Author's Notes: Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted a chapter! Hmm, anyway, we're currently working on the seventh chapter right now, but for now I'll give you the third chapter. n.n Enjoy.

Disclaimer: Marissa and I own NOTHING except for our characters, Cait Lin and Marissa.

Extra Characters for Episode Three:

Paula - Elyon (W.I.T.C.H.)

Alan - Kira (Gundam SEED)

Lizzie - Bess (N/A)

Episode Three: The One With The Thumb

(Pre-Scene: The Lounge, everyone but Irma is there.)

Irma walked in, waving to everyone. "Hi guys." she said.

"Hi! Hey Irmsi!" everyone said.

"Hey, oh, how'd it go?" Joe asked.

"Um, not so good. He walked me to the bus stop and said, 'We should do this again!'" Irma sighed.

"Ooh. Ouch." they all said.

"What?" Marissa asked. "He said, 'We should do it again'. That's good right?"

"Uh, not quite." Cait Lin answered. "Loosely translated: 'We should do it again' means 'You will never touch these lips.'"

Marissa looked puzzled. "Since when?"

"Since always," Duo answered. "It's like dating language. Like, 'it's not you' is 'It is you'."

"Or, 'You're such a nice guy' is 'I'm going to be dating a badboy with leather.'" InuYasha nodded.

"Or, or, y'know um, 'I think we should see other people' means 'Ha ha, I already am.'" Irma nodded.

"And everbody knows this?" Marissa asked.

"Yeah, cushions the blow." Duo nodded.

"Yeah, like when you were little, and your parents put your dog to sleep, and they say he went to go live at a farm." InuYasha said.

"That's funny, because, um." Joe paused. "Well, uh, our parents did send our dog away to live on a farm."

"Uh, Joe." Cait Lin rubbed her yellow-highlighted hair.

"What? Wh-hello? The Bunner's farm in Wisconsin? The bunner's farm was unbelievable, they had sheep, and bunnies that hopped around and . . . Oh my gosh, Indigo!"

(Scene: Inuyasha and Duo's)

"So how does it feel knowing you're about to die?" asked Inuyasha

"Warden, in five minutes my pain will be over. But you'll have to live with the knowledge that you sent an honest man to die." Duo acted.

"Hey, that was really good!" Inuyasha cheered

"Thanks! Let's keep going."

"Okay. "So. Whaddya want from me, Damone, huh?""

"I just wanna go back to my cell. 'Cause in my cell, I can smoke."

"Smoke away."

Duo took out a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. He fumbles and drops the lighter. Then he lights a cigarette, takes a drag, and coughs.

"I think this is probably why Damone smokes in his cell alone."

"What?"

"Relax your hand!"

Duo let his wrist go limp.

"Not so much!"

"Whoah!"

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"Alright, now try taking a puff." Inuyasha instructed.

Duo tried and visibly winced.

"Alright.. okay. No. Give it to me."

"No no no, I am not giving you a cigarette."

"It's fine, it's fine. Look, do you wanna get this part, or not? Here."

Duo reluctantly gived him the cigarette.

"Don't think of it as a cigarette. Think of it as the thing that's been missing from your hand. When you're holding it, you feel right. You feel complete."

"Y'miss it?"

"Nah, not so much. Alright, now we smoke." Inuyasha took a puff."Oh.. my.. God."

(Scene 2: The Lounge, everyone but Irma and Marissa are there.)

"No, no, no. They say it's the tip of a guys thumb to the tip of his index finger," Cait Lin said.

All the guys did that and shook their heads. "That's ridiculous." Duo said.

"Can I use . . . either thumb?" Joe asked.

Just then, Marissa came out from behind the counter carrying a tray of drinks. "Alright, don't tell, don't tell me!" she looked at the cups and then started to hand them out as she talked. "Hot chocolate with extra whipped cream, hot chocolate with low chocolate for Duo, and a iced tea . . . I'm getting pretty good at this!" she smiled happily.

"Yes," they all answered. "Excellent. Very good."

As Marissa left to serve other people, she said, "Good for me!"

When she was gone, they all swapped their drinks to get what they wanted, as Irma entered without saying hi. "You okay, Irma?" Duo asked.

"Yeah-no, it's just. Ugh, it's the school bank account." Irma sighed, blowing a curly strand of brown hair from her face.

"What did they do to you?" Cait Lin asked, concerned.

"It's nothing-it's just, okay, I'm going through my school mail box," Irma started. "and I find their monthly, you know, STATEMENT-"

"Easy." Joe commented.

"-and there's 500 extra dollars in my account."

"Holy crap, Satan's minions at work again. . ." InuYasha trailed off.

"Yeah, 'cause now I have to go down there and deal with them." she sighed.

"What's the matter? Keep the money!" Duo exclaimed.

"It's not mine, I didn't earn it. If I kept it, it would be like stealing." Irma said.

"Yes, but if you spent it, it would be like shopping!" Marissa added in, nodding.

"Okay, okay. Let's say I bought a really great pair of jeans. Do you know what I'd hear, with every step I took? 'Not-mine, not-mine, not-mine. And even if I was happy, and-and on my cheery way, 'Not-mine, not-mine, not-not-not-mine."

"We're with you." Cait Lin said. "We got it."

"Yeah, but, I'd never be able to enjoy it. It'd be like this big karmic debt." Irma nodded.

Marissa suddenly turned to InuYasha. "InuYasha, what are you doing?" she asked.

"Oh! Oh my gosh!" everyone started to yell.

"What is this! In a school lounge!" Joe exclaimed.

"I'm smoking. I'm smoking, I'm smoking." InuYasha grumbled.

"Oh, I can't believe you! You've been so good! For 6 months!" Irma exclaimed.

"And this-is my reward!" InuYasha nodded.

"Hold on a second, alright? Just think what you went through the last time you quit," Joe said. "Besides, we're in school SURVEILANCE."

"Okay, so this time I won't quit! Besides, there are tons of kids smoking." InuYasha coughed.

"Ooh, put it out!" everyone yelled.

"Alright!" InuYasha said. "I'm putting it out, I'm putting it out." As he said this, he dropped it in Irma's hot chocolate.

"Oh no! I can't drink this now!" Irma groaned.

"Alright guys, I've got to go change. I'm going on a date." Cait Lin said, getting up and grabbing her backpack.

"This Kira guy again? How is it goin'?" Marissa asked.

"It's pretty good, y'know? It's great, and, we're having fun."

"So when do we get to meet the guy?" Duo asked.

"Hm, let's see . . . today's Monday, so, never." Cait Lin answered.

"Oh come on!" they all exclaimed.

"No. Not after what happened with Marco."

"What are you talking about? We loved M-m-m-marco! He was h-h-hott!" InuYasha chanted. ". . . Sorry."

"Look, I don't even know how I feel about him yet! Just give me a chance to figure it out."

"So, do we get to me him?"

"Nope. S-s-sorry."

(Scene:Cafeteria)

"I mean, why should I let them meet him? I mean, I bring a guy home, and within five minutes they're all over him. I mean, they're like- coyotes, picking off the weak members of the herd."said Cait Lin with a sigh.

"Listen. As someone who's seen more than her fair share of bad beef, I'll tell you: that is not such a terrible thing. I mean, they're your friends, they're just looking out after you." said Elyon.

"I know. I just wish that once, I'd bring a guy home that they actually liked."

"Well, you do realise the odds of that happening are a little slimmer if they never get to meet the guy.."

(Scene 4: Cait Lin and Marissa's, InuYasha is smoking on the balcony, Irma is absent.)

"Let it go, Joe." said Duo.

"Yeah, well, you didn't know Indigo." Joe answered, sighing dismally.

"Do you all promise?" Cait Lin asked.

"Yeah!" everyone exclaimed. "We promise! We'll be good!"

"InuYasha, do you promise!" Cait Lin yelled at the balcony.

InuYasha made a 'cross my heart' sign as it started to rain. He tapped on the window hurriedly for someone to let him in.

"You can come in, but your filter-tipped little buddy has to stay outside!" Duo said, authority-like.

InuYasha made a face and picked up a garbage can lid to use it as a umbrella. Suddenly Irma walked in, sat down on the couch, and began to read a letter without saying hi.

"Hey, Irmsi." Joe said.

"'Dear Miss Lair," Irma started. "Thank you for calling attention to our error. We have credited your account with five hundred dollars. We're sorry for the inconvenience, and we hope you'll accept this--" she paused and looked through her backpack for the gift, "football phone as our free gift.' Do you believe this! Now I have a thousand dollars, and a football phone!"

"What bank is this?" Marissa asked. Right when she said this, the intercom buzzed.

"Hey, it's him," Cait Lin said, then said into the intercom, "Who is this?"

"It's Kira," Kira said over the intercom.

Duo turned to InuYasha who was still on the balcony and yelled, "InuYasha! He's here!"

InuYasha then came in, dripping wet, leaving puddles on the floor. Cait Lin turned to everyone, and said in a pleading tone, "Please be good, please. Just remember how much you all like me." With that, she opened the door to let Kira in. "Hi, Kira, this is everybody. Everybody, this is Kira."

"Hi," Kira said.

"Hi, Kira."

"I've heard so much about you guys." Kira said, smiling. Everyone laughed quietly.

(Time lapse, Kira is leaving.)

"Thanks. I'll call you tomorrow."Cait Lin said as Kira left. "Okay. Okay, let's let the Kira-bashing begin. Who's gonna take the first shot, hmm?"

Everyone was very silent.

"C'mon!" Cait Lin urged.

"...I'll go. Let's start with the way he kept picking at- no, I'm sorry, I can't do this, can't do this. We loved him." Joe admitted.

"Loved him! Yeah! He's great!" Everyone cheered

"Wait a minute! We're talking about someone that I'm going out with?" Cait Lin looked surprised.

"Yeah!"

"And did you notice...?" Marissa said as she spread her thumb and index finger.

"Yeah." all the guys said reluctantly.

"Know what was great? The way his smile was kinda crooked." said Duo with a smile.

"Yes, yes! Like the man in the shoe!" Irma laughed

"...What shoe?" asked Joe.

"From the nursery rhyme. 'There was a crooked man, Who had a crooked smile, Who lived in a shoe, For a... while...'"

Everyone paused dubiously.

"...So I think Kira will become the yardstick against which all future boyfriends will be measured."Joe nodded.

"What future boyfriends? Nono, I th- I think this could be, y'know, it." Marissa said.

"Really!" Cait Lin said in disbelief

"Oh, yeah. I'd marry him just for his David Hasselhof impression alone. You know I'm gonna be doing that at parties, right?"Inuyasha said,doing the impression.

"You know what I like most about him, though?" said Joe.

"What?" Everyone asked

"The way he makes me feel about myself."

"Yeah..."

(Scene 6: The Lounge, Cait Lin is alone as Joe, Marissa, InuYasha, and Duo enter in softball gear.)

"Hey, how was the game?" Cait Lin asked.

"Well . . ." Joe started, looking uncertain.

"We won!" all of them broke out. "Thank you! Yes!"

"Fantastic!" Cait Lin exclaimed. "But one question: how is that possible?"

"Kira." Duo nodded.

"It was unbelievable, really. It was like that Bugs Bunny cartoon where Bugs was playing all the parts right. But this time it was Kira, first base- Kira, second base - Kira. . ." Joe trailed off.

"I mean, i-it was like he made us into a team." Marissa put in.

"Yup, we sure showed those geeks a thing or two about softball. . ." InuYasha trailed off.

"Can I ask you guys a question?" Cait Lin asked, carefully twirling a strand of her dark hair. "D'you ever think maybe, sometimes, Kira is. . ."

"What?" Joe asked.

Cait Lin was silent for a while. "I dunno . . . a little too Kira?"

"Well, no." Marissa thought a while. "That's impossible. You can never be too Kira."

"Yeah, it's his, uh, innate Kira-ness that-that-that we adore." Joe said.

"I personally could have a gallon of Kira." InuYasha nodded.

(Scene: A street)

"Hey, Bess." greeted Irma.

"Hey, Weird Girl." said Bess,the worst student in school.

"I brought you alphabet soup."

"Did you pick out the vowels?" Bess asked.

"Yes. But I left in the Ys. 'Cause, y'know, "sometimes y". Uh, I also have something else for you." Irma began to search through her backpack.

"Saltines?"

"No, but would you like a thousand dollars and a football phone?" Irma offered,handing Bess an envelope.

"What?"asked Bess as she opened the envelope. "Oh my God, there's really money in here."

"I know."

"Weird Girl, what are you doing?"

"No, I want you to have it. I don't want it."

"No, no, I ha-I have to give you something."

"Oh, that's fine, no."

"Would you like my tin-foil chains?"

"No. 'Cause you need that. No, it's okay, thanks."

"Please, let me do something."

"Okay, alright, you buy me a soda, and then we're even. Okay?" Irma smiled goofily.

"Okay."

"Okay."

(Scene: InuYasha's dorm room.)

InuYasha looked around, opened his desk drawer, took a puff of the cigarette he had, sprayed around some air freshener, and sprayed some binaca breath spray in his mouth. He then typed for a while, opened the drawer again, and took another drag of the cigarette. But he wasn't paying attention, so he sprayed some binaca around the room, sprayed some air freshener in his mouth, and gagged.

(Scene: A Street, Irma and Bess are at a hot dog vendor.)

"Keep the change." Bess said to the vendor. "Sure you don't wanna pretzel?"

"No, I'm fine." Irma said

"See ya."mumbled Bess.

"Huh!" Irma cried as she opened the can.

(Scene: The Lounge, Irma is telling everyone about her discovery.)

"A thumb?" Joe asked, disgusted.

Irma nodded. "Eww!" they all said, disgusted.

"I know!" Irma exclaimed. "I know, I opened it up, and there it was just floating there, like this tiny little hitch-hiker!"

"Well, maybe it's a contest, y'know?" InuYasha said. "Like collect-all-5."

"Does, um, anyone wanna see?" Irma asked.

"Nooo!" Everyone said, jumping forward from their seats to stop her. While doing this, InuYasha lit a cigarette.

"Oh, hey, don't do that! Cut it out!" Everyone yelled at the hanyou.

"It's worse than the thumb!" Marissa groaned.

"Hey, this is so unfair!" InuYasha whined.

Cait Lin blinked. "How is it "unfair"!"

"So I have a flaw! Big deal!" InuYasha exclaimed. "Like Duo's constant hair-whipping isn't annoying? And Joe, with his over-pronouncing every word? And Cait Lin, with the high hiccup she always does when she laughs! I mean, what the heck is that thing? ...I accept all those flaws, why can't you accept me for this?"

There was an awkward silence, until Duo said, "...Does the hair-whipping bother everybody?"

"Well, I-I could live without it." Joe nodded awkwardly.

"Well, is it, like, a little annoying, or is it like when Irma twirls her hair?" At this, Irma untwirled the hair that was wound around her index finger.

"Oh, now, don't listen to him, Irmi, it's endearing." Joe said.

"Oh," Duo paused, and then started imitating Joe, "You do, do you?" Cait Lin started laughing and did the high hiccup.

"You know, there's nothing wrong with speaking correctly." Joe grumbled.

""Indeed there isn't,"" Marissa mimicked, "...I should really get back to work."

"Yeah, 'cause otherwise someone might get what they actually ordered." Irma laughed.

"Ooh-oh-oooohhhh, the hair comes out and the gloves come on." Marissa said, pointing her finger. After this, they all started to degenerate into bickering and InuYasha happily started to smoke behind his hand, undisturbed.

(Scene: Cafetria,Elyon and Cait Lin are working.)

"Did you ever go out with a guy your friends all really like?" asked Cait Lin.

"No." mumbled Elyon

"Okay.. Well, I'm going out with a guy my friends all really like."

" Waitwait.. we talking about the coyotes here? All right, a cow got through!"

"Can you believe it? ...Y'know what? I just don't feel the thing. I mean, they feel the thing, I don't feel the thing."

"Honey.. you should always feel the thing. Listen, if that's how you feel about the guy, Cait, dump him!"

"I know.. it's gonna be really hard."

"Well, he's a big boy, he'll get over it."

"No, he'll be fine. It's the other five I'm worried about."

(Scene: The Lounge, Duo and Joe are persecuting InuYasha about his smoking.)

"Do you have any respect for your body?" Duo asked.

"Don't you realize what you're-you're doing to yourself?" Joe agreed.

"Hey, y'know, I've had enough of you and your cancer and emphysema and your heart disease. The bottom line is, smoking is cool, and you know it." InuYasha smirked.

"InuYasha?" Marissa said, holding out the phone. "It's Kira, he wants to speak with you."

"Really? He does?" InuYasha asked, then took the phone. "Hey, buddy, what's up! Oh, she told you about that, huh. Well, yeah, I have one now and then. Well, yeah, now. Well, it's not that big- ..well, that's true,.. Gee, y'know, no-one- no-one's ever put it like that before. Well, okay, thanks!" He handed the phone back and stubbed the cigarette out in the flower pot until it was covered with dirt, wrapped it in a tissue, and threw it in the garbage so a teacher wouldn't find it.

"Gosh, Kira's good," Marissa said to Joe, who had wandered up to her.

"If only he were a woman," Joe said.

"Yeah." Marissa agreed. She paused, and they gave eachother a dubious look.

(Scene: Cait Lin and Marissa's, everyone except Cait Lin and Duo is watching Lambchop.)

"Ooh, Lambchop. How old is that sock? If I had a sock on my hand for thirty years it'd be talking too."said Inuyasha

"Okay. I think it's time to change somebody's nicotine patch." sighed Joe,doing so.

"Hey. Where's Duo?"asked Cait Lin as she entered the dorm.

"Duo ate my last stick of gum, so I killed him. Do you think that was wrong?" snapped Inuyasha.

"I think he's across the hall." suggested Marissa

"Thanks." Cait Lin went to fetch him.

"There y'go." said Joe,finishing the change of Nicotine.

"Ooh, I'm alive with pleasure now."Inuyasha said in a deadpan voice.

"Hey Irma, you gonna have the rest of that Pop-Tart?.. Irma?"

"Does anyone want the rest of this Pop-Tart?" asked Irma.

"Hey, I might!"

"Sorry. ..Y'know, those stupid soda people gave me seven thousand dollars for the thumb."

"You're kidding. Oh my God." everyone objected.

"And on my way over here, I stepped in gum. ...What is up with the universe!"

"What's going on?" asked Duo,dressed in only a towel and dragged in by Cait lin.

"Nothing. I just think it's nice when we're all here together." Cait Lin said.

"Even nicer when everyone gets to wear their underwear.." pouted Duo.

"Uh, Duo..." Marissa mumbled,a slight blush on her face.

"Oh, God!" Duo exclaimed as he hurriedly closed his legs.

"Okay.." Cait lin said,turning off the tv.

"Aw! That was Lambchop!" everyone cried.

"Please, guys, we have to talk."

"Wait, wait, I'm getting a deja vu...no, I'm not."said Irma.

"Alright, we have to talk." Cait lin sweatdropped.

"There it is!"

"Okay. It's-it's about Kira. There's something that you should know. I mean, there's really no easy way to say this.. uh.. I've decided to break up with Kira."

Everyone gasped and clutched eachother.

"Is there somebody else?"asked Joe.

"No, nononono.. it's just.. things change. People change."

"We didn't change.." Marissa cried.

"So that's it? It's over? Just like that?" asked Duo.

"You know.. you let your guard down, you start to really care about someone, and I just- I-"Irma began to twirled her hair.

"Look, I- I could go on pretending-" Cait Lin said.

"Okay!" Duo cheered.

"-but that wouldn't be fair to me, it wouldn't be fair to Kira-it wouldn't be fair to you!"

" Who-who wants fair? Y'know, I just want things back. Y'know, the way they were." Joe sighed.

"I'm sorry.."

"Oh, she's sorry! I feel better!" said Inuyasha,sarcastically.

"I just can't believe this! I mean, with the holidays coming up- I wanted him to meet my family-" Marissa said tearfully.

"I'll meet somone else. There'll be other Kiras." comforted Cait Lin.

"Oh, yeah! Right!" the group moaned.

"Are you guys gonna be okay?"

" Hey hey, we'll be fine. We're just gonna need a little time." sighed Joe.

"I understand." Cait Lin said dubiously.

(Scene: A resteraunt, Cait Lin is breaking the news to Kira.)

"Wow," Kira said after Cait Lin was done explaining.

"I'm, I'm really sorry." Cait Lin mumbled, casting her blue/green/grey eyes downward.

"Yeah, I'm sorry too." Kira agreed. "But, I gotta tell you, I'm a little relieved."

"Relieved?" Cait Lin asked.

"Yeah, well, I had a great time with you . . . I just can't stand your friends." admitted Kira.

Closing Credits

(Marissa and Cait lin's, everyone is moping around and eating ice cream.)

"Remember when we went to Central Park and rented boats?.. That was fun." Marissa sighed,taking a bite of Chocolate Chip.

"Yeah. He could row like a viking."sighed Joe.

"Hi."said Cait Lin.

"Mmm." groaned everyone else.

"So how'd it go?" asked Joe.

"Oh, y'know.."

"Did he mention us?" asked Irma.

"He said he's really gonna miss you guys." Cait Lin gave them a dubious look.

"You had a rough day, huh.. c'mere." said Joe as she sat down. He began to stroke her forehead.

"...That's it. I'm getting cigarettes." said Inuyasha.

"No no no!" all the group yelled.

"I don't care, I don't care! Game's over! I'm weak! I've gotta smoke! I've gotta have the smoke!" called Inuyasha as he began to leave.

"If you never smoke again I'll give you seven thousand dollars!" shouted Irma.

"Yeah, alright." said Inuyasha walking back.

End

Author's Notes: And there you go! I don't know when the fourth chapter will be up, maybe tomorrow, maybe weeks from now. Depends when I have the time to edit the chapter to post. Well, see all of you later! n.n