Chapter 23

"Chris..Go get the door" Steph mumbles sleepily proding Chris in the side trying to wake him up, he rolls over onto his stomach and pulls the pillow down over his head, Steph lays her head against his back and wraps her arms around him "It's probably for you anyway, it's your room" she says letting go of him as he starts to sit up and slide out of the bed. He finds his sweat pants and pulls them on still half asleep before walking to the hotel room door and opening it.

"Are you guys still not up?, breakfast stops being served at ten you know and we thought it would be rude for us not to wait for you guys till we can go eat..Can you like get up now because we're real hungry and sick of waiting" Duke says watching Chris who leans against the door frame rubbing his eyes.

"Did he mention that we're reeeal hungry?" Kidd asks poking his head around the door before walking inside followed by the others "Morning Steph" Kidd grins at her, she looks at Chris as if telling him off for letting them in before she wraps the duvet around herself and runs into the bathroom locking the door. "Was it something I said?" Kidd laughs sitting down on the edge of the bed.

"Can't we just meet you down there in a few minutes, give us chance to get dressed and stuff?" Chris asks collapsing onto the bed on his front still not over the rude awakening. "How about you give us ten minutes?"

"We can wait.." Duke laughs looking at the others

"Chris, make them leave now!" Steph shouts poking her head out of the bathroom keeping the duvet wrapped tightly around her "all my clothes are out there and I'm not coming out of here until they leave. The sooner they go the sooner we can all go for breakfast"

"She always this lippy in the mornings?" Duke laughs smiling at Steph who jokingly glares back at him.

"Oh believe me Duke, you haven't seen me being lippy. Now leave or I'll make you leave myself" she laughs pointing to the door, Kidd gets up off the bed and walks towards the door dragging Duke along with him "smart move guys, we will be down in a few minutes alright. Save us some seats" Steph says shuffling out of the bathroom and closing the door a little bit, she walks over to Chris and wraps the duvet around him as well. "Good morning Mr.Jericho"

"Already?" Chris laughs putting his arms around her and leaning down to kiss her, Duke coughs loudly breaking them apart. He runs over to the bed and picks up his baseball cap before running out the door again, Chris looks at Steph, he shrugs his shoulders before letting go of her and going to get dressed.

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"So you didn't actually need to come and wake us up so you could eat did you?" Chris laughs sitting down in the chair next to Steph and watching on as the other three sit there shoveling food into their mouths as fast as they can that is piled up on their plates on the table. "All you can eat buffet breakfast is like you guys idea of heaven isn't it"

"Na all you can east breakfast buffet and a free mini bar in the room Is our idea of heaven" Kidd says between mouthfuls, Chris looks at Steph who rolls her eyes. "Take me to the chosen land" he laughs nudging Duke in the side. "Eugh will you two knock it off while we're eating"

"So we're not even allowed to hold hands anymore?" Steph looks at Chris and squeezes his hand "Maybe you guys should go and try and get girlfriends then maybe you wouldn't annoy me and Chris so much about it" Steph laughs watching as the others look up from their food and look at her like she's insane "Oh yeah I forgot, the thing with the Chinese girls on holiday here didn't quite work out for you guys last year did it"

"It would have worked out fine if Duke hadn't shown them that he could peal his skin off sending them running off screaming a loud of Chinese stuff at the top of their lungs, it's not that we have anything against you two it's just we're.." Kidd starts

"Jealous?" Chris laughs listening to the sudden bunch of protests from the rest of the fozz "Guys, it's alright..I understand that you're jealous and it doesn't matter honestly," Chris says "I'm going to get something to eat" He says standing up as him and Steph walk off.

"I'm not jealous that Chris gets Steph.." Duke mutters,

"Mmmhhmm, and I live on the moon" KK laughs shoving Dukes arms off of the table and laughing at him.

"Well actually KK, we did kind of live on a moon. It wasn't earth's moon but it was still a moon, it wasn't the right atmospheric conditions and it didn't have the right substance to be called a planet" Kidd says spitting some of the potatoes he'd been eating everywhere as he speaks. "It's a know fact, everyone knows that"

"Shut up Kidd" Duke sighs rolling his eyes

"You really should have payed more attention in class Duke" Kidd mumbles to himself before popping more scrambled egg into his mouth and grinning at Duke. KK laughs and ruffles up Dukes hair.

"Do you think Chris has told her that they cant get married yet?" Duke asks looking over to where Chris and Stephanie are standing in the queue for breakfast laughing about something "Maybe he hasn't told her and is putting it off, he wouldn't really just go ahead with it and get in major trouble with the council again would he?"

"He might..He is kinda stupid" Kidd says

"Well if he has told her I'm surprised, I would've thought that once he tells her they'd split up again. It wouldn't surprise me if he did go ahead with it though, I don't think he understands how much trouble he could get in because of this" KK replies.

"Maybe the evil whatever it is will have taken over his body by then so we wont have to worry about it" Duke suggests, the other two look at him strangely "What..It might have done?"