Chocolate Pudding-chan: CONTINUATION.


Standing right inside the doorway, Tart inspected the heavily-decorated café. The lights were dimmed, and upbeat "musak" was streaming from speakers. Guys in tuxes and girls in frilly dress frolicked about with their glasses of punch.

Girls in frilly dresses. "Guess I'm one of them now." Taruto winced.

"Hey there!" said a sickly sweet voice from, well, above him.

Momomiya Ichigo.

"Oh, GAG!"

"Aren't you……" Ichigo paused, looking over the kid in front of her.

"Haven't you developed early, haha.." "Look at her! Those things are huge! But she can't be more than 11…." Ichigo thought. But she tried to make cheerful smalltalk.

"What's your name?"

"Dang! Think of something, idiot!" Tart frantically tried to come up with a suitable female name.

"Uh, it's…Kalina. Yeah!" he laughed nervously.

"Of course. Kish's sister's name. Figures."

"Well, I'll be seeing you. Bye!" Ichigo tromped away in her heels to go squeal about gossip with one of her school-friends.

Tart timidly wandered through the café, fiddling hopelessly with his bra strap.

"How do girls wear these all the time?! So itchy…"

"Hello! What's your name?"

Tart knew that voice.

"Oh no…"

"Kalina. Hi." Tart said flatly, facing none other than Pudding Fon.

"Hey! I'm Pudding! That's a cute dress! You like mine? How'd you do your hair that way? Have you been here before?"

The rapid fire questions; he should have been expecting this.

He inspected the yellow and peachy dress she had on, adorned with ribbons all over.

"Gross…" is what he thought.

"Oh!" he said making his voice sound as high-pitched as possible "Very cute! Love the bows! I don't know how it got this way, and yes." He fibbed a little. A lot.

"As soon as I get out of here, Kish is getting such a black eye…."

"OOH! Thank you! You're nice, we should be friends!" She said excitedly, following her statement by giving him a hug.

"Even as a girl I can't escape this!"

"Sure! Totally. See ya'." He said quickly, maneuvering himself towards the snack table.

He was so mesmerized by the layout of junk food that he almost forgot he wasn't supposed to be there.

Stuffing a pastry into his mouth, be made a small consideration that maybe this wasn't so bad. Until:

"Hey."

Tart looked up to see the blonde Ryou Shirogane smirking down at him.

Tart was thinking "WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST LEAVE ME ALONE TO EAT?!"

Ryou, oblivious to the fact that "Kalina" was actually only ten (And actually wasn't a girl), was thinking: "Woah, she's pretty short, but look at he size of those bazookas!"

He bent down so they were face-to-face. "So what are you? Fourteen? Sixteen?"

"Ten."

"Ten?! You've got some melons for a ten-year-old!"

"Erm, they're oranges…."

"What?"

"Nothing! I GOTTA PEE!" Tart scrambled to the bathroom, making sure he went through the door that said "Ladies"

"Mental scars…."


Chocolate Pudding-chan: Behold.