Mako's Message: right so, not much time, but here it is. I tried to get some set up for other things going, as well as just have some fun with this one. Hope you enjoy it.
So, last night didn't go as planned. Dave and I were SUPPOSED to go out on patrol , but I had to call and make it one of our skip nights. Why? Because we had a sleep over.
It wasn't my idea.
After I turned the conversation onto Angela, I was able to just sit on the sidelines for the next couple of hours. When it got to be time for me to go meet Dave however, Jessi started getting clingy. She was really upset that I was leaving, she said she thought we were having a great day together and why would I want it to end so soon? And... I really had a hard time trying to come up with a reason to leave.
Jessi literally begged me to stay. She said she still needed her best friends.
Angela was no help what-so-ever. But then why would she be? She just stood there giving me a look that said, "Well, tell her you'll stay!" while Jessi gave me puppy dog eyes. I'm not joking.
So, since I couldn't give a good reason for why I couldn't stay, I eventually had to cave.
I told them I'd just have to call Marcus and ask his permission, but I didn't really. All I did was text him that I was spending the night here and he showed up with a sleeping bag, a change of clothes, pajamas, and my toothbrush so fast it was like something out of loony toons. What I did have to do was call Dave.
He was... annoyingly okay with it. I was kinda hoping he'd be mad that we wouldn't be able to go out so I coulld at least have some company in being annoyed about this, but he knew from Riley what happened with Jessi so he said he understood that my friends needed me. Kinda made me feel like a jerk for not wanting to stay with her, but I did stay with her and made that decision on my own, so I guess I'm not really a jerk.
This whole day had pretty much been a "cheer up Jessi" day, so when she suggested we play Truth or Dare Angela didn't put up any objection so I just went along with it too.
I stuck to Dare's mostly, since I really didn't want to get asked a question I couldn't tell the truth about. Didn't take long for them to make me regret THAT choice.
I think it was my fourth or fifth turn and Angela dared me to go downstairs, sit on her Dad's lap, say "I had a nightmare" and ask for a hug. I did it of course, I'm not a pussy. But I didn't play the part. I did exactly what I was dared to do and then got up and went back upstairs. Her father seemed to recover from that bit of randomness in time to ask me what it was about before I left the toom. I just said, "Truth or Dare."
He said, "Ah. Should've guessed." and went back to reading his newspaper.
Not long after that, Jessi got devious. When I picked "Dare" again, she said, "I dare you to tell us who you have a crush on."
I stared at the floor while I tried to come up with someone believable but harmless before they figured out what I was doing, and then it hit me. I could tell the truth and keep the secret. I smiled, looked up at them and said, "Kick-Ass."
And that set them into a fit of giggles and threw the game off for a bit cause we ended up talking about superheroes and who we liked. Angela said she'd actually thought Red Mist was cute before he turned out to be a douche bag (her word, not mine, surprisingly). I couldn't believe she could think he was cute, but then I am pretty fucking biased in the matter. I didn't really get a good look at him before he fucking shot me. The bastard. I can't wait to repay him for that seven fold.
Anyway, Jessi said she thinks The Guardian is cute(which Angela thought was gross, because the guy has to be almost thirty.), but she said her favorite super hero, period, was Hit Girl.
I had to really fight hard to keep that stupid, "Yeah, I'm awesome" grin off my face.
Angela chose that moment to nudge me and say, "Ya know, Hit Girl and Kick-Ass are partners, right? You might have to fight her for him." before bursting into giggles again. Leaving me with the strangest mix of emotions.
I might have to fight Hit Girl for Kick-Ass.
It's just so... weird and... ridiculous, picturing myself fighting...myself... and I couldn't let myself laugh because then they'd want to know what was so funny so I had to hold this all in and it was just... it was fucking surreal is what it was.
Before they stopped coming up with new questions or dares for each other I was falling asleep. We actually stayed up longer than I do when I'm out on patrol, so I really needed that sleep, but they kept keeping me up. They said we needed to stay up all night if we could. That it was a tradition.
By the third or fourth time they shook me after I started nodding off not only was I saying "Fuck tradition, I need sleep," but I was ready to punch them both in the face, so I took my sleeping bag and went into their guest room.
I was out as soon as I lay down on the bed.
But when I woke up I was being hugged.
Angela and Jessi had climbed into bed with me sometime during the night and Jessi had an arm around both of us. I elbowed her awake wanting to know why the fuck I was being hugged and what were they even doing in here. I mean, Angela has her own damn bed and if Jessi didn't want to sleep on the floor why didn't she sleep with Angela since she was obviously okay with it.
Apparently this is another one of their sleep over traditions. They all end up sleeping in a pile. Her bed, the guest bed, the living room floor, whatever. The first person who fell asleep chose where everybody else was sleeping. So, when Jessi was ready to sleep she climbed into the bed with me and Angela followed after.
I didn't like it.
I have no problem with them being all huggy with me, most of the time, but I woke up tired, and hot, and uncomfortable, and I was mad because I know I didn't sleep well because I had someone clinging to me.
So I got up, told them I had plans for that morning and had to go. They moaned about it but couldn't really do anything else about it because they were barely awake as it was.
I wonder how late those two loons were up, anyway.
So I called Dave to come get me so we could go do out run, and guess how he spent HIS night? He went out to dinner with RILEY. Apparently when he called Katie to say he ended up with a free night she said she was busy so after work he went out to eat with the blond bimbo.
But he seemed well rested so I guess his night ended earlier than usual anyway, so at least there's that.
But we got our run in, and we had a good spar, and then I curled up on the grass and fell asleep. I'm a sucker for a sunbeam. Shut up.
Dave was there when I woke up, but it looked like he hadn't napped, just sat there next to me while I was out cold.
We got lunch, he took me home, and... now I don't know. Homework I guess.
