The next morning Tinagira woke up and was reminded that it was Sunday. Coffee Day. The one day she knew she could have coffee without the "Kids can't have coffee Tinagira, it's bad for you." But Sunday Tinagira's parents saw that day was for rewarding yourself and relaxing.
So she went downstairs and greeted her parents warmly. Another reason she liked Sundays was she could be with her parents without interruptions. No work, no school, no nothing, just a complete day with her parents. But every silver cloud has a very BIG black lining. Because that was the day they got slammed with phone calls, IMs, you name it.
Then it hit her, "Grrrrr… that "thing" it still in my room." I better feed "it"…Hope he likes "it'… evil smirk
When she got to her room she shoved the food scrapes under the bed; hoping that it would hurt him. Or at least hit him in the face. Hard. To her great satisfaction she heard a very annoyed grunt coming from under her bed. She suspected to then have a "all out brawl" but she didn't. For her pure curiosity she looked under the bed a saw that Giratina was still sleeping, and snoring loudly, with food smeared all over his face. "YOU LITTLE ANNOYING B!!" :-o
Immediately Giratina work up, looked at Tinagira and bellowed "YOU HOW DARE YOU TALK TO ME LIKE THAT!!"
"WELL IF YOU COULD QUIT BEING SUCH A PAIN IN THE A!!"
"THAT'S IT! I KNEW STAYING HERE WAS A BAD IDEA! FROM THE START! I KNEW IT! I KNEW IT! I KNEW-"
TINAGIRA! I'M NOT FOOLING! WHO ARE YOU TALKING TO?! WHO'S THAT MALE VOICE?! I WANT ANSWERS, NOW! OR YOU'RE GOING TO BE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE…"
"SHUT UP MOM!!"
"HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT TO YOUR OWN MOM! YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE NOW-"
"I SAID I'LL EXPLAIN LATER-"
"THAT'S IT I'M COMING UP! I DON'T CARE IF YOU HAVE NOTHIN' ON, DOING HOMEWORK, OF KILLIN' YOURSELF, WHICH YOU'LL WANT TO DO WHEN I'M DONE WITH YOU!! :-O "Oh crap I've done it now…"
Looking panicked, Tinagira saw that Giratina suddenly disappeared. "That loser…coward."
Tinagira's mom charged in like a raging bull or something, she never had seen her so mad. The reason why Tinagira was so shocked was when she usually got in trouble she got the "evil look" or the "just don't do it next time" thing. But what she just did was destroy her highest family value RESPECT YOUR ELDERS!!
The consequence was harsh, and what was it? You ask? Well it wazzzzzzzz…
1.No friends over (That's ok she didn't have any)
2. No Wii (worst punishment eva')
3. And I can't leave my room (unless it's school) (ABSOLUTELY THE WORST PUNISHMENT!!) (She had to listen to Giratina babble and insult her all day)
About two months later when her punishment was over, looking at the calendar she heard her mom say it was soon to be Thanksgiving. Her favorite holiday, sarcastically speaking of course. Who seriously likes a bunch of noxious, perfumed, unfashionable, and relatives askin' how are ya? How's school? And the ever feared "Look how tall you got!" Ugh! it the most sickening and terrible holiday ever. Just sickening. Period. The food is even worse, and why? If you haven't got the clue yet my parents are terrible cooks. Why do you think we have take-out all the time?
Going upstairs now feeling gloomier that she'd be spending all day tomorrow listening to boring adult conversations she decided to go upstairs and let off some steam.
When she got there she saw that Giratina was sitting very comfortably on her bed. Sigh "Giratina I'm not even going to get mad with you today. Not in the mood. Sigh Said Tinagira in a tired unhappy voice. "What's wrong?" Giratina questioned almost interested. "Well tomorrow's Thanksgiving."
"What's that?"
"Oh yeah you don't know it's a holiday where your relatives come over your house and your suppose to be thankful of what you have."
"Sounds dumb."
"Well it's not all that bad…"
"Well be lucky you even have a family…"
"What do you mean?"
"Oh never mind I shouldn't of told you."
"Come on please? Please?"
"Oh fine then sit down, this is a long story…"
"A long time ago in another dimension I had a family, a brother, sister, mother, father and me. I had a happy and wealthy life, nice clothes, yard, huge house, and every toy imaginable. Then tension set in. My father suddenly gave me the cold shoulder. He wouldn't talk to me. When we got into arguments he'd always take my brother and sister's side. He just Loved my brother and sister, 'There SO wonderful and perfect, why can't you be like that?' Then it got worse, he started yelling at me because I different from the rest of the family. But the cloud had a silver lining; I guess (rolling his eyes.) No matter what I did or was my mother loved me, unconditionally. She always was at my defense when my dad pressed charges against me when it wasn't fair to me."
"Then my dad left and never came back. It was during the middle of the night, packed his things and left, never said goodbye. In the morning when we all realized that he was gone a blanket of tense grief embraced us all. Many years later after we all recovered we were sleeping and I heard the fire alarm quickly I got myself out but I waited for the others. For two minutes I waited in pure anxiety, than without thinking I ran back into the house. Then…It…happened… I saw my mother fight my father thought the flames. When my father saw me he lunged. My mother block my father and screamed "GET OUT I'LL DEAL WITH HIM! GO! FORGET ME!" I ran out of the house and never looked back. Then I lived as a nomad and met my father again. He started to attack me, then I narrowly escaped. Then I meet you!
"That…that…that story it's…heart-breaking." Tinagira sobbed through tears. Just then she suddenly found herself crying on her bed into pillow. Giratina just telling a story he has never told anyone was pretty emotional as well. Then found himself crying and hugging the girl tightly in his own arms. Barely whispering she said "It's ok…ok…I'll be your family. You'll never be lonely again."
"Tinagira Dinnnnnnaaa!"
"I have to go…I'm sorry."
"That's ok"
Walking out of the room Giratina added, "Just come…back…"
When Tinagira came downstairs her parents were already at the table. "Ah! Tinagira what wrong with your face?!" Tinagira mother cried. "It look like you been crying!" "What's the matter?" "Tell me!"
"Oh that it's really nothing…"
The rest of dinner was uneventful except her mom started to talk about Thanksgiving. "Now remember Tinagira you are grateful for what we have. Right?" "Of course I am. I know what this Holiday means to me. What about you?" Shelly completely baffled by Tinagira's response could only say, "Why ask such a question?"
Tinagira already halfway up the stairs quietly responded "I know what this holiday means to me, a friend showed me how."
Tinagira walked slowly upstairs ignoring her parent murmurs and let the peace of her room embrace her like a fragrance. Giratina appeared and look slightly tired and hurt.
"So ummm…tell me more-only if you want to!- about your family. If you don't want to talk I understand. Completely."
"That's ok, I think I'm beginning to really trust you. So I'm going to tell you more. You're probably wondering about my parents. Their names? Not really important but if you must know theirs were Arzceaus (Ar-see-a-as) and Heyarku." (Hey-ark-oo) "My traitor brother and sister's names were Daiki (great tree) and Yukiko. (snow child) My own real name? It's ummm…Takahiro that means valuable or great. Obviously my mother named me, my dad would of named me Haisha which means 'Loser. My mother always saw something in me no one else saw. Something of value, but that thought was always beaten down by my father. That's ok. I don't really see my father anymore anyway.
Trying to change the subject seeing that Giratina started to get all emotional again. "So can I have a name? A cool Japanese name? Like your family's?" "Fine you can you could be Hakumei that means 'Twilight' you like it?" Tinagira or now Hakumei said, "I love it Giratina." Hugging Giratina. "Oh and seeing you have a Japanese name you can call me Takahiro. "Ugh look at the time! It's 10:00 already! Time to go to bed!"
This time Takahiro didn't run under the bed, he just sat there. "Wanna sleep with me in the bed tonight?" Immediately Takahiro's face lit up and said, "Never crossed my mind…"
Both Takahiro and Hakumei drifted off to a calm peaceful sleep.
