Things always work out (Morby fan-fic) Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Awkward Situations

Rigby and Mordecai hadn’t talked much after the incident in the rain. Rigby had started to hang out with others like Doug and his brother Don a lot more, working the same as he did but instead away from Mordecai. Rigby had even started to hang out with Jeremy and Chad after he ran into them the other day he had meet up with them and seemed to have resolved everything between himself and them. Mordecai had just kept to himself for the most part hanging out with Margaret and a few others at the Café every once in a while. Five days had passed and they still were silent. Rigby had taken to sleeping on the couch instead of in their room on his trampoline.

Mordecai pushed through a door a now common ring sounded as it hit a bell. He walked down a couple stairs and then onto the Café floor looking around to see Margaret and Eileen. He then saw Margaret’s Cousin John sitting at one of the tables drinking a coffee and reading the news paper. Mordecai hadn’t seen the Oriole since he had that huge goof up of thinking he was marrying Margaret, and then the whole thing with CJ. He had heard rumors she was with Thomas now. He walked over and pulled out a seat next to John and then turned towards Margaret. He had found out that Doug had been the one to call him and distract him by pretending to be Margaret, which kept him from confronting Rigby the other day, this put a huge wedge between himself and Doug.

“Hey Mordecai, just the normal right? Coffee and a sandwich?” Margaret hated waiting on Mordecai especially since something seemed to be bothering him for the past few days. She didn’t know why though, it could be the fact she was with a new boyfriend maybe. She shrugged her shoulders who knew what was wrong with the blue-jay but she was getting tired of him continuing to come into the Café and sulk. She stared at the blue-jay for a few minutes as he thought, she tapped her pencil against her writing pad.

“Yeah I guess thanks Margaret… Also I was thinking about going to a movie or something later, I was wondering if you would like to come.” Mordecai was a little nervous asking Margaret out on a date, of course anything revolving around her made him really nervous. It will be nice to just hang out with her for a night maybe take her out to dinner. As he turned from the Menu he saw that the red robin wasn’t even around, she must had walked away right as he said yeah. He sighed and looked over towards John who was looking at him. “Um hey John, how are you doing?”

John looked back at his coffee and took a sip. “You know good, the legs been working good and all. Thanks by the way for the movie a long time ago, I don’t remember if I thanked you.”

Mordecai awkwardly laughed, yeah he did take John but it wasn’t that important. “Heh don’t mention it dude.” He looked back over towards the counter seeing Margaret getting a few people donuts. He put his head into his hands, how was he supposed to ask her out on a date if she didn’t even want to listen to him. He shook his head back and fourth as a small hand placed a cup of coffee in front of him. “Oh hey Eileen thanks for the coffee.” He spoke softly and the beaver smiled up at him.

“Have you seen Rigby, I haven’t seen him in quite a few days and he never comes with you.” She asked this concerned, Rigby hadn’t even came to the café in the past five days staying as far away from it as he could knowing Mordecai would be there.

“Yeah where is the little guy, I had a few extra things done to my leg I wanted to show him. He was so excited about my leg the first time he saw it.” John intruded and put Mordecai right on the spot between both Eileen and John.

Mordecai looked between the two and then gulped what could he say he couldn’t tell them the truth about what had happened between him and Rigby. He pushed his chair out and put a hand over his mouth. “I’m gonna be sick.” He said this running past the two and into the bathroom locking it behind him and taking a deep breathe. He couldn’t tell them the truth; they would hate him, or maybe just hate Rigby. He didn’t want anyone to hate Rigby, he didn’t he just knew Rigby was really upset with him because of what happened. So what can I say? That he has been sick for the past five days.. Would they even believe me?  Mordecai walked over to the sink and turned the water on putting his feathered hands into it and splashing it onto his face. He wiped his eyes with his hands and starred at himself in the mirror. He blinked and then opened his eyes seeing Rigby in the mirror. He turned around and looked around the room. “Rigby?” Mordecai looked back and fourth searching for the raccoon to no avail. Wait… he couldn’t of gotten in here I just locked the door.. He sighed, now he was seeing things, and to say the least he was seeing Rigby. He felt guilty about telling him no, but he couldn’t say yes he just didn’t feel right dating Rigby. He sighed and turned back towards the mirror staring at himself once more. “I-I’m sorry Rigby.” He pushed himself off of the sink and then took another deep breathe. “He is sick that’s all. Alright got it.” He unlocked the bathroom door and walked out closing it behind him and heading back towards where he was sitting Eileen had left but John was still sitting there eating a slice of pie.

“You feeling better Mordecai?” John put a piece of the pie into his mouth and chewed looking over Mordecai.

“Ye-yeah also the reason Rigby hasn’t been around is because he hasn’t been feeling well, he caught a cold or something.” He said this as well as he could trying not to show any signs of lying. He didn’t know John well enough to know If he would catch onto his lie or not, or if it would slip right past him.

“Oh, poor guy, well I’ll be around again I’m sure hopefully he won’t be sick next time though.” John went back to eating his pie and paying no attention to Mordecai, which made Mordecai feel a little better about the situation, yeah he liked to talk to people but today he felt really guilty about everything. He couldn’t let the guilt get to him though, he really didn’t want to have a confrontational meeting with Rigby or anything he just wanted to wait for him to calm down. If the guilt kept getting after him he was going to have to find Rigby and apologize, but he knew that wouldn’t make things better. He took another sip from his coffee and looked out the window, he wondered what Rigby was doing, he worried about the raccoon especially being he was hanging with Doug a lot.

“Here is your sandwich Mordecai, I hope you like it.” Eileen placed the grilled cheese sandwich in front of Mordecai and then looked back towards the counter Margaret wasn’t there, she disappeared somewhere. She looked back at Mordecai and then took a seat a crossed from him. “So, where is Rigby?” She could tell Mordecai felt better so didn’t ask about that, but did want to know where her man was.

Mordecai told her about how he was sick and that’s why he hadn’t been coming with Mordecai to the café for the past five days. He knew that Eileen might know the truth being she had Rigby’s cell phone number and all. You know.. we could of avoided this whole mess if Rigby had just let me use his cell phone to call the girls… He then thought why didn’t Eileen just call him and ask him where he was instead of asking Mordecai. “Eileen you have Rigby’s number don’t you?”

Eileen shook her head and blushed a little. “No, he never gave it to me he told me he didn’t have a phone.” She felt a little hurt that Rigby would lie to her about not having a phone, but she knew that Rigby was always a little mean to her being he wasn’t interested in her.

Mordecai reached down into his fanny pack and took out his cell phone, he opened it and got to Rigby’s contact information. It had a picture of Rigby sticking his tongue out as his contact picture. Mordecai smiled a little at the picture then cleared his throat. “Alright here is the number.” He wrote it down on a napkin and gave it to Eileen, they weren’t allowed to have their phones on at work so she would have to hold onto the napkin until she got out.

Eileen smiled and put the napkin into her apron. “Thank you Mordecai, he won’t be mad at you for giving this to me will he?” She didn’t want to put a knife between the two’s friendship by having the raccoons number in her phone. She knew Rigby could get really mad about things like this, he was very particular when it came to her.

Mordecai laughed and rubbed the back of his head. “Nah, he won’t get mad and if he does he will just have to get over it.” He said this while taking a bite into the grilled cheese sandwich, and looked over towards where John had been sitting, he must have gotten up and left. Mordecai swallowed and looked back towards Eileen. “Where is Margaret I wanted to ask her to the movies?” Mordecai looked around the café he still didn’t see the red avian anywhere.

“She might be out back talking to John I think he just went back there. He hooked her up with one of his friends, she actually plans on going to the movies with him tonight.” Eileen knew that things were going to be a little bit awkward now with the fact that John had just hooked Margaret up with someone else knowing Mordecai was after his cousin. She jumped off of the seat as a few more people came down the stairs. “Talk to you later?”

Mordecai sighed and then nodded taking another sip from his coffee. Great, now I have to wait even longer for a chance to be with Margaret she seriously has a new boyfriend every week.. His mind flashed back to five days ago.

“she-she treats you terribly. S-She don’t even love you for god sakes Mordecai”

Mordecai let out a heavy sigh and slammed his head against the table, what if Rigby was right, what if she didn’t love him. She did treat him like crap looking over him and not really caring much about what he had to say. He shook his head and then saw Margaret and John coming back from the back room talking. He stood up and ran over towards them. “Hey Margaret I wanted to know if you know, you want to come to the movies with me tonight.. or maybe tomorrow?” Eileen had just told him that she had a new boyfriend but he wasn’t going to let that get him down, he still might have a chance.

Margaret sighed and looked towards John who shrugged his shoulders. “Um how about this weekend I got plans tonight just call me or something to remind me I probably won’t have plans or anything then I am pretty much packed until then though.” She looked back at Mordecai as she spoke. She really didn’t plan on saying yes but by then she would be able to muster up an excuse for why she couldn’t go with him.  

Mordecai nodded it was better then just being told plain old no. “Alright sounds good, ill call you on Friday then to remind you.” He turned and walked back to his chair to finish his coffee and his sandwich. He started eating his sandwich and looked beside him, Rigby wasn’t there. He was so used to being with the raccoon all the time that this fight was starting to get to him already. He then looked up to Margaret who hugged John and then went back to work as the Oriole left the café. Mordecai remembered back to when Rigby wanted to do stuff with him all the time and he would say no because he wanted to hang with Margaret. Now days it was just a trouble to even get Margaret to say hi to him yet alone do something with him. He took another bite of his sandwich he really missed Rigby being around all the time, even if it would be awkward he still wanted to hang out with Rigby.

He took in another breathe trying to calm down and just finish his coffee and sandwich he had chores back at the park. He really just needed a break from being around Doug and Rigby the two seemed to be getting closely acquainted, now they weren’t lovers but they were good friends. Mordecai sighed he wished he still had his friendship with the raccoon he missed it dearly, he wanted to just be able to hang with his bro. He didn’t know why the stupid raccoon had to get all gay with him. He slumped in his chair taking another sip of his coffee and staring at the back of the café not a whole lot was going on in the café today just a few couples sitting around and drinking coffee and eating mostly donuts. Heh this place is filled with cops. I bet Rigby would find that funny. He truly missed the company of Rigby. He took his phone out and scrolled down through his contacts stopping at Rigby’s name. He started to type a message before he heard the door open again, he turned around and saw a familiar face walking down the stairs. Well somewhat familiar face it was Don’s boyfriend Whisper, and little to say it was probably known to the white tiger about the situation that was going on between Rigby and himself. He turned away from the tiger and hoped that he didn’t notice him.

“Oh, hey Mordecai.” The tiger walked passed the blue jay and sat at a table meant for two looking over at the blue-jay. He then starred up at the windows into the café too upset with the blue-jay to speak to him.

“So, Whisper how are you doing today.” He asked trying to be cordial he didn’t want to be rude, even though the last people he wanted to talk to were friends of Rigby’s being they would probably be on his side. He took another sip from his coffee and looked towards the stand Margaret coming to wait on Whisper. He looked back over towards Whisper who had been looking at him and about to talk before Margaret intervened.

“Hello handsome, your new here, what would you like.” She said overly preppy and forward to the tiger. She was bent semi over the table so that her cleavage was more in Whisper’s face then normal.

“Uh.. I’m waiting for my boyfri..” As Whisper tried to finish talking Margaret interrupted him. Little did he know that Margaret was a strong hater of homosexual’s especially the male kind.

“Ew, you’re queer..” She stood up and turned away from him walking towards the counter, Mordecai could hear her speak under her breathe. “Scourge of the earth.”  

Mordecai bit his lip wanting to say something to Margaret about how rude she was, before he looked over towards the tiger who was looking down and seemed upset. W-What a bitch, how could she be like that?! He got up off from the table and walked over towards Whisper putting his arm around the tiger. “Hey.. you ok?” He asked concerned for the tiger. He then had the realization of how upsetting it would have been for Rigby. I told Rigby no, and it had to be so hard for him to come out to me I didn’t treat him right… ugh I still don’t know what to do though. He continued to hold the tiger in his arms as he could still tell he was sad.

“He-hey you don’t need to do that Mordecai.” Whisper said this quietly, he was upset he never liked to reference having a boyfriend but Don had told him to be more open about it and not to worry and the first time he said anything this happened.

Mordecai sighed before he heard a whistle behind him, Margaret was motioning him to come over to her. Mordecai gulped and then moved his arm out from around Whisper and walked over towards Margaret who seemed to be getting an eviler and eviler smile as he got closer to her. “What?” Mordecai asked glancing back to the tiger who had lifted his head up and was staring at the windows again his eyes were a little glossy.

Margaret smiled and the moved towards Mordecai placing her beak near his ears. “If you tell him to get his gay rear out of here I will cancel my date with my boyfriend and go with you Mordecai.” She knew Mordecai would do anything to go on a date with her.
Mordecai sighed, if it meant he could get a date with Margaret it would be worth it, he really wanted a chance to be with her.. Even if he had to be a jerk in order to do so. He walked over towards Whisper and took a deep breathe he had to do it. “Whisper.. Get out of here your not welcome..” He said this as softly and calmly as he could trying to be as nice as he could.

Whisper looked over towards Mordecai and his ears dropped he stood up and pushed the chair back. He turned and went towards the stairs before a large raccoon entered the café seeing Whisper walking from Mordecai.

Don growled to himself and hurried down the stairs to Whisper putting his arms around him. “Whisper, are you alright?” He put his hand under the tigers chin and saw he was crying. Don looked over towards Mordecai and glared daggers through him before kissing Whisper on the head and telling him to go outside. He walked over towards Mordecai and looked straight into his eyes. “Come outside and explain to me what you did to my boyfriend Mordecai, first Rigby and now my lover to.. You’re lucky I don’t kill you.” This was out of character but Mordecai had hurt both Rigby and Whisper in the past few days and he wasn’t going to stand for it.

Margaret waved over to Mordecai. “See you at eight Mordecai.” She laughed to herself and then turned behind the counter and going into the back room. Margaret had just made Mordecai get into a huge mess all for a date with her.

Mordecai gritted his teeth but nodded to follow Don up the stairs and outside. As he heard Margaret call to him he looked back and nodded a confirmation even though she had turned away. He continued up the stairs behind the larger raccoon he knew he had just really upset him but, he needed a chance with Margaret and that was the only way he could get one, that being if the robin sticks to her word and actually goes on the date with him and doesn’t stand him up. As the two of them left the café and were on the street he saw Whisper sitting on a bench not that far away from them then felt Don’s hand on his arm.

“What do you do, get off by hurting people?! I have been trying to avoid this conversation for Rigby’s sake but if you’re going to start hurting my boyfriend too then we need to talk.” Don let go of Mordecai’s arm and then took a step away crossing his arms. “Why did you turn him down? Why didn’t you just say you were going to think about it instead of just saying no and finally why did you hurt Whisper?!” At the mention of his name Whisper got off of the bench and walked over.

“I..I..” Mordecai didn’t know how to answer him about Rigby, he didn’t even know the answer, he just needed something to get Don’s mind off of Rigby so he could avoid answering it. Thankfully Whisper provided the distraction for him.

“Don.. Mordecai only told me to get out because of that robin, and the robin was the one that hurt my feelings.. calling me queer.” He came to Mordecai’s aid he knew that it wasn’t all Mordecai’s doing in his situation now in Rigby’s it was.

Don looked down towards Whisper then over towards Mordecai. “Is this true?” He asked trying to calm himself down a little, if this was all over the robin then what happened between Rigby and Mordecai was probably over that stupid girl to. He looked Mordecai right in the eyes wanting the truth from the blue-jay.

“I.. Uh.. yeah.. its true she started it.. I-I didn’t like the way she treated him b-but I want a date with Margaret really bad I’m sorry guys.” Mordecai rubbed the back of his head how stupid was he to hurt someone just for a date with someone. He didn’t know what else to say he said sorry and he explained why he had done the whole thing. What if Don goes in there and starts a fight with Margaret she might cancel the date. He had to say something to get Don from going in there and saying anything. “.. So you’ve seen Rigby I suppose.. how is he doing?” Now he was asking this as a diversion and also because he actually was worried about Rigby.

Whisper and Don looked at Mordecai with raised eyebrows before Don spoke. “He is ok I guess, he doesn’t want us talking to you though.” They both laughed a little between themselves before they went silent seeing that it made Mordecai a little upset. Though Mordecai was happy that he didn’t have to answer about why he turned Rigby down. “He is really hurt by you Mordecai.. He really cared about you.” Don spoke from his heart; he knew how his big brother felt.

Mordecai sighed looking down, well he knew he hurt Rigby but for the raccoon to simply want his friends and family to avoid Mordecai hurt him. He looked back up at Don as he said Rigby really cared about him, he knew this but still. Everything is happening too fast.. Why can’t it just be simple again?  He took a breath and then twiddled his thumbs and looked away for a moment. “I’m sorry.. I hurt him so much.. I really just don’t know what to do.”

Don sighed and put his hand onto Mordecai shoulder. “Mordecai I really care about you too, when we were all younger we were all close, I just want to tell you to follow your heart alright. Do what your heart feels is right.” He took his hand off of Mordecai’s shoulder and into the hand of Whispers. He looked down into the café at the red feathered avian and growled. “I’m going to tear her a new..”

“Don, don’t.. come on we should just go eat somewhere else.” Whisper said pulling on the raccoon’s hand. He looked over to Mordecai who was looking towards them awkwardly. “Listen to Don Mordecai. Well listen to your heart.” He said chuckling a little to himself before pulling on Dons hand again.

Mordecai nodded he would take Rigby’s little brothers advice, it’s the least he could do in a situation like this. “Alright guy’s ill let my heart pull the strings, have fun guys.” He said awkwardly, things had gone from terrible to good, well goodish at least Don wasn’t yelling at him or Margaret. He turned to go to his golf cart and got in watching Don and Whisper walking away from the café. He heard a small twang and looked at his phone it was Margaret he picked it up.

“I’ll see you later tonight don’t forget Mordecai.” Margaret had left him a voice message.

Mordecai smiled and then started the cart; he had to get back to work now, so that he didn’t get fired or anything. He at least had a date with Margaret now, so he had something to look forward to that night so he didn’t just have to sit around the house with Rigby in silence. His heart was still telling him that he loved Margaret, he was told to follow it, so that was what he planned on doing.

An hour passed as Mordecai drove to the park, he had to do a couple errands around town for Benson, it was weird that even the gumball machine seemed to know something was going on and had split him and Rigby up. He turned the cart off and then stepped out of it his feet landing on the cold dirt in front of the house it reminded him some of himself. He had been so cold to Rigby, he had put the poor raccoon down like it wasn’t even a big deal, that wasn’t who Mordecai was.. He wasn’t a cruel person, not normally. Something.. Something is getting to me; someone is making me be like this. He took in a deep breathe then sighed it out, he didn’t know what had happened to him. He started up the stairs on the porch and pushed open the door and looked around no-one was around, he smiled. It was easier that way no stress or anything he walked over to the couch and laid back into it. He put his feet up and flipped on the T.V. now all he had to do is wait.