Chapter 8: Maps and Tempers
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"Come on dude, we got to go!"
Mordecai was banging on the bathroom door, trying to get his friend to speed up.
"Hold on! I'm not done yet!"
"Dude, it's been like 2 hours!" The bluejay looked at the time on his phone and saw that it was already 5:02.
"You can wait!" Mordecai sighed in exasperation and continued to bang on the door.
"Hurry up! Are you trying to give Chad a chance to kiss her?" At that moment, the shower head turned off and he smirked in triumph."Oh now you get out?"
"Stop talking!" Mordecai chuckled as the annoyed racoon stepped out of the bathroom. "See? I'm out, are you happy now?"
"Very. Now hurry up and dry off so we can get to the apartment."
"Apartment? What apartment?" Rigby asked as he began to dry his fur.
"We're meeting Jeremy at his and Chad's apartment." The racoon's eye twitched at the sound of the possum's name.
"Why there? Why not the Coffee Shop or something?" He followed Mordecai into their room. The bluejay shrugged.
"I don't know. Jeremy said that he didn't feel like walking back there,so he just said to meet him at his apartment. He sent me the address and it's actually not that far from here." The avian explained as he searched for something. Rigby groaned.
"Do we have to? Can't we just find them ourselves?" He said as he threw the towel onto his trampoline.
"We don't even know where they went. Besides, I'm pretty sure Jeremy has a better idea than we do of where they went." Mordecai answered as he looked under his bed. "Have you seen the keys to the cart?"
"What are you two doing?" Mordecai and Rigby looked up to see Benson standing cross-armed in the doorway. Clipboard in hand.
"Oh! We were just, uh.." The bluejay suddenly remembered the work they had abandoned.
"Oh no! Both of you are going to go clean the fountain and afterwards, i have plenty of stuff for you to do. So get to it or you're both fired!" Benson was about to walk out when Rigby latched on to his leg.
"Please Benson please, give us the day off!" The mammal pleaded with his boss.
"What? No, now get to work!" Benson tried to shake off his employee, but Rigby held on like a steel trap.
"Please Benson! This is important to him!" Mordecai begged Benson to take pity on his friend. The gumball machine kicked off the racoon,who landed on the floor with a thump. "Please, when we get back, we promise to do double the work." Rigby stood up.
"Yeah! Double!" Benson raised an eyebrow.
"Double? You can't even finish the work I normally give you, how am I supposed to trust you two to finish DOUBLE?!" The gumball machine placed his free hand on his hip, waiting for the duo to come up with an answer.
"We promise to finish it! Even if it takes all night!"
"Yeah, all night!" Benson sighed and looked at Mordecai, who wore a hopeful expression, then at Rigby, who had his ears down and his tail flat on the floor.
"Please.." The gumball machine took a deep breath and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"Don't give me empty promises.." The two animals looked down to the floor in defeat. "You can go." Both widened their eyes, looked at each other, then at their boss.
"Really?!" Rigby asked.
"Yes. Oh and uh, looking for these?" Benson threw the keys of the golf cart to Mordecai.
"Wow Benson,you're the best!
"Yeah thanks Benson! We promise to make it up to you!" The duo ran out the door and out of the house. The gumball machine sighed as he went downstairs to make himself a well-deserved cup of coffee.
"What am I going to do with those two.
"Dude, pay attention! Am I going left or right?" Mordecai was driving as slow as possible to a stoplight, waiting for directions from Rigby.
"I told you left!" The bluejay started to turn.
"Left?"
"Wait, no,right"
"What?
"TURN RIGHT NOW!" Mordecai panicked and made a sharp turn, barely missing another car and earning a few angry honks from other vehicles. The bluejay finally slowed down at a red light and glared at his comrad.
"Are you crazy?! We could've killed someone!'' Mordecai threw up his feathered arms.
"Hey, don't blame me! You're the one driving!"
''Well, you're the one giving directions!"
"Stop talking!" Mordecai banged his head against the steering wheel and groaned.
"At this rate, we'll die before even getting there." Rigby looked at the map, then at his friend, then back at the map.
"Dude! Guess what! I was right! We were supposed to go left! See!" The racoon tried to show his friend, but instead was met with a not so friendly Mordecai. The bluejay's feathers were puffed up and raised in a threatening matter, making him bigger than he really was, and a death stare that sent shivers up the mammal's spine. "N-Never mind." Rigby hid behind the large map and he sunk back in his seat when the avian's phone began to ring. He looked at Rigby, then snatched the phone and answered it.
"Hello."
"Where the hell are you guys?! I've been waiting for like three hours!"
"Calm down! We're on our way you temperamental idiot!" There was silence on the other end. Both Jeremy and Rigby was shocked by the normally shy and quiet bluejay's sudden outburst.
"I-uh" Jeremy cleared his throat "I'm..sorry, I guess I shouldn't have yelled at you like that, my fault.'' Jeremy? Apologizing? Now that was unheard of. The cocky and cold-shouldered ostrich had always found every reasonable way to blame another person for his mistakes and faults. It was the way he was raised, and it was the way he was going to stay, until now. Mordecai suddenly felt guilty for letting his frustration get the better of him and letting it loose on Rigby and Jeremy.
''That's alright, I guess we both stepped out of line." He said as he smiled apologetically at his friend. ''By the way, could you give us directions, we're kinda lost."
"You can't find it? It's the same apartment complex that Margaret lives in." Mordecai looked confusingly at Rigby, who raised an eyebrow and looked back at the map.
"Oh, ok , I guess we'll see you in a few minutes then."
"Bye."
"Bye. Let me see that." Rigby handed Mordecai the map with a confused look on his face. As the bluejay scanned through it, he noticed something odd. The compass rose was at the top left side of the map, instead of it's usual place at the bottom. "Wait..'' Mordecai turned the map upside down and realized, the map was made in 1951! "Rigby, where did you get this map?'' The racoon looked at him,confused.
"Pops let me borrow it, why?" Mordecai looked at him with his eyes half-closed before climbing into the back seat and curling into a fetal position.
This was going to be a long ride.
Poor Mordecai, risking his sanity for his friend. But hey! That's what friends are for, right!? Anyway, thank you all so much for your support and encouragement, this fic wouldn't have happened without you! I'm kinda at a loss here though, I know there's going to be romance, but I'm not sure if there should be more then just the love triangle. Should it contain yaoi? If so, between whom? { I already have a good idea} but tell me your opinion, it'll help me make this story better, I promise! r and r!
