Cookie: Hey, wonderful readers! We're back with a new chapter!
Cracker: -hugs Cookie from behind- That means more chances for romance!
Cookie: -blushes- H-hey!
Ryouma: -pulls out tissues- Or more chances for drama...
Rumi: -slaps Cracker- Or more chances at action!
Cracker: STOP. HITTING. ME!
Everyone besides Cracker: Enjoy!
Cracker: -in a distance- HELP ME!
Rumi: Don't! He's not worth it.
Cracker and Cookie: Hey!
Cookie's POV
I feel really cold for some reason. I also feel someone shaking me. "Stop it..." I grumble tiredly. I feel even more shaking. "Would you quit it?" I grumble again.
"Um, Cookie, you'll catch a cold," I hear a oh-so annoyingly familiar voice. I open my eyes to see we're back in the fort.
"Why are back here?" I ask after I yawn.
"Look" Cracker answered, pulling the door open. I saw the fields covered in white, shimmering powder, and the lake turned into the perfect shining ice skating rink. That's why I felt so cold! "Um...Did you bring-" I was about to ask, but then he interrupts, "Coats, food, and boots? Check, check, and...check!"
"What about skating boot?" I suggest.
"Yep!" He pulls out two pairs.
"Then, can you look away? I gotta to change…" I tell him.
"Oh! S-sure!" Cracker blushes and turned. I quickly change into the new outfit and put on the boots. "
Y-you can look now…" I say.
"Can you turn around now?" Cracker asks me. "Oh, yeah…" I turn around. I fiddle with my fingers, and look at the wall.
"Let's go!" He says while tying his left boot.
"Hold on! I'm hungry!" I pout.
"Ugh, fine!" he pulls out two bowls, cereal, milk, and spoons. He set the things that he brought on a small children's table. I pour myself some cereal and put the spoon in. I turn to Cracker and see he's just staring at his bowl.
"What's wrong…?" I ask, curious.
"Uh…It's nothing!" He smiles, hiding something. "What's wrong?" I ask again, sternly.
"It's embarrassing!" He hid his face. "OH MY GOODNESS! WHAT'S WRONG!?" I shout.
"Um, OK, when I was a kid, like 5 years old? Anyway, I said I wanted a bowl of cereal. Then my brother came into the kitchen and told me I could mess up cereal by putting it in the wrong order. I begged him to tell me the way you should put it together, but he never told me! No one ever told me!" He spills out to me. (C: Oh, gullible Cracker! Gotta love him! XD)
I burst out laughing, "Oh...m-my…g-gosh! T-that's hilarious! Y-you're so gullible! Haha!" I laugh.
He pouts, "Then will you tell me?"
"Nope!" I emphasize the "P," "Why didn't you look it up?" I ask.
"We don't have a computer!" He answers me. "Fine, it doesn't matter which way you pour it!" I laugh.
"Are you kidding me?!" He yells while face-palming. I laugh some more. I watch him pour the cereal and milk, then eat it. I finish my bowl and run outside. I feel crunching sound from the snow. I run across the untouched field. I fall into the soft ground. I watch Cracker grab my hand and pull me up. We head towards the lake.
"Are you sure it's safe?" I ask. Cracker smiles and tosses a rock over to the lake. The ice didn't break, so I step onto it. Cracker joins me and starts to skate. He was amazing! He was so graceful! I skate pretty well, so I caught up with him. He starts to do tricks and finishes off with kissing me on the cheek.
"S-show off!" I blush. He laughs and takes my hand to guide me to the middle.
He extends his hand out and says, "After you!"
I take his hand, "Thank you very much~!" I skate with him for a couple of minutes and then leave him, feeling exhausted. I watch him come sit next to me and hug me.
"Go skate! I want to watch you!" He pushes me to the lake.
"OK,"I say while skating. I start to feel something cracking under me. (C: Woo for predictable moment!)
"Cookie! Run!" Cracker screamed. The ice broke and I fell in. I start to black out. I feel something warm. It starts to pull me up. I hear something, but I can't make out what it is.
Then I hear, "Cookie!" I open my eyes. I see Cracker sigh in relief. "You idiot! You should have ran!" He cries. "You were the one who told me to go out there!" I yell back. I watch him suddenly take a step back. I some how feel guilty and take his hand. "You make it up to me," I suggest gently. He looks up to me with caring eyes and agrees. He wraps me in a blanket and takes me into his car. When we arrive he carries me, in bridal style, to his room. He sets me on his bed.
"I'll be right back, I promise," He pats my head. I watch him walk out of the room. I blush, not from being sick, but from the fact I'm in his room and what he just did. I turn to other side of his bed to face his desk. I see the pictures. I can't help myself from feeling jealous of Nicole, ever since he told me about her, that's pretty much all he's been talking about.
"Stupid Nicole…" I mumble, and then slowly fall asleep.
"Cookie~," Cracker calls.
"Yeah… "I mumble.
"I made you soup," He waves the bowl in my face. I had to admit, it did smell pretty good. I sit up, and then take the spoon. I watch Cracker take a seat, and then took a sip. It was good!
I laugh, "How is it you can't make a simple bowl of cereal, but you can make soup?"
"My mom taught me!" He answers.
After a couple of minutes, I devour the soup. "Well, at least I know what to make you when you're sick!" He laughs, "You know that was Nicole's favorite too,"
I frown, "Why is it always about Nicole?" I grumble quietly.
"What was that?" He asks.
"Why is it always about Nicole?!" I shout. I start to feel tears develop in my eyes. I blink them out. I see Cracker's face soften. He let me continue, "Why? I am not good enough?! Oh, I see, I'm just a replacement!" I cry.
He suddenly hugged me and says, "You'll never be a replacement or be replaced," He whispers, "Because I love you,"
"I love you too," I whisper back.
Rumi's POV
"Rumi!" someone says while shaking me.
It's super cold and my clothes feel wet...
"Rumi get up! You'll get hypothermia if you keep sleeping!"
My eyes flutter open to see a panicking Ryouma wearing layers of blankets. I achingly get up and scan my surroundings. We're outside in the backyard and everything's white and fluffy looking. Wait...
"IT SNOWED WHEN WE WERE SLEEPING OUTSIDE?!" I yell.
Ryouma replies, "Yes it did! Now hurry up! You're not wearing some very thick clothing. You might get sick!"
He helps me up and I shiver as we walk inside. The house is warm and all but not warm enough for me to stop shivering. Suddenly, I'm picked up bridal style by Ryouma and he carries me upstairs into his room. He sets me down on his bed and wraps his blankets around me. He gets a towel from his closet and rubs it on my head to dry my hair. After that, he gets a brush and brushes my hair.
"You don't need to do that y'know. I can do that myself." I say.
"Yeah but your hair is soft to touch." he simply replies.
After he's down with a brush, he pets my head teasing, "Good girl." brb
I playfully hit his hand away and we laugh. "Staaay here, I'll be right back with some ramen." he says.
"Kay, be quick though, I'M HUNGRY!" I say while laughing. He laughs as he walks out of the room. I plop myself backwards, and stare at the ceiling. I notice he has some of those glow in the dark stars plastered on the ceiling so I smile. Suddenly, my vision's interrupted by another pair of brown eyes. I gasp and sit up in reaction, only to accidentally head butt Ryouma.
We hold our heads saying, "Oooowww that hurt!" at the same time. We look at each other then laugh.
"I made some chicken ramen for you~ along with some cubes of cheese for no reason." he says while handing me a tray with a bowl of ramen and a small plate of cubed cheese.
I grin. "I love cubed cheese! It's the best thing ever made." I take a cube and pop it into my mouth.
"It really is the best. Including sugar cubes." he adds. He sits down next to me and mooches from my cheese.
"Heeeyy that's my cheeese." He chuckles and says, "I was going to feed it to you, don't worry. Besides, I can just make more if you want." I bite the cheese out of his hand and smile.
"I'll start on my ramen now then." I take my fork, as I'm not good with chopsticks, and twirl up some noodles and chicken. Yes, there're pieces of chicken in the ramen. I slurp the noodles up and chew on them. It was dericious! (R: lol i like saying dericious XD)
"Did you like it? Made it myself." Ryouma says.
I nod saying, "Yup! It was delicious!" He laughs and ruffles my hair, messing it up. I fix it while laughing and realize something.
"H-hey... Shouldn't I take a shower or something..." I ask. Well, it looks like a statement but it's a trailed off question. He blushes lightly then gets out a towel.
"Down the hall, third door on your right. I'll be there with some clothes. ER, DON'T WORRY! I won't peek at you." he says while his face grows even more red. I lightly blush as I take the towel out of his hands.
Timeskip
Right before the shower's done I'm about to finish my shower when I hear a knock then, "Rumi! I put the clothes on the sink. Sorry if they're huge on you. They're my clothes so... yeah." I hear the door close and I turn off the shower. The shower room was huge. Like, the floor space was so huge you could lie down with your arms and legs spread out. Anyway, I step out with a towel around my chest and one on my head. I close the door behind me and dry myself up. Afterwards, I put on the clothing. It was a black and blue long-sleeved shirt. The hem of the shirt went to my thighs and I had to roll up the sleeves a few times. He gave me jeans to wear. Of course, they were super long. I rolled it up about 5 times. I dried my hair completely with my towel and I stepped outside the bathroom. That was a huge freaking bathroom... If it was super clean of...everything, one could sleep in there.. I head back to Ryouma's room to find him daydreaming while looking out of his window. Quietly, I sneak up behind him to scare him by clapping. Suddenly, I'm pulled into a hug and we fall onto the bed. He's laughing at my red face.
"Y-you jerk! I was going to scare you!" I say. "Haha I know! So I decided to scare the scarer." (R: did that sound a bit familier? XD and if thats even a word [scarer])(C: Don't steal my words! XD) I playfully glare at him and he chuckles before kissing my forehead. I blush a bit more and try to get up. Of course, he's too strong so I end up just looking like I was trying to do a sit up, which I was.
He mumbles, "Let's just take a nap here. You're so warm and it's comfortable anyway.." I smile a frustrated one and hug him while slowly closing my eyes. He kisses my head once again and we drift off into sleep.
Cookie's POV
I quietly knock on Ryouma's door. No answer. "Whatcha doin'?" A voice behind me asks. I scream, then quickly cover my mouth. "
You almost scared me to death! I thought you were sleeping!" I quietly hiss.
"Sorry, sorry!" He laughs. I open the door to see Rumi and Ryouma sleeping together.
"Aw~," I giggle. Cracker shushes me and tip-toes towards Rumi and Ryouma. "What are you doing?" I whisper. He gestures to come closer and so I did. I watch him carefully take Ryouma's hand and place it over Rumi's side. Then he walks over to the other side of the bed. He tries to push Rumi's body the other way to face Ryouma, but has trouble. I laugh a little and come over. I help him push her body and it works. Now it looked like they were about to kiss. We both mischievously snicker and grab Cracker's camera. We snap a couple pictures and burst out laughing. I guess it was too loud, and they woke up.
"W-what's going on?" Rumi yawns while rubbing her eyes.
"N-nothing," I hold in laughter.
"I know that tone of voice! Are you holding a camera?!" Ryouma yells.
"Run!" I command Cracker. He quickly dashes out with Ryouma on his tail.
"I'm so going to catch you!" I hear Ryouma yell at Cracker. I laugh, forgetting that Rumi's still here. When I realize that it was too late. I watch as Rumi jumps off the bed and tackles me.
"Get off of me!" I puff out.
"Not until you tell me what you guys did!" Rumi responds.
"We just took pictures of you guys snuggling!" I laugh. I watch Rumi blush, then get off. "Thank you!" I say while rubbing my stomach.
"I'm going to so kill you when I get my hands on you!" I hear Ryouma threaten Cracker.
"You'll have to catch me first!" I hear Cracker respond. I hear some more running and a thump. "Looks like Ryouma caught him," I groan.
"Aha!" I hear Ryouma's triumphet voice. We both laugh as Ryouma comes back with Cracker's hands behind his back. He gives me a guilty smile and laugh. Me and Cracker both watch you guys go through the pictures. "
Seriously, Cracker?!" Rumi starts to pound on his chest.
"Why am I always the guilty one?!" Cracker pleads. We all laugh at his comment.
"Let's eat!" I cheer.
"Alright! What do you want?" Rumi and Ryouma both ask.
"Hm, chocolate chip pancakes!" I suggest.
"OK!" Rumi accepts and takes Ryouma's hand. I run downstairs too with Cracker. I sit down and Cracker sits down next me. We wait for like 10 minutes and you guys come out with everything. I see the tray of chocolate chip pancakes, strawberries, milk, toast, cheese (C: - Ryouma, of course XD) and bacon. I take a plate and fill it with two chocolate chip pancakes, bacon, strawberries, and a glass of milk. Cracker grabs a plate and fills it up with four chocolate chip pancakes, cheese, and milk.
"You fatty!" I tease at Cracker. "
I am a growing man!" He protests. I laugh. Rumi takes one chocolate chip pancakes, (There was only two more pancakes) cheese, strawberries, bacon, and milk. Ryouma takes the last pancake, cheese and milk. When we all finish our plates, I ask if Rumi wants to go shopping.
"Sure!" she answers.
End
Rumi: I like ending it in weird places xD
Ryouma: Of course you do :3 -hugs Rumi-
Cookie: Such love birds!
Cracker: I find it annoying once in a while
Rumi: Cuz you jelly of our love?
Cookie: Hey Cracker! I'm here for you!
Cracker: Sorry Cookie~ You know you love me :P (R: I say that a lot in real life xD)
Rumi: Where is this conversation going?! Review and follow!