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“You know, Andy kissed me in the cave.”
Data glanced up from the hidden camera watch he was trying to build. Thus far, he hadn’t figured out how to get the film back out again. “What?”
“Andy kissed me in the cave,” Mikey grinned, seemingly quite proud of this. “Course, I think she thought I was Brand, but that’s not important, you know. She still kissed me. First kiss ever.”
Data frowned. “Andy was your first kiss, and she didn’t even think you were the one she was kissing?”
Mike paused. “Yeah...”
“That sucks, Mikey.”
Mike blinked at his best friend. “That does not! It’s... it’s no, it’s not. It’s cool!”
“Is not,” Data shot back.
“It is.” Mike crossed his arms. “Cause she’s an older girl, and I tricked her into kissing me!”
“Did you know she was going to kiss you?” Data pressed, arching his eyebrows.
Mike hesitated. “No.”
“So you didn’t manipulate nobody,” Data answered. “You were manipulated yourself.”
“Was not.” Mike protested. “I was... I was like Roma.. Rombera...”
“Romeo,” Data answered.
“That’s what I said,” Mike insisted. “Romeo.”
“He died, Mikey,” Data said calmly. “Cause he married the bad guys daughter. It’s not very romantic, Mikey, not really.”
Mike groaned, slumping on the bed beside Data. “Man, Data. I was so excited about this, too. Now you’ve made it seem all dumb and stuff.”
“It wasn’t dumb,” Data answered, placatingly. “It’s just sad that she was you’re first kiss, that’s all.”
“Well, what am I gonna do about it now?” Mikey frowned. “I mean, it’s happened, right? What do I do about it now?”
“Kiss somebody else,” Data shrugged, returning to his camera-watch. “That’ll work. Replace her.”
“She’ll still be the first kiss,” Mike frowned.
“But not the last one!” Data grinned, holding up his camera watch proudly. “Hey! I got it to work! I fixed it!”
Mike grabbed Data’s shoulders, and shoved his mouth rather forcefully against Data’s, in a most inexpert and slightly painful kiss.
When Mike pulled back, Data blinked. “What was that?”
“I fixed it!” Mike grinned.
Data considered that, then set his watch aside. “No, not yet. But we can keep working on it.”
And Data launched himself at his friend, grinning.
Back to The Goonies.