The Matchmaker 4

Veggie

I looked up at Kitty when she said "Damn you Toma." What had she meant by that? Why was Toma being damned by leaving? Oh well. I shrugged at that point not really caring. We stood there until the ships were no longer in sight then we turned and headed back to the palace. I grabbed Kitty's hand and pulled her along. " Come on Kitty." I cried pulling her through streets lined with vendors selling produce and meats and different things." Let's look through the stores and buy stuff." She smiled at me and shook her head. " Ok." She said concedingly. I yelled something unintelligible like all kids my age and took off down the street. Kitty close on my heels. " Oh no. Veggie!" Kitty called sliding to a stop. I slid to a stop as well but didn't do it quite as gracefully. I slid and rammed into the side of a near by stall. I jumped up and shook the dust from my hair then I turned to Kitty and looked at her curiously. " What?" I asked cocking my head to one side. " I didn't bring any money." She said sounding truly sorry. I snorted. " Who needs money." I said scornfully. I stuck my hands onto my hips and turned my head to the side. " I am the almighty Prince Veggie. Prince Veggie's do not need money." I was sure that I was acting so almighty and Princely. Kitty crossed her arms and looked at me with a raised eyebrow. " Are you sure?" She asked skeptically. Not wanting her to know that I wasn't sure I struck another valiant pose and nodded and gave that grin that says 'I am a pimp daddy who gets what he wants.' She laughed and took my hand. " Ok, we'll go buy things with your charm." She said teasingly. I grinned and gave her a pull towards the nearest stall.( Which happened to be the one I rammed into.) It had pretty pictures of planets and explosions. I didn't like any of them. We moved onto the next stall. It had smelly fish. Kitty looked ready to gag. Though that could have been a look of pure fascination. I am not sure which. I ran to the next stall and stared dreamily at the pretty orbs that hung from chains. Inside each orb a flower was suspended. They were real pretty. I turned to Kitty who was looking at the stall with paper. "Kitty!" I cried. She turned quickly to me. " I want one of these." I said. She stepped over and looked through the displays. She stuck out her lower lip and nodded at them approvingly. Then she looked up for the storekeeper. He was no where to be seen. Kitty leaned over the booth. " Hello?" She said looking around. " What?" A strange alien popped his head up. Kitty fell back. "Woh. E.T." She muttered under her breath. She straightened." Um yes hello. His majesty would like one of your orbs." The alien looked down at me and grunted. " Well go ahead and look around and tell me when you've found the one you want." He said gruffly then his head went back under the booth. " Weird." Kitty said then she started to look around the little booth. I followed her example and started to look for ' the one.' Suddenly I heard Kitty gasp. I ran around to the other side of the booth to where Kitty was. She was standing there staring at one of the orbs. "What is it Kitty?" I asked. She looked at me then pointed at the orb she had been staring at. I looked at it. It was pretty but it wasn't 'the one' so I wasn't to impressed. I turned back to her. " Yeah so." I said. She looked at me as if shocked that I didn't love it. " That is the most beautiful thing in the whole world." She said. I took a closer look. Inside the orb was a rock. That's it. It was a green rock. " It's a rock." I said looking at her. She smiled and then asked me if I had found the one I wanted. I went back to looking. " Ooh Kitty. I like this one." I said pulling one off the rack that it was sitting on to show her. " Wow Veggie that one's really pretty." She said." Now go show the nice alien." I walked over to the booth and peered over the side. " Hello?" I called. Immediately the aliens head popped up. " What?" HE said again. " I want this one." I said placing the orb on the booth. He looked at it then he looked at me again. " Twenty-five-----------." He said. I looked at him confused. " But I'm the prince. I don't have to pay." I told him. He looked at me as if I were nuts. " Prince or not you still have to pay." He told me taking the orb away. Tears sprang to my eyes. I turned to Kitty. "Kitty....?" I said hoping she could make the alien understand that I was the prince and that princes didn't have to pay. " I'm sorry Veggie I can't help." She said. I heard a grunt coming from behind her. " Incompetent creatures." The voice said then Bejita walked up from behind kitty. He walked over to the booth and slammed down some money. " We'll take whatever the brat wants understand." HE said forcefully. The alien behind the counter cowered back and nodded. I ran over to the booth and grabbed the one that I wanted then I looked back at Kitty. She smiled at me then looked away. I looked back at the booth then I ran over and grabbed the one that she liked. " Here Kitty." I said handing her the orb. She looked at it then she looked at me. " Thank you Veggie." She said then she leaned and down and did the nasty on my cheek. I wiped my cheek hard with the back of my sleeve. I looked up and saw Bejita staring at us with a look of contempt. " Let's get going." He said heading off down the street.

Kitty

I stared down at the orb for a moment then I looked and saw that Bejita and Veggie were getting farther away from me. I ran to catch them. I trailed behind them for a ways then I remembered something, so I trotted up to Bejita, who was stalking throughout the crowds as if no one was there at all. "Bejita?" I said quietly hoping to get his attention. Haha, yeah right. " Bejita?" I said a little louder. Still nothing. "BEJITA!" I yelled. The street grew quiet and everyone stared at me. But I at least got the attention from the one I was aiming for, namely one obnoxious overly arrogant prince. " What?" He yelled looking at me as if I had just killed his father. I held the orb up and glared at him. " Thank you for making this posible without your contributions I would not have been able to achieve this goal." Oh yeah I watch way to much public television, but who can cute little puppets like elmo fozzy and..... that other one. Anyway. Bejita was staring at me as if I had lost a head. Yeah right like I had more then one to begin with. I stared right back at him until finally he turned and started to walk away. Veggie and me looked at each other then ran after him.

Bejita

How dare she thank me for that stupid thing. It's not like it was worth anything. I stomped off fuming. How dare she thank me. What a stupid creature. How in the seven universes did she survive for however long she had survived already. I was so mad. I finally stopped and turned back to face her. "For future reference never thank anyone for anything." I told her rudely. She stared at me as if I had grown an extra head. " You need to understand that no one cares weather you care that they did something for you or not. you will most likely get killed if you keep thanking people." I finished and stared at her. "Thank you for that information I will be sure to lock it away for future reference." She said. I stared at her for a moment letting it sink in then I growled and turned away again. "Thank you for growling at me. It shows me how much you really care." She said behind me. I stomped off. " Thank you for walking ahead of me it shows me that you really are thinking about your station in life." I growled again. She was mocking me now. I growled again " Thank you for growling again. It really shows how much..." I never let her finish. I turned around so fast and grabbed then threw her over my shoulder that she couldn't finish. Veggie squealed and threw his arms up as if he were being tickled. "Put me down!" Kitty yelled slamming her fists into my extremely hard and well muscled back I didn't pay any attention to her until she started to yell something a little different.

Kitty

I was so furious and when I noticed that hitting him and yelling at him put me down wasn't being affective I changed my tune. " HELP!!!RAPE!!RAPE!!!"I yelled. I felt Bejita stiffen beneath me. And then suddenly I hit the ground. Hard. I groaned and turned over to rub my rear. I glared up at Bejita.

Bejita

I glared down at her

Veggie

They glared up and down at each other. It was weird.

Kitty

Then suddenly he walked off. "Come one Kitty. We have to keep up." Veggie yelled grabbing my hand and pulling me up. I jumped up and started to follow Veggie grumbling about why we had to follow such a not so nice person through the streets. " What did you say Kitty?" Veggie asked looking back at me. "Oh nothing." I said with a forced smile. He stared at me for a minute then shrugged and turned and walked faster after Bejita.

Bejita

I slammed my door open and the slammed it shut when I walked through it. " That damn girl is the biggest Bi!%$ in the entire..... entire... Everything." I yelled at the walls then I punched the wall. Nothing but a little dent which only made me even more angry. I flopped onto the bed and damned my father for indestructible walls. I closed my eyes and drifted into a state of almost unconciessness even though it was only six thirty. When I opened my eyes again it was eight. I kicked off my shoes and took off my shirt and flopped back onto the bed and closed my eyes again.

Kitty

"Ok Veggie now that you have had your dinner and a bath you have to go to bed." I told him. He was jumping on the bed laughing hysterically. He wasn't listening so I jumped on the bed and grabbed him. He squealed and wiggled around a little then he fell asleep. I looked at him with a look that probably said What the heck? I shrugged my eyebrows and crawled off the bed and laid down on my floor pallet. And laid there. And laid there. For three hours I laid. I couldn't sleep, obviously, so I decided that I would go and bug Bejita for a while. I went to his room and opened the door then I slowly ran to the bed and jumped on it. There was nothing there. I searched around in the covers for a moment then I jumped off the bed and headed towards the training room.

Bejita

I couldn't sleep again so I was training in the dark. I kicked and punched the walls. That's probably why I didn't hear her come in. I don't know. I just know that I was just training nicely and then next thing you know I heard singing.

Kitty

I silently opened the door to the training room and walked inside. I shut the door and stood in the dark listening. I smiled. He was here. I sat against the wall and waited for a moment then I came up with a really cute little ditty that I just had to sing. " I'm practicing and I can't see, I don't know what has come over me, I need to fill this room with elec-tric-ity. " I sang. Thinking it was so cute I sang it again and again. I couldn't see but I could tell that he was mad. I just didn't realize that I had pissed him off so much. I was just singing and the next thing I know I was shoved up against the wall. I bounced off it with the force that he had shoved me with. I fell to the floor and knelt there gasping. "What the hell was that for?" I shouted into the darkness. I heard a chuckle to my left. "Hey." I shouted jumping up and running towards the sound of the chuckle. I hit the wall over there. I groaned and held my nose. "You jerk. I think I broke my nose." I said turning around and around. "Oh. Poor pretty princess is hurt." I heard Bejita say sarcastically somewhere in the dark. I sneered and felt along the wall feeling for the door. " Why don't you let me make it better pretty princess." I heard him say and the next thing I knew I was being lifted off the floor. "What the.." I started to say but the sudden loss of a floor made me stop talking and concentrate on hanging onto Bejita. When he had stopped moving I started right back up again though. "Put me down you jerk. Because of you I will probably die because my nose was shoved up into my head." I shouted at him. He growled. " Shut up." He hissed. "What does my shouting hurt the pretty boys ears." I said sympathetically" well WHO CARES!" I shouted." Now put me down." I demanded. "From so high up princess?" He snarled. I knew he was mad at me for yelling but i didn't care. "Yes from so high up. I don't care if I get a broken leg," I said. "Fine." He said dropping me. I braced myself for along fall. And yet as soon as he drooped me I hit the floor. He must only have been a few feet up. I stood and grumbling went back to search the walls. "Open door." Bejita said in the darkness. The door slid open behind me. I turned and walked out. Not even glancing back to see if I could see him in the new light from the door.

Bejita

I watched her leave and snickered slightly as she stiffly moved out of the room. The door shut behind her and I went back to my training. But I couldn't concentrate. Her stupid little song was now stuck in my head. I tried to clear my mind of everything. But no relaxation technic worked no meditation, no trying to think of other songs. Nothing worked. I growled and stomped from the training room. I ran through the halls to Veggies room. I threw open the door. kitty wasn't in her spot on the floor. I looked around the room seething. Suddenly the bathroom door opened and Kitty stepped out tying up her pants on the way out. "What did you do to me?" I growled between clenched teeth. She looked up at me quickly and gasped quickly trying to finish tying her pants up. "Sicko. Do you know how to knock loser?" She said rudely. I rushed over to her and slammed her up against the wall. "What di you do to me?" I asked again through clenched teeth. She stared att me as if I were crazy. "I didn't do anything to you." She said defensively. I glared at her and tightened my grip on her arms. "Liar." I hissed." I can't get that stupid song out of my head. I can't concentrate. I can't train. What did you do to me?" She looked confused for a moment then a smirk lifted the corners of her mouth. " Ah so my plan s working." She said evilly. A chill went over my spine. What was she planning for me? " What plan?" I asked. She raised an eyebrow contentiously at me. "Well I guess that now that it is in effect and you can't do anything about it. I can tell you." She said." I put an earth spell on you. Now with the song in you head you will never be able to train or think about anything else and in doing so I will gain an advantage. You will always come to me for a cure for this horrific spell but I won't give you one and eventually you will fall madly in love with me and marry me and then I will be the most powerful woman in the galaxy." She said raising a fist triumphantly. At about the middle of her little rant I had figured out that she was teasing me. And I was about to tell her so but then I decided to have a little fun with her. Pay back for the damn song that was plaguing my thought as we speak. I fell to the floor and clutched my stomach. " Oh god I think its taking affect now." I yelled rolling on the floor. She looked a little concerned. "Bejita are you ok?" I heard Veggie ask (He had long since gotten out of bed and was now watching me and kitty with wide eyes). I looked up and saw him sitting on the edge of his huge bed. "Our evil maid has put a spell on me making me fall in love with her and it hurts." I gasped. Veggie looked up at Kitty and I thought I saw a slight smile go over his features but I wasn't sure. Suddenly I lay still on my back and stared up at the ceiling. I just lay there for along time. "Bejita?" Kitty said leaning over me. I looked into her eyes and immediately jumped up. "Oh." I began looking her over." You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. Might I have your name?" I asked. She smiled and blushed slightly. " Kitty." She said playing along. I grabbed her hand and started to kiss it. Slowly moving up her arm as i did. I was even disgusting myself. "I think that I have fallen in love with you Kitty. Please." I said dropping down on one knee. " Please say that you will be mine. Marry me Kitty and become Queen. You could be the most powerful being in the galaxy......" I said then added. "...'s wife."

Kitty

I didn't believe him at first then he got more and more convincing. I stood there and stared at him warily. He wasn't being serious was he? "Oh guys I have the best idea." Veggie shouted. Bejita and I both looked at him. "We should play pretend." He shouted. I smiled and then looked at Bejita. He smiled at me and took my hand. " I would play whatever my lady wants to." He said. I smiled disgustedly and slid my hand out of his. "YAY!!" Veggie cried. I looked out the window and saw that the sun hadn't even risen yet. I groaned. "I know the perfect place to play." Veggie said jumping off the bed and running to the door. As soon as he had disappeared through it Bejita looked at me. "Are you ready?" He asked through clenched teeth. I gave a nervous laugh and shook my head. "To bad." He said and grabbed my hand and pulled me over his shoulder.

Veggie

I lead them to the storage bins where we kept all the food that we had imported. I remembered the first time that Bejita had ever brought to this place. I had tried something round and orange and nearly died it was so good. I ran to the first bin and pulled it open. I looked inside and then turned to Bejita and Kitty. They seemed to be in a heated argument. "Hey come look what I found." I shouted. Kitty gave Bejita a dirty look and hurried up to me. She looked into the bin and gave a startled gasp. " Oh my gosh." She said reaching into the bin and pulling out one of the orange things. " An orange." She said in reverence. I looked at her confused. "Yes Kitt. It's orange." I told her and patted her on the back as if she were a crazy person. I ran to the next bin and pulled it open. Inside were red fruits. "Ooh apples." Kitty said above me. I looked up at her and saw that she was carrying a handful of the fruit. She reached into the bin and pulled out a few of the fruit. "Let's go see what's in the next bin." She said moving on. I noticed that she was having a hard time holding all the fruit. I opened the next bin and inside were an assortment of different colored things. "Ooh kiwi's and mango's I think and some other kind of fruit." She said pulling several of the different fruits out. In the process she dumped her arm load. "Oh no." She said dropping to her knee's and gathering the fruit. I heard Bejita snort behind us. Kitty looked up at him and glared. "Take off your shirt." She said. My eyes widened. Wow she was really moving fast. She already wanted to see Bejita naked. "Excuse me." Bejita said. " Take off your shirt." Kitty repeated crossing her arms. Bejita grudgingly did so and handed it to Kitty. She tied off the ends and stuffed the fruit into it. She stood and hefted the bag/shirt over her shoulder. " Shall we continue." She said with a smile in Bejita's direction. I ran to the next bin and opened it revealing long green fuzzy things. " What's this Kitty?" I asked. She gasped and held a hand up to cover her eyes. " It is the dreaded Okra." She gasped. I dropped it and looked at Bejita who had started to repeat everything that we said in a nasal tone. Like he was making fun of us. I narrowed my eyes. Hmm. I would have to get them to work this out. I ran to the next bin and pulled it open. "BERRIES!!" Kitty squealed. She bent down and started to scoop huge handfuls into her bag. It was becoming rapidly full. I reached into the bin and pulled out a handful of the fruit and stuffed it into my mouth. Bejita laughed. " Veggie." He said." You look like your covered in blood." I reached up a hand and felt my face. Sure enough it was covered with red juice. An evil thought filled me. " Ok." I said running around." Let's play pretend right here." Bejita looked at Kitty. Kitty looked at Bejita and then they both looked at me. "Ok, ok, ok." I began." Kitty is a princess." Kitty snorted. " And Bejita is the prince that loves her." Bejita snorted." And I will be the evil man bad guy. OKRA!" I said the last part sticking out my chest and looking smug. " Why can't I be the bad guy?" Bejita whined. I smacked him. " Shut up." I said. I grabbed Kittys hand and pulled her away from Bejita. "You will never catch me Prince Bejita. And now I have your woman." I yelled in my best evil man bad guy voice. " Mwahahahahaha." I laughed evilly " Veggie." Kitty said sound ing shocked. I smiled and turn to Bejita who was still standing there. "Ok now Bejita. Come and rescue her and tell me all that stuff that guys tell each other when they're fighting over a girl" I told him. He smirked. "Oh no." Kitty groaned. Bejita sauntered over to us and stuck out his chest. "Release my woman." He yelled. " Bejita." I said exasperatedly." This is Princess Kitty." I said. He groaned "Release Princess Kitty." He said. I smiled. Much better. "Woman." Bejita coughed. "Never Prince Bejita." I yelled and started to pull her away. Kiity really got inot her part. " Oh no save me Prince Bejita." She yelled in a strange accent." The evil man bad guy Okra has captured me." She said. Bejita walked towards me and cocked his arm back. " Release my lady." He shouted. "Never." I yelled. " You asked for it." Bejita said and then he let his arm fly. I was pelted with berries. I let Kitty go and clutched my chest. " Oh no you got me." I said gasping. I fell to my knee's and made a big deal out of dying. "You will.... Pay for... this... Prince... Bejita." And I died. "Oh my Prince." Kitty yelled running over to Bejita and throwing herself in his arms." You saved me." I looked up and saw that while she had her arms around him he looked ready to throw up. He had his arms pulled up to his sides and his expression was not that of true love. "Bejita tell her how much you love her and junk." I said. I rested my chin in my hands and my elbows on the ground. Bejita looked heavenward but then he slipped his arm s around Kitty. "Oh my luv." She said puckering her lips." I thought that I was lost." She rested her head against his chest. "Oh Princess Kitty." He said with disgust." I would never let you go." He said. "Unless I was over a hundred foot drop." He whispered. I let that one go. "I luv you ." Kitty said. Bejita looked ready to gag. " I.. Love.. you ... too." He choked. I grinned. " Ok you guys now kiss." I said. They both turned and glared at me. I got my puppy dog look. "If you guys don;t kiss then it will ruin the story." I got tears in my voice. Kitty sighed and turned to Bejita. She made a gesture in my direction and then Bejita sighed. He put his arms around Kitty and just before he dipped his head to kiss her he looked at me. "You are so dead after this is over." He said then he dipped Kitty and Kissed her passionately. I smiled evilly. Oh yeah. I could definitely hear the mating ceremony bells now.