Yes, chapter five. I really don't have anything to say here except that I changed this chapter's title. The original title was stupid and too long. I still don't like it, but whatever, you came here to read the chapter, not the title. So here it is.
Chap. 5: Party of Remembrance
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Positioning the pencil in her paw, Kasey wrote, "Dear Susan," on a piece of writing paper. Yup, you guessed it, she was writing a letter to Susan. She tapped the pencil against her lip as she thought about what she was going to write. As she put the tip of the pencil against the paper, however, she was a bit surprised as a drop of grape jelly fell onto the space she was just about to write in.
"Whatcha' writin'?" Kasey sighed when she heard the voice, although she had already known who it was before he had even spoke. Even so, she turned her head to look at who was sitting in the middle of the couch, looking over her shoulder at the letter while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Kasey stared back at the piece of paper that was blank except for the words, "Dear Susan". She tried to forget that someone was watching her and tried to concentrate on the letter. But nothing came to her. She thought for a moment more, then thought she had it. She wiped off the smudge of jelly and began to write, only to be cornered with yet another smudge of jelly, only bigger than the last, which caused the pencil lead to break.
Kasey groaned. "625, why are you bothering me?"
"Because it's what I do best, darlin'." 625 grinned.
Kasey got up and went over to the pencil sharpener and placed her pencil into it, turning the handle while she spoke. "Yeah, well, you made me break the pencil lead, and you got jelly all over my letter. I am trying to write to Susan."
625 looked at the letter while eating his sandwich. "Yeah, I know. That's what it says;'Dear Susan'. In fact... that's the ONLY thing it says. Don't you know how to write letters? I don't think she would understand your ability to write invisible words."
"Ha ha." Kasey said unenthusiastically, examining the now sharp point of her pencil, and walked back to the couch and grabbed the letter from 625. "FYI, I just haven't written anything else yet. That's what I was trying to do before you started hovering over me and got jelly all over the paper. Look at this! It's all sticky, and you got your peanut buttery fingerprints all over it! I can't mail this to Susan with it looking like this! She'll think you wrote it!"
625 grabbed a fresh sheet of paper from a nearby table and took the pencil right out of Kasey's paw. "Hey, that's not a bad idea! Now, I know what to write to her!"
Kasey dropped the sticky paper and looked at 625, wide-eyed. "No! I am not letting YOU write to her! Who knows what you'll say!" Kasey then proceeded to chase 625 across the room for the pencil and paper. He successfully avoided her while writing on the paper at the same time(he had since finished his sandwich). Finally, he climbed to the top of the couch as he wrote the last of it(and as Kasey tried to grab it time and time again).
"There! Finished!" Climbing down from the couch, he handed Kasey the letter, and she immediately snatched it away from him.
Kasey sighed, but proceeded to read the letter anyway. "'My Dearest Fuzz Brain'," Kasey read aloud, and glanced up at 625, who smiled innocently at her, then she continued to read, "'I am sorry you're not as attractive as you think you are. Perhaps it's the nose. Your nose is so small that it looks like you don't have one, and that is just disgusting! I am also sorry that you have the IQ of the pencil lead I'm using to write this with---but maybe if you get a nose transplant no one will really care! And you really should get rid of that clump of hair hanging in your face. It makes you look desperate. My Dearest Love and All of That Mushy Stuff, Kasey.'" Kasey raised a brow.
"Ingenious, isn't it?" 625 smirked.
"Are you kidding? I can't give her this." Kasey insisted, then got a fresh sheet of paper. "It has to be in my handwriting." Then she copied down every word onto the new paper, and when she was finished, stood up proudly.
"So how did you like my heartfelt words?" 625 teased.
"Heartfelt?" Kasey snorted. "This is nothing more than an insult letter." She smirked. "I couldn't have done better myself!" She gave 625 a high-five, then bounded out of the ship in order to mail her treasure.
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Sometime in the quiet evening, an extremely annoyed Susan came barging into Gantu's ship---while holding some sort of card in one paw and the letter Kasey had mailed earlier in the other. She went into the "living room", where she knew Kasey and 625 often were. And this evening was no exception. She found them lazing on the couch eating potato chips and sandwiches. Kasey was also reading some book as she ate, but besides eating, 625 was doing nothing at all, really.
"EXCUSE me!" Susan practically shouted, in order to get their attention. She put her paws on her hips. "Don't you two CARE what all that stuff DOES to your bodies?!"
"Not really." Kasey replied, barely paying attention. She turned the page in her book and put a potato chip in her mouth.
Susan didn't like being ignored. "Will you pay attention! Put down that book for a second and listen to me!"
"'Kay." Kasey put down the book for a second, then picked it up and started reading again. "Time's up! Always happy to oblige. Seeya later!" She waved unenthusiastically, as if she expected Susan to just waltz out and leave.
"Very funny. I'm serious here. I want to know WHY you sent me a letter that does nothing but criticize me, and I WANT to know why NOW." Susan demanded.
"Because even the letter can't resist!" 625 joked, laughing.
Susan stared angrily in his direction, but Kasey spoke up before her secret crush suffered any bodily injuries. "Oh, cool it. I couldn't think of what to write, so 625 wrote the letter for me. Then I copied it in my own handwriting. It was all in good fun, Susie. You shouldn't take that stuff seriously."
But, unfortunately, Susan looked angrier than before. "Oh, I swear, when I'm finished with you," She said, looking in 625's direction, "you're going to have to eat through tubes for the rest of your life!"
Luckily, Kasey jumped down from the couch and grabbed onto Susan's arms to stop her from attacking 625. But Susan tried to get free from her grasp. "Let me go! He deserves to writhe in pain like the horrible... good-for-nothing... despicable creature that he is! I can't stand his type! He takes much pleasure in insulting others, but then when someone wants to beat him up for it, he turns chicken! He makes me sick! He doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air that we do! Heck, he doesn't deserve to breathe at all!"
"Susan! Control yourself. He isn't worth it!" Kasey yelped.
625 began to sweat, cowering in fear as the angry Susan got closer and closer to him. "Yeah, listen to her! I'm not worth it! I'm really not!"
Finally, Susan stopped, and shook her head. "You're right. He ISN'T worth it. He isn't worth anything. But if he knows what's good for him, he won't EVER treat me like that again, or else the simple act of breathing is going to seem like a difficult task for him." She gave him one more angry look before Kasey let go as she began to calm.
"Hey, what's that you're holding?" Kasey asked, quickly changing the subject. She pointed to the card that Susan was holding.
Susan brightened a little. "Oh, this?" She asked, holding up the card. "Well, Lilo's family went out tonight, and Stitch and me offered to stay behind and watch the house. And we're going to take advantage of this opportunity and throw a party! We invited all of Stitch's 'cousins'. You know, the other experiments? And, well, you're not Stitch's cousin, but you are another experiment and my best friend, so I decided to invite you."
Kasey took the invitation from Susan. "'You are cordially invited to a party at Stitch and Susan's house.' Cordially? I didn't think you knew those big words. And I'm your best friend? Really?" She grinned.
"Not if you insult me like that." Susan said, smirking. "So. Are you coming or not?"
"Well..." Kasey considered it.
"Hey! What about me? I'm an experiment, and Stitch's cousin! Aren't you going to invite me?" 625 wanted to know.
Susan looked at him. "...Uh... well, yes, that may be true, but you need an invitation to get in, and I don't have any more invitations! Sorry."
"No. You just don't want me there!"
"Well, I was CONSIDERING inviting you..." Susan admitted. "But when I got that insulting letter, and found out you originally wrote it, I wouldn't even want you at my funeral!" Then she looked quickly to Kasey. "So? Have you made up your mind yet?"
Kasey licked her lips. "Well, I would like to, but I..." She glanced a bit sadly in 625's direction.
625 looked just as sad. But he sighed and said, "Go ahead. Who's stopping you? You know you want to."
Susan moved in front of Kasey so she couldn't look at 625. "Kasey, don't look at him. If you do, you'll want to stay here, and I really want you to be there."
Kasey looked over Susan's shoulder. "Are you sure?"
"Why are you being so sickly sentimental all of a sudden? Go!" 625 insisted.
Kasey sighed, and threw her arms up in the air. "Okay. You win. I'll go."
"That's more like it." Susan grinned. "Now come on. We don't want to be late." She started heading for the exit.
Kasey reluctantly followed, but as she headed out of the exit, she glanced over her shoulder and glimpsed 625 glancing sadly, and almost longingly, in their direction. She hated to admit it, but she felt so sorry for him. Yet, she followed Susan to her party anyway.
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Music washed over the room. Lights danced across the ceiling and walls. Everyone... well, almost everyone, was dancing and having a good time left and right. Yes, it was Stitch and Susan's party. And the only ones that weren't dancing and having a good time were Susan and Kasey. They were at the back of the room, leaning on the refreshments table. Kasey was eating a chocolate chip cookie while Susan was going on and on about something that Kasey couldn't care less about.
"...look! Just look at them!" Susan was saying. "And look at her! I can't believe her! She thinks she's going to get away with it! Well, I won't let her take him away! Not while I'm around! And will you quit chewing that cookie?! The noise is deafening!"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't just stuff it in my mouth, swallow, and choke myself to death for your convenience." Kasey said sarcastically.
Susan ignored her comment, and continued on with what she was saying. "But just look at them! Doesn't she look scheming to you?!"
Kasey swallowed the last of her cookie. "For the last time, WHO? I can't give you my opinion if I don't know who the heck you're talking about!"
"Stitch and Angel!"
"Angel?"
Susan pointed to a pink experiment dancing with Stitch. She looked similar to Stitch, and had two very long, slender antennae coming out of her head. Her stomach, chest, neck, chin, the patches around her eyes and the inside of her ears were all light pink while the rest of her body was dark pink. There was a V-shaped white mark on her chest. "HER. SHE'S who Stitch is in love with."
"How do you know?" Kasey wanted to know.
"Are you dense?" Susan snorted. "Don't you see how he's looking at her? And they've been dancing together ever since we got here! I've been trying to cut in for hours, but Stitch keeps telling me to wait. Can't you tell? He's practically drooling over her!"
"Oh, jealous, eh?" Kasey smirked tauntingly.
"But I can't help it... Stitch already paid practically no attention to me, and when he's around Angel, he doesn't even know I'm alive! I should be the one dancing with him." Susan pouted.
Kasey picked up a cup of punch from the table. "Well, I don't have a dancing partner either, and I'm not complaining about it. I'm hanging out here at the refreshments table in Losersville with you."
"That's it! I'm going over there and demanding to cut in, and if they don't let me, it's going to be completely over between me and Stitch!" Susan stomped over to Stitch and Angel.
Kasey raised an eyebrow. "Since when did things ever even start?" She sighed as she watched Susan rush off to claim Stitch for herself. At least there was someone at the dance for her, even if he was interested in someone else. As for Kasey, she wasn't having any fun. She was beginning to regret ever coming here.
Then Kasey felt someone tap on her shoulder, and she turned around to see who it was. It was an experiment she had never seen before. He was an aquamarine color and had a megaphone type thing that was curled upon the top of his head. His tail was long and had dark blue stripes on it. His ears were long and drooped like socks from the sides of his head and had dark blue tips. Kasey smiled at him, and he at her...
"Kasey?" Susan's voice called from behind her. "Stitch turned me down again. He still wants to dance with Angel. But I don't want to bore you. You should have fun and dance with someone. Maybe even Yaarp there. That's who you're staring at."
"Yaarp?" Kasey repeated, and Yaarp came closer to her. She felt awkward, but she said, "Want to dance?"
Yaarp nodded, gave out a gentle blast from his megaphone, and took her hand and led her to the dance floor. They then proceeded to dance together, and Kasey finally started to have fun. She danced happily as if she were in a daze. Her mind wondered and she wasn't really aware of her surroundings or what was going on, she just knew she was having a good time. But what snapped her back to reality was a warm feeling against her lips. She opened her eyes and the reality of it hit her like a ton of bricks. She was kissing Yaarp!
She quickly pulled away, and felt hot, hot with a horrible shame. She felt as if everyone in the room was staring at her, although that was probably just in her mind. All she knew was she had to get out of there. She ran out of the house and into the dark of the night, the cool air relieving her a little. But only a little. She had kissed Yaarp! How could she have done that? Even though her and 625 weren't a couple, she still felt guilty, like she had somehow betrayed him. She felt like crying at her mistake, but didn't. Why had she done that? Why had she kissed Yaarp? She wasn't in love with him. She was in love with 625. But perhaps... she wanted more than to just be in love with him. Was that why she had kissed Yaarp? Because she desired to be 625's girlfriend---instead of just his crush? Had this been in her heart when she had accidentally kissed Yaarp? It could be possible. But there was no way 625 would ever ask her out, and if Kasey asked, she would just be ridiculed. She felt trapped---trapped in a room that was slowly closing in on her. Trapped to only love 625 in her heart, but to never tell him. And how she wanted to. Yet... something always held her back.
"Kasey?"
"Huh?" Kasey turned to look, and when she saw who was standing across from her, she felt the horrible shame return. It was 625, and he didn't look very happy. What was he doing here? Did he know---?
"I decided to come here and spy on the party from the window. And I---I saw you kissing experiment 613." 625 explained.
Kasey swallowed. "You mean Yaarp?"
625 raised a brow. "Yeah, whatever. I guess you two will be very happy together. Call me when you get engaged, okay?" He was meaning to be sarcastic, but his voice wavered a little and he looked hurt---he actually looked hurt!
Right at that moment, Kasey wanted to admit everything. She wanted to say, "I don't love Yaarp! I love you! And I want to be your girlfriend! I really, really love you!" But those words didn't seem to want to allow theirselves out of Kasey's mouth. But she couldn't let him believe she had a thing for Yaarp, so what she said was, "I don't love Yaarp. And I didn't mean to kiss him. It all happened so fast. I wasn't even paying attention to what was going on! I didn't know I was going to kiss Yaarp until it was too late."
625 looked a little relieved, but unsure. "Are you telling the truth?"
Kasey smirked. "Why, do you actually care?"
"No! I don't! I was just wondering."
"Well, you can wonder no longer. I just met Yaarp, and he's nice and all, but he's not for me." You are! Kasey wanted to add.
And that moment was like no other. That is when 625 and Kasey kissed---for the second time. Except, now when their lips touched, it was different than last time. It was a sweeter, longer kiss;and Kasey felt like she was in heaven. She felt like they were the only ones in the universe, like there was no one else, that their kiss was the only thing taking place in the world. It was wonderful, and Kasey wondered if 625 felt the same.
When their lips parted, Kasey couldn't help smiling. "You didn't bite me that time."
625 stared at her for a moment. He looked speechless, but then he said, "Whatever, Lovergirl. You're weird. Kissing random people isn't going to get you a boyfriend. I can't believe you're that hopeless and desperate for a date." With that, he walked off, beaming.
And yet, still nothing changed. Kasey couldn't resist beaming either as she followed.
THE END
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To be continued
Chap. 5: Party of Remembrance
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Positioning the pencil in her paw, Kasey wrote, "Dear Susan," on a piece of writing paper. Yup, you guessed it, she was writing a letter to Susan. She tapped the pencil against her lip as she thought about what she was going to write. As she put the tip of the pencil against the paper, however, she was a bit surprised as a drop of grape jelly fell onto the space she was just about to write in.
"Whatcha' writin'?" Kasey sighed when she heard the voice, although she had already known who it was before he had even spoke. Even so, she turned her head to look at who was sitting in the middle of the couch, looking over her shoulder at the letter while eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Kasey stared back at the piece of paper that was blank except for the words, "Dear Susan". She tried to forget that someone was watching her and tried to concentrate on the letter. But nothing came to her. She thought for a moment more, then thought she had it. She wiped off the smudge of jelly and began to write, only to be cornered with yet another smudge of jelly, only bigger than the last, which caused the pencil lead to break.
Kasey groaned. "625, why are you bothering me?"
"Because it's what I do best, darlin'." 625 grinned.
Kasey got up and went over to the pencil sharpener and placed her pencil into it, turning the handle while she spoke. "Yeah, well, you made me break the pencil lead, and you got jelly all over my letter. I am trying to write to Susan."
625 looked at the letter while eating his sandwich. "Yeah, I know. That's what it says;'Dear Susan'. In fact... that's the ONLY thing it says. Don't you know how to write letters? I don't think she would understand your ability to write invisible words."
"Ha ha." Kasey said unenthusiastically, examining the now sharp point of her pencil, and walked back to the couch and grabbed the letter from 625. "FYI, I just haven't written anything else yet. That's what I was trying to do before you started hovering over me and got jelly all over the paper. Look at this! It's all sticky, and you got your peanut buttery fingerprints all over it! I can't mail this to Susan with it looking like this! She'll think you wrote it!"
625 grabbed a fresh sheet of paper from a nearby table and took the pencil right out of Kasey's paw. "Hey, that's not a bad idea! Now, I know what to write to her!"
Kasey dropped the sticky paper and looked at 625, wide-eyed. "No! I am not letting YOU write to her! Who knows what you'll say!" Kasey then proceeded to chase 625 across the room for the pencil and paper. He successfully avoided her while writing on the paper at the same time(he had since finished his sandwich). Finally, he climbed to the top of the couch as he wrote the last of it(and as Kasey tried to grab it time and time again).
"There! Finished!" Climbing down from the couch, he handed Kasey the letter, and she immediately snatched it away from him.
Kasey sighed, but proceeded to read the letter anyway. "'My Dearest Fuzz Brain'," Kasey read aloud, and glanced up at 625, who smiled innocently at her, then she continued to read, "'I am sorry you're not as attractive as you think you are. Perhaps it's the nose. Your nose is so small that it looks like you don't have one, and that is just disgusting! I am also sorry that you have the IQ of the pencil lead I'm using to write this with---but maybe if you get a nose transplant no one will really care! And you really should get rid of that clump of hair hanging in your face. It makes you look desperate. My Dearest Love and All of That Mushy Stuff, Kasey.'" Kasey raised a brow.
"Ingenious, isn't it?" 625 smirked.
"Are you kidding? I can't give her this." Kasey insisted, then got a fresh sheet of paper. "It has to be in my handwriting." Then she copied down every word onto the new paper, and when she was finished, stood up proudly.
"So how did you like my heartfelt words?" 625 teased.
"Heartfelt?" Kasey snorted. "This is nothing more than an insult letter." She smirked. "I couldn't have done better myself!" She gave 625 a high-five, then bounded out of the ship in order to mail her treasure.
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Sometime in the quiet evening, an extremely annoyed Susan came barging into Gantu's ship---while holding some sort of card in one paw and the letter Kasey had mailed earlier in the other. She went into the "living room", where she knew Kasey and 625 often were. And this evening was no exception. She found them lazing on the couch eating potato chips and sandwiches. Kasey was also reading some book as she ate, but besides eating, 625 was doing nothing at all, really.
"EXCUSE me!" Susan practically shouted, in order to get their attention. She put her paws on her hips. "Don't you two CARE what all that stuff DOES to your bodies?!"
"Not really." Kasey replied, barely paying attention. She turned the page in her book and put a potato chip in her mouth.
Susan didn't like being ignored. "Will you pay attention! Put down that book for a second and listen to me!"
"'Kay." Kasey put down the book for a second, then picked it up and started reading again. "Time's up! Always happy to oblige. Seeya later!" She waved unenthusiastically, as if she expected Susan to just waltz out and leave.
"Very funny. I'm serious here. I want to know WHY you sent me a letter that does nothing but criticize me, and I WANT to know why NOW." Susan demanded.
"Because even the letter can't resist!" 625 joked, laughing.
Susan stared angrily in his direction, but Kasey spoke up before her secret crush suffered any bodily injuries. "Oh, cool it. I couldn't think of what to write, so 625 wrote the letter for me. Then I copied it in my own handwriting. It was all in good fun, Susie. You shouldn't take that stuff seriously."
But, unfortunately, Susan looked angrier than before. "Oh, I swear, when I'm finished with you," She said, looking in 625's direction, "you're going to have to eat through tubes for the rest of your life!"
Luckily, Kasey jumped down from the couch and grabbed onto Susan's arms to stop her from attacking 625. But Susan tried to get free from her grasp. "Let me go! He deserves to writhe in pain like the horrible... good-for-nothing... despicable creature that he is! I can't stand his type! He takes much pleasure in insulting others, but then when someone wants to beat him up for it, he turns chicken! He makes me sick! He doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air that we do! Heck, he doesn't deserve to breathe at all!"
"Susan! Control yourself. He isn't worth it!" Kasey yelped.
625 began to sweat, cowering in fear as the angry Susan got closer and closer to him. "Yeah, listen to her! I'm not worth it! I'm really not!"
Finally, Susan stopped, and shook her head. "You're right. He ISN'T worth it. He isn't worth anything. But if he knows what's good for him, he won't EVER treat me like that again, or else the simple act of breathing is going to seem like a difficult task for him." She gave him one more angry look before Kasey let go as she began to calm.
"Hey, what's that you're holding?" Kasey asked, quickly changing the subject. She pointed to the card that Susan was holding.
Susan brightened a little. "Oh, this?" She asked, holding up the card. "Well, Lilo's family went out tonight, and Stitch and me offered to stay behind and watch the house. And we're going to take advantage of this opportunity and throw a party! We invited all of Stitch's 'cousins'. You know, the other experiments? And, well, you're not Stitch's cousin, but you are another experiment and my best friend, so I decided to invite you."
Kasey took the invitation from Susan. "'You are cordially invited to a party at Stitch and Susan's house.' Cordially? I didn't think you knew those big words. And I'm your best friend? Really?" She grinned.
"Not if you insult me like that." Susan said, smirking. "So. Are you coming or not?"
"Well..." Kasey considered it.
"Hey! What about me? I'm an experiment, and Stitch's cousin! Aren't you going to invite me?" 625 wanted to know.
Susan looked at him. "...Uh... well, yes, that may be true, but you need an invitation to get in, and I don't have any more invitations! Sorry."
"No. You just don't want me there!"
"Well, I was CONSIDERING inviting you..." Susan admitted. "But when I got that insulting letter, and found out you originally wrote it, I wouldn't even want you at my funeral!" Then she looked quickly to Kasey. "So? Have you made up your mind yet?"
Kasey licked her lips. "Well, I would like to, but I..." She glanced a bit sadly in 625's direction.
625 looked just as sad. But he sighed and said, "Go ahead. Who's stopping you? You know you want to."
Susan moved in front of Kasey so she couldn't look at 625. "Kasey, don't look at him. If you do, you'll want to stay here, and I really want you to be there."
Kasey looked over Susan's shoulder. "Are you sure?"
"Why are you being so sickly sentimental all of a sudden? Go!" 625 insisted.
Kasey sighed, and threw her arms up in the air. "Okay. You win. I'll go."
"That's more like it." Susan grinned. "Now come on. We don't want to be late." She started heading for the exit.
Kasey reluctantly followed, but as she headed out of the exit, she glanced over her shoulder and glimpsed 625 glancing sadly, and almost longingly, in their direction. She hated to admit it, but she felt so sorry for him. Yet, she followed Susan to her party anyway.
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Music washed over the room. Lights danced across the ceiling and walls. Everyone... well, almost everyone, was dancing and having a good time left and right. Yes, it was Stitch and Susan's party. And the only ones that weren't dancing and having a good time were Susan and Kasey. They were at the back of the room, leaning on the refreshments table. Kasey was eating a chocolate chip cookie while Susan was going on and on about something that Kasey couldn't care less about.
"...look! Just look at them!" Susan was saying. "And look at her! I can't believe her! She thinks she's going to get away with it! Well, I won't let her take him away! Not while I'm around! And will you quit chewing that cookie?! The noise is deafening!"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't just stuff it in my mouth, swallow, and choke myself to death for your convenience." Kasey said sarcastically.
Susan ignored her comment, and continued on with what she was saying. "But just look at them! Doesn't she look scheming to you?!"
Kasey swallowed the last of her cookie. "For the last time, WHO? I can't give you my opinion if I don't know who the heck you're talking about!"
"Stitch and Angel!"
"Angel?"
Susan pointed to a pink experiment dancing with Stitch. She looked similar to Stitch, and had two very long, slender antennae coming out of her head. Her stomach, chest, neck, chin, the patches around her eyes and the inside of her ears were all light pink while the rest of her body was dark pink. There was a V-shaped white mark on her chest. "HER. SHE'S who Stitch is in love with."
"How do you know?" Kasey wanted to know.
"Are you dense?" Susan snorted. "Don't you see how he's looking at her? And they've been dancing together ever since we got here! I've been trying to cut in for hours, but Stitch keeps telling me to wait. Can't you tell? He's practically drooling over her!"
"Oh, jealous, eh?" Kasey smirked tauntingly.
"But I can't help it... Stitch already paid practically no attention to me, and when he's around Angel, he doesn't even know I'm alive! I should be the one dancing with him." Susan pouted.
Kasey picked up a cup of punch from the table. "Well, I don't have a dancing partner either, and I'm not complaining about it. I'm hanging out here at the refreshments table in Losersville with you."
"That's it! I'm going over there and demanding to cut in, and if they don't let me, it's going to be completely over between me and Stitch!" Susan stomped over to Stitch and Angel.
Kasey raised an eyebrow. "Since when did things ever even start?" She sighed as she watched Susan rush off to claim Stitch for herself. At least there was someone at the dance for her, even if he was interested in someone else. As for Kasey, she wasn't having any fun. She was beginning to regret ever coming here.
Then Kasey felt someone tap on her shoulder, and she turned around to see who it was. It was an experiment she had never seen before. He was an aquamarine color and had a megaphone type thing that was curled upon the top of his head. His tail was long and had dark blue stripes on it. His ears were long and drooped like socks from the sides of his head and had dark blue tips. Kasey smiled at him, and he at her...
"Kasey?" Susan's voice called from behind her. "Stitch turned me down again. He still wants to dance with Angel. But I don't want to bore you. You should have fun and dance with someone. Maybe even Yaarp there. That's who you're staring at."
"Yaarp?" Kasey repeated, and Yaarp came closer to her. She felt awkward, but she said, "Want to dance?"
Yaarp nodded, gave out a gentle blast from his megaphone, and took her hand and led her to the dance floor. They then proceeded to dance together, and Kasey finally started to have fun. She danced happily as if she were in a daze. Her mind wondered and she wasn't really aware of her surroundings or what was going on, she just knew she was having a good time. But what snapped her back to reality was a warm feeling against her lips. She opened her eyes and the reality of it hit her like a ton of bricks. She was kissing Yaarp!
She quickly pulled away, and felt hot, hot with a horrible shame. She felt as if everyone in the room was staring at her, although that was probably just in her mind. All she knew was she had to get out of there. She ran out of the house and into the dark of the night, the cool air relieving her a little. But only a little. She had kissed Yaarp! How could she have done that? Even though her and 625 weren't a couple, she still felt guilty, like she had somehow betrayed him. She felt like crying at her mistake, but didn't. Why had she done that? Why had she kissed Yaarp? She wasn't in love with him. She was in love with 625. But perhaps... she wanted more than to just be in love with him. Was that why she had kissed Yaarp? Because she desired to be 625's girlfriend---instead of just his crush? Had this been in her heart when she had accidentally kissed Yaarp? It could be possible. But there was no way 625 would ever ask her out, and if Kasey asked, she would just be ridiculed. She felt trapped---trapped in a room that was slowly closing in on her. Trapped to only love 625 in her heart, but to never tell him. And how she wanted to. Yet... something always held her back.
"Kasey?"
"Huh?" Kasey turned to look, and when she saw who was standing across from her, she felt the horrible shame return. It was 625, and he didn't look very happy. What was he doing here? Did he know---?
"I decided to come here and spy on the party from the window. And I---I saw you kissing experiment 613." 625 explained.
Kasey swallowed. "You mean Yaarp?"
625 raised a brow. "Yeah, whatever. I guess you two will be very happy together. Call me when you get engaged, okay?" He was meaning to be sarcastic, but his voice wavered a little and he looked hurt---he actually looked hurt!
Right at that moment, Kasey wanted to admit everything. She wanted to say, "I don't love Yaarp! I love you! And I want to be your girlfriend! I really, really love you!" But those words didn't seem to want to allow theirselves out of Kasey's mouth. But she couldn't let him believe she had a thing for Yaarp, so what she said was, "I don't love Yaarp. And I didn't mean to kiss him. It all happened so fast. I wasn't even paying attention to what was going on! I didn't know I was going to kiss Yaarp until it was too late."
625 looked a little relieved, but unsure. "Are you telling the truth?"
Kasey smirked. "Why, do you actually care?"
"No! I don't! I was just wondering."
"Well, you can wonder no longer. I just met Yaarp, and he's nice and all, but he's not for me." You are! Kasey wanted to add.
And that moment was like no other. That is when 625 and Kasey kissed---for the second time. Except, now when their lips touched, it was different than last time. It was a sweeter, longer kiss;and Kasey felt like she was in heaven. She felt like they were the only ones in the universe, like there was no one else, that their kiss was the only thing taking place in the world. It was wonderful, and Kasey wondered if 625 felt the same.
When their lips parted, Kasey couldn't help smiling. "You didn't bite me that time."
625 stared at her for a moment. He looked speechless, but then he said, "Whatever, Lovergirl. You're weird. Kissing random people isn't going to get you a boyfriend. I can't believe you're that hopeless and desperate for a date." With that, he walked off, beaming.
And yet, still nothing changed. Kasey couldn't resist beaming either as she followed.
THE END
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To be continued