HEY GUYS! I know most of you were probably sad at the end of my last story. But fear not, people, a sequel has been born! I've added a new character and I hope you all like this. Again, and I hate this, it's a story spoiler, I own Miliko and Courtney, Peach-Pit owns Shugo Chara!.
I smiled, finding the day's date to be circled. I danced around in my room for a few minutes then cracked open my window.
"Courtney!" I yelled to the house right of mine. A window slipped open and a blonde head popped out.
"Yeah, Miliko?" she called back.
"Today's the day! Meet in the yard in 5. Bring your egg!" I shouted out, and closed the window.
I slid on some black jeans and a stretchy blue tee. I brushed out my still long ruby-red hair, and tossed some boots over my socked feet. I slipped on a jacket and poked 2 small charas lying in a dollhouse.
"Kumiko, Mariko, today's the day!" I told my charas, and they bolted up. We ran down stairs and out the door, into the stretch of lawn between Courtney and I's house. Courtney, my American friend, in 8th grade as I, was waiting.
"Let me see your egg," I said, and held out my hand. Courtney placed an orange egg with a panda bear in my hand. I noticed a small light bulb above the panda's head.
"Girls?" I asked my charas, and they pressed their ears to the egg.
"Oh, my! I think this girl might hatch today! Come on out, panda!" Kumiko called, twirling around in the air, sending her long green dress out, wearing her usual winter attire.
"Come on. We're gonna be late!" I shrieked, handing the egg back to Courtney, who slipped it in her black winter coat. A horn honked out front and I laughed, speeding off towards the blue van my mother sat in. I slid the door open and motioned Courtney inside, and hopped in a moment later. I saw my father in our normal car with Kei and Tai, off to go do whatever in the heck boys do on the weekends.
We pulled out of our driveway, and I thought, "Here I come, my love."
We pulled in the airport of the airport, and I touched my neck. I felt the necklace that Tadase had given me 2 years ago in Japan, before I left for America. My heart was racing, and Courtney and I ran off, into the airport. We found the flight they were supposed to be on and tore off, forgetting about my mother completely. We found the right area, and frantically looked around for Amu, Tadase, and Nagihiko. They were the only ones who raised enough money to come. I spotted a flash of blonde, pink, and purple.
"Tadase! Amu! Nagihiko!" I called out in Japanese.
"Miliko-chan!" they shouted back, and Courtney and I began fighting our way through the crowd to find them. Suddenly, my feet were knocked out from under me and I fell on my butt. I was dazed a second, then realized a hand was reaching down to me.
"You gonna stay down there forever, Miliko-chan?" a kind voice asked. A moment replayed in my head. I shook my head, looking up, and took Tadase's hand. As soon as I was on my feet, I was hugging him.
"I missed you so much," I whispered.
"Me, too. Me, too," he whispered back. He pulled away and smiled, his eyes and mine brimming with tears. I hugged Amu and Nagi, then realized I had left Courtney standing awkwardly to the side.
"Oh, my gosh, I'm so sorry, Courtney. I didn't mean to leave you out. This is Tadase, Nagihiko, and Amu," I said, then turned to Tadase.
In Japanese, I said, "This is Courtney."
Tadase laughed and I got a funny face. "We can speak English, Miliko," he said, and I turned beat red. To change the subject, Tadase spoke up in a soft voice.
"You still have my necklace?" he asked, eyes soft.
"I wore it everyday. I never took it off. Ever. Not even while I slept," I said, a single tear rolling down my cheek. Tadase wiped it away and we hugged again.
"Hey, Courtney, why don't you show them what you have?" I asked, after pulling out of the hug.
"What?" she asked, a major look of confusion on her face.
"What? You don't remember?" I asked in disbelief.
"Remember what? God, I can be so stupid sometimes. I wish I wasn't," Courtney sighed.
"You can be!" squeaked a little voice. The egg flew out of Courtney's pocket and popped open. It revealed a tiny girl wearing jeans and an orange jacket. She had on red tennis and had her pink hair falling to her shoulders, with a little wave.
"I'm Delaney. I'm your Guardian Character! I am your want-to-be self. I am your desire to be very intelligent!" said the girl. I noticed a panda on her jacket, and smiled.
"Well, Delaney, here are my charas, Kumiko and Mariko," I said, and Ran, Miki, Suu, Dia, Kiseki, and Rhythm flew out to meet her.
"Well… my mom is probably waiting. We should get going," I said, smiling, and we took off for the car.
I giggled, sitting in the middle back between Amu and Courtney, Tadase and Nagi sitting in the middle seats. I remember Kei sitting in the very front, talking to my mom.
"So. How's the American life?" Tadase asked.
"Have you any idea what pizza is?" I asked, smiling wide.
"What's that?" they all asked.
Courtney and I laughed, and I explained, "It's a pressed out dough. You put sauce and cheese on it, put on some things called pepperoni that are little circles of meat, and cook it. It's really good!"
Tadase and Nagi laughed, and before I knew it, we were at my place.
"Guys, we're here. This is my house," I said, smiling. I got out of my seat belt and everyone hopped out of the car. I led them up my yard, and into my house.
"Here, guys, my room is this way," I said, leading them up the stairs. I swear I saw Tadase tense up. I opened the door to my room and led my group into the sunshiny heaven. I walked in and plopped down on my bed, black comforter as always. I could see them all taking in my room. Well, all except Courtney, who sat down next to me. I glanced around my room. I saw a desk by the door, a walk in closet, a shag rug, and a bean bag chair lying on the floor. On my desk there were hundreds of pictures of me and my American friends. On the left wall, opposite my door, there was a window that I had opened and shouted out of a thousand times. I smiled a bit, then looked up to my friends.
"What do you guys think?" I asked.
Amu replied, "I love it!"
"Very stylish," Nagi joked.
Tadase remained quiet.
I could tell he was disappointed in something. Did he expect that I'd be hanging on him every moment? I sighed, then asked him, "What do you think, Tadase-kun?" I smiled, knowing he couldn't ignore me after I added –kun.
"I like it," he said, smiling at me.
"So… what do you guys wanna do?" I asked.
"Unpack!" they said together, and I laughed. I'd completely forgotten.
"Alright. Well, Amu, you're going to staying with Courtney. Uhm Tadase and Nagi you'll be staying here," I said.
"You know tomorrow Yaya and Rima are going to be getting on their flight. So will a few other friends," Tadase said, smiling deviously.
I giggled, and said, "Yeah. I knew."
Quickly, I ran through the list in my head. My 6th grade year I learned to know Kukai, Rima, Yaya and surprisingly Kairi and Utau. I still hadn't learned Ikuto. So I let him stay in Japan.
"Tomorrow… well, Kukai, Yaya and Utau are going to be with me, Courtney takes Rima and Kairi. So, we all set?" I said breathlessly.
"Yep. I'll take Amu over there. Meet in the yard in 10," Courtney said, and led Amu out.
"So, uhm, guys, you will be sleeping in the basement. That's where Kei, Tai and I hang out. It's cool. Follow me," I said, blushing, as I led two boys through my house. Once we reached the basement, I led them to the main room, with a fold-out couch and a recliner.
"So here is where you guys will be staying. Uhm I think that's it. Oh, but whoever picks the fold out couch has to either share with Kukai or one another," I said. I walked over to a decent sized room and locked the door. I slid the key in my pocket and walked towards the stairs.
I paused before the stairwell, and said, "Kei should be down in a minute." I walked up the stairs and ran to my room to prepare it.
The next day, I woke up, forgetting about everyone being at my house. I walked downstairs as usual, in my shorts and tank-top and froze when I saw two friendly faces staring at me.
"Uh, morning, Tadase and Nagi," I said nervously, and made my way to get a bowl of cereal. After I had eaten, I ran up the stairs and tossed on some capris and a tank-top. I slipped on mix-matching and brushed my hair. I said, "Kumiko. Mariko. Are you guys ever gonna wake up on time?"
They woke with a start, and changed as I ran downstairs. I cracked open my front door and motioned for Courtney and Amu to run the yard.
I led them into my living room and sat down on the love seat that I knew my parents would never get rid of. Amu and Courtney took to the couch already seating Nagi. I glanced around, then whipped my head to my left to see Tadase sitting down next to me.
"You startled me," I said, smiling.
"You startled me the first day I saw you," he replied, eyes twinkling. It was those kind of comments that made my head hurt. I knew I could never love him like he loved me. I felt guilty, but smiled and leaned back.
"So… we really aren't going to do anything today. Except tonight, we're picking up the rest of our buddies from the airport," I giggled.
"Cool. So just staying here, chilling?" Nagi asked, leaning back into the couch.
"Yup! Unless, of course… you guys wanna head to the park and have a snowball fight?" I laughed, jumping up. Everyone followed my lead and shouted "Yeah!"
I led them to the small room I call a closet and we found snow pants to fit all of our guests, although Courtney ran and grabbed her stuff.
"Okay! Everyone start getting ready!" I said, and started pulling the long pants up. I clipped the straps and tied up my hair into a bun. I pulled on a hat and yanked some boots on. I pulled on a tee shirt and put my white coat overtop it. I buttoned the coat and threw up the hood after I pulled some gloves on. I turned around, and saw everyone pulling their gloves on.
"C'mon," I said, and led them all out of the house and down 2 blocks to the park.
"SNOWBALL FIGHT!" I screamed, and my snowball exploded in Tadase's face.
"Oh, you're gonna pay for that!" he shouted, and a snowball landed on my back. I laughed, and ran away. For the next 15 minutes, snowballs were everywhere. At some point, it had become boys against girls.
"Is that all you got?" I shouted to Nagi who just missed my head by a long shot.
"Yeah, kinda!" he yelled back.
"Oh, come on!" Amu screamed.
"Hit me with your best shot!" I called across, and thought of a song, which I started singing right away.
"Hit me with your best shot! Why don't you hot me with your best shot? Hit me with your best shot! Fire away!" I yelled across, and launched a snowball into Tadase's face. He mockingly stumbled back a few steps, then fell to his knees, holding his chest.
"Go on… without me," he said, and fell forwards on his face into the snow.
We were dying in laughter, and I ran over to him with an armful of snowballs. I started dropping them on his back but decided it wasn't enough. I pulled back his hood and filled it with the powerdery snow underfoot, then threw up his hood onto his bare head and neck. He shot up and danced around a minute.
"Gotcha!" I shouted and ran away. I felt my foot being pulled out from under me and fell face first into a large pile of snow.
"Ah!" I screamed as I fell.
I remained with my face in the little pocket I had until Tadase pulled me up.
"Noooooo," I howled.
"I'm hungry," he said in a flat tone.
"EVERYONE MOVE OUT!" I shouted, and started marching out of the park. Everyone followed, and we were soon home, sitting wrapped in blankets eating pizza.
Tadase and I sat on the love seat, sharing a blanket, cuddled up next to each other. I could tell Amu was glaring at us, but I ignored her.
At 9:45pm, we finally went to the airport. We quickly grabbed Kukai, Kairi, Yaya, Utau, and Rima and sped home. Courtney ran home with Amu, Kairi, and Rima and I headed home with Kukai, Yaya, Utau, Tadase, and Nagihiko. Everyone pretty much dropped their stuff, put on pjs, and crashed.
In the morning, I was woken by a clanging downstairs. I ran down, my pajamas wrinkled, hair messy, to see Kukai.
"What are you doing?" I whispered harshly.
"Trying to find the bathroom,' he said, lifting up a fallen pot, 'Nope! Not under there!"
I saw Tadase as he slowly stepped into the kitchen, assessing the damage.
"Down the hall, third door to your right," I told the 9th grader.
"Thanks," he whispered, silently walking down the hall.
I began to clean up the mess, and Tadase asked, "You want any help?"
"No thanks, I got it," I replied, not trying to be rude.
"You know, I thought about you everyday. I wasn't able to look at any girl the same way after you took my heart with you to America," Tadase said harshly after a moment, even in Japanese.
"I moved away from all my friends! I gave up my life, my love. Every single moment of every single day, I found you in my mind. I cried, so hard, every day, for the first entire month here. I missed you so much. Why can't you understand my pain? You understand Amu's. Maybe you should go fall in love with her," I hissed back, also in Japanese. I slammed the last bowl on the counter and ran upstairs.
The slam woke Utau, who was on the top of the trundle bed.
"What's wrong? Boy trouble?" Utau jokingly teased.
"No. Major boy trouble," I sighed back.
As we stood in the yard, I glanced around my group. Yaya was wearing a pink skirt, white tights, an orange button-up top tucked in, flats, and a jacket. Utau wore a usual outfit, while I found Rima in a pale green dress Courtney must have wrangled her into. Kairi wore a simple brown tee and pants, a bit of a variation on Kukai. Nagi wore black jeans, with a white shirt and a blue vest. He of course had his blue had and headphones. Tadase was wearing blue jeans and a green tee, his hair combed to one side. I found Courtney in her usual attire, blue flare jeans and a tee one size too big, pulled tight behind her. I was wearing black skinny jeans, a gray tank top, and a low dipping yelled shirt. My hair was in a pony tail hidden by the large hood of my zip up jacket, Kumiko and Mariko at my shoulders.
I smiled, made slight conversation, and Courtney and I led the group around to the bus in front of my house, where we boarded and sat for about 10 minutes.
"Geminia Move Palace!" the driver called, and we unloaded off the bus. We walked in and looked at the movies playing.
"Oh, they're playing Star Wars. What's the chance of that? Oh, the new movie is out, Snow White and The Huntsman. What do you guys think?" Courtney said.
We all called out answers.
"Okay, simple. Here's what we're gonna do. If you wanna see Snow White and The Huntsman, go with Miliko. If you're gonna see Star Wars, come with me," Courtney said loudly.
Tadase walked over to me, as well as Amu and Nagi.
Utau, Yaya, Kukai, and Kairi stood by Courtney.
"Okay. Keep your phone on you, Courts, and meet here after the movie," I said, and went to the ticked booth.
"Four tickets to see Snow White and The Huntsman," I asked, and then passed out the small white slips to the girl and 2 boys behind me. We went into the movie and sat down, when the lights starting dimming.
About halfway through the movie, I stuck my hand into the popcorn Tadase and I were sharing. I felt his hand at the bottom of the bucket, and felt something metal. My finger got caught in it, and he pulled his hand out, as well as me. My eyes widened as I saw what was hanging on my finger.
Tadase planted a ring in the bottom of the popcorn.
OKIE-DOKIE! Thank you all for reading chapter one! Oh, and by the way, I don't own the movies mentioned above. So… a dramatic turn of events for Tadase and Miliko? Stay tuned, folks, to find out!
