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: Okay, look, I'm really sorry, but I need to finish this fic, like, soon. x.X Lol. I'm sorry, I feel shame, as an author, to just rush so quickly, i'm suppose to be taking my time...but no! School has overthrown my miiiiind! Well not really, it's that this is a holiday fic, and well...the holidays are up. And I have no more days off school until...Feburary I think. So, i'm really sorry, I wont be answering reviews anymore, please don't hurt me! Eh...maybe I should stop with my excuses and not even do author's notes anymore. XD Anyway, onto the fic! I want to REALLY thank the ones who've reviewed though...so...THANKS!
Holiday Cheers: Chapter IX
"Zank you so much Boss, for letting us stay here. I am very grateful. And I am so sorry if we are a deezturbance..."
"Bijou, really, it's okay. You and Hamtaro are good friends of mine, you're welcome to stay here whenever you want." Boss said, cutting off Bijou.
"Well...okay. But if ever...we are in ze middle of somezing, just tell us and we will leave, how would you zay, in ze blink of an eye," Bijou said nodding her head with a bright smile.
"Of course," Boss answered. It was hopeless to argue about it. She was just very kind about the situation. He made his way back to the kitchen as Hamtaro was coming into the living room from the bathroom, wearing his orange PJs and with a used toothbrush in his hand. "Hi Hamtaro. How are you? Need anything?" Boss asked kindly.
"What? Oh, no Boss, it's alright, really. I'm fine. Thanks for asking," Hamtaro gave him a smile and thumbs up. Boss nodded and made it out of the living room and into the kitchen. He went to sink and finished washing the last of the dirty dishes. He heard a knock at his door when he was done.
"Boss, Sandy's here," Hamtaro said poking his head into the kitchen.
When Boss dried his hands and went back to the living room, he saw Sandy sitting on the couch talking to Bijou. When she saw Boss come in, she excused herself from the conversation she was having and stood up, a wrpped gift in her hand. "Hi Boss, um...sorry for coming in so late, it's almost nine, I know, but I wanted to like, give you this..." she went up to him and handed him the small present shaped like a dreidle and wrapped in paper that had dreidles all over it. "It's a present...for the holidays. I'm sorry about last year," she said a bit quietly.
Boss took the gift gratefully and looked to Sandy, "Thank you Sandy. And it's it's okay, about what happened last year. Don't worry about it," Sandy gave him a warm hug and thanked him for not being mad. She was glad that something had finally gone right. She said goodnight to everyone and went back to her room.
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Pashmina sat in a taxi, squished in with Sandy, Bijou, and Stan. Hamtaro sitting in the front. Penelope sat on her lap and Cappy sat on Panda's. It was a bright and cool Saturday morning. Boss had decided that they couldn't all go together in such a big group to the big frozen lake. Some had decided to go by bus, some by taxi, and a couple with Boss in his car.
Pashmina looked out the window. The cars seemed to by very quickly, and the snow on the ground seemed to by moving by them, rather then them moving by it. She blinked and looked back into the car when Penelope started hopping on her lap, clapping her little hands. Pashmina moved her little sister's hair out of the way and laughed to herself hereing her sing Jingle Bells. Cappy sang along with her. Biou and Sandy couldn't help but think of how adorable it was. Pashmina felt a strange sensation, but in a good way when Panda held her hand and smiled and smiled at her. She smiled back.
They all couldn't help but laugh when Stan joined in Hamtaro also from the front of the taxi.
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Maxwell was angry at Sandy. She had been acting strangely and he knew she was avoiding him. But it's not that didn't know why, he perfectly well knew why. He was mad that there was a space left empty in their friendship, and it wouldn't be easy to refill. Sandy would not speak to him, he had yet to do something wrong. He hadn't done anything very bad yet.
Howdy and Dexter sat behind him, arguing about who gets paid better, even though they both get paid the same amount of money every month.
Maxwell had remembered telling Leanna that he had to cancel plans with her for Saturday because he wanted to go ice skating. She'd been angry, but let it go. Somehow it didn't bother him too much. It bothered him more that when he tried to talk to Sandy, she'd purposely avoided him...
-Flashback-
Maxwell hung up the phone. He had told Leanna about the family ice skating on Saturday, and he had to call Leanna to cancel their already planned trip to the library. Maxwell loved the library, and he was always glad to go...with Sandy usually, but when he thought of going with Leanna, it didn't feel the same. With Sandy, he'd always have something to smile about because as hard she tried to, she just couldn't stay quiet forever in a library, but she respected Maxwell wanting to learn more and actually studied. And if they were doing homework, she never once hesistated to ask for help. Leanna on the other hand, only wanted to talk about herself, and Maxwell felt awkward at how she was always moving her legs and they always touched his, purposely. She also always tried to hold his hand and that made him very uncomfortable. When he spoke about Sandy, she either changed the subject or came out and said that she didn't want to talk about that. That always annoyed him, but he kept it to himself.
Maxwell took a deep breath and stood from where he sat on his bed, going into the hallway. As always Howdy and Dexter were arguing, and Jingle sat in the middle of the hallway, working on a song, no doubt. As Maxwell walked by Jingle gave him a smile and and Maxwell gave him one in return. As Maxwell made his way downstairs, he just happened to come across Sandy, who was already going upstairs, a small gift in her hands.
Their eyes met unexpectedly. Sandy looked away. Maxwell could see hurt and pain in her eyes and wished she hadn't looked away. "Hey..." He said quietly.
"Hi..." Sandy responded just as quietly. Maxwell was about to speak again, but Sandy spoke first, "Um...look, I'm like, in a hurry...sorry, maybe we could talk later," she walked by him in a hurry without even a glance at him. He missed how she used to listen to his every word and how she was always smiling. As Maxwell stood watching Sandy walk on, he was actually a little annoyed. She hasn't let him even speak to her. How does she know he's not doing all this purpose? She can't just assume what's probably not even true. In anger, he walked back to his room. But he yelled one thing to Sandy, "and Leanna' not my girlfriend!"
-End Flashback-
The bus came to a hault and Jingle had to snap Maxwell out of his trail of thought to get him to get up. Maxwell, Jingle, Howdy, and Dexter stepped out of the bus and took in a breath of fresh air. It was early, and the lake was empty except for maybe one girl ice skating. Howdy and Dexter sat on opposite sides of a bench to put on their ice skates. They argued over whose were better. Jingle wasted no time. He sat int he snow and continued to work on poetry and music.Maxwell wondered if he was going ice skating.
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Boss turned into the parking lot slowly. Snoozer sat in the back of the car, practicaly asleep, and Oxnard sat in the front, reading the letter he recieved from Pepper over and over again. Boss parked the car and shut it off. He unlocked the doors and turned to face the back, "Snoozer, hey, wake up. We're here." snoozer looked at him sleepily. "If you want, you can stay here sleeping," Boss said. snoozer nodded and fell back asleep. Oxnard laughed a little and got out, Boss doing the same. They went to the trunk and unpacked three coolers with food and drinks for the day. There were some nearby fast food restauraunts and cafe's, but Boss brought his own food, just in case anyone forgot their money, which he already some of them did.
A taxi stopped near the entrance to the parking lot and out came Penelope and Cappy running towards the frozen lake. The rest of them got out paying the taxi driver, and went over to where Boss and Oxnard were.
"Well, looks like everyone's here," Boss said, grabbing a cooler, With Oxnard and Stan grabbing the other ones.
Pashmina walked ahead with Panda, leaving Bijou alone with Hamtaro. They walked ahead together, in silence. Bijou noticed that she was dressed in blue, just like in her dream, and they walked together, only it was daytime and they weren't alone because there were a few other people getting here also.
Bijou was a little nervous as she put on her ice skates. she wasn't a bad ice skater, but she wasn't necessarily Michelle Kwan either. Hamtaro was next to her, humming to himself and putting on his own ice skates. He looked excited. As they both stood up and went out onto the ice, Bijou was ready for anything. She stood with little balance on the ice and was hoping that Hamtaro would notice her having trouble.
"Bij, you look a little scared," Hamtaro said, coming along. Wow, Bijou thought. Just like her dream, Hamtaro would come to help her. He skated to her slowly and when he grabbed her hand to help her, they both lost their balance and fell over. Zis is not how my dream went, Bijou told herself, he behind in a bit of pain from the impact it had with the ice.
Hamtaro laughed. Bijou smiled a little too. "Wow, that was funny," he said. "Come on, let's try again". As he stood, he helped Bijou, but they fell again and Hamtaro continued to laugh. Bijou was a little frustrated. What she thought a dream come true was almost the opposite. She felt embarrassed to have Hamtaro fall over so much because of her. They fell two more times before finally getting a hold of it. Ah...zis is more like eet...Bijou said in her mind, as Hamtaro guided her on the ice.
Stan did some amazing tricks, and skated over to Hamtaro and Bijou, noticing how Bijou awaited something exciting, which he would bring to her.
Bijou was glad to have Hamtaro holding her hand. She saw Stan do a twirl in the air and saw Hamtaro watch him too. "Wow! That was awesome Stan!" hamtaro yelled giving him a thumbs up. They spoke to eachother but Bijou wasn't paying attention, she was admiring Hamtaro.
He eez so cute...so sweet...so...She lost trail of thought when he spoke to her. "Hey, want to do something really neat?" He asked. Bijou heart raced. He was about to do an amazing stunt with her!
"Oui! I would love to!" she said nodding happily. She was surprised however, when Hamtaro let her go.
"Alright Stan, she said yes!"
"What?!" Bijou thought out loud to herself. "Stan?" Before she could protest, Stan grabbed her by the waist and lifted her up. "Ah!!!" It didn't feel at all magical like it did in her dream, and it wasn't because it was Stan, it was because she had yet to digest her entire breakfast. When Stan slowed down from spinning her in the air and placing her back on the ice, she caught sight of Hamtaro laughing and Stan smiling proudly to himself. Her stomach was not feeling good at all and they were laughing at her! She got off the ice and made her way quickly to a trash can. This was not how her dream how gone and it was more of a nightmare to her.
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Sandy was skating to herself, her hands behind her back, and her mind lost in thought. Howdy and Dexter were having a snowball fight in the snow and she tried not to skate there, afraid of them hitting her. She skated by a girl who was there before she had arrived and she didn't catch her face, but there was a bit of tension as they skated by eachother. Sandy skated faster and turned around when she saw Maxwell skate by. Of course, why didn't it surprise Sandy that Maxwell had jumped onto the ice and skate to this starnge girl, who wasn't totally strange because she was Leanna. Sandyturned to ignore them pretended she didn't that they were even there.
How could things possibly get worse?
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"Hey, Le, what are you doing here? I thought you were going to the library to study," Maxwell said skating over to the girl with brown highlighted hair and dark eyes.
"Why do you look so upset to see me?" was the first thing she said. "I just didn't ike the thought of going to the library all by my lonely self..." she said, pouting a little. "But it's okay, I guess that you don't want me here..." she began to turn, but was suddenly satisfied when Maxwell grabbed her arm.
"No, don't go. If you want to stay you can. I just didn't expect you here...that's all," Maxwell told her. He had no idea that sometimes, being nice isn't a good thing.
"Well...in that case..." she turned around, and making sure that Sandy noticed, she grabbed Maxwell hand and lead him on the ice. She smiled him. Sandy well indeed dd notice, she just wish that she didn't.
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"Hey you know what I found out? Arvin's name means something!" Penelope told Cappy as they sat on a bench getting their ice skates on.
"It does? What?" Cappy asked interested.
"Well, yesterday, we were waiting for you when you went to the bathroom, and he told me that his name is German and it means something like 'to help out others'.(QuickNote: I'm not entirely sure what it means, I sort of forgot and I've tried to look up the meaning since I can't remember but I forgot where to I got the meaning in the first place...heh...sorry)" Penelope said getting up from the bench.
"That's so cool!" Cappy responded. Penelope nodded in agreement. They both got onto the ice and began to skate together. Pashmina had taught Penelope how to skate when she was younger, and Cappy had learned from rollerblading.
They laughed together as they each made their own mistakes and kept falling onto the ice. At a point, Penelope fell into the snow and when Cappy went by to see if she was okay, she was talking about seeing into the future again.
"I see the future! Heehee....I saw lots of presents and everyone happy!" Penelope said smiling. She kicked with joy accidently getting snow on Cappy's face. He threw snow back at her laughing and they had begun their own small snowball fight.
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The morning went by and Sandy had come to the face the facts that Maxwell didn't like her and he liked Leanna. But she had also come to the sollution that he was a jerk and because of Leanna he would lie to Sandy. Her world seemed to be dissappearing, she didn't want it to revolve around one guy. She waned it to have a better meaning.
Maxwell seemed to be having issues similar to Sandy's. He wanted to be away from Leanna, not near her. She had asked him if they could not ice skate anymore and just take a walk. He reluctantly did what she wanted. As they walked, Leanna had slipped her arm around his and held it close, like she was claiming him her own. They walked away from the lake and walked to where there trees and not many epople around. Maxwell felt a little uncomfortable.
Sandy thought for a long time, and she realized, that she can't have Maxwell like her, after all, it's his choice who he likes, not hers. She thought even more, and remembered that they probably weren't even going out, Maxwell and Leanna. Maybe Leanna's just been going through something and Maxwell was trying to help her. Sandy liked that about him. And she also realized how mean she had seemed probably to be ignoring Maxwell so much. She had thought he was probably mad at her and now she knew that she had to do something to fix it. Sandy stood up and went to go find the two.
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"Where are we going?" Maxwell asked Leanna, who had been leading him about for a few minutes.
"Oh, you'll see," Leanna responded, slyness in her voice. Maxwell felt a little awkward. They stopped in a small clearing and Maxwell wondered what was going on.when he thought of Sandy, he felt mad and like maybe he should be here with Leanna. They were alone in the quiet and there was absolutly no one around. He remember wanting this kind of peace with Sandy, and he shook the thought out when Leanna spoke.
"Maxy..." she said so very softly in an almost seductive way. In the cold, Maxwell actually began to sweat. Oh how this was starting to feel so wrong. He wanted to but he couldn't stop her when she placed her hands on his chest. She stood on her toes and placed a very small kiss on his lips. Time seemed to almost stop for Maxwell. Thoughts of Sandy came to his mind and he wished she were there instead of Leanna, who was looking surprised when he stepped back, taking her hands from his chest.
"What the hell are you doing?" she asked in suspision. "You can't be backing away from me. You know you just can't resist me." she said leaning in again for a more deeper kiss, which Maxwell really had a hard time not resisting. She moved her head back and spoke in a quiet angry tone, "Don't think of Sandy. She's a big loser and can't give you what I can. I know you're thinking of her, so don't." Again she kissed him, holding him very close. Maxwell's evey widened when the tongue of this girl he just met a week ago had entered his mouth. It would be so so bad if Sandy was there...
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Sandy stood behind a tree, her already shattered heart had shattered to tiny particle-like peices. She watched Leanna place her hands on Maxwell's chest and kiss him in a way Sandy had only wished she could. She was angry, and sad again, but now she knew, Maxwell was a jerk, and a liar. So much for Leanna not being his girlfriend. Sandy turned and made her way back to the lake,
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Maxwell heard noises behind the tree and turned to see what it was. Leanna told him to ignore what was there and that it was probably a bird. He pulled her away again, "Look, Leanna, I like you, I think you're beautiful and smart and all, but you're not nice, especially when it comes to my friends. Sandy's my best friend and you can only be mean about her when you don't know her. I'm sorry Leanna, but I can't let this go on."
Leanna ws speechless. She had never once been turned down by a guy, let alone been rejected for her kisses...or even more then that. Maxwell stepped back and stared at her strangely. "Y..you..you! You sshole! (Quicknote: I can't help it! I NEED to censor out swear words! I just can't type them in fully without feeling bad! lol) You turned me down for that btch Sandy! I can't even believe you! You can kiss my ss goobye because you wont ever see me again!" she took snow and put it down his pants, his eyes widening. "Don't be crying when you realize what you've missed out on...jerk..." she turned around and walked away in anger. Maxwell heard her say something under her breath (which I will not put in because it is VERY inapprpriate).
"'Least you got rid of her," Stan said from behind a tree. He stood next to Maxwell watching leanna and wistled, "What a babe..." He looked down from her head, "Wow....nice a-"
"Stan..." Maxwell said, sounding alittle weird. Stan looked at him blinking, then remembered and turned around quickly, covering his eyes.
"Gotcha buddy, I'll make sure no one looks," Stan said as he watched out for anyone coming by this way.
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To Be Continued..........
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A/N: Wow, talk about PG! XD It's breif language, there's not that many bad words. so it's only PG, plus the words are censored out. Anywho, you guys like? Hope you got what happened in the end when Stan had to turn around....lol. There's maybe three, two more chapters then I'm done, lol. Anyway, RR. I gots stuff to do, bye! :D
Hapy Martin Luther King Day! Freedom for all, no matter the color of your skin, ethnicity, orrelegion! We're all equal and free!(Ilove that)Lol, : )
