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Chapter 11: sick at home
"Alex, come on!" Aqua said, shaking me much harder than the last few days. "Alex!" she said. I felt her touch my fore head, then quickly pull back "ow! Why are you so hot?" she said. Yep, that confirmed what I was feeling, I caught the same cold Flame had yesterday, only worse. I missed the rest of the first week of school because I was too sick to go, but the others told me some of what happened. Unfortunately, each of them ended up with the same cold and couldn't go back to school. When Aqua went to school, it was swimming day. The first assignment was to swim 20 laps (standard size racing pool) and aqua did it at about a lap a minuet. During lunch, she was made fun of because of her green hair. She, being shy, had just looked at the ground, but a boy named Jet defended her. Later on, Jet asked if she was free the week after. After lunch they had a swim race, and Aqua won by a long shot. When muscles went to school, it was wrestling day. Why wrestling was in my schedule, I had no idea, but it was there. No one could match Muscles in wrestling, and most of the girls were surrounding him whenever they weren't doing anything. Besides that, he didn't say much. When Toxic went to school, it was track and field day. Again, no clue why I was given that. The first assignment was 4 laps around a standard track (1 mile), and she ran it in 5 minutes. She was made fun of for her hair too, but a boy nicknamed poison helped her, then asked her out. After lunch, the teacher had them race 5 miles, she did it at a lap per minute. Rocky went to school after words, and it was P.E. He didn't really do much, but a girl sat with him. He didn't get her name though. When Ariel went to class, it was chorus. May had signed up for the same chorus class as me to help me with singing (I'm terrible at singing), and since Ariel wouldn't say anything, May told me instead. The teacher asked who would like to sing, and Ariel was the only one who would sing. May says she was a beautiful singer, and most of the boys surrounded her. After lunch, the teacher had everyone compete in a sing off. At first, Ariel went against girls who just sung, but when a boy was against her, he tried to gain an advantage and rap. Ariel had no idea what rap was, and she looked at May scared. With encouragement from May, she didn't miss a beat when it was her turn. All the other kids stared at her in awe as she rapped like she was doing it her whole life. Even the teacher went up against her, and Ariel won! I was glad the others had been so successful, but I was terrible, and I had to go makeup what I didn't do because I was sick. On Friday, Ariel came to talk to me, even though several someone had asked her out that day. "Why aren't you on your date?" I asked her "date?" she asked back "let me rephrase that, why aren't you with the boy who wanted to hang out with you?" I said "well…I canceled at the last minute" she said "why?" I asked "I'm worried about something" she replied nervously "there was a boy who asked to hang out with me. He had green hair, just like Flame, muscles, and Rocky, but his clothes were yellow." She said "who wears yellow clothing?" I asked, not realizing she wouldn't know what that meant "that's not what bugged me, it's that and the green hair, and I think he's a pikmin" she said "A pikmin?" I asked "but I didn't let any pikmin in. what's his name?" I asked. "Uh, it's…" she started "oh, I know he told me!" she said, frustrated "I can't remember!" she stomped her foot childishly. I tried not to laugh at that "he probably just dyed his hair green." I said "and there are many people who wear wacky clothing for no reason, maybe he likes green and yellow" I suggested "yea…that's probably it…" she said "I'll invite him over next weekend, if that's ok with you" she said "yea, it would probably be better that way" I said, wanting to see this guy in person. Maybe there wasn't anything that had tampered with my machine at all, maybe this guy, whoever he was, was a different yellow pikmin who had gotten too close to Daisy when the machine activated, and he got transferred with her, like Star said. But how would he have gotten oriented so quickly? He could have wandered off on his own, but in 7 days? It took Flame longer than that to get used to his body, and Flame was the first one to go to school. I had a feeling Ariel was just paranoid, and whoever this guy was, was just a normal kid who died his hair green and wore yellow clothing. But it did turn my attention back to whatever had caused my machine to go haywire. It couldn't have been an accident, something must have purposefully sabotaged the machine. I did look back at the machine, and I figured out that it wasn't the one who made the pikmin act up, it was Aqua, who was always more human in personality, and that probably conflicted with the machine's transfer. Once Aqua had returned to her normal, shy but sweet self, all the others calmed down as well. I yawned, still recovering from my cold, and went to bed. I laid awake for quite some time thinking about what could have happened, and possible solutions. But after going through a few options, I slowly drifted to sleep.
Done with the summary! I had to put in something other than the summary so that it wouldn't be too short, but here it is! This is the first time I truly made my own storyline, so I'm having trouble coming up with ideas, but I already know how it's going to end. Remember: I love criticism of all kinds, reviews encourage me, and I'm wide open to input. bye for now!
