Okay quick housekeeping. FanFiction didn't let me add 'strikethrough' so just pretend everything underlined is being crossed out. Okay bye!
==M!TF==
It's not that she wasn't trying. She was trying, really hard. There was a pen in her hand. A good pen, it clicked. It was blue- her favorite color. The journal was cool. An old-fashioned leather-bound journal, stuck together by a thumbprint lock.
Jumba did promise, after all.
She should be able to write a journal entry.
Talk about her feelings.
Mahina tapped the pen against the parchment. She wondered what she could even write about, where to start. Nobody was going to read this, after all. Dr. Hunter might ask what was written for a review.
She would have to share it.
How could she share it? Or talk about them at all?
Mahina knew where she tripped up. She'd admitted to not being scared of Stitch dying. Why would she admit that? The only reason she knew he wouldn't was because she watched the movie. She couldn't admit that to a therapist- she'd be locked away.
Her journal sat, useless.
Maybe she wouldn't have to share it. Writing in a diary was a very personal thing. Even Dr. Hunter knew that. He must know that reading her diary would be a huge breach of privacy. He wouldn't.
Maybe.
Mahina picked up the pen.
==M!TF==
June 15, 2003
I am Mahina Alana Jookiba. I'm seven years old. My dad is Jumba Jookiba, cool evil scientist. He adopted me almost a year ago. He's an alien, and we met cause his latest science experiment tried to destroy Hawaii. It was fun.
I
I am also Mo
I call him Pops.
I am writing this because he told me to do it. Dr. Hunter told him to tell me. I still think it's stupid. There are low odds that anyone can read this, but it's not a non-zero.
I don't like people messing with my stuff. The stuff is mine, why would they touch it? Touching something that isn't yours is stealing.
Maybe I can add a feature to punish any unauthorized use? That's a fun idea. I'm making a post-it note for later about it.
Science is my thing. Science. Tech. Building things. Not 'emotional writing feelings' things. That's Pleakley's thing. I wanna stay as far from it as possible.
This journal is stupid. I know how to control my emotions. I'm not a child! I'm a grown woman! So what if I didn't react normally when Stitch was dying? I knew he'd survive!
I know the future
I watched it at ho
My brothers and I watched it a million times until the tape wore out
He had to. There's no ohana without Stitch.
My name is Mor
I have work to do.
It's almost time for the movie to start. I get cousins, again. Or what are they to me?
There will be 625 of them to find.
We have one year to do it. What chance do we even have?
==M!TF==
June 16, 2003
The blender project went well. The teacher gave me a good grade. It's summer time now. That makes things a lot easier.
The hovercraft finally has it's invisibility upgrade. Now Nani will never be able to hide it. I mean, I have to know where it is, so that's something I'll need to fix.
Nani tried to make dinner again. Tried, cause Pleakley was really into a new fad diet from a magazine. They tried making all of us eat it. It didn't go well. Nani ended up ordering pizza.
Pizza was good.
Lilo and Stitch wanted to try the hovercraft. The invisibility still isn't perfect- I wasn't able to make the drivers invisible. So that's something for the drawing board.
Pleakley keeps trying to get me interested in the magazines. Maybe Pops had a good idea about cancelling the subscription. I'll just never like that sort of stuff. 'New ways to a slimmer you', 'how to get the guy', 'what color lipstick suits you'.
It's just all too much. I'm seven. I'll take it as slow as I fucking like.
Right can't swear like a thirty year old. I'm seven here, gotta remember that. Won't be thirty for twenty years.
Fuck I can't swear for another ten. Well five, if I feel like having a rebellious phase
Pops wants to take me out for crop circles again. Sorry, crop squares. Nani can't stop us then.
I still think writing in a journal is stupid.
==M!TF==
June 23, 2003
Nani tried to ground us for the crop squares. I think it's excessive. Why should we be blamed cause Bubbles blabbed on us? Traitor.
I still snuck out to work on the treehouse. There was a storm the other night. I needed to check on the treehouse
Then I started thinking, what about when this happens next year? Summer storms, blowing down on experiments? It's a shock that so many of them stay dry as long as they do.
Even more shocking that it takes a year to catch them all.
The treehouse was fine. Just a couple boards loose. Nothing a few hits with a hammer didn't fix.
It's movie night tomorrow. Nani picked out some romcom, probably because Pops and I did the crop circles so everyone should be punished.
I really wanna watch some horror movies. The movies Nani picks are boring. Let's get blood and gore on screen! She's probably gonna wait until Lilo is a bit older.
Forget that I wanna watch them now.
Like come on another Hellraiser movie just came out for rent, why can't we watch that? Or the American remake of Ring? That movie fucking rocks!
Swearing. Gotta stop swearing.
Tonight is gonna suck
==M!TF==
June 25, 2003
Saw Dr Hunter today. He thinks the diary writing is helping.
I don't.
Nightmares still come about failure
==M!TF==
June 30, 2003
Nani is mad at Pops. It's not even for making crop circles or any other sort of mad science. From what I overheard, it's because he wasn't signing me up for any extracurriculars.
I don't want any anyway. The only really good one is hula, and I don't wanna hula. So I told Pops. He said it was fine. We could do our own stuff back at home.
I'm excited. I asked to learn more of the alien language. Pops looked really excited for me to learn.
But Nani is mad cause it's not a real school thing.
I don't get it. I'm learning. What more does she want? This'll help me in the future. Not just next year or whatever, i It will help me when I take Bubbles' place in the CIA as an alien consultant. The Grand Councilwoman would give her approval if I was fluent in the language.
Maybe I could explore space after. Lilo, Stitch, and I, exploring the stars for the Galactic Alliance. We'd fly in the Big Red Battleship and see all that we could.
Baby steps. I'll learn the language first!
Pops said he'd also teach me rocket science. I love my alien dad way more than the human one.
==M!TF==
July 7, 2003
It's getting close to the start of the movie school. They sent over the school supplies list. Pops and Pleakley instantly hated it. Nani handled our stuff last year, so they didn't bother. This year she gave it to them.
Pops wants to know why I'd need such primitive tech. Nani said it was because the school was an Earth school.
Pleakley used it as an excuse to go shopping for new clothes. They took Lilo & Stitch with us too. Lilo and I bought the same stuff. Pleakley got more than us, really. It was on sale so I can't blame them.
Pops and Nani were still arguing when we came back. Pops looked upset so I made a big show of showing off the new blue flowered dress. It made him smile. And when Pols gets happy, it's not quiet. He swept me up in his arms and spun me around, laughing and jumping for joy
Hugs still hurt but they hurt less from him
Lilo & Stitch took out the hovercraft again. I'd fixed the driver invisibility. They could fly all they like, as long as they don't crash. (Not that Nani needs to know about that)
I flew too. We had a race. They won. Even though I've been upgrading these things for a year, those two had more practice on them.
They told Pops and Pleakley all about it. They were happy, ruffling Lilo's hair.
Pops always gets so happy but he still only hugs me
How does a normal person react to that?
==M!TF==
July 10, 2003
We had another movie night.
We watched another old creature-feature. Again, they don't even consider anything else. Why not watch Psycho? It's black-and-white, it's creepy, bugs are there at one point!
I realize they wouldn't change their minds. That's fine. I waited until everyone fell asleep to swap the movies.
I think Pops woke up before the shower scene. I heard him giggling then try to pretend it was snoring.
Psycho was still really cool. We'd eaten most of the snacks, it was pushing midnight, and Nani could be home any minute, but it was cool.
I woke up in my bed. Just more proof that Pops hadn't actually fallen asleep.
I hope he didn't see anything in my room. My notes were still up on the board
I hope he didn't read this.
==M!TF==
July 15, 2003
I think it starts tomorrow
Fuck I'm not ready
==M!TF==
AN: I said it would start around Christmas. That's on me, I was way too busy for a Christmas and beyond updates this semester. It was my last so I was pulling double duty on everything. It sucked so fucking much and I am furious by the workload.