Chapter 7: Beauty and Forgiveness

Annie started to get nervous, "I-I'm dating Spyke now..." She nervously as Moe seemed mad at her. "Why would you even date that scum; all he does is sit on a rug in an alley all day!" Moe scolded. "B-But that's what I like about him...h-he's so mysterious and he's actually really nice!" Annie said again but this time with a bit of anger in her voice. Moe seemed confused and still angry as he started to pout at the news he just found out. "Y-You just wouldn't understand!" Annie said frustrated as she grabbed Moe out of her hair and placed him on the counter back in the shop and stormed up the stairs. "Fine, be that way..." Moe said under his breath.

Annie came in the house and went off to her room. Swoosie was caught off guard with Annie suddenly passing her as she was throwing away the coffee they had. "Willie stay here..." Swoosie said as she approached Annie's room. Swoosie gently knocked on her door. "Are you ok in here?" She asked in a soft voice. "I-Im fine..." Annie said. "You should be running the store, are you sure?" She asked. "Yes..." Annie sighed. "Ok, I'm just making sure..." Swoosie said as she backed away from the door back to the table. "What happened?" Willie asked quietly. "Annie just came upstairs and into her room..." Swoosie said. "Could we do something, I'm bored..." Willie sighed. "Wanna sit in the plaza or something?" Swoosie asked. Willie just shrugged and got up from her chair. "Let's go then," she said. Swoosie led her outside but not before they heard a voice. "Hey!" it said frustrated. Swoosie heard it and fastly put Willie behind her as she angrily looked around. "Hey!" it said again. "Who's there!" Swoosie asked. "Look at the fricken counter, loser." it said with a hint of anger. Swoosie looked down to find Moe. "Are you kidding me right now? I thought you were actually a bad guy trying to harm us!" Swoosie angrily scolded. "Sorry, jeez... I just need you losers to take me to Annie... I want to talk to her." he said. "She's in her room... Do you know why Moe?" Swoosie asked. "Yeah, I got angry with her ok, I want to apologize. Could you bring me up to her now?" He asked impatiently. "Yeah ok fine." Swoosie said grabbing Willies hands and going upstairs. Swoosie sat Willie on the table and went back to the door with Moe in her hand. With her other hand she knocked on the door. "Annie, I don't mean to interrupt you but somebody wants to visit you." she said in a gentle tone. "Uh... Who?" Annie quietly asked. "I'm coming in." Swoosie said opening the door. Annie was sitting on her small bed, it had some blue jellyfish covers on it. Her walls were painted purple and green and her drawer was pink. She also happened to have a lava lamp on top of it that way pink and blue. She also had an orange fish rug. And a tank on a table on the corner. "Moe?" she asked looking away from Swoosie. "I don't want to bother you two any further so I'm going to place him on your bed." Swoosie said leaving the room. She closed the door and went to guide Willie downstairs

"Why did you even come back here? I thought you were mad at me..." Annie said. "I thought you are mad at me for actually having a friend... Besides you...". "I didn't mean it that way..." Moe said quietly. "I was just mad in the moment... But if you really like that street urchin I'll learn to like him too." Moe said. "I'm sorry ok, really sorry... I missed you." Moe said. "We were only gone for 10 minutes..." Annie said quietly. "B-But I'm willing to forgive you..." Annie said hugging the fish and placing him back in her hair. "Oh sweet home." He said swimming though her hair. Annie squeaked. "Hey stop that tickles!" she giggled.

Swoosie quickly led Willie out of the building. Swoosie started to walk on the sidewalk to safely get to the bench. They passed by two buildings, they seemed abandoned. "Hey Willie, have you ever seen a closed cafe next to an empty building before?" Swoosie questioned. "Oh yeah, those closed a long time ago because they moved to another part of town. Meanwhile the other building was just never bought by anybody." Willie explained. "That would be like the perfect kidnapping spot or something, especially with the empty building." Swoosie joked. "Yeah right," Willie smiled as they started to move again. After a minute they arrived at the bench. "We're here, I'm going to sit you down. " Swoosie said to her. "I bet I can do it." Willie said determined as she felt for the bench. Willie tried to sit down but ended up falling on ground on her butt. "Ow..." she said in defeat. Swoosie sighed. "I told you you couldn't seat yourself. Swoosie helped Willie up. "Are you ok?" Swoosie asked. Willie nodded. "Ok let me sit you down this time." Swoosie said as she moved Willie to the center of the bench and seated her. Swoosie sat down next to her. "I bet you can't see this... But it's a really beautiful day... The sky's blue, the birds are chirping... And I'm here with you." Swoosie happily sighed. "I can't see a lot of thing but I can see that was an attempt to be smooth." Willie snickered. Swoosie started to pout. "Not everything has to be a joke you know..." Swoosie sighed. "Not everything has to be a joke." Swoosie said. Willie started to sit back and put her hands on the bench. "Your hand is on my hand..." Swoosie whispered quietly. "I know." Willie smiled as Swoosie started to grip her hand. These are the type of moments Swoosie best enjoys with Willie; she hoped it never ended. But soon the sun started to go down and Willie complained that they sat on the bench for long. So they walked back to the store closely while holding hands.