Happy Friday, humans! As a little surprise for this happy day, here is an extra chapter! Thanks again for all the epic reviews! Oh, and by the way, TGIF... that's what you humans say right?
"You were doing so well, too!" Kimi groaned as she dragged me out of my house by my feet.
That morning, Kimi's limousine had come to pick me up for a day at the waterpark but I refused to leave my front door. At first, I was as confident as the day before but when I thought about wearing a swimsuit in front of my crush, I froze up.
"I changed my mind! I can't do this anymore!" I wailed as she finally hauled me into the back seat.
"Oh, C'mon, Senky-chan!" she whined, "Where did all that confidence go from yesterday?"
"It went on vacation." I said miserably.
"Just imagine you're going with a machine gun in your hands!" Kimi suggested.
"Why would that help?" I asked her and looked at her if she were crazy.
"Well you're always way more confident with a gun in your hands," she explained but I only sighed.
I felt more self-conscious than ever before! Even when we got The Tropical Aqua Garden, Kimi still had to drag me out of the car by my legs. She finally got me into the girl's changing room and the scene in there was quite shocking! Tons of designer swimsuits were spread out through the whole room and Kimi looked as if she would die of happiness. Just then, Haruhi dashed up to us from behind the racks.
"You guys gotta help me! The twins are trying to get me to wear a swimsuit!" she said frantically, shaking me around by the shoulders.
We noticed two maids who I assumed were the twins', appeared behind her with evil glints in their eyes.
"We brought all our mother's latest designs for you to choose from!" I heard Kaoru call from outside the changing room.
"Just pick whichever one you want!" I heard Hikaru call.
At his voice, I immediately froze up again and Kimi had to toss me into a changing stall.
"Now hurry up, ok!" she said.
From within the changing stall, I could hear Haruhi being pestered further by the twins' maids who sounded just as demonic as their masters. When I slipped into my swimsuit, Haruhi had already gone outside and Kimi was waiting for me in her yellow bikini.
"I still think a bikini would've looked good on you!" she whined as we left the changing room.
"I told you Kimi, I like one pieces better." I retorted and found my way into tropical paradise.
The waterpark did look it was built in the middle of a jungle. The birds were real, the bananas were real, the trees were real, and my anxiety was still real!
"Senka! Put your arms down!" Kimi grunted as she tried to pry my arms off of me as I hugged myself.
"I can't! He's right over!" I whispered in fright.
"You ok, Senka?" Haruhi asked, walking over to us.
Surprisingly, she wasn't wearing a super fancy, designer swimsuit but instead a yellow pullover and green shorts. It suited her better than a bathing suit though.
"Uh, yeah!" I snapped to attention, putting my arms at my side.
"Hey, you guys," the twins said, sliding in behind us and making me flinch, "You want to go check out the waterslide?"
"Hang on," Hikaru said, finishing off a banana and tossing the peel to the side, "What's with that pullover you're wearing?"
"Oh this thing?" Haruhi asked, pulling at the yellow hoodie, "Tamaki gave it to me after your two maids forced me into a swimsuit."
"So you're not going to swim?" Hikaru asked.
"Wait, you do know how to swim, don't you?" Kaoru asked.
"I can swim just as well as the next person but this isn't my idea of fun. I'm not big on waterparks and we're just going to spend the day goofing off. Honestly, I'd rather be at home! I don't understand what's great about this place anyway! I mean, all you really need to play in the water is a plastic pool." Haruhi retorted lazily.
"A plastic pool?" the four of us repeated. We had never heard of one of those before!
"Well…let's see," Haruhi pondered aloud, trying to explain it to us rich people, "It's about this big, round, and to use it you have to pump it full of air."
"You dunce," I giggled.
"That's an inflatable boat!" Kimi giggled along with me.
"Yeah, there's no way something that small could be used as a pool!" Hikaru said casually.
"Guys, it's a small pool! Haven't you ever seen little kids playing in one before?!" Haruhi snapped back.
I felt an arm grab me and pull me to the side. It was Tamaki and he had grabbed all four of us and was whispering/ scolding us.
"Guys! If Haruhi says it's a pool, then it's a pool!" he whispered urgently, "Don't go embarrassing her! She can't help it that she's an ignorant commoner!"
"So…are we supposed to lie to her?" the twins asked with a bored tone in their voices, "Is that what you want?"
"Never mind that," Hikaru said, leaning in towards Tamaki, "We have a question for you."
"Why did you make Haruhi put on that yellow monstrosity?" Kaoru asked, doing the same as his brother.
"Yeah, I would've been for sure that you would have been like, 'I wanna see Haruhi in a swimsuit!'" I said in a mocking voice and thinking back to all the moments Tamaki would awkwardly blush around her, "Not making her cover up like that."
"Yeah, that was surprising," the twins cooed, both leaning on my shoulders, "Oh I get, he made Haruhi cover up like that because he didn't want anyone else to see her in a bathing suit!"
"He must be one of those jealous-pervert types!" Hikaru whispered over me to his brother.
"That's pretty twisted," Kaoru whispered back.
The three of us were all looking down at Tamaki with devilish looks in our eyes. If I didn't know any better, I'd say I had been corrupted by the devil.
"That's not it at all!" Tamaki corrected us then waved his arms around as he began to explain the importance of a father protecting his daughter's innocence.
As he was trying to explain this to the twins, they interrupted him by pointing to Kimi and I and asking, 'what about them?'
"How did I not notice!?" Tamaki gasped as if he were having a heart attack, "Why are my other two daughters prancing around half naked in front of boys!"
Great, now Tamaki had adopted Kimi and I as his other daughters. Still, I'm sure Haruhi would always be his favorite which sucked for her since she'd have to put up with extra doting from The Host King. I thought.
"Especially you, Kimi!" he shouted frantically.
"What?! Just because I'm wearing a bikini it makes me look easy!?" Kimi snapped back rather shockingly, "You're as bad as Senky-chan!"
"Yeah, you two have it all wrong!" came a familiar voice from beneath the ground.
We watched as the ground split and out came Renge, laughing and spinning the whole way up.
"How does she do that?!" Haruhi asked in amazement, "It's like the rig follows us!"
"That outfits pretty impressive," Hikaru said sarcastically.
"What's with the tattoo on your stomach?" I asked, looking at the strange purple marking on her belly.
"I'm cosplaying!" she sang happily, twirling an umbrella in her hands.
"Oh, yeah? As who?" Kaoru asked.
"Lala!" she chirped.
"You mean from the manga magazine?!" Kimi asked with stars in her eyes.
Kimi wasn't too big on the kind of manga I read but she would read manga magazines and Lala was a personal favorite of hers. Kimi's encouragement caused Renge to go on a full-scale monologue on the epicness of this 'Lala'.
"I never would've guessed…" muttered Kaoru.
"Hey Boss, are you sure it's ok for her to be dressed like that?" Hikaru asked while Renge struck poses for Kimi.
"You don't seem have a problem with her but you do with Kimi." Kaoru asked, dead panning.
"Because…it's cosplay?" Tamaki said with an unsure tone in his voice.
"Look here Tamaki and Senka!" Renge said, wrapping her arm around Kimi's shoulders, "There's nothing wrong with wearing a bikini! It just means that you're more out there and have your own individual way of flattering your girlish frame!"
"Are you saying that I don't have a girlish frame?" I asked, quite offended.
"Yes." Renge responded bluntly yet proudly, causing me to huddle in an emo corner made of palm trees.
"C'mon, Kimi!" Renge said as the platform sank back into the ground, "How about I get you hooked on some dating sims games and we can play them in our bikinis!"
"Yaaaay!" cheered Kimi as she went under with Renge.
Well at least I didn't have to worry about those two not getting along. Kimi was about to be sucked into a very strange Otaku world with Renge. As I sulked in the emo corner, I felt a jet of freezing water hit my back.
"Gah!" I squeaked as I jumped up and looked for the shooter.
"I gotcha!" Hikaru said playfully with some weird device in his hands. It almost looked like a plastic rifle.
"C'mon Senka, let's have a water gun fight!" Kaoru said cheekily and tossed me a plastic rifle.
"Uh…what?" I asked with a confused look on my face as I examined the strange thing.
"Don't tell me you've never had a water gun fight before." Hikaru scoffed.
"A…water gun?" I asked, still completely puzzled.
"It's like a gun but it shoots water." Hikaru explained in layman's terms for me.
"Oh!" I said, perking up (I'd use anything that had the word 'gun' in its name). I tried to fire it straight for their demonic little faces but another thing stumped me.
"Where's the trigger," I asked, looking around for a trigger, a forestock, a bolt, or anything, "Is this really a gun?"
"You have to pump it first," Kaoru said, sweat dropping and pointing to the pump.
"Oh." I giggled at the primitive technology, "What is this: World War One?"
Once I had pumped the piece of plastic, I squinted on eye and looked for some kind of scope or sight picture but got nothing. Looks like I would have to rely on my own eagle's eye. The two smirked mischievously once I was prepared and began firing away at me. Quickly, I ducked behind a palm tree then popped out from behind it, firing right back and letting my Fallout 3 mode activate.
Those two had nothing on my skills and lost pretty quickly when they ran out of ammunition, became cornered, and I soaked them to bits!
"No fair!" giggled Kaoru, "You know how to shoot better than us!"
"Then you never should've challenged me in the first place," I said slyly back, "Maybe you should go challenge Tamaki, he'd be easy prey!"
The two smirked at the idea and went to go sneak attack 'The Boss'. As soon as the left, I felt an adorable hand grab mine.
"Senka-chan, do you want to go swimming with me! Takashi's taking a break and it's no fun to swim alone!" he said with the irresistible eyes of all things cute.
"Of course!" I said sweetly and went in the current pool with him.
As I swam peacefully with Honey, I watched as the twins and Tamaki try to kill each other with water guns. Then out of nowhere, Tamaki slipped on a random banana peel (but seriously, they seemed to be everywhere!) and tumbled right into a totem pole. But this pole wasn't ordinary, it seemed to glow and activate something in the water. I realized what that something was when I heard Honey scream and I turned to see a giant wave heading straight for us.
"HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE FU-" I screamed rather comically as the wave crashed down on us.
I was flung about in the water and I struggled to get to the surface. The walls of the current pool were racing past me and I was lucky that I didn't bash into one! Finally, I resurfaced, barely being able to stay up from the current and choppy waves.
"Honey?" I asked with a panicked voice and trying to keep the water out of my mouth.
"Honey!?" I tried again, looking around as I raced past acres of palm trees.
Then I was dragged under again by a rouge current and water filled my lungs when I tried to scream for help! As the water unforgivably thrashed me about, I noticed a bunny decorated inner tube floating above me with Honey holding on for dear life.
"Grab on!" I heard his distant voice from underwater.
With great difficulty, I managed to fling myself onto the tube and we floated until the water calmed down.
"Senka-chan, are you ok?" Honey with worry in his voice.
I coughed up a lot of water and looked up at him from the other side of the tube. He looked just as jostled and shaken up as I was.
"Yeah…" I managed to sputter, coughing up a little more water, "But what about you?"
"I'm fine," he panted, trying to manage a cute smile.
After a few minutes of floating through the rather serene jungle, we reached the end of the current pool and got out. We both collapse on the ground, exhausted and sick of swimming.
"We should probably look for them," Honey said in between gasps.
"Yeah…I guess we should," I said, trying to catch my breath.
The two of us didn't make it far before we heard thunder.
How can it rain indoors?! I thought curiously as a heavy rain beat down upon us.
"Over here, Senka-chan!" Honey called from under a large elephant ear leaf.
I joined him under the leaf and groaned. This experience had taken a turn for the worse and spending my afternoon under the shelter of a leaf wasn't my idea of fun. As we waited for the storm to stop, Honey decided to break the ice.
"Your swimsuit looks nice!" he said innocently.
I jumped at the compliment, immediately thinking of Hikaru and my insecurity.
"U-uh…thanks!" I thanked him nervously.
"I know you like Hika-chan!" he said just as innocently as before and making me jump in terror.
"W-what! Of course that's not true?! Where did you hear that?!" I said as fast as I could but he just kept smiling at me. He was smarter than I thought if he figured that out on his own.
"It doesn't matter anyway…" I muttered, poking a finger at the ground, "He likes Haruhi…"
"Well he might but Haru-chan doesn't like him back the way he does," he said cutely but extremely bluntly! "Besides, I'm sure if you told him you feel he'd understand."
Then he gave me an adorable giggle and I had to resist the urge to pinch his chubby little cheeks! His encouragement gave me a new coat of confidence! Soon after that awkward conversation, the rain stopped and we began to search for the others. I was starting to get a little worried since we hadn't bumped into them and I got the idea that we were lost. Not wanting to spend the rest of my youth lost in a waterpark, I suggested we climb a tree to see where we were. When we got to the top and explored the tree tops in hopes that we would look down and find the club, we heard a commotion. It looked like Mori carrying Haruhi and they were surrounded by an entire SWAT team!
"Stay back, Senka-chan." Honey said seriously as he grabbed a vine, "I've got this."
Omg! I hope I get to see the great Honinozuka in action! I've always wanted to see his epic karate skills! I thought, allowing myself to fan-girl a bit.
"TAKASHI, HARU-CHAN! OUT OF THE WAY!" Honey yelled as he soared towards his friends.
Thus proceeded the most epic display of martial arts I had ever seen! He totally owned those guys like it was nothing!
"That was awesome!" I shouted once I had hopped out of the tree.
"Senka! There you are!" Haruhi said, running up to me while Honey greeted his own, newly found friend.
"Are you guys ok?" Tamaki's voice yelled at us as they ran towards the scene.
I couldn't be happier to see the twins and they too marveled at Honey's excellent work. The SWAT team members apologized to Honey and we were soon sent on our way.
"Maybe we should go to the beach next," Hikaru suggested as we walked back to the pool.
"Yeah! The beach would be nice." Kaoru agreed.
"You idiots, Haruhi isn't into that kind of stuff." Tamaki sighed in a princely voice.
"Actually, the beach might be nice." Haruhi said, surprising us all. Was this the same girl who was complaining a few hours ago? "I might not be big on this silly waterpark but I like the ocean. It's so pretty."
"Yeah!" Tamaki was quick to agree with her, "Let's go to the beach!"
Senka: I hope you all enjoyed our adventure the the Tropical Aqua Garden!
Haruhi: Next chapter, I get thrown off a cliff!
Senka: Oh God! Cliffs! Heights! I hate heights!
Twins: Senka's a scaredy cat!
Senka: Sh-shut up!
Haruhi: Next time: Waves and WTF?!