Okay, this one started out good but got a little cheesy in the end. Ah well, extra cheesy's the way I like it... :) BTW: Have you guys noticed that I'm using FRIENDS captions for the chapter titles? XD
This one shot was inspired by the recent black out I just experienced. We played Cluedo and the "I Remember" game too... which was my mom's suggestion at it was Mimi's. And just like Crissa, I don't like playing board games so much because my dad (like Roger) likes to cheat a lot. LOL. Anyhu, our black out lasted 3 days unlike this one... so... enjoy. :)
The One with a Black Out:
Crissa was in her room listening to some songs on her new Ipod dock with speakers (courtesy of her father) and Matt was with her, flipping the pages of a children's book.
All of a sudden, the lights turned off and the music stopped. Matt and Crissa screamed on cue. In the Mimi and Roger's room, a loud thump then a mixture of angry swears was heard.
"Sasa?" Matt's small voice was trembling as her tried to search for his sister in the darkness.
"It's okay Matty," Crissa felt for her brother's hand and held it.
Then the door burst open and a single beam of white light was spotted.
Matt and Crissa screamed again.
Roger stepped into the room in his boxers, holding a flashlight.
"I am your father," he said in a low voice.
Matt laughed, Crissa rolled her eyes.
"Everyone okay in here?" Mimi asked, rushing into the room whilst trying to pull a robe over herself.
"Yuppy," Matt answered, not frightened anymore.
Mimi held a candle out to Roger.
"Got a light?" she teased.
Roger took out a lighter and a flame erupted from the candle.
"You're shivering," Roger pulled Mimi's robe more tightly around her.
"It's nothing," Mimi smiled, secretly pinching Roger's stomach flab.
Matt climbed down the bed and started running around in circles, bumping anything in his path. Despite Mimi's warnings, he continued. He fell to the floor when his head hit the corner of the bed.
"Owww," he said, rubbing his bruise and making a few tears fall.
"Dios Mio, hijo!" Mimi said, running over and picking her son up.
After a few minutes of Mommy Mimi love, Matt was bubbly and happy again.
"Okay, is there a scheduled black out today?" Crissa demanded.
"No, there isn't," Mimi replied.
"Screw Uncle Benny."
"He's not your uncle!" Roger said defiantly. "I'm going to go look for some emergency lights."
"Mommy, it's hot," Matt said, sweat trickling down his forehead.
"Hijo, It's freezing," Mimi laughed.
"But why am I sweaty?"
"Coz you ran around in circles."
Crissa pulled something out of her drawer. "Here, a mini electric fan with a built in flashlight."
"Where'd you get this, chica?" Mimi asked, turning the device on.
"I use my birthday money wisely."
"I never thought I'd hear you say that," Mimi laughed.
Roger came back with a bright emergency light, which he placed on top of Crissa's drawer.
"Let there be light!" Roger said in a lordly voice.
Silence.
"Now what do we do?"
"It's only been 2 minutes and you're already bored?" Mimi rolled her eyes.
"Low tech, man," Matt said then giggled.
Mimi and Roger laughed.
Silence again.
Crissa moved to the floor, where everyone had gathered in a tiny circle.
"Okay, I give. What do we do?" Mimi asked.
"Well, we can get back to the thing we were doing… that doesn't require electricity and is all the more fun in the dark," Roger sang.
"What were you doing, daddy?" Matt blinked.
"Errr…"
"We were playing a board game," Mimi gave Roger a look.
Crissa rolled her eyes.
"Let me guess, you were playing 'Cluedo,'" she said sarcastically.
"In fact we were!" Roger said.
He stood up and rummaged in the toy drawer. He pulled out a long board game.
"Let's play," a wide grin spread across Roger's face.
"Count me out," Crissa said.
"Aw, don't be such a fun-sucker, Cris," Mimi said.
"Whenever we play a board game with daddy, he cheats! And he makes me feel bad. Do you remember that time we played Monopoly?"
Roger cackled.
"Rog…"
"Okay, okay. I'll be nice."
"No cheating?" Crissa pointed a finger.
"Cross my heart," Roger grinned.
They set out the playing area.
"I want to be Miss Scarlet!" Crissa said.
"I want to be Miss Peacock!" Matt yelled.
"Baby, Miss Peacock is a girl," Mimi said.
"But I like the color blue," Matt pouted.
"You can be Colonel Mustard, okay?"
"Fine," Matt looked at the board and grabbed the yellow playing piece.
"I think I'll be Mrs. White," Mimi smiled.
"The nanny?"
"She looks pretty innocent."
"I will be Reverend Green," Roger cackled again.
"Dude, what's with the cackle?" Crissa asked her father.
Roger shrugged and placed his piece on the green spot.
"Game on!"
A few minutes later…
"MOM!!! DAD'S LOOKING AT MY CARDS!"
"Roger!"
"I was NOT! I'm a reverend, I can't cheat,"
"I saw you, cheater!"
"SHHH!" Mimi waved her hands in the air. "Switch places with me, Rog."
Roger grumbled but did as told.
"Who's next?"
Roger grabbed the die and rolled a one.
"Mother Fu…!"
Matt looked at his dad.
"Fun!" Roger scratched his head. "Mother, this is fun!"
Crissa snickered. She grabbed the die and rolled a six.
"HA!" she stuck her tongue out at Roger. Roger did the same.
Crissa moved her piece to the Games Room then looked at her cards.
"I suggest that it was… Mrs. White…"
Mimi gasped but moved her piece to the room anyway.
"With the lead pipe, in the Games Room."
"OH BUT I HAVE THE LEAD PIPE! You're wrong, Sissy!" Matt laughed.
"Baby, you're not supposed to say what you have, or else other people will win," Mimi said kindly.
"Oh."
Mimi showed Crissa a card that she had.
"Oh, I'm so close…" Crissa muttered.
"MOMMY! Daddy's cheating again," Matt said.
Sure enough, Roger was peeking at his son's cards.
"ROGER!" Mimi exclaimed.
"What?" Roger said, looking innocent.
"I'm giving you a time out… GO," Mimi said seriously.
"What? Meems, what the hell?"
"Stand in the corner for 5 minutes like what Matt does when he's a bad boy."
"Oooh, daddy's been a bad boy," Matt said.
"Very bad," Mimi said, secretly smiling to herself.
"Meems, you can't be serious."
"I said GO, or I'll make it 10."
Roger muttered things under his breath but made his way to the corner anyway.
"My turn…" Mimi picked up the die and rolled a 4.
"I'm ready to accuse," she sang.
Roger gave a jump and looked back in disbelief.
"WHAT? NO WAY! This is unfair!" Roger said.
"Bad boys aren't supposed to talk when on time out," Mimi said.
Roger turned his head back to the wall.
"I accuse Mrs. White with the revolver in the study."
Mimi picked up a small envelop which had "Confidential" written on the front and looked at the three cards.
"YES!!! I am AWESOME," she declared, showing them the cards. "I didn't even know that little old Mrs. White could be so murderous."
Mrs. White, Revolver, Study.
"Yay," Matt clapped his hands.
"You're good mom, I was close. I just didn't know the weapon yet," Crissa laughed.
Roger grunted and put his head in his hand. "Lucky guess."
"Loser loser!" Mimi mocked Roger playfully.
"I was about to accuse too," Roger said.
"Yeah right," Crissa said.
After Roger's time out and 30 more minutes…
Mimi was lying down in Crissa's bed, half asleep. Roger was tweaking something in his flashlight and Matt and Crissa were walking around aimlessly.
"So boring," Crissa groaned.
"Mommy," Matt tried to wake Mimi up. "You're so boring, don't sleep."
"Hmmm? Okay, I'm up."
Mimi sat up in bed.
"Let's like… play that game… ummm… the 'I remember' game," she suggested.
"How do you play?"
"Well, you finish the sentence… 'I remember when…' like that. Anything, just random."
"Okay, I remember when daddy was so hungry one night, and we had no food, so he ate the macaroni off my school project – with the glue," Crissa laughed.
Mimi and Matt laughed too. Roger was defensive.
"I hadn't eaten anything the whole day," he defended himself.
"Oh! I remember when I wore a batman outfit to school for Halloween once," Matt smiled.
"I remember that too, baby," Mimi smiled at her son.
"I remember when Uncle Collins and Auntie Angel decided to dress up as popcorns on Halloween," Crissa laughed.
"YEAH! They were puffy," Matt laughed along. "I miss Auntie Mo's cow costume."
"You press the ear and it goes moo," they all said together.
They laughed.
"You're turn, mom."
"I remember…" Mimi stopped to think. "My first kiss with your daddy."
Roger looked up with a frown.
"OH! Was it romantic?" Crissa asked in a day dreamy voice. "Was it after your first date, and he dropped you off in your apartment and you were expecting something but he was chicken? Did you turn around disappointed only to have him call your name and find your lips against his?"
Roger and Mimi looked at Crissa unbelievably.
"No more telenovelas for you, hija," Mimi laughed.
"So tell about the kiss!" Crissa was getting impatient.
"It wasn't anything at all like that… it was short, abrupt, and only one of us wanted it at that time," Mimi looked at Roger. "One of us pulled away."
Crissa and Matt looked at Roger.
"But maybe the other didn't know that the other wanted it too – so much," Roger looked back at Mimi. "And that it's his biggest regret – the pushing away, the running, the leaving."
Crissa and Matt looked at Mimi.
"Well maybe the person who ran away didn't know that he was the one thing that mattered most in her life."
Roger walked over to the bed and sat beside Mimi.
"The person did know. And he would do anything to go back and make the first kiss a more special one for her. Longer… more passionate… with all the love and…"
Mimi kissed Roger on the lips with such intensity and force at that exact moment.
When they pulled away, Mimi didn't want to let him go.
"That made up for it," she whispered.
"I'm sorry," he said.
"No regrets," Mimi whispered.
"Who do you think you are… leaving me alone with my guitar?" Roger whispered back.
Roger held her, like she was something extremely breakable, and sang into her ear – altering all the words of his song of anger after their first kiss. They seemed to forget that Matt and Crissa were there. Crissa looked at her parents with a smile. Even in telenovelas, she had never seen two people more in love.
Crissa signaled to Matt to move out of the room. The boy agreed, stole his father's flashlight and shut the door behind them.
"Another chance, another day…"
The lights flickered back on.
Mimi wiped a tear sliding down her cheek.
"Thank God for the lights… and the moon," she laughed.
Roger quickly turned the lights off again.
"Let me make it up to you – who needs the lights? Who needs the moon? All I need is you," he said, entangling their bodies together once more.
