A.N.: Thank you again for your wonderful comments and encrouagements. I hope you guys enjoy this!!
Disclaimer- I don't own Jimmy Neutron, but I do love surprises *wink *wink
Cindy was in the living room watching a rerun of one of her favorite cartoon show from when she was growing up. The doorbell rang once and she considered answering it but figured one of her parents would get it. The door bell rang again pealing through the almost empty house as she remembered that her parents were gone for the weekend again. Another one of her dad's business trips that her mom tagged along on. She decided she had better lug herself up from the couch and answer the door. Cindy wondered who it could possibly be. Who would bother her on a Friday night?
'Maybe Lib's left something here after dance class', she postulated. 'But she's cutting it kind of close to her date with Sheen. Maybe it's Britney, although she usually calls before she comes over.'
Cindy opened the door to an empty street. She scowled and grumbled as she looked around for the culprit. "Stupid boys. Ringing the doorbell and ditching. How Juvenile," she muttered to herself. Cindy started to close the door when she heard a familiar mechanical bark coming from the area around her feet. She looked down and was surprised to find Goddard looking back up at her, his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.
"Oh Goddard!" Cindy exclaimed surprised at meeting Jimmy's dog this late at night, "Was that you?"
Goddard barked an affirmative.
Suddenly Cindy grew concerned. 'Why is Goddard here? Why isn't Jimmy? Is something wrong with him?'
"What's going on? Cindy exclaimed. "Is Jimmy hurt?" 'Why would Jimmy send Goddard over here? Was he in trouble? Maybe he was missing? Or worse…' Concern escalated to distress as her pulse quickened. Tears began forming in her eyes at the thought of Jimmy lying hurt somewhere unable to call for help. "What Goddard!? What's wrong with Jimmy?" she practically shouted at the small canine.
Goddard barked twice then turned and started running back across the street. Cindy looked around her front entrance for her shoes then decided that if Jimmy's life was hanging in the balance, shoes were the last thing she should be concerned about. She slammed the door behind her and ran to the other side of the street.
Figuring that he was in the lab per usual, Cindy ran straight to the club house door and yanked on the knob. "Jimmy!!" she yelled. The door was locked so Cindy began pounding on the door, hoping that he could somehow hear her. "Jimmy!!!" A tear broke and trailed gently down her face. "Please Jimmy, open up! Jimmy!!"
'Oh, God!' Cindy thought, her breathing turning into panting, 'What if he's lying on the ground bleeding and he can't get to the door!? I should call someone. Like Carl! Or…or… or Sheen! Maybe they have that bag of hair they carry around, or, or something!' Cindy stood frozen outside the lab door for a moment deciding what the best course of action to take was. Should she call someone? Or continue pounding on the door? Maybe she should find some one on the street.
She heard a few faint noises behind the tightly sealed entrance. This verified to her that someone was in there. Cindy started pounding on the door again hoping that that person was Jimmy and he was trying to open the door. Still it remained shut tight. She was sure she heard noises behind the door. Now she was starting to get mad. 'He is deliberately locking her out' she concluded. 'That jerk!' She started yelling again this time with more anger.
"JAMES ISAAC NEUTRON!!" she started. She meant business. "Open this door right now! I swear if you don't I'm gonna bust this door down! And if you aren't hurt now, you will be!"
The window to the house flew open behind her with a crash as Jimmy stuck his head out holding a large bowl of popcorn.
"Cindy! What in the name of Thomas Alva Edison are you doing!?"
Cindy turned around surprised at hearing this familiar outcry followed by relief to see him alive and unharmed. The feeling of relief was quickly replaced by confusion, humiliation, anger and then fury at herself and Jimmy's sudden appearance completely injury free.
"Neutron! What are you doing!?" she screamed at him.
"I should be asking you that, Vortex!" he yelled back at her still leaning out of the window. "Why are you trying to break into my lab?!"
"Break in!?" she yelled back, "I'm trying to save your sorry butt.
"What?! What are you talking about?"
"Your dog came over and…and.. and…!" she didn't know how to finish that thought… "Well, I thought something was wrong with you!"
"Well I'm fine! Stay out of my lab!"
"Fine, NERD-tron!! Next time you are laying there dead on your lab floor from some failed experiment of yours, don't come expecting any help from me!" Cindy stormed out of the yard red faced, not sure if from embarrassment for not checking the house first, or from the anger she felt for rushing all the way over to his house when nothing was wrong!
'And without shoes too!' she added. 'What is wrong with that boy! And his stupid mutt! Not even a 'thanks for interrupting your peaceful night to save my life'!' "ARGH!!" She growled as she left.
Jimmy watched her storm off thoroughly confused as to what had just happened. The silent alarm in his lab connected to his watch started wailing at him in the middle of his movie. Worried that someone was trying to break in he rushed to the window to check it out where he found Cindy pounding on the door screaming his name. "What was that all about?" he asked to no one in particular. He shut the window and slowly walked back to the living room carrying his popcorn with him. He sat down on the couch in a daze as the rest of the movie whizzed by in a flurry of colors and sounds, none of them reaching the central cortex of his massive brain. Jimmy had no extra space in his mind to take in the rest in the movie. It was busy contemplating what would posses Cindy to come over and threaten to tear down his lab with her bare hands. 'To save me? Really? Did she care that much?' Jimmy continued this line of thought till he gave himself a headache.
'Man Vortex! What is with you? Only you can give me a headache this big.' Jimmy popped a couple aspirin and gave up trying to rationalize the female's strange behavior.
Oh! Just when they were so close!! *evil grin and snicker*