A/N: Next chapter for My Tennis Angel! Yay! To clear up something the setting right now is not in America, but actually in London. I don't know if they have hurricane's in Europe, but I didn't know what else to call it. A big storm I guess, but how exciting does that sound? Anyway I should have mentioned that in the first chapter. But instead of making AL come to Europe, I'm going to move the family to Japan. That's why I gave them a Japanese history, making it easier on my part. So, hope you like this chapter as much as the next and thank everyone who already reviewed. I hope more people do in the future.
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A loud thump came from outside the closed window. Brooke's eyes slowly opened and found herself laying on the floor with Maple next to her. She just laid there on the floor, listening to Maple's breathing, and the few last rain drops drop onto the roof. She turned over onto her side and pushed herself up. Cobey had moved over next to his mom, and Brooke had to untangle the blanket from her legs. Brooke stumbled over to the window and pushed open the blinds. It was morning and the sun had already risen. The sky was as blue as it was before the storm, the only difference a light drizzle was still coming from it. The ground looked much different also. Many branches were on the ground and another two small trees were uprooted.
"Guess how many days that will take to clean up?" Aimee said. Brooke gasped scared, she turned around to find her sister sitting on a brown chair in the corner. She wondered how she hadn't noticed she wasn't still sleeping.
"I don't even want to think about that. I just hoped school is canceled, that would be so sweet. We'll miss the three-mile run and the crunches test." Brooke said hopefully.
"Don't worry about that. The school will be closed for at least three days. The power is still out here and there. Plus you remember that old tree by the track? The storm knocked it over and totally damaged a huge section of runway. It won't be rebuilt till next year. I looked it up on the Internet. Plus Miss Kenny and Mr. Condon will just make you run around the school instead of the track." Aimee told her, walking over and closing the blinds again.
"Keep them closed. You'll wake Cobey, and he won't like that." She winked to her sibling and went back to the chair. She then began to write with her quill, which she had gotten for a present, and didn't talk anymore. But Brooke who was already bored out of her mind, wanted to keep this conversation going.
"How did you get on the Internet? I thought the power was out." Her quill still scratching Aimee replied.
"I have a laptop computer remember. It was charging while we were watching the Angelic Layer competition. So the battery is still full. It's the only power we really have." She stopped writing and sighed.
"I'm going up to Mentor today. Want to come? We can see if there's anything about Angelic Layer there. Maybe we can start playing." She wiped the quill off with a napkin and put the cap back on her inkbottle.
"Sure when can we leave?"
"When you're ready. I've just finished writing a note to mom and said I'm taking you with me." Brooke nodded and left the room, appearing a couple minutes later changed and with all her makeup on.
"I'm guessing you didn't fold up your tennis outfit did you?" Brooke groaned and went to put her outfit away. She did like it, but her mom and sister seemed to make a big deal about it. There was nothing really special about it. It was just a blue skirt and white tennis shirt, she even wore it to school sometimes. She picked it from the bed where she had lain in and hung it up in her closet. She went back into the living room where she found Aimee all ready with her keys in hand. They left in silence, taking the Saturn again.
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"What! Only available in Japan!" Brooke exclaimed
"Yes that's right. Angelic Layer won't be open to other countries for at least another year." The store clerk said to her in a calm voice, although it was obvious she was getting annoyed at Brooke's sudden attitude change. Brooke groaned and walked away from the counter. She found Aimee looking at the new video games.
"I bet those are out of style in Japan. Everyone is probably to hooked into Angelic layer." She though to herself. Aimee picked one up and then looked at another. This continued for another ten minutes, when Brooke began to tap her foot loudly and her sister picked up the one she had looked at first. She paid for it and they left Leiko's Ultimate Electronic store.
It was a twenty-minute ride before they got back home. Brooke had a definite gloom hung over her and Aimee didn't dare talk to her. When they finally got home Brooke kicked a stone and walked up the stairs, trying to look happier. It could have fooled anyone, except her family. When they got inside they found her mom and brother already awake, along with Maple. And their dad was back too. They looked different in a weird way.
"What's going on?" Aimee asked.
"You're going to have a baby aren't you?" Brooke said in surprise.
"Brooke!" Aimee said, poking her sister with her elbow. Brooke stuck the tip of her tongue at her sister, but she just laughed.
"No that's not it, we're moving to Japan!"
"What!" They siblings said simultaneously, Cobey just said "Doggy." And petted Maple's head.
"We've been thinking about it for a while. When we moved here with Aimee this placed was great. But when we had you Brooke and then Cobey everything changed. I don't think I can stay at home anymore, but no one can watch Cobey, and I don't want to put him in a daycare. And you're dad has been offered a higher paying job and we can move over there for free. When I say you talking about the game last night I made up my mind and told your father. We're going to move once school is over. Is that all right with you two? I don't think Cobey will mind." Their mom told them. Aimee nodded her head. Brooke knew she was sad about leaving. But her dream was to work for an authentic Japanese anime studio, and those were only in Japan. Brooke had switched school just recently and hadn't made very many friends yet. And the ones she did have, she could always keep in touch with. And as long as she could play tennis, she didn't care where she lived.
"That's fine with me. When are we moving?" She asked, but in her mind;
"Yes! We're going to move, and I can play Angelic layer!"
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A/N: Voila! It is finished. It seemed to me that Brooke was a little shallow about moving, so I'll make her miss her old life a little bit in the next chapter. It will be a bit of a time lapse, I'm not going to write about four months of waiting to move. So they next chapter will be "Arriving in Japan!"