AUTHORS NOTES! OH NO!
So, this is a story me and my friend Sarah32 from livevideo have been writing together. She'd write one part and then I'd write a piece too. She's Lulu and I'm Shaina.
The sun began climbing slowly above the treetops of Leaf Line forest, a squirrel dashed about the trees, a nut clutched tightly in its mouth. A rabbit poked it nose out of its hole and sniffed the foggy air. A doe bounded through the trees, her newly born fawn by her side. This was it. Spring was here. The forest seemed alive as the sun grew larger and larger over the forest. The animals were excited about the start of a glorious new season. Bears growled as they awakened from their sleep. Birds perched themselves on tree branches and sang to the morning---"SHUT UUUUUP!!!!!" a loud voice rang through the forest with a loud boom. The earth rumbled and rabbits scurried into their holes. The birds sank into their nests, terrified.
Two figures lay in the middle of the forest under sleeping bags. Both were holding pillows over their heads.
One of the figures had her hand balled into a fist and it was lying on the ground on top of a very large dent in the earth. It was easy to tell, she was the one who had screamed and made the earth rumble. She pulled her hand back into the sleeping bag and gave a satisfied smile as silence rang through the forest, then rolled over and instantly starting snoring loudly.
The figure lying next to her rubbed her eyes and sat up. She looked at the girl lying next to her. She'd done it again. She did this every morning! If something woke her up, she'd make it known that whatever did it was unwelcome.
She sighed and grabbed the nearest stick. "Shaina?" She asked, not expecting her to respond at all, and, she was right. Shaina just lay there with a goofy grin on her face, snoring loudly. The other figure grasped the stick tightly and prodded Shaina in the side with extreme force.
Shaina groaned in her sleep and rolled over.
"Stupid birds." she said with a yawn. "Don't they know NORMAL people like to wake up AFTER the sun rises?!?!"
The other girl laughed and poked her with the stick again. "Shaina, wake up! We have to find breakfast!"
Shaina groaned and said, "I'll eat my shoe. I don't wanna wake up!"
The other girl sighed and said, "Fine, I'll go by myself!" She started to stand up, but then she remember something she had seen someone do once to someone else to wake them up –cough- Aang to –cough- Sokka –cough-
She grabbed the stick tightly and screamed, "Shaina!!! There's a snake on your sleeping bag!!!" With that, she moved the stick up and down Shaina's sleeping bag like a snake.
Shaina opened one eye and stared at Lulu. (For that was the other girl's name. You're a genius if you figured that one out my friend!) "FINE! I'm up!" She stood up and stretched her arms and yawned saying, "it's probably a good thing we look for food anyway. I don't have any shoes." She smiled at Lulu and rolled up her sleeping bag.
Lulu laughed a little and said, "I think there's a village nearby. Let's go!"
Shaina yawned again. It was her way of protesting the morning for coming so fast. "Maybe I'll do some earth bending practice on those birds when we get back." she said quietly, smiling evilly.
Shaina was a tall girl with brown hair dangling down past her armpits. She left her hair down in winter to keep her warm because her hair was very thick, but in spring, she pulled it into a high pony tail to keep her cool. People loved when she did this because when her hair was out of her face, they could see her bright blue eyes, streaked with green. She was an earth bender. And she was quite good at it too. She was very tough, but was always seen smiling. It was her goal in life to make as many people smile as she could, and she was very good at doing just that. Her best friend in the whole world was Lulu.
Lulu was a short 7 year old waterbender. Although she was young, she was a very powerful water bender. She was very strong, but at the same time, she was very sensitive and sweet. Her hair was a darker shade of brown then Shaina's and it was a little shorter. Everyone was hypnotized by her radiantly blue eyes, and everyone thought she was so sweet and kind. Lulu was a very popular girl.
They arrived at the village of Leaf Line. Merchants were just starting to unlock their shops and restock their carriages with the food and trinkets to interest the small town. A heavenly aroma reached Shaina's nose as they passed all the merchants, trying hard to sell them their jeweled necklaces and broaches they had hand-carved and INSISTED they were made perfectly to match their skin tones. Shaina grabbed Lulu's arm and dragged her to a nearby shop where the aroma seemed to be coming from.
Lulu followed Shaina reluctantly. Once they stopped, she asked, "Uh, Shaina? What are you doing?"
Shaina's eyes grew large as she pressed her face against the shop window. "Must...eat!" and with that she pushed Lulu into the shop.
Lulu laughed. Of course Shaina wanted to eat. That what she always wanted to do! "Well, what do you want?" She asked as they reached the counter.
Shaina licked her lips greedily and said, "Ramen! LOTS of ramen!!!"
Lulu smiled at the man behind the counter and ordered a large bowl of ramen for Shaina and passed it to her, "I'll just have a salad please." She looked at Shaina who had an eyebrow raised. "I'm not that hungry!" Lulu said. Shaina shrugged and scarfed down her noodles in one gulp, then burped loudly. She sighed with satisfaction and looked at Lulu's salad.
"You see, this is why I'm fat and you're skinny!" she said, rubbing her belly and laughing.
Lulu smiled and lay the money on the counter, "I'm sorry! I'm just not used to eating a lot. Well we better keep moving, and Shaina? Can I tell you something?"
Shaina burped again then replied, "You know you can! What is it?"
Lulu glared at her and said, "You are not gonna do earth bending practice on those bird when we go back!!!"
Shaina stared at her, then she smiled and they both burst out laughing.
Lulu took a deep breath after their laughter had died down and said, "Okay, well, lets get the stuff we need and get back to--"She stopped dead. She looked ahead and saw a boy she knew from her old village. "Or let's leave now!" She said, pushing Shaina, trying to get her to move.
Shaina wasn't expecting this and fell forward. "Whoa! Hold your Rhinohorses!" She said, turning around to face Lulu. "What's the hurry?"
"Uh, nothing! Let's go!" As she turned around, she tripped over a basket of cabbages right behind her, causing the boy to turn around and see her.
"Lulu? Is that you?"
Lulu squealed, "RUN!" and she tugged on Shaina's hand.
Shaina laughed as the cabbage merchant screamed curses in their direction and ran along with Lulu, stopping only when the reached their camp.
Shaina leaned over and inhaled deeply, trying to catch her breath. "What the heck was that about???" She asked, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"Nothing!" Lulu said, a little higher then usual.
"Oh, no you don't! Spill it girl! What's going on?"
Lulu blushed a deep shade of red, then said, "Well, before I met you, I lived in a village, and, there was this boy there that I had a crush on. Jake. And we have been friends for a long time but I ran away cause I felt like I wasn't needed there anymore! Then I met you and you've been like a sister to me! I don't want to leave you!"
Shaina stared in disbelief. "You left your village and the boy you liked???" she said, staring in awe. "I mean, I knew you left your village and I understand that cuz I did the same thing, but I didn't know you left that boy behind!" Shaina grabbed Lulu's hand and pulled her towards the village. "We gotta get you back to that boy! You at least need to say hi!"
"But-but, I uh, can't you see, um, he is like 2 years older than me! And I don't know if he likes me back!" She tried to pull her hand out of Shaina's grip while she said this.
Shaina kept pulling her and laughed, "Well, we'll just have to find out now, won't we?"
Lulu looked horrified and blushed even harder than before.