Hello There

A Chapter by Mickey Hyde

After her nice "breakfast" visit with her parents, Jamie was locked in her room calling Kragen to see if he had any plans for today.

"Hello?" His voice answered as he tried to do his best nerd voice.

"Why the hell do you keep doing that?" Jamie smiled as she stepped into her walk-in closet and started taking out some shirts, trying to decide which to wear.

"Well... well, because I'm just so fly, yippy yo squeezy!" Kragen laughed ans so did she. "So what's up ,earthling?"

"Nothing really.. Just sitting' around and wondering if my hip-hopster of a friend would like to go do some holiday shopping... up for it?"

"Oh hell to the yea! You think we could stop by Electro's Comics too? I kinda have a tab that needs to paid..."

"How much?" Jamie wondered, knowing it was most likely a good fair amount of money since he loves his comics.

"Ohhh.. give or take .. maybe..."

"Hmm?"

"One hundred thirty maybe? .. Anyway-"

"oh my God, Krag! What the hell? No one can actually have a tab on comic books let alone have it be up that high... How in the world did you manage that?"

"I made a deal with the devil!" He said acting innocent as Jamie laughed and shook her head at him.

Walking over to her bed, she layed down two pairs of pants a black long sleeve t-shirt as she switched her phone to the other ear.

"I can never understand you,"

"Hey, no one can... not even me," he chuckled. "So what time you pickin' me up?"

"Oh bud, we're walking today." She could all but hear his disappointment as she laughed at him and hung up.

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"I am not going!"

"Yes you are!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"I said no and I mean it!"

"I will pinch you really hard if you don't!" Jamie argued with Kragen as she stood in front of him in his front yard later that day.

"I can't believe you'd hurt a pretty boy like me! How rude- No! Bitc- OW!" He yelled as she unexpectedly took a step up to him and pinched his arm. He rubbed his bruised skin and glared at her, as she did it right back to him.

"We're walking, so shut your mouth and get your fat a*s off of the grass." She declared as she turned ad started to walk away from him, heading to the sidewalk.

"You're mean." he mumbled and she stopped, turning around to face him and he ran straight into her.

"What did you say?" She asked dramatically, holding back laughter as Kragen's eyes bulged outside of his sockets, thinking he was in for another pinch-fest..

"Nothing, let's go!" Kragen grabbed her hand and started running down to the street, taking a short cut in between some houses and fences to where the comic book store was at.

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"Oooo look it's the new Batman DC one!" Jamie said excitedly as Kragen rolled his eyes and waited for the cashier to come back with his change.

"Jamie, is it really important to show me everything that interests you?" He asked, obviously slightly annoyed with her constant excitement and kid like attitude.

"Well.. yeah, duh! I mean .. have you seen all of this stuff?" She grinned as she carefully took the comic out of it's plastic wrapping and flipped through it. Kragen watched her and laughed as the store bells rang, meaning that a customer just came in, or left. He glanced to the door to see only Seth, the guy Oli had been talking about the other day Kragen remembered.

Without looking, he softly punched Jamie, meaning to hit her in the arm. After a while of watching Seth walk around and stop to look at some eye-catching thing, Kragen realized Jamie was staring at him.

"What?" He asked as she raised an eyebrow at him.

"You just punched me in my effin' b**b ,you idiot."

"Oh... so you're saying I just got some action, but totally missed it?" He asked disappointed with himself. "Well I'm not sorry." He told her as she dramatically gasped.

"You better be sorry. You can't just punch my b**b!"

"I'll punch your b**b if I want to , hoe." He played around with her, not noticing the goth cashier watching them intently. They both shut up as soon as they saw her there, and it became very quiet. Jamie walked slowly over to a clearance rack, turning the rack and stopping everyone in a while when she saw a good comic. Then, she saw movement out of the corner of her eye, so she turned only to see the guy she knows as 'Seth' staring at her.

Unsure what to do, she gave a polite shy smile to him, only to have him look straight down to his shoes, then back up to the shelf he was at. Jamie stared at him for a minute, watching him as he roamed the store, and she could have sworn she saw him side glance at her for a second. She was then all of a sudden pulled away by Kragen leading her out of the store.

"Dude I've been calling you for like, the last minute but you were so into him," He chuckled and shook his head at her.

All she did was smile and glance back to Seth to see him watching her, then giving her a small little wave before she let the doors close behind her..