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After finishing his conversation with Libby Jimmy tossed the cell phone back to Cindy. He checked the map on his hover car to be sure that the auto-pilot was controlling the hover car correctly. "So," Jimmy began. "We'll hover over the ocean for a few hours, and then we'll have to fly about five hours until we get to Retroville. We'll quickly stop by Libby's window, grab our supplies, and then we'll head over to Eustace's house and take it from there."
"Sounds like a plan," Cindy said as she put down her book.
"Cindy, I could drop you off at Libby's house. You've done enough, really. I can handle Eustace on my own," Jimmy offered as he sat down next to her.
"Jimmy, do you really think I'm going to abandon you now, jut when things are starting to get good?" Cindy responded.
Jimmy knew better than to argue with her now. "Alright, we'll beat him together." Jimmy and Cindy sat there in complete silence for about ten minutes. Cindy was twirling her hair, and Jimmy was tapping his fingers on the floor. "Well, this is very awkward," Jimmy said.
"Why the heck did we leave so early anyway?" Cindy asked.
"I, uh, don't know," Jimmy replied. "No sense in turning back no, though."
They sat there for another few minutes, not knowing what to talk about. "So, what else did I say when I was under that hypno-beam?" Jimmy asked, fearing the worst. If he revealed the whole wetting the bed thing he must have revealed his darkest secrets, and there was definitely one that was darker than that.
"Oh, you just told me about your undying love towards me," Cindy responded.
"Well, that's interesting," Jimmy said in a high-pitched voice. He started tapping the floor twice as fast. "Well, we must be near Retroville by now," he said as he got up. Cindy grabbed his arm and pulled him back down.
"It's only been twenty minutes since you called Libby," Cindy reminded him.
Oh my god, another eight hours of this! Jimmy thought.
"I feel the same way about you, Jimmy," Cindy said as she stared at the ground.
"That's, um, good," Jimmy continued. "I gotta be honest, I have no idea what to do with this," Jimmy explained. "I mean, this is definitely not how I figured we'd get together.
"Really? Because this is exactly how I pictured it. Me and the guy I've liked half my life would be fleeing from the cops after he held me hostage at gunpoint. He would be wanted for murder, assault, and robbery among other things. I figured we'd be on some god damn island in the Indian Ocean, three thousand miles from home, I'd hypnotize him, and he'd rattle on for five minutes about how he loves me more than anything in the world after he told me that he wet the bed until he was six! It's every damn girl's freaking dream!" Cindy shouted. "Idiot," she mumbled.
"Um, ok then," Jimmy said as he moved a few inches away from her.
After a few minutes of silence Cindy spoke up. "God, I'm sorry Jimmy. It's just that none of this makes any sense."
"Cindy, it's ok. I know this is kind of awkward, but things will be better when we get back home and this adventure is over," he said as he put his arm around Cindy and kissed her forehead. God, I do I love her. He looked down and stared at her, glad that he know longer had to hide his feelings.
Cindy looked up at him and smiled. He smiled back. She pulled him towards her and gave him a quick kiss. "You're right Jimmy," she said as she snuggled into him.
They sat there for a few moments. Suddenly, Jimmy had an idea. "So what do you think about Bush's plan to drill for oil in Alaska? I think it's great, we'd be getting half a million more barrels of oil a day."
Cindy scowled up at him. "Are you insane? We'd be destroying one of the nation's, one of the world's last national preserves. You can't destroy mother earth just to get more oil for our SUVs," she retorted as she scowled back at him. Her expression changed when she saw Jimmy smile.
"True, but what about all of the machinery that we can use to help save people and animals?" he challenged her. Man, I could never have done this with Betty.
For the rest of the day Jimmy and Cindy ate lunch, listened to the radio, and had some light-hearted debates. Neither of them could help but smile, they finally had each other.