Chapter 9: Perfect Planning!
It was a beautiful morning. Malina got up extra early to plan for her baby shower which was a few days away. She walked gracefully to one of the palace rooms to check on the decorations. Sure enough, there were a bunch of servants decorating the room in yellow and other pastel colored streamers and balloons. Malina smiled as she checked off "decorate room" on her checklist. Soon, her husband entered the room in a red robe and white bunny slippers. His hair was a mess, and his eyes were heavy. He walked into the room with a groan that made Malina turn around.
"Good morning honey." Kuzco said with a groggy tone.
"Kuzco! Sweetheart you look terrible! You should go back to bed." Malina said as she tried to move her sleepy husband out of the room.
"What's all this?" he said as he turned around and went back into the room.
"Isn't it great? It's for the baby shower!" Malina said with a huge smile. She was extremely excited.
Kuzco looked at her with a serious glare (his regular stare if he finds something annoying). In this case, he found his wife's eager attitude VERY annoying. All he did was blink twice. He didn't even bother to answer.
"Well Kuzco, what do you think?" Malina asked.
Kuzco looked around the room. With a groan, all he did was shrug his shoulders.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Malina said as she became irritated with her husband's lack of interest.
"What time is it?" Kuzco said as he yawned.
"It's 6:30. Look Kuzco, if you're not interested, then you should just go to bed." Malina said as she rolled her eyes.
"No no, I am interested. It looks nice. What's with all the yellow?" He said as he yawned again.
"Well, since we don't know what the gender of the baby is, we can't choose pink or blue, so I went with yellow."
"And by we you mean me because you know what the gender of the baby is." Kuzco said as he folded his arms.
"That's right. And I'm not telling." Malina said as she looked at her clipboard.
"Oh come on Malina! Why not?" Kuzco whined.
"Kuzco, I want it to be a surprise." Malina said with a smile.
"Fine don't tell me. When our baby boy is born, it will all be worth it!" Kuzco said as he stood up straight.
"This is what I was afraid of." Malina said with a sigh.
"What do you mean?"
"Kuzco, what if it's not a boy?"
"Malina, don't be ridiculous, it has to be a boy. Somebody has to be the next emperor!" Kuzco said with a grin.
"Kuzco, now you're being ridiculous! This child is an heir to the throne regardless of gender!" Malina said as her cheeks got red.
"Yeah but if it's a girl, she'll get married, and then a total stranger would have rights to the throne." Kuzco said as he rolled his eyes.
"Kuzco, all I'm saying is that I want you to love this baby whether it's a boy or not."
"Malina, I will love our son don't worry."
"You are unbelievable! I'm not having this conversation with you!" Malina said as she walked away from Kuzco.
"Look Malina I'm sorry."
"It's alright Kuzco."
"Yaaaay!" he cheered as he kissed Malina on the cheek. "What about the gifts? Did you register at Babies R' Kuzco?"
"No. I don't understand why you named that store after you. You're not a baby." Malina said as she laughed.
"Uh huh. I know that. All registered moms get a free bib with my face on it! They even come in pink for girls and blue for boys." Kuzco said as he held up a bib with his face on it.
Malina shook her head. "Kuzco, after all these years, you still don't understand that being emperor doesn't make it all about you. Besides, you already bought stuff for the baby."
"I did? Malina, wasn't that a dream?"
"Kuzco, how many times must I go over this? You showed me a nursery full of baby supplies, went to your throne room, and fell asleep on your throne."
"Right."
"I want this baby shower to be as small as possible." Malina said.
Kuzco looked around at the room. "This doesn't look like a small baby shower to me."
"Kuzco, I don't mean literally small. I mean I want it to be just close friends and family."
"WHAT? Oh no Malina! This baby shower has to be big! It has to be the biggest baby shower in history!"
"Why? Kuzco, the public doesn't have to know everything that we do. Besides, I want it to be a memorable shower, not a huge event in history!"
"But huge event in history is awesome! We must let everyone know!" Kuzco said as he called Guaca.
"Yes sir!" Guaca said as he appeared quickly.
"Guaca I need you to alert everyone in the kingdom that we are having a baby shower!"
"Guaca, I need you to ignore that and turn around!" Malina said.
"Guaca GO!" Kuzco said.
"No Guaca, STAY!" Malina said.
"GO!"
"STAY!"
"GO!"
"STAY!"
"Guaca if you don't move, you're fired!" Kuzco yelled.
"Guaca, you'd better not move!" Malina said as she gave Guaca the Malina stare.
"Guaca, move now or I'll-" Kuzco was interrupted as Malina gave him a deep and nasty Malina stare.
"On second thought Guaca, cancel that order. You can leave now." Kuzco said as Guaca left.
"How do you do that?" Kuzco asked Malina.
"It's a gift. Now go to bed!"
"But I don't wanna!" Kuzco whined.
Malina gave him the stare again.
"Okay! I'm Leaving! Bye honey!" Kuzco said as he ran out of the room.
Malina laughed and shook her head as she continued to plan.