I hope it wasn't too bad to put up with that last chapter. Boring and long introductions are OVER. I plan to bring in some more familiar characters in the next couple chapters. Also, I may bring in some less familiar characters as well.
Over the next few days, Mai set about getting her new room situated and learning more about her home-stay family. More than anything, she wanted to find out more about the twins, but they were almost always somewhere else or too busy with their 'work', whatever that may be. Since Mr. Davis didn't speak much Japanese and she barely understood English, that left Luella the only person she could really talk to.
Through Luella, Mai learned more about the twins' pasts. How they'd been born in the USA and orphaned at a young age, how the Davis's had adopted them and brought them back to England, and how each of them behaved.
"Even if we're only their adopted parents, they each seem to take after one of us. Gene, who takes mostly after me, is much more outgoing and fun-loving than Noll. Noll is all about his studies and work. He prefers not to socialize much with anybody except Gene, so he takes very much after my husband," Luella concluded.
Once, when Gene was taking a break from his work, Mai asked him what it was that he and Noll were always doing. She had difficulty saying Noll's name because of her accent and- much to Gene's amusement kept calling him Naru instead. He explained what his parents' business, the SPR, was.
Then he told her, "Noll and I are working on a paranormal case involving a nearby amusement park. Right now all we're trying to do is contact a couple people so they can come down later and help us out a bit."
"You know, it might actually be kind of fun to go out to an amusement park together: me, you, and Noll. We haven't really gotten the chance to hang out since you got here. What do you think? You could just come with us when we move down there."
"Ehh, really? That would be awesome! I've never actually been to an amusement park before; let alone one in England. Are you sure I can go though? What about your parents?"
"Don't worry about them, they definitely won't mind. Well, it's settled, we'll definitely take you with us whenever it is we go."
"Tomorrow," Noll interrupted as he walked into the room. "We're leaving tomorrow."
Gene, are you sure it's alright for her to go? It could get dangerous with all that's going on there.
She'll be fine. She has us and Lin to protect her if anything weird happens.
Noll sighed at his brother's reply and said aloud, "Gene, make sure Lin doesn't mind this. If you need anybody's permission, it's his."
Gene thought about confronting Lin and groaned slightly, but later on that night he did ask and after much convincing, received Lin's grudging approval.
The next day, they all loaded their stuff in the company van and headed down to Queensland Hotel.
In a different area of England, two other people packed their bags as well and started a slightly longer journey to Queensland to join the SPR group.
Mai set her bags down on her bed in the large suite in the Queensland Hotel. Wow, I bet if this were a normal situation, this room would cost a fortune; or belong to some couple on their honeymoon. "I wonder how long we're going to stay."
Naru-she'd given up on trying to say Noll-and Gene were in the suite down the hall from her room.
The trip from the Davis mansion to the hotel had been about two and a half hours. In that time, Mai had tried to strike up some sort of conversation with Naru. After about ten minutes of basically talking to herself, she gave up and talked to Gene instead.
She found Lin-san much too intimidating to even try to talk to.
After about an hour, it was apparent that it would be best to just let the conversation go and stare out the window or something of that sort. Naru was reviewing the case, Lin was driving, and Gene was talking on the phone with another member of the team.
Mai left her room and sat outside the door, waiting for either Naru or Gene to leave their room. A few minutes later, one of them did come out. Judging by the lack of emotion on his face, Mai guessed it was probably Naru. She stood up and walked over to him. "Ano, Naru-san, how long will it be before we head to the park?"
He sighed and stared down at her for a few seconds before replying.
"I'd say about another hour. We've decided to wait for the other two to arrive so we could all go together." I swear, if she keeps calling me Naru, it's going to stick. Even people that can say Noll are going to call me Naru. Gene's already started.
Hey, Naru, what are you doing out there? Noll cringed inwardly.
Mai had a question. How about you come out here and entertain her or something? She looks like she's going to get bored very quickly with just waiting in her room.
Hmmm….ok. I'll entertain her if you would like.
G-Gene, honestly, at least try to be sensible. He blocked off the images his brother was sending him.
Yes, Oh Sensible One; as you wish.
Naru turned away from Mai and went back in his room letting the red tint cover his face due to the mental pictures his brother had drawn. As Gene passed him to go out of the room he asked him, "How did you become so perverse?"
Gene chuckled and shrugged before leaving the room. "Mai-chan, are you hungry?"
"Just a little bit."
"Good enough for me. Let's go check out the menu in this place!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her to the elevator. Mai blushed when the stepped onto the elevator and he didn't let go of her hand.
It took them about an hour to choose the restaurant and eat. It took just as long for the other two to arrive.
They asked for the room number of Eugene and Oliver Davis after they had gotten their room key.
Noll heard somebody knocking on his door. Thinking Gene had left his room key, he took his time going to open it. When he finally opened it, he was surprised that instead of Gene, it was the 'help' they had all been waiting for. He gave them a small smile that disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. "Hello Rachel, Alice. We were wondering if you two were ever going to show up."
Yes, I'm going to bring in the new characters before I bring in the old characters. I just had to. It seemed more fitting. In any case, it would be different from if they all actually knew each other like in the anime//manga. I really don't have much to say right now. Time to start the next chapter though. I'm very bad about keeping my chapters short. Oh well.
I had to fix a few things