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Chapter 4

Bijou was walking down towards Emily's house. She could feel light tears dribbling down her cheeks and wiped at them furiously. Suddenly, she bumped into something. Her head jerked up and gasped.

A huge black cat was watching her hungrily. Its bright green eyes met Bijou's sapphire eyes and backed up, ready to pounce. Bijou couldn't move. Her joints were jammed in place, her ribs cracking in fear, knowing the pain that was about to be given to the hamster.

The cat bent down.

Badda Badda… Badda Badda…

A deep growl came up from its throat.

I hope that I can change her mind…

The cat's ears flattened against its head. Bijou was trembling with fear by now.

C'mon, feet! Go faster!

Its claws flew out of its black, furry paws.

Almost there!

The cat's leaped for Bijou, but found itself hit the concrete below it instead of catching its prey. The cat was confused, turning swiftly around to catch a sight of the white hamster.

Hamtaro gripped Bijou's mouth firmly and held Bijou close, fearing the cat might find them. The two hamsters were in the alley behind a trashcan, gasping for breath. Bijou struggled to pry Hamtaro's paws off her, but failed. Hamtaro didn't care. All he wanted was that Bijou would be safe for the trouble he caused.

Finally, the cat walked away, seeing if the two hamsters ran another way. Hamtaro let out a sigh of relief and finally released his paw off of Bijou's mouth. Bijou was gasping for breath and she looked at Hamtaro as if he was an idiot. She finally straightened her ribbons and started walking back to Emily's house. Hamtaro caught up to her and gave her a pleading look.

"Where are you going?" he asked desperately. Bijou only looked away and muttered, "Home."

"You can't go back!" He screeched Bijou to a stop and Bijou replied, "Vy? You 'ave already caused enough trouble for me."

"Bijou! Wait! That was only a misunderstanding!" Hamtaro urged. That got Bijou's attention. She looked at him blankly and waited for an explanation.

"What I said- I didn't mean it." Hamtaro was deeply blushing right now and Bijou knew what was coming. He took a deep breath.

"I don't like you. I love you," Hamtaro confessed. He looked at Bijou for a reaction and she jumped into his arms.

"Oh, merci, 'Amtaro! I love you too." She started to cheek rub Hamtaro and the two pulled away, the rosy pink spreading across their cheeks.

"MEOW!"

The two heads slowly turned to the same black cat with two of his hungry friends. They all hissed at the frightened hamsters and pounced. Once again, Bijou found herself frozen and it was up to Hamtaro to save her. He grabbed her paw and the two furiously ran to a gate. Hamtaro dug and the two burrowed under to the other side. They both panted and gasped for breath while the cats were trying to get across.

"HA! Try to get us now!" Hamtaro taunted. The cat looked at him and jumped over the wire fence. The others followed and soon enough, they were face to face with each other.

"Oh, sorry!" Hamtaro apologized. He took Bijou's paw once again and they both ran, but they didn't go too far. A figure ran towards the cats and picked them all up. The stranger then dumped them in the trashcans and the cats were sent running in fear. As the figure approached, Hamtaro and Bijou knew who it was…

"Emily?" Bijou whispered in confusion.

"Snow White? Spot?"

Emily leaned closer to see Hamtaro and Bijou standing there. She squealed with delight and exclaimed, "I'm so happy to see you two!"

Emily's hands whirled out of the darkness, trying to find her new pets. She grabbed Hamtaro, but failed to retrieve Bijou.

"Snow White? Please come home," Emily pleaded. Bijou wanted to come with her, but wanted to go back to her old life. She couldn't help but run out of the alley.

"Wait!" Emily called and put Hamtaro on her shoulder as she ran towards Bijou. Hamtaro gripped on her hair for dear life as Emily frantically sprinted.

Meanwhile, Bijou was running towards the clubhouse. If she could get there, she might make it to Maria's…

"No! Please!" Emily screamed. It made Bijou's ears hurt. That one scream could have ended it all, but the little hamster fought on. She caught the view of the clubhouse and her heart lifted even if she couldn't see her friends. Bijou made a sharp turn towards Maria's mansion, Emily running after her with Hamtaro shouting and yelling for her to stop.

Finally, Bijou could see her old home. It didn't change at all and it hit Bijou that Maria didn't care. She could hear the piano music inside the house with the same song as Bijou had heard every day. Her heart sank. Everything that she had done was for Maria and she didn't care? Then why was Bijou still running? Why was she still caring about Maria? Even through all of the questions, Bijou still ran, climbed up the tree, and jumped the branch. She was just about to enter the cage, when she saw another white hamster in there. But that hamster had green ribbons instead of blue.

"No." Bijou was in disbelief. How could Maria just have replaced her like that? How?

The new hamster yawned and licked her paw without a care in the world. Bijou felt her paw curl into a fist as Maria came up and pet her hamster.

"Oh, aren't you so amazing, Bijou?" she said as she cradled the hamster. Bijou watched in disbelief and slowly backed up, her mouth agape.

" 'Ow could you, Maria?" Bijou whispered. It was as if Maria had heard her because Maria looked up as if someone said her name.

"What was that?" Maria said to herself. She shrugged and smiled at the other hamster.

"Oh, well. We don't care about that, right Bijou?" she said as she stroked the hamster's fur.

The real Bijou couldn't take it anymore. She slowly backed up and climbed onto the limb of the tree. She looked back before she finally slid down the tree and Emily ran up. She squealed with glee and picked up Bijou.

"I was so worried, silly! C'mon! We're having turkey for dinner. Its like you're a princess, huh?" Emily giggled. She turned to the mansion and stared at it in awe.

"Wow. That's a pretty big place. I wish that we could live there. Maybe Papa would be proud of me if I could get us a house like that," Emily said simply and searched her shoulder for Hamtaro.

"Spot?" Hamtaro was gone. Bijou's pigtails whipped in a circle, trying to find the half orange hamster and her sapphire eyes landed on the top of the tree where Hamtaro was walking.

" 'Amtaro!" Bijou called out. Hamtaro didn't pay attention. Instead, he went inside the house.

"Oh, my," Emily said as she tossed her head in the direction of Bijou's. Emily had said what Bijou always thought.

"Ham-ha!" Hamtaro greeted to the new white hamster. The hamster turned her head towards Hamtaro and weakly greeted him.

"Um, your Bijou?" Hamtaro asked.

"The one and only." The line made Hamtaro fidget.

"No! There's another Bijou. You just replaced her because of how you look. But, I'll make Maria get her old pet back," Hamtaro stated. Sure, it was mean, but it got the message across.

"I-"

Just then, Maria walked in and yelped at Hamtaro. She picked him up and turned her head to the side in confusion.

"Aren't you Laura's pet?" Maria said. Hamtaro nodded his head and jumped out of the palm of her hand.

"Hey, wait-" Maria started. Her mouth opened at the sight of what looked like a ghost hamster sitting on a girls shoulder. It was as if the blue ribbons haunted Maria. They were bright and as vivid as ever when the familiar hamster turned her head towards Maria.

"Hey!" Maria called out to the girl. The girl jumped at the sound and looked at Maria. Maria beckoned her to come in and she could finally get a look at this hamster that so familiar to her.