"Now look whom we have there! Hello, Suiseiseki! Hi, Brian!" Tamara raised her hand to greet them and Eternia smiled invitingly.
"Hello, you two", Sui returned the greeting. "We want to board for the travel while there are still good seats left."
"Err..." Eternia said cautiously but her friend interrupted her in an instant. "Well then! Do you have anything you want stored, Suiseiseki?"
"Yes, my watering can. Here."
Eternia noted the item down on her list. "Perhaps you want us to store the bonnet too? It will only squish your hairdo when you're wrapped in foil."
"Yes, you're right, Eternia. Here you go."
"You can hand it over to me", Tamara said and reached for it.
"How about you, Brian? Where is your guitar?" Suiseiseki asked baffled and looked at her boyfriend.
Brian looked very unhappy. "Well, you know, Sui..."
When he found himself at a lack of words Eternia cautiously intervened. "Err, Sui... Brian will travel in box 1. He is one of the supporting actors. Only those with occasional guest roles or no role in Dolltopia yet at all travel in box 2."
"Whaaaaat? No!" Sui called out in horror and began to shiver. Her bonnet fluttered to the floor without her even noticing. "Brian! Say it isn't true!"
"I'm sorry, dear. I only accompanied you to wish you a safe travel."
"Why didn't you say anything?!" she sobbed and flew into his arms.
"I wanted to... but you looked so happy and so I kept postponing it", the guitarist sad with a sigh and closed his arms around her.
"Oh my..." Tamara said unmoved. "I expected something like that. What drama..."
Eternia however inconspiciously wiped a tear from her eye.
"And you won't forget me?"
"Stop kidding me, Sui! How could I!"
"I will miss you so very, very much!" she sobbed and snuggled tighter to him.
Brian wished that she didn't only do that when she cried. It was terrible when women cry. "I can't wait for the day when the move is over and I can hold you in my arms again", he whispered.
"I will dream of you, all the time!" she promised.
"As I will of you. We'll meet again soon, Sui. Promise!"
"If you don't let go of my sister this instant I'll show you that dream weed isn't the only thing my scissors can cut!" a sudden hiss came from the side.
"Oh, hey, Souseiseki!" Tamara greeted amiably. "I anticipated you wanting to travel with Suiseiseki."
Eternia held the young woman back a bit by shoving her with her shoulder and ellbow. In an extra loud voice she asked: "Any goods you have to clear with us, Sou?"
The plan to buy them more time didn't work.
"Yes, here! Scissors, hat, cape!" snarled Souseiseki and threw all the things she mentioned carelessly on the floor. "Now come on, Suiseiseki! We will go to sleep until our arrival!"
She grabbed her sister's wrists and dragged her behind.
"Goodbye, Brian!" Sui called unhappily and reached out for his hand one last time.
"Bye, Sui..." he replied in a soft tone, then pulled himself together and added more loudly: "When we arrive I'll wait for you in front of the box! Promise!"
"Thank you...!"
Sou snorted and dragged her twin into the box.
"As I said - drama!" Tamara folded Suiseisekis bonnet and shook her head.
Brian sighed loudly and watched his girlfriend go. "So... I'll leave... it's not time yet to board box 1, right?"
"Correct", Tamara replied. "First box 2 has to be completely boarded."
When the guitarist turned to leave Eternia cleared her throat. "Listen, Brian..."
He paused and felt the hair on his neck stand up when he wondered to himself what she might want from him. "Yes, Eternia?"
Tamara stood between them with an emotionless face and prepared to knock her friend out immediately if she would ask the man out for a date now.
But Eternia looked at him with wet eyes. "I'm so very sorry that Sou is always such a nuisance for you guys. And so I want to make a promise to you: If you ever hit on me I'll kill you!"
"Huh?"
"Your girlfriend may be weird but you two make an awfully cute couple and I will not allow you to cheat on her."
"Err... okay. Since I don't plan to do that I guess I don't have to worry", Brian said and turned to leave. 'Was that her way to tell me that she won't bother me with her flirts?' he wondered to himself and wished it was true.
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