Hello again!
Since we're around half way through these one-shots, I thought that I'd ask you how your Valentines Day has been so far. Mine's been ok I guess, it's been like any other Sunday, but the only romance that I've encountered is posting these chapters, which is a stretch at most and are definitely not good enough to be considered 'romantic'. XD
Anyhow, this chapter is dedicated to Butchy & Giggles, who I have discovered to be quite a popular pairing, so why not pay homage to them? I say that this is paying homage to them when really this chapter's a bit of a flop. Sorry!
"Of course yous had to go and break your leg for Valentine's Day," Butchy jokingly grumbled.
"Well I didn't exactly do it on purpose did I?" Giggles shot back, lightly elbowing him in the ribs.
"Wes could'a been out doin' somethin' fun, but no. Instead wes is stuck inside makin' dinner from scratch."
"This is fun."
"This is effort. Why couldn't wes have just got a takeout pizza?"
"Because I bet the people at the pizza place wouldn't have shaped the base into a heart," Giggles said with a smile, happily sprinkling a handful of cheese over their homemade, heart-shaped pizza base.
"But it would have been ten times easier."
"Stop being so grumpy, at least you get to spend Valentine's Day with me at all. The people at the hospital wanted to keep me in over night, remember?" Giggles said, adjusting her leg that she had bent at the knee and had propped up on a stool and a cushion beneath her.
"Still sounds better than this," Butchy teased, his michievous smile curling at his lips as soon as he opened his mouth to speak.
"You'd better watch it, I still have control of my hands you know," Giggles said, lightly whacking the biker boy on the arm.
"Ooh, I's so scared."
"You are so rude," Giggles chuckled.
"Well that's only 'cause ya still haven't let me sign your cast," Butchy shot back with a smile as he swapped the slice of tomato that he was holding for a black marker that Giggles had handed him.
"Don't write anything inappropriate," Giggles warned, but she said it with a smile, proving that she wasn't too serious about her statement.
"I's can't promise anything," Butchy replied with a wicked smile as he crouched down on the floor beside where Giggles' leg was rested. I'll let you decide what message he wrote but when Giggles discovered it she didn't know whether to tell him off, blush or start laughing...so she did all three.
"Ooh, the pizza's ready," Giggles squeaked after hearing the timer going off in the kitchen.
"Go 'n check on it then," Butchy lazily sighed from his place on the couch beside her.
"Seriously? You're asking the girl with a broken leg to get up to check on it?" Giggles questioned, raising one of her eyebrows as she stared accusingly at the biker boy.
"Good point," Butchy grinned, pushing himself up from his seat to go and retrieve their dinner from the oven. "Bon appetit," he said a few minutes later as he swaggered back into the surfer girl's living room with the pizza on a plate.
"I didn't know that you could speak French," Giggles marvelled, genuinely impressed with the biker boy considering that she had been under the impression that he barely knew how to speak English properly.
"I can't, Lela took up a class and she's been speakin' it 'round the house ever since," Butchy chuckled.
"Hey, I believed it," Giggles laughed as the biker boy set the plate of food down on the coffee table. "You should get her to teach you some, it is the language of love after all."
"Oh, I's is already fluent in that," Butchy smirked.
"I've yet to see it proven," Giggles shot back, just making Butchy laugh more.
"Can we start this yet? I's is starvin'," Butchy said, eagerly eyeing the pizza.
"Oh, so now you like the pizza?"
"How could I's not like it if yous mades it?" he smiled, watching with satisfaction as Giggles' cheeks broke out into a blush.
"We should cook more often," Giggles murmured contentedly, laying back onto the sofa as she watched the biker boy devour the remainder of the pizza.
"If it tastes like this every time then maybe I'll consider it," Butchy replied before stuffing the last bite of pizza crust into his mouth.
"How did you manage to get more sauce around your mouth than in it?" Giggles chuckled, wiping the corner of the biker boy's mouth with her index finger. Butchy instantly softened at her touch and a smile instinctively spread across his mouth, along with the light blush on his cheeks. "You are such a softy," she teased, picking up on these things instantly.
"Yous must be gettin' to me 'cause I's startin' to believe that too," Butchy said with a small smile and a bashful chuckle.
"Or is it just the truth?" Giggles chuckled, brushing her fingertips along the side of his face until they cupped his jaw.
"Maybe," Butchy shyly admitted, letting his eyes fall to the floor. "But I swear, the day that my crew finds out wes is movin' to the other side of the country."
"We?"
"Well I'm not leavin' you behind," Butchy replied, having regained a bit of his confidence as he leant back and slung his arm around the blonde's shoulders, letting her snuggle into his chest.
The couple must have stayed like that, just talking and cuddling, for almost an hour before Butchy started to get restless. So Giggles, being the innovative one in the relationship, came up with an activity for them to do.
"Help me up and I'll go and get what we need," she said, outstretching her arms to the biker boy, who had stood up to stretch his legs.
"Can't yous just tell me where it is?" Butchy asked with a sigh. "You's is supposed to be restin'."
"No, you'll get the wrong things."
"You's is not goin' to be very good at this whole 'sittin' down and restin' business, are ya?" Butchy said as he hauled Giggles to her feet.
"Nope," she giggled as Butchy propped her up and grabbed her crutches.
"Look, if yous can take the time to break your leg then yous can take the time to let it heal properly. I don't want yous hurtin' yourself anymore than ya already have."
"Since when have you cared about me so much?" Giggles teasingly asked as she hobbled out of the room.
"Uh, since ya almost gave me a heart attack yesterday mornin'," Butchy shot back. "Yous can't just get Seacat to give me a call from the hospital tellin' me that ya were taken in by an ambulance, I pretty much died. I don't think that I've ever run to my bike so fast. Yous could'a told him to tell me what was wrong with ya, I thought yous had collapsed or somethin', or had an accident on that stupid board of yours. I'd have felt a little better if he'd have told me yous just fell down some steps."
"Well how else were you going to find out that I was there?"
"I'd have preferred for yous to not be there at all, thank yous very much," Butchy replied, having followed Giggles' voice until he found her stood by a cupboard in her parents' study. "Yous need some help with that?" he asked, eyeing up the heap of art supplies that Giggles was piling up on a nearby table.
"Yes please," she said shyly, prompting Butchy to stride over to her and pick up the stack of canvases, paint pallets and sketching pencils.
"What's all this stuff for?" he asked as he followed Giggles into the dining room.
"I thought that we could do some painting," Giggles explained as she rested her crutches against a wall and steadied herself on the table.
"Paintin'?" Butchy questioned as he dumped all of the supplies onto the table, raising one of his eyebrows at her in the process.
"Yeah, it'll be fun," Giggles promised, hoping that Butchy would willingly go along with her idea.
"Why did yous just have all this stuff lyin' around?" Butchy asked, suddenly picking up on the peculiarity of the situation.
"It's my art supplies. Painting and sketching are like my other hobbies besides surfing," Giggles explained hesitantly, unsure of what Butchy's reaction would be.
"Really?"
"Yeah, I painted that," she added, pointing to a pretty, watercolour painting of a lone blossom tree in a field of flowers on the wall.
"Woah," Butchy breathed, staring at the painting in awe. "You really painted that? It's amazin'."
"Uh huh."
"Why didn't yous tell me yous was this talented?"
"It's not that big of a deal, it's easy. Look, I'll show you," Giggles smiled, luring Butchy over to sit down with her before gradually coaxing him to pick up a pencil. The couple sat beside each other for pretty much the rest of the evening, with Giggles helping Butchy perfect his brushstrokes and with Butchy stealing kisses every time that she shuffled her seat close enough to his to fix his drawing. By the end of their painting session, Giggles had completed a painting which showed a vase of delicate, white and pink flowers and Butchy had just about managed his 'masterpiece' of a goldfish in a glass bowl, which looked more like a cheese puff in a puddle of blue ink. But nonetheless, the couple had had a wonderful time and just being in each other's company was enough to have made it lovely. The couple rarely had time when it was just the two of them because they were so involved with their friends, so this evening had been significantly special, even if one of them was down a limb. They'd gotten to know each other a lot better through their discussions, with each of them opening up about things that they wouldn't normally have told the other surfers and bikers, and the more they found out about the other, the more they fell in love with them. They may not have fully realised it in that moment but, as Giggles was painting a red heart on Butchy's cheek, practically erupting with laughter as she did so, and Butchy was perfecting Giggles' green uni-brow and moustache, laughing just as much as she was, they had totally fallen head over heels in love with each other. And there was no turning back now.
There you go! I know that it wasn't the best and it was split up into pretty short sections but I tried my best, I was writing most of this during a power cut last night. XD
Anyway, I hope that it wasn't as awful for you to read as it was for me! XD
No one requested a Giggles and Butchy story but I figured that they're popular enough for people to read about them anyway, so I hope that my idea for them was received well. :)
I'll try to post the next part as quickly as possible. But for now, thank you for reading! I'll see you soon!
-cherrygorilla
