After the gang had gotten their revenge, the rest of the school day had flown by without any troubles. Skipper went to his locker to pick up some books when a note floated out of his books and on to the floor. Seeing this, Skipper bent down and picked it up so he could read it. "Skipper, so people won't get suspicious, you are going to have to call me dad...but only in public and when even one person is around. However, if you call me dad during missions or anything like that, you're 'grounded'. Now the apartment we're staying at is the Central Apartments. It's dang popular to your school, so ask a friend."read Skipper aloud to himself when he saw that the hallway was empty. 'Without says saying from or love..He didn't love me as a son, he never will.."thought Skipper sourly and tucked the note in his book.

As he walked up the hallway, he was to busy thinking to notice Kowalski, that is until he bumped into Kowalski. "Kowalski! Are you ok?"he asked the tall boy and helped his friend up.
Kowalski gladly accepted the help up and smiled before replying,"Affirmative!"
Skipper smiled at his friends military talk before he questioned,"Hey do you know where the Central Apartments are?"
"Central Apartments? That's where me, K'walski and Rico live!"exclaimed Private from behind them with Rico at his side.
"Ye'h! 'at's w'ere 'ost of th' s'hool l'ves!"informed Rico before his mind wondered of explosions and fish.
"What's your door number?" asked Kowalski curiously whist raising an eyebrow.
Skipper got hesitant to answer, but replied in a few seconds,"Weeeell, Dad didn't really specify which one but he said on the middle floor near the lobby."
"Really? B'cause we live on the same floor! So does the Chimppanzahs, Julien Ringtaimur, Maurice Ayeas and Mort Moumur. I hear that Julien and Maurice are half-brothahs and Mort and Maurice are brothahs, but Morts mum gave Mort her maiden name to him."exclaimed Private happily and dragged Skipper outside.

"Uh, Private...Why exactly are you dragging me?"quieried Skipper flatly and raised an eyebrow at him. As soon as Private realised what he was dragging Skipper, his eyes grew as wide as saucers, he let go and gave a sheepish grin. "'Oo 'ike 'y wide?"asked Rico proudly and rested his elbow against a car. Skipper gave a double take at the car, which was pink, decorated with flowers, had no roof and had a smiley face on a stick dangling on the back. "..."replied Skipper and stared t the car with his mouth hanging open.
"I kno' 'igh'? Speec'le's!"stated Rico proudly as turned to the car and screamed, then glared at Private. Lucky for Private, he let it slide and entered the car, when everyone was inside, he slammed the door shut and hit the gas pedal, making the car race own the street.

Once they arrived, Skipper's 'dad' was waiting for them at the main entrance. "SKIPPER! WHERE IN THE DING-DONG HAVE YOU BEEN?!"screamed Buck and dragged Skipper by the ear inside to the 5th floor. "And why are they following you?"whispered Buck harshly to Skipper.
"They live on the same floor!"whispered Skipper loudly back and walked to his apartment with his dad by his side. When he entered the room, he was amazed to see it, unfortunately, since he was late (by FIVE minutes), Buck angrily locked Skipper in his room. Skipper's room had a grey marble floor, with an army pattern rug and blue-fish wall paper. There was an Army Metal Bed for Skipper with a thin, light blue mattress, a plain white pillow and swamp-green sheets. The room was filled with boxes of Skipper's junk and it took Skipper half an hour to unpack and place them in his room. Suddenly he got a text from Marlene...: (Skipper 's text, Marlene's text)

Hi Skipper! Where are you, Kowalski, Private and Rico told me that you live on the same floor as me and that your door number was 12B. Oh, and I live at the opposite door, 5A! :D

Hey Marlene, I'm grounded for being FIVE minutes late! D: But, I have a plan...Hey could you send me a copy of the ventilation plans, ASAP? THNX! ;)

In less than a minute, Marlene sent him a photo of the ventilation plans and he moved his bed to see a golden-but rusty-Vent and he climbed thought it, by following his phone. When he saw what he was looking for he slipped his phone into his pocket and peered in through the vent to see Marlene, Kowalski, Private and Rico waiting at the vent. He kicked the vent open and landed in Marlene's room with a stunning pose to finish. "Ok team, now that we have successfully played our revenge we can now get..."started Skipper proudly but paused to observe his teams enthusiasm to find pleasing results.
"Say it! Say it!"chanted Kowalski eagerly whilst bouncing up and down.
"SNOWCONES!"
"Yeah! Snowcones, I love snowcones! ...What's a snowcone?"pondered Marlene as curiosity shown in her sparkling hazel eyes.
"Wait, you've never had a snowcone? Well we gotta fix that!"exclaimed Skipper and grabbed Marlene's hand, then ran out of the building and to the park. When Skipper's hand-made contact with Marlene's, she didn't get a flashback but felt a surge of power corsing through her veins and an amazing feeling struck her body, making her feel like she could do anything!

"Marlene...? We're at the park now..Hello?"Skipper shook Marlene by the shoulders making her snap out of her hypnotic stare.
"Hmm, what? Oh, ok! So which snowcone would you recommend for a first timer?"wondered Marlene apprehensively and peered down at the mouth watering flavours.
Smiling, Skipper, who loved snowcones, answered happily,"The rainbow one, that way you can taste all the flavours and trust me; they're good!"
So Marlene agreed to have it and she totally loved the taste of it, so she decided to have double scoop; which made Skipper smirk.

However, the fun soon stopped when Skipper got home to a furious father, who - when everyone was gone - slapped Skipper across the face for the fist time and shouted louder than Julien's Boom-Box. Skipper sprinted to his room and locked the door shut, luckily he had his video games, a toilet and a mini refrigerator to last him for quite a while. After an hour he got bored and stared outside the window whilst rubbing his cheek, which was bright red,'Man, I wish I had a friend who would help me through this, not a normal friend but...A best friend. A person who appreciates me, who likes me...who thinks of me more than a team-mate or a soldier...Someone like-'thought Skipper sadly but was knocked out of his train of thoughts when he received a message from Kowalski asking if he could sneak out through the vent again for something. Skipper smiled sadly and glanced at the hammer shut vent when an idea suddenly popped in o his mind and he pressed a brick on the wall to revel a secret safe. Punching in numbers, he wondered why he hadn't thought of this before and opened the safe to see his case of weapons. Moments later...WIZZZZZ!Skipper decided to go extreme and used laser gun to melt the nails off and slid through the vent and into Kowalski's room, suprising the young scientist.
"Skipper!"shouted the polish boy half worriedly and half excitedly then heaved Skipper to his feet. "We found a great HQ for us! Come on! I'll show you!"insisted Kowalski and leaded Skipper to the roof of the building.

"Woah, this is good!"commented the leader and looked around. It was grey with 4 Metal Miliary bunks, a table and a TV! The were two secret openings in the floor which lead to Kowalski's room and the pool's changing room!
"Thanks,"thanked Private and walked over to a box to unpack it. "You know, it was Marlene who found this place..Hey could you help me with this box, Skippah? Skippah?"called Private but he saw Skipper disappearing down one of the tunnels.

Meanwhile, Marlene was humming a tune when she heard a knock on her door and opened it to see Skipper. "Oh, hey Skipper! And what gives me the pleasure of having you here?"she questioned kindly as she fluttered her eyelashes, flipped her hair and smiled.
To Skipper, it looked like it was all in slow motion which made Marlene look more beautiful than she already was and Skipper turned bright red to when he saw Marlene was inches away from him.
"Skipper?"called Marlene as her eyes began to flash with worry and a frown came upon her face.
This made Skipper snap out of his gaze as he didn't want to worry or upset Marlene,"What? Oh, well I just came here to say thank you for finding the boys a HQ."he informed Marlene half-heartedly then hugged her before heading back to his apartment.

When he got in, he found his Buck fast asleep on the couch and he took that opportunity to tip-toe back to his room. Once he got in a closed the door and smiled at himself then looked outside the window when a thought occurred to his head. 'Wait, just because I didn't respond for a while made Marlene worried...and she believed in me when I told her it wasn't me who flung the potato at her..and when we first met, she seemed to look at me in that way..What if SHE'S the that I've hoped for my whole life..?'wondered Skipper as he stared wistfully out the window.

At the same time, Marlene was staring out the window in her room when a shooting star past by. 'A SHOOTING STAR! I wish that one day, my prince in shining armor will come..'

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