At Sakura's Place

After an hour of chit-chat… Now that it's 10.03am

*DingDong*

"The beauty queen finally arrives!" Sakura said as she opened the door. Hinata giggled.

"Wow, Ino!" Sakura gasped loudly, eyes nearly popping out of their sockets…

"What? What's wrong with me? Ino went wide eyed and looked at her clothes and her hair. She even took out a mini mirror from her pocket to check her face.

I spoke up "Ino! Are you going to a party or what? Your dress is so fancy that I can't even recognize you," Sakura and Hinata laughed …

"It's not like there'll be boys here" Sakura continued, still laughing.

"Hmpphh… Laugh all you can… Who knows maybe I'll…" Ino said bluntly.

"Meet your prince charming on the roads" Sakura continued her sentence for her. She had said this for at least 10 times as long as I knew her…

"Exactly!" Ino put her chin high up, proud of herself.

"Ok… Let's start now that everyone's here…" Sakura cupped her hands together. "Oh and Ino, can you read the instructions of the assignment to us again? Since you're just holding a file with the instruction paper in it." Sakura smiled and pointed at the folder.

Ino squinted at her. She opened the file and read the instructions out loud…

"Write a report about a science experiment you did and bring the model to school and present it. You may look it up in the Internet. Do it in a group with three members."

"What do you reckon?" Sakura looked at Hinata and Ino.

They remained silent for a few minutes, drowned in their thoughts… I said "I'll go up and get my lappy. To search the net."

"I'll come with you." Ino raised her left hand and intended to follow Sakura.

Sakura quickly demanded "No Ino! If you come upstairs, we'll never get the assignment done."

Ino pouted her lips like a child begging for sweets… "Awww… Not fair! Last time you went into my room…"

"Okay… We can go up as soon as we finished this… OK?"

Ino sat down on the couch and stare hard at the paper…

After a few minutes, Sakura came down carrying her white laptop and put it on the coffee table… "Come check this out!"

Ino and Hinata gathered at the screen and read the article while Sakura went to the kitchen and took some snacks.

"Ino! Coffee or tea?" Sakura shouted from the kitchen.

"COFFEE!" Ino shouted back.

When Sakura came out from the kitchen, they were chilling out on the couch so she assumed they had finished reading the article…

"So, how's it?" Sakura said as she handed the coffee to Ino and placed a bowl of chocolate chip cookies on the table.

Ino grabbed one of the cookies and munched it while saying "It's cool. And simple. We can do it."

"Yeah, it says if you immerse an egg in vinegar for 24 to 48 hours it'll become bouncy… We have lots of time to try this as the dateline is 3 days later." Hinata said excitedly.

"Alright. To make this easy. I'll just immerse the egg right now and you guys can come tomorrow to check out the egg…"

"The thing left is the report…" Hinata said.

"I HATE REPORTS! Especially long long ones! They're annoying" Ino complained burying her head into the pillow on the couch.

Sakura went in the kitchen again and took a container. She searched for the vinegar in each wardrobe and filled the container in the vinegar. She then went to the refrigerator and took out an egg and immersed it in the vinegar. Bubbles surrounded the egg. Sakura smiled and proceeded to the living room.

"Ok. About the report, we'll just do our parts. So who wants to do the introduction and the objectives? I will to do the conclusions since I can take a look at what happens to the egg anytime."

"I'll do the intro…I'll do the intro…" Ino raised her left hand waving it to me…

"Then I'll write the objectives." Hinata said quietly.

"So it's all settled!" Sakura said happily. "And tomorrow at the same time come to my house. We'll combine all our thoughts and make a report. OK?"

"Next stop, your room!" Ino looked at me, squinting her eyes, followed by a grin.

"Oh alright! You guys can go up…" Sakura said and rolled her eyes.

Ino disappeared into Sakura's room at that instant while Sakura carried her laptop and Hinata carried the bowl of cookies.

When they arrived at the bedroom door. Ino was there, lying on Sakura's bed holding and reading a fashion magazine.

"INO! GET OFF THE BED!" Sakura went mad. She doesn't like anyone lying on her bed including her best friend.

Ino crawled down the bed without even looking up. Suddenly she dashed up to Hinata and pointed a page in the magazine to her. "Hinata, this is for you." She took the bowl of biscuits and ate another one of the cookie and passed Hinata the magazine.

"How to get a boy's attention?" Hinata blushed as she read out the heading.

"Naruto, that is." Ino said boldly. Ino and Sakura giggled together.

Ino snatched the mag from Hinata and said "I'll read out the points that you don't possess. You should improve on those." Ino said.

Chapter 2 ends right here. Guys, you can suggest me what to include in Chapter 3.

xhanabi