"Hohoho!"
"Huhuhu!"
"Bwahahaha!"
"Hmmm…"
"WHAT?"
Voices of girls were coming out from the back of a white door –located at the corner of a living room- which had a logo, 'Do Not Disturb!'.
Inside the room were 2 girls who lied messily on a bed that had beautiful flowery patterns. Each of them had a book on their hands.
One, had a long dark uncombed wavy hair with length that nearly reached her waist. She left her hair untied. The other had a brown and reddish curly hair that reached to her shoulders, and 'decorated' with different types of purple pins in order to prevent her fringe coming down to her face, so that she could read her book comfortably.
They stare and read their own books seriously. Sometimes in the middle of reading, they scratched their heads, they smile, and they giggled, and even laughed out loud. They were totally attached to the plots of their books that they ignored everything else.
But, what kind of book were they reading?
Let's try guessing.
Is there any recipes books that can make the readers change their emotions slightly, from sad to happy, very quickly?
I don't think so.
Or maybe a school textbook that instead of making the person learning something out of it, the person that is reading is laughing hysterically.
That is of course very rare...
Maybe a phone book? No! A Dictionary! Please…! A Holy Bible?
Absolutely wrong!
They were reading a type of book with pictures, panels, and dialogue balloons. They are reading a comic book. Specifically, a Japanese comic book or Manga.
On the left side of the bed, lied a pile of comic books. The comic books were also covering the floor, messily.
"Hey Dena! Why don't we try and join a fast reading manga contest? We will definitely win!" said the girl with the wavy hair to the curly girl.
"Of course Shira! And guess what! I found another cute guy!" said the curly girl excitedly,
"A real life cute guy or…?" Shira, the wavy haired girl, asked.
"He's here! In the manga called Kocchi Muite Miiko, by Ono Eriko! He's name is Tappei! And… Wow!" Dena, the curly girl, cried with blush on her cheeks.
"Let me see!" Shira said curiously, as she took the manga from Dena's hands.
"Eww! No! Look at the people here, they are all chibis! Are you fond of little kids?" Shira cried, after a quick glance of the manga.
"You have to read it many times. First time I saw him, my comments were the same with yours, but after several times reading it, you will looove him! I swear! Read it!" Dena said excitedly.
Shira looked at Dena for a while, sighed and decided to follow her best friend's 'instructions'.
While they were reading again, let us discuss about their craziness.
Reading a comic book is a normal thing. Very normal. But not for these two young ladies. Now, they already reached the age of 15, a preteen age, where they actually should have left the comic world a little bit, and start reading some serious novels.
(The weirdness above is nothing, compared to the one that we are going to discuss next.)
Actually, Shira is a 15 year old sweet girl that likes sport, Chinese martial arts, and other form of arts. She definitely had already stopped reading her comics after Grade 6. She started reading novels like Harry Potter, novels written by Jacqueline Wilson and many more. When watching television, Shira always choose MTV, HBO or Animal Planet, and sometimes Disney Channels just to watch some of the teen shows like That's So Raven. From all of this, we can see that Shira is walking a normal teenage girl path, smoothly.
Everything changed by the time Shira started to resume her contact with her genius best friend, Dena
Dena loved her childhood period like she loved her school textbooks. She choose to watch Nickelodeon for cartoon shows like Spongebob Square Pants or Rugrats, she also choose Cartoon Network and Disney Channel, worst Playhouse Disney (a show designed for kindergarten audience)! But, Dena's best channel is AnimaX. AnimaX channel is a channel for Japanese animations or Anime that is adapted from some Japanese manga's. Dena also cannot erase her love to the comic books.
Every time Shira communicate with Dena on the phone, Dena would always talk about what she just saw in the AnimaX program and her newest comic books. Shira started to pay attention to Dena's hobbies.
Dena's mother went to India for 4 years because of her work and she decided to put Dena to Shira's family's care. Where a year ago, Shira's father has to do some business in USA that made Shira's mother and sisters to move along too. Shira decided to stay to finish her High school first. Both Shira and Dena had just graduated from Junior High School.
Shira decided to live in a small rented house together with Dena, under the supervision of Shira's family's nanny that sometimes checked for once in a week. At the time, Dena poisoned Shira's mind with manga and anime.
Until one day, after a long and hard day at school, Shira landed her tired self to the living room couch and turned on the TV. She flicked to the AnimaX channel and watched the channel just out of curiousity. Unexpectedly, she could stand it for 2 hours in front of the TV without changing into other channels. Dena had jinxed her!
Starting that day, they started saving their money to buy manga together. They hunted for the newest Anime Series VCD. They became an official buyer for anime magazines, and sold glasses of orange juice to add their savings so that they could buy more manga and anime. They made a very silly club called Comic Freaks who didn't even have any members except themselves, and they already had more than 200 comics. They owned it together.
They were very attracted to the male hero's in their favorite manga's. They praised those hero's and stated that they couldn't ever find a guy in the real life as great as their fictional hero's. From their manga collections, they made a special glass cupboard to put their favorite manga.
There was only one manga inside the cupboard:
Cardcaptor Sakura by CLAMP.
In a short time, the number of the special manga will increase, and perhaps it already had, after what Dena mentioned about Kocchi Muite Miiko!.