Disclaimer: I don't own Hamtaro. And I don't own the human hams completely either, because the idea of them having ears and tails as traits is from a really neat Jap. Hamtaro site I saw, so they're the idea of a Jap. artist. (Rock on!) But the story, plot, and any unfamiliar characters are mine! Heehee. : )
A/N: Hey, lol. How is everyone? I'm good, going to Miami tomorrow!!! Whoo! (it's Thursday night) Anywho, I want to thank Nicky8 for reviewing (good gosh, I thought she was gone for good....I mean! Hi Nicole! Best friend/buddy/pal...PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! I'LL GIVE YOU CANDY AT SCHOOL, lol...yeah...riiight...good luck on mid-terms! Hehehe...::gulp::)Michael Bulaich, KutchipatchiROCK, and Yayfulness for reviewing also. Michael and KutchipatchiROCK for reviewing all the chapters so far, Whee!! Heehee. Thank you guys so so much! : )
To Yayfulness: honestly, I thought you'd stopped reading lol XD, anywho, thanks for coming back to R/R! Thanks for the song in your fic also, it made me feel sooooo good. I'll find a way to make it up to you, I promise. It was so sweet!!! : ) And yeah, Hamtaro was OOC in the dream. I did it on purpose, lol. It ties in later with what happens to Bijou and real life makes it very funny, lol. And thanks for the tip on how many words to put in my fic. I'd LOVE to be able to know how many words I have in my fic chapters, but there's no way of me knowing unless I were to go and count them my self. I'd go crazy, literally, lol. I've tried counting the words in the Harry Potter book....it was hard, confusing, and I had a mental shutdown. (Not really). Lol, I'll try doing what you told me, but instead of adding more words, I'll just try the chapters longer since I have no control over number of words. Hee, thanks very much! : )
One more note to KutchipatchiROCK: The ages are weird, the older Ham hams (Hamtaro, Bijou, Sandy, Stan, Maxwell, Oxnard, Dexter, Howdy, Panda, Pashmina,) are all in college, Cappy and Penelope are in elementary, Boss has a job (he also owns the apartment building), and Jingle....he travels, lol. Snoozer.....er.....wow, never though of what to do with him....hm....oh! Got it! He's a salesperson! People call him and order stuff from him over the phone, and he send it to them....not himself, that'd require him to get out of bed and move alot, lol. He just sells stuff over the phone and internet, there. Okay...er...yeah. Hehe, hope your not confused about the ages anymore. I don't have specific numbers for any of them, maybe Cappy and Penne, Cappy-8 and Penny-7. Sorry,hope that it helped somewhat. : )
On with the show!
Holiday Cheers: Chapter IV
It was 9:30 a.m....the phone in room 002 (try to remember who's room it is before I say it!) rang....No one picked it up and the caller hung up before they got the answering machine. A cool breeze blew through the window that was partially opened. The phone rang again. "I got it!!!" A voice called. The voices' owner ran into the room and picked up. "Hello? This is Hamtaro...Oxnard? He'll be here in a minute...who's-Oh! Hi Pepper! You sound different, how are you? Really? Wow, how's everything else?...That's great to hear! So do you think you're com-" Hamtaro was cut short in mid-sentence as Oxnard came rushing into the room. (bet you thought it was Hamtaro's room when I mentioned his name first, lol)
"Is it Pepper?! Oh please say it is! Let me speak to her!" Oxnard said quickly and excitedly. He jumped up and down with joy as Hamtaro passed him the phone. "Hello? Hi Pepper! Wow, I'm so glad you called, I've missed you so much...really...yeah....aw...heehee..." Oxnard smiled and turned bright red at whatever Pepper had said. Hamtaro smiled at his friend and stepped out the door. They both were suppose to leave at 9:45 to catch the bus into Hamville city. (I'm sure by now that you've guessed all the ham humans attend the same University, lol, they're all smart!). As Hamtaro waited he heard footsteps from the third floor, a thump, and some yelling. Howdy and Dexter were at it again. He listened carefully to what they were arguing about...
"Yah can't do that! I had it first!"
"No! I had it first! It was sitting in front of MY doorway!"
"Well I got it first and besides it doesn't have your name written on it anywaywhere!"
"Oh yes it does-what the heck!?"
"Ah-ha! It has MAH name on it! Give me-WHA?! What's the meaning of this?!"
Hamtaro heard the footsteps run down to the second floor. He flinched when he heard Stan's scream. What was going on?
"Yo dudes...that's not cool! It was just a joke, can't you take a joke? Wait...no! Not my skateboard!"
Hamtaro closed his eyes and cringed at the sounds of crashing and more yelling then a final thump. After a few moments Howdy and Dexter were walking downstairs merrily as if all was perfect in the world and like they'd never once committed a murder...almost.
"'Morning Hamtaro." Dexter said.
"Howdy there." Howdy said also.
Hamtaro smiled weakly and waved as they walked out the front door together in their marriness. He looked up the stairs and Stan was walking down, rubbing his head and had a bruise over his left eye. He dragged his skateboard down with him, to which one of it's whels was loose and the were scratches all over it. Stan mumbled to himself, "It had to be my skateboard....those no-good, dirty, rotten, a-"
"Hamtaro?" Hamtaro turned to Oxnard who had just poked his head out his room. "Hey, um, just a few minutes and we could go, okay?" Hamtaro nodded in understanding. Oxnard was about to go back to his conversation with Pepper, when he looked over at Stan. "Hi Stan, you look you'd just been beat up. Oh, and did you guys hear those noises upstairs? I tihnk Howdy and Dexter got into another fight. Alright, sorry Hamtaro, just a few more minutes." Oxnard went back into his room.
Hamtaro turned to Stan, "Hey, what happened? Did you try to play another joke?" Stan sat on the first step on the staircase and Hamtaro joined him.
"Yeah, but it was just a joke, come on, they always take evrything too seriously!" Stan exclaimed throwing his arms up.
"What was the joke?" Hamtaro asked.
"I put a pink envelope in the hallway between their rooms. The side facing up said it was to whoever was in room 102 (Stan and Sandy's room). But they didn't see that....those morons, and they read what was inside which was an invite to a holiday get together with Pashmina, at the bottom it said 'love Pashy'. They were upset when they saw that it was for me, which was the whole joke." Stan explained.
"Stan, you need to stop playing so many mean jokes," came Pashmina's voice from behind Hamtaro and Stan. Bijou and Snoozer were behind her.
"Is everzing alright?" Bijou asked concerned, and she gasped when Stan turned around."Oh my! what happened to you Stan?" Her and Pashmina ran over to him. He smiled dreamily and lay back as they gave all their attention to him.
Snoozer stood at the stairs. "Well, everything seems fine. I'm going back to bed. Girls, if another fight breaks out, try to contact Boss, he'll know how to handle it." He said as he walked back upstairs.
"Zank you Snoozer," Bijou called as he left. He waved a lazy hand in return.
Pashmina and Hamtaro helped Stan up. "Will you be alright?" Pashmina asked very concerned.
"I'll be fine...oh wait, my leg hurts, could you massage it before you go?" Stan gave a pouty face and Pashmina rolled her eyes. Her and Hamtaro let go of Stan and he fell backwards. "Woah! Ow, okay fine, a back massage?" Pashmina and Bijou headed out the door. "You can bring a friend..Bijou?...Wait!" stan sighed and stood up. "They love me...they just don't want to admit it." He grabbed his skateboard and went back upstairs, singing Jingle Bell Rock to himself.
Oxnard hurried out and bumped into Hamtaro. "Come on, we gotta hurry! We'll miss the bus!" He yelled as he rushed out the door. Hamtaro rubbed his head and grabbed his stuff and followed him out quickly.
They ran outside, passing Bijou and Pashmina who were going into a small cafe, waving at them. "don't be late!" The girls yelled at them as they rushed by. Hamtaro noticed Bijou smiling at him, and he felt a rush in his heart. They ran passed the bakery, the convenient store, other apartment buildings, and made it just in time to catch the bus. As they both got in panting and paying the bus fee, they sat on a seat facing inward on the bus. They put their stuff down and Hamtaro took deep breaths remembering Bijou. Odd, then he remembered Oxnard's conversation.
"Is Pepper coming?" He asked his friend.
Oxnard gave a small smile and looked at Hamtaro, "No, but maybe next summer." Oxnard looked up and Hamtaro could tell he was trying not to be sad about it. Hamtaro looked out the window and thought, maybe this wasn't going to be the best Christmas...not for Oxnard at least.
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Twenty-one 2nd graders, one foreign exchanged student from Germany, and one 1st grader supposed-to-be. Mix them up in one classroom and see what you get.
"Okay, who wants to read the next paragraph?"
Penelope's hand rose up quickly. Everyone behind her snickered. She scrunched up her face and wondered why. She'd never been made fun of for wanting to read, for being younger then everyone was the target teasing point for her, but not for wanting to read. She looked around and saw the the foreighn exchange student had raised his hand also. She knew why everyone giggled. The student's accent was very strong and sounded very awkward and funny when he tried to read. She put her hand down, knowing full well that the teacher would choose him. She looked at the words in the book they were reading, and tried not to kick Cappy, who sat next to her snickering at the boy's accent. She would never laugh, she knew what it felt like.
"Roodaulph ran veary quickly to Santaw's sleigh..."
Penelope kicked Cappy and he stopped laughing, he apologized to her quietly and went along reading. Then he began to snicker again and Penelope held her head.
When the foreighn student was done, he looked up and the teacher smiled. "Good job, very good job." The bell rang. "Oh, we're out of time. We'll finish Rudolph when you all return, it's time for Recess."
Everyone rushed out excitedly, running towards the school yard just waiting to play in the snow. Penelope sat down on a swing and swung back and forth. Cappy sat next to her. "Cappy, you know that you can be mean sometimes?" She told him.
"I'm sorry Penelope, but his accent's so funny," Cappy answered. Penelope sighed. There was no use in even trying. She looked forward, and zoned out, tihnking of maybe helping out the new kid. She faintly heard Cappy asking if she was looking into the futre, nad then heard someone calling her name. She looked up to see a white ball heading her way, then someone pushed her off the swing, and the next thing she knew, she was sprawled on the snow unconcious.
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To be continued....
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A/N: Cliffy! Yay! Anyway, we saw more Oxy in this and more Hamtaro. And some of what happens while Penelope and Cappy are at school. Try and guess what had actually happened before I post the next chapter, you have three days, lol. I'm off the Miami! Bye all! Have a very merry Christmas and Happy holidays!!! : )
Important Note: I'm starting a 'Hamtaro Rights Movement' (lol!). If anyone wants to join, lol. More detail in my profile.