Author's Notes: I'm back! And I've gotten a new chappie! Before I get to the recognition, I just have to say something… (Tears come into author's eyes) I've gotten two comments that this is one of the best stories that someone has ever read… and I've gotten a new reviewer… (Cries waterfall style) You guys must really like me! (Sniffle)

Z Star The Hidden Dragon- Yay! New reviewer! Thanx for the comment! I feel sorry for Lenny and Oscar too. Yup, this story is sad and dark, but it has its heartwarming moments.:)

Insane Pirate Dragon- Yup, hit sharks. As for his first job involving Len's pop or Oscar… you guys seem to like that idea… I hope you're getting along well with your story too:)

The Crouching Tiger Shark- You think Lenny looks cute with his blue bandanna on? Hmm… (Writes this down in a notebook) Lenny's darker side is slowly giving in… and we all know what this means. Yup, Angie's going to be living with Ernie and Bernie. It sure will be interesting… mwahah. Thanx for the idea! Now I have something else to put in… and a title for this chappie. It sure is a twist… (Backs away from Crouching Tiger Shark) Your evil laugh scares me… and I hope you're getting along with your story too:)

Lav'O'Dolphin- Things sure are getting crazy! And with crazy things comes dark things. Thanx for the suggestion. You guys seem to like that idea. It would be a cool way for Oscar and Lenny to run into each other… not a good way, but a cool way… :)

MononokeShojo- I hope Lenny will be okay too. Thanx for the comment… and the kiss up… :)

In this chappie, things start to heat up… and today I got to touch a shark! But I know you're tired of my blabbing. So…
On wit da story!

Chapter Sixteen: Romantic Tension?

Angie had plopped herself on Rueben's couch. She was staying the night with him, due to the fact that her apartment had burned down.

"I've got the spaghetti!" Rueben said.

Angie watched as Rueben came out the kitchen carrying two plates of spaghetti. It smelled good, looked good, and it probably tasted good. It just came out of the oven, so Angie could see the steam carrying the aroma to her nose. Rueben handed her a plate, and sat down next to her on the couch. The news was on, and Katie Current was still talking about the fire that happened earlier on today. Angie just sat in silence and watched as the camera showed what was left of her apartment. Noticing the sad look in her eyes, Rueben said,

"Ugh. I thought she would've moved on to gossip by now."

Angie looked at Rueben and smiled. "Yeah." After pausing for a moment, Angie added, "Thanks."

"Thanks?" Rueben said with a puzzled look on his face. "Thanks for what?"

"For everything." Angie replied. "Thanks for taking me in. I mean, you didn't have to let me stay here tonight, but you did anyway."

"No prob, that's what friends do." Rueben said.

After looking up for a moment, Angie added with a smile, "Oh, and thanks for the spaghetti too."

Rueben laughed and said, "Once again, no prob."

Angie smiled for a second before saying, "Rueben? We're friends, right?"

"Right." Rueben replied.

"And friends give each other stuff, right?"

"Right…" Rueben replied, wondering where Angie was going with this.

"So, uh… do you think you could give me that last sprite remix in the fridge?" Angie asked hopefully.

"No." Rueben said. "Sorry Ang, you're my friend and all, but that sprite remix is mine. And just to prove my point…"

Rueben swam into the kitchen and Angie saw him open the refrigerator. Putting her now empty plate on the floor, it floated up. (It was a paper plate, the only type of plate Rueben could afford.) In less than a moment, Rueben came back holding a sprite remix bottle with his name on it.

"You see, this has my name on it." Rueben said. "And just to make sure you see it…"

Rueben began to swim over to Angie, while she rolled her eyes.

'He's so childish… wait… he can trip over that plate!' Angie thought. Sure enough, since it was floating, Rueben could trip over the plate.

"Rueben, watch out!"

But it was too late. Rueben had tripped over the plate, landing on Angie. Luckily, the sprite remix wasn't opened. Otherwise, that would've added to the situation they were in…

"Whoops!" Rueben said, blushing. "Sorry Ang."

"It's all right…" Angie said, blushing. She looked up at Rueben, who didn't move.

Rueben gently stroked her face, causing Angie to blush even more. Their eyes closed, and began to lean in towards each other…

SUNDAY, SUNDAY, SUNDAY! COME AND GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

Rueben fell off the couch (And Angie) and landed on the floor, searching for the remote. Rueben or Angie's fin had hit the up volume button on the remote, and somehow turned the channel from the news to a monster truck show. Rueben had found the remote, and fumbled around for the right button. He had finally been able to turn down to volume, and turned off the TV.

'Stupid TV… ruined the moment…' Rueben thought. He turned around and saw Angie sitting on the couch, a surprised expression on her face. Rueben mentally smacked his head. 'Oh snap! I forgot that she kind of liked Oscar! But then again, she doesn't like him anymore… but I've been her friend for a long time…' "Angie? Look, I'm sorry…"

"I think I'll turn in for the night. Thanks for the dinner." Angie said hurriedly, swimming into the guest bedroom.

Rueben noticed the way Angie wanted to swim away so quickly, and his eyes dropped. He had sort of liked Angie as more than a friend, but didn't let it get in the way of Angie's feelings for Oscar… and he certainly didn't tell her that he liked her…

'Aww man. What'd I get myself into now…?'

Scene Change

Beep! Beep! Beep!

An alarm clock went off, causing Lenny to groan. He rolled over and hit the alarm clock, making the alarm go off.

'Stupid alarm clock.' Lenny thought angrily. 'Who set it anyway?'

His question was answered by a note that seemed to just appear on the nightstand next to him. It was folded in half and on the front it had the words, 'C.J.'

Unfolding the note, Lenny began to read.

Hey Lenny,
I'm not here because I have to run this errand for Lamont. I'll probably be back in a couple of minutes, if the guy I'm after cooperates… they never do. Oh yeah, you don't want to leave the apartment. Lamont has his guys out looking for anyone who might want to leave, meaning you. Catch ya later.

Lenny balled up the note and threw it on the floor. 'Great!' He thought. 'I can't get out of being a hit shark, and I can't get out of this apartment! This sucks!'

"You don't look so happy."

Startled, Lenny jumped up slightly at the voice behind him.

"Relax, it's only me."

Lenny turned around and saw Carlotta floating in the room.

"How'd you know where I am?" Lenny questioned.

"My dad's the hit man boss. I know where everyone lives." Carlotta replied plainly.

"Oh, okay." Lenny said tensely. For some reason, Carlotta's presence was making him nervous. It was like something bad was going to happen…

"What's wrong?" Carlotta said, swimming very close to Lenny. "You look so tense. I don't know why you feel that way… it's only me."

"Uh… don't you think you're a little close here…?" Lenny began, but stopped midway. "Oh."

Carlotta was giving Lenny a massage. (Like the one Lola was giving Oscar in that scene at the penthouse.)

"C'mon, why're you so stressed?" Carlotta said. "You can tell me."

"Well, you know, I've never been a hit shark before…" Lenny began, but stopped. "Wait a minute… stop this!"

Lenny got out of Carlotta's massage, causing her to put on an angry look. Her angry look disappeared, however, when she thought of a scheme, and put her face in a fake sad face.

"What'd you do that for?" Carlotta said in a fake sad tone. "Don't you like me?" She turned her back and began to cry fake tears. Unfortunately, Lenny didn't notice this, and tried to make her stop crying.

"Aww, don't cry." Lenny said. "Of course I like you."

"You're just saying that." Carlotta said.

"No I'm not!" Lenny said. "I mean it! But then again… look, you're pretty and all but…"

"Oh! You called me pretty!" Carlotta said. It was only a few seconds later when she began to kiss him.

"Hey, what… mmmph!" Lenny's sounds of protest were silenced by the kiss. He pushed Carlotta off him, making her look very angry. "Stop that!"

"What'd you do that for?" Carlotta said angrily.

"What do you think I did that for, you crazy sharkess!" Lenny said.

"Crazy?" Carlotta said hotly. "You can't call me crazy! Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, but I don't care!" Lenny said. "Don't do that! We're only… well, I can't say friends, but we only know each other because your pops is the boss! If it hadn't been for that reason, I would've acted like I don't know you."

Carlotta's eyes narrowed. "You're gonna regret that comment."

Lenny scoffed. "Yeah right."

At that same moment, C.J. had just opened the door. He stared at Lenny and then looked at Carlotta. "Uh… am I interrupting something?"

Carlotta looked at C.J. and her angry face disappeared. Her expression took on an angelic look. "Of course not C.J." She said in a sugary sweet voice. "I was just talking to Lenny, you know, asking him how he was enjoying his stay. I was just about to go… bye fellas'." Carlotta swam out the door without another comment.

C.J. looked at Lenny. "She's quite the… angelic sharkess, huh?"

"Yeah right." Lenny said. "She's evil!"

"Hmm…" C.J. said, imitating one of those annoying shrinks, "I see that you have seen Carlotta's real personality. So, how does that make you feel?"

"Shut up." Lenny said, throwing a pillow at C.J.. (Who of course caught the pillow. Hit sharks have excellent reflexes.)

"Sorry, I had to say it." C.J. said, laughing. His face then took on a more serious expression. "But really, I wouldn't get on her bad side. Her dad's the boss, and anything she says about you is bad, especially considering how Lamont believes everything his 'little angel' says, including the lies."

"Thanks for the tip." Lenny said. 'I think I've already gotten on her bad side though…'

"No prob." C.J. said. "Oh yeah, Lamont wants you to stop by his office at nine. He has a job he wants to assign you."

"What's the job?" Lenny asked apprehensively. He didn't really want to kill someone.

"He didn't say." C.J. said. "And I didn't think it was my place to ask. Let me just tell you this much: you don't want to be late. It'll leave a bad impression, not to mention a couple of bruises on your face."

Lenny stared at C.J. before breaking out into laughter. "Ha, ha, ha! Good one C.J.! You really had me going there, talking about a couple of bruises on my face."

"I'm not joking." C.J. said seriously. "If you get there late, you'll leave with bruises on your face; complain about the bruises on your face and you'll get twice as much more bruises on your body."

Lenny gulped. He didn't know that they didn't cut rookies any slack. C.J. stared at the scared look on Lenny's face thoughtfully for a while and said,

"You know what? I know a place where you can take your mind off things and still be able to get to Lamont's office on time. C'mon!"

C.J. swam out the door and gestured for Lenny to follow. Lenny shrugged his shoulders and just went along. Anything was better than staying here under the watchful (and fierce… and scary…) eyes of Lamont's boys.

Scene Change

Angie swam into the whale wash, looking around. She had missed this place. She missed the bungee crabs jumping, the soap that would get into a whale's eye, the jokes that the employees would crack from time to time. But most of all, besides sitting behind her desk and answering phones, she missed Oscar. Yes, despite all the things that have happened, Angie missed Oscar. She missed the way he would always bring her Kelpie Kreme doughnuts, the way he would always somehow get out of trouble with Sykes, heck! She even missed punching his card in for him and the lame excuses he would make up for being late! She still hated him for what he did though…

Angie pushed the thought out of her head.

'I don't need anything like that ruining my day, or for that matter, ruining my chance to get the job back…'

Angie had gone to the Whale Wash to try and get her job back as a receptionist. She would have to be happy, confident, and good at answering phones. She had the good at answering phones part down; now all she had to do was achieve the happy and confident part down. It was kind of hard to do when your apartment just burned down and your friend's actions confused you. She and Rueben were avoiding each other since that incident; and whenever they would see each other, they'd just blush and swim away as far as possible. Not only was this bothering Angie, but she also doubted that she'd get her job back. Fortunately, this thought was erased by this one simple fact: She was better than Ernie and Bernie.

"Hey, you guys! It's Angie!"

Angie turned left and saw all the whale wash workers staring at her. She heard whispers of, "It's Angie," and, "Look, Angie's back." Smiling slightly, she waved and said, "Hi."

This made everyone swim over and hug her, nearly knocking her over in the process.

Angie laughed and said, "Whoa! What's all this?"

"What d'ya mean, 'what's all this?' You don't know how much we've missed you! I mean, sure, the work went on the same as always, but it's not the same without you." One of the turtles said.

"Plus," added a bungee crab, "We need you back. Ernie and Bernie have already caused less customers to come here." The bungee crab chuckled. "I know it sounds selfish of me to talk about customers when you've just come back, but hey. A brother's gotta get paid, ya know what I mean?"

Everybody laughed, including Angie. This was what she missed; the laughter. The whale wash crew was like one big happy family… exactly why Angie could relate her feeling to homesickness. The whale wash crew pretty much was her family.

"Hey you guys! Stop jokin' us!"

"Yeah, you're hurtin' our feelings!"

Everyone turned around and saw Ernie and Bernie.

"Hey, it's Angie!" Ernie said.

"We've missed you girl!" Bernie said.

"Gimme a hug!" Ernie said, swimming over to Angie. Bernie pulled him away and said,

"Ernie! Have you forgotten what happens every time we hug someone mon?"

"Oh yeah, that's right!" Ernie said, smacking his head. "Sorry Ang."

"That's okay." Angie said, mentally breathing a sigh of relief. She had never gotten stung by Ernie or Bernie… and she sure didn't want to. "Well, I guess I better go see if I can get the job back."

"Do you need us to go with you?" A fish asked. "You know, to back you up in case things get ugly?"

Angie laughed and said, "No, I don't think that's necessary. But just in case… make sure you whip out those matrix shades. It's always nice to have FBI wannabes in a time of danger." Everybody chuckled. Angie sighed and looked up at Sykes's office. "Well, wish me luck."

Angie swam up to Sykes's office while the workers went back to work. When she was outside the door, she took a deep breath.

'I hope this goes well…'

Mustering all the courage from her tail to her head, Angie knocked on Sykes's door. When she didn't hear an answer, she knocked on his door again, and this time heard an,

"It's open."

Angie opened the door and swam in. She saw that Sykes was on the phone with his mother, his back turned, and decided to just sit on the couch and wait. While Sykes was talking, Angie couldn't help but listen in to the conversation. It seemed like Sykes was talking to his mom, which didn't surprise Angie at all. Sykes was very close to his mom. In fact, he called her every day! (Special thanks to 'Shark Tale: The essential guide for this info.)

"Okay mom, sorry that I have to cut this conversation short, but I've got work to do." Sykes was saying. "All right, thanks for understanding. I love you too, buh-bye."

Angie had to stifle a laugh when Sykes said 'I love you too.' It was kind of amusing to hear him say that, especially to his mom.

"All right, so what are you here for…" Sykes began, but he trailed off when he saw that it was Angie. "Angie! It's you!"

"Surprised?" Angie asked with an amused face.

"No! I mean, yeah! I mean… I just thought that you were never coming back!" Sykes said.

"Well, here I am." Angie said.

"It's great to have you back! Now that you're here for your old job back, I can finally kick Ernie and Bernie off the receptionist job." Sykes said. "You are here for your receptionist job, right?"

"Of course I am!" Angie said with a smile. "I wouldn't know a better place to work here."

Sykes breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank God. So, you've got the job!"

"Great!" Angie said. "When can I start?"

"Right now." Sykes said, smiling at Angie's surprised face. "Of course, if you don't want to start today…"

"Are you crazy? Of course I want to start today! Thanks Mr. Sykes!" Angie said as she quickly swam out the door, filled with happiness and excitement. Everything had gone well.

As she began to swim to her chair, she heard Rueben calling for her.

"Hey Ang! Wait up!"

Angie saw Rueben swimming to her at full speed. When he finally caught up to her, he panted heavily.

"Ang… I've got… something important to tell you." Rueben said in between breaths.

"Well what is it?" Angie asked.

"I asked Ernie and Bernie if they would mind letting you live with them, and they said no!" Rueben said. "Isn't that great?"

"Yeah." Angie said.

"Oh and Ang?" Rueben said. "Listen, about last night… sorry. I didn't mean to do that. It was just…"

"The heat of the moment?" Angie finished for him.

'That plus the fact that I've liked you as more than a friend sometimes.' Rueben thought, but all he said was, "Yeah, that."

"Don't worry about it, accidents happen." Angie said. "Now if you'll excuse me, I've gotta get to work."

"Work?" Rueben questioned. "You mean Sykes already gave you your job back?"

"Yep." Angie said with a smile.

"Well that's good." Rueben said. "I was beginning to miss you around here…"

There was a long, awkward silence. Finally, Rueben said,

"I guess I better get back to work now. See ya later! Oh, and Ernie and Bernie will show you the way to their house after hours!"

Angie watched until Rueben disappeared into the whale's mouth. For some reason, she had a strange feeling whenever she was around him… but instead of thinking about it anymore, Angie just shrugged the feeling off and dismissed as a 'maybe I shouldn't have eaten those waffles.'

Scene Change

It was twilight. Two sharks were talking…

"I told you to ask for directions!" Lenny said.

"I know where we're going! Besides, it was only one wrong turn!" C.J. retorted.

"We were almost mugged by a gang of anglerfish!" Lenny said. "Hadn't it been for the fact that we're hit sharks, they probably would've taken everything on us!"

"It's a good thing we're hit sharks." C.J. said. That comment earned a glare from Lenny, causing C.J. to shrug and say, "What?"

"Nothing." Lenny sighed. "Just show me where you're taking me."

"We're already here." C.J. said with a smile.

Lenny and C.J. were floating in front of a tug ship. It was larger than most tugs, and instead of having regular doors, the doors were in the style of those old western saloon doors.

"Here we are." C.J. said. "The 'Tipsy Tug Tavern.'"

"It's a bar?" Lenny said in surprise.

"No, it's the 'Tipsy Tug Tavern.'" C.J. said. "The bar is farther away from here. Now c'mon."

Lenny and C.J. swam into the bar… Erm… 'Tipsy Tug Tavern' and looked around. There were no more tables; they were all filled up with hit sharks, hit barracudas, hit whales, hit anglerfish, hit… well, you get the point. They sure weren't going to sit next to anybody; C.J. could've gotten away with it, but since Lenny was new… it wouldn't work out.

"What're we supposed to do? There aren't any seats." Lenny whispered to C.J.

"I don't know. Maybe we should just…" C.J. began, but Lenny cut him off.

"Hey, I know! I'll just go and ask that sharkess over there!" Lenny said, swimming over to the sharkess that had her back turned. "Excuse me? Miss!"

"Lenny, no!" C.J. called after him, but it was too late.

Lenny was now behind the sharkess. "Excuse me miss, but my friend and I…" Before he could finish, Lenny found himself in a scary situation. The sharkess had him pinned up against the wall and held a switchblade to his throat.

The other sharks looked to see what was happening, thinking it was a fight, but went back to the usual when they realized that it was just a rookie who had messed with the wrong sharkess.

"Don't call me miss." The sharkess said, still holding the switchblade to Lenny's throat. Her dark, space purple eyes had a fire burning inside them.

"Yes miss! I mean ma'am!" Lenny said, his eyes filled with fear.

"Hey! Rhea! Go easy on him, he's with me!"

Rhea turned around and saw C.J. swimming over. She looked at Lenny one more time and lowered the switchblade.

"Sorry 'bout Lenny here." C.J. said. "He's new to the job, and doesn't really know how things go around here."

"That'll explain why he just waltzed up to me and called me 'miss.'" Rhea said.

"Huh…?" Lenny said in a confused tone, trying to grasp everything that was going on. "Okay! Who is she? And why did she try to slice my throat?"

"Oh, allow me to the introductions." C.J. said. "Lenny, this is Rhea. Rhea, this is Lenny."

"How's it goin'?" Rhea said.

"Pretty good, considering the fact that you just put a switchblade to my throat." Lenny replied.

"Sorry 'bout that." Rhea said with a grin. "Reflexes."

For the first time, Lenny noticed what Rhea looked like. She had dark, space purple eyes, had muscles, (not freakishly huge ones like some guys in the tavern had, but you could see that she was strong) and the one thing that Lenny noticed the most, was the purple bandanna around her neck.

"Hey, d'you work in the hit shark business?" Lenny asked.

"Wha… oh. The bandanna made you wonder, huh?" Rhea said. "Well, no, I'm not. I could've been, but Lamont wouldn't let me."

"Why not?" Lenny asked curiously. He knew that she could definitely be a hit shark if she wanted to.

"Because," Rhea growled, "Lamont said that it was a woman's place to be in the kitchen, and that I should leave the real work to the men. Sexist son of a…"

"What?" C.J. said, cutting Rhea off. "Now that's wrong! You could be a hit shark! Trust me, your target will just get one look at you and your blade, and he'll swim away screaming!"

"Yeah, that's true." Rhea said. A small smirk then appeared on her face. "But you know what? Even though it still makes me mad, I'm less mad than I used to be? Wanna know why? Because he's paying me for this bar!"

Lenny and C.J. laughed.

"You own this bar?" Lenny asked.

"No." Rhea said. "The guy who works here was sick, so I came in for him. I just work here."

"What do you do?" Lenny asked.

"You're quite the inquisitive one, aren't you?" Rhea said. "Well, I…" Rhea's explanation was cut off by the sound of two hit anglerfish arguing.

"Hey! You stole my beer!" One of them shouted.

"No I didn't!" The other one shouted.

"Yes you did! You're lying!" Anglerfish one said.

"You callin' me a liar?" Anglerfish two said, getting up from his seat.

"I just did!" Anglerfish one shouted. "And you know what? Yo mama is one too!"

Anglerfish two gasped angrily. "That's it! You're goin' down!"

Anglerfish two jumped on Anglerfish one and began to punch the crap out of him. Anglerfish one recovered and began to bite the crap out of Anglerfish one. Everyone except of Rhea, Lenny and C.J. crowded around the two fighting anglerfish and began to chant, "Fight, fight, fight!"

"Excuse me boys." Rhea said in an annoyed tone, rolling up invisible sleeves and swimming towards the fight. "I've got work to do."

Rhea swam through the crowd of chanting hit sharks, hit barracudas, blah, blah, blah… into the big fight cloud of fighting hit anglerfish. She broke them apart without as much as a scratch on her.

"All right! Break it up!" Rhea shouted.

"Hey lady! What'chu do that for? I was winning!" Anglerfish one said hotly.

"Don't call me 'lady.' I've got a name; use it." Rhea said angrily.

"Hey sweetheart, chill. We wouldn't want to hurt a pretty little thing like you…" Anglerfish two began, grabbing Rhea. He did the wrong thing.

Before Anglerfish two knew it, he had a switchblade to his throat. It was the same switchblade Rhea used on Lenny, only she put the blade closer to Anglerfish two's throat than to Lenny's throat.

"Listen you." Rhea hissed in a dangerous tone. "If you ever, EVER touch me again, I'll make sure that this blade right here touches you. You got that!"

Anglerfish one nodded his head slowly, not wanting to take the risk of being sliced by the blade.

"Oh, and one more thing." Rhea said. She pulled Anglerfish one closer to her. "Never call me sweetheart." She dropped Anglerfish one down to the floor and watched him swim away. She eyed the crowd around her. "Anybody else wanna test me?"

Everybody quickly swam back to their seats, and everything went back to normal, as if nothing had happened. Rhea swam back to C.J. and Lenny.

"Does that answer your question?" Rhea asked.

"It sure does." Lenny said. He suddenly remembered something. "Hey, what time is it?"

Rhea looked at the clock that was on the wall. "Eight fifty-seven. Why?"

"Eight fifty-seven? I've gotta get to Lamont's office!" Lenny said.

"I'll come with you." C.J. said. "Lamont said that he wanted me to come too."

"All right boys! Hey, when you come back from his office make sure you stop by to get a drink!" Rhea called out.

"All right, we will!" C.J. said.

So, C.J. and Lenny swam to Lamont's office to get Lenny's first job…

Scene Change

"Hey boss!" Tex the swordfish said. "Maybe they aren't coming! Maybe your new recruit was eating a burrito that was too big, and… oww!"

Ace had hit his partner. "Quiet stupid." He hissed.

"I'm not stupid!" Tex said.

"Yes you are." Ace said.

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"No I'm not."

"Yes you are."

"NO I'M NOT!"

"YES YOU ARE!"

"NO I'M NOT TIMES INFINITY!"

"Times infinity?" Ace commented. "That's an expression only little kids say! You are stupid!"

"Both of you, shut up!" Lamont snapped.

"Yes boss." Ace and Tex said.

At that same time, Lenny and C.J. had came into Lamont's office.

"So, you guys came." Lamont said. "And you're on time too."

"Yeah, C.J. here told me that you've got a job for me to do…?" Lenny said.

"Yes. Lenny, you're being assigned on your first job." Lamont said. "Seeing that you are only a rookie, you won't be able to kill people… yet."

'Thank God.' Lenny thought.

"Instead, your first job will be to deliver alcoholic drinks to Don Lino and the rest of the mafia." Lamont finished.

"What!" Lenny shouted. "I can't do that! I'm not doing that!"

"Remember who you're talking to." Lamont hissed. "And remember what I said. If you run away, my boys will kill you. This counts for not obeying what I say too. If you don't do as I say, I'll have Ace and Tex over here take care of you."

Lenny looked over at the two swordfish that were looking at him in an evil way. He flinched and turned away.

"So, what's it going to be?" Lamont said in a dangerously low tone.

Lenny looked at Lamont with a look of pure hatred. "I'll do the job."

"There's a good boy, I knew you'd see things my way." Lamont said with a smirk.

Lenny fought the urge to say something back. There was only one other shark that had said, 'that's a good boy to him'. That was Markie, and we all know how close and buddy-buddy he and Lenny were.

"When do I start the job?" Lenny growled.

"Tomorrow at eight 'o'clock. Come outside my ship and pick up the goods." Lamont said, smirking evilly. "You're dismissed."

C.J. and Lenny swam out the office and back to the apartment. On the way home, Lenny was thinking nervously.

'Great! Now what am I gonna do? I can't go back there! They'll notice me!'

Lenny had a lot on his mind. It was either do the job or get killed… and he couldn't swim away. Not this time. It looked like there was nothing he could do. However, as he swam into his apartment, there was one thought in his mind;

'If I see Oscar, I'm gonna kill him.'

TBC…

Rueben might have something going on with Angie? Angie's living with Ernie and Bernie? Carlotta's got a thing for Lenny? What's gonna happen next? Will Lino notice his son? Will Angie make it through life with Ernie and Bernie? Will Carlotta really get her revenge on Lenny? What about Lola? There's only one way to find out, and that's to stick around for the next chappie!

R&R pleez! New character profiles will appear soon.