Boris quietly tried to wake the female up again, but to no avail. His ears drooped. He fully pulled himself into the room. It would have been bad if he were caught sitting on the windowsill by one of the guards. He propped himself comfortably around the room, making sure he wouldn't be too easy to see if a maid happened in, but had a good eye on the door just in case something else were coming through...

An hour or two later his ears perked up. It was combined effort. The sound of the fabric of the blanket moving was one reason. The second was that he had a plan to keep Kiana away from Ace... for a while, at least. "Nn," started off the squeaky yawn that soon disrupted the silence. The feline perked up a bit to see that she was finally awake. "Huh?" Her sleep ridden eyes turned to look at him more clearly. "Boris? What're you doing here?" His tail gave a swish while a toothy grin played over his features.

"I came to see you.~ It's been a while since you visited the park." He stood up while his ears gave a small droop accompanied by a pout. Before she had time to respond, the other sleeping beauty soon awoke. "Huh?" The ravenette couldn't help but giggle. "Yeah, about how I was when I woke up."

Kiana's POV:

I shifted myself to sit in a better position. Although I enjoyed my nightgown, it was short and I would rather not flash my panties to anyone this morning. Sadly, if I had my choice I would have picked out a shorter version of the nightgown with matching pajama pants. "So you came all this way just to see us?" I asked, tilting my head curiously. He nodded. "I was hoping we could hang out at the amusement park for a bit. You two both have all access to the park, so why not?"

Alice proceeded to look in my direction. I shrugged. "I guess it wouldn't be too bad," Alice spoke. Boris gave a Cheshire grin and nodded. "Right! I'll wait for you to get dressed then we'll head to the amusement park." He walked out of the room to allow us some privacy. We shared a glance and giggled. Our other clothes hadn't been washed, so we were given spare clothes. Alice's was similar to her regular dress, however in the appropriate colors for the Heart Castle. My own attire was made up of a plain white t-shirt and a frilly black and red skirt.

Both Alice and Boris could see the dread written all over my face as I walked out. "I am so glad that you can't capture any type of memory of this," I growled to Alice. She proceed to smile and walk along side me. Boris was on the other side. "You look good in anything, so I don't know why you worry." I whimpered and leaned on her. "It's easy access! What if like Ace tried to rape me or something?" I quietly waited for her answer. "I won't let him," said Boris and Alice in unison. I glanced between the two of them before giggling. "Well, it's nice to know that I have two people concerned~"

Boris' cheeks turned a soft pink and Alice just hugged me in response. Since we weren't stuck with Mr. No sense of direction, we got there rather quickly. I was actually amazed at how quick it was. Curiosity peaked as I glanced around at all the rides. It was something I had heard a while ago. "Is it true that there's a pool here?" Boris' ears twitched before turning back to me. "Huh? Yeah. We only really use it in the summer, why?" My eyes grew big, like a child staring at a toy or pastry they desperately wanted. "I wanna swim..." I pouted, crossing my arms behind my back.

"If the lady and pretty lady are swimming, we want to swim too!" All three of us whipped our heads around to see who had spoken. Not far off were Dee and Dum. I smiled softly. It may have been not long ago since I had seen them, but with the way time was one could never truly tell. Unlike our world, there wasn't '10 o'clock', '11 o'clock', '3 o'clock', or anything like that. Here they had morning, noon, afternoon, evening, night, and midnight. It was likely maybe something in between midnight and morning, but not much further. So it was a bit more difficult to guess the exact time between things.

"Elliot, Dee, Dum, how are you?" Alice had a small twinkle in her eye as she looked at Elliot with a sweet smile. A smirk crossed my lips. If I had been like Boris, my tail would be swishing. Naturally, I would tease her about it later, but I was polite enough to not do it in front of the person themselves. "Well, it's not like it's cold, I guess we could ask the old man." A light bulb lit up in my head. "Let me do it! I'm sure he wouldn't be able to say no~" Alice giggled. "She does give very convincing puppy dog eyes." Boris laughed and grabbed my hand, leading me off to where Gowland was.

No One's POV:

Alice smiled as Boris and Kiana disappeared into one of the buildings. "So, Elliot, how are things going? Blood isn't being too hard on you, is he?" Elliot's ear twitched, a small pink rising in his cheeks. He scratched the side of his face with his forefinger. "Nah... not really... He's been in his garden a lot..." She blinked. She remembered the garden very well... Did that mean he was talking to Vivaldi a lot more now...? Perhaps he just wanted alone time? One could never tell with Blood...

"Lady! Pay attention to us and not the stupid hare," said both Dee and Dum, pouting. Elliot's brow twitched, giving a small grunt. "She doesn't have to if she doesn't want to." Her eyes widened, waving her hands back and forth. "Now, now. We don't need to get into any kind of argument..." The sounds of fast approaching footsteps echoed loudly until an abrupt stop. "He said yes!" Kiana yelled, grinning happily. Dee and Dum cheered in like happiness, the group following Boris to where said pool was. It was large and from the numbers on the side, it went down to twelve feet.

There was currently a large blue cover hiding it's contents. Though there was an obvious sign that it had been cleaned at least daily, no mold sat on the bottom of the cover and the water looked like it had just been put in. There was a diving board at the deep end of the pool and two slides. One was set in the four to five foot area, while the other was set on the opposite side in the six to seven foot area. Just outside of the pool area was a dressing room along with an area to choose from whichever bathing suit was available. That was, if one didn't bring their own.

Along the sides of the pools consisted of tables with umbrellas, lounging pool side chairs, and floaters of various shapes and sizes. Alice's and Kiana's eyes were widened, looking around the pool. It was so nice and well put together! "Can we help pick out your bathing suits?" Dee and Dum asked innocently. Both pair of blue eyes glanced towards the opposite, sighing in unison. "I guess, but you have to get out when we change." They nodded happily and ran into the room that held the bathing suits.

The girls disappeared into the same room as Boris and Elliot went into the opposite gendered side. "Should we really trust those two along with them?" Boris asked. He picked up a pair of pink swim trunks and began changing. "They may be perverted little shits, but they aren't terrible. After all, they still want both of them to like them," Elliot explained, picking out a pair of deep purple swim trunks. He laughed, shoving his clothes into a pile in one of the lockers. "Oh, I get it. Because if they did something to upset them, they wouldn't be forgiven, right?" Elliot nodded in response, both heading just outside to wait for the girls.

Inside of the other section Alice and Kiana were gazing through the endless sets of bathing suits. The two had been going through the two piece sets that were available, curiously holding them to feel the fabric and see the size. The elder version of Dee soon appeared in front of Alice, pressing a bathing suit close to her. "I think this would look good on you." Dum took a similar approach, appearing behind Kiana with the bathing suit in front of her, stating practically the same thing.

Their faces burned with embarrassment and slight anger, shooing the boys out before actually looking at the bathing suit. "Ne... Alice... I hate to say it, but I think they're right..." The one she held was duel colored of soft blue and cyan. It had frills which were soft blue while the entire make up itself was cyan. The one Alice held was a blue one as well, one that matched her nicely. A small pout formed on the blonde's lips. "I hate to agree, but you're right..." They sighed and changed into the bathing suits, neatly putting their clothes away before leaving the changing area.

Boris' tail swished behind him. "Come on!" he shouted with a grin. The Cheshire cat ran into the pool area and grabbed one of the water guns lying around. Dee and Dum, both with childish shock mused over their face, followed suit and all three quickly got into the water to get their ammo. Kiana gave a soft smile, holding the sun screen up and starting to put some on. While it was different, it could never be assumed that the sun would quickly go away. The sun was still sun and she was still destined to get burned if she wasn't careful. Alice was obviously thinking along the same lines, rubbing it in along her arms.

"Hey Ellio-" "Alliiicce! Can you get my back?" She couldn't help but give a small giggle, nodding and rubbing the sun screen onto her back. A quick thought ran through the ravenette's mind, giving a small smirk. "Elliot~ I think Alice needs some sunscreen on her back! Make sure she doesn't get sunburned?" The blonde's face turned red, staring at the back of her head as Elliot's eyes widened and ears stood straight up. "Um, yeah, sure..." Alice tensed at the cool feeling of Elliot's sunscreen covered hands. She was going to get her back for this, somehow...

After the awkward moment ended, they all found their way into the pool some way or another. Alice was relaxing in an inner tube with Elliot not far off to make sure she didn't get in the middle of the mess at the deep end. Dee and Dum were often using the slides, going down them as a protection against themselves from Boris' water gun. Kiana was going back and forth between floating and being thrown in by Boris or jumping in with the twins. Alice quietly watched as Kiana was floating at the top of the blue water. Her hair was fanned out like a mermaid's was in a picture or something. The scene soon changed as she left the water. "Kiana will make a good mom one day," she told Elliot with a smile. His purple hues glanced up at her. "Why do you say that, Alice?" he asked curiously.

"See how good she is with Dee and Dum? Yes, she scolds them when they do something wrong, but she goes out of her way to actually play with them when they're doing or being good..." He watched as Kiana let Dee and Dum swing her into the pool. She returned to the surface, laughing happily and reaching for Dum's hand. However, when she got hold of it, she dragged him into the pool. "Oh. I see what you mean..." Alice smiled sweetly and got out of the inner tube, only to be hit with a beach ball.

"Sorry, lady! We are going to play ball, want to join?" Dee apologized, smiling. She nodded, the two joining the other four. Dee, Alice, and Elliot were on a team, while Boris, Kiana, and Dum were their opposing team. They kept up the water fun, eventually switching to a short lived game of chicken. Suddenly the time changed from morning to night. Everyone gave a small frown. "Aww, does that mean we have to leave?" Boris shook his head. "Nah, we can stay a bit longer. The old man put lights into the pool since we're busy all hours of the day." Moments before the lights came on, a large splash sounded through the pool, causing everyone to shield their eyes.

"What the hell? Which one of you jumped?" Elliot leered towards the twins, accusing them of being the ones responsible. They shook their heads. "We've been in the pool the whole time," they explained. The ravenette let out a small barely audible squeak before being pulled underwater. Her eyes burned from the chlorine in the pool, finding it difficult to see the person through the brightness of the pool light. Whoever they were, they didn't seem to be any threat... If they wanted to drown her, drowning themselves wasn't exactly a method of killing another. Above the water, Alice was beginning to worry.

"Where's Kiki?" Everyone responded with similar 'um' answers. They hadn't heard anything suspicious or seen her get out of the pool. Boris' ears lay flat back, leering at the figure he saw holding onto her underneath the water. "She's underwater, she's coming back up." Just as suddenly as the morning turned to night, the night turning to evening. The golden rays of sunset appeared just in time for Kiana to return to the surface, flipping her hair back so it wouldn't stick to her face. "Ace?! What the hell?!" Alice's brows furrowed.

"Are you trying to kill her?" Ever since her experience with him threatening to kill herself, she was slightly on the edge around Ace. She minded less for herself and more for her sister-like figure since she appeared. He did seem to be drawn to her like a puppy to its mother. "I wasn't trying to kill her, just have some fun," Ace laughed, his arms comfortably around her waist. Kiana didn't attempt to move from him. A slight realization had come over her, which probably scared her more than him mysteriously pulling her into the pool. This scene made Boris leer towards the brunette further. What was he up to?

Author's Note:

Um, wow, two updates in two days...? I'm amazed with myself. Hopefully this will make up for the long absence from before and possibly long one once my muse to write withers.

What's going to happen next? I wonder~ (Chapter 10 is written, however, I always wait because I like seeing what I have written before to compare to what I am writing next. This method greatly helps when I lose internet and such. :/ But hopefully I will be able to write a few more chapters in the next few days as I wait for my GED scores~ ;_;)

Next time;
"A-Ace...?"
"Shh, just go back to sleep~"
"Big... brother..."

"Someone's blushing~"
"I am not!"
"What're you doing slacking off, knight?! We're in preparation for a ball! We have one week to get everything prepared!"

"Speaking of nightmares, I can hear him moaning and groaning from here."