California or Bust! – Chapter Thirteen:
Homebound Again
AN: Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm SOOOOOO sorry for the HUGE delay. I have my fic back, because my people were being slow, so they lost their typing privileges. I hope that there are still people reading this and I hope you likes!
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Gundam Wing, or the series would have been longer. And Duo would be mine… Hm….
Around two o'clock, the gang was on the road back to home. Kio was angry with Heero while Mia was back to her old self.
Mia turned to talk to Kio. "Kio, you can't stay mad at Heero forever. Why don't you take your own advice?" Mia winked. Kio turned away and 'hmphd'. "Fine! Be a jork!" yelled Mia.
"Jork?" Questioned Rebi, holding back laughter.
Mia nodded. "Yeah! A cross between a jerk and a dork!"
Rebi burst out laughing. "Good one Mia!"
Mia did a fake half-bow. "Thank you, thank you. I know you all love me!"
"In a total non-lesbian, gay, or bi-sexual manner," added Rebi
The gang stopped at a small truck stop on the way home for a late lunch.
"They actually have pretty good food here," commented Em.
"Hm." Mumbled Kio
"Excuse me a minute," announced Mia, dragging Heero off.
"What do you want?" asked Heero.
"I want to know if you said the same thing you said to me, to Kio-chan," said Mia angrily.
"Maybe," replied Heero
"Tell me now!" growled Mia. "Or you might end up missing an eye!"
Heero sighed. "Yes, I did, all right?"
"DO YOU HAVE NO EMOTIONS OR WHAT?!" Mia yelled. "You've got a girl, who not only acts like you but she damn well loves you! Get over yourself!"
Mia looked slightly shocked, as Heero seemed to be depressed. "You're right," he said.
"You know what advice Kio gave me?" Mia asked. Heero shook his head and she continued. "She told me, 'live for the moment, because you never know when it might end'" Heero remained silent and Mia interrupted his thinking. "Come on, Kio might be getting suspicious," Mia smiled as she left and Heero followed shortly after.
Kio and Heero were sitting at the same table (under Mia's orders) eating silently. Heero spoke first. "Are you going to say anything?"
"Why on Earth would I want to talk to you?"
Heero sighed. "Listen Kiomay. What I said earlier-"
"Was true," interrupted Kio. "You were absolutely right."
Kio looked shocked. "You actually admit you're wrong?" Heero nodded slowly. "HAH!" yelled Kio. "I knew you were wrong all along!"
Heero looked confused. "Then why did you act like you were sad?"
Kio winked. "It's fun making you think that you're an idiot!"
Heero looked angry but Kio quickly changed his mood with a quick kiss.
Mia was enjoying a lemon-lime smoothie while chatting excitedly with Duo.
"Sorry I was so mopey. It won't happen again," said Mia.
"Don't worry about it babe," convinced Duo.
Mia smiled. "I won't. I promise."
"That's good," replied Duo.
They returned home at roughly three pm.
"I'm going to pick some oranges out back. Anyone coming?" asked Rebi.
"I'll go," replied Trowa.
"No thanks Rebi. I'll just stick around the house for a little while," said Li, sitting down on the couch.
"Okay, anyone else?" Rebi asked. She received various 'no' answers and went to go outside.
After Rebi and Trowa had left, the rest of the gang split up in different directions. Kio and Heero went to play video games, Duo and Mia went outside to play one-on-one basketball, Quatre and LI just stuck around the living room, and Em and Wufei went to check to make sure the gundams were still there.
Quatre looked at Li, a little worried. "Are you all right Li?"
Li came back to life on earth. "Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm fine."
"Are you sure? Maybe I shouldn't have told you about the gundams…." Quatre muttered, a definite sadness to his voice.
"I'm fine. I'm glad you told me," replied Li, smiling.
"All right then Li," said Quatre, becoming his usual cheery self again. "And you never know, maybe we'll see each other again someday."
Li smiled. "Yeah, maybe."
Kio and Heero were downstairs playing an assortment of video games on the PS2. Kio was beating Heero badly.
"Geeze! You suck at this Hee-chan!" Kio yelled beating hero at yet another level of the game.
Heero grumbled about being thrown off track. Kio smirked. "I win, again!" Heero growled and Kio just sat there grinning.
Rebi and Trowa were in the garbage searching for a rod with a backed-like end that was used for picking oranges.
"Where the hell is it?!" yelled Rebi, throwing boxes everywhere.
Trowa pulled it off of a top shelf. "Is this it?"
Rebi turned around. "Yes! Thank you!"
They walked outside, looking for a good tree. Trowa picked up an orange off the ground. It was quite a bit lighter and when he turned it around, there was a small hole in it. He tapped Rebi on the shoulder. "What happened to this one?"
"Huh? Oh! That's just from our squirrel!" Rebi explained. Trowa still looked confused and Rebi continued. "We have a squirrel that lives in the wood pile over there," she pointed to a woodpile not too far away. "It likes to eat oranges and what it does is chews a small hole in the peel, sticks it's head in the hole, and eats all the pulp and juice out of the orange! Then it dries out and looks like this!" Trowa looked at the orange, looked at the woodpile, and laughed.
"Come on! You can't get it past me!" Mia yelled as Duo made yet another attempt to score a point in basketball.
"You're going down babe!" Duo yelled, his tenth attempt failing and Mia gained possession of the ball.
Mia sank the ball into the net. "Hah! I win again!"
Duo grumbled. "Yeah yeah…"
Mia grinned. "Hee hee!" she yelled as she danced around the court while Duo pouted. "Don't be so pouty! It's just a game!"
Duo sighed. "I know, I know… sorry Mia babe," he smiled.
"Now that's more like the Duo I know!" Mia grinned. "Now, you wanna get your butt kicked again?"
Em and Wufei entered a large warehouse where the gundams were being concealed Wufei pulled a key out of his pocket and fitted it into the large lock on the door. They entered the dusty building and Wufei closed the door quickly behind them; which caused Em to jump. "Sorry," he apologized. "Have to be careful."
Em looked up at the towering mounds of metal, which happened to be the gundams. "So they're nearly done?" she asked sadly.
"Not quite," replied Wufei, noting the sadness in her voice. "Sandrock, Shenlong, and Heavyarms are nearly done, but Dearthscythe and Wing zero still need quite a bit of work.
"Oh…" Em mumbled, still sounding quite depressed.
Wufei thought for a moment and then quickly changed the subject. "Well, seeing as they're still here, why don't we go get some ice cream?"
Em stared at Wufei for a second and then smiled. "Okay!"
"We're going to a what?!" Wufei yelled. It was later on that day and everyone had returned to the house. Mia had just brought the news upon them that, that evening, they were going 'clubbing'. "I am NOT going!" Wufei growled angrily.
"Either you're going or you can find a new place to stay," Mia said, poking Wufei in the chest at every other word; just to make her pint clear.
"Relax Wu-man! It won't be so bad!" Duo grinned enthusiastically.
"That's only because you, Maxwell, agreed to this," Wufei growled.
"Well everyone else is going and there is NO WAY in Hell that I'd ever leave you in this house alone. I do not want it burned to the ground, thank you very much," Mia announced.
"Come on Wufei. It might be fun," Quatre suggested.
Wufei glared at him. "You agreed willingly too Winner."
"If you don't go, I'll paint Nataku hot pink," Mia said, clearly getting annoyed.
"Trust me, she would," said Kio.
"If she's paying someone back, there's no stopping her," she finished. Wufei looked scared.
"Ask Mr. Duck. He found out the hard way that Mia likes revenge," Rebi explained, holding up a rubber duck that had a hole burned through its head.
Wufei paled and Em giggled. "She slipped on him getting out of the bath once," Em whispered to Wufei.
"So I take it you're coming Wu-man?" Mia smirked. Wufei just nodded. "Great! Well, you'd better get ready; we're leaving at seven thirty sharp," and with that, Mia walked down the hall and a door closing could be heard.
"Well, I guess I'd better get ready too," Li muttered.
"same here," Kio added, "Other wise, I'll be late."
"It's only 5:30, you need two whole hours to get ready?" Duo questioned.
"Duh!" All four girls answered as they walked down the long hallway. Shortly after, four doors were heard closing.
"So what do we do now?" Duo asked, talking to no one in particular.
"Get ready I suppose," Quatre said. "That, or, we could be nice and thank the girls for their hospitality by making dinner for them"
"Maxwell? Making something edible? This I have to see," Wufei scoffed.
Twenty minutes later, the smell of something burning came from the kitchen.
"What's that smell?" Trowa asked curiously while sniffing the air.
"Aaaah! The bacon!" Duo screamed running over to the stove.
"Kisma Maxwell! Can't you do anything right?!" Wufei growled while opening a nearby window.
"Obviously not," muttered a not-to-happy Heero.
"You guys! We'd better get this smoke out of here before the smoke detector goes of-" Quatre was cut off by a loud beeping noise. All the girls could be heard screaming in the hallways and a very pissed off Mia made her way stomping down the hallway.
"Damn it you guys! I told you not to burn the house down!" Mia yelled, stomping into the smoke filled kitchen and turning on the ceiling fan.
When the smoke finally cleared, everyone was in the kitchen. Duo was being chased around by Wufei who was yelling 'Maxwell! Kisma!'; Trowa was standing by an open window; Quatre was waving a towel around, trying to get the remaining smoke outside; Heero was pointing his gun at the now fizzing smoke detector; Mia was yelling orders at everyone 'Wufei! Stop chasing Duo and help him clean up this mess! And Heero! You owe me a new smoke detector!'; Em was standing there blinking, most likely thinking 'what the hell is going on here?' and only having her hair half-done; Rebi was wearing a different top and staring at the fizzing smoke detector; Kio was already walking back down the hall, not wanting to clean up; and LI was standing in the doorway with soapy wet hair and in a bath robe, obviously having thought that there was a real fire. Mia, unlike the other girls was nowhere NEAR to being ready.
"Okay! Okay! Girls, false alarm!" Mia announced. The reply was much groaning from the girls. All of the girls, excluding Mia, went back to getting ready. Mia, on the other hand, started one of her infamous ramblings. "I told you guys not to burn down the house, and what do you do?! You set the kitchen on fire!" Mia yelled
"Actually," interrupted Duo, "it was only the bacon…"
"I don't care what it was! Now either you guys smarten up, or you can find yourselves another place to stay!" Mia screamed before stomping down the hallway, a door slamming could be heard shortly after.
"Oh dear…" Quatre muttered.
"I guess we should clean up this mess," Trowa said.
"What can I do to he-" Duo started but not before being interrupted by Wufei.
"You, Maxwell, can go somewhere out of the way. We're already in a big enough mess and you'll just make it worse!"
"Fine," Dow mumbled as he walked slowly out of the kitchen.
"That wasn't very nice…" Quatre said, yet not going after Duo.
Duo trudged into the living room and flopped down on the couch. He wasn't even there for five minutes when Mia came in looking frantic.
"Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!" Mia yelled as she began tossing couch cushions across the room. "Where is it?!"
"Where is what?" Duo asked curiously, yet still sounding depressed.
"My brush!" Mia managed to say before hurling a few more cushions across the room. "AGH!" she screeched. Duo sighed to announce that he was still alive. "Hm? What's wrong Shini-babe? You're usually so cheerful. What happened?" Mia asked, seating herself on the couch beside Duo.
"Sometimes, I dunno, I just feel like a fifth wheel around the guys." Duo mumbled.
"I know whatcha mean…" Mia muttered. "I mean, sure the girls are all like family, almost, but sometimes, when things are serious, I feel kind of out of place."
Duo nodded in agreement. "Same here. I'm always getting into some kind of trouble or mess, and not being able to help clean up the mess. Just like the kitchen fiasco."
Mia twitched. "You mean you started that mess?!"
"Uh…" Duo stuttered nervously. Next without warning, Mia tackled Duo and pinned him to the couch by holding down his arms and sitting on his stomach.
"Ha Payback time for setting off the smoke alarm!" Mia said and began to tickle Duo before he could protest, while she still sat on his stomach so that he couldn't get up.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Come on – AHAHAHA! – Mia! Have mercy!" Duo managed to say in between laughing and trying to breathe.
"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, I'm done," Mia said suddenly and stopped tickling Duo.
"So… you give up?" Duo asked, still attempting to breathe.
"Not a chance," Mia said, flipping up a few more couch cushions. "I still haven't found my brush."
Duo face faulted.
"Ah hah! Here it is!" Mia exclaimed victoriously, holding up a clear blue brush with a dark navy rubber handle. Mia blinked and looked around at the living room, which was currently a complete and total mess from her looking for her brush. Mia hung her head. "This'll take FOREVER to clean up!"
"I'll clean it up," Duo said, quite un-expectedly
"You will! Oh wow! Thanks babe! Wait a minute… what's the catch?" Mia said, folding her arms.
"Well… If you wanted to pay me back…" Duo whispered something into Mia's ear, moved back and put his arms behind his head, smirking.
"Fine! Because if I cleaned this up, I wouldn't have any time to get ready," Mia said, leaving for her room.
Duo looked around the living room, and the huge mess, and sweat dropped.
End Chapter Thirteen
AN: Well, there you have it. Once again, I'm apologizing for the delay. The chapters will be out faster I promise. Hope you enjoyed (and I hope I still have readers! XD).
Homebound Again
AN: Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! I'm SOOOOOO sorry for the HUGE delay. I have my fic back, because my people were being slow, so they lost their typing privileges. I hope that there are still people reading this and I hope you likes!
Disclaimer: I unfortunately do not own Gundam Wing, or the series would have been longer. And Duo would be mine… Hm….
Around two o'clock, the gang was on the road back to home. Kio was angry with Heero while Mia was back to her old self.
Mia turned to talk to Kio. "Kio, you can't stay mad at Heero forever. Why don't you take your own advice?" Mia winked. Kio turned away and 'hmphd'. "Fine! Be a jork!" yelled Mia.
"Jork?" Questioned Rebi, holding back laughter.
Mia nodded. "Yeah! A cross between a jerk and a dork!"
Rebi burst out laughing. "Good one Mia!"
Mia did a fake half-bow. "Thank you, thank you. I know you all love me!"
"In a total non-lesbian, gay, or bi-sexual manner," added Rebi
The gang stopped at a small truck stop on the way home for a late lunch.
"They actually have pretty good food here," commented Em.
"Hm." Mumbled Kio
"Excuse me a minute," announced Mia, dragging Heero off.
"What do you want?" asked Heero.
"I want to know if you said the same thing you said to me, to Kio-chan," said Mia angrily.
"Maybe," replied Heero
"Tell me now!" growled Mia. "Or you might end up missing an eye!"
Heero sighed. "Yes, I did, all right?"
"DO YOU HAVE NO EMOTIONS OR WHAT?!" Mia yelled. "You've got a girl, who not only acts like you but she damn well loves you! Get over yourself!"
Mia looked slightly shocked, as Heero seemed to be depressed. "You're right," he said.
"You know what advice Kio gave me?" Mia asked. Heero shook his head and she continued. "She told me, 'live for the moment, because you never know when it might end'" Heero remained silent and Mia interrupted his thinking. "Come on, Kio might be getting suspicious," Mia smiled as she left and Heero followed shortly after.
Kio and Heero were sitting at the same table (under Mia's orders) eating silently. Heero spoke first. "Are you going to say anything?"
"Why on Earth would I want to talk to you?"
Heero sighed. "Listen Kiomay. What I said earlier-"
"Was true," interrupted Kio. "You were absolutely right."
Kio looked shocked. "You actually admit you're wrong?" Heero nodded slowly. "HAH!" yelled Kio. "I knew you were wrong all along!"
Heero looked confused. "Then why did you act like you were sad?"
Kio winked. "It's fun making you think that you're an idiot!"
Heero looked angry but Kio quickly changed his mood with a quick kiss.
Mia was enjoying a lemon-lime smoothie while chatting excitedly with Duo.
"Sorry I was so mopey. It won't happen again," said Mia.
"Don't worry about it babe," convinced Duo.
Mia smiled. "I won't. I promise."
"That's good," replied Duo.
They returned home at roughly three pm.
"I'm going to pick some oranges out back. Anyone coming?" asked Rebi.
"I'll go," replied Trowa.
"No thanks Rebi. I'll just stick around the house for a little while," said Li, sitting down on the couch.
"Okay, anyone else?" Rebi asked. She received various 'no' answers and went to go outside.
After Rebi and Trowa had left, the rest of the gang split up in different directions. Kio and Heero went to play video games, Duo and Mia went outside to play one-on-one basketball, Quatre and LI just stuck around the living room, and Em and Wufei went to check to make sure the gundams were still there.
Quatre looked at Li, a little worried. "Are you all right Li?"
Li came back to life on earth. "Hm? Oh, yeah. I'm fine."
"Are you sure? Maybe I shouldn't have told you about the gundams…." Quatre muttered, a definite sadness to his voice.
"I'm fine. I'm glad you told me," replied Li, smiling.
"All right then Li," said Quatre, becoming his usual cheery self again. "And you never know, maybe we'll see each other again someday."
Li smiled. "Yeah, maybe."
Kio and Heero were downstairs playing an assortment of video games on the PS2. Kio was beating Heero badly.
"Geeze! You suck at this Hee-chan!" Kio yelled beating hero at yet another level of the game.
Heero grumbled about being thrown off track. Kio smirked. "I win, again!" Heero growled and Kio just sat there grinning.
Rebi and Trowa were in the garbage searching for a rod with a backed-like end that was used for picking oranges.
"Where the hell is it?!" yelled Rebi, throwing boxes everywhere.
Trowa pulled it off of a top shelf. "Is this it?"
Rebi turned around. "Yes! Thank you!"
They walked outside, looking for a good tree. Trowa picked up an orange off the ground. It was quite a bit lighter and when he turned it around, there was a small hole in it. He tapped Rebi on the shoulder. "What happened to this one?"
"Huh? Oh! That's just from our squirrel!" Rebi explained. Trowa still looked confused and Rebi continued. "We have a squirrel that lives in the wood pile over there," she pointed to a woodpile not too far away. "It likes to eat oranges and what it does is chews a small hole in the peel, sticks it's head in the hole, and eats all the pulp and juice out of the orange! Then it dries out and looks like this!" Trowa looked at the orange, looked at the woodpile, and laughed.
"Come on! You can't get it past me!" Mia yelled as Duo made yet another attempt to score a point in basketball.
"You're going down babe!" Duo yelled, his tenth attempt failing and Mia gained possession of the ball.
Mia sank the ball into the net. "Hah! I win again!"
Duo grumbled. "Yeah yeah…"
Mia grinned. "Hee hee!" she yelled as she danced around the court while Duo pouted. "Don't be so pouty! It's just a game!"
Duo sighed. "I know, I know… sorry Mia babe," he smiled.
"Now that's more like the Duo I know!" Mia grinned. "Now, you wanna get your butt kicked again?"
Em and Wufei entered a large warehouse where the gundams were being concealed Wufei pulled a key out of his pocket and fitted it into the large lock on the door. They entered the dusty building and Wufei closed the door quickly behind them; which caused Em to jump. "Sorry," he apologized. "Have to be careful."
Em looked up at the towering mounds of metal, which happened to be the gundams. "So they're nearly done?" she asked sadly.
"Not quite," replied Wufei, noting the sadness in her voice. "Sandrock, Shenlong, and Heavyarms are nearly done, but Dearthscythe and Wing zero still need quite a bit of work.
"Oh…" Em mumbled, still sounding quite depressed.
Wufei thought for a moment and then quickly changed the subject. "Well, seeing as they're still here, why don't we go get some ice cream?"
Em stared at Wufei for a second and then smiled. "Okay!"
"We're going to a what?!" Wufei yelled. It was later on that day and everyone had returned to the house. Mia had just brought the news upon them that, that evening, they were going 'clubbing'. "I am NOT going!" Wufei growled angrily.
"Either you're going or you can find a new place to stay," Mia said, poking Wufei in the chest at every other word; just to make her pint clear.
"Relax Wu-man! It won't be so bad!" Duo grinned enthusiastically.
"That's only because you, Maxwell, agreed to this," Wufei growled.
"Well everyone else is going and there is NO WAY in Hell that I'd ever leave you in this house alone. I do not want it burned to the ground, thank you very much," Mia announced.
"Come on Wufei. It might be fun," Quatre suggested.
Wufei glared at him. "You agreed willingly too Winner."
"If you don't go, I'll paint Nataku hot pink," Mia said, clearly getting annoyed.
"Trust me, she would," said Kio.
"If she's paying someone back, there's no stopping her," she finished. Wufei looked scared.
"Ask Mr. Duck. He found out the hard way that Mia likes revenge," Rebi explained, holding up a rubber duck that had a hole burned through its head.
Wufei paled and Em giggled. "She slipped on him getting out of the bath once," Em whispered to Wufei.
"So I take it you're coming Wu-man?" Mia smirked. Wufei just nodded. "Great! Well, you'd better get ready; we're leaving at seven thirty sharp," and with that, Mia walked down the hall and a door closing could be heard.
"Well, I guess I'd better get ready too," Li muttered.
"same here," Kio added, "Other wise, I'll be late."
"It's only 5:30, you need two whole hours to get ready?" Duo questioned.
"Duh!" All four girls answered as they walked down the long hallway. Shortly after, four doors were heard closing.
"So what do we do now?" Duo asked, talking to no one in particular.
"Get ready I suppose," Quatre said. "That, or, we could be nice and thank the girls for their hospitality by making dinner for them"
"Maxwell? Making something edible? This I have to see," Wufei scoffed.
Twenty minutes later, the smell of something burning came from the kitchen.
"What's that smell?" Trowa asked curiously while sniffing the air.
"Aaaah! The bacon!" Duo screamed running over to the stove.
"Kisma Maxwell! Can't you do anything right?!" Wufei growled while opening a nearby window.
"Obviously not," muttered a not-to-happy Heero.
"You guys! We'd better get this smoke out of here before the smoke detector goes of-" Quatre was cut off by a loud beeping noise. All the girls could be heard screaming in the hallways and a very pissed off Mia made her way stomping down the hallway.
"Damn it you guys! I told you not to burn the house down!" Mia yelled, stomping into the smoke filled kitchen and turning on the ceiling fan.
When the smoke finally cleared, everyone was in the kitchen. Duo was being chased around by Wufei who was yelling 'Maxwell! Kisma!'; Trowa was standing by an open window; Quatre was waving a towel around, trying to get the remaining smoke outside; Heero was pointing his gun at the now fizzing smoke detector; Mia was yelling orders at everyone 'Wufei! Stop chasing Duo and help him clean up this mess! And Heero! You owe me a new smoke detector!'; Em was standing there blinking, most likely thinking 'what the hell is going on here?' and only having her hair half-done; Rebi was wearing a different top and staring at the fizzing smoke detector; Kio was already walking back down the hall, not wanting to clean up; and LI was standing in the doorway with soapy wet hair and in a bath robe, obviously having thought that there was a real fire. Mia, unlike the other girls was nowhere NEAR to being ready.
"Okay! Okay! Girls, false alarm!" Mia announced. The reply was much groaning from the girls. All of the girls, excluding Mia, went back to getting ready. Mia, on the other hand, started one of her infamous ramblings. "I told you guys not to burn down the house, and what do you do?! You set the kitchen on fire!" Mia yelled
"Actually," interrupted Duo, "it was only the bacon…"
"I don't care what it was! Now either you guys smarten up, or you can find yourselves another place to stay!" Mia screamed before stomping down the hallway, a door slamming could be heard shortly after.
"Oh dear…" Quatre muttered.
"I guess we should clean up this mess," Trowa said.
"What can I do to he-" Duo started but not before being interrupted by Wufei.
"You, Maxwell, can go somewhere out of the way. We're already in a big enough mess and you'll just make it worse!"
"Fine," Dow mumbled as he walked slowly out of the kitchen.
"That wasn't very nice…" Quatre said, yet not going after Duo.
Duo trudged into the living room and flopped down on the couch. He wasn't even there for five minutes when Mia came in looking frantic.
"Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!" Mia yelled as she began tossing couch cushions across the room. "Where is it?!"
"Where is what?" Duo asked curiously, yet still sounding depressed.
"My brush!" Mia managed to say before hurling a few more cushions across the room. "AGH!" she screeched. Duo sighed to announce that he was still alive. "Hm? What's wrong Shini-babe? You're usually so cheerful. What happened?" Mia asked, seating herself on the couch beside Duo.
"Sometimes, I dunno, I just feel like a fifth wheel around the guys." Duo mumbled.
"I know whatcha mean…" Mia muttered. "I mean, sure the girls are all like family, almost, but sometimes, when things are serious, I feel kind of out of place."
Duo nodded in agreement. "Same here. I'm always getting into some kind of trouble or mess, and not being able to help clean up the mess. Just like the kitchen fiasco."
Mia twitched. "You mean you started that mess?!"
"Uh…" Duo stuttered nervously. Next without warning, Mia tackled Duo and pinned him to the couch by holding down his arms and sitting on his stomach.
"Ha Payback time for setting off the smoke alarm!" Mia said and began to tickle Duo before he could protest, while she still sat on his stomach so that he couldn't get up.
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Come on – AHAHAHA! – Mia! Have mercy!" Duo managed to say in between laughing and trying to breathe.
"MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, I'm done," Mia said suddenly and stopped tickling Duo.
"So… you give up?" Duo asked, still attempting to breathe.
"Not a chance," Mia said, flipping up a few more couch cushions. "I still haven't found my brush."
Duo face faulted.
"Ah hah! Here it is!" Mia exclaimed victoriously, holding up a clear blue brush with a dark navy rubber handle. Mia blinked and looked around at the living room, which was currently a complete and total mess from her looking for her brush. Mia hung her head. "This'll take FOREVER to clean up!"
"I'll clean it up," Duo said, quite un-expectedly
"You will! Oh wow! Thanks babe! Wait a minute… what's the catch?" Mia said, folding her arms.
"Well… If you wanted to pay me back…" Duo whispered something into Mia's ear, moved back and put his arms behind his head, smirking.
"Fine! Because if I cleaned this up, I wouldn't have any time to get ready," Mia said, leaving for her room.
Duo looked around the living room, and the huge mess, and sweat dropped.
End Chapter Thirteen
AN: Well, there you have it. Once again, I'm apologizing for the delay. The chapters will be out faster I promise. Hope you enjoyed (and I hope I still have readers! XD).