Terribly long delay on this chapter, and for that I'm sorry, but I fell terribly ill, and now I've started school. I will do my best to update this story more frequently, but now I also have school, so we'll see how it goes.
It was morning – Well, for some people, at least. It was closer to midday, but some people had just woken up.
"Ah, crap," Noto muttered, holding his right hand firmly pressed towards his forehead. "Let's get drunk on a school trip, great idea!" He exclaimed with bitter sarcasm.
"Don't act as if it wasn't your idea," Ryuuji retorted as he placed a tray down on the table in front of Kitamura, Noto and Haruta. "Drink up."
"How do you know how to deal with hangovers anyways, Takasu?" Kitamura asked as he had a taste of the white-like hot drink in the mug he had taken.
Ryuuji swallowed a lot of his drink, already feeling it ease off on his headache, before answering.
"My mom is a hostess, so she usually comes home drunk. I make this for her pretty often," he said, emptying his mug. He was curious as to how Taiga was doing. "What happened last night, anyways?" Ryuuji said, before correcting himself bitterly, "I mean, after you guys practically spiked our drinks with booze."
"Well," Haruta started with a smug look on his face, "You and Aisaka-san were pretty much getting it on before we came into the room and then-" he was interrupted by Kitamura's hand shutting his mouth.
"I think that's enough," Kitamura said with a nervous laugh, earning a sigh from Ryuuji.
"You guys are such idiots," Ryuuji grumbled, "What else could you expect after getting a very affectionate girl drunk? It was bound to end up like that."
"Almost as if your inner desires were unleashed ~"
"Shut up."
…
Her head was literally pounding as she heaved herself up from her kneeling position over the toilet. She could only remember pieces of the night before, but she knew that it couldn't be anything good.
Taiga pretty much understood that someone had set that up for them, and it pissed her off. She knew Ryuuji wasn't the type to drink, what with his mother and all.
She was alone in the room at that time, as the other girls had let her sleep in, and they had headed out somewhere. Taiga was practically dragging her body towards the kitchen, and she jumped a little as she heard a knock at the door.
"Jeez, everything is so loud," she muttered, looking towards the door with tired eyes.
"I'm coming," Taiga muttered, heading towards the door. She opened it slowly, not even bothering how she looked in her pajamas and completely messed up hair.
"You don't look too good," the voice said, but she was too beaten up to really pick up on anything. "I brought this," the voice, continued, but Taiga didn't respond. "Taiga?" Someone started shaking her shoulders. "Taiga?"
"Eh," Taiga uttered as she snapped awake, looking up at Ryuuji. He was holding a thermos in his hand, apparently waiting to be invited in.
"Ah, Ryuuji," Taiga said, not sounding very enthusiastic, "come in."
She turned around and walked back towards the kitchen, efficiently hiding the blush on her face as Ryuuji's face made her remember what had happened the night before.
"As I said," Ryuuji called from behind her, "I brought this. You should drink it."
He walked over to the kitchen next to Taiga and found a cup, pouring the hot drink into it. Taiga really needed it, it seemed, seeing as how she looked completely beaten. "Here." He said, handing a mug to her. She took it carefully, her hands shaking, and she sat down by the table.
"Thanks," Taiga muttered under her breath, slowly trying out the drink as Ryuuji sat down on the opposite side of the table. They sat in silence as Taiga drank Ryuuji's anti-hangover potion. After she finished, Ryuuji got up and put the mug in the wash. Afterwards, he turned towards Taiga, standing by the kitchen bench on a distance.
"So.. about what happened last night.." Ryuuji started, but he didn't get any further.
"Nooo!" Taiga screamed as she leapt from her chair, her fist slung into the air.
Ryuuji widened his eyes as the furiously blushing girl came flying towards him.
"Aaah!"
…
"That shop was amazing!" Kushieda exclaimed, several plastic bags in her hands. She was together with Ami on shopping, and they had just finished inside of a big clothing store, both seemingly pleased with the results.
"Yeah, I actually found some really cute clothes in there," Ami said with a grin, her fingers clenching the bags in her hands. If it was one thing Kawashima Ami took seriously, it was clothes. "Hey, want to head down to the beach? The weather is nice." Ami said with a smile.
Obviously, Kushieda was pretty surprised. She herself used to be very cheerful and positive, but she wasn't used to being invited on a friendly event by Ami.
She flashed one of her usual smiles as she used her serious-sounding-but-not-so-serious voice. "I would love to, Ami-tan, but let's drop of these clothes in our room first! Fight! Fight!" She turned around and started skipping towards the hotel resort, making Ami sigh.
"Always so energetic," She laughed to herself, following after Kushieda.
"Do you think that idiot has woken up yet?" Ami asked as she caught up, referring to Taiga.
"I'm not sure. She was acting weird yesterday." Kushieda said with an overly philosophical voice. Ami sighed again, only hoping that Kushieda wasn't actually so stupid that she didn't understand that Taiga was drunk.
Taiga. Drunk. That was unbelievably unexpected.
She almost broke into a fit of laugh just remembering the night before.
"'Ey!" Taiga exclaimed, stumbling into the room. "Why didn't you open at once, you stupid c-c-chifwaha!"
"It only took me ten seconds, you moron."
"Shuddup," Taiga groaned, dragging her feet across the floor. Kushieda gave her a weird look, but from the looks of it she was struggling not to laugh.
Taiga fell onto her bed, stylishly swiping down a lamp standing on the nightstand. "You're in my way, you stupid badoodle."
"Badoodle?" Ami asked as she picked the lamp back up.
"Mhm.." Taiga mumbled, quickly falling asleep.
"WAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"Calm down, Kushieda," Ami sighed.
After a while, they had both reached the hotel resort, and they were headed up to their room. They approached the door and opened it carefully in case Taiga was still asleep. They were met by something entirely else.
"Minorin!" Taiga's voice sounded, as if she was panicking.
"What is it, Taiga?" Kushieda asked hurriedly. Taiga was shaking, and she stuttered to get out her words properly.
"I-I-I've killed Ryuuji!" She exclaimed, looking as if she was about to cry.
"E-eh?" Ami looked at her, dumbfounded, and Kushieda was too shocked to even say anything.
"I'm not dead, you idiot!" A muffled voice sounded from the kitchen. Taiga screamed and ran back into the kitchen, while Kushieda and Ami just stood there.
"What.. was that?" Ami asked, and Kushieda shrugged.
"This day is weird," Kushieda muttered.
"You're alive!" Taiga's voice sounded from the kitchen, and one could barely hear Ryuuji's sighs and 'I'm okay'.
…
Kushieda ran forwards with great enthusiasm as always. Ami followed slowly behind, sighing. Behind her was Taiga frantically apologizing to Ryuuji who was holding an ice-bag to his eye.
"I'm fine!" Ryuuji muttered, but Taiga kept apologizing. She had gotten so embarrassed that she had actually hit him straight in the eye.
After that he wasn't really in the mood for going to the beach, but Taiga had insisted that she wanted to make it up to him by taking him to the beach, and refused to take no for an answer. This was indeed going to be a stressing school trip.
End of that chapter. I intend to make the next chapter a little more exiting somehow, and it'll most likely be on the beach. Again, sorry for the delay.
