A.S.S.I.S Chap.4
Jessica sat in her room doing her last bit of homework for the night. She was excited because the next day was the last day of school before Christmas break. It was snowing heavily outside; there was already a half foot of snow on the ground. She quickly wrote her last few sentences for her English paper. "This is why," She spoke her words aloud as she wrote them; "George Washington was a great…grand president. Yes! Done!" Jessica stuffed the paper back into her backpack and when downstairs. Her parents were out and her older sister was with her friends, so she was watching her brother by herself.
"Jessica!" Let it be known now that Chris Carter is not a quiet 4th grader. "Jessica! I'm hungry! Jessica!"
"I hear you Chris! I'm making food now so shut up!" Jessica yelled from the kitchen. She figured she was heard because Chris went silent. She looked in the freezer and pulled out a frozen pizza. She let the oven preheat and set the timer for 20 minuets. When the oven was hot enough she threw the rock hard pizza in and started the timer. As it started she went to go get some other things done, when she noticed something moving outside. She realized it was just a snowball…moving on it's own. Her heartskipped a beat. "Is that…no, it couldn't be…." She looked at the pizza in the oven then back outside. The snowball seemed to be slowing down. "Maybe I should just take a look." She took her jacket and scarf from a rack in foyer and ran out the door. She walked around back and was delighted to see that the snowball was still there being rolled, but she noticed it was now barely moving. She ran around it and saw what she wanted to see, the little prince from before. He didn't seem to see her, but Jessica saw that he was struggling and shivering, which was understandable since the snowball, she guessed it was a Katamari, was now three times his size and it was extremely cold outside. He was pushing very hard but the Katamari kept getting stuck in the snow. After about a minute, the prince realized that he was not alone. The little green guy looked up and was startled by the girl that was towering over him. He seemed to remember her too, because he quickly got around the Katamari and tried to hold on to it as much as he could. "Oh…um." Jessica didn't really know what to say. "I'm…not going to take it this time…I'm…sorry about before. I didn't mean to take it from you." The prince seemed to lighten up a little but stayed behind the snowball. "I…Don't want to hurt you or anything." She then knelt down and stuck out her hand to see what he would do. He kind of just stared at her for a good long while. After who knows how long she brought her hand back but stayed kneeling. "I guess you're still afraid of me huh?" She was about to stand up when she noticed the prince starting moving toward her. "Yeah, it's okay." She cooed slightly and stretched her arm back out. He looked back at the Katamari once then walked hesitantly over to her hand. She let him slowly climb up, and when she did she realized he was freezing. "Oh...poor thing you must be…" but she was cut off by the sound of an alarm going off in the kitchen. "The pizza!" The prince looked up at her in a confused face. Jessica had completely forgotten about the food in the oven. In her panic she snatched up the little prince and brought him inside. There was a tiny bit of smoke rising from the stove. She quickly opened it and let the rest of the smoke come off of the burnt pizza. "crap, crap, crap" She said to herself as she took the scalding hot dish out. She quickly threw it in the garbage and hit her head on the table.
"Jessica! Was that the food! I'm still hungry!" Came Chris's voice from up the stairs.
"MAKE A SANDWICH!" Jessica was so frustrated she almost forgot she wasn't alone. She suddenly realized what she had just done when she looked down to her "guest" cowering behind a bowl on the counter she put him on. "Oh! I wasn't yelling at you! It's just that I burnt the food and…." She looked at his face and realized it wouldn't matter what she said. She would have to gain his trust all over again. She remembered how cold he was and brought him the smallest scarf she could find, which was still huge to him. He was cautious about it but saw it would bring him no harm and wrapped himself up a little in it. Jessica pulled up a chair to the counter and sat. "So…is that big guy going to come get you again?" She asked, remembering the gigantic figure that had taken him away last time. The prince looked at her and shook his head. "Why not?" He didn't answer. "Did you run away or something?" He shook his head rapidly as ifhe thought to run awaywould be a terrible thing to do."You came down here just because?" Jessica had to guess at what he was telling her since he didn't speak. The little guy shook his head and pointed outside at the katamari "Yeah, I noticed you were rolling another ball." Jessica thought for a minute. "Who was that guy anyway?" The prince looked around the counter and found a family picture. He walked over and pointed to the tallest guy in it. "He's your dad?" He nodded happily. "Oh… he was pretty mean to you." He continued to smile while he shook his head. Apparently, he didn't think so. Jessica was quiet for a few moments. "Will you be staying long?"
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There was... something disney-esqe about a part of that I think. I can't wait untilI have so the prince speaks. Oh well.I know it ended weird but I felt like cutting it there so...yeah. It's chapters like this that I hate. It was all pretty cliché in my
opinion. Yay prince!