Hello! Fire's Dew here! I hope you like my latest story, requested by Nimiza, {sorry it's a little late…}

Enjoy!!!

Disclaimer:{looks around} Nope, I don't own Medabots.

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Erika sighed as she stared at the photos she had taken earlier.

Soon, the sighing turned to growling with age as her thoughts changed.

'It's not fair!' She thought, looking at the other girl in the background of the picture.

'Karen this, Karen that, You would think the world revolved around Karen! It's not fair that she's pretty, or nice to the point of being ignorant!'

Erika turned her attention from Karen to the boy in the picture.

Ikki was standing in a triumphant pose after defeating an opponent, with Medabee at his side.

"He's so cute when he does that." She mummered, not noticing the person in the doorway.

"Whose cute?"

"AHHHH!" Erika jumped, hiding the picture behind her back, when she noticed who had spoken.

"Oh, it's only you. Don't scare me like that Henry!" Erika yelled, flinging her arms in the air with frustration.

"Hold on a minute, what's that?" Before Erika could move, Henry held her arm, and was looking at her picture.

"Oh, I get it." Henry said slowly, his sharp mind working a mile a minute.

"Your jealous of Karen because you like Ikki, and Ikki likes her, while Karen likes….likes…"

Erika glared at Henry. "Who does she like?" She demanded.

Henry paused for a moment, his arms crossed across his chest, his face scrunched in concentration.

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"I don't know." He said sheepishly as Erika snatched the picture from his hand.

"Promise me you won't tell Ikki." She said, holding out a hand.

"Promise." He said, stretching out his hand to shake Erika's.

"But, you have to promise to keep doctor Aki away from store first."

Erika felt confused but agreed anyway.

"Okay then we have a deal." Henry declared, pumping her arm.

"But w-why d-d-do I have t-t-to k-k-keep D-Doctor Ak-k-ki from-m-m-m the st-t-t-tore?" Erika asked, trying to keep her balance from Henry's hard handshake.

"Because!" Henry said with a strange look on his face.

His voice dropped to a theatrical stage whisper.

"He eats all my pudding."

Erika groaned.

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Erika dragged Professor Aki out of the store again for the tenth time in a row for that day.

"I'm sorry Doctor Aki, but you've got to learn to actually pay for that pudding, or your going to run Heny out of business!"

Doctor Aki stared longingly at the chocolate pudding displayed on the window.

"But it's sooo good." Doctor Aki protested, trying to get out of Erika's deathgrip.

"By the way, where's Brass?" He asked, as the thought of this girl without her medabot seemed slightly absurd.

"Oh, Brass is with my parents, all of a sudden they get this crazy urge to be with my medabot! Like they don't have enough money to get one of their own!" Erika ranted her grip on Doctor Aki getting tighter as her rage grew.

"I mean it's not like I haven't worked hard to pay them back! I'm a school reporter, it's not like I get paid much."

Suddenly Erika looked down at Doctor Aki, his face was turning purple, and he was choking.

"Opps." Erika let go of him immediately, her face turning to red in embarrassment.

"Sorry Doctor Aki."

Doctor Aki rubbed his sore neck.

I know how you can repay my poor neck." Doctor Aki exclaimed, promptly dragging Erika back into the store.

"How?" Erika asked, feeling her wallet beginning to feel lighter for some unknown reason.

"You can buy me some pudding." Doctor Aki licked his lips hungrily at the prospect of eating all those puddings standing temptingly on a shelf, mocking him with their creamy smoothness.

"You're the rich millionaire guy, can't you buy your own pudding?" Erika asked, her already thin patience ebbing away.

"I would, but when my house burnt down, so did my wallet."

Erika frowned and dragged Doctor Aki out of the store again.

"B-But all that pud—"

Erika growled, "If I hear the word 'Pudding' again, I'll…"

Doctor Aki looked up when Erika didn't finish her sentence.

"You'll do what? Erika?"

Erika stood there shell-shocked.

In the park in front of her was Ikki and Medabee practicing their moves, and off in the side-lines was Koji, and Karen.

"It's just one big circle of confusion." Erika mumbled, suddenly she didn't feel like babysitting Doctor Aki anymore, she just wanted to go home.

Letting go of a very confused Doctor Aki, Erika headed in the opposite direction.

With all her jumbled emotions, she wasn't up to seeing Ikki yet.

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Sooooooooo? What did you think? Was it good? Bad? Horrendous? Needs more work? {cheeky grin} Perfect?

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