CHAPTER 10
Fry lay in bed powerlessly as he eyed a crimson box on his dresser. It was in the shape of a heart, the box cut precise and perfectly; sure to impress whomever someone had his or her eye on. Fry squinted, trying to see the box the way he was supposed to, but to him it just looked like a big red blob. He was in a haze, very drowsy, due to lack of sleep, and he couldn't see perfectly.
Fry took his chances and reached over weakly to feel it. He slightly smiled as he lifted the box's top off, and he then stayed in place on his bed and he solely felt around the box. Inside were little colorful, little, edible charms.
They were all different; some had little beads hanging off of them with little pink hearts on the bottom, while some were bright red with a hole in the middle, cut out in the shape of a tiny heart.
Fry suddenly realized what kind of candy this was. It was no ordinary candy. It was the love candy that made someone whom you loved to love you back. Fry grinned as he picked up a soft pink-colored one with a thread of edible beads hanging from it. At the end of the slew of rainbow-colored beads were two little candy hearts, one blue, and the other pink.
"Leela...you may not agree with this, but I'm doing this...I'm doing this for you and me," Fry whispered as he bit the morsel and savored the sweet, succulent flavor: the flavor of love.
Fry didn't even stop to think about how Leela would feel about this. Why would he? Leela was sure to love him back, now that he ate the candy. Fry closed his eyes and hoped to wake up as a loved person. But before he could fall asleep, he heard the sound of feet running up to his large on-ship room.