No Mask Required

Dream Land

Chatty continues to repeat the phrase
"I'll be here, cups." Over and over in his head until he slips into a deep peaceful sleep, and finally begins to dream.

He and cups are sitting closer than normal on the balcony of the fun house looking out as the area around.

Chatty gets a sudden courage that surprised even him.

He clears his throat..

"Um Cups?"
"Yes, chatty."
"I want you to know why I can't lose you."
Ray Mond being herself is panicking now. She stands up from her comfy position and begins walking in circles.

"Why? Wait, do I want to know why? Are you trying to use me for some "plan"? Do you really hate me and are just pretending to like me? Has this been that fake relationship all along??" Of course in word vomit fashion.

"Cups, cups, cups, cups, calm the yuck down! Chiiill, " Chatty says, still in his seated position.

He pats the ground beside him. "Come and sit cups."

"Wait, did you really just ask me if I hated you?"
"Well, yeah, do you?"

"I don't yucking hate you! What kind of yucking question is that??"

"I don't know, I just sometimes feel like I'm not a good girlfriend. Like I'm bad for you!"
The atmosphere goes silent as he hears her sniffle.

"I will say this as many times as you need to hear it. You are the best yucking thing to ever happen to me! Do you understand that??!"

"What if I'm not? What if I am bad for you?"

Chatterbox sighs a deep sigh and almost wants to scream, but he doesn't

"Cups, you're perfect for me. You bring out the best in me. I think about our future together, and I haven't felt that feeling in a long time."

"You are my priority, and I will hold that standard until you yourself tell me I shouldn't."

"I love you, cups!"
Oh, this was different... he said it directly; not in passing with a "you" instead of "ya."

Sweat beads on his neck, waiting for a response.

Cups reaches over and puts her hand on his knee.

Chatty's heart is like a butterfly... he's unsure what this feeling is. Physical affection isn't a strong point for him.

Ray Mond sighs
"I know you do chatty, and that scares me!"

"What?! Why? Isn't that the point here??"

"It scares me because I Lo..."

Chatterbox was awakened by a loud crash.

"Holy yuck! What was that? HELLO!?

Looking through his blurry eyes, he sees a familiar shadow in the doorway.

"Hey, chatty."
"I didn't mean to scare you, I was actually trying not to wake you up,"

"Oh. Oh. You um didn't scare me cups. It's fiiinne."

"You were sleeping so peaceful, and I realized I haven't got to see you sleep before."

"Well, that would be because I usually don't."

"Usually don't what?" Cups questions.

"Sleep."

Chatty clears his throat as he sits up on the couch and grabs his mask.

"Last night was different, though."
As he looks up, he sees her leaning up against the doorway.

"She's beautiful," he thought.

"Chatty, are you okay?? Can you hear me??"

"Um, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. I'm sorry, what were you saying?"

I asked, "Why was last night different?"

"Um, well, cups, well, um, because you were here."

"Well, did you have sweet dreams?"

"Um yeah, I mean yes. Yes, I did have sweet dreams."

"What'd you dream about?"

Chatterbox puts his head in his hand.

"Ahhh cups, you don't really wanna hear about my dream, do you?!?"

"Yeah, I do! Come on chatty, tell me, tell me, tell me. Never mind, you know what, you don't have to tell me the dream, if you don't want to I don't wanna know since you're so against telling me. That's fine."

Chatty smirks with a simple "hmph"
He knows what game she's playing here, so he'll take the bait

Ray Monds eyes light up when Chatterbox simply says

"You cups, I was dreaming about you.."