Dun dun dun da dun! Yay for chapter 3!! Hope you all enjoy! Sorry the last one was so boring, this one gets better with some JimHotaru fluff
Still don't own Yu-Gi-Oh T-T
...Chapter 3...
My Cake (That is not a lie!)
After we wandered around for a few minutes, talking about nothing really important, we decided that it was best if Jim and Jesse get to there classes early since it was there first day.
"We'll see you guys later!" Aki waved them off as they headed off toward there first class as Duel Academy students.
"So, what are you gonna do Hotaru?"
I pinched the bridge of my nose again…I really hated working so early in the morning
"I have to read through the dumb rules before the assembly starts today after school"
"That's right! It was your turn to give the assembly this time huh? Sorry you got such a major one…"
While we all worked on the assembly as a whole, the student council worked in shifts as to who would do all of the public speaking. And this assembly was all me, but the rules came so late, I was going to have work supper fast to make the assembly on time.
"Need any help? I don't mind missing a few classes…" she grinned
I pffted at her and forced her to her class. If there was anyone that needed to take the classes, it was Aki. She was a stellar duelist, but her grades…not so much.
So, I made my way down to the storage, cleared myself a space to sit, and I started to read through the massive paper work.
As I read, I thought it was strange, the number of folders for such a simple event, the detail the rules had, and this weird device to be issued to all participants...biobands? What a weird name...still it wasn't my place to question. I put the papers I had just read back into the folder and shuffled around and placed it onto the 'already read' pile, the tiny stack I had read, was slowly growing larger.
Suddenly I heard a bell ring and I jumped. I looked up at the clock on the wall and it was almost time for the assembly, where did the time go? I decided that I knew enough about this thing that I could at least give a decent assembly.
I stood up and stretched my arms up and over my head and weaved my way through the pile of papers and left the small room. As I walked, I stopped dead in my tracks in front of a vending machine. My mouth watered and my eyes traced imaginary lines around the inside of the glass case, I deserve a little snack after all that work right? I thought about what I wanted and finally decided on a spongy, yellow, cream-filled cake that looked delicious from this side so I slid my money into the slot and pushed the numbers 'A-08', the same number as the one under my cream-filled cake. I waited as the wheel under the cake spun and forced the cake out and it dropped down to the bottom, but to my surprise, the little wheel kept going and another cream-filled cake dropped down.
"Yay! This must be my reward for working so hard!"
I cheered to myself as I bent down to pick up my cakes. I let a huge smile escape across my face as I pulled the clear wrapping down around the sides of the cake and I took the first bite. I walked down a set of stairs and took another bite of my cake as I turned the corner and found myself in front of the indoor pool area. As I walked by the large glass windows, I looked down at the pool and my eyes traced along the edge of the pool until they came to a figure. The figure looked like it was lying down against a green lump...wait, I knew that lump...Sherly? It was, without a doubt, and that meant the figure was Jim. I chuckled to myself...I had an idea...
I walked through a break in the walls, and walked down the steps that were directly after the opening, my heels clicking against the concrete as I took my steps. As I neared the bottom I slowed down and took careful steps as I got closer to Jim, he was sleeping with his head resting on Sherly's back, though I couldn't tell if she was sleeping too because her eyes were open, did crocodiles sleep with there eyes open? I couldn't remember, so I shoved that thought strand out of my brain and continued to creep toward Jim.
I took about three more strides from the bottom of the stairs and I was standing over Jim, I had been quiet enough that I didn't wake him, but that would soon change. I bent down and brought my torso against my knees and I set the cakes, one still unopened and the other with a few bites taken out of it, down next to me and I leaned over Jim. I leaned in closer and...
"BOO!"
"CRIKY!" he shouted as his eyes, well eye, shot open and he jolted upward. I leaned back just in time or else he would have crashed into me.
"So Australians do say that!"
As he sat there trying to catch his breath I let out a laugh at his over dramatic reaction. He then turned his gaze to me and he shot me a glare, I guess my joke wasn't as funny to him as it was to me, so I just waved my hand up and down and said "Sorry, but I couldn't resist" I let out another small laugh.
"Right…" he let out a breath
"Sorry...well if it makes you feel any better, I did come over here for a real reason…" he looked over at me, curious now
"Really? And what's that?"
I pointed down at Sherly and smiled
"I wanted to talk to Sherly, if that's alright…"
He looked at me with wide eyes and leaned back a little in surprise, I guess it was a little weird to talk with an alli-er-crocodile, but this was important.
"Sure, I don't see why not, but watch yourself though, she really only trusts me sheila"
He leaned down to her and tapped her on her head with a smile across his face
"C'mon girl, rise-en-shine, you have a guest"
"Great, piss it off…" I thought. It didn't look smart but I had to assume that Jim knew what he was doing. "…But they really do seem to have a special connection"
So Sherly was awake too and she looked up at me with her large yellow eyes. I then leaned down with my hands pressed against the concrete. I was eye-snout level with her.
"Sherly, I just wanted to say that I'm sorry for stepping on your tail earlier, and for screaming so loud, and for being scared of you,"
Wow, guess I won't be making any crocodile friends anytime soon...
"Anyway, I just wanted to say sorry for hurting your tail, ears, and feelings...I wish I could make it up to you..."
I thought for a moment and then I jolted up to look at Jim
"Jim, can I give Sherly a snack?"
"Um, sure sheila, but what are yea' gonna give her?"
I glanced over at the small pile beside me consisting of my cakes, one still unopened and the other still partly eaten. I reached over and picked up the unopened cake and held it up to Jim
"Can I give her one of these?"
He eyed it for a moment and then nodded
"Sure, I don't know if she'll like it though"
"Yay! You're gonna like these Sherly, I promise!"
I opened the cake and pulled it out of it's wrapper and I stopped and thought for a moment before I spoke
"Um...Jim, how should I feed her?"
It wasn't everyday that I feed a crocodile, so this was a first for me. He stared at me for a moment and then he let out a laugh, "It's just so nice that he finds me missing a finger funny…" I thought as I shot him a glare and pouted before he leaned over and took my hand in his. His hand was so...warm, I could feel my face heat up as he held my hand between his.
"All you have to do is hold it like this and remember to keep your fingers flat"
He positioned the cake in the middle of my flattened palm and he leaned back as I lowered my hand to Sherly's mouth.
"Here Sherly, try one of these"
She opened her mouth and it engulfed my hand. I gasped and Jim smiled over at me and said "Your alright, don't worry" I gulped and she pulled her mouth back and the cake was gone. I let out a sigh of relief as I held up my hand and flexed the fingers
"Look Jim, all five fingers!"
He gave a light laugh as he patted Sherly on the head and smiled down at her
"Sherly's really taken a liking to yea' Sheila"
"Really? So you liked the cake then Sherly?"
She let out a very pleasant sounding growl. I smiled and laughed and then I sat back up.
"It's funny…" I said with a light chuckle
"What?" he said as I stretched out my hand and petted Sherly's head
"Even though she's….well, an animal, she has her own personality. I mean, take just now for example, she growled and even though we speak in totally different ways, I still understood her and knew she was happy" I smiled and laughed a little and held my lightly clutched hand up to cover my mouth "Sorry, now you probably think I'm nuts huh?"
He shook his head "Not at all sheila, in fact, your probably the first person to see Sherly the same way I do, as someone who feels the same feelings we do. The only difference between us is the way we both display those feelings, like happiness and sadness and…"
"And love…" "Wait, LOVE?! What did I just say?!"
he turned his head away in embarrassment. Why was I such an idiot?
Just then the bell rang and I pulled out my cell phone and checked the time.
"Shoot! The assembly's about to start! Jim we have to go!"
"It's that late already?"
He nodded and put Sherly pack into her holster on his back and when ran up the stairs out the small opening.
Sigh…I guess I wasn't ever aloud to on time was I?
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Oh ho! What is going to happen?!
Will they make it to the assembly on time?!
Will Hotaru ever be on time?!
And will pigs ever fly?!
Well, yes to the first, no to the second and 'what the hell' to the third. Now where's that monkey I need to shoot something!
Can't wait to see you in chapter 4!! ;)