Cracker: Wow for once we're starting huh?
Ryouma: Yep
Cracker: Huh? Where are the girls then…?
Cookie: Right here! -jumps on Cracker-
Cracker: WHAT THE-!
Cookie: Hehe~ Got tired of you teasing all the time :P
Cracker: OK, WHO GAVE HER SUGAR?!
Rumi: -hugs Ryouma- Hi~ and I gave her sugar! And a lot of cookies.
Cookie: MHM! It was yummy! XD
Ryouma: -hugs Rumi- Hey. Where were you?
Rumi: Oh out and about. I has to tell you something. -puts hand over his ear-
Ryouma: -waits-
Rumi: -surprise kiss- Hehe
Ryouma: Something happened to them. Something definitely happened to them.
Cracker: I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, BUT GET HER OFF OF ME!
Ryouma: -pulls Cookie off of Cracker- Should we take them to see a doctor?
Cracker: Yes!
Rumi: -gasps- THE DOCTOR?! HE'S HERE?! WHERE IS HE?! DOCTOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRR BRING ME ONTO THE TARDIS -runs away in random direction-
Cracker and Ryouma: -facepalm- Let's go get the body bag
To be continued… XD
Oh yeah, ENJOY! XD
Rumi's POV
I sigh contentedly, holding Ryouma's hand as we walk back to my car. And then I yawn. "I feel so sleepy but I don't want you to drive.." I mumble.
He chuckles at my comment and softly replies, "It's okay, I'll drive carefully. Like, REALLY carefully."
I look up at him. "Are you sure? I mean, it's my car and my life I'm trusting you with." I tease. He playfully gives me a hurt look. Which we both end up laughing at.
"Okay, I trust you with my car. Try not to drift or pass speed limits." I say.
"Okay I will. Just sleep when I drive, okay?" he responds. I nod and yawn again. Suddenly, he stops walking and lifts me onto his back. "R-Ryouma, I can walk!"
"But you're sleepy. Don't want you dozing off somewhere else." I sigh in defeat and put my arms gently around his neck so I can hold on to him. I fall asleep on his back but I can still tell what's going on. After 5 minutes, I hear Ryouma mumbling, "Keys... Where are her keys..." I feel my bag move around and hear jingling. I guess he found them. He unlocks the car and gently sits me down in the passenger seat. He closes the door and sits in the driver's seat. (R: obviously) Then, he backs out of the parking lot and starts to drive smoothly.
~Timeskip and Diff. Destination: The house~
Rumi's POV (cont. XD)
Ryouma carefully gets me out of the car and opens the door. He then goes upstairs into a room, which I suspect is the mirror room. He steps through and heads to his room in which he lies me down on the bed, pulls the blanket over me, and kisses my head goodnight. I mumble back, "Goo'nigh'.. lov' ya.." He chuckles and lies down next to me, stroking my hair.
Next day
"RUMI WAKE UUUUUUUUUPPP" I hear. My eyes snap open and then suffer by seeing bright lights. I guess it's morning.
I groan, "Whahaaaat." I yawn and scan my surroundings. I'm in Ryouma's room, Ryouma sitting next to me, and Cookie looking hyper. "What is it?!" I say. She holds up tray next to my face. "Happy birthday!" I grin and pretty much glomp her. "Whoa whoa don't make me drop this. It's your breakfast in bed~" I look at the tray, seeing what it's holding. It has my favorite chocolate chip pancakes, some chocolate chip waffles, milk, and some buttered toast.
"You made this?" I ask Cookie.
Ryouma butts in saying, "Nah, she could never make something like this. She begged me to make it so I did. Happy birthday~" He kisses my cheek which soon turns red. Along with my other cheek.
"Thanks Ryouma~ Wait, Cookie, how'd you know it was my birthday?"
She giggles and says, "I saw it on your calendar in our world. There were a lot of circles and happy faces on today's date so I deducted today's your birthday"
"Wow, that's pretty good considering the fact you're the one who deducted all that." I tease. She throws a pillow at me which I easily dodge.
"Anyway," I take the tray and set it on my lap, "I'm going to start eating now. Thanks for making it Ryouma~" I say. I kiss his cheek and he goes red.
Cookie giggles while saying, "Well, I'll leave you two lovebirds alone now~" as she backs out of the room. We both go red and I throw another pillow at Cookie, which she dodges. I pick up a waffle and take a bite. It's so soft and fluffy~ And the chocolate chips are nice and melted.
"Thish ish sho goof!" I try to say.
Ryouma laughs and says, "You shouldn't talk with your mouth full. You could choke."
I swallow my chewed up food and laugh. "Don't worry~ I don't choke easily." I finish my breakfast and Ryouma sets the tray aside.
"So, what do you want to do today?" He asks me. I just sit and think for a moment.
"Maybe... I don't know, surprise me!" I chirp. He chuckles and ruffles my already messed up hair. "Okay. I'll go downstairs so you could change. Clothes are on the table," he says, getting up to leave.
I grab his wrist and say, "But if your going to surprise me, can I have a new poster? I'll tell you what kind when I get down."
He smiles and bends down to kiss my head. "I'll buy you one. Or anything you want." He exits the room and closes the door behind him. I lazily get up and look at the outfit prepared for me. Again, they're his clothes. A big, baggy red short sleeve and a white long sleeve. Black skinny jeans which are still huge on me. I put on the clothes, grab my bag, and head out of the room.
"Hey Rumi." Cookie says.
I turn around to face her saying, "Yeah?"
"They say that there are some suspicious people out there so try not to stray away from Ryouma, 'kay?" She looked super serious, it kind of freaked me out.
I blink and slowly say, "Okay...?" She walks away. I blink more, very confused. I remembered something, I forgot to put on my necklace! I head back into Ryouma's room and find the necklace. I put it around my neck but struggle to connect the two ends.
Suddenly, two hands hold mine as the person says, "Need help with that?" I realize that it's Ryouma and let him fasten the necklace around my neck as I hold my hair up. I put my hair back down as he hugs me.
"Haha, you're being lovable today." I say.
He chuckles saying, "When have I not been?" He breaks hug but still has his hands on my waist when I turn around to face him. We smile and I give him a quick kiss. I grab his hand and pull him downstairs.
I grab the keys to Ryouma's car and yell to Cracker, "Get the tray in Ryouma's room! We'll be leaving now!"
"'Kay! Have fun!" was heard from Cookie and Cracker. Suddenly, the hand that was holding the keys were put down.
"Let's walk today. It's better in so many ways." Ryouma suggests. I smile and nod, putting the keys back into its holder. We head out, holding hands and smiling. Since I have no idea where we're going, Ryouma leads us and we turn left toward the park.
"So, where are we going today?" I curiously ask. All he does is smile. For about 10 minutes, we're walking to who knows where when we stop in front of an amusement park. I mean, yeah they're big and all but this one was freaking huge! They had at least 10 huge roller coasters, 30 snack shops or the likes, so many kiddy rides, a fountain, and a section for a water park and water rides. My face lights up and I hug the stuffing out of Ryouma who happily hugs me back. "Ohmigosh thanks Ryouma! I've always wanted to go somewhere like this!"
He laughs saying, "Well now you can! Oh I brought extra clothes and towels if we get drenched on rides so don't worry about anything." I now notice he brought a backpack and then mentally facepalm myself. Yes, facepalm is a word now. It has been for a while. Anyway, Ryouma buys us tickets and we enter the epicness. I feel my stomach growl. And apparently, Ryouma hears it. Stupid sixth sense.. "Haha, you hungry? I'll go buy some things if you want."
"Cotton candy!" I chirp.
He laughs some more and we go to a cart with a whole bunch of candy and some souvenirs on it. Like, kid's heaven right here. "Hi, I'll have two cotton candies and some hats."
"$3.50 please." Ryouma hands the vendor the money and he gets the cones of candy with hats for us to wear. They match~
"Here, take a hat and your cone of cotton candy." he says while handing me the navy blue hat. I take it, put it on my head, and help him with the other items. Now, we're walking around, wondering what ride to go on first as we eat fluffy deliciousness. Ryouma spots something and points at it saying, "Let's ride on that first!"
I look to where he pointing and widen my eyes. He wanted to ride on a roller coaster called the "Death Coffin" which included many loop da loops and a freaking 90 degree fall.
Since I didn't want to be shown as a wimp, I lied by saying, "S-sure!"
He takes my hand and leads us into the short line for the ride. Which quickly moves on. And suddenly, we're strapped to the front of all of the cars. There goes my cool.
I start silently freaking out and shaking. "Rumi, are you okay? You should've told me if you didn't want to go on this.." Ryouma says.
"I-i-it's okay! I-I mean, you wanted to go on t-this ride so I didn't want to r-ruin your fun!"
He looks at me with concerned eyes. "But it's your birthday. I don't want to ruin it with just this."
"It's okay! I'll just hold onto you and bury my head somewhere."
Suddenly, the ride slowly goes forward onto the first drop. I clutch onto the bar and close my eyes. I'm suuuper scared of heights. I feel Ryouma hold my hand and faintly hear him telling me to squeeze it if I want. Which I do. The ride's at the top of the first hill and I feel Ryouma trying to let me bury my head somewhere so I don't look ahead of me. I manage to bury said head in his shoulder as the ride goes down. I hear screams and laughter. Of course I'm screaming but it has absolute fear in it. Ryouma's screaming too but I can't tell what's lined in it. A few loops, drops, and sharp turns and I start to hear a ringing noise. I sigh mentally. I shouldn't have lied to him and said yeah.
After a few minutes, the ride slows down and the metal bars go up. Ryouma helps me up and out of the car. He supports me as we walk to a bench. "I'm... di-zzy.."
He massages my head and softly says, "I'm sorry. I should've known. Stay here, I'm going to go buy some water."
I manage to grab his wrist and say, "N-noo. Don't goo."
He holds my hand and crouches to match my height. "I'll be right back. I'll be super fast so just stay here." He leaves my side before I could protest more. I have a bad feeling...
Suddenly, my mouth is covered and I'm carried by who knows and carried to who knows where. When I manage to regain consciousness a bit, I notice it's darker and further away from the main rides. "Wh-wha... Where am I.." I slur.
I hear laughter and, "Just sleep you kitten. If you do, you won't even remember what happened. That's a good thing. Well, both good and bad." I whimper at the thought of good and bad. Oh yeah, I'm a pessimist so I end up thinking I'm going to be brutally murdered. That helps.
I try to back up away from the voice source. My back gently bumps into the wall, meaning there's no way for me to escape. "Come here my kitty~" the voice says. I gain more consciousness and notice it's a very... ugly man and such. I try to kick at him but he just grabs my ankle and pulls me closer to him. I close my eyes and hope for the best to happen. Suddenly, I hear a yelp and the man lets go. I back up into the wall again and open my eyes. I see Ryouma, fighting stance, looking at me with a worried expression.
"You could have just stayed there." he teases.
I glare at him saying, "Not the time for teasing. Look forward." He does as told and beats the guy up. Afterward, the man's lying on the floor as Ryouma lifts me onto his back. (lol this was supposed to be the dramatic part but that doesn't seem too dramatic. now it just seems random XD)
He walks back to the main area and sets me back down on a bench. He showers me with questions. "You okay? Did he do anything bad to you? Did he.. touch you in.. places? Are you hurt?" I laugh a little and assure him that I'm fine. He sighs in relief then hands me the water bottle. I take it and drink some water as I am thirsty. (R: XD) "Man, your birthday just got messed up." he says, running his hand through his hair.
I smile saying, "That's not true. There's still like, 10 hours left. Let's have fun and not go on any death rides." He chuckles at my comment, gets up, and holds a hand out for me. I take it and we start walking around, going on rides, and especially, having fun.
~Timeskip almost sunset~
"Let's go on the ferris wheel!" I chirp.
Ryouma groans saying, "I hate the ferris wheel! It's not.. fun!" I pout. "Er, fine! Okay we'll go!" he sighs. I smile. We get in line, and when it's finally our turn, we go into a car by ourselves. Meaning we're alone. It's nice and quiet too. I plop myself down on the seat, Ryouma soon sitting down next to me. He puts his arm around me and I lean on him.
"See? It's soothing at least. Well, not for people who are scared of heights but it's nice and quiet." I say.
He sighs contentedly and replies, "Yeah.. It's nicer when you're with someone and not just alone. Unless you want to think but whatever."
I look at him. "Alone?"
"The topic of.. my ex's suicide..." Shoot. I shouldn't have asked.
"O-oh s-sorry.. I shouldn't have asked aga-" I was interrupted by lips. My faces grows red as he pulls away, laughing at my expression.
"This is really nice.." he says. I lean my head against his shoulder and smile.
"I agree.." My eyelids feel heavy..
"You can go ahead and sleep. I'll wake you up when it's almost done." he says. SERIOUSLY! SIXTH SENSE!
"Thanks.." I says as I close my eyes.
He kisses my head and, very seriously, says, "I love you."
I mumble back, "Love you too..." and drift off to sleep.
Cookie's POV
"So what now…?" Cracker asks me while watching Rumi and Ryouma leave.
I shrug, and then realize something, "Oh I need to go to school!"
He looks at me confused, "It's the weekend…"
"Der, I know that! I still have to buy tickets for the dance!" I flick his forehead.
"Ow!" he rubs the spot I hit on his head, "Anyway I want to come see your school too!"
"No," I say straightforwardly.
"Come on!" He begs.
"I must decline," I reject.
"Please! I'll even do whatever you say!" He pleads. He got me there.
"Fine," I agree, "Let's hurry up and go," I sigh.
I jump into the driver's seat and watch Cracker sit in the seat next to me. I start up the car, and drive out of our neighborhood.
~10 minutes later! At Cookie's School~
"We're here!" I smile. I look at the building, watching a couple of more students come in and out of the door. I walk up to the little entrance machine in front of the door. I flash out my student ID card and scan it. I push the door when I hear a clicking sound.
"Hurry up!" I call out to Cracker.
"OK, OK!" He laughs. I look for the room 401. When I find it, I see my best friend passing out tickets.
"Hey, I'm he-" I manage to say before getting charged at by my friend with a suffocating hug.
"I was wondering when you were going to show up!" The girl says.
I tap on her back and try to speak, "I-I can't b-breathe!"
"Oh, sorry!" she apologizes and lets go.
"Nice to see you too, Hannah!" I laugh.
"Hm, if you're not here for the meeting today for the dance committee like me, I'm guessing you're here to actually participate in the dance. So who's the lucky fellow?!" she exclaims, if she had a tail I bet you it would be wagging.
"Um, right here," Cracker waved his hand. Hannah turned her attention towards him.
"Hello, I'm Hannah!" she smiles and sticks out her hand.
"Hi, I'm Cracker…" he takes her hand slowly.
I see her mouth "Lucky! He's cute!" to me.
I mouth "Shut up!" at her and blush.
She laughs and remembers the tickets, "Oh, here!" she gives me two tickets.
"Hold on, I'll get some money to pay," I begin to search for cash in my purse.
"No need! Friend privileges and all. Plus the fact I'm student council vice-president," she winks.
I smile and take them, "Thanks, I really appreciate it!"
"We can go now, Cracker! Oh, and good luck with the meeting especially because of Maddie!"
I wave and walk out the door, following Cracker, then hearing "I just forgot about her! Thanks a lot, Cookie!" I just had to laugh. When we were about to exit the building, the principal stops me. "Ah, Cookie! I was waiting for you to return! Here you go," he hands me a binder full of work. "This will be due in 4 weeks! When finished, hand it in to the office. You got that?"
"Yes," I grumble.
We finally walk out of my school,and reach my car then Cracker speaks first, "So now where are we going?"
" I don't know, I would say the usual spot but I kind of want to get started on this," I tell him while picking up the pile of papers.
"What about Rumi's gift?" He asks me.
"I guess you're hinting that we should go back to my house then?" I ask at him, raising an eyebrow.
"Yep! " He agrees.
~10 minutes again. This time to our house~
I slam my car door, I wait for Cracker to get out and then lock them. I push open the front door to our house. I run upstairs to my room. Cracker follows, I watch him plop down on my bed.
"So what are we going to do for a present?" I ask.
Cracker fiddles with his strings on his hoodie, "I have no idea."
"This was your idea! I expected for you to have a plan!" I exclaim.
"Well now I do! We could make her a cake!" Cracker suggests.
"Hm…that might work…" I agree while nodding slowly.
"Do you know what kind of cake she would enjoy?" he finally looks at me.
"I think she'll enjoy chocolate cake..." I half answer him and half tell myself, "Then I know the perfect person who has a recipe for the cake!" I pick up my purse and grab my coat. "You coming?"
"Naw, I'll stay here and sleep," Cracker yawns. I roll my eyes and then he tells me while I walk out the door, "Make sure you call!"
"Yeah!" I yell back. I walk to my car and pull my car door open.
~20 minutes to a cafe~
I walk into the restaurant and wave to the lady serving coffee to three men. "Hello, Cookie. What brings you here?" She walks up to me.
"Hi Mrs. Stern, I'm here for the cake book," I tell her.
She points to the back, "It's over on top of the desk."
"Thanks," I reply. I walk to the room and look for a light green book. When I found it, I picked it up and put it in my purse. "Thanks again for letting me borrow the recipe book!" I greet her and go back to my car. I call Cracker and tell him I'm on my way.
"Okay!" He replies. He sounds excited. When I arrive to the house and go up to my room, I see paper everywhere.
"What are you doing?" I ask him.
"Oh, I'm writing a song for Rumi's present," He answers.
"What about the cake?" I ask, confused.
"That's part of the gift," He explains to me while tapping his pencil.
"What idea did you come up with for the song?" I walk up to him and try to peek over his shoulder.
He dropped his pencil and stretched, "I have no idea what to write!"
"What about writing a story on what happened when we met, you know, the mirror thing?" I suggest.
"That might work," he agrees. "But instead of our actual lives I'll just write it like a story."
"That's fine," I tell him. (C: You can see where I'm going with this XD) "Now, how about we bake the cake?" I ask.
"Yep!" He smiles. We ran to the kitchen and I got out the book. The book says:
Ingredients
Cake:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup superfine sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup best-quality cocoa
1 1/2 sticks soft unsalted butter
2 large eggs
2 teaspoons good-quality vanilla extract
2/3 cup sour cream
Special equipment: 2 (each 8-inch diameter) layer tins with removable bases, buttered
Frosting:
6 ounces good-quality semisweet chocolate, broken into small pieces
3/4 stick unsalted butter
2 1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon good-quality vanilla extract
Sugar flowers, to decorate, optional
Directions
Take everything out of the refrigerator so that all ingredients can come room temperature.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Put all the cake ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder and soda, cocoa, butter, eggs, vanilla, and sour cream into a food processor and process until you have a smooth, thick batter. If you want to go the long way around, just mix the flour, sugar and leavening agents in a large bowl and beat in the soft butter until you have a combined and creamy mixture. Now whisk together the cocoa, sour cream, vanilla, and eggs and beat this into your bowl of mixture.
Divide this batter, using a rubber spatula to help you scrape and spread, into the prepared tins and bake until a cake tester comes out clean, which should be about 35 minutes, but it is wise to start checking at 25 minutes. Also, it might make sense to switch the 2 cakes around in the oven halfway through cooking time. Remove the cakes, in their tins, to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes before turning out of their tins. Don't worry about any cracks as they will easily be covered by the frosting later.
To make this icing, melt the chocolate and butter in a good-sized bowl either in the microwave or suspended over a pan of simmering water. Go slowly either way: you don't want any burning or seizing.
While the chocolate and butter is cooling a little, sieve the confectioners' sugar into another bowl. Or, easier still, put the icing sugar into the food processor and blitz to remove lumps.
Add the corn syrup to the cooled chocolate mixture, followed by the sour cream and vanilla and then when all this is combined whisk in the sieved confectioners' sugar. Or just pour this mixture down the funnel of the food processor onto the powdered sugar, with the motor running.
You may need to add a little boiling water, say a teaspoon or so, or indeed some more confectioners' sugar, depending on whether you need the frosting to be thiner or thicker. It should be liquid enough to coat easily, but thick enough not to drip off.
Choose your cake stand or plate and cut 4 strips of baking parchment to form a square and sit 1 of the cakes, uppermost (i.e. slightly domed) side down.
Spoon about 1/3 of the frosting onto the center of the cake-half and spread with a knife or spatula until you cover the top of it evenly. Sit the other cake on top, normal way up, pressing gently to sandwich the 2 together.
Spoon another 1/3 of the frosting onto the top of the cake and spread it in a swirly, textured way (though you can go for a smooth finish if you prefer, and have the patience). Spread the sides of the cake with icing and leave a few minutes until set, then carefully pull away the paper strips.
(C: I just looked up the recipe so this is a real recipe for chocolate cake :D)
We make sure we have the ingredients, and surprisingly, we did. Must've been because Rumi likes to bake so much. We follow the recipe and put the finished product in the oven. We look at the mess we made on the counter and sigh. There was flour everywhere.
"Better get some towels," I say.
I turn my back to get some paper towels, then hear Cracker say, "Hey Cookie."
"Yeah?" I turn back to him. The next thing he did I did not expect. He throws flour at my face and laughs.
"It. Is. SO. On!" I wipe the flour off and take some flour off the counter. I duck and throw the flour at him. He dodges and throws some back at me. It just barely misses. I get back up and see he's not there anymore. When I realize he was behind me it was too late. He throws powder at my face. He falls on the floor, laughing. I kiss him on the cheek, getting some flour on his face.
"W-what did y-" He blushes.
I throw flour at his face and laugh, "I get the last laugh!"
Then I examine the kitchen which causes me to stop laughing. Even MORE flour everywhere.
"Great," I sigh. I get a towel and Cracker grabs the vacuum. When we finally finish cleaning, it was pretty late.
"I'm gonna call Rumi and Ryouma," I tell Cracker.
"Okay," Cracker responds and lies down on the couch.
I dial her number, "Hey Rumi."
Rumi's POV
"Rumi" I hear.
My eyes flutter open to see a pair of brown eyes staring at me. I also hear something very familiar. Well, other than the voice.
"Wake up, the ride's over." said voice continues.
I scan my surroundings. We're still on the ferris wheel but the doors are open and Ryouma's waking me up, holding my phone that's ringing. I get up and snatch my phone out of his hands, eager to see who's calling. 'Twas Cookie.
I flip it open and answer with, "'Sup Cookie."
"'Hey Rumi. Anyway, it's pretty late. About what time are you going to get home?" she asks.
"Mmm about 10. Why?" I reply.
She stutters, "N-nothing! It's nothing. Get back soon!" and then hangs up. I look at my phone confused and put it in my pocket.
Ryouma holds his hand out to me. "Let's go?"
I take his hand and smile back, "Yeah. Cookie wants us back soon for who knows why." We walk our way out of the theme park and to the house. When I ring the doorbell, I smack myself in the face. I have keys! I fish them out and unlock the door, only to have my vision covered by hands.
"R-Rumi! You guys are back earlier than you said!" I hear Cookie say.
"Well, we weren't that far from here. We went to the amusement park." I respond.
"W-well, we're not done yet! Things need to be perfected, items need to be finished, and areas need to be cleaned up!" Cracker adds.
Cookie adds even more with, "Besides, with you not being able to handle that many roller coasters, you probably need to take a shower or something." My head feels a bit hot when she says that.
"Y-you didn't need to say that!" I playfully hiss. Someone turns me around and Cookie lets her hands drop. Now I'm facing Ryouma whose back is to the door and hands are on my shoulders. He smiles.
"I'll guide you upstairs." He leans close to me. "Or do you want me to carry you up." he whispers, his breath tickling my ear with every syllable. I blush and he chuckles at my expression.
"Well, go do something! Just don't come downstairs!" Cookie and Cracker say. I hear scurrying footsteps and deduct that they went back to whatever they were doing. Suddenly, I'm lifted up into Ryouma's arms and he carries me upstairs.
"S-seriously! I can walk myself!" I shout. All he does is chuckle and keep walking up. He finds my room and sets my down.
"Okay, where's the bathroom?" he asks. "I'm going to start it for you while you pick what you're going to wear afterwards."
"Down the hall, first on your right. Wait no that's Cookie's room. First on your left" I reply. He chuckles while ruffling my hair and exits. I reach up to fix t but then remember I'm about to take a shower. I go through my closet and drawers. I pick something I usually sleep in. A sky blue shirt that's really huge and baggy and black sweats. I grab a hair tie and a brush then head to the bathroom. I find Ryouma crouching, drenched in water, trying to find out how to work the shower. The idiot! Well, he's the idiot I love but really.. A shower? "Y-you seriously don't know how to do it..." I walk over to him then crouch down. I turn the knobs and get the water running, warm. He smiles and scratches his head.
"Heh, sorry 'bout that. Showers differ you know!" he says.
I giggle then reply, "I know that but still. Anyway, geeet out! I'm a girl." I stick my tongue out at him. "Oh and dry yourself off." I say, throwing a towel at his face. He catches it as it falls and he closes the door. I take my shower which is followed by a nice bubble bath. Now I smell like oranges. Continuing, I dry myself and snake into my night wear. I drape a towel around my neck to keep my shoulders and back getting wet and I go to my room. I find myself in Cookie's room instead of mine, realizing I walked into the wrong door. Then, I notice there's paper everywhere. I pick one up and see that it's a music sheet with lyrics. I try to read some of the lyrics when it's suddenly snatches out of my hands. I turn to see that it's Cracker.
"Hehe, not yet." he grins. I, being confused, just blink as he pushes me out of the room and closing the door behind me.
"That... What just happened..?" I snap out of it and walk into the right room this time, finding Ryouma lying down on my bed reading manga. Then I notice there's a pile of manga next to him. And the books on my bookshelf are missing. I snatch it out of his hands, earning a glare and a "Hey!" from him.
"If you want to read, at least ask. I remember writing down some embarrassing things and then putting it in some of my books so I don't want you finding it." I quickly scan through the books when I finally find said paper. I fold it, pocket it, then go through the rest of the books. Finding nothing, I give the books to him and plop down on the bed. He stares at me. "What?" I finally ask. "I was wondering what the paper is." he responds.
"I told you it's embarrassing! I'm not going to let you see it." Suddenly, I'm pinned down by Ryouma and he's smirking. (R: :/ don't worry, i'm not going to do something like that)
"Not even if I do," he leans a bit closer to me, "This?" He lets go and he starts to tickle me. I start laughing hysterically, being super sensitive to tickling. (R: i actually am. I HATE it when someone tickles me. even just poking my side!) He finally stops and laughs. I glare at him. "Your turn~" I tickle him and he's just full on yelling and laughing. Soon, we both get tired and we just lie there, trying to catch our breath from laughing so much.
"Well that was fun." he says. I chuckle.
"Sure."
"Rumi! Ryouma! Wait no only Ryouma! Get down here! We need you to help us with the ca-" "Ryouma! Just get down here!"
We get up and Ryouma sighs. He ruffles my hair, smiles, then leaves, leaving me sitting alone in my room. Bored, I take out the paper and read its old contents.
Hello the 16 year old me. Or 17 depending when you see this. It's the 12 year old you here! Did you get straight A+'s yet?
I giggle then crumple it up and throw it away. I was a weirdo when I was young. But, then again, I still am! Suddenly, Ryouma bursts through the room, puts a blindfold on me and pinches my nose.
"Hey! Wha-" He pulls me up, guides me down the stairs, then sits me down on a chair. He takes the blindfold off and lets go of my nose. In front of me sits a chocolate cake, decorated in blue letters saying, "Happy Birthday Rumi!", some juice and soda. I look at Cookie and Cracker who are grinning.
"Did you guys make this?" I ask, bewildered by the good looking cake.
"Yep! It took us forever and we kinda messed up the kitchen when we did." Cookie chirps. I clumsily get up and hug her and Cracker.
"Thanks guys~ Oh I have a question. What was with all of the music sheets in Cookie's room?"
Cracker replies, "Oh I was writing a song for you. It's finished now~" I sit back down and he sits at our piano (R: which idk how to play but apparently, poof! A PIANO :D XD) (C: But I do! :D It can just be one that I play :P) and starts to play his song and sing along with Cookie. It's so beautiful, both the piano and lyrics.
When they finish, me and Ryouma clap and I hug them once more, saying, "Thanks for writing a song and baking a cake! It's a really big surprise."
Cracker nudges Ryouma and he whispers something in his ear. Ryouma nods, whispers in Cracker's ear, and then Cracker starts a conversation with me.
"So how was the theme park?"
"Oh it was fun. Well, the first 20 minutes weren't fun but whatever. I don't feel like explaining~"
"What rides did you go on?" Cookie asks.
"Some roller coasters, bumper cars, some water rides, the tea cups, and I think we went into a haunted house... We also went to those rides where you shoot things at the same time." I answer.
"Did you guys take pictures at one of those booths?" Cracker asks. "
Wow, you being curious about what we did is kinda weird... Oh well, and no we didn't."
We keep talking about my day and drinking soda when Ryouma interrupts. "Hey Rumi?" he asks.
"Y-yeah?" I stutter. Why does this happen only with him?
Suddenly, he's kneeling down, a silver ring with a light blue band in hand. I cover my mouth with my hands to keep me from screaming.
"Haha, this isn't a proposal. We're too young still. This is a promise ring." I nod and let him slide the ring onto my finger. We hug while Cookie and Cracker are just in the background, cheering and clapping.
I give him a quick kiss and say, "Thank you for this. And this awesome day."
He chuckles, "You're welcome."
Cookie's POV
"Whoa, daring aren't we?~" Cracker raises his eyebrow and nudges Ryouma.
I laugh, "Rumi, you should probably get ready for an actual proposal, `cause I don't think you're going to wait very long!"
"S-shut up!" Rumi blushes.
"Promise me when you two have children, you'll name one after me!" I tease.
"You realize we're still in highschool?" Ryouma lightly flicks my forehead.
"Yep, I fully understand! Oh yeah, you just reminded me! There's going to be a dance at my school, I was hoping you guys could come?" I ask.
"Sure, it'll be fun!" Rumi smiles.
"When is it?" Ryouma asks me.
"Um...I think it's the day after tomorrow," I answer.
Rumi turns to me and says, "Well looks like we got to go shopping!"
"Yep!" I agree. I look at the clock, it was 12:20 AM! Coincidentally, Cracker yawns when I was about to ask if we should get some shut eye.
"Maybe it's time to go to sleep?" I suggest.
"So whose with who?" Rumi asks.
"Girlfriend with boyfriend," Cracker took my hand and winks to the other two. We run up the stairs, heading to my room. The pieces of paper were still everywhere.
"Great, more cleaning!" Cracker starts to pick them up.
I crumble up one of the sheets and toss it into my trash can in the corner, "Cookie one, Cracker zero!"
"Oh, we're doing that are we?" Cracker smirks. He grabs another one and rolls it into a paper ball. He tosses it to the bin and the ball goes in.
"He shoots, he scores! And the crowd goes wild!" He exclaims and then does the fake crowd cheer.
I laugh and grab one sheet and turn into a ball, "I'll take it up a notch." I toss it against the wall, which causes it to bounce into the bin.
"Ooo~ That's impressive, but I'm better!" He tosses to the wall across the trashcan and gives it enough room to bounce to the wall next to the can. The ball bounces again to the wall he started on and finally bounces into the trashcan.(C: If you followed that, you are pretty amazing. XD)
"That's Cookie three, Cracker five!" He exclaims.
"What!? How?" I glare at him lightly.
"I'm adding style points," He explains.
"Oh! Then..." I bite my bottom lip, hoping my shot will work. I make a ball and toss it to the door. Right as it was about to hit the door, Rumi walked in.
"Hey what's going o-" Rumi says until the little ball hit her on the head.
"Oh my goodness, Rumi!" I try to hold in my laughter, "A-are you OK?"
I manage to contain my giggles, on the other side of the room, Cracker is laughing to his heart's content. "Bwahahahah! O-oh my gosh, t-that w-was perfect! Hahaha!"
I watch Rumi jump on Cracker, slapping him. "Ow! Why are you slapping me? It was Cookie who threw the ball!" he exclaims.
"At least she knows when not to laugh!" Rumi finally stops slapping him. "Anyway, what were you guys doing?"
"Um, paper basketball..." I answer.
"Now could you tell why?" Rumi asks.
"We were trying to clean up the paper around Cookie's room," Cracker answers.
"By the way, where's Ryouma?" I ask Rumi.
"He's asleep right now," Rumi replies.
"Oh, not anymore," I point to Ryouma walking to my door.
"Hey, what are you guys doing?" he asks, sounding tired. Cracker and I laugh a little, because he just repeated what Rumi just said.
"Just talking now," I respond. Everyone just plopped down on my bed.
"Well I guess my room is the best hang-out," I say.
"Yes mam`!" Cracker agrees. We all laugh.
"I feel like we should go now, Rumi!" Ryouma gets up and walk to the door.
"I'm coming," Rumi follows after Ryouma.
I lay down next to Cracker. I feel my eyelids falling. "Goodnight..." I murmur to Cracker.
"Mhm..." Cracker responds.
Rumi's POV (R: SO MUCH POV SWITCHING XD)
After we exit Cookie's room, I close the door as quietly as I could. Sadly, every door in this house is squeaky so, no luck. I hope it didn't bother them.
"They seem really excited about the dance." Ryouma says.
I blush, remembering the events from just now. "Y-yeah, but it is pretty exciting. I mean, it's pretty much prom. I think."
Ryouma chuckles then ruffles my hair. I reach up to fix it but Ryouma just grabs my hand and pulls me into a hug. He takes a deep breath. "You smell nice~" he mumbles.
I finally hug him back as he starts to brush my hair with his hands, getting rid of some tangles. I yawn softly and Ryouma chuckles as he pulls his head away from the crook of my neck to look at me. "You kinda look like a cat right now. Sleepy, hair messy, and innocent." he says.
I rub my eyes while softly replying, "Mew~"
He laughs quietly and pets me. Then we walk to my room. I lie down on the bed, Ryouma turning off the light and lying down soon after.
He kisses my forehead and says, "Good night. Sweet dreams Rumi." and we both drift off to sleep.
le next Morning..
"Rumi wake uuuuuuuuuuppppp~"
I groan and sit up, rubbing my eyes so it could adjust to the light.
"Whaahaatttt." I complain.
"We have to go shopping for our dresses for tomorrow! Ryouma and Cracker already went out to go buy their suits." Cookie explains.
I yawn. "Fine fine. At least let me get ready Cookie."
She springs up from the bed and exits, closing the door to give me privacy. I lazily get up and pick out my outfit. I chose a blue and red plaid short sleeve and a white long sleeve. Regular blue jeans and black boots were chosen also. I tied my hair up in a ponytail, put on my necklace, made sure I didn't lose my bracelet, grabbed my bag, and went downstairs.
"Who's driving?" I asked, looking through my purse to see if I had everything. I forgot my wallet!
"I am." Cookie replies
"Oh okay. Hold on lemme get my wallet. I forgot it in my room." I sprinted upstairs, skipping a few steps here and there and grabbed my wallet and phone. I quickly walked downstairs, out of the house and locked the front door. Beep Beep "Sheesh Cookie hold on!" While scurrying to the car, I trip on a tiny rock but quickly gain my balance. Then I open the door and sit in the passenger's seat.
"Wow Rumi, never knew you were such a klutz" Cookie teases.
I roll my eyes saying, "Oh shut up. Anyway, expensive dresses or average ones?" She shrugs. "We'll see."
Timeskip - At le Mall In a fancy store
"How's this?" I ask, stepping out of the changing room. Haha, Cookie should've seen her face. I had on a nice blue dress with one sleeve and it faded to a dark blue at the bottom. At my waist, the same fabric was wrapped around, both sky blue and dark. On my right side, there was a sort of... whatever it's called and same goes for my left where the sleeve has tied my hair up in a messy side bun on my right with some strands loose on my left.
"You look amazing Rumi! You should look at yourself." Cookie comments. I blush lightly and turn myself so that I could see myself in the mirror. I gotta admit, I did look pretty nice.
"Hehe thanks Cookie. Now you should go try something on. Try to impress Cracker with your slim figure." I tease.
She blushes lightly and gets up. We switch places, me sitting on the nice couch and she's in the dressing room. After about 5 minutes, she says, "Ready~"
dnE (esoprup no) (C: Translation: End (on purpose)) (R: XD)
Rumi: DX !dne ot secalp drieW
Cookie: ?ydobyreve esufnoc lliw siht kniht uoy oD
Ryouma: They're talking backwards.
Cracker: Can someone translate?!
Ryouma: Rumi said "Weird places to end!" and Cookie said "Do you think this will confuse everybody?"
Cracker: WE NEED TO FIND THE PERSON WHO DID THIS TO THEM T.T IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS!
Rumi: !~lliw ti kniht I
Cookie: !yaY DX
Girls: DX !weiver dna wollof esaelP
Guys: Please speak normally! T.T