It's a miracle! An update without waiting a few months since the last one! And I think I need to mention a few things...

In the last chapter I *TRIED*(key word here my friends) to crack a joke with Jennifer Lopez in it but for whatever reason when I typed it as if you can't see it right in front of this then damnnn. So I've now come to the conclusion that whenever I type a name with random punctuation marks in it that it might not show up. Like how I put Ke dollarsign ha references in here. If they don't show up then again I'd just like to say, damnnn.

Big thanks to Melody Yakushi for reviewing! Agreed. Louis is such a boss. And haha yeah, I don't think I've ever actually watched a Soap Opera or a Spanish one for that matter, I only said Spanish because I watch the TV show Psych way too much and their Spanish Soap Opera episode was the first thing I thought of when I wanted to joke off the drama a bit and lighten the mood :)

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*I don't want to spoil anything for this chapter but just know that when I started this story I didn't realize I had mixed up the names of the characters. Jill/Pony and Jack are from the games that take place in Forget-Me-Not Valley and Amanda/Tina and Adam are the main charcters for Magical Melody. But please don't let it bother you when you see that I had to switch them in this chapter too.*

Oh and... FIREWORKS. THEY'RE HERE. AT LAST.

(: I OWN NOTHING :)

"See ya Jill! Stop by tomorrow for that phonebook!"

I smiled and waved happily as Gwen ran off hand in hand with Bob to a further away, more private spot on the beach. I pulled out my phone to check the time as I stood on my own waiting for Louis. We had apparently gotten here earlier than planned even with the whole voicemail mess. The festival officially began at six and it was about 5:30, so what else would a girl like myself do besides wait it out at the food table?

"OH MY GOD THERE'S GONNA BE FIREWORKS NINA! ARE YOU PUMPED OR WHAT?" My attention was drawn away from the prepared snack foods by my twin's voice. Racing down to the dock were none other than Jack and Nina and they were dressed in… bathing suits?

"OH I AM SOOO PUMPED! LET'S DO THIS THING!" Reaching their destination the two launched themselves off the wooden dock and into the ocean. Laughter sounded around the beach. "AH! WHA! IT'S FRICKIN' COLD!"

"DON'T WORRY IT'LL GET BETTER IN A SEC!" Nina held her hand to her chin as the two treaded water for what seemed like hours as the majority of the beach just watched the scene unfold.

"Hmmm… Hold on… Yeah… Yupp. S'all good." Jack grinned while Nina removed her hand from her chin and flashed a thumbs-up.

"Huh. Now that I think about it that actually does kinda seem like a good idea." I spun around to meet a laughing Louis.

"Yeah just don't tell Jack that. He definitely doesn't need his ego stroked." I smiled right back. "Hey if we run I bet we could get stuff from the inn before six even! I'm sure you'll fit into some of Jack's swim trunks. You game?"

He nodded happily, "Yeah sounds like fun!" And with that he grabbed my hand and sped off. I panted and tried my best to keep up in pumps but it was pretty much a losing battle. I stumbled as one of the thin heels snapped off the shoe. Noticing me falling Louis pivoted to rescue me from my long-time enemy… Gravity.

"Jill are you okay? Oh your shoe! I hope it wasn't a favorite! Do you want me to pay you back for it! I'm so sorry! It's my fault! I don't know much about wearing heels-" I cut off his rambling, kicked off my ruined shoes, and stood up from out of his arms.

"And I have to say I'm glad about that fact. But calm down I'm fine. I'll just run barefoot so we can still make it." This was met by a disapproving look from Louis. "What?" He grinned as if he had an idea.

"Here, I know, get on my back!" He spun around and bent down a bit for me to get on.

"A piggyback? I can now officially say that I've got a sweet ride." We laughed as I hopped on his back and he ran even faster than before to the inn. I rested my head in the crook of his neck and let out a whistle. "We are so going to be the coolest people there. Even cooler than Jack and Nina."

"No way. Have you forgotten that Mayor Thomas is going to be there? We don't stand a chance against that fly ass motherfu-"

"Don't remind me! Can't you just let me think, even for a moment, that we may actually be able to compare to him and his sexy body! Thanks a lot Louis."

"Just speakin' the truth my friend. Oh hey we're here!" I had been much too distracted with our extremely deep and intellectual conversation to notice any of our surroundings. "Which room are you?" He asked as we walked in and up the stairs to the lineup of doors. After setting me down I got out my key and unlocked the door. Walking in I saw the scattered clothing around both Jack's and my suitcase and realized, remembering back to their performance, that he had given Nina one of my two swimsuits… She was wearing my striped blue one which meant… Oh no.

I stared despondently at my suitcase as Louis rifled through Jack's as I had told him to. He slipped out a plaid blue pair of trunks.

"Hey do you think these will look okay?" He saw my expression. "What's up Jill?" I turned my head slowly to face him still not ready to face the facts.

"IT's in there." I pointed to the suitcase at my feet. "Jack gave Nina my normal swimsuit and all that's left is IT."

"It? What are you talking about? Oh hold that thought we have ten minutes 'til six. I'm gonna go change really quick in the bathroom. You gonna be all good?"

"Well… Yeah… I guess…" I was going to continue my (very Wizard-esque)detached muttering to try to explain my current problem but Louis nodded seemingly excited to get back to the festival and rushed into the bathroom to change. I sighed and got IT out and changed. I walked over to the room's full length mirror to check the severity of the situation. I groaned. The daring white string bikini was practically held together by threads and the extreme pushup top wasn't helping me with my whole look of innocence thing either. The one piece halter Nina had taken was a cute suit, it was like any other average swimsuit you'd see on a beach. But this… Hell, Jack and I had just gotten it as a joke from Victoria's Secret Beach Sexy line to tease our 'mom' for buying the very same one for a day at the beach. I didn't even remember packing it!

A knock was struck against the bathroom door. "You decent out there?"

"As decent as I'll ever be in this thing."

"Is that a yes?" I grunted in response. The door creaked on its hinges and TWO jaws hit the floor. Louis was fit? And had a sixpack?

"What the hell Louis! What is that?"

"What? What is what? I should be asking what is that?"

"You're hot!- I mean- youre- Uhhhh, your host is showing? What? Yeah. Your host is showing. I should be the one getting the door for us!" … My failure of a cover-up.

"I'm hot? What? Look at yourself- Err I mean- Look at… Look at your shells!" He flailed his arm in the general direction of the decorative vase filled with shells on the bedside table, "Yupp. Nice shells. Right there. I like the white ones. From the ocean. Those are the best kind. Did you know that a swallow of seawater may contain millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton?" It was a standoff. An awkward standoff but a standoff nonetheless between the two of us to see who would crack first. The main door opened and Gwen's voice could be heard.

"Hey Jill you in there? Louis too? Door was unlocked. Guess you two had the same plan as Bob and me. Yeah, and pretty much everybody else now." She fully entered the room in her red polka-dotted bikini that was almost as bad as mine. Almost. "Oh hey you guys are both really hot. Huh. Just thought I'd mention that."

"GWEN HONEY! WHERE ARE YOU LOVIE?" Bob's booming voice grabbed Gwen's attention.

"JILL'S ROOM. COMING SWEETIE!" With that she waved and dashed off. Louis and I gave each other a look and said in sync.

"Told you so." We laughed and I hooked arms with my fellow hot friend and grinned as we began to walk out of the room.

"So Louis what are we to do with our combined hotness?" I joked, "Though I must say mine kinda just makes me look like a skank." I sighed as Louis shook his head vigorously.

"No way! Don't say that!"

"Yeah? Whatcha gonna do about it?" I stuck my tongue out at him as we exited the inn which quickly turned into a gasp as he grabbed me up, slung me over his shoulder, and sprinted forward.

"This." He laughed as I pouted and groaned jokingly.

"C'mon! Do you really have to carry me everywhere?"

"Um yeah? I wouldn't have it any other way." I stuck my tongue out yet again but quickly realized it was no use since all I could even see was my 'captor's' back. "Oh hey Jill we're about to take a dip."

"Wait wha-" I was cut off by the feeling of soaring through the air followed by a very watery impact and a rush of saltwater shooting into my mouth. I bobbed to the surface to see Louis in hysterics. I narrowed my eyes and sarcastically sputtered out(sputtered because of all the saltwater I was spitting out as well) "Hey did you know that I just swallowed millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton. Like from Spongebob. How comfortable do you think I feel knowing that I have Plankton, a beloved kid's cartoon character, being grotesquely disfigured by my digestive tract's acids at this very moment? Huh punk?"

Louis' laughter only got louder and I smiled mischievously as I splashed a wall of water all over him successfully leaving him coughing up water. "Cool we can be twins now and both murder cartoon characters with our bodily acids!" I snorted at his statement.

"Attractive sis. And what? Why are you two talking about killing Plankton? I thought we had this discussion last week Jill! No crushing innocent childrens' fantasies! Especially with your tummy gunk!" Louis cocked his head to the side and cast my brother who had just joined us a curious look.

"Tummy gunk?" I leaned over to Louis and stage whispered in his ear.

"Shhh don't blame him. He was dropped on his head as a child." Jack gave me a thumbs up and swam back over to Nina who was just reentering the water after using the bathroom I assumed. We waved and smiled at one another before I grabbed Louis by the hand and began to swim in their direction. I fist-pumped, "Guys! Let's get a game of volleyball going!"

And so the four of us, along with the majority of the village's youth began a series of different games. Louis, Nina, Jack, Ann, Blue, Ellen, Carl, Katie, Gwen, Bob, and I won in volleyball against Joe, Kurt, Lyla, Alex, Gina, Basil, Eve, Maria, Ray, Dan, and Dia(Dia kind of just stood there the whole time staring into space). However, their team won in the sandcastle building contest when Bob accidentally packed some sand on too hard. AKA he punched our innocent little castle. Well, it was innocent until Jack and I added that harem and some eunuchs for show anyway... It was a tie between Gwen and Bob and Louis and I in the partner races(three-legged went to them, piggyback to us) until we beat them in the scavenger hunt which wasn't really a scavenger hunt. The rest of the group hid Bob and Louis in weird places and whoever(Gwen or me) found their partner first won. I found Bob within the first minute since he didn't fit too well underneath the food table, however, Gwen didn't seem to notice this as I had. I ended up finding Louis thanks to his disturbing cat noises I eventually figured out were coming from underneath the dock. I felt pretty bad though… He was treading water under there for over half an hour and giggling with joy when I found him… I wonder if he swallowed some more childhood fantasies or something… By the end of all of our thrown together games it was quarter 'til midnight and it was time for the fireworks to start. By then the couples had already wandered off and the rest of us sat in a circle drunkenly singing We R Who We R(we didn't need alcohol to act like that). Ke$ha would've been proud.

I giggled and continued the chorus with the rest of the singles, "Tonight we're going h-h-h-h-h-hard just like the world is o-o-o-o-o-ours! We're tearin' it apar-r-r-r-r-rt! You know we're superstars- We are who we are!" My awesome Ke$ha rendition was interrupted by fingers intertwining with my own. I looked down at our hands then back up to Louis' excited face.

"Jill! The show's about to start! Let's go!" I was about to ask what the final fantasy he was talking about when jumped onto his feet and pulled me up along with him as he ran us over onto the dock which no one had surprisingly taken yet.

I blushed as we plopped down side by side and Louis anxiously searched the sky for any signs of fireworks still keeping my hand safely held within his own. I turned to face Louis despite the blush visible on my cheeks and remembered an old story.

"Y'know, I really love fireworks. One time Jack and I ran away from home when were ten and met a pair of twins like us named Amanda and Adam* in a place called Forget-Me-Not Valley. They lived alone with their Dad, Scott, who brought us all to meet these two brothers named Patrick and Cassidy who let us set off their fireworks all over the valley. Haha, good times." Louis flashed me a look of surprise.

"Hey I know them! I was traveling there to see my crazy Uncle Darryl, yeah my parents made me go, and all he did was talk about how he knew everything about everyone thanks to his 'marvelous', as he put it, spying skills. According to him their mother was a tramp. Apparently she had stayed there for a few nights messing around with this Scott guy, left for the city, and nine months later had showed up in the night and dropped them off at his doorstep. Sounded like nonsense to me. But he did give me a name… Elli… No… Elaine… Nah…" He scratched his head when his face suddenly lit up, "Elise Hill! That was it!" Just as he said the name fireworks exploded throughout the night sky. "Oh look they're awesome aren't they?" I stared into the water with a paled expression. "Jill?"

"Elise Hill." I looked up into Louis' concerned gray eyes. "She's my mother." I looked up at the brightly lit night sky. "I am going to find her. And Adam and Amanda. And whoever the hell else that sorry excuse for a mother gave life to." I clenched my fists. Louis pried apart the fist he had been holding and interlocked our fingers yet again and watched the colors dance through the sky.

"I expect an explanation later on if you don't mind." He looked down from the fireworks and instead watched as I silently nodded. "Because there's something I'd like to do right now." I turned my face in his direction about to ask what he was talking about when I was caught off guard by a hand cupping my cheek and a soft pair of lips crashing into my own. I closed my eyes as the kiss deepened and strong arms wrapped about me in an embrace. As we slowly parted lips I panted a bit trying to catch my breath while Louis still held me around my waist just watching my face for a time and finally decided on resting his forehead against mine. I could hear him speak softly under his breath. "Jill Holloway there is something about you." I waited for an elaboration. "And I don't really understand what it is, but I'm just so happy that you came into my life." I sighed contentedly.

"Ditto."

I repositioned myself and leaned up against Louis' chest and nuzzled my cheek against his warm skin. "Hey you're warm!" Louis laughed as I climbed on top of his lap and curled into his chest. "It's nice." I smiled and watched the finale with heavy lids. After such an eventful day I was exhausted. I looked up to Louis one last time and as the very last explosion lit up the sky my eyelids fluttered one last time before sleep overcame me.

GODDAMNIT. FINALLY. THANK GOD THAT'S OUT OF THE WAY. - If this is what you were thinking the past few chapters then I'm right there with you pal.

*Oh and I'm hoping someone gets what I mean when I was saying 'Wizard-esque' :) And if I ever used any HM:AP names, my bad, I've been playing that nonstop lately...I would love to see what all my overachieving and jock friends, an image which I fit into at school, would think of me spending hours on the couch playing video games and writing/reading fanfics all night when I should be trying to finish my homework at 1AM on a school night/morning...

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