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When Leon and Rosetta came back from the car they continued on with the carnival visit.
"What did you name him?" Rosetta asked her beaming friend as she held the bag up.
"Charlie-san!"
Rosetta tilted her head, familiar with the suffixes of her Japanese friend's native language. She picked it up seeing as Sora liked to insert them every now and then.
"Isn't Mr. Charlie the name of the clown Anna likes?"
"Ah, that's right! I was thinking of Charlie Chaplin 'cause of the mustache." Sora shrugged. "But they are both funny, so it all works out."
While those two walked at the front of the group, Leon trailed behind with May and Ken at the back. May was finishing up her second bag of kettle corn when she spotted something up ahead on the right.
Mirror Fun House.
Those closed off places are generally poorly lit and confusing with its maze of wacky mirrors. With one redheaded klutz, one female shy hunk, and one desperate guy looking for some attention, should their group really go into such an area?
Hell yes.
"Hey guys," May started with the beginnings of a mischievous grin, "let's check this out."
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The beginning of the fun house had some lights.
Sora giggled as her, Rosetta, Ken and even Charlie-san were elongated in the mirror. So that's how I'd look if I was tall. She bent her legs a little, giggling even more when her head was now morphed into a cone shape.
"Mr. Charlie looks like an orange eel!" Rosetta laughed.
"He does!" Sora agreed, not looking at her friend as she continued walking down the hallway of mirrors, laughing and gasping at the funny distortions the reflective surfaces showed her. Since she was too busy following her reflection, she did not notice that there was a fork in their path, most of her friends going the other way.
She skipped a little down the way, laughing at the strangeness of seeing herself tall and long; then suddenly robust and short.
"I look like a pancake here!" she giggled, turning to see her friend.
Rosetta was not the one with her.
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Now that they were further in the fun house, the lights were dim.
Ken, having thought that Sora was still next to him, started to talk. Act casual. Don't freak her out.
"I'm sorry about not winning the fish for you." He paused to see himself in the new mirror. His shoulders were very broad and he couldn't help but lift his arm up and flex it. So that's what it would look like with muscles.
He had to admit, he looked pretty good. The image gave him a boost of confidence. Putting on his charming smile, he spoke as he turned around.
"Let me buy you dinner."
His eyes widened as he looked at the startled expression of the teen behind him.
That's not Sora.
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Sora blinked at Leon lifting a hand up and down, watching the distortion in the mirror.
The action struck her for she had not really seen him play around before. While she has seen him as goofy, that had only been for a role in a show. He had visibly struggled with that role; everyone, whether they could read his impassive face or not, could tell. He didn't mask the frustration-or couldn't, she wasn't sure which-but all in all, he had done a pretty great job.
He was helping in her dream stage and she couldn't be happier.
Though, she did wonder where the rest of her friends were.
"What happened to the others?"
Leon looked away from the mirror and then gave a slight shrug. "They went to the right. You went to the left."
She tilted her head at the way he phrased it. "You went left too." Why didn't he say that he chose the left as well? He made it sound like...her going left made him go left...
He shrugged again. "It's not safe to go alone."
So he did follow me. Something tickled the inside of her stomach.
"Oh."
She turned around and started walking again. A few seconds ticked by and then she realized that her simple response may have come off as ungrateful. Turning back around, she started to thank him for coming with her when the already dim light bulbs above them sputtered out.
They were plunged into darkness.
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