"So, there's still a few things I don't understand..." Julie's voice was somewhat muffled as her entire upper body was hidden beneath Jo's bed. They were searching the loft for Adam's--err--some strange investor...?'s naked dog.
Jo stuck her head out of the closet, "Like what?"
"Well... for instance... what is a JAPANESE investor doing with a CHINESE crested?" Julie pulled herself out from under the bed, her navy blue blouse covered with dust bunnies. "You need to clean under here more often."
"No time," Jo tossed an old sock into the room. "And it doesn't really matter what the origin of the dog is... I mean, it's like a French couple owning an English Bulldog."
"I guess so." Julie finished dusting herself off and sat on the bed. "Another thing... if your assistant-guy is actually Adam's bodyguard... why was he attacking him when he walked into the room this morn?"
Three pairs of metalic leggings (the spawn of the metalic shoes/miniskirts and leggings era) went flying into the room. "Never again," Jo muttered under her breath.
"BECAUSE Burnsey didn't recognize me with orange hair." Adam strolled into the room and collapsed into a futon chair next to the bed, "Any luck?"
Jo emerged from the closet wearing her prom dress, "Ha! It still fits!"
Julie rolled her eyes and Adam threw a corn pop at her. Adam was eating corn pops out of the box again. "Seriously guys, we need to find that dog."
"We?" Jo disappeared into her closet again to change.
"Yes, WE. It's a matter of national security."
Julie grabbed the cereal box out of Adam's hands, "I thought you said it was a matter of Eric making millions of dollars?"
Adam grabbed the box back. "Well, yah...but this dog is like, his baby. You know what happens when the Japanese get angry... look at Pearl Harbor."
"Okay. That was a totally different situation."
"How so?"
"Well for one, it involved a WAR."
Jo emerged from the closet again, dressed in her original clothes. "It doesn't matter guys. Let's just find the dog and move on."
--- DING DONG DING DONG DING DING DING DONG DONG---
Jo's father had given her a doorbell as a Christmas present one year. Whenever somebody wanted to be rung up into the apartment, it sounded like carol of the bells on crack. Jo walked out into the hallway and pressed the button on the intercom, "Who is it?"
"Let us up." Jo decided to ignore the fact that the people on the other end hadn't bothered to answer the question. She knew the voices and buzzed them up without hesitating. When she walked back into the bedroom, Julie was sitting on the bed still, but Adam had disappeared.
"Where's...?" Julie pointed at the closet door, which sprang open to reveal Adam... wearing Jo's prom dress.
"Fit's like a dream!" Jo was at a loss for words. She and Julie could only laugh.
Two minutes later, Jo and Julie were munching corn pops on Jo's bed and Adam was changing again the closet. They looked up when they heard the apartment door open.
"Hello?"
"We're in here!" Jo yelled.
Two figures appeared in the bedroom doorway. One was a very tall, very thin man wearing, yet another one of Jo's incredible suits. His jet black hair made his already-very-pale skin look even whiter. The second man was a bit shorter. His clothing was torn and dirty and his hair was an absolute mess. He looked as if he had been sleeping in dumpsters for the past year.
Jo and Julie stared at the second man, wanting to laugh, but very afraid to at the same time. Jo was the first one to speak: "What happened to you?"
Just then the closet door opened again to reveal Adam (no longer suit clad, but wearing his usual shorts and t-shirt). Adam took one look at the pair of men, yelped, then slammed the door shut again, just as the messy guy ran at him, a murderous look in his eyes.
"I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!" Matthew Aubie struggled to pull the door open. From inside the closet, Adam was pleading for his life.
"Come on! It was only a joke! You started it with the whole hair thing!"
"LET ME IN!!!"
"Joke! J-O-K-E! You know, funny, ha ha...?"
"DO YOU KNOW WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH IN THE LAST 24 HOURS???!?!?!"
The second man collapsed onto the futon.
"So Eric, how goes it?" Jo asked, offering him a corn pop.
"Meh. Could be better." Eric accepted the box. The three of them watched, unfazed as Matt started slamming his body into the door, trying to break it open.
"You break it, you're putting in a new one." Jo warned.
"I bet you fifty bucks that Matt wins," Eric yawned.
"I'll take that bet," answered Julie. A beeping sound came from inside the closet, and ten seconds later, fifteen giant men in suits swept into the room and jummped on Matt.
Adam opened the closet door, "HA! Primo-minista one, Atthew Ubie ZERO!"
Without looking away from the action infront of them, Julie opened her hand and Eric deposited a fifty dollar bill into it.