Okay sory about the long wait again, but at least it wasn't too long right? ^^; Anyway hope you guys like this chater! Make sure to tell me!

Roxanne and Syx entered the general store together as Syx called to the store attendant "Hey pal!"

Roxanne watched in horror as Hal turned around with a smile on his face "Hey Syx! I got the phone for you!"

"Great thanks!" Syx said happily going to the counter as Roxanne busied herself with looking at the other items, trying to avoid the man behind the counter.

"How are you doing, man?" Hal asked conversationally although he had already made his way to Roxanne, as Syx answered that he was well. "Hello!" Hal said smiling at Roxanne.

Inwardly rolling her eyes Roxanne smiled at him "Hi, hello."

"Remember this?" Hal asked as he began to dance and sing from the previous night before.

Roxanne slowly made her way back to Syx as she nodded "Yep, um hmm."

Finally Hal had enough and went back to work as Syx placed his purchases into a bag and chuckled at her "You made quite an impression on him hum?"

"Yep, yep. It was probably the part where I burst into tears." Roxanne said sarcastically.

"Oh!" Syx said happily reaching behind her to grab a box of Hostess brownies "Fun fact about Syx, number 11, I love brownies and Pringles and Pepsi. All Hostess products, they're delicious."

"What are you like 13?" Roxanne asked crossing her arms as Hal came over with the phone.

"Here ya go Syx. All charged up!"

"Alright, thanks buddy!" Syx said taking the box and walking out of the store.

"And I put your latest number in here to." Hal said handing the phone to Roxanne.

"Oh thank you." She said as they played back and forth with it for a few seconds, before he finally handed it over. Quickly Roxanne ducked out of the way before Hal had a chance to touch her hair like he had been planning and walked of the store. As they left Roxanne checked her phone and marveled at how many messages she had "Crap, I've got 37 messages. Shit, I need a computer."

Syx nodded "Alright, there's one over at the Café." Once there he had Roxanne sit at a station while he went and paid for it. "Alright, when it runs out, it'll give you a warning, just put in more dimes."

She looked at him "Seriously, dimes!"

"Yep. I'll be out side." Syx said handing them to her before going outside.

Roxanne looked at the dimes for a second and finally fed them into the machine. She had to wait for a few minutes for the dialup, but when the page loaded she got to work. Looking around as it loaded again she noticed Syx outside with a group of children. All of them were jumping and playing on top of him and laughing as he talked to them. A smile came over her face as something swelled in her heart.

A beeping sound distracted her from her thoughts before she got back to work.

..::-::..

Syx and Roxanne walked down the road towards the dock in silence and a few feet apart. At last Roxanne decided to break the silence. "So you're fairly popular with the kids around here, huh?"

Syx nodded "Yep, yeah, yes I am."

Roxanne nodded "Well I guess it's easier when you're one of them." Syx looked at her confused and she gestured to his bag of treats. "You still have the palate of a 13 year old."

"Ha!" Syx said throwing his head back "Yes well, at least I eat."

Roxanne looked at him and was about to throw another comeback at him when her name was called. "Roxanne! Oh there she is! Roxanne!"

Roxanne and Syx looked behind them to see Minion and Lactea coming towards them. "We need Roxanne." Lactea said smiling at them.

"Sorry, but we're going to have to steal you away." Minion said smiling as well.

"Oh no, I'm just gonna-"

"Oh don't worry!" Minion said chuckling a bit, interrupting Roxanne. "No stripers, no berries."

"Well, uh-" Roxanne tried again, but Lactea and Minion dragged her away anyway.

"Goodbye son. It's just girl and Minion stuff." Lactea said kissing him goodbye before following Minion and Roxanne away.

Syx smiled after them as Roxanne gave him a look that clearly said 'Help me!' He merely laughed and walked off.

..::-::..

Minion and Lactea led Roxanne to a dress shop and were having her try on something. Minion had his pin cushion on his wrist and tape measure around his neck ready for when she was finally done. Lactea had sat herself down on the couch next to the dressing room. "This dress has been passed down through the generations of Minds on our planet." Lactea told her "And don't worry about the fit. Minion can fix anything."

"Ma'am." Minion said bashfully just before Roxanne came out of dressing room.

What she now had on was, in a word, interesting. It was a wedding dress. All in white and was so long that she had to grab handfuls of it to even walk forward. Some of it trailed behind and the chest area was very busty, even for her. The dress had a turned up collar that was at least 5 or 6 inches high, tight fit all around and the sleeves went down to her wrists. The cut on the neck was much like a turtleneck, but tighter. The design on the dress had diamonds placed all over it that resembled stars, like one would see in the night sky. It had an empire cut and was gathered at the chest area, but the rest of the dress was free flowing. The dress itself was made out of a tight, yet stretchy materiel and despite it being weird was kind of comfortable.

"Wow, it really is something." Roxanne said as she made her way to them. "At bit loose in some areas, but great."

"Sorry," Lactea said softly "Our kind have wider hips than humans."

"No it's alright." Roxanne said placing her hands on her own hips "I'm not too far behind." They all shared a laugh as Minion began his work readjusting the dress.

"You know," Lactea began "I was thinking if you'd like that maybe we could head your way for the holidays this year."

"Oh." Roxanne said trying to think quickly "That would be nice, or maybe we could come to you too." She offered, smiling at her.

"Well that would be lovely." Lactea said quietly before her voice started to shake "I would like that very much." Roxanne and Minion looked over to her to see her covering her face trying to stop the tears.

"Ma'am." Minion said worriedly "Would you like me to get you something?"

Lactea sucked in a breath and shook her head "No, you finish here, I'll go." Both Minion and Roxanne nodded as she walked away, before the fish turned back to Roxanne.

"And to complete the outfit we need only one more thing." He said stepping away from her.

"What's that?" she asked watching him.

"A scale." he answered simply.

Roxanne looked confused "A scale?" Minion nodded and reached into his dome. The little fish then ripped one of his many scale off of his body and placed it on the desk. Roxanne's eyes widened "Minion! Why did you do that!"

Minion smiled "It's customary on our planet for the groom to give his bride a scale or feather, whatever the case maybe, from his minion. This pledges his undying loyalty to her. It also says that the minion, me, is now yours to command as well." he explained stringing the scale onto an invisible sting and placing a clasp on it. Roxanne watched him silently as he continued "Sir hasn't asked this of me, but I don't think he knows. We were both so young when we came and I only know because the Mistress and Master told me. Besides," he went on lopping the scale around her neck "I can tell Sir cares about you very much, Ms. Ritchi." Roxanne took a breath.

Minion smiled and pulled away so Roxanne could look at herself in the mirror. Despite the odd dress, she looked pretty and she felt pretty too, especially with the scale around her neck. When she moved, it refracted the light, turning all kinds of different colors. Roxanne sniffed trying to hold back tears, then smiled at Minion "Thank you, Minion. This... this means a lot."

Minion grinned "Of course. You're part of the family." Roxanne looked at him for a moment suddenly trying to hold back tears and the irrational desire to spill her guts to the sweat fish. Minion looked at her "Are you alright, Miss Ritchi?"

"I, uh, I just, um… I just wanted to make sure there was enough time to get the sewing done." Roxanne finally said forcing a smile.

Minion chuckled "Oh don't worry about that! This will take no time at all! You're going to be beautiful! Now let's get you out of those pins!" the fish then walked off leaving Roxanne to look at herself in the mirror. She looked at the glistening fish scale and touched it gently trying to hold back tears.

..::-::..

Syx looked up at the blue sky as the waves rocked him gently back and forth on the boat. He was sitting back waiting for Roxanne to come back from where ever she had gone to with his mother and brother when he heard the scuffling of shoes on the boardwalk. Looking up he saw her walking rather quickly towards him. Standing he started the boat and just as she got in he took of the ties when suddenly the boat pulled out. Syx had barely enough time to remove the rope and get back in the boat. "Whoa! What are you doing!" he cried as Roxanne floored the engine.

"I just needed to get away!" Roxanne offered not slowing down.

"What's wrong!" he tried again holding on for dear life.

"Nothing just stop talking to me!" Roxanne snapped.

Syx remained silent as she had requested for a little while until they were out on the open water "Mind telling me why you just freaked!" Roxanne was silent. "Roxanne!" he tried again, but she didn't hear him. "Roxanne!" he yelled louder.

This startled her like she was waking up, but she answered him. "I forgot okay!"

"You forgot what!"

"I forgot what it was like to have a family! I've been on my own since I was 16 and I forgot what it was like to have people love you and make you breakfast and say hey we'd love to come down to see you for the holidays, but you say well why don't we come see you instead and give you fish scales-"

"Fish scales?" Syx asked under his breath confused. He kind of didn't want to know, but Roxanne was paying no attention to him and just kept talking.

"And you have all that here and a wonderful family and I'm just screwing it up!"

"You're not screwing it up!" Syx cried finally finding his voice. "I agreed to this remember!"

"Your family loves you, you know that!" Roxanne snapped looking at him.

"I know that!"

"You know that!"

"I know that!" Syx snapped completely shocked that all this was coming out of her mouth.

"And your still willing to put them through this!"

"They're not going to find out!" Syx screeched.

"You know that for a fact!"

"Yes because you said so yourself!"

"Well you don't know that!" Roxanne countered. "What if Minion finds out! The shock with kill him!" She cried covering her face as she walked to the back of the boat.

Syx screamed in terror and took the wheel looking back at her he cried "He'll be fine! Will you calm down!" Just then he looked back in time to see a booy floating right in there path. "Hold on!" he cried turning the boat suddenly. Unrepaired for this Roxanne was sent into the water leavening Syx unknowingly talking to himself. "I don't think that hijacking a boat is a proper way to express your frustration! Now- oh great! Now you're going to give me the silent treatment! Roxanne!" Syx turned around to see Roxanne trying to stay afloat in the water. "Roxanne!" scared Syx turned the boat around and called to her "Get to the buoy!" Roxanne barely registered him, but did as he had instructed. Once she reached the buoy she held on for dear life and as soon as Syx got there he reached for her "Roxanne, give me your hand!" He commanded. Roxanne didn't move for a few moments then after he called her reached out and took his hand. He pulled her into the boat and picked her up placing her on a seat. "What the hell were you thinking! Could've have gotten yourself killed!"

"Well you turned the boat and that made me fall in." Roxanne said through her shivering.

"Well you let go of the steering wheel." Syx offered placing a sweater around her shoulders then placing a blanket around her feet.

"Sorry." She said quietly holding onto the blanket.

Syx simply sat next to her and pulled her into a hug rubbing her arms trying to create heat. He kept telling her it was okay, but he realized he was also telling himself. Syx had never felt such fear before as to when Roxanne fell into the water and he was content to just hold her forever. Roxanne was happy with that thought too.