Chapter 2: The Banana Boat Song and IHOP

Still at the gang's house. It's about six. Timmy fell asleep from eating too much. Kira is fiddling with his shoestrings, and Hikaru is the only one who noticed that Cagalli left the room.

"Where'd Cagalli go?" Hikaru asked to break the silence.

"Her health club," Kira said in monotone.

"She has a health club?" Hikaru questioned further. I mean, Cagalli in a health club? You just don't do it. So naturally, Hikaru would be skeptical.

"Yeah," Kira responded, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "The International House of Pancakes."

Hikaru just shrugged and plucked the rest of the feathers out of Timmy's hair.

"How the hell do you get so many feathers in your hair at one time?" Hikaru mused. "It's like he's growing feathers out of his scalp."

"Who knows," Kira said, back to the monotone.

"Do you think Cagalli is meeting someone?" Hikaru asked to no one in particular.

"Probably," Kira answered.

"Who?"

"Athrun Zala."

"Oh."

"You know him?" Kira questioned.

"Not at all."

The room lapsed back into silence. There was nothing good on TV, so there was no point in having it on; It was Sunday. Timmy was still out like a light.

"It's quiet," Hikaru pointed out. "Too quiet. We need the little brat to wake up. I kinda wanted to teach him how to hula."

"Why hula?" Kira asked. To him, and probably to most of you reading this, Hikaru was becoming a very interesting person to him. "You can hula?"

"No," Hikaru said, deflated. "Thought it might be fun, though."

Seconds passed. Seconds turned into minutes. Minutes turned into hours. Until it was nine and three quarters. Are you paying attention to this? These teenagers were practically dying! And Timmy was still asleep. The kid can sleep...

Timmy suddenly sat bolt upright. He was awake. His eyes were wide and sparkling. A huge grin spread across his face and he announced, "I think I feel a song coming on!"

Kira and Hikaru just had to watch. It was 9:45 PM and they needed something to happen. So they let him sing.

"Day-o! Da-a-a-a-y-o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Day! Me say day! Me say day! Me say day! Me say day! Me say da-a-a-a-a-a-y-o! Daylight come and me wan' go home!" Timmy bursted this song out, quite accurately to the key, actually.

"Well," Hikaru started. "There's no sense in letting him sing alone, now is there?" She joined the obnoxious festivities.

"Work all night until we're done! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Stack banana 'til the morning come! Daylight come and me wan' go home."

Kira watched this and hesitated before joining Timmy and Hikaru. After all, you only live once, as far as we know.

"Day-o! Da-a-a-a-y-o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Day! Me say day! Me say day! Mesay day!Me say day! Me say da-a-a-a-a-a-y-o-!Daylight come and me wan' go home!Beautiful bunch of ripe banana! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Hide the deadly black tarant'la! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Six hand, seven hand, eight hand bunch! Daylight come and me wan' go home! Six hand, seven hand, eight hand bunch! Daylight come and me wan' go home!"

After this episode of singing, Timmy suddenly darted out of the house, heading towards the local IHOP. Kira and Hikaru snapped out of their Jamaica mode and went after him, wondering what damage he would end up doing.

MOMMY!" Timmy yelled as he burst through the doors.

Cagalli, who was sitting with Athrun at a booth near the back of the restaurant turned to see Timmy, standing in front of the doors with a million feathers sticking out of his hair, one of those fruit-bowl hats or whatever they're called on his head and an oversized t-shirt with 'party animal' written across the front. She nearly died of embarrassment.

Timmy noticed the distressed blonde at the back of the restaurant as 'mommy' and immediately made way for her.

"Timmy!" Cagalli exclaimed. This was not an exclamation of joy, just so's ya know. "Why are you here? Where's Kira and Hikaru?"

Speaking of those two, they couldn't catch up with Timmy in time and got caught in the Bermuda Triangle of Orb.

"Where are we?" Hikaru asked, utterly confused.

"If we're where I think we are, we're screwed," Kira mumbled grimly.

"Where are we?" Hikaru questioned again, grabbing Kira by the collar.

"The Bermuda Triangle."

"We can't be there! This is Orb, not the Carribean!" Hikaru panicked.

"No!" Kira corrected her. "This is the Bermuda Triangle of Orb!"

"What?"

"It's the part of Orb that you will always get lost in! The Bermuda Triangle part should've given it away!"

"It just sounds stupid," Hikaru said in defense.

Back at IHOP (cheap place for a date, isn't it?)

"Mommy," Timmy said contentedly as he hugged Cagalli's arm and leaned his head onto her shoulder.

"I know I probably shouldn't ask," Athrun started, "but why is that little kid calling you 'Mommy'?"

"I don't know," Cagalli responded, annoyed. "I ran into him at the airport and he followed me home like a puppy."

The rest of the crowd at the restaurant stopped dead still, staring at Timmy. And that was a lot of people. It's Tuesday night, Mayberry night, so the place has to be packed. This is the night where the manager gives away three jugs of mayberry syrup for every ten orders of pancakes.

Cagalli glared at everyone for about ten seconds before yelling, "What? Haven't you ever seen a little kid before?"

Bermuda Triangle.

Kira shook his head in all directions, trying to figure a way out of the maze that he and Hikaru were in.

"So that's a left on Whoopsidaisy Street, go past three lights and make a right on Whodunnit Drive, and then another right on Last Chance Court, taking us past the police station and Dunkin' Donuts... Damn! Why are we onDragon Drive?" Kira mumbled under his breath as he tried to comprehend the directions given to them by Dearka.

"No, no, idiot!" Hikaru said, pointing at a spot on the map. "You make a right on Whoopsidaisy and then a left on Whodunnit!"

"Then why does that sayStingyskinflint Drive?"

"Typo, I guess." Hikaru shrugged.

"You really think it's a right then a left?"

"Maybe."

IHOP

"Maybe we should leave," Cagalli suggested. "I'm tired of being stared at."

"Mommy, I want pancakes," Timmy said, tugging on Cagalli's arm.

"You're hungry? After all that ice cream, you're still hungry?" Cagalli's jaw dropped.

"Yeah," Timmy answered. "After I finished it I went to sleep, and then me and Uncle Kira and Auntie Hikaru sang the Banana Boat song really loud and then I ran as fast as I could here because I wanted pancakes and I heard in my sleep that you were here with Daddy."

All Cagalli and Athrun could do was stare at him like he was insane. Now you know who the father figure is.

That's chappie number two. I love the Banana Boat song. I'm surprised that I remember that much of it. Review!