Chapter Eleven

"What's up Mere?" Roxanne asked Meredith over the phone.

"Oh nothing," she answered quietly.

"Are you okay, you been acting strangely ever since Megamind kidnapped you?" Roxanne enquired.

Roxanne heard nothing from the other side of the phone for thirty seconds before she heard Meredith sigh heavily.

"You really like him don't you?" Meredith asked softly.

"Like who, Metro Man?"

"No, Megamind."

Roxanne thought the question over in her head. She needed to find the right words to answer.

What 'right' words. It's a yes or no answer.

"Yes," She admitted.

"I thought so," Meredith said.

"That night when you were talking to each other you had so much energy in your eyes and when I looked at Megamind he had the exact same look."

Roxanne silently listened to her sister, remembering yesterday's events.

"And then you trusted Megamind. You trusted him completely and it was almost hard to watch."

"What do you mean?" Roxanne asked.

"Well, I'd never seen that kind of invisible and unbreakable bond before. Not with Mum and Dad and not with me and Kyle… I don't know, I guess I was sort of envious of you two," Meredith confessed.

"Envious, I'm in love with a super villain, what's there to be envious of?"

"Well at least you know that he'd never hurt you or do you wrong."

Roxanne once again stayed silent. She thought Meredith's statement was for the most part correct.

"What are you gonna do Rox?" Meredith asked.

"I don't know, what is there to do?"

"Tell him," Meredith declared.

"And then what?" Roxanne asked seriously.

This wasn't a movie where, in the end you ride off into the sunset. It was the real world. There were no happily ever afters.

"I am both envious of you and am glad I'm not you. Your life is so complicated, but remember…"

"What?"

"The hardest things in life are always the most worth doimg," Meredith placated.

Roxanne laughed at the quote. Her mother used to tell her that all the time when she was young. It had made Roxanne brave when she was scared and strong when she was weak. Hopefully this would be one of those times and that she would be able to see it through to the end.

"Okay Mum," Roxanne said smiling.

"You're welcome," Meredith replied cheerily before hanging up.

The rest of the week went by very slowly with nothing interesting to speak of except that her not so trusty camera man had disappeared. She had even done a report about it on the news and interviewed the policemen investigating it but nothing had turned up. The policemen speculated that he had just skipped town due to his massive debts but even that still left some unanswered questions. He had just paid off half of his debts and the other half had been paid off by an anonymous third party just after his disappearance.

Roxanne tried to forget about the whole thing as it was just to over the place for her. She was probable not going to get answers and she hated not getting answers not to mention she had other things to worry about.

It was now Saturday morning and she was once again trying to hunt down Megamind. He had cleared out his other hide out due to Metro Man's intrusion and she couldn't just wait for him to kidnap her again. That would just cause more problems.

Roxanne wanted to talk to him privately, without Minion and possibly the whole city listening in. She would also like to have all her motor functions instead of being tied up to an uncomfortable chair.

Roxanne tapped her pen in her note pad as she looked down at it. She had drawn a small cartoon of herself admitting to Megamind that she liked him but for some reason she could not draw him responding. She just could not deduce what kind of response Megamind would give.

"Oh Megamind if only you were a normal boy and carried a phone on you," Roxanne said down at the drawing.

She secretly liked that Megamind was no where near normal. To her normal meant boring, it meant a 9 to 5 at the office before going home to become a couch potato. Maybe normal wasn't as bad is she thought but she would have to find the right person to be normal with and right now that person was turning out to be Megamind.

Megamind was a great many things but she didn't think boring normal was on that list.

Megamind I'll just have to make you boring.

Roxanne rolled over onto her back on her bed and stared at the ceiling. She had no idea how to find him this time. Last time she used an internet site to find him but there were no more places on the list so how was she going to find him?

Roxanne rolled off her back apathetically before putting some music on.

She grabbed for one of Meredith's earliest CD's before putting it in to her stereo in her Kitchen/living area, humming to Day and Night as she made herself breakfast.

A few songs in and after some embarrassingly bad dancing there was a ring at the door.

"I'll be right there," she called, quickly turning off the music and putting on some jeans.

Roxanne walked to the door, forgetting to check through the peep hole before answering.

"Megamind?" Roxanne asked as he quickly pushed his way inside before any one saw him.

"What are you doing here?" she enquired, walking over to the bench where her toast was before taking a bite.

Megamind looked around at her apartment quickly before looking back at her "I-I just wanted to see how you were."

"I've been all over the news, why didn't you just switch on you're television?"

"One of the brainbots bit on the cables, blowing up the television and every light in the liar," he told her in admission.

"Oh… well I'm doing fine. You don't usually check up on me after I've been kidnapped."

"How's Meredith?" he asked, changing the subject.

"She's also fine."

"Good," Megamind said, looking around at anything that wasn't her.

The conversation had met a dead end and Roxanne was left eating her toast as silently as possible as awkward silence crept in.

"Do you want some coffee or hot chocolate?" Roxanne asked him, trying to start up conversation again.

"Hot choc-late?"

"Yeah it's a chocolaty drink, I'll make you some," Roxanne said excitedly.

Roxanne switched her kettle on before her home phone began to ring. She quickly grabbed the phone answering it cheerily.

"How's your search for mister perfect going?" Meredith asked.

Roxanne took her time to check her watch before answering her question.

"You called an hour ago," Roxanne replied.

"Yeah I just need to know every juicy detail, now stop avoiding the question."

"Well…" Roxanne quickly cleared her thought "He's here in my apartment," she said quietly.

Roxanne quickly pulled the phone further away from her ear as Meredith cursed and laughed loudly.

"Put the phone on speaker phone, I want to talk to Megamind," She shouted through scheming laughter.

Roxanne sighed heavily, placing the phone down whilst her kettle came to the boil.

"Hey Megamind!" Meredith all but shouted.

Roxanne watched Megamind jumped back, startled by the noise.

"The phones on loud speaker," Roxanne explained.

"Oh," He said, looking up at her, unsure "Ollo," he answered

Meredith merely laughed more hysterically.

Roxanne quickly made hot chocolate, listening to Meredith and Megamind make pointless banter.

"Here try it," Roxanne said, handing Megamind a cup of hot chocolate.

"So Rox are you going to, you know, tell a special someone something?" Meredith asked trying to sound inconspicuous.

"Ah…" Roxanne answered anxiously.

"You have to do this," Meredith insisted.

"Okay bye," Roxanne quickly finished before hanging up on Meredith.

Roxanne turned around to face Megamind anxiously. Luckily he had his eyes closed as he drank his hot chocolate, smiling softly when he took another sip.

Roxanne smiled, nearly laughing. Megamind seemed so soft and warm at the moment, not like his usual self. He wasn't pretending to be evil or self assured, he was just him.

That is the kind of man I can fall in love with.

"Megamind?" Roxanne asked anxiously.

"Hmm," he answered.

Roxanne smiled again, beginning to get giddy.

"Well lately I've been thinking…"

Megamind opened his eyes back up, giving her a confused look.

"And… and I think I just might…"

"Don't tell me you hate me?" Megamind asked anxiously "I swear I didn't mean it when we were kids I just…" He tried to explain before being interrupted.

"It's not that Megamind."

"Then what, don't tell me your moving to another city?"

"Nope, not that either."

Megamind silently asked her to finish, excepting the worst.
"Okay, you have to promise you won't laugh."

"I promise."

"I think that I just might… like you," She answered, fiddling her fingers around anxiously as she looked to him for a response.

Megamind's eyebrow was once again raised as a sign of confusion.

Roxanne sighed heavily, now was not the time for Megamind to be dense.

"What I mean is that I fancy you."