Seventh chapter…
Rev was in his room, crying and ripping up photos that he had of himself with Tech. As he kept ripping up the photos, more tears were coming down Rev's face; he looked out the window and saw Ace and the others, playing Frisbee. Tech was next to Lexi and it was his turn to throw the Frisbee at her. Lexi ran long enough to make sure that she could catch it. This made Rev cry even more when he saw those two together. Tech was supposed to be his best friend. How could he do this to him? Why would he one day advise his best buddy one day; then turn on him the next? The poor road runner couldn't stop; his emerald eyes were growing bigger and more and more tears were coming in. If only he wasn't going through such a normal experience. If only he didn't blow of his time with Lexi when he had the chance. Or, if only he just wasn't interested in a relationship at all; then things would be better for him.
At dinner time; everyone ordered pizza and Ace was mocking Duck about his egologic qualities.
"Hey, I need to ask you a question, Tech," Ace looked in the smiling coyote's direction.
"Sure thing, Ace," Tech replied and looked at Ace, while he was biting his slice.
"How many stupid Ducks; does it take to screw in a light bulb?"
"Hey, what's the big idea?" Duck shook his fist, from across the table.
"I don't know Ace, how many?"
"Okay, one stupid Duck to think that he invented the light bulb; two stupid Ducks to realize that he doesn't know what a light bulb is and three stupid Ducks; to put the light bulb in his pants; so when he passes gas, that means he has an idea and the smell will be so strong; that it will make the bulb light up!"
There were roars from everyone from the table, including Ace; who was actually proud of his joke. Duck just looked at him smugly.
"Yeah, yeah; very funny," Duck sarcastically commented and looked away.
But, Rev wasn't laughing; in fact, he wasn't even eating pizza. He wasn't in the mood for even one slice, for the entire evening.
"Come on, Rev; it's a joke, you're supposed to laugh," Lexi gestured sarcastically.
Rev stood up and banged his hand on the table loudly, "well-maybe-I-don't-want-to-laugh-did-you-ever-think-of-that!?" He snapped at her.
"Actually, Rev; no one cares," Duck commented.
"So-just-leave-me-alone!" He yelled in Duck's direction.
Everyone gave Rev the wide eyed look. They were all shocked; including the over confident mallard; who looked at him with such fear and confusion. The edgy road runner took one glare at all of them and then looked back at the table and sat back in his chair; crossing his arms.
"Okay Slam, buddy; since Rev doesn't want any pizza; you're on!" Ace shot a look at Rev, than smiled at Slam.
Slam licked his lips and then, he dug into the food; in one giant tornado. Cheese was splattering all over the place and a chunk got on Duck. Slam came and was eating the cheese off of Duck; who was grossed out by this.
"Yuck, I have Slam cooties!" He complained and pulled himself away from the devil; after all the cheese was off of him.
Slam laughed and pointed at the smug looking mallard, with folded arms and then he normal sized his angry eyes.
"Gee, thanks a lot buddy. Now I have to shower tonight,"
"Gee, dat's a new one Duck; I taught you never showered. Well, who knew" Ace shrugged his shoulders in disbelief. Though, he seemed to be smiling when he said this.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah; making fun of Duck time is over," he tried to cut the conversation.
"Eh, I don't tink dat makin' fun of Duck time ever ends. Since, whatever we tell you, is no joke," Ace laughed.
"Why you cheddar, headed rabbit," Duck gritted his words tightly and clenched his fist hard; at a relaxed and care free Ace.
Ace just continued laughing. "Careful, Duck; don't try to hoit anyone in dis room. Not dat anyone in dis room actually fears you."
Duck and Ace were finally finished bickering and after dinner; they left Rev to clear the table. Still with an angry expression and in a bad mood, Rev cleared the table and put everything back in the fridge. Once he was finished; Rev slowly and unhappily slumped into the living room. He felt lonely, without anybody keeping him any company. Nobody even cared about what he was going through. Especially, not Duck; Rev just wanted some love and attention. He wanted everything to go back to normal and the way it should be. But, it wasn't happening for him; he just wasn't able to show himself enough, for others to pay attention to. A while later, everybody came back inside and Rev turned around by the sound of the door opening and footsteps being heard. Tech and Lexi were holding each others hands, as they were the last ones to come in. Rev just glared at the happy coyote and then, he turned away. This was the last straw; he couldn't take anymore of seeing Lexi and Tech together. In fact, he couldn't take anymore of being here as an Acme hero. Rev felt like he wanted to go home and stay with his family; he felt like he wasn't wanted here, nor is he getting any respect.
The next day, Ace had to go buy groceries, while everybody else stayed at HQ. Weird thing, though; nobody could find Rev. Everyone decided to start looking around headquarters for him. He wasn't in the kitchen, he wasn't in the living room, he wasn't in the bathroom and he wasn't in his room. Just then, Ace called; Lexi picked up the phone and was shocked of what she heard. She hung up the phone and raced outside and slammed the door behind her. The others shrugged their shoulders and then followed behind the worried pink rabbit; that was long ahead of them on the way.
After Lexi and the others got to the grocery store; they were in the fruits and vegetables section, with no sign of Ace. But, they weren't confused for long; as they approached aisle 5 at the cashier section, they saw a familiar face, bagging the food for each customer. They also saw Ace; who was next in line and started putting his food on the conveyer belt. The cashier with the hat; had a depressed and tired expression on his face, as he took Ace's groceries and bagged few items at a time. Ace looked up a bit and saw the cashier, with a wide eyed expression. This made him fully raise his head up and then; the customer and the cashier were having a conversation.
"Hey, doc; isn't it hard to be a cashier? Don't you ever wish dat you could go back to being who you really are?" Ace gave a smirk and pointed.
"I'm sorry, but I don't know what you are talking about. My life is great and this was my first job and the best one. Ever since I began to work here; I never even thought of looking back, so I'm fine where I am," he responded.
"Come on, you can't be serious; don't you miss your old life?" Lexi added.
"What old life? What are you talking about? This is my only life that I have; I'm not a cat. So, I don't have nine lives, so please; you should be on your way."
"Give me a break; this job is a bore fest. Come on, what about us?" Duck complained in disbelief.
"Look, I don't even know you, you don't even know me! So just take your stuff and get out of here!" The cashier yelled and shook the filled up grocery bag in anger.
"Don't know us, eh? I'm sure this will refresh your memory!" Duck threw a fire egg at the grouch. The cashier was startled by what came in his face; he was blinded and he couldn't see anything. Finally, he wiped Duck's egg of his face and saw people laughing and pointing at him.
The cashier was embarrassed by this; so embarrassed, that it made him angry. He scrunched up his hat, whipped it on the ground and then ran into the bathroom.
As all of the Loonatics heard the door shut; they glared at Duck and then, they headed to the bathroom, where they heard sobbing from inside. Ace went up to the sad figure and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Come on, talk about it. Why are you hidin' from us?"
The figure's whole body was turned and continued crying. "Because, Ace; no one likes me, I want to go home; I don't want to be here, anymore."
"But, Rev; we do like you, how could you think such a thing?" Lexi slowly walked beside Ace.
"Because, I saw you and Tech; and I really liked you. But, Tech stole you away from me and I just didn't want to show that I was jealous."
"Look, I'm really sorry I did that to you; I had no idea that you would feel so hurt from it," Tech told Rev softly and put his hand on his shoulder.
"Tech-how-could-you-say-that? You-out-of-all-people-should-know-that! You-should-know-that-it-would-hurt-me-a-lot! I-thought-you-were-my-best-friend!"
"What? I am your best friend and I was just being terrible. What I did was not intelligent and I'm very sorry; please, can we be friends again?" The coyote pleaded to the road runner; who still had his back turned.
"Come on, Rev pal; not just for Tech. But, well… for me, too. Please?" Duck spoke modestly scratched the back of his head.
Rev finally turned around; he couldn't believe that Duck actually cared about him. All he ever did was steal cookies from his stash, call him a disgrace to the bird community, told him that he looked like he was dressed for a yodeling contest and has done much more. But, it wasn't everyday where Duck actually showed his feelings for anyone; especially not Rev.
"Please, don't go home, Rev. We miss you too much; please stay with us?" Lexi pleaded.
Rev stared at the ground; though, it wasn't long before he saw Lexi give him a kiss on the cheek.
"Now, will you stay with us?" She teased the road runner who was now smiling and blushing.
He finally looked at Lexi and then jumped and gave her a huge hug.
"Yes-yes-of-course-I'll-stay!" Rev merely choked Lexi; who was struggling to breathe in mid air.
"Rev, I can't breathe," She could hardly speak.
Rev put the pink bunny rabbit down gently and then he kissed her cheek, with a smile.
"This-will-be-like-old-times-I-can-put-on-coffee-no-wait-hot-chocolate-no-wait-does-anyone-like-coffee-I've-tasted-ot-before-but-I-just-can't-seemed-to-remember-why-I…"
As the other Loonatics heard Rev go on and on happily; Duck walked beside Lexi.
"You know that you were just in the men's room?"
Just when she was going to say something, Ace interrupted.
"So sue her, Duck. Gees, grow up; you don't look like a man yourself. Your just a whole plate of ugly, doc," Ace mocked at a smug looking Duck.
Duck just shook his head and got the ticked off shivers; "you're despicable.
Rev just laughed and then ran off quickly.
