CHAPTER 11

Fry saw a mane of long, beautiful, purple hair burst into his door on the head of his favorite person. The person running down the hall had been Leela. Fry was thankful, because now it was time to see if the love candy had worked.

"Fry! Fry, I just wanted to kiss you good-bye before I go on my date."

Fry smiled and slowly sat up.

"Oh, hey baby! We're, uhh...going on a date?"

Leela giggled like a little kid, as if there was no care in the world, and no worry about anything bad to happen.

"Well, tonight I'm going on a date with my other boyfriend, the mayor's aid. He apologized about everything that happened that other time when he was mean to the orphans, and he came all the way to Htrae, just to see me! Isn't he just the sweetest thing? Plus, he doesn't have any sign of a vile lizard tongue, like that other guy I dated one time!"

Fry was puzzled as his heart started to pound; pound so hard that he heard it in his ears. The tension was building up inside him, more and more, with each second.

'I thought that love candy was supposed to work!' Fry's mind screamed. 'But, then again, why would she want to KISS me good-bye? This makes no sense," he continued to think as a bead of sweat streamed down his hot cheek.

"But, Leela..." the dissapointed guy started desperately, 'I love you..."

"I know!" Leela said, surprisingly, with a cheerful tone, "I love you too, which is why our date is tommorow: just you and me."

Fry acted like he understood.

"Alright, uhh...babe...have fun, and I guess I'll see you later."

Fry layed back down with a thud as Leela strolled out while humming a love song, as positive as can be.

'Okay, wait...why does she love two guys? I ate the love candy. She's supposed to love ONLY me, not me and that nerd.' Fry thought as he inched his way out of bed and took a sip of the glass of water on his dresser. He decided to get up. What was the good of laying around all day?

Of course, Fry still had on his dirty clothes from being in the woods. He didn't hesitate to slump into a seat at the rather tiny round conference table that the Professor had available for everybody while they were living on the ship. Zapp was too busy picking his teeth with a toothpick to even notice Fry come in.

"Good lord, Fry! You can't simply be wandering around the place! You're going to make us all sick!" the Professor yelled as he threw his arms into the air.

Fry yawned.

"Seriously, I'm fine. Hey, why's the table so little, and why are you making me live on the ship? You people are so mean!" Fry then scratched his butt mindlessly.

"Oh, he's back to normal," Amy said out loud. Fry started off into space. Although he seemed like he was thoughtless, he started to reminisce on what happened with Leela a little bit earlier. Pretty soon, a big glob of drool started to slowly seep out of his mouth.

"Ah, the robot seems even stupider now than before!" Zoidberg exclaimed as he pointed his left claw in Fry's direction.

"I did not!" Fry shouted idiotically and then started to cry.

Bender got up from his seat and pounded the table with his fists.

"I'm the robot, over HERE, you big idiot lobster!"

The Professor was getting fed up.

"Why don't you all just be stupid somewhere else! When I asked you all to join my company, I wanted loyal partners, hard workers...not bumbling, loud-mouthed idiots!"

The crew's spirits seemed inferior at the end of Hubert J. Farnsworth's long tirade.

"Sorry, Professor..."each one of the crew members whispered. Except for, that is, Fry. He was in too deep of a daze to even know what was going on, where he was, and what he ate for breakfast. His thoughts were flying all around his mind, yet at the same time were all crunched together, so tight that he couldn't put his finger on one problem at a time.

He only knew one thing: he had to find out why Leela loved two men at the same time, when he was the one who ate the love candy.