Fair Friends Forever

"RING!" My alarm clook rang as the clock hit 8:00 A.M.

"Five more minutes..." I moaned as I reached to hit the snooze button.

After a few more minutes of rest, my alarm clock went off again, and I dragged myself out of bed.

I then walked over to my calander to see what was happening today.

It read, "December 1st, 2013. The Bell Tree Fair begins today."

"I forgot about the Fair!" I exclaimed as I ran to get dressed.

After I got dressed, I ran staight to the fair, but I ran into some obstacles.

First, I ran into a bunch of gamers talking about Pokemon.

"I like Hugh, he was the best rival!" A girl yelled.

"He only talked about his sister's Purrlion... it got old." A man shouted back.

"Hey, do you think Hugh was great?" The girl asked me.

"Sorry, I've got to go, bye!" I exclaimed as I ran around them.

I almost made it to the fair, but then I ran into a woman asking me to make a hand turkey.

"Hey, do you wanna make a hand turkey? I'll give you a special prize if you do~!" The woman asked.

"Hm, a prize, eh? Okay, I'll make one." I replied.

"Okay, here's a paper and some pens and crayons. Oh, and by the way, I'm Jennifer. Nice to meet you." Jennifer said as she handed me supplies.

"Okay, thanks Jennifer. Oh, and my name's Hikari." I replied.

"Hikari, okay, that's a nice name! Anyways, have a good time making your hand turkey!" Jennifer exclaimed.

I nodded my head and walked to a nearby table to start my hand turkey.

"Hm, what should I make..." I thought to myself.

"How about a Pokemon theme?" A girl next to me suggested.

"That's a good idea, in fact, I ran into some people taking about Pokemon earlier. Anyways, thanks!" I thanked the girl.

"No problem!" She said with a grin.

I then went to work on my Pokemon hand turkey. I made Combusken the head of the turkey, and added the Kalos starters onto the index finger.

On the middle finger, I added Pikachu, Marill, Ekans and Porygon. On the ring finger, I added a Mudkip, Oshawott and Bidoof.

"Remove that Bidoof." A man next to me said as he looked at my hand turkey.

"How come?" I asked quite confused.

"I find it offensive." He replied.

"Um, ok..." I replied looking at his shirt, "Jake." I said as I noticed his nametag.

I then continued my hand and added a Treecko and Squirtle on the pinky finger.

On the remaining blank space, I added Goomy, Swalot, Grimmer, Unown and Ditto.

"Hooray! I'm finished!" I exclaimed as I got up and went towards Jen.

"I finished!" I said as I handed over my hand turkey.

"Good Job! Here's your prize!" She exclamied as she handed me two slips of paper.

"What's this?" I asked as I looked at them.

"They're TBT Fair tickets. You can redeem them at the Fair's shop for prizes!" Jen yelled.

"Oh, thanks you!" I said with a smile on my face.

I then waved good bye and went towards the enterance of the fair.

As I entered, I saw a stand labeled, "Information Booth."

I went up to it and read the information on it.

It said, "December 1st:
 Caption the Picture
 New Leaf Daily Photo Challenge
 Fair Food Stall
 Spin the Whell"

"I guess these are the events today!" I exclamied.

"So, I guess I should go try out the Caption the Picture booth, first."

I walked to the Event Pavilion, and walked up to the CTP booth.

"Hello, welcome to the Caption the Picture booth!~ I'm Kaiaa, and I'll explain the rules." Kaiaa cheerfully said to me.

"OK, so what's the rules?" I asked polietly.

"There's only two rules, keep them appropriate and don't insult anyone's captions. Understand?" Kaiaa asked.

"I do." I replied.

"Okay, so today, you'll be able to caption this picture and recieve 2 tickets for doing so. And if it's really good, you may recieve 4 tickets! Anyways, here's you picture~!" Kaaia said as she handed over the picture.

"Thank you." I thanked her, and then walked over to a table to analyze my picture.

Okay, so it's from the Animal Crossing Movie... Yu, Ai, Margie, Rosie, and Alfranso are in a boat. Yu and Alfranso are wearing pirate outfits...

"I've got a caption!" I exclamied to myself.

Underneath the picture I wrote, "Ai: Um, Yu, where did you get this boat?"

Kapp'n: Gimme back meh boat!

Yu: Onwards, and hurry!!!

Alfranso: Aye Aye, captain! *swings oar as fast as he can* "

I then got up and gave the picture back to Kaaia.

"Thanks for entering! As a reward, you get four tickets!" Kaaia exclaimed as she handed over two tickets to me.

"Thank you, for the tickets!" I thanked as I walked away.

She waved good bye as I made my way to the booth right next to me labeled, "Spin the Wheel."

"Welcome to Spin the Wheel, one of the finest events here at The Bell Tree Fair! I'm Justin, and I'm the Spinner of Wheels! What's your name?" Justin asked.

"I'm Hikari, nice to meet ya." I replied.

"Okay, Hikari, want to try you luck on the wheel? You could win, or lose tickets! But, if your really lucky, you could win a pinwheel!" Justin explained.

"I don't know... I don't want to lose my 3 tickets." I replied worriedly.

"You could also win some more tickets... or even a pinwheel! Give it a try." Justin urged me.

"Okay, fine." I said, after being conviced.

I then walked up to the wheel behind Justin and took a spin.

It went around... and around... and around... then it landed on...

Pinwheel.

"Congrats! You got the grand prize! Here's your prize!" Justin said handing me a pinwheel.

"That's amazing! Thanks so much, Justin!" I exclaimed as I grabbed the rare item.

"No problem, and come again!" Justin replied as I walked off.

"Hm, I think I should spend some of my tickets on something." I thought to myself.

As I looked around for a shop, I bumped into my friend, Ceci.

"Ouchie!" Ceci exclamied as I bumped into her.

"Watch where you're go- Hikari?" Ceci realized it was I, who bumped into her.

"Sorry about that Ceci. DO you wanna join me in the fair, though?" I asked.

"Oh, is that what this is? I was wondering around and ended up here. Anyways, sure let's play at the fair together!" Ceci replied cheerfully.

"Okay, well I'm going to buy something at the shop, so I'll be back in a moment." I said as I continued to look for the shop.

I, eventually, found the shop.

When I arrived at the shop, I noticed that various colored feathers were being sold.

The green one caught my eye.

"How much is the Green Feather?" I asked the cashier.

"It... five tickets I believe." The Cashier replied.

"Okay, I have six, so I can buy it! Here's five tickets." I said handing over 5 tickets.

"Here you go, kiddo." The Cashier replied handing me my Green Feather.

"Thanks!" I waved as I walked back to Ceci, and I noticed she had two other people with her, one boy and one girl.

"Oh, Hikari, you're back! I was just talking to these two people. They were teaching me about the fair." Ceci explained.

"I'm Kippla." Kippla introduced herself.

"Name's Riley." Riley replied.

"Nice to meet you two, I'm Hikari!" I yelled with a smile on my face.

"Okay, Hikari, we were thinking about going to the Fair Food Stall. Wanna come?" Kippla asked.

"Sure." I replied.

"Then let's go~" Ceci said as she ran to the Food Stall.

"Sorry if she's a bit to fast for ya!" I said as I ran after her, trailing about 3 meters behind her.

Kippla and Riley followed behind me as I ran.

We ran about a 2 miles and we all made it to the Food Stall about two minutes after Ceci.

"Man, you three are slow..." Ceci thought aloud as we all huffed and puffed.

"Or maybe you're too fast..." Riley replied breathing very heavyly.

"Anyways, let's see what this place is about!" Ceci exclamied.

"Give us some time to catch our breath..." Kippla and I said together.

"Aw, you guys are no fun..." Ceci said grumply.

After a few minutes, Riley, Kippla and I all were breathing normally again, so we went up to the host of the event to see what were suppose to do.

"Hello. I'm Jeremy. Welcome to the Fair Food Stall. Would you like to participate?" Jeremy asked.

"Yes!" We all exclamied together.

"A group I see. This should be intresting. Anyways, at the Fair Food Stall, you create a fair or winter related food item, and then we judge it. You get two tickets for entering and if it's really good, get 4 tickets. Underdstand?" Jeremy asked.

"We do." I replied for all of us.

"Okay, there's a working station for four over there," Jeremy pointed at a room, "So, that's where you'll make your food. Anyways, you can now begin." Jeremy said.

"Let's go make some delish food!" Ceci exclaimed running to the kitchen.

We followed and made it to the kitchen a lot later than her again.

"Ugh, could you be any slower?" Ceci complained.

"Let's just begin." Kippla ignored her.

"What should we make? Cupcakes? Cookies?" I asked.

"How about Funnel Cake with sugar? Sugar looks like snow, and a Funnel Cakes's a fair food." Riley suggesed.

"Sure." I replied.

"Sounds fun!" Ceci agreed.

"Eh, why not?" Kippla agrred as well.

"So, let's make a funnel cake!" Riley exclamied.

"Wait, how do we make a funnel cake?" Kippla asked.

"Don't worry, I have a recipe." Riley said while grabbing a nearby paper and pen.

He wrote this down:

(Recipe from Food.com)

Ingredients:

3 eggs
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups milk
3 2/3 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
 vegetable oil, for frying

Directions:

1. Beat eggs and sugar together and then add the milk slowly--beat. Add the dry ingredients and beat until smooth and creamy.
2. Pour batter into a funnel and at the same time, use your finger to plug the hole. In a large cast iron pot, add 2 inches of oil to the bottom.
3. When the oil becomes hot, move your hand over the pot and slowly release your finger so the batter can start cooking.
4. Move the funnel around to make designs.
5. Brown on both sides--then immediately remove and drain extremely well.
6. Top with powdered sugar as a topping.

-Riley

"Okay, so you guys go ahead and fetch me some ingredients." Riley commanded.

"I'll get some eggs and sugar!" Ceci exclamied.

"Then I'll get the milk and floor, and Hikari can get the salt, baking soda and vegetable oil." Kippla explained.

"Okay." I replied looking throught the cabinets.

I found the salt and baking soda in a nearby cabinet, but I couldn't find the vegetable oil.

"Got my stuff!" Ceci gave her ingredients to Riley.

"Me too." Kippla said as she gave Riley her ingredients as well.

"Hikari, do you have everything?" Riley asked.

"Everything, but the vegetable oil." I replied.

"Hm... I think it's over there." Riley said pointing near the fridge.

I then saw the bottle full of the oil siting right next to it.

"Oh, I guess I never thought about looking near the fridge..." I thought aloud as I walked over to the fridge to grab it.

I then handed the oil over to Riley.

"Okay, now that we have the ingredients, let's begin." Riley said.

Riley then began to mix things to together and put the mixture in a funnel. He also plugged the funnel with his finger.

He then added oil to the pan, released his finger, and began to pour the batter in different designs.

"Okay, now we just have to let it brown." Riley explained.

"Wow, you're really good at cooking!" Kippla exclaimed.

"Hehe, thanks." Riley said, blushing.

The funnel cake began to brown, and Riley then flipped it over.

"Anyways, maybe we should add something to this to make it special..." Riley asked.

"How about... green and red sprinkles?" Kippla suggested.

"And Peppermint flavored chocolate!" I exclamied as the thought came to me.

"Those are wonderfully ideas!" Ceci agreed.

"I think so too. Let's use 'em." Riley said as he carefully removed the funnel cake from the pan.

"I'll go get the sprinkles." Kippla said, while walking over to the cabinet.

"And I'll go ahead and make some peppermint chocolate." I said grabbing some dark chocolate and peppermint extract.

"You know how to make peppermint chocolate?" Ceci asked.

"Yeah, all you have to do is mix the two together." I said mixing the peppermint and chocolate together.

"Okay, that looks good." I said as I stopped mixing.

"Mhm, things are starting to smell good..." Kippla said as she walked back over to us with her sprinkles.

She then poured it into my chocolate, and Riley then poured it onto the funnel cake, and Ceci put some sugar on top.

"Looks fabulous!" Ceci exclamied.

"I agree!" Kippla yelled.

"I second that." I replied with a smile on my face.

"Let's turn it in." Riley said towards all of us.

"Right!" All three of us exclamied.

Riley picked up the plate with the funnel cake on it, and we all followed him to the judging table with Jeremy siting behind it.

"Here you go, sir." Riley said putting the plate in front of him.

"Oh, a collabartive effort I see." Jeremy said with smile as he looked at our dish.

"What do you call it?" Jeremy asked.

"Um, how 'bout... A Sugary surprise." Riley said.

"Okay, well here comes the judging..." Jeremy said as he grabbed his fork.

He dived right into the funnel cake, and his face began to glow with delight as he took his first bite.

"I think he likes it." I whispered to Riley.

"Yeah, me too." Riley replied back.

Jeremy then took bigger and bigger bites out of it until it was all done.

"That... was great!" Jeremy exclaimed. "I award you all 4 tickets!" He handed all four of us 4 tickets.

"Yay!" We all exclamied in joy.

"Thanks so much for the tickets!" Ceci thanked Jeremy.

"Yeah, thanks!" Kippla said.

Riley and I nodded our heads in thanks, and then followed the girls out of the stand.

We then noticed that it was 8 PM, and the fair was about to close.

"Uh oh, it looks like the fair's about to close..." Ceci thought aloud.

"Maybe we should buy something with our tickets." Riley said.

"Sure!" I exclamied.

We all ran to the shop, and for once, we made it there together.

"I decided that I'll try to run slower, so you guys wouldn't get tired." Ceci said with said shy smile.

"Thanks." All three of said at the same time.

"Anyways, what should we buy?" Kippla asked.

"Oh, I like this yellow feather!" Ceci exclamied.

"This red feather looks cool." Riley thought aloud.

"I really like this blur feather." Kippla said as she looked at it.

"And I have this green feather." I said showing everyone my feather.

"Hey, how about we all get feathers, so we can remember this day together?" Kippla suggested.

"Aw, that's so sweet! Let's do everyone!" Ceci urged.

"Okay, I'll buy the red feather, the blue feather and the yellow feather." Riley said as everyone handed over their tickets.

"Wait, Hikari, what are you going to do with those tickets?" Kippla asked looking at my remaining six tickets.

"Oh, I'm saving them for the next fair." I said.

"Okay then..." Kippla said.

"Anyways, here's our feathers, everyone." Riley told us as he handed Kippla and Ceci the blue and yellow feather.

"Wow, their so soft..." Ceci thoguht aloud.

"Yeah... and beautiful too..." Kippla agreed.

"So, I guess it's time to go..." I said with a sad tone.

"Yeah... it's too bad the fair doesn't last forever..." Kippla replied sadly.

"But, we'll have a friendship feathers!" Ceci exclamied.

"Yeah, and I'll treasure this day forever!" Riley said with a smile on his face.

We all then looked at each other, and nodded.

We held out our feathers in front of us, and had them touch each other.

"Fair Friends Forever!" We all exclamied as the clock hit 8:05 PM, and as the fair closed, our friendship stregthed.

The End.