Disclaimer: I do not own Erik, Adult Swim, Waffle House, or Fullmetal Alchemist. If anyone knows the people who do, I wanna talk to 'em!
Hey! I want to thank all of you for the great reviews I've been getting! I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I was all in a fuss about Prom (it actually snowed the morning after) and I had to go to Nashville for a band festival. I did get a cool Inuyasha shirt and The Used's newest CD, which I luv! I'm definitely going to have to put some of their songs in this phic. Well, here's the adventure at Waffle House, which made me really hungry when I wrote it!
"How many?" A sleepy looking waitress asked.
"Two and no smoking," Erik replied.
It was 12:30 early Saturday morning at Waffle House. The only people there were the sleep deprived waitress, a cook reading Friday's newspaper, and a rather shifty looking truck driver. Christine and Erik made sure to be seated far away from him.
The waitress gave them laminated menus.
"What do you wanna drink?" she asked lazily.
"Christine, in need of caffeine, ordered a coke while Erik ordered coffee. The waitress yawned and went to fill the orders.
"Coffee? I've tried to drink it, but I like the smell much more than the taste," Christine said looking at her menu.
"You really have to acquire a taste for it," Erik replied as the waitress brought the drinks. She pulled out an order pad and smacked her gum as she pulled a pencil from behind her ear.
"What'll you have?" she asked.
"Well, I guess I'll have a waffle…" Christine said, shrugging "It is waffle house…"
"Just one, honey? You should have two…" The waitress said, uttering Christine's least favorite word used in the south.
"But the waffles here are huge!" Christine explained.
The waitress shrugged and asked Erik what he wanted.
"I'll be a coffee drinking rebel and get two waffles," Erik said smirking at Christine.
"You think you're so bad ass…" she said, sticking her tough out.
The waitress walked away as Christine took a sip of her coke. Like at most restaurants, it was flat.
"So…come here often?" she asked.
"Only when there aren't many people. I really don't like cigarette smoke."
Christine nodded. There was silence until Christine noticed the time.
"Oh! Adult Swim!" she exclaimed.
Christine got up and changed the TV from a rerun of the local news, much to the annoyance of the shifty truck driver, to Cartoon Network. It was on a commercial break. You know those cake commercials that come on late at night and make you mad when you crave cake but can't have it! Stupid Betty Crocker…
Anyway, Inuyasha came back on just as they were given their waffles. Erik looked at his.
"I'd forgotten how big they were…"
Christine laughed.
"Hah! So much for the coffee drinking rebel!"
She commenced cutting up her waffle and pouring syrup on it. Satisfied with her work, she stuffed a huge piece in her mouth. She looked up to see Erik staring at her.
"Wha!" she said, mouth over flowing with waffle.
Erik smiled and shook his head.
"Nothing! So, you like Adult Swim?"
Christine nodded vigorously and swallowed.
"Yes! The only problem is that I usually fall asleep during it!"
Christine laughed as Kagome told Inuyasha to "SIT!"
"I love Inuyasha," she said looking back at Erik, "have you seen any of the movies?"
Erik shook his head again as he took a bite of waffle.
"Well, I won't spoil it for you, but the second movie is so sweet!"
They both finished their waffles, Erik actually finished two, but they didn't feel like leaving. So, as not to get kicked out, they ordered several more drinks and toast and watched Super Milk Chan, Cowboy Bebop, and Futurama. Finally, Fullmetal Alchemist came on.
"Yay! My favorite!" Christine screamed.
She threw down her tenth piece of toast and ran over to the TV to turn up the volume. The other occupants, no one had left, looked up from whatever they were doing to watch her. The theme song came on.
READY STEADY CAN'T HOLD ME BACK
READY STEADY GIVE ME GOOD LUCK
READY STEADY NEVER LOOK BACK
LET'S GET STARTED READY STEADY GO
fukitonde yuku fukei korugaru you ni mae e
kurushi magure demo hyouteki wa mou minogasanai
ate ni naranai chizu yakute shimaeba ii sa
uzumoreta shinjitsu kono tenohira de tsukami torou
muchuu de (hayaku) kake nukete kita
urusai kurai ni harisake sou na kodou no takanari
hibite (yonde) iru kimi no koe
koko de tachidomaru you na jikan wa nai sa
READY STEADY GO
Christine enthusiastically ran around the restaurant dancing to the song. She didn't know what any of the Japanese lyrics meant, but oh well.
kazoe kirenai kizu kakae konde ite mo
chotto yasotto ja tamashi made wa ubawasenai
ano oka no mukou de kimi ni deaeta nara
nani kara hana sou sonna koto bakari omou yo
muchuu de (hayaku) kake nukete kita
urusai kurai ni harisake sou na kodou no takanari
hibite (yonde) iru kimi no koe
koko de tachidomaru you na jikan wa nai sa
READY STEADY GO
READY STEADY CAN'T HOLD ME BACK
READY STEADY GIVE ME GOOD LUCK
READY STEADY NEVER LOOK BACK
LET'S GET STARTED READY STEADY GO
kokoro wa (hashiru) ano sora no shita
karamawari suru kimochi ga sakebi dasu no o tomerarenai
kimi made (todoke) kitto ato sukoshi
atsuku hizashi ga terasu kono michi no mukou
READY STEADY GO
PLEASE. TRUST ME.
The song ended to Christine's dramatic flourish and then there was silence. All eyes were on Christine. She clapped her hands and skipped back over to her table to a laughing Erik.
"What?" she asked, taking a sip of her extremely flat coke.
"Nothing, it's just, the look on their faces!" he explained, laughing even harder.
Christine looked over at them. They looked at her warily. She shrugged.
"Whatever," she said," I may be a ditz, but I've spent too much of my life caring what other people think. So now I do what I want, even if that means people thinking I'm strange."
Erik nodded.
"Yeah…some people really care way too much about that. They forget to live in the process."
They watched Fullmetal Alchemist with the Bling it on! commercial during the break. Ghost in the Shell came on after that. Christine hummed along to the theme song and yawned.
"Oh my God!" she said, noticing the clock, "I've never been out this late before!"
Erik yawned too.
"I have…"
Christine looked questioningly at him.
"What about your dad?"
Erik gave a short laugh.
"Like he even notices when I'm there. No, my father and I don't exactly get along."
Christine looked at him sadly.
"I'm sorry…my mom and I don't get along that well either."
They sighed at the same time. Realizing what they did, they looked up and smiled at each other.
Christine yawned again.
"Well…as much as I'd love to stay and eat toast and drink flat coke with you, my contacts are really starting to burn…"
Erik nodded and asked for the checks. Not believing them at first, the waitress eyed them skeptically before handing them their separate checks. Christine looked at hers and laughed. One waffle, a coke with free refills, and ten orders of toast. She pulled out the money, leaving some change for a tip, and walked out to the parking lot with Erik.
"AHHH!" she screamed, "It's freezing!"
Erik laughed and pulled her close to him, wrapping his arms around her to keep her warm.
She blushed slightly and looked up at his face, gazing into his eyes.
'His beautiful grey eyes…'
He tilted her chin up with the tips of his fingers and brought her closer to him. She looked even deeper into his eyes, noticing every fleck of gold as he kissed her.
Awwww! Phluffy! I kinda screwed up the adult swim schedule. The schedule I wrote in this phic comes on Saturday nights, not Friday. Adult swim doesn't even come on Friday nights. Sorry! I wrote this on a rickety bus going to Nashville, half asleep, so just pretend it's all ok. Please review! Love and Peace! Kupo!