So, I'm finally home; THANK JESUS! My Nan's house is nerve-wracking as hell. I probably won't be able to update for the rest of the week, the huge test towards the end of the year are coming up. So I'm forced into testing mode... Yay. I'm also behind in my work -_- and possibly will be grounded from FanFiction and Facebook. So... Onward towards the messages.
TreytTuttle,
Thanks for the Dutch. But, that is all I am saying to you, you red ringed my Xbox!
Cutie Kyuubi,
Thank God, I was fretting that I was way off on the French and the Spanish as well. I only just started learning Spanish two weeks ago.
Alex-Kurotani,
Thanks for following my story! I truly hoped you have enjoyed it so far.
Now, to the story.
Hope sat around a fire in the middle of a thick forest with her sister, Paige.
Paige's dark brown hair was in a messy, careless bun. She was dressed in rags of what used to be a white blouse and leggings. Paige was sixteen, would be seventeen in July. What was left of her throwing knifes stayed in her homemade belt, which were made out of the hide of a wolf they had slain three months ago.
"I'm sorry." Paige said, breaking the awkward silence that had befallen upon the two sisters.
"It's not your fault, if I wouldn't have ran after the deer we would be at home, not awaiting Father to find us without our supper." Hope curtly replied.
"I'm just as guilty as you are, if I had not of thrown two of my knifes at the deer, it would not have fled." Paige insisted.
"Whatever, it don't matter we both are going to get beat. There is no way around this one..." Hope paused in her speech to pluck her bowstring, "I'm just scared this will be the last one." Hope cast a fearful look around the woods.
Paige sighed. "Maybe we will be better off in the woods, even if its only for a little bit. We can hunt, start a fire, and we know our deadly plants from our edible ones; we can survive here for a while."
Hope looked thoughtful. "Let's say we do stay in the woods for a little while. What if Father finds us, Mother doesn't like the woods, she won't be here to save us."
Paige nodded and allow a silence to once again fall on the duo. Hope began to pick at the dying embers of the fire.
"I'll get firewood." Paige got up to leave and retrieve the firewood. Paige was about six minutes away from the camp when she saw the deer that had escaped her clutches, two knives still in it's left side. She stealthily drew one of her three remaining knives, aimed, and let it fly.
It hit the deer in it's left front leg emitting a crack, the deer fell to the ground. It quickly became aware that it was in danger and tried to get up and flee again, but it would fall after each step on it's front left leg. Paige felt a pang of guilt, this deer might have a child, if so, the child would die without it's mother.
'It is either it or mine and Hope's.'
Paige went up to the injured deer and put it out of it's misery, received the knives she had lost trying to end the deer."May you rest in peace."
She ran back to the camp, to Hope. "Hope, I found our dinner for the night! Help me carry it back here to the camp!"
Hope nodded and started to follow Paige at a brisk pace. Out of boredom, Hope began to sing.
"The woods are very dreary,
I'm starting to feel weary.
The soles of my shoes are gone,
Long ago eaten by Time's hunger.
Why must I be alone on this long trek to Death,
Without any breath?
The words are blurry,
but I am no longer listening.
No one listened to my plight,
Claimed it to be a blight,
So I set their home alight!
Fire, darkness, envy;
All played a major role.
Once I was in love,
But with a shove,
Off he went,
To the void."
Hope made up the morbid song/poem. We arrived to the dead deer corpse, each trying not to fall over under the seemingly impossibly heavy body when they each tried to carry together. During which Paige couldn't get a thought out of her mind.
'How in the Heavens did Hope come up with such a horrid song?' Paige shrugged, and pushed the nagging thought to the back of her mind.
Mordecai jerked out of his light slumber, checking to see if he was in the woods with Hope and her sister. Hope had given Mordecai a descriptive description of her sister and her life in the other dimension, granted Mordecai didn't believe that everyone was a human. That just seemed untrue. He didn't get why he was dreaming of Hope singing and hunting with her elder sister when he was waiting for Margaret to finish getting dressed up for their date.
Margaret. Finally he got the nerve to ask her out on a date, and she is the only thing he didn't think about.
"Almost done!" Margaret called from her room.
Mordecai nodded, knowing she could not see him. He thought back to the coffee shop. How Rigby dared him to do it. How his coffee burned when it came out of his nostrils. Margaret stepped out of her room, she did a little twirl.
"Margaret, you look stunning!" Mordecai hastily exclaimed. His eyes glanced at her dress. She was wearing a purple short dress with a v-neck, it had a black belt that was made into it.
"Thanks, Mordecai. Oh, your suit!" She screamed, hustling over to straighten out the wrinkles in his black and white suit.
Yes, he wore a suit. He was taking her to the fanciest restaurant in town, 'Lé Frânk's Lêgìñ. Where only the finest was welcome.
They hopped in a Cadillac that Mordecai had rented. On the way to the extravagant restaurant, they joked back and forth about how snooty the people who worked there must be.
"So, I hear you like bad boys." Mordecai stated.
"And?" Margaret said sarcastically.
"Well, I don't mean to impress anybody, but once I went to the movies, and didn't turn my phone off." Mordecai said, causing Margaret to burst out laughing.
"So, I hear you like bad girls. Is it true?" Margaret said rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, what of it?"
Well, not to brag or anything, I sometimes swim without floaties." Margaret said coolly.
Mordecai gasped."There really is no stopping you! Oh, we're here!"
Mordecai parked the car, got out, and helped Margaret out like the gentleman he liked to be in front of Margaret.
He walked up to the podium where they would ask to be seated. "Table for two, please."
The employee nodded and mentioned to for the duo to follow to their seats. Before taking his own seat, Mordecai pulled out the seat for Margaret. Unknown to both of them, two pairs of eyes-one blue, one purple-watched their every move.
"They got their table." Kris stated in a whisper, peeking out from behind a plastic plant. "And for a expensive restaurant, they got some cheap decor!"
Hope nodded, adjusting her binoculars. "And look at the color scheme; so drab!" Hope looked around and waved at a couple, who giving the devious girls terrified looks.
Hope and Kris attempted to army roll beneath a table, away from the plastic plant, but knocked it over. Mordecai and Margaret looked for whatever gave off the loud noise. From underneath the table, Kris and Hope took turns peeking from under the tablecloth.
After five minutes, Kris huffed in irritation. "Just go talk to him, Hope!"
Hope rolled her eyes. "You are just as bad as Rigby." She joked. "But he will wonder what I'm doing here."
"If you go talk to him, I'll get up and sing in front of this whole restaurant!" Kris offered, she really wanted them to end up together; they would give her cute nieces and nephews.
"If we could stalk him?" Hope asked weighing out her options. "Fine, but you don't have to sing to the patrons. I wouldn't make you do it, you get nervous in front of crowds."
Kris said her thanks then sent Hope tumbling from the table. Hope got up and his behind the plant they had knocked down, waiting for Mordecai to leave the table. As though by magic, Mordecai got up to use the restroom only three minutes after she ducked back into hiding. Hope ran around the perimeter of the room, beating her crush into the Men's restroom.
Mordecai walked into Hope sitting on the sink, when she hastily blurted, "before you ask why I'm in the Men's bathroom, I want you to know that I consider you my best friend!" She couldn't tell him she liked him. "I'm thinking of going back to my dimension! Should I? Rigby and the mole girl don't like me, and I'm jealous of you and Margaret. Kris and Skips are going to get married. Don't ask! I just know it's going to happen!" She was at a loss of breath.
Mordecai's eyes were as wide as saucers. "You're jealous of me and Margaret?"
She hesitantly nodded. "Remember how I told you I'd never been popular?"
Mordecai shook his head, he couldn't help but remember the dream he had; how her voice was one of an Angel's, the way even-as a youngster-her eyes sparkled with a deep sadness, and how she was worried over the littlest things.
"Well, I have a disorder. It's called Excessive Attachment Disorder. Since I've never had many friends, I attach to just about everyone I meet. I love Rigby to death, that's why I get hurt over his mean jokes." Hope said, looking down at the sink.
Mordecai looked Hope in the eyes, "come on Margaret and I could use some company anyways. I'm sure she won't mind. Oh, and bring Kris."
Hope gaped at her fellow bird. "How do you know Kris is here?"
Mordecai chuckled. "For one, her tail was peeking out from behind the plastic plant. And I saw her push you from under the table. Why are you here, Hopeless?"
Hope shrugged, pretending that them being here was a accident. "Well Kris and I were wanting some food and we saw you guys here, so we were going to watch you guys eat to see if it was edible."
Mordecai winked playfully at Hope. "Or you were stalking me."
Hope nervously laughed. "Oh, yes, you know it."
"Vamos, I watched Dora for that one!" Mordecai joked. He pulled Hope from the sink and went to their hiding place, pulled Kris out from under it, and went back to their table.
"Oh hey Hope! Who is that?" Margaret said, motioning to Kris.
"This is my cousin, Kris." Hope quickly said, earning a look from Mordecai.
"But she is a fox, you're from a different dimension anyways." Margaret pointed out.
"Yeah, but in my dimension, she is my cousin Joanie Jones. I've been trying to find my way home." Hope said.
"Okay so why are you guys here?" Margaret asked.
Mordecai came to the rescue. "They got hungry."
Margaret nodded. The food came.
"Oh I'm so sorry I forgot to get you two's order. Its on the house." The waiter said.
Kris and Hope high-fived.
"Tofu salad." Hope blurted.
"Ribs with a side of Gummy worms." Kris said coolly, earning odd looks from everybody at the table. "What I love me some Gummy Worms!"
Once again, Kris and Hope shared a high five. "Epic!" They say in unison.
"So I don't mind if we have some company on our date, Mordecai." Margaret stated relieving the tense Blue Jay.
"Good to know." He smiled. "And Margaret, did you know that Hope wants to go to college?" He asked
"No I didn't know that. I passed high school with on the Honor Roll. Did you Hope?" Margaret asked out of curiosity.
"I passed with one of the highest GPAs in our school. I even won the talent show during the same year that I got sucked in here. What about you Kris? Mordecai?" Hope questioned her friends.
"I didn't want to go to college. I was fed up with school, to much stress." Kris stated.
Mordecai remained silent.
"What about you, Mordecai?" Kris asked.
He sighed. "Well to be completely honest, I didn't graduate high school."
Hope gasped. Kris remained silent. Margaret gaped.
"You were a high school dropout? It's not that bad, really! Paige was a dropout!" Hope said trying to make it not sound like such a bad thing.
"It really isn't that bad Mordecai!" Margaret assured him.
Mordecai muttered his thanks, then he jerked his head to the right and gaped. "Is that Rigby and Eileen?"
Sure enough when the three girls looked at the table Mordecai had gaped at there sat Rigby and Eileen peeked from the corner of their eyes at Mordecai and Margaret's table.
"Look! They have binoculars!" Hope pointed out. Then she whispered to Kris, "good thing mine are in the Men's Restroom."
Kris giggled.
"Let's pretend that we haven't seen them!" Mordecai suggested to them.
Margaret, Kris, and Hope nodded in agreement. Margaret then said very loudly, "if only Eileen were here! Then I'd really be having a good time!"
"Yeah and if Rigby were here, we'd wreck this place!" Mordecai said just as loud as Margaret.
"If Rigby were here I'd tell him how cute he and Eileen looked together!" Hope exclaimed, going along with the act.
Kris laughed, a tad too loud. "You'd make fun of him! And probably Eileen too!"
Margaret huffed. "Eileen would kill Hope if she made fun of Rigby!"
Mordecai chuckled. "Those two are so in love!"
The group all turned at the same time to Eileen and Rigby's table and screamed, "oh! There you guys are!"
The raccoon and mole started to blush. "Oh hey guys, I was just wondering who was making such a conversation." He tossed his pair of binoculars under his table. "Well we should be going. Coming Eileen?" The mole nodded and scurried out with the raccoon.
Hope and Kris' food arrived. They began to greedily devour their food, sending flecks on Mordecai's suit and Margaret's dress.
They all shared a laugh. Margaret looked to the center of the room and noticed the karaoke machine. "We should dance and sing!" She said.
Kris shook her head immediately. "I don't dance. Especially in front of people."
"We should though! It would be so much fun!" She insisted.
"No, I'm not one for violence, but I will not dance unless my life depends on it!" Kris screamed.
"Fine!" Margaret exclaimed, tossing her hands up to show that she had given up.
"Kris, it will be okay. I'll chill here with you, while they dance." Hope said in an attempt to calm her seething friend.
"You guys sure?" Mordecai asked.
Kris and Hope both gave a slight nod of their heads.
As they walked away, Kris turned to Hope. "I think you and Mordecai should be together; I don't like her!"
"She is okay at the coffee shop, but that went too far." Hope said.
"I'm not one to conspire, but I think Margaret may be bad for Mordecai."
"I understand, but she is on of his best friends. I can't just walk up to him and say, ' Hey, I want the D.' That would be really weird and we all know I'm already a bit too weird."
Kris scoffed. "Okay, she makes my blood boil. Let's talk about something else! Um, how did you learn to speak Spanish? You never told me."
Hope lost her voice remembering how she learned Spanish. "My mom taught me before she died." She took a deep breath. "How did you learn French?"
Kris popped one of her leftover gummy worms into her mouth. "In high school we had to learn either French or German. And no offense to Germany, but when they say I love you, it sounds like they are threatening to rip each other's throat out. So I learned French. How did you survive your childhood? I don't mean to pry."
"Well, first off, it's good to get it out. And when I was younger my mom would make my beatings not as bad as they would originally be for me and Paige. Paige got the worst one until she died, then I got the worse beatings. I know its horrible that she didn't try to protect both of us, but Paige told her to make it to where I was at least safe some of the time."
"Oh, and Hope?" Kris said.
"Yeah?" Hope replied.
"Mordecai just let Margaret sing, he is coming over here. I think he wants you to dance with him..." Kris hastily poured out.
"Um, I have to say one thing before I go!"
"What?"
"I want you to dance with us!"
"No!"
"Please?"
"Don't make me!"
"Okay." Hope gave up. A hand sat on her left shoulder.
"Want to dance?" Mordecai asked, oblivious to Hope's blush.
"Sure..."
And cliffhanger! Aren't you proud of me, a new record for the longest chapter! Well, I probably am grounded. I'll try to update soon!
Kisses,
AntionetteEva