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She knew it was a dream—simply because it had had that strange essence of a dream.

The room had no floor, the mist clung to her legs and the fog swirled around her. She stood there for several moments, the darkness settling into a cloak around her.

In the next moment, an egg appeared in front of her. It was a pure luminescent white, perfectly shaped without a single blemish. It hovered before her, softly glowing.

It was giving off a strange kind of heat.

Warm, but empty and cold at the same time.

She reached out with a pale hand, as if to touch it, but the egg pulled back.

She stretched her arm further, and the egg didn't pull back this time. She grabbed it, and brought it closer to her. The egg sat still in her hands, stilling giving off that weird heat. It quivered.

She cradled it in her palms, blinking down at it. What was supposed to happen now?

A soft breaking sound. A crack appeared on the egg, and a strange voice called her name.

Yes? She was surprised. Are you a chara?

Yes. I am.

The soft cadence of the chara's words fell to her ears with a crash. Her jumbled thoughts scrambled to reorganize themselves.

Then the chara flew out and she almost dropped the egg.

It was a chicken(1).

"What the fuck?!"

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The dream was still vivid in Jenny's mind as they sat down for class. She set her bag on the ground, and turned off her iPod just as the teacher was coming in.

"I graded your tests yesterday. The results are pretty good—a lot of you did well." The teacher smiled, then took out a handful of papers. He began to move through the classroom, handing back tests.

The teacher smiled as he placed a paper on her desk.

Jenny glanced at it—she had never been too interested in her grades. Just maintaining them.

It was Sarah who had the problem with grades.

The night before the test, she had read eight Bleach volumes, then spent the rest of the night "studying". Which meant she was watching TV, occasionally glancing down at her notes, and eating lots of sweets.

"What did you get?" Jenny asked, turning toward her friend.

Sarah picked up her test and flipped it over. "Hey! A C! I did good!"

Jenny glanced at the paper. "69% is NOT a C!" She hissed.

"It's 69.5%, so it rounds UP to a C!" Sarah answered gleefully.

"Sarah! This was like the easiest test of the year!" Jenny frowned.

"Actually, I found it quite hard." Her friend replied.

Jenny snatched her friend's test and glanced over it. "Do books mean the same thing for you as they do for Montag(2)? Why or why not? You drew a CAT for your answer." She glared at her friend.

"Did I already tell you why I hated 'why or why not?' questions?" Sarah asked.

Jenny sighed. "No. Why?"

"Well, it's like saying "Hahaha! There is only ONE right answer! It may be an opinion, but there is one answer! Which one is it, huh? HAH! Betcha can't figure that out since it's a TRICK QUESTION! Dundun dunn! I always imagined 'why or why not' questions to be a very sarcastic Cheshire cat, if I had to characterize it." Sarah grinned.

"So you drew a cat." Jenny asked, skeptically, looking down at the detailed drawing.

"Yeah! OR if you're bsing it, it's like "WHY OR WHY NOT? YOU CAN' T ANSWER IT BECAUSE YOU JUST MADE THAT ANSWER UP!" And those 'how is it the same, and how is it different at the same time' questions are bipolar."

"Seriously?" Jenny looked bored and disbelieving. "You actually think like that?"

"They should just keep it easy so there's no need for us to actually be smart." Sarah complained.

"Oh. My. God." Jenny closed her eyes. She spoke slowly. "What if you get kicked out of school because you have really bad grades?"

"I'll show them my IQ score to prove I'm not stupid." Sarah answered, grinning. "I just have a more intelligent way of thinking that schools can't understand. I mean, only really smart analyzing people would have come up with the Cheshire Cat answer."

"Sure you do." Jenny murmured. She leaned down to rummage in her bag.

"Please pass up your tests everyone." The teacher called.

"A C is good enough, anyways." Sarah replied happily, settling into her seat. "You know, in Wingding World, we believe in higher levels of intelligence."

Jenny took out a few bills from her wallet. "In Wingding World, we also believe in bribing the underpaid teacher to keep the lordess from failing out of the school." Jenny muttered, clipping them to Sarah's test. She placed her on top of it, and passed it up(3).

"Hey!" Sarah protested.

"Either that or you fail and go back home."Jenny glowered.

"Fine." Sarah slumped back onto her seat. "Hey Wingding?"

A grumpy response. "What?"

A sheepish question. "Can you buy me some shaved ice afterschool?"

Exasperation. "What happened to your allowance?"

More sheepishness(4). "I spent it all on… studying supplies."

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"YAAAY! They put watermelons on it!"

Sarah grabbed a spoon and began to carve a hole in the mound of ice and fruit.

Jenny watched her friend eat.

Sarah didn't notice.

Jenny grew awkward, watching Sarah without her noticing, so she shifted her gaze to the shop's door.

A familiar face entered the shop.

Actually, five familiar faces, and one unfamiliar.

Well technically, 12 familiar faces, if you counted the charas.

"Ah—Jenny-chan!" Yaya bounced over to their table, grinning. "You guys are here too!"

"It's hot today, isn't it?" Amu smiled.

"How's the shaved ice?" Kukai asked.

Rima nodded in their direction, and went to read the menu.

"Hi!" Sarah grinned and scooped up a strawberry. "It's great."

The unfamiliar face stood with Tadase, his brown eyes looking at the two girls. Long blue hair hung down his back.

"This is Nagihiko Fujisaki." Yaya tugged at his arm and pulled the stranger forward. "He used to be our last Jack's chair and just came back from Europe."

"Hello." Nagihiko smiled. "It's a pleasure to meet you." He held his hand out to shake.

"Same here." Sarah anwered, shaking his hand.

"Hi!" Alice chirped, flying closer to him.

"Hello." Jenny swirled her spoon in the shaved ice.

An awkward moment, then Nagihiko let his hand drop.

"Don't worry, that's just Jenny." Kukai laughed. "You can start figuring her out later."

"Everyone can put my puzzle together but me." Jenny muttered, when they had gone to sit down and order.

"What?" Sarah looked up.

"Nothing." Jenny smiled.

(1) Don't get it? Go read the last chapter.

(2) Guess which books it's from? ;D

(3) I am NOT promoting bribing. Bribing bad D: NO BRIBING!

(4) I'll stop now xD

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