Chapter 4

Jimmy didn't know what was happening. Cindy, his rival, had just called him Jimmy and had defended him. He had to be dreaming. This all had to be a dream. He nodded his head. Yes, that is what it had to be.

He drove himself home since he wasn't allowed to drive beyond Retroville. He pulled into the driveway and saw his father out in the yard playing with his lawn ducks. Jimmy rolled his eyes. He loved his father, really he did, but he just so dumb. Sometimes he wasn't that his father was his father. Yet, he knew that he was and that was what was so confusing sometimes.

He got out of his car and walked over to his lab. He didn't really want to talk to his dad right now. He just wanted to think, to come up with some sort of explanation for what had happened. He pulled a hair out of his head and put it in front of the scanner. Within seconds he was in his lab, pacing.

Suddenly, Jimmy found himself on the floor and someone was on top of him.

"Ouch! Cindy that wasn't a great idea!" Libby cried.

"Oh my sweet little jungle queen are you okay?" Sheen asked.

"Oh I think I landed on my figurine llama," Carl mumbled.

"I think I killed Jimmy! Oh Jimmy are you okay?" Cindy asked as she turned him over. He looked up and saw her green eyes in a way that he had never seen them before. There was concern in them.

"How'd you get in here?" He asked her softly.

"Geeze Neutron, we've had to get into this lab many time without you. We know how to bypass the system," Cindy replied. Jimmy smiled.

"You called me Neutron," he said.

"Yeah so?" Cindy asked as she helped him sit up.

"It was just normal, that's all," Jimmy replied. Cindy looked down at her hands.

"Does everything have to be normal?" She mumbled.

"What?" Jimmy asked her. Cindy shook her head.

"Nothing. Hey we're going to have this picnic and stuff and I was wondering if um, you wanted to um, er.. I mean. . . Do you want to come with us. Forget us. Just me," Cindy stuttered.

Jimmy swallowed hard and ran his hand through his hair, which had been tamed down since his childhood.

"Are you asking me on a date?" Jimmy asked her softly.

"Yeah," she answered quickly.

"Okay. Yeah I'd love to go, Cindy," Jimmy said to her. Cindy smiled brightly and hugged him.

"Come on! Let's go!" She said, pulling him up off the ground and towards the exit of the lab. Jimmy smiled. Today had to be a dream.