Oh, this was an uncomfortable position. I hated sleeping on my stomach! Sitting up, I grumbled and petted my hair down, then gave up when my hand got caught. Where was the-why was the door already open? I eyed it carefully as if I knew the boogeyman was about to jump out and eat me. I slid out of bed carefully, trying not to make any noise but failed, tipping over the suitcase that was set at the foot of my bed. I winced as the sound bounced loudly against my eardrums. That was yet another thing I hated about the morning. Everything seemed amped up ten notches.
I carefully picked up the bag and was ecstatic to find my favorite clothes, toiletries and so on tightly packed. I peeked out the door cautiously and saw my captor sprawled on his keyboard, the blue light contrasting with the dark green of his clothes, apparently asleep.
There had to be a bathroom around here somewhere, I mean it looked like he lived here. I crept in the room and thought about jumping on him, but decided against it. I glanced around the room and saw two doors. The first one I tried was locked, but the second one proved to be exactly what I was looking for.
After a very thorough shower I put on some clean clothes and crept back in the main room. The guy was still fast asleep!
I poked his shoulder experimentally and jolted back when he sat straight up.
"Wha-?"
"Wake up sleeping beauty!" I smirked.
He grinned."So you've finally noticed."
I sneered and marched into the bedroom "As if." I closed the door after me, ready to get the challenge for the day out of the way.
"This better not shock me." I muttered, turning the key warily. Thankfully there was no zap in response and I pushed the door open. There was just a simple white room beyond with a pile of Rubik's cubes next to a timer. Well this wasn't going to turn out very good at all. I mean Rubik cubes just annoyed the hell out of me. I tried and tried multiple times before but never seemed to get all the sides right.
"As you hopefully have guessed, your challenge today is so simple a monkey with his finger shoved up his nasal cavities could do it." I was close to making a smart response to that but refrained myself. "You are to solve one, only one of these fun puzzles in ten minutes. The first one you see has the key to your second door inside. Seeing as you've got so much time I would be eager to see how many you can complete seeing as I, myself can do it in less than a minute...begin" and the screen switched off.
I could have sat there raging all day but instead I leapt at the pile and started twisting vigorously. In about five minutes I had that one side complete, but the rest were making me go crazy. And he could do a whole one in less than a minute? He had to be exaggerating!
When time was up, the screen crackled back to life and he eyed me, already with a gloating look plastered on his face. He had been watching of course.
"Well?" He grinned. I fingered the incomplete cube in frustration as he snickered. "My, my. Is someone not competent enough to solve one mere Rubik's cube in such a lengthy amount of time as ten minutes? Pity, really"
I hissed, something popping in my brain. He and his Rubik's cube fetish was driving me up the wall...the wall. I eyed the embankment opposite me. I needed that key! I threw the cube at the wall as hard as I could. It collided with a loud CRACK and I grinned in triumph as the metal object marked 2 clattered onto the floor. I picked it up and skipped out of my room and into the main one where he was staring at me slack jawed.
"You...cheated." He said simply.
I smirked at him and twisted an eyebrow up, tossing the key into the air and into my palm.
"I don't care if I cheat, as long as I win." That made him very pissed. He launched out of his seat raising his oh so beloved cane in the air, as if preparing to strike me with it. Hell cometh if he actually hit me, so to spare him his life I grabbed the curved top and twisted it away from him. Rolling away, I stuck the bottom part under his still charging feet, tripping him up and making his face go into the wall. I stood up a little stunned all so much had happened so fast. Looking at the cane in my hand I smiled and gave it a twirl. It was rather addicting.
Edward stood up slowly, a vein in his temple throbbing with anger. I squeaked and ran...I'd like to say I wasn't scared but I really didn't want to die today. When I looked back he was hot on my trail and the stunned look he was wearing just made me go to pieces laughing. What with the giggles stemming from my lips and the fact there wasn't really much place to run he soon had me trapped in my room. I jumped up on the bed giggling like a crazed person holding the cane behind my back.
"Give me back my cane" He spoke slowly and deliberately, emphasizing each word and injecting as much poison into them as possible. I glanced into his face, clutching the cane to me as hard as I possibly could. His face still held anger, but there was none in his eyes...yeah I could mess with him a little.
"...no" I spoke firmly, but with a grin still twitching at my mouth.
He kicked a foot of the bed causing it to shake so violently I fell off the bed and right into his arms.
"Now" he growled. I could only shake my head in response. I was speechless but the nervousness that seemed to be soaking through my body, making everything weak hadn't gone into my muscles, so the cane was still mine. Once again he kissed me but not nearly as gentle as the first time. This one forced my head back with the anger put behind it. I didn't try to stop him. He finally broke away, his cane in his hand once again. He put me down as a new problem rose to the surface. Who did he think he was?
I smacked him again, hard.
"What was that-?" He started.
"Is that your solution to everything?" I snapped. I made my voice get a lower pitch, trying to imitate his tone. "Boy I can't think of anything else to say let's kiss Beth! The cubs just won the world series, lets kiss Beth! Oh well it looks like we're out of pickles, I'll just kiss Beth!"
He smirked, his know-it-all attitude back.
"Do you have a problem with it?"
That shut me up.