A.S.S.I.T.S. Chap 10

Jess woke up slowly the next morning. She rolled over and opened her groggily, only to have a cluster of flowers in her face. She popped up, surprised for a second, then she remembered where she was. She rubbed her eyes and looked around for June. She was a little worried when she didn't see her. Her fear was quickly vanquished.

"Good morning Jess!" Said a happy, familiar voice behind her. Jess turned around to see June's cheerful face staring at her.

"Morning June." June sat down next to her. She seemed like she had been awake for a while. Jess realized the other cousin had two plates of toast with her. June offered her one.
"Hungry?" Jess wasn't expecting this.

"You mean that you guys…eat?" June stared at her for a second before bursting out laughing.

"Well YEAH! That's what we do when we're hungry!" She tried to give Jess the plate again, and she accepted it. She found it wasn't what exactly what she was expecting. It tasted absolutely normal.

"So, who makes this?"

"Well," June giggled, "Toast isn't that hard but Miso and Nik usually cook and Peso does sometimes. I mean, makes sense, right? Miso knows a lot about food and Nik can't get enough of it."

"And Peso?" Jess asked with her mouth full.

"Just a side hobby." The two sat there eating for a few minutes until June asked, "Thirsty?" Jess nodded. June stood up and walked of, disappearing into a group of cousins and trees for a few seconds. She came back with two glasses. She handed one to Jess. "Want some milk?"

"Um…yeah..." She took it from her and took a sip. It seemed okay, but then she had a thought. "Uh… June where did you get this? She asked while taking another mouthful. June seemed hesitant to say at first.

"Remember Daisy…?" As soon as June said this Jess spat out what she had her mouth and looked like she was going to throw up. June took the glass from herand put another one in her hand. "I think you should just have some water." She said smiling. Jess to a swig of the water. She was thankful to find out it was just regular, not made by a cousin, water. June sat down again. About the same time they finished eating, a group of female cousins came to them. The party was made up of Ichigo, Marcy, Foomin, and Lalala. Jess thought Lalala was a bit peculiar. Along with Marcy, Lalala was quite fashionable. Well, she liked to dress others up. This seemed very odd to Jess. How can you decide what clothes to put on someone if you don't wear any? Oh, and she said "darling" all the time. They walked up to them.

"Hey, June and...new girl," said Marcy rather rudely.

"Her name is Jess, Marcy." June stated trying to ignore how impolite Marcy had just been.

"Yeah, whatever. Anyway we're going to earth to do things. You coming?" June looked at Jess then the group of girls.

"What kind of things?"

"Um... We don't know yet. Well, I mean we know we're going to do stuff but…Umm" Foomin, a slightly schizophrenic cousin, tried to explain. She had trouble explaining things at times. It seemed both halves of her brain decided different things. "We were thinking of going to play with some of those animals in the zoo-but that sounds stupid so..."

"Shut up Foomin." Marcy retorted. "So, are you to coming or not?" She shot back at June and Jess.

"Come on! It'll be, like, fun!" Ichigo laughed. June looked at Jess.

"Do you want to go?" Jess thought for a minute.

"To earth... I… I guess so… I…I mean…" Jess didn't know what to say. If she went back she might get to see her family. She had almost completely forgotten. They were probably looking for her. She had been gone for at least a day in a half, maybe two. But even if she saw them, she wouldn't be able to talk to them or anything. She was so focused on thinking about it, she forgot about the others around her. June nudged her a little.

"Jess?"

"Y-yes I'm going." She decided she would take her chances. June smiled at her and nodded.

"Oh, that's wonderful darling!" Lalala said from behind Foomin.

"What about you June?" Asked Marcy, obviously getting impatient.

"Oh! Yes, of course." They both got up and began to leave when a distressed looking prince ran up to them.

"Jess! I need to talk to you!" He came to her partially out of breath. She looked at him.

"What is it?"

"I need to think of a way to introduce you to dad. He's going to see you here sooner or later and-…" Ichigo cut him off.

"But we are, like, going out!"

"Huh?" the prince suddenly realized the other girls there. Marcy got as close to him as she could and put her arm around him.

"Yeah babe." Marcy cooed. "We were all going to go down to earth for a while. Wanna come?" The prince pushed her away.

"No, Marcy. I…" He suddenly had an idea. "Wait! That's it!"

"What's it darling?" asked Lalala.

"That's how I'm going to introduce you to dad, Jess!" He said pointing at her.

"What?"

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Yeah that's it for that cahpter. I'm Really sorry it's so short.Now that school is starting again and I'm in rehearsal for Sound of Music my writing schedule will be tighter so I thought I'd get one more chapter in.