Mika was in the man's nest putting small essentials inside a box, like tissues, detergent, hand lotion and etc while listening to music through her headphones. It was summer break so SWAG was out on this glorious Thursday. She had nothing better to do so she thought she would come by today and restock the Man's nest, not like Ray would do it. Chapa and Miles teleported Schwoz to his home country because his Mama was becoming suspicious of the clone that was originally taking his spot.
Mika finished tapping the box and was looking inside the draws for sticker placement. She heard someone come up from the tub and flashed a smile when she saw it was Bose. "Hey," She greeted. "Hey," he stopped in his tracks. He wasn't expecting to see her here. Out of everyone, he could have possibly run into it had to be her at this exact moment. Not that he had anything against her, far from it actually. In fact, he wanted to see her today, just not now when he had been wracking his brain thinking about her just a few seconds. Bose thought the man's nest would be a quiet place for him to finally convince himself to work up the guts to ask her something he'd been meaning to for a week now.
Mika went back to packing another Box and Bose rummaged through his locker pretending to be busy, she would for sure get suspicious if he ran out after just coming in. Bose took out two laminated pieces of paper from his pocket, stared at them, and back at Mika who was bopping her head to her music. "Come on Bose, it's now or never," He encouraged himself. He took a deep breath and prepared.
"So, guess what I have?!" he walked over to her hoping she couldn't sense how nervous he was.
"Ouu, talk to me," Mika became interested looking at the paper in his hands.
"Two tickets!" Bose waved them in the air once he was in her line of sight.
"For?" She asked taking her headphones off.
"Manetta's," He answered.
"The new Italian restaurant that just opened after Sotto Voce?" Mika questioned.
Bose nodded and Mika looked impressed. Manetta's was all the rage this summer, it was nearly impossible to get tickets, so far it was the best restaurant In town. "How did you get them?" Mika gasped. "They came in the mail for me, i get invited a lot of places thanks to Vice Dad being well, my Dad," He explained. Free publicity, Mika thought. He'd been trying to ask Mika out this whole summer and as usual, his mind would always go blank. Like nothing was good enough. Bose never really accepted or cared much about the offers he got, but when the tickets came to him it was like a sign.
"So...it's reserved for tomorrow night" Bose tried to avoid eye contact, "Do you wanna go?".
His question caught Mika off guard, "Go? With you?".
Bose nodded again, this time hoping she didn't say anything that required him to have to speak, he wasn't sure his nerves could handle it. "Together? Alone?" She went on her voice getting higher. She was ecstatic, however, she also didn't wanna show it just in case she misunderstood the entire thing and Bose wasn't actually asking her out. "Like a date?" She held her breath. Bose shyly smiled hearing her call it that, "Um, yes, like a date,".
At this point, Mika was grinning like an idiot. Finally, she thought. "Then yes, i would love to go on a date with you," she claimed. Bose face lit up and he resisted the urge to say, "Really? Are you sure? You know what a date is right?".
Unfortunately, he saw her grin start to fade, "Oh no, what's wrong?" Bose's smile disappeared. "If we go on this date, Ray can't find out," Mika stated. Bose looked confused and Mika picked up on it. "His no dating rule, especially amongst each other," Mika reminded. Bose groaned, he had forgotten about that stupid rule. When Ray put it in place everyone was totally okay with it because none of them ever thought they would actually act upon it.
"Does that mean we can't go?" Bose asked sounding dejected. It was gonna be really embarrassing for him to sit at Manetta's all alone, dateless...Mikaless. Mika thought about it, there was no way she managed to get a date with Bose and wouldn't be able to go because of a minor-huge- setback. She started to brainstorm a couple of ideas, no pun intended.
"Not quite," A mischievous look took place on her face. She stopped pacing to answer him, "What if we get Chapa and Miles to cover for us!" Mika insisted. "You think they would?"Bose questioned. "Yeah totally, they should be back with Schwoz by tonight, so we explain everything, and tomorrow they can keep Ray busy from checking up on us," She explained.
"Sounds great!" Bose chimed in but then said, "What if they snitch?". He really wanted to go with her tomorrow night and now there was an endless possibility of how badly things could end swarming around his head. He wanted this date to be perfect. "It's Chapa and Miles, they haven't gotten a single letter on the snitch board and both of them refuse to get one before the other, I'm sure they'll have our back," Mika assured.
This eased Bose and he felt better about Manetta's. "Okay then, as long as that's settled..."He trailed off, "I'll pick you up at 7?".
She grinned like an idiot again, "Yes! Great! I'll be ready! At 7!" She gave an overly enthusiastic thumbs up then put them down when she thought she was doing too much. Bose giggled awkwardly as he backed away to the tube tripping over a few boxes. Mika looked away slightly to hide her amusement and Bose quickly got back up embarrassed. "Bye!" He disclosed in a rush to get out of here before he embarrassed himself even more and she changed her mind.
