A/N: Yes, yes, I know, I've been gone for quite a while. But this time I promie to ABSOLUTELY STICK WITH IT. I was completely downed and sadened when all my chapter files were deleted during a computer crash and have had a hard time re-writting and starting this over. Please, please, forgive me! Please read this as well. Without further adu--heres the chapter 4! PS: If you are now lost or dont remember anything, just go back and re-read the first 3 chapters...:)
That night, Bonita was to sleep on the couch. She didn't mind. She'd never even SLEPT before so she wouldn't have known anything better or worse. But she was awake. All the new thoughts and happenings were just racing throught her mind like shooting stars. It was very quiet, aside fom the rain that started to drizzle half an hour ago, but it wasn't anything heavy. Nothing to really pay attention to anyway. She had only been alive for a short while and already she had a wacky family. That older girl Nani seemed the scariest to her. Bonita smiled as she remembered that right when Nani walked in the door, she screamed
"Lilo! What have I told you about letting all these experiments in the house!"
But the funny thought soon turned bleak at the word 'experiment'
That was what she was wasn't she? A mere creation of imperfection. An experiment. Not an achievement...an experiment. Just then her thoughts were interupted by a someone making their way to the kitchen.
Bonita slipped out of her covers and tiptoed over to the opening pathway towards the kitchen to get a look see.
It was Jumba. He was rummaging through the fridge for a midnight snack. She was about to just go back to the couch when the urge to have her many questions answered overpowered her.
"Um..Jumba...?" She asked, slightly startling him, though he is easy to frighten.
"Huh..? Oh...628..aren't you supposed to be sleeping on couch in living room"
He asked, closing the fridge door with some food stuffs in his arms.
"Shouldn't you be asleep as well? And why don't you call me by my new name? Bonita...remember?"
Jumba ignored her question, and began to close the door to the fridge.
"62-ah...Bonita...is best for you to b getting your sleep, lack of sleep and nutrition can cause problems in system."
Bonita cocked her head to the side.
"Does that mean something will go wrong with my programming." Sha asked
"Ah...no" said Jumba. "Is same for humans, you have no programming." Jumba took a bite out of an already bitten into apple.
Bonita shook her head.
"But...didn't you try to give me any programming...what COULD I have done?"
Jumba re-opened the fridge, setting the now half-eaten apple inside it and grabbed the milk and guzzled half of it down. He set it back in the fridge, and wiped his mouth as he closed the fridgerator door once agin. He looked down at Bonia, thinking of what to say.
"I think experiment should be getting to bed now, no more questions."
"No!" Bonita stomped her foot and a roaring crack of thunder could be heard from outside and the rain shifted from a drizzle to a downpour. "I wont go to bed, Not until you tell me why I'm here!"
Jumba was taken back, he looked almost worried. Her sudden burst of emotion wasn't expected.
"Experiment 628, maybe you should come with me to lab, you're having emotional problems, I can have fixed within a few hours by-"
Bonita cut him off, her eyes grew wide.
"WHAT? You mean to tell me, you wanna CHANGE ME? Make me different from what I already am?"
"Only to be helping for the better" Jumba stated as caringly as possible.
"Thats what I am aren't I? A creature you can just willingly change around in any way you wish. I'm nothing more than what I was before I was ever created. I'll never be anything real, I'm just an experiment. Just an experiment..." Bonita began to tear up.
"628, you are being ridiculous, come, let me for to be helping you, just a tweak, and you will be back to normal and can be resuming life happily with Family."
628 took a few steps back, tears, now dripping to the floor. She shook her head back and forth.
"No...This isn't my family." 628 ran for the door and began to unlcok it.
"628, wait..." Jumba said, as Bonita swung the door open and rain reached the inside of the house.
"I have no family!" She left, leaving the door wide open.
Jumba slapped his hand on his face, Lilo came down stairs with Stitch and Angel and Nani. Lilo was rubbing her eyes and Angel was half asleep, Stitch had to hold her up.
"Whats all the commotion?" Nani asked, too tired to raise her voice.
"Jumba...what happened..." Lilo said sleepily
"Experiment 628...ran away" Jumba said, looking down at the floor.
"WHAT?" Everyone asked, now more awake than before.
Stitch ran over to close the door. Stitch locked it back. and ran back and stood next to Lilo.
"Why would she do that? I thought she was happy here." Lilo said sadly, looking over at Stitch for an answer, but Stitch just shrugged her shoulders.
"Well, the less mouths to feed, the better, I'm sure she'll find somewhere to stay, we don't need anymore xperiments in the house anyway"
Nani said, yawning, and walking back up stairs.
"I'm going back to bed..."
Angel was most upset about it. She pulled on her antenna. She shook her head.
"Naga! Naga supposed to happen!" She cried out in disbelief.
Stitch walked over and placed a paw on Angel's shoulder.
"It's okietakka. We got you back, we go find Bonita too. She will be ok. yah." Stitch's attempt to comfort Angel managed to work slightly, despite Stitch's terrible english. Angel shook her head and managed to smile.
"Come on guys, lets all get some rest, we'll talk about it in the morning." Lilo said as she yawned once again.
Everyone agreed, and started to go back up stairs, Angel looked back and whispered under her breath in Turian.
"Please be ok Bonita..."