Hello, Readers! Blah! I have no clue what should happen next...so I'm just gonna wing at everything. ;D blah. I bet you all are getting tired of my bootsy story anyhow.. Sorry.. I'm just going to continue this boring story and hope it gets better. Haha, I also just got done reading my new reviews...
Yeah.. I did kind of push it a little too far on her kissing him, huh? Well, things needed to spice up somehow!! Haha . :P Thank you to everyone that's reviewed me! I'm really happy that you guys are liking it so far!
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Haha, I'm taking the advice/comment from ladyhawk89! Haha. What part, you ask? I guess you'll have to see.. :D
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Chapter 9
"Kagome? Inuyasha?" Sango called from downstairs as she placed her keys on the table. She looked at the time and saw that it had read 9:45 AM.
"Where could they have gone?" Sango asked herself as she walked around the house hoping to find them.
"Maybe Kagome went home and Inuyasha's at work?" Miroku suggested.
"Nah.. Inuyasha doesn't have work till later, and Kagome's clothes are still here so she couldn't have gone back home." Sango said.
The two looked around the house, but Kagome and Inuyasha were no where in sight. They stood in the living room, silent.
'I wonder what he's thinking..' Sango thought
'I wonder what she's thinking..' Miroku thought to himself.
The silence was broken by the sound of a tinkling bell. Miroku saw that Sango had started fidgeting with her ring on her finger.
"So why are there three..things on your ring?" Miroku asked out of curiosity.
"Oh, I don't know..Inuyasha says that they symbolize 'whoever gets the key to my heart and doesn't use it well..he'll knock them out like a bell'." Sango laughed.
"I doubt that's what it really means though...Inuyasha's never that protective...actually, he's never been very compassionate after the accident."Sango kept on fidgeting with her ring.
"What accident?" Miroku asked. Sango sighed.
"A year before you guys moved into that house..it belonged to a girl named Kikyo." Sango began as she stopped playing with her ring.
"OH! Now I remember! I remember seeing her and him play all the time when we were little. I would've played with them, but I couldn't move after Inuyasha pounded me to the ground. Good times, good times.." Miroku laughed to himself.
'I don't even want to know why Inuyasha would've pounded you to the ground' Sango thought to herself as she rolled her eyes and sat down on a chair in the kitchen.
"So you see how long they've known each other. Inuyasha told me how much he was in love with her everyday. He was always so happy. He spoke about when he got older he would marry Kikyo someday.."
"Then she broke up with him...and I went up to her and tried asking her why.. Asking for reasons..but all she did was say that it was for our benefits.." Sango laughed to herself and shook her head.
"One day...it began to rain really hard.. And me and her..we were yelling at each other. I was mad at her.. I was yelling.." Sango's voice began to crack. Miroku hugged her.
"Then Inuyasha came..and we had this giant yelling fest. So she ran away...and then..and then.."
"And then what?" Miroku said silently.
"AND THEN THAT DAMN CAR WASN'T WATCHING THE FUCKING ROAD AND HIT HER! THEN SHE DIED! SHE'S DEAD! SHE'S DEAD, MIROKU AND SHE'S NEVER COMING BACK! AND I WAS MAD AT HER! I WAS MAD AT HER.. MY OWN BEST FRIEND DIED KNOWING THAT I WAS MAD AT HER..." Sango yelled as she wiped her face. Miroku saw that her eyes were red, but couldn't tell if it were because she'd been crying..or because of her eye shadow.
Sango got up and went into the kitchen to wash her face.
"The weird part is...after Inuyasha had told me why she had broken up with him..because she had leukemia...I realized either way she would have died.." Sango said in between sobs.
Miroku got up from his chair, and walked into towards her. He stood behind Sango and she turned to face him. His face had a serious expression on it. His eyebrows were together and the color of his eyes had a bitter-sweet softness in them. He hugged her and placed his hand on her head.
"It's okay, Sango. I know how you feel to lose someone important to you..it's okay.." he whispered comfortingly as he stroked her hair.
"But it's not so much as me that I'm worried about....Inuyasha, too. Though he looks hard..acts tough..and speaks roughly...deep down he still misses her. I just want him to love again..." Sango said as she rested her head on Miroku's chest as he hugged her.
"You can't force someone to love someone, Sango." Miroku said.
"I know that...but if he does fall in love..I don't want him to hold back on it." Sango replied.
There was a silence between the two and they just stood there in the kitchen. Sango was still in Miroku's arms and he was still stroking her hair.
"Thank you Miroku for being here..." Sango said as she looked up at him and smiled.
"Anytime, Sango..anytime." Miroku smiled back as he released her from his arms.
He was falling for her already...
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Thankfully, Kagome and Inuyasha were sitting in the back of the diner and out of sight.
"I'm sorry.. I don't know what came over me.. Oh gosh! Oh gee! I'm so sorry.." Kagome panicked as she sat back in her chair.
Inuyasha just looked at her..stunned.
"I have to go.. Thanks for the breakfast Inuyasha...I have to go.. I have to go." Kagome got up and ran out of the diner.
'Wh-wh-what just happened...' Inuyasha thought to himself, still wearing the stunned expression on his face.
When he snapped back into reality, he realized that everybody in the diner was looking at him.
"WHY DON'T YOU ALL JUST TAKE A PICTURE!?" Inuyasha threatened as he put up his fist. Everybody quickly looked away.
'Ergh..that wench doesn't even know her way around here..' Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he got up and walked out of the diner to find Kagome.
When he got out, Kagome was no where in sight. He started to walk around.
'She couldn't have gone too far..' Inuyasha thought to himself as he looked around. All the way on the other side of the parking lot, he saw a tiny group of men hovering over something. Inuyasha decided that Kagome could've been anywhere and started walking towards the group.
"So, guess you've finally ditched that useless dog? How bout a little kiss, eh? Right here.." Naraku winked at Kagome as he pointed to the place she had slapped.
"Hey Naraku! Let me have a share of her after your done! I love it when they're scared.." One of the goons laughed.
Kagome had already been distressed and embarrassed from the little incident with Inuyasha, and she didn't have the patience for Naraku. He grabbed her hair and brought her face towards his.
"YOU DEGRADING ASS-HOLE!" Kagome exclaimed as she bit Naraku's hand and punched him across his other cheek. Naraku let go of Kagome's hair and dropped her on the cement ground.
The group of goons instantly began helping Naraku and giving off warnings to hurt Kagome.
'Get her!'
'Oh! That bitch is in for it now!'
'Does she think we're going to let her off that easy?!'
Kagome began to kick with all of her might as she lay on the ground. Her eyes were shut tightly as she kicked and kicked for her life. Suddenly she felt someone lift her by her neck and she opened her eyes to see that it was Naraku.
She shut her eyes, prepared for whatever pain he was going to give upon her. Kagome's body was suddenly dropped and her head hit the wall of the diner and she was knocked unconscious.
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"Chute, chute, chute." Miroku said in disappointment.
"Ladders! Ladders! Ladders! I WIN!" Sango yelled in happiness while standing up and bowing.
The two had been playing 6 games of 'Chutes and Ladders' all morning.
"You're cheating! I don't know how, but I bet you are! You couldn't have possibly won that many games in a row!" Miroku exclaimed as Sango bowed to an invisible audience.
"Oh, you're just jealous because you haven't won a single game yet, Miroku! Sore loser!" Sango laughed as she stuck out her tongue at Miroku.
"Enough of these kiddy games! Time to play a Man's game!" Miroku crossed his arms to his chest.
Sango blinked and waited for Miroku to call out this so called 'Man's game'.
"Well? What game?" Sango asked.
"How about 'Go Fish'?" Miroku suggested as he pulled out a deck of cards. Sango began to laugh.
"Oooh! Nice choice..totally a Man's Game." Sango rolled her eyes and smiled as she put 'Chutes and Ladders' back into it's box.
"Hey! For your information 'Go Fish' is one of the best games in history. It requires a lot of thinking and skill." Miroku said as he shuffled the cards.
"Oh! Of course, it does!" Sango said sarcastically as she nodded her head.
"Do you have any other bright ideas? Hmm? Hmm, Miss Thang?!" Miroku asked jokingly.
"First of all, I don't know why you keep calling me that..and second of all.. Anything is better than 'Go Fish'!" Sango laughed.
"Oh is that right? Like what?" Miroku asked as he put the cards back into their box.
"I don't know. Hey! When you were little.. Did you ever play a little game called 'MASH'?" Sango asked.
"All the time! Though it was always hard for me to round my choices up to just 4 girls.." Miroku sighed.
Sango rolled her eyes as she got up for a piece of paper and pen.
(NOTE: If nobody knows how to play MASH..Let me explain. Warning, my way of MASH is probably not the best directions..but hey! Haha. Anyhow.. You draw a square and right the word 'MASH' on top of it. Then, you name out 4 named of the opposite sex..4 numbers..and 5 cars. You don't have to name out numbers/cars.. Those two things can all be of your choice..those were just examples. But you have to have 4 names of the opposite sex.. And 4 other things of two other categories. Anyhow, after that.. You start in the middle of the box.. And then just go around and round and round. When the person you're doing MASH to says 'stop' you.. [obviously] stop. Haha. So then you count the lines from the top of that little circle thing vertically. When you get that number.. You start from the 'M' in MASH and count from then on whatever number you got. You cross out whatever you land on until there is only one thing in each category. Got it? Hopefully. Heehee!)
"Okay.. So you wanna go first?" Sango asked as she began to set up the game.
"Sure, why not." Miroku shrugged.
"Mmkay...Four girls."
"Hmmm...Tsuya...Yuna...Kanna...and.." Miroku thought.
Sango wrote down the names and waited for the last one so she could carry on with the other categories.
"...Sango." Sango dropped her pencil and looked at Miroku. He was smiling. She smiled back sheepishly.
'I can't believe he wants to put me on here..' she thought as she wrote down her name on the piece of paper.
"Okay, then.. Hmm.. What other categories do you want to put up?" She asked.
"Hmm.. How about pets?" Miroku suggested.
"Okay...name four."
"Uhh.. dog..those fire cats aren't so bad..raccoon..and uhh.." Miroku chuckled to himself.
"..Inuyasha." he finished. Sango started to laugh.
"If he were here..." Sango began.
"I know.. I know. .I know.." Miroku said.
"Okay.. So what do you want your last category to be?"
"Hmm..how about the ending? Like..what it would resolve to?" Miroku asked.
"Okay, sure."
"Great! Friendship..love..admirers..and..end?" Miroku said.
"Alright.. So tell me when to stop." Sango began to draw inside the box.
Miroku waited as he watched her swirl the pencil in a circular motion. She began losing room for the circle and tried her best to fit it in the box as tightly as she could. Sango looked at Miroku, who was purposely putting her into the position.
"Hey! You jerk! Can't you see that I'm running out of room?" Sango said.
"Oh? I hadn't noticed." Miroku said sarcastically and began to whistle.
"Heyy!!" Sango replied. Miroku laughed and gestured her to stop.
"Okay.. One, two, three, four.." Sango began to count the lines.
"14. So, your number is 14, Miroku." Sango said. He nodded. Sango began to count and scratch off.
Minutes later Miroku's starting results were that he would live in a house, with a fire cat, but who he would live with, and what kind of resolution he would have with the person was still unsolved.
Soon, it dropped down in the two categories. In the 'Who to fall with' section the two standing were 'Sango' and 'Kanna'. And the results for 'What would it resolve to' were 'END' and 'LOVE'.
Sango began to count in the 'What would it resolve to' section and scratched out 'END'. As she circled 'LOVE' Miroku sighed with relief. Now he was worried on who the 'Who to fall with' section would be.
His heart dropped when he saw that Sango's pencil stopped at her name to be crossed out.
'KANNA?!?!' Miroku thought to himself as his mouth dropped.
"Oh wait, no! Counted wrong.. Hehe my mistake." Sango erased the circle around Kanna's named and circled her own.
"There. Done!" Sango said as she held the piece of paper to Miroku. She smiled and blushed as she held it.
"I guess we're just mean to be, My Dearest Sango!" Miroku said jokingly as he lifted her into his arms bridal style.
"I guess we are, my love! Now let us run off away and get married! I have been hoping for the day when I may share your last name!" Sango replied jokingly back. The two laughed.
"Who believes in that shit?" Sango said as she laughed and looked at the MASH game.
"I know, huh!? It's like people's life depend on what order they put it in."
'But if only it were true..' the two thought at the same time.
Yeah.. I did kind of push it a little too far on her kissing him, huh? Well, things needed to spice up somehow!! Haha . :P Thank you to everyone that's reviewed me! I'm really happy that you guys are liking it so far!
P.S.
Haha, I'm taking the advice/comment from ladyhawk89! Haha. What part, you ask? I guess you'll have to see.. :D
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Chapter 9
"Kagome? Inuyasha?" Sango called from downstairs as she placed her keys on the table. She looked at the time and saw that it had read 9:45 AM.
"Where could they have gone?" Sango asked herself as she walked around the house hoping to find them.
"Maybe Kagome went home and Inuyasha's at work?" Miroku suggested.
"Nah.. Inuyasha doesn't have work till later, and Kagome's clothes are still here so she couldn't have gone back home." Sango said.
The two looked around the house, but Kagome and Inuyasha were no where in sight. They stood in the living room, silent.
'I wonder what he's thinking..' Sango thought
'I wonder what she's thinking..' Miroku thought to himself.
The silence was broken by the sound of a tinkling bell. Miroku saw that Sango had started fidgeting with her ring on her finger.
"So why are there three..things on your ring?" Miroku asked out of curiosity.
"Oh, I don't know..Inuyasha says that they symbolize 'whoever gets the key to my heart and doesn't use it well..he'll knock them out like a bell'." Sango laughed.
"I doubt that's what it really means though...Inuyasha's never that protective...actually, he's never been very compassionate after the accident."Sango kept on fidgeting with her ring.
"What accident?" Miroku asked. Sango sighed.
"A year before you guys moved into that house..it belonged to a girl named Kikyo." Sango began as she stopped playing with her ring.
"OH! Now I remember! I remember seeing her and him play all the time when we were little. I would've played with them, but I couldn't move after Inuyasha pounded me to the ground. Good times, good times.." Miroku laughed to himself.
'I don't even want to know why Inuyasha would've pounded you to the ground' Sango thought to herself as she rolled her eyes and sat down on a chair in the kitchen.
"So you see how long they've known each other. Inuyasha told me how much he was in love with her everyday. He was always so happy. He spoke about when he got older he would marry Kikyo someday.."
"Then she broke up with him...and I went up to her and tried asking her why.. Asking for reasons..but all she did was say that it was for our benefits.." Sango laughed to herself and shook her head.
"One day...it began to rain really hard.. And me and her..we were yelling at each other. I was mad at her.. I was yelling.." Sango's voice began to crack. Miroku hugged her.
"Then Inuyasha came..and we had this giant yelling fest. So she ran away...and then..and then.."
"And then what?" Miroku said silently.
"AND THEN THAT DAMN CAR WASN'T WATCHING THE FUCKING ROAD AND HIT HER! THEN SHE DIED! SHE'S DEAD! SHE'S DEAD, MIROKU AND SHE'S NEVER COMING BACK! AND I WAS MAD AT HER! I WAS MAD AT HER.. MY OWN BEST FRIEND DIED KNOWING THAT I WAS MAD AT HER..." Sango yelled as she wiped her face. Miroku saw that her eyes were red, but couldn't tell if it were because she'd been crying..or because of her eye shadow.
Sango got up and went into the kitchen to wash her face.
"The weird part is...after Inuyasha had told me why she had broken up with him..because she had leukemia...I realized either way she would have died.." Sango said in between sobs.
Miroku got up from his chair, and walked into towards her. He stood behind Sango and she turned to face him. His face had a serious expression on it. His eyebrows were together and the color of his eyes had a bitter-sweet softness in them. He hugged her and placed his hand on her head.
"It's okay, Sango. I know how you feel to lose someone important to you..it's okay.." he whispered comfortingly as he stroked her hair.
"But it's not so much as me that I'm worried about....Inuyasha, too. Though he looks hard..acts tough..and speaks roughly...deep down he still misses her. I just want him to love again..." Sango said as she rested her head on Miroku's chest as he hugged her.
"You can't force someone to love someone, Sango." Miroku said.
"I know that...but if he does fall in love..I don't want him to hold back on it." Sango replied.
There was a silence between the two and they just stood there in the kitchen. Sango was still in Miroku's arms and he was still stroking her hair.
"Thank you Miroku for being here..." Sango said as she looked up at him and smiled.
"Anytime, Sango..anytime." Miroku smiled back as he released her from his arms.
He was falling for her already...
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Thankfully, Kagome and Inuyasha were sitting in the back of the diner and out of sight.
"I'm sorry.. I don't know what came over me.. Oh gosh! Oh gee! I'm so sorry.." Kagome panicked as she sat back in her chair.
Inuyasha just looked at her..stunned.
"I have to go.. Thanks for the breakfast Inuyasha...I have to go.. I have to go." Kagome got up and ran out of the diner.
'Wh-wh-what just happened...' Inuyasha thought to himself, still wearing the stunned expression on his face.
When he snapped back into reality, he realized that everybody in the diner was looking at him.
"WHY DON'T YOU ALL JUST TAKE A PICTURE!?" Inuyasha threatened as he put up his fist. Everybody quickly looked away.
'Ergh..that wench doesn't even know her way around here..' Inuyasha rolled his eyes as he got up and walked out of the diner to find Kagome.
When he got out, Kagome was no where in sight. He started to walk around.
'She couldn't have gone too far..' Inuyasha thought to himself as he looked around. All the way on the other side of the parking lot, he saw a tiny group of men hovering over something. Inuyasha decided that Kagome could've been anywhere and started walking towards the group.
"So, guess you've finally ditched that useless dog? How bout a little kiss, eh? Right here.." Naraku winked at Kagome as he pointed to the place she had slapped.
"Hey Naraku! Let me have a share of her after your done! I love it when they're scared.." One of the goons laughed.
Kagome had already been distressed and embarrassed from the little incident with Inuyasha, and she didn't have the patience for Naraku. He grabbed her hair and brought her face towards his.
"YOU DEGRADING ASS-HOLE!" Kagome exclaimed as she bit Naraku's hand and punched him across his other cheek. Naraku let go of Kagome's hair and dropped her on the cement ground.
The group of goons instantly began helping Naraku and giving off warnings to hurt Kagome.
'Get her!'
'Oh! That bitch is in for it now!'
'Does she think we're going to let her off that easy?!'
Kagome began to kick with all of her might as she lay on the ground. Her eyes were shut tightly as she kicked and kicked for her life. Suddenly she felt someone lift her by her neck and she opened her eyes to see that it was Naraku.
She shut her eyes, prepared for whatever pain he was going to give upon her. Kagome's body was suddenly dropped and her head hit the wall of the diner and she was knocked unconscious.
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"Chute, chute, chute." Miroku said in disappointment.
"Ladders! Ladders! Ladders! I WIN!" Sango yelled in happiness while standing up and bowing.
The two had been playing 6 games of 'Chutes and Ladders' all morning.
"You're cheating! I don't know how, but I bet you are! You couldn't have possibly won that many games in a row!" Miroku exclaimed as Sango bowed to an invisible audience.
"Oh, you're just jealous because you haven't won a single game yet, Miroku! Sore loser!" Sango laughed as she stuck out her tongue at Miroku.
"Enough of these kiddy games! Time to play a Man's game!" Miroku crossed his arms to his chest.
Sango blinked and waited for Miroku to call out this so called 'Man's game'.
"Well? What game?" Sango asked.
"How about 'Go Fish'?" Miroku suggested as he pulled out a deck of cards. Sango began to laugh.
"Oooh! Nice choice..totally a Man's Game." Sango rolled her eyes and smiled as she put 'Chutes and Ladders' back into it's box.
"Hey! For your information 'Go Fish' is one of the best games in history. It requires a lot of thinking and skill." Miroku said as he shuffled the cards.
"Oh! Of course, it does!" Sango said sarcastically as she nodded her head.
"Do you have any other bright ideas? Hmm? Hmm, Miss Thang?!" Miroku asked jokingly.
"First of all, I don't know why you keep calling me that..and second of all.. Anything is better than 'Go Fish'!" Sango laughed.
"Oh is that right? Like what?" Miroku asked as he put the cards back into their box.
"I don't know. Hey! When you were little.. Did you ever play a little game called 'MASH'?" Sango asked.
"All the time! Though it was always hard for me to round my choices up to just 4 girls.." Miroku sighed.
Sango rolled her eyes as she got up for a piece of paper and pen.
(NOTE: If nobody knows how to play MASH..Let me explain. Warning, my way of MASH is probably not the best directions..but hey! Haha. Anyhow.. You draw a square and right the word 'MASH' on top of it. Then, you name out 4 named of the opposite sex..4 numbers..and 5 cars. You don't have to name out numbers/cars.. Those two things can all be of your choice..those were just examples. But you have to have 4 names of the opposite sex.. And 4 other things of two other categories. Anyhow, after that.. You start in the middle of the box.. And then just go around and round and round. When the person you're doing MASH to says 'stop' you.. [obviously] stop. Haha. So then you count the lines from the top of that little circle thing vertically. When you get that number.. You start from the 'M' in MASH and count from then on whatever number you got. You cross out whatever you land on until there is only one thing in each category. Got it? Hopefully. Heehee!)
"Okay.. So you wanna go first?" Sango asked as she began to set up the game.
"Sure, why not." Miroku shrugged.
"Mmkay...Four girls."
"Hmmm...Tsuya...Yuna...Kanna...and.." Miroku thought.
Sango wrote down the names and waited for the last one so she could carry on with the other categories.
"...Sango." Sango dropped her pencil and looked at Miroku. He was smiling. She smiled back sheepishly.
'I can't believe he wants to put me on here..' she thought as she wrote down her name on the piece of paper.
"Okay, then.. Hmm.. What other categories do you want to put up?" She asked.
"Hmm.. How about pets?" Miroku suggested.
"Okay...name four."
"Uhh.. dog..those fire cats aren't so bad..raccoon..and uhh.." Miroku chuckled to himself.
"..Inuyasha." he finished. Sango started to laugh.
"If he were here..." Sango began.
"I know.. I know. .I know.." Miroku said.
"Okay.. So what do you want your last category to be?"
"Hmm..how about the ending? Like..what it would resolve to?" Miroku asked.
"Okay, sure."
"Great! Friendship..love..admirers..and..end?" Miroku said.
"Alright.. So tell me when to stop." Sango began to draw inside the box.
Miroku waited as he watched her swirl the pencil in a circular motion. She began losing room for the circle and tried her best to fit it in the box as tightly as she could. Sango looked at Miroku, who was purposely putting her into the position.
"Hey! You jerk! Can't you see that I'm running out of room?" Sango said.
"Oh? I hadn't noticed." Miroku said sarcastically and began to whistle.
"Heyy!!" Sango replied. Miroku laughed and gestured her to stop.
"Okay.. One, two, three, four.." Sango began to count the lines.
"14. So, your number is 14, Miroku." Sango said. He nodded. Sango began to count and scratch off.
Minutes later Miroku's starting results were that he would live in a house, with a fire cat, but who he would live with, and what kind of resolution he would have with the person was still unsolved.
Soon, it dropped down in the two categories. In the 'Who to fall with' section the two standing were 'Sango' and 'Kanna'. And the results for 'What would it resolve to' were 'END' and 'LOVE'.
Sango began to count in the 'What would it resolve to' section and scratched out 'END'. As she circled 'LOVE' Miroku sighed with relief. Now he was worried on who the 'Who to fall with' section would be.
His heart dropped when he saw that Sango's pencil stopped at her name to be crossed out.
'KANNA?!?!' Miroku thought to himself as his mouth dropped.
"Oh wait, no! Counted wrong.. Hehe my mistake." Sango erased the circle around Kanna's named and circled her own.
"There. Done!" Sango said as she held the piece of paper to Miroku. She smiled and blushed as she held it.
"I guess we're just mean to be, My Dearest Sango!" Miroku said jokingly as he lifted her into his arms bridal style.
"I guess we are, my love! Now let us run off away and get married! I have been hoping for the day when I may share your last name!" Sango replied jokingly back. The two laughed.
"Who believes in that shit?" Sango said as she laughed and looked at the MASH game.
"I know, huh!? It's like people's life depend on what order they put it in."
'But if only it were true..' the two thought at the same time.