Umicon 2013 ~ Daytona Beach || Maid Diary

Hello...I love words, but I am not so great with writing fiction. I would like to share a story that I wrote, though...it might be the only story I've ever written! Please let me know any criticisms... ✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩✩ ~ Saturday, September 7, 2013 ~ 7:03 AM ~ Umicon | Year 2 ~ Maid Tanpopo opens her eyes and glances over at the sliding door curtains. With the cheery, yellow sunbeams, she realizes that it's morning! Tanpopo wants to see the sunrise on the beach!! She sits up quickly and looks around at all of her sleeping maid sisters and tries to whisper anyone awake...it doesn't work. orz Ever so quickly and quietly, Tanpopo tiptoes about to the bathroom and washes her face, brushes herhair, and places her phone and a room key into her fluffy bunny kigurumi pocket! After slipping on mint-coloured flip-flops, each adorned with adorable, striped ribbons, Tanpopo is ready to go! "I don't want to miss Mister Sun make his debut!" she thinks to herself. After awaiting the elevator anxiously, not a soul was in sight when she reached the lobby. "Eh...?! It's like a ghost hotel," she murmurs to herself, but shakes her head and clears away the cobwebs of that creepy idea. It did not help that although she could see the sky from the windows that spanned the lobby, she could not figure out a way to get outside! Since the hotel was at least a hundred years old, the layout was very unusual! Still, she encountered not a single soul, and after several turnabous, she was finally able to find her way to the shore...even if she was quite far from where she had first begun! Tanpopo must have spent a good thirty minutes being lost in the maze of a hotel. When she finally saw the sky, all of her worries dissipated with the lovely sea breeze. She breathed in and her heart skipped a beat, "Ah! This is what I came to see!" she mused with absolute happiness. The sun shyly shimmered behind the ocean clouds, and they gently glowed in the pastel-coloured sky. Sea birds flew together, following each other in a line as if they were enemies in a side-scrolling space shooter -- a modern day Parodius! The sea was calm and from the soft waves, tiny, white bubbles stretched across the dark, wet sand like lace. Walking along the shore, Tanpopo thought, "It would be so nice if the sand were really powdered sugar!" Maid Tanpopo watched the tiny waves roll in okne-by-one. Her lips moved, "Okaerinasaimase..." she thought with each wave. Smiling to herself, she looked around shyly and made sure no one was around. "Okaerinasaimase..." she murmured, bowing slightly to a newly-arrived wave. "Okaerinasaimase!" she sweetly exclaimed, with another bow. Tanpopo began to accompany Mister Sun in a walk along the shore. She stepped into the wet sand, feeling the difference between the wet and damp sand. Suddenly, a small wave rushed toward her! Waddling back in mini-panic mode, Tanpopo's flip-flop was suctioned to the wet sand. Hoping to recover it, Tanpopo waited for the following wave to return it to her, but her slipper simply floated above the gently rolling waves! Tanpopo pulled up her kigurumi pant cuffs, made a dash, and recovered the mischievious shoe! She breathed a victorious sigh of relief and in her mind, she rebuked the precocious ocean. She continued her walk and, once more, the ocean nearly won another battle for Tanpopo's shoe! She began collecting the baby shells embedded in the wet sand, thinking of Lost in Blue and her maid sisters. She leaned down and wrote into the wet sand, "がんばって,〈マコ,ちゃん!" (Ganbatte, Kumako-chan!) As the sun ascended, Tanpopo watched it transform from pale yellow to golden. The sky also changed from delicate blue, lavender, and white to a dazzling red, pink, and orange! Tanpopo marveled, "How tirelessly Mister Sun climbs the sky each day! Mister Sun does not have a chance to sleep in...and many people await his brightness each day." Humbled, Maid Tanpopo aspired very much to be like Mister Sun. ~ Saturday, September 7, 2013 ~ 9:12 PM ~ Umicon | Year 2 ~ Maid Aki and Maid Tanpopo changed into their swimming suits and wandered out of their room and into an elevator. This time, the wind would chase us.