Manda's Note: For the record Roo... this is what happens when you leave me bored.
"What do you mean you haven… Puck… man come on… I don't wanna hear that… PUCK…"
Mike Chang knew the second the words, 'Santana have you seen… wow' that he'd completely lost his best friend to the world of sex and there was no getting him to focus. If both Puck and Santana hadn't seen Brittany and he's climbed into her bedroom window to check her closet with no luck there was only one place the slender small minded blonde could have been. The one place she'd always ran to when there was something in her life she didn't want to be there. At ten he'd found her sitting on the bank of the duck pond droning her favorite baby doll because it reminded her of her baby sister. He knew where to find her, he just didn't know why she was there. sure enough his once bubbly best friend was sitting on the dock, bundled up in the sweatshirt he'd forgotten at her house once upon a weekend all too long ago now.
"Britt? What… what are you doing out here? and why did you say you spent your summer vacation in the sewers?"
Sitting down cross legged beside her he was confused when the blonder didn't crawl into his lap to snuggle against his chest. She always did that the moment he sat down. Instead she seemed to inch away from him a little bit more.
"Because I did"
Her voice had taken on the tone of a hurt three year old after falling and scraping her knees, a lot like his baby sister Lucy's. Reaching his hand out he expected her to move to him instead only to have her hold out her last piece of bread to the obnoxious duck who demanded her intention instead. Mike wasn't used to this Brittany. Bumble bee always smiled for him, she always turned his day around.
"What do you mean Britt?"
He asked tilting his head and waiting for an explanation. This new Brittany wasn't something he was used to nor anything that he liked and he couldn't put his finger on where exactly his Brittany was and why she'd turned off. Giving up he folded his hands into his lap and kept his eyes on the girl who wouldn't turn to look at him.
"I was looking for Freckles"
She let out a sigh a few minutes later only confusing him further.
"What do you mean? Freckles lives in his fish bowl. Remember Britt? With the pretty colored rocks"
Seeing her shake her head in such a solemn sadness made his own heart twitch with hurt that he didn't quite understand.
"No Mikey… Tigger flushed him down the toilet… he was belly up."
The fish that they'd won at the amusment park the past year, the fish that he'd won for her. He could still see her delighted face in his head. the way she'd completely lit up when he'd placed the plastic bag with the tiny gold fish inside of it in her hands.
"I think he died because his heart hurt Mikey"
Heart hurting? broken hearts were exactly why he covered her eyes when they watched bambi or the scary parts of 101 Dalmatians. Because Brittany was special to him and he didn't like to see her hurting.
"Why would his heart hurt?"
Scratching his head Mike couldn't put together what one had to do with the other? had she watched to many hours of Finding Nemo by herself and decided that Freckles was now Merlin?
"Because mine hurts too… since you said you were with Tina its hurt bad"
With every word she said he put every word together. With her words everything he'd wanted was confirmed. reaching out the talented asian dancer pulled the blond into his lap and hugged her tighter from behind before putting his fingers under her chin and pulling her face to his before kissing her a kiss like they'd never shared before. Because it had taken him that long to figure out exactly where her feelings stood, and, now that he knew the last thing he wanted to do was to let his Bumble Bee's heart hurt any longer.