Chapter Seven: Leave Me Breathless
Here's the long awaited chapter seven, and if you couldn't guess from the title, this chapter is the songfic chapter. So please Read and Review and enjoy Hamtaro and Bijou's Engagement party! Oh and good news for all of you Sandy/Maxwell fans out there. I was originally going to make Pashmina/Jingle the second leading couple, but since so many of you liked the bit of S+M I put in there, S+M will become the second main couple. Anyway enough notes, here it is.
**********The Grand Foyer**********
Go on go on
Leave me breathless
Come on [echo...]
"Come on" groaned Hamtaro while he was waiting for Bijou to come down the Grand Foyer. "Girls take so long in getting ready". The truth is, all the Hams had trouble getting ready that evening because of one thing.... they had to take a shower. Yosei (AN: The fairy, thank you Mr.E for that name) had to come back to help them figure out the knobs and temperature controls. But when it came time for them to put on the shampoo, well lets just say they all came out with red eyes.
"Ahem" cleared Josie while she was standing atop the foyer, "I now present the lady of honor" and then came Bijou.
Hey... yeah...
The daylight's fading slowly
But time with you is standing still
I'm waiting for you only
The slightest touch and I feel weak
I cannot lie, from you I cannot hide
And I'm losing the will to try
Can't hide it (can't hide it), can't fight it (can't fight it)
Bijou had on electric blue ribbons, and a lovely white dress. The dress was a sleeveless v-neck, with the same electric blue colored strips coming down from the dress' straps. The dress bore a silver belt, with a sparkly blue eight pointed star on it. The skirt of the dress had blue lines coming down from the belt, but if you looked at the dress from above, you could tell that the lines were linked in an eight pointed star. She had on fancy-strapped white dancing shoes and she looked ravishing.
"Wow" was all that escaped Hamtaro, Boss' and Andre's mouth. The Hams applauded as Bijou walked down her magical staircase and smiled at the Ham-Hams.
"Muzzer that announcement was not necessary" said Bijou taking away the microphone from her mother, and trying to look away from the attention. "Where did you get this anyway?" she asked swinging the microphone in her hand.
Boss gave Hamtaro a most deadly look that said 'I'm gonna kill you if you even think about dancing with her'. Hamtaro answered with a look that said 'sorry but we are the ones getting married'. Hamtaro was wearing a fancy black collar shirt, with fancy khaki pants.
"Come on" whispered Bijou to Hamtaro "They're awaiting our first dance".
"Then lets go" Hamtaro answered. And they walked into the formal dining hall. It was decorated all right, it had streamers of blue and white going down the banisters and columns, and a stage was setup for D.J. Stan. There were blue and white and orange balloons all over the place, and one banner right above the stage that read "Congratulations H + Bijou" It was Andre's job to paint the banner but he refused to paint Hamtaro's full name, so H + Bijou was the outcome.
"Ok" bellowed Stan's voice across the hall, "Let's welcome our favorite couple for their first formal dance"
"Stan!" cried Sandy while holding her ears "There are like twenty people here, you don't have to scream!"
"Gees, sorry sis. Ok then", he said lowering his voice in a barely audible whisper "Let's welcome our cute couple"
"Hamtaro do you know how to dance?" Bijou asked
"Define dance" he answered nervously
"It's easy, just let me take the lead"
"If you say so"
*********The D.J. Stand**********
Andre walked up to Stan and placed something in his hand "Play the Tango, I know that that's a dance that Bijou is extremely skilled at, while that savage has two left feet" Stan looked in his hand and found a French coin.
"Ok" Stan said, "I see what you're saying"
"Good. Play the most complicated dance known to Hams, and make Hamtaro look like the savage he really is" and Andre left. Stan looked at the French coin and thought "I'm a Japanese hamster slash human with a French human coin." and he tossed the coin over his shoulder. He looked into the boxes of records Josie had found in the basement, and finally retrieved the Tango.
"Whoops" said Stan breaking the record in half "It broke. Oh well" and he started playing another record.
So go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny
This loving feeling (loving feeling)
Make me long for your kiss
Go on (go on), go on (go on)
Yeah...
Come on
Yeah...
*********The Dance Floor**********
Bijou heard the song playing, and thanked God that it wasn't a classical song like the Tango or something.
"Hmmm" said Hamtaro "I think I can dance to this"
"Are you sure?"
"How hard can it be?"
And he lead her onto the dance floor, and started twirling her. "I could get used to this" Hamtaro said watching the terrified look on Andre's face. "Who spit in his sunflower seed?"
**********The D.J. Stand**********
"You, double-crossing, conniving Ham" Andre said to Stan on the verge of choking him.
"Now, now, I never said I'd agree to your plan of making my friend seem like a savage now did I?"
"You just made yourself a great enemy"
"Don't consider me an enemy, consider me someone who doesn't like you" Stan answered with a smirk.
"You heard that?" Andre asked with appalled eyes.
"Yeah, all of us did. Man you like have to work on your soliloquies"
"I swear I will-" Andre started to mumble to himself.
"And I can hear that too. Like, where did you learn to whisper?"
**********The Dance Floor**********
Hamtaro and Bijou were improvising as they went along. Bijou trying to learn how to put all the dances she had learned in her life together, and Hamtaro just trying to learn how to dance. But they were actually doing quite well. They twirled under the balcony Boss was standing in, and Hamtaro thanked God Boss didn't have an anvil in his hand. Seeing Boss' face, Hamtaro spun Bijou back from the balcony, way back.
And if there's no tomorrow
And all we have is here and now
I'm happy just to have you
You're all the love I need somehow
It's like a dream
Although I'm not asleep
And I never want to wake up
Don't lose it (don't lose it), don't leave it (don't leave it)
So go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny
This loving feeling (loving feeling)
Make me long for your kiss
Go on (go on), go on (go on)
Yeah...
Come on [echo...]
**********Boss' Balcony**********
Andre approached Boss very carefully. Hamtaro wasn't the only one who noticed Boss' depressed face.
"You like her, don't you?"
Boss was startled to see Andre, he hadn't even noticed him. Boss was trying to ignore Andre as much as possible. As if he had enough trouble dealing with Bijou's fake fiancee, here came the real one. But as for Andre's question.
"I don't know what you're talking about" Boss answered, quite calmly he admitted to himself.
"Please" Andre mumbled while rolling his eyes. "You Hams are a bunch of goody-two-shoes, do you know that? And another thing, you suck at lying, all of you"
"We've never lied to you Andre" Boss said with a martyred look of innocence on his face.
"The biggest lie is right down there" Andre said pointing his finger at the dancing couple.
"Sandy and Maxwell?" Boss asked trying his best to avoid the subject of Hamtaro and Bijou, and trying not to blow their cover. (AN: I love S+M, don't get the wrong impression by that statement)
Andre fell over anime style. "See that white beauty dancing with the sunflower wearing savage? That's a lie, no wait that's just wrong. But with a bit of information, we could stop that wrong doing right in its tracks."
"But what ever do you mean" Boss asked once again. Innocence was beginning to wear off on Andre.
"Tell me who is engaged to who on that dance floor, and I want you to swear to me that you are telling the truth" Andre ended with a huge smirk. He knew he had Boss cornered.
'Never tell a lie' Is what Boss' mother always told him. But he couldn't betray Bijou, he just couldn't. Andre seemed to realize the controversy going on in Boss' mind.
"That's your girl he's dancing with. Shouldn't you be the one pretending to be her fiancee?" Andre slyly asked.
"I should!" Boss screamed. Then he realized what he had just revealed by the look on Andre's face.
"Perfect" said a satisfied Andre, tracing his chin with his thumb.
"NO! NO! It's not what you think, I mean, well I meant that I like Bijou but Hamtaro got to her first, so what can I do, anyways I gotta get going" Boss desperately tried to explain while trying to escape Andre's glare.
"Now that you have given me the information that I want, I'm sure you will assist me in breaking apart this wrong, wrong, couple."
"Never!"
"Then I'll just have to reveal to the Hams on who is the one with the soft stomach. Bijou and that savage are down there right now, trying to give the illusion that they're engaged, and here you just spilled the beans." Andre held out his hand "Do we have a deal?"
Boss couldn't let the Hams find out what he had just done. He squeezed the bones out of Andre's hand, but Andre didn't seem to care. "You're a low, low ham" Boss snickered.
"It's a gift" was Andre's only reply.
**********The Dance Floor**********
[Guitar's solo] Yeah-ie, yeah, yeah-ie, yeah...
Jingle played the guitar's solo, and Hamtaro and Bijou were burning holes in their heels, but it had to be done, with Josie watching their every move.
And I can't lie
From you I cannot hide
And I've lost my will to try
Can't hide it (can't hide it), can't fight it, (can't fight it)
"Not bad for an amateur?" asked Hamtaro
"No, not at all. You are very good at dancing." Replied Bijou
So go on, (go on) go on, (go on), come on, leave me breathless
Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny
This loving feeling (loving feeling) Make me long for your kiss
"I think they like us." said Hamtaro noticing that they were now in the middle of the dance floor, and everybody was watching them out of the corners of their eyes.
"I think that you are winning muzzer over" said Bijou as she saw Josie applaud their twirls, which was the only thing Hamtaro was good at.
Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
"Can you believe a whole party, just for us?"
"Oui, oui, all of this trouble for something that muzzer does not even know is fake."
Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
Out of the corner of Bijou's eye, she could see Boss shaking hands reluctantly with Andre. "What on earth are they doing?" she thought to herself. She got distracted by this scene, and tripped.
Go on, (go on) go on, (go on) come on, leave... me breathless
Hamtaro caught her just in time t make it seem like he dipped her. At the end of this move, their faces were very close. Their noses were about five centimeters apart, and their faces were painted scarlet. And all the Ham Hams were thinking the same thing.
Go on... go on!
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Hi there, I liked that chapter a lot. Please R/R, and please tell me what your favorite chapter was, and please tell me what scenes you liked best. It'll help me shape this fanfic into something you'd wanna read over and over again.
Tootles (AN: You just can't hate that word)
Celestial Night