A Whole New World
Episode Two - A Wet Day
Maggie was staring down at her 4 Sakura Stars during Spanish class the next day. She had trying to avoid Jake all day, and had been successful. Maggie started thinking about something else other than Jake, when someone started shaking her right arm.
"Maggie, do you have any playing cards?" a boy named Adam Glume asked. Adam was the typed of boy that always bother people everywhere at anytime, and he was also a friend of Jake.
"No." Maggie said, putting the Sakura Stars away in her backpack.
"You're lying." Adam said. "Like you always do."
"I don't lie." Maggie said finally looking at him.
"Yes you do. Let me look at your backpack then." He said about to take her backpack.
"No way, that's my private stuff." Maggie said, looking at the teacher in the front room, who was explaining plurals in Spanish.
"I think he likes you." A girl name Pom said, sitting on the left side of her.
"Ewww." Maggie said, making a face.
"He does because yesterday he told me that he thinks your pretty." Pom said smiling.
"Really, that's just sick." Maggie said looking at Linda who sat in front of the class.
"What's this?" came Adam's voice. "See, you brought your cards."
Maggie turned to look at Adam, and saw that Adam was holding the Sakura Stars.
"Give those back to me." Maggie said, trying not to lose her temper.
"Why? You lied to me. You said you didn't bring your cards and see you have them." Adam said, maliciously.
"Can you count? There are only 4 cards." Maggie said reaching out to grab back her backpack. "Give me my backpack back or I'll tell the teacher." "Why should I?" Adam said, turning around laughing with his friends.
"MR. GUNN!" Maggie yelled. "Adam took my backpack and he won't give it back to me!"
The whole class was silent and everyone looked at Adam and Maggie.
"What's going on over here?" Mr. Gunn said looking mad that Maggie disturbed his class.
"He took my backpack because he thought I was lying. I told him I didn't, so he stole my backpack and he won't give it back." Maggie explained out loud so that the whole class heard.
"Adam, give her back her pack or anything that you stole from her and I want you two to stay after class." Mr. Gunn said. Everyone knew Mr. Gunn was the nicest person on campus and the students knew no one should mess with him.
Adam handed Maggie back her backpack and the Sakura Stars. Mr. Gunn began teaching again, and Maggie ignored Adam until the rest of the period until the bell rang. Maggie waited for Adam so that they could talk to Mr. Gunn, but when she saw Adam run out of the room, Maggie did to.
* * * * * During lunchtime, Maggie's friends were talking about their day, excluding Maggie who was silent for the first half of the lunchtime.
"Maggie! What's wrong? Day dreaming about Jake again." Rayani said. Rayani told the rest of their friends that Maggie had a crush on Jake.
"No, I was just thinking about stuff." Maggie said getting up, and stretching.
"Maggie, did you see the Simpsons yesterday?" Brian Moreno said, who was a big fan of the Simpsons.
"Yeah, it was hilarious." Maggie said, looking over at Jake to see how he was doing, and hoping that Adam didn't tell anyone about the incident in Spanish class.
Rayani looked to where Maggie was looking at and said, "Don't worry, none of us will tell Jake that you like him. We promise."
Maggie looked at them and smiled. "Thanks you guys."
"No prob." Kenny Masaki said.
Maggie returned her gazed to Jake who was laughing with his friends. Maggie started joining into her friends' conversations for the rest of lunchtime.
The bell rang, signaling that lunchtime was over and that everyone is to go to 6th period. Maggie was about to walk to class with Rayani when someone pulled on her backpack, stopping her.
"Gees, you could've just said my name." Maggie said turning around and feeling surprised that it was Jake.
"Now you now how it feels huh. How you always pull on my backpack in the hallways." Jake said.
"Hahahaha." Maggie said, looking at Jake with a funny look. "Anyways what do you want? I don't wanna be late for class.
Jake turned to Rayani and said, "Can I talk to Maggie alone?"
"Sure." Rayani said looking a bit surprised but was smiling broadly at Maggie. "See you during passing period than." And she waved her hand and walked off to class.
Maggie waved back, and she turned around to see what Jake wanted. When Rayani was off in the distance Jake looked at her with a serious expression on his face. "Adam told me, well everyone around him, what happened during Spanish. He said he found some where stuff in your backpack. He said it looked like cards that are bright pink with pictures on them. Not the usual trading cards that are sold in stores." he said explaining.
"Well it's not my fault. He was bothering me during Spanish asking me if I had any playing cards, since he wanted to gamble again. I said no. He thought I was lying, so he took my backpack when I was talking to Pom. He found my Sakura Stars in one of my backpack pockets and took them from me. I told on Mr. Gunn and we got yelled at for disturbing the class. Luckily he gave me the cards back. I guess Adam didn't tell you that did he." Maggie said crossing her arms and giving him the look. "It's not a big deal."
"Not a big deal, not a big deal? These cards have magical powers Maggie. If the person who doesn't have any magical powers and is holding the cards, the cards can come to life kill the person that is holding it. Only the master of the cards, which is you, or anyone else that knows about the cards or someone that has magical powers can hold it. Adam doesn't have any magical powers. He could've been killed." Jake said, raising his voice when the bell rang.
"Thanks to you, I'm late for class." Maggie ran away from Jake and headed towards her Science Class.
* * * * *
Two hours past, and Maggie was in Geography Class, along with Jake who sat on the other side of the class. Their teacher, Mr. Stringer, was talking about China and their giant population. Increasing every year.
Maggie was busy taking notes to notice that Jake was staring at her closely, hopping that she wouldn't show anyone else the Sakura Stars.
"Mr. Espinosa, do you mind taking notes and listening to me instead of looking across the room." Mr. Stringer said, staring at him rudely in front of the class. The whole class turned to look at Jake, including Maggie. Jake looked away and started at the teacher.
"Sorry." Jake said staring down at his notes, which had only two sentences on it.
China is one of the main countries around the world.
China has a population of more than 5 billion people.
Jake stared up at Mr. Stringer, who continued talking to the class again, eyeing Jake carefully. Jake heard a few giggles around the room, which made him giggle to. He looked over at Maggie, and was staring at him, shaking her head at him and continued taking more notes for the upcoming finals before Christmas vacation.
Thirty minutes later, the bell rang and Jake hurried across the room so that he could talk to Maggie, instead her desk was empty. He looked toward the door and there he saw her walking out of the classroom. Jake shoved people out of the way, and ran out the door, hearing people yell at him.
"Maggie wait." he shouted.
Maggie turned around to see Jake running towards her. "What!" she said.
"I'm surprised you didn't show anyone the Sakura Stars." Jake said, catching his breath and giving her a smile.
"Look if you want the Sakura Stars, then just take them." Maggie said, taking the cards out of her backpack and throwing it in his face. "Maybe you'll take better care of it than me." Before Jake could anything else, Maggie ran away. People walked by and started laughing at him.
* * * * *
"You what?" Kero yelled later that afternoon. Maggie told Kero what happened all day and he was mad at her for not having the cards with her.
"Kero, please don't bother me. I have a lot of homework to do right now." Maggie said getting annoyed.
"How could you give away the cards. Those cards help you capture other cards. You might need them later or something." Kero said looking worried.
"Look, I told you yesterday. I'm not destined for this type of thing. I don't have the time and people would make fun of me." Maggie said, slamming her Algebra book. "Now stop bothering me and let me finish my homework with some peace and quiet and don't bother me again until I'm done." And she walked out of the room to her toy room under the stairs.
Kero sighed heavily and tried to wake up from his dream, but this wasn't a dream, this was reality. Kero was now scared and flew over to the cold afternoon air. As looked around the Laguna Hills view from the balcony. As he looked around the neighbors yard he heard loud and frightened voices. And there he saw it. Something he once saw in Readington hoping back then that he wouldn't see it again.
* * * * *
Maggie was doing her homework in the nice, and quiet toy room with no disturbances with soft music in the background. Even with the music on, Maggie suddenly heard loud yells and screaming from outside. Maggie ran outside of the backyard to see that her parents were there too, looking over into the neighbors yard. "Mom, Dad what's going on? What's with all the yelling." she said walking over to them.
Maggie saw it, the neighbors son and daughter were drowning in the pool. They were struggling to get air into there lungs. A swirl was taking them to the bottom of the pool when the dad tried to get closer. The mom was standing there looking down at her children, crying. Maggie's parents were helpless too, about to go to a wedding they couldn't jump in the pool with their fancy clothes on.
Maggie couldn't watch the kids drown to their death, She started to climb over the wall, took a deep breath, and dived into the neighbors pool. Hearing her parents yelling at her, and her neighbors yelling at her to get out of the pool or she'll get herself drowned too. Maggie ignored them and started swimming to the poor kids who where not moving anymore.
She swam to the boy, and started pulling on the swirl that was on his legs, hoping that she wouldn't get caught in the swirl herself. For seconds the swirl wouldn't budge, then Maggie pulled as hard as she could and the swirl grew weaker until it disappeared. Maggie pushed the boy to the surface, his parents helping her pull him up.
Maggie took another deep breath and swam to the very bottom of the pool to help save the girl, who was still trying to get air. When Maggie reached her, she was about to talk the swirl to let it release the girls' hands, but the swirl disappeared. Maggie and the girl same to the top, swimming as they could.
Maggie swam to the top and saw that the boy was breathing fine again, and the mom was putting a towel around the girl who was breathing deeply. The father was looking at her with much relief. "Thank you so much. I don't know what've we have done without you. You guys are the best neighbors we've had in a while, since we have to travel around the world because of my company."
"Your welcome." Maggie's dad, Tho, said. "My daughter took swimming lessons when she was younger and she helped a lot of kids." Maggie got out of the water and saw that the water was calm again. She was about to ask for the new neighbors name but the whole family went inside the house. Maggie started to climb over the wall, and jumped into there own swimming pool.
Maggie got out the pool and her parents looked at her. "That was a nice thing you did for the new neighbors Maggie." Kim said.
"Well, at least they know that we are good people." Maggie said shivering from the cool air.
"Do you think that was a Sakura Star?" Tho said looking at his daughter. "I mean, no water could've swirled like that, If there was water sprout, but that's only in the middle of the ocean."
"That's the question I want to ask Kero when I get dried off." Maggie said walking into the house to take a shower.
Episode Two - A Wet Day
Maggie was staring down at her 4 Sakura Stars during Spanish class the next day. She had trying to avoid Jake all day, and had been successful. Maggie started thinking about something else other than Jake, when someone started shaking her right arm.
"Maggie, do you have any playing cards?" a boy named Adam Glume asked. Adam was the typed of boy that always bother people everywhere at anytime, and he was also a friend of Jake.
"No." Maggie said, putting the Sakura Stars away in her backpack.
"You're lying." Adam said. "Like you always do."
"I don't lie." Maggie said finally looking at him.
"Yes you do. Let me look at your backpack then." He said about to take her backpack.
"No way, that's my private stuff." Maggie said, looking at the teacher in the front room, who was explaining plurals in Spanish.
"I think he likes you." A girl name Pom said, sitting on the left side of her.
"Ewww." Maggie said, making a face.
"He does because yesterday he told me that he thinks your pretty." Pom said smiling.
"Really, that's just sick." Maggie said looking at Linda who sat in front of the class.
"What's this?" came Adam's voice. "See, you brought your cards."
Maggie turned to look at Adam, and saw that Adam was holding the Sakura Stars.
"Give those back to me." Maggie said, trying not to lose her temper.
"Why? You lied to me. You said you didn't bring your cards and see you have them." Adam said, maliciously.
"Can you count? There are only 4 cards." Maggie said reaching out to grab back her backpack. "Give me my backpack back or I'll tell the teacher." "Why should I?" Adam said, turning around laughing with his friends.
"MR. GUNN!" Maggie yelled. "Adam took my backpack and he won't give it back to me!"
The whole class was silent and everyone looked at Adam and Maggie.
"What's going on over here?" Mr. Gunn said looking mad that Maggie disturbed his class.
"He took my backpack because he thought I was lying. I told him I didn't, so he stole my backpack and he won't give it back." Maggie explained out loud so that the whole class heard.
"Adam, give her back her pack or anything that you stole from her and I want you two to stay after class." Mr. Gunn said. Everyone knew Mr. Gunn was the nicest person on campus and the students knew no one should mess with him.
Adam handed Maggie back her backpack and the Sakura Stars. Mr. Gunn began teaching again, and Maggie ignored Adam until the rest of the period until the bell rang. Maggie waited for Adam so that they could talk to Mr. Gunn, but when she saw Adam run out of the room, Maggie did to.
* * * * * During lunchtime, Maggie's friends were talking about their day, excluding Maggie who was silent for the first half of the lunchtime.
"Maggie! What's wrong? Day dreaming about Jake again." Rayani said. Rayani told the rest of their friends that Maggie had a crush on Jake.
"No, I was just thinking about stuff." Maggie said getting up, and stretching.
"Maggie, did you see the Simpsons yesterday?" Brian Moreno said, who was a big fan of the Simpsons.
"Yeah, it was hilarious." Maggie said, looking over at Jake to see how he was doing, and hoping that Adam didn't tell anyone about the incident in Spanish class.
Rayani looked to where Maggie was looking at and said, "Don't worry, none of us will tell Jake that you like him. We promise."
Maggie looked at them and smiled. "Thanks you guys."
"No prob." Kenny Masaki said.
Maggie returned her gazed to Jake who was laughing with his friends. Maggie started joining into her friends' conversations for the rest of lunchtime.
The bell rang, signaling that lunchtime was over and that everyone is to go to 6th period. Maggie was about to walk to class with Rayani when someone pulled on her backpack, stopping her.
"Gees, you could've just said my name." Maggie said turning around and feeling surprised that it was Jake.
"Now you now how it feels huh. How you always pull on my backpack in the hallways." Jake said.
"Hahahaha." Maggie said, looking at Jake with a funny look. "Anyways what do you want? I don't wanna be late for class.
Jake turned to Rayani and said, "Can I talk to Maggie alone?"
"Sure." Rayani said looking a bit surprised but was smiling broadly at Maggie. "See you during passing period than." And she waved her hand and walked off to class.
Maggie waved back, and she turned around to see what Jake wanted. When Rayani was off in the distance Jake looked at her with a serious expression on his face. "Adam told me, well everyone around him, what happened during Spanish. He said he found some where stuff in your backpack. He said it looked like cards that are bright pink with pictures on them. Not the usual trading cards that are sold in stores." he said explaining.
"Well it's not my fault. He was bothering me during Spanish asking me if I had any playing cards, since he wanted to gamble again. I said no. He thought I was lying, so he took my backpack when I was talking to Pom. He found my Sakura Stars in one of my backpack pockets and took them from me. I told on Mr. Gunn and we got yelled at for disturbing the class. Luckily he gave me the cards back. I guess Adam didn't tell you that did he." Maggie said crossing her arms and giving him the look. "It's not a big deal."
"Not a big deal, not a big deal? These cards have magical powers Maggie. If the person who doesn't have any magical powers and is holding the cards, the cards can come to life kill the person that is holding it. Only the master of the cards, which is you, or anyone else that knows about the cards or someone that has magical powers can hold it. Adam doesn't have any magical powers. He could've been killed." Jake said, raising his voice when the bell rang.
"Thanks to you, I'm late for class." Maggie ran away from Jake and headed towards her Science Class.
* * * * *
Two hours past, and Maggie was in Geography Class, along with Jake who sat on the other side of the class. Their teacher, Mr. Stringer, was talking about China and their giant population. Increasing every year.
Maggie was busy taking notes to notice that Jake was staring at her closely, hopping that she wouldn't show anyone else the Sakura Stars.
"Mr. Espinosa, do you mind taking notes and listening to me instead of looking across the room." Mr. Stringer said, staring at him rudely in front of the class. The whole class turned to look at Jake, including Maggie. Jake looked away and started at the teacher.
"Sorry." Jake said staring down at his notes, which had only two sentences on it.
China is one of the main countries around the world.
China has a population of more than 5 billion people.
Jake stared up at Mr. Stringer, who continued talking to the class again, eyeing Jake carefully. Jake heard a few giggles around the room, which made him giggle to. He looked over at Maggie, and was staring at him, shaking her head at him and continued taking more notes for the upcoming finals before Christmas vacation.
Thirty minutes later, the bell rang and Jake hurried across the room so that he could talk to Maggie, instead her desk was empty. He looked toward the door and there he saw her walking out of the classroom. Jake shoved people out of the way, and ran out the door, hearing people yell at him.
"Maggie wait." he shouted.
Maggie turned around to see Jake running towards her. "What!" she said.
"I'm surprised you didn't show anyone the Sakura Stars." Jake said, catching his breath and giving her a smile.
"Look if you want the Sakura Stars, then just take them." Maggie said, taking the cards out of her backpack and throwing it in his face. "Maybe you'll take better care of it than me." Before Jake could anything else, Maggie ran away. People walked by and started laughing at him.
* * * * *
"You what?" Kero yelled later that afternoon. Maggie told Kero what happened all day and he was mad at her for not having the cards with her.
"Kero, please don't bother me. I have a lot of homework to do right now." Maggie said getting annoyed.
"How could you give away the cards. Those cards help you capture other cards. You might need them later or something." Kero said looking worried.
"Look, I told you yesterday. I'm not destined for this type of thing. I don't have the time and people would make fun of me." Maggie said, slamming her Algebra book. "Now stop bothering me and let me finish my homework with some peace and quiet and don't bother me again until I'm done." And she walked out of the room to her toy room under the stairs.
Kero sighed heavily and tried to wake up from his dream, but this wasn't a dream, this was reality. Kero was now scared and flew over to the cold afternoon air. As looked around the Laguna Hills view from the balcony. As he looked around the neighbors yard he heard loud and frightened voices. And there he saw it. Something he once saw in Readington hoping back then that he wouldn't see it again.
* * * * *
Maggie was doing her homework in the nice, and quiet toy room with no disturbances with soft music in the background. Even with the music on, Maggie suddenly heard loud yells and screaming from outside. Maggie ran outside of the backyard to see that her parents were there too, looking over into the neighbors yard. "Mom, Dad what's going on? What's with all the yelling." she said walking over to them.
Maggie saw it, the neighbors son and daughter were drowning in the pool. They were struggling to get air into there lungs. A swirl was taking them to the bottom of the pool when the dad tried to get closer. The mom was standing there looking down at her children, crying. Maggie's parents were helpless too, about to go to a wedding they couldn't jump in the pool with their fancy clothes on.
Maggie couldn't watch the kids drown to their death, She started to climb over the wall, took a deep breath, and dived into the neighbors pool. Hearing her parents yelling at her, and her neighbors yelling at her to get out of the pool or she'll get herself drowned too. Maggie ignored them and started swimming to the poor kids who where not moving anymore.
She swam to the boy, and started pulling on the swirl that was on his legs, hoping that she wouldn't get caught in the swirl herself. For seconds the swirl wouldn't budge, then Maggie pulled as hard as she could and the swirl grew weaker until it disappeared. Maggie pushed the boy to the surface, his parents helping her pull him up.
Maggie took another deep breath and swam to the very bottom of the pool to help save the girl, who was still trying to get air. When Maggie reached her, she was about to talk the swirl to let it release the girls' hands, but the swirl disappeared. Maggie and the girl same to the top, swimming as they could.
Maggie swam to the top and saw that the boy was breathing fine again, and the mom was putting a towel around the girl who was breathing deeply. The father was looking at her with much relief. "Thank you so much. I don't know what've we have done without you. You guys are the best neighbors we've had in a while, since we have to travel around the world because of my company."
"Your welcome." Maggie's dad, Tho, said. "My daughter took swimming lessons when she was younger and she helped a lot of kids." Maggie got out of the water and saw that the water was calm again. She was about to ask for the new neighbors name but the whole family went inside the house. Maggie started to climb over the wall, and jumped into there own swimming pool.
Maggie got out the pool and her parents looked at her. "That was a nice thing you did for the new neighbors Maggie." Kim said.
"Well, at least they know that we are good people." Maggie said shivering from the cool air.
"Do you think that was a Sakura Star?" Tho said looking at his daughter. "I mean, no water could've swirled like that, If there was water sprout, but that's only in the middle of the ocean."
"That's the question I want to ask Kero when I get dried off." Maggie said walking into the house to take a shower.