Operation: HANDCUFFS
Capter Twelve: School! No way!
As they were walking through the hall only the sound of their steps was audible. None of them said anything. Numbuh 1 was still thinking about what happened a while ago. When she was so close to him, he could feel how fast her heart was beating against his chest. When he remembered that he almost felt it again, the rythm of her heart. He shook his head to throw away the strange thoughts before his face will get the colour of tomato. Numbuh 5 didn't see it because she had her head turned into another direction. Only one thought came to her mind when she was thinking about that situation; she thought it all was just very funny. After all, not every day you are being fastend to your friend, and a boy. No mater how embarrassing it all was, she thought she liked spending more time with Numbuh 1. When they finally reached the living room, they stopped before entering, then looked at eachother. They knew the other three won't leave them alone after that shower. They both sighed and entered the room. Numbuhs 2, 3 and 4 were sitting on the couch and watching TV.
"Hey guys" Numbuh 5 said as normally as she could.
"Hey" Numbuh 2 answered not turning away from the TV. Numbuh 3 didn't say anything, cause she was too absorbed with the film and Numbuh 4 was too absorbed with dying on the film, so he didn't respond as well. Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 5 looked at eachother with surprisement.
"Um...maybe we'll go fo' somethin' to drink?" Numbuh 5 asked.
"Yeah, good idea Numbuh 5" Numbuh 1 said with a smile. And they headed for the kitchen. They poured themselves some juice and sat at the table. After a while Numbuh 4 entered the kitchen with completely exhausted expression on his face.
"Neva'...again..." he said tiredly. Then he made a surprised face, when he noticed Numbuhs 1 and 5 sitting there and watching him, he blinked twice "Hey! You're back!" he exclaimed pointing at them with his index finger "Haha! And how was tha bath!" he asked and laughed again.
"Well...it wasn't so bad" Numbuh 1 said.
"Haha...sure it wasn't" Numbuh 4 laughed.
"Hey, what was that supposed to mean?" Numbuh 5 asked angirly. That's when Numbuh 3 and Numbuh 2 entered the kitchen.
"Oh, hey guys, when did you come here?" Numbuh 3 asked surprised, but smiling as always.
"Yeah, you have already finished the bath?" Numbuh 2 asked. Numbuh's 1 and 5 sighed.
"We were even in the living room a few minutes ago, and we said 'hi' to you, and you even answered us Numbuh 2" Numbuh 5 said tiredly.
"Really? I don't remember that" Numbuh 2 said surprised puting his hand against his chin.
"Eh..." Numbuh 1 sighed. And Numbuh 5 looked at them all tiredly.
"Oh! Oh!" Numbuh 3 screamed happily and jumped up to Numbuh 5. All of them looked at her with astonishment "Can I brush your hair Numbuh 5! can I? Can I!" she asked with a smile.
"Oh...um...yeah, okey Numbuh 3" Numbuh 5 said with composition of tiredness and surprisement.
"Yeey!" Numbuh 3 screamed happily and started jumping around the kitchen "Then let's go to the living room!" she added and approached Numbuh 5. Then she grabbed her hand and pulled her from her seat, pulling Numbuh 1 as well of course. They both made a surprised faces. She dragged them to the couch in the living room.
"Easy Numbuh 3" Numbuh 1 said tiredly. They sat down on the couch. Numbuh 5 turned her back to Numbuh 3, so she was facing Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 3 sat behind her. She took the brush that was lying on the table next to the couch. Numbuh 5's hair was still wet and when Numbuh 3 started combing it, a little drops of water were dripping down. Suddenly the brush came across some entangled wad of hair and when Numbuh 3 tried to comb it, it jerked Numbuh 5's hair. That made her shut her eyes in pain.
"Ouch...Numbuh 3 please be more gentle" she said as she opened her eyes. And Numbuh 1 turned from the TV to look at her with astonishment.
"Ups...sorry Numbuh 5" Numbuh 3 said "Your hair is a little entangled" she added.
"Yeah...I know...Numbuh 5 didn't comb it quite a few days" Numbuh 5 said and looked at Numbuh 1. He gave her a helpless smile. She sighed. After a few minutes Numbuh 3 finished combing Numbuh 5's hair.
"Your hair is soo beautiful Numbuh 5!" Numbuh 3 said happily. Numbuh 1 outwardly seemed to be watching TV, but he was carefully listening to the girls, and he smiled at Numbuh 3's comment. He totally agreed with it.
"Um...thanx Numbuh 3" Numbuh 5 said a bit perplexed.
"Can I do your hair in a braid Numbuh 5?" Numbuh 3 asked.
"Yeah, sure, do what ya want Numbuh 3" Numbuh 5 said tiredly and Numbuh 1 turned to her again.
"But...shouldn't your hair first dry out before you'll braid it?" Numbuh 1 asked. Numbuh 5 was filled with surprisement, she looked at him with astonishment and her eyes were saying 'what can YOU know about hair?' though she didn't really think that way, but Numbuh 1 didn't understand her surprisement.
"Um...what's the difference?" Numbuh 5 asked "It will dry out anyway" she added.
"Well...eee...but it would dry out faster if you left it loose..." Numbuh 1 said. Numbuh 5 couldn't belive her own ears, it sounded just like he'd care if she left it loose or not.
"But what difference does it make to you how fast it will dry out?" she asked. A slight blush appeared on Numbuh 1's cheeks.
"Eeee...uh...no...no difference to me...heheh..." he answered with perplexity. But the truth was he would like to see her more often in loose hair, and that was a chanse. Numbuh 5 gave him an astonished glance and then passed Numbuh 3 her rubber band. She didn't understand why did he say that, but she thought it was cute.
"There" Numbuh 3 said when she braided Numbuh 5's hair and smiled, then went bouncing to the kitchen. Numbuh 5 could now turn to the TV and that's what she did. They were watching Tv for a while until Numbuh 2 entered the room.
"Hey, guys, who's turn is it today to clean the dishes?" Numbuh 2 asked when he approached the couch. The two handcuffed kids turned to him at the same time.
"Um...Numbuh 5 thinks it's her turn today" Numbuh 5 answered "I'll take care of that in a few minutes ok?".
"Oh, okey then" Numbuh 2 said and left the room. After a minute Numbuh 5 turned to Numbuh 1.
"Well, actually, Numbuh 5 doesn't feel like doin' the dishes today, so maybe we'll do it tomorrow?"
"Sure Numbuh 5, I feel too tired as well" Numbuh 1 said and smiled.
"Thanx" she answered and they got back to watching TV. The rest of the day passed very calmly and normally. The only thing that gave Numbuh 5 to think, was that none of them made any comment about the shower, except for Numbuh 4, but even his comment was very short. That wondered her, but she gave it up and decided to forget about it. Maybe they just decided to stop all those stupid jokes. In the evening Numbuhs 2 and 4 were playing some game, Numbuh 3 was having some tea party, and Numbuhs 1 and 5 were sitting on the couch, Numbuh 1 watching the other boys playing and Numbuh 5 reading her magazine. As the two boys finished their game they got up from the floor and decided to go for something to drink. When Numbuh 2 entered the room again he approached the couch where Numbuhs 1 and 5 were sitting on.
"Hey um...guys..." he started and they both turned to look at him "I've been wondering...what are you gonna do with tomorrow's school day?" he asked and the two kids watched him like they didn't hear him "Y-you know...tomorrow we're going normally to school..."he added. The expressions on their faces slowly turned from confusement to fear and disbelief, and then they turned to look at eachother.
"Oh...man..."Numbuh 5 said slowly with disbelief.
"With all those things that were happening...we totally forgot about that..." Numbuh 1 said with fear in his eyes, still looking at Numbuh 5.
"Oh man! How could we forget 'bout that!" Numbuh 5 exclaimed.
"W-we can't go to school like that!" Numbuh 1 said.
"Numbuh 5 agrees completely!" Numbuh 5 added.
"So what are you gonna do?" Numbuh 2 asked and they both turned to him again.
"Nothing..."Numbuh 1 said. Numbuh 5 looked at him with unsure expression.
"And what if our parrents find out?" she asked worriedly.
"Well...I guess we have to take this risk...we don't have a choise" Numbuh 1 answered when he turned to her again.
"I guess ya're right..." she said and lowered her sight. Numbuh 1 sighed.
"Well guess you really don't have a choise" Numbuh 2 said and sat on the other couch. The whole evening was very boring. Everyone were just hanging around and didn't know what to do, until they felt tired and left for their rooms. Numbuh 1 and Numbuh 5 also did their bed and lay down. This day was so tiresome for them, that they didn't have strength do do anything. But because of so many things that were happening this day, and so many emotions they experienced, they couldn't fall asleep. So many thoughts in their heads didn't let them stop thinking. Either of them thought the other one was asleep. Numbuh 5 felt strangely, a rather sad feeling engulfed her. She thought that if she only could, she would go upstairs on the patio and watch the stars. She really wanted to spend some time alone and just think about everything. She reached out her left hand and took her discman from the table next to her. She put on the headphones and turned on the music. Numbuh 1 felt that she was moving and turned a little his head. He saw as she was putting on her headphones. He thought that she surely couldn't sleep as well. And he was sure that it was the same reasone that made him sleepless. He turned to his side again and tried to fall asleep. Thanks to listening to the music Numbuh 5 stopped thinking so hardly. After a while she fell asleep, with the discman still turned on. Numbuh 1 fell asleep as well, but a bit later than Numbuh 5. He had very deep sleep that night.
Numbuh 1 slowly started to wake up when the beams of the sun came through the window and were shining right on his face. He slowly opened his eyes and squinted in the bright sunlight. He turned to his back, and now he was looking at the ceiling. But his eyes noticed something next to him. He turned his head to look left and noticed Numbuh 5 was sitting on the bed. He could see her back and a bit of her right arm. She didn't notice he was awake. She was doing something Numbuh 1 couldn't see. She had her right hand on her lap, and so his left one was right next to her tights. That wondered him so he leaned on his elbows.
"What are you doing Numbuh 5?" he asked tiredly, rubbing his eyes. Numbuh 5 flinched at the sudden sound of his voice and quickly turned to look at him.
"Uh...um...nothing Numbuh 1" she said. When she turned to him he could see her right hand, and he noticed her wrist was red. He quickly jumped up and was right next to her with surprised and worried face. His sudden move surprised and scared Numbuh 5 a lot. He looked closer at her wrist and could see she had a red abrasion on it.
"W-what happened?" he asked with worry in his eyes when he took her hand in his. That made Numbuh 5 blush.
"E...hehe...nothin' Numbuh 1, it's only a small abrasion" she said a bit confused and perplexed.
"It's not so small" Numbuh 1 said in worried tone and looked at her "Does it hurt? How did this happen?".
"Um...it hurts only a bit...Numbuh 5 noyiced it only this mornin' and she thinks it's cause of the handcuffs" she said and Numbuh 1 gave her a confused look "Um...you know...because we were trying to be as far from eachother as possible, the handcuffs were tight all the time and they were pinching Numbuh 5's wrist" she explained.
"Why didn't you tell me!" he said in pretentious tone and a bit of anger in his eyes. Numbuh 5 looked at him with astonishment '...He cares...' she thought with disbelief. She could see it in his eyes, though she couldn't really belive it.
"Oh...um...sorry Numbuh 1...I felt it only a little, I didn't think it was gonna be bad or somethin'..." she said.
"Okey Numbuh 5...but, you should disinfect it" he said and only now let go of her hand "Come on, we'll get up and go to the bathroom" he added as he moved to the edge of the bed. They got up, put their shoes on and headed for the bathroom. Numbuh 5 disinfected the abrasion and Numbuh 1 passed her the plaster.
"What for?" she asked.
"If you leave it like that the handcuffs may pinch it more and it'll be worse" he informed, Numbuh 5 took it from him and put the plaster on the abrasion.
"Okey now?" she asked.
"Yeah...but I still don't understand why didn't you say something before? I didn't feel anything" he said.
"I told ya already..." Numbuh 5 responded.
"Well anyway we have to do something about it, I don't want that happen again" he said and Numbuh 5 looked at him confused.
"But what d'ya wanna do 'bout it?" she asked curiously.
"Well, we just won't tighten the handcuffs anymore" he said. Numbuh 5 looked at him with comfusement and perplexity when he grabbed her hand gently "I'll hold your hand until we'll get out of those handcuffs". She blushed and made a surprised face "This way we'll avoid tightening the chain, right?" he added.
"Uh...um...yeah, well if ya say so...then okey" she said with perplexity. Then pulled her hat more on her face to hide the blush on her cheeks. They left the bathroom and went to the living room. After a few minutes the rest of the group came to the kitchen to eat breakfast, they were sitting at the table tiredly half-closed eyes and yawning. Numbuhs 1 and 5 decided to join their friends and eat the breakfast too. They entered the kitchen, still holding hands and stopped in the door.
"Hi guys" Numbuh 1 said smiling. His friends faces looked like they were still asleep.
"Oh, good morning Numbuh 1" Numbuh 3 said tiredly when she was pouring herself the milk.
"Yeah...mornin'..." Numbuh 4 said like he was barely alive. Only then Numbuh 3 lifted her sight to look at her friends tiredly, and then her eyes widened. She got up from her seat her mouth dropped.
"AAAAAAAAA!" she screamed happily pointing at Numbuhs 1 and 5 with her index finger. Her scream wakened Numbuh 4 and Numbuh 2 and they also lifted their heads to see what's going on. The two handcuffed kids watched her with astonishment "You guys look sooo cuuuute!" she screamed. Numbuhs 2 and 4 looked at the two handcuffed friends and then on Numbuh 4's face appeared the stupid smile.
"Hey! Aren't your hands too close!" he said giggling and then laughed.
"hehe, is there something we should know about?" Numbuh 2 said and laughed as well.
"Oh, come on guys! Numbuh 5's wrist was injured because of the handcuffs, and I don't want it to get worse!" Numbuh 1 said.
"Yeah! So cut it out!" Numbuh 5 said a bit angirly, but she was still a bit confused.
"Yeah, whateva'..." Numbuh 4 said and Numbuh 3 giggled.
"You guys really look cuuuute like that!" she said and giggled again.
"We don't have a choise" Numbuhs 1 and 5 said at the same time. Then they both sighed and looked at eachother, they felt perplexed and turned away. Then started preparing themselves breakfast. When Numbuhs 2, 3 and 4 ate their breakfast they prepared themselves to school.
"We're going now! See you guys!" Numbuh 2 said as they were ready and standing in the door.
"Yeah, see ya" Numbuh 5 said.
"Have a nice day!" Numbuh 3 screamed in singsong voice.
"Um...you too" Numbuh 1 answered. Numbuhs 2 and 4 exchanged a glance and left giggling. Numbuh 3 right behind them smiling and singing. Numbuhs 1 and 5 sighed with relief and sat on the couch lazily.
Me: Okey, here you are, hope you like it, actually nothing special was happening in this chapter, but I hope you don't find it boring huh? I promise next one will be more interresting Bye then! Till next time!