"Dang it," Reed said, sitting at his study. He looked at the files and papers in front of him and frowned. "Now what does this thing supposed to mean? Wait... I already did this yesterday! Jeez..."
"Having an off day, huh?" Johnny asked, jumping in. Reed sighed and put his head in his hands.
"Johnny, not now, please," he begged, not bothering to even turn around. "I've been really busy since..."
"Uh, yesterday?" Johnny asked, even though he knew what Reed was about to say. The fight, after all, was yesterday.
"Yeah, sure, yesterday," Reed mumbled under his breath.
"So...," Johnny said, starting to whistle. Reed frowned again and turned his chair around so that he was facing Johnny. Reed glared at him.
"I'm not in the mood, if you can tell," Reed said.
"Well, yeah, of course I can tell," Johnny said, crossing his arms. "Just yourfacial expressionis telling me to 'fuck off'. I wonder what your words and actions are going to tell me..." Reed sighed, knowing that he couldn't beat Johnny even if he tried. Johnny was just too stubborn, Reed realized. Sue was right, he thought. Then he paused.
Sue.
He frowned again. Reed didn't know if she was still mad at him, and he didn't even know if he was still mad at her.
"Hello?" Johnny said, waving a hand in front of Reed's face. "W-Why are you looking at me like that?"
"Huh? Oh. Sorry," Reed said, shaking his head. He turned his chair back around and started to work again. Johnny frowned and started to think.
"You're pretty mad still, huh?" Johnny asked quietly, getting a chair and putting it next to Reed's. He sat down on it backwards, so that his arms were resting on the back. Reed stopped writing once Johnny had finished that sentence. He faced Johnny with narrowed eyes.
"Why would you want to know the answer to that question...?" Reed asked, crossing his arms.
"Um...because I want to," Johnny said, cracking a smile. Reed rolled his eyes. Once Johnny said the annoyed expression on Reed's face, he put his arms out and said, "No, no, I'm just, ya know, lightening up the...conversation." Pause. "Kind of."
"Alrighty then...," Reed said, getting back to his work. "I'm serious, Johnny. I'm just not in the mood. If you don't leave, I swear, I will just drag you to that door and slam it behind you. And you know what's best of all? I can do that and write at the same time." He gave Johnny the same smile that Johnny gave him.
"Oh, now you're just mocking me," Johnny said, frowning. "At least I can do something you can't." Johnny snapped his fingers and a flame appeared. Reed looked at him as if he were crazy.
"There are two sides of you, Johnny. Do you know that? A mature man, and a two year old, which I am now talking to," Reed said. "Oh, and you know something else? I can do something you can't do, too." Reed stretched out his left arm, pushing the chair Johnny was sitting in, and pushed it far enough so he was sitting outside of Reed's room. Reed quickly shut the door and locked it. Johnny sighed and sat there for a moment, his head in his hands.
"Johnny?" a voice called. Johnny quickly turned around and found Sue staring at him the same way Reed was staring at him a moment earlier. "...What are you doing?"
"Just, ya know, sitting around," Johnny said, grinning. He stood up and pulled the chair to the side of the door, so it was lined up against the wall.
"Um...Ben told me what you two were trying to do," Sue said, fumbling with her fingers. Johnny's eyes widened, as he took a step back. She looked up at him and smiled. "Thanks."
"...You're not mad?" Johnny asked, cocking an eyebrow. "How are you not mad?"
"He said that you two were trying to make everything okay between me and Reed again," she informed him, smiling. She walked into her room and shut the door silently behind him. Johnny growled as he clenched his fists. He suddenly had the urge to kill Ben. He was so mad, that he suddenly blast into flames.
"Johnny!" he heard Reed call from inside his room. "No fire inside the building!"
"It was an...!" Johnny started. Then he sighed and shook his head. "Never mind." He looked at Ben's door and smirked, trying not to burst into flames again. He walked up to it slowly and knocked on it as hard as he could. When Ben opened the door and saw that it was Johnny, he started to close the door. Johnny stopped him by putting hand on the door.
"Sue told me that you told her that we were trying to get those two back together," Johnny said, raising an eyebrow. Ben smiled sheepishly after a long pause.
"Yeah, so I did. I was, uh, trying to 'brighten up' up conversation by...lying," Ben said, confusing himself, Johnny chuckled in disbelief.
"No, no, no," Johnny said, frowning. "You weretrying to win."
"Johnny, it's a bet for God's sake! What do you expect me to do! Use my freaking powers to cheat?" Ben asked. He immediately regretted what blurted out of his mouth. He shook his head and sighed. "Don't even think about it, Hot-Shot."
"Hmm...," Johnny said to himself, thinking. He looked up at Ben and smiled. "Thanks, Big Guy." He patted Ben on the shoulder and walked away to his room. Inside, he sat down on his bed and began to think. 'Use my freaking powers to cheat?' he thought over and over again in his head. A sly smile crept on his face as he walked up and closed the door to his room.
"It's not my powers that I'll use," Johnny said aloud. "No, no, no, Ben. It's my stubborness I'll use."
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Author's Note: What is Johnny going to do:o Heh. Well, the next chapter will be up soon!
