Hi guys! I want to thank you all so much for all of the positive feedback on my last chapter, it was really sweet :3

Just in case there was any confusion as to how my fanfic is going to work, I am making a bunch of unconnected as well as connected stories. In fact, I'm thinking of writing a follow-up chapter to my previous story about Thorne, just so we can see what sort of punishment Cinder has in store for him XD

This particular story isn't necessarily connected with my last one; it's a humorous piece about the girls having an emotional breakdown mixed with a crazy sugar high and how the guys attempt to handle it.

I do not own the Lunar Chronicles.

Wolf, Thorne, and Kai could easily be described as three capable men. Kai led an entire country, Thorne had perfected the art of combat thanks to his military and criminal background, and Ze'ev could rip a man in half if he desired to do so. In fact, they were currently helping lead a revolution that would change the lives of millions across two different planets.

Despite all of this, however, all three were at a loss when presented with the situation before them.

The female menstrual cycle was a known-albeit awkward- subject among all grown men. They knew the basics: there was blood, pain, and mood swings. If you say "yes" and purchase chocolate, you're in the clear. What many males didn't know, however, was that when females lived together for a certain period of time their cycles would synch up.

Honestly, that would've been bad enough. The guys would've had their hands full dealing with the emotions and cravings of three girls at once. Add in about six tons of sugar and you get what they were facing now.

That's right. Cinder, Cress, and Scarlett managed to get their hands on two bags of candy, four gallons of ice cream, a cheesecake, and an eight-pack of pudding cups. Add the sugar high to their already frazzled emotions, and you have an emotional breakdown on steroids.

~o0o~

The day started innocently enough. Iko suggested a girl's day in, shutting themselves in Cinder's room for a supposed afternoon of chatting and relaxing in each other's company. Thorne, Kai, and Wolf unintentionally ended up on the couch watching old Pixar films (yes, they were still popular to that day, how couldn't they be?).

If anyone asked they would claim to be watching the sports network, drinking beer and hollering at coaches. Every now and then they would cheer with much more volume than necessary just to remind the girls how "manly" they were.

When the T.V. pinged, implying an incoming message, the trio ignored it. After all, who could pause when the Incredibles were so close to defeating the droid?

"We should probably check that," Kai mentioned after the 50th ping. The other two murmured their agreement, eyes till glued to the screen. After a few more alerts he sighed and turned off the T.V. himself, effectively snapping Thorne and Wolf out of their daze.

"Dude, what the heck? Jack Jack was totally going off on Syndrome," Thorne whined.

Kai ignored him and clicked on the alert. 62 messages from Iko popped up, each one growing more extreme than the last, starting with "hey the girls are getting a bit wild send help maybe?" and ending with "I HAVE LOCKED MYSELF IN THE BATHROOM THEY ARE INSANE SAVE YOURSELVES!"

All three of them just stared at the screen for a moment, mouths agape.

"Um… what?" Wolf spluttered, breaking the silence.

Thorne leapt from his sprawled position from the couch as if being suddenly broken out of a spell, heading straight towards the screen. "This must be one of Iko's pranks," he decided, pointing accusingly at the messages. "I mean, Cress is as gentle and sweet as a freaking kitten!"

"Yeah!" Wolf agreed, jumping up as well. "And Scarlett isn't timid, but she has her head on straight!"

"I agree. Cinder the smartest person I know," Kai added. "There's no way she could be-what was the word Iko used-insane? This is definitely a prank."

"The girls think they're slick coming up with this. They're probably laughing their faces off right now." Wolf cracked one of his rare grins at the thought.

"Probably," Thorne chuckled, shaking his head. "It has to be fake." He glanced back at the screen, considering something. "But if this was real, we all know that it would be Scarlett and Cinder causing the chaos in there."

Wolf's grin disappeared. "What's that supposed to mean," he growled, eyes flashing. Thorne didn't get the hint.

"Like I said, Cress is as sweet as can be, but those two can be pretty wild. Scarlett in particular can get pretty insane when she's mad."

Kai coughed. Wolf clenched his teeth.

"Scarlett? My Scarlett? Your girl is the one who's been locked in a satellite for her whole life, who's to say she hasn't gone crazy?"

Now it was Thorne's turn to get mad. Kai mentally noted that he didn't dismiss the term "your girl."

"You're playing that card? Really? She couldn't control that situation at all, and she did a pretty damn good job transitioning to earth regardless!"

Kai, his diplomat instincts finally kicking in, jumped between the two. "Okay, guys, this is ridiculous! You're arguing about a hypothetical situation! Cinder wouldn't let anything like that happen, anyway."

Thorne and Kai exchanged looks, and then looked back at the young King.

"Uh, yeah she would."

"Cinder's got some screws loose herself, man."

Kai was a calm person. He had to deal with annoying advisors and pestering townspeople all the time, and he took insults to his rule in stride. In this case, however, he yanked both men by the collar, glaring into their eyes. "Is that supposed to be some sort of Cyborg quip?" he asked, his voice holding a dangerous edge.

If they hadn't been interrupted, the three of them would probably end up having a brawl. Actually, to be honest, Thorne and Kai would have cowered after Wolf made any threatening motion (hey, the guy was pretty darn strong). Instead of that pathetic scenario, however, they were interrupted by another ping.

"Iko…?" Kai guessed, releasing Thorne and Wolf.

The message across the screen read "OKAY YEAH I SAID SAVE YOURSELVES BUT COULD YOU SAVE ME TOO PLEASE!?"

All three exchanged looks. "It wouldn't hurt to take a look," Wolf shrugged.

~o0o~

The minute the door to Cinder's room was opened, Thorne, Kai, and Wolf stopped dead in their tracks.

The first thing they noticed was the trash. Empty pudding cups, candy wrappers, and ice cream tubs were strewn across the floor. There were chocolate smudges on the wall and an empty cheesecake tin clung for dear life on the ceiling fan.

The second thing they noticed was the girls.

Cinder was beating a half-empty tub of vanilla ice cream with a wrench, screaming "WHY CAN'T YOU BE CHOCOLATE?!" After a few good whacks she picked it up, scooped a glob into her mouth using the same wrench she used to beat it with, and then threw it across the room.

Consequentially, the container smacked Kai dead on in the face, leaving streaks of ice cream on his face and drawing Cinder's attention to him."Kai, get over here right now," she glowered.

Thorne and Wolf immediately stopped laughing at the flustered King and stared at Cinder with confusion. Everyone knew she was mad for the young royal, and in a normal situation she would be apologizing profusely to him.

Kai cautiously made his way over to her. "Uh, h-how are you?" He stuttered.

Cinder scowled. "How am I? I'll tell you how I am. There are six tubs of ice cream in here and not one of them is chocolate! All vanilla and strawberry! When I want ice cream, I don't want any freaking fruit in there! And whose idea was it to purchase fat-free whipped cream?"

Cinder continued to shout his ear off, gesturing wildly. Kai had to duck a few times when her robotic arm flung too close to his head.

Both Thorne and Wolf were staring in complete shock at the situation before them, and their confusion only doubled when a certain redhead bolted into Wolf's arms, sobbing uncontrollably.

Wolf looked like a teenager staring at a calculus textbook: he had no idea what to do. His hands awkwardly landed on her cheeks, squishing her face and making her cries even louder.

"Scarlett, what's the matter? Is it your grandmother? Your time on Luna? Did I do something?" There was a desperate note to his tone, and his eyes wildly flitted across her face, searching for some kind of answer. Next to finding out Scarlett was captured, it was the most terrified Thorne had ever seen him.

"I-it's not any of that… it's j-j-just…" she sniffed, lower lip trembling. It was almost scary, seeing this bold, quick-witted girl reduced to a puddle of tears.

"What?" Wolf coaxed, hesitantly patting her head.

"W-well, I wanted to eat a Kit-Kat, and th-then I dropped it, and it was covered with lint, but it was the l-l-last one and my life is falling apart!" She burst into tears again, burying her face into his shirt.

Wolf glanced over at Thorne with utter confusion, eyes questioning. Thorne just shrugged and mouthed 'I told you so.'

And then Cress showed up.

"GUYS I FOUND IKO!" Cress skipped into the room, arm linked with the terrified android. "If you're going to play hide-and-go-seek you have to tell us, silly!" She laughed hysterically, playfully punched her in the arm, and then laughed harder at the sight of her own bruised knuckles.

"Thorne!" Iko proclaimed, voice laced with relief. The young captain was staring at Cress with a mixed expression of shock and wonderment.

"OH MY STARS CAPTAIN YOU'RE HERE!" She released Iko, who made a beeline for the door. Thorne took a tentative step towards Cress.

"Sooo… how's your girl's night?"

"It's SO good!" Cress was hopping on each foot, her eyes shining with excitement…or was that just the sugar rush? "I had chocolate, and the only chocolate I got on the satellite was this weird dairy-free stuff, and I had cheesecake, and I had pudding, and- oh stars, Captain! I had ice cream for the first time in my life! Have you ever had ice cream before, 'cuz if not you have to and it's like a creamy bite of heaven!"

"Yeah, Cress, I've had ice cream before," Thorne chuckled. For some reason Cress found this hilarious, because she started laughing so hard that she fell onto the floor, pounding her tiny fists into the cheap carpet.

"Honestly Kai!" Cinder's voice carried over Cress's giggles and Scarlett's sobs, drawing all of the attention in the room to her. "I just don't get it. You're the King, I'm about to take back my throne, we kissed, so why don't you just propose already!"

The room was silent. Thorne emitted a low whistle. Kai scratched his head awkwardly.

"Um… what?"

"She's right." Cress was now oddly serious, staring at Kai with a queer expression on her face from her position on the floor. "You guys are perfect together, and you've made no efforts to really start building your relationship."

"She deserves a kickass ring," Scarlett added, nodding solemnly.

All eyes were on Kai, who was giving the classic deer-in-the-headlights expression. "Of course I love you Cinder," he started, using a gentle tone that you might use with a toddler, "and I do think we should build our relationship more, but since we haven't defeated Levana yet, I don't think we're ready-"

"Oh my stars, he said but!" Cinder wailed, now on the verge of tears. "I NEED CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM NOW!"

"What is with you guys?" Scarlett scowled, shoving Wolf off of her all of a sudden. "We work our butts off for you, dressing up nice and being attentive in hopes that you'll notice, and what do we get from you? Nothing." She turned to Wolf, hands on her hips. "Ze'ev, when is my birthday?"

Now it was his turn to be put on the spot. "Uhhh… February 12th?"

If looks could kill, he'd be annihilated on the spot. "It's in September."

While Wolf tried to calm down his alpha female and Kai tried to console the now sobbing Cinder, Thorne had issues of his own.

"Geez, those two need to get their ladies under control," Thorne chuckled, looking to Cress for support. Unfortunately tears were budding up in her eyes as well.

Thorne froze. No amount of military training had prepared him for this. "Uh oh… what's wrong, Cress?"

She sniffed, wiping her palms under her eyes. "It's just… Cinder's over there talking to Kai about marriage, and Wolf is trying her hardest to please Scarlett, and I'm over here with this unresponsive potato who's even blinder now than when he was actually blind!"

He blinked, slowly processing the fact that he was said potato. Now she was bawling, slapping away Thorne's hands when he made any attempt to comfort her.

Now Cinder and Cress were in full-out breakdown mode, and Scarlett seemed to be heading down that track herself, her eyes welling up while screaming at Wolf about the pro-wrestling calendar he got her for Valentine's Day. All three guys made eye contact, silently coming to a conclusion as to how to best handle their given situation

Thorne gently tossed the wailing Cress across his shoulder, effectively carrying her out of the room and into her own. Wolf did the same with Scarlett, and Kai easily lead Cinder to her bed, her sobs reduced to irregular hiccups.

That was the thing about the sugar high; even though it was mixed with intense hormones, they eventually had to crash.

~o0o~

Wolf gladly accepted the cup of coffee Kai handed to him, groaning as he sunk down into the couch. He had spent a good hour after he left Cinder's room calming down Scarlett and listening to her rants. Eventually she fell asleep, but not before she gave him a few good punches in the stomach. He was proud of her fierceness, but damn those blows hurt.

Kai's experience wasn't exactly the same, though it definitely wasn't comfortable. Cinder wasn't crying anymore, but she began babbling about emotions and feelings and the future, and he couldn't quite wrap his head around it, but he nodded nonetheless. He just prayed that this new side he saw to her wasn't going to be her default mode.

Cress had also stopped crying shortly after Thorne carried her into her room, but she began demanding that he bring in some more ice cream. When he refused to comply, she huffed a little, peered closely into his face, and noted, "now that I think about it, you really aren't as handsome as I thought you were from pictures on the net."

Yeah, his pride had been wounded.

Cinder was the first girl up that morning. She was oddly quiet, keeping her head ducked down as she sipped her glass of water. Altogether she seemed calm, but none of the guys made a sound for fear of ticking her off.

"…Did that really happen yesterday?" She quietly asked, breaking the silence. No one had to question what she meant by that; they all silently nodded.

Groaning, Cinder pulled up a chair. "That was just… stars, I started talking you proposing, didn't I, Kai?"

"Yep," Kai confirmed, squirming in his seat. "And, erm, if you're really that anxious-"

"No!" She blurted. "I mean, yeah, I really like you and think we should build on what we have, but marriage… that's way down the line," she said, waving her hand dismissively. Kai could've cried on the spot, he was so relieved.

Cress was the next to arrive, shuffling into the room like a student on her way to detention. She took a seat next to Cinder, nervously glancing at her. She didn't dare make eye contact with Thorne.

"…Cress?" He prodded, smirking slightly at her timid demeanor. Her enthusiastic attitude was interesting, but her reserved attitude was what really drew her to him.

"Captain," she started, daring to look up into his eyes, "I am so sorry; please don't let me eat ice cream ever again."

He laughed out loud, scooting his chair next to hers and wrapping an arm around her shoulders. "You're fine, Cress. Don't worry about it."

She tried to smile, but found it pretty difficult. She had called the love of her life a potato. A potato.

Iko came down next, eying the two girls suspiciously.

"Are you guys back to normal?" she asked point-blank. Embarrassed, they both nodded, and Iko breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank goodness; I thought I was going to have to dismantle myself to escape your craziness!"

A few moments later, once the conversation finally got back to its usual liveliness, Scarlett strolled into the room.

"Listen, Scarlett, you don't have to apologize for everything that went on last night," Wolf started, pulling out a chair for her next to him. "We're all over it now."

"When's my birthday?" She asked, her voice monotone.

"Uhhh…"

"Thought so." She grabbed an apple off the table and exited the room, a fleeting grin marking her face. Wolf just chuckled and shook his head.

"Women," Thorne sympathized.

"Men," Cinder corrected, rolling her eyes and leaving the room.

"Ain't that the truth," Cress quietly confirmed, following after her. Iko giggled and tagged along.

All three of them exchanged glances.

"Well, we're back where we started," Thorne announced, tossing his plastic cup in the trash. "Now who's up for some Monster's Inc?"