The Lunar Chronicles Ship Weeks

Everyone: Childhood

Okay, this one isn't IkoxKinney, it's THE WHOLE RAMPION SQUAD!! YAY!
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Thorne passed the ball to Kai, who's eyes were lit up and excited to participate. Wolf and Jacin were ready to defend their goal. Kai kicked the ball in to the goal. "Yay! See Thorne! I told you I could score!" Thorne grinned but looked at the girls who were over on the swings. Only Cress was actually watching the game. Cinder was tinkering with a paperclip, and Scarlet was talking to Winter. Iko was trying to make conversation with Kinney, with failed attempts. Kinney was keeping score and looked very annoyed with the blue braided eight year old talking to someone like him, an important nine year old. Thorne grinned and focused his attention on Cress again. He waved at her. She blushed and looked away shyly. He shrugged and kept playing with the boys.

Cress wondered what she would do. If she kept watching the game they might ask her to participate and that would be very embarrassing. She contemplated on these ideas and decided to play matchmaker. Okay, Iko and Kinney would be perfect. Maybe Scarlet and Wolf? And Cinder and Kai? Oh! Jacin and Winter. But what about Thorne? She smiled to herself but she knew the answer. Almost everyone knew she had a crush on the cute, mischievous boy. She hummed to herself and started swinging.

Wolf was getting a little bored. Their game of soccer had gone for and hour and they were tied. They just had to win this so it would be over with. Oh no! Thorne was heading toward him with the ball! He couldn't score or else they would lose! But he was too late. Thorne had scored and he was doing a victory dance that looked like a mashup of the chicken dance and something else. Jacin rolled his eyes. "Wolf! We lost!" Wolf shrugged. "It's just a game. At least we get to make fun of Mr. I Can't Dance over there." He pointed to Thorne. Jacin smirked. "Hey Thorne! I don't think your chicken mating dance will attract girls." Thorne looked at Jacin disbelievingly. "I'm dabbing! And FYI, I'm whipping and dabbing. At lease we won." Wolf punched Thorne on the shoulder playfully. "I was distracted." Kai came up behind Thorne. "By what?" Scarlet. "The sun was in my eyes." He lied. Kai just wiggled his eyebrows. "Are you sure it's not one of those girls over there?" He jerked his thumb and pointed where the girls were. Wolf smiled evilly. "We all know about your crush on Cinder." Kai's ears turned a dark shade of red. "No I don't!" He sputtered, glancing over to Cinder if se heard anything. She was still playing with the paperclip. Wolf chuckled. "You guys would be a good couple."

Kai was very pissed out with his friends. If Cinder had heard them he would have died. He liked Cinder because she didn't care about what people thought of her. And she was nice and pretty. He decided to tease Jacin too. "Jacin, I hear you have a crush on a certain dreamy curly haired make believe princess." Jacin's eyes widened and he glared at Kai. "So what if I do?" Kai thought of an evil idea. "Winter!" Jacin gasped and covered Kai's mouth. "If you do that again, I swear I will kill you." Kai's muffled voice sounded something like an agreement.

Jacin released Kai. Kai smiled cheekily. "So you do like her." Jacin just rolled his eyes and Kai walked away to talk to Thorne. From the corner of his eye he could see Winter and his expression softened. He did have a thing for the dreamy, soft hearted girl. Winter was talking to Scarlet excitedly. He smiled a little bit but looked away because he didn't want the other boys to tease him. He walked to where Thorne was giving Kai a death glare.

"I do not!" Kai winked. "Oh yes you do." Thorne huffed. "She's cute, but I don't like her like that." Kai grinned and crossed his arms. "Mmmmmhmmmm." Thorne narrowed his eyes. "Don't look at me like that." "But Cress is perfect for you!" Thorne shushed him. "Not so loud!" Kai put a hand on Thorne's shoulder. "It's okay. You can just admit it. We all have feelings." Thorne groaned and walked away from Kai. But Kai had just thought up a wonderful idea.

Kinney sighed when Iko kept rambling on about her favorite TV show. "So George just has to marry Ella, and then Lucy will marr-" Kinney stopped her with a hand. "Can you please talk about this to one of the other girls?" Iko looked offended. "But you looked so lonely!" Kinney ran a hand down his face. "You're eight and I'm nine. We can't talk to each other." Iko looked angry. "I thought you needed a friend!" She walked away, steaming. Kinney couldn't help but notice her pretty braids swaying in the wind as she walked, ahem, sashayed to her friends and sat beside Cinder. She gave him a glare before talking to Cinder.

Cinder sighed when Iko started talking about George and Ella or something. She absentmindedly tweaked with the paperclip. She tossed it and tuned out Iko. She saw a familiar face head toward her. Kai! She sat up straighter and pretended to listen to Iko. "Oh! Hey Kai!" He smiled at her. "Hi!" She laughed nervously and put her hands in her pockets. "What do you need?" He winked. "Do you girls want to play truth and dare with us?" Cinder blinked, processing his words. "Oh! Sure! I'll get the others." She got Cress, Scarlet, Winter, and Iko to play, and everyone sat in a circle. Things were about to get very interesting.

Winter was excited when Cinder told her that they were invited to play truth or dare with the boys. She couldn't wait to talk to Jacin, her longtime crush. What she wasn't expecting is when Thorne dared her to kiss Jacin. She gaped at Thorne. "Why?!" Thorne grinned. "That's the rules Winter." Winter just shrugged and muttered, "Let's just get this over with." Iko was squealing the whole time. Winter reached over and pecked Jacin on the lips. Jacin looked startled, yet happy. They continued playing and there were some very interesting moments that included Thorne annoying Cinder, Wolf burping as loud as he could and Iko putting on lipstick without a mirror. At the end of the day, everyone said bye to each other and promised they would come back to the park the next day.