It was a hot summer's day in Louisville, Kentucky, and my friend Kate and I were lazing about in my room, reading random magazines. All was quiet until Kate stood up, through her magazine aside, and said loudly, "This is boring! I want to go shopping," She was always so much more girly than me.
I sighed, flipping through the pages to use them to fan myself. "I know what we can do. Let's get ice cream!" I darted out the door.
"Cinnamon-Chan…" I heard Kate say. Cinnamon-Chan was my nickname when we were little kids. Kate always said this when she wanted something. Sugar-San was her nickname.
"What now, Kate?" I asked.
"Can't we go somewhere else this time? Please?" Kate begged.
"Sure. I know just the place,"
Soon enough, we got our bikes and were on our way. "So… where are we going?" she asked me.
"Our old elementary school!" I said, smiling.
"What?!" Kate cried, nearly falling off her bike. "But it's summer, and we're middle school girls!"
"Oh, sure we are, but don't you want to draw on the board? Explore all those rooms?" I persuaded, but Kate shook her head. "What about… decorating the class?"
Kate nodded excitedly. "Sure!"
A few minutes later, we were in our old 5th grade class. Kate and I were drawing on the board, and I peered over to see what she was drawing. A horse. A really, really good one. I looked over at mine, a drawing of my favorite TV character, Garu. I thought he was really cute, but no one ever agreed with me.
"What are you drawing, Cinnamon-Chan?" Kate asked with a smile on her face. She looked over at my simple sketch. Her smile soon faded. "Oh. Garu again?"
I felt a little embarrassed. "Yeah… too bad he's not real. Well if he was, he'd never fall for me. I'm so… plain."
I looked at my long blonde hair in a side ponytail, my green eyes staring at my green Chinese style jacket with striped sleeves, my blue and orange polka-dot skirt and white boots. Okay, maybe my style wasn't that plain. But still…
Kate, on the other hand, was so pretty. Not that I really cared about looks. Her long, curly, chocolate-brown hair, brown eyes, and her pink and brown summer dress. I recalled the time she dressed me up, and I nearly threw up. I was glad to be me!
"Well, I think we've-" Kate was interrupted by a loud banging on a door. "Someone must be in trouble!" She screamed. "Get it, Cinnamon-Chan!"
I ran over to the door, but before I pulled it open, I noticed something odd. The doorknob had gone from rusty to golden and shiny, and the door much more white. But overall, it was much more… animated than before. I still pulled it open, and something small and black landed on me.
I noticed something weird again. I felt like I was as small as the thing that landed on me. I felt it get off of me, and I got up. I gasped and my face turned red. "Oh… my gosh." I whispered. "It's Garu!"
I checked myself. I looked… like a cartoon character! "What just happened to you?" Kate asked, her eyes open to the fullest.
Suddenly, another boy rushed into the room. Abyo. "Garu! Pucca's on her way up here!" he panted with his last breath, because the classroom was four stories high. "And who's that girl? I've never seen her before."
"My name is Kyaka. I don't know why, but I look like you guys now!" I cried.
"We don't know either." Abyo said, sitting on a desk. The desk turned animated three seconds after he sat on it!
"Abyo, I think I figured out the problem." Kate said. "Three seconds after you touched this desk, it became animated. Let me experiment."
Kate put her hand on the desk and waited for three seconds. Then she turned into an animated character. "We'll have to be careful not to touch anything." I said. "But why are you here?"
"We found a magic portal and went into it." Abyo shrugged.
"That was a stupid idea." Kate whispered to me. I nodded.
"Well, we will have to get you all home. Do you remember where you last saw the portal?" I asked.
"Yeah, by a bakery." Abyo stated, and Garu nodded.
"Then let's go to the bakery!" I exclaimed.