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AN: I've read so many fics where they win some contest and then fall in love that I just had to write one of my own. . .Well that is what I wish was the main reason I wrote this. You'll find out the reason when you read on how Kagome reacts when she reads the back of her first chocolate bar label with her friends. It was something that I was told happened at my school by someone (I forgot who) during their class.
Chocolate Wishes
Chapter 1 – Origami
"My heart . . . says we've got something real, can I trust the way I feel, 'cause my heart's been fooled before . . ." I glared at the lyrics in my hand, "Yuka, YOU PROMISED NO LOVE SONGS!"
"Sorry Kag, but out of a survey we took at the Trashiteria, 40% wanted a love song."
"But Yuka," I whined, "I don't want to! Plus I'm not sure Hojo would enjoy a love song either."
"You sure? I'm positive he'd have no problem with it whatsoever."
I pouted, "Damn, well he's not here right now anyways so I'm not going to practice it. Where is he anyways?"
Yuka held a thoughtful look for a moment, "I'm not sure, he should've been here by now. . ."
The door opened and Hojo walked in, his face with a somewhat grim expression, "Hey you two, we've got a problem."
"Problem?" I blinked, "Hojo we can't have a problem, Coffee House is in two days."
He looked at me apologetically, "That's just it, we're going to have to withdraw our entry."
I stayed silent, shocked from what he had said. Yuka on the other hand had no problem with expressing her feelings towards what he was talking about.
"Hojo, you out of all of us was the most excited about this chance and now you're saying that we can't play?!? What is wrong?"
"I . . . quit."
"WHAT?!?!"
He put up his hands from Yuka's raging barrage of fists that were now coming down on his head, "It's not like I WANT to quit Yuka! My grandmother died and left her house and belongings to my Dad. You know that our landlord for the apartment that we are already staying in was going to evict us because he decided to demolish the building. We have no choice but to go to the funeral and then move into her old house until we can find a good house back here in town."
"Well. . ." I said now that I had finally regained my voice while also watching Yuka continue to beat up on Hojo, "I guess that's in then. We're through."
~
A week had passed and Coffee House had come and went without me once more, not that we were any good in the first place, but it would've been fun. Hojo had left and Yuka had finally gotten over her despair of not playing. Though sometimes it just weird how really stupid things can make everything alright in someone's mind again.
"KAGOME!"
I lifted my head of the table I was sitting at and waved to Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi, "Finally, what took you all so long?"
They all had identical grins on which was not surprising, they were like the three musketeers, always together . . . most of the time.
"We've decided to help you on you happiness of eating chocolate!"
That got my attention instantly. I absolutely LOVE chocolate! "What's the catch?"
Eri smiled, "Didn't you see? Four people could win an all-expense paid vacation for this summer as long as you are between the ages 17-19!"
I raised my eyebrow, "What does that have to do with chocolate?"
"The winners are the people who find a silver seal on the back of their Chrisp (Chrisp does not exist . . . at least I don't think it does) chocolate bar label. We'll buy the bars but you can eat them for us."
What can I say? Free chocolate and watching my friends be disappointed in not winning or no free chocolate and have my friends buy the chocolate anyways and still be disappointed in not winning. I mean, what are the chances of winning anyways? People buy chocolate everyday.
"WOOO!"
~
We were back at the table, they had bought five bars each and just to humor them, I bought one for myself. "Ok, who's up first?"
Ayumi picked up one bar, "Here goes . . ." She slowly ripped the label off and looked at the back, "Damn."
"Well I guess that means that you didn't win, Yuka you go next."
She picked up a bar and ripped off the label and rolled her eyes, "Yippee I won another chocolate bar."
I laughed but turned to Eri, "Your turn!"
She of course ended up having the same reaction as Ayumi.
I looked at my bar in my hand and verrrrrrrrrry slowly opened the label so that they couldn't see what the other side said. I read the label and I couldn't suppress the smile that tugged at my lips. I jumped up, screamed "YES~!", and did my happy dance which I came up with in grade two.
They stared at me in shock. "Oh my god, YOU WON!?!"
I looked at them and my smile grew "I GET TO PLEASE TRY AGAIN!"
The looks on their faces were so funny I couldn't stop myself from falling to the floor laughing.
"That was not funny!" said Ayumi scowling.
I pulled myself back on my seat and snickered. "Sorry I couldn't help it. I just had to do it. Now you three can continue on with you chocolate unwrapping."
Four bars each and twelve depressed sighs later, I was still sitting at the table with them, now munching on one of Eri's bars.
"Well at least you tried right?" I said happily
"You're only happy because you got all this chocolate for free from us." Eri pouted.
"Yeah," said Yuka, "but you know, this was just way to depressing for me. Here Kag, you can have the label for my free chocolate. I don't think I'll be having anymore chocolate for a long time."
I looked at my watch and nodded as I pushed the remaining chocolate bars into my bag and took the label from Yuka's hand. "I'm going to get the bar now and head home, I've got to finish my History essay for tomorrow. See ya!"
I practically skipped into the convenience store across the street and stood in front of the rack of chocolate bars. Closing my eyes I reached forward and grabbed . . . a chocolate bar, duh. I then went to the cashier and gave her the label and left to head home.
When I got home I proceeded to write my essay while watching TV. Of course the TV got more of my attention and I ended up finishing off my chocolate bars, folding the label from the one I had just got for free into a paper crane, while never taking my eyes off the TV once.
By the time I had actually succeeded in finishing my essay it was already midnight and that was when I decided that sleep would be very much appreciated.
~
"Have you heard? They say that three of the contest winners have been confirmed but the last one is still out there somewhere." I heard Ayumi say during lunch the next day. Unfortunately, my stomach had an overload from the chocolate from the day before and I was practically lying on the lunch table.
"Yeah, and they say that the last one was already bought yesterday. Do you think that whoever got it might've been one of those people who don't care about contests and threw it in the garbage?" Eri said.
"Please," I begged, "Let's not talk about the contest or chocolate right now."
Yuka eyed me warily, "Well you deserved the pain."
"Bite me" I grumbled but moaned a second afterwards because the movement had made my stomach turn once again.
Eri rolled her eyes. "Kagome, the exact same thing happens every Halloween! How could you not realize that eating all the chocolate would have the same effect?"
"Because I'm stupid now leave me alone . . ."
"Eri, do you know what the names of the other winners are?" Ayumi asked.
"Nope, they're keeping their names a secret until they get all four of the names. They want to announce them all at the same time."
"I wonder if any of them are guys . . ."
I rolled over and covered my ears. Listening to them before was bad enough, having to listen to them when they mentions guys was worse. Of course before I completely blocked them out of my mind, I had to say one last thing, "Ayumi, how long have you had a crush on Hojo?"
I grinned as I pictured what Ayumi's face looked like as I heard Yuka and Eri squeal and shift their seats closer to hers. High School crushes, pathetic yet so entertaining.
~
"Souta! Where's the remote control!?"
"It's on the couch somewhere!"
I grumbled. On the couch my ass, more like squished under the couch cushions.
Ten minutes later I finally found it and switched on the TV. I channel surfed until I found a channel about the contest.
"It's already been over 24 hours since that chocolate bar was sold and they have yet to inform us. What do you think about this Ken?"
"Well the person could be waiting for school to be out first so that they don't announce their name and have them bombarded by other students that tried to enter but failed at winning."
"That's possible but there is a time limit on how long the have left. There is only two more days before they close the contest and only allow the three others to go."
"Hm, the person must then be one of those people who eat chocolate and don't read the labels to see if they won anything. To bad, I would've really enjoyed a vacation this summer for free."
"Don't forget that it's only for teenagers ages 17-19."
"Are you implying that I'm old?"
"More than me, at least."
I sighed. This was starting to kind of remind me of that story 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' Good book though.
"Kagome, you should go to sleep! It's almost midnight."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever . . ." I grumbled as I flicked off the TV and trudged up to my room. As soon as I was close enough I collapsed on my bed, staring at the ceiling.
If people were as crazy as Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi were about that contest, it's not possible that someone wouldn't have confirmed it by now unless . . .
My eyes drifted to the little origami crane that was sitting on my desk. I sat up and picked it up in my hands.
Well, if you can't beat them, join them right?
I unfolded the bird with my eyes closed and finally, when it was flat once again, I opened my eyes to see what it had written on it.
It was blank.
I sighed and began to chuckle to myself for getting worked up about something so . . . stupid.
I crinkled the label into a ball and attempted to throw it into my waste basket but failed. I felt like banging my head against my head-board because the distance was only about two feet and yet I somehow still managed to miss. I got up from my bed and reached picked up the label and was about to through it into the garbage, this time directly above it, when I noticed that the label was double-layered.
I gazed at it in my palm. Since when did they double layer chocolate labels? My held my breath as I unwrinkled the label again and pulled off the white layer that I had seen earlier.
There. Sitting in my hand was a chocolate label with a little silver seal on it with the words "YOU WIN!" on it.
I blinked once, twice, and finally was able to come up with a coherent thought.
"I wonder how much I can sell this on E-Bay?"
AN: I've read so many fics where they win some contest and then fall in love that I just had to write one of my own. . .Well that is what I wish was the main reason I wrote this. You'll find out the reason when you read on how Kagome reacts when she reads the back of her first chocolate bar label with her friends. It was something that I was told happened at my school by someone (I forgot who) during their class.
Chocolate Wishes
Chapter 1 – Origami
"My heart . . . says we've got something real, can I trust the way I feel, 'cause my heart's been fooled before . . ." I glared at the lyrics in my hand, "Yuka, YOU PROMISED NO LOVE SONGS!"
"Sorry Kag, but out of a survey we took at the Trashiteria, 40% wanted a love song."
"But Yuka," I whined, "I don't want to! Plus I'm not sure Hojo would enjoy a love song either."
"You sure? I'm positive he'd have no problem with it whatsoever."
I pouted, "Damn, well he's not here right now anyways so I'm not going to practice it. Where is he anyways?"
Yuka held a thoughtful look for a moment, "I'm not sure, he should've been here by now. . ."
The door opened and Hojo walked in, his face with a somewhat grim expression, "Hey you two, we've got a problem."
"Problem?" I blinked, "Hojo we can't have a problem, Coffee House is in two days."
He looked at me apologetically, "That's just it, we're going to have to withdraw our entry."
I stayed silent, shocked from what he had said. Yuka on the other hand had no problem with expressing her feelings towards what he was talking about.
"Hojo, you out of all of us was the most excited about this chance and now you're saying that we can't play?!? What is wrong?"
"I . . . quit."
"WHAT?!?!"
He put up his hands from Yuka's raging barrage of fists that were now coming down on his head, "It's not like I WANT to quit Yuka! My grandmother died and left her house and belongings to my Dad. You know that our landlord for the apartment that we are already staying in was going to evict us because he decided to demolish the building. We have no choice but to go to the funeral and then move into her old house until we can find a good house back here in town."
"Well. . ." I said now that I had finally regained my voice while also watching Yuka continue to beat up on Hojo, "I guess that's in then. We're through."
~
A week had passed and Coffee House had come and went without me once more, not that we were any good in the first place, but it would've been fun. Hojo had left and Yuka had finally gotten over her despair of not playing. Though sometimes it just weird how really stupid things can make everything alright in someone's mind again.
"KAGOME!"
I lifted my head of the table I was sitting at and waved to Yuka, Eri, and Ayumi, "Finally, what took you all so long?"
They all had identical grins on which was not surprising, they were like the three musketeers, always together . . . most of the time.
"We've decided to help you on you happiness of eating chocolate!"
That got my attention instantly. I absolutely LOVE chocolate! "What's the catch?"
Eri smiled, "Didn't you see? Four people could win an all-expense paid vacation for this summer as long as you are between the ages 17-19!"
I raised my eyebrow, "What does that have to do with chocolate?"
"The winners are the people who find a silver seal on the back of their Chrisp (Chrisp does not exist . . . at least I don't think it does) chocolate bar label. We'll buy the bars but you can eat them for us."
What can I say? Free chocolate and watching my friends be disappointed in not winning or no free chocolate and have my friends buy the chocolate anyways and still be disappointed in not winning. I mean, what are the chances of winning anyways? People buy chocolate everyday.
"WOOO!"
~
We were back at the table, they had bought five bars each and just to humor them, I bought one for myself. "Ok, who's up first?"
Ayumi picked up one bar, "Here goes . . ." She slowly ripped the label off and looked at the back, "Damn."
"Well I guess that means that you didn't win, Yuka you go next."
She picked up a bar and ripped off the label and rolled her eyes, "Yippee I won another chocolate bar."
I laughed but turned to Eri, "Your turn!"
She of course ended up having the same reaction as Ayumi.
I looked at my bar in my hand and verrrrrrrrrry slowly opened the label so that they couldn't see what the other side said. I read the label and I couldn't suppress the smile that tugged at my lips. I jumped up, screamed "YES~!", and did my happy dance which I came up with in grade two.
They stared at me in shock. "Oh my god, YOU WON!?!"
I looked at them and my smile grew "I GET TO PLEASE TRY AGAIN!"
The looks on their faces were so funny I couldn't stop myself from falling to the floor laughing.
"That was not funny!" said Ayumi scowling.
I pulled myself back on my seat and snickered. "Sorry I couldn't help it. I just had to do it. Now you three can continue on with you chocolate unwrapping."
Four bars each and twelve depressed sighs later, I was still sitting at the table with them, now munching on one of Eri's bars.
"Well at least you tried right?" I said happily
"You're only happy because you got all this chocolate for free from us." Eri pouted.
"Yeah," said Yuka, "but you know, this was just way to depressing for me. Here Kag, you can have the label for my free chocolate. I don't think I'll be having anymore chocolate for a long time."
I looked at my watch and nodded as I pushed the remaining chocolate bars into my bag and took the label from Yuka's hand. "I'm going to get the bar now and head home, I've got to finish my History essay for tomorrow. See ya!"
I practically skipped into the convenience store across the street and stood in front of the rack of chocolate bars. Closing my eyes I reached forward and grabbed . . . a chocolate bar, duh. I then went to the cashier and gave her the label and left to head home.
When I got home I proceeded to write my essay while watching TV. Of course the TV got more of my attention and I ended up finishing off my chocolate bars, folding the label from the one I had just got for free into a paper crane, while never taking my eyes off the TV once.
By the time I had actually succeeded in finishing my essay it was already midnight and that was when I decided that sleep would be very much appreciated.
~
"Have you heard? They say that three of the contest winners have been confirmed but the last one is still out there somewhere." I heard Ayumi say during lunch the next day. Unfortunately, my stomach had an overload from the chocolate from the day before and I was practically lying on the lunch table.
"Yeah, and they say that the last one was already bought yesterday. Do you think that whoever got it might've been one of those people who don't care about contests and threw it in the garbage?" Eri said.
"Please," I begged, "Let's not talk about the contest or chocolate right now."
Yuka eyed me warily, "Well you deserved the pain."
"Bite me" I grumbled but moaned a second afterwards because the movement had made my stomach turn once again.
Eri rolled her eyes. "Kagome, the exact same thing happens every Halloween! How could you not realize that eating all the chocolate would have the same effect?"
"Because I'm stupid now leave me alone . . ."
"Eri, do you know what the names of the other winners are?" Ayumi asked.
"Nope, they're keeping their names a secret until they get all four of the names. They want to announce them all at the same time."
"I wonder if any of them are guys . . ."
I rolled over and covered my ears. Listening to them before was bad enough, having to listen to them when they mentions guys was worse. Of course before I completely blocked them out of my mind, I had to say one last thing, "Ayumi, how long have you had a crush on Hojo?"
I grinned as I pictured what Ayumi's face looked like as I heard Yuka and Eri squeal and shift their seats closer to hers. High School crushes, pathetic yet so entertaining.
~
"Souta! Where's the remote control!?"
"It's on the couch somewhere!"
I grumbled. On the couch my ass, more like squished under the couch cushions.
Ten minutes later I finally found it and switched on the TV. I channel surfed until I found a channel about the contest.
"It's already been over 24 hours since that chocolate bar was sold and they have yet to inform us. What do you think about this Ken?"
"Well the person could be waiting for school to be out first so that they don't announce their name and have them bombarded by other students that tried to enter but failed at winning."
"That's possible but there is a time limit on how long the have left. There is only two more days before they close the contest and only allow the three others to go."
"Hm, the person must then be one of those people who eat chocolate and don't read the labels to see if they won anything. To bad, I would've really enjoyed a vacation this summer for free."
"Don't forget that it's only for teenagers ages 17-19."
"Are you implying that I'm old?"
"More than me, at least."
I sighed. This was starting to kind of remind me of that story 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.' Good book though.
"Kagome, you should go to sleep! It's almost midnight."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever . . ." I grumbled as I flicked off the TV and trudged up to my room. As soon as I was close enough I collapsed on my bed, staring at the ceiling.
If people were as crazy as Eri, Yuka, and Ayumi were about that contest, it's not possible that someone wouldn't have confirmed it by now unless . . .
My eyes drifted to the little origami crane that was sitting on my desk. I sat up and picked it up in my hands.
Well, if you can't beat them, join them right?
I unfolded the bird with my eyes closed and finally, when it was flat once again, I opened my eyes to see what it had written on it.
It was blank.
I sighed and began to chuckle to myself for getting worked up about something so . . . stupid.
I crinkled the label into a ball and attempted to throw it into my waste basket but failed. I felt like banging my head against my head-board because the distance was only about two feet and yet I somehow still managed to miss. I got up from my bed and reached picked up the label and was about to through it into the garbage, this time directly above it, when I noticed that the label was double-layered.
I gazed at it in my palm. Since when did they double layer chocolate labels? My held my breath as I unwrinkled the label again and pulled off the white layer that I had seen earlier.
There. Sitting in my hand was a chocolate label with a little silver seal on it with the words "YOU WIN!" on it.
I blinked once, twice, and finally was able to come up with a coherent thought.
"I wonder how much I can sell this on E-Bay?"