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Gonna Get Over You by Sara Bareilles

The next morning I woke up to find that Kimmie had already made her bed. And this time, I knocked on the bathroom door just to be sure. No one answered. I wondered why she didn't wake me up, but when I saw myself in the mirror and my disheveled bed hair I was glad that she hadn't. I take back what I said the other day about me being sexy no matter what. I looked horrible.

When I came downstairs to the kitchen, I found that everyone was already eating like they were the other day. Andrew and Gale weren't there because they had gone back home since they had work. That reminds me, I wonder what Dr. D must be doing now... Suddenly my phone rang. Speak of the blue idiot!

"Sup Dr. D-"

"SHHEEEGOOOO!" he cried so loudly that I had to pull my phone away from my ear and my family looked up from their meal.

I walked away, embarrassed. I headed into the living room where I could have privacy, and to curse the living hell out of Dr. D for screaming in my ear.

"What the hell Dr. D!"

"Where are you? I need you right now!" he whined like a four year old.

"Why? Are you in trouble or something? Don't tell me you got in jail!"

"No! I'm not in trouble. I just need your help to open this can of corn!"

"Seriously?"

He whimpered. "At first it was the jar of mayo that dared to defy me. I tried EVERYTHING Shego! Even the henchmen couldn't open it like that time we had Operation Gherken! I think jars and cans don't like me..."

"Yeah well, you're about to get a big hater!" I yelled, and I could already imagine him cowering. "Why not use a can opener for once!"

I ended the conversation with a violent press to the red button. I huffed. God, he was an idiot for calling me over such trivial and stupid things. I headed back into the kitchens and Hego was the first to notice my presence.

"Ome 'n eat Chego!" he said with his mouth full of food.

Mego glared at him, moving farther away. "Don't eat with your mouth full you big dolt!"

I noticed that my dad wasn't at the dinner table, and I bit my tongue from asking. I didn't want to sound like I cared or worried about him. I shook my head, taking my seat next to Kimmie. I noticed that she automatically tensed, and I tried not to raise an eyebrow at her to make her look obvious. Geez, was she really taking the kiss that bad?

"What's going on today?" one of the Wegos asked.

I nibbled on a bacon, glad that they had asked so that I would be prepared. That reminds me, I need to think of ways to avoid incidents like yesterday. Then again...I looked at Kimmie at the corner of my eye who was obviously uneasy around me now. Maybe I should think of ways to tease Kimmie some more. Who would pass up an opportunity like this?

My mother smiled brightly at the twins. "I'm glad you asked! Since today is so hot, we're going to have a balloon fight! Well, you younger folk are while us old heads just sit back and relax."

I tried to hold back a grin. Hmm...Kimmie and a water balloon fight. What do you get when you put a water balloon fight and Kimmie together? I couldn't hold back much longer. I hid my grin behind my napkin.

The balloon fight was taking place at another park with a more wider and open space than the one we had the other day. It was pretty big, and it was the ideal place to have a water balloon fight where people couldn't run too far and at the same time keep a safe distance between teams.

"Alrightly everyone!" my mom said, calling our attention. "Time to split up in teams!"

We all took turns pulling out little cards from a hat that split up into a red or blue team. I was on team blue. Ironically, Kimmie was on team red. Each team consisted of five people each.

On my team there was: Me, J, Hego, and my cousins Kathy and Marcus.

On Kimmie's there was: the Wegos, Marcus's fiancé Melanie, and Mego.

To distinguish our team members, we had tied blue or red ribbons on our waists. A big bucket of water balloons was in the middle of the game area and the goal of the game was to steal your opponent's ribbon, distracting them with water balloons that you throw. Some water balloons were scattered away from the bucket to start off the game, but also luring us to it.

"You ready lil cuz?" J asked me, slinging her arm around my shoulders.

I cracked my knuckles, grinning at Kimmie who was chatting with Melanie. "Oh yeah."

"Everybody ready?" my mom shouted, when we nodded she blew the whistle.

Everyone bolted towards the bucket of water balloons like hungry wolves in a pack. My team had already launched our plans, forming a small wedge with those who would act like shields in front of the people who would throw the water balloons. I grabbed some of the scattered balloons off the ground, throwing it over the heads of our shields and into the face of Mego who looked stunned. I let out a bellow of laughter, earning a glare from my purple brother.

"You're so dead sis!" he shouted, continuing to run towards the bucket while some of his team members picked up scattered balloons.

J was laughing like a maniac as she threw her balloons. "TAKE THAT AND THAT AND THAT!" the bad thing was that she didn't even hit anyone yet. Maybe she was drunk again.

Water balloons were flying over head like wild colored birds. Some hit their targets while others fell short or too far. I saw that at the bucket Kimmie's team members were already there and I knew that it was going to be war. Melanie was grabbing armfuls and running back to their end of the battle field where she placed them for ammo as she was covered by the Wegos who were wildly throwing as many balloons as possible.

Hego, who was at the tip of our wedge, was taking all the fire, but we made it to the bucket. Kathy and Marcus gathered as many balloons as they could and ran back to our side of the field as the rest of us battled it out with the red team.

Over the splashes of water in the air, I saw that Kimmie was laughing, soaked. Her hair was sticking to her face, her face wet and shinining. My eyes had suddenly trailed down to her shirt and- SPLASH!

Water splashed right in my face, some of it going up my nose. I pinched my nose and blew. Ugh! I hate that feeling! I looked up and saw that Kimmie was laughing at me and threw another balloon, but this time I was prepared. I ducked at the same time as I picked up a water balloon and threw it at her torso. Her shirt clung to her tightly, dripping wet. I found myself distracted again and hardly had enough time to dodge the next water balloon.

I saw that the Wegos had managed to stun Kathy who was getting more balloons and took her ribbon. But Marcus snuck up behind one of the Wegos and stole his. Kathy and one of the twins left the battle field, soaked but laughing. Marcus continued his job of getting more balloons as he was covered by Hego, J, and myself against Kim, Mego, and Wego.

J was getting over ahead of herself and that was what made her lose. Wego was dodging everything she had thrown, exhausting her first before throwing his own water balloons. He splashed so many balloons at her that he managed to steal her ribbon. Then he joined Mego in the fight against Hego.

What had caught my eye was Marcus and Melanie who were fighting against each other. Melanie used to act in her high school and college years, and well, you can guess what she did.

"Geez, Marcus!" she exclaimed, rubbing her eyes.

Marcus frowned and put down his throwing arm that had the water balloon. "What's wrong?"

"I think the rubber hit my eye," she said and Marcus, being the overprotective and panicky one, rushed over to her aid.

"I'm so sorry!" he said, placing his hands on his fiancé's shoulders. "Let me see."

Melanie removed her hands from her eyes and immediately went for Marcus's ribbon.

"Gotcha!" she winked.

The man was shocked a first before laughing, giving her a kiss on her wet forehead. "Nice one, cheater."

Mego had lost against Hego, but Wego was still up against him, now teamed up with Melanie.

Kimmie was putting up a good fight. We hardly managed to splash each other because we were so used to fighting. The only difference between our real fights and this fight is that neither of us was serious. We fought with grins and laughter.

Hego was eventually defeated and the whistle blew, announcing the final battle. I was on my own against three people. Melanie, Wego, and Kimmie. The rule of the final battle was that I got to have the bucket on my side of the field along with my own personal ammunition that Marcus and Kathy had gathered. The other team had to be careful and aim well with their water balloons. If they ran out of balloons before I did, then I won. But if they took my ribbon, then I lost.

They were alternating with their members. Whenever one of them ran out of ammo in their hands, they quickly ran back to their side of the field, being replaced with someone new with their own ammo. I had a whole lot of balloons myself, and all I had to do was dodge as best as I could and stay out of their range until they ran out of balloons.

Melanie was the first to try and steal my ribbon, but she missed me by an inch, I twisted my body and instead stole her ribbon. She cursed but left the field in good spirits. Now it was one of the twins and Kim. Two against one. No problem.

This time they came with a different approach. They brought as many balloons in their arms, and threw them all at once at me. I managed to dodge a majority of them, but I was growing wary. My speed was slowed, and the ground was wet so my footing wasn't as perfect as it was earlier. I knew that if I tried throwing my own balloons at one of them, it would give their partner the advantage at my open point. But then it happened.

I slipped and fell.

Despite me being flat on my back, they didn't give up on throwing water balloons. I covered my face with one hand and blindly swiped with the other to keep them away from my ribbon. I even slapped Kimmie by the sound of her squeak. And then the splashing stopped I thought that they had ran out of balloons and that I won, but when I opened my eyes I saw Kimmie smiling at me, dangling my ribbon as water from her hair dripped on my face.

"Gotcha!"

The red team cheered and Kimmie offered her hand to me to help me up.

"Look at you Princess, all...wet!"

She blushed. "You per-MFFPHH!"

I silenced her with a sudden kiss on the lips and opened my eyes to find that her's were wide. I winked. She pushed me off of her and swiped her lips.

"What was that for?!"

"A prize for the winner of course!" I said, and grabbed her by the waist. "Want another one, Pumpkin?"

"Shego! Stop!" she demanded when I tried to dive in for another kiss. But I cold see that she was trying not to laugh.

"Come on you love birds!" Melanie shouted to us.

Kimmie turned her head to hide the blush, but with her hair sticking to her face, it didn't help her cover up. Teasing Kimmie was so much fun!

We all arrived home after the park, ready to get out of our soaking clothes. My brothers were arguing over who should take a shower first since there was only one, and apparently they had forgotten that Kimmie and I had our own private bathroom in our room. Not like I was going to let them use it anyways. Kimmie immediately went to the bathroom first, and I couldn't help but grin. I knew that she wouldn't be able to get rid of today's events out of her mind.

I had already got my dry clothes ready and waited for her to get out. I sighed. She sure liked showers. I checked the closet for hangars so that my wet clothes could dry in the bathroom while I showered, but found that there weren't any so I headed to the hall closet. I grabbed a couple of hangars and headed back to the room. Nobody was in the hall at that time and my shirt was annoying clinging to my body, still wet, and so I decided to discard it, Kim was probably still in the shower anyways.

When I opened the bedroom door, I bumped hard into Kimmie, landing on top of her. Our chests were pressed together, the only thing separating them was my bra and her towel. Faces inches apart, breath halted, hearts beating rapidly.

Silence.

Staring.

She screamed.

"WHY ARE YOU SHIRTLESS?!"

"WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING?!"

"WHY ARE YOU ON TOP OF ME?!"

"WHY ARE YOU STILL SHOUTING?!"

She pushed me off of her, scooting away from me and pulling her towel tighter around herself.

"Geez Kimmie! No need to be so rough!"

She blushed, getting to her feet. Her legs were really nice...

"Stop looking at me!"

I laughed but did as she was told. I heard her move around behind me and went back into the bathroom. I stood up and crossed my arms.

"Hey! I need to shower! You can't hog the bathroom all day!"

"Well I can't change in front of you!"

I grinned at the thought. Kimmie changing in front of me...I chuckled.

"Stop being a pervert!"

I rolled my eyes. "Come on Kimmie. So what if you saw me shirtless?"

She came out of the bathroom, finally in dry clothes, but her hair was still wet from the shower, glaring.

"It's...it's..." she stuttered, trying to come up with an excuse not to see me shirtless.

I found that her eyes wandered to my torso that was still soaked and shirtless aside from my bra. My grin grew wider and I approached her. She was still in the doorway of the bathroom and I opened the door wider, placing my hands on her shoulders. She squeaked, and I inched closer to her face, her eyes widening.

"Can you move aside? I need to take a shower."

"Ri-right!" she said in a high pitched voice, scurrying aside to let me through.

I entered the bathroom and closed the door behind me with a laugh.