episode 3 (1/9) [FanFic]
Joseph Morreale
Episode three
Basic Macek
The cafeteria was packed as usual, but Mike, Heather,Pam and Toni all
sat at their customary table, conversing
amongst themselves. Heather was particularly vocal on this day.
"...and he has the one of the biggest-" she was in the midst of saying.
"Nurse Farley!" Mike said in alarm.
"-checking accounts I've ever seen," she finished,
glancing at Mike with annoyance. "What did you think I was going to say?"
"Nothing," Mike said, and a slight blush fell over his cheeks. He tried
to hide it by biting down on the massive
submarine sandwich he was grasping in his massive hands.
Almost offhandly, Heather added, "Oh, his buns are
pretty cute too. Just like yours."
Mike squeezed down so hard on the sandwich that a good deal of the
fixings in the back sprayed all over Toni. Pam
dodged the mustard with no problem. He gave Heather a baleful look. "What did
you just say?" he asked with fridged tones.
Heather gave him one of her best innocent smiles and said, "He owns a
bakery. He took me there yesterday."
"You weren't talking about baked goods!"
"Sure I was!"
"Sure you were," Toni and Pam said in flat tones.
Toni leaned back then and patted her stomach in
satisfaction. "Well, that was filling," she said.
"For an elephant," Heather returned, and she was
rewarded with a severe blow to her head from Toni's plate. As the plate broke
into pieces and fell away from the base of her skull, Heather simply said, "I
deserved that..." in slightly whimpering voice.
"Yes you did," Toni said. "Now then, are we all going to meet at my
place like we planned tonight to play poker?"
Pam nodded, and Heather said, "Definately! I still think we should play
strip poker, since Mike's such a bad player,"
Mike choked on the bite he had taken, and he had to cough for a short
while before he could breathe easily again. He met Heather with a flat look and
said, "Nurse Farley..." in a very dangerous tone. He did not finish the
statement, though,settling for looking guiltilly at his glass of soda and
saying,"I can't come."
"Hey, no problem," Heather said, all smiles. "There are other ways you
can entertain me."
Mike glared at her and growled savagely. Heather took the hint and
said, "Okay, okay. That went too far. So, why can't you come to the game?"
"Yeah, we were counting on you, Mike," Toni added.
Mike returned his gaze to the glass of soda and said. "I'd rather not
say."
"Oh, no you don't," Toni snapped. "You can't back out of our game like
that and not tell us why."
"Li, please..."
"Don't you 'Li, please' me. I want an answer, pronto!"
Mike stared at his glass a bit longer and finally said,with a great
deal of discomfort, "I, uh, have a, uh, date."
"You have a date?!" Toni said with surprise. Heather clapped her
approval and Pam simply nodded her head once.
"Come on, tell us who it is," Heather pressed.
Mike twitched and turned to her angrilly, saying, "Look,I have a date,
and that's all I'm going to tell you, all
right?!"
Suddenly the entire cafeteria silenced. Somebody
murmured, "Nurse Jones has a date?"
Another voice answered, "First I've heard of it."
"I wonder who it is."
"I bet she's cute."
"Why don't you ask him?"
"No way, you ask him!"
Mike stood stock still. His face had turned six shades of red by this
time, and finally he exploded into a full fury. He ran out of the cafeteria as
fast as he could, knocking
several tables and the people sitting at them over in the
process.
The three women remaining watched the scene with
surprised awe. Finally, Toni said, "So, should we respect his privacy and not
try to find out who this mystery date is?"
They looked at each other for a long time, and finally all said,
"Nahhhhh!" at once. They formed a semi-huddle to work out their plot to uncover
the identity of Mike's date.