Chapter 3: The Fortune Cookie

LANA’S VIEW: DOWNTOWN CHINA TOWN
The building was a piece of masterpiece. I mean the color and shape was so beautiful. Anyways, Mr. Lee took us to this building called “Shis-Koon-Dosue” or what I think it’s spelled. Josh was busily talking to some Asian girls and I was, writing some important notes. You see, while we were on the way going to China town I remembered that Chinese History was also important to the coming interview with Harvard. Besides just learning Shakespeare, I think they’d want to know my view of Chinese history, if the person interviewing me was, Chinese. Them Asians are sure proud of their history. Well, enough with the notes. Time to eat some lunch!!

JOSH’S VIEW: COOL RUSH HOUR RESTURANT
Mr. Lee was right. The restaurant we went to was pure brilliance. Or shall I say, a pure spot of movie making “Rush Hour”. The set covered up everything, because you see in the movie, there is no mess. Here, is one of those ‘huge covering up the set places’. By the way, Mr. Lee was busily talking to his Asian friends, the waitresses. The waitress was really creepy looking and old. It was scary. And yes, Lana was again busily trying to get in their conversation with her ‘skills at Chinese’ (what a geek). And I had a feeling a needed to go. You know, when you need to go.
“Mr. Lee, where’s the restroom?” I asked impatiently. Mr. Lee seemed to not hear me.
Ughh. I guess I have to find it myself.
While getting up, a waitress walking with a glass of water knocked into me, knocking over the water onto Lana’s lap. Lana looked up at me glaring.
“You, mindless jerk!! How could you possibly…” she yelled at me
What? Me a mindless jerk? This girl has got problems.
“Excuse me? I’m a jerk? I think you really need to watch it mademoiselle. It’s called a matter of fate. And fate is fate. Deal with it.”
Her jaw dropped.
“Fate? I saw you purposely trip her!”
“Me?” I laughed amusedly. “I tripped her?” Yup, a lot of problems.
“Well, it seemed like it. You people just know how to abuse your powers of strength!”
The waitress said something in Chinese trying to calm us down but of course I couldn’t hear what she said because Lana here was screaming in my ear because “I accidently purposely tripped the waitress”.
“You know what, I don’t even have time to deal with this shit. I gotta go.” I said walking straight to the restroom I located finally.
“I need to go to the restroom first! This water is disgustingly on my perfectly ironed shirt. Thanks to you, jerk!” She said walking to restroom too.
“Well, I need to go. I mans gotta go when he gotta go. So I gotta go.”
“What is wrong with you? Haven’t you heard the ladies first thing?” When I opened the restroom door.
“Haven’t you heard of that I need to go? Move out of the way.” I pushed her roughly. She didn’t budge.
The waitress suddenly appeared behind me. The creepy one that was talking to Mr. Lee. “Fortune Cookie?” She asked delightfully to me and Lana. With her she held to Asian Fortune Cookies unopened, unread.
Lana sighed. “Now’s not the time. Really.”
“Yeah miss, I’m sorry but honestly it’s a bladder issue right now.”
“No No.” And then she blabbered into a tone of Asian words I couldn’t hear. Lana squinted too trying to listen to the Chinese that the old lady was speaking rapidly of.
“Fine. Fine.” I took a Fortune Cookie and Lana took the other one. She slammed the door right into my face as soon as I got mine.
“Oh damn.” I grunted. I threw my fortune cookie on the ground, stepped on it ever so roughly and bent down to read what it said.

LANA'S VIEW: THE QUAKE
Oh I was ever so glad I could finally get rid of Josh’s bladder issue and dry my shirt. Oh the cookie. I had almost forgotten. I opened the cookie and read it:

“Don’t judge a person,
Until you’ve walked a mile in their
Moccasins”

I read it, confused. The Fortune Cookie Company must have really stupid people writing stuff for their fortunes. I walked to the dryer trying to dry off my shirt. The light air blew off. Hot air. I felt my eyes blur all the sudden and the ground under my feet move. What was happening? Suddenly I finally understood.
“EARTHQUAKE!!” I rushed out of the bathroom and bumped into Josh. We fell down on the floor with me on top. Suddenly there was none. Josh looked at me confused. I stood up and a rush of dizziness came into my head. I felt my adrenaline rush in.
“Sorry. The Earthquake was frighteningly.” I said.
“Yeah, but.." He paused. "How weird.” Josh said rubbing his temples. I’ve never seen him look so confused.
“Here, you can go.”I opened the door for him to the restroom.
“No, I don’t need to. In fact I’m perfectly fine.” He stood up and left me standing at the restroom door, dazzled.