Hurricane Island [Diddy Kong x Dixie Kong]

Chapter 15: Pyramids

It was the next day in the afternoon. Donkey and Diddy were at home waiting for Dixie to start the schoolwork that the new teacher had sent as an exam grade, and Donkey was going to help them both with that.

"Believe me, I can't get over your face last night with Funky's question," Donkey said with a laugh.

"Oh, shut up, don't even remind me," Diddy replied embarrassedly. "I hope Dixie doesn't remember that. Oh, and don't even think about mentioning that topic when she arrives!"

"Hey, buddy, you should have taken that moment to say it," Donkey joked.

"No, no way. How was I going to say that in front of everyone?"

"And look how nervous you are," Donkey said, beginning to tickle him. "Look how you get because you know she's coming now."

"Oh, no, of course not, Donkey!" Diddy replied laughing and trying to dodge the tickling.

"Of course yes," he added playfully before stopping the tickling. "And look, she made you that gift with that emerald; that is more than clear. You should tell her now," he suggested, putting his hands at his sides.

"But that was a gift of friendship," Diddy replied with a shrug.

"Are you sure?" Donkey added, crossing his arms and looking up. "Hey, and when she arrives, why don't you tell her you like her?"

Suddenly, the door was knocked and they both stopped their game. They headed to see who it was and, as expected, it was Dixie. Donkey opened the door, and then she entered the house.

"Hi, Donkey. Hi, Diddy," Dixie greeted them cheerfully.

"Hi, Dixie!" they replied in unison trying to disguise that they were not talking about her on that topic... and hoping she hadn't heard anything behind the door.

"What? What happened?" Dixie asked, noticing their tense faces.

"Nothing, why?" replied Donkey, shrugging and disguising. "Oh, well, let's get to work. Did you bring all your materials, Dixie?"

The three kongs began to get down to work on the school project. Donkey was the one who gave the instructions: to each of the two he gave two pieces of wood that were similar in shape to a cube, and they would have to cut them into sheets from larger to smaller. Obviously, doing that was very tedious for both of them, but Donkey offered his help.

"Why won't your new teacher take a normal final exam for you?" Donkey asked them.

"He's crazy, I don't know what he wants these pyramids for," Dixie replied as she tried to cut a piece of wood.

"Still, I don't want to imagine one of his exams," Diddy added. "It would have questions that we have never seen even in our past lives."

"And I'm sure he'll come out saying: 'In ten minutes you'll give me the exam or I'll lower your grades!'" continued Dixie, imitating Mr. Pinky.

"It's very arrogant, really," Diddy added as he placed a piece of the pyramid. "One of our classmates received a low grade from him on a test just because he didn't write his name. The good thing is that we won't see him for that long."

Sure enough, Mr. Pinky had been a headache during that week for Kong Kollege's students; apart from his authoritarian attitude, he also put them to solve difficult exercises and asked them very complex questions, and those who didn't respond well or committed some infraction had their grades mercilessly lowered.

Suddenly, there was a knock on the door by someone else, so Donkey went to check who it was. This time, it was Funky, who apparently, also needed Donkey's help.