Chapter 5

With Tattlecast stopped, Katie came from behind the coffee barrel and back to her friends.

"Hey guys, I'm back." She announced.

"Back? I didn't even notice you were gone." Replied Sarah.

Katie closed her eyes and gave a nervous smile while moving her hand up and down. "Oh I just had to freshen up a bit. You know how it is."

"Speaking of gone, where is everybody?" asked Alex. "Did something happen? All I remember is that I was going to town on my pancakes and everything afterward is a blank."

"How peculiar." Katie commented, pretending to be clueless. "Maybe you just reached pancake nirvana and didn't notice everyone leave. Same with you Sarah, except with your shortcake."

Alex and Sarah gave Katie a confused look then looked at each other, shrugged, and continued eating. Due to the events from earlier, Katie had lost her appetite and just picked at her cheesecake. She was too concerned about how the customers from earlier would react if she and her friends decided to come back one day. If only there was some way to erase all of their memories so they would forget who even Alex and Sarah were. Plus, she was still pretty miffed at the fact that everyone at her school supposedly thought her butt was big, but she didn't feel like bringing it up.

"Y'know, if you're not going to eat that I can take it off your hands." Sailornyan suddenly jumped in, staring immensely at the cheesecake, completely forgetting the fact that she was supposed to be on a semi-diet today.

Katie gave Sailornyan an annoyed look. "Here." She said, pushing the plate in front of Sailornyan who started chowing down on it right away. (Following proper table manners of course.)

Later that night, Katie was all dressed in her pajamas however rather than getting ready for bed, she was busy examining her posterior to see if her classmates were right or not, much to the dismay of Sailornyan. Whisper was still sulking about his dilemma while swiping through all of The Tattlecast's past episodes while sitting on Katie's bed.

"Katie, I understand that you're concerned about your weight, truly I do, but you've been looking at your derrière for over 15 minutes now and I'm starting to get a little uncomfortable." Complained Sailornyan. "Besides don't you know the mirror adds a few pounds?"

Katie sighed. "You're right. I should get the scale instead!"

"Not really what I mean, but as long as you aren't rubbing and shaking your caboose for half an hour..."

Katie pulled her scale out from under her desk and stood on it. She stared at the rising numbers intensely, even breaking out in a small sweat. When the scale finished rising Katie couldn't believe her eyes. "This can't be right! No! No! No!"

Sailornyan rushed over to see what the scale came out to be and even she was surprised. "Oh dear."

"No this has to make a mistake! It must be because I'm wearing my pajamas! Yeah that's it!"

"I doubt it. Unlike regular clothes, pajamas shouldn't weigh you down that much. On top of that, you're barefoot so there's no way-" Sailornyan looked up at Katie to see that she was unbuttoning her shirt. "NYA~! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP IT!" Sailornyan closed and buttoned Katie's shirt back up before she unbuttoned it too much.

"Hey what's the big idea!?"

"You don't just get undressed with males present! I let it slide this morning because your butler was asleep and I didn't know about that thing in your closet, but now is a different story. Honestly, do I have to start being strict with you again?"

"What? Oh, you mean Whisper and Shadow Venoct? No, it's fine they're not like that. Whisper and I have taken baths together at the hot springs in Blossom Heights and Shadow Venoct made a promise to always close his eyes whenever I'm changing. When Baddinyan was here, he was usually too busy eating chocobars or reading his Next HarMEOWny photobooks no even notice me undress."

Sailornyan gave Katie a look of complete disapproval while shaking her head.

"Speaking of Next HarMEOWny I can't wait to go to their concert next week in Breezy Hills with Sarah and Alex. I still can't believe we got free passes!" Katie smiled.

"Indeed. You're a very special girl, Katie." Sailornyan complimented.

Katie giggled and stuck her tongue out a bit.

"Even though I'm kind of sad Tattlecast won't air any new podcast for a long time, it was good that you stopped her when you did. Otherwise the concert would be a disaster." Sailornyan commented.

"I'm glad at least you agree." Katie glared in Whisper's direction. "Someone hasn't said a word to me ever since we got home."

"Why would you want to talk to someone like me?" Whisper asked in a deep melancholic voice. "I'm a fan of The Tattlecast. That means I'm pure scum, right?"

"What? Pure scum? Who told you that?"

Whisper turned around with tears flowing from his eyes. "You did! I heard the whole conversation at Mogmog Burger!"