Hey you guys! It's me, Beta, back with a new chapter of Our Generations Cupid! Can I have a round of applause?
*crickets chirp*
-.- Okay... anyways, I don't have much to say today except R&R please. :)
Disclaimer: Trust me, if I did just so happen to own TEC you'd probably never here the end of it! ;)
"You need help impressing a girl you like." I asked with wide eyes. I've helped loads of people find their match but I don't often have people come up and actually ask me to. I normally just interfere with their love lives and hope they don't get mad at me.
Hector puffs out his chest a bit and grins. "I know, hard to believe right?"
I roll my eyes. "It's not that. It's just..." Suddenly a new thought occurs to me. "Who is she?"
"Who's who?"
"The girl you like. Duh!"
Hector shifts uncomfortably. "Oh...just some girl."
I raise an eyebrow. "Really? Is it someone I know?"
He shakes his head. "Doubt it. No offence but you only know, like, ten people here."
I grin. Now where have I heard that line before? "Wow, you sound just like your sister." Speaking of Jessica... "What happen to Jess anyway? Why don't you ask her for help? She's a girl too."
"I'm fully aware that my sister's a girl, but I haven't seen her all day."
"Really? Marcus told me she won't pick up her phone." Weird...
Hector shrugs. "Okay, so are you going help me or not?" He sounds pretty impatient.
"Okay, okay. I'll help you but I need to know a few minor details," I say opening Layla to a bookmarked page. "Question one, what's her name?"
Hector eyes me suspiciously. "Next question."
I huff. "Fine. Question two, is she older, younger, or the same age as you?"
Hector think for a moment. "She younger but only by a year or two. She's older than Jess, if that if that means anything and-hey! What does age have to do with anything?"
"Don't question my process!" I snap, "Question three, where does her popularity standard lie? Is she above you, below you, or equal?"
"I don't know!" Hector looks at me like I'm crazy, "What is this, twenty questions?"
"Hey, do you want help impressing this mystery girl or not? If you do then I strongly advise you to shut up and answer the darn questions."
"I can't really do both."
"Oh, you know what I mean!"
"Fine! We're equal...I think."
I shake my head. "You are... never mind. Question four, describe her in three words."
"Cute. Fun. Pretty."
"How descriptive," I mutter to myself, "Question five, how close are you two? Is she that new girl you barely know, a good friend, a best friend...?"
"We're pretty close." Hector admits, "Now are we done yet?"
I grin wickedly. "Are we done yet? Hector, we barely even started..."
"Question eighty-four, does she have money?"
Hector glares at me. "Does she have money? What kind of a question is that! I don't care if she has money!"
"How many times do I have to tell you? Do not question my process!"
"You know what? I quit! If I have known you would pull into an hour of pointless questions then I would've of ever asked you. I should've just asked Lisa out right on the spot!" Hector quickly slaps his hands to his mouth.
"So it is Lisa? I knew!" I slam Layla shut.
It takes Hector a few seconds to realize what I had meant. When he finally did he did not look very happy.
"Karmen!"
"What?"
"You made me sit through an hour of those lame made up questions for absolutely no reason!" His face starts turning red.
"Correction, I made you sit through those genius very real questions that I wrote in Layla for absolutely no reason so that I could figure out which girl you liked."
"Even better."
"Hey, look on the bright side. Now that I know for certain who you like it'll be easier for me to help you."
"I'm not sure I want your help anymore."
"Aw, come on Hector. I'm really good at this kind stuff, trust me." I give him my best puppy dog eyes and even grabbed his hand, "Please? Please? Please?"
Hector sighs. "Fine, I'll let you help me. As long as there's no more tricks."
I smile. "I promise."
"Oh, and just for the record it wasn't the puppy dog eyes that changed my mind. Jessica uses that one on me every time. I just...really like Lisa.
"Whatever Hector," I say, but not in a mean way.
After that we spend the next little while discussing the best way for Hector to confess his feelings to Lisa. It was nice knowing all my hard work paid off, and Hector seems to already know a lot about Lisa. Getting them together will be a piece of strawberry cheesecake...
...Or so I thought...
Manny POV
"That was one long Prankster meeting," I mutter.
I watch as Danny and Annie run out the door together. They've been spending a lot of time together lately but I keep forgetting to question them about it. I'm about to go home to get my robot (Francine has now banned me from bringing him to our meetings. So unfair!) when Francine and Gilda stop me.
"Look," Francine hisses, pulling me back down. I look in the direction she is pointing.
"I didn't know they had grilled cheese sandwiches on the menu," I laugh. Francine gives me a look basically screaming the word idiot.
"Not the sandwich," Gilda says quietly, "the person eating it."
I look to see Hector wiping his mouth with a napkin. He's grinning and laughing with that girl Karmen. The blood drains from my face.
"Are they... on a date?"
Francine shushes me. "Keep it down. They might notice us." Then she adds, "They obviously are."
"How do you know that?"
"I'm Francine Carruthers. I know everything." I snort in response.
Gilda clears her throat. "What should we do?"
"Ooh! I have an idea! Manny, you take Karmen and throw her down the garbage shoot and I'll take Hector," Francine smiles proudly.
"No way! That's a horrible idea!"
"Do you have any better ideas?"
"Yeah, actually I do-"
"Well to bad!"
Francine pushes me out from behind the table, leaving me to go on with her horrible plan. I tug on my shirt and wipe the dirt off my pants before walking over to Karmen and Hector's table.
"Hi..." I say casually grabbing Karmen by the arm.
"Manny... what are you doing?" Karmen stares at me.
"Kidnapping you."
"What-?"
After that moment, everything went crazy. Even crazier than yesterday.
Lisa's POV
I walk to the diner, expecting to see people quietly enjoying their meals like they normally do every day. To my surprise it's the complete opposite.
Everyone is out of their seats and a gigantic crowd has formed in the corner of the diner.
"What's going on?" I ask walking over to Shock. Marcus is there too.
"I'm. Not. Sure." Shock replies, "Everything was fine a few minutes ago."
"Yeah, it was all normally and then there was a scream sort of sound and then people started flooding the diner!" Marcus adds.
I bite my lip softly then decide to go see what the problem is myself. I have a hard time getting through the crowd and after saying sorry for about the twentieth time I finally make it into the middle of the semi circle. I gasp, shocked to discover who's in the middle. I'm even more shocked at the scene in front of me.
"Hector? Karmen? What's going on?"
Karmen's POV
"Let go of me Manny!" I shriek.
I look around to see that loads of people have gathered around us. Wow, I never realized how loud I was. If I wasn't so freaked out right now I would've asked them all where the heck they came from. Of course, considering Manny's carrying me like a ragdoll the answer to that question doesn't really matter.
I turn to Hector who looks just as freaked out as I am. "What do I do?" he mouths.
"Anything," I mouth back.
"Uh...okay! People, people. It's okay to leave now. There's nothing to see here. Nothing at all."
The crowd seems pretty hesitant at first but after about five minutes of convincing Hector manages to get everyone out of the building. Everyone, I realize, except Gilda, Francine, Manny, Shock, Marcus, me (of course), and...Lisa.
"Lisa?" I'm surprised. Between all this craziness I never even noticed her. My head slowly starts to hurt.
"Lisa!" Francine eyes widen as she run over to Hector and... kisses him.
What? Okay, this was definitely NOT part of my get Hector and Lisa together plan. Then again, neither was publicly getting kidnapped by a guy who talks to a robot. Ugh, now my head's, like, throbbing.
I barely have a chance to take in Lisa's reaction because before I even realize it, Manny puts me down and plants one on me too. Ew! Unlike Hector, who just sat there in shock and stared at Francine, I actually take the time to react.
Ignoring the horrid pain in my head I stare at Manny with mad eyes. "What the heck is your problem?"
I twist my wrist, just about ready to slap him, when a blue ball appears in my hand. A floating blue ball full of letters.
A wordball.
I groan. "Not again!"
And that's the last thing I remember happening before everything went black.
Wow, this is some pretty intense stuff...that's it. Really got nothing to say still.
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~Beta XD
