Chapter 3: HEY GUYS! Sorry it took me SO long to write the next chapter but I had school, cosplay...and life...yeah ANYWAYS recently I have been proof reading my own chapters but today my beta reader was able to proof read it ^-^. Well, she's not really be "beta reader" but she always reads the chapter before I post it since she's so good at grammar...and I'm not...yeah...okies onto the chapter ^-^! Reviewing and favoriting is appreciated!
Drowsily opening my eyes, I woke up to the sound of my alarm clock bursting into my ears.
"Uggggh," I groaned out rolling over hitting my alarm clock multiple times until it finally shut up.
Sitting up I rubbed my tired eyes and started to head down stairs. Just after opening my door I could tell Chang had already made breakfast by the smell that filled the house. Making my way down the stairs I stifled a yawn as I entered the kitchen. Chang was over by the stove in his pink apron, cooking the rest of the breakfast that hadn't arrived on the table (he always insists on making big breakfasts). Kiwi (my sister) was sitting at the table already attacking her pancakes with strawberries.
"Good morning Cati-cati!" Chang said looking over to me with a smile on his face.
As soon as I sat down at the table Chang placed a plate of bacon on the table.
"Eat up! You have big day today!" he said cheerfully.
"Oh I have your and Kiwi's uniforms on da couch," he added in.
"We know Chang," I giggled, "you've been doing that since we were little."
"I know," he said patting my head.
After eating breakfast and getting dressed we all got into the car and proceeded to head to school.
Leaning my head against the head rest, I yawned, still tired from last night's escapades.
"Soooooooo~," I heard Kiwi say.
Oh no….
"What went on yesterday?" She said turning her head towards me.
Sighing I sat up (or leaned up I guess you could say) and rubbed my eyes.
"Well it all started when Miko headed home and I stayed to paint the rest of my sword. That's when I met the most enthusiastic blonde in my entire life…"
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After explaining everything to Kiwi we had finally arrived at school. We parted our ways as Kiwi headed over to the junior high and I headed over to the high school.
"BYE BYE!" Chang rang out waving out the window of the car.
I couldn't help but giggle at how giddy Chang always is, despite his old age.
"Bye!" Kiwi called out.
"Bye Chang!" I called out as well.
Chang then drove off like the crazy maniac he is, leaving skid marks on the rode like usual.
"See you after school!" I called out to Kiwi before she became out of ear shot.
"Well not right after!"
"Why?!"
"Art club!"
"OH YEAH!~"
I forgot. She did mention that last night….shows how awake I was.
"GOOD LUCK BEING TIRED AT SCHOOL!" She said smirking.
Oh…that cocky little…
"GOOD LUCK ON THAT TEST!" I shot back very annoyed.
Looking pretty annoyed herself she yelled, "LOVE YOU!" and then stomped off.
"LOVE YOU TOO!" I yelled back stomping off as well.
Yeah….this kinda happens sometimes….
Quickly walking into the school I tried to devise a plan to avoid Miko.
There's no doubt that he already showed up to school to check on the drama club stuff…if he saw the new background I'm dead…but I'm sure he didn't. He would have had to take it down, but then again he likes checking on things!...Heh, I'm worrying too much~ I'm sure-
Deep in thought, I wasn't paying much attention and I walked right into someone.
It had to be 'him'…..
"Hey Cati-chan!" an over enthusiastic blonde exclaimed.
"Oh hey," I said shaking my head from its thoughts, "sorry I didn't mean to bump into you."
"Oh its ok~. I wasn't paying attention either!" he replied with a giggle.
Titling his head to the side he seemed to be studying my face.
"You ok Cati-chan?"
"Oh-um-yeah…I was just wondering how Miko is going to react to a new backdrop and all….and how I'm going to explain it to him if he notices it's a new one….which he will," I said with a groan, letting my head drop.
"It's gunna be ok! I'll be there to back you up! It was my fault after all," Nagisa said sheepishly, putting his hand on my shoulder.
"Heh, thanks, but I have to go before my class starts. It was nice talking to you," I said waving about to walk off.
"Wait!" Nagisa exclaimed, latching onto my wrist.
"What?"
"I was wondering if you wanted to come to the opening of our pool! It should be in the next few days…or even as early as tomorrow…well maybe not that early," he said laughing at himself.
"Ummm I don't know. I might be busy and I really don't know anyone on your team. Well I know of them but nothing more than that. Won't it be weird to have a random person there who isn't even a part of the team?"
"Nawwww," he said waving his hand and continued saying, "you're my friend now and I'm sure Gou-chan would LOVE to meet you! And Mako-chan is really nice and you already met Haru-chan! PLEAAAASE!"
Sighing, I knew if I said no he would just keep on begging and I would end up being late or almost late to class.
"Alright," I said with a sigh, "but as long as I'm not busy."
"YAY! See you later Cati-chan!" Nagisa said tacking me in a hug and running off waving.
As he ran down the hall and turned the corner I shook my head and sighed.
"He sure is a character…."
I then headed off to class hoping if I ran into Miko he wouldn't have noticed the new backdrop….
I'm so dead…
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I met up with Miko (and my other fellow drama-clubians) right before lunch and I was surprised Miko didn't even mention anything about the play. We mainly just talked about what we were going to do on the weekend, what cosplay we were going to do next, and the usual things that would pop up in our conversation. After that, we headed off to Digital arts and then had to part ways for our last class at the end of the day. So after I went through an hour of Journalism, I headed off to drama club and I have to say….I was really tired.
Ambling over to the drama club theatre I stifled a yawn.
Great…..just great….this is not the time to be tired!
Opening the door I walked in to see Miko and a few other people getting ready. Even though I made sure everything was ready for tomorrow's show didn't mean we had all the time in the world. The play started at 8:00 and we still had to rehearse and get everyone into costume. Glancing up at the clock I checked to see what time it was.
Ok its 3:05...I still got A LOT of time.
Before I could even walk down to the stage, Miko noticed me and waved. Waving back I walked down to meet him. Making my way onto the stage I yawned once more.
"Soooo *yawn* how's everything coming along?"
"Good, great in fact! Just doing some last things to the lighting and then it's onto rehearsal. So how did you get here so early? Don't you usually go over to the middle school to see Kiwi after school?"
"Yeah but she had an art club thing today."
"What?"
"I said-"
"No I know what you said…but that can't be right," Miko said putting a hand to his chin in deep thought.
"Why not?"
"Well I'm surprised you can't see it."
"Can't see what?"
"They only have art club on Mondays and Wednesdays."
Narrowing my eyes I said, "That little-she pulled the wool right over-but why? Where would she be-," I continued to say as I walked off to see where my sister's whereabouts were.
"I'll see you when you get back!" Miko called out to me before I stomped out of the theatre.
"Why the heck would she lie?! She must be up to something! Something she doesn't want me to know about! But what?" I asked myself as I jogged over to the middle school.
I ended up running into one of Kiwi's friends who she was supposed to go home with after the art club.
"HEY!" I called out waving my hand as I ran up to her.
Her back was to me, so I couldn't see her face, but the way she froze I knew she knew something.
Walking up to her I said, "Soooooo where's Kiwi? And shouldn't you be at the art club meeting?"
With eyes as wide a saucers, it took her some time to find her voice, "U-uh oh yeah, um I just had to get something before I went to the art club meeting- BUT SHE'S THERE!"
Rolling my eyes I said with no emotion, "where is she?"
"WELL SHE DIDN'T TAKE YOUR CAMERA SO SHE COULD TAKE PICTURES OF THAT NEW SWIM CLUB THAT ALWAYS WORKS ON THIS POOL AFTER SCHOOL IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE THINKING! NOPE! NOT AT ALL!" She said with a shaking smile.
Patting her head I said, "Thanks and don't worry I won't tell Kiwi you ratted her out."
"Thank you," she squeaked, running off.
Looks like I'm going to see this pool Nagisa was talking about a lot sooner than I thought.
***5 min time skip***
After asking one of the staff members at our school, they told me where the pool was located. Speedwalking down to the pool I was talking to myself like usual….
"I can't believe she took my camera without permission! What if she breaks it! What if they've already filled the pool with water and she gets it wet?!"
Looking up ahead I saw the pool coming into sight. I made my steps as quiet as possible as I stalked up towards the pool. I pressed my back up against the wall and peeked around the corner to see if I could spot her. Sure enough I saw her crouching down behind a small hedge…with my camera. I tried to devise a plan to see how I could get to her without being seen….I really couldn't find any good ideas but I thought I'd give it a shot anyways. Crouching down I quickly slipped over in the direction my sister was. Looking back up, I saw that they were all concentrated on something other than me so I thought it was safe to confront her.
In a high whisper I said, "What do you think you're doing?!"
Quickly turning around she replied, whispering as well, "Suki ratted me out didn't she?"
"That's not the key issue right now! Now what are you doing?! That's MY camera."
"Oh calm down. I got some really good shots," She said with a devious smile.
"Give me that!" I said trying to grab the camera away.
"No."
"Kiwi give it!"
"No! I'm not doing anything wrong and the camera is just fine!"
We started to wrestle over the camera while arguing (in high whispers mind you), but we made sure not to wrestle to the point where the camera would be damaged.
"KIWI-"
"HEY CATI-CHAN!" I heard an all too familiar voice shout out.
oh crap…..
Looking up from Kiwi (who I was hovering over) I saw wasn't crouching low enough and my back and the top of my head was visible.
How the heck did this guy know that it was me?! I mean all you can see is my back!
"Oh um…Hi Nagisa," I said putting on a smile.
"So what are you doing here Cati-chan? Shouldn't you be getting ready for the play?"
"Oh yeah, I was just taking a little walk and-, "I said as I grabbed Kiwi's wrist and the camera in one swoop,"-just picking up something."
"See ya later," I said grunting as I started to drag Kiwi away.
"I LOVE YOU GUYS!" she called out with a "thumbs up," as she was dragged away.
As we became out of earshot Makoto said to Nagisa, "Was that a camera?"
"YUP!"
Sooo how did this chapter go?~ Hopefully better than the last one XD! Thanks for all the followers and favorites! And as always suggestions and comments are always appreciated! C U in the NXT update! Cly****
