Author's Note: i'm going to try to keep the chapters short like this one... so there is probably going to be lots of short chapters
"Oh my God" screamed Neela as she entered upon a site, she never thought she'd see. It was Ray. Playing the guitar. In his boxers.
"Oh, hey," acknowledge Ray as he finished the chord. He moseyed over to the kitchen and grabbed the milk carton out of the refrigerator.
"Ray, would you mind putting on a pair of pants over your underwear?" asked Neela attempting to look at him in the eyes, and not glance down to his black and white boxers.
"Why? We're roomies," said Ray with a smile before he had a gulp of milk from the milk carton. He shook the carton to realize that he had taken the last sip. "Hey, Dr. Jumbomart, we're out of milk."
"What am I, your mother? You can get the milk yourself." replied Neela, rather angry.
"Ok, now why are we so angry today?"
"Ray, just put a pair of pants on." said Neela. Ray cocked his head to the his, hinting to Neela that he knew that him going sans-pants was not what was bugging her. "Alright. If you care so much, I didn't have a great day today, and the last thing I wanted to see was you in your boxers." Neela walked over and slumped into the couch
Ray sighed, and followed her. "Well, I'm not really having a great day today either. Yeah, Susan gave me another speech about thinking whether medicine is the right job for me, and then the band got pissed because Susan's speech made me miss the practice. So what happened to you?" Neela readjusted her position as if to tell Ray that she wasn't about to tell him. "Ok... Well, whenever I have a bad day, I just let it out by playing the guitar in my boxers. Hence this little display you walked in on. You wanna give it a shot?"
"I don't play the guitar," whispered Neela coldly.
Ray leaned in closer to her, with concern. "Neela, what happened?"
She quietly, almost silently, whispered, "Nothing."
"Ok, that's it. Get up." commanded Ray.
"What?" asked Neela, utterly confused to his command.
'I'm not going to let you sit around the house and mope. We're going to go cheer you up." Said Ray with a smile that even Neela could hardly resist.
"Ray, I'm really not in the mood to –"
"Uh uh. Get up. I promise you, we are going to have fun." Neela gave him a look that clearly said she did not want to go. "Alright, if you go with me to this one place, I will go to someplace of your choice."
"Anyplace?" asked Neela, almost convinced.
"Anyplace your heart desires."
After a few seconds of consideration, Neela nodded her head, and Ray pulled her up. "So, what place are we going to first?" asked Neela, almost scared of what Ray had in store.
"It's a surprise"