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 Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 9:31 pm
...And the bell signifying 4th period's end rang. Yesss! Lunch! Rosse made a victory fist and slung her backpack over her shoulder, hurrying outside to eat.
There really was nothing like a little school to take your mind off crazy things, right? Well, not right, actually. For Rosse, math was easy. Thus, she'd either finish it quickly, and she'd start thinking about things, or it would be boring and tedious (copy down these 5 problems and this big ole table and use the big old table to do the problems even though they're easy and you can do them in your head sort of thing) and she'd get distracted and then start thinking about things. Either one kinda sucked, really. And what was there for her to think about? Lots. She'd gone to a farm last weekend. Their families were friends (they being the people on the farm), yeah yeah, crazy farm people, okay, normal weekend at the farm. Aaaand she'd left the farm smuggling home a magical cat spirit in her suitcase. Weird? Uh, yeah.
So far this week, said cat spirit - his name was Shinkujaku, Shunku for short - had taken up a pile of pillows in her room, eaten some of her food, and basically told her nothing. She wasn't sure how she felt about this arrangement, but hopefully Shinku would get a lot more interesting pretty fast. It was kinda inconvenient housing a magical being when the magical being didn't do anything in return for you. But oh well- it was Friday. Shinku'd have the whole weekend to suddenly make himself interesting real fast. Not that he wasn't interesting already, of course. How many times could you expect to meet a cat with wings and a rooster tail!?
Scratching her cheek, Rosse shifted her backpack and started looking around for Coal, who she was gonna eat lunch with. If she could find her.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:11 am
"Aaaargh!" Coal yelled as she ran out of the cafeteria. She was wearing a false mustache along with matching sideburns. Her eyes spotted Rosse and sighed in relief.
"Hide me," was the first thing she told her friend as she ducked behind her. She peeled off her mustache and her sideburns and stuffed them into her backpack. "The lunch lady is after me, I swear." she told Rosse. "I just stole twenty-five cents worth of chips, and she starts chasing after me." she got up slowly and turned around to make sure that no one was behind her. "I bet she's calling the principle now,"
Coal shook her head and smiled. "Anyways, how's life?" she asked as she took the stolen bag of chips from her pocket. She began to open it. It wouldn't open. Then she began to chew on it. The bag still didn't budge. Angrily, she squeezed the bag hoping that it would pop. Still, nothing happened. This frustrated her. She threw the bag on the floor and began stomping all over it. The bag of chips popped open revealing nothing but smushed crumbs.
"Awww figgerwizzle," she muttered as she picked up the bag. She pulled out a handful of crumbs and offered some to Rosse. "Want some?"
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:30 am
Rosse laughed as Coal, hurrying toward her with fake facial hair on, came and hid behind her.
"You're insane, I swear," she muttered as her friend checked for the lunch lady. "Life is... life is good. It's very... very lifelike," she replied, although her stomach had lurched into jitters. She couldn't hide the fact of Shinku forever, could she? And he was the one always telling her not to keep him quiet (except, of course, from her mother), that he wasn't stolen goods and that the world had a right to know about him. Well, piffle! He should try convincing an ordinary human being that he wasn't a hallucination and see how that went. Not that she'd told anyone, but still. Coal was bound to find out eventually, and Rosse'd rather that her friend find out from her, face-to-face, as opposed to telling her through e-mail, or over the phone, or the worst one of all-- Coal coming over to her house and finding a winged cat sitting in her room.
"Sure!" She reached into the busted bag and pulled out a large pinch of crumbs, then tilted her head back and let the crumbs fall into her open mouth. "Hey, uh... Coal?" she asked, the jitters in her stomach getting even more pronounced. "This, uh... this really weird thing happened to me last weekend, at the farm..." Rosse's fingers were twisting madly together now, as they had a tendency to do whenever she was nervous.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:41 am
"Did you pee in your pants?" Coal guessed as she crammed the bag of chips back in her pocket. "That happened to me at a field trip to the pumpkin patch in preschool. My teacher asked me why my white pants were yellow and I told her I spilled lemonade during lunch. Then she told me that we haven't eaten lunch yet, and the whole class was laughing." she smiled. “But you’ll get over it soon. It’s not like it wasn’t just your family watching you stain your pants.” she put an arm around Rosse’s shoulder and laughed.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:59 pm
Rosse snickered a bit at Coal's pee-pants story. Nothing like the tale of how your friend peed her pants to make you feel better.
"No it wasn't that, thank god," she laughed. "No, it was something... pretty..." She took a breath. "Pretty weird, actually." Her teeth chewed viciously on her lowere lip for a few moments before going on. "You know what a Maneki Neko is, right? Those... Japanese cat statues... you know, the ones that wave? Well, the thing is..." She took an orange out of her backpack and set to peeling it, fumbling a little with the uncooperative peel. She wasn't planning on actually eating the orange. But it gave her fingers something to do. "I... they... see, the thing is..." Rosse gave up on the orange, plunking it back into her pack and twisting the teeny bit of peel she'd managed to scrape off between her thumb and forefinger. "I met one of these cats, only he was a spirit, 'cause some of the cats have spirits, and apparently he did, and if they have spirits, sometimes they come out of the figurine, and the brink luck and stuff, and I took him home in my suitcase, and, uh... he's living in my room right now," she finished lamely, quite aware of the fact that she'd been rambling on nervously. Coal probably now thought she was nuts. Oh well.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:09 pm
"April Fools was like, twenty-one days ago," Coal rolled her eyes. "It's not possible to keep a cat in a suitcase. You're lying. You probably brought it in a backpack." she crossed her arms. "And I have this cat too, that can write and morph into weird stone thingamajigs!" she smiled. She reached into her backpack and pulled out a photograph. Most of the photo was covered up by her hand, but in the corner was a brown kitten which has a faint light around it. It was morphing into was Coal has called, a "weird stone thingamajig".
She pointed to Rosse's orange. "Are you gunna eat that?" she asked while holding her stomach.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 4:52 pm
"Not, like, a briefcase! A big ol' suitcase that you pack your clothes in and stuff!" Rosse leaned over and looked at the picture. A brown kitten seemed to be going into a Maneki figurine. Rosse stared at the picture some more, unable to believe what she was seeing. Not possible not possible not ferking possible. "No, I'm uh... here," she said, tossing the orange over to her friend.
She leaned closer to Coal-- the girl didn't want to know what would happen if someone heard her. "Coal. This cat has wings. This isn't a joke. I swear, this cat is real." Rosse dug around in her brain for something to prove she wasn't a nut. "Where'd you get that figurine? I mean, that weird stone thingey? Did you get it from a shop called Maneki Neko?"
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