Before I could even walk out of the kitchen, I was surrounded by my aunt and uncle who both gave me questioning looks. I sighed; I knew where this was going to lead to.
"So who was that on the phone, Lizzy?" Aunt Jenny asked first.
"Eh, it was Miki, Lucy and Keitaro." I replied with a wave of my hand.
"And what did they need?" Uncle James asked.
"They just wanted to ask if I would go see this tennis tournament tomorrow with them." I said. Knowing them, they were most likely going to let me go, so that I could spend time with my… 'Little friends'. I just hope Aunt Jenny isn't going to…
"I know! You should invite them over for dinner tomorrow evening as well!" Aunt Jenny squealed in delight.
"Too late…" I sighed.
"What a brilliant idea, honey!" My uncle praised my aunt as he pulled her into a hug.
Aunt Jenny nodded her head and smiled. "I know, I know!"
"Do they even know what kind of chaos will happen if I invite them over for dinner?" That was the question that ran through my head for the past few minutes as my aunt and uncle began to talk over dinner plans for tomorrow night.
"Are you really already planning? I haven't even asked them yet." I spoke.
My aunt and uncle ignored me as they continued to plan the dinner. I tapped my foot for a few minutes as I waited for the two of them to stop what they were doing. Of course, they didn't. I sighed before smiling at the two. I guess they were really excited to meet my friends.
A minute later and I was already walking up the stairs towards my bedroom. I thought that I had enough excitement for one night, and that if Miki and the others were coming for me around seven or so, then I should probably head to bed so I wouldn't be grumpy in the morning.
I opened the door to my room and closed it behind myself as I walked over to my bed. I was already in my pajamas so I didn't need to change or anything. I crawled into my bed and under my covers before once again sighing.
Really, I knew that tomorrow was going to be a VERY long day.
And then…I closed my eyes.
(The next morning)
"Lizzy! Your little friends are going to be here any minute!" My aunt called me as she knocked lightly on my door.
"I know!" I called back. It was ten minutes after eight and I had just woken up fifteen minutes ago. I didn't have enough time to take a shower, all I had time to do was eat breakfast and change my clothes. Which, I was doing right now. I had a feeling that I should wear my school uniform, so I grabbed it off my bed and started to change into it. It seems that my aunt had put it in the dryer for me last night. I would have to thank her later.
Once I was done changing, I grabbed my hair brush off my dresser and proceeded to brush the tangles out of my hair. I decided to leave it down, but since I would be sitting out in the sun today, I grabbed my dark green hat and placed it on top of my head.
Satisfied with myself, I walked out of my room, down the hall and down the stairs, where both my aunt and uncle stood in the front door hallway with a camera.
'Click' went the sound of the camera as my uncle snapped a picture of me.
"Um, what was that for?" I asked in a mumble.
"We just want to be able to remember this day." My Aunt Jenny grinned happily.
I jokingly rolled my eyes and made my way to the front door, slipping on my shoes as I did. I opened the door and stuck my hand outside. It wasn't too bad out there; it was quite nice, actually. I guess I won't need a jacket today.
"I hope you have fun, Elizabeth." I smiled at Uncle James who smiled back at me.
"I will, and when I get back, the others and I will tell you all about it." Once that was said, I closed the door and sighed. Fresh air never felt so good.
"Oi! Liz-chan! Over here!" My smile got bigger when I heard Lucy's voice. Running over to where my friends were waiting for me, Lucy grabbed me into a hug. Which, I didn't mind one bit.
"Yay! Finally! We can leave to Shikinomori sports park!" she exclaimed.
"Did I keep you all waiting?" I asked titling my head to one side confused.
Miki shook her head. "No, it's just that these two idiots got lost in my house." She said pointing to Lucy and Keitaro.
"It's not our fault your maid just let us find you ourselves." Keitaro said.
"Yeah! Your house is fricken huge man!" Lucy exclaimed again.
Miki glanced at the two with a confused look. "Huge? I think it's a pretty normal sized house…"
I chuckled as Lucy and Keitaro sweat dropped. I couldn't say anything since I haven't been to Miki's house yet.
Then, I suddenly blinked as I realized that wearing my school uniform was a good thing, since my friends wore theirs as well. I didn't feel like asking about it, so I left it alone. Soon enough my friends and I were heading down the street.
"So how far away is the sports park?" I asked as the four of us turned the corner and continued to walk down the next street.
"About…five minutes away from where you live, actually," Keitaro replied.
I eyed my red headed friend. "By foot or car?"
(20 minutes later…)
"So it was by car!" I exclaimed rather loudly.
"Great, wonderful, Kei-chan!" Lucy spoke rolling her eyes. "Now we probably missed half of the matches. We were late in the first place anyways!"
"Sorry," I blinked confused before I turned towards Miki.
"That means, 'sorry' right?" I asked her.
Miki nodded and pushed her glasses up with her middle finger. "Yes,"
I nodded my head before I turned back to Keitaro who was still apologizing to us.
"Don't worry, Kei-chan, I shouldn't have over reacted like that." I said softly, giving my good friend an apologetic smile.
"Nah, I'm sorry, Liz-chan, I should've known if it was five minutes by foot or car, so now you probably missed most of one or two matches." Keitaro said.
"That's alright." I smiled at him. "Let's just hope I made it time for Kikumaru-san's match."
"Aww!" The next thing I knew I was being hugged by Lucy who attached herself to my waist. "Look at little Liz-chan using Japanese!" she squealed. Wasn't really any Japanese…oh well.
I sighed. "Yes, yes…now can we please get going to the courts?" Lucy, Miki and Keitaro nodded their heads as I motioned towards the entrance to the sports park.
Quickly, the four of us made our way to the courts, and luckily, just in time for Eiji's match. It did take us a few more minutes until we found the right court
"Alright! We're time in for…what's-his-name's match!" Lucy happily exclaimed.
Keitaro nodded as he rubbed his chin lightly, staring out at the courts where Eiji's match took place. I turned my head to look as well, and if I was right, it was a doubles match. I wonder who Eiji's partner is-…
"Kikumaru-san is about to get hit with a tennis ball." Miki spoke.
Lucy, Keitaro and I gasped. "What?"
"Never mind, he dodged hit the ball back." Miki said, pushing up her glasses with her index finger. I swear I saw some sort of gleam coming from her glasses. Almost…evil.
Scary. And I am pretty sure Lucy and Keitaro agreed with me.
"Man, we need to start paying attention to the match," Lucy muttered.
Keitaro and I nodded. "Agree,"
The game continued on, but I didn't quite understand tennis, so I was a bit confused. Especially since everyone was talking in Japanese, and I didn't bother to ask one of my friends to translate, since they were watching Eiji's match and I didn't want to interrupt them.
"Man…our school's team is kicking the other school's ass." Lucy grinned.
"You must be very happy." Miki said to Lucy.
"I am! I didn't know tennis could be this exciting!" Lucy replied as she jumped up and down a couple of times.
"I still cannot believe we brought HER here…" Keitaro muttered.
"Who's…'her'?" Lucy questioned as she innocently titled her head to the side and looked at Keitaro.
Cue the sweat drops.
Suddenly, a soft, deep voice chuckled from behind us. "Well, you four are an interesting bunch."
Blinking, Miki, Keitaro, Lucy and I turned our heads and stared at the person behind us. In his right hand was a video camera that was currently held up to his left eye. I assumed he was video taping this whole event. He wore rectangular glasses and our schools uniform.
Lucy took a step forward. "Um…who the hell are you?" she asked bluntly, pointing her finger at the mysterious boy.
Before the unknown boy was able to answer Lucy's, quite rude, question. Miki stepped in between the two and sighed, before motioning her hand towards the unknown boy.
"This is, Kihara Shinji. He goes to our school and he is in one of Keitaro's classes." She explained.
"And he speaks…English…" I mumbled, but loud enough for all of them to hear.
"And he has a video camera with him." Keitaro pointed out.
"Thanks for telling us, Captain Obvious." Lucy sarcastically said with a roll of her eyes.
"Oi!"
Miki and I only sighed and Shinji chuckled.
"You two are very amusing." Shinji commented Lucy and Keitaro, who only ignored him as they continued on their fight and then some how…the fight came to cup cakes. Yeah…I don't want to know.
"No! They only taste good with chocolate frosting on them!" Lucy shouted.
"What? You're a sick, sick woman! Sweets are too…sweet!" Keitaro shouted back.
"That's the whole damn point!"
Cue two more sweat drops.
Shinji chuckled again as he continued to find this all amusing.
"What a strange boy he is…" I thought.
That's when, he turned to me.
"You think I am strange, don't you?" he asked with a small smirk.
I blinked. That was weird. How did he know what I was thinking-…oh no…not another Miki. C'mon, God! I'm fine with one Miki! Don't give me another one! Don't you know the world will EXPLODE?
That's what I wish to shout out, at least.
"God can't help you right now…" Shinji whispered in my ear as he slipped an arm around my shoulder. I made a small scared sound and jumped, only to have Shinji amused by my reaction.
"Oh gosh! You all are too funny!" he laughed. "I'm going to stick around you four for now on."
"How is it that everyone just chooses to stick around us?" I asked, turning to Miki.
"…I blame you, Boyer-san." Miki said quite bluntly to me.
"Thanks, you're a wonderful friend, Miki." I said with a roll of my eyes.
Miki smiled. "Do not worry, I am only kidding."
I smiled back. "I know."
"Kyaa! Cute friendship! Now I am definitely sticking with you four!" and with that said from Shinji, I was hugged from the back.
"Oof!" and then fell to the ground.
"What he is doing to MY Liz-chan?" Lucy asked deadly as she glared daggers at Shinji, who was still hugging me even though we were on the ground. Weird thing is, he didn't seemed bothered by Lucy glaring at him. "Only I can hug, Liz-chan from behind and push her to the ground!"
"It sounds like you OWN her," Keitaro spoke.
"I do!" Lucy retorted.
"Since when?" Keitaro questioned.
"Since…I said so!"
Miki sighed and shifted until she was facing Keitaro and Lucy.
"So, I am guessing you two are done fighting?" she questioned.
Lucy and Keitaro nodded. "We've been done for about two minutes now," they both coursed.
"The wonders of being an idiot," Miki mumbled.
"Oi!"
"They're…not going to help me…" I sighed.
"Nope, they're not. But I will." Shinji smiled. I blinked as I felt the weight of his body suddenly disappearing. I was able to breathe again. But, then suddenly, I was pulled up from the ground like a rag doll and I became dizzy.
"Whoa…" I gasped. I sighed in relief as my feet touched the ground. The only thing that amazed me was that someone, much smaller than I, was able to pick me up like that.
"So, you're the new student from America, am I right?" Shinji asked as he gave me a polite smile.
"Ah, yes, I am. I'm Boyer Elizabeth." I said introducing myself.
Shinji did a small bow. "Kihara Shinji, nice to meet you, Boyer-san,"
"Same," I smiled.
(Miki, Lucy and Keitaro)
"It's amazing that she can get along with anyone." Keitaro muttered.
"That's Liz-chan for you." Lucy sighed.
Keitaro nodded. "It's also amazing that almost every person she meets, knows English…"
"It must be a gift from God after she lost her parents." Miki spoke.
Staring dumbfounded and shocked at Miki, the two friends tilted their heads to one side. "Huh?"
"Oh? You didn't know? About a month ago, Boyer-san's parents were in a terrible car accident, coming home from their honeymoon, which they have every year. Boyer-san was devastated and was sent to live with her grandparents after the funeral. She stayed with them for a few weeks, before they both had announced that they weren't able to take care of her anymore. They loved her, but weren't able to feed her, along with themselves. And that's when Boyer-san received a call from her Aunt and Uncle, who live here in Japan. That's how she came here." Miki explained thoroughly.
"How the hell do you know all of this?" Lucy asked astounded and slightly scared.
Miki smirked. "I do my research."
(Elizabeth)
"Oh, you're parents made you take three years of English?" I asked as the conversation between Shinji and I continued. The video camera never left his hands. I wonder how he didn't drop it when he hugged me. …I need to get used to all this stuff that just randomly happens.
"Yes, it was very fun." Shinji nodded.
I opened my mouth to speak, but suddenly I was grabbed from behind and was put into a head lock by the one and only, Keitaro.
"Liz-chan, you're missing the match! Kikumaru-san won't be too happy if you do!" he exclaimed. I gasped. I had completely forgotten all about the match when Shinji just suddenly popped up and started to talk to us.
"Oh no!" I exclaimed, pushing Keitaro off of my with some force before I ran up to the seats and sat down as I watched Eiji's match go on. I felt so bad now.
Miki, Shinji, Keitaro and Lucy soon walked up to me and sat down in some seats as well. I quickly turned to Miki as I wanted to ask her a question.
"What's some Japanese words I could use to cheer on Eiji and his partner?" I quickly asked her.
"'Go'," Miki responded.
I nodded my head in thanks to her before I stood from my seat and took in a deep breath.
"Go, Kikumaru-san!" I shouted. Then I sat back down a smiled.
And if I saw right, a small smile appeared upon Eiji's lips, but he did not turn his head as he was in the middle of his tennis match.
"It is…about to rain." Shinji spoke.
Damn…I should have brought an umbrella.
LP8: I hope the chapter was at least a bit good. Bloodpuppy and I had writer's block.
Bloodpuppy:(Nods her head)Yes, we both hope that you enjoyed it at least.
LP8: It's weird that Elizabeth just suddenly has people announce that they are her friends just like that…
Bloodpuppy: …Didn't you write this?
LP8: Possibly…I'm still losing bets against myself though.
Bloodpuppy: O.O
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