I'll Meet You There

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Day 6

The next morning, Elton told us we would be seeing monkeys. Normally, I would be excited, but I was exhausted. Elton was nice and made a stop for coffee. He told the viewers, "Poppy drinks so much coffee, it's a wonder she's still alive. And without it, you really don't want to be around her."

I narrowed my eyes and Elton added, "You know it's true."

Jay and Brennen began talking about their championship bruises and I pointed to them. "Exactly why I didn't do that last night. I might not be here to see the monkeys."

We left the hotel and Elton told us we had to walk 25 minutes upstairs. Well that sounds incredibly fun.

We stopped near a fan and took some time to cool off. Colby noticed Jay was wearing deodorant and jokingly asked him if he was.

Brennen pulled off his shirt and Colby commented that he would if he had muscles. I looked at him and said, "Flex as hard as you can."

He did so and I squeezed his arm. "See? You have muscles."

Colby grinned and turned to me with the same grin while Elton panned the camera towards the monkeys.

He pulled his shirt off and stuck it in my backpack before taking it from me. I honestly was glad he did, because that backpack was really heavy. I walked closer to a baby monkey to observe it and Colby suddenly pulled me away.

I frowned. "What was that?"

"Did you not see the mom getting closer to you?"

"No... What was she doing?"

"Walking closer to you. She didn't like how close you were to her baby."

"Well, uh, thanks for saving my life again, I guess."

He smiled and nodded. "I'll save your life as many times as it takes."

We jumped, hearing a branch snap. It was a monkey that caused us to get scared. Brennen ran back towards us, since he was ahead of us.

I pulled out my phone and took some pictures of monkeys.

Brennen caught my attention by saying, "Look how focused she is. No wonder Colby's got an eye for her."

Colby's cheeks reddened and he said, "Oh, my God, guys. Shut up."

I looked between them with a frown, smirking lightly at Colby's flushed cheeks. Don't you dare tell him I said this, but honestly, it was adorable.

We got to the top and grabbed food for the monkeys. Brennen and I started feeding them. Elton was cheering for one to do something cool and then tried feeding a monkey, but didn't want to put in the work. A couple monkeys near Jay were fighting and I glanced to see that Elton had decided to put in effort to feed his monkey.

The food I had was gone, so I watched the monkeys. Brennen and Colby were still feeding the monkeys. Every so often, I grabbed food from Colby's hand because I didn't feel like going all the way back to get more. Brennen was showing Colby how to feed the monkeys properly.

Along the line, Colby touched a baby monkey's arm and jolted his arm back slightly. I raised an eyebrow and asked, "What, did he use Electroshock on you?"

"No, but he did shock me."

"So, he used Electroshock."

Colby frowned. "No, Poppy. Not Electroshock. There's a difference. I was just caught off-guard."

"Right. Sure you were."

"I was!"

We trudged through Kyoto as we continued exploring. We came to a forest and I saw that Brennen had taken off his shirt. "Every time. Brennen; can't you go a day without taking off your shirt?"