Another short chapter and after such a long wait. Sorry to all of you who've been waiting so patiently for an update and after I had promised to write more as well. But technical difficulties can not be foreseen and neither can that of a hapless individual. So without further ado I give you Chapter Seven! I hope that you enjoy~


Chapter 7

"I'm bored…" Anita announced as she lay with her head dangling off the couch and her feet in the air. Junior sat across from her on the floor looking at his hands. It had been almost an hour since the two of them had been left alone by the others and to Anita it felt like eternity.

"Why don't we do something then?" Junior proposed, his eyes lighting up at the prospect of providing some sort of idea of something for he and Anita to do. Normally it was Anita who came up with the ideas as to what they'd do, so he found this as a way to prove himself to her and show her that he could be fun as well.

"Like what?" Anita turned her body and landed on the floor beside her friend with a loud thump, rubbing her head and back side a slight frown on her face. Junior couldn't help but laugh a bit although he was concerned for her well being, however, he did not wish for a repeat of this morning to occur so he kept his hands in his lap.

"You okay?"

"Yeah…" Anita sighed and just let herself plop onto the floor on her back.

"Well maybe you know…" Junior started to speak looking at his hands in his lap. "Maybe we could help the others catch this thief?" he suggested as his eyes moved from his hands and to Anita who was staring up at the ceiling with a vacant look on her face. Her blue eyes seemed to be lost while her pink hair framed her face in a very flattering way. Unconsciously Junior reached out with one of his hands to smooth away a stray strand, and then Anita stirred.

He drew his hand away quickly, a deep pink blush tingling his cheeks as he mentally cursed himself. What had he been thinking? He was so foolish! To touch Anita so boldly! He swallowed hard and Anita looked over at him, blinking her eyes at him with her lips slightly parted.

"You mean like in the old days?" she asked unawares of her friends secret inner turmoil.

"Yeah, like old times." Junior replied in a soft whisper that made Anita regard him with even more curiosity. Her brows knit together ever so slightly as she sat up, folding her legs underneath her body.

"What's wrong with you?

"Nothing."

"No, there's something seriously up with you?" her lips curved down into a delicate frown and then she shoved her face in his. Junior let out a small wail and fell backward into the coffee table, his arms raised in front of his face as if he were trying to protect himself from an attack.

"No! No! No! I'm fine." he insisted his body quivering slightly from her nearness. He could not remember a time when her face had been so close to his that her lips had almost brushed his own. He swallowed hard as his heart raced in his chest.

Was he being foolish again? Should he have just kissed her and gotten it over with? What if she didn't like the way he was always apologizing for everything or how shy he was when it came to her? …Maybe she wanted a guy who was made of stronger stuff.

A sudden burst of laughter filled the near emptiness of the room and Junior jumped back again startled, his body pushing the coffee table behind him a foot or so. "What's so funny?" he asked as he fought to regain his composure.

"You are, silly!" Anita laughed some more. "You've been acting funny all morning and now you look like a lost puppy!" she stood up and offered Junior her hand. He looked at it for a long time before his reddish eyes slid from her hand and up to her smiling face.

She really was beautiful…

He licked his lips as he took her hand feeling another blush tinge his cheeks. Her hands was a bit smaller than his and it was so soft and warm. He resisted the urge to rub his thumb over the smooth skin between her thumb and forefinger as he stood next to her.

He had not meant for the next phrase to leave his mouth and ruin the moment but they came anyways, "I'm sorry.'

Anita didn't say anything in return she just smiled at him and disentangled her hand from his own as gently as she could blushing a bit herself. "It's alright, Junior. But how are we going to find someone we don't even know much about? Michelle, Nenene, Maggie, Yomiko, and your mother all know a bit more about this than either of us… Besides I thought we were in agreement that we'd only be in the way?"

Junior sighed and adverted his eyes to the floor. "Sorry I'd forg-" his words were cut short by a loud crack of thunder as a bolt of lightening lit up the sky outside, plunging the two of them into complete darkness.

"Damn storm!" Anita exclaimed through clenched teeth as her hand found Juniors and then the two of them turned to face each other. They could not make out much of each other in the darkness and thankfully so. Both were blushing like mad men and to top it off neither knew where to go from there.