As Seto and Yami continually talked and sometimes argued, Mokuba and Maura were getting bored. Another show had started but Mokuba wasn't that interested. Mostly because it was the same show, they'd just seen. Then Mokuba spotted a young girl eating something yellow. It looked good. However, the girl looked like she was either waiting for someone or was bored and was lightly swinging her body back and forth, making it difficult for Mokuba to make out what it said on the side of the cup. He hated asking what something said. Now that he could read he preferred to try to figure things out on his own. But he knew he wasn't going to be able to do it. He'd have to ask for help.
"M-Maura."
"What?"
"L-look what that girls got."
Maura turned and looked.
"Ooo, that looks good. I wonder where she got it?"
"W-what is it?"
"Let's go find out." Maura said, getting up.
Mokuba, not wanting her to leave him alone, quickly got up and went after her.
Maura was anything but shy. She walked right up to the girl. "Excuse me."
"Can I help you?"
"Yes, what is that you're eating and where did you get it?"
"Oh, this it's frozen lemonade. They don't sell any during the winter carnival; they reserve it only for the summer. Their big seller is hot coco."
'What's hot coco?' Mokuba wondered. But didn't want to seem dumb by asking. He could tell by the look on Maura's face she knew what it was.
"Really? Wow, I haven't had hot coco in a long time." Maura said.
"My name's Ren."
"I'm Maura and this is Mokuba."
"Hi." Mokuba said.
"Ren, that's an interesting name." Maura said.
Ren rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah. My parents are bird watchers when they have free time. They happen to love Ren's. They were just weird and thought it was a cool name."
"I'm not really into birds. What does a wren look like?" Maura asked.
"You know those small birds you see all the time?"
"Yeah." Maura said.
"Well those small birds are called sparrows. Well, they are smaller than that and their tails stick straight up."
"Oh, yeah. My stepmother hated them. She said they were way too noisy. I heard one once when she was complaining. Though it was noisy it had a beautiful voice."
"Yeah, hey you guys were watching the puppet show, right? Would you like to see the puppets and how the shows are made?"
"I already know how." Maura said. But then caught the disappointed look on Mokuba's face and then added. "But Mokuba hasn't, so let's go. You sure we won't get into trouble for this?"
"No, my family owns this carnival. That's why the vendor always has a couple of frozen lemonades when he doesn't even sell them in winter. He knows that I love frozen lemonade. I'll eat it even if it's snowing. He thinks I'm strange but doesn't charge me for it. Come on, trust me it'll be fine."
Mokuba and Maura followed her around to the side and watched the show from back there.
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After the second show ended, Seto and Yami were knocked out of their arguing by little kids running past them. They didn't realize how long they'd been arguing till Seto looked up and noticed something missing.
"Yami, where are the kids?"
Yami looked up and his eyes went wide. "I-I don't know."
"Great, while we're standing here arguing they've wandered off." Seto said.
"Seto, I'm sure they're here somewhere. I'm sure Mokuba wouldn't go too far."
"I see you didn't include your little girl in that sentence. As for Mokuba, he seems to be getting more attached to her. I'm not sure he wouldn't follow her if she were to wander off and ask him to go."
"What is it about Maura that you can't accept?"
Before another argument could start, they hear two young kids fighting. They look over and Seto smiles seeing the two boys fighting over a toy.
"What's so amusing about kids fighting?" Yami asked.
"That's us." Seto said.
Yami looked at him like he was crazy.
"Don't you remember? Father got me that toy train and I refused to let you see it."
"Seto we were 7 and 8 when that happened. What made you think of that?"
"I don't know. Come on."
"Where are we going?"
"To find our kids."