Chapter 8: Okay?

Willow POV: 3 more days until Silk's sixteenth birthday, and I've already made plenty of preparations. So until then, I still have to take care of Cupa. Despite that she can stand on her own, she still uses me as her crutch. On another note, Axle and Ria are both having a regular visitor, and old friend of Axle himself: Alice. Though she does occasionally chats with both Rios and Yurei. Speaking of those two, they've been... more active with each other.

I felt a tug on my left arm. Cupa, who was hugging my arm, pointed at Alice, who was talking to Yurei.

"Do you want to go there?" She nodded. Because she is still considered "injured," we had to walk in a slower pace. It felt like forever once we reached them.

(Yurei) "-nd he took care of me since then."

(Alice) "Aw... He's so sweet."

(Me) "Good afternoon."

(Alice) "Hi Willow!"

(Yurei) "Where's Silk?"

(Me) "Back home."

(Alice) "Willow, is that your girlfriend?" Cupa was still attached to me.

(Cupa) "H-hi..."

(Me) "She's not m-" Alice jumped to me.

(Alice) "Wow... Since when do you have white hair?"

(Me) "... girlfriend... Okay shut up so I can tell you everything."

(Alice) "Okay?" Rios and Yurei went home at this time.

(Me) "First off: This is not my girlfriend, she's at my house. Second: It's silver, it's my original hair color, I don't use hair dye anymore. And the last thing I have to tell you: I'm trying to help Cupa, the girl who's hugging my arm, with her post dramatic stress."

(Alice) "Okay then, I'm Alice. Nice to meet you Cupa!"

(Cupa) "Likewise..."

(Alice) "So who's the lucky girl? Ooh! Is it Night?" You don't know how much I wanted to sow her mouth shut now...

(Voice) "Oh there you are Hua-" It was Silk. She looked angry for some reason.

(Me) "Good afternoon Silica."

(Alice) "Who's that?"

(Me) "My girlfriend."

(Alice) "Huh... What happened to Night?"

(Me) "I don't want to talk about it..."

(Alice) "You guys broke up?"

(Silk) "I am his first and only girlfriend." She growled the last part of the sentence.

(Alice) "Um... I think you should let go Cupa..." She shook her head. Silk stormed off towards Rios' house. "Willow, you should pay more attention to your girlfriend than anyone else if you are really serious about your relationship."

(Me) "Um... Okay?" I felt another nudge on my arm. "Hmm?" Cupa was pointing towards home. "You want to go home?" She nodded once more.

(Alice) "Well I gotta go now. See you two tomorrow." She looked like she was thinking about something when she left. Probably checking her mental "To-do list."

Yurei POV:

"Just leave us for a minute Rios, this is girl talk. You should help Axle with his patrol."

"Alright, just trying to help..."

(Ria) "Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid okay?"

(Rios) "Don't worry sis." He left our living room, leaving the three of us alone. Now for the girl talk, topic of today: Is Ria's idea ruining Silk's relationship?

(Silk) "Stupid, stupid, STUPID! Aaaghh! I hate that witch!"

(Ria) "Calm down, it's not her fault."

(Me) "Sure, once that Creeper get's shot by me, yeah, it's not her fault..."

(Silk) "I swear, if she makes one move, I'll feed her to Nuisance..."

(Ria) "Who's Nuisance?"

(Me) "Her pet-" Silk cuts me off by getting ahold of my top.

(Silk) "Say it, and you'll lose more than your eardrums..." Meep!

(Ria) "(O.o) O-okay?... I'm going to guess that it's worse than death... Anyways! She's probably clinging onto the one person that resembles her lover from how she acted when she first saw Willow."

(Silk) "Yeah, like there's going to be a skeleton who looks like Willow. Yurei and Willow have different eyes!"

(Me and Ria) "That's... not much of a difference..." She facepalmed.

(Ria) "Well... Looks like you have to deal with her for a while." Ria got up to leave.

(Silk) "Where you going? We're not done talking!" Ria waved goodbye to us. Silk was really having a fit.

(Me) "No worries, I'll tell him that he owes you big time." Silk gave another one of her 'Fuck it!' screams. This... is going to be the worst month of my entire life...

Ria POV: Okay... so maybe-

(Axle) "Yo!"

"NYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAH! Don't scare me Axle!"

"You looked worried, so I'm checking up on you."

"I could of had a heart attack... Yeah I'm okay... What about you?" He tried to say something but ran for it. "Okay? Boys..." Now back to topic; So maybe my idea was a bit... stupid. I should talk to Cupa about what's going on outside of her world. They should still be home for what I know.

*Knock knock*

(Willow) "Come in, door's unlocked." Inside the house, Cupa was on the bed in fetal position facing the door. "It's daytime, not a zombie." Willow was walking down the stairs. He tapped Cupa on the head which caused her to ease up. "So what's up? Where's Silk?"

"Nothing much, may I talk to Cupa?" He only shrugged, wise guy...

"Sure, you're the boss."

"What the nether is that supposed to mean?!" He's going back up the stairs. "Hey! Where you going?"

"Doing last minute checks for Silk's Sweet Sixteen." Aww... DAMNIT!

"So Cupa!"

"Yes?" Well my plan worked!... gonna kill myself later.

"On your progress so far, you're good enough to be by yourself in three days! Isn't that great?!" That... was the stupidest thing I have said in weeks... And she agrees too, she's looking at me like I'm an idiot. "So um... what do you plan to do next?"

"I... don't... know... s-stay h-here?"

"Well I wouldn't recommend that, Silk's pretty pissed off 'for some reason.' And I don't want you to be caught in the cross fire. Especially since you just recovered."

"I-I meant in this village." At least she knows this is called a village. The boys are idiots and thinks this is a settlement... [1]

"Oh okay! You want me to tell Rios to make you a house here?"

"I don't want to be a burden..."

"Oh I'm sure he'll listen." I got to stop jinxing myself.

(Alice) "Or-"

(Me) "NNNYYYAAAAAAAAAHHH!"

(Alice) "... Or I could use an extra hand in the shop... You freak out easy..."

(Me) "I can't help it if people sneak up on me!" Cupa was laughing a bit. "I-it's not funny!"

(Alice) "Anyways, how about it Cupa?"

(Willow) "I think you should go, it could help you on your social skills." How did I not notice him sitting at the bottom of the stairs...

(Me) "What's with everyone and being a fucking ninja!"

(Willow) "Despite a ninja being eastern I'm not... Never mind. I'm trained to be silent like this. [2][3]"

(Me) "... Oookaaay?"

(Willow) "And no cursing in my house and remember to take off your shoes at the door."

(Alice) "Well think about it Cupa! I could use a sweet heart around the shop!" Sweet heart my ass...

(Cupa) "S-sure... as s-soon as I am done recovering." THANK Y- "Which R-Ria said would b-be in 3 days." F... M... L...

(Willow) "Why did you tell her? Didn't you say that I'd be more appropriate to tell her about stuff?" Okay... I'm digging myself deeper here... I'm leaving.

(Alice) "Where you going?"

(Me) "NYA- I thought you left!"

(Alice) "Nah, I forgot to ask Willow what kind of cake he wanted."

(Willow) "There's going to be a box sent at your door containing a very spikey fruit."

(Alice) "Oh, I got it already, what is that thing anyways? I nearly lost a finger holding it!" He gives her a book.

(Willow) "It contains instructions on how to prepare the durian, which would be the name of the fruit."

(Alice) "Why would you get an awkward looking fruit?"

(Willow) "The birthday girl loves fruit." Aaaaaaaaw... DAMNIT!

(Alice) "Oh man... how am I... (The rest, I can't hear, she left.)"

(Willow) "Now about that-"

(Me) "BYE!" Damnit run!

Notes:

1: The guys are right, a settlement is an area where people live regardless of size or importance. A village means a small collection of houses.

2: Ninjas are downright Japanese. You don't know how many people I have to correct when they said I have ninja blood in me. To be correct, I'm naturally silent.

3: He's naturally silent. His training had nothing to do with sneakiness but Ria, nor Alice, knows nothing about Willows training.