Summary: Kit tells Nita something (heehee) and she freaks out. Then they are forced to go together on a mission against the Lone Power. Gasp! Dairine must go along; as well...the plot thickens! Tom and Carl also decided that Carmela could be of some help, so fixed up the Rodriguez's phone so they can communicate through that and the manual. Oh dear. I am evil. Well, this shouldn't be terrible, there will be a real plot, I promise. This first chapter is pretty uneventful, except for Kit telling Nita that something. Look forward to about chapter three for the mission to come in. Enjoy!
CHAPTER ONE
"Callahan's," Dairine Callahan answered the phone.
"Hey, runt. Get Nita for me, will ya?" said Kit Rodriguez over the phone.
"Sure," answered Dairine. Then she called into the house, "NITA! YOUR BOYFRIEND'S ON THE PHONE!"
Nita thundered down the stairs. "He's not my boyfriend!" she shouted to her sister.
Dairine handed her the phone, and smiling broadly whispered "Is!" in her sisters ear before going upstairs.
"Sorry about that, Kit." Nita said into the phone.
"No problem. Hey, wanna go to the moon?"
"Sure! Be over soon?"
"Yeah, in five minutes. I'll walk."
"OK, Kit, see ya then."
"See ya then."
Where ya goin'? asked Ponch.
"Over to Nita's." said Kit.
Are you gonna tell her you love her, finally? demanded the dog.
"He better!" interjected Carmela, walking in from the kitchen. "Lord knows he's kept it secret long enough!"
"Yes, I will, and the only reason I am telling you this is because I want peace, which I know I won't get without telling the pair of you!" He walked out the door, ignoring Carmela's scowling and ruffling Ponch's ears in apology.
Ha. said Ponch when Kit had left. He likes me better.
At this, Carmela threw her hands in frustration and walked back into the kitchen.
Kit had known that he loved Nita for some time now. According to Carmela, she had known longer, but "hadn't gotten around" to telling him. She was also sure that Nita loved him. Some of the time he was sure, too. Sometimes when he went over to Nita's house, Nita would be staring out the window, and when he walked in, her whole face would light up. Then she would make one of her usual sarcastic comments, and he would be almost certain that there was no way she would ever like him. He was walking as quickly as he could so he wouldn't chicken out on the way to Nita's. He had tried to tell her before, and hadn't, and was determined to tell her now.
"When's Kit coming over?" asked Dairine.
"Why do you think he's coming over?" responded Nita.
"When are you going over there, then?"
"Why do you think I'm going over?"
"Because whenever Kit calls or you call Kit, you two meet somewhere. And you haven't heard from Tom and Carl in a while, so I'm ruling out you both meeting there. And anyway, if you were heading to Tom and Carl's, you would have told me."
Nita hated her sister's accurate reasoning, and told her so, along with the fact that Kit would be over shortly.
"Betcha he'll tell you he likes you."
"No, he won't," said Nita. "Know why? He doesn't like me like that."
"Don't be silly. And would it be possible that I detect a hint of sadness in that declaration? Would it be possible that you like him?"
"You detect nothing of the sort. And you know I don't like him."
Dairine wasn't paying any attention. Instead, she was singing under her breath, "Kit and Nita, sitting in a tree..."
Nita threw a pillow at her and went to answer the door. It was screaming "Answer me, answer me now, someone's outside, GET IT how would you like to be closed all day and then have someone bang on you out of the blue, OPEN ME UP NOW!!!" as a result of Dairine's frequent talking to it. She had taught it the finer arts of arguing, complaining, and shouting. It took to them all too well.
"Hey, Kit." she said.
"Neets, has your door always done that?"
"Nah, it started last week. You've been using the back door to come over, and Dairine hasn't gotten to talking to it yet."
Kit raised his eyebrows, and then followed Nita to the backyard.
They set the coordinates for the spell, double checked it and their names, and then said the words that would land them on the moon.
"I never get tired of this." Nita commented. "It's so beautiful."
"Yeah..." said Kit as they sat down. "Um, Nita..."
"Yes?" she said.
"Um...Nita, do you ever think that maybe..." he hesitated.
"Maybe what?" said Nita innocently. She really had no idea what was about to hit her.
"Maybe...we could...I don't know. Maybe...be more than friends." Kit spit the last sentence out quickly.
Nita froze, and her voice was hard, but more confused then unkind. "What." she said.
Oh crud, thought Kit. "Um. Well, um, I sort of...I love you."
"Oh." What in the world? He tells you he loves you, and you say, "Oh". What in the world is that? Say something, anything! She begged herself silently. But, nothing came out.
"Um. Yeah. Well...I think I do at least...but you know maybe I don't...I don't know...but yeah if you don't like me like that that's ok...um yeah we should go now, shouldn't we?"
She nodded, still in the state of mind that froze her mind and allowed her only rude one-word answers to possibly the most important statements in her life.
Their voices wobbly, she and Kit read the spell to take them back home, each in their private thoughts. When they popped back home, Nita stammered to Kit, "Um, well, I guess I'll see you in school, or whenever. Um, yeah, bye!" She ran into her house, panicked.
Kit walked home sadly. He tried not to wallow in self pity, but when you tell someone you love them and all they say is "oh", it's kind of hard not to. He walked into his house.
"What did you say what did she say what did you say what did she say???????" Carmela cried upon his entering the door. Then, seeing his face, she said, "Oh, no, you just went right out and told her you loved her, didn't you?"
"What? What, was that bad or something?"
"Kit, you are an idiot. Ok, for someone as clueless as you were two months ago, someone just out of the blue saying, 'Oh, yeah, I love you,' is a slight shock, believe it or not, Kit!"
"Well, you could have told me that!"
"I thought it was obvious!"
Kit walked up to his room, throwing a pillow at Carmela.
"Oh, God, what happened?" asked Dairine when Nita ran in the door.
"He told me he loved me." said Nita miserably.
"Oh. Gee, I hate it when guys I am totally in love with tell me that."
"I'm not totally in love with him! I'm not even barely in love with him!"
"Yeah, right. Anyway, what'd you do?"
"I freaked out. He asked me if I ever considered being something more than friends, I said 'What.' He told me he loved me, I said 'oh.'"
"Oh dear."
"Yeah, ya think? I'm gonna go up to my room." She walked up to her room.
Author's Note:
Hope you liked it! More will be added soon! Tell me if you have any ideas. And I'm still working on my Tuck Everlasting fic, just so you don't think I'm giving up on that if you're reading that. Again, enjoy, and there will be a plot! Hopefully a good one! lol