Happy New Lunar Year! It's tomorrow
Divine Diva
Chapter 9
Laika
Okay new chapter
Today is Megurine Luka's birthday! Yay!
Songs Used: Kudryavka (Kagamine Rin)
Lyric translation by GetPropheitc on Youtube
The last chapter was pretty crappy I'm sorry about that
Dawn was blanking out during the classes. Well she felt weird and jumpy inside when she think about Saturday. Being Adelheit was fine but Drew…. He was the first guy to ever treat her so nice. She smiled faintly. "Ms. Berlitz! Pay attention to the class and stop daydreaming!" Her teacher shrieked at her that made everyone in the class giggle. Dawn flushed in embarrassment and tried to pay attention to the class. Which she failed horribly.
"Were you thinking about you-know-who during class?" Leaf teased heading to the cafeteria for lunch. Dawn flushed even more and was about to deny it but Ursula snuck upon them, interfering their conversation. "Ooh, looks like Dawn has special someone. He must be an idiot to do so." She said with mean chuckle. Leaf frowned, "Well he's better than anyone you can imagine." She retorted, making Ursula's mocking smile turn to frown. "Well let me hear it then." Leaf hesitated at her statement. "Why should we tell you?" Dawn asked, looking up at the taller girl. "Well then how else I will believe that Deedee actually have a boyfriend?"
"He's not my boyfriend. Leaf's just teasing me so I don't need to tell you." Dawn said. "Well he must be really smart not to date you. I will take it back that he's an idiot." Dawn growled but it was barely audible. She turned away and dragged Leaf along with her to the cafeteria. "Don't talk about him during school." Dawn said as she felt a phone buzzing in her pocket. "Is it him?" Leaf tried to take a look at the screen but Dawn hid it. "Go talk to with your own guy." Dawn said as she sat on the table. "Gary's not my guy!" Leaf flushed and whispered harshly. "Sure sure." Dawn pulled out her lunchbox and started to eat her salad.
Rest of their friends arrived. "What were you guys saying?" May asked.
"I saw Ursula. She looked pretty angry, what happened?" Misty asked.
"Oh, I kinda said that Dawn might have a boyfriend." Leaf said with a snicker and earned a nice good punch from Dawn. "He's not my boyfriend." Dawn growled and went back to her salad.
"Yeah of course not. I saw you guys hugging. What else did you guys do?" May asked, her face frowning hard. "Only hugs." Dawn replied not even looking up. May glared at Dawn while munching her burrito. "Do you really expect me to believe that?"
"Yes." She said and texted something on her phone. "Let Dawn enjoy the moment May. Seriously, what's with you about Dawn dating someone?" Marina complained, sick of May's overprotectiveness. May pursed her lips and glared at her friend. She looked at Dawn who glared at May shaking her head. "Don't know." May answered and started eating her second burrito.
The whole class was over and Dawn walked to the convenience store to buy a snack for herself and her friends. She was choosing chocolates and was debating with herself which one to choose. "Look who this is, our famous Deedee." Dawn flinched at peach haired girl's voice. Next to her was Melody and Chocho. "What do you want?" Dawn asked. Others were staring at them but some walked closer to Dawn for support.
Dawn glanced at the students, thanked them inside her mind. "Listen Ursula, I'm just trying to choose which chocolate I should buy and that's it. So stop bothering me and leave me alone." Dawn said as she walked past Ursula and her gang to the counter but Ursula grabbed Dawn's arm. "I'm not going to let go of you unless you tell me your special someone." Ursula said with an evil smile. "Let me go." Dawn said as she tried to pull Ursula's hand away from her.
"What's wrong? Don't want to tell his name and embarrass him?" Ursula asked with devilish voice. Dawn didn't answer but kept her attention at getting away from her. But Ursula's grip hardened the more Dawn tried to pull away.
"You are a slut." Dawn flinched. "That's why the guys like you." Ursula was only insulting Dawn but for Dawn, not even knowing herself would do this, clawed Ursula's hand, who shrieked in pain and let go of Dawn. Dawn pushed the chocolates into a nearby student, muttering 'sorry' and ran away. Usual routine. Dawn was too used to this.
Dawn opened the dorm room and saw Zoey and May in the room. "Dawn? Is something wrong?" Zoey asked. Dawn was shaking. She walked to her bed and sat down. May looked down from her bunk, "Is it Ursula again?" Zoey asked, looking down from her bunk as well. "Well, yes." Dawn said with a sigh. "Why does she hate me so much? Did I done something to her? Why? I don't even remember it!" Dawn exclaimed as she saw tears flowing down to her hand. "You want me to beat the crap out of her?" Zoey asked. "That's someone else's job. And Ursula is doing it because you are too cool and she will never be able to be like you. She's just jealous of how awesome you are."
Dawn shook her head, "You really think anyone would be jealous of me?" May flinched for she knew what Dawn meant. "Dawn, stop being so negative. You are wonderful the way you are. We love you." Zoey said as she climbed down the bunk and hugged her old friend. Dawn blinked and felt even more tears coming down. "Dawn, you are not a six-year old child anymore. You are 16 for heaven's sake." Zoey said but her voice was sad as well.
"What's going on?" Misty asked as she entered the room. "Ursula." May answered. Zoey let go of Dawn and sat next to her instead. Misty rolled her eyes, "What did that bitch wanted from you now?" Misty walked up to Dawn and sat next to her. "Dawn, be strong. Trust me." Misty said.
"Only Trust me"
Dawn flinched at the word. She stood up, surprising Misty. She headed to the bathroom. Her friends could hear the water splashing. "I'm worried about her." May said. "Me too." Zoey answered. "Misty don't tell Dawn to trust, or something like that. She has a trauma about that word and we cannot help her with that." May said to Misty. "Oh. Okay." Misty looked hurt but whatever was bothering Dawn, her friends would never tell her.
2 weeks later
"Since the test is over I will tell you a story." Dawn looked up at the teacher. "Is it about your first love?" A girl asked. "No." The teacher answered. "Does she even have one?" Zoey whispered to Dawn who giggled. "I will tell you a story about Laika. Does anyone knows about it?" Few raised their hand. Zoey was one of them. "Ms. Noy, will you please explain to us what it is?" Zoey stood up from her seat, "The first space dog." The other kids snickered. "Be quiet, I know what I'm talking about!" Zoey barked at the students and looked at the teacher. "Sit down." Zoey did.
At first Dawn thought Zoey was wrong but she was proven wrong. "Zoey's right, class. Laika was the first living creature to go to space. And the first one to die there." The teacher said. There were 'oh' and 'aww' in the class. "Laika was a stray dog in Moscow. They found her trained her with few other dogs. Laika was chosen to go out to the space to test how long a living creature can survive out there. She was supposed to live about 7 days since the spacecraft had oxygen enough to survive 6 days. But Laika, unfortunately died in about 7 hours due to overheating." The students gulped. "One of the scientists who was responsible for this experiment expressed a regret for letting her die, students, you guys are here to learn and use your knowledge for human goods but you have to remember that no matter how much you know the weight of life is always heavier than the weight of knowledge."
The bell rang and the students walked out of the class. "Is that really true?" Dawn asked Zoey. "You never trust those things, don't you? It's true. Laika, that poor thing died for human's desire to go out to the space. She went there to fulfill human's wish and paid the price for it." Zoey looked at Dawn's eyes, "Her life." Dawn blinked at her red haired friend. "Well, see you at the dorm later!" Zoey said and went off. Dawn waved at the back of her friend and walked down to her own class.
"Hi!" Zoey said to May and sat down next to her. "Hiya Zoey." May said. "Ms. Looky told us the story of about Laika." May tilted her head. "The first space dog?" Zoey nodded. "Why would she tell that to you?" May asked. "She said something about we have to respect life because it is much more important than knowledge." "That's nice." May said. "And I'm going to write a song." Zoey said. "For us to sing at the Sinnoh Idol?" May asked. "No. Mostly TOP 10 is able to be a singer so when you 5 make it out as the singer I am going to make Dawn sing it." May frowned. "Why her?" Zoey looked at her, "She's like Laika." May gave Zoey a sad look and looked at the blackboard.
When Dawn returned to the dorm that day she saw Zoey occupied with her laptop so much that she didn't even say hello. Dawn muttered small hello and sat down on her bed, changed into more comfortable outfit than her uniform. Misty came in and said hello to Dawn and gave a puzzled expression when she saw Zoey concentrating on the thing that she was doing.
After all 6 of them were in the room, Zoey was still too busy typing things in. "What is she doing?" Marina asked, shocked to see Zoey like that. "Don't know." Dawn shrugged. "Zoey!" May went up to the red haired girls' bunk and took the laptop away. "Hey, give it back!" Zoey, finally returned to Earth screamed. "Not unless you are telling me what you are doing." May demanded. "I'm writing the song I told you about today." Zoey said. "That song? For Dawn?" Dawn looked up. "Yes. It will be finished by next week. Now go and pick the song you are going to sing TOP 10." Zoey said almost pushing May off of her bunk.
May grumbled and with her friends they started to look through the list of the songs. "How about we write down the song we want to sing and just pick it randomly? Zoey can pick it out." They glanced up at Zoey who was too occupied with her song. "Well get some piece of paper and let's write it down." The girls spread out and grabbed a random piece of paper and handed it over to Leaf, who suggested the idea. Leaf shuffled it and called Zoey. "Can you pick one of them?" Zoey groaned and climbed down, picked up one and read the one out loud, "WAVE." Zoey said and climbed back up.
The girls all looked at Dawn. "Umm, can't we?" Dawn asked. "We can but wonder why you picked out that song." Marina said with a teasing smirk that made Dawn blush. The girls then opened the rest of the notes to see the songs.
The girls looked at the list of the songs that Zoey wrote and picked out the songs they will be singing. "If we don't make it to the final round then today's effort becomes useless." Misty said. "Yeah, we know that. But we will make it to there, right?" Dawn asked with hopeful look that made Misty nod. Then a phone started to buzz and the girls-except for Zoey- all checked their phone. It turned out to be Dawn's, from Drew of course. "Hi Drew." She replied as she entered the bathroom. The girls had a teasing frown on their face.
"What were you doing?" Drew asked, on his bed.
"I was picking out the song we were going to sing later on. We drew lots and we had your song." Dawn said with a small giggle.
"Huh? Wonder who put that in." Drew said with a grin.
"Me, you grasshead!" Dawn pouted.
"Not you too. I hate that nickname." Drew groaned and heard Dawn laugh.
"Well I liked it so get used to it." Drew mentally sighed.
"That's not a way to treat your boyfriend-to-be." Drew could imagine Dawn blushing which was the exact thing she was doing.
"What's boyfriend-to-be? Seriously it's just boyfriend or not boyfriend, don't make words up." Dawn said, I mean, blabbered, she was blushing furiously.
Drew gave her light laugh. "Aww, you are so sweet you know that?" Dawn was blushing even more now.
"You know what, I'm starting to think that I'm not the first girl you ever liked." Dawn said, sitting on the edge of the tub.
"Oh, you are not. But truth to be told, you are the prettiest one." Dawn didn't believe it but it was good to hear. "Thanks."
They kept talking for a long time until Reggie called him downstairs. "Sorry, gotta go. Bye." Drew stuffed his phone into his pocket and after he grabbed a random headphone –he had 2- and ran downstairs. "Okay, we are going to be about 5 minutes late thanks to Mr. I-love-Dawn." Gary grumbled as Drew stepped into the car and closed the door. "Hey, I can't go anywhere without my hair styled. Doesn't that apply to you too Gary?" Drew flicked his hair and sat down.
"Okay, whatever." Reggie rolled his eyes, mumbling that he has to clean the house. After 2 years of living together Reggie became 100% housemaid. "About that TV show, do you guys remember it?" Michael asked. "Yes, how can we forget about that?" Jimmy said, glancing at Ash who seemed clueless. "What? Since when?" He asked. "You and your stupid brain…." Jimmy murmured as Michael kept on explaining about the show. "The producer told me that he only needs 2 out of you for brothers' role."
"Not it." Paul said. "Of course you won't. He hates you." Michael said. "I've never met him." Paul said but Michael didn't answer. "If it is going to be brothers Ash and Jimmy will do fine as a idiotic combo." Gary said glancing at the two. "We are not idiot, Ash is the one." Jimmy said. "I'm not an idiot!" "Yeah right." Drew said.
"I hate you guys." Ash pouted and returned to his apple. Jimmy snatched it away, "Will you ever stop eating?" He asked. "Me? Stop eating? That's impossible task Jimmy." Ash said as he took the apple from Jimmy and munched on it. "Idiot." Jimmy muttered and looked out the window. Peaceful yet he didn't like it.
After a long time they arrived at the familiar view of Hearthome City. "We are supposed to go all the way to the Jubilife City," Michael saw horrified expression on Reggie's face, "But the producer had a business in Hearthome so I decided to take this chance." Reggie sighed in relief.
"We are here." Michael said as he got off the car. "I will be waiting here." Reggie said as he waved to his younger brother who grunted. "Come on." Michael guided the boys inside the building.
A guy who was very familiar to the boys welcomed them. "Ah, yes. I am sure you heard it from Michael, am I correct?" The boys nodded. "I'm not taking the role." Paul said immediately. "I don't need you. You don't suit the role very much." The producer said. "Thank you." Paul said as he sat down on a chair nearby. "Come on boys." The others, leaving Paul alone, followed the producer into the room. "Okay so I need two brothers. I am not sure if you guys are a good actor though." "Gary can act good when it comes to girls. He flirts with them like he really is in love." Ash said and Gary shot a glare. "Funny, funny." The producer gave out the scripts for the acts.
Drew read through it. "These brothers practically hate each other. Perfect. I am sure I can do this one with Gary perfectly." Drew smirked. "Yeah me too, as long as it's with Drew." Gary glared at the green haired boy. Ash and Jimmy dropped the script, "We seriously don't want to do it." They said. "Yeah they will tease me even more if I do this." Ash said with almost teary eyes to convince "Well those teary eyes make me feel like I need to cast you." Ash's tears disappeared at once. The producer glanced at Drew and Gary. "Would you two like to try out?" The two nodded and followed him into the room.
A week later, a week prior to the Sinnoh Idol
Dawn was at cafeteria, having dinner. The girls were planning out the songs they will be singing for Sinnoh Idol and were debating over the songs. "They are all my songs anyway." Zoey said under her breath. "Except for WAVE." Dawn reminded. "I know that. I'm not stupid you know." Zoey grumbled. "Zoey, what do you think we should sing? I'm sure we can at least make it to the TOP 5. Don't you think so girls?" May asked. The other girls nodded with confident smile. "You'd better. You remember how much I bet on you guys winning?" Unpleasant memory entered the girls' head.
"Zoey, what do you think would be great?" Zoey looked at the list of the songs which were pretty a lot. She tapped her chin and wrote down something on the paper and showed them to the girls. "Does this sound nice?" She asked. The girls took turns reading and shared their own ideas. "I think that song should be the last." Misty pointed to the song title. "Hmm, yeah, maybe." Zoey answered and Misty changed it.
"Anyway what happened to the song you were writing for Dawn?" May asked. "Yeah, are you done with it?" Marina asked. "Hmm? Oh about that, let's try it out Dawn. Shall we?" Dawn blinked for a moment, chewing on her lettuce leafs. "Yeah sure. I hope it's nice." Dawn smiled. "I'm sure it is. It suits your soft voice. Although I'm planning to make you sing some loud music later. But now I am trying to make songs that actually suits into you. Later you will try to suit your voice to the music, you got that?" Dawn nodded, getting slightly excited for the song that Zoey wrote. Even though they shared the room together the girls never really heard Zoey's songs since she had her headphone on her almost all the time.
"Alright, hear it. The lyrics will pop out." Zoey put the headphone on Dawn's head and Dawn listened, mouthing the lyrics. She listened to it about 5 times with Zoey telling her what to do every time. "Girls, can you get out of the room for a moment. Your leader here needs a practice." The others groaned but followed the composer's words and walked out of the room. "It's freezing!" Leaf complained. "Wait, how long are we supposed to be out here?" Marina asked, the girls gulped as a bad feeling came upon them.
Sure enough, it took 30 minutes for Zoey to let them come in. Zoey opened the door and saw 4 almost-froze-to-death girls and quickly let them in. "I'm so going to kill you if this isn't good." May said sniffing. "Yeah, count me in." Marina blew her nose. "Sorry, sorry. Alright, let's hear it!" Zoey started it. The song was soft and the girls loved it before it actually started. Dawn coughed a little and as the right moment came, started to sing.
"A Momentary gleam among the flowing stars
I send out this faint dream, hello hello.
I hope that someday, this wish of mine will reach you!"
Dawn smiled,
"Together in the sky of falling stardust
We gazed upwards
You lined up so many difficult words, smiling
Into the sky you've never seen before,
You are driving your dream forward
So I will hurry forth with your dream
I will dream your dream."
Dawn closed her eyes,
"From within this revolving world
I'm sending it with you, hello hello.
In the wind that brushes against my ears, the rhythm of life.
My voice, loudly calling out to you
It's as if gravity is pulling me in.
No matter how much space is separating us
It will surely reach you."
"You gently fastened the cold, inorganic collar on my neck
And smiled down at me sadly.
The sound of dripping water
Once I'm sure of your love, I will carry forth your dream. I will fly out with your dream."
"From outside the spinning world
I'm sending it to you alone, hello hello.
I wonder if my unreliable voice
Will be able to reach you"
Dawn opened her eyes,
"The world you kept longing for
Is a bit like being underwater…." Dawn looked around a little.
"These droplets that quietly overflow
Are soap bubbles rising to the surface."
Dawn smiled sadly,
"Even if I try to clear my ears
I can't hear a thing
This is actually just a little bit….
Frightening
When the sparkling sun caresses my body
There's a familiar, nostalgic smell
I felt it and I close my eyes."
"A crack of my melting consciousness
A big, blue marble
Right now with these eyes, I'm seeing the continuation of your dream"
"Looking down over the blue earth, search for you and send out this hello, hello.
It's such a beautiful, wonderful world, isn't it?
But even though I want to tell you right away it seems like I can't breathe that well
So I'll just cry out to you with my heart, fly out, my voice."
A tear formed in Dawn's eyes
"A momentary gleam among the flowing stars
It's someone's wish, hello hello
A small fragment of this momentary life
flickered and went out.."
Dawn looked at her friends, "Was it okay?" Her friends blinked. "Okay? It was awesome! Though it was very sad… I loved it." Misty said and Dawn beamed. "Yeah, I know, I know, I'm awesome." Zoey said and the girls laughed. "Your songs are awesome, not you!" May teased. "That was mean you jerk." Zoey said. "Speaking of jerk, I wonder what guys are doing." Leaf said. "Guys? You mean Gary, Drew, Ash, Jimmy and Paul?" May asked. "Yeah, I mean we are friends, right?" Leaf said. "We are but guys these days. They are too immature." Misty said. "Not Paul though, he seemed pretty mature to me." Dawn said. "You shouldn't say those things when you have Drew." May said, teasingly. "He's not my boyfriend for the thousandth times!" She protested with her face as red as a ripe apple. "Can someone then explain to me why Dawn looks like she is about to explode?" Zoey joked.
"Do you dream about him Dawn?" Leaf asked. "No!" Dawn screamed. "She does! Oh my God that is so sweet!" Marina squealed. Girls loved teasing her. "Come on, it's not that embarrassing. It's not like he comes out in naked, right?" The thought made Dawn blush even more and she hid her face in her laps, hugging her legs tightly. "Alright girls, that's enough." May said. "We don't have to tease her. She grabbed Dawn's phone and looked for a number, "Let's tease Drew instead." The girls smiled evilly as they crawled close to May. Dawn tried to prevent it from happening but poor Drew picked up the phone.
"Hello? Dawn?" Drew's voice came out. "Hi Drew!" Drew was surprised to hear Leaf's voice and was sad that it wasn't Dawn. "Hi Leaf, you want me to pass it on to Gary?" He asked. Gary looked up at him. 'Who is it?' He mouthed. 'Leaf.' Drew mouthed back. "We were talking about you and Dawn and we asked her if she dreams about you," "Cut it out!" Dawn's voice came from the background.
"She was like blushing and, oh, do you dream about her too?" Gary was surprised to see that Drew's face was turning red. He raised his eyebrow and elbowed Jimmy to look up. He did and covered his mouth not to laugh. Drew shot a glare. Jimmy elbowed Ash and Paul and Ash burst into laughing while Paul just rolled his eyes. Drew's blush got deeper and deeper as the girls tried to guess who Dawn came out in his dream, though he never had one. "I never dreamed about her so just shut up!" Drew said as he tapped the off button and ran into the bathroom to wash his face. Unfortunately for Drew Jimmy and Gary called the girls and they all teased Drew and Dawn for the rest of the hour. Making Drew think of a ways to murder someone and Dawn thinking about committing suicide.
The next day Dawn didn't talk to any of her friends. "Dawn, you know that it was all a joke, right?" May asked. "No. I don't." Dawn humphed and kept on walking. "Aww, come on!" May kept on apologizing but Dawn kept on not accepting it. "You really pissed me off last night, May." Dawn said with a small growl. "Dawn~~" May whined. Dawn ignored and walked away. May scratched her head and followed.
The guys didn't really bother apologizing to Drew and for Drew, he didn't do anything, not much. He didn't talk to them though. "Drew, pass me the ketchup." Ash said but Drew didn't reply. "Drew, are you mad about that last night?" and the guys started to tease him about that. Again. And for the first time in Drew's life he wanted to hurry up and go to school.
Okay it's done! Woohoo!
Sinnoh Idol will be back next chapter. It will be over soon, don't worry.
I just love teasing Dawn and Drew (laughs like a devil)
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