Me: ok, the chapters are still coming, so be happy I haven't had mager writers block! *laughs nervously and knocks on wood*
Mushra: *pushes in a big block that had writer spray painted on it (I sigh)* here's writers block!!!! *smiles happily*
Me: *slaps him in the back of head and mumbles* annoying…..Anyways! I do not own shinzo or its characters. I'm just so obsessed with them that I've made a story about me hanging with them ^-^ enjoy!^^
Later on that day, or night, I guess, since it was dark, Carly finally woke up.
"Wha- what…what happened? Did I hit my head?" she asked, sitting up.
"When you fell, so I think so." Winter said and I elbowed her.
Carly laughed a little as mom brought her a cup of water, then left. "Ya'll wouldn't believe the dream I had…" she laughed more.
"Oh, I think we would." Heather said and I elbowed her, too.
Carly eyed heather and winter but then continued, saying "No, really! It was about shinzo! I, like, came in and got me something to eat, and asked who made the soup1 and then kutaal was there! And so was everyone else, except they were wearing normal clothes! Really, guys! And it was so real!"
"Yeah, that's because it is real, sparky!" said a small and annoying voice.
We turned as Mushra walked in, everyone following behind him. As freaking always, my stomached flipped when I saw Sago, but I turned, wishing I'd stop feeling like that….then thought, why didn't I want to feel that way?
"Oh. My. God!" Carly said, her mouth literally falling open. "You! Ya'll! Your…uh, but….what the heck! How's this possible!!!" she finally was able to ask a coherent question.
"…It's a bit of a long story, so, you might as well, get real comfortable." I said, then began with the first day…
** ** **
Two years ago.
"Winter! Hurry the heck up, this is starting to hurt!" heather yelled as she dangled from a rope tied to a tall tree which held our tree house. "Did we have to make this THIS realistic?!"
"It was your idea!" I yelled to her, feeling stupid wearing a oversized bike helmet that belonged on my dad's big head, a blue cover for a cape and pajama's. god, I hope no one see's us other then my parent's or heathers. "And at least your out-fit is a really good fan-made out-fit and it looks nice on you1 my out-fit makes me look stupid!" she had made her out-fit herself. No freaking fair!
"Would you two stop complaining?!" winter, my sister said, on the same branch of the tree that heather was tied to. "We're supposed to be having fun! Ok, Jaden, do you have the camera?" she asked, pulling out a rock she'd brought up there.
"Yeah." I said, pulling it out and getting it ready. "Just tell me when your ready and I'll turn it on."
"Heather, ready?" she asked.
"YES!! Just start video-cameraing before I loose feeling in my arms!!!" she said, wiggling a little.
"Ready!" winter said. Holding up the rock. She also had a better out-fit then me, but not heather.
"Action!" I said, turning on the camera. And if you haven't guessed what seen and who we're acting out, you either haven't watched the show and are not a fan, or you're a really stupid fan that hasn't watched the show in years.
Right as winter moved a little and got ready to say her line, we heard a loud crack. The girls eyes widened, as well as mine and I moved my eye from behind the camera, looking to see what that was.
"Winter, if you move one inch, " heather started saying slowly. "I will kill you."
But she was too late. Winter had gotten worried and moved back, causing another loud crunch. And then the branch broke and they fell. I dropped the camera and ran up to them, hurrying to move the big branch and other branches out of the way.
Heather hit most of them off. "WINTER!" she screamed, angry.
"Ok, I get your frustration, heather, really. But, she's my sister and I'm kinda of fond of her, so…" I said, trying to be funny and calm her, but when I didn't not feel my sister cowering behind me or even moving, I started digging again through the branches, but once I moved all of them, I saw she wasn't there. And then I got really worried. "Winter?" I called, but no answer. "Winter?!!" I started digging in the other pile of branches. Nothing.
"Uh, Jaden…" heather said, and my heart sank.
I turned slowly, but calmed as I saw she hadn't found an unconscious winter (if no one knew her name and read that sentence, that'd sound either kind of weird, or very poetry-ish). She was looking at something that was in a small bush at the bottom of the tree. W-what is it?"
"Come here…" she said, staring at what ever it was in amazement.
I came up to her and looked to see a light blue and green, swirling circle in between the tree and the ground. "What on earth…?" I said, amazed.
"what…is this?"
"It looks like a portal…" I said.
"….what do you think's on the other side?"
I swallowed. "What ever it is, I don't care. Winter could be in there, so we gotta go." I said and jumped in, not waiting for her. My stomach flipped with fear as I wonder what was at the end of this portal.
Heather was behind me in seconds and we were flouting around in the circle of earthy colors. But then there was a bright light and we land flat on our backs…and laid there for a second, in pain.
"God, ow, that hurt!" I exclaimed.
"No duh." Heather said.
We stood, rubbing our backs, and scanned the area. It seem to be a camping area, but no one had been here in a while because there was no wood or footprints. It was kind of dark, the sun setting.
"Jaden!" I heard and turned towards my sisters voice. She came out fo the tree's and hugged me.
"Winter, are you ok?!" I said, looking for any scars.
"Yeah, I'm fine." She said, a little breathless. "But possibly not for long!"
"What? What do you- wait, where are we? Do you know?"
"No, but I was walking around, think I was still at home, when I saw a camp fire and headed to it, but some short dude there heard me and demanded to know who was there. I ran and he started following!" she said in a rush.
And then we heard footsteps coming fast. But then, something we didn't exspect…
"Eye of the lion!" "Hydro Power!" "Hyper Flame!" a sound of crackling flames, rushing water and crunching earth came after those words.
We all turned towards the guys coming and said at the same time. "No. Freaking. Way."
The first to come out of the shadow of the tree's was the hot-head himself. Mushra. The second was the coolest freaking lion ever (well, second coolest, compared to Aslan). Kutaal. And the last was the only guy who could pull of all blue, looking totally hot (it's a bit much, I know, but true). Sago. And as if to show of the fact that they were here, the bright light of the setting sun shined on the three of them, making them look even coller then they were a second ago!
They seemed to calm a little as they saw us.
"Why did you run, human?" Mushra asked in a cautious voice.
We couldn't speak.
"Don't worry, girls, he's scary to plenty of other people, too." Sago said and I thought that my heart may have skipped a beat.
They transformed back then and Mushra yelled, "Shut up!" at Sago as he laughed…I just stupidly kept staring at him.
"It's alright, humans, we were just wondering if something was wrong. We had thought you were attacking us at first, until you ran." Kutaal explained.
It was then, as we realized this might be real, that the three of us lost consciousness and fainted.
Some time later, we woke up, lying in the same place from before. We also felt wet and as I looked at heather and winter, I saw they were and me, too.
"Come on, Sago!" we heard Mushra say and saw the boys sitting on the logs surrounding the circle that was for the fire. "Do it again!" he said, pushing sago's arm at us.
"No! They're awake!" he protested and my eyes locked on him.
"Hmph!" Mushra said and sat back down.
"What's wrong guys?" we heard a kind female voice ask and then Yakumo came from the trees. "Oh, hello." She smiled.
We all barely waved. The three of us were pretty in sink when we were shocked or surprised or dumbfounded.
"Was something wrong?" she asked Mushra.
"Don't know, they ain't talking." He said jumping up as his hover-board come up behind him and he landed on it.
"Are any of you hurt?" sago asked.
We shook our heads.
"Scared?" kutaal asked.
We shook our heads again.
"Well, then what's wrong with you?!" Mushra asked, impatient.
"Could you give us a second to freaking speak, shorty?!" heather stood, annoyed at his annoying-ness. Though, also, that's what she liked about him, too. Confusing.
"Who are you calling shorty?!" he said, speeding over to her on his over board then jumping down to show that they were the same height.
They just glared at each other.
"Wow. You'd think they were twins…" sago said, staring at them. Me and winter stood then.
"Well, why don't you tell us what she was going to? Why are you three away from the city? No one's supposed to come up here until we've checked the place for evil or rouge enterrans." Yakumo said.
"The city? What city?" winter asked.
"That one down there." A robotic voice said, coming from the tree's to be beside Yakumo. All of a sudden, his eyes lit up and they scanned us.
"Ah! What was that?!" I asked, worried.
"Yakumo, they're humans, as they appear…but they are not from this realm. It is a different time zone they come from. The one with no enterrans." He said looking at her.
All the guys heads snapped up towards Hakuba as he said that. Yeah, we're so unlucky. Yakumo gets two hot guys with power and a cool cat that can cook and fight and what do we get in our realm?! Annoying, boring and barely cute guys in a boring realm.
Yakumo looked at us, amazed.
And after that, she got us to tell her all about our version of earth and we were just too psyched to say no. we got tired after a while and stayed the night at their camp. The next morning, though we didn't want to, we headed home but promise we'd come back after we told our parents.
And though it took forever to convince them, and also took us showing them the portal, they finally believed us. And after a day or two of arguing, negotiating and planning, they finally let us start going back and bringing them here.
And from then on, we were friends with our favorite TV show characters.
** ** **
Carly just sat there, wide eyed, mouth a gape.
"Wait, wait, wait!" Mushra said all of a sudden, breaking the silence. He had faint and hidden amusement in his voice. "…you," he said, pointing at heather. "Dressed up as me and you, " he pointed at me. "dressed up as sago? And you have it on tape, too?! Oh, I got to see that!" he said, heading the closet where we keep books and movie's. Heather tackled him. "No! I have to see it!! I have to!!!" he said clawing at the floor.
I ignored them as they wrestled, and also ignored giggled from everyone else other then winter and Carly, who was still stunned looking….it was starting to worry me. "Yeah, Mushra's not good with first impressions." I said, laughing weirdly.
She finally snapped out of her frozen state, shaking her head. "So, this is really real?" she asked.
"Yep."
"I'm not dreaming?"
"Well, you could pinch yourself to find out-ow!" Mushra mumbled as he wrestled with heather, who, of course was winning.
It took a few minutes, but a look of complete realization and happy acceptance came over her, but then, a bit of anger as she turned to me. "Well, why didn't you tell me before?!"
"Uh…well, the last time you visited was either, before we met them or sometime after that and I forgot…or at least didn't know how to tell you. But I'm pretty sure it's because it was after your last visit…."
"Well, what about calling me?! Emailing me?!"
"Well, like I said, we didn't know how to tell you. And anyways, aren't you glad you r here to meet them in stead of over the phone or through email?" I said, hoping she'd calm.
She did, but only for now because the others. "….Can we go to enterra?!"
"uh, I don't know about that, sweetie…." My dad said and I turned to glare at him as everyone looked at him.
"Please! Please, uncle Travis!!! I really want to go!!! Please!!! Just for a few days, since I'm only spending a week here!! I will love ya'll forever if ya'll let me go!!!" and she started doing poppy dog eyes to my mom and dad and me and winter joined in. oh, the power of related teenage kids with big, pretty eyes against parents.
"….fine! but only for a few days days!" he said pointedly to me and winter. "And there better not be anything more then hand holding going on with you four! Am I clear?"
"Yes sir." I said flatly.
"Yeah-ah! That's my hair Mushra!" heather screamed.
Carly became confused. "…who four? What's he talking about?"
I blushed a little. "Um…"
"Jaden's finally going out with saog and heather with Mushra." Winter said.
"Wow, really?!" she asked, smiling. "Well, we'll talk about it later! I'm gonna get my bag!" she said, jumping up from the couch and grabbing her bag, ready to go.
And after heather and Mushra broke up their fight (with help from kutaal), we all started getting ready to leave. The boys and Yakumo and Binka changed back to their enterran clothes, kutaal grabbed his pots and pans and me and winter packed our stuff. Heather just grabbed the bag she'd brought yesterday.
Everyone headed off to the woods, except me and heather. We were stopped by my parents. I sighed and so did she.
"Ok, while your gone, I want you two to be on good behavior!" my dad started. "Nothing stu-"
"Dad, you've giving us this speech so many times that its painfully unnecessary!" I interrupted, sure my face was glum again. "We're not going to do anything freaking stupid! And if your wondering if Sago is listening to your warnings and keeping an annoying distance between us, don't worry! He is! No matter if you two are around or not! And I think the only fun I'm going to have is hanging with my friends, my sister and my cousin! I don't even think me and Sago will talk, so, great job!" I finally finished and stormed off before they could say anything. I heard heather run after me.
"Um…..well, uh…..wow." she said the only compliment she could think of on what I just did. I barely smiled, but wasn't completely happy with what I did. Don't get me wrong. I'm glad I'd finally let my feelings towards them lately, out, but…I'm, as well as winter, pretty close with my parent's and I don't like getting them mad that much. Or hurting them.
I just kept quiet until we went through the portal to see the others unpacking and getting comfortable. I just tossed my stuff by winters and then lay on the ground, using my bag as a pillow as everyone talked, mostly to Carly, feeling her in on everything.
Even winter, though she took a minute to say some things, talked about Xavier.
Eventually, after getting everything out of heather that she could, Carly came to me.
"So…?" she said, sitting beside me as I gazed at the stars here.
"So… what?"
"What's up with you and sago?! I want the details."
"Carly, I'm really tired and…not in the mood, so…maybe tomorrow." I said, rolling over, on to have her crawl over to that side.
"Aw, come on! It's still kind of sunny here! About six or seven o'clock! How can you be tired?! you always stay up late!"
"…People change…" I said, trying to change the subject. I laughed at the irony of what I said.
"What's up with you two?" ugh1 what did he want.
"She not telling me anything about how you two have been!" Carly complained.
"And why's that, Jaden?" he asked…. his voice was still that fake calm, yet flat tone.
"Tired." was my only answer.
"Jaden, is something wrong?" wow, he actually sounded worried!
"Nope."
"Jaden…"
"What?" I asked, getting a little irritated.
"Look at me, please." He said softly. I hated it, but I couldn't resist that voice.
I rolled over and propped myself on one arm to look him in the face as he sat on his knees, his face a few inches from mine. "What?"
He saw it there. My annoyance, and, though I'd hoped not, my pain, too, I'm sure. He didn't know what to say. Of course not.
"Ok, I'm just going to wait until tomorrow…." Carly said, crawling away as me and Sago stared each other in the eyes.
"What is it you want?" I asked, wanting to lay back down.
"….What wrong with you?" he asked.
I laughed and laid back down on my back. "What wrong with ME? Funny…"
"What does that mean?" he asked, sounding a bit annoyed by the accusing sound in my voice.
I leaned up to glare at him, but got up and headed towards the woods, knowing he'd follow and then began.
"Sago, since we talk the other night, you've barely said a word to me!" I sat up then and looked him in the eye. "You've also barely touched me. I get that partly, because my parents. But they said it fine to hold my freaking hand!!! If not put one arm around my shoulder, which they also allow sometimes!! So, I'm sorry if I feel a bit freaking rejected because the lack of attention I'm getting from you!!! I mean, nothing like a pop star would want, heck no! but at least one look from you that isn't a freaking guarded or emotionless look!! One real smile in stead of a fake one!" I sucked in breathing heavy because I knew tears were coming. "You haven't even kissed me!!!" they started to over flow a little then, but I was still able to talk coherently. I wiped my eyes as I continued. "Not since the last one before you went to sleep in the guest house! And, I may be imagining this, but I really figured out then what they meant by freaking 'cold shoulder' after that kiss!" I turned away then, hating everything and everyone at this moment. I tried to calm myself, wiping my eyes repeatedly. I freaking felt like I was a new character in freaking Dawson's Creek!
"Jaden." He touched my shoulder an I shied away from his hand, hating the fact that he only touches me now…"Ok, Jaden. When we talked outside of your house, you pretty much said we needed to slow thing down. Stop going so far so fast. And that's what I'm doing…."
I turned back to him, really annoyed now. "Yes, said slow things down and that's what I meant! That was what I was ready to do, but what your doing isn't slowing down, Sago! Its freaking rewinding!!!"
He looked away then. "I was just doing what you wanted." He said, giving me a slightly less guarded look. I saw a little pain and anger there.
"Don't give me that crap, Sago. Just leave me alone completely, like you were doing before!" and I stormed off then, farther into the forest, so I could get away from him and calm down before I headed back.
I sat against a trunk of a tree, wiping my eyes and taking deep breaths. I couldn't go back there, looking all sad. Not with everyone, including my visiting cousin, back there. I wouldn't want to worry them and I'm not in the mood to discuss anything.
Once I'd calmed, I headed back to the camp-site. The best fake smiled I could work up flat on my face. I didn't even look to make sure if sago came back.
I laid back down and everyone was starting to lie down, too. Sago was lying on his side, facing away from me, and I did the same.
Before I fell asleep, I got a worried look from my best friend and only sister. I shook my head and smiled, hoping to calm them. They eventually fell asleep and, after I let a few tears fall, I fell into sleep also.
I had a dream that night. I dream I hadn't had since before everyone met. Before we knew the others were real. Before I had any really, real hope of ever having anything with sago, but dreamed of it.
"So." He said with his beautiful voice. He was in his hyper form. "What kind of stuff do you like?"
we were sitting on a log while other's, including hyper form Mushra, kutaal, Yakumo and also heather, danced around a fire with other enterrans.
I don't know why, but I'd dreamed I was some kind of cat enterran with pointy ears, yellowish skin, gold hair and a purple and pink out-fit. It was just random, but at least I looked prettier in the dream. That's probably why he was talking to me. "Stuff." I had said lamely….. I was younger then and wasn't very imaginative, ok?! "What…kinda of stuff do you like?"
"Stuff." He laughed and his eyes sparkled a little because of the flames reflecting off the.
We had just talk in that dream, and back then, I liked it. It was like my own little world where I could be with him, happy.
But, unlike back then when I had the dreams, I started seeing flashes of my memories. Memories from before we went on that date, then the date, then lately this month. Me and him have been so happy since after that first date…but then the memories of last night popped in my there. Then it was just swarms of all the different memories, assaulting my brain and then stopping with…our…our first kiss. It had been so sweet, so amazing, so…loving. And the kisses afterward were the same, so nice. The last, very last memory was of our last kiss. I know realized that, then, though it had been so short…that had been the most intense kiss we ever shared, and he had held me so tightly…
I had been a bit wrong about him…he was hurting as much as me…..
I woke up then, woken, yet again by the smell of food. I sat up, rubbing my eyes. Everyone had a plate of some sort of meat and, as I smelt it, I didn't care what meat he'd used.
I headed over there to everyone and, once heather saw me, she handed me a plate, smiling. I smiled too, trying hard to squash my glum mood that threatened to come back. I sat by Carly and ate my chicken happily.
"Hey, Jaden, guess what? Everyone's volunteered to give me a tour of the city. Are you going to come?" Carly said.
I cleared my throat after I swallowed, knowing that if I hadn't, I would have sounded hoarse. "Of course." I smiled at her and she smiled back.
As I looked over everyone, happy to see happy faces, my eyes stopped on him. He was staring at me sadly. He gave me an apologetic smile, not thinking it'd help. But I smiled back, which made him really smile.
After everyone finished, we headed down the trail to the city, all chatting about different stuff. Yakumo was telling Carly about all the different stores and stuff in the city as they rode in Hakuba. I was sure Carly was happy about that. Kutaal was telling the kittens how to make something I couldn't understand. Mushra and heather were arguing about something and Binka had joined heathers side. Winter had joined mushra's.
"Are you feeling…better?" sago asked, all of a sudden coming up beside me.
"Um, yeah. I think so….look, I'm…sorry about going off, I'm just confused and angry about this whole situation with my parents and us and I think I just needed to unload. I'm sorry, I didn't know it was hard on you to…I'm sor-"
"Stop." He said, almost laughing. "…It's fine. Like you beings say, 'your only human'." He laughed.
I nodded. From then on, we were kind of quiet, not sure what exactly to say, but at least were weren't shooting sparks from our eyes.
"Ok, I propose and idea!" Yakumo had said after we'd finished going everywhere but a one mall.
"What's that?" Carly asked, eating the rest of her chicken, which she'd saved. She had vowed to cherish Kutaal's food until she had it no more.
"Well, since you four- well, three, since heather's has that out-fit from Mushra. But anyways, I was saying that since you three don't have any enterran clothes, I thought we could go get some!"
"Sure!" the three of us (me, winter and Carly) nodded.
"Haha, now its ya'lls turn to be dressed up in different and weird clothes!" Mushra said, laughing evilly. Remembering us forcing them to change. We laughed at the memory of Mushra trying to tear sago's helmet of, which he was still wearing now. His hair was getting a little longer, but enough that you could see the tips of his blue hair sticking out from the bottom.
We headed in the mall and went looking….Mushra kept trying to offer stupid looking clothes to us just to mess with us. Idiot.
Me, winter and Carly (not usually the girly, shop-a-lot girls) were running back and forth like crazy trying to find something cool. I had saw a really cool top. It twisted around the neck AND also had shoulder armor, making it cooler, but then I saw it was a dress. Yeah, I wont wear anything that flowy and if I do, it needs to be shorter and I need to have pants under it.
Eventually, after an hour (shamefully. Really made us seem girly, since we spent an hour looking for clothes), we found something we liked.
Winter had found an out-fit that was actually exactly like mine, except it was a different color. It was a shirt that surrounded the neck at the top and had a stone in the middle. Her's was a light blue-ish green, the shirt blue. Mine was a ruby red stone, the shirt a darker color of red. We also had…well, not gloves...kinda like the arm warmer things Carly had, but silk, like the shirts. It felt nice. Oh, and we had shoulder armor, but, unlike that other out fit, it wasn't attached. We where wearing a little bit, kind of tight pants with boots and the pants had (yay!) a cool skirt attached. It was short in the front and grew longer as it made it to the back of me. My boots were brown and the pants were the same shade as my shirt. My skirt a lighter red. The gloves were that light red, too and the shoulder armor was brown. Winters boots were a dark green, same as her shoulder armor, her skirt and gloves a shiny green and her pants the same as her shirt. And we also got these things in our hair to hold the hair back, some type of metal. One for both side, and they had stones, the same as the shirts, in them.
Yeah, we looked cool!
Carly's out fit was armor over her other clothes and I understood. She couldn't part with those clothes. She had shoulder armor, thigh armor and some armor on her knee's. it was a dark black. Also, just for the heck of it, she got herself and crown kind of like mushras's, except with designs and stuff on it.
We all looked cool! And we came out of there with big smiles on our face, ready to have fun!
"Man, you guys look different!" Mushra said, astonished. "You actually look cool!"
"And what, we weren't before?!" winter asked, feeling offended, but it was still playful.
"Thanks for the compliment!" I told him and everyone laughed at us.
"This is just so freaking cool!" Carly said all of a sudden. She kept doing this, realizing again and again, as if she forgot, that this was all real. "I'm gonna start visiting so much more!"
I smiled at her. This was nice, though I still felt on edge because of me and saog. We'd made a truce…but we still kept a distance, not sure how to act, what to do. Because my parents and also just because the hostility we felt….i'm sure we might have more fights later, but, hopefully, make up the next day like this time….
Yeah, if only.
We stayed in a hotel place, complete with a pool that seemed like a beach, it was so cool. We played for hours, but eventually, we headed back in, deciding we'd go on a walk through town again, just to be out doing something. And also, tomorrow, we planned to go on a little hiking trip….but made sure we knew it couldn't take long, since mom and dad said only a few days. God, so annoying!
"Um, hey, guys!" sago said as we passed some building with flahing light on the outside. I glanced through the glass doors and saw the machines and poker tables.
"No, Sago!" we all said, even Carly.
He sighed, knowing he'd hoped falsely…..i hated feeling all girly like this, but….it was hard for me to keep my eye off him. I wanted to look at him, but then, I didn't…it was so annoying! I focused on other things.
"Ok, so your saying that between superman and batman, superman's the best?!" heather asked Mushra, astonished.
"Yes! You got a problem with that?!" he asked her. They could be so entertaining sometimes.
"Yeah, and you know why?! 'cause superman's a bit of a sissy and batman is just cool!!" she said.
"What?!!! Dude, spuermans….he's….well, he's freaking spuerman!!!!"
I laughed, as I always did, at them. I looked at kutaal, the kittens and Carly, who were talking about something.
"How did you learn to cook so well?!" she asked kutaal, wanting to know.
"Years of practice." He said, smiling widely. "And a good sense of food."
I looked to Yakumo and Binka.
"But why cant I use it on them?!!" Binka said, complaining about not being able use her bazooka.
"Because, Binka, that thing is too violent. It would come in handy with enemys, but not the boys." Boy did Yakumo not understand the boys.
"How ion the world do you think they listen?!" Binka said, raising the bazooka higher. My point, exactly!
"Hey Jaden?" I heard winter say. I turned to her. She was a few steps behind mer and sago and I slowed to where I was beside her. She had a troubled look on her face.
"Yeah?"
"Um….nevermind. its nothing." She said, shaking her head.
"Winter, what is it? Something's on your mind." She had no hope of hiding anything from me when I was her sister.
"…..are you and sago ok? Tell me the truth." She had a worried, yet sad look in her eyes.
I turned face away from her, swallowing hard. After a minute, I took a breath. "…don't tell anyone, ok? Because I don't want to ruin anyone's fun….but…last night, me and sago had a fight….and a pretty big one…." I said and told her everything.
She nodded and then started to think. After a few minutes of silence, she turned to me and started talking again, seeming to really want to get this through to me. "Jaden….i think…no, I know you need to go with your instincts, what you want. God, love them, but mom and dad can go too far with some things, mostly when it comes to us. Though, its not mainly because them, they are part of the reason me and….Xavier broke up. That just wouldn't leave us alone." She started to seem sad, and now I wished I hadn't said anything, this was hurting her to think of him. She looked at me and saw I was about to say something and held up her hand. "You need to have as much time as you can with sago….you never know what'll happen and when it will happen. My point is, I don't want to see the same thing happen to you, Jaden. Seeing you happy with him, though sometimes it hurts, has made me happy. Its one of the things that gets me up in the morning, you, my sister, being happy with someone you love."
Being the emotional people we are, plus being females, we were overflowing with tears by now. We had stopped and let everyone go ahead of us.
"Winter…" I said, and hugged my sweet sister close. God, how could I live without a friend and loved one like her.
"Promise me!" she said hoarsely and cleared her throat, hugging me tighter. "Promise me you'll stay happy, ok? I don't want to see it happen to you, too."
I swallowed hard. "I will….i will try, winter….but I'm not sure what to do right now….for now, " we let go then. " I think we just need time to calm down and think….but winter, I need to tell you something, too."
"Hm?" she said, wiping her eyes.
"You are the best sister I could ever ask for and I love you…" I said and hugged her again.
"Me, too, Jaden, me, too." She said.
After we'd calmed and once we were sure we looked normal again, we headed after everyone. I mostly walked with her. I couldn't be near him now….I was to confused and worried…like if I made one wrong move, everything would be messed up. I, at this point, didn't know what would help, and what would make everything worse….
Later, we headed back to the hotel, going to our rooms, tired. Kutaal and the kittens shared a one bed room. Yakumo, Binka and Carly shared a three bed room. And, of course, me heather, Mushra and sago stayed in the same room. We all had our own beds. I slept in the one closets to the wall. Heather and Mushra were lying in the beds in the middle and sago was on the other side….farthest from me….
I actually didn't sleep much then. I couldn't stop glancing over at sago, asleep, calm and serene, too far away from me. I don't know why, but I couldn't look away from him as he slept….which, after hours of thinking, I found funny. Because on one episode of Dawson's creek, Jen's grandma was talking about she used to watch her husband as she slept. She said she stay up for hours, watching him. She said you had to know you loved someone a lot if were able to stay awake watching them….Pacey, at the end of the episode, watched Joe as she slept. It was so sweet.
And I knew then, like I always knew, that I cared deeply for that boy sleeping soundly three beds from me. And I hoped he did, too, and that it stayed that way, forever….
But, as my sister said…
You never know what will happen and when it will….
Me: ok, everyone that's reading! I need help!!! I'm planning to have some bad guy attack or do something evil and I want ya'll to help me decide who it could be!!! But, please, not Lanuncurus….he's too evil and things might be too emotional if it was him, cause he'd end up killing people *twitches as I think of him killing sago*
Mushra: Aw, come one! I could take him! I beat him last time!!!
Me: yeah, after five or more freaking tries!!! Dude, I spent days going crazy over the fact that in each new episode, you still hadn't killed him!!! I stayed up 'til four in the morning to watch you finally kill him!!! And the was with the power of a guardian! Do you have the guardian card?
Mushra: *annoyed* …no….but I'd keep fighting!
Me: yeah, we know. Please, need help! Need idea's, so please offer!!