Kisa: Hi! Kisa here, I know laura always starts these things, but I decided it was my turn! ...uh well, I don't have much to say other than that...on with the chapter!

Laur: Huzzah!

Disclaimer: Me no own.

God Damn It Stop Biting Your Nails! 8

Laura could hear the shower running down the hallway of the apartment. She also knew that Meghan was the most relaxed when she was in there. It was the one place she could bite her nails in peace without having to worry about kid barging in and freaking out...hopefully.

This meant that she'd be in there for at least a half an hour, and she and Kid could come up with the next operation.

Laura quickly pranced over to the front door and put a finger to her lips when she saw Kid, Liz and Patty waiting outside.

"Meggie doesn't know you're coming over.." she whispered.

"Shouldn't you tell her then?" Kid asked raising an eyebrow.

Laura waved a hand dismissively, "Nah, it's more fun this way."

Kid and Liz sweat-dropped, while Patty just snickered because she couldn't laugh.

The tyrannical trio took a seat on the old gray couch sitting forlornly in the girl's living room, while Laura curled into the recliner beside them.

"So what's next Spazzy?"

"Spazzy? Who's Spazzy?" Kid asked.

"You're Spazzy," She answered smiling.

Kid started protesting, "why do I have to be Spazzy, make Patty Spazzy!"

"Nope," Laura refused, and Kid felt himself going into one of his depressions, "You're Spazzy, accept it, moving on. So what's the plan."

Kid, feeling slightly indignant, turned his nose up int the air and straightened the top button of his shirt, "Well, I have been looking into some research on nail biting, and have found something quite of interest."

"Oh, do say," Laura commented in a British accent, obviously making fun of his hoity toity attitude.

Kid felt his eyebrow twitch, "anyway, I found that nail biting is caused mainly by stress. So my new approach to this problem, is to keep Meghan perfectly relaxed at all times to keep her from biting her nails."

Laura laughed out loud this time, which made Meghan pause in her shower, wondering what on earth was so funny, but soon dismissing it and went back to washing her tangled mass of...'hair'... cough-vortex-cough.

"That's not gonna happen bud, "Laura said, waving her hand around negatively while Kid looked slightly insulted at her laughing, "Meghan has anxiety issues ever since...well a few years ago."

"B-but..I could stop that!" Kid insisted and Laura looked doubtful.

"She takes medication for it so she can go to sleep at night. It's that bad."

"I swear, I can do it!" he assured, and his eyes were so determined, if Laura didn't know Meghan as well as she did, she might have believed him.

"Tell you what, Kid," Laura started, resting her head on her hand, "If you CAN make all of her anxiety go away, I'll set you up on a date with Meghan."

"What-? How is that-?"

"Come on, Kid. I know you like her. It's not as if you're very good at hiding it."

"I agree with her," Liz chimed in next to Kid.

"Liz! You agree with her?"

"Well, yeah. It's obvious you like Meghan." Kid turned twenty shades of red in the span of two seconds before he managed to compose himself. A little bit at least.

"So, what happens if I lose the bet?"

"If you lose..." Laura mulled the thought around in her head.

"You'll have to dress up like a bunny!" Kid looked at Laura before he realized that her lips had not moved. He then realized that the voice was Patty's who was now jumping up and down.

"Yes," Laura echoed, "you'll dress up like a bunny. In a bunny suit made by Patty. For an entire school day."

Kid did not know if the risk was worth it. A bunny suit? He would not go to school in a bunny suit. He had to make this work, to lessen Meghan's stress. For her sanity as much as his. A bunny suit.

"So, Kid, do we have a deal?"

He was worried, very worried. But his hand jutted out of it's own accord and the next thing he knew he was shaking her hand, sealing the deal.

"Yes." Kid said, then thought he should say something cocky to seem like he wasn't worried about wearing a bunny suit, "Does Meghan like white roses or red?"

Laura smirked, "I'm not sure, what size rabbit foot are you?"

They heard the doorknob of the bathroom turn and Meghan came out, her black tangled hair hanging in disarray around her shoulders and clinging to her face, steam flowing out of the bathroom with all of the hot water she used...she was wearing her duckie pajama bottoms and a baby blue sleeveless shirt...obviously she wasn't expecting company.

"Laura, have you seen the wide tooth com- W-what are you doing here?" She shrieked upon sight of kid. She looked down at her extremely childish and embarrassing pajama's, and dashed into her room, mortified.

"Wait! Meghan! It's okay, We like ducks!" Patty shouted after her.

Going to the beach...

"Thanks for taking us to the beach, Kid" Meghan mentioned form her place in the back seat of the car. Liz was currently driving, with Patty in shotgun. Kid was sitting in the direct middle of the middle row of the seats, with Laura and Meghan in the back, they were in a perfect symmetrical arrangement, if only Meghan would stop biting her nails!

"You're welcome. I hear it's a very PEACEFUL and RELAXING place," Kid enunciated both words loudly, and Meghan looked confused and a little worried, Laura resisted the urge to face palm.

"Oh-KAY!" Meghan enunciated back, maybe it was some sort of knew car game?

"Alright, here we are!" Liz announced, as she pulled into the sandy parking lot.

"Here we are!" Patty chirped.

Four of the remaining passengers were surprised with how quickly Meghan dashed out of the car to the heavy cement wall, which was the only obstacle in her way form jumping into those pretty salty waves.

"Awesome! Look, we almost have the whole beach to ourselves!" she shouted, which was possibly the loudest they had heard her...well...happy instead of afraid.

With some minor unloading of the car, soon all five of them were trudging to the sandy surf. It took even less time for Laura and patty to whip off the clothes they had over their swimsuits and dash towards the water, both having already applied sunscreen while Liz prepared herself for sunbathing.

Kid's shinigami skin prevented him from burning, so he sat under the hot sun without too much worry, but Meghan was grimacing towards a menacing looking bottle of sunscreen in her hand.

Meghan hated sunscreen, she hated how greasy it felt on her hands afterward and how it wouldn't go away no matter how much you washed them. It was the same with hand cream, which was why her hands became wind burnt and bleeding in the winter form the cold.

"Blech," Meghan groaned, squeezing a little onto both of her arms then reluctantly started to rub it in. She did the same to her face and neck, along with the tops of her ears (she's half English and part Irish, her skin is usually fair and easily burnt.)

Kid looked away, feeling bad for staring, when he heard Meghan make a noise of discomfort.

She was trying to get as far across her back as she could without breaking her arm. Patty and Laura were already in the water, while Liz had meanwhile fallen asleep under the big beach umbrella they had brought, so that left Meghan with the option of having Kid rub suntan lotion on her back, or do it herself. She was finding just how hard doing it herself was going to be.

"Allow me," Kid stood and retrieved the bottle of suntan lotion.

Meghan stiffened and shook her head, "No, that's okay, I'm going swimming anyway."

Kid gave her a stern look, "If you are sunburned, it would make you unsymmetrical, that and you could get skin cancer."

"I'm NOT going to get SKIN CANCER! Gosh you're worse than Emmy!" Meghan put a hand to her forehead, reminded of her other, more paranoid, best friend.

"Better safe than sorry," Kid said, squirting a stream of the white liquid onto the girls back, she yelped at how cold it was.

Meghan tried not to let the discomfort of someone else's hands on her show, but Kid could feel it in how tense her shoulders had gotten as he rubbed the sun block in,

"Are you feeling alright?" He asked concerned.

"I'm fine,"Meghan bit her lip, "I just have...issues with people touching me."

"Do you have really sensitive skin?" he asked, and he raised an eyebrow when Meghan's shoulders leapt up to her ears when he reapplied some sunscreen on the back of her neck for good measure.

"I don't know. I'm fine with hugging and stuff, but touching like this...well I've always reserved stuff like that for..." she trailed off and Kid could see that her ears had gone pink as he traveled lower down her back, "Well, for someone I'm dating...or something." She mumbled the last part, feeling embarrassed.

Kid froze, and he realized that he had been done rubbing the sun block on Meghan a while ago. He blushed but soon thought of a brilliant plan, this was a perfect opportunity to get her to relax! He moved his hands back to her shoulders and started to rub soothing circles into them, trying to relax all of the tension that was already gathered int here.

Meghan unfortunately realized what he was doing, and in her embarrassment, she practically tore herself out of his grasp, "I'm going swimming!" With that she took off like a shot.

Kid was left standing there, his hands covered in sun block and a slightly put out expression on his face.

"Aw, she got away." Liz observed, sitting up when she realized she no longer needed to pretend being asleep.

"We have the whole day," Kid said, wiping the greasy substance off his hands on a beach towel, "I'll get her to relax somehow."

Patty, floating in a pink inner tube next to Laura, smiled, "Kid's so silly."

Laura laughed along with her, and surged forward when she noticed Meghan slowly start to get into the water herself. Meghan was one of those people who got in entirely too slow for Laura's tastes. So she did what any best friend would do, she swam up to Meghan's legs, and before Meghan could step away, grabbed her ankles and pulled them out from under her.

Meghan yelped and swallowed the salty water, standing up in a huff and breathing hard with how cold it was. She blinked twice and rubbed the salt from her eyes only to see Laura smiling innocently at her form a few feet away. She glared and splashed at Laura, only to have Laura splash her ten times as hard. Patty soon joined in on the other side, and Meghan was completely encased in the white spray of ocean water.

"Uncle!" She screamed, laughing but incredibly wet and cold. That and the salt was stinging her eyes.

"HAHA! The almighty Laura wns again!" Laura triumphed throwing a fist pump. Meghan rubbed the salt from her eyes and looked up to see what everyone else was doing.

Laura was still partying that she dunked Meghan, Liz was on the beach tanning, Kid was nowhere to be found, and Patty was... what was Patty doing?

"Patty, uh, what are you doing?" Meghan asked cautiously.

"I'm a motorboat, can't you tell?" Patty asked vibrating her lips in a motorboat way with her near her mouth like flippers and kicking her feet contentedly. Meghan could almost see how she was a motorboat. Laura began imitating her and soon they were having motorboat battles. Meghan was referee for it.

All Meghan wanted to do was swim. the water was warm, the beach was beautiful, and she could actually see her feet at the bottom unlike the beaches in New England. But nooo, Kid was not going to let her have fun...he wanted her to RELAX dammit!

Well, she would do all she could to have fun.

"Hey, Meggie, wanna play Marco Polo? We convinced Liz to join us!" Laura called out waving her over. Meghan nodded and agreed that she would play Marco Polo with them and waded over.

It was only a few minutes into the game with Laura as Marco, or Polo, or whichever was the seeker when things started to get competitive. It was noticed immediately because the waves made it hard for everyone to move and also masked their sound. This caused the seeker to have to sprint off in obscure directions.

Laura was having issues with playing Marco Polo in the ocean, but she overcame them. it was too much fun almost killing herself to try to tag her friends.

Kid watched the game nervously on the sidelines. This could not be good for Meghan's stress. Playing a game like Marco Polo had to be very stressful. Well, Kid wouldn't know since he had never played it. And on second thought, they looked like they were having lots of fun.

Meghan was having a blast. It was hard to move around in the water, but at least she could see. She didn't know how Laura hadn't died yet, being blind and all. She was laughing when Laura almost ate seaweed. It was a big mistake on her part. Laura heard the laugh and lunged in her general direction. Meghan tried to dodge, but Laura had incredile lunging abilities and tagged her.

So, Meghan took on he duty of being blinded and trying to get the others, much to Kid's chagrin.

"Meghan, you sure you can handle this?" Laura asked, almost wishing to take it back.

"Yeah, why not?" Meghan replied.

And so, Meghan beganto try to tag. It went well for the first minute, but then the tide began to swell and the waves began to get larger. Meghan was already having trouble balancing, but one big wave sent her toppling through the water.

"Meggie!" Laura cried turning around after swimming away to go get her friend.

"Ooh, the fishies got her," Patty remarked. It may have sounded funny, but her face was not smiling like it normally was.

"Patty!" Liz scolded already trying to fish Meghan out of the water. In one big heave she pulled Meghan up and by that time Laura had come over. The two inspected Meghan and found a gash on her leg.

Suddenly, Kid appeared in front of Meghan and was giving her leg an examination. Meghan blushed, she wasn't in enough pain to faint, and tried to pull her leg away from Kid. He kept a firm grasp on it, and after considering it safe to move, picked her up and carried her ashore.

Laura and Patty and Liz watched the prince carry the princess off and smiled.

"Well, it's his duty today to make her relaxed, remember?" Laura offered.

"Yeah, I guess that's why he decided to carry her," Liz remarked half-heartedly.

"You're both silly," Patty stated, "those aren't the reasons."

"Yeah, we know," Laura and Liz said.

"Uh, Kid, I can walk, y'know," Meghan explained.

"I know," Kid said.

"So, can you, uh, put me down?"

"No."

"WHY!"

"Because we're not there yet," he answered simply. This was not the answer Meghan wanted and she started kicking her legs.

"Put me down! Down down down!" Her leg was throbbing in pain, and it made her just a little testy, the salt was making it sting, even though she knew that would probably clean it, it still hurt like freakin hell!

Kid decidedly ignored her feeble attempts to struggle free and carried her until he could carefully set her down on her towel and bandage her leg.

"Thank you," she said with a huff. She glanced at her leg, her face blank. Despite it hurting, meghan had a pretty strong threshold for pain.

"I don't think you'll be swimming anymore today."Kid mentioned, rumaging aroudn in a first aid kit he kept in his backpack, just your standard beach necessity -

"It probably looks a lot worse than it really is, don't worry about it," Meghan answered with a shrug.

Well, she was wrong. Meghan had managed to be carried at an alarming pace by the wave into a sharp and rugged rock of the deep, her leg scraping against it, resulting in a nasty friction burn around the gash, and the skin had been cut away several layers by the jagged rock.

"Meghan, you look like you stuck your leg into a meat grinder." Kid rose an eyebrow at her.

Meghan blushed in embarrassment and crossed her arms stubbornly, "I don't promise I won't go back in the water."

"But the sharks will smell your blood and go' Yummy yum! Fresh Meggie off the rocks!'" Patty mentioned, as she, Liz and Laura pulled themselves out of the surf to check on their friend. Liz sighed, well that could be considered a legitimate reason.

"Don't worry Meggie,"Laura said, planting herself next to her depressed looking friend, "There's plenty of other stuff to do, we can play catch, and climb the rocks, and even look for shells! I know you love doing that!"

Kid felt panicked; Meghan had been injured and he was going to use this chance to get her to relax since the water was pretty much out. He had to put his foot down.

"No! She needs to sit and relax!" Kid stood quickly and stomped his foot in a tantrum, much like how he did when he first met them.

Laura and Liz look at each other. As if reading each other's mind, they came to the same conclusion.

"Yeah, she does need rest," Liz commented and started walking away.

"Hey, Liz, will you help me find sea shells?" Laura asked walking along the beach.

"Wha- Wait!" Meghan called out.

"Ooh, I'll go find crabs to crush! We'll have seafood tonight,," Patty said trailing behind Laura and Liz.

"You're just leaving me at this psycho's mercy?" Meghan screamed across the beach. Several people turned their heads, but none were any she recognized. She did see Kid sweat drop and begin to draw circles in the sand, though.

"No offense, Kid. It just, uh, slipped out."

"I know."

Meghan did feel bad thinking about it. Psycho was a little harsh to say.

"Um, hey, do you like... music?" Meghan asked. It was lame, very lame, but she couldn't think of anything else to say.

"Yeah, I play the violin," Kid said, still down and drawing circles.

"You do?" Meghan almost jumped up. She had never expected him to play an instrument. Now that he mentioned a violin, though, it fits him.

"I thought learning an instrument would be a good thing, and a violin is a symmetrical instrument, or as close as I can get to one."

"Could I... hear you play?" Kid stopped drawing circles in the sand and looked up. Meghan was intently staring at her feet as if they would change colors a any second. Her face was slowly coloring red. Her fingers were tapping her thigh. Kid smiled a little.

"Yeah, I have it with me. Be right back."

Meghan let out a sigh when he was gone. It took most of her effort after saying that to remain calm and not go into hysterics or a burst of apologizing for being so rude. He had also taken so long to respond to her. What could he have been debating?

Meghan heard footsteps and looked up to find him kneeling two feet away, taking out his violin and tuning it. She had the urge to bite her nails, but repressed it, knowing that if she did, she wouldn't hear him play. And she really wanted to hear him play. She didn't know why, but she really wanted to.

"Do you have a song in mind?" Kid asked raising the violin to his chin and holding the bow in his right hand.

"Uh," Meghan paused, unsure if he would actually know the song, "Lugia's song?"

Kid's face dropped and he face palmed.

"Kid? Do you know the song?"

"I do."

"You do?"

"Yeah. My father brough home the movie one day, saying how all the kids were seeing it so I should, too. I didn't want to, but in the end I gave up. and i liked this song. When I started playing the violin, this was one of the first songs I learned."

The thought of Kid watching Pokemon was funny. Still, she didn't laugh and watched as he took a breath and started to play.

Meghan had no idea what to expect when the first note rang out, but it was beautiful. She hadn't heard Lugia's song in a while, but it came back as he played each note perfectly. The vibration in her ears bounced around pleasantly. Meghan closed her eyes and just let the music flow.

When the song was ending, she opened her eyes to see Kid with his eyes closed and a small smile. For a second he looked...

"Are you okay, Meghan?" Kid asked as he stopped playing. Meghan hadn't realized that she zoned out, and woke with a start back into reality.

"Yes I'm fine,"She said, smiling and tried to act like she wasn't just staring at him, "that was beautiful Kid, thank you."

"My pleasure." Kid was feeling insanely happy, not only did Meghan look relaxed as a result of the music, but she had complimented him! She wasn't afraid of him anymore.

The young shinigami pulled a risky move in his new found confidence and scooted closer to her after putting his instrument away, so they were only a foot or so away form each other. Meghan didn't seem to notice as she looked a the ocean. Kid decided to relax and think of where Laura would set them up on their date. He had pretty much won this bet, as long as he was careful, nothing could interrupt Meghan's relaxation she was completely and utt-

"Ow!" Meghan cried out.

Kid jumped and turned quickly, "What is it? Your leg?" He looked down, it did NOT look pretty. But Meghan wasn't looking at it at all, she had seemingly forgotten about it 10 minutes after it happened. Now she was rubbing her arm and looking at her hand reproachfully.

"No, I went to scratch my arm and ended up stabbing myself with my thumb nail by accident. It's probably gotten too long."

Before Kid could say anything, Meghan brought the aforementioned nail to her mouth and bit into it, trying to tear some of it off and fix her problem.

"AGGHH! NO! I was so close!" Kid wailed and Meghan jumped a foot in the air.

"W-what?" Meghan inched away as Kid collapsed to his knees and pounded the ground.

"I was so close, you were perfectly serene after I played my violin, no stress at all! So why? Why are you biting them still?"

Meghan blinked, and leaned forward a bit, "Kid, did you think the reason I bite my nails was because of stress?"

"Yeeeessss., Kid whined, Meghan shook her head

"Kid, that's partly true, but there are other reason's I have. I bite them when I'm bored, thinking, happy, sad, or like now, if they're too long. It just happens."

"AAAGGGHHHH!"

Later that day,

As Liz and Patty helped Meghan up the stairs with her things and injured leg, Laura was smugly confronting a depressed Kid.

"So kid,"Laura began leaning her arm on top of his head and using him like a support, "About that bet."

"Please don't say it, I beg you" Kid couldn't even look up.

Laura smiled manically,

"A bunny suit."

And that's where we'll end this chapter. I have absolutely no idea how long this is because i'm using my new laptop and a spiffy word pad. and a spiffy word pad cannot spell check, recognize grammar, add word art, add clip art, or do anything at all. it won't capitalize i. see? it didn't capitalize it. so, there is a high chance of many spelling errors in this chapter.

Kisa: I really have an injury like that. I fell on the street in Indiana. It was baaad.

Me: it only proves her clumsiness.

Kisa: Yeah, I feel embarrassed about it.

Me: So, anyway. Next chapter, we put Kid in a bunny suit. i hope everyone will enjoy that. We certainly will.

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C ya l8r!