Sabrina is laying in her bed staring at the ceiling. She looks up at her clock and see it is barely 8:32 p.m. She gets up and calls someone. Meanwhile Miguel is sitting in his home playing with a lamp. He flicks the switch causing it to turn off and on. The phone rings and he picks up.

Miguel: It's your dime and quarter.

Sabrina:[smiles] Cheerful, even on the phone I see.

Miguel: Sabrina? [eyes light up]

Sabrina: [smiles] Awwww now what happened to Ms. Sabrina?

Miguel: Oh right sorry Ms. Sabrina.

Sabrina:[slaps her forehead] D'oh!! Oh well. [plays with her hair] What are you doing right now?

Miguel: Reenacting a scene from George Michael's "Freedom 90".

Sabrina: Huh?

Miguel: Um never mind. What's on your mind?

Sabrina: Nothing just bored.

Miguel: Ah watching WB huh?

Sabrina: [shoulders droop] NO. Wanna hang out? I called after dark as I know you don't come out during the day.[chuckles to herself]

Miguel: Me? Why not call Blaine?

Sabrina: He's been called to work.. and it's Blake.

Miguel: Like I care.

Sabrina: Huh?

Miguel: Um..[sweating] nothing.. um sure.. I'll be over in a bit.

Sabrina; K I'll be waiting. [hangs up]

Amy: [Pops her head into Sabrina's room] Wow, you must be bored to call your boss.

Sabrina turns and sees her roommate Amy. She is a red squirrel with long blond hair. She stands at the doorway smirking at her.

Sabrina: Well, yes and no. Sides.. I know he doesn't get out much.

Amy: And he's quiet.. keeps to himself too I suppose? You know that's how all serial killers are like?

Sabrina: No.. he's not like that. He's very sweet. .when he isn't being a jerk.

Amy: Ah, not an Amiga lover huh?

Sabrina: No, he prefers Macintosh[grabs her coat], but he isn't bent on taking over the world so he's okay.

Amy: Well I don't know.. I mean the way you talk about him, he seems kinda creepy to me, I best give him the 3^rd degree before he goes out with you.

Sabrina: [raises an eyebrow as he glares at her] Thanks DAD, but I think I'll go wait outside for him.. so you don't scare him off. [puts her coat on and leaves]

Amy: [yells out the door] Remember your curfew young lady!!!!

Sabrina: [walking away sweating] Oh drop it will you.

Later Miguel and Sabrina are at his house. Sabrina looks the place over a bit as things seem rather odd.

Sabrina: Um Miguel, I noticed you don't have.. um much furniture. Don't you have a TV?

Miguel: Um yeah.. in my room. I don't have much furniture cause I don't have much use for it, you should have noticed it last time you came over.

Sabrina: No.. I was too preoccupied. Still it's odd, that sofa looks so lonely sitting in the middle of the room. And you only have one lamp.. but no table for it to rest upon.

Miguel: You're not here to critique my décor. [goes into a closet and takes out a flat screen TV and hangs it on the wall] Okay…that better?

Sabrina: [crosses her arms and rolls her eyes] Much.

Miguel: [hands her a controller] Here you go.. simple enough for you.

Sabrina: Um..[looks at the control] Do I play with it.. or do I pull it out of my utility belt and hurl it at the Joker?

Miguel: Funny.[Turns on Space Channel 5] Simple follow the leader.. just do what they do.

Sabrina: You call this hanging out?[watches the screen]

Miguel: [hangs his head] Sorry, I'm so bad at this!!

Sabrina: [worried] Um no.. this is okay..really.

Miguel: No it's not.

Sabrina: Yes it is. YOW!!! [plays the game] Gee just up, down, right, left huh?

Miguel: Wait.. it gets better.

A few minutes later, Sabrina is trying hard to follow the commands of the game. It is now more complex and faster.

Sabrina; GAAAAAAH!!![trembles]

Miguel: Evila strikes again!

Sabrina: Grrrrrr. Okay so it's not so easy. Got anything else?

Miguel: Si. [pulls out a big box] Samba de Amigo!!

Sabrina: Huh?

Miguel: It's a way cool party game.

Sabrina;[puts the control down] How do you play?

Miguel: Well you got a nice set of maracas.

Sabrina: [eyes widen] WHY YOU.. YOU!!! [looks like she's going to tear him apart.. till he hands her a set of maracas and plugs them into the system] Oh![sweating] Forget I said anything. Eh heh. What do I do?

Miguel:[turns it on] Keep the beat!!

A few rounds later Sabrina is getting into the groove as she shakes the maracas as well as her body to the beat of the music.

Sabrina: [laughing] Oh this is crazy!![stops] Man.. if anyone knew I liked this game.. they'd think I was mad. Um you won't tell will you?

Miguel: [shakes his head] No.

Sabrina: Um is all you have just Sega?

Miguel: [crosses his arms and looks away] I refuse to lower myself to Sony's level!!

Sabrina:[looks at him] Oh.. an ANTI Playstation gamer I see. Heh. Oh well.

Miguel: Sigh.. okay.. I give in.. you must not tell a soul! [Sabrina nods as she plays with her hair]

Miguel goes into the closet again and comes out with a Playstation ONE. He sets it up as Sabrina watches him.

Miguel: I only have it cause.. of ONE game.

Sabrina: And that is? [Miguel puts it in and it comes on the screen. Here eyes open wide] BEAST WARS!!!!![snatches a controller from him] Let's play!!!

Miguel: Heh yup Transmetals makes it okay to go against your moral code. [Sabrina picks her player] Oh sure..[glares at her] you HAD to pick Silverbolt!!

Sabrina:[sticks her tongue out] BLEH!!

Miguel: I'm going to enjoy this!!

Sabrina: How did I know you were going to pick Tarantulas?

And so a few rounds later..

Miguel: LET'S SEE WHAT MAKES YOU TICK!!!!!

Sabrina: NO!!!! [glares at him] You love doing that attack on me don't you?

Miguel: Yup yup yup.

Sabrina: No fair.. pick someone else.

Miguel: Oh okay.. whiner.

Sabrina; NOT a Predacon! [wicked smile]

Miguel: Oh you bully you!! Okay.. Rattrap maximize!!

Sabrina: Huh? That's unexpected.. okay let's go!!

A few rounds later..

Miguel: INCOMING!!!

Sabrina; NOOO!!! Not again!!! [drops the controller] You love doing that don't you!!! [he nods] You're dead!![picks up the controller] Hold still!! No fair using his second transmetal form.. hard to hit him when he's driving around!!

Miguel: Yeah right.. let me just hold still so you can shoot me[eyes her]

Sabrina; NOOO!!![drops the controller again]

Miguel: Better luck next time bird dog.

Sabrina: [hits him in the arm] Curse you.

Miguel: Well enough of this.. it was rude of me.. I should have asked what you wanted to do.

Sabrina: Um.. well that's okay. Um.. [thinks]..well.. um.. you hungry?

Miguel: [raises an eyebrow] Always.

Sabrina: Good.. you go into the kitchen and make us some dinner.. while I go freshen up.[pushes him into the kitchen]

Miguel: Wow you plan to be there THAT long?

Sabrina: Funny. [looks around] Um.. where is your bathroom?

Miguel: [points to a bookshelf] There.

Sabrina: No ..I'm serious.

Miguel walks out of the kitchen and towards the edge of the living room. He pushes on the bookshelf and it swings back like a door. He turns on the light and inside.. sure enough is a bathroom.

Sabrina;[looks inside.. then looks at him] You're weird.

Miguel: When I got this place it didn't come with a door.. so I got creative.. had plenty of free time you know.

Sabrina: Heh.. okay…[shuts the door behind her]

Miguel: [wicked grin on his face as he waits a while] And the two way mirror works great!!

Sabrina:[from inside] YOU BETTER BE JOKING!!!

Miguel:[walks off with a wicked grin] Yes.. I am.

A bit later Sabrina is sitting at the dinner table waiting. She is resting her head in her hands watching Miguel. Miguel sees her and shoots her with a water gun in the face.

Sabrina: YOW!![takes her glasses off and wipes them] What are you a water sniper?

Miguel: Only by night.. by day I'm a reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper. [winks at her]

Sabrina: [puts her glasses back] Sure. [Miguel places a plate in front of her] Um.. what is this?

Miguel: Fideo.[sits down]

Sabrina: Um.. I'm not a big fan of Mexican food.

Miguel: Oh well you people make me sick.. you go and buy Mexican food from people who aren't even Mexican.. they don't even use real ingredients.. then you wonder why you get sick. Try it!!

Sabrina: Okay okay.. don't go postal on me.

Sabrina looks at her plate, on it are orange-brown noodles with chunks of meat in it. She takes her fork and tries it and to her surprise.. she likes it.

Sabrina: [smiles] Very good.. you out did yourself.

Miguel: Great.[starts eating his]

Sabrina:[places her napkin on her lap] So.. do you cook much?

Miguel: No not really.. I'm not home much. Oh![gets up and goes into the kitchen.. then comes back and gives her a glass and fills it with fruit punch] Sorry forgot to offer you a beverage.

Sabrina: Thank you.

Miguel: [sits back down] So does Blaine cook food for you?

Sabrina;[chews her food then speaks] Well.. no.. usually he takes me out to eat.

Miguel: Not very romantic if you ask me?

Sabrina: [looks at him] Why do you say that?

Miguel: Cause.. cooking for a gal is much better cause a guy actually makes a meal especially for you, it's made with love. Going out well someone else makes it.. any idiot can order food.

Sabrina:[rests her head on her hand and looks at him] I guess you have a point. [eats some more] I guess you win that battle too?

Miguel: [eyes open wide then narrow] What.. are you keeping score?

Sabrina;[sweating, turns away] Um no.. not at all. Um.. [thinks] so.. who taught you to cook?

Miguel: My grandmothers.. and later in life .. my mom. I learned cause.. somehow I knew I'd live alone.

Sabrina: Heh.. wish I had learned. [stops then glares at him] HEY.. did you just call him Blaine again?!

Miguel: Who me? Nope. [smiles]

Sabrina: Oh hey.. um… some mean looking guy came looking for you today. Scared me to death?

Miguel:[thinks] A tiger? [she nods] Has glasses about my height?[nods again] Heh.[eats]

Sabrina; What? Who was it?

Miguel: You just met Arturo Tigre.. my dad.

Sabrina: THAT was your dad?! [sweating] Man.. he looked..

Miguel: Mad? He always looks like that.. like he's gonna beat the tar out of you.. almost made you wet your pants huh?

Sabrina; [blushes] Something like that. Man.. um but he was a…

Miguel: Yes a regular orange tiger.. just like Matt. I'm a genetic freak. I only happen like 1 out of a 1000. But my mom is responsible I think.. black and white are her colors.

Sabrina: Well I thought well you know… they'd be like you?

Miguel: No.. if my family were say Siberian Snowtigers.. then yeah.. me I'm just a freak.. a mutation.

Sabrina: Don't say that.. you're just special.

Miguel: Thank you Mr. Rogers.[eyes narrow]

Sabrina: [laughs] Spoken like a true cynic.

Later Miguel and Sabrina are laying on the floor looking up at the ceiling. Sabrina has a bowl of cherries on her tummy. Miguel takes one from the bowl with chopsticks and eats one. Sabrina opens her mouth and he puts on in her mouth.

Miguel: You know, in Japan they eat sushi off of girls like this? Coarse they're nude.

Sabrina:[raises an eyebrow] Bet you'd like that huh?[chews on a cherry]

Miguel: No.. considering where some of the food is placed.. I wouldn't even put it in my mouth.

Sabrina sits up quickly and gags, knocking over the bowl. Cherries spill everywhere. Sabrina stops gagging.

Sabrina: What are you trying to do, kill me?

Miguel: Um sorry..[past her on the back] You okay?

Sabrina: Yeah I'm fine.[grabs her throat]

Miguel: Thank goodness.. didn't want what made you gag to be the last image in your mind when you die. [Sabrina winces]

Miguel looks down and sees a cherry in the bowl. He presses down on one side causing the cheery to be catapulted into his mouth.

Sabrina: Cool trick.

Miguel: Yeah.. it takes practice.. first time I tried it. I ended up in the hospital cause it went down my windpipe. [winces and then sees Sabrina laughing] Oh.. thanks for laughing at my pain.. I'm glad my suffering amuses you.

Sabrina:[stops with tears in her eyes] I'm sorry.. hooboy.. just the fact that.. oh never mind.. it was funny at the time. Sorry.. here let me help. [kneels down and grabs the bowl and starts putting cherries in it. Miguel is too but he's putting them in his mouth] Hey.. aren't those dirty?

Miguel: Not really.. my floor is pretty clean.

Sabrina: Yeah but still. [shakes her head]

Miguel: This form a girl with NO pants.

Sabrina: [turns and glares at him] THAT'S IT!!! I'm going to prove to you that I AM wearing pants once and for all!!! [lifts her shirt up a bit]

Miguel:[panic stricken] NO!! Ms. Sabrina there no need for that.. I believe.. I BELIEVE!!!!

Sabrina: [turns her pockets inside out and holds the inside of her pockets out at her sides] SEEE!! POCKETS!!!!

Miguel: Well I'll be damned.[Sabrina sticks her pockets back in] Hmm do they have back pockets too?[looks behind her]

Sabrina: [turns covering her back] Let's NOT get nosey there junior!!

Miguel: Sorry.[shrinks back a bit]

Sabrina makes a face at him and lays back down on her back. She sighs and looks up at the ceiling. Miguel lays down next to her…. Making sure he's at least 3 feet away.

Sabrina: You know.. this is a whole other side I see of you. [puts her arms behind her head] You usually just stay away and well.. you aren't much of a talker or.. well you never interact much.

Miguel: Well.. I don't get along well with others.. sides I'm usually alone most of the time.. it was like that growing up.. so I never learned to interact well with others. [gets a small green bulldozer and drives it across her tummy] Sides.. I never met someone I had something in common with.

Sabrina: [picks her head up] A Constructacon?.. Bonecrusher..[gets up fast and knocks it off her tummy] An original Constructacon!!

Miguel : GAAH!! NO!! You didn't have to kill him!!!

Sabrina:[picks it up] Sorry. [looks at it] Wow.. an original huh? [transforms it] Thought it might be a Generation 2

Miguel: Yeah…. It's one of the very few I have from my original toys. I lost his gun.. but I still have the other parts. You can have this one. [replaces Bonecrusher with a cement truck] I have 2 of this guy.

Sabrina: Hey.. Mixmaster!! [transforms it] Thanks.

Miguel: Yeah.. he's like a skunk.. he spray people with stuff. [adds the gun atop his head]

Sabrina: [glares at him] Ha ha ha. Say.. where is your huge collection of Decepticons anyway? [looks around]

Miguel:[lays back down] Just drop it gal.

Sabrina: Aw come on!![rolls over] Show me.

Miguel: What?..[picks his head up and looks at her] You GOTS to know? Is that it?

Sabrina: Please?

Miguel: No.. no one goes into the Vault. I'm sorry.

Sabrina: The Vault? Okay. [gets up and walks off.. she comes back with her backpack and pulls out Silverbolt] Okay.. if you don't.. I'll make Silverbolt say all his noble lines form the series.

Miguel: [glares at her] Curse your black heart!!! [draws a toy gun on her]

Sabrina:[eyes light up and snatches it from him letting Silverbolt hit him in the face] SHOCKWAVE!!!!

Miguel: [takes Silverbolt away from his face] Boy.. talk about adding insult to injury.

Sabrina: Wow..[plays with it] What else do you have?

Miguel: [wicked grin on his face as he looks at Silverbolt] Birddog scraps!!

Sabrina:[snatches it away] NO!! Behave!!

Miguel: ARF!![sits up like a dog]

Sabrina: Very funny. So you won't show me your infamous Decepticon collection huh?

Miguel: Nope sorry.. only she whom I take as my wife shall be granted entry to the vault. So… [shoulders droop] no one's ever going in.

Sabrina; Aw don't say that.. there's someone for everyone. [pats him on the head]

Miguel: If so.. mine must have died at birth.. or was the victim of an abortion.

Sabrina: BOY you are cynical!!! Miguel.. no girl will ever fall for you if you have no faith in yourself.. they'll only feel sorry for you.

Miguel: [lifts his head up] Hey I take what I can get.

Sabrina:[laughs] Boy.. you're really something.

Miguel: Yeah I get that a lot…. [smiles] but it's never in a good sense.

Sabrina: Okay enough.. no more jokes about yourself.

Miguel: Oh yes how rude of me, your turn right?

Sabrina: [hits him in the arm] Miguel! [looks at him]

Miguel: [gets rather uneasy] Um.. [looks past her] OH GEEZ IT'S PAST MIDNIGHT!!!

Sabrina: WHAT?![turns at looks at the clock, it says 12:15 am.] OH MAN!!! I've gotta get home!!! I have work tomorrow!!

Miguel:[glares at her] Yeah.. I know how mean your boss can be about showing up to work late.

Sabrina; Funny, Give me a ride home?

Miguel: But it's late!!

Sabrina: Well..[bats her eyes at him] I can always sleep over?

Miguel: [gets up really fast] I'll be warming up the car.

Sabrina:[giggles] You are SOOOOO weak you know that?!

Sabrina removes her glasses and rubs her eyes. Miguel walks back in to get his keys and looks at her. Sabrina watches him and smiles.

Sabrina: Something wrong?

Miguel: [;walks to her] No.. just.. well never really looked at you without glasses on. YOU GOT THAT CLARK KENT /SUPERMAN THING GOING!!!!

Sabrina: Oh yeah sure. [takes his glasses off and looks at them] Hmmmmm how do you see through these.

Miguel: With squinted eyes. [both laugh]

Sabrina: [puts his glasses on] How do I look?

Miguel: Like my grandmother.

Sabrina; HA HA!! Hey.. your grandmother's a skunk?

Miguel: [nods] I come from a mixed species family. [puts on Sabrina's glasses] WHOA!! [takes them off] That's cool.. [looks at her] skunk..[puts the glasses back on and looks at her] Manatee!!

Sabrina;[snatches them back] Gimme those![puts them back on] Your's are very weak. [puts them back on his face.. then giggles]

Miguel: Hey.. I know I'm funny looking okay.

Sabrina: No. ..just.. I never really looked at your face.. you got these.. stripes under your eyes and on top of them too. I thought only Cheetahs had them.

Miguel: Oh.. well that's a flaw.. I got it from my mom.. she has um.. black around her eyes. What.. did you think I had them so I can look like Silverbolt?[sweating]

Sabrina: Too bad.. I think they're kinda cute.

Miguel:[sweating] Um.. weren't we leaving just now?

Sabrina: Huh? Oh right.. let's go.

Later Sabrina sneaks into her apartment. She walks carefully and quietly in an attempt not to wake Amy up.. however..

Amy: Entering late is a sign of a great date you know. [Sabrina leaps 10 feet in the air] I'll take that as a yes.

Sabrina: AMY!!! What are you doing up?!?!? (and why were you hiding in the dark)

Amy: Hey I worry about you.. especially with this guy. So..[raises an eyebrow] Where were you all night young lady?

Sabrina: Um.. with Miguel.[hangs up her coat]

Amy: All night? What were you two doing.. all night?

Sabrina: Nothing!!! We didn't do anything wrong. We just talked.. all night. Sigh. It was.. fun.

Amy: Fun? And how will Blake take this if he finds out? [crosses her arms]

Sabrina: He won't.. and besides.. it's not like I'm cheating on him?[walks into her room]

Amy: [follows] Well call me crazy..

Sabrina:[pulling her nightshirt on] Okay.. you're crazy.

Amy: [eyes narrow] But.. isn't having "fun" with another guy.. cheating?

Sabrina: Call it what you like.. but unlike Blake.. Miguel.. doesn't think I'm odd or crazy.. cause I'm a grown woman and I collect toys.. and he isn't afraid of Tabitha.. and..[looks down].. he.. he just plain understands me.

Amy: Uh oh.

Sabrina: What?

Amy: [smiles] You're falling for him aren't you?

Sabrina; [turns red] NO!!! That's ridiculous!! He's my boss!!! And.. aw shoot I can't argue with you right now.. I need sleep.[gets into her bed] Turn the light off on your way out.

Amy: [turns the light off] I call it as I see it.[leaves the room]

Sabrina: You do that.. goodnight.[places her glasses on the table next to the bed]

Amy closes the door to Sabrina's room. She looks back at it and smiles. She shakes her head and heads to her room.

Amy: Figures.. you spend your life looking for a guy who makes you happy.. and you don't even recognize him when he's standing in front of you.[goes into her room and shuts the door.]

Elsewhere, a phone is ringing. Funky walks in stumbling in the dark and answers the phone. She is in a tank top and boxers, not to mention half asleep.

Funky: This had BETTER be important.. I need my beauty sleep.

Miguel: [standing on his head talking into the phone] I beg to differ Delia.. you can't possibly get any more gorgeous.

Funky: Oh it's you.. what's up?

Miguel; I just had the most wonderful night Delia, Sabrina came to my place.

Funky: [eyes open wide and a huge smile forms on her face] OH!! [sits down] Tell me about it then.

Miguel: It was nice Delia, we played games, ate dinner, then talked all night about anything and everything.

Funky: Sounds like an enchanted evening you had. Um.. can you hold on a sec.. I gotta go to the bathroom really quick.. unless you don't mind me bringing the phone along?

Miguel:[sweating] Um.. no I just called cause I had to tell someone. Delia.. I don't care if she likes Blake.. I'm.. I'm going to try to win her over anyway.

Funky:[smiles] You do that Miguel, you do that.

Miguel: Okay.. I'll let you go before you explode.. good night.[hangs up]

Funky:[hangs up as well and sits with her arms resting on her lap] Sigh.. he's finally growing up.[clasps her hands together] I'm so proud of him. [eyes open wide] YIIKKKEESS!!!! [dashes off to the bathroom]

END OF CHAPTER 7