AN: Man, I'm gonna be gone for 10 days! I can't take the pain! :( Well, don't miss me too much! lol Anyways, hope this is good enough for you for now cause you won't be hearing from me in a while!
Disclaimer: The only DDR I own is the game that I BOUGHT! MUAHAHAHAHA! –cough- yah, so, whatever.
Chapter Four: School Ends But Tests Don't
"Good morning, Kaeli! So good to see you. Hopefully your other classmates will come. I told them that they could only get their artwork back today." she said.
Along with being a great DDR player, Kaeli was also a good artist. "That's your trick, Ms. V. They have to come if they want to keep all their hard work over the year." Actually, everyone did come to art class. They may just leave when 2nd period ends, but at least they came. It must have been the biggest attendance ever.
"Hey Kaeli! So good to see you!" Shawn said, hugging Kaeli. "I can't wait to see all my artwork. Yours too."
"Well, I really can't wait until we can play at my house." Kaeli said.
Play at your house? How I wish you were thinking about it the way I am, Shawn thought. I gotta stop torturing myself! You're telling her at the competition. Everything's gonna be okay, he thought.
"Alright students, well, not students anymore. I will be handing back your portfolios. I'm extremely proud of all of you and I wish you luck in art next year with Mr. Finski." Ms. Valesk said.
Shawn and Kaeli got back their portfolios and looked back on the year with it. "Remember this project?" Kaeli asked Shawn. She lifted up a picture painted with black, blue, and red. "Ms. V. told us to paint down our feelings. I had just had a huge fight with Singa that morning, so I was really angry. What was yours?"
"Oh yah! Shawn fiddled through his portfolio and found that particular project. He glanced at it before pulling it out. He had painted a heart and a sunset of warm colors. Guess who he was thinking about then? "Uh, I don't have it in here." he said, wedging it between two other projects. Guess I was gone when you did that." Shawn said, thinking quickly. He didn't want Kaeli to see the painting, at least not until they were going out.
"Hmm. Too bad." Kaeli said, oblivious to the fact that Shawn did have the painting and he had lied to her. Shawn and Kaeli talked the rest of the time and the period soon ended. They were about to split in the hallway to go to 3rd period when Kaeli pulled Shawn aside. "Let's leave now!"
"What?" Shawn said, surprised.
"Let's ditch the rest of the school day. Nobody would care!" Kaeli said. It was the last day of school, but it was so boring just doing nothing, and she could only listen to one c.d. for so long.
"Uh, I don't know.." Shawn said, unsure.
"Come on! We can play DDR at my house! Plus we'll be all by ourselves. Bratty Singa wouldn't be home yet!"
Alone together? Now Shawn had a reason to leave. "Alright, let's do it!" They quickly scrambled out of the school and ran until they were out of sight. As they walked, Kaeli thought about what Singa had said about testing Shawn.
"This is so cool!" Kaeli said, jumping up and down. "Now we can have fun the rest of the day!"
"We only have a week until the competition! That's only a week to practice."
"Yah! But we'll practice together everyday. We should really work on Witch Doctor Heavy, but you need the bar so we can't do it at my house."
Do it at your house? Man, Shawn, pull yourself together! Stop making everything perverted, he said to himself. Just try to relax. In a little more than a week you'll be telling her. It's not that long because sleeping takes up half the day, plus we'll be playing DDR a lot. It's really only a day really, he thought. It'll go by like that! As Shawn was still collecting his thoughts, they entered the Abson home.
"Let me fix us up a snack!" Kaeli said, excited.
"Lemme guess: Doritos and Kool-Aid." Shawn laughed. "Let's eat afterwards so we won't upset our stomachs playing DDR."
"Good idea." Kaeli set up the DDR mats for the first time. Remember what Singa said, she thought. I'm gonna hate doing this! "Uh, it's so cool that we have the whole house to ourselves huh?"
"What? Oh yah." Shawn said as the game loaded.
"We could do anything we wanted and no one would know." Oh I really hate doing this. And what if he doesn't like me? "Know what I'm talking about?" she faked a smile.
"W-what?!" Shawn stammered. He was starting to sweat even though he wasn't playing DDR yet. "What do you mean?" Is she coming on to me, he thought, half excited, half scared.
Kaeli turned her attention to upstairs. "You know..."
"I, uh, don't know if we should...I mean, at least not so soon but..." Shawn said, now more scared than excited.
Oh tell him now so you'll put him out of his misery. "It's okay! My parents aren't home. We could turn my radio up really loud! Well maybe not, 'cause the neighbors might complain and then my parents would find out anyway. Come on, let's play DDR now." Okay, Kaeli thought. Test #1-Fail. He was nervous out of his mind. Other guys would just play along as a joke but he took it seriously. Bad sign. Or is it?
"Oh yah." Shawn said, acting as if he knew what she was talking about the whole time. "Loud music is definitely bad." Kaeli quickly picked a song, she didn't even know which one. It turned out to be Summer Love in Standard mode. It was easy, but both their minds were elsewhere, and they missed a lot of steps due to their lack of concentration.
After playing Shawn said, "We must have done bad because we're used to playing it at the arcades." That was his excuse.
"Yah, you're right. It takes some getting used to." That was her excuse too. Okay Kaeli, you're gonna hate to do this, but soon he has to take his second test. No! You cannot do this to Shawn, Kaeli thought, whether he likes you or not! Singa is a 9-year-old who's never had a boyfriend. What does she know?! Kaeli suddenly felt really guilty for what she did.
"Hey, Shawn, I'm really glad you're here. We have to learn some new songs for the competition. Since we're not doing so well on these mats, let's go to the arcade. We can practice Witch Doctor!" Kaeli said, trying to be nice and hoping it made up for being so mean to him. "And I'll pay!"
Shawn was surprised by this sudden change of events. "Okay!" he was feeling a little better, but he still was mad at himself for looking like a fool. "And no one will be there to see me get another E!" They left the house and walked to the video arcade a couple blocks from the school. Only a few people were out when they left: people who didn't have school or work, and of course the people like Kaeli and Shawn, who ditched the last day of school (or at least most of it). There actually was some people playing at the arcades but none that were playing DDR. Kaeli and Shawn did a little better, getting the feel of the beat in Witch Doctor. Shawn got a D along with Kaeli.
"If I have to dance to Witch Doctor Heavy I'll get slaughtered!" Kaeli exclaimed.
"Well at least we can pass it!" Shawn cheered. After playing a couple games of DDR, school was almost out for the summer. Shawn and Kaeli walked by the school as the last bell rang. Kids came running out, jumping and shouting. They returned home and cleaned up the mess that they had made. Kaeli, tired from DDR at the arcades, still wanted to play DDR at home. Shawn agreed that they needed to practice.
"You never know what to expect at the competition!" Kaeli said. They were still dancing when Mrs. Abson and Singa came home at 4:30.
"Sweetie, you look beat!" Kaeli's mom said.
"Yah, it looks like you guys have been playing since you came home!" Singa said.
Kaeli and Shawn both looked at each other and smiled. "Well, sort of." Kaeli grinned. When they finished playing DDR at the arcade they got home at the same time they would when school was out. But technically they didn't because they came home earlier and didn't play the entire time.
After they finished dancing, Kaeli and Shawn let Singa play. They would have played with her but they were both tired. Shawn stayed until 5:30 then left for home.
"I'll swing by tomorrow so we can play more DDR!" Shawn said as he stepped out the door.
Kaeli then remembered some things she had totally forgot to tell him. "Wait Shawn! I almost forgot!" she pulled out the folded paper from her back pocket. "Read it." Shawn read the letter that he had written to her freshman year.
"Oh my goodness! I can't believe you still have this!" Shawn exclaimed.
"I know! I've gotta frame it. It'll be worth a lot of money once you and I become famous DDR elite!" Kaeli smiled. "Oh yah, and I got to talk to ole Bailey."
Shawn gasped. "You did?! What'd you say?!"
"Oh nothing much. Basically the same old taunting and bragging. But it was sweet, I wish you had been there!"
"As long as someone rubbed it in her face it doesn't matter if I didn't!" Shawn left the house still laughing all the way home.
"Ugh, I'm exhausted from DDR!" Kaeli said. She trudged up to her room and plopped lazily on her bed. "Mmmm...nap time..." she mumbled, dozing off. She was almost off to dreamland when a familiar voice awakened her.
"Kaeli, tell me everything that happened! Kaeli?"
Kaeli looked up from her pillow to see Singa. "Argh! Why did you wake me up! I was so close to sleeping. Can't you see how tired I am?"
"Yah I know." Singa smirked. "But I wanted to know if you and Shawn are going out now."
"What?! No! And by the way, thanks for the lousy advice!" Kaeli sat up in bed and threw her pillow at Singa.
"What, it didn't work? Did you at least say something to him?"
"Yes...and that's how I know you gave me bad advice, now please get out. I need to sleep!" Kaeli said, lazily reaching for the pillow she threw that she knew she couldn't reach.
"No, I want to stay. Talk more about what happened. Let me guess, you ditched, right?"
This girl never listens, does she, Kaeli thought. "Okay, you wanna play the hard way? If you don't get out of my bedroom in 5 seconds, you will never again set your feet upon those DDR mats again!" Singa was out of the room when the countdown was 4.999 seconds. Too lazy to get up and pick up her pillow, Kaeli just bunched up her sheets to comfort her head. By the time she woke up, it was the next morning. Hungry from no dinner, Kaeli slumped downstairs and ate a huge breakfast of pancakes and omelets that her mother had made. After stuffing her face, Kaeli watched Arthur on t.v. then played some DDR. Of course, Shawn came over and she played DDR again.
Disclaimer: The only DDR I own is the game that I BOUGHT! MUAHAHAHAHA! –cough- yah, so, whatever.
Chapter Four: School Ends But Tests Don't
"Good morning, Kaeli! So good to see you. Hopefully your other classmates will come. I told them that they could only get their artwork back today." she said.
Along with being a great DDR player, Kaeli was also a good artist. "That's your trick, Ms. V. They have to come if they want to keep all their hard work over the year." Actually, everyone did come to art class. They may just leave when 2nd period ends, but at least they came. It must have been the biggest attendance ever.
"Hey Kaeli! So good to see you!" Shawn said, hugging Kaeli. "I can't wait to see all my artwork. Yours too."
"Well, I really can't wait until we can play at my house." Kaeli said.
Play at your house? How I wish you were thinking about it the way I am, Shawn thought. I gotta stop torturing myself! You're telling her at the competition. Everything's gonna be okay, he thought.
"Alright students, well, not students anymore. I will be handing back your portfolios. I'm extremely proud of all of you and I wish you luck in art next year with Mr. Finski." Ms. Valesk said.
Shawn and Kaeli got back their portfolios and looked back on the year with it. "Remember this project?" Kaeli asked Shawn. She lifted up a picture painted with black, blue, and red. "Ms. V. told us to paint down our feelings. I had just had a huge fight with Singa that morning, so I was really angry. What was yours?"
"Oh yah! Shawn fiddled through his portfolio and found that particular project. He glanced at it before pulling it out. He had painted a heart and a sunset of warm colors. Guess who he was thinking about then? "Uh, I don't have it in here." he said, wedging it between two other projects. Guess I was gone when you did that." Shawn said, thinking quickly. He didn't want Kaeli to see the painting, at least not until they were going out.
"Hmm. Too bad." Kaeli said, oblivious to the fact that Shawn did have the painting and he had lied to her. Shawn and Kaeli talked the rest of the time and the period soon ended. They were about to split in the hallway to go to 3rd period when Kaeli pulled Shawn aside. "Let's leave now!"
"What?" Shawn said, surprised.
"Let's ditch the rest of the school day. Nobody would care!" Kaeli said. It was the last day of school, but it was so boring just doing nothing, and she could only listen to one c.d. for so long.
"Uh, I don't know.." Shawn said, unsure.
"Come on! We can play DDR at my house! Plus we'll be all by ourselves. Bratty Singa wouldn't be home yet!"
Alone together? Now Shawn had a reason to leave. "Alright, let's do it!" They quickly scrambled out of the school and ran until they were out of sight. As they walked, Kaeli thought about what Singa had said about testing Shawn.
"This is so cool!" Kaeli said, jumping up and down. "Now we can have fun the rest of the day!"
"We only have a week until the competition! That's only a week to practice."
"Yah! But we'll practice together everyday. We should really work on Witch Doctor Heavy, but you need the bar so we can't do it at my house."
Do it at your house? Man, Shawn, pull yourself together! Stop making everything perverted, he said to himself. Just try to relax. In a little more than a week you'll be telling her. It's not that long because sleeping takes up half the day, plus we'll be playing DDR a lot. It's really only a day really, he thought. It'll go by like that! As Shawn was still collecting his thoughts, they entered the Abson home.
"Let me fix us up a snack!" Kaeli said, excited.
"Lemme guess: Doritos and Kool-Aid." Shawn laughed. "Let's eat afterwards so we won't upset our stomachs playing DDR."
"Good idea." Kaeli set up the DDR mats for the first time. Remember what Singa said, she thought. I'm gonna hate doing this! "Uh, it's so cool that we have the whole house to ourselves huh?"
"What? Oh yah." Shawn said as the game loaded.
"We could do anything we wanted and no one would know." Oh I really hate doing this. And what if he doesn't like me? "Know what I'm talking about?" she faked a smile.
"W-what?!" Shawn stammered. He was starting to sweat even though he wasn't playing DDR yet. "What do you mean?" Is she coming on to me, he thought, half excited, half scared.
Kaeli turned her attention to upstairs. "You know..."
"I, uh, don't know if we should...I mean, at least not so soon but..." Shawn said, now more scared than excited.
Oh tell him now so you'll put him out of his misery. "It's okay! My parents aren't home. We could turn my radio up really loud! Well maybe not, 'cause the neighbors might complain and then my parents would find out anyway. Come on, let's play DDR now." Okay, Kaeli thought. Test #1-Fail. He was nervous out of his mind. Other guys would just play along as a joke but he took it seriously. Bad sign. Or is it?
"Oh yah." Shawn said, acting as if he knew what she was talking about the whole time. "Loud music is definitely bad." Kaeli quickly picked a song, she didn't even know which one. It turned out to be Summer Love in Standard mode. It was easy, but both their minds were elsewhere, and they missed a lot of steps due to their lack of concentration.
After playing Shawn said, "We must have done bad because we're used to playing it at the arcades." That was his excuse.
"Yah, you're right. It takes some getting used to." That was her excuse too. Okay Kaeli, you're gonna hate to do this, but soon he has to take his second test. No! You cannot do this to Shawn, Kaeli thought, whether he likes you or not! Singa is a 9-year-old who's never had a boyfriend. What does she know?! Kaeli suddenly felt really guilty for what she did.
"Hey, Shawn, I'm really glad you're here. We have to learn some new songs for the competition. Since we're not doing so well on these mats, let's go to the arcade. We can practice Witch Doctor!" Kaeli said, trying to be nice and hoping it made up for being so mean to him. "And I'll pay!"
Shawn was surprised by this sudden change of events. "Okay!" he was feeling a little better, but he still was mad at himself for looking like a fool. "And no one will be there to see me get another E!" They left the house and walked to the video arcade a couple blocks from the school. Only a few people were out when they left: people who didn't have school or work, and of course the people like Kaeli and Shawn, who ditched the last day of school (or at least most of it). There actually was some people playing at the arcades but none that were playing DDR. Kaeli and Shawn did a little better, getting the feel of the beat in Witch Doctor. Shawn got a D along with Kaeli.
"If I have to dance to Witch Doctor Heavy I'll get slaughtered!" Kaeli exclaimed.
"Well at least we can pass it!" Shawn cheered. After playing a couple games of DDR, school was almost out for the summer. Shawn and Kaeli walked by the school as the last bell rang. Kids came running out, jumping and shouting. They returned home and cleaned up the mess that they had made. Kaeli, tired from DDR at the arcades, still wanted to play DDR at home. Shawn agreed that they needed to practice.
"You never know what to expect at the competition!" Kaeli said. They were still dancing when Mrs. Abson and Singa came home at 4:30.
"Sweetie, you look beat!" Kaeli's mom said.
"Yah, it looks like you guys have been playing since you came home!" Singa said.
Kaeli and Shawn both looked at each other and smiled. "Well, sort of." Kaeli grinned. When they finished playing DDR at the arcade they got home at the same time they would when school was out. But technically they didn't because they came home earlier and didn't play the entire time.
After they finished dancing, Kaeli and Shawn let Singa play. They would have played with her but they were both tired. Shawn stayed until 5:30 then left for home.
"I'll swing by tomorrow so we can play more DDR!" Shawn said as he stepped out the door.
Kaeli then remembered some things she had totally forgot to tell him. "Wait Shawn! I almost forgot!" she pulled out the folded paper from her back pocket. "Read it." Shawn read the letter that he had written to her freshman year.
"Oh my goodness! I can't believe you still have this!" Shawn exclaimed.
"I know! I've gotta frame it. It'll be worth a lot of money once you and I become famous DDR elite!" Kaeli smiled. "Oh yah, and I got to talk to ole Bailey."
Shawn gasped. "You did?! What'd you say?!"
"Oh nothing much. Basically the same old taunting and bragging. But it was sweet, I wish you had been there!"
"As long as someone rubbed it in her face it doesn't matter if I didn't!" Shawn left the house still laughing all the way home.
"Ugh, I'm exhausted from DDR!" Kaeli said. She trudged up to her room and plopped lazily on her bed. "Mmmm...nap time..." she mumbled, dozing off. She was almost off to dreamland when a familiar voice awakened her.
"Kaeli, tell me everything that happened! Kaeli?"
Kaeli looked up from her pillow to see Singa. "Argh! Why did you wake me up! I was so close to sleeping. Can't you see how tired I am?"
"Yah I know." Singa smirked. "But I wanted to know if you and Shawn are going out now."
"What?! No! And by the way, thanks for the lousy advice!" Kaeli sat up in bed and threw her pillow at Singa.
"What, it didn't work? Did you at least say something to him?"
"Yes...and that's how I know you gave me bad advice, now please get out. I need to sleep!" Kaeli said, lazily reaching for the pillow she threw that she knew she couldn't reach.
"No, I want to stay. Talk more about what happened. Let me guess, you ditched, right?"
This girl never listens, does she, Kaeli thought. "Okay, you wanna play the hard way? If you don't get out of my bedroom in 5 seconds, you will never again set your feet upon those DDR mats again!" Singa was out of the room when the countdown was 4.999 seconds. Too lazy to get up and pick up her pillow, Kaeli just bunched up her sheets to comfort her head. By the time she woke up, it was the next morning. Hungry from no dinner, Kaeli slumped downstairs and ate a huge breakfast of pancakes and omelets that her mother had made. After stuffing her face, Kaeli watched Arthur on t.v. then played some DDR. Of course, Shawn came over and she played DDR again.