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Nicole: A young maiden from Rausten. The uptight best friend of L'Arachel.
Ephraim and Eirika – The Sacred Twin Life
—The One when Eirika reads Minds—
-Freido's Movie-
The first thing that welcomed Tana and Innes to the Freido Movie store was the extract scent of opium. In addition, there were some furniture and hanged cloths that bear the scent in a strong variety. The siblings were shopping for some movies to rent. Tana was at the Musical/Romance section while Innes was at the Thrillers/Action warfare. Innes grabbed the first disc he laid eyes on.
"Tana, check this out!" he read the title, "'Jaden Clash and the Continent of Blast'! Man, this is serious stuff right there. Did you know that this is the hottest film out there in this whole darn continent?" he then started to daydream, "Jaden is so cool. I wanna be just like him." He raised an eyebrow and formed a serious, charming look, impersonating his favorite movie character, "Name's Clash. Jaden Clash. Of the Special Service."
"Yeah, whatever." Tana responded, detached to Innes' excitement until her eyes landed on a movie disc. A huge smile appeared on her lips, "Hey! Look at this!"
She showed him the disc, "'High School Musical'!" she squealed, "A modern-day Romeo and Juliet about a jock guy and a smart girl who found one thing in common: their love for music…" Tana's smile grew widely and she felt tears building in her eyes, "aww…that's so cute!"
"A musical?" Innes frowned.
"With romance." Tana sighed.
Innes scoffed, "You girls and your sappy flicks. Why do you like this mushy-mushy love stuff so much anyway? You need a movie that—"
"…blows off your head?" Tana finished.
"Exactly!" Innes pumped his fist up in the air.
"You've gotta watch that movie, Innes." Tana waved the 'High School Musical' movie disc at him, "These kinds of movies are sweet, mellow, and funny. I heard that this movie won an award and totally grabbed audience everywhere by storm like that." she snapped her finger on cue, "You'll like it. In fact, they'll unleash the inner man in you."
"I have an inner man in me," Innes countered, "and he's looking at explosions and daggers running through people's stomach, not some… teenagers who keep singing 'I love you' and then at the end they split. That's no movie. That's tragedy."
Tana gasped at his words, "This movie is no tragedy!"
"You're tragedy."
Tana took the movie disc and went to the front counter to rent it without another word.
-Castle Renais-
Eirika slipped out of her bed sheets and lay feet on the fluffy warm carpet after taking a peaceful afternoon nap. She suddenly saw Ephraim peeking in bashfully from outside her suite.
I wonder if Eirika can borrow me 400 gold? If she refuses… nah! I'll just sneak into her suite later to steal them.
Ephraim turned to leave and Eirika stopped him, "Uh-uh! You are NOT going to steal my 400 Gs!"
Ephraim froze, but he managed to reply, "What are you talking about?"
Eirika shook her head, "Don't play innocent with me, brother. I heard you saying that you were going to sneak into my room and steal my money."
"I didn't say it. I…" Ephraim admitted defensively, "I thought it."
Did I say that out loud?
"No, you didn't say that out loud. You thought that out loud."
"Thought it out loud?"
Man, is she a loon.
"I am not a loon, Ephraim! I'm just reading your—" Eirika paused, "…mind." She finished to herself.
"That's what it looks like." Ephraim blinked.
"How can this happen?" Eirika slapped her head hard enough to get whatever that caused her to read minds off her ears but nothing happened, "Something got stuck in my ears while I was asleep."
"Let's test you out." Ephraim butted in, "And tell me what am I thinking of right now?"
There was a brief silence and Eirika faced Ephraim with a stern look on her face, "You're still thinking about stealing my money, aren't you?"
Ephraim shrugged, "I can't help it."
Eirika left her suite, a bit freaked out about this newfound experience. Ephraim followed.
"How can this happen?" she said it again, "How can I be reading minds? I never had this problem before. Why am I having it now?"
"You call that a problem?" Ephraim exclaimed, "You're reading minds, lady! Think about it. With your power, you can now discover the innermost darkest secrets of everyone here in Magvel. Not that I have anything wrong with that but since we're talking major privacy here… like a diary."
Eirika turned to face his brother with a mistrusting look on her face, "Speaking of diary. You better not reveal my celebrity crush to Innes or else I will hunt you down to the core like the mad three-headed hounds of the netherworld."
Ephraim tried to chuckle like she was exaggerating but from Eirika's glare and threatening comments, he knew he was busted anyway, "Sister… I wasn't thinking about… Okay, fine you caught me!"
Fado found the twins in the kitchen and came to them in a prancing mood like a happy deer, "Hey! Hey! Hey! Guess what kids?"
Fado never had the chance to begin spreading his good news and Eirika interrupted, "Grandma Sage is coming to visit?"
Fado blinked, "How did you—?"
"She reads minds, father."
Fado was about to open his mouth to say something.
"Don't ask." Eirika interrupted, "I have no idea how I got it either, but you have a hutch that this is genetic since Grandma Sage is a powerful sage and so is Mother."
"Okay, I can't say anything anymore now?" Fado huffed.
Eirika raised her arms sideways in protest, "I didn't ask for this, so don't blame me!!!"
"Thanks to her, father, she knows everything about us. And yet I'm not allowed to read her diary like a free man."
Eirika shook her head and sighed in response to Ephraim's comment.
"Well…" Fado began, "Grandma Sage s also a mind-reader and is able to control it, so maybe if you talk to her, you'll know why you have that episode and problem solved. Heck, before then, you will be able to control it just like her and your mother. So don't worry about it."
"Thanks father." Eirika smiled.
"Seriously, you will control them to even torture people like the way your grandma tortured me into telling the truth about me eating her famous peanut syrup cookies, which is totally not a truth, BUT A LIE!"
Eirika was about to speak.
Fado pointed the finger at her, "Watch it!"
-Castle Frelia-
Tana, along with L'Arachel, Dozla, Rennac, and Nicole were glued at the TV screen watching "High School Musical". Innes entered the room, sat next to them and let out a heavy sigh to catch their attention. They said nothing. He let out another sigh again. No avail. Another one—a loud one even—nothing.
"HEY!"
They jumped.
"Innes! What's wrong with you?" Nicole exclaimed.
"Seriously. Can't a person watch a movie in peaceful tranquility?" Dozla barked.
"Dozla, it's 'High School Musical' not 'Lord of the Rings'" Rennac sighed.
"So?"
Innes waved the movie disc in the air, "Somebody wanna watch a blowin' up movie? Jaden Clash can't wait any longer."
L'Arachel gasped in awe, "Is that 'Jaden Clash and the Continent of Blast'?"
"Yep. That's it!" Innes's smile grew wide. Finally someone with a true love for movies.
"I hate Jaden Clash." L'Arachel replied, "His movies sucks!!"
Dozla suddenly got giddied with excitement, "Turn it up! That's my jaam!!!"
Tana cranked up the volume to the "Get'Cha Head in the Game" music sequence, and everyone except Rennac and Innes started dancing to the beat whilst imitating the basketballs movements.
"Man I love these round, carroty-colored bouncy thingies they're holding." Dozla quivered, "Is it on sale at a local market? What do we call em?"
"Basketball?" Rennac made a tone.
Innes turned to leave the family room and at the time he reached the halls, he saw Eirika coming in with Ephraim. "Hey Innes." Eirika waved to him, "Wow, what surprise that you're excited to see me."
Innes sighed and ran towards Eirika, "Finally, Eirika! I'm excited to see—huh?!"
"Eirika is reading minds now, Innes." Ephraim explained. Innes was about to speak.
"Don't ask." Eirika interrupted, "It's a long, long story and I have no idea how I got them… but if you want me to pull Tana out of her movie viewing time with her friends just for some girl chat, not gonna happen."
"Okay, so I can't talk anymore now?" Innes frowned before stomping away. Eirika stopped him, "You know, Innes. You should really watch that movie. It's awesome! I've already watched it like 10 times now."
"What? 'High School Musical' or 'Freaky Friday with Eirika'?" Ephraim insulted. Eirika glared at Ephraim. Ephraim gulped, "I think I'm gonna…"
"Yeah. You do that." Eirika said and Ephraim took off.
Great trumpets resounded in response to Grandma Sage's gala entrance to the Castle Renais' hall. The twins' grandmother sported a citrus and lime colored shaman cloak with a velvety sage cape. She quietly fast-walked toward Fado, who also approached her with his arms wide open.
"Grandma Sage, welcome." Fado greeted her with a hug and an inviting smile. The twins' grandmother barely formed a smirk.
"How long have we spent time together, grandma? Oh, I'm sure the last time seemed like yesterday."
Grandma Sage grouched, "Seventeen years after my daughter's passing and still counting. I'm not hearing a yesterday in your thick mind." She passed right by Fado. Fado's smile turned forceful and his fists began to clench. The urge to pound his mother in law was overwhelming.
"I'm sensing some anger issues!!!" She barked at Fado without even looking back at him. Fado relaxed his hands and let out a quick breath.
Eirika approached her dad, and so did Ephraim, "Father, I know how you feel. Can you like cool it, please?"
"What she said." Ephraim pointed the finger at Eirika.
"Don't worry kids. I'll try not to be angry at her about this." Fado said. Typical of her to invade my mind. You can't even think free in peace.
Eirika turned to Ephraim, "He's not going to let this go." She whispered to him.
Ephraim shrugged, "There's nothing you can do, Eirika."
Grandma Sage's smile grew genuinely wide at the sight of her grandchildren, "Oh my heavens." She beamed, "If it isn't Eirika and Ephraim. How y'all doin', dolls?"
"Hi Grandma Sage." Eirika went to hug the old sage and Ephraim simply waved to her.
"Oh, hello my grandbabies." She hugged Eirika back, "how's your royal lives this far? I hope you're not getting yourselves in trouble."
"Oh, grandma, scratch that. You know us too well." Ephraim flicked his hands as if shooing a fly.
"Good answer, Ephraim." Grandma Sage smiled.
"Grandma, I have something to tell you…"
"Ah, it's about your mind-reading." Grandma Sage interrupted, "I had that same problem too when I was your age."
"Really?"
"Yup, and don't worry about it. You'll get used to it. Just make sure you use it to keep Mr. Gourmet here from my peanuts cookies." She pointed the finger at Fado.
"I saw that." Fado grumbled.
"I heard that." Grandma Sage countered.
--- --- ---
Eirika and Tana were strolling down the forest that afternoon. The girls were supposed to go for an ice cream cone but Tana insisted on going to the woods first. She wasn't in the mood for ice cream at all and Eirika started to worry. Tana usually loves having ice cream with her best friend and seeing her resisting to go for it was quite the shocker. Eirika thought she could use her new ability to peek on Tana's mind, but she didn't. It would mean invasion of privacy.
"Is something's on your mind?" Eirika said then quickly caught herself, "And that was just a guess. Nothing else."
Tana sighed, "I'm just going to come out there and say it." She took a deep breath then let it out, "I'm allergic to cotton candy."
Eirika raised a brow. Tana got annoyed, "Don't give me that face, Eirika! It's true! Do you know how dangerous it is to be near an actual giant cloud-shaped pink of creep?!"
Cotton candy?! Eirika knew her friend had some serious issue. It was time to read her mind. After a brief silence, Eirika squinted at Tana, "You've eaten a cotton candy when you were six! How can you be allergic?"
"Because—" Tana paused. She looked away and shyly looked down her feet, brushing away the deep sand on the grass, "…I'm afraid of cotton candy…" she muttered.
"Oh…" Eirika awed.
Tana felt a heavy weight being lifted off her shoulders. Now she turned to Eirika and revealed more about her fright with confident, "It's not like they are pink of creep but imagine you facing these giant pollen that when you touch them, you swell up like a bee sting!"
Eirika got disgusted at that image. Tana wasn't done, "Remember my allergy last season?"
Eirika's jaws dropped in reminiscence, "You were practically floating like a balloon!!!"
The girls shuddered.
"Anyway, that's not the only secret I have kept from you." Tana's flood of fright came rushing back into her. Whatever she was thinking now was even bigger than the cotton candy one, "You're gonna laugh when you hear this." She giggled nervously before clearing her throat to proceed, "I've been having some… feelings for Ephraim… like… a crush."
Eirika felt like she heard a car crash, "I'm sorry… what?" she leaned closer to Tana.
"I said that I've been having some feelings towards your brother…" Tana quickly faked a laugh, "Now that's funny, ain't it?"
Eirika shook her head, "That's not funny." She said sincerely.
"Well, it doesn't matter." Tana then pointed the finger at Eirika, "What matters is that you don't spread a spit about it."
Eirika put both palms in front of her, "Hey. I got the memo. No talky about it. Your secret's safe with me."
Tana felt another heavy weight off her shoulders, "Thanks Eirika. You're the best." She hugged her friend who couldn't breathe, "Ow, Tana! You're gonna break my spine!"
Step, step, twist, turn, break pose. These were the sounds of dancing students in the hit movie "High School Musical", once again playing on Castle Frelia's TV set. And this time, Innes was watching it! He was practically glued to the screen and he couldn't take his eyes off it!
"Man, this movie is moving." Innes said, "No wonder Tana loves this. This is wonderfully—"
"Innes?"
Innes jumped. Eirika was in the family room and has caught Innes in the act.
"…the worst movie I have ever seen!!!" Innes finished his sentence and searched frantically for the remote, "Where is that remote so that I could shut it off!!!" he raised his voice loud enough for Eirika to hear.
"Cut the act now, Innes." Eirika sat besides him, "I caught you red-handed."
Innes ignored Eirika, "STOP GLOATING AT ME AND HELP ME FIND THAT REMOTE!!! I GOTTA SHUT OFF THAT MADNESS!!!"
"It's right here." Eirika nudged her head to the table. Innes turned to see the remote sitting there in front of him.
"Oh."
He slowly reached forward, picked up the remote, and turned off the TV set.
"You forgot to turn off the DVD." Eirika said.
"LOOK, GIRL!" Innes exploded, "YOU CAUGHT ME WATCH MY MOVIE—I MEAN—THAT MOVIE! Don't gloat about it! I have a life, y'know! And that life is looking for some Taylor Clap action." He waved the Jaden Clash movie disc on cue.
"It's Jaden Clash." Eirika corrected.
"Potato, Potatah! Bite my bum! WHATEVER!"
"Innes." Eirika began, "There's no shame in loving 'High School Musical.' It's a good movie."
Innes scoffed, "Who said anything about loving? I don't love High School Musical, heck I don't even like it." He said, feeling his lips drying up. Whenever Innes lied about something, his mouth parched.
There was an awkward silence and Eirika spoke again, "Troy's cute. Gabriella's cute. They should be together. And Sharpay's a meanie weenie witchlet."
Innes shot a lethal bug-eyed glare at Eirika. Darn her for reading my mind, he thought.
"You're welcome." Eirika replied to Innes's thought.
"All right. I like 'High School Musical'," Innes finally admitted, "But I only watched it so that I could find out what the buzz was about…" he clasped both hands together, "Please, please, please don't tell anyone?"
Eirika nodded, "Don't worry. Your secret's safe with me."
The excited Innes grabbed Eirika's hand and shook it like crazy, "Thank you! Thank you so much!!"
"Hey, hey, HEY!!! Easy on the arm!!! It ain't a licorice!!!"
-Castle Renais-
Eirika came back to Castle Renais, all sore. Her back was disproportioned by Tana's tight hug and her arms felt flat by Innes's intense handshake.
"And they said getting two secrets with one stone ain't easy." Eirika limped, "Here I thought getting mind-read would be the least of my problems, yet here I am limping like a zombie carrying a lethal disease."
Eirika heard singing. She whipped her head to her right, facing Ephraim's suite. She slipped inside and followed the singing. She wasn't just hearing it, she was hearing dance steps as well. Her ears followed the sound and her eyes gazed at its location: Ephraim's bathroom.
She peeked in to see her brother dancing and humming to a catchy Zouk/Hip-Hop tune…in his underwear! She giggled loud enough for Ephraim to hear. Ephraim whipped his head around to stare at his sister, shocked and humiliated.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?" He screamed after a long uneasy silence.
Eirika chortled, "Right now, I'm not doing anything."
"This is my Ephraim time and YOU'VE RUINED IT!!!"
"Will it make it easier that I keep it to myself and I never mention this scene again like it never existed?"
"Please!" Ephraim shut the door on Eirika's nose. Eirika simply shrugged with no hard feeling and a smile on her face before taking off.
-Castle Renais Kitchen-
The delicious scent of Grandma Sage's peanut syrup cookies invaded Castle Renais Kitchen the moment Grandma Sage pulled out the dessert tray off the oven.
"Can I have a piece at least?" She heard Fado begging. She looked over to the king, tied up in a chair with no way to budge.
"Not until this last batch cools off." Sage said.
"That's the same thing you said five trays ago!" Fado nudged his head over the five cookie trays that Sage recently pulled out.
"Well, this is the very last tray…" Grandma Sage said, "…so let it cool! In fact, how about we leave this place before that dangling saliva on your mouth stains my clean floor?"
Grandma Sage escorted the tied-up Fado out of the kitchen. At that exact moment, Eirika, Innes and Tana came into the kitchen to have lemonade. Innes fixed his eyes on the cookies and licked his lips, "Mmmm…"
Eirika shook her head, "Innes! We're not supposed to eat Grandma Sage's cookies until she say so."
"To you maybe, but not to us." Innes clarified, "At least, just one bite."
"No means no!" Eirika exclaimed.
"She won't suspect a thing." Innes picked up a cookie and crunched it. The girls watched, amazed.
"Ooh, you're in trouble." Tana muttered to Innes.
"What are you talking about he's in trouble. I'm the one who's in trouble." Eirika exclaimed.
"Come on, have a bite." Innes taunted, "A bite of that delicious, mouth-watering, melt-in-your-mouth goodness of peanut syrup crisp."
The taunting was working. Tana started licking her lips.
"Maybe Innes's right." She fixed her gaze on Eirika as she headed for the cookie tray, "one bite couldn't hurt right?"
"Tana?! You're on—get back here!" Eirika hissed.
Tana took one bite of the cookie and immediately her eyes brightened with love, "ohhhhh…" she moaned passionately.
"Ain't that sweet?" Innes slurped, "Come on. Have some more."
"ohhhh, yes…" Tana gasped.
"You guys are pigs!!!" Eirika screamed, "Stop that! Grandma Sage shouldn't find her cookie tray half empty!"
Too late. The siblings were halfway to the entire tray and they stare with their mouth covered in crumbs and peanut stains. They looked at each other in grave panic. At that moment, Ephraim came in the kitchen, finding the mess.
"What's going on here?" Ephraim's jaws dropped.
Tana and Innes quickly cleaned up the mess, jumped in front and each forced an innocent smile, "Nothing." They said.
"I may not be reading minds like Eirika here…" he stared at his sister on cue, "… but I know that when you said nothing, it adds something: your lies!!!"
"Oh, stop with the theory talk Ephraim and help me out!" Eirika exclaimed, "We gotta make some more cookies and place it on that tray before Grandma gets here."
"And why should I help you, traitor." Ephraim said, "You want to rat father out again?"
"You want me to rat you out?"
Ephraim scowled. He had no choice but to help Eirika in order to ensure his "big" secret, "all right, fine! But if Grandma catches us, it's in your thick head."
"We're sorry." Tana and Innes said in unison.
The gang took the tray and headed for the counter to clean it up and fix another batch.
VLAM! Came the sound of the door. The teens whipped their heads and froze in place. Grandma Sage stood there, bedazzled. Fado also showed up in the kitchen.
"My cookies!" Sage screamed, running for the tray, "What happened?!"
"I have a feeling as to what happened." Fado approached the teens, eyes gazed on them.
"Now before we jump into conclusion, there is a perfect reason as to why this tray is half-empty." Ephraim said.
"I can think of one already." Sage stared at Fado. Fado immediately felt accused, "Why are you looking at me? They did it!" he pointed at the teens.
"Oh I know they did it. But I know where they got that habit."
Fado got offended and went stark mad, "Oh, y'know what, Grand-Mad! If you've taken Sciences in your 90-years of life, you oughta know that these habits came from a certain someone whose child happens to have a damn crazed mother!"
"What does that supposed to mean?" Sage asked, growling, although she already knew what he meant.
"It means that…"
A heating argument ensued between the two adults. Eirika whistled to stop the fight.
"Are we here to point fingers or are we here to settle on what happened to the cookies?" Eirika began, "Look, what happened was……" Eirika immediately imagined both Innes and Tana as one wild raccoon sneaking in from an opened windows and fixing its beady eyes on the cookie tray. She gulped, "…… a raccoon came through the window and we found it eating the cookies. By the way we went for it, it fled."
Grandma Sage looked up the windows and noticed the so-not obvious, "the windows are closed."
Eirika stammered, "…that's because we closed it."
Sage suspected Eirika for lying and Eirika suspected Sage was onto her.
"What color is that raccoon?"
"Gray." Eirika blurted, "Big, giant, gray-colored raccoon. It was really scary."
That darn raccoon… … … Grandma Sage read Eirika's mind.
She's still thinking about that raccoon. Why do I still feel that she's lying to me? Eirika read Sage's.
"So the raccoon came, ate my cookies, you chased it out the windows, and closed that window when it fled?" Sage clarified.
Eirika nodded.
That darn raccoon… … … if only I caught it… Grandma Sage read Eirika's mind.
Still thinking about that raccoon… maybe she's telling the truth, maybe she's not. Eirika read Sage's.
The teens and Fado watch the tension rising between the grandmother and her apprentice mind-reading granddaughter.
"So, how come you didn't catch it?"
… … … nothing came out of Eirika's mind.
"Just some crazy fast raccoon it was… just…"
Okay, now she's lying… Grandma Sage thought.
Eirika blurted, "If I was lying, grandma, I would have revealed Tana's crush on Ephraim and cotton candy phobia a long time ago!!!"
"EIRIKA!!!" Tana screamed.
Eirika jumped. She was so caught up in lying and twisting her own mind to make sure Grandma Sage wouldn't suspect her, she forgot her best friends and brother were in the same room.
"THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET!!!" Tana squealed.
Innes stared at Tana in shock, "You're afraid of cotton candy?!"
"You have a crush on me?" Ephraim beamed, "Wow, for a bombshell, I must say I'm flattered."
"Don't flatter yourself, bath boy. I'm not the one dancing half-naked in my bathroom."
"HEY!!" Ephraim screamed. "That was supposed to be a secret!!!"
Innes eyeballed Ephraim, "You dance? In your bathroom? Half-naked? How creepy can you be?"
"Creepy?!" Ephraim said, "You're the one who's watching 'High School Musical' behind your sister's back."
Innes's jaw dropped, "How did you know that?!?"
"Lyin' Eirika told me!" Ephraim pointed the finger at his sister. Innes glared at her.
"I didn't tell him anything! He must have overheard it!!!" Eirika said, "And you're the one who's lying, Ephraim!"
"Like a raccoon?" Sage blurted.
Eirika sighed. The truths were out, so what's the point in keeping one to herself? "All right, grandma. There was no raccoon…"
Innes stepped in, "The truth is, I'm the one who ate the cookies, and I tempted my sister into it."
"Eirika and Ephraim were only trying to stop us. So you shouldn't blame them. You should blame us." Tana added.
"We're really sorry." Innes said.
Grandma Sage didn't have to read their minds to know they were telling the truth. The sincerity in their eyes brought enough proof. "Apology accepted. Just promise me you wouldn't do it again." She then faced Eirika, "And promise me you will stop lying, sweetie. Okay?"
Eirika nodded, "I'm sorry for lying, Grandma." She then faced Tana, Innes and Ephraim, "I'm sorry for exposing your secrets."
Tana shrugged, "Well, these secrets had to come out sometimes, right?"
"It feels like a heavy weight being lifted off my shoulders." Ephraim sighed.
"Just don't let those weights lift off your shirt." Innes shuddered.
-Castle Renais-
"Ephraim! Did you read my diary?" Eirika confronted Ephraim, holding her diary.
Ephraim shook his head, "Why would I?"
Eirika glared at Ephraim. Ephraim glared back. After a short period, Ephraim began to feel tense, "Why are you looking at me?" he asked.
"I'm trying to read your mind, so can you like be quiet?"
"It's been a whole two minutes of staring."
Eirika blinked, "two minutes."
Ephraim nodded.
Eirika looked puzzled, "then that means…"
"…you can't read minds anymore." Ephraim finished, "but I'm still telling you the truth about your diary. Some secrets are best to be kept."
Eirika sighed, "Sorry again for the whole secret blurting out thing."
"It's okay." Ephraim shrugged, "At least, we know our best friends better than we did before. Who knew Innes liked 'High School Musical' when he was totally against it?"
"I know. Now, he finally found his quality time with his sister."
Innes and Tana were dressed up like Sharpay and Ryan and danced to the spotlight following their every move.
Yeah we gonna bop-bop-bop!
Bop to the Top!
Wipe away your inhibition!
Stump stump stump, do the rump!
And strut your stuff!
Bop bop bop, straight to the top!
Goin' for the glory!
We'll keep stepping up and we just won't stop!
Stop!
Stop!!
Till we reach the top!!!
Bop to the top!
Innes and Tana felt the crowd cheering wildly.
"One more time!" Innes blurted.
"Innes, maybe we should stop…" Tana gasped for air, "We've been dancing 'Bop to the Top' more than eight times already. And besides, don't you wanna watch 'High School Musical 2'?" she showed him the movie disc, "It's better than the first."
"Maybe later. But now, my body's screaming for some bopping to the topping rhythm!!!"
"But—"
"A-One, A-Two, A-One, Two, Three, Four…"
END OF CHAPTER