This is Not a Diary, It is a Lychee!

[Piefan]

Awake again. Just came home from school. Writing about yesterday's stretched across two entries so far, so I think I'll... yeah, continue writing about it.

After that conversation, I continued standing there in absolute terror while Henry looked like he was going to die from not laughing.

"You should really stop that."
"Stop what?"
"You know damn well what I mean."

I lowered the pole to point at him, just a few inches from his nose. Not really the best weapon, but I take advantage of what I can.

"I can't stop myself from laughing. It's a natural human - er, canine - thing."
"Aell, you probably won't be laughing when I break your jaw with either a punch to the face or this pole."
"I wouldn't be able to if I had a broken jaw."

Still, though, he shut up after that. Then the full jug of lemonade I drank earlier (I was thirsty) kicked in. I didn't even know the cafeteria served that much water anyway... It tasted good though.

Reef had pointed out that our teachers were unlikely to allow us to go to the toilet, but I ignored her. I can hold in my bladder pretty well. But I hadn't gone for 5 hours.

"Can I use your toilet?"
"We're dogs."
"And?"
"Never mind. Yes. Third door from where you're standing now."
"Left or right?"
"There's only one row and it's on the right."

So then I ran off, counting the doors (What d'ya know, maths is useful) and entering the door he told me to. When I came out, it had suddenly stopped raining.

"By the way, there's food in the kitchen if you're hungry."
"Great. Am I going to have to answer a weird quiz or something to get the food?"
"Some of what my parents eat is... unusual in comparison to what most others do, so you're going to have to recognise everything, but apart from that? No. Help yourself to literally anything."

I nodded and wandered there, finding a cabinet that I hadn't noticed the last time I was there. Don't even ask how, it was, like, twice my size. When I opened it, I found that it contained a whole lot of meat. Not that I recognised any. They smelled great, though, and that was good enough for me.

"Dang, Henry, how many animals are in here?"
"A lot. My father once told me that I might as well eat everything in it and he'd refill it so quickly it basically wouldn't matter."

He answered from the living room, 'cause he hadn't followed me. I sniffed again; everything seemed to already be cooked. I took what seemed to be a leg and began to eat it. It tasted savoury and like... mutton, I guess. I don't think I can really compare it to anything. But either way, it was amazing.

"Ah, venison. I had no idea you liked deer meat, Apollo."
"Wait, what?"

I spat it out in disgust and stared at him.

"But... who... why would you eat deer?"
"It's a non-sentient subspecies, no worries."
"But one of my best childhood friends was a deer... Besides, why not stick to the normal chicken and cows and whatever?"

He seriously seemed to not understand why I was freaking out, from the expression he was giving me.

"Normal? Apollo, we kill thousands of chickens every year to eat, and sometimes those chickens can talk. I along with my parents always make sure every animal we hunt absolutely cannot think."
"Wha- You kill them too? And you eat them?"

He shrugged casually, curling his tail around him.

"Yes. Though I personally prefer the taste of wild rabbit."
"But... How..."
"We're dogs, relatives of wolves. It's in our nature to hunt."
"... I'm getting out of here."

And I ran all the way home.
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And that, kids, is why you don't eat a mysterious meat of which origins you have no idea.

[Piefan]

School again.

It wasn't a normal day. At all. Lucy was kicked off the "leader of populars" role. This is basically the conversation. The principal went to our table during lunch, by the way, and her text colour's orange.

"Hello, Lucy, Apollo, Henry, and Reef."
"Um, yes?"
"Lucy, I have come mainly concerning you."
"I didn't kill her!"
"What? Should I be concerned?"

Lucy sweated as she shook her head quickly.

"N-no... Just a little morbid humor."
"Alright then. Anyway, a certain dog told me of the events in your birthday party. I would like to tell you that you are no longer leading the populars. If you wish, you can change your group."
"Oh... okay."

And then she left, not saying another word. Lucy turned to us, and even I couldn't read her expression. It seemed... conflicted, I think? At times her eyes flicked towards the other tables. I'll ask her about it later.

Anyway, I met the new Populars leader. A light blue butterfly wolf.

She came up to us after school. Actually, I think she mainly meant to talk to Lucy, but the rest of us were standing beside her, and she had the decency to at least not ignore us.

"Hey there!"
"Hi, I guess."
"Good day to you. Who are you?"
"My name's, like, Candy. I didn't go to your birthday party 'cause I was totally busy."
"Oh. It was really fabulous though, you should have been there."
"Seriously? But Ruby and Emma told me it was terrible."
"Who are those?"
"Probably some random girls in the Populars."

I yawned, bored by the conversation.

"Yeah, that ugly guy's right."
"So, rather than this random subject-shiftinf conversation, could you just tell us why you're here?"
"Yeah, sure. I just wanted to meet the former leader of the Populars."

She grinned, showing her teeth, which were decaying. I looked away when she did, disgusted.

"Whatever happened to your teeth?"
"Nothing. I just, like, eat a lot of candy."
"O...kay..."

And then we all ran off.
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And no, Lucy didn't kill anyone. It was just a one-off joke.

I for some reason want to include Candy more, if only because her text colours go so well with everyone else's. However, the principal is unlikely to be shown much, especially with Lucy. Their colours look too similar, and the interaction isn't eespecially interesting either.

[Piefan]

Regular day again. Well, apart from the fact lunch was tacos. They tasted really good. The principal stayed in her office (or in the teacher's lounge or whatever), so we ate in peace. Exams are in three weeks. Family reunion in four.

I asked Lucy about the "changing group" thing after school, before heading for home. And her response?

"I think I'll be staying in the Populars. I have a week to decide, so I might change it soon. But whatever."
"But why? Have you seen Candy's teeth? If that's the person in charge, then honestly I'd avoid that group like the plague."
"But the other groups are nerds, jocks, and outcasts. None of which really fit me."
"But after that party, neither does popular."
"True, true. But if I'm goinig to be somewhere that really doesn't describe me, I'd choose Populars."

She yawned, bored, as she slung her backpack over her shoulder.

"Why?"
"I don't think I can explain it, Apollo. Simply said... Even if I'm hated, I want to at least pretend I'm liked."
"Don't you think being honest with yourself is a lot better than that?"

She shrugged, and then ran off on all fours. Why I'm bothering to write those last few words, the all fours part, is that she usually walks on her back legs. I don't know why, don't even ask, she just does. So does Reef. Henry sometimes does, when trying to look formal and learning and all that stuff. I'm the only one who always uses all four legs.

Actually, that probably is because I'm usually running or briskwalking, and even for the others, it's hard to go fast on your hinds.

Otherwise, it was a boring day as I said - um, wrote - earlier. Goodbye, Lychee, need to do my chores now.
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If we're not one but two, are we evil or good? Do we walk the fine line we'd all cross if we could? Are we waiting... to break through the FAÇADE?

Fun fact: The quote above is from a musical. Of which Henry and Lucy are based off.

(Hint: The song is called simply Façade.)

[Piefan]

Lychee, today were the exams. They were all on the same day - Gates knows why - so lunch was the only time Henry got to study.

He literally didn't eat anything. He gave his food to us - rabbit meat. Gross. It did taste kinda nice though. He only told us when Lucy asked anyway, so we all ate it happily before realising what it was. He still stands by the "we're dogs" thing.

The papers themselves were fine. Not that hard.

I don't know why, but the moment I wrote that I felt like somebody was reading this and was instantly like "Yeah, right." I swear I wasn't lying though. Henry did sorta start tutoring me at lunch about two days before the exams, so that may have had something to do with it.

Most of these lessons were basically Henry screaming "SERIOUSLY APOLLO HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO GET THAT THEORY FROM THE INFORMATION GIVEN?!" I think everyone guessed that I had his help by now.

Yeah, I probably should have written about that earlier. And I could add that at the back of those entries. But I'm never going back; the past is in the past!

But I'm getting off-topic here. The exams were blah blah blah, blah blah blah. I'm really excited for the family reunion in a couple days. They just sent a letter.

I'm going to sleep now.
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I'll give a free slave - um, pet to the first person who catches that 'Let it Go' reference - and it has gone to CookeLittleKitten! Also, I know this is seriously short. Maybe next one will be longer. Family reunion, bro.

[Piefan]

Lychee~! Today was the family reunion as I said earlier, held at my cousin's house.

(No, that cousin isn't Reef.)

It was great. It was about two hours long and held in the evening. Meaning I had an excuse for staying up late. Actually, it's on a weekend, so technically I would have had one anyway, but still.

I can't sleep, so I might as well write everything that happened in detail. Yayy.

My immediate family walked to the building on paw. We were right on time according. But the rest of my family has a history of being late, so we were the first ones there. Excluding the actual hosts, of course. But even they were out because, according to the paper taped up on the door:

If you're here this early, there's something wrong.

... Actually, that wasn't exactly a reason. But... um... never mind, lemme think of an excuse first.

But, I'll just move on. It took a few minutes until they came back. And then the reunion started. I don't know why, but the moment the hosts were there, everyone else suddenly came.

Including Reef.

Dang, I forgot about her. I decided to ignore her, since she was just reading a novel, and remembered that I was going to ask my aunt to play me that song at Lucy's party. She gave me the sheet music. It's one of those things I probably should have mentioned earlier.

Why did you think my entries were so short?

So anyway, I showed it to Aunt Amelia and she was holding her fiddle, so...

"C'mon, everybody, gather 'round. I'm playing a song."
"Was there ever a sentence where that Southern accent was any more obvious?"
"Wha- when did you get here? Weren't you just sitting there reading?"
"I was. I finished the book five minutes ago."
"But that was, like, a thousand pages long!"
"Did I ever mention that I am a fast reader?"

Then Aunt began to play.

It was a nice song. Kinda complicated at the middle, but still good. Actually, I pretty much say everything I listen to is nice, so that may have something to do with it. My father says I just have really lowered expectations.

Reef seemed to recognise it. Not much of a surprise.

"That was great, Aunt Amelia. I quite regret not listening the last few times you played; I was not aware you were so skilled with the violin."
"Thanks, Reef."
"Wait, violin? I thought that was a fiddle."
"That's 'cause it is one."
"So it's not a violin then."
"Apollo... You know nothing about instruments, I imagine. The two are different names for the same thing. I-"
"Shut up."

She scowled at me before walking off.

Looking back, yeah, I probably was a little rude. But I hated her, the reunion was supposed to be happy, and that remark did seem pretty sarcastic to me. My aunt did seem to notice that, from the expression she was giving me.

"Apollo...
'What?"
"Go apologise to her."
"But you aren't my mother, last time I checked."
"You're right, I'm not. But I am the adult here, with a kitchen knife on the table beside me.'

I'll continue this tomorrow; it'll be Sunday so I'll have a whole lot of time.
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Also I really wanted to name the aunt of 'Pollo "Auntie Lucy" - kudos if you get the joke - btu not only was it unfitting, I didn't want anyone to get confused with the other Lucy.

I know I was supposed to post this yesterday, from the one-entry-a-day schedule I set up, but this was supposed to be much longer. I just cut it into half (thirds?) because I haven't finished the entire thing. Also I was too lazy to think of a proper title, so I just took the format from "Martha Speaks" - proper noun and simple present tense verb - and changed it to Reef Reads!

[Piefan]

I've slept, it's seven a.m in the morning, and I'm bored, so I'll continue writing now.

I looked around and found Reef. Again reading another book. She must have brought a whole lot of them...

So I walked towards her. She seemed to not even notice me. Im pretty sure it wasn't the silent treatment, whatever that is, because she actually seemed to be too absorbed in her book to bother with me. If she was purposely trying to ignore me, then she would have turned away when I walked towards her. Also, she didn't look up, she seemed to be excited by whatever was happening in the story, and eagerly turned the pages every few minutes. She isn't that skilled in acting.

I coughed.

"Oh. Hello."
"Hi. I hope I didn't interrupt your reading."
"You did. But this chapter is about the main character being annoyed by her cousin, and your chattering does help set the mood."
"Um... Okay. Anyway, Aunt is forcing me to either die or apologise to you. So I'm sorry for telling you to shut up. Even though you were pretty annoying."
"Apollo, that is possibly the most insincere apology I have ever heard. But I was neither angry nor any other negative emotion - save for apathetic, but I am unsure if that is even an emotion, seeing as it is simply the lack of such - and thus, it was unnecessary to apologise. Therefore, you are forgiven."

Someone explain to me what she just said. Henry's 'what-in-the-name-of-Gates-did-she-just-say' is rubbing off on everyone.

"What?"
"No matter. What do you plan on spending the rest of this celebration doing?"
"We're in a family reunion. What do you think I'd do?"
"Right. Bond with your family."
"Yeah. And mainly wait for dinner."

She stared at me, sighed, and then walked away. Bored, I just watched as Aunt Amelia continued to play some other songs. Most country.

Then it was dinnertime. As it turns out, people do custom-made thirty-feet-long tables. Who knew?

The food was fine, and surprisingly enough for about a hundred people. (Yeah, we have a huge family...)

While everyone else was talking, Reef was just sitting around looking sad.

"Excuse me, could somebody pass the salt?
Anybody? At all? Please?"
"Here, before you get sentimental over your food."

I passed her a salt shaker, she took it and sprinkled it over her soup.

"Why would I-"
"Don't ask."

She gazed at me, shrugged, and then continued.

Once the celebration was over, we said our goodbyes and left.
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Damnit. I should try ending the next entry less flatly.

Also, I'm running out of new ideas, so I'm accepting characters now in hopes that they'll come to me. I'll stop probably when I get about five.

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A little warning, though: I probably won't post a new entry for about two days. I'm a slow writer, and I didn't start anything new in advance like I did for the rest. However, if I do, I'll probably write a little something to make up for it.

[Polar Kitten]

I love this! I started reading, and I can't stop! I also caught the "true true friend" reference from My Little Pony on one of the other pages. This is great! Keep writing :)

[Piefan]

Thanks a lot! :D

(Sometimes I do wish people would give me a 'you know, you should improve on this, you messed up on this', though. Anyone out there?)

[CookieCat000]

Name: Cookie

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Gender: female

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Group: "We don't have groups at my old school but its a new one now :/" I dunno, outcast or nerd?

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Personality: She is positive and normally extremely happy, but when shes angry...


Well, you don't wanna know O-o (She basically destroys trashes the room)
She is also mature and smart, and is addicted to computer games, books, and drawing.

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Other: Meep

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[Piefan]

Soo, two days ago I got the job of school tour guide. How'd that happen, you ask? I have no idea. Basically, I fell asleep in class, woke up, stretched, and then it turned out that the teacher was just asking for volunteers. (Well, exams just ended, so it's natural that I'd sleep in class.) She assumed that I wanted the job, and so... Yeah.

On the good side, though, I did get a shiny new badge. Hooray for badges!

My first assignment was this dog named Pony.

Weird name, I know, but I ain't judging.

It was the beginning of school when she came, and Henry gave me a list of everything I should show her.

• Library
• Cafeteria
• Field

Actually, he seemed to miss out on a lot of things. But whatever, moving on. I did fogret the exact conversation between me and her, so these are just guesses.

"You're Pony, right? I was expecting an actual pony..."
"Yep."
"Okay then, I'm your tour guide, blah blah blah, let's go."

So then, we continued, and I showed her everything on the list. And also the music room, because apparently she likes music.

Tomorrow another new student is being introduced. I heard she's a cat.

Well, goodbye, Lychee!
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I did kinda lose the PMs discussing what would happen between me and TheFabulousHorse... Should be posted in er fabulous horseshoe here!