Rigby slams the front door to the house and walks away with rage. As he walks he feels a turning in his stomach and he stops in the middle of the bridge and screams at the top of his lungs, he calms down and limply walks to the caramel colored bench beside him and sits underneath the only lamppost there. He sighs and a tear falls off his little nose. Rigby replays today's events in his mind and puts his hands on his cheeks, making sure not to touch the small bruises there, sighing again at the thought...crystal clear.
Earlier that day
It was morning, a beautiful scent of grass and flowers filled the air. Rigby skips in the meadow and lays on them for some time before Benson comes in the picture and yells at him, "Rigby! Why aren't you working with Mordecai!" "I'm taking a break so cool your jets and let me enjoy the sun." "You better march your furry ass inside OR YOUR FIRED!" Benson walks away, gumballs red with rage. Rigby sits up and groans, he wipes the dirt off his fur, not really caring if he missed some cause it would normally blend in with his skin tone. He plops down on all fours and runs to the 2 story blue house with white outlines leading from the porch and so on. Once inside he spots Mordecai wearing yellow gloves, he waves his wings around leaving a few drops of water land on the raccoon and takes them off, "Thanks for the help dude." "No problem." He said sarcastically. Mordecai rolls his eyes and grabs the hedge clippers on the table, "Come on Rigby we have to go cut the hedges." "Ugh, lame!" The bluejay walks out the front door, ignoring Rigby's complaint.
Outside Mordecai clips the branches that holds yellow, red, and blue roses on it. Before Mordecai could clip another branch Rigby stops him halfway, almost literally cutting his little paw off, "Wait dude." "What." Rigby picks the only white rose off the branch, letting the thorns pierce his fingers. "Ow." He said but he still held onto the rose either way. "Oh god dude...you are such a girl!" "For what? Loving the scent and beauty of roses?" "Pfft, yeah!" Rigby growls and sniffs the white rose, "But...their so...pretty." Mordecai bursts out laughing. The little raccoons face fumes with anger and he runs inside the house, "Where you going? Gonna throw it away like a real man?" Rigby shoots him a glare before opening the door and heading upstairs to their bedroom.
Once inside their room he pulls out a small pot he was saving for a long time for a special occasion...its not that day but its still pretty special. He grabs a mini bag of fertilizer and a water can. Rigby walks over to his window and puts the pot on the edge of the window sill. He puts the fertilizer in and then pokes his finger in the middle of it, he plants the little rose inside and covers it up nice and neatly. Rigby pours a little bit of water in the pot and opens the window while watching the rose move with the wind. He looks over and see's Mordecai clipping the hedges on the other side, the bluejay spots Rigby in the window and with the rose and he starts laughing again, pointing at Rigby's girlish behavior. I'm not a girl. Rigby thought. He touches one of the petals, silky but elegant. He chuckles and touches the thorn underneath the base of the rose, "Ow!" He notices his fingers were lined with little blood dots from when he was holding the rose earlier. "You little bastard...oh I can't stay mad at you! Your too adorable...and I'm talking to myself again...great." He walks out of the bedroom and into the bathroom, washing his hands and putting a butt-load of soap which stung in the wounds. He drys them off and goes back into the room to find Mordecai poking at the rose's top, Rigby immediately reacted and ran over to Mordecai. "Stop it man your gonna ruin it!" "What? I can't have a little fun?" He pokes it again and three little petals fall off. "Stop it!" Mordecai ignores him and picks up the petals that fell, he flings them in the air and pretended it was confetti, "Woo-hoo! Yeah! Hurray for Rigby! The only boy who acts like a girl in the house." Mordecai smirks and flicks Rigby's nose. Rigby slaps him, no good. Mordecai thought of this as a challenge, he brings his arm back, Rigby knew that position. The raccoon ran out of the room before the big fist of the bluejay could bruise Rigby's arm. He ran out of the house and through the gates of the park, "Come back here!" He heard Mordecai yell in the background, he ignores him and keeps running until he turns in an alley. Rigby leans against the wall and slides down slowly trying to catch his breath, "That was close...crap." He couldn't breathe, even if he tried to relax a little it wouldn't work.
It was the afternoon now and Rigby was walking the streets, thinking what he wants to do. He wasn't paying attention to where he was going and bumped into something, "Sorry." "Its alright." A sweet voice filled the air, he looked up and saw a girl with jet black hair, but it was straight and had green highlights on the bottom, her eyes were brown but sparkled when she smiled. Rigby smiled back and started walking again, "You heading to the party?" She said. Rigby stops in his tracks and walks backwards toward the girl again. "What party?" He asked. "There's a party over at the coffee shop. Everyone's there." "Why aren't you there?" Rigby questioned, the girl shrugged letting the hood of her jacket bounce behind her, "I don't have a date." "You need a date to go?" "Pretty much." Rigby looks down in shame. I wanna go to a party...but where am I gonna find a date? Rigby looks up at the girl then he looks down again, the girl not knowing what was going through the raccoons mind, decides to start walking again. Rigby see's this and grabs her wrist, "You wanna go to the party with me?" "Uh, sure...why not." She turns her direction forward and the two start walking forward.
At the coffee shop lights of green and red and other colors were shining through the windows, loud music could be heard too. Rigby dropped his mouth in awe, "This is gonna be so fun!" The girl shrieked. Rigby looks up at her and says, "Hey I forgot to ask...what's your name?" "Myra...yours?" "Rigby." "Cute...wanna head inside now?" Rigby nods and he opens the door, letting a huge burst of music shoot out to them. Inside was lights and music shooting everywhere while a couple of people were dancing like crazy on stage and off. Rigby looks forward and spots Mordecai trying to talk with Margaret, he could basically see the tall bluejay sweating and stuttering. He rolled his eyes and walked toward them, "Hey Rigby!" Margaret yelled, trying to get her voice through the music, "Hey!" He yelled back, Mordecai makes a face and looks at the girl next to him, "Who's this!" Mordecai yelled, Rigby looks on his right, completely forgetting he had brought this girl into the party, "This is Myra!" "Nice to meet you!" Margaret shouted while reaching her arm out to shake it with the human. Myra nods and shakes Mordecai's instead, Margaret who was a little disappointed spoke up again, "Wanna have some fun Myra!" Myra rolls her eyes and nods in annoyance. Margaret jumps over the counter and steals Myra away from Rigby, the music cools down a bit and a song called "Girls just wanna have fun." came on and pretty much all the girls were on the dance floor shaking like crazy. Mordecai sighs and sits in the chair more, "She'll never notice me." Mordecai said in a low voice. "Whatever dude your too good for her." "What do you mean?" Rigby quickly covers his mouth and changes the subject, "W-what I mean was, hehehe, was um...we should totally uh..." Rigby tried to think of something until Mordecai shot a punch into the raccoons arm. "CRAP!" He yelled, some of the girls on the dance floor made quick glances at the two before returning back to their song...but Myra was paying full attention on them while she danced.
"What the hell was that for?" Rigby asked him. "That's for running away from my punch this morning and for ditching work and leaving me with yours." Rigby rolled his eyes and stated, "Well I ran away cause you were gonna hit me and because you were torturing my rosey." Mordecai started laughing, "R-rosey?" Rigby blushes deeply, "Dude you are so a girl! Heh, w-why don't you go on the dance floor? Huh?" He kept laughing which made Rigby angry. The raccoon grabs Mordecai's beak and twists it, Mordecai stops his laughter and grabs Rigby's throat. Rigby couldn't breathe, "Beak...off limits dude." Mordecai pulls Rigby's head down and slams it against the counter, the raccoon sniffles and stands up, "You bastard." He was crying, Mordecai could see it. "You bitch." Mordecai said back with a few chuckles, Rigby realizing this was another girl joke, picked out the nail from Mordecai's chair and pulled it, one of the legs broke and Mordecai came tumbling down. All the girls stopped dancing for a moment to laugh and started their groovy moves again. Myra wasn't laughing at this...not at all. Mordecai grabs Rigby's throat again and leads him to the bathroom, inside he locked the main door and shoved Rigby into one of the stalls, Rigby groaned at the pain from when his back hit the back part of the toilet. "You made me look like a total idiot back there man!" Mordecai screamed at his best friend, Rigby hopped off the toilet and tried to get around the bluejay but Mordecai pulled him out and threw him at the mirror in front of the sink. "AUGH!" He yelled, it was small in the bathroom so when you yell it echos and strikes back at you with a louder sound. "When we get home you are going to get it!" Mordecai punched Rigby's gut and the raccoon slid off the sink and onto the floor in pain. Mordecai left the bathroom and rejoined the party, everybody was looking at him weird...especially Margaret. He shielded his face from anymore humiliation and ran out the door, Rigby crawled out of the bathroom and tried running out the door too without throwing up, blood drips his nose and his back hurt horribly but that didn't stop him from running outside and towards the house. All the girls and other boys were quiet until they all laugh and continue the party, Myra still wasn't laughing at this...this was some serious shit going on and she needs to settle it down.
At the house, Rigby finally made it. He pops his back, it feels a whole lot better now. He wipes his nose and rubs the left over blood on his fur, he heard noises upstairs, his ears perked and his eyes went wide, "MY ROSE!" He ran on all fours upstairs and whipped the door open. Mordecai wasn't in the room though, Rigby walks in a little more and he was swept off his feet by big feathery arms and plopped on the bed harshly, "Get...off!" Mordecai kept him pressed down, Rigby felt kinda awkward being in that position, having Mordecai on top of him, holding his arms down, he struggled to get up but Mordecai punched him on his cheek, "OW!" He hit him again, and again, and again, and again. Bruises were forming on the places where Mordecai punched him. The bluejay picks him up and holds him by his throat and against the wall, "Don't you ever do that again you little bastard." "Do what? This?" Rigby grabs Mordecai's beak and slaps it a few times, Mordecai gave one last bloody blow before yelling at him, "You little rotten girl! You're a beast! A horrible ugly, good for nothing creep of a beast!" Mordecai grabs Rigby's rose and pulls it out of the pot and he smash's it in his palms, Rigby gasped and stood up, "You stubborn dipshit! I freaking hate you!" "Good! Cry! Cry to your oh so hot date and maybe even turn her into a beast like you!" "This has nothing to do with her! I barely even know her!" "Pfft, you are such a bitch!" Rigby couldn't take anymore insults from his best friend, he steps out of the room and walks outside.
Now
Rigby couldn't believe his best friend had called him a beast and a girl! Especially a girl...I'm not a girl. Rigby kept telling himself. It was midnight, not a sound was made except for the raccoons sniffling, footsteps were heard in the dark. Rigby didn't care who it was, maybe a burglar? He took out his wallet and threw it on the floor, "There...you can have it." A small hand was shown in the light, it picked the wallet up and the whole figure was shown...it was Myra. "I think you dropped something." She said, gesturing the wallet in the air, she threw it back at him and he stuffed it back from where he grabbed it. "Thanks." Myra made a small frown and sat next to him, "What happened to you?" She asked him, raising one of her hands to touch one of the bruises, he gently smacks her away and told her the whole incident at the house, "He called me a beast...I'm not a beast...am I?" "Now Rigby...I know we just met but I can see you are not one. Your funny, sweet, and actually has a funny way of showing complete and utter embarrassment to others." Rigby chuckles. "But your not a beast...he is...and he needs to learn to that, whether it's the hard way...or...the hard way." She smiles after repeating herself twice. "What do you mean?" "I saw the way you stopped yourself after saying that remark about him being too good for Margaret...do you...have feelings for him?" Rigby freezes, unaware of what to say, I mean sure their best friends, but could they actually be in a relationship like that? "A little...I mean not exactly, but um...a pinch...kinda, maybe, sort of..." He leans more back in the bench and covers his face, "But even if I did he would treat me the same...he'd still act like the jerk he is cause I'm little." "He won't...not after he expresses his true self towards you. Learning the hard way." She snaps her fingers and she disappears, the dust she left behind made its way up Rigby's nose, he sneezes a few times before looking up at the night sky.
Mordecai's in his room, laying on his bed, trying to relax and sleep but a huge puff of smoke popped in the room, Mordecai sits up and waves the smoke away, a hand grabs his wrist and he's startled by the sudden pull of strength that lead him bouncing on Rigby's trampoline, the smoke clears and he recognizes this girl, "You...your Rigby's date!" "Well not really but he just needed a girl to enter the party." "You didn't actually have to bring someone, you could've just walked in." "I know...but skipping that, a little animal told me about the incident earlier today." "Oh dammit Rigby!" "Don't blame him for this! You ripped up something that was precious to him..." Mordecai looks at the floor to where a dead rose lay crumbled from his outburst awhile ago. "...and you called him a beast." "Cause he is one." "No he's not! You are! And you don't see it, that's what makes people act the way they are! Acting like a beast can make others repeat." Mordecai rolls his eyes. Myra's hair whips up and her eyes glow yellow, "Your going to learn the true meaning of being the beast...even if others can't help...only one will...but that person won't unless he/she see's you beyond yourself and into your true form...through love...you have 6 months to find someone who can love you for who you are, and if you don't...you stay like this forever." Her last words made shivers crawl Mordecai's spine. She disappears and all that was left was a small mirror on his bed, "Pfft, stupid lady...she's crazy." Mordecai wipes his forehead, that's when something caught his attention. His arm stilled looked the same except there were black lines lining it, looping around his white wrist marks and further up, he flipped his hand over, making his palm face him. There was a spiraled tree on his wrist, it was so beautiful but he couldn't take it off, he stumbled off of Rigby's trampoline and reached out to the mirror. He gasped as he touched every inch of his face, there were lines and swirls, spirals and such all around his face and head...even on his feathers! He aimed the mirror down to look at his body, same thing except there was a heart shaped tree in the middle of his chest, lines swirled his legs and his stomach, around his tail feathers and to the tip of his beak. Mordecai almost screamed when Myra's face appeared on the mirror. "How do you like your new tattoo's?" "These are tattoo's?" "No I was just messing with you, those are cursed lines, they will stay there until you find true love." "Tr...you are fucking crazy!" "Says the guy who's trying not to cry, almost turning his head red." Mordecai slowed his breathing, he calmly looks back at the mirror and continues the conversation, "Well how am I suppose to get somebody to love me when I look like...this!" He said gesturing to the lines everywhere. "You'll find somebody." "What about going to work and the store and stuff?" "Wear a jacket or something!" Myra yelled back. Mordecai puts the mirror on the bed and goes over to Rigby's trampoline, thankful that there's a pile of clothes there. He pulls out a huge black jacket, maybe an XL, he puts it on and the bottom reaches his knees. "Its too big but it'll do." He takes it off and cuts a line behind the jacket, he puts it on again and his tail feathers poked out through the cut in the jacket. "That's better." He doesn't mind showing off his tail feathers cause they were lined with black anyway, so are his fingers, legs too. Everything else needs to stay out of everyone's sight. Mordecai picks the mirror back up and asks, "Why do I have this mirror?" "To check in on some people you know." "Like Margaret?" He said quickly, Myra rolls her eyes and nods, "Just say the person you wanna see then the..." "I wanna see Margaret the robin." He said again too quickly, the picture of Myra swirls away and Margaret comes out. She's walking up and down in her apartment. "Cool its like having an invisible camera!" Margaret walks into her bathroom and starts undressing herself, "Whoa." Mordecai's eyes went wide and he started to drool, before Margaret could reveal anymore Myra came back, "Hey!" The bluejay squealed, obviously he was interested in seeing his crush taking a shower...naked.
"That's right! I come back at anytime, anywhere!" "Fuck." Mordecai said gloomily, he lays on his bed depressed, "Cheer up! At least you can look at people naked...halfway." She smiles, Mordecai sighs and says, "I gotta go to bed, how do I turn you off?" She smiles even bigger and said, "You can't, only I can when I go to bed...you know...I might stay up and watch a movie." Mordecai groans and shoves the mirror under his pillow, he slides out of his jacket and hides it with him underneath the covers, he doesn't want anyone seeing him like this.
Its 4:21 in the morning, Rigby opens the door to their room and he hops into his trampoline quietly, he didn't want to wake up his friend. He hear's Mordecai's loud snores so he now knows that he's alseep, he rubs his eyes and covers himself underneath the clothes and yawns, taking in the rapid smell of dirty clothes, "Ah...the sweet smell of home." he snuggles more in the clothes and drifts easily off to sleep.
Ringing
Rigby wakes up first, surprisingly. He shuts the alarm off and scratches the back of his neck, he was not entirely sure about waking Mordecai up, he was too afraid he was gonna get punched again, but he liked his friend and he forgave him that night...but did Mordecai forgive him? He shakes his head no in shame and goes to the kitchen. Rigby swishes his tail while looking at two cereal boxes in front of him. "Hmm...Soggy Oats Cereal? Or...Soggy Oats Cereal plus sugar?" He couldn't decide, they were practically the same, all he had to do was pour sugar in the original box or eat it just like that. But Rigby was an idiot so making choices like these were difficult for him, he shrugs and grabs the original box and shoves the cereal in his mouth, no use for a bowl. Rigby also grabs the milk and chugged half of it down, he coughs a bit and wipes his mouth clean, "Hey dude." A voice said in a very hoarse tone. Rigby spun around and saw Mordecai in a black jacket with the hood pulled over, practically covering his whole face except his beak. "Hey...why are you wearing that? Its really hot in here." Mordecai shrugs, of course it was really hot but Mordecai wasn't taking any chances on giving anyone a glimpse of him. He sits on the white couch in the living room, he sighs and puts his hands in his jacket, Rigby joins him too. "Mordecai..." Mordecai looks at Rigby, face still covered. "I-I'm sorry for that incident yesterday...it wasn't like me to do that...can you forgive me?" Rigby looks at the bluejay's dark hollow of the hood, he can't tell if he was smiling or frowning but Rigby decides to lighten up the mood anyway, "Wanna play Strong Johns?" No answer. Rigby smiles and places one of the controllers on his lap, Mordecai looks down slowly and pushes the controller off and lets it fall on the floor. "Ok..." Rigby said confusingly, he kept the smile, he didn't want to dampen his spirit, even if Mordecai wasn't co-operating. He picks the controller back up and actually places it inside Mordecai's hands. Rigby turns the game on and the game began, "Eh, get the man behind the bush Mordecai!" He said playfully, Mordecai didn't respond, he just pushed the controller off again, it plops to the floor and Mordecai's character dies. "Ah man, your dude died." Mordecai couldn't bare to be in the same room right now, he just ran upstairs and locked himself in their room. Rigby came after him and knocked on the door, "Mordecai? You ok?" He doesn't answer, "We're gonna have to work later you know?...but um...I'll just uh...call you later then...I guess." The footsteps were gone and Mordecai pulled out the mirror.
"Yes?" Myra said. Mordecai pulls the hood off, "I wanna see Benson my boss." "Why?" "To see what he's doing." She shrugs and the picture swirls into a scene where Benson's in his office writing something. "Gah!" Benson yells, he crumbles the paper and throws it against the wall, "She'll never come back...she's just a lonely piece of beauty...*sigh*." Benson gets up and turns on the radio on top of a file cabinet. A song called "Jars of hearts" plays and he sits back down in his chair and bangs his head against the desk, crying like a baby who lost its bottle. Mordecai makes a weird face and says, "I want to see Pops...the kid who works here." He couldn't remember what Pops last name was nor did he even know how to spell it if he did. Benson's picture swirls away and Pops came on in a meadow of flowers, "He likes me...he doesn't." Pops said while picking at a daisy's petals. He called the same thing for a couple seconds until, "He likes me!" Pops said happily, he drops the flower and runs away. Mordecai wondered who Pops was crushing on but he was so gloom he didn't care. "I wanna see Skips the yeti." The picture swirls to Skips working out in his house, Mordecai scoffed in disgust, "I want to Muscle-Man and HFG." The picture swirls immediately away and shows Muscle-Man sitting in his trailer drinking what looks like bud-light with HFG trying to play chess by himself. "And now for Girls gone wild!" The TV said, "Oh fuck yeah! HFG get the lube!" Myra pops in before anything could get nasty, "That's damn disgusting you know." "There's no one else to look at!" "What about Rigby?" Mordecai made a faded expression, he completely forgot about his best friend, "Alright...I wanna see Rigby raccoon." The picture swirls and shows Rigby sitting underneath a tree with pink flowers on it, some of them fall and land next to him. "Zoom." The bluejay says, the vision zooms so its aiming directly at Rigby and a couple of petals. "Wonder what's wrong with him." The raccoon said softly, "He's been acting weird ever since that fight...does he forgive me? I don't want him mad at me...no...that would be terrible." A tear falls off his cheek, Mordecai smirked, "Wimp." Myra appears again, "Mordecai...this month's almost over...you need to find someone or else you'll stay like this." Mordecai sits up and runs downstairs, he pulls his hood over and pulls the strings to tighten it around his head. He stops in the kitchen and points at the calender, "October 30th...Damn!" The mirror that was lodged in his pocket started yelling, he pulls it out and see's Myra frustrated, "What?" She shakes her head no, "You should go to the Halloween party tomorrow." "And yet another party? God damn when will the party's end?" "Anyway you should go as yourself, see if anyone likes your "costume" Mordecai." Myra laughs, Mordecai rolls his eyes and agrees with her, "Fine I will, if it will get me out of this stupid curse." Myra smirks, "Its not that easy, you see..." "Oh shut up." He puts the mirror back in his pocket and rubs the jackets arm, "Hmm...as myself?" He stares at the calender for a moment until he knew what to do.