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Vol. 1

This is mixing Japanese and American culture btw so yeah

It was a hot hot morning, obviously since the city was in the middle of a desert. In an apartment building titled: Ugly-Ass Building™, lived a senior in high school named Popee Paraphone and the father who nobody except his coworkers knows where he works named Papi Paraphone.

"Again?" Popee asked. "Yes," Papi replied, "Oh come on! I'm seventeen I don't need a babysitter anymore!"

"Well you can be very unpredictable and I'm very busy, you've also proved to be a danger when you're alone," Papi replied and that was that. Popee complained and argued with Papi the whole time until Kedamono arrived.

Kedamono was this fatass motherfucker who's 25 and a college student. Popee doesn't remember his major he never bothered to remember. He's been babysitting Popee since Popee was 14 and the only babysitter who would stick with him. Kedamono entered the room and listened to Papi on whatever we was talking about.

"Have fun~" Papi cheerfully said and left. Right after Popee knew Papi was gone he went to his bedroom, changed from his bunny onesie into some pink clothes, put a little makeup (he does NEED to look pretty), and left his apartment. The apartment building was tall and grey, with cracks seeping into the walls and the smell of dust, depression, and debt in the air. It wasn't a great apartment but Papi still chose this one because it was cheap.

"Popee! Wait up!" Kedamono called out and ran out to Popee, "Ugh," Popee grumbled as the people either stared at him of avoided his glares. He did have a reputation of violence and juvenile detention tagging along with him.

"Where are we going this time?" Popee asked

"Um, I was hoping to go to this show I guess," Kedamono said and they began walking again. They traveled under the incredibly hot sun before reaching a big building with a yellow sign saying: 日本の物語 - 無料

"Heard it's really good," Popee mumbled, "It is. My theater professor performs there-" Kedamono informed, oh his major was theater

"Shut up," Popee interrupted and they entered the theater. It was big, crowded, and dark, a couple of people were talking and whispering when they saw Popee. Popee and Kedamono sat down and they bought a few snacks from the indoor vendors, Popee was getting impatient and considered leaving but then the curtains opened and Kedamono immediately recognized his professor playing as the old woman from Momotarō.

"Oh hey that's Kimurasan," Kedamono whispered to himself as Popee ignored him

"ああ、私の!" Ms. Kimura dramatically gasped as the smallest man Popee has ever seen popped out of the peach prop. He munched on the popcorn a little louder than necessary and Kedamono gave him a glance that said "Shut the fuck up"
It was 30 minutes into the show before Popee started to get frustrated with the man behind him, his stupid smelly feet on Popee's seat. Popee dug into his pocket for his knife but realized he forgot to bring it, he wanted to get out of the house so badly he forgot to grab his knife, dagger, and the handgun he stoled somehow, in that order. Dang.

Popee then noticed a vendor selling kendamas for a cheap price and he asked Kedamono for some money. Kedamono gave Popee some money and bought the kendama, then, when the man shifted his feet a little too close to Popee's head he stood up and began beating the man with the kedamana.

"HOLY SHIT!" The man screamed as Popee cursed him out and Kedamono's enjoyed mask was replaced with a surprised mask and then an 'Oh my god' mask, trying to calm down as the play went on. A security guard quickly pulled Popee off the man and dragged him outside with Kedamono walking behind the two.

***

Kedamono was inside the police station reading a magazine until Popee came out.

"No juvie?"

"Only a warning,"

They exited the station as Kedamono's mask switched from a poker face mask to a stern mask as he began lecturing the blonde, "You know if you continue being like this the police won't take it easy on you anymore,"

"Whatever," Popee grumbled as he crossed his arms, "How about we instead go to Starbucks instead?" Kedamono suggested, "I'm not sure they'll allow us in the theater,"

***

Inside the Starbucks it was also very crowded, the walls were painted a pastel brown and the staff had smiles on their faces with intense eyes. "Hi there! What would you like today?" Said the barista

"Can I have coffee please?" Kedamono asked

"And you?" The barista

"Uh, a cake pop and a strawberry milkshake,"

"Alright! Everything else?"

And Kedamono began to order 90% of the food on the menu, the barista must have also caught on he was a fatass because the barista gave him a side eye on every new food he puts on his money.

***

Kedamono and Popee were walking around together, it was awkward and they didn't know what to do, "Do you want to go home?" Kedamono asked

"Yeah maybe there's something good on TV,"

They walked all the way back to the apartment and once they did Kedamono was finished with his food.

Popee turned on the TV and a movie called: Sausage Party, was playing. "Do you have chicken?"

"Yeah, we ordered takeout last night," Popee replied

Kedamono grabbed the plastic package and placed it in the microwave, "What movie is that?"

"Uh something called 'Sausage Party'," Popee mumbled, the microwave beeped, Kedamono took out the package and sat down next to Popee, eating the chicken as he shared with Popee.

The whole time Kedamono and Popee thought it was a kid's movie but it turned out to be anything but kid friendly. The animation looked like it was from a kid's movie too.

"Um..." Kedamono mumbled, breaking the loud silence 5 minutes after the movie. "So, your father said he was returning at nine fifty so I think it's time to go pack your backpack-"

"Wait what day is today?"

"Sunday,"

"FUCK!"

"Hey! Watch your language!" Kedamono scolded as Popee stomped towards his room to pack his backpack, a small, light pink backpack with a small white rabbit keychain his sister gifted him.

"Hey!" Papi announced, strutting in like a model. "Thank you Kedamono," He thanked and gave Kedamono money, Kedamono nodded, said something, and left the apartment, "Popee! Be ready for school tomorrow! Also did you get in trouble again?"

That fucking snitch 

END

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Vol. 2

"Popee wake up! It's Monday!"

Fuck

Popee rose halfway through and cracked his hips before slopping out of his bed. He grabbed his uniform and a few accessories before going into the bathroom to change, apply some makeup, and put on a small rabbit hairclip with a pink bracelet. He looked nice as always.

He sat down at the table eating his eggs as Papi rambled about doing well in school and don't get into trouble blah blah blah, he grabbed his backpack, stuffed his knife and dagger, some other stuff, and left.

Popee noticed he didn't finish his homework and figured maybe he'll some of his incomplete homework somewhere in break

***

Popee was at his high school, The High School™, late.

The school was tall and small but still stands
A little too close to the desert sands
The graffiti was a colorful spree
"ALFREDO WAS HERE" some silly glee
"DAVID LIKES OSAMI" Childish indeed
We're in high school drop that please (or not)
And the rest of the colorful blurs
Are just different kinds of slurs

Popee walked inside the high school, considerely empty since school started, he walked towards his first class of the day, English. After walking, he slammed the door open.

"Popee you're late!" The teacher scolded, Popee just rolled his eyes and sat down, much to the teacher's annoyance. "Alright...class, it's your last year in The High School™ and then you all will be the class of 2024! Isn't that exciting?"

"No-" One student said

"Shut up. It will be exciting," The teacher said

***

It was lunch and Popee had a whole table to himself. Nobody really wanted to interact with him in any shape or form and whenever there was a project everyone tried to pair up with anyone except for Popee, I mean some were not so lucky but they did all the work sometimes (emphasis on sometimes) so they restrict the amount of interaction with Popee.

Popee was just there, thinking about fake scenarios that will never happen until he got up and threw his lunch away. He didn't even touch it he just threw it away and left, sure he's gonna get hungry later it's just the food was moldy and getting cold. Popee was walking down the hall, intending to skip school as his least favorite class is coming up, and bumped into a classmate.

"Watch it fatass!" The classmate yelled

"The fuck you're calling fatass?" Popee snapped back and pushed him, the fatass shoved Popee back and swung a punch but missed horribly.

"Popee's getting into a fight!" The local nosy person shouted and a crowd surrounded them, Popee kneed and elbowed the classmate as hard as he could while the classmate tried to block him with his limbs.

Popee hit the classmate in the jaw and pulled out his knife. Before he could stab him in the guts the teacher pulled them apart and Popee put away his knife, he and the classmate were dragged to the principal's office as the classmate tried shifting the blame onto Popee.

"He started it!"

"No you did!" And before the two could assault each other the teacher pulled them both as they continued walking to the principal's office. After some walking they arrived.

The principal's office feels weird. Like an apartment office of an attempting-to-be-successful worker in a corny comedy movie or whatever. I mean it's sorta okay looking but it could do better.

The pale brown walls aren't going well with the light yellow lights that sometimes flicker, it's awkwardly big with small, thin, black shelves on the side that have books and stacks of papers plus a dusty printer pressed up against a middle of a wall.

"Popee Paraphone...Haru Suzuki, never in my 26 years of being a principal have I seen behavior this bad,"

"You have," Popee reminded

"Shut it. Like I said, never in my 26 years of being a principal have I had behavior this bad but I'm nice so I'll hear both sides of the story, Popee, go first,"

"We bumped into each other and he called me a fatass,"

"That's because you are,"

"You've collapsed in P.E. 4 times who's the fatass now?"

"Stop it! Both of you, Haru let's hear your side of the story,"

"He pushed me like a bitch,"

"You're a bitch,"

"Who you calling a bitch? Bitch!"

"You! Wow you're a fatass and a dumbass,"

"Stop! Both of you 20 minutes of detention!"

***

The rest of the day was shitty. Popee forgot to do his incomplete homework during lunch (he didn't do it during break) and he got another G. Yes G, it's a made up grade by the teacher that transfers as an F. Then, there was the detention, Haru kept glaring at him and whining, he would have punched him if the teacher watching over them and the rest in the detention room got tired of Haru's whining and sprayed him with a fire extinguisher.

After detention he expected Papi with his light blue van and a lecture about causing trouble since the office made a call to him but instead it was a blocky red-orange van with Kedamono waving at him in his light orange hoodie and white shorts with light brown sandals. Popee flipped him off and would have turn his back and walked away when he saw a little girl behind Kedamono with a smile.

She had short gray hair with gray eyes that looked innocent yet mischievous and was in a light blue dress with light pink buttons also in white lace socks and blue shoes with sky blue bows on them.

"Marifa?"

"Hey Popee!"

END

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Vol. 3 

Marifa would have never thought Kedamono would pick her up. I mean, it's been like 5 months since she last saw him, to be honest she kinda missed him even though it would take him a whole police unit to pry him away from the KFC counter, she knows from experience, don't ask about it. 

When Kedamono arrived she was so surprised until her mom, Manya, explained to her Papi and her reached an agreement to let the kids see each other again since the last time was also 5 months ago, physically. Marifa was glad since she really wanted to ask Popee his number so they could text without her having to call Papi and hope Popee was there. 

Seeing Popee physically though was like seeing a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Anyway, she ran over and hugged him aggressively, much to Popee's discomfort (he doesn't like hugs very much) Marifa must have noticed because she pulled back with an 'oh shit' look and whispered "Igottotellyoueverything,"

She dragged Popee to the blocky van and began yapping about the drama at her middle school, "Okay, it was break and there are two girls I'll call J and K," Marifa said, getting into the van with Popee following and Kedamono getting into the driver's seat.  

***

Kedamono was driving the van to the park as he wanted to hang out there, he'd love to hang out at the theater but they'd wouldn't welcome Popee so easily. Maybe the movie theaters but physical activity was important. Kedamono's mask was a happy face as he heard Popee and Marifa talking endlessly. "We're going to the park," Kedamono announced and turned on the radio

"The mother has a daughter, who gets married to the brother of the mother

And they all just tryna multiply with one other"

"Wait!" Marifa yelled, "I've heard this before!"

"Where?" Kedamono questioned

"Gacha Life,"

"Huh?" Kedamono's mask got replaced with a confused one

"It's a dress up game," 

"Oh," Kedamono's mask switched to an "Oh okay" mask and continued driving. He stopped at the park and texted Papi where Popee, Marifa, and he was.

Kedamono: We're at Hyperpigmentation Park

RuPapi: 👍

At the park everything was calm and no one was there. The trees were calm, the clouds were serene, and the air was crisp and fresh, the whole scene was similar to a Renaissance painting. Marifa and Popee were hanging from the monkey bars while Kedamono watched nearby. 

"And the J punched K right in the nose!" Marifa said, "Also, you know how heck is a fusion of fuck and hell? I wonder how fuck and hell combined together makes a family-friendly swear," 

"Language!" Kedamono scolded, his smiling mask getting replaced with a frowny mask. 

"Anywho, how's Dad?" Marifa questioned

"He's fine I guess...and Mom?"

"Um I don't know she's like there but not really there? Eh I don't know," Marifa let go of the monkey bars and landed, almost falling back. "You know I'm thirsty," Marifa said as Popee landed beside her, "Yeah me too,"

"Kedamono!" Marifa yelled out

"Yeah?" Kedamono asked, walking towards them

"Do you have any drinks?"

"Uh yeah I do," Kedamono reaffirmed and went to his van to pull out a cooler of drinks, how convenient. Popee and Marifa took their sodas and Kedamono took a water bottle. Kedamono was also feeling hungry so naturally he said,

"Let's go to KFC,"

Which also naturally triggered a flashback for Marifa, back then Kedamono used to babysit Marifa and one day Marifa suggested to go to KFC, the police unit had to pry Kedamono off of the KFC counters. Fun times!!!

Kedamono also must have noticed Marifa's uneasiness because he said, "Don't worry,"

"How about Waffle House instead?" Marifa suggested

"Waffle House has waffle in their name," 

"Waffle House has...chicken?"

"But KFC also has chicken in their name,"

"Too much chicken,"

"You could never have too much chicken!"

"Yes, you could have too much,"

"Okay, how about this, KFC first and then Waffle House?"

Marifa and Popee shared a glance before turning their backs to whisper to each other, "Why did you suggest Waffle House?" 

"KFC gives me flashbacks also because I like waffles,"

"Can we just say no?" Popee's stomach grumbled a bit. Marifa's growled a bit louder but not too loud. Kedamono's growled louder than comfortable.

"Okay nevermind," Popee mumbled

"How about we just go to KFC, order a bit of food, and once Kedamono's finished, we grab his wallet, pay the food, and drag ourselves out of there as fast as we can?"

"Whatever," 

Both turned around and nodded. Kedamono's mask was an extremely happy mask.

***

They were at KFC and Marifa and Popee started regretting not saying no. Kedamono was ordering the food, not caring a bit the worker taking his order was the same woman who witnessed the KFC and Kedamono incident. 

"That's...230 dollars..."

Kedamono gave her the money and went to sit down, perfectly happy he reduced his wallet by 40% Popee and Marifa sat down in front of Kedamono. "So, like, what were the flashbacks?" Popee asked, mildly curious and bored

"When I was 9 I was with Kedamono and I suggested we go to KFC and Kedamono was excited, we went to go there and I think the cost was like around 500 or 600 dollars I can't remember and dear lord was the food like...like it could barely fit the table and even after 2 hours of eating that Kedamono wanted more and the lady we ordered food from was like 'nah' and Kedamono wanted more thanks to his hunger and everything gets blurry here, probably for the best, and the workers get concerned so they call the police. The police came and Kedamono was still hungry so they called for more backup, and more backup, and more and more it was a long line think the Human Centipede 3 line even though you might not want to but that's how much police was there, eventually Kedamono surrendered after 2 and a half hours and that was the incident,"

"Well that's Kedamono for you," Popee commented

"Order 411!" The worker called out

Kedamono went to pick up the food, gave the kids their orders, and began chomping out his order so fast he almost choked. Kedamono finished when the siblings were barely 1/3 done with their food. "Can I have some?"

Popee and Marifa shook their heads. "I'm going to order more chicken-" When the whole restaurant heard aggresive screaming from outside. It was two groups of people wearing different colored bandanas around their ankles and wrists and they seemed to be carrying guns or knives. Kedamono got concerned and then there was a fight. That was the right motivation for Kedamono to ask a server for them to get out of the KFC quickly (I know Kedamono's morals magically disappear when it comes to chicken but in here he has some common sense) while carrying the chicken. 

After getting out of the KFC Kedamono and the siblings scrambled to Kedamono's van which was luckily parked a bit far and Kedamono questioned, "Do you guys still wanna go to Waffle House?"

"No," They both responded

END

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Vol. 4 

It was school, again. Fucking god. 

Popee was getting tired but at least the thing he's looking forward to is hanging out with Marifa again at Waffle House later. 

"Wake up!" Papi yelled, Popee contemplated pulling out his stolen gun and shooting Papi before getting ready. He dressed like usual and headed to school.

***

He was late again

Popee walked into the school, backpack slung over his shoulder, took one look at the English classroom, and decided he wasn't going to deal with that bullshit and went to the bathrooms. 

The bathrooms were disgusting, with sticky floors and little crumpled pieces of toilet paper. Plus the walls were beginning to peel and a urinal was missing. Popee checked the 3 stalls, one stall had no toilet since it was destroyed except for the hole, one had some red stuff all over the toilet and walls with a light cover in the toilet, and one looked normal so Popee chose that one. After 15 minutes a couple of guys walked into the bathroom and Popee heard the sounds of laughter as smoke filled the bathroom.

"Yeahhh my bitch is so damn fine," A voice mumbled as the other guys laughed and talked. "Hey man," One guy whispered

A trash can, filled with trash and what Popee was assuming used condoms flew over the stall door Popee was in and nearly hit him. He was lucky he chose to sit on the lid of the toilet since if he didn't it probably would have hit him. The guys laughed and Popee got pissed so he grabbed the trash can (even though he probably shouldn't) and threw it back.

"Ey! Who the fuck did that?!"

Then there was banging at the stall door and Popee banged back. "Bitch open up!" 

Popee swung the stall door open, hitting one of the guys before closing it and locking it. The banging continued as the boys cursed out Popee until a supervisor came into the bathroom and called every one out.

"Hello?" The supervisor knocked on the stall and Popee refused to come out. 

"If you don't come out I'll have to give you detention for 10 minutes!"

"Sure,"

"That's it! Detention for 10 minutes...uh...uh...Popee? Popee...yeah Popee Paraphone!"

***

Popee was in science since that class was his favorite. There was a project where he and another person were supposed to be doing stuff like mixing chemicals or something he doesn't know he zoned out after 'mixing' and 'chemicals' and he's pretty sure his partner probably wasn't hearing either.

His partner took one look at the instructions of what to do and was confused

The instructions read:

Mix the chemicals stated by Mr. Sato

Use the liquid labeled 'BLUE' when bubbling then use white powder

"Uh...Mr. Sato?" His red-haired science partner asked Mr. Sato but Mr. Sato was on his computer with headphones, probably blasted on loud since Popee could hear the Lemon Demon music from where he was. 

Now here's the big issue

Popee and the girl had been assigned a specific science project that no one else has since everyone has their own unique project. Plus, like I said, they didn't listen. 

"Um, we just combine...uh..." The girl quickly combined blue and a tube with pale green liquid. It began to bubble quickly and there was...smoke?

"And then..." The girl also grabbed the white powder and dumped 1/4 of it in the tube. The liquid began smoking and bubbling more than ever before, the tube barely could contain it and the girl and Popee shared a glance before the girl dumped a bit more of the white powder. 

BOOM

The liquid erupted and the tube exploded, sending blue-green goo all over them and the smoke continued to rise until it touched the fire alarm, similarly, another project exploded and caused more smoke than theirs did. Thank God all of the science class wore lab coats and goggles.

"WHAT THE FUCK!" Mr. Sato screamed, taking in the sight. The smoke alarms went off as everyone was forced to get in a single file line and exit the class.

While walking down the halls, one by one, each door popped open with a line, sometimes neat, sometimes all over the place. Eventually, they made it to the outside gym and Mr. Sato began counting the class in his distinct way:

"Ultimate Stoner...Jesus Christ...Violent Clown," He took a look at Popee when saying 'Violent Clown' and nodded, "Alright that's everyone."

***

So detention was boring blah blah blah…at least for the first 5 minutes then the only mildly interesting thing happened

He was in the next seat and Haru was across from Popee. Popee was wondering if he could beat the shit out of Haru, just out of spite, when some brunette girl entered the room and began screaming at Haru. The only thing Popee could recall was they were a couple (shocking), Haru probably cheated on her, and they would talk about it somewhere before the detention watcher threatened to spray her with the fire extinguisher. After that it was boring again.

***

“Uh,” Popee looked at Papi, in his orange shirt with long yellow pants, a black belt, and dark purple shoes, and looked behind him to see Kedamono in a simple burgundy hoodie and jorts with the same sandals. “Where is Marifa?” 

“Here!” Marifa popped out of Papi's car and Popee instantly smiled. “Come on! We're heading to Waffle House!”

***

“Popee! I heard you got in trouble again!” Papi exclaimed. 

“Uh-okay,” Popee muttered

“No it's not ‘uh-okay’! You see…” And so Papi began telling Popee why he should stop getting into trouble all that Popee (technically) heard it all before and got annoyed.

“Papi’s right Popee,” Kedamono said, “You should stop getting into so much trouble, the police won't keep stalling for you,”

“They will,”

“And how do you know?” Papi questioned with an eyebrow raised

“Because either they're too lazy or dealing with something else like Kedamono's food fights at the local KFC,”

“Hey!” Kedamono immediately turned around with an offended look on his mask. 

“Popee!” Papi dramatically gasped 

Sorr-ee,” Popee ventured

“Popee, apologize properly! You must always be genteel,”

“Don't you mean gentle?”

“Genteel actually,”

“What’s the difference?”

“Genteel is being polite or refined, you might need to work on your language skills too,” 

***

They were at the Waffle House and Popee had to apologize. He did. Kind of. Think of a time a kid had to apologize to you in school by the teacher, supervisor, whoever and they did but you're sure just they aren't sorry.

“I would like the hashbrown dish and coffee please,” Papi told the server

“The chocolate chip Waffle and apple juice,” Marifa chimed in

“Chicken dinner and iced tea please,”

“And you?” The server glanced at Popee, 

“Uh…A grilled cheese sandwich and a Sprite,”

“That's great!” The server went back into the kitchen and first, got Popee's Sprite, Marifa’s apple juice, Kedamono's iced tea, and Papi's coffee then, their meals arrived.

It was silent for the first quarter of the meal until Papi said, “You know, how about we do something as a family?”

“Including Kedamono or?” Marifa questioned, looking up from her apple juice

“Kedamono, would you like to join?”

“Oh I'd love to!” 

They would have continued eating and maybe Popee and Papi would have had an argument about whatever when

“WHAT THE FUCK?!” A muffled voice rang out. It was coming outside and the family turned to see a boy and a girl. Popee instantly realized that it was Haru, in a blue Adidas tracksuit, and the brunette girl, with a green tank top and white skirt. 

“Look, Angelica,”

“NO I WANT TO KNOW WHO WAS “BABY” ON YOUR PHONE!” 

They continued arguing as the family and a few others looked outside. They were getting increasingly in each other's faces and started screaming louder and louder until Haru turned away and walked into the Waffle House.

“So,” Papi said, “I was thinking about spending time at the movies-”

“HARU!”

“Or the amusement park nearby,”

“WHO IS ADELE?!”

“Which one-”

“AND NAO?!”

“LEAVE ME ALONE,” Haru and Angelica continued arguing, both annoying customers and grabbing customer's attention. 

“Okay, this is getting annoying,” Popee mumbled, eating his grilled cheese sandwich. Marifa was the last one to pull out of the fight and sipped her apple juice. 

“Can you take this outside?” A customer asked Haru and Angelica then, Angelica grabbed Haru and flipped him over with a 

CRUNCH

“OH!” The server nearby yelped as Angelica began beating Haru

“Damn,” Kedamono muttered with a concerned look on his mask as Angelica punched his jaw and Haru attempted to punch her boob but she caught it and resumed fighting. All around them customers were either ignoring them or recording the fight. 

“Um…” Papi awkwardly looked around until saying, “How about we go to an amusement park? I'm sure it'll be fun!”

“Yeah sure,” Popee replied dryly taking looks at the fight

“Okay,” Kedamono responded

“Right after this fight.” Marifa responded, directing half of her focus on the fight while sipping apple juice. 

END

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Vol. 5

After finishing their food (police were called after Haru pulled out a knife) the family got into Papi's van and Kedamono volunteered to take the wheel much to Papi's gratitude. 

Eventually, they arrived at the amusement park and while Papi bought tickets Marifa chased birds and even managed to pickpocket a stranger but only managed to score 3 dollars. 

They entered the amusement park and the first ride was a rollercoaster that was above the amusement park. 

They sat in the carts, Popee next to Papi and Kedamono next to Marifa and the cart began going up and up and up until they slowly reached the top. It was like the whole world was above their feet, the people, rides, other things like ants.

Kedamono started panicking slightly as he said, “You know uh I'm actually pretty scared this is my first time-”

“WE'RE GONNA CRASH!” Popee screamed and soon the cart dipped, people were screaming, Marifa and Popee were cheering, Papi was smiling, and Kedamono had his eyes wide screaming the most. 

There were sharp twists and turns as Kedamono felt worse and worse until we stopped. Kedamono stumbled out of the cart as the rest exited normally. Papi looked at him concerned about him but Kedamono said he was fine. 

They were walking around looking for more rides, Popee was eyeing a whack-a-mole machine, Marifa quickly bought herself cotton candy, and Kedamono took a few looks at the trash can near the hotdog stand. 

Popee asked for a few dollars to play the whack-a-mole, Papi gave him a few dollars, and Popee rushed over to the whack-a-mole. 

He inserted the dollars, snatched the toy hammer, and as soon as the first mole popped up he shut it down with the hammer. Then the second. Third, Fourth.

Marifa observed Popee while eating her cotton candy as well as Papi and Kedamono. Fifth. Sixth. Seventh. Popee was practically going into a frenzy. Marifa began cheering him out as a couple of people close by noting the speed of Popee until the last mole popped up and Popee bashed it down. 

350 tickets! 

The pink tickets spewed out as Kedamono and Papi clapped for Popee while Marifa whooped whooped. 

“What can we get for this?” Popee asked

“Hopefully something good,” Marifa prayed

***

After doing a few more games, the family decided to buy stuff from the store for tickets. 

“Hi welcome to the store want something,”

“What can we get for 1050 tickets?” Papi questioned 

“Well, a plushie, bracelet, a slingy, and a sticker,” And so, Popee got the sticker, Kedamono got the bracelet, Papi got the slingy, and Marifa got the plushie. 

***

“We aren't gonna die right?” Kedamono glanced with a nervous mask at Popee, they were about to ride a slingshot ride with blinking lights and color draping the walls(?) of the slingshot ride. Marifa and Papi were right behind them waiting for their turn after Popee and Kedamono.

“We'll be fine Kedamono,” Popee assured, “Too scared?” He teased, slightly pushing him. 

“Uhhh-”

“Next!” 

Popee and Kedamono got onto the ride and they were secured. Kedamono was internally panicking while Popee was internally excited. “Alright guys-” The attendant nearby said

“This thing is safe right?” Kedamono asked 

“Eh…yeah,” The attendant replied and left. 

“Alright! countdown!” The operator yelled

“Oh god,” Kedamono babbled

“10 9 8,”

“Oh god oh god,”

“Dude it’s not that scary,” Popee said

“7 BYE BYE BIRDIE!” The slingshot shot into the air, making the first 360, the people waiting for their turn watching in awe and fear, a mix of both for some of them. Kedamono was screaming and a little bit of sobbing while Popee was wooing and seeping in and out of consciousness. Kedamono felt like he would have a heart attack as Popee went unconscious again. 

“AAAH!” Kedamono screeched

“It's not that scary, I'm fine,” Popee said before the ride went another 360. Kedamono clinged to life on the bars as the ride did a 180, 90, another 90, and another 360. The wind whipped against their faces as the ride made another 360 then, the ride slowed down and descended to the ground. Kedamono and Popee stumbled out of the ride like drunk men as Papi and Marifa made their way onto the ride. 

***

Papi was buying some food for his children and Kedamono as they played games. He looked at Popee and Marifa competing against each other and Kedamono playing those machines where if you win you get a plushie, which in the machine was food related plushies although Kedamono seemed to be going for the chicken leg. 

Papi looked at Popee and Marifa again and pondered what it would be like if Manya didn't go behind his back with Kaito. They might have still been together but Marifa wouldn't have existed. 

Papi recalled some of the happy memories he had with Manya, like the time they first met, he was a drag queen and she was an office worker. 

Now, he was still a drag queen, just in secret. Manya? He didn't ask what she was doing now. 

“Sir, your hotdogs are ready,” Papi looked at the hotdog cooker, smiled, and paid for the hotdogs.

“Hey!” Papi called out with a smile on his face with two hotdogs in his left hand and one hotdog in his right hand, Kedamono managed to get the chicken leg plushie and Popee managed to beat Marifa and couldn't help but rub it in her face. Papi gave the hotdogs to all of them and went back to the hotdog place to buy himself a hotdog. 

***

Marifa was aiming for each target, sometimes succeeding, sometimes failing; meanwhile Popee was aiming rapidly and accurately, using that gun he showed her a year back gave him an advantage she figured. 

“Dang,” she grumbled as she missed a target, for every point she made Popee 2 or 3 more. Adrenaline coursed through her veins as she tried aiming better and stealing Popee's targets. Shot after shot after shot and there was 12 seconds on the clock. Marifa was aiming better but Popee kept coming on top. 

PING 

PING

PING

5 seconds left and Marifa shot targets with amazing accuracy but she wished the accuracy kicked in way sooner because when the timer stopped Popee beat her by 30 points. 

“Damn,” She grunted as Popee gave her a wicked smile, “Hah! I won!” Popee taunted and Marifa just rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. 

“Hey!” Papi called out, in his left hand he had two hotdogs and in his right hand he had one hotdog. Her, Popee, and Kedamono got their hotdogs and they chomped down as Papi went to order himself a hotdog as well.

***

It was dark and Popee was looking at the night sky twinkling with stars. Marifa was on his left side, Kedamono on his right, and Papi on Kedamono's side. 

“WE'RE GONNA LIGHT THE FIREWORKS!” A random kid screamed, Popee looked into the sky. He thought about the fun he had here and not the homework, he smiled to himself as he saw the fireworks being lit out of the corner of his eye. Then, the sky was bursting with color, blue, green, purple, red, and his favorite, pink. 

The family watched the fireworks that night. 

END