"Kuki, hi." Wally smiled.
"Wilbur, what are you doing at Wally's house?" Kuki asked with a happy grin.
Wally looked at his clothes, realising that he was still wearing his 'Wilbur clothes'. He checked that his brown wig was still on and then looked back at Kuki. Who had obviously noticed him checking himself and stared at him in confusion.
"Sorry, I...thought I had food on me. I'm just hanging out. Did you want anything?" He asked, leaning against the doorway.
"Umm, no...I told Wally that I'd help him with history homework." Kuki replied.
"Oh, well you'd better come in." He smiled, remembering that Kuki had mentioned it to him earlier.
Kuki walked in and smiled at him as he closed the door. Returning the smile.
He walked up the stairs to his room and Kuki followed.
When he got to his room, he went and sat on his bed, Kuki did the same and smiled at him when she noticed him watching her.
"Where's Wally?" Kuki asked, looking around the room, suddenly realising that he wasn't present.
"Oh...er...I'll go look...wait here, I'll find him." Wally replied. Walking out of the room.
Kuki did as she was told and remained sat on Wally's bed, gazing around his room.
Wally rushed to the bathroom and rushed to take off his clothes and wig. Luckily, his mom hadn't got the laundry yet so he managed to get a hoodie and his normal baggy jeans.
Checking himself in the mirror, he sighed and walked out into the hallway and into his room.
"Oh, Hi Numbuh 3!" He said, trying to act surprised. "I didn't know that you were here!"
Kuki looked up and smiled at him.
"I said I'd help you with homework, remember?" She replied, holding up a book on Henry VIII.
"Uh...Yeah...I would...But I sorta left my book at the treehouse." Wally replied guiltily, scratching the back of his head.
"Oh." Kuki replied with a sad frown. "Okay! We can do it another day. So what do you want to do?"
"Actually, I'd better get back to Wilbur, he's taking care...of...Joey!...Yeah that's right...He's taking care of Joey while I'm talking to ya...so I'll go back to Joey and...send him in." Well, the excuse was believable...ish.
Kuki stared at him in confusion.
"Why can't we all hang around in here?" She asked in confusion.
"Because...Joey's ill and one of us has to take care of him." Wally replied. Crud! She won't buy that!
"Oh, Okay!" She smiled happily. Okay, she did buy it. "Well then we can hang around in Joey's room then..."
"Have you ever had chicken pox?" Wally asked cautiously.
"Yes." Kuki replied.
"Ok, well, it's not that...what about...whooping cough? Ever had that." He crossed his fingers behind his back.
"No." She shook her head.
"Oh, well that's what Joey's got. It's real contagious unless you've had it once. You only have to be in the same room and..." Wally began.
"It's okay Wally, you can go look after him. You're such a caring brother. It's so sweet." She giggled.
Wally smiled. "Thanks."
He smirked to himself as he walked out of the room. Not only did he get away with lying but he also made Kuki think that he was sweet by doing it. He'd never liked being called 'sweet', but it impressed Kuki so he didn't really care.
In the bathroom, he quickly changed back into his pink top, grey jumper, wig, beanie and skinny jeans. Then sped back out to his room.
Kuki beamed at him as he walked in.
"What have you done to your hair?" She laughed, "It's real messy, like you've just got up."
Wally checked him the nearby mirror. She was right. It looked like brown fluff appearing from under his beanie.
He took off his beanie and tired to fix it, and failed miserably. The wig was staying put.
He heard Kuki giggle from the corner.
"Forget it! Maybe I'll keep it like this, make a new style." He grinned as he turned to face her.
"I can try and fix it if you want. I can do really cool stuff with hair and I always do Numbuh 5's and..."
"No, it's...okay thanks." Wally interrupted her.
'If she feels it she'll realise it's not real hair!' He thought to himself.
Then looked at her sad face, she looked hurt by what he'd just said.
He sat down on the bed next to her and looked down at his feet.
"I just don't like people touching my hair." He tried to reason. It obviously worked as when he looked up at her, she was smiling again.
"What time is it?" Kuki asked, leaning over to see past Wally's head at the alarm clock on his bed.
8:50pm
"I've got 10 minutes." She smiled and changed position so that she was sitting on the bed with one leg folded under her other, which was dangling off the edge of the bed.
"If Numbuh four was sat there I wouldn't have had to lean past you. He's short enough for me to look over him." She giggled.
"Hey!...He's not that short!" Wally defended.
"Yeah he is...Well, he has grown in the last few years, but he's still shorter than me."
"I'm short."
"Maybe, but Wally's much smaller." She laughed. "I could fit him in my pocket!"
Now he was getting angry. The normal Wally would usually burst out at her in this situation. But he calmed himself and took a deep breath. He wasn't Wally right now, he was Wilbur. And Wilbur wasn't one to get angry with her.
"That's going a little far!" Wally turned his back to her in an offended manner.
Kuki stopped laughing. The next thing Wally felt was a hand on his shoulder.
He turned to see Kuki now sitting extremely close to him.
"Sorry," She said quietly. "I was only joking, I didn't think you'd get upset about it."
"It's okay." He replied. "I've always been tormented about my size."
He could see the guilt in Kuki's face. She was so upset at how she had offended him.
Slowly, she wrapped her arms around his neck and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Sorry." She whispered again.
"Don't worry about it." He whispered back. He was beginning to like the effects of his new personality. Sure, Kuki always hugged him, but this hug was different to the others.
It was soft and gentle, yet it had so much meaning. Compared to one of her every day, overexcited, death grip bear hugs.
He could sit there in this embrace all day if he could.
Also, he couldn't believe how close his face was to hers. He could smell her gorgeous perfume of some flower. He could hear every movement she made, and he could feel her soft breath against his cheek.
He turned to her and they bumped noses slightly. Kuki lifted her head up to look at him. Their eyes met and were then motionless as if drawn by some magnetic attraction.
The magnet was obviously becoming stronger and stronger as their faces were becoming closer together, until they finally met.
'I can't believe it! I'm kissing Kuki!' He thought to himself as Kuki tightened her grip around his neck and began to mess with strands of his wig at the back.
'Crud! She'll notice my wig!' He thought, although he was too engrossed in the kissing to do anything about it. Luckily, she didn't seem to notice anyway.
Eventually, they broke apart.
"Wow." The words escaped from his lips as he sat there, overcome from what had just happened. Lucky for him, he realised that it was slipping out and put on his 'Irish' accent as it did.
He'd always dreamed of kisses from Kuki, but never had he expected her to be so amazing, her lips so soft, and her touch so gentle.
She was also smiling. Which Wally took as a god sign, showing that she didn't dislike it.
Kuki looked back at the clock on the side, 9:02.
"I'd better go." She whispered as she stood up.
"No, don't go yet." He begged, he grabbed hold of her sleeve and tugged onto it as she turned around to face him.
"I've already got told off for being late once, I do it again and I'm grounded. Sorry. You'll say bye to Wally for me right?"
He nodded and waved awkwardly as she went out of his room and down the stairs.
When he heard the front door close, he let out a laugh of joy.
He leapt onto his bed and hugged his pillow with ecstatic happiness.
Soon, he'd fallen asleep in the same position, still fully clothed, still hugging the pillow madly, still wearing a huge smile on his face.
A/N:
Hi, thanks for the great reviews, I'm working on the next chapter as we speak.
And hopefully, we'll have too much snow for us English to handle and I'll have school off tomorrow to finish it quicker.
Bye for now,
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