Chapter 9: Just Do It! Part 1
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Annabelle was walking up the street, for once to go ahead to take the trolley. She barely takes any type of transportation like the trolley to go anywhere. The only time she would take them if she was running late; it could be anything! Like, school, getting home, an interview, etc. etc. She's pretty slow when it comes to getting somewhere on time and she KNOWS she wouldn't make it. So, in that cause, she has to go and take the trolley to meet up with her friend, Honey Lemon at SFIT.
When she got on the trolley, she noticed there was no window seats open so she had to sit in the very back of the trolley. This is where you have to stand and look while you're riding that vehicle. Annabelle doesn't mind at all, but it would be nicer if it wasn't so crowded. It's 3:00pm on a Thursday; it isn't even the time to even have rush hour on a trolley yet. Then, again, this street is going outbound from the city so it's going to be awhile until the trolley opens up with free seats once more.
Whenever she saw the street of the institute, you don't even have to wait until the trolley stops, in Anna's book, you can just hope right off as the trolley slowly haunts to a stop. So she did and not a scratch or bruise on her, usually she would fall, but the trolley's platform is lowered so she doesn't have to do any trick to get down.
She got off and looked around to see if she saw Honey Lemon's pink Volkswagen's Beetle. She walked across the street and walked over to the campus. She never forgot how big and wide this campus was its very beautiful with the ancient technique the park has as a structure of both urban life and Asian aviculture.
But still, no sign of Honey Lemon anywhere. Maybe she is still in class? She thought she's probably a bit too early. Even if the trolley was so slow, it mustn't be missing this stop of the campus so late. When she got off, even more people; students and staff must be getting ready to leave out of their classes and heading back home.
Well, I guess I'll wait until she's done with what she is doing. Anna said to herself, quietly. She went to find a nearest bench and sat herself down and waits. She sighed before grabbed out her sketchbook out of her handbag and started to doodling.
"FRED!" A shriek from the broad and tall Wasabi from his lab, his face was plastered in horror and absolute shock. "You…you…YOU—I worked SO HARD on it…"
He was talking about his collection of rocks that he was going to use for his project. They organized and categorized in alphabetical order, color, size, sorted by country and shape. How it was ruined?
Well, Fred looked at Wasabi very baffled as he held up one piece of rock that was categorized as a ruby red sapphire, 2'3" inches and weighed 23lbs, according to Wasabi's collection file. It was on the far right, that's when Fred picked it up to just look at it and was amazed by its look. That's when Wasabi was in despair as Fred dissembled the order and has to start all over again. But Fred only picked up one rock, out all 237 rocks Wasabi had collected since he started, well, about 2 months ago. It's an easy fix, but in Wasabi's point-of-view.
Wasabi was nearly in tears when Fred gave him back his rock. Still confused, Fred didn't even know what the problem was.
"I mean, I only picked up one rock. I didn't mean to mess up your collection, dude." He said, softly as he felt a little guilty about what he did.
"IT'S ANARCHY! Society had ruled! I worked so hard to have a plus for everything and everything in its own PLACE…" He whined as he glared stare towards Fred, as if he was examining him for any other misconducts he had done.
Then the eyes looked over towards the rest of the gang, Honey, GoGo, and Tadashi. They finally finished their classes for the day and were heading over to their labs to pack up.
GoGo rolled her eyes at Wasabi as she knew he was going through his "Bitch fits" again. "What got his extra pair of underwear in a twist, again?" GoGo mused, trying not to show a snicker towards serious and traumatized Wasabi.
Fred shrugged. "All I did was grabbed one of Wasabi's cool collection of rocks and he started to go on an emotional rampage."
Wasabi shrieked. "NO! TADASHI!" Tadashi was close to picking up one of his rocks. Tadashi slowly pulled his hand away and raised an eyebrow.
"I was just going check 'em out. Geez, you're so tense Wasabi, chill…" He said in a nicest way possible.
"CHILL?" Wasabi repeated, in a very uptight voice, "I DON'T CHILL IF PEOPLE KEEP TOUCHING MY GOOD WO—HONEY!?" Honey already had her hands on a honey colored golden rock that had small, black spots circling around it. Honey was too fascinated by the rocks than the precautions of Wasabi's nervous breakdowns.
"Wow, Wasabi…these rocks are very cool. If you're not doing anything with these things, maybe I use them for an experiment that I…been…working…o—Wasabi?" Honey trailed off from her sentence to see a curled up Wasabi, in the back corner of his lab.
Wasabi could not believe what just happened. His work, his belongings, his collection, this have been worked out throughout the 2 months of his project and now…it's all wasted and his ego is corrupted. He has to start all over again from the beginning, like that's the biggest deal about it; he's more surprised that his work is being distorted, disordered, changed and disorganized. That's his biggest issue. A perfectionist and neat-freak like him would go from normal to outrage so quickly by the fact that his work is changed or taken for granted.
Before Wasabi could calm himself down which will be awhile until then, he glared at his gang asked viciously about them having something else to do than distorting his work.
GoGo scoffed as she grabbed her electromagnetic extension bike and her helmet from her side of the lab and rolled her eyes before popping another bubble from her gum. "Of course, getting away from a maniac like you, geez."
Fred shook his head as he frowned at GoGo. "That's not very nice GoGo, I mean, you know Wasabi. He's very emotional." He said, make known in his friend's defense.
Tadashi added on as he grabbed his brown, leathered satchel from his hand and puts it around his shoulder. "Yeah Wasabi isn't that uptight, he just need to settled down…I guess. Also, we have somewhere to go to. I have to go back to Aunt Cass's café to finish up my afternoon shift and then help Hiro with his project for tomorrow's showcase."
Honey Lemon beamed as she walked in front of them as she grabbed her pink sunglasses and her car keys. "Yeah! Plus, Annabelle is coming along too! This is going to be so fun!"
Tadashi tried not to show any redness around his cheeks, but when Honey pronounced Annabelle in her sentence, butterflies could be felt all inside his stomach and is making him smile.
Wasabi, with his cynical voice, scoffed at them as he got up and grabbed his rocks from his desk and shoved them in a plastic bag. "Well, you all have fun! Meanwhile, I'll have fun, sorting out 238 of my rocks that you ALL destroyed!"
"Not destroy, Wasabi, just distorted them." Tadashi quoted, "Sorry. We didn't mean to though, we promise we won't do it again. Right guys?"
Honey and Fred nodded, as for GoGo; she was already out the door. Very impatient she was she was already on her bike and riding down the street to the café before anyone else.
Wasabi scoffed. "You're goddam right y'all won't; I worked so hard on this man. You have no idea!"
Honey rolled her eyes with a smile and snorted. "Don't sweat it Wasabi, we'll help you with the sorting rocks later. We have to go, are you sure you don't want to join us?" She asked.
"Can't, I have to fix something that we'll take possibly days to fix…"
Fred waved goodbye to Wasabi and told the gang to come one before Annabelle leaves them. Surely, Tadashi wouldn't want that.
Honey waved goodbye to Wasabi as well and walked out the door of the lab before heading outside to the park of the campus.
As the three was outside, near the parking lot, Anna was spotted right along the bench, doodling on her notebook. Her book was almost filled up with her drawings; she probably needs to buy a whole new one before drawing anymore doodles or sketches again.
She didn't even noticed her friends were walking towards her until gleeful Honey Lemon grabbed her out of the blue and gave her a big hug, causing Anna to fall out of her seat and pulled up by tall Honey.
"AAK—Honey?! Uh, HI?" Annabelle said before being smothered by Honey's furry, honey-yellow, sweater.
"OH ANNA! I've missed you soo MUCH! IT BEEN AGES!"
'Ages', in Honey's term of language; it has been about 12 hours since they saw each other. But still, Honey was so glad that Annabelle is in her arms and was reunited once again by the group.
Annabelle then pulled Honey away from her as her arms were pulled back as gravity took Anna towards the bench and sat back down. Causing this, her hair was down in curls as her ponytail was pulled apart by Honey's upper-body strength causing her hairstyle to be undone.
"Wow, Honey, you're pretty strong for a person that hasn't seen me, 12 hours before." Annabelle joked, as she pulled her hair back and then tossed her hair over her head to grab a handful of her hair to put it up in a ponytail once more.
Tadashi saw the movement of Anna's hair and his eyes widen, if that exact moment was shown in slow motion, it would've been a flawless appearance which made Tadashi's heart beat a little faster than it should. His face felt very warm as his cheeks began to heat up into a reddish formation around his cheeks and ears.
Fred witness Tadashi's expression and gesture a wiggling eyebrow and a chuckle.
As for Honey and Anna, they spend most of their time talking and walking over to Honey's pink car.
Fred and Tadashi were taking Fred's butler, Heathcliff's limousine to the café. Fred already scheduled the timing of when the limousine should come, right about 3:10pm.
"We'll meet you two there, later!" Honey Lemon said to Fred and Tadashi before pulling off and heading down the street.
While Fred and Tadashi waited for the limo to arrive, Fred gave Fred a few smirks and snickers as Tadashi was daydreaming about something else, somewhere far away from here.
"SO, Tada…"
"TADASHI…" Tadashi said to Fred, sternly.
"Sorry, Tada-shi, have you been talking to Annabelle lately?"
Tadashi choked on his own salvia. He covered his mouth as he coughed and then swallowed, showing his Adam's apple.
"What do you mean by that? That I have a crush on Annabelle or something?" Tadashi said, raising an eyebrow.
"I mean, you do hang out with her more often and you guys are close. How many times you two see each other? 3 times a day, 5 times a week?"
"I mean, I saw her yesterday, we were at the café tutoring each other."
"Awe…"
"What do you mean "Awe"? Fred, I know it seems that I could ask her go out at any time but I'm not going to go up and fast an—, "
Tadashi face reddens and his eyes widen in shock. I didn't mean it like that! I didn't mean it like that!
Fred eyes shined with glee, reverse psychology does work, for Fred at least.
"I got you!" Fred said as he chuckled, giving his bashful pale a pat on the shoulder. "I can tell Tadashi, you got it bad."
"You can say that Fred, I mean, what am I going to say? Anna, will you go out with me? I mean, that's coming out too strong. I really want to go out with her, I mean, I just want to go and take my time and take things slow."
Tadashi looked away from Fred as he felt embarrassed to say this type of stuff like that; it's embarrassing but then again a relief. Tadashi only told Fred and Wasabi, its fine for the men to know his secrets. It would be hell if GoGo knows, or at least Honey Lemon knows, and if Honey knows, then Anna will know. He fears that if that happens, their friendship; he and Anna will never be the same way again. It could change for the worse if Anna knows before confessing first.
So, this must be hidden a secret, no doubt, Wasabi and Fred will be the ONLY people to know about this at this point. No exceptions.
"Okay, so you and Wasabi know at this point, please keep it that way." Tadashi pleaded; his voice was a calm and modest as ever. He really likes Anna, he really does. He just doesn't want anything weird between them at all at this point.
Fred looked over at the limo, pulling into the parking lot. He smiled as he promised Tadashi, for sure, that he will not tell another soul. He even pinky swear he will not tell anyone.
"But you have to admit bro," he concluded, "You two are met for each other." Tadashi chuckled at his friend as he kind of agree to his beanie-wearing, monster loving friend as they got into the limo, and pulled off.
Honey and Anna were already down the street, near the café. Honey's pink car was near one of the side parking lots beside the shop and could see Aunt Cass and Hiro inside.
Anna had the courage to wave at them from outside. Hiro cheeky, smile was adorable as his gap-tooth was only one of a kind to his facial expression.
Annabelle smiled as she walked down the sidewalk and heading inside the entrance to the café and running over to dear Hiro, hugging him as if that's her brother of her own.
"Hi Hiro…" Annabelle said amused at seeing the 14 year old, which was just as excited to see her too.
"Hey, Annabelle, I see you're not with your bae. Usually see you guys all the time…" Hiro teased.
"Bae?" Annabelle asked in baffled.
"Yeah, your bae…"
"I…don't have a bae Hiro…"
"Of course you do."
"No, I do not."
"Yup, he's here every day…"
"Tadashi is not my bae Hiro, we're just friends."
Aunt Cass was already about to hug Anna until she heard the words, "bae" and "Tadashi". This is where matchmaking Aunty Cass comes in and investigates.
"Tadashi huh…?" Aunt Cass said, amusingly.
Annabelle bashfully shook her head at the aunt and told her that she and Tadashi are not together. Then, from behind, GoGo's bubble gum popped was a loud smack and the eyes were glanced towards her. She was sitting on the chair backwards as she kept chewing on her bubble gum.
"GoGo?" They all said in unison, even Honey, who just walked in the door; saw her from behind without even realizing she was here.
"Yeah? I mean, come on, I have a bike that goes through 0 resistance, equals a faster bike."
Anna sighed as she sat down at the same table GoGo is sitting and asked Aunt Cass for some strawberry Frappuccino. Aunt Cass wrote down the order and asked if anyone else, except Hiro would like anything to drink. Honey just wanted a pastry from the bakery and GoGo just wanted pumpkin spice cappuccino with cream and seasonal colored sprinkles.
"Coming right up, oh, when is Tadashi "Anna's mate" arrives?" Aunt Cass asked.
Annabelle blushed as she shrugged to when exactly Tadashi and Fred will be coming; they could've walked up here if all they know.
Aunt Cass sighed as she walked over to the kitchen and got their drinks made.
As for the rest of them, Hiro was chattering about his project for tomorrow and how he's almost done. He just needs a few of GoGo's tools and Tadashi's wires from the tests that went wrong by Baymax to get the final batch of microbots ready.
"I think I'll give my tool box to you…" GoGo insisted, but then again in a sarcastic tone.
Hiro groaned. "Seriously, GoGo, I need it for tomorrow or I won't finish in time."
"You know I was joking right?"
Hiro chuckled, nervously. "Oh, I knew that…"
"IT'S FRED TIME!" Fred yelled from the entrance of the café, causing everyone's eye to glance over at him. Fred smiled, dim-wittedly as he ran over to the crew, giving them pats on the back and hi-5 from Hiro.
As for Tadashi who was the last person to come in, smiled at everyone and waved hello to the gang before heading over to the counter where Aunt Cass was and got on to his shift.
As for the rest of the gang, they all just chill and socialize as they let time pass by during the time at the café.
Only a half an hour has passed and the gang still talking at their table, their beverages and/or pastries in their hands, the brothers working overtime at the kitchen and Aunt Cass serving and greeting or signing-off customers, coming in and going out of the shop.
Annabelle waved at Tadashi as he was working over at the kitchen, washing the dishes. Tadashi smiled and waved back. Blush formed around both of their faces, their insides started to tickle, their hearts beating a little faster than normal.
Annabelle tucked behind a lock of hair behind her ear, as a sign of affection or just trying to get that annoying string of hair out of her sight.
Tadashi cupped his cap from his head, as he fixed up his mountain hair hairstyle. He pulled it back and over as if he was hot and need to cool off. Guessing, that he is inside a kitchen, where everything is being cooked, brewed or fried in there. So yeah, that's pretty much that.
Annabelle then looked away as she felt her cheeks burning even more and looked towards Honey and the rest of the gang as well. Looks and snickers were shown on each of their faces.
Annabelle stared at them as if they were all crazy. "What?" She asked, blankly.
GoGo smiled, with an arched eyebrow. "What do you mean what? You guys got it bad…"
Anna scoffed. "As if… I know what you are saying. Tadashi and I are just friends."
"We know," GoGo continues, "it's the fact that you guys are not letting it blossom."
"It's because we only know each other for a week. I don't have a crush on Tadashi though; I am completely and utterly serious!"
Honey chuckled. "Are you sure…?"
"YES I AM. I'm being very honest here, I am just a friend to Tadashi and that's final."
Fred sighed. "Bummer, it's going to be sad news when I tell Tadashi that—," he paused, his face paled up, he covered his mouth with his hands and his look was completely in shudder.
The gang stared at him in suspicion. Fred promised.
He doesn't want Tadashi to break him into pieces as well as their friendship if they find out and he broken a promise.
GoGo arched her eyebrow as she blew another bubble and then took out her piece of gum to drink some of her cappuccino.
"That what?" GoGo asked in interest.
"Uh….I…uh…I forgot that Hiro's birthday is coming up!"
"In 10 months from now, yes." Honey included.
"I mean, how it that sad news though that—,"
"Hey guys," Tadashi said a little sketchy as he was holding a huge amount of the dishes in his arms that seems unbearable to hold for much longer.
Annabelle looked concerned as she saw the massive struggle of her dear friend holding so much that he could carry.
"Wow, you can really do that work for that pay, huh?" Annabelle mentioned, slightly with a playful smile.
Tadashi nodded, still keeping his balance and posture to keep from glasses falling. "Yeah, I mean, its worth it right?" He said with a chuckle.
Then before they knew it, the glasses and dishes were beginning to fall out of the grip of Tadashi's hand and started trembling down. Then, Annabelle saves them from a fall and glasses shattered, by her fast and perfect timing; she managed to get most of the glasses before even hitting the floor.
"Got it!" Annabelle cheered as she grabbed the rest of the dishes and helped Tadashi put them in the kitchen. After putting the dishes into the sink, Tadashi thanked Anna for helping him before another lecture from Aunt Cass could roll in.
"Thanks uh, Annabelle. I really don't know what I would've done without you."
Annabelle giggled. "No, probs just don't try to overwhelm yourself with all the work, just take your time."
"Trust me," Tadashi said, "I'll make sure that mistake will never rerun itself again." He chuckled.
Annabelle smiled as she looked around and noticed that there is a staircase in the storage area of the shop.
"Um," she hesitated, "why is there staircase in the storage room? Is there another floor of storage or something?"
"Uh, no…that's the staircase to my house."
"YOUR house?"
"I mean, my Aunt's house, I still live with her and my brother Hiro too."
"Really? Whoa, that's so weird…So, the shop is connected with Ms. Cass's house?"
"Yup, plus I have to share a room with Hiro in the attic."
"Your room is in the attic?"
"Yeah, there's only one bedroom, so that includes a whole new one in the attic." Tadashi explained.
Annabelle was so surprised; she never knew Tadashi's aunt's store was connected to a resident housing above it.
"Where did you assume I would live at? Inside the city apartments or something?" Tadashi asked with a soft chuckle.
"Um, honestly, I thought you lived with your parents…"
"Uh…" Then the conversation gets awkward when Tadashi felt uncomfortable confessing that he doesn't have parents; he's a complete orphan.
"What? Did I say something wrong?" Annabelle asked, beginning to worry.
"No, no, no! I-I-I just trailed off for a second, you're fine."
"Oh, okay then, I am actually interested in seeing what it looks like up there…If you're not busy."
"Well, I need to finish my shift. But after that, I'll give you a little tour if you like that." He said poking her nose, playfully.
Annabelle giggled as she pushed Tadashi's hand softly away before he could do another poke on her small nose.
"Sta'p! Alright, whenever you're done with your shift, we'll take that tour, promise?"
"Pinky-swear promise." He wrapped his pinky finger around hers and smiled up at her. Her pinky was warm and soft, it gave Tadashi a tingle in his stomach.
I should've cleaned my room beforehand… Tadashi thought to himself in disappointed. Sweat began to pour down onto his palm of his hands instant while he hid the feeling as he smiled up at her.
The same feeling had gone through Annabelle's hands too, she was quite nervous as well. She doesn't know what's going to happen next. She is not the type of person to be around people and then go to their house by surprise, especially if they're boys. She's mostly a loner and had no friend, which was only a year ago when she was all by herself and was only to herself.
Now, she has about 5 fives plus Aunt Cass and Mochi and close to her parents as ever before. This year haves been overall the best years of her life at this moment, in time.
She hopes that her and her friends will become as close as ever before.
Alright, I really wanted you to know I will be not uploading as often because I'm about to start Keystones in a week and Thanksgiving is coming up. So, it will be awhile until December. So, I might be not uploading ANYTHING until the beginning of December, when winter break begins. I am very sorry for the circumstances but it is what it is and I am not going to go and lose my academics for stories about random fandom.
I'm sorry if I am being rude but it's been very stressful for me, school, family issues, relationships, etc. I just need to work on what's serious with me first.
Annabelle will be at hiatus until December
TDKI will be uploaded this weekend and won't be another upload until December.
I am hopeful and grateful about all the favorites and followers I am getting from my two stories I ever managed to put up this year.
I promise, I'll keep you posted.
