Chocolate Pudding-chan: Hey everyone! I bet you all are waiting to see what our three favorite aliens are going to do about there sticky sleeping situation. Enjoy!
"Poor Popsicle!" Tart reached into the cage and grabbed his wet pet. "Pai! You should've let her pee!"
"Would you be quiet?! Just give the thing a bath!"
"She doesn't like going to bed all wet and soapy!"
"Than blow-dry the stupid little monster!" Kish hissed.
This made Tart angry. "POPSICLE IS NOT STUPID!" Tart was on the verge of tears again. He was tired of everybody yelling at him. "YOU'RE STUPID!"
Tart carried Popsicle off to the small bathroom in a huff, leaving Kisshu and Pai to deal with the bedding problem.
"Leave him." Pai said. "He's not in a good mood, and you know how he gets."
Pai paused.
"Anyway, Tart's the smallest, so one of us will have to sleep with him." Pai winced at his own idea.
"Not me!" Kish said. There was no way he'd go through with this.
"Well, since I'm the tallest, I think you should. Besides, I've suffered enough today!"
"But Pai—"
"Listen Kish. Just do this one thing for me, and I promise I'll pay you back somehow."
Kish thought about this. He did feel sorry for Pai, after all that had happened that day.
"Well….alright. But if we stop and this happens again, you're gonna do it."
Pai grimaced. "Okay." He reluctantly agreed.
Tart came out of the bathroom with a fluffy, blow-dried Popsicle.
"Tart you're sleeping with Kish." Pai said right off the bat.
Kish just groaned. "C'mon, let's just get this over with."
Pai crawled into his uncomfortable mat the motel called a bed, and flicked off the lights.
"Goodnight, you two. I expect you up early." Pai said.
"Whatever." Kish mumbled.
Tart climbed into bed next to him. He plopped Popsicle by his side, and pulled the covers over his side.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said I had to sleep with that thing?!"
Tart looked up at Kish. Popsicle crawled onto Tart's lap.
"Kisshu, I promised I'll keep her quiet if you promise not to be mad at me."
"I'm not mad at you. I'm just in a bad mood. I hate this whole dumb mission, and I hate Pai for dragging us along to do it."
Luckily for Kish, Pai was sound asleep by then and couldn't hear him.
"And Kish?"
"What?"
"I'll make Popsicle sit on you if you don't apologize to her."
"WHAT?! Why should I apologize to her?"
"You hurt her feelings before, when you said she was stupid."
"Oh. Well, I'm sorry then, as long as you won't try to eat me."
Popsicle mumbled something that Kish couldn't understand.
"She says she's sorry for trying to eat your ear that one time."
"Okay. Goodnight, Tart."
"WAIT!"
"What now, Tart?"
"I'm sorry I said you were stupid. I was just upset about Popsicle's wet carrier."
"It's alright. Now go to sleep, Taruto."
"G'night Kish."
It was quiet for awhile after that, until a loud, snorting sort of noise broke the silence.
Tart was the lightest sleeper among all of them, so he was the first to spring up in bed.
"What was that?" He whispered to Popsicle, hugging her to his chest.
"Kish." He nudged his friend. "KISH!" He whispered loudly.
"What is it?" Kish mumbled groggily.
"Do you hear that?"
"What?"
Kish had barely finished speaking when the loud noise erupted from the other side of the room. Then it sort of continued a little softer, but in a continued in a steady stream of noise.
"It's growling at us! IT'S A MONSTER!" Tart said, clinging to Kish's arm.
"Shh!" Kish hushed him "It's coming from over there."
"The monster's gonna eat Pai!"
"I think I know what to do." Kish whispered. "But I'll need Popsicle's help."
Tart didn't have a chance to ask why before Kish grabbed Popsicle and flung her across the room in the direction of the noise.
There was a loud scream, than the light came on. Kish and Tart could now see that Popsicle was pawing at Pai's head.
"GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!!" Pai screamed.
Tart whistled than called out, "Popsicle! Come here!"
Popsicle jumped off of what was left (HA!) of Pai's hair and onto Tart's head. Then she just sat.
"Good girl! You scared the monster away! Or maybe it was the light. Or Pai's screaming…"
"What in the world were you two thinking?!"
"There was a growling monster under your bed, so Kish threw Popsicle at it." Tart explained.
"Growling monster? Oh…." Pai finally realized what had happened. "Just ignore that." He sighed. "I'll go sleep in the bathroom. Kish can have my bed."
"YES!" Kish jumped into the bed. "Hold on! Is this a setup?"
"No, I'll explain it later, now just go to sleep."
"Fine with me." said Kish. He was starting to like this "Monster", as long is it got him his own bed!
Pai walked into the bathroom and closed the door. "Dang sinus problems!"
Chocolate Pudding-chan: Haha! I bet most of you have guessed what the "Growling" was. If you didn't, think about it, it's not that hard. I don't think I'll get another chapter in until Monday or so, because I always write on Saturday nights, but I'll be at a concert and won't be home 'till late. Sorry! Have a good weekend everybody!