Chapter Nine

Jade Rings Are Meant to Be Broken

The next day Gizmo woke up early and got dressed. After she got dress, Gizmo walked outside for the sunrise, but something different.

"Otto! Qu'est-ce que tu fais ici? What are you doing here?" Gizmo asked as she sat down next to him.

"Morning Gizmo. I was just waiting for you."

"What for?"

"I want to show you something. Come on."

Otto pulled Gizmo to the other side of the camp. Then he stopped. They were at the Opening Jam stage.

"Otto? What are we doing here?"

"I told you I wanted to show you something. Sit here."

Gizmo sat down on the bench behind her and Otto sat down on the one in front of her, facing Gizmo. Otto held a box, blue with green swirls.

"Gizmo?" Otto asked. He opened the box. "Will you accept this girlfriend ring?"

Gizmo was speechless. But she nodded with tears in her eyes. Otto took the jade band ring out of the box and slipped it onto Gizmo's left ring finger.

"C'est beau! It's beautiful. But what-"

Otto held up his hand, which had another jade band ring on it.

"I have it."

"Oh, Otto."

Gizmo leaned forward and kissed Otto. After a few moments, they pulled away.

"You've never kissed me like that before." Otto said.

"Oh, sorry. I don't know what got into me. I guess-"

Otto cut her off by kissing her again. Later that day, the others met at the Mess Hall.

"Hey anyone seen Gizmo or Otto?" Nova asked as they entered the Hall.

"Yeah, looking at each other romantically." Sprx answered.

"What?" Then Nova looked toward where Sprx was looking and saw the two she asked about.

"So do we…you know…sit with them?" Blaze asked.

"I think, we should leave them be today." Melodie said.

"Sounds good." Seala agreed.

About ten in the morning…

"Salut les gars. Comment allez-vous? Hey guys. What up?" Gizmo asked.

Gizmo and Otto were hand-in-hand.

"Hey Giz. Not much." Nova answered.

"No, no. Not that. When someone asks you 'What up?' you answer. 'Nothing but the sky,' or 'Nothing but the ceiling'." Elella corrected.

"Oops. Guess I'm still not used to the whole Earth thing yet." Nova said.

"I am going to go get our canoe ready. You wanna stay here?" Otto asked.

"Sure. See you later." Gizmo said.

Otto gave one last kiss on the cheek of Gizmo's face and walked away toward the lake.

"And then he gave me this ring." Gizmo said holding out her left hand.

"Oh, my. It's beautiful Gizmo. Truly beautiful." Seala said.

"Thanks Seala. Hmm…it shouldn't take him this long. What's taking him?"

"Maybe he got…tied up." Elella joked.

"I better go find him." Gizmo said.

She got up and walked toward the lake.

Gizmo's P.O.V…

I walked through the woods toward the lake. I started worrying about Otto.

"Otto?" I called.

There was no answer, but I heard something. I was a girl voice, so it couldn't have been Otto. It was hard to hear who it was exactly, so I let it led me. That's when I came to some bushes that lead to the lake. I peeked over them and saw-

Back at camp (No one's P.O.V)…

Gizmo came running back into camp, crying, and fell down. Everyone rushed over.

"Saw! What's the matter?" Seala asked helping Gizmo up.

"Gizmo? Gizmo wait!" Otto shouted as he came running.

"Stay away from me! You-You-You cheater! I hate you!" Gizmo shouted.

She took her jade ring off and threw it on the ground, so hard that it broke. Then Gizmo ran away, crying.

"Gizmo!" Otto shouted.

"Mech, what the heck happened?" Carbon asked.

"I-I-I don't know. One minute I'm trying to get the canoe set up and the next I'm chasing after Gizmo." Otto answered, he was panicking.

"Well, you sure did something to make her upset. What was it?" Elella demanded.

"I told you, I don't remember. I blacked out."

"Think harder!" Elella shouted.

Otto closed his eyes and thought about it.

*Flashback*

Otto was at the lake getting the canoe ready for Gizmo and himself. When someone tapped him on the shoulder. He turned around and saw a girl with blonde hair and green hair.

"Cali, what do you want?" Otto asked sternly.

"What? No hello Cali, how are you?" Cali asked.

"Not for you." Otto said.

"Not even a kiss?"

"Why would I kiss you? I have a girlfriend."

"What that snobby wanna-be? Why not you dumped her for someone better?"

Cali started playing the romantic card with Otto. This made him mad.

"Go away. I don't anything to do with you." Otto said.

"Come on, Mech. Just one. Let's see if I'm any better of a kisser than your raggedy girlfriend."

"Take that back about Gizmo!" Now that Otto was looking straight at Cali, she kissed him.

*Flashback ends*

"Otto?" Elella snapped him out of his thoughts. "Well, what was it?"

"Cali."

"Excuse me?"

"Cali set me up! I can't believe I didn't see it coming."

"Otto, calm down. Tell us what happened exactly." Nova said.

So they sat down and Otto told them everything.

"And that must've been when Gizmo saw us. Cali set me up!" Otto said, finishing his explanation.

"Oh, I've had it up to here with that girl!" Seala said raising her hand all the way above her head. "She is going down!"

"Seala? Are you feeling alright?" Gibson asked.

"Relax Gibson. Seala gets like that every time we come here. It's normal." Elella said.

"And no I am not alright! That Cali girl is going after Otto to try and get Gizmo from competing in the Final Jam! Oh, where is she?" Seala said. Seala was one steamed monkey.

"You'll get her. At the competition." Melodie said.

"Oh, alright. But what about Gizmo?" Seala said.

"We'll fix her. But let her cool down first." Otto said. "Besides, I wanna talk to Cali myself."

"Otto? Are you sure that's the smart thing to do?" Nova asked.

"Yeah. The smartest thing I'm ever going to do." Otto said.

Otto was mad and upset as he walked away. Everyone was shocked and a little scared of Otto's tone of voice. No one had seen this side of him before. It was weird not seeing him happy.

Me: Hey guys. So how many want to kill me right now? *Everyone in audience raises their hands* Alright. Don't worry. They will get back together. That I swear! (I watch too much El Tigre. He-he.) Cali is going DOWN! Way, way DOWN! That's D-O-W-N! DOWN!

Audience: We get it!

Me (anime sweat drop): Right. So question.

What songs (only two) should Gizmo sing? One break-up and one get together song .

Another question: What song should Otto sing to Gizmo to get her to love him again?

Updating ASAP!