The Triple Date Disaster

Chapter 4: Problem Solving

Aaron sat on his and Aphmau's bed. Even though they never shared it, it did technically belong to the both of them. He regretted what he said before, yet didn't at the same time. He was right wasn't he? Or was Aphmau right? He wasn't so sure anymore. One thing was for sure, he needed to take his own advice and talk with Aphmau. He kept repeating what he said on the way back in his head: "Their problems will never be solved if we solve them for them."

Aaron fell asleep preparing to talk with Aphmau. He rehearsed what he wanted to say and how he would say it. He had to be careful with how he went about this. He dreamed of how the scenario could go down as he slept.

When he awoke he found himself in the bed and freaked out! They agreed they wanted to wait till they were married and here he was. In the same bed as Aphmau. He calmed down when he got up and saw Aphmau wasn't in it. However then he started to worry. Why didn't Aphmau come back up? Was she okay? He then started to hear some commotion downstairs and left the room and headed toward the noise. When he arrived down stairs he was bombarded with the arguments going on in front of him. He only heard parts of each conversation; he picked up things like,

"Kawaii~Chan's sorry Zane~Kun!"

"How dare you say that!"

"I need to be able to make my own decisions!"

"Sylvanna put that away!"

"Mom stay out of their business!"

"Melissa go away!"

"Aaron! How dare you hurt mi hija! Chancala!"

With that last sentence Aaron froze. Were Sylvanna and Ziana always at Starlight? He wasn't quiet sure. However he knew it was best to run for his life. Sylvanna was just starting to warm up to Aaron so she would have no forgiveness toward him. At least not yet.

"Mom stop it with the chancala! I haven't even seen that thing sense high school! I can't believe you still have that!" Aphmau yelled. Aaron walked up to her and said, "Where were you? You never came back up, I was worried." "I needed some time to think" Aphmau replied. Aaron was about to say something when he had to push Aphmau out of the way before she was hit by a flying chancala.

Aphmau and Aaron hit the ground and he heard Sylvanna yell "I'm so sorry! That was meant for Aaron Aphmau!" Aphmau couldn't help but role her eyes. "What is going on?" Aaron asked. "Everyone is fighting about last night" Aphmau replied. "Still?" Aaron asked, Aphmau nodded.

Aaron got up from the floor and yelled out to everyone in the room, "Okay! Everyone calm down!" The whole room was silent. "Look, I don't know what were all fighting about specifically or why half of us are fighting. What I do know is we need to talk this out!" Everyone went from yelling at each other to not being able to get a word out. It was clear that everyone needed a little bit of help getting started. Aaron asked the crowd, "Anyone?" No one answered. Aphmau took Aaron aside and said, "I know your trying to help but they aren't going to want to talk about their problems in front of everyone." "I understand," Aaron replied, "I just don't know how we're going to get anyone to talk." Aphmau simply smiled and whispered, "Leave it to me."

*****

Aphmau walked up to Katelyn and Kawaii~Chan who were sitting in the kitchen. "Okay" Aphmau said as she sat down next to them; "I don't know what happened last night but what I do know is that I want to help you guys work it out with Travis and Zane. So, will you guys please tell me what happened after you left the restaurant?" No one said a word for about a minute. After Kawaii~Chan spoke up. "Kawaii~Chan doesn't know what Zane~Kun wants her to do. Kawaii~Chan loves shipping and she loves cute things. That's just who Kawaii~Chan is! She can't help it if she can't be serious enough... Kawaii~Chan wants to make Zane~Kun happy but she feels like Zane~Kun doesn't like Kawaii~Chan for her anymore!" Aphmau was shocked at this answer. However in a way it did make sense. Not that Zane didn't like Kawaii~Chan anymore but that she would feel that way. Aphmau replied, "Kawaii~Chan I'm sure that's not true! Did you talk to Zane about it?"

"Kawaii~Chan did talk to Zane~Kun but he doesn't seem to listen."

"What do you mean?"

"Zane~Kun keeps saying the same thing. He says Kawaii~Chan doesn't take anything seriously."

"Kawaii~Chan, did you ask Zane why he felt that way?"

"No..." Kawaii~Chan said with a sigh.

"Kawaii~Chan, I think you should ask Zane his side of what happened yesterday."

"Kawaii~Chan tried!"

"Try harder!"

"Okay Aphmau~Senpai...."

Kawaii~Chan got up and walked toward Zane. The thing with Zane and Kawaii~Chan is that they aren't very good at communicating. However once they really got to understand how each other feels on certain subjects they'll never have another fight again.

Aphmau watched Zane and Kawaii~Chan get a good start on a conversation and turned to Katelyn.

"Okay Katelyn, what happened last night?"

"Travis is a jerk"

"What makes you say that?"

"He doesn't understand..."

"Understand what?"

Katelyn was silent. After a few seconds she spoke up.

"Aphmau I.... I feel like Travis and I aren't a good fit... I'm positive I see him as just a friend but, then I saw him starting to flirt with that girl and..."

"...you punched her."

"Yes! I didn't know how to react! You said on the phone that Kawaii~Chan wanted us to be apart of this triple date and I kind of got excited to be on a date with him."

"So why didn't you say something to him?"

"How could I? I don't want to ruin our friendship that we have."

"There is no way you could possibly do that! It is totally obvious Travis likes- no, loves you! Sure, there's always a chance that it won't work out but you'll never know if it will or won't if you don't take the chance."

Katelyn was pondering what Aphmau said. It's something you hear over and over again but some how it still makes you think whenever some one tells it to you. Without further word to Aphmau, Katelyn got up and walked toward Travis. Aphmau felt proud of herself. She helped both of her friends with their guys, however some how she now had five others to deal with who weren't even apart of the date last night. Aphmau got up and walked toward the group.

*****

Aaron sat on the couch watching Aphmau help everyone with their arguments; at least all but one. The thing Aphmau never was able to do was solve her own problems. She was so busy helping everyone else she forgot about the fight with Aaron, and he didn't like that. He knew that if they didn't solve their issues they would only grow worse; and that's what Aaron was worried about.