Once at school I was walking down the halls, going to my locker, people who knew me turned around and gave a friendly 'hi' with a kind of familiar smile placed on their faces, people who I didn't know just ignored me, some even unaware of my presence.
Once I finally got to my locker, hastily putting in my combination by twisting the lock, I saw Mocha walking towards me from the corner of my eye. I turned towards her and smiled.
"Hey Mocha, what's up?" She smiled also.
"Hello, Amy," she then turned and leaned against the lockers and sighed, "I'm so tired, I didn't sleep that well last night," I chuckled a little.
"Me neither, you don't even know how many times I twisted and turned last night trying to get comfortable in my bed." Mocha's mouth opened in a wide smile.
"Me too! I mean, I kept twisting and turning too. Isn't it awful? Especially when it's really hot in your room." I quickly nodded, getting a little excited about the conversation.
"Yeah, yeah, and when you start to sweat and then have to take off the blankets but then you get cold again." Mocha nodded too, at that time we both got really close to each other and bent down a little while holding each other's hands excitedly, I realized my tail was wagging like mad.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, and you feel like you need to get up and walk around but know you can't, or like go walk outside and walk around." I nodded.
"Well actually, I have a window that I can kind of sit on outside, I mean well… never mind but yeah, I hate that!" Mocha laughed, by this time people were starting to stare causing us to get embarrassed and walk away from each other a little, after we noticed that though we both started to laugh again.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later Amy." Mocha said about to go to her homeroom class.
"Yeah, bye." I said back also walking away. Oh crap, I forgot to get my books out!
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School was a real drag today I had to admit, it seemed everyone was tired and groggy, me and Tikal actually talked about it at Rouges house today, how it seemed that when you felt tired and depressed like, everyone else around you felt the same way. Or so it seemed anyway.
Me and my mom were in the living room sorting through old papers and other stuff we found in shelves and other places that need to be cleaned out when I remembered about Cream's E-Mail.
"Oh no!" I practically yelled before standing up causing a bunch of papers that were in my lap fly everywhere making a mess, "oops…" I looked down at my mom and she was staring strangely at me.
"Are you okay?" I could tell she was trying to hold back a smirk, I nodded hastily.
"Um, I forgot, I think Cream wanted to go to the mall and have me meet someone today, is that okay?" I asked in a hurry. She smiled a little and nodded. "Oh, I'm so sorry mom, I'll clean out anything else that needs to be cleaned when I get back, just leave it for me and I will." Uh oh, I'm rambling. I saw mom laugh at me a little.
"It's fine Amy, It's fine, just go and have fun." I smiled at her before quickly saying 'thank you' then running out. It was 4:53; I opened the door and ran out to Cream's house and rung the doorbell hoping Cream didn't already leave.
Thankfully though, she was the one to answer the door, she smiled sweetly at me.
"Hi Amy, are you here to come to the mall?" I nodded.
"Yes, Cream! I'm sorry I'm late, are you and your friend about to leave?" Cream giggled a little at me.
"Oh no, she's not even here yet." My open mouth turned upside down causing Cream to laugh at the funny face I was making. Cream stopped laughing and just smiled then but it looked like she was looking though me, I immediately got scared and whipped around to see another girl standing there.
"Hello Mates, how've you been? Fine perhaps" I gave a week smile, as I looked over the young raccoon, she was wearing a green tube top with skintight black pants. "Orright, we going to the mall or what? I walked all the way here; let's go mates before it fills up with people." She then started walking away, I stared in shock at her. She's certainly… different.
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"This sure is a bonza mall, mates! I can't wait to go inside and see what they have in store for us, well let's go!" I ran up beside her as she started speed walking towards the entrance.
"Hey, Marine, didn't you say you wanted to be a captain one day?" She nodded.
"That's right mate, I'm going to sail all over the world! So what are you going to do?" I looked up then.
"You know, I've never actually thought-,"
"Strewth! Look at that, there's so many people, come on, let's go before there's nothing left of the place mates." Cream ran past me.
"Marine, I don't think the store will run out of stock so quickly." I watched as the two ran off towards the escalators. What am I going to do when I grow up? Well I guess there's no need for thinking of those kind of things, I still have time to think. Right now I have to go and enjoy myself.
"Oi! Mate, we're going up the stairs now, hopefully all the shops aren't empty, go, go escalator, go!" Marine called from on the escalator causing people to stare, I saw Cream turn red and turned to Marine probably to tell her not to yell. I couldn't help myself I started laughing. Thinking about jobs and stuff made me believe that life goes by fast, and it's better to act like a kid before its too late. Feeling all the energy in me, I decided to run after them, not caring if I looked like a moron or not.
It seemed, life moved by so fast, you had to enjoy it while you could, it could be gone before you know it. Better to make the best out of it and enjoy yourself.
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When I got home I was dead tired, Marine was quite I handful I had to admit, but she was fun in her own way. I trudged upstairs ready to go take a nice warm shower then head off to bed, I felt myself start to smile at the thought. Bed. How warm and comfortable it is.
I had just reached the top of the stairs when I heard mom call from below, since I didn't see her when I walked in she was probably in the living room still, that's when it hit me.
"Oh yeah, I said I'd help clean around when I got back." I mostly said that in sigh form, I wasn't exactly all that excited to go clean right when I got back home. I slumped then trudged down the steps, I wanted to cry, but I couldn't, I'm the one who offered to clean so I have to just suck it up and do it, I mean I admit that it would suck if someone offered to do something and then just dropped the task off a cliff and forgot about it.
"Hi," Mom greeted me when I walked in the living room, I gave her a week smile and tried not to fall down into the couch, my back was aching for comfort though so it was a really hard thing to hold myself back from. "How was your time at the mall?" I was about to answer when I realized I didn't see any paper around, it looks like mom cleaned the whole living room of the papers already.
"It was good, um," mom stared at me with a curious look waiting for me to go on, "do you want me to clean anything? I'll start on the office upstairs." I was expecting my mom to jump up right then a very happy look on his face, lean down and pat my shoulder and say 'do your best!' but instead she just shook her head.
"No it's okay, you look really tired, you should go get some sleep, besides you do have school in the morning." Oh yeah… school, I totally forgot about that. She smiled at me but she didn't get up, she was waiting for me to ask her…. A question… what was the question again?
"Huh?" I asked, she perked up confusedly which made her look like a cute confused puppy.
"Huh?" she asked back, I sat up more.
"What was the question again?" She paused and sat there staring into space, I paused and sat there staring at her, and then we started laughing together. It seems that we're both more tired than we thought. Ah, a nice warm bed, I can't wait to go to sleep.