Chapter 5-'Alone Time'

*FELIX'S POV*

This was awfully hard. I just couldn't believe that there was absolutely no way I could tell Tammy about her past or about what happened to her. Good thing that Ralph suggested that her and I have some alone time together. Or else I might have gone completely off the deep end. Just the sheer fact that I was only supposed to act like her 'friend' was enough to make me lose my mind.

But I also knew that I had to stay strong. No matter what.

"I have a couple of questions for you." Tamora said out of the blue. I looked up at her. "Like what?"

She shrugged and plopped down on the ground next to a one of the large candy cane trees in Sugar Rush. "I dunno, really. Maybe just some stupid little things that you'll get annoyed about."

I smiled and took a seat next to her and chuckled. "How could you possibly annoy me. Now, go on."

Tammy laughed. Oh that laugh is so sweet. "You seem pretty tolerant, huh? Anyway, my first question is who's this Litwak guy I keep hearing about? Why does everyone think that he's so important?"

"Well, Mr. Litwak is the owner of Litwak's Arcade and Family Fun Center. Game Central Station, the huge place where characters from all different kinds of games converse and where all of the games are located, is the power strip that keeps all of the games up and running. Like Hero's Duty, Sugar Rush, every single game cabinet in the arcade is plugged into the one plug."

"Wow. That's a lot of games. And what's with that blue, static guy?"

"Who, Surge Protector? Oh! He keeps every thing and one in line. If somethings out of place, it's his job to find out what's wrong and resolve the situation. But I really have no clue as to why he stops Ralph every time he wants to enter or leave a game. It's just how the strip is programmed, I guess."

My heart fluttered when Tamora nodded and looked right at me.

"What about Vanellope? What's her story?"

Uh-oh. What should I do. I thought about lying but the first time I lied to Tammy...let's just say that she and I weren't on the 'best of terms' for a week or so. Then again, Kohut didn't say anything about letting Tamora relearn the others back stories.

"Vanellope? Well, her story's pretty sad. She was a princess until a former racer named Turbo from another game who's game was unplugged took over Sugar Rush and tried to delete her code. Causing her to become a hated glitch. No one wanted to be friends with her. Not one person. That was until she met Ralph. They became best friends. And then you and I met her. You guys were best friends. And when I say best friends. I mean BEST friends."

Tamora snorted. "I guess that explains a lot. What about Ralph's story?"

"Ralph's the bad guy in my game. The villain. He wrecks the buildings that I am supposed to fix because we built the apartment building on his land. He got so angry that he decided on wrecking the building. Whenever the Nicelanders call my name, I come to their rescue and try to fix the building before I run out of lives. Anyway, back to Ralph. He really isn't s bad guy. He's actually a great person. Ralph helped Vanellope out with regaining her position as princess, or president as she prefers, and everyone in the arcade doesn't see him as a bad guy anymore."

I liked telling the story of how Ralph went Turbo. But then I remembered that my basic knowledge of it is mostly Tammy and I's 'adventure'. Which wound up in us falling in love. And telling her that would be a BIG no-no. But as long as she doesn't ask how her and I met then I should be-

"What about you and I? How'd we even meet?"

Oh.

I should have seen this coming. My mind raced as I tried my hardest to think of what to say. But all that came out was some stupid sputtering noises which made Tamora giggle. Wow, I haven't heard her do that in a while. I missed it. I missed her. A lot more than I think she could ever know.

"You really are as cute as you look. You know that, Felix?"

I smirked and blushed a deep shade of red. Darn honeyglows! "Was that another question?" I teased. Whew. I think that Tamora had already forgotten about her previous question.

"Oh...I don't know...Was it?"

...Oh man. I almost forgotten about her playful side. I tried not to look embarrassed as her eyebrow raised daringly. She leaned in closer towards me and stole my hat right from my head. "You think you can get this back...?" Tamora whispered into my ear making my face even more red than possible. My smirk only widened to be just as playful as hers was.

"It depends...how fast can you run?"

Tammy laughed as she hopped up and bolted from her spot. I laughed right along with Tamora and chased her. Good thing that I was naturally a fast runner. But so was Tammy.

I jumped right in front of her as she made a sharp turn around a tree causing us to tumble right onto the soft, cotton candy grass. I fell on top of her. Both of us were breathing heavily; faces mere inches apart covered in deep, dark blushes. I looked down at her. All of her features still looked more beautiful than anything.

Leaning up closer to me, Tamora made our noses touch. She wrapped her arms around my neck when my arms slowly dropped to hold both sides of her face.

"Can I kiss you?" She asked making me smile and ghost our lips together.

"I don't know...can you?"

Tammy smiled back and kissed me right on the lips.

*NORMAL POV*

After a few minutes, Tamora and Felix parted from their passionate opened mouth kiss. Both of their eyes fluttered open as they gazed at one another. Tamora nuzzled Felix's face.

"I love you..."

Felix grinned. "I love you, too."

Finally! I got around to updating. Sorry it took me so long. Tammy might have mentioned in the previous chapter that the one year anniversary is coming up soon so that's my 'excuse'. PM us if you want to. Always happy to take any requests!

Also, Tam has next chapter.