W H E N T H E C R A C K K I C K S I N .

Waves Are Rising.

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"I need help." Amanda mutters, realization apparent on her face. The subtle hints towards Ike were obviously not working anymore. She needs to be more blunt. But how can this green goblin do so without being too obvious to the point where she ends up embarrassing herself?

Taking in a deep breath and exhaling, Amanda thinks long and hard about someone or maybe something that could aid her in these very, very, troubling times.

"I think I'll just ask Uni and go from there." Amanda nods her head in affirmation and begins her search in finding her friend, Uni.

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"Uhm, I'm not exactly skilled in that area, so sorry!" Uni states.

"No need to apologize, it's quite alright." Amanda replies, disappointment lacing her voice.

"But one of my other friends may be able to help!"

Amanda's eyes slightly widen in hope, there's still a chance!

"Ah, I'd be eternally grateful if you went through the trouble of contacting your fellow friends just for my selfish needs-"

"Alrighty, let's go inside." Uni interrupts Amanda before she can continue her paragraph, proceeding to drag her towards a humongous treehouse.

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"Uhm, are you certain we should be contacting your friends about my love problems inside the same abode that Ike is?.." Amanda nervously questioned, I mean, who was she complain? Maybe this is good! If Ike were to overhear our conversation it could go two ways. One, Ike could barge in and confess his feelings, or two, he could assume it's someone else and all my effort would go down the drain-

"Uh, Amanda?" Uni called out to the ninja, pulling her out of her thoughts.

"Yes? Sorry I was thinking about something..."

"Alright?... Anyways, as I was saying, Ike isn't here. He went out to get something from Dr. Moosee." Uni reexplained, walking with Amanda to one of the seats pairs, "Don't ask me what he's getting, said it was an emergency then left." The two sat down on the chairs, Amanda doing some strangle ninja pose on her seat. Uni looked over about to question her seating position but then decided against it having a feeling it would end in the goblin telling about her entire life story.

Brushing off Amanda's strange habits, Uni picks up the neat and somewhat futuristic-looking phone from the table that stood in-between the two girls.

"I think I'll give Rose a call first, seems like the most logical choice." Uni mutters to herself. Various sounds come from the phone as she presses the numbers down.

"Hellerrrr? Sorry to whoever is trying to call, Rosie isn't here at the moment. But I am, Hello, Stranger!"

After the phone rang, playful voice emits from the phone, surprising the caller.

"Alice? Is that you? Uhm, where's Rose?" Uni questions repeatedly.

"OHH MY GODDD-UNI???" Alice shouts into the microphone, causing Uni to slightly wince and pull the phone away from her ear, "I like, totally haven't heard from you! You should call me more, anyways! What do you need? I'm sure whatever you wanted from Rose I can grant. Heh, yeah."

'This is exactly why I don't call you as often and nor do I wish to.' Uni groans softly, not wanting to deal with Alice's energy and stupidity, which is one of the many reasons as to why she wanted to ask Rose and not Alice. But Uni will just have to work with what she has for now.

"Yeah, I have a question I wanted to ask." Uni begins, not really expecting to get anything out of it considering its Alice.

Uni proceeds to tell Alice about Amanda's situation and asks if she could give some advice. Surprisingly, Alice replies with something of good use.

"OOO-I definitely know how to deal with that stuff, but since it would be better to teach the Arts of Love to you guys in personnnnn, I suggest giving Spice a call!"

"Spice? isn't she that one super duper incredibly awesome and famous artist? What does she know about romance?" Uni, once again, questions Alice.

"Yeah! She's actually good at it and stuff, obviously not better than me but she's a great alternative when I'm not here." Alice replies.

"And where did you get this information?"

"I saw her promoting her awesome skills on a billboard."

"Oh ok."

Uni continues her conversation with her friend while Amanda is lost. If you look closely, you can see her head, very faintly, bobbing her head, trying to stay awake.

"Amanda!" Uni calls out excitingly, "We got someone who can fix your love life."

The ninja bolts up in surprise from her half-asleep state, "Really, Uni?" Amanda asks, wanting confirmation on the fact that there's someone that might be able to get Ike and her together after all this time.

"Yuppers." Uni confirms, "We just need to dial this phone number my friend, Alice gave me." Uni, again, begins to dial the phone number. The familiar beeping noises comes from the phone, followed by ringing.

"Hello? Uhm, who is this? How did you get my number?" A person, supposedly Spice, answers the phone.

"Hello, this is Uni. I heard that you are giving out advice on romance?"

"Excuse me? I'm not-" A gasp is heard from the other line, "Wait, wait, I completely forgot, I'm totally a love expert! I'll help you out on whatever problems your love life has."

Uni's eyes squint in suspicion at Spice's cut off, but then shrugs, figuring that she might have had a long day and just forgot about her advertisement.

"Well it's not really about me, it's more with my friend, Amanda. You see, her crush, Ike, is completely oblivious to her love and affection and she doesn't know what to do anymore. Could you help us out?" Uni explains.

"Uh, sure! The blunt ones are always a bit tricky." Spice accepts, "I'll be there tomorrow at 6:12AM, bye bye!"

"I didn't even tell you where I'm at-" Uni tried to tell Spice but she hung up before Uni could begin. Amanda looked over, curious as to why Uni has a look of distress.

"Well, Amanda. You just got yourself a wingman-I mean woman."

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