You Are a Contestant on the Price is Right!
Summary: During my coffee break, the game show the Price is Right comes on the flat screen TV in my break room. Drew Carry is currently host the host of the show. One of my favorite games of the show is called 'Plinko'. It's a game you have to guess the price of five items in order to receive five chips. With those chips, you use them on the Plinko board to win between 0 to $10,000 in cash! I love this game and I saw Takumi and Shingyouji actually participating in it! So…here it is.
Graduation has come and gone at Shidou High and the gang are preparing for summer vacation. Takumi, Akaike, Misu, Shingyouji, Toshinsha, and of course, Gii are currently residing at Gii's Tokyo house. They promised each other that they would spend the summer together, not only to spend as much time with one another but also to include Shingyouji because he will have to go back to Shidou the following semester. Find something to do, however, has proven to be very difficult.
"Hey Gii, what are we going to do for summer break?" Takumi asked. He and the others lounged underneath an umbrella table at the local Starbucks. Gii stopped sipping his strawberry ice frappe and shrugged. "I can't come up with anything. What about you Akaike, Misu?" Both boys shook their heads. "Well, we could visit Shibuya? Shingyouji said excitedly. Shingyouji knew that his friends wanted to do something special for him. He would have to go back to Shidou alone and they wanted him to have a memorable summer. Misu whined, "Nooo. We were there last weekend remember? It's the same thing each day…so boring." Shingyouji reluctantly agreed.
The group went silent when Gii's phone rings. "Moshi, Moshi." It was Gii's mother. "Gii where you and yours friends at now?" "Where're the Starbucks at the corner. Did you need anything?" "Hai. I need you and your friends to come home. I have a surprise for you!" "A surprise. What is it?" " I'll tell you when you and your friends get here." "Fine we're on our way" With that Gii disconnect the line and address his audience. "That was my mother. She wants home right away. She says it's a surprise." "Really…a surprise? I wonder what it is?" Takumi mused out loud. "Well, we won't find out what it is if we don't go right now. Come on lazy bones." Gii smiled and held out his hand to Takumi, which he took with a blush.
The group walked the short distance to Gii's home. "Well since your mother's at home, maybe she could offer some advise on what to do for the summer." Toshinsha said to Gii. "I'll ask her. We've definitely hit a dead end." "Don't worry Shingyouji, we will find something to do." Shingyouji melted in Misu's arms. "Whatever you come up with is fine with me." He bowed to Gii and smiled at Misu. "We just don't want to go back to Shidou with regrets about spending time with us. I know you didn't want to spend your days with your parents." Misu looked at his beloved with sympathy. "Spending time with you all is enough for me, honestly." He looked up in Misu face. "Anytime I spend with you is precious to me." Misu blushed and kissed him on the forehand. Looking at the little display made Gii and Takumi smile. Even Toshinsha and Akaike held each other gently.
"Tadaima!" "Hello boys." Gii's mother answered in kind. Miyuki Saki was a tall woman with auburn hair, the same as Gii's, and light brown eyes. When Gii told her about his friends' summer plans, she immediately offered them to stay at the Saki Tokyo home until school started. She especially liked Takumi and Shingyouji because they needed some type of motherly figure to look after them.
"Mother, what was so important, and where is my surprise!" Gii asked while looking around the living room.
Miyuki looked at her son and rolled her eyes. "Your surprise is this." She handed Gii an envelope, which he opened and pulled out eight tickets. "'The Price is Right Ticket'" The Price is Right, I don't understand." Gii said, given his mother perplex look.
"I want to invite you and your friends to the states with me…specifically Los Angeles, California." Gasps of surprise and blooming smiles came from the boys as they looked over the tickets. "My best friend works as a producer of the game show and she invited me and a few guess for an behind the scenes tour of the show."
"Los Angeles. I never have been before." Shingyouji exclaimed but then his face fell. "Oh…. but I don't know if I can afford to go or if I will get permission from my parents to leave." Shingyouji was sad suddenly. Misu gently squeezed his hand in comfort.
"No worries Shingyouji. I called your mother and she has given permission for you to go." Shingyouji was bright and lively again at that second. Miyuki wasn't sure if Shingyouji's mother would allow him to leave but she took a chance and she was glad she did. It seemed to Miyuki that he needed some time way from the pressures of family life for a little while.
"Haha. Thank you." Gii exclaimed. "We didn't have a clue as to what to do for summer break!" Misu, Toshinisha, Akaike, and Takumi bowed and said, "Thank you for inviting us Mrs. Saki-san." "Psst. Don't worry about it boys. I'm glad that you will have something to do this summer." She looked at Gii and Takumi specifically, "I won't be able to see much of you once school starts, so I will have you all of to myself for a little while longer." She gave them a motherly smile as she explained. So overwhelmed, she walked over to boys and hugged them gently. She let them go and stepped back, "Well enough. So we have plans to make."
"What do we need to do?" Takumi asked.
She looked up, "Well Takumi-kun, since you boys have enough clothes that you brought here with you?" All but Gii nodded. "Then the only thing left is to order a jet and were off."
"Haha…What about father. Will he be joining us?" Gii asked.
She signed. "No, he won't be with us but he and I will be together after we get back." She smiled the way he smiled at Takumi, a lover's smile. As she made reservations with the airport she said, "You boys need to wash and repack your clothes. Get your ids and passports and the like." As one, the boys did what was told. Clothes were washed, bags were repacked, ids packed, and the chatter of excitement fill the Saki house.
Later that night after dinner, Miyuki and the boys turned in early for the trip the next day. The trip from Tokyo to Los Angeles will be a 10-hour trip so it was best to get a good night's sleep…unless you were Shingyouji, Takumi, or Toshinisha. The prospect of a trip to America was awesome! And to top it off, they might be on television. Over dinner Miyuki-san told them that since her friend was the producer of the show, it would a possibility that they, not her, would be on television.
Takumi, Toshinisha, and Shingyouji slept on one guestroom, while Gill, Misu, and Akaike slept in the other. Gii would have liked to have slept in his bed with Takumi but he didn't want to do that under his parents' roof and Takumi understood that. "Ne Saki, what are the chances of us being on TV?" Misu asked. Under the covers Gii said, "Don't know Misu. With the tickets we got from Miyuki-san, we will definitely be in the audience."
"Takumi, Shingyouji, and Toshinisha will not be bored for sure, especially Shingyouji. We have to buy more disposable cameras for them too." Akaike said with a yawn. "Oyasuminasai everyone." "Oyasuminasai, Akaike-kun." Gii and Misu answered.
Meanwhile, in the other guess room. Shingyouji was wide-awake as Takumi and Toshinisha were under their covers. "Los Angeles! Can't you believe it? Aren't you guys excited?"
Takumi turn towards Shingyouji and smiled, "Shingyouji if you don't go to sleep, you will be tired in the morning. The flight will be at least 10 hours long."
"I can't sleep Takumi-kun. I'm to excited!"
Toshinisha signed, "Shingyouji, Takumi-kun is right. Relax, close your eyes, and go to sleep, ok."
"O.k...o.k. oyasuminasai, yo yume o." Shingyouji said sweetly as he settled down for the night.
"Oyasuminasai." Said Takumi and Toshinisha.
BTW: The Price is Right is a popular game show in American. Here in Houston, Texas, Central Time, it comes on at 11:00 a.m. on channel 11.
If you want to check it out, Google it for show times in your area of town or country.