Trouble Follows

Ch. 18

Mini Mama is such a fucking dude! She just stops, frowns and says she has to piss like a racehorse? What girl does that?! Puck couldn't stop laughing.

"Where are we?" Ellen looked around.

"I think I saw a place a ways back. Here." Marcy held out Sully's leash.

Ellen was visibly freaked out.

"You're supposed to take it."

"But-?" She looked down at him.

Marcy sighed heavily before grabbing her hand and slapping the leash into it. She stomped off.

Ellen looked ready to cry. "But-?"

"Do you want me to hold his leash?" Mal asked gently. She nodded miserably so he took the leash from her. The dog walked around him like he was looking for a place to bite.

Secret sat on Mal's left foot and stared him down.

"I knew this dog was a good boy." Mal rubbed his head.

"Enemy of my enemy is my friend." Quinn said.

"I can't believe he's on your side now." Mike shook his head with a smirk. "You two hated each other this morning."

"What a difference a day makes."

"You can quote as many people as you want but I don't like that dog and Secret knows what's up." Mal sniffed.

"Why couldn't she have gotten a sweet dog like Ecru?" Ellen picked up her dog.

"What is Monster going to do with a sweet dog?" Mike grinned.

Mal snapped off in German.

Mike laughed. "You don't want the twins picking up that kind of language."

"It'd be worth it."

"Mal, stop cursing." Mercedes waved a hand.

"I will not."

"You're just like her, aren't you?" Artie asked.

Mal smiled like he was trying not to. "Like who?"

"Your demonic baby mama."

"I'm nothing like that she-devil."

Mike said something that had Mercedes gasping and Karou and Quinn laughing.

Mal just shrugged. "You're like Grandfather."

"Not like Moppet." Mike shook his head. "She's going to follow in his footsteps."

"Mikey, don't say that!" Mercedes freaked out.

"It's true."

"You know she wants to dance." Mal said. "She's not going to hop to his tune until that happens."

"Then she'll be his pet project?" Quinn smirked.

"It's not like he'd have a lot of grooming to do." Karou rolled her eyes. "She takes after him in nearly every way."

"Well he did teach her how to curse." Mike grinned.

"Your grandfather is why she cusses like she does?" Artie demanded.

"No, he taught her the basics and she's just creative."

"One time she cursed at a truck driver and it wasn't all in English and she was all red." Sam remembered. "She flipped him off and when he got out, she got out and screamed in his face."

"I bet he didn't expect that."

"We didn't."

"I did." Artie smirked. "I know my Boo Thang and she got a mouth on her."