Chapter 4

The next morning, Shego woke up with a headache, and was no longer affected by the "Lather Rinse and Obey" shampoo. She suddenly remembered the night before. Had she really sung on stage with Drakken? Her cheeks flushed with embarrassment.

'Ugggh, I must've had too much to drink at the karaoke bar last night. It must've been so many drinks, I don't remember drinking at all', thought Shego to herself.

She held her aching head and thought, 'I actually did have a lot of fun last night though. I normally hate karaoke.'

She thought about how she had enjoyed Drakken's singing. His singing voice normally annoyed her. But last night, she was entranced by his amazing music. She wondered how many drinks she must've had, to think that.

Suddenly, she remembered her violent breakup with Junior, and felt embarrassed. 'Oh well, he was a spoiled, idiot trophy-boy, and I never really liked him all that much anyway', she thought to herself.

She stepped into her shower, and washed her long raven black hair. As she scrubbed the shampoo onto her scalp, she fell under the effects of Drakken's mind-control shampoo again.

She walked downstairs and saw Drakken cooking some eggs for breakfast. She silently stood behind Drakken and watched him. He was humming to himself, as he flipped the eggs in the pan. As he stepped back, he bumped into Shego, and jumped in fear.

"Shego! How many times have I told you not to sneak up behind me like that, when I don't know you're here!", he shouted, "I swear, you're like a ninja or something!"

"Sorry, Dr. D. It will never happen again", said Shego obediently.

Drakken sat down and handed Shego a plate of eggs. As he was eating his breakfast he rubbed his neck in pain.

"I must've bent my neck in a weird way while I slept last night. It's killing me. Maybe it was from all that dancing around on stage last night. I hope it'll get better soon", said Drakken.

Shego got up and walked behind Drakken. She began softly massaging his neck. He smiled and relaxed in his chair.

"Ahhh, a little to the right", he said as he closed his eyes.

Shego ran her hands along his neck and back, giving Drakken a nice long massage. It reminded him of the time she had given him a massage while she was under the effects of the moodulator when it was set to "love" mode. Suddenly a thought crossed his mind. 'Could Shego be in love with me?' he thought to himself.

He knew that the way she had been acting lately was certainly odd. It was like she wanted to do anything to make him happy. Now she was giving him a back and neck massage. He turned his head and looked at her. She wasn't blushing or trying to look seductive. She just seemed to have a blank dull stare.

'She probably just wants a raise', he thought to himself, 'There's no way a beautiful woman like her would fall in love with a man who looks like me'.

Even when she was under the effects of the moodulator two years earlier, he had known there was something mentally wrong with her at that point. Even when he didn't yet know that it was the moodulator that was effecting her emotions, she had been acting too freakishly weird during that time for it to be real emotions of love. When he found out about the moodulator, it had all made sense to him. He knew Shego would never really love him, or even like him.

The same was true now. He knew she would never fall in love with him. But he wondered what it was she wanted so bad, that she would be acting so nice in order to get.

Suddenly the doorbell rang.