Chapter Ten: The Much Wanted Beret
Hello once again! I know that Chapter Nine hardly had any H+B in it, and the past few chapters had practically zero S+M, but I'm working on it. So here it is:
**********The Parlor**********
"Are we all here?" asked Josie as she watched all the Hams gather around her.
"Oui, muzzer, but why did you call us all down here?" Bijou asked.
"Because of a very important heirloom." Josie replied.
"You don't mean?" Bijou gasped.
"Oui" Josie nodded and smiled in happiness. She went over to Hamtaro who today was wearing an orange and white T-shirt and some acid-wash jeans. "Zis" she said to him "belonged to Bijou's fazzer."
"It couldn't be." Andre said as he rose from his place at the table.
"It iz!" Bijou clapped.
Josie lifted the top off the box she was carrying and revealed a beautiful Navy Blue beret with a golden family crest sewn onto it. "Zis now rightfully belongs to you. Bijou's fazzer said that whoever our lovely daughter marries, will be the true holder of this beret."
Hamtaro was not believing this. "It's beautiful Josie, but I don't think I deserve this."
"I should say!" Andre chimed in. Andre wasn't going to let a fake fiancee steal the beret that was legally his.
"Nonsense" said Bijou as she took the beret from its box and starting fixing it onto Hamtaro's head. "Feel proud to wear the crest." she said to Hamtaro as she fidgeted with his hair. "I think he looks absolutely debonair, muzzer, no?"
"Positively dashing in the family colors." Josie agreed.
"Hamtaro, can I speak with you for a moment?" Boss asked.
"Oh no." Hamtaro thought walking up to Boss.
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"Boss, please listen to me-"
"Hamtaro you said this plan was going to have no funny stuff!" The red-faced Boss screamed.
"But there was no funny stuff." Hamtaro pointed out.
"Oh, there wasn't was there? Well, the precious heirloom you're wearing says otherwise." Boss said while he was controlling his anger.
"But all she did was give me-"
"She gave you the beret which means that she considers you a part of her family." Boss angrily objected.
"Boss, she only did that because she believes that I'm Bijou's fiancee." Hamtaro said while he checked to make sure no one was listening.
"Oh really?"
"Yeah." Hamtaro said keeping his voice calm .
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"Boss is not going to be happy with this." Panda said as he put his hand on his forehead.
"Ookwee" Penelope agreed.
"Oh please don't let Boss go too hard on him." Pashmina and Sandy hoped. They had officially declared themselves to be the matchmakers in this whole shenanigan. They were going to get Hamtaro and Bijou together whether or not that something or someone was going to stop them.
"Well, I think that Boss has every right to be angry." Cappy said.
"Cappy! We thought you liked Hamtaro and Bijou as a couple." The Hams argued.
"I do, but I still feel sorry for Boss."
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Bijou went up to her mother. "Muzzer?" Bijou asked getting Josie's attention.
"Oh, yes darling?"
"Why zid you give Hamtaro fazzer's beret?" Bijou asked hoping for a specific answer.
"Because I felt he deserved it. And he legally owns it since it's an heirloom that's been in our Hamster family for generations."
Bijou felt her heart flutter. Hamtaro had won her mother over! But she also felt submerged by a wave of guilt since she was lying to her mother. "It's better Hamtaro get it rather than Andre." Bijou quietly said to herself.
Sandy went up to Maxwell who was deeply involved in a book.
"What are you reading now?" she playfully asked. Maxwell turned a few pages and showed a picture of the same crest engraved on the beret.
"And?" Sandy asked.
"Sandy, it says here that this family crest belongs to a family of one of the greatest Ham-emperors that ever lived."
"O-kay." Sandy said not believing how gullible Maxwell was. "Are you reading a fairy tale or something?" she laughed as she asked this.
"Laugh while you can, because I believe that Bijou's family has a deeper history than any of us know."
Sandy sighed. "You read too much. You never have time for me anymore." she complained as she put on a fake pout. Maxwell still didn't look up from his book. Sandy carefully picked up one of the cushions on the couch and threw it at Maxwell.
"What-hey." He said as the pillow hit him square in the face. "Now you have my full undivided attention." he said picking up the cushion and aiming it at Sandy. Sandy quickly ducked so it went and hit straight at an angry Boss who just walked in with a babbling Hamtaro.
"OKAY WHO THREW THAT?" he heatedly asked.
"He did." all the Hams who were in the room at the time quickly said as they pointed to Maxwell. "All for one, and one for all, eh?" asked a betrayed Maxwell. And then the pillow went straight for Maxwell once again, but since he learned a thing or two from his Ham-girl, he quickly dodged. And to Hamtaro and Bijou's pleasure, it hit Andre.
Andre was now steaming, and carefully picked up the pillow and started throwing it up and down in the air, and then he spiked straight at Hamtaro. "I've been waiting a long time for this."
Hamtaro quickly dodged, so it hit a painting.
"Andre, that was an original painting that one of Europe's greatest artists drew just for our family." Josie stated while trying to keep her voice down.
"It was the feroce's fault-" but saying that one word made all the Hams, especially Hamtaro and Bijou, throw a pillow at Andre, so about fifteen cushions went flying in one second. Now Andre was out for revenge, and starting shooting pillows like one of those baseball machines at the batting cages. This officially started a pillow fight.
Toppled tables, shattered sculptures, and a scared Penelope littered the floor. Oh dear, our little Hams were in quite some trouble.
"Who's going to clean up this mess?" Josie groaned.
**********One Hour Later**********
Feathers went flying, things were broken, and now it was a war. Every Ham for himself. Josie, who was huddled behind an overthrown table, was getting tired of the havoc being caused in her house so she bravely stepped onto the couch and shouted "WHOEVER THROWS ANOTHER PILLOW HAS TO CLEAN UP THE WHOLE MESS". And that officially ended the pillow war. "Bijou darling" she said as her voice returned to normal, "Clean up the broken glass, and the rest of you clean up all these feathers. And Bijou help with the feathers when you're done with the glass, you don't want a dirty house at your wedding, do you?"
"What wedding?" Bijou, Hamtaro, Boss and Andre asked.
Josie turned around and gave her daughter a 'you honestly don't know?' look. Bijou returned the look by saying "What are you talking about, muzzer?"
"Darling, you were originally going to marry Andre on your birthday, but now that Hamtaro iz here you are going to marry him."
How could the Hams have forgotten about this little detail? It must've slipped their minds, but how could they have possibly forgotten that whoever was Bijou's real fiancée would have to marry her on her birthday?
"I'm dead." Hamtaro thought to himself as he feared to turn around and look at Boss, but judging as how he could sense the Hams moving away from Boss, he felt it best not to turn around. Hamtaro expected a vicious reaction from Andre, but found that he was smirking.
"Oh, this is getting good." Andre said to himself as he stroked his chin.
"I heard that too." Stan quietly muttered to himself, wondering what that meant.
"Muzzer," Bijou tried to explain "Although Hamtaro and I are engaged, I don't think zat we are ready to get married zo soon, we were only engaged a few days before we became Ham-Human."
"But two Hams that are so deeply in love such as yourselves could hardly wait to get married, that iz, if you are really in love, aren't you?" Andre so slyly asked.
"You suck, Andre." Hamtaro whispered so that only Andre could hear.
"There, there, Andre. They will get married on Bijou's birthday as scheduled." Josie explained as she left the room.
"But muzzer" Bijou said as she ran into the corridors and tried to catch up with her mother, trying to explain why the wedding should not take place. Andre followed Bijou out the door giving reasons why the wedding should take place. Although Andre hated Hamtaro, and practically loathed Hamtaro and Bijou as a couple, he would love to see how Hamtaro was gonna get out of this mess. So Andre did follow Bijou out of the room, and he did give reasons why the wedding should take place, but he stayed outside the door of the parlor, trying to eavesdrop.
"Now Boss," a very weary Hamtaro tried to explain as he backed away from the dragon called Boss.
"Don't you 'now Boss' me! 'Nothing will happen between me and Bijou I promise.'" Boss quoted.
"But Boss you have to believe me, I didn't plan this. And I'm sure I can find a way to get out of this mess. I know there's a way to prevent the wedding to ever take place."
"And that would be?" an extremely incensed Boss asked.
"I haven't thought of that yet." Hamtaro said as all the Hams fell over anime-style.
"I'M GONNA KILL YOU KID!" Boss shot at Hamtaro as he lunged for him. But Pashmina and Sandy wouldn't let him. They quickly put Penelope in his face.
"You wouldn't hit a baby girl, would you?" Pashmina solemnly asked.
"That's low." Boss hissed.
"Using violence because you're mad at someone is even lower." Sandy explained.
"Ookwee!"
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"This is awesome!" Andre thought to himself. "Boss is furious, that feroce has dug himself a hole that he can't get out of, and I have the vantage point in all of this. Just one slip of my mouth, and Boss's heart will be broken, the savage will lose the girl, and I will be married to Bijou."
**********The Parlor**********
"Boss, please" Hamtaro persisted "I didn't know this was gonna happen, honest!" He said as he jumped over toppled tables and couches. "I know that you must hate what is happening, but please I know that there is a way-"
"I'll show you what hate is!" And Boss threw a small footstool aimed perfectly at Hamtaro, but Hamtaro dodged precisely at the right time, so the footstool hit the blood red drapes instead.
"Boss?" came Bijou's soft voice as she entered with a dustpan and broom in her hands. "Whatever are you doing?" she so quietly asked as she fixed the drapes that had come off of their rod.
"Uhh... nothing Bijou, I was just a little mad." Boss said while he was rubbing the back of his neck.
"He was just playing pillow fight with us, he thought that the footstool was a cushion by accident, and he didn't realize that until he threw it." Hamtaro explained, hoping Bijou wouldn't be mad at them for claiming to play pillow fight.
Bijou smiled, "Okay" Duh, she didn't believe Hamtaro, but she decided not to ask about it. She brought out the dustpan and started sweeping glass into it. Then she gave a grave look in Hamtaro's direction. She looked around the room to make sure that Andre or her mother were nowhere in sight, and then said "Unless we can find a way to cancel this wedding, we are to be married on my seventeenth Ham-Human birthday." Which Bijou didn't mind really, and what she didn't know was that Hamtaro didn't mind getting married to Bijou, it was Boss that he was scared of, needless to explain.
Bijou only feared getting married to Hamtaro because she felt that he didn't love her, and of course, she could never ask the one whom she cared so much for to marry her when he didn't return the feelings.
About judging Hamtaro's feelings, she couldn't have been more wrong.
"We are in deep trouble." Bijou repeated for the fourth time as she swept up feathers.
"Tell me about it." Hamtaro said as he still refused to look in Boss's direction.
"Trouble, what trouble?" asked Andre as he entered the room with an ear-to-ear smile. Oh how he cherished the sight of all the Hams cleaning up the mess. "You missed a spot." he pointed out to Hamtaro. "Of course, savages like you have no cleanliness whatsoever, so how can Josie expect a dumb thing like you to clean?"
"Andre, I believe that you also did throw a pillow, therefore, you have to help clean up." Bijou explained.
"But Bijou, Josie also said that you have to have a real fiancée to keep from marrying me." Andre so quietly whispered to himself.
"I heard that too." said an appalled Stan to himself.
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