Isidora: My third chapter for this fic! I thought I was going to get lazy and not finish this one but my drive was very well fed by my reader-reviewers. Thank you so much for your reviews! I will try harder to entertain everyone in this chapter!
By the way, here are my citations for my last chapter, Black Day. (It was depressing to know that my birthday is actually Single Awareness Day/Black Day in Korea.)
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No to plagiarism!
I would also like to thank the creators of My Sassy Girl, one of my favorite movies of all time. (Again, not like they care!) I've been inspired because of its soundtrack. I'd like to thank Ramon Salvador (I do not know him at all!) for uploading the soundtrack at Imeem. You can visit it by cutting and pasting this address in the URL box:
/people/Zac1yAj/playlist/o8s7GIeb/mysassygirlostmusicplaylist/
I especially liked I Believe, Love and Longing, Lost Memory, Lullaby, Episode 1 and Episode 4 (Reg Time). I insist that you listen to it. Rather, I demand that you listen to it! Ha ha ha! You will miss half of your life if you don't! Okay I'm exaggerating.
I've blabbed long enough. Here is the third installment of Beer-serk! I suggest you listen to Episode 1 while reading it. It makes it more fun! Haha!
Disclaimer: My play mates say they like my work. So buzz off! (This respectfully means when translated properly that I do not own Daa! Daa! Daa!)
Tambourine!
(Chapter 3)
"Miyu!" Seiya said as he pulled Miyu back to the side walk before she got ran over by a motorcycle.
Seiya sighed as he pulled her to safety.
Wannya looked like he was having a heart attack. "Miyu!"
"Why is everyone saying my name?" Miyu asked innocently. "I want to say it too. Miyu! Miyu! No wonder you guys keep saying it! It's fun! Miyu! Miyu! Ahahaha!"
"I don't know how I could handle this?" Seiya said as he reached for the nearest electric post and bumped his head.
"Miyu, are you sure the Korean restaurant is around here?" Wannya, in his blonde man form, asked Miyu, sweat dropping behind his head. "We've been going in circles and so far we've began in this place and ended in this place."
"So we're lost?" Miyu asked. "I'm sure it's right here. I wonder what I'm doing wrong. Let's ask for directions!"
Miyu approached the nearest mail post. "I'll ask this short mister here for directions, Wannya!"
Wannya fell on his knees, his whiskers popping out. "Miyu is hopeless! And I'm hungry!"
"Mister, do you know where Tambourine Korean Restaurant is?" Miyu asked the red mail post.
A man giving out flyers blinked. "Are you talking to me?"
He asked pointing to his face. "You're standing right in front of it. Please come inside and have black bean noodles! It's our specialty for the day!" He added cheerfully.
"We made it! We're here! Wannya, Seiya, the restaurant's been here all along or did it move so we won't see it?"
The man giving out flyers did not know whether it was a joke or not decided to give a confused laugh. 'Is this girl for real?'
Seiya turned into slime. "I can't believe Miyu's luck either. It's been there all along."
Miyu, Seiya and Wannya who was carrying Ruu finally entered the restaurant, not knowing they were being watched from a far.
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Santa blinked. "Wasn't that Miyu?"
"Where? Where?" Aya and Nanami said in unison.
"I think I saw them enter the restaurant." Santa said pointing at the Tambourine Korean Restaurant a few yards away from them.
"Who was she with?" Nanami asked.
"Could it be that Miyu and Kanata are on a date and they came there to celebrate their love by singing love songs to each other? I can't take the thought of that!" Christine roared, her pink fury filling the air.
"I didn't see Kanata with them. She was with a boy about our age and an older man who was carrying Ruu on his back, I think." Santa said as he placed his pointing finger to his mouth, trying to recall what he just saw.
"Oh is that so. Oh dear me. What was I thinking again?" Christine said, cupping her face in her hands, a tad bit embarrassed.
"Well, if Kanata's not there, there's no reason for me to be here. I'll go now." Christine said as she waved a white kerchief as she exited the scene.
"Miyu's hiding something and she's not getting away with it that easily! Not on my watch!" Aya said as two huge stars sparkled in her face.
"Let's go follow them!" Nanami said, punching the air she said so.
The trio went to the entrance of the restaurant, peering through the glass door for any sign of Miyu.
"There she is!" Santa pointed.
"Isn't that…" Aya started.
"The boy who followed Miyu to school before?" Nanami as if reading Aya's mind, finished her thoughts for her.
"It's the same boy who gave Miyu her first love letter!" Aya exclaimed. "This is getting juicy! She never mentioned about them going out!"
"Whatever it is, it's really serious. They were even chaperoned by Miyu's cousin." Nanami pointed out.
"Maybe they're talking about their engagement." The spotlight shined on Aya. "They were matched by their parents and on their eighteenth year they would get married and go to college together."
Nanami nodded. "I don't know why she would keep something like this from us!"
"Maybe Miyu doesn't like the fact that her parents are very traditional and she just wants to be a normal teenager that's why she has kept this from us."
Nanami nodded again, agreeing with Aya's sentiments.
"As her friends, we should be very understanding about her situation and her silence regarding it. Poor Miyu. She can't even love the man she wants."
Santa was dumbstruck. During the whole conversation, he just looked at Nanami and Aya interchangeably, whoever was talking at that particular moment. "Is that how it really works? What if they just want to eat Korean noodles?"
"Santa! You don't understand. In fact, you will never understand because you're not a girl. Let's go Nanami. There's still another store we should go to." Aya said as she turned her heels away from the restaurant.
"Aren't' we going to eavesdrop some more?" Santa asked, his eyes pleading. He just lived for those kinds of things.
"No, we're not. It breaks my heart just looking at Miyu being faced to a forced engagement." Aya said her words full of drama as she said it. "I don't know how she could put up a happy smile for all of us with this predicament in her hands."
"But… but…"
"Let's go, Santa." Nanami cut off Santa as he dragged him by the collar. "You're coming with us."
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"Black Bean Noodles here is good!" Miyu said as she finished the last bit on her plate.
"No kidding!" Seiya joined her praise for the food. "In fact, it was worth all the trouble to get here!"
"Master Ruu does seem to like it as well. Right, Master Ruu?" Wannya asked Ruu and got a positive "Daa!" response.
"Hey, I know this song!" Miyu said as she heard I Believe playing.
The restaurant suddenly was quiet all of a sudden. Everyone was listening to the cold singing voice singing the song.
Miyu closed her eyes and opened them as soon as the song finished playing. 'I love this song.'
Miyu grabbed the pen from the chest pocket of a waiter who passed behind her and started scribbling notes in a clean paper towel.
"Miyu? What are you doing?" Seiya asked as he watched her write down a long list of things he doesn't know.
"We're going karaoke right? It's best to be prepared and have a list of songs you want to sing! Here's my list!" Miyu said as she showed her list to her companions.
Wannya looked closely at the pen marks. "I can barely make a word Miyu. You wrote it in a wet paper towel."
Miyu stood up from her chair excitedly as if not hearing a word Wannya said. "Karaoke is second floor! Let's go there now! Hurry!"
Miyu was so excited she looked like a bunny hopping to a carrot. On her way to the stairs to get to the second floor she bumped into the burly bouncer guarding the entrance to the karaoke.
He stood firm on his ground. "No minors allowed."
Miyu looked at him warily.
"He's huge." Seiya' voice shook.
Seiya went to Miyu's side. "Miyu maybe we go next time like after five years?" He began to laugh nervously again. 'Trouble!'
Miyu's giant spatula hand shoved Seiya out of the way. "Non-sense!"
"Buddy" She said as she held the huge man's shoulder and squeezed it so hard the big man had to ail in pain.
"When Miyu wants to go to karaoke, Miyu will go there. So don't stand in my way." Miyu said like a gang leader would. "Would you let me pass or do you want me to hold your other shoulder?" Miyu's free hand looked like it was crushing something in the air.
The bouncer leapt out of her way. "Of course, we can always negotiate on things."
Miyu turned to face Wannya and Seiya. "The nice man here says we can enter." She beamed at them before going straight looking for an unoccupied karaoke room.
Seiya laughed nervously. "I didn't know Miyu could be this scary. I should remember not to mess with her again."
"Miyu is incredible!" Wannya said, not hiding his admiration for Miyu's bravery, brute strength and attitude.
Ruu laid his head uncomfortably at Wannya's shoulder.
"Papa." Ruu whispered as they entered the private karaoke room they would be renting for the rest of the night.
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Kanata glanced at the clock from the kitchen table where he sat. He was eating ramen by himself.
"9 o'clock." He read out loud.
He sighed before throwing the disposable ramen bowl in the trash can and putting his chopsticks on the sink.
He went to Ruu's room and looked for the baby's walkie-talkie. He pressed the button and heard it ring but no one answered.
"This is so typical for this gadget. You don't get to use it when you need to use it."
Kanata heaved another sigh.
"I guess I should go look for them now."
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To be continued…
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Isidora: So did you like it? Oh no! You hated it! But that's okay! Whatever it is, just drop a review. Be a nice cookie or else… nothing. It's not like I can do anything. Ha ha ha!
