'What am i suppose to do on a boat for two weeks?' Kai asked, 'Ma, I'm busy all this month. I can't go on a vacation with you. I have to practice.'
'Everytime, this is your excuse! It won't work on me this time,' his mother replied solidly.
Kai looked at her through melted eyes and took his mother on the shoulders, looking at her as sincerely as he could. 'Ma,' he said his tone husky, 'I'm sorry. If I could I would deffinitely go, but Director Cheng desperately asked me to be at rehearsals.'
His mother's hard solid wall crumbled to nothingness, she had yet again failed to convince her son to attend a party where she hoped he would find a future daughter-in-law for her. Her lip quivered, the tears threatening to fall.
'Ma! Don't give me that look. I promise as soon as the bandtour is over I'll attend one of your parties.'
The phone rang and Kai looked up. 'I'll be at he studio.' He left without another word.
'Ma'am, it's a phonecall for you.' The maid held the phone up discreetly at her mistress, and left as the woman took the phone.

'Aaah, my mother won't stop bugging me to attend one of her trips with her friends,' Kai sighed, leaning back onto the sleek leather sofa with his arms resting on its low backrest.
'Where does she want you to go?' Jan asked, crashing down on the arm chair opposite.
'Cruising for two weeks with her guests. She's holding her annual ball on her new cruise liner,' he snorted and closed his eyes trying to gather his thoughts again.
'Ah, "Her Majesty" is throwing a more grand party this year, eh? Maybe we should go just for fun. Does her friends have beautiful daughters?' Kyran asked.
'I wouldn't know. I'm not that interested,' Kai replied, shrugging.
'Argh! Your gayness is deffinitely starting to show, ts,' Kyran muttered, annoyed.
'What? Do you wanna die?' Kai looked up to glare at Kyran. 'Who wants to spend their time stuck on a ship? Argh, annoyingly sweet girls gets on my nerves the most.' He let his head drop back on to the back rest, and stared up the ceiling.
'Aya! How would you know? You haven't once dated since I've known you,' Kyran pointed out.
Kai looked up again, snarled, 'Why you little-'
'Where's Aiiko? That kid should be here by now,' Jan asked trying to distract them, but checking his watch all the same. At the same moment they saw Aiiko appear at the top of the stairs and begin making his way to the lounge. He too checked his watch as he made his way over.
'Aiiko, you dog, you're late!' Kai barked as Aiiko closed the glass door behind himself.
'No...' Aiiko pointed at Kai, 'you're early.'
'Better watch it, Kai's on his menstruation at the moment, don't-' Kyran was cut short as Kai caught him in a headlock.
'You little punk!You really want to die.'

'Ma! How can you tell me this only now? I didn't even agree, I made plans with my friends for the next two weeks. Ma!' Mimi called at her unwilling mother. 'You should have discussed it with me first.'
'What do you want me to do? Tell my friend I suddenly want to cancel, it's going to be in two days! I've already agreed to attend the party, I haven't seen her for years!' Her mom finally responded, haughtily.
'I just wish you'd discussed it with me that's all,' Mimi murmured quietly. She left for her room and her mom breathed a great sigh of relief.
Dejectedly, Mimi retrieved her suitcase from under her bed and began throwing in clothes that she would need. Her mom had been excited for the last few days especially when she talks to her old best friend from her highschool days over the phone. Mimi had a growing suspicion that her mom was up to something, especially with this cruise ship she kept mentioning about. She threw in the things she could think of that she needed, and dropped lazily onto her bed burying her head into the comfy pillows.

'What?! Ma! I thought we already agreed that I can't go this year.'
'I don't care, whether its about your rehearsals, your seasickness, your phobia of drowning - whatever. You are gonna go to this ball.' Kai's mum turned and left without another word, hurriedly so that he could not reply or insist against her again.
'Argh, so annoying.' He kicked his way across the basketball yard, nearly hitting one of the flower pots as he hit the basketball. He took out his phone, 'Hey, get your suitcases out, we're going cruising,' he informed his friends.
'I thought you didn't want to go?' Jan asked over the phone.
'My mom's suddenly decided that I do,' he sighed down the line.
'You dog, I've got dates next week with some models, I'm not about to swap them for some mummy's girl,' Aiiko protested.
'Your gonna swap or you won't have any plans at all. I might accidently tell your models their dates look alike,' Kai threatened confidently, 'By the end of this week you'll have nothing but a red face.'
Kyran and Jan laughed down the line. 'You jerk. Fine I'll come, you better make sure it interesting if you don't want us to die of boredom.'
'Alright! Two weeks of the sea,' Kyran cheered down the phone.
Kei gagged. 'It's making me sick already.'


'Whoah! Ma, how are we supposed to find your friend inside that thing?' Mimi asked gaping at the giant boat that she will be living on for the next fourteen days.
'Well, we'll find her. It can't be that hard, she's probably waiting for her guests at the entrance hall or something.'
They crossed the passenger's bridge and was welcomed into a grandly lit lobby, the interior was largely overwhelming, everything inside contained elegance and majestic beauty.
'My, my. That woman sure has done good,' Mimi's mother complimented looking around, smilling impressed.
They continued into the Grand Hall as the staff called it and they entered another exuberant overly large room, lit with chandeliers and carpeted with red, all around were large windows with the view of the harbour. It was seperated from the dining which was on a platform above overlooking the dance floor.
'I feel I should be talking posh, and wearing tight corsets,' Mimi's mother whispered to her light-heartedly. A number of guests were already there, conversing amongst themselves, some, even in foreign languages holding a welcoming glass of wine.
'Julie!' A woman who had just greeted a couple infront of them turned to Mimi and her mother.
'Reina!' Mimi's mother called in return, reaching out her arm out to hug the hostess. Reina looked, smiling widely at the sight of her old friend, to her friend's daughter.
Mimi offered a warm smile to the woman.
'Auntie.'
Reina gasped.
'Ah! Your daughter?' Her Aunt Reina asked as she and Mimi's mother parted.
'Yes, this is Melody,' her moter introduced turning and smilling at her daughter.
'Wow, look at you...' her Aunt took hold of her hand and spun her around, 'my, she looks beautiful, just like her mother,' she trilled, 'I haven't seen you since you were a baby.' She told Mimi.
'If I'd have known I would have written,' Mimi attempted at flattery, sighing inside her mind at the thought of the long days to come being aboard on this ship.

'We're here.'
The four boys stepped onto the concrete platform looking up at the giant ship. Director Cheng appeared beside them, looking dejectedly at the ship.
'Well,' Kyran clapped his hands, 'Let's go.' They began walking. Director Cheng hung back, holding her suitcase in her hand. She was going to get the blame for all this.
Jan turned around to look at her, she was still staring sourly at the ship. He smiled, 'Gia,' he started forward and took her suitcase, 'don't worry, we already spoke to the President about this. He can't get angry with us cause he knows we'll elliminate the tour if he does. He owes us a vacation' He attemted to comfort her.
She sighed. 'He won't get angry with you, with me; yes. You boys get me in a lot of trouble,' she squealed scratching her carefully curled hair tampingly.
Jan smiled and led her towards the bridge, the others have boarded already and was waving for them on the deck.
'"Her Majesty" sure has gone through a lot of trouble for this. She must really want you with someone,' Aiiko turned to Kai and grinned. 'Too bad your gay.'
Kai grinded his teeth, 'I'll kick you into the sea if you don't shut up, soon.'
'Hey, where's aunty anyway?' Kyran asked.
'Idiot, she's obviously with her guests,' Aiiko retorted.
'We're guests,' Kyran pointed out.
'You're a stowaway,' Kai said simply before following a staff towards the ballroom. He was greeted by his mother standing besides another woman who'm he recognized vaguely from childhood.
'Kai! There you are, I was beginning to wonder if you'd ran away,' her mother joked through a fake smile with a look that said Why are you late?

'Ah! Kyran, Aiiko!' His mother busied herself with his friends fussing over their luggage, leaving the Kai with her aquaintance.
'Kai?' the woman asked.
'Yes?'
'Do you remember me?' the woman moved forward smiling warmly, patting her chest.
'Yes. Auntie, nice to see you again. How have you been?' He smiled at her and accepted the hug she invited.
'Oh my, you've grown, I can't believe you were the same baby I'd look after.' At that point his mother turned around. 'Reina, your son sure looks like his dad.'
'Except I thought he isn't as arrogant,' his mother laughed. 'Believe I'm beginning to wonder.'
'Ma!' Kai sighed, rolling his eyes, 'Oh, Aunty, these are my friends.' His mother moved aside to reveal Kyran and Aiiko, just in time was Jan followed by Director Cheng. He introduced them one by one.
'Nice to meet you all,' she greeted smilling. Her phone began to ring. 'Oh?- Excuse me.' She went to stand by a painting along the wall.

'Ma! I think I'm lost!' Mimi cried down the phone desperately. 'I must've taken a wrong turn.'
'Eh? Isn't there any staff you can ask for direction?' her mother tried to reason calmly. 'Well do you know where you are?'
'Ma! Ofcourse not, otherwise I wouldn't be lost,' she explained impatienly.
'Ah, wait, I'll ask Reina if she can send a staff to help me find you.' Her mother made her way back over to her friend, and covering the microphone asked for some help.
'Oh- Oh, Ma! I think I found a sign. Ma? Hello?' Mimi hung up and followed the non too visible sign that led to the ballroom.

'Mimi? Hello?' Mimi's mother tutted as she exited the ballroom with a member of staff, just as Mimi came around the corner of the corridor.
'Ma!' She jogged over to join her relieved mother who was thanking the staff for attempting to help anyway.
Mimi and her mother made their way back to the Hall.
'-it's like a labrynth in there,' Mimi was telling her mum as they entered.
'Found her? Sorry, Melody, I should have asked the staff to wait for you,' her aunt apologized.
'It's okay. I thought I would know the way first time around, but it's so big.'
Reina laughed. 'Maybe I should have a map made for you,' her aunt joked.
'I'm okay, thank you.'
'Oh- my son was here a minute ago, he's probably gone with his friends to eat. I shall introduce you to him later. I think all the guests have arrived so it's our turn to eat, I think.' She checked if anymore guests are coming just incase, decided no, and led them to a prepared table at the dining hall.
'Mmm, looks delicious,' Mimi's mother complimented eyeing the food tastefully. Aunty Reina laughed.
'Tuck in and enjoy,' she said, picking up her napkin and unfolding it, then laying it on her lap.
Mimi ate a delicious meal, that she thanked wasn't all seafood. If she had to be on this ship for fourteen days the the food better not all be sushi.

'Maybe you shouldn't have eaten all that food,' Aiiko said, patting Kai's back hesitantly as Kai wretched again, throwing up over the side of the deck.
'What did you want me to do? Starve to death? After that long journey in the car, I swear I was gonna pass out.'
'Pass out? Hey, I thought you weren't gay, you're a guy and you mention passing out?' Aiiko mumbled.
'Hey! You jerk-' Kai was cut short by another bout of wretching.
Aiiko heard decending footsteps and sighed dejectedly as he saw a girl. Why does she have to enter at the wrong time? Here he is patting a friend's back as he vomits to the sea below.

Mimi turned to find a regretful looking guy patting his friend, who she assume must be being sick as he was leaning over the barrier, wretching. Does her conscience really have to tell her that there were motion sickness pills in her pockets, where her hands are tucked in right now? She made her way over hesitantly.
'He alright?' she asked the one who was doing the patting.
'Yeah, he should be fine, he gets seasickness,' Aiiko looked her smiling sheepishly.
'I have motion sickness tablets if that helps,' she said in a suggestful tone, pulling her hand out of her shorts' pockets holding up the packet.
'That would be great, thanks.'
Mimi handed the packet to him, 'It's getting cold, I'm gonna go in.'
Kai grabbed for Aiiko's shirt pulling him closer, 'Water,' he demanded.
'Uh- okay. Wait here.' Aiiko left him and ran up the steps, taking them two at a time. The Hall is too far from here, he halted as he saw a vending machine. 'Coins, coins, coins,' he repeated feeling his pockets for some.
'Water?' asked a familiar voice, he turned to find the same girl from earlier, she put in her change and pressed for water.
Aiiko turned to her again, 'Thank you, I swear, we owe you.' He retrieved the water. When he looked up, she was already down the corridor.
'Arghshh, Kai, even though she's not my type, you still owe me one.' He returned to Kai who still had his head over the sea. He handed him the bottle of water and a tablet.
'Don't vomit this one out.'

'Where did you go?' Mimi's mother asked her as she arrived at their dinner table fifteen minutes later.
'Just taking a detour,' she answered simply.
'Well, okay, Reina went looking for her son, stay here, I want you to meet him.'
Mimi rolled her eyes at her mother, before leaning her head on her hand, her elbow on the table. She watched the crowd, talking and laughing for a moment, some had more glass of champagne. Two people emerged from the crowd. Mimi recognised one of them as Aunt Reina, dragging along who she assumed to be her son, who was looking a little pale. He looked, alarmed, over his shoulder. Aunt Reina smiled as she spotted Mimi and her mother at the table where she left them a while ago.
'Hello,' Aunt Reina said breathlessly, pulling her son from behind. 'Mimi,' she said, and Mimi looked up surprised, 'this is my son, Kai. You probably won't remeber but you two met one summer when you were both five.'
Mimi stood up. 'Kai,' she said testing the name on her tongue, 'nice to finally meet you,' she said politely though not really meaning it. She held out her hand formally.
Kai looked at it confused, normally, every girl he's met so far would be blushing or screaming or aiming to please him or all three, but no, this girl seemed oblivious to his fame. He shook it hesitantly, trying to remember the summer his mother was talking about. She looked like she was trying to do the same.
'My name is Melody,' Mimi said, sitting back down after the awkward handshake.
'Hi,' he said, looking towards the dancefloor where his mother and Aunt Julie disappeared muttering about an old school friend Aunt Julie wanted to see. He looked for his friends as well.
Mimi glanced at the dancefloor towards where Kai searched for someone. 'Looking for someone?' she asked, hoping the answer was a 'yes'.
He finally looked at her again, she noticed his eyes were a shade of warm brown. 'No,' he answered quickly, thinking he had offended her.
'You look like you're expecting someone,' she told him.
'Well, yeh, I guess I am. My friend is supposed to be looking for somenone for me.'
'Oh? Shall we help him?' She realised her mistake as soon as it came out of her mouth. She had volunteered instead of imply that he could go and leave her alone.
He turned to look at her, questioningly, 'You don't mind?'
Oh well, it's too late to back out now, she thought. She nodded, trying to seem sincere. He smiled and stood up, and began making his way to the dancefloor. He stopped and turned around, waiting for her. Mimi walked over to his side, her pinned up hair at the back left out the shorter ones at the front, framed her face nicely. She brushed one that stuck to her long eyelash away quickly so it wouldn't come across her being flirty. Kai didn't seem to take notice and continued walking as soon as she was beside him.
They exited the ballroom and made their way out side to the deck. They bumped into Jan and Kyran coming the opposite way.
'Kai! And... 'Kyran trailed off, looking at Mimi, 'girl- sorry, Miss, what's your name?'
'Ah, I'm Melody,' she told the odd boy.
Kyran looked at Kai imploringly, then back to Mimi, 'Ah, hi, I'm Kyran, this is Jan,' Kyran introduced.
'Hi,' Mimi greeted. She was starting to become fed up, there were too many people turning up in her life right now, she wished she could just jump off the ship, but the bridge has already been disconnected.
'Aiiko's looking for you,' Jan told him after nodding at Mimi.
'Where's Director Cheng?' Kai asked as they started walking.
'She went to her room, she's got a headache,' Jan informed his friend.
Mimi remained quiet, the ship had began to leave the harbour, and the sky had become increasingly darker, in the distance she could see a thin glow of red where she had missed the sunset. It was twilight and in the east stars had started to appear.
After a moment of silence Mimi turned to Kai, 'Who are we looking for again?' she asked, trying to keep the impatience she felt out of the tone of her voice.
'I'm not really sure what she looks like,' Kai scratched his head, 'it was my friend that met her, but um... I wanted to thank her for the help she gave.'
Mimi stoppped walking, Me? she thought. She looked at the bottle of water Kai held in his hand, Kai who looked at her, confused at why she stopped. Mimi smiled her thought away, 'Sorry,' she apologized bowing slightly, 'I have to find my mother right now, I'm afraid I won't be able to look anymore.'
'That's okay,' said a confused reply.
'I'm sure she knows you're thankful,' Mimi told him beginning to back off. This better not turn into one of those love encounters, Mum will be freaking out at this. Oh, sheesh, Mum.
She found her cabin, it was fairly nice, Aunt Reina invited her family especially for this occasion, so her room was fairly large, it had a balcony that had the over looked the deck and looks out over the ocean. She was guessing her mother had one just the same too. She couldn't be appreciative of it, it meant her Aunt and her mother are planning something for her.
'Argh! Why can't they just leave me alone?' she moaned before collapsing on the bed, face first.

'Did you find her?' Kai asked Aiiko.
'No, I'm tired already, can we go to bed? I'll point her out tomorrow if I see her,' Aiiko yawned and pushed past Kai and Kyran.
Jan turned to his friends, 'I'm getting tired too, we won't find her unless we have Aiiko,' he pointed out. He shoved his hand into his pockets trying to warm them up, and headed for his cabin.
Kyran turned to Kaii, 'I've never seen you make such a fuss over one girl, could it be...' Kyran began, 'the start of a love encounter?' Kyran wondered aloud. He had his head up in the clouds until a hand slapped the back of his head.
'Don't be stupid, I only want to return these tablets to her,' Kai snarled, before turning to leave.
'Hey! Wait for me,' Kyran cried, walking quickly to catch up with him.

Mimi changed quickly into her pyjamas after washing herself quickly. She closed the curtains of the balcony windows and jumped into bed, hugging her pillow tightly, trying to spread some warmth into it.
She stared at the ceiling for a while and sighed, there's too much going on. Her mother is back to her usual self, maybe she should go back abroad to study, she wants to finish her course as soon as possible. Music and art was a future she always longed for, maybe she was being too selfish but her mother will be delaying her for a while.
She sighed another deep sigh and closed her eyes allowing the darkness to envelope her. Her dreams were filled with waves of surprises that washed her uncomfortably, at the distance her mother laughed splashing her over and over.

Kai was awoken by the bright sunlight that flooded through his cabin windows. He squinted at the unwelcomed guest through the light. His mother came into focus with her hands on her hips.
'Get up Kai,' she demanded, 'I left you with Melody yesterday, you came back into the ball room without her.' She glared down at him.
Kai pushed himself up on his elbows, rubbing the sleep off his eyes. 'She was tired, she went to her cabin.'
'Did you escort her there?' his mother asked in a sudden interest.
'No,' he answered shortly, and decided to give a better response , 'She said she needed to find her mother. I didn't really get to ask her if she needed to find her way, she left quickly.' He groaned and collapsed in his bed, throwing the cover himself. Why is he bothering? Kyran was right he was slightly making too much of this. He heard his mother huff and stomp out of his room. It was only motion sickness tablets, she can get some more, why should he need to return it.
An hour later, Kai was having his breakfast at the breakfast room with Jan. Director Cheng approached them sitting on one of the chairs, she carried her breakfast tray and set it on the table.
'Are you okay?' Kai asked her looking up from his breakfast, Jan nodded asking her the same thing with his eyes.
'Aah, I had such a bad headache from travelling all afternoon yesterday,' she told them. 'I'm okay now.'
They carried on eating in silence until Kyran and Aiiko appreared looking excited.
'Why are you so happy?' Kai asked them.
'Aunty took us to the Captain's Cabin, we were speaking to him, he said we're passing by the Philippine islands!' Kyran cheered happily.
'Really?' Kai raised his eyebrows.
'You're like a bunch of girls getting excited over this kind of things,' Director Cheng told them, not bothering to look up from her food.
'Admit it, you're excited, Sis,' Aiiko grinned down at her.
Director Cheng snorted and got up, took her tray and went to put it away. She left with a word that she's going to the sauna to relax.

Mimi appeared at the dining hall's double doors, her eyes surveyed the hall for a moment and jumped behind a potted plant next to the self serving counter. The boy from yesterday stood at the table where Kai sat poking at his breakfast, seemingly uninterested at the exciting news his friends were telling him and the boy, what was his name? Jan.
Her mother came around the corner and she tried to look nonchalant and observant of the plant she was hiding behind still.
'Aren't you having breakfast?' her mother asked, looking at the plant where her daughter is much too engrossed in. She took her daughter by the hand, rolling her eyes at her and handed her a white plate. She didn't have much of an appetite and had some croissant and chocolate spread with coffee instead. She placed her breakfast on a tray. Her mother inspected her plate and gave her a meaningful look over her reading glasses.
'What?' Mimi questioned at her with her eyes.
Her mother seemed to appease and headed towards a table by the windows.
Mimi made for the seat that faced the ballroom but her mother got there first. Bitterly, she sat opposite her mother, trying to adjust her seat casually to block Kai and his friends from sight.
Her mother looked at her again observantly over her glasses and the book she was reading. Mimi smiled innocently hoping it would work.
'You're acting odd today,' her mother observed. 'Did something happen last night?' Her mother had a strange twinkle in her eye.
'Like what?' Mimi asked genuinely confused.
Her mother noticed that her daughter was not bluffing and returned to her book. Mimi casted a quick glance behind her. Yay! Kai had stood up to leave and one of his friends took his finished plate over to the tray rack. When she turned back around, her mother was sipping her tea, Mimi saw her glance around and cursed inside her head as her mother recognised Kai.
'Hm.' Her mother swallowed and called out in the middle of breakfast. 'Kai!' before signalling for him to come over.
Kai turned to look, and Mimi turned in her seat praying desperately that his friends wouldn't come with him.
'Good morning, Aunty,' she heard him greet behind her. Another chorus, with more male voices repeated after him. Oh, she felt like disappearing.
'How are you boys this morning?' she asked conversationally, beaming at their little crowd.
'Aunty, it's a nice day, you should come play bowling with us outside,' Kyran suggested excitedly, leanign over Kai and Jan's shoulder.
'Aha, no sorry, dear, I've already made time for some friends today,' Mimi's mother apologized. Then a thought came to mind, 'But I'm sure Mimi here would like to go, she always likes to beat her cousins when she plays.'
Mimi was desperately trying to look away, out to the ocean in fact. Anything to avoid the eyes that were on her now. She shot a warnign glance at her mother.
'What?' Her mother asked with her own eyes.
She turned hesitantly to the group of boys. She smiled politely and nodded in agreement. Her mother nudged her shin under the table. She got up, and followed the boys, shooting a helpless glance at her mother who didn't even bother looking up from her book.
She marched resentfully behind the boys, out onto the deck into the bright sunlight.

'Have you always played?' Director Cheng asked.
'No, I began when I founf my father's violin in my attic, that was when I was twelve.'
'Wow! That sounds so romantic,' Director Cheng gasped, 'do you play anything else?'
'Er, the guitar, but not very well since I taught myself, and the piano for two years now.'
'Excellent! You could audition at our company when you graduate,' she trilled.
Mimi smiled a little, 'Maybe,' she mumbled. The silence was then filled with the rolling of the bowling ball on the polished wood and the sound of the pins getting knocked over. 'Director,' she began to keep the conversation going.
'-Gia,' the Director corrected. 'I don't like being addressed like that out of work,' she explained.
'Gia...' Mimi began again before grinning, 'how come you're a Director at such a young age.'
Gia giggled.
'Ayo, because my dad is 'The Boss',' she explained lightly. 'He found my talent for modelling, I didn't like it and told him I'd rather much do Directing. He put me in charge over those bunch of kids,' she laughed, pointing at Jan, Kai and Aiiko sitting down opposite them as they waited for Kyran's turn to end.
The boys finishes their game by throwing the winner - Kyran - over the edge of the pool.
They began another game, this time with Gia and Mimi playing. Three versus three.
The competition turned loud. The boys had provoked their director and turned her into a competitive player. Mimi was laughing hard as Gia bowled her fourth consecutive strike. The boys had finally stopped laughing then, and the competition turned serious.
In the end they triumphed, Mimi, Gia and Kyran were all pushed into the swimming pool.
'By doing that, you also lost the moral victory because you can't accept being losers,' Kyran laughed.
'Hey,' the reast of the boys yelled before ganging up on him. Gia and Mimi laughed as they made their way back inside.

Sorry it took me ages to update, honestly, i forgot about this, I've been busy. please rate and comment, i've edited my mistakes and amnot very happy with the story line now but i will finish :l thanks for reading :)
I want to make a sequel using a different character from the band, who do you suggest? xx

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