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Wave and Lila: Sickly Sweet
Blech! How much longer was Wave supposed to take this? Storm could have volunteered for distraction instead—heck, maybe even Jet. Oh, but no, she has to be the one to keep this kid from wandering around and possibly blowing the Babylon Rouges' cover.
"Miss Wave, is something wrong?" a young girl's soft, delicate voice asked in oblivious concern. That voice belonged to Lila Sawyer, the sweetest person Wave had ever met. And by sweet, we mean sweet! This kid could give that Cream kid a run for her money!
That was probably why Wave would have preferred that girl and her incessant chatter about Chao and flowers over this girl and her constant babbling about...well, everything. Seriously what the heck did Wave care about this Arnie guy Lila was crushing on? She'd never even met the little weirdo for corn's sake!
Having had her own head laid down on the table for the past...twenty minutes, Wave the Sparrow finally raised her head to give the empty space before her a full, seething glare. 'You mean besides the fact I need all my teeth filled now...?'
But the avian knew she couldn't say that; she wasn't that heartless—mostly. So taking a deep breath for the sake of her nerves, she waved a hand at the country girl dismissively. "Eh, it's nothing. Listen, I've gotta meet with my friends for a meeting. Sorry to cut our conversation short."
Actually, Jet and Storm were currently ousting some kids out of a skate park that stood next to this restaurant so the two of them (plus Wave, of course) would have the whole place to practice with their gear. Lila was in the way only because she (aside from the secretly bound and gag workers) was the only person present in this eatery. The Rogues had no need for a snitch.
But hey, the sky could be raining fire right now for all the violet avian cared. 'Anything to get away from Sugar Queen here...!'
Not that Lila noticed; the kind-hearted redhead simply shook her head and smiled at the sparrow. "Oh, well don't worry, Miss Wave, I'm ever so certain I don't mind."
For seemingly no reason whatsoever, the purple Mobian actually paused in her trek to the exit and looked back.
Call Wave crazy...but something in the tone of this kid's voice actually touched her heart a bit. Aside from that Helga chick, Lila was the only other human who'd treated the sassy technical whiz like an actual person instead of a freak—a nice change of pace in Wave's opinion.
And speaking of opinion, Wave thought over her first impression of the Sawyer girl; she shook her beautiful head with a smirk. 'And I'm ever so certain I'm now liable for diabetes thanks to you...'
In a rare moment of her own sweetness, Wave gave a genuine smile back. "Thanks, kid. See ya."
At the avian's two-fingered farewell, Lila waved back in earnest as she stood up to leave as well. "Goodbye, Miss Wave! It was ever so delightful talking to you!"
'Like I said, I'm ever so certain I'm now liable for diabetes thanks to you ...,' Wave thought to herself as she approached the skate park, Extreme Gear in tow, 'but I guess that's diabetes I'm willing to live with.'
Wave/Lila friendship...? I'm just as surprised as you folks are!