Hey guys :D
I'm back and raring to go…this story takes place after the series ends in Max Heart, just letting you know. This should be longer and better, so-
Mepple: That's what she said…
Curewhite3616: Stop being a pervert!
Pollun: *Jumps around* Yay! That's what she said – popo! That's what she said – popo!
Curewhite3616: *facepalm* *le sigh* Just roll out the first chapter, please.
Chapter One
Nagisa was having an excellent morning- er, afternoon, just as she had woken up. Ryota wasn't there to wake her up at the crack of dawn, since he had his last badminton tournament, and her parents were gone to book their "romantic get-away" as they called it, for their twentieth anniversary. Nagisa just wished they hadn't of thrown in the word "romantic", because she thought that that was definitely way too much information for her.
The lazy teenager stood up from her bed in her pink pajamas, stretching her arms high above her bedhead, yawning louder than ever. "I'm going to do nothing today!" She grinned. Normally she didn't get a day off, but with winter vacation and being home alone, she could do whatever she pleased.
Nagisa watched the snowfall outside, since it had been pouring fat snowflakes all night; she made some hot dogs and watched T.V.; she checked to see if Mepple was awake, but he was still sleeping soundly by 4:00. What a lazy bugger! She laughed at the very British term she had just used.
After a couple of hours though, Nagisa lost the excitement of being alone. She was too used to the presence of her lacrosse team, or Honoka and Hikari. She decided to call them up, so Honoka and Nagisa would meet Hikari halfway, and then they would walk back to Nagisa's apartment.
The fifteen year old smiled to herself as she clipped Mepple onto her pants, threw on a coat, and put on a hat and mittens. She wasn't in this good of a mood in a long time.
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Rie and Takeshi Misumi waited anxiously in the waiting room at the travel agency. Being bored out of his mind, Takeshi looked at his surroundings. He saw several posters that boldly declared: "ASK US ABOUT OUR MAJOR FAMILY PACKAGE! TAKE UP TO FOUR PEOPLE IN THE SAME HOTEL SUITE FOR JUST 7500 YEN A NIGHT!" He drummed his fingers along the table as Rie read a magazine.
After what felt like an eternity, the Misumi couple was called up to the office to discuss their trip to New York in America. Their travel agent was new to Japan, so being from Canada her Japanese wasn't spectacular. The majority of what the couple told her had to be repeated multiple times with hand movements involved. After about half an hour their travel agent understood what hotel they were staying at, what airline they were using, and how long they were going to be there for.
Their travel agent, "Patricia", typed on her computer. "Are you a family?"
It took the Misumi's a second, but then they understood what she was saying. "Yes, we're relatives." Rie said, shifting in her chair. She was uncomfortable speaking to foreigners that could barely understand her.
"How many?"
Takeshi held up what looked like the peace sign. "Two."
"Okey-dokey." The young girl said adorably while typing. "Your vacation is planned."
"Thank you." Rie said, bowing as she got up from her chair. They left to go home in the frosty weather.
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Nagisa felt the snowflakes stick to her cheeks and the sudden change in temperature biting at her skin. She was standing at Honoka's and her meeting spot, the intersection outside the train station, waiting for one of her best friends. She pulled her red scarf to her nose, wondering why she didn't do so in the first place.
When she saw Honoka carefully running towards her on the icy sidewalk, she pulled her scarf back down and remembered her reason; she wouldn't be able to talk, and besides, half of her face was beginning to sweat so it actually felt good when Jack Frost's icy breath hit it. The blonde waved to her best friend in the gray coat and white scarf that suited her black hair so well. "Honoka!"
"Nagisa!" Honoka sat beside her best friend against the outside walls of the train station, lightly shivering. "I hope Hikari comes soon, I'm freezing!"
"Same here." Nagisa said, looking up to the sky. The sun and clouds were all bleached white by the heavy snowfall and their steamy breath. "Look Honoka, I'm a dragon!" She breathed heavily, making white ringlets come out from her mouth and rise.
Honoka raised her finger in the air and smiled. "Actually, that's not the case. Your breath has moisture, a water vapor in it. When you breathe out into very cold outdoor air, the moisture-laden atmosphere from your lungs becomes chilled to the point where the water condenses into a fog. This is known as condensation." She leaned her head back to the wall. "Think about when you breathe hot breath on a window to write on it with your finger, or when the mirror in your bathroom gets foggy and moist after a shower. Those examples are also a cause of condensation."
Nagisa's mouth scrunched up. "You could have just laughed at my joke, silly." She found herself laughing moments later however, wondering how they had managed to stay friends after Pretty Cure while being so different. Opposites really do attract, I guess.
The silence after that was broken when Hikari ran over to them. Her sunshine blonde braid was frizzing up from the humidity in the air and the snowflakes soaking it. She was wearing a winter coat that was oversized for the second year in middle school, and she was holding a tray of seven steaming Styrofoam cups. She was out of breath. "Sorry I'm late guys." She said, falling to her knees but keeping the drinks safe from spilling. "The frying pan broke at the café so we had to fry the tepanyaki manually over a fire." She rubbed the back of her neck. "That was some tough stuff. Anyways, I brought hot chocolates for us and the Field of Light creatures for when we get back to Nagisa's apartment."
"Ya-ta!" Nagisa yelled out in joy along with a fist pump in the air, now realizing what that warm, chocolate aroma was. "Akane-san and Hikari's hot chocolates are the best!"
"Akane-san taught me how." Hikari nodded with a smile. "Nowadays people use chocolate powder with hot milk or water, but at the café we boil real chocolate, milk, and other ingredients over a stove. That's how they traditionally made them."
"Yum!" Nagisa got up. "Let's hurry home so we can drink them hot!"
Honoka walked behind her, giggling. "Nagisa, they should be perfect by the time we get to your apartment, since they seem to be about nine-thousand degrees when you first get them."
"As Akane-san always says;" Hikari said, joining the two in the middle of the sidewalk. "'There's a reason we call it HOT chocolate!'"
The three girls ignored the cold spell as they joked around on their way to Nagisa's apartment. Honoka didn't care about the cold, since she associated the smell of falling snow with seeing her parents at Christmas time. Nagisa tried to forget about the cold because of her cheerful mood. Hikari was so cold that the poor young girl was shivering, but she tried to hide it from her older friends. If I could take fighting as Shiny Luminous, I can definitely take this!
A blast of pleasant warmth came the young girls' way as they walked in Nagisa's apartment building. Hikari had only been there a couple of times, since normally the girls spent time together at Honoka's or the café, so she still had to follow her older friends up the elevator six stories and down the hallways to apartment 6G.
As soon as Nagisa unlocked and opened her door, they could smell pine needles from their real Christmas tree, and a warm smell of gingerbread men made yesterday, the warm smells tickling their red and frost-bitten noses.
"Well, let's get settled in the living room." Nagisa said, throwing her blue winter hat, pink mittens and red scarf in a soggy and melting pile in a corner near the front door. Her fingers tingled as it got accustomed to the sudden change in temperature, once again.
"I'll liven up these hot chocolates." Hikari said, pulling out different saucers from her shoulder bag she brought with her. "I didn't have the chance to at the café because I felt you guys were waiting too long for me. Nagisa, can I use your stove?"
"Go ahead." The girl said, putting her arms behind her back on the sofa. Suddenly, all of the lights turned out.
"Great, a power outage." Nagisa scratched her head. "Ugh, it's the one thing I hate about snow storms!"
When all of the lights turned out, that was when Honoka and Hikari truly noticed how beautiful Nagisa's Christmas tree was. The needles were thick and full, with such a dark shade of green. The shiny white tinsel reflected off the bright multi-colored lights all over it, and so did the bright, big ornament balls. The only ornament that wasn't a classic one was the one where you were able to put in your own picture. The picture Rie had put inside was one that Nagisa and Ryota have both been meaning to sneak out of the building; a picture of six month old Ryota and three and a half year old Nagisa taking a bath together. Ryota had a tiny stub of brown hair along with a goofy smile he was self-conscious of to this day. Nagisa had all of her sandy-blonde hair, with tiny pigtails all over her head.
To top it off, the tree had a classic, bright gold star at the top of it. After a minute of gazing at the beautiful Christmas decoration in the corner of Nagisa's living room, Honoka came to realize something. "Hold on! How are the Christmas lights still on if the power went out?"
"We have solar powered tree lights that we keep outside on sunny days all year 'round." Nagisa stretched, the colorful lights of the tree illuminating her body and making her amber eyes even more beautiful. "Pretty cool, don't 'cha think?"
"Do you have a solar powered oven?" Hikari asked.
Honoka giggled, as Nagisa replied with: "No, but you can use the fire pit over there if you want."
"Okay, thank you very much." Hikari grabbed a barbeque lighter and began to work. Even though Hikari had enough practice to know exactly what she was doing with this, Honoka kept a very close eye on her as she lit the stones in the pit. Sometimes, Honoka considered herself more of a protective mother to Hikari than a friend, even though they were only two years apart.
Hikari got Lulun and Pollun, who were just so packed with energy and excitement, to shake up the whipping cream as she warmed and eventually melted the real fudge and caramel over the fire. Once the cream was whipped enough, she put a lid on that saucer that was very similar to a regular whipped cream can, only it was steel, and sprayed a bunch of fresh whipped cream on each hot chocolate. Then, she topped the whipped cream with a couple of fresh, mini marshmallows, and drizzled it with hot fudge and caramel, and finally, shaved chocolate from Hikari herself.
Nagisa got different and sweet flavors bursting in her mouth, warming her up as she swallowed. "Leave it to Hikari to leave the ingredients fresh and delicious!"
Hikari lightly blushed as they kept going, since she wasn't used to being bathed in compliments.
Nagisa poked Mepple and Mipple's heartful communes up from a long nap. "Wake up guys, you have hot chocolate."
Everybody but Honoka was chatting amongst themselves. Yukishiro-san just held her steaming cup which its contents she personally thought were too sweet for her, and looked out the window. The storm is calming down now. They're just fat snowflakes dancing to the ground, how pretty. She turned back to her friends. "Guys?" She said quietly.
Nagisa was laughing deeply about something, swinging her head back. She had a high from the sugar rush and happiness.
"Wouldn't it be cool if we were all neighbours?" The black-haired asked, once again in a light tone.
"Eh?" Nagisa also responded quietly, her huge smile disappearing.
"You know." Honoka said. "If we all lived beside each other."
"Yeah, I've thought about that too." Nagisa looked at her Christmas tree. "Maybe one day."
The sound of the front door opening caught the girls' attention.
"…It's not like it's eating up into our savings, honey." They could hear Rie say.
"I know." Takeshi came back with. Nagisa could tell by the tone of his voice that he was frustrated. "But we had saved up just enough for our anniversary trip AND the family vacation next year."
Rie tugged at her husband's arm. "This is an opportunity for our whole family to go, AND some of Nagisa's friends."
"Yeah. This was meant for just us, though, that's all."
"It'll be fun honey, I promise." Rie kissed him lightly on the cheek.
Nagisa and her friends walked to the door. "Take the whole family and Nagisa's friends to what..?" Nagisa asked.
"Oh, kids." Rie said. "I didn't realize you were there. Well, we had a travel agent who only knew the very basics of Japanese, and she misunderstood us-"
"She thought we asked for two FAMILY PACKAGES, when we just asked for two people." Takeshi finished, with his head in his hands. "So we just paid for eight people on a trip to New York and now there's no way out of it."
"We get to go to New York!" Nagisa leaped for joy. "Ya-ta! I could invite Honoka and Hikari!"
"There would still be room for two extra after that, Nagisa." Honoka smiled. "I'm sure my grandmother would love to come."
"Yeah." Hikari blushed more than she ever had before. "And so would Akane-san." She never knew why, but every time Nagisa's parents were in the room Hikari felt embarrassed and blushed easily. This was Hikari crushing on Nagisa's father. It's typical for a young girl to have a little crush on an adult man, whether it is your teacher, dentist, or coach. However, this confused Hikari since she was still having difficulty fully understanding what a crush was.
The children were so busy being overjoyed with the situation that they were oblivious of her father going to bed early. But, this was just supposed to be for Rie and I.
Honoka's little rant about condensation was mostly helped from this following link:
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Anyways, has my writing gotten better? Please R&R =D