#ler!dr.teeth

Zoot, in the meantime, is already fast asleep as usual, wich makes me smile. Animal is playing with his hair while Janice tries to build a card house on his chest, making the others snicker.

I give Janice a mischivous look once a playful idea forms in my head as I scoot over to the sleeping saxophone player.

Janice puts the cards away and gives me a knowing look once she catches on, before we give his sides a quick tickle together to tease him. "Hey zoot, you alive~?"

Zoot startles awake in return, eyes wide and body jolting from the quick attack. He lets out a sharp laugh and looks around, only to see Janice and I on either side of him, both smirking down at him.

"Wh-whahat's going ohon-?" He giggles out, slightly startled from being woken up so suddenly.

"Nothing~" We both lie in unison.

He rubs his sides, still a bit disoriented, but he notices we're smilling at him. He lets out a small embaressed huff, pretending to be annoyed, though a smile is still evident on his face.

"You guys are the worst, you know that~?"

We both smile brighter at that, before the three of us squeak in surprise when Teeth suddenly yanks Zoot down to the ground with him by his ankle.

Zoot's eyes go wide behind his glasses once he finds himself flat on the floor, until we all hear him yelp and see him immediately getting reduced to a squirming and giggling mess once he feels Teeth tickling his feet.

"S-stop it, Teeth! That's-! Hahahahahaha! No fair-!"

Teeth grins widely, absolutely loving the way Zoot is squirming and the sound of his giggles underneath him. He takes complete advantage of the situation by sitting on his legs to relentlessly attack his feet.

"You deserve it, you know that? Always falling asleep on us like that~"

Zoot attempts to protest, his glasses askew from all the wiggling and trashing while he pleads between giggles as we gather around to watch the show.

"Hahaha, c- cohohome on! It's not my fahahault, I can't help ihihit!! Hahahahaha-!"

"I bet you can if we convince you~" Janice giggles at the sight of the sax player.

We both look at each other and nod, Janice taking one arm and me the other to pin Zoot down while Lips start going for his armpits and Animal eagerly joining in by attacking his belly.

Zoot's expression turns to absolute horror once he finds himself being pinned down by everyone. A mix of excitement and panic fills him because he knows all too well that it's over for him...

"W-wait a minute! Guys, th-this is so not fair-!"

"I think it's pretty fair~" Lips teases while Zoot starts giggling uncontrollably when we start the tickling up again, targeting his sweet spots.

"Looks like you're at our mercy now~" Janice hums happily.

Zoot can barely speak between his laughter while he's too busy squirming uncontrollably and laughing his heart out at this point.

"Hahaha! Noho, guys! Stohohop! Mercy, plehehehease! I cahahan't take it-!"

"What do you guys think, has he learned his lesson~?" Teeth grins while looking over his shoulder at us, still tracing invisible pattern on zoot's sole absendmindedly.

Lips and Animal slow their attacks for a moment to look down at Zoot. We all look at eachother, contemplating. Zoot pants slightly, still giggling helplessly.

Lips looks at him with a small smirk and lets out a chuckle. "I'm not so sure about that~"

Teeth gives a lazy grin, scribbling his fingers under Zoot's toes. "Yeah, I think he might need a little bit more convincing… Animal~"

Zoot's eyes squeeze shut before he explodes in a fresh wave of laughter once Animal suddenly starts blowing messy raspberries. The combination of the tickles and nibbles is absolutely torturous, and his laughter is practically as high pitched as a mouse now.

"AahahAHaaHHAHA-! NOHOHOO, Not the- AhaAHhahAHa! THE RASPBERRIES-!"

Animal just grins, enjoying the sound of his friends squeaky laughter. He continues blowing raspberries on his belly while we're all holding him down, laughing right along and loving every second of this.

"Oh, he's going absolutely insane~!" Janice exclaims, watching in amusement.

Lips grins. "Yup, and he's not going anywhere with us sitting on him like this..."

"I don't think he's gonna last long if we keep this up though…" I say as I atart feeling a little bad for my sax loving friend.

The others perk up at that, seeing that Zoot is getting a bit exhausted from the non-stop tickle attack.

"Yea... okay, he's had enough. As much as I love making him laugh, I think we can let him go now~" Teeth chuckles gently.

Lips takes pity on him and pulls animal off of zoot by his chain, all of us now watching Zoot pant heavily as we make sure he's alright.

We all let go of Zoot, allowing him to finally catch his breath. He's laying on the ground like a wet noodle, panting heavily, blushing madly and still giggling himself silly.

His sides and torso probably feel all tingly from the tickling and the phantom sensations of our tickles all over his body.

"Ugh… you guys... are absolutely... evil,... you know... that..?" Zoot manages out between heavy breaths.

We all just chuckle gently. "Awww... come on, you know you love it, deep down~" Janice teases with a smirk.

"Yea, don't pout. We don't mean no harm, we just like messing with you a bit~" I chuckle gently while we start rubbing the spots we tickled a bit to help him recover.

Zoot lets out a small chuckle at their affectionate touches. He knows they don't mean any harm, it's not the first time this happened after all…

"I know… but, jeez, you guys really didn't hold back…~" He sighs gently.

Teeth grins and pats his shoulder. "What can we say? You make an easy target, you know that~"

Zoot chuckles again, knowing that it's true. He rubs his sides a bit, feeling the aftermath of their attacks. Despite the 'torture', he can't help but feel amused and happy.

"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll try not to fall asleep so easily next time...~"

Lips grins and pokes his side playfully. "Oh, who are you kidding? you'll probably fall asleep again in, like, five minutes~"

"Yea. You're seriously hopeless, you know that?" I teases with a lazy smile.

Zoot huffs out a laugh. "Don't hex it or it might just happen~"

We all chuckle at that. We can always count on Zoot to be the one to fall asleep easily.

Janice pats his head affectionately. "We love ya anyway, you sleepyhead~"

"Heh, thanks~" Zoot smiles and sighs contentedly.

Animal starts nuzzling into him, followed by the the rest of us as we all hug him. He chuckles happily now that he's surrounded and cuddled by his family.

"You guys… you really know how to take care of me, huh?" He mumbles as he relaxes into the group hug... falling right back asleep...

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