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"Hello? Is anyone there?" said Sakaki.
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Chapter Three--
"Hey Sakaki who was that?" Tomo asked Sakaki as she sat down and put her cell phone away.
Yomi rolled her eyes at her best friend.
"Tomo, of course she doesn't know. She was asking the person on the other end of the line!"
"They could have answered already moron!"
"Why do you have to get straight into name calling already what are we in grade school?"
Sakaki remained quiet. She knew that if Tomo started something then the argument would take a little while to die down.
"No we're not but your brain might be!" Tomo added with a laugh.
She stood up ready to bolt just in case…
"Shut up you idiot!!" Yomi barked.
… Just in case she crossed the line again and inspired severe expressions of violent rage out of Yomi.
"Uh oh." Tomo said before running off while calling still calling insults behind her back. " That's it Yomi run! Maybe it'll…"
"Don't you finish that sentence!!" Yomi warned.
… "help you lose weight!" … Tomo finished.
"GRRARGH!!"
When they were out of sight (though unfortunately still not out of earshot) Sakaki checked her phone again just in case the person had called back.
'I'm not exactly sure, but I thought I heard Chiyo-chan's voice at the other end of that line.' She thought.
"It's been a while since we've seen Chiyo-chan huh?"
Sakaki nearly jumped out of her skin.
She had forgotten that Osaka was sitting right behind her. Well in the sense that she was lying down asleep more like.
"It sure was a nice day to go out for a picnic huh?" mused the young space cadet.
"Umm, yeah. It was a good idea. Maya is enjoying himself." Said Sakaki looking out at the playful wildcat, glad that Osaka had dropped her Chiyo-chan train of thought.
Sakaki did not at all like the idea that Osaka was channeling whatever was going on in her own head.
"Yeah… it has been a while since we last saw Chiyo-chan and Kagura." Said Osaka again making Sakaki jump.
"God Yomi you didn't have to hit me so hard! You barbarian!" said Tomo, who had just wandered back over rubbing her head.
Sakaki got up and walked off to play with Maya. Tomo and Yomi had returned bringing the warzone too close for her liking. And Osaka was starting to scare her.
"You're making me want to hit you again Tomo just sit down!" replied an exasperated Yomi.
"We graduate at the end of this year and all you're still as annoying as you were in grade school."
"Hey you're right we are graduating at the end of this year." Tomo nodded completely ignoring the last part of Yomi's sentence.
"Are we going to do anything special?" asked Osaka who found herself to be without someone to talk to.
"Like what go to Chiyo-chan's summer home?"
Tomo slapped Yomi on the back while wearing a gigantic smile on her face.
"Yomi you're such a moron." She said calmly while shaking her head. "Chiyo-chan isn't here. It would be rude to just show up at her summer house without her being there don't you think?"
"We went last summer! At your insistence!"
"Chiyo-chan said we could!"
Yomi collapsed in a heap.
"Pain is my punishment for arguing with an idiot…"
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About a hundred metres away.
"Maya… do you miss Chiyo-chan?" Sakaki asked while petting the wildcat and scratching lightly behind his ears.
"Meow."
"Yeah… me too." Sakaki admits before closing her eyes and falling into a light nap.
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"So… anyway are we going to do anything special?" asked Tomo who was now set on the idea.
"What did you have in mind?" Yomi begrudgingly offered knowing that Tomo would have just kept on asking if she didn't acknowledge her question the first time around.
"I don't know."
"What a surprise."
"Why don't we fly over to America to see Chiyo-chan and Kagura?" asked Osaka who was back to lying on the grass 'head to head' with Yomi.
"We can't just go to America."
"Yeah! America! Let's go to America!!" Tomo said in a sing song voice.
Yomi shut her eyes tight.
"America, America! Let's all go to America!" Tomo sang over and over with Osaka joining her every few repeats.
"Tomo, you know that time in grade school when you asked if you could sit next to me?"
"America, Ameri.. huh? Oh yeah what about it?"
"I should have said no." Yomi deadpanned.
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A cell phone starts ringing and the three girls all check their own.
"Not mine." said Osaka.
"Not me either." said Yomi.
"Mine," said Tomo.
The other two waited for to answer it.
… The cell phone kept ringing…
"Pick it up already!" said Yomi once again annoyed.
"I lied."
"What?!"
"I lied. It's wasn't mine at all."
"I can't believe you just lied to us like.."
"Hello?"
Yomi and Tomo both turned their heads to look at Osaka speaking on Sakaki's phone.
"Osaka that's just so rude…" said Yomi with disbelief in her voice.
"You can't just pick up other people's phones like that you know." Added Tomo, who was a little annoyed the thought hadn't occurred to her first.
Osaka just nodded.
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In America
Kagura was hiding under her covers just in case Chiyo-chan returned from the bathroom.
"Hello? Sakaki is that you? Sakaki? Come to America Sakaki! I can't really tell you why… but I'm gonna need you to come to America!" Kagura said in a hurried whisper.
"It's not Sakaki." Kagura heard Osaka's voice at the other end of the line.
"Osaka listen to me! I have to hurry ok? Chiyo's just in the bathroom…"
"Put it on speaker! … Dammit! Gimme that!"
A couple of beeps later Kagura found herself talking to three of her friends. None of them the one she actually expected to be talking to.
"Kagura! Hey! It's Tomo Takino the wildcat high.. oh.. wait.."
"Idiot. Hey Kagura it's me Yomi."
"And me." Osaka added trying to keep herself from spacing out as usual.
"Guys hey I have to hurry. Is Sakaki there? I need to ask her a favour."
"Guess what Kagura! We're going to America!" Tomo said, happily ignoring whatever it was she thought Kagura was actually saying.
"Look I really really really need to hurry, wherever she is… this is gonna sound crazy but I'm gonna ask her to come to America."
Kagura heard the lock of the bathroom door click and prayed for mercy.
Chiyo-chan walked into the room, spotted Kagura on the phone and froze.
"Kagura! Who are you talking to?!" Chiyo asked pulling the covers straight off her friend, although she knew the answer as soon as she saw the look Kagura was giving her.
"Uh…"
"You called Miss Sakaki?!"
Chiyo took a deep breath and waited for sense to return to her.
… "You CALLED… Miss SAKAKI?!"
Unfortunately sense did not return.
She was about to pounce on Kagura when she heard a familiar voice, different to the one she'd been expecting.
"Hiiiiiii Chiyo-chan. We're coming to America!!!" Tomo yelled loudly over the phone.
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('Chiyo-chan?') Sakaki asked, waking from her nap before ambling over still rather sleepy. Tomo's voice carried far indeed.
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("Stop telling them that, nothing's been finalised yet…") mumbled Yomi.
Chiyo visibly relaxed.
"Tomo? Tomo! Ooh, I get it, you're inviting Tomo to be your date for the ball! Sorry Kagura I'm just a little jumpy. I thought you actually called Sakaki."
Chiyo-chan giggled before adding; "I think I would have fainted if I heard her voice."
Kagura shrugged and gave a nervous giggle.
"Hey is that Chiyo-chan on the phone?" asked Sakaki when she got back to her group.
Kagura's mouth dropped open and she was about to protect her head from the pain Chiyo-chan could possibly be wanting to unleash when she heard a 'thud'.
"Oh my God!! Chiyo!!"
"What's wrong? Is Chiyo ok?"
"Uh… fine. Chiyo… fine, sorry Sakaki I'm gonna have to call you back.."
Kagura throws the phone on the bed and kneels down next to a fainted Chiyo-chan.
"Oh my God you actually fainted… Chiyo? You're gonna kill me when you come to aren't you?"
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A.N: Read and review if you like it thanks for reading. More to come very soon!
