But no one needed to know about that.
"If was to be arranging the alphabet differently-" Julien had been at the top of the second floor staircase, placed for his horrible pick-up line assault on her. Marlene looked at him unamused and put a finger on his lips, shutting him up immediately. Maybe he though he was getting lucky today? That was laughably ridiculous.
"You'd put you and I together. I've heard that before and it's no less annoying when you say it then when all those other guys say it," She took her finger off his lips and waited for his inevitable comeback.
"But I was still getting you to touch me. Your argument is being in the valid," She gave herself a minute to think of something to say. He had gotten good at coming back at her.
"But I always touch you. This was nothing special," She didn't know if this was a good thing to say or not, but she needed to come out on top in this little game.
"Everytime you are touching me is special," She looked at him confused. Was what he said SWEET or did she just hear him the wrong way? "I get a satisfying tingle. But I am knowing a couple of places you can touch where I'll be getting more than tingle... If you know what I mean," She looked at him in disgust and started to walk away. She didn't even care if he won this time. She needed to get out of there.
"Ugh!" She stomped away to her apartment door. She opened it and looked back at the king one lasts time before shutting it. She heard him laughing as she walked off to the kitchen. She opened the fridge and pulled out a plastic container full of premade tuna fish. She grabbed a fork, plopped down on a chair and began chowing down, bothered at her forfeit.
She had no idea why she got so offended at his joke. He had said worse things before and she laughed them all off. But this time was different. She didn't know why.
"I need a second opinion..." She thought. She shoved one more forkful of tuna into her mouth before putting the container back in the fridge and walking out her apartment.
"Hi guys!" She said as she walked into the apartment below hers. She flinched back when she saw the 4 men poised for attack.
"Marlene! We could've killed you!" Skpper said, motioning for his team to relax.
"You wouldn't dare," She smirked and plopped down onto the closet chair. There was a silence between the two.
"What do you want anyway?" Skipper said, completely changing the subject.
"Well... You see..." She had difficulty finding the right way to explain it. "Julien and I were going at it when he said that everytime I touch him is special," The four guys went wide-eyed.
"That's a bit out of character, don't you think?" Private asked.
"Wait, I'm not done. Then he went and ruined it with a comment about how he wanted me to touch in other places," The guys then put on disgusted faces and shook their heads. "I got upset but I don't know why. He's said worse things before. I'm confused," Kowalski stepped up to her, writing away in his notepad before looking up at her.
"I think you set yourself up for this one, Marlene," The brown haired woman looked at Kowalski with one eyebrow raised.
"How?"
"Well, you see, when you said he 'ruined' the comment, you expected the aforementioned comment to have been sweet and nice, something you shouldn't expect from Julien in the first place," Marlene widened her eyes and thought about what he said for a good, long while.
"Nah, I don't think that's it. Any more theories? No? Well, I should get going then," Marlene smiled at the 4 guys before making her way quickly out of their apartment.
"That was peculiar..." She heard Private say as she left. She walked up the stairs and sighed. She hated when Kowalski got in her head like that.