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Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro, Ritsuko Kawai does. *twitches* BUT I do own Taya, Kiri, Lilac, Holly, Lily, and Twink. I'm also taking some requests for some of you peoples as hamsters in my fic! Like a background ham or somethin'! So, review me the info at the end of dis fic!
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**Chapter 4,The Sibling Talk And S'More New Friends!:
"This is Lilac! We found her in the woods and we asked her if she wanted to be our friends and go to the Clubhouse with us and she said yes! She has no home and wants to make friends and she can play the flute REAL good!" Hamtaro squeaked excitedly.
The shy poetic girl-ham walked through the Clubhouse door. Some of the ham-boys gasped, because she was rather pretty. The girls quickly ran up to their new friend.
"Hamha Lilac I'm Taya." Taya said.
"And I'm Pashmina!"
"Like, hi I'm Sandy!"
"Bonjour, Jerma pelle Bijou!" [I hope I spelled that right! Heh.]
"Heke?" the ham hams asked in wonder.
Bijou giggled, "Eet means 'Hello my name is Bijou!'"
"Oooooooh."
"Hi, I'm Kiri!"
"Ookwee, ookwee!" Penelope squealed next to her.
"Oh, and this is Penelope!" Kiri added with a little laugh.
"Tis lovely." Lilac said simply.
"Now for the boys!" Sandy said.
She took Lilac's paw, Lilac looking a tad confused at her gesture, and walked around the room telling her the names of the rest of the Ham-Hams.
"This is Howdy." Sandy told her.
"Howdy ma'am!"
"This is, like, Dexter."
"Pleased to meet you!"
"Here's Panda."
"Hi!"
This ham, like, under the pot is Cappy."
"Um, hello!"
"This dude here is the boss of the Clubhouse, *giggles* Boss!"
"Yup, I'm the boss!"
"This ham here is my twin bro, Stan."
"Hello, now what have we here? Who is this very, very beautiful ham-lady standing in front of me?" he asked casanova-like.
Stan pushed his sister aside and dipped Lilac low. She stared at him and blinked. She seemed to be quite confused and flustered.
"Pleased to make your acquaintance, my little poetic flower." he said very seductively. [*shivers in emotion and blushes*]
"STAN!" Sandy said angrily.
She snatched Stan away by the ear, causing Lilac to fall to the floor, and drug him away. All the time Stan whimpered and pleaded for his sister to let him go.
"Sandy, ouch, let go, ouch, of my, ouch! Ear!" he whined.
"You are such a Guinea pig sometimes Stan!" she snapped.
She left him where he was standing before and glared at him as if daring him to move. Sandy then turned back to where Lilac was being helped up by none other than Maxwell. Her instinctive protective-ness over her boy-ham quickly reared up. But she shook it off telling herself that it was just her imagination playing tricks on her and that she didn't see that loving look that he often had when he was around her. As far as she knew she hadn't seen a thing. But strangely enough Sandy had a slightly icy tone in her voice when she spoke to Maxwell and Lilac.
"Well I see you've already met Maxwell, my, *clears her throat loudly* loving and handsome boyfriend!" she said a little too cheerfully but with a dash of coolness.
Maxwell raised an eyebrow at her but she just smiled innocently. The Ham- Hams too noticed the over-cheerfulness/coldish tone.
"Well Lilac, now that you've met everyone let's say we play a game of Ham- and-Go-Seek!" Boss said quickly.
Lilac stared at him.
"Heke?" she replied, "What is this 'Ham-and-Go-Seek'?"
"You don't know what Ham-and-Go-Seek is?" Hamtaro asked stunned, "Well we better show her then, right Ham-Hams?"
"Right Hamtaro!" the rest agreed, "But you're it! Tee hee!" [Yeah, I know, sounds stupid.]
Before Hamtaro could protest, Pashmina and Bijou had grabbed a very confused Lilac and the rest scrambled for a hiding place. Seconds later, Hamtaro realizing that he had no choice, quickly covered his eyes and began to count.
*
Two weeks had gone by and Sandy was beginning to feel left out. Maxwell had been taking Lilac on tours all over the city. Though they were never supposed to be tours. In fact they were actually Sandy's and Maxwell's dates in which Maxwell had asked Sandy if he could reschedule their date and show Lilac the city. Sandy, who just wanted to make Maxwell happy, said yes every time. What was worse is that she had to go along with on boring trips to the libraries and museums. She wanted to tell Maxwell how she felt, but she didn't want to make him think she was being rude or upset. So she just went along and pretended to be interested in poetry by some guy she hadn't heard the name of because she was so darn bored.
Finally, on the umpteenth day they had re-posted their date and Maxwell yet again 'forgot', Sandy pretended not to be feeling well and turned down his offer to go to The Museum of The Poets. [No such thing, I made it up! =D]
"Would you like my to walk you home?" Maxwell asked her concerned.
Sandy fought the urge to smile with glee and said, "No that's, like, ok Maxy. I'm a big girl, I can handle myself. You go ahead with out me. I'll be fine."
"Are-are you sure?" Maxwell asked again.
"Yes, yes. Now, like, don't worry about me, go have fun." she replied and gave him a big kiss on the cheek right in front of Lilac, who had been standing there politely waiting.
"All right Sandy. We'll miss you." he said.
"I'm sure you will." Sandy said sarcastically, but Maxwell didn't seem to catch it.
"Goodbye!" he said and walked off with Lilac.
"Like, bye-Q Maxwell!" she called after him.
As soon as he was out of site she quickly darted off in the opposite direction. Sandy reached the Clubhouse door and quietly walked in looking around for her brother. She spotted him playing 'Go Fish' with Hamtaro, Panda, Oxnard and Boss.
"Oxnard do ya, like, have any twos?" Stan asked Oxnard curiously.
Oxnard looked at his cards and noticed he didn't have any twos.
"Go fish Stan!" he replied breathlessly.
"Darn."
"Hey Stan!" Sandy greeted walking over to him.
"Hey Sandy." he said drawing a card from the deck, "Your turn Boss-man."
"Right."
"Who's winning?" Sandy asked casually.
"Right now Panda is." he answered her without looking up.
"Hey bro can I talk to for a minute?" Sandy asked sweetly.
"In a little while Sandy I'm busy." he said, "Alright, how 'bout all or nothin' for whoever gets the next round?"
"I need to talk to you NOW Stan!" she said urgently.
"Sure." the other players agreed, they pushed their winnings into the middle of the table.
He looked up, "What do you want?!"
"I want to talk to you outside for a couple minutes." she said coolly.
"About what?" he asked.
"Stan you got any nines?" Panda asked.
"I'll tell you outside now c'mon!" she breathed, trying not to attract too much attention, aside from the 'Go Fish' players who were now staring attentively at Sandy.
"But-but my game? I was winning!" Stan protested.
"NOW STANLEY!" Sandy yelled making Stan cower in fear at her rage.
Some of the other ham-hams were now staring at the two.
"O-O-Okay!" he whimpered.
"Soooooo, you out Stan?" Boss asked hopefully as Sandy dragged her brother out the door.
*
"What is this about Sandy?" Stan asked his sister as she drug him down the sidewalk to a big park bench.
They climbed up the legs of the bench and sat down. Sandy, looking around to make sure no one they knew was around turned to her brother.
"Well?" he demanded.
"Stan I...uh...well...I think...um...Maxwell...is..." she looked at him nervously.
"Yeah...?"
Sandy twiddled her thumbs and said quickly, "StanIthinkMaxwellischeatingonmewithLilac!"
"Huh?"
She took a deep breath, "Stan, I-I think Maxwell is cheating on me with that-that Lilac girl."
Stan just stared at her. What she had just said hadn't quite registered with his brain. And then, as if he had just been 'hit' with Sandy's previous statement, his face swelled with fury.
"Why that dirty, stinkin', cheatin Gerbil!" he raged, "Are you sure you're sure?"
"Um, yes I think."
"How do know?" he asked.
Immediately Sandy plunged into her story. About how Maxwell kept canceling their dates, the look she saw in his eyes when he was helping her up the first time Lilac had met everyone, how he was spending more time with Lilac and not her, the incident this morning, and that she thought they were also going out too. When she was finished Stan looked absolutely furious.
"I think I should teach Maxwell a thing or two about cheating on my little sister!" he said coldly.
"No Stan! You can't hurt him!" Sandy cried.
But Stan was already starting towards the ground. He jumped off the bench and ran off. Sandy gave a little scream and sprinted off after him.
She caught up with him and tried desperately to get him to stop. He, of course, wouldn't listen and trudged on. Sandy, with no other choice, flung herself at Stan and tackled him down to the ground.
"Sandy wha-? What are you doing! Geoff me! Geoff me!" he grunted trying to shove her off.
They fought each other for a while. Then, Stan over-powered his sister and threw her off. But she, much quicker, tackled him again. Stan, unluckily enough, was tackled right next to a large hill and toppled over and both went rolling down it. They rolled and until they reached near the bottom were they saw someone standing in their way. The hamster didn't seem to see them and before they knew it the rolling twins had hit that hamster and tumbled down and ran right into a tree. Groaning, Sandy stood up. She turned to her brother, who was on top of the someone they had hit and he had little anime swirlies in his eyes and they were both groaning as well.
"LIKE, GET OFF!" screamed the ham under Stan.
It, er, she, pushed Stan off her and jumped up. Her hazel, eye lashed eyes flashed with anger and her dark brown and white fur was full of grass and dirt. The bow, which wasn't a bow at all but a sprig of holly, on her left ear was crooked and rumpled, and the gold bracelet she had on her right wrist was almost falling off. She was breathing hard and her fists were clinched. [Her brown fur is in the same pattern as Sandy and Stan's, you know like how the tan is on their head and back and points between their eyes.]
"What in the heck do you, like, think you were doing?! I could have been seriously injured or even KILLED! You hear me? KILLED!! What's the matter with you?!! Don't you have any respect towards a lady? Huh? DO YA? ANSWER ME! I SAID ANSWER ME NOW!" she raged.
Stan and Sandy were blown back anime-style by her loud, skater-chick-like angry voice. The girl-ham stamped over to them. She looked at the groaning twins and her furious look vanished and was replaced by an completely interested look.
"Are-are you two, like, twins?" she asked politely.
"Er, yeah." Stan answered her, rubbing his head.
"Wow, that's, like, totally awesome!" she exclaimed.
They stared at her. Both of them were wondering how this ham-girl could go from completely furious to happy and interested in a matter of seconds. But what she did next surprised them the most. She held out her paw to Sandy, Sandy took her paw awkwardly, and shook it.
"Hi my name's Holly! I just moved here from Michigan!" she informed her happily.
"Er, hamha, my name's Sandy and this is my bro Stan." Sandy said.
"Cool! You two are the first hams I've met so far!" Holly added excitedly.
"How nice." Stan said under his breath sarcastically.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing! Heh."
"So, you say you're, like, from 'Michigan'? Where's that exactly?" Sandy asked her.
"Michigan is in the best country in the world!" she replied.
"Which is...?"
"The United States of America! Duh!" she said as if the twins knew nothing.
"Oh, I've, like, heard of that place before! Maxwell was reading a book about-" Sandy stopped.
A wave a tears suddenly tried to flow out of her eyes but she quickly blinked them back. But she did not hide her almost-tears good enough because Stan and Holly saw at once.
"Oh, what's the matter Sandy? You look like someone just broke up with you or somethin'." she cried.
"That's almost exactly what's wrong with her." Stan said.
Holly gasped, "No way!"
"Yes way."
Stan began to tell her everything that Sandy had told him. She listened attentively and didn't interrupt at all. Sandy sat there trying her very hardest not to cry. It was extremely hard to ignore the tears that threatened to pour down her face at any second. When Stan was finished with Sandy's story, Sandy couldn't help but let a few tears fall down her cheeks.
"Oh my. That's terrible! I know how you feel Sandy." Holly said sadly.
"No-no you don't!" Sandy burst out.
"On the contrary, I had to break up with my boy-ham when I left my home. But, not only did I have to say good-bye to my dear Joseph, but I also had to say it to all of my friends and family. I'm all alone, well except for my human, Jade, and her family, but otherwise, there's no one here but me." Holly sighed. [Joseph is a boy at my school that I have a crush on! *=^_^=* Shhh, don't tell!]
"All alone? I don't think so sis." hissed a cute little voice from behind her.
Holly winced. Behind her a little ham-girl appeared looking a little P.O.- ed. She was all white except for her ears and the back of her head and her back, which were blonde. She had curly, blonde pigtails that were fastened with little pink jeweled hair ties. [Like the blue beaded things that Bijou wares under her ribbons.] She also had the same eyes as Holly, with the eyelashes like Pepper's, like Holly has, and she had little pink ovals on her cheeks. [Like Laura does.] She wore a light purple backpack and her back as well. This ham-girl looked about the age of Penelope and Kiri. She was frowning and her paws were on her hips. When she shifted her feet, which moved her hips, the golden bracelet on her left wrist glimmered in the sunlight.
"H-h-hey Lily! What's up? Eh heh, heh, heh." Holly said nervously.
"How could you ditch me like that! You're so mean! You left me all alone in this stupid place!" the little ham yelled at her sister.
"I'm-I'm sorry! I just wanted to be alone for awhile! But I couldn't get away from you, so, I just, like, left you and I ran into Sandy and Stan and we started talking and I totally, like, forgot about you Lily! I'm sooooo, like, totally sorry sis!" she pleaded.
"Ok, I'll forgive you." she said in her girly-ish voice, "So, you two must be Sandy and Stan? Hi, I'm Lily and I'm Holly's little sister. She ditched me a little while ago and I've been looking for her since."
Holly rolled her eyes at her.
"So you were saying how you had to leave all of your friends at home?" Sandy asked quietly.
"Oh yeah! I was saying that I was really sad because I had to leave all of my friends back at 'The Hammie Club' in our old town." Holly told them.
"You had a club where you're from?" Stan asked.
"Oh yes! Hamsters from all over town went there! We had picnics, hikes, talent shows,-"
"Heke? Talent show? What's that?" Sandy asked.
"You-you don't know what a talent show is?!" Holly stammered in disbelief
"Er, no."
Both girls stared at the twins, who stared back uncomfortably. Lily and Holly shook their heads.
"Well, a talent show is a contest where hamsters compete, performing their best talents. There are judges who judge the competitors by who has the best talent out of everyone else. It's really quite fun to watch, because sometimes some hams enter and they have no, like, talent what-so-ever and they totally, like, stink up the place! But the best part is watching the really good ham-hams!" Holly explained gleefully.
"Wow, that, like, sounds fun. We should have a talent show some day." Stan commented.
"Four hamsters don't make a very good talent show Stan." Lily told him.
"The four of us? No, I meant the Ham-Hams and us." Stan corrected.
"You mean there's more hamsters?" Holly asked, starry-eyed.
"Yep!" Sandy replied happily, taking out her pink ribbon and twirling it.
Holly and Lily watched her with a look of polite interest. Then they turned to each other and smirked.
"You do rhythmic gymnastics too?" Lily squeaked.
Sandy stopped and stared at her. "Do you?"
Lily smiled and took off her backpack. Looking around in it for a couple seconds she whipped out a twirling ribbon, which was periwinkle and sparkly. She twirled it around and around. She did a few simple tricks as Sandy and Stan watched in amazement. Sandy then twirled her own ribbon along with her. They did some tricks and swirled their ribbons in pretty designs. After a while they stopped to rest and were cheered by their siblings.
"Wow, you're, like, pretty good for a little ham!" Sandy commented.
"Thank-Q! And you're really good too!" Lily replied, beaming.
"So, before all these interruptions, you were talking about your old home?" Stan asked.
"Oh, yes, sorry! Well, like I was saying, we used to do everything. There was a lot of us so we had to be really careful where we planned our outings so we wouldn't attract too much attention from other things, like cats or humans." Holly explained, "But enough about my problems, tell me what's wrong with you Sandy. I was like a 'love doctor' where I came from, so I'm pretty good with these types of problems."
Lily rolled her eyes at Holly. Sandy looked at her for a moment, then decided that she could trust her by the concerned look on her face.
"Well, I think that my boy-ham, Maxwell, is cheating on me because..."
(*@ a poet café near the 'Museum of Poets'.* )
Maxwell and Lilac are sitting across from each other at a cafe` where all of the poetic hamsters go, sipping latté's with fluffy white whip cream on top with chocolate sprinkles.
"Ahhh, this is very kind of you Maxwell for taking me here and making me feel welcome where I did not think I did." Lilac said.
Maxwell smiled warmly at her, "You're very welcome Lilac."
"But I ponder the location of that Sandy hamster. Where did she go?"
"Who?"
"Sandy, the striped ham-girl in which you are bond to by love?"
"Oh, she said she didn't feel well so she went home to rest. It's a shame she missed our date."
"But I thought you said this was our date?"
"It is now."
"But this was originally yours and Sandy's date was it not?"
"It was, but she canceled so, now it's ours."
"But aren't you two still in love?"
This question hit Maxwell full throttle right in the head. An enormous amount of guilt spread through his body like wild fire. He even almost spit his latté out. He put down his cup and sighed heavily. Maxwell didn't know what to say to her awaiting face. He knew he was cheating on Sandy, but lately his heart felt like it was split in two. On one side he loved Sandy and the other side loved the pretty ham-girl in front of him.
"How did I get myself into this one? What am I supposed to tell her? That we are still together and that I'm dating her anyway? Pfh, yeah right. What am I going to do? Oh fine mess you've got your self into Maxwell, fine mess indeed! If Sandy EVER found out what I'm doing right now she'd be very angry with me. Oh what to do?! What to do?!"
"Maxwell?"
(*Back with the talking hammies.*)
"...and that's what's troubling me so much. I just feel so distant with him now. Do you think you can help?" Sandy asked.
"Well, I may be able to help, but you might have to break a few rules." Holly answered uncertainly.
"I'm willing to try anything." Sandy breathed.
"Weeeellllll.....I suggest that you just try spying on him. Follow him around with this 'Lilac girl', see what's goin' on between them. And if there isn't anything then you'll know you're still his babe." she suggested.
"Spy on him? Hmm, ya know, that's not a bad idea at all! Sandy I think we should go spy on him one o' these days." Stan complemented.
Holly beamed at him, blushing a little. Her sister eyed them carefully.
"Thank-Q Stanie!" Holly said happily.
Stan raised an eye brow at her. Sandy silently giggled next to him.
"Er, 'Stanie'? That's not my name." Stan corrected her awkwardly.
"Oh, I know! I just like to give the hamsters I know and think will make great friends nicknames! I'm sorry if I offended you. I won't call you 'Stanie' if you don't want me to." Holly said.
Stan, slightly taken aback by her gesture of friendship, thought for a moment.
"No, that's, like, ok. You can call me that you want, I guess." he replied.
"Really?" Both Sandy and Holly asked him.
"Yeah, it's ok."
"So, now that we're all acquainted and all, how 'bout you guys take us to meet these other hams you were, like, talkin' about?" Holly asked hopefully.
"Ok, sounds like fun! I'm, like, sure the Ham-Hams would be happy to meet you two!" Sandy said, leading the way.
"Ok, hold on. Where's my backpack?" Holly cried.
She began to franticly search around her. The others joined her in the search when she told them what she was looking for.
"Maybe it got knocked off when we hit you?" Sandy suggested.
"That's it!" Holly cried.
She scampered back up the hill quickly and soon returned with a pink backpack.
"It's a good thing I found this! It hold all my most treasured items!" Holly breathed.
"Ok, now that we've got everything why don't we head out?" Stan said.
"OK!" the girls cheered, and he lead the way back to the Clubhouse.
*
Oooo, juicy no? ^_^ I bet ya'll can't wait for the next chapter, huh? Ha, ha, ha!! Don't worry, I'll make it sooner! And I'd also like to say that I have a website now! Go to my profile to see it! =D Please stayed tuned! Buh- bye-Q!
~Goddess Holly* ^_~**
Disclaimer: I do not own Hamtaro, Ritsuko Kawai does. *twitches* BUT I do own Taya, Kiri, Lilac, Holly, Lily, and Twink. I'm also taking some requests for some of you peoples as hamsters in my fic! Like a background ham or somethin'! So, review me the info at the end of dis fic!
[...]: Me.
Italics: people/hamsters thinking.
*...*: actions.
**Chapter 4,The Sibling Talk And S'More New Friends!:
"This is Lilac! We found her in the woods and we asked her if she wanted to be our friends and go to the Clubhouse with us and she said yes! She has no home and wants to make friends and she can play the flute REAL good!" Hamtaro squeaked excitedly.
The shy poetic girl-ham walked through the Clubhouse door. Some of the ham-boys gasped, because she was rather pretty. The girls quickly ran up to their new friend.
"Hamha Lilac I'm Taya." Taya said.
"And I'm Pashmina!"
"Like, hi I'm Sandy!"
"Bonjour, Jerma pelle Bijou!" [I hope I spelled that right! Heh.]
"Heke?" the ham hams asked in wonder.
Bijou giggled, "Eet means 'Hello my name is Bijou!'"
"Oooooooh."
"Hi, I'm Kiri!"
"Ookwee, ookwee!" Penelope squealed next to her.
"Oh, and this is Penelope!" Kiri added with a little laugh.
"Tis lovely." Lilac said simply.
"Now for the boys!" Sandy said.
She took Lilac's paw, Lilac looking a tad confused at her gesture, and walked around the room telling her the names of the rest of the Ham-Hams.
"This is Howdy." Sandy told her.
"Howdy ma'am!"
"This is, like, Dexter."
"Pleased to meet you!"
"Here's Panda."
"Hi!"
This ham, like, under the pot is Cappy."
"Um, hello!"
"This dude here is the boss of the Clubhouse, *giggles* Boss!"
"Yup, I'm the boss!"
"This ham here is my twin bro, Stan."
"Hello, now what have we here? Who is this very, very beautiful ham-lady standing in front of me?" he asked casanova-like.
Stan pushed his sister aside and dipped Lilac low. She stared at him and blinked. She seemed to be quite confused and flustered.
"Pleased to make your acquaintance, my little poetic flower." he said very seductively. [*shivers in emotion and blushes*]
"STAN!" Sandy said angrily.
She snatched Stan away by the ear, causing Lilac to fall to the floor, and drug him away. All the time Stan whimpered and pleaded for his sister to let him go.
"Sandy, ouch, let go, ouch, of my, ouch! Ear!" he whined.
"You are such a Guinea pig sometimes Stan!" she snapped.
She left him where he was standing before and glared at him as if daring him to move. Sandy then turned back to where Lilac was being helped up by none other than Maxwell. Her instinctive protective-ness over her boy-ham quickly reared up. But she shook it off telling herself that it was just her imagination playing tricks on her and that she didn't see that loving look that he often had when he was around her. As far as she knew she hadn't seen a thing. But strangely enough Sandy had a slightly icy tone in her voice when she spoke to Maxwell and Lilac.
"Well I see you've already met Maxwell, my, *clears her throat loudly* loving and handsome boyfriend!" she said a little too cheerfully but with a dash of coolness.
Maxwell raised an eyebrow at her but she just smiled innocently. The Ham- Hams too noticed the over-cheerfulness/coldish tone.
"Well Lilac, now that you've met everyone let's say we play a game of Ham- and-Go-Seek!" Boss said quickly.
Lilac stared at him.
"Heke?" she replied, "What is this 'Ham-and-Go-Seek'?"
"You don't know what Ham-and-Go-Seek is?" Hamtaro asked stunned, "Well we better show her then, right Ham-Hams?"
"Right Hamtaro!" the rest agreed, "But you're it! Tee hee!" [Yeah, I know, sounds stupid.]
Before Hamtaro could protest, Pashmina and Bijou had grabbed a very confused Lilac and the rest scrambled for a hiding place. Seconds later, Hamtaro realizing that he had no choice, quickly covered his eyes and began to count.
*
Two weeks had gone by and Sandy was beginning to feel left out. Maxwell had been taking Lilac on tours all over the city. Though they were never supposed to be tours. In fact they were actually Sandy's and Maxwell's dates in which Maxwell had asked Sandy if he could reschedule their date and show Lilac the city. Sandy, who just wanted to make Maxwell happy, said yes every time. What was worse is that she had to go along with on boring trips to the libraries and museums. She wanted to tell Maxwell how she felt, but she didn't want to make him think she was being rude or upset. So she just went along and pretended to be interested in poetry by some guy she hadn't heard the name of because she was so darn bored.
Finally, on the umpteenth day they had re-posted their date and Maxwell yet again 'forgot', Sandy pretended not to be feeling well and turned down his offer to go to The Museum of The Poets. [No such thing, I made it up! =D]
"Would you like my to walk you home?" Maxwell asked her concerned.
Sandy fought the urge to smile with glee and said, "No that's, like, ok Maxy. I'm a big girl, I can handle myself. You go ahead with out me. I'll be fine."
"Are-are you sure?" Maxwell asked again.
"Yes, yes. Now, like, don't worry about me, go have fun." she replied and gave him a big kiss on the cheek right in front of Lilac, who had been standing there politely waiting.
"All right Sandy. We'll miss you." he said.
"I'm sure you will." Sandy said sarcastically, but Maxwell didn't seem to catch it.
"Goodbye!" he said and walked off with Lilac.
"Like, bye-Q Maxwell!" she called after him.
As soon as he was out of site she quickly darted off in the opposite direction. Sandy reached the Clubhouse door and quietly walked in looking around for her brother. She spotted him playing 'Go Fish' with Hamtaro, Panda, Oxnard and Boss.
"Oxnard do ya, like, have any twos?" Stan asked Oxnard curiously.
Oxnard looked at his cards and noticed he didn't have any twos.
"Go fish Stan!" he replied breathlessly.
"Darn."
"Hey Stan!" Sandy greeted walking over to him.
"Hey Sandy." he said drawing a card from the deck, "Your turn Boss-man."
"Right."
"Who's winning?" Sandy asked casually.
"Right now Panda is." he answered her without looking up.
"Hey bro can I talk to for a minute?" Sandy asked sweetly.
"In a little while Sandy I'm busy." he said, "Alright, how 'bout all or nothin' for whoever gets the next round?"
"I need to talk to you NOW Stan!" she said urgently.
"Sure." the other players agreed, they pushed their winnings into the middle of the table.
He looked up, "What do you want?!"
"I want to talk to you outside for a couple minutes." she said coolly.
"About what?" he asked.
"Stan you got any nines?" Panda asked.
"I'll tell you outside now c'mon!" she breathed, trying not to attract too much attention, aside from the 'Go Fish' players who were now staring attentively at Sandy.
"But-but my game? I was winning!" Stan protested.
"NOW STANLEY!" Sandy yelled making Stan cower in fear at her rage.
Some of the other ham-hams were now staring at the two.
"O-O-Okay!" he whimpered.
"Soooooo, you out Stan?" Boss asked hopefully as Sandy dragged her brother out the door.
*
"What is this about Sandy?" Stan asked his sister as she drug him down the sidewalk to a big park bench.
They climbed up the legs of the bench and sat down. Sandy, looking around to make sure no one they knew was around turned to her brother.
"Well?" he demanded.
"Stan I...uh...well...I think...um...Maxwell...is..." she looked at him nervously.
"Yeah...?"
Sandy twiddled her thumbs and said quickly, "StanIthinkMaxwellischeatingonmewithLilac!"
"Huh?"
She took a deep breath, "Stan, I-I think Maxwell is cheating on me with that-that Lilac girl."
Stan just stared at her. What she had just said hadn't quite registered with his brain. And then, as if he had just been 'hit' with Sandy's previous statement, his face swelled with fury.
"Why that dirty, stinkin', cheatin Gerbil!" he raged, "Are you sure you're sure?"
"Um, yes I think."
"How do know?" he asked.
Immediately Sandy plunged into her story. About how Maxwell kept canceling their dates, the look she saw in his eyes when he was helping her up the first time Lilac had met everyone, how he was spending more time with Lilac and not her, the incident this morning, and that she thought they were also going out too. When she was finished Stan looked absolutely furious.
"I think I should teach Maxwell a thing or two about cheating on my little sister!" he said coldly.
"No Stan! You can't hurt him!" Sandy cried.
But Stan was already starting towards the ground. He jumped off the bench and ran off. Sandy gave a little scream and sprinted off after him.
She caught up with him and tried desperately to get him to stop. He, of course, wouldn't listen and trudged on. Sandy, with no other choice, flung herself at Stan and tackled him down to the ground.
"Sandy wha-? What are you doing! Geoff me! Geoff me!" he grunted trying to shove her off.
They fought each other for a while. Then, Stan over-powered his sister and threw her off. But she, much quicker, tackled him again. Stan, unluckily enough, was tackled right next to a large hill and toppled over and both went rolling down it. They rolled and until they reached near the bottom were they saw someone standing in their way. The hamster didn't seem to see them and before they knew it the rolling twins had hit that hamster and tumbled down and ran right into a tree. Groaning, Sandy stood up. She turned to her brother, who was on top of the someone they had hit and he had little anime swirlies in his eyes and they were both groaning as well.
"LIKE, GET OFF!" screamed the ham under Stan.
It, er, she, pushed Stan off her and jumped up. Her hazel, eye lashed eyes flashed with anger and her dark brown and white fur was full of grass and dirt. The bow, which wasn't a bow at all but a sprig of holly, on her left ear was crooked and rumpled, and the gold bracelet she had on her right wrist was almost falling off. She was breathing hard and her fists were clinched. [Her brown fur is in the same pattern as Sandy and Stan's, you know like how the tan is on their head and back and points between their eyes.]
"What in the heck do you, like, think you were doing?! I could have been seriously injured or even KILLED! You hear me? KILLED!! What's the matter with you?!! Don't you have any respect towards a lady? Huh? DO YA? ANSWER ME! I SAID ANSWER ME NOW!" she raged.
Stan and Sandy were blown back anime-style by her loud, skater-chick-like angry voice. The girl-ham stamped over to them. She looked at the groaning twins and her furious look vanished and was replaced by an completely interested look.
"Are-are you two, like, twins?" she asked politely.
"Er, yeah." Stan answered her, rubbing his head.
"Wow, that's, like, totally awesome!" she exclaimed.
They stared at her. Both of them were wondering how this ham-girl could go from completely furious to happy and interested in a matter of seconds. But what she did next surprised them the most. She held out her paw to Sandy, Sandy took her paw awkwardly, and shook it.
"Hi my name's Holly! I just moved here from Michigan!" she informed her happily.
"Er, hamha, my name's Sandy and this is my bro Stan." Sandy said.
"Cool! You two are the first hams I've met so far!" Holly added excitedly.
"How nice." Stan said under his breath sarcastically.
"Hmm?"
"Nothing! Heh."
"So, you say you're, like, from 'Michigan'? Where's that exactly?" Sandy asked her.
"Michigan is in the best country in the world!" she replied.
"Which is...?"
"The United States of America! Duh!" she said as if the twins knew nothing.
"Oh, I've, like, heard of that place before! Maxwell was reading a book about-" Sandy stopped.
A wave a tears suddenly tried to flow out of her eyes but she quickly blinked them back. But she did not hide her almost-tears good enough because Stan and Holly saw at once.
"Oh, what's the matter Sandy? You look like someone just broke up with you or somethin'." she cried.
"That's almost exactly what's wrong with her." Stan said.
Holly gasped, "No way!"
"Yes way."
Stan began to tell her everything that Sandy had told him. She listened attentively and didn't interrupt at all. Sandy sat there trying her very hardest not to cry. It was extremely hard to ignore the tears that threatened to pour down her face at any second. When Stan was finished with Sandy's story, Sandy couldn't help but let a few tears fall down her cheeks.
"Oh my. That's terrible! I know how you feel Sandy." Holly said sadly.
"No-no you don't!" Sandy burst out.
"On the contrary, I had to break up with my boy-ham when I left my home. But, not only did I have to say good-bye to my dear Joseph, but I also had to say it to all of my friends and family. I'm all alone, well except for my human, Jade, and her family, but otherwise, there's no one here but me." Holly sighed. [Joseph is a boy at my school that I have a crush on! *=^_^=* Shhh, don't tell!]
"All alone? I don't think so sis." hissed a cute little voice from behind her.
Holly winced. Behind her a little ham-girl appeared looking a little P.O.- ed. She was all white except for her ears and the back of her head and her back, which were blonde. She had curly, blonde pigtails that were fastened with little pink jeweled hair ties. [Like the blue beaded things that Bijou wares under her ribbons.] She also had the same eyes as Holly, with the eyelashes like Pepper's, like Holly has, and she had little pink ovals on her cheeks. [Like Laura does.] She wore a light purple backpack and her back as well. This ham-girl looked about the age of Penelope and Kiri. She was frowning and her paws were on her hips. When she shifted her feet, which moved her hips, the golden bracelet on her left wrist glimmered in the sunlight.
"H-h-hey Lily! What's up? Eh heh, heh, heh." Holly said nervously.
"How could you ditch me like that! You're so mean! You left me all alone in this stupid place!" the little ham yelled at her sister.
"I'm-I'm sorry! I just wanted to be alone for awhile! But I couldn't get away from you, so, I just, like, left you and I ran into Sandy and Stan and we started talking and I totally, like, forgot about you Lily! I'm sooooo, like, totally sorry sis!" she pleaded.
"Ok, I'll forgive you." she said in her girly-ish voice, "So, you two must be Sandy and Stan? Hi, I'm Lily and I'm Holly's little sister. She ditched me a little while ago and I've been looking for her since."
Holly rolled her eyes at her.
"So you were saying how you had to leave all of your friends at home?" Sandy asked quietly.
"Oh yeah! I was saying that I was really sad because I had to leave all of my friends back at 'The Hammie Club' in our old town." Holly told them.
"You had a club where you're from?" Stan asked.
"Oh yes! Hamsters from all over town went there! We had picnics, hikes, talent shows,-"
"Heke? Talent show? What's that?" Sandy asked.
"You-you don't know what a talent show is?!" Holly stammered in disbelief
"Er, no."
Both girls stared at the twins, who stared back uncomfortably. Lily and Holly shook their heads.
"Well, a talent show is a contest where hamsters compete, performing their best talents. There are judges who judge the competitors by who has the best talent out of everyone else. It's really quite fun to watch, because sometimes some hams enter and they have no, like, talent what-so-ever and they totally, like, stink up the place! But the best part is watching the really good ham-hams!" Holly explained gleefully.
"Wow, that, like, sounds fun. We should have a talent show some day." Stan commented.
"Four hamsters don't make a very good talent show Stan." Lily told him.
"The four of us? No, I meant the Ham-Hams and us." Stan corrected.
"You mean there's more hamsters?" Holly asked, starry-eyed.
"Yep!" Sandy replied happily, taking out her pink ribbon and twirling it.
Holly and Lily watched her with a look of polite interest. Then they turned to each other and smirked.
"You do rhythmic gymnastics too?" Lily squeaked.
Sandy stopped and stared at her. "Do you?"
Lily smiled and took off her backpack. Looking around in it for a couple seconds she whipped out a twirling ribbon, which was periwinkle and sparkly. She twirled it around and around. She did a few simple tricks as Sandy and Stan watched in amazement. Sandy then twirled her own ribbon along with her. They did some tricks and swirled their ribbons in pretty designs. After a while they stopped to rest and were cheered by their siblings.
"Wow, you're, like, pretty good for a little ham!" Sandy commented.
"Thank-Q! And you're really good too!" Lily replied, beaming.
"So, before all these interruptions, you were talking about your old home?" Stan asked.
"Oh, yes, sorry! Well, like I was saying, we used to do everything. There was a lot of us so we had to be really careful where we planned our outings so we wouldn't attract too much attention from other things, like cats or humans." Holly explained, "But enough about my problems, tell me what's wrong with you Sandy. I was like a 'love doctor' where I came from, so I'm pretty good with these types of problems."
Lily rolled her eyes at Holly. Sandy looked at her for a moment, then decided that she could trust her by the concerned look on her face.
"Well, I think that my boy-ham, Maxwell, is cheating on me because..."
(*@ a poet café near the 'Museum of Poets'.* )
Maxwell and Lilac are sitting across from each other at a cafe` where all of the poetic hamsters go, sipping latté's with fluffy white whip cream on top with chocolate sprinkles.
"Ahhh, this is very kind of you Maxwell for taking me here and making me feel welcome where I did not think I did." Lilac said.
Maxwell smiled warmly at her, "You're very welcome Lilac."
"But I ponder the location of that Sandy hamster. Where did she go?"
"Who?"
"Sandy, the striped ham-girl in which you are bond to by love?"
"Oh, she said she didn't feel well so she went home to rest. It's a shame she missed our date."
"But I thought you said this was our date?"
"It is now."
"But this was originally yours and Sandy's date was it not?"
"It was, but she canceled so, now it's ours."
"But aren't you two still in love?"
This question hit Maxwell full throttle right in the head. An enormous amount of guilt spread through his body like wild fire. He even almost spit his latté out. He put down his cup and sighed heavily. Maxwell didn't know what to say to her awaiting face. He knew he was cheating on Sandy, but lately his heart felt like it was split in two. On one side he loved Sandy and the other side loved the pretty ham-girl in front of him.
"How did I get myself into this one? What am I supposed to tell her? That we are still together and that I'm dating her anyway? Pfh, yeah right. What am I going to do? Oh fine mess you've got your self into Maxwell, fine mess indeed! If Sandy EVER found out what I'm doing right now she'd be very angry with me. Oh what to do?! What to do?!"
"Maxwell?"
(*Back with the talking hammies.*)
"...and that's what's troubling me so much. I just feel so distant with him now. Do you think you can help?" Sandy asked.
"Well, I may be able to help, but you might have to break a few rules." Holly answered uncertainly.
"I'm willing to try anything." Sandy breathed.
"Weeeellllll.....I suggest that you just try spying on him. Follow him around with this 'Lilac girl', see what's goin' on between them. And if there isn't anything then you'll know you're still his babe." she suggested.
"Spy on him? Hmm, ya know, that's not a bad idea at all! Sandy I think we should go spy on him one o' these days." Stan complemented.
Holly beamed at him, blushing a little. Her sister eyed them carefully.
"Thank-Q Stanie!" Holly said happily.
Stan raised an eye brow at her. Sandy silently giggled next to him.
"Er, 'Stanie'? That's not my name." Stan corrected her awkwardly.
"Oh, I know! I just like to give the hamsters I know and think will make great friends nicknames! I'm sorry if I offended you. I won't call you 'Stanie' if you don't want me to." Holly said.
Stan, slightly taken aback by her gesture of friendship, thought for a moment.
"No, that's, like, ok. You can call me that you want, I guess." he replied.
"Really?" Both Sandy and Holly asked him.
"Yeah, it's ok."
"So, now that we're all acquainted and all, how 'bout you guys take us to meet these other hams you were, like, talkin' about?" Holly asked hopefully.
"Ok, sounds like fun! I'm, like, sure the Ham-Hams would be happy to meet you two!" Sandy said, leading the way.
"Ok, hold on. Where's my backpack?" Holly cried.
She began to franticly search around her. The others joined her in the search when she told them what she was looking for.
"Maybe it got knocked off when we hit you?" Sandy suggested.
"That's it!" Holly cried.
She scampered back up the hill quickly and soon returned with a pink backpack.
"It's a good thing I found this! It hold all my most treasured items!" Holly breathed.
"Ok, now that we've got everything why don't we head out?" Stan said.
"OK!" the girls cheered, and he lead the way back to the Clubhouse.
*
Oooo, juicy no? ^_^ I bet ya'll can't wait for the next chapter, huh? Ha, ha, ha!! Don't worry, I'll make it sooner! And I'd also like to say that I have a website now! Go to my profile to see it! =D Please stayed tuned! Buh- bye-Q!
~Goddess Holly* ^_~**