For my drabble-challenge over on tumblr; for more info, please check my profile here. ;)

This is for nicollini who asked for "April" and "TV". :)

Funny Failures

With a sigh April slumped down on the couch. This had been one hell of a school day, but finally, she was back home.

She reached for the remote control and started zapping through the channels. A smile appeared on her face when she found what she had been looking for, and pretty soon she was laughing like crazy.

"April, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to come in here without your permission, but I called like three times and knocked at the window and…." Leo stopped abruptly as he entered the living room and found April nearly rolling off the couch in laughter.

"April, are you okay?" he asked.

"Yes, yes, I am!" April replied and beckoned him over.

With a frown Leo sat down next to her.

"Look at that! It's called 'Takeshi's Castle'," April said and pointed at the TV. "It's sooooo funny!"

Still frowning, Leo turned to the TV where some strange show was on. He got it that it was Japanese with English dubs and people, some of them in funny looking costumes, had to perform tasks, like crossing a mud pool. He still didn't understand why April was laughing like crazy when the third challenger landed in the brown sludge.

April glanced at him from the corner of her eye.

"Oh, come on, Leo!" she said and turned to him. "Don't tell me that's not funny!"

"I don't know, April," Leo replied. "I don't think failure is funny."

April rolled her eyes. "You ever going to give up on your über-correct behavior? Besides, I saw you laughing at your brothers' failures during training."

"That's something completely different!" he explained. "That's my brothers. I know them, and they know I don't mean to be rude. But a stranger wouldn't know that and maybe think I'm an impolite person."

April rolled her eyes again. "First, these strangers can't hear you and they know what they got themselves into and that people would laugh, and second, for heaven's sake, just relax, Leo! Laugh a little! It will do you good! And if it helps, imagine these are your brothers!"

And with that she turned back to the TV.

Leo watched her with a frown, then turned back to the TV himself. He could at least give it a try.

The next challenger was very tall and scrawny, so he decided to imagine him as Donnie. And then "Donnie" fell into the mud pool when he tried to jump to the next platform.

And before Leo knew what he was doing, he burst into laughter himself.