Chapter 3:
"Jumba, are you okay?" Lilo asked as she sat on her 'Aunt' Pleakly's bed across the alien at her desk. Her adopted uncle sighed but put on a weak smile.
"I am being fine." Lilo could tell he wasn't but she let it slide, "Now where was stopping point from yesterday?"
"The Romodo Tribe's revolution." Lilo answered. Jumba had been teaching her his planet's history.
"Ah, yes. The Romodo tribe were trying to be over throwing the Maka tribe in the 25th century of my time." He went on continuing the lesson but Lilo couldn't that Jumba seemed unhappy. As Jumba finally came to the finish of the Romodo tribe and their enslavement under the Maka Lilo raised her hand.
"Yes, little girl?" Jumba asked.
"Why did the Romodos go to war against the Maka tribe in the first place?" She asked. Jumba looked down for a moment and then answered.
"The tribe leader, or Tui, of the Maka had stolen the boochiboo from the Romodo Tui." Lilo nodded understanding. It had been a year since she had caught all the experiments and at the young age of eight had learned much about the outside galaxies from her uncles. Nosey had said something about love letters in Jumba's drawers...but he had already been divorced.
"What exactly is a boochiboo? Like a boyfriend/girlfriend?" She asked.
"Is being more like a...hmm," Jumba paused to think of an accurate translation, "More like a 'soul mate'. Is ancient ledgend that marrying boochiboo on Kweltikwaan brings good luck. Is very popular for many species to be marrying there." Lilo nodded.
"Like Keoni? You mean I could marry Keoni on Kweltiwaan?" She asked imagining it. The only earthling to get married on another planet. Jumba however, gently laughed at her idea.
"Is not being as easy as it is sounding." Jumba replied, "On Kweltikwaan parents are arranging marriages. There is no choice for picking a spouse."
"You mean you didn't want to marry your lanika (wife)?" Lilo queried. Jumba laughed at that but it was more like a bitter sarcastic laugh.
"Heh heh, naga. The first time I am seeing ex-lanika was on our wedding day! But my father and my mother said we would be learning to love each other. Never lasted long. Be remembering same time same place tomorrow, Ih (yes)?"
" Ih!" Lilo said, "Kata nata Stitch? (Can I go play with Stitch?)"
"Ih." Jumba replied. Lilo hopped off the bed and blink her eyes twice out of respect. It was an ancient custom to blink your eyes twice when your about to leave your elders. She walked down the old creaky stairs into the living room where Pleakly had been sprawled on the couch watching America's Gushiest Romance Videos.
"Coffee!" Lilo heard a yell from the kitchen. She ran as fast as her legs carried her to stop her alien friend from getting wired on caffiene. "Stitch, naga!" she said as she tried to take the can away.
"Gaba ika tasoopa? (What's the big deal?)" Experiment 626 asked.
"Stitch, you know you go all crazy when you drink coffee." Lilo scolded, "Plus I need your help!"
"Hmm?" Stitch asked.
"There's something wrong with Jumba, I just know it. Nosey said there's a bunch of love letters in Jumba's drawers. When he's out of his room see if you can find anything." Lilo replied. Stitch nodded in agreement. It was a couple of hours later in the privacy of her own room when Stitch returned with a medium sized rectangular box. It was very un-scientific like that Lilo for a moment thought that Stitch had found the wrong thing. Like an old Earth-style shoe box. However the box did have Kweltikwaaian script on it. Stitch picked the lock and opened it up. Lilo picked up an old envelope and opened it to find a letter and a small screen disk. Stitch began reading the letter while Lilo examined the disk. The disk was rectangular with a red button. Lilo pushed the red button and an image popped onto the screen. There were two Kweltikwaaians on the screen. One was obviously Jumba before Clip ate his hair but the other was a female...but they were both smiling. Lilo had seen pictures of Babayaga, Jumba's old wife, but she never smiled. This female was shorter in stature and plumper compared to Jumba's old wife. She had yellow eyes but her iris was a deep green and she had long black hair and went a little bit down her shoulders. She was wearing very traditional garb but Lilo could tell it wasn't from the clan of Jookiba. Did Jumba have a boochiboo before Babayaga? What happened and where was she now?
"Ooh," Stitch said, "Maka maka!" Lilo put the disk down and took the old letter.
"To my best friend and lover," Lilo read,"Midvyet...Midvyet? Has Jumba ever told you anything about a Midvyet?"
"Naga." He answered but put up the disk and pointed at the women, "Miga nota, Midvyet."
"You think this might be Midvyet?"
"Ih."
Lilo took a breath to read the rest of the letter.