Flicker in my Life
By Fantasy Cat
Disc: Wanna know the most difficult way to know what I own?
Watch all 52 episodes of Hamtaro and write down every character on a list.
That's the "I don't own" list.
Chapter Five
All of the other Hams-Hams raced over to where Maria's house was half standing. There was alot of damage done to it. Only one fire truck was still there to clean off any smoke. "It's horrible," said Maxwell. "But where's Bijou?" said Sandy as she clung to Maxwell.
A car hurriedly arrived infront of the damaged house. Maria rushed out with a bang in complete shock. Her parents approached the remaining firemen to gang closure on what happened. But Maria was crying. Her mother returned to Maria. "I'm afraid it was the space heater in the laundry room."
"It seems fixable," said Maria's father as she came up to them. "But we're gonna need a place to stay until we get everything back together." He noticed that Maria was on the verge of tears. Her mother held her close. "Oh honey, what's the matter?"
"It's Bijou, mama!" Maria sobbed. "My whole room is destroyed and...Bijou!"
"We're so sorry," said Maria's father and he joined in with the hug. All the Ham-Hams were hugging too for the lost of their close companion. Hamtaro looked over at the human family in silence.
"Bijou..."
Boss sat in a corner to watch Bijou rest. Time was speeding into the darkness of sunset outside. All the time while Bijou was sleeping, Boss contemplated on everyone he was told by his former companions.
'Chief is right. I don't deserve her. All this time I've been trying too hard to get her to like me, and even that doesn't impress her. I've seen the way she looks at that Hamtaro. But how can I blame him? He's worthy of her. Bijou deserves the fine house class. She never saw anything in a gruff field hamster like me and she never will. Even my name can't bring anyone to like me for me. Sigh. I've wasted my whole life. Making one lie after another to impress people. Having a temper to prove myself. I never proved anything.'
When Bijou started to open her eyes, it was a sign that soon she'll probably have to go home. Myra loaned Bijou a heavy pink sweater to beat the cold when they left the club. The two hamsters came up to the surface. The sky was nighttime blue and the moon and stars shone out to their fullest. The weather was slightly warmer than it was today. The cool breeze that tickled their whiskers was an omen that Spring would come soon.
They were walking through the park far opposite of where the Ham-Ham clubhouse resided underground. All in all, it was the most romantic setting ever imagined if only Boss wasn't so depressed.
"Iz something de matter, Boss?" asked Bijou breaking the silence of the night. "You've been awfully quiet."
"Don't worry yourself about it," Boss said in a voice that seem almost unhearable. "We better get you back to your place before your girl starts worrying."
They arrived at a white bridge. Below it the creek was glistening from the reflection of the bright night sky and almost made the creek seemed silver. "Oh. Look over there, Boss!" Bijou was pointing with excitement.
"Huh, where?"
"Down in the creek. Look, it's fabulous!" For the first time in their lives Bijou and Boss came across a white swan slowly waddling by in the creek. "Well, I'll be," said Boss. "And look how close it iz. Maybe purrhaps we can get a ride on it."
"I dunno Bijou-BIJOU!" Boss was shocked to see that Bijou jumped off to bridge but she safely landed on the swan's back. True, the swimming swan was startled but it gained control again a moment later as if he didn't feel anything.
"Come on, Boss. Don't you want to go fer a ride?" Bijou called out to him. "I guess so," said Boss and he made a leap hoping to land on the swan. But the swan was a little to far out of reach and instead of his back, Boss landed on the swan's tail! he grabbed hold of the tail to avoid falling in the water but the swan began to panic and started to splash around flapping out his wings.
"Whoa! Whoa! WHOA! AH!" cried Boss as he tried to hold on.
"Wheee!" Bijou squealed with delight.
The swan had gained control and was swimming again. Both Boss and Bijou got to settle down on the swan's back.
"Do you mind if we wait for tomorrow to return," Bijou said and she gave a big yawn. "I'm getting awfully sleepy again."
"That's fine. You can bunk back at the clubhouse again," Boss drew a smirk on his face. "That is of course, if you don't mind bunking with Snoozer again." Boss was surprised that even said this himself. He wasn't thinking about doing anything funny, he just needed a witty, humorous remark to cheer himself up.
"Why I don't mind at all," said Bijou. "He's such a quiet sleeper. I cood barely hear him snore when I slept."
"Laura? Is your room cleaned," Mrs. Haruna called up to her daughter.
"It's all ready," Laura called back. Laura was rolling out an extra mattress as Hamtaro looked on from his cage. The Hams decided to go home to grieve their lost. 'I wonder what happened to Boss?' thought Hamtaro. 'He's a very emotional guy. This must be 10x worse for him.'
When Laura was done she went over to Hamtaro's cage with sadness in
her eyes. "Maria and her family are staying with us until her house
is fixed. I wish there was something I could do to cheer her up,
but it'll be too hard knowing that Bijou died. I wouldn't know what
I would do if I ever truely lost you, Hamtaro." The door bell rang.
"That must be them. We'll come back up after dinner." Laura
went downstairs leaving Hamtaro in the quietness of the room.