“Hadn’t that stupid idiot made enough trouble for us?” reeked with irritation. She stormed toward the long settee at the corner and sat down furiously. “This sucks!” she folded her arms in a supercilious manner, cursing non-stop.

As for Sylvester, he picked up a damp rag from the pail and started cleaning the windows. Unfortunately, it was locked too and there wasn’t a way of breaking it. “Hey, you okay?” he looked at ’s direction.

“How can I be okay?” she rumbled, her face red with fury. “I just want to get out of here as soon as possible!”

“Come on..” Sylvester cheered, putting on a smile, “If life throw you lemons, make lemonade! There’s no point sulking.”

jerked her head up and looked at him. “It has been centuries since you last sounded so inspirational.” she couldn’t help but smile at his optimism. “Alright, I will help you.” She rose from her seat and started sweeping the floor with a broom.

Together, they cleaned music studio. Sylvester wiped the windows and shelves, while swept the floor and wiped the instruments. All they wanted to achieve was to kill off boredom and make well use of their time.

was busy sweeping the floor that she hardly notice anything. Sylvester turned his gaze at her and felt a jolt of jitteriness. His heart raced at a faster speed upon that cute face of hers. Oh my! What’s wrong with me! He quickly blinked himself back to reality, feeling hot on his cheeks.

He observed creased in concentration and an idea flashed pass him. His eyes twinkled with mischief as his lips curved into a sly smile. Silently, he crept toward her.

“There’s a rat near your legs!” he shouted behind , pointing at her legs.

Upon the word ‘rat’, jumped with terror and screamed her lungs off. She threw her arms over Sylvester’s neck and leaped onto his arms. Sylvester responded fast and managed to catch hold of her weight in time.

“Where where!!” screeched loudly, kicking her legs furiously. Hair stood on its ends upon the thought of mice. “GET IT OFF!” she shrieked piercingly, closing her eyes and hugging onto Sylvester tightly.

He burst out laughing, appalled by her intense response. He was still carrying the unaware in his arms and she was already scared out of her wits, hugging him firmly.

“Gotcha!” he beamed. Timidly, opened her eyes and stared at the ground. There weren’t any signs of rat. She glared at Sylvester, only to see him grinning from ear to ear.

“You lied to me!” she screamed. Hastily, she got off from his arms and spanked him hard on the head. “You idiot!” she shouted, annoyed. Followed by that was a thin blush across her cheeks.

“HAHAHA!” Sylvester didn’t bother to hide his laughter. “I’m sor… sorry..”

was too tensed up to accept his apology. Her nerves and heart were still calming down from the stupid horror . She smacked him hard on his arms to cease her resentment. “You idiot!! You are so childish!” she whined like a little kid.

“Okay okay…” Sylvester tried to calm her down, “I’m sorry…”

shot him a stare of aggravation and whipped her head to the other side, her arms crossed. “I’m not going to talk to you anymore!” She spat in a childish tone, still fuming with him. She couldn’t believe he would actually do such an immature thing.

Sylvester stuck out his tongue at the knowledge that he had annoyed . But still, her reaction earlier on was far too comical. He tried with all his might to stop laughing. “Come on, don’t be angry. I will treat you to a feast as an apology.” he tried to coax her.

“Hmpft!” made a snooty exclamation, disregarding his request for forgiveness.

“I’m sorry.. Forgive me please? I’m sorry.” He went up in front of her and put on a puppy face, continuously chanting the word ‘sorry’.

“Alright you’re forgiven!” she blew up with more impatience. “Stop your chanting! You’re so nauseating!”

“I’m just trying to help you relief some stress.” Sylvester shrugged. It was then did ’s anger gave in and softened. So after all, he was just finding ways to cheer her up.

“Get back to work duh!” she commanded, smacking a damp rag right at his face.

“Hell no! This thing is dirty!” he shouted.

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“Wow it’s already so late!” exclaimed hours later, taking a glimpse of her watch. “Its 9 pm now!”

“Time flies.” Sylvester threw the rag back to the pail and then went to sit beside , who was sitting on the floor, leaning her back against the wall. The room was now clean and tidy.

“My back hurts.” groaned and stifled a yawn.

“I’m hungry.” Sylvester sighed. “I want to eat Auntie Florence’s chicken rice.” Both were drained out of energy and they could fall asleep any moment.

“Sly, what about lets play a game now?” suggested a way of chasing off their sleepiness. “I will say a word and you will have to catch up with another word that has connections to the word I said.”

Sylvester nodded. He swear he could fall asleep anytime. His eyes were droopy and his mind was too exhausted to think.

“I will start first then.” began. “Sylvester.”

“Tweety.” he replied huffily.

“Looney Tunes”

“Bugs Bunny”

And the game went on for another five minutes...

“Sadako.”

“Long-hair.” Sylvester said.

“Auntie Florence.” countered back.

“Chicken rice.” was the last thing the dead beat Sylvester mumbled out before dropping into his dreamland.

This cheeky lad.. turned and looked at him. A warm smile unknowingly formed on her face.

Soon, her eyelids were getting heavy too. She fell asleep and rested her head on his shoulders.

Just like that, a day passed…

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End of chapter…

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