What is there to say? This is my last chapter, which just so happens to be my longest one.
Abby: And this is the chapter where you're gonna give Numbuh 4 a hard time.
Wally: (Off-screen) Don't remind her.
Me: Too late! Now, come out from under that table.
Wally: Make me!
Me: Okay, I won't…Hey look, Kuki! Wally's found your Rainbow Monkey!
Wally: (Moves and stands up) Nice try, but…(Looks at his hand and screams)
Kuki: (Runs in) My Citrus Celebration Rainbow Monkey! Thanks for finding it, Wally! (Hugs him)
Me and Abby: Aww!
Wally: Shut up. (Scoffs) Women.
Me, Abby, and Kuki: What?! (Kuki lets go of Wally)
Me: Hold on everyone, before we give Wally the beat-down of his life, let me just take this opportunity to thank a few awesome people:
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Me: I also have to thank the people that didn't review, but they favorited my story and or put it on alert:
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Me: Now let's do this.
Wally: (Screams and runs out)
Kuki and Abby: (Yells after him and runs in his direction)
Me: Also, here's chapter 7! (Runs after everyone else)
Chapter 7: Tiny Evil and Poetic Justice
"You still haven't answered my question."
Wally saw Kuki standing at the end of the staircase, looking up at him. "Oh, yeah. The one about how you look." He said, rubbing the back of his neck. Wally looked behind him to see if Mushi was there, but she was no where to be seen. "About that, do you mean tonight, or any other day?"
"Both." Kuki replied.
"Well, um…" Wally started. He felt himself blush. Come on. He said to himself. It can't be that hard. All you have to say is, "Yeah, you look pretty."
"You don't have to answer my question, Wally." Kuki said, looking down at the floor. "I think I know what the answer is."
Wally tilted his head to one side. "You do?" He asked.
"Yeah."
Out of nowhere, a thought came to Wally. Could she have taken what he was about to say the wrong way? He decided to ask; not directly though. He walked over to her.
"Okay, what would my answer have been?" He asked. "You know, since you said you thought you knew my answer.
Kuki looked at him. "You probably would have said I looked ugly." She said.
"I wouldn't say that." Wally said. He looked into her eyes. To him, they seemed to be clearing up. "I would never say that."
"Then what would you say?"
Wally took a deep breath and said, "I would say you're-"
"The prettiest girl on earth!" Mushi said from the top of the staircase. The two looked at the little girl smiling from ear to ear. "That's what you would have said. Right, Wally?"
Wally face was burning now; Mushi's answer was exactly right. He slowly turned his head back to Kuki to see how she felt about her sister's answer. She was looking back at him with widened eyes and a slightly agape mouth.
"Mushi, is that you?" Mr. Sanban called from the dining room. "Are Kuki and Wally in there with you?" From what the three children could hear, he was on his way to the living room.
As much as Wally and Kuki wanted to make a mad dash out of there, they couldn't because the two were frozen in fear. As they waited for Mr. Sanban to come into the living room, fear had already replaced their shock, but not their embarrassment and anger.
Somehow, if they did find the strength in their jelly-like legs to run out of there, Mushi would track them down in a heartbeat. Speaking of that little instigator, she was sneering at the scene below her with one hand on her hip and her other hand was behind her back.
Kuki and Wally must have been on the same page because they were about to run out, but Mr. Sanban stopped them dead in their tracks. And how could it not? His arms were folded, his eyebrows were furrowed, and his narrowed eyes focused on Wally.
"What's going on in here?" He asked.
"Uh…" Wally and Kuki looked at each other for help.
"Mushi was just giving me, um…" Kuki started.
"The last line to that new…" Wally added.
"Princess/Rainbow Monkey song!" Wally and Kuki said at the same time. They looked at each other. "Rainbow Monkey/Princess song!" The two tried again.
"It's the Rainbow Monkey Princess theme song." Kuki lied. "You know, dad, for that movie that's coming out next year? I was just excited about it."
"And she said she couldn't get that song out of her head." Wally said, adding to the fib. "So I helped her by telling her to think of another song."
"So when Wally asked me to sing the song again," Kuki said. "I forgot most of the words just like that." She snapped her fingers to add emphasis.
The duo gave Mr. Sanban toothy smiles, with hopes that their tale would work. For a moment, it didn't seem to have any effect; they knew they were busted.
"Oh, that song!" Mr. Sanban said, causing Mushi to go wide-eyed; she couldn't believe it worked. "It is addicting isn't it? Ever since it was available for downloading, I've been hearing it everywhere. 'Rainbow Monkeys, Rainbow Monkeys. Your princess is so round and super spunky…" He walked away singing the song, allowing Kuki and Wally to sigh in relief
"Smooth." Mushi said flatly, causing the duo to turn back to her. "But getting back to the subject, I knew that you were gonna say my sister was pretty, right?" Her smirk returned.
"How are you so sure, Mushi?" Asked Kuki.
"Yeah." Wally chimed in. Even though his and Kuki's story caused Mr. Sanban to leave, he knew he had another obstacle to get over, so he tried to stay cool; however, his voice came out shaky. "Prove it." He said.
"Hmm, let's see." Mushi said as she started to walk down the stairs. One hand was on her chin while the other one remained behind her back. "You keep staring at her, but not as much as you did when you first saw her; you said you wasn't blushing when I said you were; you were nice to her when…" He voice trailed off, but it wasn't because of the angry expressions that came from her sister and Wally.
"Okay, okay, enough with that kind of proof." The little girl continued. "I actually have evidence." She coolly walked from the last step on the staircase, over to her sister.
"What kind of evidence?" Wally asked, trying to catch a peek of what Mushi was talking about.
"Nothing you hadn't already seen." Mushi said. She handed Kuki a folded piece of paper.
Kuki unfolded the paper, and gave Mushi an annoyed look. "Uh, this is a cute drawing of me, Mushi." She said. "But how is this e-"
"I didn't draw it." Mushi said in a singsong voice.
"Than if you didn't draw it, then…" Kuki's voice drifted off as she looked from the paper to Wally. "Is this your drawing?" She held it up for him to see.
Wally looked at it, and looked at the floor before anyone saw him blush. "Yeah." He said. "I did it."
Kuki was about to say something but Mushi interrupted her and said, "Isn't that sweet? You two love each other! Now, we gotta tell the parents!"
"What?!" Kuki and Wally exclaimed.
"That's right!" Mushi said. "And I wrote a poem for this occasion."
"A poem?" Kuki asked. Wally would have asked the same question, but all he could do was nod.
"I would share it with you all, but I gotta get ready." Mushi said. She ran back upstairs.
"This is bad." Wally whispered to Kuki.
"It's not that bad." Kuki said. "Sure it might not be a work by Robert Frost, but—"
"That's not what I was talkin' about." Wally inturrupted. "It's only a matter of minutes before our parents come out of the dining room, she comes back and goes in there, or everyone comes in the living room."
"Oh…" Kuki said, realizing what Wally said. As quick as a blink, she grabbed his collar. "We've gotta do something!" She exclaimed.
"I know." Wally said as Kuki let him go. "But what?" The two then went deep into thought.
What am I gonna do? Wally asked himself. I need to do something quick, yet it won't cause too much commotion. He looked at Kuki for some inspiration, but she seemed to be as lost as he was.
Suddenly, a light bulb flickered and then went bright in Wally's mind. "Kuki," He started. "I think I have…an idea."
"Wally, we don't have time for jokes." Kuki said.
"I'm serious." Wally said. "Remember that Christmas party at the Artic Base two years ago?"
"Yeah."
"Remember when Numbuh 101 asked Numbuh 13 to take off his pan hat to design one similar to it for the museum?"
"And Numbuh 22 threw a football and it hit Numbuh 13 in the head and…" Kuki had a feeling about what Wally as about to do. "Don't tell me you're gonna knock my little sister unconscious!"
"Well do you have a better idea?" Wally asked. Kuki paused for a moment, and she shook her head.
"But don't you think she'll remember?"
"Well Numbuh 13 still doesn't remember what happened." Wally said. "Even with the medical operatives' help."
"True." Kuki said. Being the medic in her sector, she remembered when she and the other operatives in that field were called upon to help him. "But where are we gonna find a football?"
"I don't know, but I can tell you were we can get a soccer ball." Wally pulled a soccer ball from under a table they were standing next to.
Kuki was about to say something, but decided against it. She knew whenever Wally made up his mind about something, usually it was hard to stop him. To keep from watching the scene, she looked at Wally's drawing of her.
I hope he knows what he's doing. Kuki said to herself.
After positioning his soccer ball, Wally looked over his shoulder and saw Kuki's uneasy face. "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do." He apologized. From the corner of his eye, he saw Kuki smiling at him.
"Hi, you two sweethearts!" Mushi greeted from the top of the stairs. She looked at Wally's soccer ball and asked, "What's with the ball?"
"Funny story about that." Wally said. "But I'll shorten it to a poem. Roses are red, roses are pink. You'll never remember this night, no matter how hard you think!" He kicked the ball.
Before Mushi could ask what Wally meant, she looked at the soccer ball closing in on her. Five, four, three, two, one…
"Mushi!" Called Kuki. She dropped Wally's drawing and ran up the stairs to catch her little sister before she fell.
"What's going on in there, kids?" Mr. Beetles asked. Knowing his dad and the other adults were coming in, Wally picked up the paper and shoved it in his pocket.
At the same time, the parents came out of the dining room to see what was going on. Kuki, with a worried expression on her face, was sitting on the stairs. In her arms, was Mushi, who looked like she was asleep. At the bottom of the stairs, Wally had nearly the same worried expression as Kuki, but he seemed somewhat relaxed.
"So did you get the stain out of your dress, Kuki?" Mrs. Beetles asked.
Kuki quickly turned her head from her sister to Mrs. Beetles. "Uh, no ma'am." She fibbed. After tonight's events, her dress was the last thing on her mind; even when her dress was soiled, she wasn't too concerned about cleaning it up.
Mrs. Beeltes turned to Mrs. Sanban and said, "Genki, if you want I ca-"
"What happened to my baby?" Mr. Sanban asked as he ran up the stairs to Kuki's side.
"Um…" Kuki started. She looked at Wally, and he shrugged; she was pretty much on her own right now. "She bet me and Wally that she could skip down the stairs with her eyes closed, and she…tripped and…fell."
Mr. Sanban once again bought into a lie told by his daughter. He plucked Mushi from Kuki's arms and said, "Kuki get our coats, I think it's time to leave." Kuki nodded and proceeded to Wally's room.
Mr. Sanban then walked down the stairs with Mushi over his shoulder. He saw Wally standing at the bottom of the stairs with a part nervous, part forced smile. "I don't know why," Mr. Sanban started. "But I feel you're responsible for this." He continued walking.
Once the adults crowded around Mushi, Wally went up the stairs. He didn't want to look any more suspicious to Mr. Sanban, so he decided to come back downstairs with a cloth or something and say that he thought Mushi could use some ice for her head.
"Wally, we did it!" Kuki whispered. She dropped her family's coats and ran to him.
"Yeah." Wally said. He put up his hand to give her a hi-five, but she kissed him on the cheek. He turned crimson.
Kuki turned a little red herself as she said, "Sorry, I was just…"
"Yeah."
"I…probably have to go now." Kuki said as she picked up the coats.
"Me too." Wally said. "Not with you, but…you know…to get a…"
"Right." Kuki said, running down the stairs. Unknowingly to her, Wally was watching her. A smile spread across his face as he touched his cheek.
Wally was happy no one saw Kuki kiss him because he didn't need any more insanity added to his night. Another thing he was happy about was that no one else saw his drawing of Kuki. He pulled it out of his pocket and looked at it.
The picture hadn't changed much since he first drew it, except it was now crumpled. Wally had drawn the picture, thinking it would help him get rid of his obsession with Kuki. Obviously, it didn't work since he was looking at her like—as he would call a lovey dovey teenager, 'a lovesick loser'.
He didn't know what to do with it now; his crush had seen it. Wally put the picture back in his pocket, and set that thought aside for later. I better get this cloth before they leave. He said to himself. I want them to think of me on a good note…is that how that expression is used? Wally pondered that thought as he walked to the linen closet.
Well, that's the last chapter, everyone.
Wally: (Looks pretty beat up) Boy am I glad this crud is over!
Me: (Stomps at him, and he cringes) Obviously, you haven't learned your lesson.
Wally: So? I don't care if you call Kuki and Abby.
Me: I'm not gonna call them.
Wally: Oh, thank God. I mean, if you're not gonna call them, then what are you gonna do?
Me: Whoo, I thought you'd never ask. Listen, (Places hand on his shoulder) grab forty-three oranges, thirty-four bonsai trees, and a panda; and meet me in front of Mr. Warburton's house.
Wally: What?! I—
Me: (Walks away) Come on, Wally!
Wally: Kerriberri, why do we need that many oranges and b-bon…trees? Won't a panda maul me if I try to move it? And who the crud is Mr. Warburton?! Kerriberri?
Me: (Off-screen) Come on! (Throws a lasso, and it wraps around Wally)
Wally: Aw, (Pulled away) CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUD!
