Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. The ticking of Mordecai's clock was going fast but slow at the same time. He was so bored but yet he had Rigby there to hang out with and still...he didn't know. He looked across the room and at the big bag of candy Rigby had collected yesterday, Mordecai smiles and walks over to it, he opens it up and found out there wasn't even that much in there. By the looks of it the bag is huge but the amount inside was small, the only things in there were a couple of toothbrushes, gum, candy corn, and chocolate bars. Mordecai wasn't suppose to have candy corn cause it would make him hyperactive...kinda like the way Rigby acts now! He grabs a chocolate bar and starts eating it, "Man...I haven't eaten chocolate in a long time...I forgot what made me quit eating it." He said quietly as he chewed it softly.

Flashback

Mordecai's dad walks past the lavender couch in the hallway and sits down with his newspaper and coffee, Mordecai's mom was in the kitchen preparing lunch while the young 9 year old Mordecai ran into the kitchen too but jumped on the counter and stuffed his little hand in a jar, he pulls it back out and was holding the prize he was looking for, a giant chocolate bar, probably about a king size. His mom makes a face and moves her dark blue hair or feathers out of the way of her vision, "Don't eat too much of that Mordecai you need some space for lunch and its bad for you." She stuck a finger up and did a no-no gesture. Mordecai shrugs and smiles revealing his chocolate covered buck teeth, it was spread all over his beak and face, his mom rolls her eye's and grabs a rag. "Mom...why is chocolate bad for me?" His little voice trailed away from his mom and right towards his dad's hearing range, he moves his sunglasses down and smirks, "Cause its made out of dog crap and if you eat it you'll turn into one." His mom was about to speak up until Mordecai's eyes went wide and he spit out the chocolate bar and ran into the bathroom puking, he scrubbed his little teeth, beak and tongue so much, he never wanted to eat chocolate ever again.

End of flashback

Mordecai almost choked at the memory, but he finished the chocolate bar anyway. He knew now that his dad was just kidding with him, but ever since then he wouldn't even touch a single chocolate candy, he was too afraid of turning into a different animal but after he turned 14 he completely forgot why he stopped eating it. Now he's 23 so memories officially come back more often then they should...it was a dark evil time in his childhood after that incident, "Stupid dad." He said as he crumbled the rapper and threw it across the room. He missed his folks but they were always cruel to him, he even had a sister named Melany but she disappeared and nobody ever saw her again...and yet nobody cared either way. His mother was the only one who loved him until he started growing up, her feathers turned gray and she started to pick up smoking like her husband. When Mordecai turned 16 she was already sick and tired of raising him, she kicked him out and Mordecai lived with his father...

Mordecai shut his eyes and rubbed his teeth together, he did not want to think about his father, he was a cruel, cruel man! The bluejay let out a deep breath and looked out the window, a huge space was there. It's grass was perfectly cut and nothing lay there. Mordecai had a sudden urge to do something, but what? He stands up and covers his head, he goes downstairs and passes the sleeping Rigby on the couch. He smiles and walks out the door, he hops in the golf cart and starts driving off. Mordecai stops at the hardware store and examines a few glass structures, he also rummages through the tools and planks, he had no idea what he was doing but his heart told him to get them. He buys a butt-load of items and drives back to the house. The empty place Mordecai saw in the window was now gonna be a wonderful and beautiful place, he picks the first plank up and stands it up nicely. Rigby kicked his foot a couple times, he raises his fist and starts punching the air in front of him, "Yeah, yeah, you like that? Eh! That'll teach you not to mess with me and my bro again you got that!" He rests his arms and opens his eyes slightly, he yawns and sits up, "M-Mordecai?" He said rubbing one of his eyes, he squeaks when he hears a drill. "Holy crap! What the hell was that?" He said quietly, the drilling continued followed by a hammer sound and a buzz saw. Rigby was frightened by these sounds, he grabs a cushion and tucks his face in it, make it stop, make it stop, make it stop! He screamed in his head, then the sounds fade and what seems like a blanket flaps around and the noises are gone. Mordecai comes inside covered in dirt and sawdust. "What happened bro?" Rigby said concerned, Mordecai's heart told him not to tell Rigby what he had done until the right time would come, he just shrugs and says, "Fight...saved the house, but everything's all good you know?" "No, no I don't know, are you alright?" Mordecai was a little light headed of how fast he had finished but he didn't want his friend worried, "Y-yeah, I'm fine." He simply said. "You sure?" Mordecai nods and wipes the muck off his hood and jacket, still covered he wipes his face and beak without removing the hood.

"I'm gonna head out alright?" "Your just gonna leave your bro hanging?" "Dude..." He sighs and puts his feathered hand on Rigby's head, "...it'll be for a little while and I promise I'll be back as soon as I can...ok?" "What are you gonna do?" "Just buy a couple things." "What kind of things?" "Rigby stop asking and let loose, I'll be fine and I'll be back to hang out with you ok?" "I guess." "That's the spirit." Mordecai opens the door and closes it, leaving Rigby alone in the house, with nothing to do. The raccoon looks up at the TV and at his wrist, "I don't believe Mordecai's emo...I think he's just too embarrassed to do anything anymore." He looks away and closes his eyes while biting his lip, thinking of the pain it would be if he were Mordecai and he actually was emo. He thought about the way Mordecai would cry and drive it deeper, Rigby didn't want to think about that anymore, it caused too much pain for Mordecai and himself for thinking of it. "I mean...if he were emo he wouldn't be talking to me...and he wouldn't be smiling or doing anything with me or others...heck he wouldn't even want to leave! So it proves he isn't!" Rigby sat up and smiled with the truth he stated, "But...yesterday he said I made him happy...I try and I'm glad he's appreciating it but...no, no, NO, NO!" He screamed, "Mordecai's my bro! My buddy! Not my..." He stopped shouting and started crying, "...crush." He said gloomily. He leaned in the couch and waited for Mordecai to return. Rigby yawns, he didn't know why he was so tired even though he just took a nap earlier.

"Can I ask you, if I may?

Why do the hours go by?

I really wish you would stay, but you left me here to die...

And yet I love you,

and you make me cry

I wonder where you have gone to, but I love you anyway Mordecai."

Rigby said while yawning again, "Its not the best poem in the world but I think it makes sense." He scratches his belly and flops to one side, he rubs his right side and down his leg trying to imagine Mordecai's rubbing him. He trails his finger against his tail and gasps, "O-oh god." He shivered and retreated his hand, "What am I doing?" He said confused. Rigby sat up and tried to stay awake, "I need coffee." He jumps off the couch and over to the kitchen where he looks up at the cabinets, "Damn me and my short stature." Rigby cursed at himself. He brought over a chair and climbed up top the counter but he still couldn't reach the cabinet, he looked around to find what he could use and he found a cutting board and a couple knives, "Perfect." He places the cutting board underneath him and stabs a knife down hard, "One." He stabs another one to which its taller than the first. "Two." He stabs the third one which is apparently the tallest one. "Three." He said happily, he steps on the first one's handle, then the second, then the third, now he's eye level with the cabinet. He wobbles a bit but he manages to grab the coffee mix and close the cabinet in one motion and on one foot... "Rigby!" A voice said, Rigby's startled by this and he comes falling off the cabinet, the coffee mix spreads on the floor and one knife stabbed down too, only inches away from his ear, the other only inches away from his leg, Rigby sits up and sighs, "That was close." He said, he accidently kicked the counter when trying to get up and the third one came tumbling down and ended up slicing a bit of Rigby's wrist. Rigby doesn't feel the pain until he notices the cut...he screams, "OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT FUCKING HURTS! SON OF A BITCH!" Mordecai ran into the bathroom and grabbed a rag and rapped it around Rigby's wrist, "OW!" He said as Mordecai kept rapping. Rigby starts crying and crying, Mordecai brings him close and says softly, "Ssshh, its alright...Baby please stop crying, there's no use trying. Make the tears fade away, and bring light to your day..." Rigby looks up and see's Mordecai's singing to him, he couldn't tell if he was crying or closing his eyes with the hood but he didn't care cause he's glad Mordecai's actually holding him. Rigby tucked his head in Mordecai's jacket covered chest and tried to stop crying while listening to Mordecai's soothing voice, "...it may have been bad today, but stop the whimpers and play. Oh dear baby boy, you're my pride and joy." Mordecai stops singing and see's Rigby fell asleep in his arms, he smiles and picks him up. Rigby moves his head a bit but that stops when Mordecai places his hand on his head. He walks upstairs and tucks Rigby in his bed instead of the small raccoons, Rigby's nose moves as he makes small snores, Mordecai chuckles and goes back downstairs to clean the mess Rigby made.

The last of the coffee mix is dumped in the trash can and the knives are put away, Mordecai almost slips on the blood Rigby left, "Hmpf, hmpf, stupid Rigby." He grabs the mop and cleans half the mess until he realizes his jacket is covered in blood, "Dammit now I have to clean my jacket again." He groaned and checked the room, the coast is clear. He dips two fingers in Rigby's blood and smells it, "Healthy and fresh." He said. What the hell did I just do? Mordecai was shocked at this sudden action he had done, he just sniffed his best friends blood! "Am I a vampire? No cause if I were I wouldn't be wearing this jacket and I would've killed Rigby like a long time ago." He cleans the rest of the blood before anymore thoughts can cloud him.

"Rock a bye baby, on the tree top, when the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the ball breaks the cradle will fall and down goes thy baby, cradle and all." Rigby's brother Don sang to him, "I'm gonna...kick...your ass...Don." Rigby yawns in his cradle, "That's great big bro, in the morning you can kick as many ass's as you want. You'll be the ultimate ass kicker!" He said quietly, "Damn right I...am." Rigby yawned once more, revealing a single tooth in his mouth. Don smiles and leaves his brothers room, "Night Rigby." "Whatever." He mumbled. Don closed the door and Rigby switched sides so he's facing his best friend Mordecai's direction. "He's gone Mordecai! We can stay up now." Rigby whispered to him, Mordecai didn't respond to this, Rigby made a questioning expression and flipped Mordecai over, he was asleep. "Awe, Mordecai?" He shook the little bluejay a bit. "Dammit." He said while crossing his arms, he lays on his back and sighs, he looks at Mordecai again and scoots next to him so that Rigby was on his chest. Rigby uncrosses his arms and hugs Mordecai, Mordecai who was still asleep hugs back, thinking maybe its his little teddy bear but instead its Rigby. Rigby smiles and buries more in his chest. "I like you Mordecai." "I...like you too...Flippy the teddy bear." Mordecai hugs Rigby harder and brings his legs up. Rigby giggles and drifts off to sleep.

Rigby opened his eyes and stretched under the covers, what he had dreamt was a memory when they were 5. It was a good memory for Rigby but a terrifying one for Mordecai, even though he enjoyed half the time he thought it was his bear instead of Rigby. The raccoon layed on his back and plopped his head harshly on the pillow, "Ow! Hello? Hello?" Rigby who was still waking up from his sleep grabbed the object under the pillow and placed it on his ear, "Yes?" Myra saw Rigby holding the mirror against his ear, she quickly disappeared before Rigby put the mirror in front of him. "Oh its just a mirror." He threw the mirror at the edge of the bed and sighed, "Wait what!" He sat up and grabbed the mirror back, he just realized that the sound he had heard came from the mirror. "Did you? Nah I must be losing my marbles." He lays back down with the mirror in front of him, he looked at his reflection for awhile and thought of something, "You know...I kinda wanna see how Don's doing now...he probably still hasn't lost his virginity yet HAHAHA!" Rigby said to himself, the mirror swirled into an image of Don in his house. Rigby froze at this action, "Oh my god." He said quietly, he sits up and looks in the mirror, Don was sitting on his bed applying some liquid on his private part, "You ready Dina?" He said, a fox stepped into the room wearing nothing but a top and bottom, she pounced on him and inserted herself, "EW!" Rigby squeaked. He puts the mirror under the covers, "Why the hell did that mirror suddenly go to my brother?...is this a camera mirror?" He took it out and looked all around the mirror and found nothing wrong with it. "And why does Mordecai have this?" Myra who was in the mirror tried to keep hidden while Rigby keeps investigating. "I better put it back." Rigby said, he barely stuck half of the mirror under the pillow before he yanks it back and says, "Mordecai please?" Nothing happened, "I want Mordecai." He said again, nothing happened, "I wanna see Mordecai please." The image of Don goes away and shows Mordecai in the kitchen preparing a sandwich, "Rigby come eat!" He yelled from the mirror and outside. Rigby was too shocked at to what the mirror is doing. I'll just forget I saw this. He thought.

Mordecai waits for Rigby to come downstairs, once he does he see's Rigby's expression is frightened. "What happened dude?" "N-nothing I thought I saw a ghost that's all." Mordecai wasn't entirely convinced that Rigby had seen a "ghost" cause this house was built on no former Indian ground, nor did the house be haunted by the last owners cause their was no other owners besides Pops who might haunt the house when he dies. (I know I said in the last couple of chapters that Myra can go to any mirror, well she can but Mordecai can't ask to see anyone on other mirrors besides Myra, only the little one can let them see other people) "Dude...seriously what happened?" "Ugh!" Rigby flipped his plate over and the sandwich flew off, letting the plate fall and shatter. Rigby covered his mouth and gasped, "I'm s-sorry I didn't mean, I just, I...UGH!" He couldn't say anything too specific to Mordecai. Mordecai notices Rigby's problem and went over to him, "Did you have a nightmare?" He asked. Rigby looked at his wrist and then around, thinking maybe this will cover it up, "Yeah...I did." Mordecai scratched the back of his ears and Rigby giggled like a little girl, "Sorry about that." "Its..." Mordecai suddenly felt sick, he runs up the stairs and locks the bathroom before opening the toilet and...not puking. He kept forcing himself to puke but nothing came, his throat throbbed with the pain of the feeling of puking but he couldn't do it! Rigby came running up with him and banging on the door, "Mordecai you alright?" "Y-yeah!" He yelled as the puke he was expecting finally came out, "OH GOD!" He hollered, it was so painful for him, the puke was like acid sliding down your throat and out, when it actually comes out it feels like someone stabbed it too. "Let me in! You need help!" "No! I-I'm fine!" He screamed as he puked again, he only wished he was though.

"What the fuck happened back there!" He yelled at Myra through the little mirror, "Well here's the thing, apparently the high council suggested that you be sick for this rose." "Why!" Mordecai face palmed and laid more back on the bed, "So it can prove that if anyone cares about you, they'll take care of you and you can find your crush!" Mordecai groans and buries his face in his pillow, "Oh and um...a certain someone found the mirror today." Mordecai perks up, "What?" "Yup, Rigby found the mirror a little while ago and he actually used a little bit of it. That's why you need to keep the mirror with you at all times!" "Oh god now I have to explain why I have it!" "Don't yell at me!" Myra disappears and Mordecai lays back down, he pulls the hood over him and asks for Rigby to come in now. "You feeling alright dude?" Rigby said, he was carrying a tray with hot soup and apple juice. "Here...let me take your temperature." He sets everything on the night stand and gives Mordecai the small stick, "Awe." He gestured as he opens his mouth to show the bluejay, Mordecai tightens his hood and sticks it in his mouth. Rigby waited for what seemed like hours until the stick beeped and showed that Mordecai was above his normal body temperature, even though it doesn't seem fair cause of the jacket but he was worried anyway. "Your very sick Mordecai...I'm gonna have to take your temperature later again." "Hey your just glad *cough* that your not sick around Benson, he'll send you to the vet! You know how people take an animals temperature?" Rigby shakes his head no, not really wanting to know how, "They stick it up their prostate!" Rigby's face blanks. "Really?" Mordecai nods. "I am going to try to stay healthy as much as I can cause I do not want a stick up my ass!" He squealed. Mordecai chuckled and sighed, he needs to talk to him about the mirror or else the charade would get out of hand. "Rigby...I heard you grabbed my mirror." Rigby stops doing what he was doing and faces Mordecai, "How did?" "That's my personal stuff Rigby...you don't *cough* be going through my stuff ok?" "I'm sorry it's just that I thought I heard something and then I realized that the mirror wasn't a phone then I joked how I wanted to see my brother then it showed him and I was really freaked out and..." "Ssshh Rigby." Mordecai said while shushing him with his finger. "I wanna show you something."

Rigby followed Mordecai outside and to the giant thing that is covered. "What's in there?" "Something." "Is this the thing you went to go buy?" Mordecai nods and pulls the blanket off, revealing a beautiful greenhouse. The walls were made of crystal glass, layered with original wood. Mordecai opens the door and hundreds of roses lines the walls and tables inside, Rigby gasped and scampered to one pot that had 4 red roses growing from it, the roses were all in different colors, red, blue, yellow, pink, and such. But the one that caught Rigby's attention the most was the big white rose, its petals were a little crumbled but the beauty of it made it un-noticeable, underneath the pot there stood a label, it read, "Rigby's Rose." Rigby started to tear up, "This is so...beautiful." He said, Mordecai nodded and stepped over to him, but before he could even come a few more feet to Rigby, the little raccoon turned around fast and jumped on Mordecai. He squeezed him with all his might, "This is so beautiful Mordecai!" He yelled as he buried his face in his jacket. Mordecai was shocked at this action but decided to hug back. "It is isn't it?" Rigby nods and jumps off, he ran back to the rose and touched the petals, still silky but elegant. He shivered and sat in the little white chair in the middle of the greenhouse, he taps his hands on the table in front of him and looked around. Mordecai sighed, I have to tell him I'm a beast...that's all there is to it...alright...here I go. The bluejay stepped over to the other chair and sat down, "Rigby...I have to tell you something." Rigby stopped tapping on the table and stared at Mordecai, "What?" Mordecai sighed again and pulled on his jacket sleeve, He is emo! Was all Rigby could think of, but Mordecai let the sleeve go and instead grabbed his hood, he pulled it down slightly and unzipped his jacket, "Oh my god." Rigby said, "Your paint didn't come off!" "No! Its not paint! Nor a costume!...it's a curse." "A...curse?" "You know that girl you took to the party?" Rigby nods, "She was a witch." "But...why did she do this to you?" Mordecai pulled the mirror out and showed Myra to him, "Cause he treated you horribly...he needed to learn a lesson...the hard way." Now Rigby remembers why Myra said that stuff to him a week before, it all makes sense now! "So when Mordecai called me a beast..." "He became one...cause this is his true form on the inside, if he can find a way to break the curse before the next 3 days, he'll stay like this forever." "Oh now we're going by days! What the hell Myra!" "Deal with it! I'm impatient ok!" Myra disappears and Rigby's speechless. "I...had know idea...b-but I don't care!" Mordecai sits up straighter in his chair, "What do you mean?" "I mean, I don't care if your ugly, you look the same except..." He stops and looks at Mordecai's lines, "...for the lines that's all." Mordecai put his hands on his face and sighs, Rigby reaches over and grabs Mordecai's arms and places them down on the table, "But that doesn't mean your any different from your original self." Rigby said with a smile, Mordecai smiles too and see's a spark in his eyes. Mordecai didn't know why but...he was beginning to like Rigby...a lot actually. Rigby pats one of Mordecai's hands and notices the pink rose on Mordecai's chest was swirling and sprouted a little. "Hey dude...your pink flower is blooming." Mordecai looks down and turns a bright shade of red, "What does it mean Mordecai?" The bluejay sighed, even though this was going to be embarrassing to explain to him but he had to tell him everything, "It means..." "And you have a black rose too?" Mordecai nods and points to his chest, "These are the stages of breaking the curse, I already passed the first stage which means guilt and regret I think." Rigby nods and puts his hand on his cheek and leans on the table, "The pink one represents...um, well it uh..." "By the looks of it...pink always reminds me of...a crush." He said as he looks at Mordecai with a smirk, "Y-yeah that's what it means...and um the next one will be red which is...making love to...my crush or myself." Mordecai said, he hides his face in total embarrassment now, I did not just say that to him!...did I? He thought. Rigby was surprised at to what he just heard, but in the inside he was really happy that Mordecai had said that...now Mordecai's gonna have sex with him to help break the curse...this was probably the best thing that has ever happened for Rigby, but maybe not to Mordecai. "The next one *cough* is gonna be yellow which means happiness in my life. And finally the white one is my soul...it'll break my curse for good." "How do you get the white one?" Mordecai looked down for a moment before saying, "I don't know...she never said how."

Alright...the next chapter is gonna be very, very, very, very, VERY, naughty and rated total M on some scenes so be careful and such, if you don't like it I don't blame you for hating it cause I punch myself every time I write specific things like...you know. Review!