The very next night was the same story because Meadow was still at the house and their parents had gone out. Again. For how much they fought they sure went out enough. A.J was prepared just in case his sister tried to take his spot again as he had the remote in his pocket. Meadow was a little banged up due to her brother's attack. Even though she had fun with him in the end, she was still pretty pissed at him for it. After turning it to the right channel, A.J began making his way towards the kitchen and passed Meadow.

"You're always hungry," Meadow grumbled as she pushed past her younger brother.

"Except when I'm asleep." He laughed but stopped in his tracks and looked back at her. "Are you feeling better?" She knew what he was referring to. However, his only answer was a quick jab to the face from Meadow's left fist. "Aaaach!" He yelled out in pain, jumping away and cupping his face with hand.

Damn she sure can punch hard.

While A.J comedically worked the pain off of himself, Meadow laughed at the funny display and said, "Oh calm down, will you? I didn't hit you that hard."

A.J removed his hand from his face and looked at her with a grumpy look. "You're mean. Punching me in the face for tickling you."

"Well, you shouldn't have done it then. You're own fault. Not mine." Meadow retorted, though jokingly.

Before Meadow could say another word, A.J bent down and grabbed Meadow, and hoisted her up bridal style, causing her to scream out in surprise as he carried her over and dumped her on the couch. He tried to go after her again, but Meadow quickly put a foot in A.J's chest, pushing him away before quickly getting back up.

Wanting to seem tough neither waited around for the other to make the first move, both jumped at one another, holding each other's shoulders. Meadow broke the ice first, jabbing her brother in his open side, followed by a combination of jabs and tasers before A.J protected his body. Meadow saw her opportunity and jumped on him, landing on top of the younger teen. While A.J struggled to gain his composure, Meadow hoisted his arms above his head and delivered several quick pokes and prods to his vulnerable ribs, causing A.J to release a few laughs.

This lasted for a good couple of seconds before A.J flung her off with a gust of strength.

A.J swooped down and grabbed one of Meadow's arms, putting it behind her head. Her other arm still usable, he found his sister's side and dug in. "AHAHHA!" A.J let out before wrapping his leg around Meadow's torso. Now with her upper body open, the younger teenager went for the kill.

His fingers started at his armpits, knowing how bad his own were, he figured his must be too. And he was definitely right, as he poked and wiggled five fingers into her underarm, sending Meadow howling. "AHAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHA NO NOO AHAHHAHAHAHA!" Meadow pleaded, A.J continued to plow into the under arms. And after he devoured that area, he moved down to her ribs, counting them as he went along.

"One, two, three, ah where was I? One, Two.."

"AHHHAHAHAHAH!" "FOUR! AHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA".

Meadow's legs kicked the floor as A.J tortured her helpless upper half. A.J's fingers fluttered all around Meadow's neck, traveling over the shells of her ears and down to her collarbone. It tickled the hell out of Meadow as her head thrashed around but A.J would always be at her other side, ensuring she couldn't escape.

A.J just laughed and continued tormenting Meadow's ticklish neck area. But finally, Meadow slipped loose of his grip and grabbed the leg that was wrapped around her. She slipped the shoe off and began tickling his socked foot.

"AHAHAH NO NOO AHAHAH LETT GOAHAHAHAHA!" A.J yelled as he tried to wiggle away from his sister. But Meadow held on as she wrapped her legs around his while A.J lay on his back, one of his fists pounding the floor. Meadow used every finger to scratch at his foot as it wiggled but thought of a new idea and pulled off the sock, "NO, NO!" A.J begged. But soon enough it was off a fresh attack started on his now bare foot.

Meadow's fingers moved like wildfire on A.J's ticklish sole, scribbling and scratching at every spot. "Hahahahhahhahahssssssttttoooooppppphahah!"

A.J began losing his mind with the new tickle attack. His head thrashed and his fists pounded and his laughs went louder and louder. This pleased Meadow and she was sure she was gonna win until she was yanked down a few feet.

A.J had caught her right ankle and put it in a head lock. Now both siblings had one of the other's ankle ready to assault. For a moment, they exchanged glares then suddenly started up their tickle fingers once again. A.J began raging his fingers across Meadow's helpless foot like a maniac. Meadow had changed up her strategy, and grabbed his toes, pulled them back and went to work, scratching at the base of the toes. A.J went wild, kicking his other leg and laughing his head off, forgetting to tickle Meadow for almost a minute, but he finally made contact again. He didn't even bother with tactics, he just let his fingers scribble and spider all over her sole with the energy he could muster. This made his sister lose her grip and let out possibly the loudest laugh yet.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! NOHOH!"

When she let go of A.J's ankle, he was so shocked by that, A.J forgot about the foot in front of him. And that was Meadow's cue to strike back. She yanked her ankle from his grip, jumped on top of A.J and did the only thing she could think to do.

She bent over and began blowing raspberry's on A.J's newly firm stomach. All that time at the gym was going to backfire.

"AAAAHHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAH YYOUOUUU BBBITTTCCHH! AHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA SSTOOPPPPP STOOOPPPPPP!" he screamed. He would have tried to stop her but the immense tickling sensation seemed to paralyze him. Meadow's lips fluttered with amazing strength and energy across his belly button. He's torn at laughing because it tickles so much, and because it sounded like a really wet fart.

When his breath returned, he used it just to wheeze out, "I'm sorry."

Meadow rolled her eyes and chuckled.

"That's nice," Meadow said with a yawn, slipping her hands under his shirt. "But this is not to get an apology. This is for the consequences of your actions. And you knew that, or you wouldn't have been such a little shit in the first place."

That was sheer torture to A.J, torture. No wonder Meadow didn't like it. And after about three more intense raspberries, leaving A.J weakened, she grabbed his shoeless ankles and stood up. That position had the additional advantage of keeping A.J's straying hands as far away from her own body as possible.

Meadow started tickling A.J's feet, the same thing he had done to her. He went berserk, thrashing his head around, banging on the floor with hysterical laughter. With every tickle of his foot, A.J's hysteria grew wilder. Meadow's fingers moved up and down the sole over and over, until she used that to bring herself victory.

"AHAHAAAAHAH YYOUUUU WIINNNN STOPPPP!" he managed to get out before tapping.

When Meadow let go of his ankles to claim her win, A.J felt like he was going to pass out from exhaustion.

After pulling the remote out from his pocket, Meadow turned the channel back to 'Friends' before dropping down to straddle A.J, knees on either side of his waist and grabbed his wrists to keep him trapped where he lay. Once the show came back on, Meadow placed a hand on A.J's cheek and moved his head to face the television, making him watch the rest of it with her.

"There are couches, you know." A.J muttered, trying to free himself from out under her. He couldn't believe that his tactic had come back to bite him in the ass.

"I'm pretty comfortable here."