A/N: Yay chapter 9 is finally here! hope you enjoy it…
Disclaimer: I hereby declare I don't own Gakuen Alice, not now, not ever, so get off my back you frigggin suing guys!
Chapter 9 Twins.
(Normal PoV)
Mikan's uncontrollable laughter stops suddenly and her face becomes completely serious. She stares at the bottle angrily as if she could make the whole situation better if she just made it disappear by glaring at it.
She looks at Natsume to test his reaction but he just stares back waiting for her response.
(Mikan's PoV)
"I…" I gotta think of something to say… quick. I look back at the bottle and take a deep breath "I knew that…" I say trying to sound as convincing as possible but as he's stated before, my acting skills don't work on him.
"Yeah, of course you did, that explains why you suddenly stopped acting like you were drunk when I told you about it…" he answers raising an eyebrow.
"What I can't laugh now without you thinking I'm drunk?" I must look really stupid about now…
Oh god… What have I done? How could I not realize this before? It was an honest mistake! I swear I really didn't see that alcohol-free sign, and besides who the hell serves alcohol-free beer in a party? I'm gonna kill the asshole responsible for this.
For the time being I really should worry about thinking of a way to talk my way out of-
"Oh no, it wasn't just laughing, it was the fact that you 'trippedddh' and you laughed like a maniac before and after YOU kissed ME. That would make anyone think you were 'druu-hunk'…" Well if you put it that way I MAY have looked SLIGHTLY drunk…
"That was umm… for word emphasis…"
"You honestly expect me to buy all of this crap, don't you?"
"It's not crap, it's the truth, and I told you I wasn't drunk because I wasn't!" I would really love to slap myself right now...
"You thought you were, didn't you?"
"I most certainly did NOT! Who would be stupid enough to think such a thing?" Great, now I wanna kick my own ass… I stand up and drop the bottle on the floor where I was previously sitting.
"I do hope that's a rhetorical question…" he says standing up trying to make me look at him in the eyes. "Unless you really are expecting me to say 'you're right, what was I thinking?' and forget about it…"
As a matter of fact it is the former, though I must admit the latter would be much better…
"A little of both actually…" I say grinning still not making eye contact.
"You do realize that you're admitting you thought you were drunk right?" he says half laughing.
"I was not drunk and I didn't think I was either! But I-." he raises a hand in front of my face.
"Okay, so let's hypothetically say I believe you…" I think I know where this is going… "That you didn't think you were drunk and you were completely aware of what you were doing…" Yeah, I really don't like where this conversation is headed. "If so, you have a bigger problem…"
"What?" I ask placing my hands on my hips pretending to be annoyed. I already know what he's going to say, oh god…
"You kissed me…" IS IT REALLY NECESSARY TO BE SO STRAIGHTFORWARD? "I could let it slip if you thought you were drunk, but if you were fully aware of your actions I'm afraid I'll have to ask why you did it… It's your choice."
Great, so I have to choose between admitting to be the world's biggest moron or… make up some lame excuse as to why I -cough- well you know, I… umm… Anyway, I'm going to execute Plan B.
"Whatever…" I say and walk away at a quick pace. I know it's not a very thought out plan, but running away is the only thing I could think of in such a short time. Knowing when to retreat is a strength too you know! Now the only thing left to do is avoid him and-.
"Hey!" he says running up to me and pulling me back grabbing my shoulder "I'm not letting you get away…" Okay I didn't want to have to do this, but Plan C is all I've got left now. I take a deep breath, close my eyes, sigh loudly, turn around slowly and flash him a big smile.
Without saying as much as a word I quickly raise my right hand and… -SLAP- I run back into the house leaving a probably gaping Natsume behind.
(Natsume's PoV)
Okay, what did just happen? One minute she acts all cute and nice and then out of the blue she slaps me and runs away? I seriously don't get her one bit… and I thought I had learnt to read her, seems I was wrong.
Now just hold on a sec… Either I was hallucinating back there or she… She called me by my real name… And why didn't I notice this before? AH! How does she do that? Leaving me speechless that is… In the past two days it's happened like five times at the very least.
Crap I forgot to ask what she said… Why do I always forget to ask about the most important things and stick to the obvious ones? Although she didn't really answer any of the things I asked. Like why did she kiss me anyway?
Maybe she really thought she was drunk, that sounds pretty stupid, but it could be… or maybe she kissed on purpose so that I'd forget to talk about anything else… Aha! It makes perfect sense.
She had to tell me something but didn't really want me to talk about it, and so she kissed me so that I'd forget about it and then I wouldn't ask. Yes, sounds farfetched enough to be a plan made up by her.
Am I over thinking about this? -Sigh- I'll just head back for now and worry about that later.
Once I'm back inside the house Andou approaches me with a big moronic smile on his face.
"Yo Katsuuume 'zzuppp? Enjoynning the party ri -hiccup-right?" he says putting one of his hands around my shoulder.
"You stink of alcohol Andou, get away from me…" I answer slapping his hand away.
"Ohh c'mon you need to try and enjoynn -hiccup-the party!" He picks up a glass from the table "Here drink this." He says handing it to me.
I look at him with a what-the-hell-is-that look on my face but he answers pressing the (somewhat) blue-liquid-filled-glass against my chest. I take it away from him and he smiles even more.
"What's in it?" I ask examining it closely.
"I dunno… Just drink it, it won't kill you -hiccup- hopephhlully…" he laughs.
That's not really encouraging… Ah, but what the hell, when in Rome… Besides one drink can't really hurt…
I raise the glass in front of my face "Cheers" I say before pouring all the blue-liquid into my mouth and swallowing quickly. Andou looks at me dumbfounded.
"Duuudddee! Aweesomeee! That's like a world record or something!"
"What?" I ask confused.
"You just like, drank the whole thing like so fast! It was awesome…" he gives me another glass, this time bigger and with some sort of pinkish liquid. "Do it agaiiin! Oh no waittt…" He takes a look around and grabs someone's arm. "Oi Ruka-piopio you hafta check this outtt, he's like the Drink-Master!" he shouts at an angry-looking Ruka "You show 'im"
Once again I quickly drink the contents of the glass in a matter of seconds.
"Awesomeeee!" Ruka shouts. They have a pretty limited vocabulary. "We totally gotta try him against Koko!" he tells Andou.
"Nah I don't think he can beat Koko, that dude is like waaaaay out of his league…" I look at them very confused and maybe just a tinsy bit tipsy.
"Way out of my league for what?" I ask.
"Duh! Drinking contest!" Ruka answers, looking at me as if I was the stupidest monkey on earth. Well who would knew he could act like that? Alcohol is such a mysterious thing… I have to make a mental note NOT to get drunk.
"Ooo-kay we gotta find that dude… He's probably around here somewhere" Andou says "KOKOOOO!" He shrieks "KOOOOKOOO DUDEEE!"
"Stop screaming dude I'm right here! Geez I think my eardrum just went kaboom…" a blonde says while holding his ears. Andou turns around and sees Koko standing right behind him.
"We got you new drinking competition…" Ruka says pointing at me.
"The new dude? He's no match for me…" he answers boastfully. This dude is so full of it… Oh god now I'm using the word 'dude', that's just awesome... Geez I just wanna punch myself right now…
"Hehe you're just too scared of losing to me…" I answer sounding as full of it as him, if not more.
"You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into new dude…" he glares at me.
"Bring it…" I smirk and return his glare. Okay, I admit I got a little carried away, but I just can't walk away from a challenge. Hyuuga Natsume is no coward.
"No chickening out later on..."
"That's exactly what I was gonna tell you…"
A couple of minutes later a table's set, two chairs facing each other at either side of it. In front of each chair, three glasses with three different colored drinks, and surrounding the table, a huge crowd of people watching the whole thing.
"Sooo the rules are the same as always, the one who finishes the three drinks first wins umm yeah well that's all…" Andou says landing a hand on the middle of the table. "You guys ready?"
Koko and I sit down. "Ready…" he says "I hope you don't have to drive back home later on…" he smirks.
"If I were you I'd worry about myself…" I stare at him for a while and place my hand on one of the drinks; he does the same "Ready…" I finally say.
"Drink!" Andou shouts raising his hand. Both Koko and I start drinking fast and the crowd starts shouting.
About a minute or so later I slam the third glass on the table and stand up pushing the chair backwards.
"FINISHED!" We both shout at the same time standing in the same way. The crowd gasps and we look at each other. I throw myself onto the chair and so does Koko, we both start laughing like mad people.
"So who won?" someone asks.
"Oi Tsubasa you're the judge, who won?" Ruka elbows Andou who is too busy talking to some umm I think that's either a two headed girl or maybe Siamese twins…
"Eh? Umm it was a tie…" he answers turning back to the two headed girl talking to him.
"Whadda ya mean tie? You have to say who won!" Koko shouts holding to the edge of the table to stand up.
"How 'bout a tiebreak?" I say slowly stumbling to my feet. Whoa okay the world is shaking. Okay I just gotta get a hang of the table and then… damn you table quit moving around! Um are tables supposed to move? HA! No matter I got it…
"You don't look as though you can handle a tiebreak new dude…" Koko says and grins like an idiot.
"HA! We'll see about that. I can take you on any time!" Maybe I'm exaggerating just a little, I actually don't feel so good but I'm not backing out now!
"Fine, we'll have a final slowdown then! Err I mean final showdown!" he says picking up a bottle with some transparent liquid and placing it on the table. Some guys give each of us five small glasses and someone fills them with the water looking thing.
"What's this err water?" I ask to no one in particular.
"The first one to finish the five glasses wins… And umm" he scratches his head.
"Let's get this over with." I say sitting down "Ru- Err Ruka… You judge Andou is too busy with the two headed monster over there…" I say pointing at the girl. "Okay ready?"
"Ready" Koko answers.
"Start!" Ruka shouts. Geez this would be much easier if the damn glasses would just stay still! Well at least Koko doesn't seem to be doing so great anyway.
"FINISHED!" I shout jumping up and almost falling. Maybe I should just sit down for a while.
"I gotta hand it to you new dude… err Natsume was it? You're like the first person ever to beat me hehe…" The whole crowd starts clapping and yelling and damn they are noisy! Hold on a second when did everyone get a twin? Oohh godddd I really need to get out of here I think my brain is gonna explode.
I get off of the chair only to fall on my butt to the floor, bringing the table and apparently Koko, down with me. Crap, I gotta get up…
"Are you alright? Here let me help you up…" someone extends a hand to me.
"Ah thanks…" I say rubbing my head.
Right, let's see if I remember how to do this… First place the left foot on the floor, yeah check, then the right knee, check. Now grab the hand and get up. The crowd starts dispersing.
"Whoa, so did I win?" I know it took a while to ask but I'm not really sure…
"Dude you're like the first dude ever to beat Koko, he's like invincible…" Andou says, apparently the two headed monster is gone.
"So did I win?" I ask again. What a stupid question, he already said I did, right? Oh, maybe it wasn't such a stupid question.
Andou, Koko, Ruka and their respective twins start laughing… "You seriously need to get some fresh air dude, come with us we're going to the pool …" One of the six says…
"Pool where's dat?" I ask holding on to someone's arm for support.
"Um I don't remember, it's in the place, you know, the… it's the umm… what's it called? You know the place with a pool and lots of flowers…" Andou says scratching his head.
"You mean your room?" Ruka asks laughing.
"Noooo… that's not it, there's not a pool in my room…" he answers frowning "Anyway dudette here will lead the way…" he says pointing to the person holding me, apparently it's a girl… a two headed one.
Ruka picks Koko up and we start walking to some place with a lot of flour and a pool… Hmm…
"I GOT IT! It's a bakery!" I shout turning to look at Andou.
"What?" he says looking at me confused… I thought it was pretty obvious…
"You know the place with lots of flour and a pool…" Oh wait a second…
"No…" he says after thinking about it "Bakeries don't have pools..." yeah I guess he's right "Dude how much longer till we get there? We've been walking for like ages!"
"It was more like a minute… And stop using the word 'dude' already, it's annoying…" The girl carrying me says. Party popper… hehe hehe I don't even know why I'm laughing but I bet it's really funny…
"I just want to make one thing perfectly clear…" I say after some more walking and laughing… "Did I win?" I ask once more, it's just I'm still not quite sure…
A/N: About the two headed girl thing, she's not really two headed or anything, his vision is a bit distorted… Just wanted to make clear that there's not really a two headed monster… The twin thing… well yeah he's seeing double...
To be continued…