*Sorry this one's so short, but I hope you like it ^^ *

Chapter Two


The train stopped and we got off in the middle of town. Then it hit me. The fo-ru* festival was going on. It was the middle of fall, but I had totally forgot. It was the perfect day for the festival. The trees were red and yellow. The ground had the right amount of crisp leaves. All the shops were open, and the streets were clear of cars. It couldn't be much better, but it was. The shops had the smell of takoyaki**, ippan¹, menrui¹¹, and hottoke-ki?. I know that taro couldn't smell anything and I felt sorry that I couldn't let him. I looked at him, he looked happy, but I know that persocoms couldn't feel happiness and I wished that I could change that to. I felt really bad that I couldn't do any thing but then I was distracted by a group of elders.

You see, elders don't like seeing persocoms with humans, but they were ok with laptops because they were small. It was the big ones they didn't like. They said they were to human so they should be stopped.

I bowed to the elders as they passed and so did Taro, ( it must be his do what your master does program kicking in). The elders just bowed back witch was very hard to see. I had never seen that happen and I didn't know why they acted that way in tell I remembered that he had "human ears". They weren't shaped like persocom ears they did look and feel like human ears. Had I done such a good job that people didn't even know that they were looking at a persocom. I didn't put that much work on them did I? I could of maybe, because if you live in a basement apartment you can lose track of time often.

I looked at the fo-ru* games they had this year. I could remember when my father and mother would take me to the festival. We would come as early as we could and then stay all night. We would play all the games at lest 10 times, and eat almost everything they had at every booth and shop. But that was when I was 4 to 12. After that I went with my friends and just looked at boys and how cute they were. Now a days, when you're a 20 year old persocom designer with no boy friend, you don't get out much.

Back to the games, I looked them over and picked out the ones that looked the best. We first went to the fanfa-ru? games. They had mini bowling, hit the clown, fill the balloon, and weird games like that. I should Taro how to play a lot of the non-kid ones and not once did I hear a "Nice persocom" or "Where did you get you persocom?", it made me fill really cool that I made such a cool persocom that no one could tell. Taro really like mini bowling and was really good at it. He won 3 stuffed bears and a keychain. Then I saw a small sign on some of the games. It read; Persocoms are not permitted to play this game, thank you. I didn't know that the people running the games didn't let persocoms play games. Sure they could play for their owners but that's just stupid. They could just make it like, "Persocoms permitted to play 1 game" or something like that. Well to make a long story short nothing really happened after that. We just played some more games, I ate, and we boarded the train to go back home. *Was that good or not? Please write a review, please please! *

Japanese words that appear in the story above;

*Fall, **octopus dumplings, ¹noodles, ¹¹a bowl of rice, ?pancakes, ?fun fair