This chapter feels like a filler. Well, it probably is, anyway. I don't really have time anymore to make the real chapter ideas. I probably need other people to help me... Well, all of a sudden, I have 2 new jobs available. Care to help me and take them? Please enjoy the [filler] story!
This time, it was Phoenix who woke Maya up. They had something very important to do.
"Maya, isn't this your idea!? Get up! Why did you stay up so late watching that Steel samurai DVD you happened to find in the airport gift shop?!"
Phoenix shook Maya vigorously in an attempt to wake her up. Maya made a muffled noise to show she was awake, but she made no sign of getting up.
Phoenix started to sweat. Why doesn't she want to get up? This whole trip was her idea in the first place. Well, it was more like I granted it to her… but whatever! This was her idea!
Then he realized something. He knew exactly how to wake her up. He started wrapping the sheets around her (like a Maya burrito), and made sure the sheets were tightly in place and that she could breathe.
He lifted her up and set the Maya burrito down in a chair in an upright position. Phoenix then prepared his voice to yell.
"*ahem hem hem* MAYATHERE'SASTEELSAMURAIBURRITOOVERTHEREIFYOUWANTTOGETIT, THENBYALLMEANSGETIT!"
Maya woke up with a jolt and found that she was the one wrapped in her sheets like a burrito.
"Nick! I'm a burrito! Your daily, annoying Maya Burrito! Now come, eat me for breakfast!"
Maya made no sign of escape, or any thoughts of even escaping at all. She seemed to be content wrapped in a burrito made of sheets. "C'mon, Nick, I'm waiting for you to eat me!"
Phoenix went back to bed for maybe some more rest, but Maya's giggles and smiles of delight were so loud that maybe even the person next door could hear it.
And so they did. "Keep it down, in there, fools!" A muffled female voice came from the other room.
Wait – fool? Did that person in there just say "fool"? Both Phoenix and Maya already knew that Franziska and Miles were at the same hotel, too, but they didn't know what room they were in.
Phoenix slid out of the door to check who was next door. At the same time, Miles peeked out of his door. The two men stared at each other for a moment, and, without saying a word, went back inside their respectful rooms.
Phoenix sighed and unwrapped Maya from her burrito form. Maya knew exactly why Phoenix was acting all silent all of a sudden, and she didn't say a word either. They didn't go out that day; they felt it was more comfortable to stay in the hotel and maybe get back some much-needed rest.
Miles sighed deeply after finding out that Phoenix and Maya were staying the room right next to them. He got back in the bed with Franziska, but she immediately stood up and moved to the couch in front of the TV. She turned on the TV with a bowl of cereal in her hand.
Miles and Franziska were getting quite used to sleeping in the same bed as each other. It didn't seem right, but it felt right. Their relationship wasn't romantic or anything, but Miles would just slip into Franziska's bed every night, and Franziska didn't even care anymore. They were both developing an odd attraction for each other; it wasn't romantic or sexual at all. It was just… something hard to explain for both of them.
Neither pair did anything special in particular that day; just sitting in their rooms, being bored. But some progress was made with both relationships.
"Maya, can I sleep with you here tonight?
Y-Yeah, sure…"
"I don't want to get in anymore after you go to bed. I hope you don't mind me sleeping here from the very start.
Of course I mind – hey!
You don't mind at all; in fact, you start smiling a bit after I get in."
