No Mask Required

I See You

Ray Mond stares into Chatty's eyes, still holding on to his hand.

"What do I say to that." She thought.

Her mind flashes back to valentines day, when she asked Chatty to be her Valentine, She remembers him calling and her and telling her he wouldn't be a good Valentine because he's "yucked up", and how upset she was but didn't show it. She absolutely wanted to make him jealous by telling him, "No, it's fine, I'm sure Benji will appreciate my presence." The response he had, "MMPH So okay, You're good then" when he was actually disappointed. She thinks about how she wishes it would have been Chatterbox.

She's wanted this for a long time... Happiness.....Peace....Love....at what cost though is what kept running through her mind.

"Cups, are you alright?" Chatterbox asked.

Moments passed. "Hello?" Chatterbox said while waiving his hand in front of her face!

It had been quite some time since Chatterbox had asked Ray Mond if she would give him her heart.

Ray Mond has been staring into his eyes as though she was looking into a void of deep space terrified that she might be engulfed at any moment since then.

With no response to his question, Chatterbox moved his hand that was being held by cups all this time, and it worked exactly as he'd hoped.
"Um, excuse you!?"

"OH HEYY CUUUUPPS YOU"RE HERE! I thought you had been abducted by yucking aliens or something!
You weren't responding to any questions. I didn't know what the yuck was going on!"

"Why did you do that!?" Ray Mond looked so baffled.

"Why did I do what?! I've been sitting here for yuck I don't know what has felt like FOR YUCKING EVER!!" "Why did you take your hand away?"

"SO I COULD GET YOUR YUCKING ATTENTION CUPS!!!...I was worried that maybe that question was too much for you, and I had put you in a bad place."

"You didn't, Chatty. I was thinking about you."
Chatterbox's cheeks blushed beneath his mask. He clears his throat.
"Oh, um, what...... you're thinking about me...Cups".

"Yes, I was thinking about....."

*Chatterbox's phone is ringing, interrupting Cups' thought.

"What the Yuck do you want, Kirk..." Chatterbox snaps answering the call."Be nice, Chatty, " Raymond says."What if he's in trouble...?!"

"We're in trouble...that's more important!" Kirk Hears as Chatty finally answers "Chatterbox fun house, This is Chatterbox"

"I'd Just like to know, what the Fuck is up with this God damned sign outside of our house, that says we can't come in till tomorrow. That was the original reason for my call Chatty." Kirk's voice softens. "I think I just figured it out though."
Chatterbox turns away from Ray, "Yeah Man, I did this for us to have some YUCKING ALONE TIME, and we've somehow almost YUCKIN BROKE UP!!!"

Kirk giggles "It'll be alight brother, she ain't going no where, you're in like a fuckin Coyote in a hen house in the winter time." Chatterbox chuckles, but Kirk knows he is afraid to lose her. "You're just gonna have to show'er that ya'll got a future bigger than her past. Chaaatty. It'll be fiiinne. You call if you need me okay?
"I will kirk." "Good luck Chatterbox, See ya"

Chatterbox hangs up the phone and quickly turns towards Ray. She's turned around sitting on the floor looking at the fire, and is staring at it intently just like she was Chatterbox in the eyes. Chatterbox speaks softly, not wanting to startle. "Um, Uh Ray, so sorry about that. Kirk was just yucking complaining about, well, uh, everything."
"It's okay, Chatty." Chatterbox sits back beside "His Cups. " he grabs her hand, and Ray Monds eyes instantly light up. "Hey Chatty," she says with a giant smile on her face. Chatterbox is relieved to hear the name he had become most fond of.