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Dedication: Pumpernickel Muffin, because we share a love of Potter Puppet Pals. XD

Reunited

Chapter 11 - It Just Takes Some Time (part one)

"Do you have any idea where we're going?" Libby whined. She was dragging her feet the whole time she was walking behind him.

"No, not really. I'm just looking for Cin-everyone. I'm looking for everyone else." He corrected himself quickly, but Libby didn't seem to catch his mistake.

"Maybe you should try the bathroom." She suggested tiredly.

Jimmy stopped dead in his tracks, making Libby bump into him. "Woah, what are you stopping for?"

He started to make a beeline for the bathrooms, and Libby struggled to keep up. "I'll check the men's, you check the women's bathroom, okay?"

Libby shrugged and watched as he disappeared into the men's bathroom to her right. He sure was eager to find everyone. She smirked and pushed open the door to her left.

Puh-lease, she knew his little act. She wasn't born yesterday, after all.

Cindy was inside the second stall from the door, sitting on the toilet (the seat was down, people!) and smacking her dead phone against her palm. She knew that wouldn't make it work, but it was nice therapy for getting her frustrations out. She heard the door open and close and sighed.

She glanced down, looking at the pair of feet as they passed by. Her eyes widened as she recognized the purple flats that crossed her line of vision. Crap! That was Libby! And of course, Libby would probably recognize her green converses, she always did.

So, being the stealthy planner she was known to be, Cindy pulled her legs up onto the toilet seat with her, resting her chin on her knees and taking deep breaths. She didn't want to be found at the moment. She knew Libby and probably everyone else was looking for her, but she didn't care. She was going to stay lost until she was good and ready to be found.

She could hear footsteps, and the little creaking noises the stall doors made when they were pushed open. Oh my gosh, she was searching for her now?! What was so important that she needed to talk to her right away?

In the back of her mind, Cindy knew the answer. Libby had probably bumped into Jimmy already and now they were both probably looking for her now. She huffed angrily. She had already decided that she didn't want to see Jimmy, at least not yet. She needed time to prepare herself.

There was a knock on her door, and she jumped slightly. She cleared her throat and worked on changing her voice, "Occupied." Her voice came out squeaky.

"Oh, sorry about that." And the footsteps continued.

She stayed frozen until Libby was done looking for her and the sound of the door opening and closing was heard again. Cindy let out a woosh of air she hadn't even realized she had been holding and unfolded her body from her perch on the toilet. She stood up slowly, pulling down her shirt and unlocking the door. She glanced at herself in the mirror before splashing her hands with water.

After drying her hands, she looked up into the mirror again.

And screamed.

Libby was standing there, leaning against the first stall away from the door, a smirk on her face. "Did you really think it would be that easy?"

Cindy, one heart to her chest in a futile attempt stop her rapidly beating heart, lifted a finger to point at Libby's reflection in the mirror, "You."

"Yeah, long time no see!" Libby grinned.

Cindy rolled her eyes and turned around. "I just need some alone time."

Libby rolled her eyes right back at her and replied, "Puh-lease. You've gotten enough alone time to last yourself three months. Isn't it time to face your destiny?"

Cindy stared at her, as if she had grown another head. "Uh, NO."

Libby sighed. "Cindy, Cindy. Once this is all over, you're going to thank me for this."

Then she grabbed Cindy's arm and pulled her to the door, tugging it open and shoving her out first, before she could even react.

And there she stood, in front of the man of her dreams (yeah, right), feeling like an idiot and an even bigger ass. It felt like her heart and her breathing alike had stopped. She couldn't hear anything, couldn't see anything but him, and it was almost painful.

He had definitely grown up in the past two years, but he was still the same Jimmy she had confessed her love to in his dorky little lab across the street from her house.

Times had changed.

Too bad her feelings hadn't.

But she felt like she couldn't take the pressure, with him staring at her, not saying anything at all. She felt like she had to do the one thing she was good at, the one thing that was comforting to her in a situation like this (but nothing like this had ever happened before). One of the few things she was oh-so-good at. The one thing that she definitely came in first place for.

She ran away.

"So, in reality, Jimmy is head-over-heels in love with some chick named Cindy and she loves him too but they are both too stupid to do anything about it? And they both know it?" Wade asked.

Sheen nodded. "In reality, yes."

Wade glanced at Ryan, who had his mouth wide open. "I knew nothing about this!"

"I had a hunch." Wade grinned.

Ryan rolled his eyes. "Whatever. You're clueless."

Wade looked offended. "I am so NOT clueless! You don't even know!"

They glared at each other until Carl cleared his throat nervously.

Ryan sighed. "Well, I think we need to help him. Don't you guys agree?"

"You mean join forces to ultimately help Jimmy in finding his lady love and have them both confess their feelings to each other and guiding them to their happily-ever-after?!" Sheen exclaimed.

Wade shook his head up and down rapidly. "Exactly!"

"Are you guys sure this is a good idea?" Carl asked cautiously.

"It's fine Carl! Gosh, you ruin all the fun!" Sheen yelled.

"Guys, you're attracting attention from like everyone at the whole entire Convention..." Ryan said slowly, looking around.

Sheen stood up valiantly. "Let them stare! I know how hot I look right now!"

Ryan rolled his eyes. Wade was still grinning.

"I'm excited! LET'S HELP JIMM-AY!"

END OF PART ONE! YAY.

I hope I'm doing better with longer chapters. I didn't want to continue this chapter, because I would have to keep going...and it would probably be really long then. So I split it up into two parts.

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