Chapter 5 - Wondering
Yumi sat on top of the sheets of her bed. It was a flat bed, like beds in Japan, of course. Very suitable for a girl originally from Japan. She brushed her short black hair until it was shiny and straight, then pulled it up into a high bun. She wore her usual pajamas: white spaghetti strap shirt with black shorts. Her room was dimly lit and tidy. The open door of her closet showed her neatly folded clothes on the shelves and the clothes on hangers perfectly straight and without wrinkles. Her desk was cleaned off, with a pile of books neatly tucked beneath a shelf with a picture frame showing her in her most recent school picture. A huge framed picture above her bed showed a picture of her next to her little brother and parents. Her floor was bare except for a few jumbo stuffed animals in a corner. The window across the room from her door was open, inviting a warm June breeze in. The smell of the season filled her nostrils.
Suddenly the door burst open and in came her little brother himself making faces while standing in his blue pajamas printed with lightning. "What are you doin' awake?" he sneered.
"Waiting for an E-mail. I can stay up as late as I want anyway," Yumi answered with an obvious hint of annoyance in her voice.
"I bet it's from your boyfriend, Ulrich!" he snickered. He danced around the room. "YUMI LOVES UUUUULLLLLL-RICH!" he sang.
"Hiroki, get out of my room, you banana chuckin' monkey!" she screamed.
"Hiroki, leave your sister alone," came her mother's voice from downstairs.
"OK!" yelled Hiroki. He walked out of the room. "G'bye sis! Hope ya get that E-mail from Uuuuullll-riiiiich!" he yelled over his shoulder, emphasising each syllable of Ulrich.
"Good riddance and it's NOT from Ulrich and he's NOT MY BOYFRIEND!" she hollered before slamming the door. She threw herself on her bed and sighed. "It had to be a little brother. Why not a nice cute kitty?"
A beep sounded on her computer on the desk. "Finally."
She walked over to sit in her office chair. "Now... what is it?"
She stared at the screen.
TRANSLATION OF 437910103 22105610 44461: WHITE NOISE DAY
"Huh? White Noise Day? What the heck is that?" she pressed the X in the corner and the E-mail page flickered off and went back to her desktop. Her wallpaper was of her in sixth grade wearing herfavorite hat; a skull capwith cat ears and cat eyes on it. A few clicks later she was instant messaging her friends:
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: U THERE O+U?
PURPLEDUDE12: YA. YOU GET JER'S E-MAIL?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: YA. I DON'T GET IT, DO U?
PURPLEDUDE12: NOPE. WHAT THE FUDGE MONKEYS IS WHITE NOISE DAY? DON'T ASK ME, I JUST A KID
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: LOL! I'LL TRY 2 GET JER IN ON THE IM
Yumi made a few clicks and she finally got a hold of Jeremie. It was now a 3-way conversation.
2SMART4U: YA, WHAT'S UP?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: COULD YA TELL ME WHAT IS WND?
2SMART4U?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: WND
2SMART4U?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: WHITE NOISE DAY!
PURPLEDUDE12: WHITE NOISE DAY!
2SMART4U: HECK IF I KNOW. NEED 2 RESEARCH IT 2MORROW FACTORY
PUREPINK1010: HEY WHAT'S UP ALL?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: HI AELITA. WE WERE TALKING BOUT WND
PUREPINK1010?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: WHITE NOISE DAY!
PURPLEDUDE12: WHITE NOISE DAY!
2SMART4U: WHITE NOISE DAY!
PUREPINK1010: I'M SORRY! SHOULD I NOT HAVE ASKED THAT?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: NO, NO! IT'S OK. IT'S JUST THAT JER DID THE SAME THING AND IT ANNOYED US. DON'T BE GUILTY ( :
PUREPINK1010: OK ( : ANYWAY, WHAT BOUT WND?
PURPLEDUDE12?
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: ODD DON'T START
PURPLEDUDE12: SERIOUSLY?
2SMART4U: ULRICH, ATTACK!
PURPLEDUDE12: AYE AYE (ULRICH)
PUREPINK1010: LOL
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: LOL
2SMART4U: LOL
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: BACK 2 BUSINESS. SO, JER, U DON'T KNOW?
2SMART4U: NOPE ) :
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: AELITA?
PUREPINK1010: NO
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: SHOULD WE COME WITH 2 FACTORY 2MORROW?
2SMART4U: YA. SEE U ALL 2MORROW
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL: K. ODD, ULRICH, U CATCH ALL THAT?
PURPLEDUDE12: YEAH. BYE!
PURPLEDUDE12 HAS SIGNED OFF 8:27 PM.
2SMART4U: BYE
2SMART4U HAS SIGNED OFF 8:27 PM.
PUREPINK1010: BYE
PUREPINK1010 HAS SIGNED OFF 8:27 PM.
LYOKOGEISHAGIRL HAS SIGNED OFF 8:27 PM.
Yumi shut off the computer and went to bed.
AN: How'd ya like the IM names? I thought they were suitable for the characters.
This was a short chapter, too, eh? From here it gets REALLY good, K? So again, keep checking in for new chapters, 'cause it'll only get more awesome! (Yayness x 5!)