Going Nowhere Chapter 2: Bugs in My Underwear.

Author's Note: Due to quite a few requests from this site and beyond, there is now a second chapter. The delay was due to me forgetting to check my e-mails. Although it is rather short, this chapter contains Arthur's reaction, Marvin's reaction and some kind of explanation as to where Ford and Trillian were. Note: Zaphod's heads are arranged book-style, which is side by side, not underneath each other like the movie (which sadly, I haven't seen yet!).

Marvin broke the silence. "Oh, God. You living creatures and your fetishes. Absolutely pathetic."

Arthur never noticed him come in. He was about to state this when Zaphod said something.

"Now hold me, Arthur!" Zaphod flopped into Arthur's arms dramatically.

Arthur didn't know what to do. It wasn't everyday that the former president of the galaxy said that they loved you and then flopped into your arms, after all.

Zaphod looked at him. "Aren't you going to say something?"

"Er…" Arthur blinked. And again. "I…"

"Yes?"

"I have…"

"Yes?"

"I have…" Arthur looked around for something to say. This proved pointless, as spoken words aren't exactly visible. "I have bugs in…"

"Yes?"

"My… Underwear…"

"In your underwear?"

"Yes." Arthur nodded vigorously. "I need to go." Arthur literally ran away, dropping Zaphod in the process.

He could hear Marvin in the distance. "Honestly, underwear just causes nothing but trouble…"

A few hours later, Arthur came out of the bathroom that he had locked himself in to find Zaphod writing all over himself.
"There you are! Took your time, didn't you? Well, I s'pose you can't rush some things." Zaphod said.

"What about Trillian? Doesn't she really like you?"

"I don't really know. She gets really pissed off at me sometimes. Isn't it ironic that you were chatting her up at that party on Earth and I take her? Now, I'm going to dump her for you? Just wild, that is!"

"Yeah, wild… So, you're really into me?" Asked Arthur.

"Obviously."

"Ok… I'm going to just lock myself in the bathroom again."

"Alright. I'll be waiting for you!"

Ford and Trillian walked in.

"What the hell…?" Ford exclaimed loudly.

Zaphod grinned at them. He had 'I LOVE' written on his left forehead and 'ARTHUR DENT' written across his right one. Obviously he had done it himself as the writing was backwards.

"Umm… We were… There were Vogon olives trying… to get us to… play cricket…" Trillian said, trying not to be distracted by the huge message written across Zaphod's heads.

"What the hell…?" Ford repeated.

"I think I'm going to give those olives a second round…" Said Trillian.

Author's note: How was it? It was actually quite hard to think of an excuse for Ford and Trillian being gone. The cover of my copy of HHGTTG (4 in 1) has inspired the olives playing cricket thing. It has a picture of olives flying through space and cricket stumps on the spine. Strange thing to have on a book but it did come in handy, I suppose! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and if you want more, tell me in a review because I might just add in a marriage scene for the next chapter (if there is one)!