A.N.— Okay, here is chapter 10 :D I hope you enjoy!
Chapter 10: Brunch in Brazil
The next morning Adriana wakes up before Pedro. She slowly moves the pillow barricade and looks at him for a moment. 'Cute fool...' She thinks silently. 'Adriana, you can't be going loca now. You need to concentrate on escaping.' She tells herself. Adriana then looks around the room. She looks once again for something to unlock the lock with. There appears to be a small metal piece of something over at the wall. Adriana looks at it curiously. She doesn't actually have any idea of what the halibut it is...Though she doesn't really care. It looks like it can serve as something to open the cuffs, and that's all that really matters to her. Pedro suddenly turns over in the bunk with a mumble and jerks Adriana over back towards him. She looks at him with a small glare. "Can't you stay still in your sleep?" She mutters.
"Nope." Pedro yawns and looks groggily at Adriana. "No more than you can not snore in yours."
Adriana looks at Pedro with a slightly open beak. "I do not snore!"
Pedro looks at her slightly amused. "Well, if it wasn't you snoring, then that must have been one loud and sleepy fish." He says with a small yawn and a laugh. Adriana looks at Pedro with narrowed eyes. "Jeez...Tough crowd..." Pedro murmurs as he sees that Adriana hadn't appreciated his humor. He runs a flipper over some of his feathers and straightens them.
"We'll be docking soon." Diego says as he suddenly peeks his head into the room.
Pedro nods. "Alright, gracias." He calls after him. He then looks at Adriana.
Adriana looks back at him and places her free flipper on her hip. "What?" She asks shortly.
"Nada." Pedro says and shakes his head a little. He is a bit surprised that she isn't shouting at him to get up already.
Adriana looks weirdly at Pedro before trying to get out of the bunk. She gets as far out of it as she can and then looks at Pedro a bit impatiently. "Well, Pedrrrrrro? What's taking you so long?" She asks.
'And there's the impatient fussing...' Pedro thinks with a small smile. He gets out of the bunk. "Nada. Nada is taking me so long."
"Well, then hurry up! Let's get off this barco." She says and impatiently taps her foot.
Pedro looks at her. He wonders if this is how it is with married penguins, with the bossy, impatient wife and the dragged-along, patient husband...He thinks that if that is how it is with married couples, that he really wouldn't mind that at all. "Alright, alright, I'm coming." He says and starts waddling out quickly, kind of dragging Adriana behind him. "Fast enough for you, Adriana?" He asks with a smirk.
"Sí, sí, very cómico*..." Adriana mutters unamused. She quickly grabs the piece of metal as they pass it and hides it in her feathers with a sly smile. She then waddles faster so that the cuffs aren't so tense and so that Pedro wouldn't possibly get suspicious. They then waddle out onto the deck.
Pedro waves goodbye to his brother and nephew before Adriana rolls her eyes and drags him quickly off La Princesa Sierra and onto the wooden docks. "Palitos de pescados*! You're sure in a hurry, aren't you?" He says with a raised nonexistent eyebrow.
"Pfft! Hurry? Me? No...I'm not in a hurry, not at all." Adriana says and rolls her eyes again quite annoyed.
"Well..." Pedro says as he sees some of the restaurants that they are passing. "If you are not in a hurry...How about we stop somewhere for a little brunch? Sí?" He looks back at the restaurants a bit hopefully.
Adriana stops and thinks this over for a moment. True, she is rather hungry...But the quicker they get away from civilization, the quicker she could loose herself from Pedro and leave him out in the forest for the snakes and things to eat him...Or something like that. She looks at Pedro and catches his hopeful expression. Adriana has to admit that the face Pedro had just made was kind of cute...But, cute or not cute, she isn't about to sound like she wants to go have brunch with him. "Ugh...Fine, I guess we can do that." She says with a faked groan of irritation.
Pedro without thinking does a small happy flipper-pump. "Yes!" He exclaims before realizing how silly he must look and looking at Adriana. He puts his free flipper to his beak and acts like he's clearing his throat a little. "Ahem...You–You didn't see nada*..." He says with a small blush. He wonders what Adriana must think of him, a grown adult, acting for a moment like a small child. Pedro then thinks that he probably doesn't actually want to know what Adriana thought of that. He figures he probably wouldn't like whatever she thought.
Adriana looks strangely at Pedro with a raised nonexistent eyebrow. 'Does he always get this excited about getting to eat?' She wonders silently as she continues to look a bit weirdly at him. She thinks that that had been rather funny and cute...And not the least bit mature or 'agenty' in any way whatsoever. "Right..." She says and rolls her eyes a little.
Pedro nods and looks around. He thinks over the different restaurant choices and chooses one at random before dragging Adriana to it. "How does this one look? Too few penguins for your liking?" He asks a bit jokingly as he looks back at her.
"Not that I really care, seeing as how this is just brunch, I think it's fine." She says with a shrug. Pedro nods and drags her happily to a table for two. He without thinking pulls out a seat for Adriana before sitting in the other chair to the right of it. Adriana looks at Pedro and the chair for a moment with slightly raised nonexistent eyebrows. 'What? Does he think this is a 'brunch date' or something?' She thinks silently as she sits down in the chair he had pulled out for her. As she sits, Adriana inconspicuously feels for the small piece of metal she had swiped from Diego's boat. It is still there and she smiles a little bit relievedly.
A waiter comes with two menus and brings them to Adriana and Pedro. Pedro takes his with a nod and a small smile to him, while Adriana just takes the menu. "So..." Pedro starts as he looks the menu over. "Do you know what you'd like to order?" He asks and glances over at Adriana.
Adriana shrugs. "Sí, I believe so." She says and shuts her menu. Her sight falls on the knife near her plate and she is tempted to snatch it and keep it for later use, seeing as how Pedro has already confiscated all of her other knives and has left her weapon-less.
"Yo también*." Pedro says as he gently closes his menu and sets it down on the table. He sees that Adriana is looking at the knife and looks at her. "Don't even think about it, Adriana." He says as he lets his flipper tap his gun which is hidden in his feathers, like a few of Adriana's knives. Adriana growls a little and crosses her flippers across her chest and crosses Pedro's flipper in with them, too. Pedro blushes a little as he feels his flipper brush against her chest feathers. "Euhm...My fl-flipper?" He stutters and glances at it before looking Adriana back in her bright, sparkly green eyes.
"Huh? Oh..." Adriana notices his flipper and uncrosses her flippers.
Pedro quickly reclaims his flipper and recomposes himself. "Euhm, so...Are you...Erm, ready to order?" He asks her.
"Sí." Adriana says with a nod. Pedro then nods in reply and motions to the waiter that they are ready to order their brunch. He then orders a water and some fish with fruit. Adriana orders the same thing and eyes Pedro a bit suspiciously.
Pedro catches her suspicious look and gives her a curious one back. "What?" He asks.
"You ordered the same thing as me..." She says.
Pedro looks at her. "So? Is that some unheard of thing?"
Adriana shakes her head. "No...No, it's just un poco extraño*."
"Extraño? No, Adriana, I'd say it is just a neat coincidence." He shrugs.
"Hmpf." Adriana says with a small snort. "There are no such things as coincidences." She says.
Pedro gives her a funny look. "Well, Adriana, if there aren't coincidences in the world, then what the halibut would the importance of us ordering the same thing have? Doesn't that sound just un poco loco to you?" He asks. "Because yo sé* that sounds muy extraño para mí*."
"Yo no sé*..." Adriana shrugs and says a bit silently. "Ask a philosopher or psychologist or something." She says.
"But neither of those just brought up this loco subject..." He says and gives her a look. The waiter then brings their drinks and food and Pedro nods at him. "You're the one who did."
"I know I did. But...How about we drop it now and move on, okay?" Adriana asks as she picks up her fork and starts on her brunch.
Pedro shrugs and also picks up his fork. "Fine, whatever." He replies. "So...Is it a coincidence too that you said I wouldn't be able to keep you as my prisoner for a day and I've kept you as my prisoner for over two now?" He asks with a smirk.
Adriana shoots him a glare. "I said drop the topic, Pedro." She says with a slight growl.
"Fine. Fine." He says and puts up a flipper. He takes a sip of his water as he thinks a little. "But...Isn't it one?" He asks curiously. Adriana glares at him and hits him on the head with one of the fish off of Pedro's own plate. "Hey!" He exclaims as he rubs his head and looks a bit surprised at Adriana.
"Hey yourself." She says hiding a smile. "I said to drop it and you continued instead."
"But I fail to see how that results in getting hit with brunch!" Pedro mutters as he wipes his head with a napkin.
"Oh...It didn't really."
Pedro stops mid-wipe with the napkin and looks at her. "Then why the smoked halibut did you hit me with a fish?!" He asks as he lowers the napkin.
Adriana swallows back an urge to laugh. "It was partially for my amusement." She says and laughs a little at the face Pedro then makes. "What? Do you cops not like a bit of a joke now and then?"
"Amusement? Joke?" Pedro mutters a bit aggravated. "I'll show you a joke in a minute..." He mumbles as he takes another drink of his water to calm down. He isn't the least bit amused about getting hit on the head with a fish.
"Of course you will." Adriana says with a laugh and rolls her eyes. She lifts her water to take a sip just as Pedro jerks the cuffs a bit quickly and causes her to spill it on herself. Adriana gasps from the cold ice water and looks at Pedro a bit shocked.
He then looks at her. "Oops." Pedro says with a slight laugh in his voice. Adriana glares at him for a moment before laughing a little and he laughs some, too. "I see what you mean by the jokes. That was indeed very amusing."
Adriana looks at him with a slightly raised nonexistent eyebrow. 'Maybe he's not as goody-goody as I thought...Hmmm...' She thinks silently. "Was it, Pedrrrrrro?" She asks. "You mean you coppers don't pull little things like this often?"
"Eh...Depends on how often you mean by often and what kind of things you mean..." Pedro shrugs and eats some more of his brunch.
"Wow..." Adriana mumbles. "It must be so boring to be so good like that."
Pedro shrugs again. "It's not that bad, really...Sure it gets kind of old some días, but you learn to live with it." He says.
Adriana looks at him from over her now half-empty cup. "I see..."
Translations:
*Cómico — comical
*Palitos de pescados — fish-sticks
*Nada — anything (in this case seeing as how it can also mean 'nothing')
*Yo también — me too
*Extraño — strange/weird
*Yo sé — I know
*Muy extraño para mí — very strange to me
*Yo no sé — I don't know