Double Triangle Trouble
A Disney Duck Fanfic:
Instead of being purely based on one entity, this story takes background from Classic Donald Duck cartoons, Ducktales, and Darkwing Duck
Note: Hya! Thanks again to all our loyal readers. The story is now edging toward its end. (Though, this is not the last chapter yet...) We all know by then that except for a few characters, namely Melanie Widgeon, Ronnie Mallard and Lisa Mallard, owned by me, Stef, these characters, except for a random minor character are all properties of Disney. We are not making any profit from this story. So please don't sue.
Chapter 27
Written By: Stef With an F
"Jose, I would like you meet some friends of mine," she said.
Launchpad forced a smile as he extended his arm.
"Hi," he said in his nervous laugh. "I'm Launchpad."
Jose accepted Launchpad's arm and shook back, "I'm Jose. You must be the lucky man Bella has been telling me about."
Launchpad nodded and questioningly glanced in Bella's direction.
Bella smiled.
"Jose and I are good friends from back in the day. Before yesterday, I haven't seen him in wow, eighteen years."
Ronnie studied Jose, trying to determine what he thought about him. He might only be five years-old, but the fact that he has been around his very much in love parents for most of his young life, he has some idea how an infatuated man looks and acts like.
"Her brother Donald and I went to college together," Jose added.
Lisa tugged on Bella skirt.
Bella looked down and smiled.
"Oh, I'm sorry sweetie. I didn't forget about you. I would also like to introduce you to my friends Ronnie and Lisa."
"Hi," the two kids replied.
"Nice to meet you," Jose answered back, and he could not help but wonder who these children were in connection to Bella and Launchpad. His intense curiosity might burst later, but for now he was going to try his best to suppress this betrayal of privacy.
"They are good friends of mine," Melanie informed.
Jose smiled. "Well, I am glad that you are safe Miss Melanie. In the future, I hope that you take more consideration in the fact on how much you frightened your mother this day. It's not nice. Take care."
"I will Jose," the child answered back. "I'm sorry."
Jose smiled. "I know my dear, but you have to say that to your mother." Jose then turned to Bella and asked, "See you later? Goodbye, enjoy your day."
Bella nodded, "Thank you, and you too. Goodbye."
Jose removed his hat and then bowed before making his exit. He also re-shook Launchpad's hand, and waved to the three children.
"Who's he?" Lisa asked.
"A friend of mine," Bella answered.
"Not a boyfriend?" Ronnie asked.
"No," Bella answered.
"Is Launchpad your boyfriend?" Lisa asked.
"Yes," Bella answered.
"You didn't say that," Ronnie informed.
"Yes, I did," Bella said sweetie. "Last night. And he referred to Launchpad as 'one lucky man', remember?"
"Yeah," Lisa replied. "But you said, 'Friend', not boyfriend."
"He is my friend, my special friend, my boyfriend," Bella answered.
"Not all friends that are boys are boyfriends though," Lisa replied.
"Very true," Bella said.
"Of course not," Ronnie said glaring at Melanie retaliating for the look she gave him earlier.
Bella laughed, and then suddenly became serious, with all that reassuring chatter she had with the children and the meeting with Jose, Bella still as of yet has not been able to have a frank conversation with Launchpad.
"Launchpad?" whispered.
Launchpad laughed. "Oh nothing is wrong."
"Honey?" Bella asked again. "Jose and I only friends."
"I saw you last night, dancing with him."
Bella stepped back, "Were you spying on me?"
"No," he answered. "Of course not, I wouldn't do that. I didn't even know you were here in Rio, until last night when I saw you from the hotel room. You have to understand that I haven't heard from you in a few days. I called and called and only got your machine. I didn't want to think the worst, but I just never got a hold of you."
Bella laughed. "Donald and Daisy were invited to come down here by Jose. He paid for our way. As usual, Donald waited for the last minute to inform me. I got your message that you were going on a trip, that your friend won some tickets. But, you never told me where. I tried calling you back repeatedly but all I got was a busy tone."
Launch laughed. "Oh yes, I think I might have forgotten to hang up the phone..."
Bella placed her hands on her hips! "You silly! Do you realize how worried I was that you would get mad at me!? That's why I sent you..." Bella started.
"A Singing telegram?" Launchpad asked.
Bella gasped, "How did you know? You been here since yesterday..."
Bella glance over to her daughter, "You!" she accused.
"You told him didn't you! Not only did you take off and scare me half to death, but you blew my surprised!" she continued, yet, in a lighter tone.
Melanie placed her hands on her hips.
"Well, I thought he saw it!" Melanie revealed. "And as I was trying to tell you...I didn't take off!"
Bella tried to smile, she was so happy about seeing Launchpad that she was trying her best not to lose her temper.
"Honey, stop lying."
"I wasn't!" Melanie snapped, stomping her feet.
Launchpad placed his hand in the air, trying to stop the mother/daughter spat.
"Melanie is innocent. Remember that incident at Ronnie's birthday?" Launchpad asked.
Bella nodded. How could she forget? That was the day Launchpad scared her half to death the day Megavolt bombed the bridge.
Bella gasped, "Ronnie? Did you teleport my daughter?"
Ronnie nodded. "I'm sorry for scarring you Bella."
"Oh my gosh!" Bella shouted.
Melanie crossed her arms and waited.
"I'm sorry honey, you just scared me," Bella stated.
"I didn't mean to! It was Ronnie's fault!" Melanie shouted back.
"Shh shh..." Melanie whispered. "Oh what a vacation this has been!"
Launchpad sighed. "That's for sure."
Bella frowned at Launchpad questioningly, but held her tongue, though she had a feeling that her adventures with Jose was not necessarily all Launchpad was referring to. Frankly her gut was telling her that perhaps she did not want to know.
"How long are you staying here in Brazil? It's kind of too late now, but tomorrow or the day after we should take a bus tour or something?" Bella asked.
"Sure, why not?" Launchpad returned.
"Oh cool. There are so many things we should see. One most definitely is the Sugar Mountain! We can take the cable car!"
"The cable car? Aren't those dangerous? Someone once told me a story about this one cable car in Italy where an airplane crashed right into it," Launchpad asked.
Bella gasped, embracing the children, "Don't scare the kids! And I have been at one at an amusement park and I'm fine so shh... And I wouldn't talk about crashing airplanes if I were you!"
"But let me finish. Oh I am so glad you are here! I thought I would end up being the third wheel with Donald and Daisy! The boys have been gone the last two days. I was with Jose for a bit..."
Bella allowed that sentence hang for a bit. Her and Jose already did a few things together, and if she allowed him, he would probably take her all over the place. They already saw one of the beaches, and a few of the restaurants, and they danced...but..
"But we didn't see the mountain. I heard it is better to see it later in the afternoon, and see the sunset in the mountains. During the day we can follow the "The Lovely Planet Tour" packet I picked up. It has a fantastic walking tour of the center of Rio, which encompasses many of the city's museums, colonial buildings and churches. Or we can maybe visit the Tijuca Forest reserve; it's only fifteen minutes away. We can make a day out of that too? What have you seen so far?"
Launchpad smiled. Bella most definitely was having fun here in Rio. Well, yesterday he was busy battling villains, a fact he was keeping secret for now. He didn't want to rain on her parade or for any reason cause her smile to turn upside down.
"Well," Launchpad answered. "The kids and I visited a few of the shops. And of course the Botanical Garden. But that's all really."
"Oh, what did you do yesterday?" Bella asked.
"Oh just hanged out."
Bella nodded. "Oh okay. Well, that sounds cool. I mean the long plane ride and everything..."
Launchpad nodded. He didn't like to lie to Bella, but then again he did not want her worried.
"We still got a few hours of daylight left, we should go swimming, and catch a nice dinner. After that maybe we should get back to our hotels so we can have a nice sleep so tomorrow we can start on that tour tomorrow. About 9:00? So we can get as much out of the day as possible, but not too early?"
Bella nodded. "That's sounds great. Do you have the kids' suits with you?"
Launchpad nodded. "Yeah, I brought them out just in case."
"Cool," Bella said. "Let's go."
"Okay, in just a second," Launchpad stated, pulling Bella closer to him, his hand on her hip. "Gee did I miss you."
"I missed you too," Bella cooed, seconds before the two shared a long awaited kiss.
Note: Hey-a! I actually did some real reseach on most if not all the tourist attractions I mentined in this chapter. It makes me want to visit Brazil for myself even more! Also some places I did not mention like the Iguaþu Falls. Hopefully one day when I am not poor, possible husband and I, will travel to this beautiful country some day. (Hear me future husband?! Oh please don't be scared off. I'm not a crazy, honest, LOL!) And oh..please do not consider this author note as a personal aid! But do feel free to review. LOL!
~ Stef With a F :)
