Chapter 7.
"Numbuh 84!" The entire sector cringed when they saw him come down for breakfast. "What happened to you?" His hair was a mess, his ushanka was on crookedly, his clothes were wrinkled, and his eyes, bloodshot. He yawned.
"I couldn't get much sleep last night." He rubbed his eyes tiredly. Sonya sat next to him. He froze.
"A bad dream?" She poured more rainbow munchies into her bowl.
"You could say that." Lee said cautiously. Sonya nodded sympathetically and went back to eating her breakfast. Lee sighed in relief, glad she stopped questioning him. Tommy gazed at him carefully. "What?"
"Can I talk to you, after breakfast?"
"Yeah, sure, Numbuh T."
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"You've been acting weirder and weirder ever since Numbuh 83 joined our sector."
"What are you talking about, Numbuh T?"
"Gee," Tommy said sarcastically, "I don't know. You and Numbuh 83 always disappear off somewhere. You've turned red so many times, I've lost count. You've been sleeping badly these days, and that last mission at the beach? You got mad because Prince Sandy was about to marry her, not because it wasn't cool.
Lee turned red so quickly, Tommy guessed that he was right. He took another wild guess. "I guess she's kind of cute." Lee stiffened.
"What, do you like her now?" He said, more harshly than he meant to.
"No," Tommy said, "I was trying to figure out if you liked her." Lee fell off his chair.
"No!" He looked at Tommy desperately. "She's one of my best friends! Emphasis on friends. Tommy looked at him slyly. "Oh, really. So, if I asked her out for ice cream, you wouldn't get mad?"
"Yeah." Lee crossed his arms stubbornly.
"Okay, fine, Numbuh 84. But she was talking to me yesterday, and she said she liked someone."
"What?" Lee jumped up from the ground. "Who? Tell me, Tommy!" He winked at Lee.
"That's a secret." Lee lunged at Tommy, and tackled him to the ground. "Hey!" They began to wrestle.
"Tell me, tell me!" Lee said, getting Tommy in a neck bind. Tommy threw Lee off, and sat on him. Lee struggled angrily. The rest of the sector rushed into the room.
"Numbuh T, Numbuh 84! I order you to stop!"
"Guys, stop fighting! You're friends!" Sonya pleaded.
"Pull them off, each other!" Numbuh 83 held back a struggling Lee, while Numbuh 85 and Numbuh 363 held back Tommy.
"We better take them into the medical room for band-aids," said a grim-faced Paddy.
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The dream. Back at the castle, Sonya was thanking him.
"Thank you so much. So much, that I will give you what you want most."
"Cool." He had said, thinking he would get to go the the world's biggest yo-yo museum.
Sonya blushed, leaned forward, and gave him a light kiss on the cheek.
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"Numbuh 84, what were you guys fighting about?"
"Nothing," he said quickly. "Don't worry about it." Sonya rolled her eyes.
"Whatever, Numbuh 84." She put the band-aid on his cut. She hesitated.
"What?" She leaned forward, and kissed him on his cheek. Lee froze. This was another one of his dreams, wasn't it?
"A kiss to make it all better."
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"Wah!" Lee woke up again in horror. What was happening to him? He picked up the clock by his bed, and squinted. 4 A.M. Then it had all been a dream. Everything. Waking up, the conversation with Tommy, the fight, the kisses.
Lee fell back on his bed, and tried to go to sleep.
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"Numbuh 84!" The entire sector cringed when they saw him come down for breakfast. "What happened to you?" His hair was a mess, his ushanka was on crookedly, his clothes were wrinkled, and his eyes, bloodshot.
"Am I dreaming again?" He asked grumpily. Sonya reached over and pinched him hard.
"Ow!"
"Obviously not. You're so dumb sometimes." Sonya grinned. Lee stared at her, then quickly looked away. He was blushing again.