Room 503, Saturday Morning

[dojima_hime]

Last night  there had been a handwaved slumber-party, complete with fuzzy pjammas, movies, and popcorn.  It had been a blast, and Dōjima had fallen asleep against Romeo sometime during one of the movies.

Now, however, it was bright out.  Dōjima fully intended to stay snuggled under her blankets until the cartoons came on, but there was one small

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[withoutverona]

The other occupant merely snuggled closer into his pillow, rolling away from the poking finger. "'smine," he whimpered. "Not time to get up yet."

[dojima_hime]

Dōjima's eyes narrowed and she scooted closer to tug at the pillow in question. "No, s'mine. My room, my bed, my pillows."

[withoutverona]

"Nuh-uh," Romeo was adamant, eight-year-old arms creeping up to clutch the pillow against her assault. "I'm holding it so it's mine and you're a girl so I wouldn't be in your room anyhow."

[dojima_hime]

"I'm not a girl, I'm a princess," was the automatic response as she glared at him. "You're just being a greedy boy, you should share."

[withoutverona]

"Not greedy! Father says if I want something it's mine and I want the pillow," Romeo pouted. "An' there aren't any princesses for real."

He was, though, finally sitting up, and glancing around the room.

[dojima_hime]

Finally, he was sitting up, and she could see who this rude strange boy was.

Hmph. The strange-boy wasn't strange at all, it was her Romeo. "I am too a princess, Franco says so!" she pouted, tossing her hair. "I'm the Dōjima-hime! You know that, silly."

"Besides, your Daddy isn't here, is he?" Dōjima said smugly. "My room, he can't make me give you the pillow. You could ask nicely, I might share." Might. Unlikely, but might.

[withoutverona]

He blinked and recognized Yurika. He liked her; she was pretty. Miraculously, Romeo's manners improved somewhat.

But only somewhat.

"'kay, you can be a princess if Franco says," he obliged. He even relaxed his grip on the pillow. "Father would tell you to let me have the pillow, wanna call him and see?"

[dojima_hime]

"He can tell me whatever he wants, but he can't make me do anything." she said smugly, hopping off the bed to drag her purse over and retrieve her cell phone. "Here. Call him."

[withoutverona]

"I will!" Romeo said, grabbing the phone and punching in ten digits. "And he will so make you, he makes lots of people do stuff."

The phone rang a few times, and then there was a sleepy grumble on the other end, it being just slightly past the middle of the night in Verona. "Father? Tell Yurika she has to let me have my pillow if I want it."

He shoved the phone at the girl before Ted Montague had a chance to answer.

[dojima_hime]

"My Daddy can make people do things too!" she informed him smugly as she grabbed the phone. "Your Daddy doesn't stand a chance."

"Romeo's daddy? Hi. Tell your son that he has to learn how to treat a lady," she said, smirking at Romeo over the phone. "He's got the most dreadful manners. My bed, my pillow, and he shouldn't take things that aren't his. It isn't polite."

She pulled the phone away and blinked at it, confused. "He hung up. How rude."

[withoutverona]

"He hung up?" Romeo looked confused. "Maybe he's really busy doing important things. That's what Mother says when he yells at me."

He offered her the pillow. "You can have it, it has girl cooties on it anyhow."

[dojima_hime]

Dōjima gaped at him, completely astounded. "There's no such thing as girl cooties, and even if there was, I wouldn't have cooties. Maybe I don't want it. Maybe it has BOY COOTIES! Mommy says I should stay away from boys, because they all have cooties."

[withoutverona]

"Your mommy is strange and wrong, everyone knows girls are the ones with cooties."

Romeo held the pillow up by one corner and waved it back and forth in front of Dojima's face, hopefully just out of her reach. "Cooooooties, cooties, cooooties," he sang. "The pillow has Yurika's cooties."

[dojima_hime]

Yurika tried to grab the pillow from him, but Romeo was still taller than she was, and her efforts were in vain. This was obviously not fair. "Oh yeah? Well, if it has my 'cooties', which it doesn't, then YOU have them too, because you slept on it!"

[withoutverona]

Romeo ... perhaps had not thought this through as far as he should have.

He tossed the pillow lightly at Yurika. "I do not, and only babies believe in cooties anyhow." Muttering, he added, "I can't believe I slept with a stupid girl."

[dojima_hime]

She caught the pillow and swung it at him, pouting. "I am not stupid! You're mean! Take it back!"