"Oh no, I can't believe I forgot!" Sensaina wailed.
"Don't worry, I forgot too," Jonetsu said as she put her hand on her twin-tailed friend's shoulder.
"It's really this Sunday...'' Sensaina said as she read the notice in her hand.
"I'm unprepared!" Jonetsu confessed.
"This Sunday is.." They read in unison," Mother's day!" Sensaina wrinkled the notice as she clenched with her death grip while Jonetsu banged her fist against a nearby wall.
"I already forgot about it last year!" Sensaina cried," I ended up giving my mom a pair of Miyako's earrings!"
"Yeah? Well at least your mom's easy to buy for," Jonetsu stated," Meanwhile, mine's ultra moody and impossible to buy a present for!" Jonetsu was expecting a response from Sensaina but Sensaina remained speechless. She glanced towards her and realized her friend was entranced.
"Here it goes.." She said under her breath.
"Good morning Hideki!" Sensaina blurted out as the boy walked by. Hideki stopped and turned to smile and greet Sensaina.
" 'Morning," Hideki greeted. Sensaina fidgeted by twirling her hair making Jonetsu feel as if she saw more than enough and walked ahead. Sensaina giggled awkwardly and the two chatted without realizing how late they were going to become.
"Um, do you know what time it is?" Hideki asked.
"Huh?"Sensaina smiled it off then checked her watch," We're going to be late again!" They dashed down the sidewalk but Hideki was faster. They eventually both got to school and both of their teacher's were suspicious by now.
"I'm extremely sorry I'm late today!" Sensaina apologized while bowing as she barged into the room. Everyone's eyes bulged as the door creaked breaking the room's deadly silence. Ms. Kimura flashed her a look and inspected her from head to toe at her desk.
"Whatever I'll let it slide today," Ms. Kimura said nonchalantly.
"Thank you!" Sensaina exclaimed. As Sensaina went to her desk, a quiet scoff was made by Jonetsu. As for Hideki, it seemed he got the short end of the stick.
"Why were you late again today?!" His teacher yelled. She owned a strange tone deaf voice that could crack a glass even if she whispered. As her burgundy strands of hair fell from her bun stressfully , Hideki sighed. He really didn't like his teacher Ms. Haruki.
"Because the bell rings too early?" Hideki said. A few girls giggled away but the rest rolled their eyes at the incompetent flake of a student.
"Wrong!" Ms. Haruki yelled surprise smacking him with a fan that said "EXCLUSIVELY for Hideki the dunce."
"Alright, it won't happen again," He said recovering from the smack," I'll just stay in the hallway for the rest of-"
"Nope! I have something better.." Ms. Haruki chuckled deviously.
"Why do I always get the psychos?" Hideki said under his breath. Ms. Haruki made him go outside and pull out the weeds from the flowerbed in the school garden.
"Honestly.." He said aloud. He didn't attempted to extract the weeds from the flowerbed at all. He stared into the sunny day but then he heard a familiar voice shouting.
"But I swear I gave it to you yesterday!" Sensaina screamed. She was being pushed by Ms. Kimura who probably was planning to give her the same punishment as Hideki.
"That's what they all say!" Ms. Kimura countered childishly," Now you're going to take out all of the weeds from the garden!"
"And if I don't?"
"Bad things will be brought upon you!" Ms. Kimura cackled," And look, you have company!" Sensaina's blush was fierce as she realized it was Hideki. left the two alone and Sensaina crouched to the pavement beside the green-eyed boy. Sensaina gazed at the colourful, docile flowers intensively with Hideki eventually taking notice.
"What is it?" He asked.
"Huh? Oh, I was just thinking of what to get my mom for Mother's day." She carelessly picked up a violet flowerhead separated from it's stem.
"Maybe a bouquet of orchids. She likes orchids," She said as she put the flowerhead to the light,"What are you getting your mom for Mother's day?"
"I don't really plan on getting her anything this year." He said quietly.
"Why, are you broke?" She asked.
"My mom's dead," Hideki responded. Sensaina felt herself turn white with regret.
"I'm...I'm sorry for asking." Hideki shrugged it off.
"Sensaina! It seemed you actually did give me you're assignment yesterday.." Ms. Kimura called out.
"I told you!" Sensaina yelled as she was dragged back inside by her teacher. After school Sensaina walked home with Jonetsu as usual.
"Hey, can we go into the flower shop down the road?" Sensaina asked. Jonetsu shrugged signaling it was okay. The flower shop was extravagant and colourful with the variety of flowers displayed in front of the store.
"Wow! I bet they have every flower in the world here!" Sensaina exhaled. As Sensaina gazed at all of the flowers before her, Jonetsu was poking a cactus in the corner.
"Jonetsu!" Sensaina shouted, her voice filled with disapproval. Sensaina startled Jonetsu causing her to accidently inject her finger into one of the cactus' thorns.
"Ouch!" Jonetsu interjected,"Look what you made me did!"
"Oh dear," Sensaina grabbed her friend and attempted to pull her away from the thorn. They succeeded but crashed down to the floor together.
"Maybe I should just get my mom dandelions and tell her their a rare flower that's endangered." Jonetsu thought out loud.
"That won't do!" A voice advised. The girls looked up seeing a short, but from their point of view, tall girl who donned the same uniform as them though a sweater vest was added and the trademark bow was replaced with a tie. She had short sandy brown hair held up in a bun with a faint pink streak in the middle of her side bangs. As the girls got up they figured they were much older than her and treated her as an inferior.
"What does a kid like you knowing about tricking parents?" Jonetsu jeered. The girl puffed up one cheek in frustration before she responded.
"Lots! Plus, you can't trick someone with a weed that grows in your own backyard!" She shouted. Jonetsu blanked out for a moment but was quickly enraged.
"Why I oughta.."Jonetsu began as she pulled up her punching fist's sleeve.
"Um, we aren't here to fight. We're here to browse," Sensaina attempted to break up their dispute," What kind of flower should we get our moms for Mother's day?" The girl's plain brown eyes lit up readied with a response.
"You should get her a carnation! A carnation means a love for your mother!" She wisely responded.
"But I wanted to get her violet orchids, she loves them,"Sensaina stated," Oh,now I'm torn between two flowers!" The girl's eyes lit up again with another response.
"Then give her violet orchids and carnations in one bouquet!" The girl responded.
"But violet and red don't really go together," Sensaina pointed out.
"Worked for us," Jonetsu said, causing her to be elbowed harshly by Sensaina.
"Oh what should I do?" Another voice groaned. They saw a teenaged girl darting her eyes back and forth from a patch of carnation to a patch of Daisies. She steadied the glasses on her face and tilted her head unsurely.
"What's wrong?" Sensaina asked as she and Jonetsu walked up towards her. The girl looked towards Sensaina with timid and regretful eyes.
"I'm not sure what flower I should get for my mom," The girl said.
"You should get her a-!" Jonetsu slammed the young girl's mouth shut.
"I know I should get her a red carnation but I really like these daisies considering they also mean innocence in the language of flowers." The girl said, stunning the three of them with her knowledge.
"Bet you didn't know that," Jonetsu quietly snickered.
"Of course I did!" The young girl haughtily assured turning away.
"They're both so pretty together...but their colour combination will just remind her of awful things." The girl said. Sensaina and Jonetsu felt bad for the girl but Jonetsu quickly thought up of an uncunning hasty plan.
"Well let's look at every single flower so we can make this bouquet for your mother triple colored!" Jonetsu exclaimed as she yanked the to the flower catalog lying on a thing stand,"By the way, name's Jonetsu."
The girl seemed a little shaken with Jonetsu unexpected attempt to be of help but gladly took it," I'm Masami." Jonetsu flipped through each laminated pages of the catalog without giving Masami a chance to look at any of the flowers.
"No, too plain, too thorny, too unsightly, too expensive,"Jonetsu muttered as she flipped through the 's frustration with Jonetsu was penting up and she finally let her temper get the best of her.
"Jonetsu!" She yelled. Jonetsu stopped at a page to look at the frustrated Sensaina.
"Those are perfect!" Masami cheered.
"Huh?' The girls said. They looked down to the page Jonetsu stopped at.
"A Phlox, huh?" Jonetsu said. The flower pictured on the page was a unique mix of magenta with tiny petals.
"I'll take a combination of these three flowers please!" She said to the young girl. The girl walked towards the stands of carnations and daisies for Masami.
"Oh, she'll love them I know it!" Masami gushed," Hey,do you guys want to meet her with me today?"
"Um, sure," Sensaina responded. Masami purchased the flower bouquet from the girl and they walked into an unfamiliar path.
"Shouldn't we go to your house first before we meet your mom?" Jonetsu asked.
"Um, no, I'd rather give her the flowers today," Masami replied.
"But Mother's day isn't for another three days," Sensaina pointed out. Masami didn't respond this time and they kept walking. They reached near a hospital and Masami hesitated and stood in position.
"Did we take a wrong turn?" Sensaina asked.
"Nope." Masami replied.
"So is your mom a busy nurse?" Jonetsu questioned. Masami walked up ahead.
"Hey, wait for us!" Jonetsu begged. With each step Masami took, she clenched the bouquet tighter and lip began to quiver. They entered the spotless hospital.
"Too white!" Jonetsu screamed taking coverage behind Sensaina," So. Plain." Sensaina groaned as she watched her friend's nutty reaction to the hospital interior. Masami walked up to a nurse who she seemed to know and asked for someone.
"Is it ok to visit my mom today?" Masami politely asked. The nurse looked at her worriedly.
"Not right now, maybe in a few hours," The nurse solemnly replied.
"Oh, well that's ok. I can always wait!" Masami cheerfully replied. She walked towards a seat and sat patiently.
"Masami, is your mother sick?" Sensaina asked. Masami didn't answer for a few moments as if she was in a trance of ignorance but eventually gave a response.
"Yes, it's been like this for a few months and her condition isn't changing," She said neutrally. That wasn't really the reaction they were expecting from her. They thought she would've combusted into tears or maybe her voice would start to sound shaky. But no, she hid herself with a brave mask as if she was bottling up her fear and sorrow.
Jonetsu attempted to weasel out, "Well, we're sorry we can't meet your mother today, because well we have homework to get to so.." She and Sensaina made a run for it. Unknown to Masami, though they went to talk to the nurse Masami had asked her mom about earlier.
"Can we know what Masami's mom condition is?" Jonetsu asked. The nurse looked at the two and finally gave a response.
"Most of us don't think she'll make it, and that's all I'm going to say." The nurse said gravely. The nurse left them in a state of shock.
"That's terrible! Do you think Masami knows?"Sensaina asked. Jonetsu shrugged.
"It's hard to tell," Jonetsu stated. Masami waited patiently at the door to her mother's room for the nurse who would let her in. By seven, the nurse let her in. Masami's mother was a sickly pale woman with faded goldtoned hair. As she saw her daughter she smiled weakly. She seemed unable to talk, so Masami decided not to chat her ear off today.
"I..I got the best score in my class for our science test!" Masami boasted humbly. Her mother's smile appeared again.
"And then after school, I went to a flower shop down the road and I made a few friends." Her mother's smile was broadening.
"I also..." Masami clutched onto the bouquet,'' Got you these, for Mother's day." She handed to her mother and she beamed the best that she could.
"Dad said we can visit try visit on the actual mother's day if that's ok with you." Masami left the room pretending to feel satisfied and content but as she was outside of the hospital into the black night, tears welled up in her eyes.
The next morning, as they walked to school, Masami was consuming their thoughts.
"Do you think she got to see her mom yesterday?" Sensaina timidly asked. Jonetsu sighed unable to come up with a response. As they walked, they saw a saw a familiar brunette with short hair dashing down the side walk in a white, red and grey uniform.
"Isn't that Masami?" Jonetsu asked.
"We have to go after her!" Sensaina cried and with that, the girls went astray from their path to school and went to follow Masami.
Elsewhere, at Malevolent the Nightmare Majors were attempting to create a plan to lure the Pretty Cure away from their Malvoids.
"We can't even seduce them because we're girls," Ignis groaned.
"And then Tsuchiyo," Hydra said shuddering at the idiotic Major as she said his name.
"Is being sultry and stupid the only idea you two have to lure the Pretty Cure away?" Raika skeptically asked.
"Yes!" They both cried. Raika shook her head in disapproval. Then suddenly felt the ground shake violently like they were in the middle of an earthquake. Obviously, it was Tsuchiyo entering the cold and dark room.
"I found bad dreamstone, so I go make it badder!" He cackled. The other three Majors shook their head in doubt.
"Just because it's a dark colour," Hydra started. She clasped her hands together for dramatic effect," Doesn't mean it's corrupted."
"But really I found one!" Tsuchiyo claimed.
"Well if it's really corrupted, I might as well corrupt it more," Ignis declared readying herself to teleport. But Tsuchiyo grabbed her by her long Plum coloured hair in rage.
"I getting that dreamstone!" He shouted with a blob of spit shooting from his mouth, splashing onto Ignis' nose. He dropped Ignis down and teleported away. As he left Ignis looked at her nose in disgust.
"You don't spit on girls!" She hissed.
When Masami believed she was alone, though she actually wasn't as Sensaina and Jonetsu followed her up to here and hid in a corner, she bawled her eyes out in solitude. Sensaina felt sorry for the girl and attempted to walk forward and comfort her but Jonetsu clung to her hand and didn't approve so Sensaina remained in the corner. Suddenly Tsuchiyo appeared in front of Masami grinning with sick pleasure.
"I feel a bad wave of darkness-kore!" Doki screamed.
"Me too-desu!" Toki agreed.
"You turn really sad, now I get to have bad dreamstone!" He exclaimed as he removed the puffy-eyed girl's dreamstone," Appear, Malvoid!" He pointed to a carnation left over from the bouquet.
"Malvoid!" The monster-like carnation yelled. Sensaina and Jonetsu were enraged as they transformed.
"Pretty Cure, Dream on!" They shouted. They transformed swiftly into their Cure alter egos.
"Singing the everlasting melody, Cure Songstress!" Songstress announced.
"Joining two hearts together, Cure Matchmaker!" Matchmaker announced.
"Guardians of Dreams, side by side, together we are," They struck a pose," Dream High Pretty Cure!" They shouted. As they appeared in front of Tsuchiyo, the Malvoid and Masami encaged in her own void, Tsuchiyo grimaced.
"Aw, come on!" Tsuchiyo whined," Why you two show up everywhere Tsuchiyo goes?" The girls stood in a fighting stance. They attempted to kick the Malvoid in unison but the Carnation crouched itself and entangled the two into separate gigantic petals. Matchmaker punched her way out of her petal constrain, but Songstress seemed to be still stuck.
"Pretty Cure, Lovesick Barrage!" Matchmaker shouted. Her arrows were consumed by Malvoid who was now readying itself to launch another petal at Matchmaker.
"Pretty Cure,Musical Clash!" Songstress shouted entangling the petal with music bars.
"Good timing," Matchmaker remarked. Suddenly they heard mumbling coming from the unconscious Masami.
"It's impossible...for anyone...understand my worries," She murmured. Songstress felt bad for hurting the carnation Malvoid.
"I know you won't hear us..." Songstress began," But that doesn't mean we won't be here for you!" The Malvoid stood still with thought and regret.
"Songstress.."Matchmaker said. She shook off her trance of inspiration and went to aid her fellow cure. The two went into their signature fighting stance.
"Pretty Cure, Heartless Resonance!" They yelled. A large G-clef and heart appeared to their corresponding cures. They flew it to the Malvoid.
"Awake!" They yelled and they cleansed the Malvoid. Tsuchiyo was stomping while defying gravity.
"It not fair, we never win!" Tsuchiyo yelled as he left. The girls, detransformed, received Masami's duplicated dreamstone. It was white with a red cross, similar to a nurse's hat. Masami came to shortly unsure what happened.
"We saw you trip and came to see what happened," Jonetsu lied.
"Oh,'' Masami said weakly. She glanced at her watch idly," Ah! I'm late for class!" As she was about to run off she stood in place for a moment.
"Sensaina, Jonetsu," Masami started.
"Hm?"
"Thank you." She ran off. The girls felt satisfied with their actions for a moment then realized they were late too!
"Gah! We gotta get going!" Jonetsu yelled as they two zoomed across the pavement," By the way, Sensaina what are you getting your mom for Mother's day?" Sensaina stopped in her tracks to answer.
"I'm going to sing for her!" She beamed proudly.