Chapter Ten

6:00 PM, Sunday Afternoon

"I told you not to eat it, didn't I?"

Kit, his face an unhealthy white, removed his head from the depths of the toilet bowl, wiping his mouth with a wad of toilet paper.

"It looked fine to me," he croaked, looking at the remnants of lunch floating in the toilet bowl.

"Kit, it was green. Carrots aren't supposed to be green."

"For all I knew, it could have been underripe…"

"If it was, it would have told you not to…"

The rest of her sentence was drowned out as Kit flushed the toilet and got up to wash his hands. Nita rolled her eyes at his back, reluctantly following him to the sink. She cautiously slipped an arm around his waist, being careful not to squeeze him too hard, and placed her head on his shoulder.

"I'm not as skilled with organics as you are," Kit sighed, peering into the mirror at Nita. "But I'm better with manmade stuff. Remember that time with your dad's sprinkler head? I told you not to use the Weld Matrix, but nooooo…"

Nita flushed and squeezed his stomach a little tighter, trying to hide her embarrassment. "Shut up, Kit…" she groaned. "Let it go already…"

Kit grinned and continued heedless. "…you ripped up the street when the water main blew… the cops thought it was a mine, you had the papers buzzing for at least a week, Neets… remember what Tom said after he saw your house on the front page of the paper?"

"Kit, shut upppppppppppppp…" Nita whined playfully, wrapping her other arm around him and pulling him close.

He turned in her arms and, gently, pulled her closer to him, feeling her burying her head in his neck. Kit sighed and placed his chin on top of her head, closing his eyes as he breathed in her familiar, comforting smell.

From somewhere under her auburn waves, Nita sighed. "No, I don't remember," she murmured. "What did he say?"

Kit grinned and began rubbing her back.

"We should listen to each other more often."

Nita coughed gently. "Yeah… pity you don't listen…"

Kit laughed and pulled her out of the bathroom.

A/N: Hey all… sorry I took forever to update…its been busy. Happy almost-200th YW story… and I'll try to update as soon as possible. Middle Earth Chaos's next chapter is almost done, it'll be up soon.

Thanks for being mucho patient all…

-vyper