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Chapter 13 - Chapter 13 *Beach Adventures*

(Taku and Dai were in the water. Dai was swimming in his shirt.)

Taku: "Dude, take that thing off. You're embarrassing me."

Dai: "You embarrass me everyday and I'm not going to get sunburn for you just s you can get rejected by some girls."

Taku: "Ugh, maybe you need a little burn. You're pale as a vampire."

Dai: "Our family doesn't get tan, we just get burnt, maybe some freckles, but mostly burnt, and I don't' wanna hear you talking. You're as pale as me."

Taku: "No I'm no-"

(Taku looked down at his body and saw that Dai was right. He was extremely pale.)

Taku: "Oh god, when were you going to tell me this."

Dai: "How do you not notice? Don't you look in a mirror?"

Taku: "I do, but I try not to pay too close attention. First i see I'm handsome, then I see a pimple, then something else and then next thing I know my self esteem is low and I'm eating ice cream in the shower."

Dai: "Oh yeah, we ran out of a lot of Ice cream. Well I don't know, go find some tanning lotion or something. Maybe you can look tan for a little bit."

Taku: "That's a thing? I thought that was only in cartoons."

Dai: *sigh* "Yes it's a thing. They probably have some up front."

Taku: "Ok, I'll go check."

(Taku ran out of the water as fast as he could. Dai still hung out in the water.)

Dai: "Hey, get me some water while you're up there! He better get me some water."

(Taku was running as fast as he could. He needed to get this tanning lotion on him fast or ladies would see him as a pale man, and girls aren't into pale guys, right? Taku couldn't think right now. He just needed that tanning lotion. He got up to the front desk where it looked like some teen was hanging out. It was probably his summer job, and he wasn't taking it seriously.)

Teen: "Can I like help you or something?"

(He said this in a sarcastic tone. He flipped his bangs after he said it too, but Taku was too busy to make fun of this kid.)

Taku: "Hi, I need a bottle of tanning lotion."

Teen: "Uh, ok. That'll be like 100 yen."

Taku: "100 yen?!"

Teen: "Uh, yeah."

Taku: "Ugh, ok I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere."

Teen: "I like can't or I'll get fired."

(Taku ran out the door and headed over to where Kazu and Reo were, but he ran right into some guy on his way over there.They both fell right on the ground, and this guy didn't seem too happy.)

Drunk guy: "H-hey, *hic*. W-why a-are you r-running so fast? *hic*"

Taku: "Sorry, I'm in a hurry. Girls might see me like this."

(The drunk guy gave him an up and down look.)

Drunk guy: "Y-yeah, you're r-right. *hic* G-girls don't w-wanna see that."

Taku: "What? No. I mean I'm- Ugh forget it. I'm in a hurry."

(Taku turned around and started running)

Drunk guy: "H-hey wait-"

(Taku ignored this guy calling for him. He had more important things to do. He kept running, but then he heard someone else call for him. Someone he had to stop for.)

Yui: "Taaaakkuuuuu."

(Taku stopped and looked over seeing a drunk Yui waving her hand crazy at him. Taku had to walk over and see what was going on.)

Taku: "Yes, Yui."

Yui: "O-oh hey T-taku. H-how are you *hic*?"

Taku: "I'm alright, I'm just kind of in a hurry so can I-"

Yui: "Pfft don't b-be in a hurry. Y-you gotta not rush through life. l-Just g-go with the flow. *hic*;"

Taku: "Um, ok Yui. You know I just have somewhere to be and-"

Yui: "Y-you know I met th-the cutest guy t-today *hic* and I-I might have messed it up."

Taku: "uh-huh."

(While Yui was talking Taku was slowly backing away.)

Yui: "L-like I think *hic* h-he invited m-me to hang out, b-but I don't know i-if *hic* he was be-being nice o-or he liked me *hic*."

Taku: "Yeah."

(Taku was so close to being free. He just had to make a run for it fast. She was pretty wasted, so if he was fast enough he could get out of there and she would probably forget they even talked. Probably.)

Yui: "I-I j-just don't know how t-to ask him *hic* out. Hey, w-where'd he go?"

Bartender: "He left."

Yui: "W-what? W-who?*hic*"

Bartender: "I don't know. The guy you've been talking to."

Yui: "O-oh. H-hey are you s-single?"

Bartender: "Please leave my bar ma'am."

(Taku was running at top speed. He could see Reo and Kazu talking to each other. They were standing right next to the bags. He just needed to grab 100 yen before any cute girls saw him. Then he can get the lotion and be the sexy tan guy everyone wants.)

Taku: "Hey can I grab 100 ye-"

Reo: "Can it perv, we're busy."

Taku: "But I just need-"

Kazu: "Taku grab what you want. Me and Reo are busy right now."

(They continued talking to each other, but Taku didn't have time to eavesdrop. He grabbed his bag and searched through it, but he didn't bring any money. Then he looked over to Selene's bag. Selene wouldn't miss 100 yen. Taku opened her bag and looked. He found 500 yen, but had no time to search for more. Every second he's not tan is a second he's losing girls. He grabbed the 500 and ran back towards the desk.)

Kazu: "Did he just take out of Selene's bag?"

Reo: "Who cares? We got more important things to do."

(Taku was running so fast his legs felt like they would snap, but he had to hurry and get this lotion. He got to the desk and slammed the 500 yen on the desk.)

Taku: "Here!"

(The teen looked at it for a second.)

Teen: "Uh, I can't break that."

Taku: "I don't care! Give me as much tanning lotion as I can buy with this!"

Teen: "Uh, ok dude."

(The teen put five bottles of tanning lotion on the desk and Taku grabbed them all and rushed out of there. He ran straight into the bathroom and started to put the lotion on him. Selene and Ruri saw him run in there, but decided not to mess with him. They try to stay far from Taku and his pervy ways. They saw Sara playing in the ocean by herself, so they decided to join her.)

Selene: "Hey Sara, what are you doing here?"

Sara: "I'm just hanging out with my floaty."

(She pointed to the big flamingo floaty she was laying on.)

Ruri: "Oh, looks like fun."

Sara: "Yeah, it's pretty fun. I'm just looking for Yui right now. She was supposed to be back a while ago."

Selene: "Oh really? Well that's kind of scary."

(Ruri looked around and then spotted her.)

Ruri: "There she is."

(Ruri pointed at Yui who was stumbling to walk. It looked like she was headed to the main office.)

Ruri: "Wait a minute is she…?"

Selene: "Yup, let's go get her before she does anything stupid."

(Yui walked into the main desk where a teenager was sitting.)

Teen: "Can I like help you or something?"

Yui: "Y-yeah, *hic* w-where is D-Doru? H-he asked for me to be here.*hic*"

Teen: *sigh* "Whatever."

(The teen looked back at a door that said 'Mr. Ritchie'.)

Teen: "Uh, like Mr. Ritchie sir? There's some girl like here to see you or something."

(Doru walked out of his office and saw Yui.)

Doru: "Ah, Ms. Kanno. Pleasure to see you again."

Yui: "W-who? O-oh, my last name. Hahaha, oh y-yeah *hic* that's me."

Doru: "Ok? Um, would you like to come into my office?"

Yui: "O-ok."

(Yui stumbled onto him and he caught her.)

Doru: "Oh, are you ok Ms.Kanno?"

Yui: "Huh? O-oh yeah, th-the last name thing. *hic* J-just call me Y-Yui."

Doru: "Well alright, Yui. Come on in."

(Yui and Doru walked into the office and closed the door behind them. Selene, Ruri, and Sara ran up to the front desk and went up to the teen.)

Selene: "Hi, did you see a woman with purple hair and was extremely drunk."

Teen: "Oh uh yeah. She like just went into that office."

(He pointed to the door behind him.)

Selene: "Great, can we get back there?"

Teen: "Uh, I don't know. Do you know him like personally?"

Selene: "Uh, yeah."

Teen: "What's his name?"

Selene: "Um…"

(Selene looked around the room and then saw on the door it said Doru Ritchie.)

"Selene: My good ol' pal Doru Ritchie."

(The teen looked at her then looked at the door.)

Teen: *sigh* "Whatever, go on through."

(The three of them went into the office and saw Yui on the ground and Doru crouched above her. Ruri used her wind to slam him against the wall and keep him there. Sara made an icicle and held it to his neck. Selene crouched down to Yui and looked up to Doru.)

Selene: "What did you do to her!?"

(Doru tried to speak, but he was in shock of what just happened. Just then Yui slightly mutters to herself and turned over. She was asleep.)

Selene: "Oh, she's just asleep. Hehe."

(Sara backed away and Ruri stopped the wind.)

Sara: "Hehe, sorry."

(Doru wasn't happy.)

Kazu: "Ok, I got it."

Reo: "Ugh, forget it Kazu. I'm not even tired anymore. Lets just enjoy this so called 'break' while we can."

Kazu: "No no no, Reo. I got it."

(Kazu went up to Reo and whispered something to him. Then Reo started to nod his head. Kazu walked over to the old man and stood over him. The old man looked up to him.)

Old man: "What is it now?"

Kazu: "Well I just wanted to say you win."

Old man: "You what?"

Kazu: "I give up. You win. You can have the seat."

Old man: "O-oh, uh ok. Thanks, I guess."

Kazu: "You're welcome."

(Kazu walked back over to Reo.)

Reo: "I thought that would be better than it was."

Kazu: "No, trust me. It will be great. Any moment now he will get up and leave."

(The old man was laying in the chair reading a magazine.)

Kazu: "Any minute now."

(The old man yawned, then leaned over and started snoring. Kazu stood there and watched him snore away.)

Kazu: "that's it. Plan B."

Reo: "What's plan B?"

(Kazu walked over to the old man and woke him up. The old man turned over and looked at him. Kazu whispered something in his ear and the old man's eyes got really wide. The old man packed his stuff fast and ran off. Kazu jumped into the chair and got comfy.)

Kazu: "Come on, Reo. Take a seat."

Reo: "How did you-?"

Kazu: "Let's not worry about it. Right now we have our seats. Let's enjoy them."

(Reo shrugged. He sat in the seat next to Kazu and got comfy. Kazu closed his eyes, then he heard a voice.)

Doru: "Mr.Ito."

(Kazu opened his eyes to see Doru standing there.)

Kazu: "Yes?"

Doru: "I'm going to have to ask for you and your party to leave."

Kazu: "May I ask why?"

(Doru pointed over to his right. Kazu looked over to see a passed out Yui, an embarrassed Ruri, Selene looking down at her feet, Sara with her flamingo floaty, Dai saying sorry over and over again, and a very very very tan Taku.)

Kazu: "I'll be on my way out."

(They were all in the car again. It was very quiet, so Kazu thought he'd break the silence.)

Kazu: "Well I had a great day. I finally got to enjoy those seats, and Doru promised not to sue. As long as we paid him 300,000 yen."

Dai: "Taku where'd you go? You never brought me my water back."

Taku: "Why do you need water? You're in the ocean, look around."

Dai: "That water is bad for you."

Reo: "What's this stuff you're covered in, perv? It's getting on me."

Kazu: "And on the seats. Sit on a towel Taku."

(Taku pulled out a towel and sat on it.)

Dai: "Did you use the whole bottle of tanning lotion."

Taku: "All five."

Dai: "Pfft, and you yell at me about sunscreen."

(Selene looked into her bag.)

Selene: "Hey I think someone stole 500 yen from me!"

(Taku quickly looked out the window. It was silent again, except for Yui occasional mutters in her sleep. They made it home and they all got out one by one saying basically the same thing.)

Ruri: "Sorry, Kazu."

Taku: "Sorry, Kazu."

Dai: "Sorry, Kazu."

Sara: "Sorry Kazu."

Reo: "Sorry they suck, Kazu."

(Yui just kind of muttered gibberish while Ruri and Dai carried her out. Kazu took it as a sorry. He was left in the car with Selene. She put her hand on his shoulder. He looked over at her and she looked him in the eyes.)

Selene: "Sorry, Kazu. I feel like this was a big thing for you. Sorry we ruined it."

(Kazu smiled at her.)

Kazu: "It's alright. Now you mind helping Ruri and Dai. Don't tell her I said this, but Yui is kind of heavy."

(Selene laughed a little bit and nodded. She got out of the car and helped Ruri and Dai. Kazu felt a little bit better. It was weird though, he liked Selene's apology the best.)