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"Wish I could but the wind is blowing me in a different direction. I'm a wandering ham who likes to eat Spam by the dam." he said as he turned to leave again.

"What exactly does Spam have to do with anything?" Cappy whispered to Stucky.

"I have no idea."

"Please, I have to repay you for saving my sister. I wish you would stay with here with us, at least for a few days." Pashmina begged as she looked at him.

"I can't stay." he said as he began to leave. Penelope noticed that Jingle wasn't playing his guitar as he walked away. "He wants to stay at the clubhouse. I wonder why he's walking away." she thought to herself. Then she ran up and grabbed the edge of his guitar. "Okweee." she said to the startled hamster.

"You want me to stay?" he asked doubtfully. Penelope smiled and nodded. "I guess the wind is blowing me here then. But I only will stay until it changes again."

"Great, we'll make a bed for you in the main room." Bijou said with a smile.

He walked behind the group into the clubhouse. Penelope noticed he still wasn't playing his guitar. "He's still sad. I wonder why."

Pashmina stayed outside and gathered three bags of seeds and other various things to eat. Then she went inside. "I hope he likes my cooking because I don't know how else to thank him."

As her sister was cooking, Penelope watched her from the corner where she was peeling seeds. The little hamster noticed that her sister never looked sad when she was doing something, but she never looked happy either. "I wish she would smile again." Penelope thought, "and be happy like she used to be."

Out in the main room, Bijou, Dexter, Cappy and Stucky were making Jingle's bed. "How come we have to help make his bed?" Stucky asked.

"You have to because Jingle saved your lives, not ours so you should be the ones to thank him, not us." Bijou replied, "Would you two please go get another blanket?" As Cappy and Stucky went to fetch the blanket, Dexter smiled at Bijou. "Bijou, do you have a…."

"A what?" Bijou asked looking up at him.

"This is stupid of me to ask but do you have a partner for the dance in a few days?" he asked, blushing.

"Non, no one has asked me. Are you… asking to be my date, Dexter?"

"Yes, if you want. But if you would rather go with someone else, I understand."

"Dexter, I would love to go to the dance with you." she said as she smiled at him.

"Really? Oh that's wonderful. Thank you, Bijou." he stuttered as he blushed a deep red.

Jingle looked around the clubhouse. It had been a long time since he had been inside a building. It felt strange to be so near to other hamsters. He heard the hamster the other hamsters called "Boss" talking to Hamtary. At least that's what he thought his name was. "Hey, Hamtaro do you have a date for the dance, yet."

"No, maybe I'll ask Bijou."

"What! I'm asking Bijou!"

"I'm going with Pepper." the hamster named Oxnard said.

"And I'm going with Sandy." the hamster named Maxwell said.

"Well, I'm going with this hot chick from the park on the other side of town." the hamster named Stan boasted, "and with the pretty ham from the golf course."

"You're actually going with two girls?" Maxwell asked staring at him, "Do they know that?"

"Of course, why wouldn't they"

Jingle walked away from their chatter. He let his mind drift back to the only home he ever had. " Hey, freak, what are you doing here. This is our dance!" "Yeah, go away, we don't want you here." He still felt their cold eyes staring at him, their hatred. Why had they hated him? Even today he didn't know. Perhaps these hamsters were different, or maybe they weren't. Either way he wasn't going to get close enough to them to find out.

Pashmina set the table. She had made it perfect. Everyone was going to have a feast tonight.. She hoped they liked it. Penelope walked out and helped to put the food on the table while Pashmina went to tell everyone supper was ready.

After everyone was seated, Boss began his boring speech about being prepared for winter that he always gave every night for a week before the winter dance. Afterwards everyone dug in. Penelope looked across the table and noticed that neither Pashmina nor Jingle were eating very much. "Odd." she thought, "Oh well, this is really good!"

Later everyone started preparing for the winter dance. They all had their own jobs. Pashmina wandered into one of the brighter back tunnels to get away from the others. She sat down and began sewing the cheery blue, pink and purple decorations. After about an hour she stopped and sighed. The decorations seemed to depress her even more. "Why am I bothering?" she thought to herself as she looked at the pretty fabric in her paw, "No one is going to notice my decorations, anyway. And after the party, they are just going to get torn up and stepped on. I don't see why I should take all this time to make something that doesn't matter to anyone."

Jingle was walking through the tunnels humming to himself. "No, that's not right." he mumbled to himself, "That doesn't sound right." He opened his eyes to see Pashmina sitting in the side tunnel staring a piece of pretty cloth. "That's really pretty. It's for your party, right?" he asked her. She looked up, surprised. "You like it?" she asked. "Yes, it's very pretty. It must have taken you a long time to find the cloth and sew it so perfectly together." he said as he prepared to continue down the hallway. "Yes, it did. Thank you for noticing." she said as she began packing it into a box. Jingle looked at the box beside her. It looked like one of the ones down in their storage room. "Why are you putting it in storage? You're not even totally done yet." Pashmina didn't look up as she continued to pack the box. "It doesn't matter. The others won't notice if I put it up or not. But why am I telling you that?" She lifted up the box and walked through the door and down the tunnel. "She's a very lonely soul." Jingle thought as he continued working on his song.

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