Author's Note: Hey guys, I'm writing this instead of doing homework... so it looks like it's gonna be another late night. Shout-out to BrunoMarslover21! She has lots of cool stories! So here's chapter 18!
Margaret opened her eyes. She saw Mordecai's side empty as usual. She sat up and did her morning scratches then walked to the living room. Keelan was watching TV while John was sitting on the couch helping Mordecai's arm.
"John? When did you get here?" Margaret asked.
Everyone turned to her, "About twenty minutes ago." John answered.
Margaret nodded her head and walked to the kitchen for some coffee. "Mordecai? How's your arm?" She called.
"It still stings a little, but I'm fine."
"Yeah, sorry about that man." John said as he was putting a new bandage on Mordecai's arm.
"It's okay, I've been worse." There was a knock at the door. Keelan got up and opened it.
"Oh, hey Anthony!" Keelan waved.
"Oh, hi Keelan. What are you doing here?"
"I'm gonna live here for a while 'cause I lost my my apartment."
"Aw, sorry about that. Hey is Mordecai here?"
"Uh, yeah he's right over there."
Anthony walked into the apartment and saw Mordecai's arm, "Oh no, Mordecai, what happened to your arm?!"
"I got shot." Mordecai said casually. Anthony gasped. Mordecai laughed. "It's okay, I only got grazed."
"Oh, well... I got you this." She pulled out a small, yellow box. She handed it to Mordecai.
"Aw, come on. You guys don't have to do things for my birthday!"
"Yes we do. Why are you like this about your birthday?"
"'Cause there was never really a big deal about it."
"Aw, your parents never threw you a party?"
"No no they did, but I never liked them as a kid."
"Why not?"
"I just didn't. I can't really explain why."
"Fine, just open your present." Mordecai opened the box and pulled out the tissue paper. He pulled out a little plastic box.
"Whoa! You got me that new video game that came out like, two days ago?"
"Wow, that's so awesome!" Everyone turned to see Rigby
"Rigby? When did you get here?" Mordecai asked.
"The door was open so I walked in."
"Uh... okay?"
"Uh, Mordecai I have to work today. So I have to go." Margaret gabbed her purse.
"Okay, then see you later."
"Bye."
"Yeah, Mordecai, I have to work too. I'll be back later."
"Bye Keelan/Keenan." Everybody waved.
"Yeah, I'm glad you like your present, but I have to go too. Bye guys!" Ryan left out the door. Mordecai and Rigby looked at John.
"So, I'm guessing that's my cue to leave. Well, bye then." John accidentally slammed the door on his way out. "Sorry!" He yelled from outside. Mordecai and Rigby looked at each other.
"Strong Johns 2! Strong Johns 2! Strong Johns 2!" They chanted as they put the new game in. They played story mode and finished it. So they played it again, and again, and again. Today wasn't Rigby's day. The game was brand new so it was quite glitchy. The game would freeze and Rigby would end up dying. At one point, during level one, Rigby jumped over one of the smallest obstacles but he hit some sort of invisible wall and died. Mordecai started laughing uncontrollably.
Rigby threw his controller down. "That's it man! I'm not playing this game anymore! I'm leaving." Mordecai was laughing too hard to respond. Rigby left and could still hear Mordecai's laughter. Mordecai was laughing so hard he wasn't paying attention to where he was going. He bumped into the book case and a few books fell out. He put them back but stopped at the last one. He realized it had a lock on it. It wasn't broken this time luckily. Mordecai shook off his De Ja Vu and picked it up. However he saw a couple words that caught his eye. He read the page and closed the book quickly. He put it back and didn't know if he should be angry, sad or ashamed. Ashamed for reading his fiancee's diary.
Margaret walked in to see Mordecai watching TV. "Hi Mordecai." She greeted.
"Hi Margaret." He said loudly, still looking at the TV.
"Um, yeah." Margaret walked to the kitchen to pour some water for herself. Mordecai stood up.
"Man, I'm so glad we're getting married aren't you?" Mordecai asked loudly again.
"Mmhmm." Margaret nodded.
"Yeah, I would be happy too if I could just, y'know, let go of some things."
Margaret looked at him, "Right."
"And if I could just get over the fact that I've never been married before, then again most people that get married have never been married before."
Margaret's eyes widened and she walked over to him and shoved him, "You read my diary!" She pointed.
"It fell on the floor!" Mordecai shouted back. He didn't like raising his voice at Margaret, but he was furious.
"You shouldn't have looked in it though!"
"It fell open on that page! I was going to back but... but-"
"But what?"
"How come you don't want to get married!?"
"B-because I was scared!" Margaret's eyes started to water. Mordecai hated seeing her like this, especially since he was the one causing it.
"Then why didn't you say no when I proposed?" Mordecai said in a slightly calmer tone of voice.
"Don't you remember that I ran away for two weeks? And if I said no, you would've been devastated and I love you too much to have done that to you."
"If you love me then why don't you want to marry me?"
"Because, that mean's everything get's serious, and we can't mess up." More tears went down her face.
"Well, we can't mess up now. We basically are already married," he wiped a tear from her face, trying as best he could not to cry himself, "us getting married would just make it official."
"Are-are you sure you want to be together for that long?" She sniffled.
Mordecai stared into her eyes, "Margaret, I knew I wanted to marry you for years now."
"Really?"
"Yes." They stared at each other before they leaned in for a kiss. Keelan opened the door to see the two avians kissing.
"Uh, did I come at a bad time?" they both turned and blushed. "I could come back later?"
"No, you're already here." Keelan threw his keys on the table and went to the other room.
Mordecai looked back at Margaret. "I'm sorry I looked at your diary."
"I'm sorry I didn't want to get married."
"Well you couldn't help that." Mordecai kissed her again and they sat on the couch, watching TV.
A few hours later, Keelan came back to the living room to see Mordecai and Margaret sleeping on the couch together.
Now where am I going to sleep? He thought. He got out the blanket and the pillow and just slept on the floor.
Mordecai tried to sit up only for his back to ache. He realized he had fallen asleep on the couch. He saw Keelan sleeping on the floor and laughed quietly. He tried to push himself up only to grab his arm. He reached for his phone and called Benson, telling him that he wouldn't be able to come to work today. Mordecai tried to go back to sleep, but his phone buzzed.
Rigby: Dude?! That arm better heal fast cause im getting tired of doing ur chores!
Mordecai: hey, you try getting shot
Rigby: It only grazed you
Mordecai smiled, shook his head and went back to sleep.
Author's Note: OK, sorry for the short chapter. Next chapter will have a time jump. I'm also sorry if it seemed a little AU with Mordecai being touchy about his birthday. Review or PM! I like reading them.
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