Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Still half asleep, lifting his head and glaring evil eyes at his alarm clock he groaned, "Arrrggggg! Why! I hate you so much!" His sleepy face turned from grumpiness to a mischievous grin, even though he was only talking to his alarm clock... "You know what? I'm going to have a bonfire tonight!" His nicey-nicey voice flashed to rage as he screamed at the top of his voice, "And you'll be burning!"
His anger rang through to the living room, "Ooo... Tala's upset!" Salima smiled, Tala's pain made her happy.
The dark, droopy figure appeared at the door. He waited for a moment and everyone went quiet, still, and watching him to see what the poor, little gremlin was going to do. "Ray!" Tala barked, glaring right at him.
"Yes, honey?" Ray smiled and winked, making Tala blush bright red no matter how mad he was.
Still trying to regain his failing toughness, Tala hissed, "Put that stupid lock back on the bathroom door! Now!"
"Look, babe! If you still want us to have a happy relationship I'm cool with that, but if your going to try to dominate us then," he shrugged "sorry..." Ray turned his face away from Tala, not wanting to make eye contact after Tala had screamed at him.
Tala softened, collapsing onto Rays lap, "Oh, no! Sorry, baby! It's just, well, I kind of want to have a shower and if there's no lock on the door, how do I know-"
Ray cut him off, "You do know there 28 more locks on that door, one isn't going to matter..."
"How dare you say such a thing..." Tears started welling in his eyes.
"Oh, baby, no, don't cry..." Delving into his pocket and retrieving a gold lock he smiled sweetly, "There you go. Now, go have your shower and we can go to Dairy Land when your done, yeah?"
"Okay..." And with that, Tala winked at Ray and pattered off to have his shower.