So hello everyone! Exams this week, so I've taken precious studying time to write you all this FanFiction... yeah so realy it was just an excuse to take a break. Anyway I know the ending's kind of cheesy but that seems to be a trend with this collection lately. And for any of you who actually live in L.A., I was just guessing with the layout, I don't know how the zoo is really arranged. Although I looked the monkey part up XD.


Apart from being the centre of performing arts in America, there is another great thing about living in Los Angeles. It has everything. And I mean everything. Which comes in handy when trying to find something for Jade and I to do for the day, because she has this natural gift for rejecting every idea I can possibly come up with.

But in L.A., there is always somewhere else to suggest, always something else to try and get her to do. And here I am, another Saturday morning trying to figure out what she'll be willing to put up with today.

"I vote bed."

"We're not staying in bed all day again."

"Why not? I can think of some pretty exciting things to occupy our time."

"No Jade."

"Come on, you won't even have to get dressed for them."

"I want to leave this RV, we already spend so much time here."

"Well where do you want to go then?"

" How about a movie?"

"No."

"We could head to the beach."

"There are too many people there."

"What about the mall?"

"Stop being stupid."

Sighing, I ran my fingers through my hair and stared at my girlfriend, exasperated. Was it really so difficult for her to put up with other humans for a couple hours of the day?

"K, I know where we're going."

"Where?"

"You'll see when we get there."

"Beck!"

"Come on, get in the truck."

"You know I hate surprises, where are we going Beck!"

Ten minutes I led a pouting Jade out to my truck and quietly started towards our destination. We drove for less than ten minutes before Jade began badgering me for information on our destined location, but for once I was making her wait.

Finally we pulled up and I watched Jade's face change from surprise, to annoyance, a flash of a smile and then blank.

"The zoo?"

"Yeah."

"Why are you taking me to a zoo Beck?"

"Because you're incapable of deciding on somewhere yourself, and I liked the zoo."

She shot me a glare but got out of the truck nonetheless, grabbing her bag and my hand, before we made our way to the entrance.

I paid checked my watch, 11:00 a.m., so we had a whole day to kill. I tried to grab a map but Jade threw it out, saying that we could figure it out ourselves.

"Want to go check out the botanical gardens first?"

"I'm not paying to look at flowers."

"But I paid?"

"I'm not looking at a bunch of flowers!"

"Alright, well which exhibit do you want to go see first?"

"I don't know, they're just stupid animals in cages."

We made our way down one of the paths, passing by cage after cage of foreign birds, some brilliantly coloured and others plain and dull. Jade kept a straight face the entire time, but then again, I wasn't expecting the birds to cheer her up.

Finally we arrived to what Jade called "real animals", a reptile house. It happened to feature two things which she loved, the dark and others fears.

"Hah! Look at that girl scream."

"She's six."

"So? When I was her age I wasn't scared by some scaly worms."

"I love how you manage to reduce one of the greatest Amazonian carnivores into a scaly worm."

"Yeah well, it's not that scary."

Suddenly her eyes lit up and I followed her gaze to see what had excited her. Over on the other side of the room was a large boa constrictor, and as part of some informative show for kids, it was being fed.

Sadly it had the reverse effect and all of the kids had run away screaming, but Jade had her eyes locked on it, her face inches away from the glass as it wrapped its body around the prey.

"Isn't it beautiful?"

"Sure it is babe. Sure it is."

I wrapped my arms around her waist, rested my chin on her shoulder and we stood there for another twenty minutes, watching it slowly swallow its food. I finally managed to drag her out of there and back into the sunlight.

"So what next?"

"I don't know, what do they have here?"

"Monkeys."

"Monkeys?"

"Yeah, the brochure says that they have a lot of big monkey exhibits."

She rolls her eyes but follows me anyway and we make our way deeper into the zoo, passing by numerous species along the way. We wander around for awhile, finally coming across the apes. We view the chimps and gorillas, earning some laughs from Jade when one begins beating the other on the head.

"Man they're stupid."

"Maybe they just don't like being stuck in these spaces, being stared at by hundreds of people everyday."

"God Beck, you're so mushy."

"I'm just saying that I wouldn't like it if someone put me in there."

"Someone should put Vega in there."

We continued walking around for another hour before stopping for a late lunch. Another two hours of viewing and I realized that the zoo would be closing in an hour.

"So what do you want to see? Last chance for requests."

"Come on."

She grabbed my hand and led me over to where a trolley was stopped, picking people up to take a ride around the zoo. We sat in the back, far enough away from the other people that they wouldn't try and talk to us. I sat against the side and Jade next to me, leaning her head on my shoulder.

We rode around for an hour, mostly passing by animals sleeping off the afternoon and enjoying the last of the sun's rays.

"So."

"So what?"

"Was this a completely horrible way to spend the day?"

She turned and looked up at me, her eyebrow cocked up and her lips pursed.

"Not completely."

"Because of the awesome animals?"

"No, they smell."

"Because you got to watch something get eaten?"

"Well, partly."

"Then what's the other part?"

"Getting to spend the day with you."


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