Chapter 22: DERP
I don't know… I just… I don't know.
HQ, 10:00 A.M., TPOV
I've gotta start waking up earlier. I miss stuff. Like, I don't know, BREAKFAST? Oh, and apparently my Team members actually wake up and do stuff. Without me. Except Luke. He sleeps just as long as I. When we wake up, everyone is gone. Luke is like a pet. Loyal and friendly. But he's more smarter than… I mean just SMARTER… then you'd think.
So at noon they all come back and we go on some rescue missions and stuff like that. One thing never slips my mind for the whole day. Where do Blu, Mira, and Jane go? So I set up a plan. At the time right before Luke goes to bed, I told him the plan.
"Okay, so what you do is wake up at the time they all do," I started.
"I do that anyways. I just stay asleep for you to wake up."
"Alright, then don't do that. Anyways, follow them and record in your note pad what happens." I said as I handed him a notepad.
He flipped it open and stared at a doodle I drew. I had forgotten about it. A picture of a little pichu was all it was.
"What is this?" he asked confusedly.
"Oh it's just a doodle. Now, when you comeback at noon, give me the notes. Got it?"
"Yes, sir!"
Had I mentioned he stopped calling me Mama? I kinda feel sad about it, though. Now he just calls me "Dad." He stopped a few days ago when he saw other kids going to THEIR dads and saying dad. Ah well.
HQ, 9:00 A.M. the next day, Luke's POV
Dad told me to play secret agent. So I did. I followed Mom, Mira, and Jane to a store. On the way, I wrote notes on what we did. They almost caught me on several occasions. Luckily, I'm a master of disguise. Or, really, I just can hide in bushes.
As we arrived in the store, I saw them getting some house-building materials. Wood, nails, screws, all that. By the time they were done, it was 9:30, and they went to a new place.
This place was deep in a forest. I almost lost them. Then they came up to a bush the size of a snorlax. Mom reached in and grabbed a padlock. I tried to pay close attention to her numbers. 16-38-7. I wrote it
When she unlocked it, they kinda fell through the ground. I waited a few minutes to repeat their process. Just as they had, I fell through the floor.
It was a slide! Twists and turns made me want to scream out of enjoyment, but I couldn't because, well, I was supposed to be a ninja. Agent. Ninja-agent, I guess.
The area where the slide stopped was a construction site. But with only three people. They were, of course, Mom, Blu, and Jane. The construction looked almost finished. I think it was a house. Some of it was furnished, too. It had a bed, couch, and little lamps. Everything was handmade.
When I returned, Dad read my notes and he was as surprised as I was. I told him I wanted to ask Mom about it. Dad said I had to wait a week. So I did. Every day, though, I still went after them to see what they were doing and write in my notes. I almost ran out of paper.
The next week, HQ, 9:45 A.M. Luke's POV
The house was finished at the end of the week. The girls were I followed them home and Dad and I finally asked what they were up to.
"Blu," Dad started. "I've been meaning to ask you…"
"No, no, no. Not right now with those kind of questions." She interrupted.
"Wha- No! I mean about when you guys leave every morning."
"Oh… Well, you see, Jane doesn't want to live here, since one of us has to sleep on the floor. We tried to get her to stay, but she insisted on her own house. But we knew she was too young to stay alone, so we looked for someone to take care of her when she's at her house when she's not going with us on adventures."
"So you've been looking for someone to take care of her while she's gone all this time?"
"No, we found a suitor a few days ago. But there weren't any houses left, so we built one."
"Well that's an awful long story. Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Uh, we sorta thought you would be mad if we woke you up every day at 9:00 just to do more work."
"Well, who's the 'suitor'?"
"Oh, she's a nice musharna that works at the Poké Café. Her name is Charlotte.
So after a bunch of explaining, Jane and Mom told us that they were gonna leave. I'd kinda miss Jane, though. I felt a certain… butterfree-in-my-stomach feeling. I can't explain. It just feels weird, but good at the same time. When our goodbyes finally came, I was almost crying. I can't explain it. I…I…I just felt we were supposed to be in the same place all the time.
"So, Luke, I guess this is goodbye." Jane said before leaving.
"Not really goodbye as a see ya later." I replied.
"Yeah, I guess. Well, I'll miss you when we're not on missions."
Then Blu called to her and she followed. I wish she could still live with us. I really don't know why. It's just that I feel that way.
Yeah I don't have any ideas right now. See ya next chapter. Sorry for the delay. BYE!
