Concerning Lent, Caffeine and Other Matters Causing Great Angst
Sunday morning - 9:00 am
"It would be good for you guys to give something up for at least a week," Clare reasoned with the group assembled in the living room.
"I'll do it," Yoshiko stretched, "I, for one, have will power."
Quatre snorted into his coffee. Yoshiko glared at him. He busied himself with refilling the already brimming coffee cup.
"What are you going to give up," Wu Fei asked, putting his fork down on his plate of bacon and eggs, "being mean? Cuz I don't think you could manage that."
Yoshiko glared at him, causing him to become suddenly fascinated with the physical features of his bacon.
"I'll give up, er, sugar," she announced, putting down the brownie she had been eating.
Wu Fei gasped and dropped his bacon. It had a similar effect on Trowa, who dropped his pop tart onto the carpet.
Not to be outdone, Quatre piped up from the kitchen, "I give up caffeine."
The silence was deafening, broken only by the sound of Duo falling off his chair.
Wu Fei sighed resignedly and said, "I'll give up meat."
"Well that's all good for you," Heero said, "It probably isn't that hard to be a vegetarian."
Trowa rolled his eyes and, throwing his hands up in mock defeat, announced, "I'll give up pop tarts."
The house shook as everyone fell off his or her chair at once, Quatre dropped his coffee cup and Wu Fei's plate hit the stool next to his chair.
"Well," Clare said, making an amazingly quick recovery, "If you think you can do it. Heero, Duo, what about you?"
"Count me out," Duo said, picking himself up off the floor.
"Me too," Heero followed suit.
The Next Saturday - 11:00 am
Quatre and Yoshiko sat opposite one another at the table. Yoshiko clasped a coffee cup between her hands and Quatre held a box of sugar cookies.
Yoshiko took a long, loud sip from her coffee, "Mmm. CAFFIENE."
Quatre glared at her, then taking a bite from a cookie, he shot back, "Mmm. SUGAR."
Yoshiko growled in response.
Wu Fei, sitting off to one side, laughed at them. At that moment, Duo walked in with a cheeseburger.
"Mmm. Meat," he mumbled through a mouthful.
Wu Fei gave a yelp like a wounded animal and leapt across the table at Duo. He chased his friend out of the room. A wail of 'MEEAAT' echoed through the house.
Yoshiko and Quatre watched them for awhile, then turned back to face one another.
"Why would someone go crazy over something like that?" Yoshiko shook her head; "We're finishing tomorrow at noon anyway."
"Yeah, I know," Quatre rolled his eyes.
Yoshiko took a long sip of coffee, "Mmm. Caffeine."
"Gr... Mmm. Sugar."
. . .
Saturday - 11:00 pm
"Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine... (etc.)" echoed through the house as Yoshiko skipped around the kitchen, clutching a mug of coffee, while vibrating so hard the floor shook.
"Sugar!!!!" Quatre sang out, bounding around, eating cookies from the box.
Trowa and Duo watched from the doorway.
"Just how much have they had?" Duo asked, his eyes wide.
Trowa looked meaningfully at the corners beside Quatre and Yoshiko's chairs.
Beside Yoshiko's spot was a pile, about five feet high and six feet across, of large, empty coffee cans. Next to Quatre was a similar pile made up of empty cookie boxes.
"Oh boy," Duo sighed and took a large bite of hot dog. Wu Fei ran up behind him.
"MEEAAT!!!!"
Sunday - 12:00 am
"Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine..." BOOM "Ow..." SLAM.
Yoshiko sat outside rubbing her head where Heero had hit her with War and Peace. She shrugged, "Caffeine, caffeine, caffeine, caffeine... (etc.)"
Sunday - 11:00 am
Yoshiko was finally let back inside by Clare, Relena and Hilde, who had come over earlier that morning. She had been awake all night. Now she slept on the couch in the living room.
Sunday 1:00 pm
Yoshiko woke up and glanced at her watch. Grinning mischievously, she shuffled into the kitchen and grabbed the only remaining cookie tin.
Trowa found her a little while later, hunched up in a corner, eating cookies.
"Can I have one?" He asked.
"NO!!! MYYY COOKIES!!!" She growled at him and grabbed the tin protectively.
"Okay..."
Sunday - 3:00 pm
The guys were in the basement playing cards to escape the combined bitchiness of Yoshiko and Relena.
"I'm tired of this game."
"Ya wanna play strip poker?"
"What?!?"
"Only down to our boxers."
"Okay, why not."
LATER
"Ya know, it's kinda cold down here..."
"We could play... 'Dress up poker'."
"What's that?"
"Whenever you win, you get to put on an article of clothing."
"Okay."
LATER STILL
"Guys? Can I get dressed too? Please..."
"Duo, the rules state that you can't get dressed until you win at least one round."
"It's not my fault that I'm bad at poker."
"Go ahead."
"Thanks."
Soon after Duo was dressed, Clare poked her head in the door.
"She's asleep," She told them, referring to Yoshiko, "and Relena's upstairs somewhere with Hilde."
Once upstairs, Duo, Trowa and Heero collapsed in the living room. Wu Fei joined them, clutching a roast beef sandwich.
"I'm glad that's over," Duo sighed.
Then, from the kitchen came, "Caffeine, caffeine... etc..."
"Not Quatre, now," Heero rolled his eyes.
"Well," Trowa said, "Because I actually stayed SANE for this, I think I DESERVE a Pop Tart." He walked into the kitchen.
Heero leaned over to Duo, "D'you think I should tell him that I ate the last Pop Tart for breakfast?" He whispered.
But before Duo could reply, an anguished cry echoed from the kitchen.
"POP TARTS!!!!!"
That was much funnier than the previous one, if I do say so myself. Don't know when the next one is coming, as this is just my spare time thing, but we'll all be looking forward to it.