|| -------- -- -----  A E R I E   O B L I V I A N A . singular book of text wandertainment by Frank Edward Nora ------------------- ----------- WINTER STADIUM THEM--CUP 13--"SUPERGLUE" <-------  ||  Severe Repair  ||  Winter Stadium Them  ||  -------> (Cup SRws013, Created v2 (6/7/99), Copyright 1999) = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = "I'm Free. I'm Thor. I'm Agatha. I'm Harrison. And we are... PSEUDOAIRPORT! How's that?" It was a little promo spot that RRTV aired a lot when coming back from commercial. Free Dear Tours heard it from the other room, and rushed in, trying to find the remote to turn the TV off, but being unable to, wound up hearing the video host talking about her. "I tellya, that Free Dear Tours, is she like the Stacy Mejelca of Rillekon's Road, or what? Well anyway, we got a great lineup for ya, beginning with Lace and--" Free yanked the electrical plug out of the wall. "Don't like that, huh?" said Harrison: Night President from the next room. "Shut up, Harrison." Free said, collapsing onto a couch and curling up. "What did you do--overdose on cold medicine again?" "Get outta here! I don't feel good!" Harrison gingerly walked over to the couch and gently sat down on one edge, careful to avoid touching Free. Free hit the couch with one hand in frustration. "What do you want." she said, her face still buried in the couch. Harrison smiled, and after a pause, said "I found that new superglue." "What?" Free said, making it sound more like a moan. "Superglue. I heard it bonds skin instantly." "So?" Free said after a pause, expecting Harrison to continue. "I wanna test it." There was another pause, after which Free began mumbling "No, no, no, no, no, no, no..." "What?" "No. I am not going to superglue myself to you. No way." "Why do you think that's what I wanted?" "Because I know you, Prez. I know you. You come up with these stupid ideas, always trying to get into my pants--you know--you got a lot of nerve--after striking out with Thor, moving on to me." Harrison continued smiling his expressionless smile. "At least you were second. There's always Agatha." "There is NOT Agatha. She's not into love and sex and all that good stuff. She pure mind, no emotion. There is no Agatha when it comes to a love life." Harrison didn't respond, so Free finally looked up to see what was going on, but Harrison just stared at her. "You know, you're worse than Agatha." Free said. "I am?" "Yes, you are. You profess to want love, but you show even less emotion than her. Y'know, what's your problem?" "I wasn't aware that I had a problem." Free snickered and said "Yeah. Right." She sat up, on the opposite end of the couch from Harrison. Even though there was more than enough room Harrison remained in his precarious seating position. They stared at each other. "Okay, humor me." Free said. "Tell me about this superglue plan of yours--tell me exactly what you hoped to accomplish with it." "I wanted to get close to you." "Oh really." "I thought... Well, I did have a plan. I thought, being that you disagree with me on everything--" "--I do not--" "--being that you DO disagree with me on everything, I thought you'd challenge the notion that superglue bonds skin instantly. I thought you'd be so adamant that--that you'd agree to test it with me, just to show me how stupid I am. Then--knowing that it DOES bond skin instantly, we would be connected, for fear of ripping our skin off. Then..." "Then what?" "Then I'd be close to you." They stared at each other for a time. "And what," Free said slowly, "would happen once we were close?" Harrison blinked once emphatically, clearly an involuntary response. "We might get intimate. Kiss, nuzzle, hug. I..." "What?" "Your neck--it's just so--whenever I look at it, I just have to--I want to kiss it and lick it--it's just--it's what I'm focusing on." Free frowned and leaned back, her arm on the arm of the couch. "You know," she said after a time, "that's the most romantic, human thing you've ever said to me." Harrison didn't respond. Free sniffled and coughed. Harrison smiled wider. "Oh!" she said. "The cough medicine! You thought that since I was loopy on the junk that I'd succumb to your brute advances! Oh! Okay!" Harrison took a deep breath, and some emotion crossed his face. He looked down. "That... did occur to me." he said softly. "Uh-huh." Free said, sniffling again. They were silent for a time. -------> ------------------- ----------- -------- -- -----