Hello Fans!
I'm very sorry that it has been a long time since I have uploaded, which is why I have decided to upload not one but two chapters as my way of apologizing for not uploading as frequently as I should.
I think this is the longest chapter that I have written, nevertheless enjoy chapter 7!
"Okay, we got what we came for, let's pay for it and go."
"Not yet Leela, I just need to get something for someone."
"Amy, we're in the lingerie department, who do you know that would like lingerie as a gift?"
"Kif would."
"Kif? Why would Kif want...? Oh..."
"Yeah..." Amy said, nodding her head. "It's my way of thanking him for coming with me to the party."
"Kif is coming with you?"
"Yes, he didn't want me to suffer alone so he offered to come with me. Isn't that sweet?"
"Yeah, yeah whatever. Is it just you bringing someone?"
"Well, no... Fry is bringing Sandy..."
"I knew that, it is obvious that he was going to bring her."
"Hermes is bringing his wife and kid, the Professor is bringing his son-clone thingy and Bender is coming with one of his lady 'friends'."
"What about Zoidberg and Scruffy?"
"Who are they again?"
"Scruffy is the janitor and Zoidberg is that pink cockroach from out of space."
"Oh, them. I don't think so."
"Great, I'll be spending the night with those losers."
"Not necessarily" came a voice from behind them.
They both turn around to see who the voice belongs to. "Zapp Brannigan?"
"The one and only" Zapp said, dramatically.
"What are you doing in the lingerie department?" Leela asked.
"That's for me to know and you to find out".
"I don't think I want to find out" Leela thought to herself.
"Now, about this loser party you're going to...".
"Have you been spying on us?" Amy asked him.
"I couldn't help but overhear you two while looking at the lovely, soft silky lingerie. It's just as soft as my velour uniform..."
Amy and Leela stared at him in disgust.
"So anyway, do you want to take me to the party?"
"Zapp, I would never take you anywhere with me."
"Oh, come on. I know our relationship has had it's ups and downs..."
"What relationship? We never had a relationship! What we did does not count as a relationship!"
"...but you have to take a chance on us!"
"There is no us!"
"Okay, I can see you're still having difficulty with your decision, so let me put it this way; you can either go to the party alone and depressed and hang out with the losers or you can bring me and be the envy of all your friends, or failing that, the losers."
Leela had to think about this. Although she didn't want to go alone, it sounded much better than going with Zapp, but the thought of Sandy being there with Fry was just too much to bare, even though she should be used to it by now.
"Well, when you put it that way..."
The day of the party
"Oh, this was a big mistake."
"You're only noticing this now?"
"You're not being helpful. You've been like this since we left the store!"
"I thought I was being helpful."
"Well, you weren't! Now I have to attend this stupid party with a stupid jackass."
"Hello ladies!" came Zapp's voice from behind them.
They turned around and saw Zapp and Kif standing there wearing tuxedos.
"Hi Amy. Hi Leela" said Kif. He walked over and kissed Amy on the cheek. "We would have been here earlier but somebody got us lost."
"I managed to get us here didn't I?"
"Yes you did, after circling around it 7 times!"
"Well, the good news is that I'm here and ready for some loving."
"Okay, first of all, there will be no loving of any kind. You're just here as..."
"Eye-candy?"
"Sure, whatever. Let's just get this over and done with" Leela said, pushing him into the building.
They walked down the hallway and saw Sandy, who was wearing a gold sequin dress, standing in the doorway of the lounge holding a box. Leela assumed that the box must be where you put the money in order to get into the room. Amy offered to go in first to prove that Sandy wasn't as bad as she was, though Leela wasn't so sure about her plan.
"Hi Sandy" Amy said.
"Hi Alice. Who's your scrawny friend?"
"This is my boyfriend Kif" said Amy.
Sandy grabs his hand to shake it but then drops it quickly. "Eww! Your hands are squishy! Where are your bones?"
"Well, I don't have bones, I'm supported by..."
"Actually, I don't care! Where's my $50?"
Amy took $50 from her purse and put it in the box.
"You too Squishy!"
Kif took $50 from his wallet, puts it in the box and walks into the room with Amy.
Leela attempted to follow Amy and Kif but Sandy saw her and blocked her way. "Hold it one-eye! You're not coming in until you have..."
Leela wondered why she had stopped in mid-sentence but then she realized that she was staring at Zapp.
"Hello beautiful. I'm Zapp Brannigan"
"Oh, I know who you are" Sandy said, giggling.
"What's the entry fee for this party, beautiful?" he asked.
"You said that already" Leela said quietly.
Sandy glared at Leela and then continued staring at Zapp. "Don't worry about that, famous people like you don't have to pay. You can come in free of charge."
"Well, thank you" he said, walking into the room.
Leela starts to follow him but Sandy, yet again, blocks her way. "Where do you think your going?"
"You just said that we can go in for free."
"No, I said that he can go in for free. You, on the other hand, owe me $150."
"What? Yesterday you said I only had to pay $100, which I still think is stupid..."
"Well, the thing is you're the last guest that I was, unfortunately, expecting and I just realized that I am $50 short of what I was supposed to get."
"That makes no sense!"
"Either way, you owe me $150."
Leela took the money from her purse and puts it in the box. "This is stupid."
"You said that already" Sandy said, putting the money from the box into her handbag.
They both walked into the lounge and Sandy immediately ran towards Zapp, who then offered her a drink, which was mainly alcohol. This left Leela on her own to look around the room at what her co-workers had been planning all week. The room looked the same as it normally did. The only difference was that there was a disco ball, a CD player, tacky decorations and a banner that said 'Happy One-Month Anniversary Sandy and Fry!'
For the rest of the night, Leela had to sit down in the corner with Scruffy and Zoidberg, although she was confused about how he managed to get in to the party as he didn't have any money but then she realized that it was just Zoidberg and she didn't really care about it that much. Leela didn't really want to talk to them, so all she could do was sit there and watch Zapp hitting on Sandy, Amy making out with Kif, Bender talking to his 'friend', Hermes' son and the clone boy running around making noise and the Professor, Hermes and his wife were yelling at them. Other times she shut her eyes and listened to the music or thought about what she could be doing instead, for example eating a pizza while watching TV, which sounded much more pleasing than being at the party.
After some time, and a lot of drinks, Sandy turned off the music, which made everyone stop what they were doing and look at her. "I would just like to say thank you for coming and giving me your money. I have made $650 in one night so thank you all for that, except for Zoidberg. Why are you here?"
"It's a party, so I thought I would come, why not?"
"You weren't invited! You shouldn't be here!"
"And why wasn't I invited?"
"You don't have any money and you smell like you live in a dumpster."
"You may mock me, but don't you mock my home!"
"You mean you actually live in a dumpster? Never mind, I don't want to know. Well, since you didn't pay, you must leave!"
"What? I had to climb through the bathroom window in order to get in here! Can't I stay for a bit longer?"
"You heard the lady" Zapp said. He grabbed Zoidberg by the arm and threw him out of the room. Afterwards, Sandy applauded him.
"Thank you, hold your applause please. It was nothing really."
"One final thing, the music will be on for ten more minutes, then you have to leave." Then she turned the music back on and started to dance with Zapp. Everyone else started dancing, except for the two boys, the Professor and Hermes had dumped them on Scruffy.
Leela didn't have anyone to dance with, and she wasn't going to dance with an imaginary person like the Professor was doing, she wasn't insane. She looked at her wrist-thingy and saw that it was only about 9:20, although she wanted to leave the party as quickly as she could, regardless of the time. She had planned to sit there and watch them dance for the last 10 minutes, when she felt something touch her shoulder.
"Sorry if I startled you, Leela" said the stranger.
Leela looked at the stranger. He had short brown hair, wore a black suit with matching smart shoes and was holding a red rose. Was she supposed to recognise him? "I'm sorry, do I know you?"
"You don't recognise me?"
Leela shook her head, although she thought that his voice was familiar...
"Well, maybe I have changed a little since I married Sandy..."
"Fry?"
"Yeah, it's me."
"I'm sorry about before, I just really couldn't tell it was you."
"Don't worry about it, it's fine."
"This does explain why I didn't see you here before now."
"Actually, I have just arrived. Sandy sent me home to change my clothes. I was wearing jeans and a t-shirt before but she said that it wasn't formal enough."
Leela couldn't help but look at him. He look so different to the Fry she knew a few months ago.
"So anyway, this is for you" he said, giving her the rose.
"Aww, that's so sweet."
"To be honest, it was for Sandy but she is busy right now..." he said, watching Sandy dancing with Zapp, and then kissing him.
"I feel sorry for you right now."
"It's alright, she gets like that after a few drinks. The same thing happened at her bachelorette party."
"You know about that?"
"Yeah, but I'm fine with it."
"Are you sure you're fine with that?"
"Sure, I'm used to it. My ex-girlfriend Michelle used to do it all the time, now that I think about it."
"So, did you just come to give me the rose?"
"Well, I saw you sitting by yourself and everyone is dancing and we don't have anyone to dance with... Long story short, do you want to dance with me?"
Leela nodded, as Fry took her hand and they started dancing. She smiled at him. Even though he looked different, he was still the same Fry at heart. It was a slow song, so they were dancing close enough to hear him breath in her ear.
"Can I axe you something?" Leela said, without thinking.
"What is it?"
"Do you think it was the right thing to marry Sandy?" She had been wondering about that, but she hadn't have planned to ask him. Maybe it had something to do with all the drinks she had.
"At times yes, but Sandy keeps saying that it was the best decision that I've ever made."
"Really? But it must make you mad to see your wife, well, doing that" she said, pointing at Sandy kissing Zapp.
"Like I said, I'm used to it."
Although she was mad at him for not seeing that Sandy was not right for him, she just smiled at him and they continued dancing. She hadn't seen Fry in ages and she was going to make every moment count.
"Why did you axe?"
"Don't take this the wrong way, but she doesn't seem right for you..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, don't you ever think about what would happen if you and I dated?"
"All the time."
"Really?"
"Leela, I was obsessed with you for years, those feelings don't just go away."
"It seemed like they did. You seemed so happy with her, but not as much now."
"I always think about what would have happen if you said yes to me. Sometimes I think about us being married, or out on dates. Even situations like this, us dancing together, me holding you close..."
Leela's heart was racing, she had never heard Fry speak like this before. She always thought Fry was stupid, but maybe if she had paid a bit more attention or at least given him a chance, then it would have been her that was married to him, not Sandy.
"You probably think that's stupid..."
"No, no, I think it's nice."
They stop dancing and looked at each other. Leela wasn't sure if it was because she had too much to drink or because she wasn't thinking clearly, but she slowly leaned in and kissed Fry on the lips. She quickly pulled away when she realized what she was doing. She started to worry about what Fry's reaction would be. Different situations were swimming in her head, but what he did was something she wasn't expecting...
He kissed her back! Leela was thinking that he would be angry or storm off, but she definitely didn't see this coming. She knew this was wrong, and she guessed that Fry knew that too, but it felt so right.
It only lasted for about a minute because Sandy had chosen this moment to stop kissing Zapp, which meant bad news for the both of them. Sandy turned off the music and yelled "Party's over! Get out!" She grabbed Fry's hand and dragged him out of the room.
Soon after they left, everyone started leaving. Soon it was just Leela on her own. Amy was supposed to drive her home, but she left to take Kif back to her place, so she decided to walk home. It was going to be a long journey home, so she had enough time to go over the events that had just happened.
What will happen tomorrow? Will Fry be angry at her for breaking up his marriage? Will he come to his senses and ditch Sandy for her? All she knew was that she had to get home to bed.
What will happen next? Instead of waiting weeks and weeks to find out, you can read the next chapter!
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