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If I never met you ch2

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IF I NEVER MET YOU

Chapter 2

The awful day

The sun had already risen above the little Hawaiian paradise. The birds were in the high, blue morning sky, singing gorgeously, and the giant leaves of the palm trees swung lazily as the sea breeze collided against them. The waves crashed against the white sand of the seashores, and the sea was a deep light blue color, and the colorful orchids opened to the morning sun as they let go their soft scent. Everything was perfect that morning…

Lilo opened her eyes as she felt the sun beams caressing her tan face. She turned on her back to avoid the sun beams and covered her head with the blanket to bring some darkness to her eyes again and fell asleep again. This wasn’t a good day for her, even though the weather seemed to be perfect and everything outside was beautiful.

-Lilo, is time to get up!!!

Then nothing…

-Lilo!!! Get up NOW!!!!!

Lilo moaned slightly and then covered her head with her pillow. Then a steady whirr was heard from downstairs. As the lift reached the dome, Lilo hid even more under her covers “I should have locked the lift” she thought bitterly.

A hand took apart the warm blanket from her body:

-Lilo, you know you cannot stay asleep the whole day. It’s not good for you, and besides it’s a beautiful day outside! The weather is perfect for a Saturday morning: you can go swim, run… whatever you want to do!

-What I want to do is sleep right now. Get outa my room, Nani. I wanna sleep—Lilo mumbled groggily and then turned her back to her sister.

-Lilo, baby, please go downstairs to get some food in. It’s not good for you to starve only because you want to sleep, and besides it’s a perfect day…

-Get outa my room, Nani-saurus Rex. I haven’t a stomach as big as yours, so let me sleep. I’ll have breakfast when I feel like having it, not when my big-hangman-sister orders me to. Besides you’re not my mom to tell me what I have to do…

A pillow went flying against Nani, hitting her square on her face. This time she couldn’t stand anymore:

-OKAY, THAT’S ALL!!!!!! YOU’RE GOING DOWNSTAIRS NOW!!!!!!!

-Ouch, that hurts!!!!!

-Well, you should have thought that before tossing that pillow at me and saying all what you said!!!!

Pillows went flying across the room, as well as other yells and screams. Nani pulled Lilo by her wrist, trying to take her down, but Lilo wasn’t that weak as when she was little. Now she was a strong girl, and she could easily defend herself from her sister, so the fight went steady: sometimes Nani was about to take her downstairs and sometimes Lilo was about to escape from Nani’s hands. Finally, Nani gave up:

-Fine!!! You can spend the whole day here if you want!!! I won’t be begging you to behave correctly as a little kid, just like mom used to do!!!! Are you happy now???

Nani didn’t even wait for an answer. She got into the lift and went downstairs, frustration and anger marked on her face. Lilo dropped herself in the floor and sat there. She hid her face between her hands, feeling frustrated as well as her sister. She didn’t mean to do it, but she couldn’t help to behave just like a jerk even to her sister when days like this were bothering her…

“Nani was just trying to lighten this day for me… she knows how hard is for me and all what I did to ‘thank’ her was kicking her out just like trash… I’m not the only one who’s been in a bad mood today. I’m sure she misses them just as much as I do, but she knows how to handle it… unlike to me. What am I going to do?”

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Nani sat down on the chair tiredly and rested her cheeks on her hands. Since Lilo had turned fourteen, she had always behaved on a hard way when this day arrived: she didn’t want to get up and she went downstairs to take breakfast until one o’ clock, and then always went back to her room to disappear until evening, if not until next day. Why had she turned so hard? Why didn’t she just take it ‘easy’ as when she was little? “Well, both ways were bad. When she was a kid, she used to sleep the whole day and didn’t talk to anyone until next day… now I don’t know if this is worse. I wish I was mom… she always had something prepared”

-Bigger Girl was having problems with Little Girl again?

Nani whirled her head. Jumba was standing in the entrance of the kitchen, rubbing away the sleep from his eyes.

-Yeah… she’s been a bit hard these last days… I don’t know what to do with her… —she mumbled more to herself.

-What was all that noise some minutes ago? I’d bet it woke up the whole island, if not some near moons too! —Pleackley yawned as he entered the room. Then he took a cereal box and dropped some in three plates to prepare their breakfast.

-It was Lilo… she’s been a bit too rough these last days, and today isn’t the exception. I bet she’s gonna disappear the whole day in her room again.

-Talking about disappearances, I have not being seeing 626 around here that often either.

-Oh, please Jumba! Don’t tell me that you forgot that he’s been with that sweet girlfriend of his because of their anniversary!!!

-But I was thinking that their anniversary was being within two months!!!

-Yeah, but I guess they like to celebrate it every month. Who knows when somebody is in love! That’s fascinating!!!

-What fascinating?

Stitch stepped in the kitchen, ready to look for something to eat. He saw the cereal box and the milk carton and didn’t think it twice: he threw the milk carton into his mouth and flung some flakes of the cereal box inside as well.

-Oh great… that was the last carton of milk. I gotta get some more milk now —Nani said coldly as she stood up and then went outside. She didn’t feel like staying home with that kind of atmosphere drifting in the house.

Everybody watched as she went out. Stitch noticed her cold tone and become slightly concerned:

-What wrong with Nani?

Both Jumba and Pleackley shrugged:

-We don’t know. Lilo isn’t in a good mood either. She doesn’t seem to be coming down to have breakfast, anyway —Pleackley informed as he went to the sinker to wash some dishes.

-Eh, am going to work in some evil business. Am not wanting to be around when Bigger Girl and Little Girl explode up against each other —Jumba chuckled as he went upstairs to his room. The only sound that followed was the door shutting closed. Stitch watched both of them as they went away to do their business. He knew he couldn’t let Lilo alone. If she was behaving that way, something wasn’t totally right about her.

He sighed and then went walking to the lift. He pressed the button to go up, but he found that it was locked. He growled lightly and then went outside to enter the dome by the window.

Lilo was lying on her bed, listening to the King. She was still on her pajama, but that didn’t bother her. Anyway she wasn’t planning to go outside today. As she continued listening to the record player and the King’s voice, she heard a soft knock on the glass of the window and felt a cold breeze entering the room. She lifted her head from the pillow and saw the little blue furred alien entering the room. Just as she saw him she relaxed a bit and smiled lightly:

-Hi Stitch.

Stitch approached her bed and then climbed up as Lilo sat up on her bed. He approached Lilo and then rested his head against her friend’s lap. Lilo smiled more widely and then let her hands run through her friend’s fur, enjoying the feeling of the fluffy coat that covered Stitch’s body. Stitch smiled: he liked the way Lilo caressed him. It made him to feel relaxed always, and he allowed his friend to play her fingers through his fur some minutes more. Nobody said anything for some minutes until Stitch broke the silence:

-Lilo, what wrong? Why you sad?

Even though he could feel Lilo becoming stiff, she didn’t stop her hands from caressing his large ears. She seemed to muse about what she was going to say, and then she opened her mouth to start talking:

-It’s everything. I’ve been having some bad luck, you know? I just had a nightmare about the day when they left us —she lowered her head sadly.

Stitch lifted his head when didn’t feel Lilo’s hands caressing him anymore, and then he saw the dismal expression on Lilo’s face, and then he remembered what day was today. Now everything became clear on his mind about why she was acting this way.

-Today… anniversary they left, right? —he whispered cautiously as he took her hand and caressed it comfortingly.

Lilo looked down at her hand and saw Stitch’s one rubbing hers. Some tears started to gather at the edge of her eyes… he was trying to comfort her in a way that was too much like her mom…

-Yeah, it’s today… today was supposed to be their wedding anniversary too —she turned aside her head, like trying to keep back her tears, but no success: the little pearly drops were already running down her cheeks.

Stitch noticed the tears rolling down her cheeks and immediately sat up to hug her, trying to give some comfort. Lilo hugged him back, soaking his ocean blue fur with her tears, leaving some little moist spots on his shoulder, shaking as she cried softly. Stitch hugged her more tightly, shushing to her ears soothing words and caressing her back

She was a teenager now, but he could almost imagine that she was turning again into a little girl in that very moment. She was again that little, defenseless girl he met first before she turned into a teenager. He missed the sensation of the little girl in his arms, because being little he could almost cradle her in his arms, but even so he felt good to comfort her at least a bit.

Finally, Lilo seemed to calm down because at least she wasn’t shaking anymore as she wept. All her feelings were encountering inside her at that moment: anger, sadness, hurt, comfort, hate, love… and over all the nostalgia of having her parents beside her. They had missed so many important events of her life… if they were alive, they could’ve met Stitch, Jumba, Pleackley, and all the experiments who were her friends now.

-Why, Stitch? Why they had to leave that very night? Why they didn’t stay home with us to celebrate their anniversary, and why they had to die? They didn’t deserve it! They should be alive right now, and they should have met you and all of the friends I made while I was a kid!!!

Stitch was silent. He didn’t know what to respond to those questions. How could he know why the fate had been that way, and not as Lilo would have wanted? Some things about life are a mystery, and that was one of those things for him. He had no idea about it, so he could do nothing but hug her tighter, taking care not to crush her ribcage or scratching her with his claws.

-I feel such like if all this was my fault… Nani told me a lot of times it wasn’t, but I feel guilty as if it all was my entire fault. I treated her just like trash… today she tried to lighten my day, but me and my big mouth had to ruin everything. Now I’d bet she’ll be frustrated the whole day, and that’s my fault too. Why do I say the wrong things at the wrong time? I cannot say what I feel like, and I just blow up at anyone who’s trying to help me…

Stitch looked up at her and then tilted his head aside, a bit in confusion —you don’t blow up at Stitch. Stitch trying to help… Lilo didn’t blow up at Stitch because tries to help. Why?

Lilo met Stitch’s gaze with her own, a bit confused too. That was true: she had got mad only at Nani because she had tried to help, but why didn’t she exploit against Stitch too? This wasn’t the only time this happened. Several times, while they were still kids, he had been the only one to close to her when no one else could, and so was about him: she had been the only one who had been able to pierce through that hard armor of ice that covered his heart and melted it down. Once more, it was a question that none of them could respond, so she just shrugged:

-I don’t know… maybe it’s because we’re the best friends on the whole galaxy since we’re little —she smiled and then patted his head playfully. Stitch grinned as she patted him. It was good to see her smile with such serenity at least once in the whole day.

Then both started to play, just as when they were kids. Stitch tackled her, making her fall on the soft mattress. She screamed in surprise and then started to laugh as he sat on top of her, running his hands swiftly through her sides as he tickled her. She tried to make a shield with her arms, but Stitch got out his extra-arms and then it was almost impossible for Lilo to cover her sides and belly against Stitch’s paws.

-You surrender? —Stitch smirked as he held Lilo’s hands against the mattress. The face of the poor girl was now a scarlet red because of all the laughs.

-Never!!!

-Then Stitch tickles Lilo!

-N-no, please!!! No more t-tickles!!! —she begged as she laughed more —o-okay, okay, you got me! I s-surrender!!!

-That no enough… say it —Stitch commanded as he stopped his extra-arms from tickling the girl, but kept holding her hands. As Lilo remained silent, he started to tickle her again. Finally, Lilo gave up:

-OKAY, O-OKAY!!! Y-you’re the smartest, cutest and fluffiest evil experiment ever…—she whispered, almost inaudibly.

-Say it louder… and Stitch not evil —Stitch menaced as he lifted his paws to her sides.

-Y-YOU’RE THE SMARTEST, CUTEST AND FLUFFIEST BEST EXPERIMENT EVER!!!!!!!!!—she said with tears of laughter on her eyes. It had been too many laughs!

-Oki-takka, that enough —Stitch said as he let her go, but as he got distracted, Lilo tackled him to the mattress and rested her weight on his body to prevent some attempt of escape. Stitch gasped as he saw the girl’s hands going down to his feet and then he exploited in laughs.

-N-naga!!! No tickling Stitch!!! NO TICKLING STITCH!!!!! —he shouted as he felt the tickling sensation on his feet. He held his stomach in laughter, being totally at the mercy of the girl. Even if he was the so-clever-and-so-strong Experiment 626, he could do nothing against his human friend and her tickle attack. He could no use his paws to defend himself because the laughter was too intense to resist.

-Okay, now you say it —Lilo grinned down at the twisting Experiment 626.

-NAGA!!!

-Okay, you asked for it —she sentenced as she intensified the tickles on his feet. Now Stitch was the poor, merciless prisoner being tortured by his friend.

-OKAY!!!! STITCH GIVES UP!!! LILO IS THE CLEVEREST, SMARTEST AND BEST ELVIS FAN GIRL ON EARTH!!!!! —he roared out in laughs as big tears of laughter went out his eyes. Under his fur you could see his skin turning into a deep magenta because of all the laughter.

-Thank you, mister —Lilo chuckled and then let go of her friend —that’s enough for a day.

Then Lilo sighed and dropped on her bed, along with Stitch. They rested on the bed with their eyes closed, recovering of their little game.

-Wow, it had been so long since we last played to tickle attacks —realized Lilo, her eyes still closed.

-Ih… too long —Stitch replied as he turned his head to see at Lilo. At least for some minutes, he had managed to make her forget all her gloom and sadness.

-We hadn’t played since I turned fifteen… about a year ago —Lilo remembered. “You were too busy attending to Angel and going out on dates with her” she said to herself, but kept it in her head, not wanting Stitch to think she was jealous… after all, jealousy was only for little kids, not for a sixteen-year-old girl. Besides, she was supposed to have overcome her jealousy at Angel for taking Stitch away from her. She wasn’t jealous… or at least that was what she thought.

-Because Stitch was with Angel… right? —Stitch asked softly. Lilo turned her head to see at Stitch. She could have sworn that he just read her mind, but she shook the idea off her head. Stitch was very intelligent; he could pick up quickly what was happening around him. He realized that he had been for too long with Angel, practically leaving Lilo abandoned.

-Yeah, I guess… it’s not very important, Stitch, don’t think too much about it. I’m okay with you and Angel being together, so don’t worry about me —Lilo deflected her gaze from Stitch’s. He couldn’t say if she was jealous, but her voice had sounded with a stitch of hurt. He didn’t like to feel he was hurting Lilo… what could he do?

-Hum, Lilo?

-What’s up, Stitch?

-Would you… like me to… —Stitch struggled to say it correctly. Lately, he had been trying to talk only in English because he wanted to learn how to speak well, but it was hard for him. As he forced his brain to form correctly the words, the doorbell rang downstairs. Both Stitch and Lilo ran to the window to see who was there. There was nobody now, probably Pleackley had opened the door and let in the visitor.

-Well, guess we gotta see who’s the visitor —said Lilo.

-Ih! —Stitch agreed. They were about to get into the lift, but then Lilo noticed she was still on her pajama.

-Hum, Stitch? I guess I gotta change before going down… you can go now if you want, that way you let me change my clothes and you see who’s there.

Stitch nodded and then went downstairs. Probably it was some boy that brought some of the useless things Pleackley used to buy, but he was glad to see that Lilo was in a good temper now, so he went down to wait for her. He had barely got out the lift when a pair of pink furred arms wrapped his neck, hugging him.

-Da boojibu!!!

Stitch turned his head, receiving a kiss square on the lips. He was still shocked by the surprise, but when he realized that Angel was the one who had hugged him, he relaxed a bit and returned the kiss… at least until they caught a glimpse of a blinding flash:

-Hey, don’t break the romantic atmosphere! —complained Pleackley as he held a digital camera on his skinny hands —this is a perfect opportunity to gather some material for ‘The most romantic couples’ contest! And you two are the perfect target… this is fascinating! I’m gonna win the contest with these photos!!!

Pleackley’s joy didn’t last for too long, though. Before he could blink, his camera lay shattered in the floor, and an angered Stitch pounced on the remains of it, trying to assure it was broken.

-Grrrr, naga takabah… —Stitch growled angrily, but before he could continue unleashing his anger with Pleackley, he felt a hand stopping him from his shoulder.

-He’s not worth it, Stitch —said Angel in Turian —let him alone. He’s got enough with his broken camera.

-But he makes me angry!!! —answered Stitch in Turian too —and I’ve got to make sure he learned not to tease me…

-I think he’s got enough. Now let’s go.

-Let’s go? Where are we going?

Angel glanced at Stitch with severity —don’t tell me you forgot it.

-Forgot what?

Angel crossed her arms —you promised me that you would take me to the movies tonight!

Stitch smacked his forehead. He had forgotten it completely —but there’s still a lot of hours left before the movie starts!

-Yeah, but you promised that we would have some food too… remember?

-Yeah… I remember now…

-Then what are we waiting for? —Angel exclaimed as she grabbed Stitch by his hand and then practically dragged him to the door. Stitch didn’t want to go, though. He wanted to assure that Lilo was going to be okay, and besides he wanted to stay home with her.

-But Angel…! Lilo…

-You can apologize for not saying bye later! We’ve got to go now! —the door shut closed noisily as both Angel and Stitch went out. The door had been just closed when a whirr came from the lift.

-Stitch, I’m ready! —announced Lilo, but she got no response. Pleackley was now sweeping the remains of his dear digital camera:

-Stitch is gone! He left with Angel because they had a date… and that way’s better for me… look what he’s done to my poor digital camera! You can get one of this only in Turo!!!

Lilo just heard the first sentence. All the other words that went out from Pleackley’s mouth had no importance. He had left… again. She was alone once more because the charming, pink furred experiment had taken away her friend… and she had thought that finally they could spend at least one single day together!!!

-Pleackley, I don’t feel really well now to listen to you… I guess I’m sick o something… I’m going to the dome.

Pleackley widened his eyes —You’re sick!!! Don’t panic, don’t panic, Lilo, don’t panic… you’re gonna be okay, we’ve just got to BRING YOU TO A HOSPITAL!!!! AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!! RESIST A BIT MORE, DON’T DIE YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! —Pleackley screamed as he grabbed Lilo by her wrist and tried to drag her outside to bring her to a hospital.

-Pleackley, I’m fine!!!! I just have a simple headache… my heart is not hurting or something, so don’t worry —Lilo withdrew her wrist from Pleackley’s grip and then made her way to the dome, to spend the day there alone. She had lied to Pleackley. She felt that her heart was aching with the pain of loneliness… a loneliness she hadn’t felt in a long time because she had felt this only before meeting Stitch.

As she arrived to her dome, she dropped on her bed tiredly. She decided she would sleep the rest of the afternoon until she didn’t feel like sleeping anymore, and then she closed her eyes and fell asleep.

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Lilo opened her eyes slowly. The room was being engulfed by the dark night now, the stars and the moon barely illuminating the dome. She turned her head to the clock and read the numbers 1:32 a.m. At first she got shocked because of the amount of hours she had been sleeping, but after thinking about it she didn’t find it strange. After all, the nightmares she had been having the last days had made her to have a poor rest.

When she whirled her head to the left, she noticed that Stitch was already sleeping on his cot. She couldn’t hear him snoring yet, so he had just arrived home. Then she noticed the blanket covering her. She didn’t remember to have put a blanket on before falling asleep… maybe Stitch had covered her before going to sleep.

She brought her hand to the night table and grabbed some kind of T.V. control. She pressed a button and then the ceiling opened before her eyes, allowing her to see the white moon and the shining stars twinkling above. While she was looking at the dark velvet of the sky, she caught a glimpse of a falling star. She thought about it and then started to whisper:

-I don’t know if this is to no avail, but… if you can, bring back my parents. That’s the only way I’m not going to be alone again ever… I miss them a lot —some tears started to gather at the edge of her eyes and her voice sounded cracked —please, come back. I need you in my life…

Lilo wept silently, knowing that with a single loud noise Stitch could get awoken. She didn’t want him to see her crying again. It was something shameful for her…

Stitch heard each one of the words Lilo had said. He heard her as she wept, but managed not to go out his bed to comfort her. He didn’t know if she was mad at him for leaving her alone at home without saying even bye. “She misses her parents a lot… if only there was a way the falling star made her wish came true…” he thought at last before the darkness wrapped him. Then he fell asleep, and just some minutes later, Lilo fell asleep again.
Chapter two, finally submited!!! Sorry if I delayed a bit, it's just that my dad was fixing some things with the software of my computer, and as a consequence I couldn't get online for a real long time. The good thing about this is that at least I have chapter three done, and I'm writting chapter four right now, but guess what? You'll have to wait till next week to read chapter three (that's if my dad doesn't approach the computer, which I hope he will not)

Well, hope you like it!!!

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