Growing Pains
Chapter 1:
The scene is a very late night in St. Canard. You see Misty sitting in mid air writing a note to somebody in her bed room.
Misty has spiky black hair, a black skirt, a blood red shirt, with black boots.
She's 15 years old and is new to St. Canard. She's living with her Aunt Morgana, is starting St. Canard High.
Doesn't really know what to say in it, keeps crossing things off as she writes.
'I don't think I ever had to write a letter like this before. I mean, we're not friends or close or anything. But there's something that I need to get off my chest. This has put me in a very difficult position. Do I just keep my mouth shut and mind my own business or sit back and do nothing? I decided that I was going to speak up about this. You see it started earlier today at my first day at St. Canard High school.' Her voice said as she wrote it down.
Flash back to earlier that day
The scene is earlier that morning at the Mallard house Drake is sitting down waiting for Gosalyn to wake up.
"Gosalyn! Time to wake up!" Drake called up from the stairs.
In her bed room Gosalyn is just waking up and stretching and yawning.
"Man, summer went too fast. It's making my head spin." She moaned as she got up.
Her hair is layer, got an eye brow pieced, wearing her purple and black pj's.
She walked up to her closet grabbed a jersey and camouflage pants and headed to the bathroom.
Minutes later she comes walking down the stairs and Drake looked up at her.
He couldn't believe that she's attending high school now. Just seems like yesterday she was in elementary and now she's in high school.
"So are you excited about you're first day of high school?" He asked.
"I would be if I could get rid of this stupid head ache."
"A head ache huh? Hmm… take 2 aspirin and call me in the morning." He said.
"Ha ha very funny dad."
"You're just nervous about you're first day of school and being away from everybody for the summer. But don't worry you will be fine."
She shrugged and grabbed her back pack and headed out of the house.
Right when she walked out Honker joined her. "Hey Gos!" He exclaimed.
She smiled back and hugged him. "Hey Honk. How was you're summer?" She asked.
Before he could answer it a new girl named Lily came running up to them. She hung out with Honker during the summer. While Gosalyn went to a sports camp all summer long.
Gosalyn had heard stories about Lily while she was away.
Nothing good. Lily had feelings for Honker and wasn't afraid to show it.
"Honkey! Wait up!" Lily exclaimed.
Gosalyn looked at her confused. 'Honkey? Who is she kidding?' She thought to herself.
"Hi." Lily said.
Gosalyn smiled politely at her. "Hi." She replied.
She really wanted to tell Lily where to go. But then she would look like the jealous girl friend. Which is something that she is not. And since it's just a word of the mouth of everything. There is no proof that she's doing anything wrong. So Gosalyn had kept her mouth shut about the whole thing. Which wasn't easy for her to do. She grabbed Honkers arm and pulled him close.
"Gos, how was you're summer?" Honker asked.
Before she could answer Lily interrupted her.
"Oh, it couldn't have been as fun as ours, huh Honkey?" Lily said.
"Oh really? What exactly happened while I was gone?" She asked crossing her arms.
Honker chuckled nervously at that. "Uh.. nothing. It's a long story."
"I bet." She said.
They arrived at the school and Lily and Honker had lockers on the other side of the school.
"Well I'll see you at lunch Gos." He said kissing her.
"Yeah see ya." Gosalyn said watching the two of them walking away.
As she watched as they walked away she started to head to the doors herself. That feeling in her head and gut again. She can't really explain her feeling now. I mean. She never felt this way about any girl flirting with Honker before. But this girl was different.
As she was walking to the door she bumped into a boy on a skate board.
"Umph!" They exclaimed as they rubbed their heads.
Just then Misty and Rosie both ran to her. "Are you okay?" Misty asked.
As they helped Gosalyn up Misty got a vision of Gosalyn crying with Honker next to her.
'Right there, and now. I KNEW that something bad was going to go down. But I didn't know what.' Misty voice said.
She just shook it out of her head and Gosalyn stood up. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks. If it wasn't for the kid,"
"Uh.. what kid? There's like millions of kids here. This is a school." Misty said looking around.
"Some kid on a skate board ran me over. Anyways, you two must be new around here. I'm Gosalyn Mallard."
"Names Misty and this is my friend Rosie."
"Nice to meet you girls." Gosalyn said.
"You too." The two of them said.
Gosalyn grabbed her back pack from the ground and tossed it over her shoulder.
"Well I'll see you later." Gosalyn said.
"Yeah, see ya."
Gosalyn walked away and Rosie turned to Misty.
"Misty?"
"It's not good. I didn't get everything. But just enough."
Inside the hall way Gosalyn is standing by her locker when she heard a voice.
"Ahh! Gosalyn!" The voice exclaimed.
Gosalyn jumped little and turned around and saw Allison her best friend since 6th grade.
But she's different now. She looks like a living Barbie doll. Bleached long blonde hair, wearing a skimpy outfit and a fake tan. Gosalyn hardly knew her.
"Ally?" Gosalyn asked surprised.
Ally had changed into something that Gosalyn didn't believe in.
Ally hugged Gosalyn tight. "Oh it's so good to see you."
"Yeah you too. You look uh.. different."
"Oh, I like totally know. Me and mom went to a bunch of make over's during the summer. And this is the out come. If you want I can give you a make over."
"No that's okay. I love my style."
Allison chuckled at that. "If you say so."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing." Ally said walking away.
Gosalyn didn't like this 'new' Allison. She's not the girl she was a best friend with anymore.
She closed her locker and headed to her first class.
When she walked in she saw that kid who had ran her over was in it.
She walked over to him. "Hey, nice running into her again."
The kid looked up and smiled at her. "Oh yeah, sorry about that,"
"No big. Why did you run like that?" She asked.
"Are you kidding? There were cops around. I didn't want to get in trouble for hitting you."
Gosalyn paused at that and laughed. "So you did a hit and run instead? Which is more of an offense."
"Oh man, I never thought about that. Are you going to tell on me?" He asked.
Gosalyn laughed at that. "Dude, don't worry. It would only be a crime if you was in a car and met to run me over. So don't worry about it."
"Oh that's good. You sure know a lot about crime."
"Yeah well my dad kind of works in the law. So yeah, I know a lot about it."
"Name's Parker."
"Gosalyn."
They shook hands and the teacher walked in and Gosalyn sat down next to him.
It's now lunch time and Gosalyn with her tray in hands goes to the lunch room.
"Gosalyn! Over here!" Ally exclaimed.
Gosalyn looked and saw she was sitting with the cheerleaders.
"Uh.. that's okay, Ally. I'll catch up with you later."
Gosalyn walked over to Rosie and Misty and sat down.
"Hey, mind if I join you?" She asked.
"Sure." Rosie and Misty replied.
Gosalyn smiled at them and then Honker along with Lily joined them.
"Hey guys."
"Hey." Gosalyn said politely.
She was really uneasy with Lily sitting next to them.
Misty sensed that Gosalyn wasn't herself and looked at Honker. Who didn't really notice about it and shook her head.
'That was the most awkward lunch I have ever had. Nobody said anything during the whole lunch. I should have spoke up. But I didn't. It wasn't any of business. A part of me wished that I have had.' Misty's voice said.
Lunch time was now over with and Gosalyn just grabbed her stuff and headed to her next class.
It's before the last class of the day and Misty is walking to her class and she spotted Lily and Honker joking around. She wanted to turn around and walk away but her next class was in that direction. So she just walked towards them.
Honker and Lily pulled away. "We were just talking." Honker said.
"Really?"
"Yeah, Lily is as smart as me. Finally somebody I can relate to." Honker said.
"Huh." Misty said.
Misty walked past and her arm brushed against Lily and she had a vision of her and Honker kissing. Her eyes widen and she just kept walking fast.
After school ended Gosalyn was at her locker talking to Parker who has his skate gear with him.
"Cool skate gear." She said.
"Thanks, I'm in a street hockey team."
"Really? That's so cool. I love street hockey!"
"You any good?"
"Heck yeah, I can go down with the best of them."
"You don't say. Well, one of guys on the team just quit. So there's an opening if you want to join."
"That would be awesome!" Gosalyn said hugging him.
Parker who was smitten by her kind have chuckled and blushed when she hugged him.
Misty and Rosie came walking past them. "Hey, guys. Have you seen Honker?" Gosalyn asked.
Misty looked down couldn't look at her in the eyes of knowing what's going to happen.
"Uh.. I think I just saw him signing up for the science team." She said.
Gosalyn was shocked to hear that. "Already? I thought that we would walk home together." She said disappointed.
Misty kept looking on the floor about it.
'I didn't know why I had lied. I wanted to tell but I couldn't. How could I?.' Misty said.
Parker stepped up towards her.
"Hey, I have my scooter with him. I can take you home. That why you can grab you're skate gear and we can go to the hockey practice." He said.
Gosalyn smiled at him. "Really? That's cool. See you girls later."
Her and Parker walked out of the school and Misty sighed and looked down.
"You okay Mist?"
Misty shrugged. "I don't know."
Parker and Gosalyn arrived at her house shortly after. She hopped off the scooter and grabbed her stuff.
"Come on in Parker. It will only be a second." She said.
Parker smiled and took his helmet off and followed Gosalyn in.
"Make you're self at home Parker. Don't worry about my dad if he sees you."
Parker looked worried about that. "Why?"
"Oh no reason. My stuff is up in my room."
She headed up the stairs and seconds later Drake came walking in.
Stops and looks at him. "Uh.. may I help you?" Drake asked.
Parker chuckled nervously. "Hi, Mr. Mallard. I'm Parker I'm a friend of Gosalyn's."
Drake looked him over. "Really? I don't think I ever seen you before."
"Yeah, I'm kind of new here. Met Gosalyn in our math class."
"Oh, so you decided to drive her home on that scooter? How safe is that scooter?"
"Well.. uh she was going to walk home with Honker. But he was signing up for the science club. And since I live close by I just thought."
"You thought that you could take my apple of my eyes on a little ride did ya?"
Parker had sweat dripping down his face and chuckled nervously.
Gosalyn came peeking from the stairs and quickly went to rescue her new friend.
"Dad!" She exclaimed as she ran down the stairs.
Drake shrugged and looked at her. "What?"
"This is why I can never keep my friends. You always scaring them away!"
"Oh I wasn't scaring him. I was just keep getting to know Parker here."
"Yeah, right. He's just a friend dad. So there's no need to worry."
"But what about Honker Gos?"
"What about him?"
"Don't you think you should consider his feelings about this?"
"About what?! He's being all buddy buddy with Lily and he didn't consider my feelings. So why would he care about Parker?"
"If you say so Gos."
Gosalyn grabbed Parkers arm. "Come on, let's go Parker. I want to play."
"Oh, okay. Nice too meet you Mr. Mallard."
"Yeah, nice meeting you too." Drake said as they walked out.
Gosalyn and Parker walked back to his scooter.
"He didn't scare you too much did he?" Gosalyn asked.
Parker laughed. "No."
"That's good. I can never have any friends over with out dad giving them a search over."
"He's just a good parent and wanting to know you're friends that all."
"Yeah, I guess you're right."
They hopped on the bike and put their helmets on.
Parker sighed. "So, I take it that you're not too fond of you're boyfriends new friend Lily huh?"
Gosalyn didn't respond to that and Parker started up the bike and they drove.
Misty is pacing around in her room dabating what to do. It seems like she's always getting into troble with her visions. So she's nervous about what to do.
"Okay, Misty think about this. On one side if this is true about the visions. She's going to get her heart broken. But on the other side if I don't tell her. And her boyfriend doesn't tell her. Then that's just wrong. She'll be living a lie. She needs to know. But what if I'm wrong?" She asked herself.
'I really didn't know what I was going to do. I mean, do I tell and risk being wrong?' Misty said.
She looked at her phone and picked it up.
"Hello?" Rosie asked.
"Rosie, it's me. I really need you're help with something.'
"What is it?" Rosie asked.
Misty took a deep breath. "Okay, where do I start? Um. What would you do if you saw somebody flirting with somebody else who isn't the one their dating?"
"What?"
"I had a vision of Gosalyn's boyfriend Honker flirting with that girl named Lily."
"WHAT? Omg, are you going to tell her?"
"That's just it. I don't know. We are new at that school and I don't want to make enemies. I don't know maybe I'm just over thinking it." She said.
Just then there was a beep on the other line. "Oh hold on, I got another call."
She pressed the other button. "Hello?"
"Misty?" Gosalyn asked.
Misty gasped when she heard Gosalyns voice.
"Gosalyn? How did you get this number?" Misty asked.
"I should be asking you the same thing."
"Magana's my aunt."
"Really? That's so cool! So we're like almost family then."
"What?"
"You're Aunts dating my dad."
"You're dad's Darkwing duck?"
"The one and only."
"Great!" Misty said.
"I know right. So I get to hit two birds with one stone then."
"How?"
"Well I was just calling Morgana if she had seen my dad. I just got back from hockey practice and dad wasn't home. So anyways, since she's not there. Um.. did you happen to see Honker after school?"
"Honker?" Misty asked.
"Yeah, you know my boyfriend. I hope that he's cool with me getting a ride home from Parker and being jealous. He hasn't called me yet."
Misty looked out the window and saw Honker and Lily walking around together hand in hand.
"Uh.. nope, I haven't seen him."
"Oh, well I'm having a few friends over tonight to watch some movies. If you're interested drop on by."
"Cool, I'll be there."
"Awesome! Invite Rosie too."
"Sure thing."
"Alright, well that's all I wanted to know. See ya then."
"Yeah, bye."
They hung up and Misty sighed again. Felt like crud for not telling Gosalyn what she saw outside the window. She pushed the button again to talk to Rosie.
"Rosie, I don't know what to do." Misty said.
Misty hung up the phone and Morgana came walking in.
"Aunt Morgana, I need to talk to you."
"What is it?" Morgana asked.
Misty had explained everything to Morgana. With out telling her who it was about. She needed to get a third option on this.
"So what do you think I should do Aunt Morgana?"
Morgana sighed. "Oh boy. This is a toughie. And you sure that's what you saw in you're visions?"
"Yes. I saw her boyfriend kissing another girl and then her crying. Should I tell this girl about this or keep it myself?"
"I think you should listen to you're heart and decide then what to do."
Misty moaned. "I was afraid you was going to say that." She said.
Later that night Gosalyn answered the door and saw Honker along with Lily.
"Hey, you guys."
"Hey, thanks for inviting me Gos." Lily said.
Gosalyn held her tongue at that part. Only her close friends call her that. And she wasn't her close personal friend of hers. And secondly she WASN'T invited! She only invited her friends.
"Don't mention it." She chuckled.
They walked in and she closed the door.
Misty, Rosie along with Ally was already sitting on the couch.
"I think everybody knows each other. But still I'll introduce each other. This is Allison, Misty, Rosie and BOYFRIEND Honker and his friend Lily."
"Hi." They all said.
Gosalyn looked at Lily sitting very close to Honker and cleared her thought.
"I'm going to get a drink. Anybody want anything?" Gosalyn asked.
"Nope, we're fine." Honker and Lily said.
"Hmm.." Gosalyn said as she got up and headed to the kitchen.
'I don't even know why I'm still writing this letter.'
Gosalyn came walking back in and sees Honker and Lily joking around with each other and then looked down.
'I don't owe you anything. But I'm not going to get in the middle of this. Even though it seems that I already have. I came here to make friends not enemies.
Don't worry I'm not going to tell her. I'm not the one who is going to break her heart. You are. If you think that she's not noticing it or going to find out. You are dead wrong. She'll find out sooner then later. And if you are any of a boyfriend or best friend to her. You're going to tell her about Lily. She at least needs that much from you. It's only fair. Why am I saying all of this to you? Well because I know what it feels like to be hurt by somebody that you love. I've said now piece now and the ball is in you're court. Don't mess it up. Misty."
Hours past and everybody is leaving the house, he's reading the letter that Misty handed it to him at the party. He finished reading it looked up and had tears running down his face.
To Be Continued..
Previews for the next chapter..
Honker and Gosalyn are with each other. "Gosalyn three's somebody else."
Gosalyn is now with Parker talking. "I care about you a lot Gosalyn."
Gosalyn looks shocked about that.
Misty and Rosie are talking when Ally interrupts them.
"What she needs to get her mind off of boys. Is another date a fake date." Ally said.
