I'm Not Your Girlfriend Ch. 2

Chapter 2

The next day Chowder went out to the farmers' market as usual. He felt a lot better after getting all of that sleep yesterday. "Hey Chowder!" Gazpacho called him from his fruit stand. "I missed you yesterday little buddy. What happened?"

"Oh hey Gazpacho. I was really tired yesterday, so I didn't really get out at all." he said in reply. "Tired? As in you couldn't catch some Zs that night?" Gazpacho asked the boy. Chowder just nodded back. "This is going to sound weird coming from me Gazpacho, but you haven't seen Panini around yet have you?"

He quickly got his question answered as the pink cabearit sprinted up to him. "Hi, boyfriend." she said, but before she even got a chance to do anything further, Chowder had moved uncomfortably close and started hugging her. "I have a poem I would like to read to you." he said.

"er-hem."

It was quite easily the single worst piece of poetry anybody had ever written, lacking any coherence at all whatsoever, but she couldn't seem to notice the horrible quality and was only focusing on the fact that Chowder was reading a poem to her. "Um... wow, thanks Chowder." Panini said.

"Chocolates my dear?" He asked, handing her a heart-shaped box filled with the sweets. She couldn't believe it, had he finally come around? "For me? Thank you num nums. Well, guess I'd better get going." she said heading off toward Ms. Endive's, not noticing for several minutes that Chowder was following her. At least until he picked her up in a massive bear hug. "Um... okay Chowder, I uh... really need to get going." Panini said, getting a little uneasy with the sudden increase in attention she was getting from the boy.

"Have I mentioned how cute you look today?" He asked her. Panini managed to squirm her small body free from his tight grip, and took off as fast her little legs could go. 'Yes, I think it's working.' Chowder thought to himself. He went into a sprint after her.

Gorgonzola was just walking along the street when he saw Panini run past him with Chowder not too far behind. 'Wait, what.' the candle holder did a double take, and decided that he must be hallucinating, as he continued down the sidewalk. "I really need to lay off the fondue." he told himself pinching his forehead.

"Chowder, please stop following me!" Panini begged him. "But I thought that you'd like to go over the list of one hundred names I came up with for our child!" Chowder shouted. He had chased her through the farmers' market, and neither one was about to stop running. "Leave me alone!" "I just want to look at your cute face, 'Nini*!" Chowder called out to her. Panini finally saw her safe haven, as she unlocked the door to Ms. Endive's Tasteful Foods, and shut it just as Chowder was two feet away.

After she locked the door, Panini took a quick look out the front window to see if he was gone. She was worn out, and as she sat down to try and catch her breath, she started to talk to herself about what had occurred. "What just happened? He didn't say 'I'm not your boyfriend!' once that whole time. It was almost like one of my Chowder-related dreams became a nightmare. Okay, get a grip girl, he probably just didn't get enough sleep. That's got to be it. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow."