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Chapter 7: Seriously, What do you see in that Guy?

“I’m sorry they made you wait outside,” Jessica said.

“Puh-puh-puh-lease! It’s not so bad,” Roger said, playing a tune. Due to the fact that non-employee toons were not allowed, Roger was only allowed to go inside during closing hours even with the visitor’s pass.

“I would have let you into my dressing room if I have known,” Jessica began to play second beside him.

Roger shrugs, waving his rabbit ears off her concern, “I don’t mind going early because you always perform.”

She turns him, amused. “Roger, how can you even watch me perform?” He can be quite silly sometimes.

The rabbit grins. “You forgot, I got these,” he said. He stands up, grabbing his ears and extending them to full length. “I can hear just as good as if I’m in front of the stage.” He closes his eyes, remembering one of her songs. “Then I can see it inside my head, watching you sing.,” he said. “For me, it’s more than enough”. He smiles with his eyes close still, as though the memory of her singing is already bliss.

Oh Roger. Jessica feels herself smile, her purple gloved hand reaching out to ruffle his red hair. She feels him press his head even more against her hand before one floppy foot reactively thumps on the stool, making her chuckle.

Roger drowsily opens his eyes to her, making her heart run faster. Her hand slowly smooths down his soft furry cheek to cup his chin, making his whiskers twitch when he felt her graze them.

From far, far away, Roger felt his feet move him forward. He’s lost to that smile, to that eyes that seems so tender. If a meteor would fall right now, he wouldn’t even flinch.

Subconsciously, she leans closer. She has been this close to him before. The first time, he had tried to put as much space between them as possible. The second time, he has ingeniously acted infatuated. Now this, a gaze so rare from what she was always given, that it held her awed for a moment. Is this…

A growl-grunt ensued from inside the room and Jessica retracted her hand quickly before squishing the urge to hurl the piano to the intruder.

They both look to the source of the sound, the moment forgotten, to see the gorilla guard standing on the doorway. The gorilla grunts and jerks his thumb outside. He steps aside on the frame, giving them a look that says “get out”.

XOXOXOXOXO

The entrance/exit door slams behind the two as soon as they step outside. They cast each other a sidelong glance before looking away, the tension thick. Jessica looks stoically ahead while Roger rubs his arm. They continue to walk on the alleyway, refusing to meet each other’s gaze that seem to land on each other again after turning away. When they reach her car, it was Roger who spoke first.

“Jessica,” she turns to look at him and Roger was easily at loss of words, feeling himself melt a little. “I…”

He looks up to her from below, their contrasting height, what they are- reminding him that she’s out of his league in more ways than one. “I…”

Jessica stays silent, watching him. Watching this stuttering rabbit with a lisp and baggy overalls. This optimistic, clumsy, silly rabbit who truly believes in life with laughter. This person who believes in her that meant the whole world.

This person who is now looking at her like she meant the whole world.

Roger looks at his front in surprise where a pair of purple gloves has him grabbed. A yelp escapes him as he felt himself yank into the hood of the car.

His hands land on her shoulders as he looks at her with her hands still coiled on his overalls. “Jessica, I just want you to know you’re way beyond me in every aspect of the word, you have no idea how hard this is for me, you’re a really amazing person- talent, beauty, brains you got it all and when I got to know you better, I can’t help but like you more and more but when you kissed me in the forehead back there something happened that I think the back of my mind already knew a long time ago but… but if I got that all wrong” he gulps, willing himself not to look away in fear, his cotton tail quivering with tension, “Then puh-puh-puh-lease tell me what you really feel so that I can get over it! ”

Jessica raises her brow. “You done?”

Roger thought for a while, distracted. “Yeah, I think s-” before Jessica tugs him forward and kisses him full in the mouth. He stiffens momentarily before his arms wrap around her and started kissing her back, his rabbit ears wrapping around her head deeper into the kiss.

It’s true. Roger’s way better lover than a driver.

The car named Benny roars down the road. The Detective Eddie Valiant sits on the driver seat as she told him everything she knows. The whole thing has become one big mess- seduction, deception and murder with Roger getting deeper and deeper into trouble every time she tries to protect him.

“So where to? My meter’s running!” Benny said.

Jessica puts a hand to her head, thinking, wondering what could have happened to him. “I have to find my darling husband; I’m so worried about him.”

Eddie looks at her, frankly confused, “Seriously, what do you see in that guy?”

She turns to look at him, her face once again a cold wall. A million memories flash, the times they shared, the times she thought of him, the tears, the laughter, their friendship, their love and finally back into the props room with an ice queen of a singer and a silly rabbit who melted her ice.

“He makes me laugh,” she said before turning away and ignoring the surprised look on his face.

THE END.