for getting emotional..." he apologizes. "There's nothing to be sorry for. It's okay that you got emotional. I bet you held all of your emotions in for a long time. It was good you let it out after a while." I say.
He smiles faintly and says, "Thanks... Anyway," he perks up immediately. (R: Bipolar much.) "Mmm, dare." I reply. He smirks mischievously. Uh oh.
"I dare you to... kiss me." he says. I blush furiously and he laughs.
"S-since when were you like that?!" I stutter. He smirks even more. "So you won't do it? If you don't do it, I'll make you do something embarrassing." he threatens.
WHEN DID HE START TO BE LIKE THIS?! I thought to myself. I feel the heat flow to my face even more, to the extent where I feel like I'm going to faint. "F-fine! J-just this once okay?!" I scooch over next to him and nervously face him. While freaking out inside, I calmly, yet nervously, kiss him. I pull back and scooch further away from him, trying to hide my red face.
He laughs. "Wow, okay then." He scooches closer but I don't notice at first. "Did you enjoy that?" he whispers directly into my ear. I react by bending my head backwards and standing up so fast, I trip, on nothing, and fall. He grabs me by the wrist and he supports my fall by landing on the floor beneath me. I get up, carefully this time, and help him up. He's blushing but he's still kind of laughing about my reaction. I playfully glare at him. "I wonder how Cracker and Cookie are..."
Cookie's POV
"Hm..." I twirl my flower crown in hand.
"What?" Cracker whispered.
"I feel sorta better that I told someone..." I murmur.
"Same here, I always told Ryouma everything, but I'm glad I told you!" He smiled.
I grinned and saw that Cracker had an idea. "Hey, turn around to face that way," He command while pointing forward.
I looked at him with a face that read "What are you planning?" but shrugged it off and turned towards the direction. He quickly pecks me on the cheek and laughs at my red face.
"W-what was that?!" I yell at him, pounding him on the chest.
"OK, OK I'll stop!" He laughs.
I smirk, "Turn that way!" I try to say in a commanding tone.
He smiles, knowing what's going on. He turned to the same direction I turned. I leaned in to kiss him on the cheek, but he turned and kissed me on the lips! (C: And commence fangirl squeal! XD)
"I tricked the Tricker!" He laughs.
"I-I hate you so much!" I squeal.
We both end up laughing. We both stop when we ran out of breath.
"Heh, here!" I surprised-attacked him and put the flower crown on his head.
"H-hey!" he started to pluck out the petals in his hair. I laugh.
He smiles like he remembered something and takes my hand and we run to a small fort.
"What's this?" I tilt my head towards the ground. He gets a sad glaze in his eyes, then perks up, "When...Nicole was here, this was our secret secret spot..." He told me. I felt a twinge of jealousy, and shook my head.
He continued on, "Even Ryouma didn't even know about this!" I start to feel a bit annoyed, then shake my head again.
"No, don't think like that!" I think to myself.
Then I heard something that made my day, "But now, I want to share it with you!" He smiles gently.
I smile back, "OK!" I examine the room. It had drawings on the walls, pillows, blankets, toys, an old TV, and video games.
"Wow, cozy," I shrug.
"Yeah..." He murmured. He started to daydream.
Flashback
"Hey Nicole!" 11 year old Cracker exclaimed. "Hm?" Nicole asked. "Ta-da!" Cracker pulled out two controllers and a video game. "Mario Cart! I really wanted to play that game!" She practically snatched the game from his hands. "Yeah, I knew!" Cracker smirked. "I hate you for not telling me! Haha," She laughed. "Let's play!" They shouted while pulling two pillows in front of the TV - 20 minutes -
"I beat you! I beat you! Ha~ha~ha~ha!" Nicole danced.
"Shut up!" Cracker frowned.
"You're such a sore-loser!" Nicole teased.
"I'm not the one gloating!" He pouted.
"Whatever!" Nicole rolled her eyes.
"Oh shoot!" Cracker pulled out his watch, "I got to go! Ryouma's coming over tonight! Mom's going to mad if I don't go!" He waved good bye. "Bye!" Nicole waved back.
End of flashback
"Cracker!" I called.
"Huh?!" He answered.
"So about this place...?" I asked.
"Oh right! Sorry!" He apologized. He handed me some paper and a pencil, "Rumi told me you could draw! Draw me!"
"OK, OK!" I laughed. I started to sketch him on the paper and handed me the picture.
"Wow..." He gasped.
"Um, it's not that good..." I say, unsure.
"Are you kidding me! It's amazing!" He complimented.
"Thanks," I yawn. I pull out a pillow and the big blanket and take it out of the fort.
"You gonna sleep?" He asks.
''Yep!" I answer. I set everything up and snuggle in. I close my eyes and suddenly feel movement around me. I open my eyes to see Cracker next to me.
"What are you doing!" I ask.
"I'm tired too! Also this is the best spot to see the stars!" He explains.
I look up, he was right. It was beautiful! All the shining diamonds in the blank sheet of darkness. For 15 minutes, Cracker was pointing out constellations. "Mmhmm..." I whisper and fell asleep.
Rumi's POV
"Don't you think we should get to sleep soon? It's really dark." I point out.
"Mmm. True true. I wanna show you something first. Get some food and blankets and meet me in the backyard." he says.
Confused, I go to the kitchen and get some chips and then go upstairs to get some blankets.
When I go into Ryouma's room to get spare blankets, I find some things I didn't see the first time I was inside. Lying on the desk was a simple black notebook and a slightly dull pencil. Curiously, yet sneakily, I carefully pick up the spiral and look through its contents. I find multiple sketches of people and places. A young Cracker, a scenery on the hill, Nicole, and, the most recent looking, me.. Smiling cheerfully at no one. Right now I'm wondering when he did it but it's just so nicely drawn. So detailed I didn't think it was me at first.
"So I guess you found my special spiral." a voice behind me says. I turn around and find Ryouma, arms crossed, smiling, leaning against the door frame.
"Y-yeah. Sorry for snooping.." I shyly say.
"It's okay, I was planning to show you anyway."
He quickly gets some extra blankets and exits saying, "Hurry up or you'll miss the fun. Bring a pencil and my spiral too."
I pick up the pencil and spiral and walk downstairs. All of the lights were off so I couldn't really see a thing. I carefully maneuvered around the unseen objects and make it outside. When I look at the scenery, everything was breathtaking. I almost even dropped everything I was holding. Right there in front of me was a small picnic-like area with a telescope looking up at the beautiful night sky. The whole entire sky was filled with stars.
"Do you like the view?" Ryouma asks.
"Yeah... it's so pretty.." I simply reply, distracted by the lights.
Despite the fact that the moon was lighting everything up, the backyard was nicely decorated and lit up. There was a small hill that was slightly elevated, covered in flowers. Even though that seems a bit girly. Oh well. Continuing. Among the wooden pillars that held a small shade were light blue and white lights.
"D-did you set all of this up just now?" I wonder aloud.
"Y-yeah.. Thought you would like everything." he replies.
I grin and practically throw everything onto the blankets and hug him. He hugs me back while laughing and we fall down.
"The stars are beautiful.." I comment.
"Yeah, but not as beautiful as you." Ryouma smoothly says.
I blush and blink rapidly. "W-whatever! Pass me the chips." I demand.
He passes me a can of cheese Pringles (R:which I don't own rightfully and sadly [i want pringles] :P) and I hungrily tear off the lid.
"Whoa, calm down. You're scary when you're hungry." he says, bewildered by the newly found side of me.
I giggle and take out a chip and hold it out to him.
"Here, eat it. And don't take it with your hand. I'm feeding it to you." I warn.
He moves to bite it out of my hand but I retreat my hand and eat the cheesiness. He glares at me while I laugh
"Okay okay. I'll let you have one for real this time." I say as I hold another chip with my lips while trying to get another one out.
Suddenly, all I see are his eyes and I hear a tiny crunch. He takes tiny bites out of my chip, slowly moving closer to me. I close my eyes out of pure flusteredness (if that's even a word :P) and wait for things to happen while I blush. One final crunch and it seems he pulls back 'cuz he's laughing.
I open my eyes and glare at him. "Y-you jerk. That was my chip!"
"Sorry~ I just had to. Oh, there's something on your lip."
He leans forward and kisses me, apparently using "there's something on your lip" as an excuse to. I feel the heat flow to my face as he pulls back and smirks.
"Y-you suck." I somewhat timidly say.
He laughs in reply, "I know, love ya too." He hugs me and pulls me down so we can look at the stars together. He points out stars and constellations like the North star and what some call the Seven Sisters. Eventually, we got tired and yet lazy.
"You wanna just sleep here tonight? Just the two of us under the stars?" Ryouma asks.
I smile gently while sleepily saying, "Yeah.. It's nice out here anyway.."
He snuggle closer under a blanket and he lets me lean on his shoulder. We hold hands as we fall asleep.
"Goodnight Rumi." he says.
"Goo'nigh' Ryouma.. Love ya..." I mumble back in reply. He kisses my forehead as I drift off into sleep.
That night, I had a pleasant dream about the four of us having fun together. We go to a zoo, then to an amusement park, then a walk on the beach at sunset. Me and Ryouma are walking along the ocean, holding hands. Far off, Cracker and Cookie are in their own world.
"Rumi. It's really nice to be with you." Ryouma says.
"Yeah.. you too."
He suddenly stops walking and goes in front of me. He takes a small dark blue box, kneels down, and opens it.
I gasp and cover my mouth with both of my hands.
"Rumi, will you marry me?" he asks, a hopeful smile on his face.
I hug him and yell, "Yes! OBVIOUSLY"
We laugh and, just this once without blushing, kiss as the sun sets nicely.
END
Cookie: Well, that was very dramatic...
Cracker: I know! It feels like we're in a soap opera! I don't like it!
Rumi: -slaps head- Quit whining!
Cracker: Stop hitting me!
Cookie: -kisses his head- Better?
Cracker: Better...
Rumi: -rolls eyes- Review and fave..
Ryouma: Where am I in this conversation! DX