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“Are you sure this is a good idea, Mito?” Seika asked.
“‘Course it is!” I said. “All you’ve gotta do is spin around for a lil’ bit, and then get up and run as faaar as you can! And then me and Leila’ll do the same thing, and whoever goes the furthest wins!”
“And you’re sure your mom’s alright with us using her new chair?” Leila asked.
“It’s fine!” I said. “She said she was fine if we played in it as long as we didn’t break anything–”
“But what if we break the chair?” Leila asked.
“If we break the chair, then, um… then… Let’s not worry about the chair right now!” I said. “C’mon, Seika – you’re up first!”
Before Seika could say anything and try to escape, I grabbed her by the shoulders and plopped her down in my mom’s spinny chair! I’m sure Seika was just worried about breaking something, but there wasn’t anything to get worked up over – we were outside! There wasn’t anything around to break! Well, except the chair. But I was sure it’d be fine!
“Alrighty Leila, can you lend me a hand?” I asked. She nodded, and we both grabbed the back of the seat. Seika was hanging onto the armrests or whatever they’re called super tight, and she started to close her eyes but I told her not to – that only makes you get more dizzy!
“C’mon, say it with us, Seika – spin, span, spun! Spin, span, spun! Spin, span, spun!”
Me and Leila started spinning the chair around as fast as we could, and I think I heard Seika say something, but I couldn’t really hear her so we just kept on going – round and round and round and round until my arms started to get tired–-
“Hey, Mito?” Leila asked. “How long are we supposed to spin her around for?”
“Um… We’re gonna spin her around until… Until now!” I said. I grabbed the back of the chair as it was coming around and then pushed it forward like it was the back of one of those big dump trucks you see at construction sites, except this time it was dumping Seika out onto the ground! She fell over but caught herself with her arms, and that’s when we started telling her to run!
“Go, go, go!” I said, pumping my fists in the air. “Run for the hills, Seika! Run like there’s a giant clown behind you!”
“I’m not–- I’m not scared of clowns…” Seika said while she started to get up. Her legs were really shaking, and her head was still spinning around a bit even though she was already out of the chair – I could tell that we’d made her really dizzy!
“Don’t just stand there, Seika!” Leila said! Go for it!”
Seika did this weird hand move that kinda looked like a thumbs up for a second, and then she got her feet set and took off! And she took one step, and then another, and then another… and then she fell over!
She landed right on her face, too! Well, not right on her face – she reached out and caught herself a little bit, but she still ended up going down!
“Ha! You alright, Seika?” Leila asked, laughing as she ran over to where Seika had landed. Seika started to turn herself over so she could sit on the grass, but I had to cut her off!
“Seika, wait – I’ve gotta measure how far you got!” I said.
“But… But what are you measuring with?” Seika asked. She still looked super dizzy!
“Astronaut hops!" I said. "What else would we measure with?”
“Astronaut hops?” Leila asked.
“Yeah – I saw a video of some astronauts the other day, and it’s how they train to walk on the moon!” I said – I figured it was best to show them right then and there! “They start out on one foot, like this, and then leap forward and land on their other one, like this! So that’s one hop – and then they leap forward again, and then again, and they always land on one foot for some reason–”
And then after three astronaut hops, I hopped right past Leila and Seika!
“Um… Huh – how many astronaut hops past you would you say I am?” I asked, still balancing on one leg from my last jump.
“Well, you got three in before you passed us, and now you’re about… you wanna call it half of a hop? Three and a half hops from the chair?”
“Three and a half it is!” I said. “So Seika covered a distance of three astronaut hops… and then fell forward after that – yep, three and a half!!”
“That’s honestly a lot further than I thought I’d get,” Seika said. “Can I get up now?”
“Yep – sure can, because it’s time to see if I can get further than you did!” I said, astronaut hopping all the way back to mom’s chair! “C’mon – I’m up next!”
“So we just… spin you around?” Seika asked, finally rising to her feet with some help from good ol’ Leila.
“That’s it!” I said, plopping onto the cushiony blue seat where Seika had just been - it was still warm! “And… I guess count to ten and then push me out, since that’s about how long we were spinning Seika around!”
“Spin you around and shove you out of the chair on the count of ten – got it,” Seika said. A little smirk crossed her face as she and Leila settled in behind me and put their hands on the back of the chair. “That can definitely be arranged.”
“We’ve gotta spin her around good, Seika,” Leila said. “I’m not about to let this sucker beat us at her own game!”
Leila ruffled my hair around a little bit and told Seika to be ready to start spinning on the count of three; in the meantime, I started to put all my energy into focusing on a little bush off in the distance – I’d seen a TV show about how figure skaters in the Olympics would focus suuuper hard on just one object while they were spinning so they didn’t get dizzy, so I figured it’d work great for me too! Heh, Leila and Seika wouldn’t know what hit ‘em – I was gonna hop out of that chair and take off so hard–-
“One… twothreego!” Leila said. She and Seika started spinning me around with everything they had way before I was ready for them to – I almost flew out of the chair on the first spin, but somehow I managed to hang on! I’ve got no idea how I did it, and I think Leila and Seika couldn’t figure it out either – because they started spinning me around even faster! I could just barely hear them counting, but their voices kept whizzing by me super duper fast – I knew they were getting close to dumping me out of the chair, but I couldn’t tell when!
All I could do was keep hanging onto the armrest thingies while everything else started to mix together like a giant green blur! And my head – like my actual head, or my mind or my brain or my consciousness or whatever it's called – started spinning around like crazy too! I’d totally lost track of that bush I was supposed to keep an eye on; all I could see was a lot of green, and some browns here and there and the white walls of my house off in the distance and was that a squirrel over–-
“Ten!” Leila shouted, and just as fast as they’d started spinning me around, they stopped – she and Seika grabbed the back of the chair and dumped me out onto the ground like they were dumping out a cereal box to see if they could find the prize inside! I landed on the ground a lot like Seika did earlier, but aha – I caught myself! I landed on my hands and knees and got back up really quick, and after that, I was off to the races!
I took off with everything I had – like a cheetah! I was pumping my arms and reaching my legs out as faaaar as they would go, making sure I was going as far as I could with every step! I could feel myself teetering and tottering this way and that, but the sound of the grass crunching beneath my shoes kept me focused – I’d already covered way more than three and a half astronaut hops worth of ground, so I knew I had to be waaaay ahead of where Seika had ended up!
“I’m going for the world record!” I said, spreading my arms out like big ol’ airplane wings – I heard doing that would improve your balance! “The longest dizzy run ever!”
And dang it, right when I said that, I tripped on a rock or a bump or a plant or a pile of acorns or something and fell flat on my face!
The grass was pretty soft, at least, but I didn’t really get a chance to catch myself – I’d spent so much time deploying my wings that I didn’t have time to get my landing gear ready!
Off in the distance, I could hear Seika running up to me while Leila started counting again. Soon enough Seika had knelt down by my side and was asking if I was alright, and I told her I was just fine – but as my vision started to un-dizzify and I could start to tell where I was again, I realized that I’d barely managed to go anywhere! In all the crazy running and flying and falling, I’d gotten… just a few astronaut hops further than Seika had?
“Four… five!” Leila said, astronaut-hopping to a graceful one-footed stop right beside me and Seika!
“Only five astronaut hops?” I asked. “H-How did I only get five hops away from the chair? I was running forever and ever and ever–-”
“You were so dizzy that you started running in circles,” Seika said. “You probably would’ve gotten some nice distance if you’d managed to go straight!”
“Aw, well… I still bet that’s further than Leila can get,” I said. I sat up and beamed a look of challenge right to her face. “Five astronaut hops from the chair – do you really think you can top that?”
“Pfft – five?” Leila asked, laughing out loud and putting her hands on her hips like a cartoon supervillain! “I can go five astronaut hops in my sleep!”
Leila turned around on one foot and pointed at the chair, which was somehow still spinning a little bit!
“You and Seika don’t stand a chance!” Leila said. “Just wait ‘til you two get a load of what’s coming–-”
Before Leila could finish whatever she was saying, she took a step forward and tripped just like I had! Or, fell backwards, I guess – but she lost her balance and ended up falling over regardless! And as her legs flew up in the air and her backside started falling towards me, I actually managed to catch a glimpse of what she’d slipped on!
“It really was a pile of acorns!” I said, and just then, Leila came crashing down on top of me like a big pink avalanche! One second she was standing up and the next second she was falling and then the next second I had a bunch of hair in my face and it smelled like strawberries — and then the next second Seika was headed right for us!
“Dogpile!” Seika said, and then the next thing I knew there was this big blob of silver flying towards us, and then it landed right on top of Leila! Which meant that it landed right on top of me too, and having the weight of two people come down on me at once was kinda rough! It almost knocked the air out of me, but I managed to keep it together – magical girl lungs don’t go down without a fight!
Leila yelped a little bit when Seika landed on top of her, but she must’ve been alright too because she started shuffling around not long afterward. She tried to look over her shoulder at Seika, but she couldn’t quite get the angle right – I think Seika had her pinned like a wrestler!
“Mito, Seika, you guys alright?” Leila asked.
“Yep, I’m fine!” I said. “Never been better!”
“I’m fine too,” Seika said. “But I think I landed on something weird – my hand’s on something… like, really soft right now.”
“Soft?” I asked. “Soft like a pillow or like a marshmallow or a kitty–-”
“I… I really don’t even know how to describe it,” Seika said. I couldn’t see all of her face, but I could tell just from her eyes that she was totally dialed into whatever she was touching – she was probably making that same super focused look she’d pull out whenever she started watching a TV show she really liked! “It’s like… jello, almost, but it’s warm? And it’s really round instead of blocky, but it’s still super smooth, and when you squeeze it your hand just sinks right in–-”
“U-Um… Seika?” Leila said – she sounded kinda nervous, but she was giggling a little bit too. “That’s… That’s my butt.”
“Ah!” Seika said, flinging herself off of me and Leila like she’d got shot out of a cannon! She sat up a little ways away from us and started shaking her hands in front of her chest real fast, and I swear I could see sweat start to pour down from behind her bangs! “I-I-I-I’m – I’m so sorry! I didn’t know!”
“It’s, um… It’s alright,” Leila said. She started to sit up and dust herself off, and when she did, I realized that her face was like completely red! She looked like a cartoon character that’d just read a love letter! “It was an accident, th-there wasn’t any way you could’ve known–-”
“Lemme feel!” I said, reaching up and grabbing Leila’s butt before she could finish what she was saying! She yelped like somebody had jumped out and scared her and I could see from just outside my field of view that she was blushing even harder than before, but when my hand hit the bottom of her shorts and I started grabbing at her butt like a cat trying to knock something off of a table, it was just like Seika said – my hand sank straight in!
“Woah, it really is soft!” I said. “It’s like… It’s like a giant stress ball! This is awesome!”
Leila started making these noises that were like halfway between a laugh and a whimper and a cry and some other sound that I couldn’t really put a name to, but I couldn’t really hear much of it – it was like the rest of the world got put on mute! Even though I couldn’t really see what I was doing since Leila’s butt was facing away from me, my mind was going crazy with all the possibilities about what it could look like – it was like I was dropping my hand straight into a leprechaun’s pot of gold! Or like… maybe not literally, because gold’s kinda hard, but the feeling was the same – had to be! Just total, I don’t even know, her butt just felt totally happy all around! Like getting to stretch after a really long car ride – awesome in ways you can’t even really describe, but enough to know that you don’t want it to stop!
“It’s so fun to squeeze!” I said, grabbing and un-grabbing her butt like a crazy claw machine! “And like… I don’t even know what to say, but it’s awesome! You’re awesome, Leila!”
“U-Um… Thanks, I guess?” Leila said. “It’s, I, um… I s’pose it’s kinda nice to hear that you guys like it, because… well, truth be told, I’m always worried about it being a little too big–-”
“Naw, it’s great!” I said. “Unless your butt gets so big that you can’t even walk, then I’d say you’re doing juuust fine!”
“I’m not quite sure if that’s the best way to measure it, Mito,” Seika said as she covered her mouth to stifle some more giggles. Her voice got real quiet, like she was embarrassed or something. “But I have to agree – I think it… I think it looks really nice, Leila.”
“You really think so?” Leila asked.
“I, well… I feel like the look on Mito’s face says it better than I ever could,” Seika said, and then she pointed right at me! I couldn’t see what my face looked like – obviously – but I guess I was doing something real funny, because when Leila looked down at me, she busted out laughing! Must’ve been a real side-splitter, too – like she was laughing so hard that she bent over and grabbed at her stomach for a second, and then just fell down completely!
“W-What’d I look like?” I asked, looking back over at Seika as my hand slipped off Leila’s butt. “I can’t see my own face!”
“You looked like a little kid in a candy store,” Seika said. “Or more like… you looked like a kid that won a candy store – the whole thing!”
“Oh! So I was making a face like the one you were making when you were grabbing it?” I asked. Seika started blushing – not quite as hard as Leila, but pretty darn close – and she looked away from me and Leila and off at something to the side.
“I, um, I guess so,” Seika said. “But… gosh, did I really look that excited?”
“Don’t ask me – I was facing Mito then; I couldn’t see you!” Leila said, still laughing like crazy!
“You did, Seika,” I said, doing my best smug look. “You did look that excited!”
Seika just kept on blushing and looking the other way, and all three of us just kept on laughing – I could tell that Seika was a little bit embarrassed and that Leila was kinda confused but mostly just happy that we were happy, and I was happy that everyone else was happy!
“Aw, don’t be embarrassed about it, Seika,” Leila said. “We’ve totally done weirder stuff before. And even then – I mean, it felt kinda nice for me too.”
And then Seika perked up like a dog that heard somebody call its name!
“Really?” Seika asked.
“Mm-hm,” Leila said, “It’s kinda tough to describe, but I guess… I guess it was sorta like how a puppy feels when you scratch behind their ear–”
“So does that mean we can touch it again?” I asked.
“Um… We better not do that right this second,” Leila said. She stood back up and laughed a little bit, and Seika laughed some too – I must’ve been making that funny face again! “We, uh… we wouldn’t want the ‘new car smell’ to wear off too soon, y’know?”
Me and Seika nodded.
“So can we touch it again eventually?” I asked.
“Well… um, that depends!” Leila said. “It all depends – do you think I can get more than five astronaut hops away from that chair?”
“Gosh, we forgot about the game!” I said, shooting back onto my feet like I’d gotten struck by a bolt of reverse lightning! “I, uh… I think five astronaut hops is the human limit! And if it’s not, then, uh…”
“We’ll find a way to trip her before she gets further than Mito did!” Seika said.
“In your dreams,” Leila said. “I could make it further than she did blindfolded!”
“Oh, so is that a challenge?” I asked.
“Mm… Again, it depends,” Leila said, grinning like she knew something we didn’t! “Is this a challenge?”
And then she looked over her shoulder and just pulled her shorts straight down! Like, underwear and everything – her entire butt was just out in the open!
It. Was. So. Big! And it was round like a beach ball and soft-looking like a pillow and sorta pale like a tasty egg and I could tell she had some tan lines from where she’d been outside with her magical girl outfit on but I didn’t mind and there were a few dimples on it here and there but they were actually really cute and they made me wanna touch her butt even more than I had earlier so I could see what they felt like and I kinda-sorta wanted to do more than touch it too like put my face up to it and press my cheeks against it and maybe hug it and kiss it and just be close to it because some part of me was saying that it really wanted to do that and it was making me feel really warm and hot inside and, and… gosh, I was totally frozen until she pulled her shorts back up and started to walk away like nothing had happened, but once I came back to my senses, I just did the only thing that I could think to do!
“Awooooo!” I shut my eyes and bellowed up at the sky like a wolf!
“What… what was that about?” Leila asked between really badly-contained laughs.
“I was howling!” I said. “You’ve gotta howl when you see a full moon, right?”
There was silence for a few seconds… and then Seika fell back over again! She was laughing, and gosh, she was laughing so hard that she started wheezing! She had her eyes shut tight and her mouth wide open and her hands were balled up into fists and were pounding the ground like she was trying to beat up the grass!
“Full… a full moon!” Seika said – there were tears coming out of her eyes! “It’s a full moon! A-a-awooooo!”
“Awooooo!” I howled, and soon enough me and Seika both were howling between a bunch of big ol’ belly laughs! I think Leila was laughing too, but I couldn't really tell because I had my eyes closed! They sorta slipped open every now and then though, and when they did, I could see that Leila had facepalmed and was shaking her head, but she was still smiling really wide!
“You two are hopeless,” she said, laughing while me and Seika just kept on howling. “Absolutely hopeless – and I’m flattered.”