Chapter 45

Xacrrie was sitting on her sister's bed, Neox beside her; they were playing a game of "Go Fish" while Xero and Bàli were talking. "Would you relax Bàli," Xero said to his girlfriend, who was currently pacing her room like a caged animal. Xero himself was sitting relaxed in Bàli's desk chair.

"Nae, I can't! The restaurant's been booked solid for a full month!"

"Why can't you just go somewhere else?" Neox asked drawing a card from the deck that lay between him and Xacrrie.

"Yah," Xacrrie agreed, looking closely at the cards in her hands. "Do you have any 3's?"

A sigh escaped Neox's lips and he pouted. "Yeah…" he passed her a 3 of clubs, which she accepted with a smug smile, laying the match down in front of her.

Xero looked over at them, "So where would you two suggest we go?"

"How about Chucky Cheese!" Neox suggested. Xacrrie looked up with excitement nodding her head in agreement.

"Pass," both the older members said at once making the kids pout.

"A picnic?" Xacrrie offered her own suggestion.

"'Ats an idea," Bàli agreed.

Xero however looked less then pleased with the idea. "And what? Have all the food be covered in ants, roaches and bees? Fat chance."

"Well why not?" Bàli asked, leaning against him with puppy eyes.

"Not working... not working..." Xero resisted, and then did something that made Bàli squeal and blush, but the kids didn't see what.

"Xero! Eem conplosthtsa'!" she scolded making him chuckle. She smacked him in the shoulder but smirked. "Well den wat de ye wanta do?"

Silence fell throughout the room as they all thought for a moment. Neox and Xacrrie shrugged after a few moments and went back to their game, knowing that there opinions wouldn't matter, so it was best to just let them work it out. Xero suddenly smiled, "How about a movie?"

"Yah!" Xacrrie agreed. "I wanted tae see, Night of the Fluffy Bunnies."

"Pass…" Neox said, laying his cards down.

Xero looked over at them, "And who says you two are coming with?"

"Can't we have a double date?" Neox asked and both kids gave them puppy dog eyes.

Bàli smiled at her sister, never able to resist her. "Sure you can."

Xero stared at his girlfriend with a look of horror on his face, "What? Come on Bàli, do you really want to be dragging around two rugrats?"

The two younger members glared at him, but Bàli sat down on his lap and leaned into him giving him her own puppy dog stare. After a couple of seconds the orange haired teen finally gave in, "Fine…"

"Thanks hun," Bàli said and kissed him on the cheek. "So what movie are we going to see?"

"We could always see Blood Hounds?" Xero suggested.

"Nae on a dubble date Xero," Bàli said motioning to the younger members. "Remember tis rated R. There's always Love Story, 'ats nurtral."

Neox shrugged, "Sure."

"I guess," Xero agreed then smirked at Bàli. "Besides, it's not like we're even going to watch the movie."

Neox and Xacrrie looked confused. "But why go to the movie if you're not gonna watch it?" Neox asked.

Bàli smirked, "Xero doesn't know wat e's talkin bout. We're gonna watch de movie."

"So... me and Neox will meet you two at the theater tomorrow?" Xero asked.

"Ok," the girls agreed.

The next day Xero was pacing outside his room, waiting on his younger friend. "Hurry up Neox," he said to himself. The boy came around the corner five minutes later, 15 minutes late. "What took you so long, the girls are probably already there waiting on us?"

"I wanted to get Xac a yo-yo," Neox replied as if it should have been obvious.

"Why? We're going to a movie?"

"She'll want it!" Neox reasoned with a smile.

"Whatever," Xero rolled his eyes. "Come on lets go."

Neox nodded and opened a portal, and they walked through. As they walked to the theater, Neox started to mess with the yo-yo, seeing if it worked correctly was his excuse. Xero was starting to get annoyed because he was falling behind. "Come on Neox, keep up!"

Neox rolled his eyes. "I'm coming, I'm—oh, oh, oh!" Neox yelped as he fumbled with the yo-yo, making it fall through a fence. "Wait, I dropped the yo-yo, l need to get it back."

Xero groaned. "You can get her some popcorn!"

Neox growled at him, trying to reach the yo-yo through the fence. "She'll WANT, THE YO-YO!" The boy groaned; his arm just wasn't long enough. "I can't reach it, help please."

Xero rolled his eyes and walked over. He got down on his knee's and reached through the fence trying to grab the yo-yo. Neox attempted to help by to pushing him closer. "Ouch! Neox stop pushing me," Xero said as he felt himself get wedged into the fence.

Neox stopped pushing and stepped back, but unfortunately Xero's head had already slipped through the fence. "Can you reach it now?" Neox asked.

Xero reached out and grabbed the dropped yo-yo, and then tried to squeeze back through the fence. He panicked when it didn't seem possible. "My head is stuck!"

"Huh?" Neox asked.

"My head is STUCK!" Xero repeated, panicking and frustrated dropping the yo-yo again.

"Your head is stuck?" Neox asked sounding confused, which further angered Xero.

"YES! My head is STUCK! Stuck is my head! My stuck head is! Is head stuck MY!" which one of those words DON'T you understand!?" Xero exploded at him.

"Well I understand all those words," Neox stated.

"Well good. Then you understand I have a PROBLEM here, ya oddity!"

"I'm an oddity? You're the one with your head stuck in a fence."

Xero just growled, "GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

"Okay, okay!" Neox said, grabbing the end of Xero's pants and began to pull.

"Ow, ow, ow!" Xero yelped as his head pulled against the fence.

As Neox continued to pull, something suddenly pulled free and he fell backward. Looking down at his hands... and saw a pair of pants. His eyes widened, and he slowly looked behind him at Xero. The older member was still stuck in the fence, but his pants were missing, all he was wearing now was his shirt and red boxers with boomerangs printed on it.

"I'm going to kill you!" Xero shouted blushing.

"Sorry…" Neox said not really sounding sorry at all. He wasn't sure what else he could do; evidently his head was stuck too badly. Neox sighed. "Oh well..." he then walked right around the fence, picking up his yo-yo.

Xero gawked at him, "You can walk around the fence?!"

"Of course."

"Then why did you want me to reach through the fence?"

"Too lazy to go around."

"When I get my hands on you..." Xero threatened in a low deadly voice.

"D-d-don't worry! I'll get help!" Neox said, and than ran off.

Meanwhile at the theater Bàli and Xacrrie were standing outside the building waiting for their boyfriends. "Where are they?" Xacrrie asked sounding annoyed, they had been waiting for almost an hour. Her sister just sighed, looking just as annoyed.

A half hour passed with Xero waiting for Neox to get back, his head still stuck in the fence. Finally he spotted the younger boy approaching him, he was alone however. "I thought you were going to get help?" Xero said in a voice that said Neox better have a good excuse for coming back alone.

"I didn't know who to go to, so I went to the store to get supplies," Neox explained holding up a brown paper bag.

"What did you get?" Xero asked hopefully, he was ready to get out of the fence and knew for sure that Neox got something to help him out.

"... Where are your shoes?" Neox questioned, seeing that Xero was now in just his socks. Add to that, he was soaking wet.

"A hippie took them! What'd you get?!" Xero answered his patients wearing very thin.

"How did a hippy get a hold of them?"

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU GET?!" Xero roared at him.

"You don't have to yell."

Neox sat beside Xero and smiled. "A yo-yo." he said, taking it out of the bag.

Xero tired to keep his voice calm, "How is a yo-yo supposed to get me out of here?"

"I got it for Bàli, since you didn't have the common sense to get one. Besides, I got more stuff," Neox tossed the yo-yo back into the bag and dug his hand into it again.

Xero sighed with relief, he thought he was about to blow a gasket. Neox held up the next object. "I got a screwdriver too."

"Anything else?" Xero asked thinking that a screwdriver wasn't going to help much.

"Hmm... A hammer," he pulled out a little tiny hammer that looked like it would only get a thumb tack into a wall.

"That it?"

"No! Of course not. I got... glue," He pulled out a bottle of Elmer's Glue.

"For what?" Xero had no idea how glue was supposed to get him out of this situation.

"Uh... I dunno. Oh, Oh! I got some slippery stuff though!"

"Finally" Xero thought, "Something that's useful"

Neox went to the side that Xero's head was on and reached into the bag, then pulled out a bottle of soda. Xero wasn't in the right position to see this. "What are you waiting for?" Neox smiled then poured the soda on Xero's head. "What the hell?" he asked, "I thought you said you had something slippery?"

"It is! Its soda! Soda's slippery right?"

"NO!" Xero could no longer control his anger. "ITTS NOT SLIPPERY IT'S STICKY!"

"Ooooooh... Well that's a problem..."

"GET ME OUT OF HERE!"

Neox went around, grabbing Xero's legs and pulling as hard as he could. "Ow, ow, OW- stop!" Xero called.

Neox complied, panting. "Dammit! Man, you have a BIG head!"

"Shut up!"

"I mean, MY head isn't big!" Neox continued, walking to the fence and pointing at it. "If I stuck MY head through the fence-"

He suddenly fell forward, getting his head stuck in the fence as well. "..." Neox tried to calmly remove his head. When it didn't work, tears started falling from his eyes as he sniffled.

"Neox please tell me you're not stuck."

Neox's reply was bursting into sobs. If he wasn't stuck, Xero would have beaten his head against a wall. They remained like that for a long time. Without a doubt, they had missed their date and they were still stuck.

Meanwhile back at the movie theaters, the two Scottish girls were still standing around waiting. "Where are they?" Xacrrie moaned.

"I dont know..." Bali replied.

"They're late by hours!" Bàli just nodded. "Why haven't we just gone back to the castle yet?" Xacrrie asked.

"Maybe we should look for them...?" Bàli suggested.

"Where?"

"Let's check the path from where they always appear in this world to this theater."

The younger girl agreed, and they left.

Xero was starting to get a headache because Neox wouldn't stop crying. "SHUT UP!" Xero roared at him. The boy only cried harder. "Neox, stop it! I'm getting a migraine from you!"

"But we're going to be stuck here forever!" he wailed.

"Oh really?" a familiar voice said, giggling a bit.

Both looked around the best they could in there position and saw Bàli and her sister standing there smirking. Xacrrie walked around the fence and smiled at Neox. "Stuck, are ya?"

"How in de world did ye get stuck?" Bàli asked clearly trying not to burst into giggles.

Um... I dunno." Neox said.

"It was Neox's fault, him and that stupid yo-yo."

"A yo-yo?" both girls said in unison. Neox smiled and handed both of them a yo-yo. They both stared with mild interest, neither had seen one before. "What does it do?" Bali asked.

"Can we get back to getting us out?" Xero interrupted.

"Oh! I know!" Neox chimed, before his body basically liquefied into black water, then reformed into himself again, out of the fence. Xero blushed madly, before turning into sand and getting unstuck at well.

"You two only just figured this out?" Xacrrie asked rolling her eyes.

"eheheh..." Neox smiled.

"Well movie tis long over, an dinna's going to be soon. Might as well head bak to the castle," Bàli said.

"Yeah." Xero said, and then glared at Neox. "We can do that after I kill this kid," he said and suddenly charged at Neox.

Neox screamed and ran behind Bàli. "Xero leave 'em alone," Bàli said looking amused.

"Do you know what he put me through?!"

"I'm sure I 'ave an idea, but tis not worth it."

"Look at me!" he said, gesturing to his pantless self.

Bali giggled, "I don know, I kinda like it."

"You're gonna like a whole lot more when we get back" he smirked at her.

"What are you talking about?" Neox asked.

Bàli and Xero blushed, Bàli putting her hand over his mouth, but then removed it. "You're all sticky."

"Once against blame Neox."

"I was just trying to help..." Neox said, pouting cutely.

Bali shook her head, "Come on, lets go bak."

"Okay," Everyone chimed, going back to the castle.

We very much apologize for not updating in so long. Life had happened and both of our schedules prevent us from writing too much. No we have not abandoned this story, we still plan on posting more chapters, but it may be slow.