Echidna sighed heavily as she stirred her cup of the latest invention by the doctor - at least, that's what it looked like. It was supposed to be a cup of tea, Charden had proclaimed, but somehow he had managed to accidentally put some Tao-influenced expired milk and the batch of Kyoko's latest kitchen disaster (which involved some mud and fur clippings off her pink teddy bear). Echidna had to be polite, though (after all, Charden really had tried) - it was just that no one except her and the doctor could actually cook, and the doctor kept getting his experiments confused with the dinner. Echidna could have sworn that she had seen an eyeball in the last lunch he made.
"You, see I wish that Creed could be straight, or even bi, but nooooo, he has to be gay, doesn't he?' echidna said sadly.
"Well, you don't know that." Charden offered, trying to be comforting.

Echidna gave him a look.

"Ok, well, maybe all the Apostles know that he's gay, but that still doesn't mean he can't be bi, does it?'

Echidna sighed yet again. "Well. That's what I thought, but when I asked him what dates he had had when he was a teenager and all, he replied that the only prominent things in his love life were several crushes on people in college. He went to an all-boys college, Charden."

"Oh."

"I can't help it, it just happened. From when I first met him I knew that we were meant to be together. That wonderful long, silvery hair that just brushes his back and those wonderful deep blue eyes, like ice but so tender..."(Charden rolled his eyes). "And at first I thought it would be easy. I mean, look at me. I'm the most famous actress in practically the world. All the men fell over me. You know just how many fake porn pictures there are of me on the internet? But I never fell for any of them, only Creed. I just HAD to fall in love with a gay! RRRRR!" Echidna pounded the table, causing the tea to spill and burn through the table.
Charden looked at the tea, jaw dropping. "Is that corrosive?" he asked, shocked.
"Forget about the table, think of me!" cried Echidna, bursting into tears in a very passionate and dramatic way, being the actress she was. Charden rolled his eyes (again), then, remembering that Echidna was there, tried to look sympathetic - and failed miserably. After all, he didn't have a giant crush on some fur-wearing, gay phitophile. In fact, Charden was very happily straight. And maybe in love.

Echidna looked up, eyes filled with tears, just in time to see Charden rolling his eyes. "Oh, you're no help at all!" she sobbed, and ran out of the room, not looking where she was going. Suddenly she bumped into something very furry yet hard and fell down. After rubbing her eyes, she looked up.

It was Creed, wearing his most magnificent fur coat and polished boots, staring down at her with narrowed eyes. Echidna gulped, knowing that her eyes were all red and her mascara was running.
Crap. Crap. Crap.
Her heart beat so loudly that she was sure Creed could hear it. Was her hair all right? Were her eyes really that bad? Why did she pick this time to run into him?
Creed spoke in a haughty, condescending voice. "Echidna, is there something wrong?"
Echidna thought quickly. What else caused tears besides crying?
"Oh! I...ummm...was just yawning a lot! Yeah! You know, Uhh, when you yawn your eyes get watery? Well, I just, uh, yawned a lot! Yeah!"
Creed stared even harder at her. Echidna felt her face turning red. She had never been good at improvising. Or lying.
"Oh, well then. Go on." Creed waved his hand.

Echidna ran to her room as fast as she could, slammed the door behind her, and jumped on her bed, bursting into tears.

Authors note: awwwww, poor echidna...