Author's Note: I am back with a new chappie! Okay, now for a recap;

In the last chappie, Rueben hatched a crazy plan and Jamel did something to Lenny and Ronnie's pizza. In this chappie you'll find out the humorous and not-so-humorous consequences of Rueben and Jamel's actions.

Xdoggrealoded88- You want more, you got it. Thanks for giving me an idea… the idea of reporting about gun shots… you'll see how I used it… :)

Insane Pirate Dragon- Oh, it'll bring 'em 'closer' all right… (Hint, hint) :)

I got the idea of Rueben's plan from one of my favorite episodes from 'The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.'

On wit da story!

Chapter Seven: Dinner Fiascos

Eight 'o'clock sharp; the time Angie arrived at Finson's restaurant. She was wearing a nice pair of earrings for this night; it wasn't every day she could get into a fancy restaurant. Heck, she didn't know that she could get into a fancy restaurant!

"There she is!" Rueben whispered to Ernie and Bernie; though you couldn't tell it was Rueben, Ernie or Bernie.

This is because Rueben, Ernie, and Bernie were in disguise. Rueben was painted as a French Rock fish. Ernie and Bernie were painted as Mexican Sea Angels; the only thing that came close to resembling jellyfish. Of course, if Angie only saw them in paint, she'd recognize the three immediately. That's why they had to accessorize. Rueben had on shades and a beret while Ernie and Bernie had on sombreros and fake Spanish style mustaches.

"Let's go get her." Rueben whispered to Ernie, who nodded in agreement.

"What about me?" Bernie whispered.

"You know what to do, follow the plan." Ernie whispered back; and with that, Rueben and Ernie swam off in Angie's direction.

Scene Change

Lenny and Ronnie were waiting for their pizza, when the doorbell rang.

"That's the pizza!" Lenny said, as he swam to answer the door.

As Lenny opened the door, he wasn't surprised at all to see Jamel holding a pizza.

"Hey there Lenny." Jamel said with the usual grin he wore when he was up to something. "Surprised to see me?"

"Not at all." Lenny said with a smile. "I'll just take that pizza from you." He added, taking the pizza.

"Be careful," Jamel warned, "The cheese on that pizza is pretty… sticky. And it might lead to… sticky situations."

"What're you up to?" Lenny asked.

"What, can't a friend warn his friend about a pizza with sticky cheese?" Jamel said with his grin. "I've gotta go now; Mr. Jetty won't be pleased if I deliver all these pizzas late." And with that, Jamel swam off.

Lenny shook his head and swam into the ship with the pizza.

"I've got the pizza!" Lenny shouted, as he headed back into the living room. (Remember that they're eating in the living room on a couch.)

"Great!" Ronnie said. "Wanna watch a movie? My VCR isn't working, so we'll just have to catch a movie on Cox cable."

"All right with me." Lenny said. "So what's on?"

"Okay, let's see…" Ronnie said, turning on the TV. "There's 'Hide and Seek', 'Die another Day,' and 'Finding Nemo.'

"Hmm… how 'bout 'Hide and Seek?" Lenny suggested.

"Aww, really?" Ronnie said with fake disappointment. "I was looking forward to seeing Nemo."

Lenny laughed and said, "Oh don't worry, you could find him later."

"Well let's watch 'Hide and Seek' then!" Ronnie said, turning it to the scary movie channel. "And let's get some pizza!"

Ronnie opened up the pizza box and her face took on a look of surprise. "Umm… Lenny?"

"What?" Lenny asked. "Is the movie too scary or something?"

"No, it's not that…" Ronnie said. "Just… look at the pizza."

Lenny swam over to the open pizza box and stared in surprise. The pizza was heart shaped and the shrimparoni on it where all heart shaped too.

"It's heart shaped!" Lenny said.

"Yeah." Ronnie said. "Maybe it was made for somebody else. Maybe we got the wrong pizza."

'Yeah right. Jamel did this on purpose.' Lenny thought, but he decided to say, "Yeah, maybe it is… hey, I forgot to pay Jamel! And I forgot to lock to door!"

""Oh don't worry; I'll just leave the tip on the table in case he comes back." Ronnie said, placing the money on the table behind the couch. "Well, our pizza or not, I'm eating it." She added, reaching for a slice of pizza.

Lenny looked back at the door, thinking. 'Maybe I should lock it…' He went to go lock the door, but…

"Umm… Lenny?" He heard Ronnie say.

"What?" Lenny asked. "Did the movie start already."

"Yeah, but it's not that." Ronnie said. "I grabbed a pizza slice and now I'm… stuck."

"What?" Lenny asked. He glanced over in her direction and saw her fin on a slice of pizza still attached to the box; trying to pull away. How'd she get stuck like that?

Scene Change

'Where am I supposed to go?' Angie thought.

"Oh, mademoiselle, you look beautiful."

Angie turned around to see a fish and sea angel swimming towards her.

"Excuse me?" Angie asked.

"Oh, mademoiselle, forgive me for my… lack of introductions." Rueben said in a French accent. "I am… uh…"

"He is Jacques." Ernie said, noting his friend's trouble.

"And why did he just swim up to me?" Angie asked.

"Ah, you got a letter from a certain 'friend', did you not?" Rueben asked.

"Yes, I did!" Angie said in a surprised tone. "How'd you know?"

"Because, senorita, we're here to take you to your friend." Ernie said. "Or at least he is, anyway." He added, pointing to Bernie.

"Well thanks!" Angie said gratefully. "I was looking around for where to go!"

"There's just one catch." Rueben said. "You have to wear this (he pulled out a piece of cloth) blindfold."

"Your friend said he wanted it to be a surprise." Ernie added.

"Well okay." Angie said with a giggle.

"Here we go!" Rueben said, taking Angie to Bernie.

Meanwhile, Oscar was sitting at a table with a blindfold on.

'Why'd they have to blindfold me?' Oscar thought. 'It must be a very big surprise.'

Bernie and Angie had reached Oscar's table, and Bernie gave Angie instructions to sit down.

"Okay, now don't speak until after the directions; your voices might give you away." Bernie said. 'That and, if you recognize each other, you'll go away and the plan will fail.' He added in his mind.

"Okay, now n the count of three, I want you both to remove your blindfolds." Bernie said. "One… two… three!"

Angie and Oscar removed their blindfolds, and Bernie swam away, leaving them alone.

"Oscar?"

"Angie?"

The two were surprised to see each other.

"Ang…" Oscar began.

"Bye Oscar." Angie said, getting up to leave.

"Wait, Ang! There's somethin' I need to say… and this time, it's not excuses." Oscar said.

Angie sat back down and said, "I'm listening."

"Okay, I wanted to apologize for everything I did to you." Oscar said sincerely. "I know sorry just doesn't cut it, but… I have to try. I got you a chocolate bar. There weren't anymore chocolate gift packs, so I just got this." He added. Handing her a chocolate bar.

Angie took the bar and said, "So you're going to tell everyone the truth?"

"Erm…" Oscar said, scratching his neck.

Angie took the wrapper off the heart shaped chocolate bar…

'Is she still mad at me?' Oscar thought.

…and broke it in half before smashing it into pieces.

'Yep, she's still mad at me.' Oscar thought.

"You know what I just did to that candy bar?" Angie said angrily. "That's the same thing you did to my heart… and the same thing I'd do to you if there weren't so many witnesses."

Oscar sat there, shocked. 'What am I supposed to do?' he thought. His question seemed to be answered by a fish playing on a portable keyboard.

"Oscar you must take a chance." Rueben sang. "You've gotta bring your best friend back."

"Where there is love, I'll be there!" The three chorused.

"Give it a try-aye-aye…. Aye!" Rueben said off key, directly to Oscar.

"Is it me, or do those fish need singing lessons?" Oscar joked.

Angie wasn't laughing.

"Okay look… Ang…" Oscar said in a serious tone, "I'm sorry."

"Didn't you already say that?" Angie said. "And even you admitted that 'sorry' wasn't enough."

'Dang!' Oscar thought. 'What do I do now?'

"You got to know when to flow." The trio sang. "Know when to hold her. In other words, get your girl back!"

"You get the feeling that they're talking about us." Oscar said thoughtfully.

"Yeah, but they're mostly talking about you." Angie replied.

"Ang… what am I supposed to do?" Oscar asked.

"You know what you're supposed to do." Angie said, with her arms crossed.

"Listen to your heart! When he's calling for you!" The trio sang loud and off key. They were cut off by an angry fish.

"Shut up!" The angry fish shouted. He picked up his glass of champagne, and threw the drink on Rueben.

"Nooo!" Rueben shouted.

The ice cold champagne hit Rueben, melting off his costume.

"Rueben!" Oscar and Angie shouted.

Rueben floated before a puddle of paint, smiling nervously. "Hi."

Scene Change

"How'd you get stuck?" Lenny asked, trying to pull Ronnie away from the pizza.

"I don't know!" Ronnie said. "I just touched it and it stuck on me!"

"Well that's something you don't hear every day." Lenny commented.

"Just help me out here." Ronnie said, struggling to get her fin off the pizza.

"Maybe I should be trying to get your fin off the pizza." Lenny said, going over to Ronnie's fin.

Lenny grabbed Ronnie's fin and tried to pull it off the pizza, but it didn't work.

"Well that didn't work." Ronnie mumbled.

Lenny tried to take his fin off Ronnie's fin… but he was stuck!

"Uhh… Ronnie?"

"What?" Ronnie said excitedly. "Am I unstuck?"

"No." Lenny said. "I'm stuck too."

"You tried to get a slice of pizza?" Ronnie questioned.

"No… and it's not the pizza I'm stuck to."

Ronnie looked down at her fin and saw Lenny's fin stuck to hers.

"Umm…" Ronnie said. "Lemme try to get your fin unstuck."

Ronnie tried to get Lenny's fin off hers, but only succeeded in getting her other fin stuck.

"This is a problem." Ronnie said.

"Yeah," Lenny said, "What're we supposed to do now?"

A scream was heard.

"Ahhh!" the two sharks shouted. They tumbled onto the couch, still stuck together. After heavy breathing, they realized where the noise came from.

"It was just the movie." Lenny said.

"Well that was stupid." Ronnie muttered.

"Hey, you guys!" They heard Jamel's voice coming from the door. "I cam back 'cause I forgot my tip…" He stopped when he saw Lenny and Ronnie.

"All right Lenny!" He shouted with a grin.

Lenny wondered about what Jamel had said when he said that, and he found out soon. When Lenny and Ronnie had fallen on the couch, they switched positions, putting them into a very… compromising position. Ronnie was on top Lenny, fins around his neck, while Lenny was on the bottom, fins around her waist. Ronnie seemed to notice this too.

"Your tip's on the table." Ronnie growled.

"Looks like I'm not the only one getting 'tipped.'" Jamel said with a huge grin lighting up his face.

Lenny and Ronnie blushed and gave Jamel two death glares.

"Just take the tip." Ronnie growled.

"All right, I'll take the tip." Jamel said while taking the tip and swimming back towards the door. When he had gotten near the door, he stopped and said, (of course he still had that smile on his face) "Sorry if I interrupted or anything, but you should be glad I came now. I'd be shattered for life if I came four minutes later…"

His comment was ended with the remote thrown at his head.

"I'll go now." Jamel said, dashing out the door.

When Jamel was gone, Lenny commented, "I knew I should've locked the door."

"Too late for that now." Ronnie said. "But hey, at least it was Jamel. Though we'll never hear the end of this, it could've been someone else."

"Like my pops." Lenny said.

"What's so bad about your pops finding you like this?" Ronnie asked.

"Because, I remember, that when I was fourteen or somewhere near that age, he told me that if he ever caught me like this, he'd kill me." Lenny answered.

"I can believe that." Ronnie said with a laugh.

"Hey, the movie's over!" Lenny said.

"What's coming on next?" Ronnie asked.

"Finding Nemo." Lenny answered.

"Finding Nemo? I thought this was the scary movie channel!"

"It must be a TV. error on this channel, so they put on Finding Nemo."

"Could be."

The two looked at the TV, waiting for the movie to come on.

"Sooo…" Lenny began, "Since we'll be stuck like this for a while… you wanna talk?"

Scene Change

Rueben stared nervously at the fish who were staring at him.

"The jig is up." He whispered to Ernie and Bernie. "Let's get outta here!"

The three swam out the restaurant as if the devilfish himself was on their tail.

"I knew they seemed familiar." Angie said. Then she turned to Oscar. "Anything else you want to say? For example, why you're still keeping your lie even though you know it's making your friends sad?"

"Sorry Angie, but you're just not good enough for me to give up this lie yet…" Noticing the angry and hurt look on Angie's face, he quickly added, "Wait! I didn't mean it like that…!"

Angie cut him off. "You know, what that angry fish did to Rueben doesn't seem like a bad idea right now." She said angrily. She took her glass of champagne and poured it over Oscar's head.

As Oscar sat in his chair in shock, Angie swam out the restaurant crying.

Rueben swam in the alley, with Ernie and Bernie by his side.

"Your 'master plan' didn't work Rube." Ernie said.

"How was I supposed to know that that guy was going to melt my costume?" Rueben said. "He almost short circuited my keyboard." He added, patting his keyboard.

"Will you guys stop arguing and listen?" Bernie said.

"Listen to what?" Ernie and Rueben asked.

"Shhh!" Bernie shushed. "Listen!"

The three listened, and heard the sound of crying.

"Angie!" They all whispered. They saw Angie dash by the alley they were in in tears.

"I wonder what happened." Ernie said.

"Yeah." Bernie said. "Well sorry Rube, we've gotta go take this paint off. See ya tomorrow." And with that, Ernie and Bernie swam home.

Rueben decided to swim home too. When he got to his apartment, he was lost in his thoughts. 'There's gotta be something Oscar did to make Angie cry like that.' Rueben thought. 'I've never seen her cry before. I'm gonna figure out what he did to make her want to move away.'

Rueben swam into his apartment, climbing into his bed. He was tired; trying to get your friends back together is hard work. Just as he was about to go to sleep, another thing popped into his mind.

'Lenny! I've gotta get them back together or Angie's new boyfriend will keep them apart and they'll never speak to each other again!' With that last thought, Rueben drifted into a restless sleep.

Scene Change

"Okay, so when I was three, I visited my grandma in Puerto Rico. I remember that she had this big Victorian styled ship and a chandelier in her parlor. There was a big garden out in her backyard, and I'd always go out there to play in it."

"Wow, really?" Lenny asked.

"Yeah. Man, I miss being three." Ronnie said with a sigh.

Lenny and Ronnie were stuck together, and they had nothing else to do, so they just talked. They also watched Finding Nemo.

"How old are you now?" Lenny asked.

"Nineteen." Ronnie answered. "I'll be twenty two days after the end of the month."

"July second?" Lenny asked.

"Yeah." Ronnie said. "How old are you?"

"Twenty-one." Lenny said. "Not turning twenty-two 'till November."

"Cool." Ronnie said.

"So, do you have a job?" Lenny asked.

"Used to." Ronnie said. "I got fired."

"Why?" Asked Lenny.

"Well…" Ronnie began.

Flashback

Ronnie floated behind the camera crew, getting extremely annoyed. A news reporter named Teresa was talking about boring stuff.

"That's it." Ronnie said to herself. She went over to where Teresa was and snatched the microphone out of her hand.

"We interrupt this program for a special announcement!" Ronnie said. "Down in the ghetto, people are shootin' each other! They've got AK-47's and Saturday Night guns! For those of ya'll who don't know what Saturday Night guns are, it goes like this; Saturday Night guns are like Saturday night. You know when it's comin', but you can't stop it! People in that part of the ghetto are dodging bullets left and right! It's dangerous but, you have to admit, it's pretty badass.'

End Flashback

"After that, the boss fired me." Ronnie concluded.

"You did that?" Lenny asked in amusement. "Ha ha ha!"

"Yeah, I can laugh at it now, but back than, I was mad." Ronnie said.

"Yeah, there are a lot of things you can laugh at later on in life." Lenny said.

"Yeah." Ronnie said. "Ooh, wait! I like this part of the movie!"

The two turned towards the TV and saw the part of the movie with the sharks.

"This is my favorite part of the movie!" Lenny exclaimed.

"Yeah! Mine too!" Ronnie said. "It used to be a tie between the sharks and the turtle, but I chose the sharks."

"Yeah." Lenny said. Without thinking, he added, "You have beautiful eyes."

"What?" Ronnie asked, a look of confusion on her face. "Sorry, I wasn't listening."

"Oh! It was nothing important!" Lenny said quickly, a blush beginning to form on his face.

"Okay." Ronnie said with a shrug. Then, her face lighted up. "Hey Lenny! I think I know how to get us unstuck!"

"Really? How?" Lenny asked.

"Easy. I'll just take this knife that's on the table…" Ronnie began, picking up the knife.

"Umm, Ronnie?" Lenny asked nervously. "What're you gonna do with that knife?"

"You'll see." Ronnie said with a smile. She held the knife as if she was about to cut Lenny's stomach open.

Lenny was sweating nervously. What was she going to do with that knife.

"Now hold still." Ronnie said, about to let the knife touch Lenny's skin.

In less than a moment, Lenny slipped out from under Ronnie.

"Don't come anywhere near me with that knife." Lenny panted, backed up against the wall.

Ronnie smiled and put the knife down. "I told you I could get us un-stuck." She said.

Lenny stared at Ronnie with a confused look on his face. Then it was all beginning to come together. "So you mean…"

"Yep." Ronnie said with a smile.

"When you got the knife…"

"Uh-huh."

"You knew that…"

"That's right."

Lenny stared at Ronnie for a moment before saying, "You're single right?"

Ronnie laughed and said playfully, "No. And I don't think my boyfriend would appreciate that question."

"He doesn't have to know." Lenny said playfully.

Ronnie laughed and said, "Okay Casanova, let's just watch the movie. I don't wanna miss the turtle; I've already missed most of the part with the sharks."

So, the two sharks (a.k.a. lovebirds) went to watch the movie.

TBC…

Awwwww, isn't that sweet? What's gonna happen next? Will Lenny and Ronnie ever hook up? Will Angie still move out her apartment? Will Rueben find out about Oscar's secret? And what about Markie? What's he gonna do?

Only one way to find out, and that's to stay tuned for the next chappie!

R&R mates.

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