Hello everyone! This was requested by ponytail30527 because she's curnently obessed with romance! Aren't we all? LOL! Hope you enjoy it! :)

Story three: First Crush

"No, Skipper! Don't tell that story!" Rune begged, placing her head in her paws.

"C'mon, Rune," Skipper laughed. "Your first crush is adorable!"

Rune burried her head deeper into her paws as she blushed. "So? I don't want everyone to know about it!"

Kowalski glanced at her. "Oh, Rune! Let Skipper tell the story! It's only fair counting thta you've heard the stories of Doris and... the van."

Rune lifted her head up a bit. "Fine... Go ahead and tell the story Skip."

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Captain Reef and his team ran their course around the penguins' military. Nicatia had hardly seen mammels around and considered herself lucky to be on such an alithe force of penguins. Suddenly, something caught Nicatia's attenshion; a tan, very cute, fruit bat. He was in the private ranks, Nicatia could tell. He was about her age. When the fruit bat glanced at her, Nicatia blushed and found herself being slammed into a pole.

"Oh for all that's good and mighty! Why?!" Nicatia shouted angrly. How embarassing! She peeked over at where the boy was, but the group had already moved on. Nicatia could only hpe that the boy didn't see.

"Geez, Niccy-a," Johnson said, helping her up. "What's gotten into you?"

"Yeah, you're usually more forcused than that!" Manfredy commented.

Skipper and Reef were looking at her with gleaming eyes of amuzement.

"W-What?!" Nicatia asked defensively.

Reef shook his head and smiled. "Let's head back team."

***

What's wrong with me? Nicatia asked herself. She peered out the window and spoted hte bat boy again. Her heart started to pound.

"His name is Gage," said a voice which startled Nicatia.

"My Lord, Skip! Give me a heart attack, why don't cha?" Nicatia gasped, placing her paw on her chest. She curiously glanced at him. "You say the fruit bat's name is... Gage?" Gage... what a cute name...

Skipper smirked.

Nicatia's eyes widen and she felt herself blush. "What?"

"You have a little crush on the new guy!"

"Huh? N-No way! Na-uh!" she denied.

"Niccy, you don't run into a pole for no reason," Skipper pointed out.

Nicatia shook her head, her blush deepen, but lucky for her, her brown fur hid it. "I was... He was... I can't...!"

Just then, Manfredy and Johnson jumpped out of the closet, locked flippers and danced around the 9 year old. "Niccy's got a cruuuush~! Niccy's got a cruuuuuuuuush~!" the two sang over and over(Hey, they're only ten years older than her, so they're not so much mature X3).

"Shut up!" Nicatia whined, burrying her face in her paws.

"Niccy and Gaaage! Sttin' in a tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!!" the two sang.

"Oh, now that's just sad!" Skipper said, rolling his eyes. "Two grown penguins teasing a little girl of her first crush!"

"You're right, Skipper," Johnson admited.

"Yeah," Manfredy agreed.

"But it's still funny," Johnson said.

"Yeah!"

"Niccy's got a cruuuush~! Niccy's got a cruuuuuuuuush~!" the two started singing again.

"I need air," Nicatia huffed, stagering outside.

***

Nicatia sighed as she sat up high in a tree under the moonlight. Can I really like Gage? I don't even know him! ...But... I want to...

"Hello, there!"

The lemur girl almost fell out of the tree. "G-G-G-Gage?!"

Gage laughed a bit. "The famous Nicatia knows my name!"

"F-Famous?" Nicatia studdered.

"Yeah. Everyone around here knows you. YOu're the most popular youngest solider!"

Nicatia blushed. "So, ah... how'd you get up here?"

Gage raised an eye brow and smiled before spreading out his wings.

Stupid, stupid, stupid!! "Heh, heh. S-Sorry. I'm use to hanging with penguins and they can't climb trees."

"Cool. I understand," he laughed.

Nicatia smiled.

Before they knew it, the two were talking and joking and laughing.

"I'll have to be leaving soon," Gage said suddenly.

"Oh," Nicatia siad, "I, ah, guess you have to wake up early tomorrow..."

"No. I mean, I'm being transfered today...," HE CONFESSED.

Nicatia's heart sank. She had just got to meet Gage! She didn't want him to leave! "Gage! ...I'll... I'll miss you..."

"I'm gonna miss you too," he said.

Nicatia opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't. Gage had pressed his lips against hers. When he pullled back, Nicatia slapped her paws over her mouth, her eyes were three times it's normal size and she had a blush that shined through her thick brown fur.

Gage smiled and blushed a bit too. "Ah... Hey, Nicatia, have you ever flew?"

"W-Wha?" she asked.

Gage flew up and picked the small lemur up by his feet and flew off.

"Ack! Oh my God! Don't drop me!" Nicatia shouted.

"I won't drop you," he assured.

Nicatia believed him and,even after a few miutes, began to enjoy her flight. When Gage put Nicatia donw, they were in front of her H.Q..

"Thanks, Gage. I had fun," Nicatia said.

"Me too," he said as he kissed her genly on the check. "By the way, try not to crahs into any more poles."

Nicatia blushed in embarassment. "R-Right!" she giggled nervously.

Gage smiled teasingly. "Take care, Nicatia."

"Take car," she told him as he took off. Once Gage was out of sight, Nicatia sighed and went back inside.

"Niccy's got a boyfriend! Niccy's got a boyfriend!"

"Urg." Nicatia groaned when Manfredy and Johnson danced and sang around her. Skipper shook his head at the two. "Wrong. Gage left to be transfered."

The two stopped dancing and singing.

"Er... Sorry, Nicatia," Manfredy said.

"We... we didn't relieze...," Johnson muttered.

"Aw! Poor Niccy! Are you going to be okayh?" Skipper asked.

"Yeah. Actually I will," she told them. "cause we'll always be friends! I'll see him again one day."

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Rune sighed. "I never did see him again, though..." She then instently perked up. "But I will!"

Kowalski stared blankly past everyone and let out a little jealous moan.

"Heh, heh! I can't ait to show him my new friends and family," Rune added with a wide smile.

Kowalski smiled a bit. "I guess I should consider myself lucky."

"Luck had nothing to do with it," Skipper siad.

"It was fate!" Private siad.

"Ah-huh!" Rico agreed.

Kowalski was confused.

"Fate brought me and you together," Rune explained to him. "Sure, Gage was a crush, but you were my first love; Now and forever!"

Kowalski smiled widely. "i just love you so much."

"I love you too, Kowalski," Rune told him, placing a kiss on his beak.

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A/N: Awww! ^w^ Isn't romance and crushes great? Ponytail30527 wanted Nicatia's first crush and have Kowalski be a bit jealous! I hope this story turned out alright! ;P

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