How Bad Could It Be

Chapter 8

A/N: If you remember it from the movie, I don't own it. I'd like to thank Mircosedy for from fanfiction.net for beta-reading.

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When Once-ler arrived in the hallway of Kat's apartment, he heard music outside her door and saw Billy looking through her mail.

"You'd think she'd get something more interesting," Billy said and looked up to see Once-ler standing in the hallway. "Hey, Once-man, here for the show?"

"What show?" Once-ler asked.

It wasn't until the music was playing words that Once-ler heard Kat singing at the top of her lungs.

"You can dance, you can jive! Oh, having the time of your life!"

Well, Kat wasn't exactly a world class diva but she could carry a tune. Billy was laughing his head off.

"What's so funny?" Once-ler asked, feeling a little defensive.

"Come on, Kat's acting crazy because she thinks no one's around," Billy said, through laughs. "Sadly, this is one of her saner episodes."

"'Saner' episodes?" Once-ler asked, his eyes narrowing.

"Yeah, sometimes she talks to herself and becomes the fourth Charlie's Angel or she's an officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise," Billy explained. "Makes me wonder if the reason she doesn't want to get married is because she knows no sane man will take her."

"Maybe she doesn't want to get married because she's watched you fail at it too many times," Once-ler retaliated, putting his hands on his hips.

Billy narrowed his eyes as he opened the door to find Kat jumping around and continuing to sing until Billy applauded.

"Average singing with horrible dancing," Billy said with a smile as he put the mail on the counter. "Have to say, Sis, you are one epic fail."

Kat's face flushed as she immediately turned the record player off.

"She is not horrible," Once-ler immediately defended. "She just needs lessons."

Kat's eyes narrowed as she turned to Billy and Once-ler's direction.

"If I'm an epic fail, what does that make you?" Kat said to Billy.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Billy asked.

"It means that your dancing summons the devil and your singing could kill small animals," Kat responded with a smug smile.

"Oh yeah? Well at least I don't talk to myself when I think no one's around," Billy said defiantly.

"She just has an imagination and she ends up thinking out loud," Once-ler angrily retorted at Billy, hoping his size would be enough to make Billy back down.

To Once-ler's shock, Kat gave him a look that clearly told him to stay out of this and then she turned to Billy.

"No, you just pleasure yourself to your Dungeons and Dragons character," Kat shot back with a satisfied smirk.

Once-ler couldn't stop himself from bursting into hysterical laughter.

"How the hell do you know that?!" Billy demanded, shocked.

"Billy, the doors are hollow. You really think I can't hear what you get up to in the bathroom?"

"Hey, she's my dream girl," Billy defended. "She walks around in a skimpy bikini, she has 51-1-51 measurements and she jiggles in all the right places,"

This only made Kat and Once-ler laugh harder.

"Billy, you're really not helping your case right now," Kat said through her laughs while grabbing a tape recorder and a bag of Oreos.