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Good friend: Will comfort you if your boyfriend breaks up with you.
Best friend: Will say "Be right back," go out with a baseball bat, come back at 3:00 in the morning, and say "It's all been taken care of."
Mulan slipped inside the front door of Meg's house without knocking. It seemed perfectly appropriate considering she was there all the time, anyways.
Besides, there was a chance that if she knocked, Meg wouldn't bother answering the door. According to her, if you had to knock, you probably weren't someone that was going to be welcomed inside her house.
She headed up the stairs and down the hall, noticing Meg's door ajar. As she got closer, she was able to make out some kind of soft noise.
It sounded . . . like . . .
Sniffing? She thought in wonder. Was Meg crying? It was a foreign concept. Completely laughable and yet, the sound was undeniably that of someone crying.
Cautiously, she quietly pushed the door open. "Meg?"
The brunette jumped, startled, and hastily wiped the tears from her eyes. "Oh, hey, Mulan," she tried to manage a smile, but it resembled more of a grimace.
"What happened?" Mulan deadpanned.
"It's nothing. Something stupid."
The Asian tilted her head to the side, not believing this in the least. "Something stupid made you cry?"
"Well, more like someone stupid," Meg's attempt to sound joking ending with her bursting into tears.
Mulan's eyes flashed. Someone made Meg cry? The tough, independent badass, who she often got into trouble with?
"Who?" she asked, voice controlled yet there was a thick layer of rage just beneath the thin surface.
"Adonis," Meg sighed, grabbing a Kleenex from the box beside her to blow her nose. "He broke up with me. Said he wanted to see other people."
"Didn't I leave my bat here yesterday when I swung by after practice?"
She looked at Mulan, taken aback by this sudden question. "Uh, yeah. . . . It's over there," she gestured to a corner of her room, where the baseball bat was propped up against the wall.
Mulan strolled across the room, grabbed the bat, and headed for the door. "Be right back."
Meg watched, baffled, as Mulan left without explanation. She wouldn't . . .
Would she?
Mulan hadn't been right back, so it took Meg by complete, heart-hammering surprise when she was jerked awake by a knock on her window.
Meg's eyes widened when she saw a grinning Mulan on the other side. Unlocking the window, she slid it up and Mulan jumped into the room. "What are you . . . Mulan, its three in the morning!"
She stared at the big red numbers that read 3:00 AM on the digital clock that sat on her bedside table, flabbergasted.
That's when she noticed the bat Mulan had resting against her shoulder. "It's all been taken care of," was all she said.
"Oh my Gods," Meg exclaimed. "Tell me you didn't beat Adonis with a bat."
"Fine I won't," she shrugged. "But if I did, I'd tell you it I didn't beat him. I just . . . roughed him up a bit."
"And what if he goes to the police?"
"I have an alibi," Mulan pulled out her phone and pressed a button.
"Mulan was at my place watching a television program when Adonis was savagely attacked."
Meg couldn't help the small snort that escaped her mouth.
Mulan grinned, satisfied by her reaction. She could stand to be a little more grateful. They could worry about cops later.
Although she doubted Adonis would go to the cops. Like Mr. Good-Looks was going to admit to being beaten by a girl, bat or no?
She didn't think so and even if he did, whatever consequences there would be, they'd be worth it.
No one broke her best friend's heart and got away with it.
Meg's a bit OOC, but her backstory was that she got her heart broken by her boyfriend (Adonis) after she had sold her soul to Hades to save the jerk.
Can't take credit for Mulan's alibi either. Stole that from the A.N.T Farm episode "product misplacemANT" and merely changed the names.
You know what they say, "Good artist borrow. Great artist steal."
I think that can work quite nicely here. ;)