Disclaimer: OK I'm back. Damn no one gave me any ideas. I need to stall until Thursday (in their world not in ours) from there I should be fine. Also thanks for trying Ygosmstp but I have different plans for her, but at least you tried to help me out ;). Oh I almost forgot to say I don't own Megaman.
Chapter 7:
Suspicions
Chaud yawned as he got up for another week of school. Even after sleeping in later then what he was used to he was still extremely tired. He had spent the entire day before watching "Dr. Hikari" from the shadows. He hadn't told Lan yet but he was starting to suspect Dr. Hikari had something to do with the events of that Saturday. After the battle when he found the dimensional area generator (btw way thanks Ri2 for telling me it's dimensional area) in Dr. Hikari's office he attempted to have Protoman check SciLab's back up security tapes to see what Lan's "father" had been doing that day but it appeared that the camera in his room was conveniently malfunctioning that day.
"Lan, Mayl is here!" Mrs. Hikari yelled up the stare bringing back a half asleep Chaud.
"OK mom just a minute!" Chaud yelled in reply as he slid a blue shirt over his head then grabbed for Lan's orange vest. He walked down the stairs making Mayl avert her eyes, 'I bet she's still embarrassed about Saturday,' Chaud thought as he descended the steps.
"Hey Lan wow this is the second time in a row that you've been awake," Mayl chuckled in her attempt to make small talk and break the awkward silence between them.
"Yeah crazy huh," Chaud replied while avoiding her gaze as Lan's mother went into the kitchen.
"So," Mayl said with her hand rubbing the back of her neck as she stared at the space above "Lan's" head. "I guess we should get going."
"I guess we should," Chaud quietly replied.
"Oh honey you're leaving without breakfast, here take some toast," Haruka told "her son" as she handed him the buttered breakfast and kissed a now embarrassed "Lan" on the forehead.
"Thanks see you later," Chaud said while he grabbed toast then rushed out the door after scooping up Lan's backpack.
The two walked together in silence for three or four blocks before Mayl finally turned to her spiky haired friend, "Lan about Saturday, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to do what I did, I, I, I don't even know what came over me," Mayl started then turned her head, "it's just… it's just…oh never mind. It's stupid."
"Come on tell me," Chaud smiled trying to comfort the red headed girl walking next to him.
"Well the thing is I thought, well… I thought that on the slight chance this really was the end of the world I didn't want to die without my first kiss," Mayl said as her face turned bright red and her eyes started to glisten, "I'm sorry if I led you on and now I wish I'd never done it because I hate this awkward silence between us, and I just want things to go back to normal."
'Can Lan really be that stupid? Wait a minute I had a test to day, Lan's gonna kill my average,' Chaud thought for a moment before Mayl wrapped her arms around him and her tears soon stained Lan's shirt as she cried into his shoulder, "It's ok Mayl, please don't cry," Chaud told her in an attempt to comfort her.
"No it's not, I feel like such an idiot," she replied taking her head off Lan's (no "" since it is Lan's) shoulder then looked him in the eyes.
"Listen to me you're not, you're…" Chaud started but found himself leaning over and pressing his lip's against Mayl's as he put his hands on her lower back..
Meanwhile
"Dex you'd better hurry up and leave for school," the hefty boy's mother yelled up the stairs.
"I'm coming," Dex replied as he rushed down the stairs.
"Here dear don't forget your lunch," she said holding out a brown paper bag with his name written on it.
"Thanks mom," Dex replied, grabbing the bagged lunch and beginning to turn the door knob.
"Dex aren't you forgetting something," his mother smiled as she leaned forward.
"Mom this is so embarrassing, I'm not a little kid anymore," Dex blushed.
"Dexy it's perfectly normal for a young man such as yourself to kiss his mother goodbye," she said leaning over further.
"Do I have to?" Dex whined.
"You will not leave this house until I get a kiss on this cheek," she said while tapping on her left cheek.
"Hmpf fine," Dex said, wrinkling his nose as he quickly gave his mother a peck on the cheek then rushed out the door, "Bye mom gotta go," he loudly stated then began walking down the front steps. As he reached the bottom step he aw something that would forever be etched in his memory. "Lan, Mayl what the heck are you doing?"
"Dex we can explain," a shocked Mayl said after pushing herself away from "Lan".
"Save it. It's obvious what's going on. You two have been going out in secret behind everyone's back, I bet that's why you guy's left on Friday too so you could be alone to make out," Dex said in a disgusted tone of voice.
"Dex that's not…" Chaud started but was cut off by Lan's pudgy friend, or possibly now ex-friend.
"Stop making excuses I can't believe you two," Dex yelled then stormed off down the street.
"Let's let him calm down for the next few days," she whispered to "Lan".
"Good idea," Chaud whispered back even though he preferred not talking to the loud-mouthed oaf.
"So, um… wanna pick up where we left off," Mayl blushed as a smirk spread over "Lan's" face.
That Afternoon
"Man Protoman, how in the world does Chaud do it. I hope seventh grade doesn't end up like this in public school, these tests are really hard," Lan complained into the red PET that was in his hand.
"Really Chaud's never complained, what kind of questions were there?" Protoman queried.
:"Well there was this one it was something like : if 3x0 what does x equal?" Lan told the white haired navi.
"Lan, that was the question?" Protoman said with a confused look on his face.
"I know hard isn't it? What's the point anyway? Like will ever come in handy in the real world," Lan answered cockily.
"I see you won't be working the cash register in your job at McDonald's after you finish school," Protoman mumbled.
"Did you say something Protoman?" Lan asked the navi.
"Oh, it was nothing, hey I've got an idea, why don't you contact Chaud and ask him if he knows the answer to you're problem," Protoman suggested as a way of changing the subject.
"Good idea Protoman, call him for me," the boy requested. A few minutes later Lan's face appeared on the screen.
""Uh... hey 'Chaud'. What's up?" Chaud asked nervously.
"'Lan' are you ok, you seem jumpy," Lan asked as he stared baffled at the screen.
"Of course I am, what would possibly be going on, I've got nothing to hide," Chaud replied in a twitchy way.
"Um, ok. Anyway I was just wondering, if 3x0 then what does x equal?" Lan asked his friend.
"What? That's why you called," Chaud said with a horrified look on his face, 'Oh no my future is over.'
"I see you can't figure it out either, sorry for disturbing you see you later," Lan said then ended the transmission, "Protoman, I think Chaud's hiding something from me, do me a favor and go ask Megaman what he knows."
"You've got it," the red net navi said then disappeared from his PET.
Back at the Hikari Residence
Dr. Regal was in the middle of one of his favorite soap operas when the phone started to ring, "I've got it," Regal yelled to Haruka then picked up the receiver, "Hello?"
"Dr. Regal it's Yami, when are we putting the final phase of the plan into action?" The scientist eagerly asked.
"In a few days, let's wait till things cool down a bit. Oh by the way," Regal informed him.
"Yes Dr. Regal?" Dr. Yami asked.
"Never call me on this line again," Dr. Regal said then slammed the receiver back into its holder.
OK finally done. I hope you liked it. Unfortunately I actually am all out of ideas. For the last few chapters I always had at least an idea of information to reveal somehow but now I have nothing. If someone doesn't give me an idea or at least tell me something I should reveal I'm going to have to skip over a few days and next chapter will probably be the last episode, or possibly the second to last, it depends on how long it ends up being. Anyway as usual R&R.