BO-ing stories
No matter what happens, Bo would always have a special place in her heart. The giant chicken mascot was that one character that was all hers. The others she had to share with directors and screen writers, but not Bo. They gave her clues and themes for the shows, but the rest was mostly up to her. She could play Bo as crazy as she wants and the people love it. Furthermore Bo was some of her most cherished firsts. Her first time on tv, her first regular entertainment job and recently the first role she got fan mail for.
She had just changed out of her costume and talked with the guys after the show, when one of the staff members came up to them.
"Hello." He greeted them friendly and turned to the guys. "I placed the bag with the fan mail in your dressing room. Please go through it and answer some of them." Then he turned to her. "Oh, I nearly forgot." He reached into his shoulder bag and pulled some envelopes out and pressed them into her hands. "Those are specific Bo's fan mails. Ok, I'm on my way."
He waved and hurried away, before Kyoko could utter a word. She starred at the letters in shock. Sure she had been praised before for her roles. Sometimes she was mentioned in the fan letters to the shows she was in, but she never had received real fan mail for her any of her roles. She stared at the letters, then at the Ichibashis with a dumbstruck expression.
"Is everything ok, Kyoko-chan?", Hiraku asked her with a worried look.
"Fan mail? For me? I never get fan mail… Are they sure they read this right?" She was skeptical and looked at the envelops, but it was true. All of them said things like 'for Bo-kun' or 'Bo-chan the mascot'. Those letters were really for her, or specific Bo, but she was Bo right? She got fan mail!
The boys laughed good natured at her and clapped her on the back. "Now you do! That calls for a celebration!" Shinichi and Yuusei put their arms around her shoulders and pulled her along with them.
They went to a couple of bars, where Hiraku had to order some alcohol as the only one of them that was twenty-one already. Kyoko didn't drink any, but she had some fun with them. Later they were fighting over what they wanted to eat and in the end decided that everyone got something for themselves.
And so she sat there next to the Ichibashis fighting about a piece of pizza and read her first fan mail. The letter had a really good picture of Bo with it. Next to the picture a child had wrote the words: 'My Friend Bo!'. The letter itself was written with another handwriting.
Hello Bo and Bridge Rock
I wanted to tell you that you make a great show. My whole family sits down together every week to see you guys. You are all so funny and especially Bo. The best chicken in the world!
It is sometimes really difficult for us to find something on tv that we all like, because my little sister Yuki is deaf and mute, but she loves the skits and pranks that Bo always plays on the guests and the other guys.
She always says that she wants to be like Bo when she grows up. He can't talk either, but he doesn't see it as a problem and nobody else sees it as a problem. Bo makes her feel included when we watch tv.
Please continue with your great show and make all of us laugh each week (yes, even dad, but he wouldn't admit it out loud.)
Lots of love
Sakura and her family
P.S. My little sister drew a picture of Bo, I hope you like it
Kyoko felt some tears stinging in her eyes as she read this. She would have never thought that Bo could mean so much to somebody else.
Later that night, when she was home she got the letter out again and stared at the drawing, it was really cute and the first one she ever got. Maybe she should hang it on the wall as a reminder to herself and as motivation. Yes that was a great idea, only where? She looked around her small room and most of the space at the wall was taken, by her furniture and her big calendar that she needed to manage her jobs. The little space leaved was occupied by the posters of Sho and Ren. It didn't take her long before she ripped Sho's poster of the wall and replaced it with the drawing. She stepped a bit back from the wall and smiled proudly at it.
AN: Disclaimer: Skip Beat isn't mine and I don't earn money with this.
I was stuck in a writing block, so I thought I write something different to get back in and Bo is just the greatest! This are going to be just some short pieces, when I don't know how to write anything else. But I want Bo as the star in these short stories.
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