I don't own Cowboy Bebop in any way, shape, or form. *turns back on readers and mutters under breath* By the way the chapters will be getting progressively longer, starting with this one. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Days at ABJH

Chapter 6 - Extra Butter and Extra Extra Salt

Ed's mind was working. She was confused, but figuring it out fast. Unlike the rest of them, she didn't have any real emotions jumbling her mind. The only other person besides her who knew exactly what was going on and probably wasn't confused in some way, was Vicious.

Ed looked at Vicous, he was smirking, as usual. She could see how his whole plan had unraveled. He liked Julia, he hated Spike, and therefore they all hated Vicious. So when Julia mentioned that she was going to the mall with them all he probably got Julia to invite him without sounding rude. Ed growled thinking of how he probably knew everyone's reactions in advance.

Spike was looking cool and laid-back as always, but in his eyes was the green monster of jealousy, or. something like that, and also anger. Ed scooted slightly farther away from him, not wanting to be in his path of wrath (A/N: made that up myself () if he decided to let it loose.

Faye and Jet were both looking very pissed indeed, at Vicious and at Julia Ed guessed. They were staring point blank at Vicious, every once in a while throwing an enraged look at Julia. "traiter" Ed heard Faye hiss through her teeth.

Gren looked genuinely confused, and maybe a bit of guilt was in his expression. His eyebrows were pulled together and he was chewing on his bottom lip. He was also looking at Jet apprehensively, Ed could understand why. It was clear that Jet didn't really care for him that much, and Gren probably just wanted his approval in some way. 'Althooooough', Ed thought, 'maybe he's just seen that nasty nasty looky in Jet's eyes.'

Julia, Ed thought, also looked confused. Ed wondered if she was playing dumb, she must have known that they despised Vicious. She seemed like a nice enough girl though, she was probably clueless to the whole "Spike vs. Vicious ordeal. Ed giggled at that thought, it was like a war, the way they were always getting revenge on each other for the latest prank and/or insulting they had thrown at the other.

Ed started whistling a high-pitched tune, just to see who would snap out of the trance first. It didn't work out quite as well as Jet's experiment had. They all slowly (and menacingly) turned their heads to glare at her, even Julia looked at her evilly.

"ooookaaaay" Ed said slowly before turning on her heel, put her arms in the air like a zombie, and staggering towards the nearest little kid. The poor little boy screamed and ran yelling "MOMMY MOMMY MOMMY" all the way.

At this the trance really was broken. Jet was the first to start chuckling, then Faye and Gren began laughing, and then Julia smiled amused. Ed herself was cracking up at her own antics and started running full speed after the same kid, who high-tailed it to his "Mommy" in about 3 seconds, even though he was still a few feet away. By the time Ed got back to the group, Jet was laughing whole-heartedly, Faye was holding her stomach, and Gren was sitting on the floor against the wall shaking. Julia had started giggling and even Spike was trying to hold back his grin.

Vicious on the other hand rolled his eyes and crossed his arms.

"Is our merry little bunch ready to watch the crack head's choice of a movie?" he said, in a disgusted tone.

"Crack head?" Ed repeated, her eyes narrowed. Now she REALLY didn't like this guy. So she decided he must know this, but not now. Ed rubbed her hands together and cackled under her breath, not now.

Vicious raised his eyebrows at her as she walked past him into the dark theater. Ed laughed softly to herself as she caught the slightly scared, mostly annoyed look in his eyes when she had walked past, throwing him multiple bad looks in the time span of 30 seconds.

When they were all seated accordingly, a process that took quite a few minutes as everyone was making bad excuses to stand up again so that they wouldn't have to sit next to certain people.
The seating arrangement was as follows: Anonymous Unimportant Person / Vicious / Julia / Gren / Faye / Spike / Jet
/ Ed

Now that almost everyone was comfortable and in whispering range of the people they were most likely to whisper too (and with Ed on the end in case she got bored) they sat. In an awkward silence, for 5 minutes, until. Dundunana! The movie started.

The movie Ed had proudly picked was called "William and Joan." It was a romance/comedy about young lovers. Everything is fine and dandy until Joan cheats on William while drunk one night. The whole movie consisted of funny insults, slapstick humor, and lots of making up and kissing.

10 minutes into the movie:

"Hey Jet?"

"Yea?"

"Is that legal?"

"I don't think so Spike."

"So wouldn't they get arrested by the police over there?"

"Probably"

"oh."

20 minutes:

"Hey Vicious?"

"Yea Julia?"

"Have you ever done that?"

"O yea!"

"Really?!"

"Yea."

"Cool."

25 minutes:

"Hey Gren, can you get me some popcorn?"

"Sure Julia *turns* Hey Faye, can you get me some popcorn?"

"Chya, hold on. Spike, get me some popcorn."

"ha, yea right, one sec. Jet, popcorn."

"Right, Ed? You heard? Thanks."

"OKEY DOKEY!!!"

"shhhhh!"

"shut up anonymous dude."

"yea, you should be glad your not sitting next to me."

"you should be glad I'm not in a worse mood."

Ed smiled at the defending of her friends and got up. She didn't mind leaving to go get anything; she didn't really like the movie too much. It wasn't to her taste; she had only picked it for the rest of them. She lazily walked out and moseyed over to the stand.

"hehe, lets get an extra one for the snake," she hissed. "one regular, one extra butter extra extra salt." She giggled yet again and skipped back over to number 9.

Once Ed got inside her gaze drifted over the group before sitting down and handing the popcorn to Jet.

"Pass it down Jet-boy. The extra poppy's for Vithcithous," she said loud enough for all to hear. "it's a surrrrprise" she added in a hushed tone to Jet. He grinned and passed them both down.

"Here, this one's Julia's, this one's Vicious'"

"kay, this, Julia, this, Vicious"

"Right, this one's for your sis, this one's for the asshole."

"Here Julia, this one is for Vicious"

"oh thanks! Here Vicious, she got you an extra one."

"shhhh"

At this Vicious made a noise like "pfh", turned around, and punched the AUP (Anonymous Unimportant Person) in the arm to close his mouth.

"Shut up!" he added.

Ed grinned because the AUP was wearing a tank top and the new bruise would show very nicely. But then she grimaced realizing that it was Vicious who did the punching. She sat down and then, winking at Jet, dropped silently to the floor. Ed was wearing a dark blue shirt and black pants and therefore no one saw her slither under their legs and towards Vicious at the end of the group.

Ed sat down under his chair and on her back so that she was in between his legs (A/N: no nasty thoughts now!) and so she could see his face. Ed settled herself and waited for Vicious to take a bite of the extra buttery extra extra salty popcorn she had made him. She grinned and covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing as he reached a hand into the popcorn box. He glanced down into the red and white checkered container and pulled a gross face.

"Ugh!" he said. "Here, give this to whoever, that's disgusting." Ed pouted.

"Vicious! She was being nice!" Julia scolded. But then she smiled and leaned nearer to him in the chair. Ed narrowed her eyes and began crawling back to her spot. Vicious grinned and put his arm around Julia. Gren looked at them, grabbed the popcorn box out of Vicious' hand and dropped in onto the ground. He then shook his head and shifted further down into his chair, looking grouchy.

Ed got back into her seat, crossed her arms, and sank into her seat, much like Gren had. She sat there pouting for the rest of the movie while the rest of them got more into the movie, including Gren. Him and Faye had been discussing the movie in hushed voices the whole time.

70 minutes into the movie:

"Faye?"

"Gren."

"Will you go out with me?"

"Gren?"

"I'm serious."

"GREN?!"

"I am!!"

"ok."

"cool."

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BWAHAHAHA!! I love my story. I love Gren too. But that's beside the point. Like the chapter? Then review it. Hate the chapter? Then review it. Have advice for the rest of the story? Don't review it. No I'm just kidding, review it!