v5 22 Apr 2007 11:08 pm
Fountain Festival 2
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“Ok! Coming up next is a fountain!”
Jaime was really excited.
“Next up is what you’ve been waiting for! A fountain!”
“All right! The next one will be amazing! A fountain!”
“Right! That one was pretty! What do you think is coming up next, everyone?”
“… Fountain…”
“Bingo! It’s a fountain!”
“……”
“Hey. You told me that it was going to be a fireworks festival, why do we only have fountains?”
Takaaki-kun and the others that came later were seething in unhappiness. They were complaining at me for calling them.
“Yeah… There’s deep reasons for this…”
Jaime fiercely argued this.
“What!? If things went according to senpai’s plan, these would have all been bottle rockets.”
“Like I said, the bottle rockets had a purpose!”
“Those ugly ones aren’t even fireworks!”
“…”
After saying what he wanted, Jaime once again got excited.
“All right! The next fountain! Guess what kind of fountain it’ll be?”
“… The same kind, we think…” We responded.
“No, it’s not!”
“What? Is there some trick?”
“Next is two fountains at once.”
“SIGH……”
So it’s a fountain after all… Well, he did say that was all he bought, so that’s all there was.
To Jaime, who was getting even more excited,
“Hey. How many more fountains do we have…?”
“Don’t worry! There’s a lot!”
“No, we weren’t worried about it. How many are left?”
“Hmm. About 50. We already used a lot.”
“What? Didn’t you say that we had a total of 40?”
“Oh, no, Senpai. I bought some more with my own pocket money.”
“What!? Fountains?”
“Of course. Because it would’ve been a problem if we didn’t have enough.”
It wouldn’t have been problem for anyone…
“You didn’t think at all of getting a variety of fireworks?
“What? Of course.”
What did “of course” mean?
It was torture for this many of the same fireworks to be used.
On the other side of the clearing from our fountain festival (it was already not a fireworks festival), were the figures of stargazing Minako-san and Great Inoue-kun who was keeping her company. Well. It’d be ok as long as they’re doing well.
It turns out that, including those that came later, a total of 14 members came to Hime-pond. The excuse was “we’re doing a fireworks festival, so come.” Of course, if we had told them, “Chuzai-san’s wife’s little sister is here, so come,” everyone would have come, but if we had done that, it would have been impossible for us to give priority to Great Inoue-kun, so we kept the “woman” part hidden.
Of course, the members that came were surprised after seeing Minako-san! I mean, she was the wife that we were yearning for, but younger and single. It was hard to hold it in. But as long as we were able to control Saijon-kun and Takaaki-kun, it was unlikely that the others would rebel, so it wasn’t a bad number.
But. This fireworks festival was a bigger surprise. From the beginning it was a—————-ll only fountains.
Have you all experienced this? The agony of the same fireworks going on and on. The occasional sparklers looked like beautiful jewels to our eyes.
Since we were bored of fountains, we started whispering amongst ourselves about Great Inoue-kun.
“I’m really surprised. That Inoue… He didn’t seem like he had any interest in the wife.”
Well, it was a problem for these guys to have an interest in the “wife,” too…
“Well. She does look different when you look closely. It’s like she’s more lively than the wife.”
“I see. I wonder if that’s what got to him.”
“It seems so. It was almost love at first sight.”
“But she’s 2 years older than us, right?”
“Yeah, she’s a college student.”
“You know, Inoue’s little sister Yuko-chan is really cute, right? He can’t do younger. Probably.”
For Takaaki-kun, it was an analysis that went to the core.
“This probably won’t work out even for Inoue-kun, don’t you think?”
There was no doubt that even Great Inoue-kun agreed with that completely. But even before this, all of us always helped out other members “love.” It was because we had the relief of knowing that they would “usually be rejected.”
“Senpai!”
Jaime was in a rage over our whispering which was ignoring the fireworks.
“Senpai, you’re just making me do them and not even watching the fireworks, huh!?”
“What? Hmmm. It’s ok. I’ve already memorized the fountains completely.”
“All right. If you says so, senpai…”
After saying that, Jaime lit about ten fountains at once and started throwing them at us!
“Y-you idiot! W-what are you doing!? H-hotttt, hoooot!”
It wasn’t even on the scale of the word dangerous.
“Woah! Hot! You idiot! Hott.”
Of course, it wasn’t like Saijoh-kun and Takaaki-kun to just be beaten, so they picked up the fountains and threw them back at Jaime.
But Jaime lit fountain after fountain and threw them indiscriminantly. Pandemonium. Sparks were flying everywhere. It was like having a snowball fight with fountains. It wasn’t on the same level as dangerous. Man, they were hot.
Ironically, these were the most beautiful fireworks of the day.
Minako-san, seeing this, was doubled over with laughter. Next to her was a happy looking Great Inoue-kun.
But fun times pass in an instant much like the fireworks.
“Should we go before it gets too late?”
“We should.”
“Tonight was really fun! Thank you Inoue-kun, everyone.”
The clock had past 9:30. As we tried to leave, a couple youngsters on motorcycles arrived next to us, but this was expected, and Saijoh-kun and Takaaki-kun quickly chased them away.
There was a full array of stars in the sky.
At the end, Minako-san said,
“Oh, oh. Today Ultraman’s family was eating hamburgers at Mc Donald’s. It was about 8 meters.
We laughed. But at the time, country folks had no idea what Mc Donald’s was (sad).
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