Hi :D I wanted to say thank you for reading and I hope you will continue to :D. Now on with the story! PS: I have no idea how pounds work So please bear with me with the money stuffziez. oh and WARNING slight Flora/Luke, but for a good reason! I swearzies!
I sat in the back of The Laytonmoblie with Clive. Flora sat upfront in the passengers seat. And The Professor was driving, obviously. It's about a 2 hour trip to the water park so to make the time to go by faster I started solving some puzzles. I was doing really well until this one.
"There Is an animal that starts out with four legs when it is a baby then two when it becomes an adult and then three when it becomes old. What is the animal?" The Puzzle was really, well, puzzling. Clive leaned over to me.
"The answer is so simple. The animal is-" He began. I covered his mouth "SHUSH this is my puzzle and I want to solve it!" I yelled at him. Soon we were punching each other and pulling hair until Flora finally spoke up.
"Why are you hitting yourself!?" She yelled at us both. Suddenly me and Clive stopped fighting and burst into laughter. Flora started giggling and The Professor let out a small chuckle. Me and Clive forgot about the puzzle so we stopped fighting.
"We're here." The Professor said a short while later parking in the water park's parking lot. The Professor gave me and Flora 20 pounds each to spend. He tried to give some to Clive but he refused saying he has he own money to use and it would be greedy to use the professor like that.
Suddenly I remembered something that might make our trip horrid for Clive.
"Won't people treat you badly cause of the...incident?" I asked him as we walked to the entrance. He shrugged his shoulders.
"They all have the right to hate me, they can call me names but I would let it ruin our trip." He responded. I felt my face become warm, would Clive really ignore all the rude comments just so The Professor, Flora and I would have a good time? I Shook my head and continued walking.
We walked up to a young woman who had long blonde hair. She smiled at us when we walked up and greeted us warmly "I see your a family of four! That means you only need to pay the price of one ticket for your lovely vacation!" Wow she was very optimistic. The Professor smiled and I swear the lady blushed a bit.
"How Much is it for a weekend stay?" The Professor asked politely. The Woman smiled and replied.
"It's only 40 pounds sir! But I'm afraid the only suite we have left is a 3 bedroom..." She said looking at him with a slight frown.
"That's fine I'll share a room with him." Me and Clive said in perfect union, pointing at each other. I felt my face turn red and when I looked at Clive there was a slight blush on his face!
The lady smiled "Looks like we got a pair of gentlemen-in training." She said teasing us slightly. She turned back to the Professor.
" Your room is 1813, Here's your suite key and 4 no-ticket bracelets!" She said her cheerful tone appearing once more. The Professor smiled and picked them up but stopped for a second.
"I'm sorry if I am being rude Miss, but I did not pay for these bracelets." He said handing them back to her. She took his hand and turned it into a fist, his fist holding the bracelets, before pushing back towards him.
"Consider it a Little gift from me." She said smiling and when no one was looking she winked at Clive. I felt a sharp pain in my stomach when she did that. W-was I...jealous? I shook my head, N-no I don't like Clive like that! And yet , when we were an earshot away from her, I Couldn't help but let out a soft growl. I was hoping no one would notice but Clive turned around and gave me a questioning look. I blushed madly.
"I-I guess I'm a bit hungry," I began. Luckily I spotted an ice cream shop a few feet away. "I'm going to get some Ice cream I'll be back!" I yelled dashing to the store.
At the shop I got a vanilla ice cream cone. I'm not too hungry but I don't want to waste it. AND I have to big of a sweet tooth to give it to someone else, oh well. I licked it once. WOW I didn't know vanilla ice cream could taste this good! Now I'm hungry!
~Clive's POV~ (WOOO)
I Watched as Luke ran over to the ice cream shop. I tilted my head was he jealous? I laughed lightly at the thought. I saw Flora running over to join him. I started walking over to the shop, the more the merrier.
"Can I try it Luke? Please?" Flora said as I joined them at a small table. Luke sighed, someone doesn't want to share, I thought with a smile.
"Fine Flora but don't eat it all." Luke said. He Lifted the cone so it was inches from Flora's face, when she reached out to hold it he said
"I'll hold it for you." I felt something horrible in my stomach but ignored it. Flora smiled brightly.
"Thanks Luke!~" She said and I saw Luke blush slightly. The Pain in my stomach returned but it hurt a lot more now. Flora took a small bite and smiled.
"Mmm It's really good, thanks for letting me try it Luke!~" Luke Blushed again and my stomach felt like someone just stabbed me there.
Was I jealous of Luke? No I would at least feel happy when Flora smiled...-wait I'm jealous of Flora! Do I like Luke that way? Sure I tease him but... I Groaned and held my head. Flora and Luke Looked over at me.
"Are you okay Clive?" Luke asked getting out of his chair and getting closer to me. Now, I felt as if I was made of air. I wanted to bang my head on the table for my stupid mixed emotions but I just responded.
"I'm fine Luke, nothing to worry about." he smiled softly.
"Good." he said before sitting down. Now My heart leaped and I felt my face warm up. Aren't these the signs to liking someone? Jealously, The feeling of floating on air- wait there's one more thing I need to do to confirm that I like Luke that way.
While Luke was eating his Ice cream some got on his cheek.
"Wait-" I began holding his chin and turning his face towards me. I got really close to his face before saying
"You got some Ice cream on your cheek." I Then licked it off revealing a deep crimson blush. I backed away to look at him. His whole face was a strawberry red and he sat there shocked. I got an un-describable feeling from seeing him that way. I Let out a small sigh and smiled softly. So I do Like Luke that way, to be honest I'm glad I feel this way.
Suddenly Flora snatched his Ice cream and ran of with it. Luke snapped out of it and chased her yelling
"G-give that back!" I smiled to myself to see he was still a bit embarrassed about what I did. I got up and walked over to The Professor who, luckily for me, saw none of the event. He turned around and smiled when he saw me.
"Clive just in time, I found a roller coaster that can hold four passengers in one seat and I wanted to know if you could get Luke and Flora." I Smiled and nodded.
"Never knew you were the roller coaster type Professor." I said To him. He Laughed and said.
"It's a way for all of us to bond so things don't need to be..." He paused looking for the right words "Awkward between us all." I gave the Professor a grateful smile, he was trying to get them to bond with me even though- I pushed the thought away and walked over to where Luke was chasing Flora.
"Hey!" I Yelled before Flora passed me. She stopped and looked at me.
"What is it Clive?" she asked tilting her head.
"The Professor wants Me, you, Luke and him to ride a roller coaster together." I replied.
She smiled but it soon disappeared when she spotted Luke who was a few feet away running towards her. I walked in front of Flora and caught Luke when he tried getting to Flora. I started carrying him bridal style, Flora following close behind. I turned my head to her.
"Flora throw the ice cream away please, they don't allow food on the rides." She nodded and tossed it in a garbage can that was near by.
"Hey no far!" Luke said trying to squirm out of my grasp.
"I used the money the Professor gave me to buy that!" I Put my chin on the top of his head.
"I'll buy you something better later, I promise." He looked at me with a questioning look.
"Fine." He muttered blushing slightly. We were almost there when he spoke up.
"Clive?"
"Yeah Luke?"
"Can you put me down?" I blushed slightly I forgot I was carrying Luke, he weighs lighter than a feather! Out of the corner of my eye I spotted a tiny little shop.
"Hey Professor I'll be right back okay?" I asked turning to the Professor. He nodded and replied
"We'll wait for you here." After her said that I dashed over to the shop. It wasn't until I entered I herd a soft voice say
"Your still holdin' me Clive." I looked down and saw a blushing Luke looking away from me. My eyes widened and I put him down, looks like I forgot to put him down woops. But to my surprise, instead of going to the Professor's side he walked right into the shop.
The store was filled with clothes but it was something else that had caught my eye. There, in the middle of the store was a necklace that had a puzzle piece charm on it. I reached for it when a hand took it. I turned to see who it was but they ran off too quickly. I sighed before turning back to the empty necklace rack and, to my surprise, it wasn't empty, there was the necklace but the charm looked smaller...oh well.
I Picked it up and took it to the counter. The lady there smiled brightly and took the necklace from my gras.
"Oh my.." She began. I tilted my head.
"What is it?"I asked confused. She looked at me with a sad smile before answering.
"Someone else just bought the other half of this necklace." That's why it looked it smaller! I shrugged my shoulders.
"It'll still be a good gift." She smiled and put it in a snap-open-snap-shut light blue case for me and I gave her 20 pounds.
When I got back Luke was with the Professor and Flora. I smiled and dashed over to them.
"Sorry for making you guys wait." I said scratching the back of my head.
"It's okay Clive, now shall we ride?" The Professor said smiling.
The Order in the seat was, starting from the left, Me, Luke, The Professor and then Flora. Flora clung to The Professor and he had an arm around her, the other keeping his top hat in place. I could tell Luke wanted to cling to him to but instead he held onto the bar in front of him tightly. We started to go forward and then we went into a tunnel.
People in front and behind us were screaming, laughing or making stupid comments that, I could tell, were making Luke scared. I searched for his hand in the dark, which wasn't hard because he still had a death grip on the bar, and gripped it reassuringly. He gripped my hand tightly and it made me smile a bit. When we got out of the tunnel we were more than 900 feet in the air. When Luke saw this he gasped and let go of my hand. It made me sad thinking he was going to cling to The Professor but instead he flung his arms around me.
I Smiled brightly and held him tightly as we went down swiftly. Suddenly a Whole lot of water splashed us and I herd Luke giggle. He took his head off my chest but still clung to me. I herd him laugh and giggle as we went through a series through twist and turns and lots of loops, which I think was Luke's favorite part. My chest felt funny and I couldn't keep the smile off my face. Seeing him so happy just made me feel like I was made of air.
When the roller coaster came to an end he turned to me and said "That was a lot of fun!" He blushed and let go of me turning his head so he didn't look into my eyes he continued,
"T-thanks for letting me c-cling to you, it made the ride less scary." And I swear that on his face was a small little smile. I ruffled his hair and answered
"I was afraid you were going to never let go with the death grip of yours." He blushed and pushed on my chest lightly before going off somewhere near the huge pools.
~Luke's Pov~
I ran over to the water slides that took you to the pool. My face felt like it was on fire and my heart was beating rapidly. Clive comforted me so I could have fun on the roller coaster...I Felt a smile creep up on my face from the memory. My eyes widened and I shook my head. He was only being a gentleman! And he did return to teasing me afterwards but...I felt my face burn red when I remembered how he held me tightly...What am I thinking! I slapped my head and shook it roughly I-DO-NOT-LIKE-CLIVE...But then why dose my heart beat rapidly at just the memory of him holding me? UGHH this is to complicated! I came here with the Professor, Flora and Clive to relax not to freak out!
I walked up the wet steps to get to the first platform that had the first slide, it was closer to the ground. Suddenly I felt someone grab my shoulder I turned to see a woman with Long black hair was looking at me.
"Hey kid, will you be fine up here alone? I got to close the ride for a bit." she told me. I nodded and she patted my head before leaving. I Got to the second platform when I heard a familiar voice yelling my name.
"Luke are you up here?" I heard Clive shout. My eyes widened in panic. He was the last person I wanted to talk to at the moment, in fact I was trying to figure out my feelings about him!
I started running and I heard footsteps behind me. I got to the last and third platform when he caught up to me.
"Luke why are you running from me?" He asked only a few steps from me.
"I-I," I started backing up. Suddenly I felt no ground under me and screamed as I began to fall. Suddenly I stopped falling and I looked up to see Clive was gripping my hand. I looked down only to see I was much, much more than a few feet in the air. I turned back to him and saw my hand slipping.
"Clive! Please don't let go!" I was now crying uncontrollably. My hand slipped out of his grasp but only for a split second. He grabbed me by the arm and held it tightly. Below me I heard many voices and when I looked down I noticed there was a huge crowd below us, that included the Professor and Flora.
Clive yanked me and into a bear hug and I clung to him tightly. He looked down at the steps before whispering in a soft voice,
"We have to go down the slide the bottom of the stairs are closed off, okay?" I nodded and buried my head in his chest, crying badly.
As we went down the slide I felt water splash us. Normally I would be laughing and smiling at this kind of ride but instead it only made me cling to Clive even more. When we got out I heard cheers of joy from the crowd. Clive swam us over to the shallow end and then got up on the cement that I nearly died on. The thought made me cry harder and Clive held me tighter. The Professor and Flora ran up to us. Clive bent down so Flora could hug me and then the Professor hugged me as well.
But instead of clinging to the Professor I continued to cling to Clive, which I think shocked all of us, including me. Suddenly a woman walked up to us. She was wearing a blue fancy shirt, a black skirt and Black heels. She had short red hair, which made me happy in an odd way I'm really sick of long haired ladies, and was wearing a faint pink lipstick, I think her eyes were green. She had a camera man following her and she had a microphone. Was she a new reporter?
She turned to the cameraman.
"Hello this Jill Spring at this is the young boy, who only a few moments ago, was close to death on the ride over there." She Pointed to the slide, platform three and the cameraman moved the camera to look at it before turning back to her. She walked over to us and looked at Clive.
"Are you the young man who saved this boy's life?" She asked before shoving the microphone in his face. Clive kept a face of stone as he answered.
"Yes I am." He said nodding his head. The Lady smiled and asked him another question.
"What's your name?" oh no. so far no one recognised Clive and I didn't want anyone to hurt him!
"He's My brother." I said softly. The lady turned her attention to me and put the mic near me silently asking me to tell her more.
"He's my brother," I repeated "Clive Triton." she smiled and turned back to the camera.
"Looks like it was brotherly love that saved this little boy's life! I'm Jill Spring reporting a happy ending for our tragic story." The Cameraman put his camera down and gave her a thumbs up. She nodded and turned to me and Clive. She ruffled my hair and gave me a lollipop.
"Be more careful, promise? she said Putting her pinki close to mine. I put my pinki around her's and nodded.
"I promise." I said softly. She smiled and ruffled my hair before walking away. Clive turned to the Professor.
"Can I have our suite key? I'm going to go make Luke and I some tea." He asked. The Professor nodded and handed him the keys.
"Can we come with you?!" Flora asked looking at Clive with pleading eyes.
The Professor bent down and held her shoulder "Come now Flora, Luke needs to calm down and having a lot of people swarm around him won't help. How about me and you go dinner shopping?"
Flora nodded and she and the Professor went over to a shop. Clive carried me all the way to our suite.
"Never do that again." Clive said in a voice I didn't recognise.
"What?" I asked softly, too shaken to speak normally yet.
I felt him shaking and when I looked up there were tears spilling from his eyes.
"Make me think your going to die!" he said his grip on me tightening. Suddenly it dawned on me. Without Clive I would be dead. I rested my head on his chest and said,
"I'm sorry." His grip didn't change. He started walking down the hall and entered the third room. All of our stuff was in here unpacked even my teddy bear, who was laying on the HUGE bed in the middle of the room. Clive set me down on the left side and he sat on the right. He reached into his pocked and took out one of those cases you keep jewelry in.
"I got you something." He said opening it. My eyes widened as I saw he had gotten me a necklace with a clear, glass like, puzzle piece charm on it. He put it around my neck and I let him. after a few minutes of slience I broke it.
"Jerk." I said shoving him in the chest. He looked at me surprised and I said,
"You bought my gift." I took a light pink bag out of my trunk pocket and took out the case. I took the Necklace out of the case and put it around his neck. Suddenly he grabbed my necklace and his pushing the charms together so the Puzzle pieces formed a heart. I blushed and he pulled me into another hug. we sat like that for a while before he said,
"I'll go make some tea." I smiled.
"I'll make it with you."
Okay what did you guys think? I put my sweat, blood and tears in this chapter! did I fool you with the chapter name? probably not :P . Please review this is the chapter I'm proudest of! Your reviews make me want to write long chapters like this one! Anyway I better get some sleep. I'll update soon!
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