Well, I wasn't planning on continuing this, but you all seemed to enjoy it, so here's ANOTHER chapter!
Enjoy….
Athena was in the H.Q. doing a bit of her homework, but she could barely concentrate. She kept thinking about Buttons, another one of their study lessons were going to start again, in about twenty minutes. She looked around the H.Q. and saw he wasn't there. "Huh, I guess he's already at school." She said. She then smiled and headed over there.
Athena skipped to the school, but not because she was going to be in one of her favorite places in the zoo, because she was going to see Buttons again. She sighed blissfully and practically danced there, but she saw Marshal talking to Peanut and Eggy near their hotdog cart clubhouse. She walked past them normally, but when she was out of their sight, she skipped again. "I'm not even sure why, but I think Buttons is my best friend now!" she said to herself just blushing at the thought of him. I mean, they were always friends, but now it felt…different.
Buttons sat at the desk again with the book open. He kept getting butterflies at the thought of Athena. He had known her since she came out of the egg, and now, it was like they were getting closer. He liked it! He never head a best friend before, but sometimes, he wished he and Athena could be more than best friends, but he looked down sadly thinking that she was just too out of his league.
"Buttons?" Athena's voice called out as she stepped in the zoovenier shop, making Buttons perk back up.
Buttons smiled. "Here!" he grunted out waving his flipper over his head like an idiot. He just felt so happy.
Athena smiled and waddled over to him. "Okay Buttons, where were we?" she asked.
Buttons pointed to the textbook. "Ka-boom!" he shouted. His flipper was over a photo of the Revolutionary War.
Athena laughed. "Yeah, there's a good chance that there will be explosions in wars." She looked back down. "It's sad though." She said feeling sorry for those people, it was a still picture, but it was as if she could see it happening in her mind. It wasn't pretty. Buttons took note of this, and put his flipper around her shoulders making Athena's eyes widened in surprise.
"Okay now?" he grunted out with his flippers still wrapped around her.
Am I okay? I'm going to faint! Athena thought to herself, but she nodded her head, and Buttons let go of her shoulders. "Yeah, so…um…the book says, that…" she continued to stammer making Buttons cock his head to the side confused. She slammed the book closed making Buttons jump up frightened. "You know, let's take a small break!" she said with a nervous smile.
Buttons got confused again. They just started five minutes ago! Did she not like being around him?
Athena noticed the hurt in his eyes and practically read his mind. She shook her head with wide eyes and waved her flippers in front of her, not wanting to hurt her new friend's feelings. "Not that I don't like doing this! I think its fun, since, you know, we never do things together anymore. Remember how we used to do everything together when we were little? I sure do! It was fun, and with you!" She tried to explain, but it felt like she just stammered away.
Buttons smiled. "Me too." He grunted out.
Athena blushed. "Great."
Buttons waddled with Athena outside and smiled at her. He liked the way she acted when she was curious about anything that came her way, he liked how she could come up with a solution to anything it seemed, he liked the way her eyes wandered around her room, and he liked her. "Like." He blurted out, but then he covered his beak.
Athena looked at him. "What?"
Buttons shook his head with his beak still covered. "Nu-uh." He grunted out.
Athena giggled. "Come on, tell me!" she playfully nudged him, but that only made Buttons get that fluttery feeling from the contact of her flipper on him.
Buttons sighed. "Tired." He lied, but part of it was true, he was tired of pretending he didn't care for Athena like he did. He smiled at her. "Home?"
Athena cocked a brow. "What about your history project?"
Buttons rolled his eyes with a smile. "Tomorrow." He grunted out.
Athena smiled wider. She had come to love his voice. It was like his grunt was a CD she wanted to play over and over and over again. He rarely spoke, so it was like a treasure when he talked to her, and she enjoyed it. The two waddled along the wall, just then, one of the zoo's speakers started to play. Athena looked up. "I guess it's malfunctioning again." She said with a laugh, she had to blush when the song started playing.
"I never gone with the wind
Just let it flow
let it take me where it wants to go
till you open the door there's so much more
I never seen it before
I was trying to fly
but I couldn't find wings
but you came along and you changed everything."
Athena blushed, and was pretty shocked to see Buttons's little down feathered flipper handed out to her. "Y-you want me to dance w-with you?" she stammered. Her heart pounded inside her chest, and she took it when Buttons nodded. The two held each other close and Athena laid her head on her dance partner's chest, but she wondered if he could feel how hot her blush seemed as she did. "you lift my feet off the ground you spin me around "I watched from a distance as you made life your own "You lift my feet off the ground you spin me around
you make me crazier, crazier
feels like I'm falling
and I'm lost in your eyes
you make me crazier, crazier, crazier"
every sky was your own kind of blue
and I wanted to know how that would feel
and you made it so real
you showed me something that i couldn't see
you opened my eyes and you made me believe"
you make me crazier, crazier
feels like I'm falling
and I'm lost in your eyes
you make me crazier, crazier, crazier
ohhhhh Baby you showed me what living is for you lift my feet off the ground you spin me around
I don't want to hide anymoooorrre"
you make me crazier, crazier
feels like I'm falling
and I'm lost in your eyes
you make me crazier, crazier, crazier
crazier, crazier"
Buttons smiled. "I wanted to." He spoke out best he could, but even though it was a bit raspy, it was like another track on Athena's version of his CD. The two friends looked at the clock; they weren't really expected home till the afternoon, so they decided to have a little fun. "Wanna go watch the clouds?" Athena asked.
Buttons nodded and followed her to where they could see it perfectly, the clock tower.
Little did the couple know, they were just spotted by Marshal, Eggy, and Peanut.
"Oh" Eggy started with wide eyes at what just happened.
"My" Marshal said shocked too.
"Gosh" Peanut finished, just as shocked at his friends.
"That was GOLD!" Peanut said before chuckling a bit. "Too bad no one's gonna believe that just happened." He said with a small shrug.
Marshal looked up at the zoo's surveillance camera. "Don't be too sure about that buddy." He said with a small trouble grin. "Don't be too sure." He repeated.
Oh snap! What's gonna happen?!?!
Major, and I mean MAJOR, shout out to kvcpenguin for helping me out with this!!!
Also, this is a story where she likes Buttons, but in another great story, Geeze Doumani by halfhuman123, she likes someone named Cube. Read that story if you get a chance, it might have some Athena/Buttons moments in her story though! : )
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