Boom baby! I am back! (Whoa, there's another phrase to add to my 'never say again' list.) Yes, I have decided to update this long overdue fic, which as you remember, ended in a cliffhanger. This chapter will contain a special character though up by Mel-Girl. I'm not going to say the name just yet, as you'll find out in a moment, but you'll know it's her because she's the only made up character in this chapter, besides Pretzel and Cinnamon. Thanks for reading!

Recap: Bijou went to open the door, but it wasn't Sandy…

Chapter 3: A Little Fun With A Phone

In the doorway stood a tall and skinny girl around Bijou's own age. Her short, sleek brown hair was pushed behind her equally brown ears by the thick black glasses she wore. Her navy blue sweatshirt and tan vest clashed horrible with her plaid shorts. A laptop was strung around her back by a strap.

"Salutations fellow ham-human beings!" she said, speaking in a nasally voice as though she were pinching her nose.

"Uh, hi." Was all Pashmina was able to say. Bijou remained silent, rendered speechless by the girl's odd appearance.

"My name is Tekkie." Said the girl. "And I would like to-" she stopped suddenly, sniffing the air. "Oh boy!" Tekkie cried. "I smell the unmistakable odor of the Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus!"

"What?" Bijou and Pashmina said together.

"Quick!" yelled Tekkie. "We have to wait for it in a hidden spot or it'll run away!"

Tekkie grabbed Bijou and Pashmina and pulled them into a closet. It was dark and cramped.

"Oh," muttered Bijou. "This is great."

"Shh!" whispered Tekkie. "You'll scare it away!"

"Scare what away?" Pashmina argued. "You still haven't told us why we're in a closet! And why are you here in the first place?"

"The reason I'm here," Tekkie whispered. "I shall tell you in a moment. As for why we are in this closet, we are awaiting the appearance of the Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus!"

"And just what is that?" asked Bijou, beginning to get annoyed at the fact that she had just been pushed into a closet by some girl she had just met.

"Oh, it's a rare and wondrous beast!" Tekkie said excitedly. "It lives inside the cellar in certain houses, feeding on the mold that seeps in through the walls!"

"Bijou?" Pashmina said, trembling a bit. "D-do you r-really think there's such a thing as the S-Salt Sucking S-Sodiopterus?"

"Of course not." Bijou said. "Don't worry Pashmina, it's not real."

"Oh, but it is!" exclaimed Tekkie, clearly enjoying herself. "It rarely comes out of the cellar, but when it does, you'll know."

"And j-just how will we know?" Pashmina cried in a fearful tone.

"First of all, it has a distinct odor from the moment it enters the house." Explained Tekkie. "Kind of like salt and chicken."

Pashmina inhaled. "Eeeek!" she screamed. "I smell it! I smell it!"

"Pashmina." Bijou reminded her. "You're probably smelling my hair. Remember, I spilled chicken soup on it and-"

"Did you say chicken soup?" Tekkie asked suddenly. "The Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus is attracted to the smell of salt. There's no doubt about it now, it's coming."

"B-Bijou I'm scared!" cried Pashmina, clinging to her friend.

"Get a grip, Pashmina, it's not real!" Bijou yelled.

"After it smells the salt," Tekkie acted like she'd never been interrupted. "You'll hear footsteps getting closer, and closer and-"

"Oh, this is ridiculous!" Bijou interrupted, shaking off the trembling Pashmina. "We're inside a cramped closet waiting for a creature that doesn't even exist! I'm going to go out there and prove that there's no such this as a Salt-Sucking Sodi-whatever."

Bijou stood up in the closet and put her hand on the doorknob. Just then she heard a noise coming from the hall. Thump…thump…

"Then again," said Bijou sitting back down and looking a little frightened. "I guess it won't hurt to wait here for a little bit."

"It's coming!" Pashmina shrieked!

"I'll get my net!" Tekkie exclaimed, reaching into her pocket and pulling out a net that was way too big to fit. But Bijou and Pashmina were in no condition to question the laws of physics, they were to busy clinging to each other in fright!

The footsteps got closer and louder.

"Almost," said Tekkie. "Almost…almost…NOW!"

She held her net strongly and bounced out of the closet. She swung the net around the thing making the footsteps with great ease.

"Gotcha you beast!" Tekkie exclaimed triumphantly. "Girls! Come quick and see the specimen!"

Bijou and Pashmina, still shaking a bit, walked out of the closet and looked at the thing lying in the net on the floor. Well it wasn't a thing really. It was a girl around Bijou and Pashmina's age with flaming orange hair tied into a side ponytail.

"Well," said the girl in the net disdainfully. "This is a nice welcome wagon."

"Sandy!" Bijou and Pashmina cried, helping their friend out of the net.

"Darn it!" Tekkie swore loudly. "I was sure it was a Salt-Sucking Sodiopterus."

"Okay, who's the new girl?" Sandy asked the girls.

"Allow me to introduce myself!" said the girl. "I am Tekkie, computer genius extraordinaire!"

"Right, and why are you here?" Sandy asked.

"Yeah," said Pashmina. "That's right. You never told us why you were here!"

"Well," said Tekkie. "I was wondering whether I might see the computer."

"What, are you the computer repair person?" Sandy asked.

"No I'm, err, I mean yes!" Tekkie said. "I'm here to fix the computer!"

"Mrs. Teriyaki didn't say anything about a repair person." Bijou said. "Oh well, I think the computer's this way."

Bijou lead Tekkie into the computer room and left her there. When she returned to the hall, Pashmina and Sandy were gone. She had no trouble finding them in the bathroom, following the various shrieks of "Ooo!" and "This is gorgeous!"

Pashmina and Sandy were rummaging through Mrs. Teriyaki's nail polish bag. Pashmina was examining a bottle of deep pink polish and Sandy clasped a vivid red bottle.

"Here Bij." Pashmina handed Bijou a bottle of cornflower blue paint. "I found the perfect color for you!"

"Uh, guy," said Bijou. "Should we really be rummaging through the drawers? I don't think that Mrs. T. would like it very much if we used her nail polish."

"Aw, come on Bij." Sandy told her. "She won't care. It's the least she can do for making you baby-sit them."

"I guess you're right." Bijou agreed. "But speaking of Pretzel and Cinnamon, who's going to watch them while we're painting our nails?"

"Why don't we just shove them into the room with Tekkie?" suggested Pashmina.

"Agreed." Bijou sighed. "But what did Tekkie ever do to you?"

"For starters," Pashmina began. "She locked us in a closet."

"Yeah, and she caught me in a net." Sandy added.

"Not to mention she totally freaked you and me out." Said Pashmina.

"Alright, alright." Bijou gave in. "Pretzel! Cinnamon!"

The two small children appeared outside the bathroom door, Pretzel was wearing a pair of underwear on his head, and Cinnamon was wearing a bra stuffed with what looked like peanut butter.

"You two go in here!" exclaimed Bijou, pushing them into the computer room and shutting the door behind her.

"Now," said Pashmina, holding up her bottle. "Let the fun begin!"

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After being shoved into the room, Pretzel and Cinnamon walked up to Tekkie who was sitting on the computer.

On the screen was a large sign that said 'CIA Mainframe' and another little bubble that said 'You do not have permission to access this site.' Tekkie typed a few numbers and letters and another bubble appeared on the screen that said 'Welcome to the CIA's top secret government site.'

"What you doing?" Pretzel asked Tekkie.

"Oh, hello inferior child!" Tekkie waved at Pretzel. "Because your brain has not fully developed yet, it won't hurt to tell you what I'm doing. I'm hacking into the CIA's website. I have to do it here because my laptop broke down. Just a little experiment, but don't tell anyone!"

"Okay!" Pretzel saluted Tekkie.

"Whee!" cried Cinnamon, staring out the window. "Flashy lights!"

Indeed, several police cars were lined up outside the house. One policeman stepped out of the car and shouted into a megaphone. "Attention Tekkie Larkson, you are under arrest for hacking into the CIA! Come out with no struggle and your hands up!"

"Oh crud!" Tekkie swore.

"We are breaking down the door! Repeat: We are breaking down the door!" the policeman called back.

A huge crash followed the man's words. A beefy uniformed man entered the house and found the bathroom where Pashmina, Bijou and Sandy were painting their nails.

"Have any of you ladies seen a girl names Tekkie?" he asked. All three girls pointed to the computer room.

A few seconds later, Tekkie came dashing out of the room. The cop tried his best to follow her, but she was too fast for him. Just when Tekkie thought she was going to get away, Cinnamon and Pretzel leapt out from nowhere and sprang onto her.

"Piggyback!" they both yelled, sitting on her shoulders and causing Tekkie to tumble to the floor.

"Thank you kids." The policeman told them, handcuffing Tekkie.

"Did you know," Tekkie spoke to the policeman. "That old handcuffs used to be made out of the same metal as-"

But the door promptly shut so the girls never got to know what the rest it was. Tekkie was pushed into the police car and driven away. Far, far away.

"Serves her right!" Pashmina said, crossing her arms.

"Yeah," agreed Sandy, "but that leaves Pretzel and Cinnamon alone."

"Well," said Bijou. "We're all done with our nails, so I suppose we should find something for them to do."

"Let's just sit them down in front of the TV so we can go do our hair." Suggested Pashmina.

Sandy and Bijou agreed, so they turned on the TV and sat Pretzel and Cinnamon on the couch, then they went off into the bathroom.

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Pretzel and Cinnamon got bored with the TV quite easily and went off in the house. Pretzel remembered Tekkie and went into the computer room. Tekkie had forgotten her bag, and Pretzel and Cinnamon began to rummage through it. Pretzel picked up a cell-phone.

"Ooo! Shiny buttons!" he cried, pressing random buttons.

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In the bathroom, Bijou had managed to get the nasty yellow color out of her hair. Unfortunately, she still smelled like canned soup. She was about to use some 'Smell Be Gone' hair spray, when the cell-phone in her purse began to ring.

"Hello?" she said into the phone.

"Hi Bijou," said a voice. "This is Hamtaro."

She ignored to suspicious note in Hamtaro's voice and said "Oh, Hamtaro! What's up?"

"I have something very important to tell you Bijou." Hamtaro said.

Bijou's eyes shined brightly. "What is it, Hamtaro?"

"I need to tell you that I…"

"Yes!" Bijou muttered.

"Love…"

"Yes!" she said again.

"Lollypops!" Hamtaro, or Pretzel, as Bijou now realized, laughed happily into the phone.

"PRETZEL!" Bijou yelled. She slammed her phone onto the sink and ran off into the direction of the mad laughter.

At the sight of her, Pretzel and Cinnamon ran into the kitchen and leapt onto the table.

"Bijou!" Pashmina and Sandy cried.

They both grabbed one of Bijou's arms and held her back.

Now Cinnamon, still standing on the table and laughing along with Pretzel, grabbed the phone and dialed another number.

"Hello Stan." She spoke into the phone. "This is Pashmina. I wanted to tell you that you are the cutest boy I've ever met and I love you!"

"LET ME AT HER! I'LL CLAW HER EYES OUT!" Pashmina screamed, dropping Bijou's arm and attempting to jump onto the table.

"Girls!" Sandy scoffed, who was now holding both of them by the arms.

The Cinnamon dialed another number, this time speaking with a valley girl accent.

"Maxwell, this is Sandy. I want to tell you that I never want to see you again! You're a geek and the worst boyfriend ever! We are so breaking up!"

"YAAAAHHH! SHE'S GONNA GET IT!" Sandy shouted, forgetting about restraining Bijou and Pashmina, and launched herself at the two children. Pretzel and Cinnamon giggled and jumped off the table. They scurried into the next room.

"Oh Pretzel," muttered Bijou in a voice like poisoned honey.

"Cinnamon," Pashmina called.

"Come out, come out wherever you are!" Sandy yelled. The three girls ran after Pretzel and Cinnamon, and the chase was on!

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Well, I'd say that was a pretty good chapter! I'll see you all in my next chapter or update or oneshot or whatever! Please review! Sighned, cappyandpashy4ever.