Love and Babysitting Ch. 4: "Dupica how come you laughin so hard?" – Aurora * * * Weeks went by; Ash watched Aurora until Misty came home. Sometimes he would leave right away, other times he’d stay for dinner. He even met Todd, Duplica’s boyfriend a few times. * * * Ash was sitting on the couch watching T.V with Aurora asleep in his arms. Like usual Misty sat at the counter staring at him, with Duplica smirking, sitting a couple chairs away quietly laughing about the whole thing. Suddenly the phone rang interrupting Misty’s train of thought. "Hello…oh, hi…what!? Why…but who else am I…ug fine!" She slammed down the phone, sighed and put her head down on the counter. "Who was that?" Duplica asked. "That was that A-hole Gary!" "Gary?" Ash said. Could it be? "Yeah, he was supposed to be my date to my party at work, but he said he had better things to do. Now what am I going to do?" Duplica started laughing really hard. She laughed so hard that she fell of the chair, only to continue her laughter. Misty was about to ask what her deal was when a knock sounded from the front door. "Come in Todd!" Misty yelled. "How’d you know it was me?" He asked walking in the door. "You’re the only one who comes over at this time. Can you take care of your girlfriend here? I think she has finally lost it." "What do you mean finally, she lost a long time ago." Todd smiled as he said this. "OWWW!" Earning a kick in the shin from the still laughing Duplica, this caused her to laugh even harder because he was hopping around on one foot. "Um Duplica, why are you laughing?" Ash asked. "Be…be…because...it hurts…hurts…can’t…breathe…they…her…him…call…party…to go…her…ahaha." "Uhhh…did anyone get that?" "No." Ash and Misty said. Aurora started to stir in Ash’s arms. Ash smiled and looked down at her. "Hey cutie, you awake?" "No…" she mumbled. "Who laghin?" "Duplica." "Why?" "We don’t know." "Can I go see?" Aurora asked. "Sure." Ash let Aurora out of his arms and she walked over to Duplica and looked down at her curiously. "Dupica, how come you laughin so hard?" Duplica just started laughing harder. Wanting to join in on the fun, Aurora jumped on top of the copy-cat. "Ooff…*cough* owy." At that point everyone started laughing. * * * "Ok now that we got that out of our systems, why did you start laughing?" Misty asked. "Well I have a couple reasons, one, which I wont tell, two because you do have someone to take to the party." "Who?" "Who else but him." Duplica looked towards Aurora’s bedroom where Ash was putting her to bed. "What!? I can’t take him!" She whispered loudly. "And why not? Give me one good reason for you to not take him." "Well, because um I haven’t known him for that long." Misty stuttered. "Well that didn’t stop you from inviting him to dinner and letting him baby-sit the first day you met him." "Well…I…uh..." "Exactly. So Todd and I will leave for our date tonight and give you two some peace and quiet to talk about it." "But you can’t leave me here! I don’t know what to say to him!" "You can do it. Trust me it’ll just all flow out." "Do you know how long it’s been since I asked someone out!?!" "No, but why not try now. Bye Misty. See you later. I’ll be expecting a call to tell me how it went." With that Duplica grabbed her keys, purse, and Todd and walked out the door. "Bye Misty!" Todd said before the door shut. "Bye…" Misty squeaked out. "Ok well, Aurora’s asleep now so I better get going." Ash said coming form the hallway. "Um…uhh…could you uh stay a bit longer? I have a favor to ask you." Misty said nervously. "Sure, what is it?" "Well, you see…remember earlier when Gary called." "Yeah…" "Well I need someone to go with me to that party and so I was wondering…you know…if you could well…" "Go with you?" "Yeah." "Sure I’d love to." "Really!?" "Yeah, just tell me when, where and what I have to wear and I’ll go." "Thank you so much!" Misty yelled as she ran and hugged him. "You don’t know how much this means to me!" I don’t care as long as we stay like this…eep! I am not falling for her…oh wait to late…I all ready did… Ash thought letting go of the hug and replying with, "You’re welcome, if you want I can have my roommate watch Aurora for you. Why don’t you come over for dinner on Friday and you can meet him and his girlfriend." "That’d be great. Thank you." "Well I have to get going now…here’s my number and my address, see ya." Ash said as he walked out the door. "Bye…" When Ash shut the door Misty waited a couple seconds before she shouted, "OH MY GOD! I can’t believe I just did that!" She yelled. "Mommy…you too loud…" Aurora said sleepily as she came from her room. "Sorry sweetie, go back to bed now." Misty watched her daughter walk back to her room. When she was out of site Misty did a little dance around the room and quietly yelled, "I have to call Duplica!" She ran to the phone and dialed Duplica’s cell phone number. It rang and rang but no one answered. "I’ll just leave a message then." * * * ‘Duplica you were right! He said he’d go with me! And better yet he invited me over for dinner on Friday. And I need you to baby-sit that night, but anyway, I CAN’T BELIEVE I DID THAT! I should kill you for making me do it. Ok I have to go I think I just woke up my daughter again…bye!’ The people in the restaurant stared at Duplica. "I think next time I’ll turn it down…" "Maybe you should go check it where there aren’t so many people." Todd said. "Oh you mean like your house." Duplica said off handedly. "Or in the bedroom…" "TODD!" Duplica smacked him on the head and blushed, but then lowered her voice. "Why would we need to go all the way to the bedroom?" Not expecting the answer Todd let out a little squeak. * * * To be continued~