Secrets

By Streak the Hedgehog

Un-fun legal stuff- I own nothing. NOTHING. MUAHAHAHAHAHA. ...Yah.

Chapter 2

K.K. pulled away, staring at Mabel, who was blushing furiously. He looked dumbfounded. "Mabel... what the..." But she just stared at him, blushing furiously. K.K. felt himself blushing too. He dropped his guitar by mistake and kept staring at Mabel. It wasn't that he hadn't liked it... no. What was he thinking? He had hardly even known her for 10 minutes. And yet he had just been kissed by her... and it had felt... good...

Mabel looked at K.K., who seemed not to be paying attention to anything. She seized the opportunity to attempt to tell him why she had done what she did, but K.K. simply held up his finger to her mouth. "Shh... Mabel... it just wouldn't work. We aren't even the same species... and neither of us can quit our jobs..." he said softly to her. Mabel licked his finger lightly, savoring the taste of it, but K.K. drew in the finger, shaking it furiously. "Yugh!" he said. "K.K., I'm sorry..." Mabel began to say. "Call me Totakeke," K.K. said, after he stopped shaking his finger. "But nothing more." Mabel sighed. She had just had her heart broken by her one true love...

K.K., who will henceforth be named Totakeke, however, was in deep thought. "Maybe... it could work..." He shook his head. What was he thinking? He didn't love her. He couldn't. He had only known her for about 10 minutes... but still... he couldn't help feeling that something was compelling him to stay with Mabel... and... God. He was going insane. It's HER that loves ME. Not the other way around! He told himself. But he wasn't so sure about that anymore... he watched as Mabel started to cry silently, attempting to hide it by turning her back on Totakeke... But he could hear her all the same. Dogs have very good ears, as you should know.

"Don't cry..." Totakeke told her, walking over to her. Now he felt bad. He always aimed to cheer people up, not to make them cry. "What's wrong?" "T- totakeke..." Mabel said, turning to face him slowly, "I-i... I love you..." she finished, blushing and bursting into tears. Totakeke stood stunned. She... what? She loved him? "Shh... shh... it's ok... you don't have to cry..." said Totakeke softly, crouching down to her level, for Mabel had dropped to her knees. "I'm sorry... I just don't love you the way you love me... in fact, we've only just met. We COULD get to know each other... but I have a job to do."

"JUST SHUT UP!" shouted Mabel suddenly, standing up. "I NEVER SHOULD'VE TOLD YOU!! I...I HATE YOU, TOTAKEKE! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" And with that, she ran off again, crying her eyes out, leaving Totakeke feeling very bad indeed. Now he'd done it. He'd made her hate him... and she had loved him just a few minutes ago. Totakeke looked at her running off, and then a few tears escaped him as well. "It... could've worked... if we tried..." he said. Then, he picked up his guitar, but didn't head for the train. Instead, he headed off to find Mabel's house.

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Mabel was in a rage and in deep depression. She was crying her eyes out while throwing random Totakeke merchandise across the room. "I... I hate you... Totakeke..." she said, while throwing a Totakeke bobble head at her wall. "I... told you that... I loved you... and you... you just... didn't... care..." This time she just jumped onto her bed and cried into her pillow, hoping that Totakeke would go to the deepest pits of Hell if she just lay there long enough.

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Totakeke knew that Sable Able would know where to find Mabel, so he made the Able Sister's shop his first stop. He walked inside to see Sable sewing a flame pattern with her sewing machine. She looked up at him and waved. "Hello, K.K.!" she said to him, giving him a rare smile. He returned the smile reluctantly. "I have something to ask you..." he began, hesitating a bit. "Where... do you live? I want to see Mabel." Sable looked quizzically at him, wondering why he wanted to know. She gave him the directions, and he thanked her.

He sighed as he walked out. "I just hope she doesn't attempt to kill me as I walk through the door..." he thought. He laughed a tiny bit and walked off towards the Able Sister's house. When he got there, he hesitated again, and then knocked on her door.