Heyaaa!! I haven't updated since like, what was it, 2 days ago? I sarry! My computer was being a total retard yesterday. Not cool. Anyways, this story is getting pretty long! If it lasts about at least 5 more chapters, it'll be longer than the songfic collection I wrote for IMAA! Hah. Keww.
Manny was working hard with Mr. Alicifi during training. He was sweating, tired and getting hungry. He wanted to stop, but he wouldn't let himself. Luckily for him, tomorrow was the last day he needed to perfect his powers. He could go home in two days. He was overexcited. Frida watched, slurping on a milkshake she made earlier in the hour.
"Faster! Come on, you Tigre!" Mr. Alicifi shouted to Manny. Manny did as he was told and pushed himself harder to go faster. Tigers, on average, run pretty fast, so El Tigre has to run fast as a superpower, too. Tigers are big, powerful cats, so El Tigre has to be powerful too. El Tigre has to do whatever a tiger can do. That's the only way he can perfect his powers. He felt like he was going to collapse soon. Strangely enough, he wouldn't mind it at the moment. He wanted to take a break, but no, superheroes don't need breaks. They have to constantly be on the move, alert for danger. Manny glanced at the sky above him. The sun was setting. He could stop now, since the sun generally sets around 9 here.
"Alright, start slowing down. We can call it a day." Mr. Alicifi said. Manny sighed with relief and started to decelerate. When he came to a complete stop, he turned and trudged towards Frida and Mr. Alicifi. Without a word, they walked inside. Manny sat down at the table and Mr. Alicifi went back to work at his workbench. Most of the time he was working at his workbench. Whenever he wasn't, he was training Manny. He didn't really eat much at mealtime, and that's how he keeps himself 'trim'. He doesn't get out very often, either.
"Aren't we going to eat anything for dinner?" Frida asked, listening to her and Manny's stomachs grumbling in tune.
"Help yourselves, help yourselves. I don't need dinner tonight." Mr. Alicifi answered.
"But, dude, you need to eat something. Skipping meals is really bad for your health." Frida commented.
"Well, you pick up a pan and get cooking; I haven't the time to prepare a meal." Mr. Alicifi said, pointing to the fridge. Frida grunted and walked to the fridge to see what he had. She knew how to make a few things, courtesy of her mother's need to teach her something useful.
Then Frida found herself missing her family. She felt a tear roll down her cheek. She paused for a moment then continued searching for food to use as a meal. Once she got out a variety of good-looking foods, she placed them all on the nearby counter and started to make it into a meal. She didn't exactly know what she was making, she was just doing random things that she was taught. She ended up making tacos out of some unused hamburger meat and other taco ingredients that she saw lying around.
"And walla, tacos." Frida said, unhappily. After asking where plates and silverware were located, she set the table and placed the tacos in the middle of the table; all of which she did unhappily. Manny started to worry.
"Frida, what's wrong?" He asked. Frida looked at Manny with the saddest and longing eyes he has ever seen.
"I miss mi familia, Manny." She said, flatly. Manny's face fell. He put his arm on her shoulder and placed his other hand on her cheek.
"Don't worry, we'll be back home before you know it." Frida stared into Manny's hopeful eyes and forgot her sorrows. Then something else saddened her.
"Manny, when we do get back home…..well, we won't be sharing a room, just the two of us anymore. It'll be everyone in town that missed you and wants to spend time with you because you're back." Frida said. Manny fell silent.
"Oh yeah…I forgot. Well, we can always set time aside to be alone together, right? And we're still going to hang out every day, just like old times, right?" Manny reassured.
"Yeah, yeah. We'll see, it'll all get better when we get home." Frida said. She dished herself some taco meat, lettuce, tomato and cheese and made it all into a taco. Manny did the same as Mr. Alicifi joined at the table and made his own taco. Without a word, the three dug into a delicious taco meal. Surprisingly, they were really good tacos. Manny didn't know she was this good at cooking.
A little while later, Manny and Frida were cleaning up while Mr. Alicifi returned to work at his workbench. Frida was washing and Manny dried. Mr. Alicifi said they were welcome to leave all the dishes on the drying rack. Mr. Alicifi had to do some welding, so he moved to his basement to work, leaving Manny and Frida alone in the kitchen. There was a pattern in the cleaning process; Frida would wash a dish and place it on the dry rack, and Manny would pick it up, dry it and put it back on the rack. The room was silent, up until Frida couldn't stand the silence anymore and had started a humorous conversation with Manny. It continued until they were done, and after they went up to their room and to bed. It had been a long day for Manny, but Frida couldn't sleep. Instead, she lay in her bed, staring at the ceiling, deep in thought.
She remembered the old days, when she and Manny were only 13 years old. How much smaller they were, and how undeveloped they were. Back then, Frida didn't have any curves back then, but she still had the romantic essence. She had always had a HUGE crush on Manny, but back then, it was always just her secret. She had always thought to herself how awesome it was going to be when she got to kiss him for the first time. She remembered the first time she had ever kissed him. The day he defeated all the villains in Miracle City. She remembered that day. That was when she couldn't get him out of her head, and it was driving her crazy. How she wanted him to at least wave a hello to her when they asked for their stuff back, so instead she angrily commented on his lack of greeting, watching him ignore it. She remembered the look of surprise on his face when she kissed him. How it changed so quickly between holding her and her holding him. She remembered the after moment where he asked what the heck that was for, and all she could say was it was just the adrenaline rush, and she didn't know what she was doing and it wouldn't happen again. She mentally slapped herself that day for not saying it was because she was deeply, deeply in love with him, and she had always been. She wanted to tell him that day that she only hated Zoe because she liked Manny and she was constantly flirting with him. That's what truly made her mad was the flirting. Frida always had the rejoicing moment when he hated how she thought he was like the best friend she's ever had. When he told Frida that day that he was just going to use her, she resisted doing the happy dance all day. He wouldn't dream of ever dating Zoe, and she knew now that she could rub it in Zoe's face that she was Manny's girlfriend and there's nothing Zoe can do about it. Frida sighed and smiled. Then she thought of Manny.
She made a list in her head about all the things she loves about Manny. No doubt it was a very long list. The thing on top of her list was his emerald green eyes, and how they looked into her soul whenever he looked into her eyes. The second thing on her list was his curly hair, and how it only made him look even hotter; as if his perfectly tanned skin and sparkly eyes weren't enough. The third thing on her list was the way he cared for her the most, out of everyone he knows, and how he always puts others before himself, just like any hero would. The way he made the perfect hero. The fourth thing on her list was the way he purred when Frida flirted with him. She liked the way it made his chest vibrate. It made him really cat-like and playful. The fifth thing on her list was his tiger roar. She liked how it made his battle cry seem even hotter. She liked the way his roar sort of finalized that he was angry and he wanted to win the fight. The sixth thing on her list was his cat-like personality. She liked how he was curious and playful like a cat, but also determined and serious and skilled like a cat. She went through several more things that she loved about Manny, until she felt herself getting tired, finally. She rolled over on her side and gazed at Manny for the longest time before sliding her eyes shut and slipping into her dreams, which were mostly reflecting her relationship with Manny, and what she wanted it to become in the future.
What she really loved to say the most, though, was that she was Manny's girlfriend, and he was her boyfriend. She thought back to their days as friends, and how she had so deeply wanted to say boyfriend, to call him that, and how she can do that now because they're a couple. She wondered if they would ever grow up one day to get married. She hoped so. She couldn't imagine her life with anyone else but Manny, and she wouldn't be happy unless she could spend the rest of her life with him. Then she wondered what her father would say when she told him that she and Manny were a couple now. What would he say if she married Manny? He knew that Manny was what made her happy, and he always wanted her to be happy, so he would understand, right? She hoped so. She started to think of what their kids would be like. She knew that they would most likely only have one, and it would be a boy, to continue his family blood line. And she knew that he would get superpowers and choose between hero and villain, just like Manny did. She knew it would all happen. She knew that Manny was destined to grow older and have a son to give superpowers to, so he could continue the Rivera blood line. She wondered what that stress was like on Manny. Knowing that he's the last Rivera so far, and that he has to make sure to marry and have a kid, preferably a son, and that if he didn't, or something went wrong or different, that he would end the Rivera blood line forever. She imagined how much pressure that must be. Soon, Frida was sleeping for real, and she was deep into a dream that she preferred not to wake up from for a long time.
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