HappyJunjou: Alright! This is probably my longest chapter so far and the first one that has a song in it. Maybe it's even the hardest to write. I suck at fluff. Now I can rant on about my life and other things I like and you probably don't care about.
Yoru: Happy will give you a digital cookie if you can actually stand her rant.
Ikuto: Blech. Why don't you get a life?
HappyJunjou: What'd you say cat boy? I totally have a life. Facebook 24/7! ^.^
Amu: So what did you want to say, again
HappyJunjou: Oh yeah! Two of my favorite shows just came to an end for end of season and end of mid-season. X-Factor and Glee! The end of Glee was amazing! It was so cute! The two teachers finally got together, and the performance by Lea who plays Rachel Berry was amazingggg! The song was Don't Rain on My Parade!
Kukai: btw...Superbowl's Sunday!
HappyJunjou: Well some of us are athletically challenged and don't enjoy watching sports.
Rima: I second that
Rhythm: I prefer basketball
HappyJunjou: Secondly! X-Factor which is the britich version of X-Factor ended in December. My favorite act, Jedward (John & Edward who are irish twins) just came out with their music video. It's a mash up of Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby and Queen & David Bowie's Under Pressure, and feature's Vanilla Ice. It's done in Jedward style and is hilarious! I love it! .com/watch?v=Yh_xhF5NsnY
HappyJunjou: Let's skip the rest of my rambling for later! Disclaimer!
Tsukasa: Happy doesn't own Shugo Chara or me! *wink*
HappyJunjou: Ick.
Fire & Water
***Chapter 16***
***Rima POV***
I laid on my bed staring at my freshly coated purple toe nails. Yes, I was bored out of my freaking mind, with nothing to do at all. I picked up my IPod off my bureau and set it to shuffle.
Someone once told me that you have to choose
What you win or lose
You can't have everything
Don't you take chances? You might feel the pain
Don't you love in vain
Cause love won't set you free
I could stand by the side and watch this life pass me by
So unhappy, but safe as could be
So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about other pain in front of me
I'm just tryin' to be
Happy
Holding on tightly just can't let it go
Tryin' to play my role
Slowly disappear
Well all these tears, they feel like they're the same
Just different faces, different names
Get me outta here
I could stand by the side and watch this life pass me by
Pass me by
So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about other pain in front of me
I'm just tryin' to be
Happy
Just wanna be
Happy
So any turns that I can't see
I'll count a stranger on this road
But don't say victim
Don't say anything
So what if it hurts me?
So what if I break down?
So what if this world just throws me off the edge
My feet run out of ground
I gotta find my place
I wanna hear my sound
Don't care about other pain in front of me
I'm just tryin' to be
Happy
Just wanna be
Happy
(Disclaimer: I don't own this song. The song is Happy by Leona Lewis, the winner of Season 3 X Factor UK. She's a great singer and you can probably find her on ITunes.)
I could feel my face heat up, and my heart pound loud and quickly in my chest. The lyrics kinda were inspirational to my situation. Without thinking my hand found it's way to my desk, and seconds later I was clutching my cell phone.
"Go for it Rima!" Kusukusu cheered. I nervouslylooked through my contacts until I found the one I wanted.
Remember Leona Lewis. Remember Leona Lewis. Remember Leo-
"Hello?" I heard on the other end of the reciever. I could've sworn that at that minute my heart stopped. Oh no! Rima's having a heart attack!
"Hello?" A slightly annoyed voice called. I guess maybe he'd be thinking that this is a prank call since I've been too busy being nervous to say anything.
"Um...hi?" I replied quietly, hoping that I didn't sound like a nervous lovesick wreck. Worse, maybe he'd be annoyed with me calling at 6 a.m. Why is he even up this early? I could'nt sleep, so that's why I was up all night. Who wakes up early on a freaking weekend?
"Rima? What's up?" I searched my brain for the next thing to say. Um...um... I suddenly had a flashback to when my mom told me "um..." is not a word. Well you know what? It so totally is in my dictionary! Who on earth doesn't use the word um...?
"What?" My face turned bright red realizing that I'd just said that out loud, to Nagi.
"I was bored." I confessed, "I really need something to do. Wanna hang out or something?" I was kinda expecting a "No, I'm smarty pants Nagi. I'm too busy studying for nothing and watching Discovery Channel. I have no time for stupid chibi Rima" But to my surprise he sounded really eager and...happy?
"Come to my house at 9." I said happily. I ended the conversation and went to get dressed.
I had a little over 2 and a half hours to get ready. I quickly took a shower, and dried my hair. I had a little trouble deciding what to do with my hair. After 20 minutes of curling and straigtening, I decided to keep it straightened and tied my hair into low pigtails. (It's a change from my usually headband and wavy hair just plainly straight down. I tied my hair with blue, pink, orange, white, green, and yellow colored striped bows to match my striped sundress, which was the same colored stripes with a bow in the front, two buttons and tiny pockets. I wore a white turtle neck under the dress. (A/N: Imagine this dress: .net/images/2008/05/14/summer_dresses_ Don't own this picture either!)
I re-painted my nails orange with sparkles just for the sake of matching my dress. Thank god my mom showed me how to do girly things before like make up, not that I've ever needed to since I'm naturally good looking. I don't really care if Nagi only considers me a friend and doesn't think much of this. I'm going to count this as a date just because I want to, and I think I deserve to be happy even if it's fake and I'm just kidding myself. It's like that time Ikuto took Amu to the amusement park place and Amu didn't consider THAT a date.
I glanced at my clock. Holy cow! It was already 8:45! With my little time left I grabbed my purse and jacket, took a little money, and found the perfect ballet flats to wear. Mashiro Rima does not like to get treated on dates unless it's a slave treating her. I don't want to look bad and I like feeling more in power than those girls that sweet talk their boyfriends into getting them stuff. *cough* Amu *cough* Last night Amu called me at like 10:00 to tell me about her "forced date" with Ikuto. Apparently he was really sweet and romantic minus the occasional perverted comments. He took her to some abandoneddiner that didn't seem scary at all (Her words not mine. Rima doesn't think abandoned diners are scary) They had a romantic dinner, and at the end Ikuto pulled out a diamon ring (Why he did that I do not know. It's not like he was proposing marriage or anything) He asked her to be his girlfriend and she said yes.
*Ring* *Ring* *Ring*
My head shot up and towards the direction of the door. I happily skipped over and pulled open the was Nagi, and I really couldn't keep my face from heating up. He looked nice in casual clothes. He wore a tee-shirt and jeans. Suddenly I felt embarrassed for dressing up. Stupid Rima should've known it'd just be a friend thing to him. Although I did say earlier that I ewanted to treat it like a date, but if I treated it that way and he didn't, it'd just look awkward.
"You look great." He said, patting my head. All of a sudden, I felt alright again. Maybe even a little giddy from the comment. I smiled and closed the door behind me.
"So...where to?" I said slowly. I sounded stupid asking him out, but not knowing where I wanted to go. I should've thought this out more, hopefully he already planned out something. He smirked.
"I guess you'll just have to wait to find out."
***Nagi POV***
"You can open your eyes now, Rima." I smiled.
"Why the heck did you make me cover my eyes!" she exploded. I frowned. Why must she always make a fuss about the simplest things? All I wanted to do was make it a bit of a surprise for fun.
"Where are we anyways?" She asked impatiently. She searched around the area, taking in her surroundings. "An open air ice-skating rink?" she beamed. I heard a bit of satisfaction in her tone, and automatically felt a bit proud. I had just made the most important girl in my life smile. Score!
She suddenly frowned, making me panic just a bit. What could have been wrong? It took a long time for me to think of a place to take her. Maybe she didn't like it?
"Where do we get the skates?" I gave out a small laugh of relief.
"See that little shack over there? One of my mom's friends works there. That's where we rent the skates."
"Oh." I walked over to the stand and paid for the skates. I figured her feet were pretty small, and estimated a size.
"Here." I said handing her the skates. She scowled at me.
"I don't like being treated unless it's a slave." She said puffing her cheeks out. I opened my mouth to say something but she interupted me. "You're more than just a slave to me"
I smiled considering that a good thing. Although she probably meant that I was a friend even if I wanted to be more than that. She's so dense. She seemed like she was having trouble tying her skates, which made me laugh inside.
"Forgot how to tie things now?" I said sarcastically. She grunted a few curses in reply, obviously enraged by my comments. That made me smirk a bit. I knelt down and helped her tie the ice skate. She grumbled something under her breath. Something about not needing any help. Boy was she wrong.
"Stupid purplehead being all perfect." She mumbled to herself.
"What was that, Rima?" I grinned. She turned bright red and pouted.
"Nothin you stupid...um...eavesdropper?"
"I wasn't listening in on a conversation, so I'm not an eavesdropper." I replied. She bit her lip and glared at me.
"Well, in my dictionary, you are!" She huffed, "I might as well leave if you're going to be mean!" I suddenly regreted the last few remarks I said. I grabbed her hand, to stop her from leaving.
"I'm really sorry. Please don't go." She remained indifferent for the first few seconds, but then her lips curved upwards into a smile.
"Alright. I won't, but only because you apologized. Don't think that I'm staying cause I'm enjoying this so far because I'm not." She stated, saying the last part rather quickly indicating to me that she was most likely lying. I smiled and took her hand. It was small and warm. I led her to the ice rink.
"Ahh!" She screamed landing on the ice on her butt. She frowned. "It's so cold!" I smiled and helped her up to her feet.
"This is way too hard." She said after 2 minutes.
"It's not that bad." I disagreed. She was still clinging to the wall as if she's fall to her death as soon as she let go. I took her tiny hands in mine, and glided her around the ice with me.
"Oh my gosh! I'm not falling!" She exclaimed excitedly. We skated around for about 2 hours. I guess you lose track of time when you're having fun. It was about 1:00 now. We decided to sit down at a bench nearby as we took of our skates.
"I had fun. Thanks." She said real quietly. I beamed at her approval.
"That's great. Maybe we could do this again another time."
"Sure" Her smile suddenly seemed to look a bit...nervous? She looked as if she were thinking hard about something. These were the times I really wished I could get in her head and know what she was thinking. She seemed lost in a trail of thought.
"Nagi." She breathed, "I think I l-" I could've sworn my heart stopped at that moment, hoping what I wanted to hear her say was what she was about to.
"OMG! It's Rima and Nagi!" I heard a squeal from the rink. There was a pink haired girl next to...Ikuto?" Amu and Ikuto?
"They're going out now." Rima whispered, probably taking note in my confuson. Well, It was bound to happen sometime, I guess.
"Are you guys on a date?" Ikuto smirked.
"Sure." I shrugged. Unexpectedly, Rima didn't glare at me or disagree. She just shrugged at them too like it was a normal thing.
"So you guys are boyfriend and girlfriend?" Amu asked.
"No." Rima said a little too quickly, as if she was trying to prove to Amu that it's never happen. There was the answer that I always expected.
"At least not yet..." Ikuto murmured to Amu, Rima didn't seem to hear that though. Amu giggled a bit.
"Isn't there something we're forgetting?" Ikuto whispered to me as Amu and Rima started chatting a few feet away from us. He motioned me over to a barren tree, farther away from Amu and Rima.
"Remember our high-pitched annoying stalker friend and her group of anti-guardians?" Ikuto sighed. I nodded remembering the day Kukai, Utau, and I followed Ikuto to the new Easter. The worst part was how he knew Ai was out to get Rima, and in the worst way of all.
"You're still being stalked. Of course they're not close enough to hear our conversations." Ikuto said, his cat ears popping out. "There's one behind the big tree over there." He pointed to a fairly large tree about 30 feet away.
"They can still see us." I frowned.
"Exactly." He agreed, "Don't think they don't have the tapes of us from earlier battles. They have better charcter transformations than us."
"What?! How?" I exclaimed.
"They simply created eggs close to ours except more...deadly. It's a new type of egg. Not mystery eggs, not X-eggs, they're Copycat Eggs. The plan that they have is to make stronger eggs than our to beat us. Strangely it seems Ai has an ace egg and doesn't need a copycat egg. She has her own ultra powerful X-egg."
"We'll need to up our game, won't we?" He nodded and ruffled his hair with his hand.
"But how?" He asked, with the most confused expression I had ever seen. He was right. The same question troubled me all night, from the first second it came out of his mouth.
Here's for the rest of my rambling. Lately I haven't been watching Shugo Chara. In my opinion the new season is so boring! Too many fillers, and it's becoming just stupid. I guess I'm too impatient. I'm really into American Idol too. It's so fun to watch the auditions and the just ridiculous people. I feel sorry for the ones that I think are good but don't make it. It's really fun to watch though. I got my grades for the semester! Almost all A+'s except a B+ in Science. Darn you Science! But at least I got an A+ in English! My forte! Anyways, last semester I got a mix of A's and A+'s it was straight A's. No I'm not a nerd! I talk all the time in class, but things just stick in my brain so I don't even have to study! I guess I'm just a little...smart. In my book, being smart is never a good thing. I also got into the book series of Vampire Diaries. I love it! I really want to watch the movies The Lovely Bones, When In Rome, and Valentines Day. It had Taylor Swift and Taylor Lautner in it! . So that's the update on my life! Lol...as for music, I love Ke$ha, Lady Gaga, Jedward, Owl City, Girls Aloud, Demi Lovato, and Leona Lewis. My favorite T.V Shows lately have been Glee, X-Factor, American Idol, and also lately I've just started watching Disney's Sonny with a chance, and I love it even though Disney isn't really my thing and I have a strong hatred of the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana.
Anyways, Review Please!