Hey people, sorry it took me so long to update. Stuff at school has been driving me CRAZY! I've had two essays to write, had I've had some iPad troubles. Anyway, I noticed that a lot of people didn't like the way Diego was acting when he found out that Shira that she might be pregnant with his kids. Yeah, I'm sorry about that. But you guys have to admit, it does put great suspence to the story. :) And now lets go back to the story, YAY! XD
Disclaimer: If I can't own my TV, then I deffinatlly can not own Ice Age. But I do own this story. I hate disclaimers.
A Modern Life
Chapter 9 Hello Goodmorning.
"DO SOMETHIN' COOL!"
Shouted Cygnet as he shot his twin with a water gun and waking her up. Lycra shot up and threw her pillow at Cygnet's face. Then she ran upstairs and locked herself in the bathroom with Cygnet standing outside. But what she didn't know was that Cygnet had to go real bad. After about thirty minutes, Cygnet couldn't hold it.
"Uh Lycra, have to go!"
Nothing. Lycra was filling up two spray bottles with water. Another ten minutes past before Cygnet started knocking on the door.
"Lycra! Hurry up!"
Lycra finally came out spraying the two spray bottles, surprising her twin. Cygnet fell to the floor and started spraying Lycra with his water gun.
"AAHH! Lycra! What the heck!"
Lycra fell to the floor laughing her head off. Cygneot up and ran into the bathroom.
"I'll get you back evil twin. Mark my words."
Cygnet said before closing the door. Lycra just laughed and ran downstairs. She smelled the smell of coffee and knew that Chris had gone to work. She turned on the TV and turned to Cartoon Network where Adventure Time was being shown.
"Cygnet harry up! Adventure Time's starting!"
"Could you keep it down? I'm trying to sleep."
Said Sergio as he sat up in his sleeping bag. Lycra turned to Sergio and looked at him with a smile on her face.
"Good morning Sergio! You woke up just in time to watch Adventure Time! AND IF CYGNET DOESN'T GET HIS ORANGE HEAD DOWN HERE, HE'S GONNA MISS IT!"
Lycra shouted in the direction of the stairs. But during her shouting, she accidentally woke up Prentiss and Percy.
"Dude, really?!"
Shouted Prentiss. But she woke up Mitch, too. Mitch sat up and looked at Prentiss in disbelief.
"Prentiss, do you realize how early it is?"
Prentiss looked at the clock and did an exaggerated gasp.
"I don't believe it. It's so early, I look at the clock and see 11:35. Wow. That's early."
She said in sarcasm. Cygnet came down stairs and started straying Lycra with a stray bottle. Percy just looked at them.
"Oh, so that's why Lycra's shirt is wet."
Mitch picked up his sleeping bag and started up the stairs.
"I'm gonna go sleep in the hallway, where it's quiet!"
Shouted Mitch. Then he walked upstairs.
About an hour later, the entire herd and The RS Gang were awake. Well, not everyone. Shira was still sleeping. Sergio had tried to wake her up, but nothing worked. Even Diego had tried. But she still didn't wake up. So they decided to go outside and play with the water guns and spray bottles. But Louis stayed inside. He thought that he should stay with Shira, incase she woke up. But he was well entertained. The kids left him in charge of the TV. He turned to HBO where The Tales Of Despiro was being
shown. For some reason, the little mouse reminded Louis of himself. About 20 minutes into the movie, Shira woke up.
"Hey Louis. What's up?"
Louis was a little startled what Shira spoke.
"Huh…oh. Hey Shira. Um…you're not in the mood to kill anyone, are you?"
Louis squeaked. Shira just chuckled.
"Nah. But I an hungry."
Shira got up and walked over to the kitchen. She saw a big bag of cheese puffs in the top of the fridge. She tried to get them down. But she knocked down a glass vase while doing so. She looked at the peaces seriously. 'I thought nothing brakes.' She thought to herself. Thinking that she ought to fix it, she started to put the peaces together. But like all cats, she was distracted by the shininess of the peaces she held in her paws. In fact, a little to distracted. As she rubbed a peace of glass on her right foreleg, a stinging feeling went all over her foreleg. She gasped in surprised and pain.
"AAHH!"
She screamed. Louis came into the kitchen to see what was going on.
"Shira, are you OK? What happened?"
When he got to the kitchen, he found Shira looking at her foreleg curiously. he also saw her trying to cover something with her other paw. That's when he saw the peaces of glass on the floor.
"Shira, what happened?"
Shira looked up to see Louis looking at her in panic.
"Louis…it hurts!"
Louis started to get more panicked. He walked closer to her. That's when he saw…blood?
"Shira, a-are you OK? Let me see."
Shira laid down, still covering her right foreleg. Louis sat beside her. She moved her paw, reveling a bloody cut. Louis gasped in horror.
"W-what do I do?!"
"Um…I don't know! Try pulling the that out!"
Louis said, pointing to the peace of glass that was wedged into the tigresses arm. Shira nodded and started to pull. Louis helped as well. A few minutes later, they got the glass out of Shira's foreleg. But that might've been a mistake. Blood, blood everywhere. Shira looked at her foreleg in horror.
"Look what you did Louis! Now I'm going to die!"
Shira shouted in poor little Louis's face.
"S-sorry?"
Louis squeaked.
"Sorry doesn't bring me back to life!"
Shira shouted as she started to cry. Louis ran off to get help. He came back with Sergio.
"Shira, what happened?"
Shira felt a wave of relief wash over her.
"I don't know! This clear thing made me bleed!"
Sergio sat beside her on the floor and started stroking her head.
"Let me see."
Shira allowed him to see. Blood was all over her foreleg.
"Oh…kay. Um, let me see. Um, Louis, get me some of those paper towels over there."
Said Sergio as he pointed to the roll of paper towels above the sink. Louis ran and got the paper towels and gave it Sergio. He took the towel from Louis's small paws and put it on Shira's foreleg. It did stop some of the bleeding, but not all of it.
"Louis, come here and hold the towel here."
Louis did what he was told and Sergio ran upstairs to get some gauze from the bathroom. He rapped it around Shira's arm a few time and used tape to keep it closed. That seemed to do the trick. The bleeding had stopped, and Shira was feeling better.
"Thank you Sergio. Thank you so much. But, am I going to die?"
Shira asked nervously. Even Louis looked a little nervous. Sergio did a slight chuckle.
"Nah, you'll be fine. You might be in pain for a few weeks. But other then that, you'll be fine."
Shira nuzzled Sergio's thankfully.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Sergio hugged Shira and started stroking Shira's head. That's when he noticed the glass on the floor.
"Uh, Shira? What happened?"
"Um yeah, I kind of broke that… um… what's it called?"
Shira asked confused. Sergio looked at the pieces of glass on the floor and chuckled.
"Shira, that's glass. What were you trying to do anyway?"
"I was trying to get that bag of that orange stuff up there."
Sergio looked up on top of the fridge and spotted the bag of cheese puffs.
"Oh, I'll get them for you."
As Sergio cleaned up the mess, then he got the cheese puffs from off the fridge, Shira was looking around the kitchen, looking for Chris.
"Hey, Sergio? Where's Chris?"
"He went to work. He always leaves at 7:30.?
Sergio got the bag off the fridge and pored some in a bawl for Shira to eat. Then he put the bawl down in front of the tigress.
"How do ya know he's at work? What kind of work does he do? Does he protect the island or something?"
Sergio then pored a bawl of cheese puffs for himself.
"I know because you could see and smell that he made coffee. And he works at GameStop."
"Cool. But, what is GameStop?"
"I can't really explain it. But I'll ask Chris if he could tale you one day. Lets go out side and joined the others, OK?"
Shira nodded and walked with Sergio, how had her and his bawls in his hand.
A few minutes of trying to convince Louis to come outside with them, and receiving a 'no' from him, the two went out side where the others were playing with water guns and spray bottles. Diego was watching his mate in guilt. He felt bad for yelling at her the night before. But after he acted the way he did, he thought that Shira would never forgive him. Manny saw the sadness on Diego's face. So did Sid and Prentiss. The three walked up to the sabertooth.
"Hey buddy, what's wrong?"
Said Manny because A) Prentiss didn't know how to start. And Sid's voice was too high pitch to be hard at this state in mind. And B) Manny knew how to comfort a guy better. Witch Prentiss was insulted by.
"Hey Manny."
Diego answered to the mammoth.
"What's wrong? You're just sitting here, looking sad for no reason. Do you want to talk about it?"
"I guess. It's Shira. We had a big fight last night and she said something that might've crushed my world and our relationship into a million pieces."
"What did she say?"
"She said that she might be pregnant."
Manny looked at his friend in surprise and shock.
"Well, shouldn't you be happy? That's a good thing, right?"
"No, it's not. I don't want a baby."
"Why? Aren't babies good?"
Asked Prentiss as she sat next to the saber.
"Yes, but no. They take up a lot of time and energy. And I would never forgive myself if she were to die."
Prentiss looked at Diego confused.
"Manny knows what I mean. Anyway, I'm just hoping the mot pregnant."
"But what if she is?"
Asked Sid. Diego looked at Sid with out an annoying expression on his face, for once.
"If she is, then we might have to brake up."
Manny, Sid, and Prentiss gasped in shock.
"But…but you can't! You two look good together."
Said Prentiss.
"The kid's right. You can't just walk off on her like that."
"I know, but-"
"No buts. You go up to her and say you're happy she's pregnant and that you'll be there for her."
Sid said with some confidence in his voice. Diego just looked at him.
"Sid, it's not that simple. After I yelled at her, she may never forgive me. And I said some pretty harsh stuff, too."
"What kind of stuff?
Manny asked.
"You do not want to know."
Manny nodded his head understandingly.
"Anyway, she's also hanging out with that kid. What's his face? Sergio. She hardly spends time with me anymore ever since we met the human kids."
"Um aloha, there's a human kid here, too!"
Prentiss stated offended by what Diego said.
"Sorry, it's just, I wish Shira would spend more time with me, like before."
Manny placed his trunk on Diego's shoulder.
"I can't help with the fact that Shira's spending time with other people. I mean, it's her decision, right? And we can't control that. Not even you. I'm sorry. But I do understand what you're going through. Try talking to her and see how things turn out, okay?"
Diego nodded and walked off to find his mate.
About 10 minutes of being annoyed with the possum brothers telling him about the greatest discovery they'd ever found. A remote control car. He finally spotted Shira sitting with Sergio, eating more cheese puffs. He walked up to them.
"Hey guys. What're you doing?"
"What's it look like? Sitting and talking."
Said Sergio.
"Want some cheese puffs/"
He asked. Diego shook his head.
"No thanks. Shira, look, I know I yelled at you last night, and I just wanted to say that I'm sorry."
Shira looked at Diego and sighed.
"Well, I guess I could forgive you. But what about the other thing I told you?"
Sergio looked at her, as well as Diego. But he looked at her unevenly.
"Well, I don't know what to tell you. But I'm hoping you're not."
Shira wanted to scream at him for being such a jerk about his might-be-kids. But she didn't.
"Yeah, me too."
She whispered. Then she got up and walked back into the house. Once she got there, she just laid on the floor and cried quietly in her paws. Louis walked up to her nervously.
"Ms. Shira? Is something wrong?"
Shira snapped her head up in Louis's direction.
"WHAT DO YA THINK?! MY RELATIONSHIP IS SO THE BRINK OF BRAKING! I HAVE NO IDEA AS TO WHERE THE HECK I AM, I THINK I'M PTRGNANT, DIEGO'S BEING A BIG JERK, AND THERE'S NOTHING YOU, A WIMPY LITTLE RAT, COULD DO!"
Louis, having five older sisters, knew how to deal with thins. He walked over to the crying saber and patted her paw comfortingly.
"It's ok, Shira. Everything's ok."
Shira looked at Louis.
"H-how do you know?"
"Because I just do. Look, I'm going to help you out. If you are pregnant and Diego doesn't want to be the father, then…then, I guess I'll help you out. I may not be a saber, but I'm good with kids."
Shira burst into even more tears. Tears of guilt and sadness.
"I'm sorry, sorry for calling you a wimpy little rat. I didn't mean it, really. I didn't-"
"Shira, stop apologizing. It's ok. I get that a lot. And…and I guess i am a little of a wimp."
"No you're not. You stood up to Gutt, remember?"
"Yeah, that's true."
Louis blushed under his fur.
"Thank you, thank you so much Louis."
"No problem. C'mon, lets get something to eat."
Shira nodded and started to walk to the kitchen. But she threw up unexpectedly. Louis looked at her worried look on his face.
"Shira, are you okay?"
"YES! STOP ASKING ME THAT! THAT'S ALL EVERYBODY'S BEEN ASKING ME SINCE YESTERDAY! IT'S ANNOYING!"
Shira looked at Louis and started to cry.
"I-I'm so s-sorry Louis."
"It's okay. Let's just get something to eat.
And the tow went into the kitchen to find something to eat. But Louis was getting worried for Shira.
And done. Sorry it took soooo long to put this up. I can thank school for that. Anyway, here it is! Chapter 9, YAY. Hay, I have a few questions id like to ask you guys. First, don't you guys ever find it weird that in a pizza box, the slices are triagle, the pizza's round and the box itself is squair, hmmm. And if you look at the way Shira and Diego id spelled, you'll see that the words look like a cat laying on it's stomach. Anyway, just something to think about. And also, I know I'm spelling Prentiss's name another way. Yeah, I found the CERECT spelling. So that's how I'll be spelling it for now on. Shiego627? I hope I put the idea the way you like it. Ok. Gatta go. R&R! Money100, signing off. Peace off readers! :)
