Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 13: Months Later, Last Weeks

Several months had passed... In fact, it was already the last days of school in Kong Kollege's school year, and the vacations were already approaching. Diddy and Dixie had performed well during that cycle, unlike the group of bully children, who barely had enough grades to pass the school year.

Diddy was arriving at school normally; he no longer feared much for his evil classmates. In fact, in the wake of Dixie's arrival at school, Diddy had come to the point of seeing that quartet as just obnoxious classmates, rather than a great threat to him as they once were. He didn't even have nightmares about them anymore; it seemed that things had improved even a little. However, although those four children no longer physically mistreated him, they occasionally still teased him or made some joke or trick in bad taste.

Diddy didn't even hide when he got to school anymore and just passed by. Suddenly, someone else came by surprise and caused him a little scare. Of course, it was Dixie, who started laughing when she saw Diddy's expression after scaring him.

"Hey! Now you'll see!" exclaimed Diddy before lunging at her and tickling her.

"Let go of me!" Dixie replied with a laugh, and returned them. "Okay, okay," she added before stopping and finishing laughing. "Hey, Diddy, by the way... I found your notebook that you had lost. Take it."

Dixie took out of her backpack a notebook that was Diddy's, and that apparently had been lost days before. Then, she handed it into his hands.

"Hey, where did you find it, Dixie?!" Diddy exclaimed, taking it with emotion, before checking the pages at random. "I thought I wouldn't find it anymor-"

"Those four fools had stolen it from you to copy last week's homework," Dixie replied before noticing a paralyzed expression on Diddy. "What's wrong?"

Diddy, while looking at the pages of his notebook, noticed that on one of them he had the name Dixie written inside a heart that he had made himself a long time ago. He froze for a few seconds and only begged in his mind that Dixie hadn't seen it.

"Uh... Oh, n-nothing, it was..." Diddy replied before quickly searching for another random page. "Oh, yes, I saw this misspelling that Wrinkly corrected me last week," he added, showing it Dixie with a nervous smile.

"But those are math exercises," Dixie said with a few small laughs, to which Diddy looked back at the page and realized it was true.

Diddy didn't know what other excuse to make, and tried to think of another idea to divert the topic. When suddenly, the group of bully children appeared near them.

"Oh, look, here's the pair of stinky geckos," Mandrew said along with the rest of the group. While they no longer bothered them with blows, they continued to tease them verbally or call them nicknames from time to time.

"How long do we have to listen to your 'look, the pair of blah blah has arrived?'" Dixie replied, imitating them exaggeratedly. "Stinky you four, take a bath!"

"Take a bath," Melenky imitated her in a high-pitched voice. "Pathetic monkeys!"

"Quartet of fools, you are so annoying!" Diddy replied, looking at them in disgust.

Diddy and Dixie just rolled their eyes, and then ignored them so that they could continue to walk towards the classroom.

"By the way, can we ask you a question?" Rocky added, looking up.

"And now what do you want?" Diddy asked, pausing with a bad gesture.

"Are you two dating or something?"

Diddy and Dixie, faced with the sudden question, opened their eyes to the fullest and instantly looked at each other in a strange way.

"No!" they replied at the same time, simulating an expression of disgust.