Idiots At War

Chapter 6 - REALIZATION TIME

Me woke up in the middle of the night, discovering that Mother Nature needed for me to take a potty break from my slumber. I grumbled, but stood, walking silently over Corn and then to the bathroom. I closed the door and did my business. I then washed my hands and walked slowly to my room when I heard a noise coming from the kitchen.

I quickly moved like a ninja to the kitchen and saw Kendal standing there with an empty glass in her hand. I watched her as she filled the glass with water, slightly dazed.

"Kendal?" My whisper made her jump and when she came back down, she slipped, so I ran forward and caught her before she fell to the ground.

She definitely looks cuter close up like this. Kendal had closed her eyes, expecting the fall, but I saved her a few inches off the ground. She

felt up my arm with her hand and wrapped her arm around my neck as I pulled her back onto her feet.

Pull away doofus.

I didn't. Kendal laughed shakily, her way of thanking me, whether she knew it or not. She was standing again, and her arm was down by her side. I put my arms down as well, but didn't move away.

Stupid potato.

Kendal steadied her breath, and I noticed that not a drop of water spilled on the floor. She must have held it upright somehow.

"I didn't hear you coming," she whispered. She looked up at me, which wasn't too hard, as I was about an inch away from her.

"I told you, I am a ninja." I grabbed the glass out of her shaking hand and set it on the counter before she dropped it.

Kendal looked down at my sock-covered feet. "Uh, thank you. I, uh, you scared me."

"Did I scare you that much?" I was hoping her answer was definitely no...

"No," (YAY) "I was a little spooked when I came in here." She shivered.

"What is it? Did something bad happen?" I grabbed her arm, suddenly worried. What the...

"Um, no. I woke up from a nightmare and heard a creepy noise out here, so," Kendal slipped her arm out of my grasp.

I looked down at Kendal and saw her pajama pants and tank-top, and

then her bare feet.

Awww. How cute was she... Crap, I was staring too long because she looked down too and blushed.

"Well, I uh... I should probably get some sleep." she said awkwardly. She was pulling on her hair. Just then, I realized that she actually had it down and not in a pony tail! I reached over and twirled a strand of it.

"Hey, you have your hair down. It looks nice." Kendal looked down, a hint of a blush on her face.

My only regret about this experience is that, as she swished back to Lil's room, I was unable to watch her ponytail go back and forth.

I poured my glass of water, as I originally came to the kitchen to do, and chugged it. Then, I floated on a cloud back to my room and laid in my bed, just thinking. And thinking. AND THINKING. AND THINKING.... Thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and thinking, and THINKING, AND THINKING, AND THINKING! Then, I sat up.

"OH MY GOSH... I LIKE KENDAL!" I exclaimed.

"Wha-?" Corn asked sleepily as he laid on my floor. Apparently my discovery had woken him up.

"Nothing. Just go back to sleep," I replied shakily.

"Dude, I heard what you said. Why are you acting so surprised? It's sort of obvious, to me at least."

"Whatever Corn," I said, suddenly irritated of his stupidity at the moment. "Just go to bed or I'll make you sleep in the cabinet with your kind, the potatoes."

He sighed and turned back the other way to look at a wall. I got comfy, wrapping my blanky around me as tightly as I could. YE$. Okay, NOW I could think. What just happened? Let's revisit the Kitchen Encounter. I walk in, Kendal slips, I catch her, and the rest is fuzzy and wonderful. I replay that like 3-minute scene over and over in my head again until I'm so hot that I suddenly kick off the covers like a not-so-stealthy ninja, literally rolling out of bed. My bed was just not working out. I walked the lonely, desolate hallways, in search of a good (AND COOL) sleeping space. But Kendal was right, it was kind of creepy out there. So I ran back into my bedroom and grabbed my laptop and continued typing my amazing story and listening to music until I fell asleep.