Walking home was never this hard before. He always was joyous to meet up with Lilo and help her with hula practice, or voodoo Mertle, but this time was different. This time he had to apologize for being unfair. This time he had to be nice to someone who made him do wrong. He had to, for Angel's sake.
Angel refused to see him until he apologized. She refused to talk to him on the phone, to kiss him good bye, until he apologized. He knew he deserved it. He never denied it.
He absentmindedly climbed up a tree. He looked around him, being hungry; he sliced a coconut in half with his claw. He sipped the coconut milk as he stared at the ocean. The water from afar looked like tiny, turquoise ripples. He saw people that looked like little dots playing in the salt water. He smiled as he watched Cannonball bounce around some children in the water, making small waves for them to jump over.
He climbed down the tree and started running home instead. The air whipped his large ears behind him as he ran. His claws clicked on the sidewalk. He played a game with himself, 'dodge people walking by'. He steered to the right as a woman with a baby strolled by. He couldn't resist tripping Mertle as she walked out of a jewelry store. He chuckled to himself as he heard her complain about a nail.
He skidded to the left, heading for the drive way. Realizing he was going too fast he skidded to a halt, right in front of the steps leading into the house. He crawled up the steps, squeezing through the doggy door.
He tiptoed to the kitchen, since that was Sassy's usual hang out. He peered his head through the door way. No one. 'She must be hiding.' Stitch thought. His nose corked as he sniffed about the kitchen looking for Sassy. He hesitated to take a brownie, for they smelled delicious. 'No, they're not for me.' He thought in disappointment. He glanced around. 'Well, she's definitely not here.'
His head popped into the laundry room, where Sassy slept. He sniffed Sassy's bed. The scent was stale. He repeated sniffing out Sassy. To his confusion and disappointment, Sassy wasn't in here either. 'Jumba and Pleakly's room?'
An hour past by and he still hadn't found Sassy. He plopped down on his bed, tapping his chin deep in thought. 'Where could that experiment gone? Maybe some of my other cousins know where she is.' He thought. He ran out of the house.
"What's your favorite color again?" Lilo asked Maria as she, Maria, and Victoria changed into their normal clothes.
"Orange! The only reason I wear those pink shirts is because if you look on the back of the shirt you'll see mummified fish!" Maria laughed.
"Where'd ya' get it?" Victoria asked as she slipped on purple shorts.
"My mom made it! She likes to sew gifts for the poor, and she had some left over materials and made me a t-shirt." Maria smiled. Maria pulled over her head a yellow t-shirt.
"Cool! So does Aunt Pleakly." Lilo exclaimed. Lilo slipped into her blue shirt and pink shorts. "You guys finished yet?" Lilo asked. Maria and Victoria shook their heads 'no'. Maria continued by putting on orange shorts, while Victoria changed into a red shirt.
"Oh look, its weirdlo and icktoria." Mertle smirked.
"YEAH." Her posse chorused.
"I don't see why you hang out with the lower class." Mertle replied. Victoria had to hold back Lilo's fist. "After all," Mertle continued. "They're no fun to look at."
