Shower..

"In ... in what? Milky Way ?! "

Jakes gasped. "Bahahahaaa ... The dirt Planet ... in the ... in the Milky Way ... that's too good ..."

Then the next fit of laughter shook him.

Lia was now clearly getting annoyed about it. And after some point something just occured to her feeling terribly annoyed. Without thinking much about it, she grabbed the half-full cup of coffee and poured them over the rolled up boy Jakes. This instantly silenced the laughter.

"Aaaaaaaah! Liaaa! "He screamed and jumped up. "Are you crazy?"

"I'm sorry ..." said Lia in an innocent tone, "This is done here to welcome somebody on earth. Like a custom you see ..."

Jakes stared at her. A trickle of brown liquid ran down his cheek and dripped from his chin.

"Where were we?"

Jakes asked.

"You wanted to save the world"

Lia rolled her eyes.

"Oh yes"

There was now a short silence. Lia's eyes lingered on the mixture of sweat, orange juice, coffee and blood.

"Do you want to perhaps take a shower?"

Lia looked at the flowing liquid from boy's head to his cheeks.

"Oh yes, that would be actually wonderful," Jakes sighed every word, stressing every part of it.

**

He was singing in the shower. And he was not really a melodious person to hear. Lia decided to launch counter attack and played her favorite music, loudly on a music system. She wanted to put away the broken glass pieces, but she dare not to go to Jakes the bathroom. Instead. Thus, she was confined in her own space.

She found some clothes of Sarc and handed it to him through the door. His own clothes, she hurridly them in the laundry. The clothes were made of strange substance, a little rubbery and still soft.

She wondered if these rubbery clothes could be washed at 30°? "No matter. Should work out, lets try."

And only when she was sitting down in the kitchen, and had wiped away the coffee stains, now sipping her tea, she realized that just a strange man who was perhaps a lunatic, was currently taking a shower in her bathroom. And also he was singing. Moreover it was quite an atrocious singing.

She herself did not know why she had him by now in her house as if she found him to be some one familiar. Maybe it was his eyes that he had, with its flashy color, irresistibly seductive and amazingly sharp eyes that looked in her eyes confidently upon meeting her for the first time.

Lia gave it another thought. "Man is surely not insane. Only convinced of a truth he did not know."

She was instantly made to snap out of her thoughts, from the click of a lock. The noise meant that a certain door was opening. Before she could react in any way, Sarc stood in the hallway and stuck his head through the opening in the kitchen.

"Hey Limi! All right? "

Lia jumped up stsrtled and her knee nudged the table top. Hopping on one leg and cursing around trying to make a reasonably calm face and smile.

"Yes ... yes, all good"

"OK. I'm off to shower. Is it ok if I cook later. Will that be fine? "

"No !!" Lia cried in alarm.

Sarc paused.

"All right ... I thought only because of Helix but you are also right. Helix comes as late as it would be possible. How about a risotto? Are you happy with it?"