Disclaimer: You know it, I know it, I don't own it and I don't want it (Rugrats/All Grown Up of course).
A PRELUDE:
"But mom"
She could hardly believe it. Here she was 15 - almost a fully grown woman! And she was stuck for the weekend going away with her cousin and the dorks she tried so hard to pretend she didn't know while at school.
But it's not like she had much choice. She just hoped her cell phone could get her through an agonizing two days.
AND THEY'RE ON VACATION (again! totally unoriginal... I know):
Reclining on a deck chair, her nails set to dry and a teen magazine in her lap, Angelica raised a recently plucked eyebrow at Tommy.
"You can't come to the beach and not play in the sand. It's no fun!"
"I'll say what's fun and what's not. What ARE you wearing Finster?"
With a long, blue shirt on, He looked down and mumbled, "I burn easily."
"Jeez! Can you be any more of a dork?"
"Quit it Angelica. No one expected you to be nice, but you could at least be... nicer. You are stuck with us" Tommy cutin.
"Yeah, don't remind me." She added sarcastically and went back to reading her magazine.
"Com'on guys. Let's go have some fun!" Tommy shouted enthusiastically, giving his cousin a defiant look.
She heard giggling and sandfights as Tommy, Dil, Phil, Lillian, Kimmy and Chuckie headed away. How juvenille. You'd expect them still to be in diapers. Tommy was taping everything, dumb kid, dumb camera.
All of a sudden she was interrupted. "Uh, Angelica?"
She sighed and looked up, "What is it Finster?"
"We'll you see, we're having a lot of fun and I thought you might like to join us now..." He blushed.
She responded coldly, "I said no."
Still that shirt. She didn't know why it bugged her so much, but it was ridiculous. This was the beach. She was in a bikini, everyone else was in bathers...
He went to leave, she got up.
"Look, you wanted to be cool right?"
He nodded, "yeah, I guess."
"Well, get that ridiculous thing off."
Blushing again, he grinned an ironic kind of grin. "But my dad says I..."
She pointed her finger at his chest. "You listen to me Finster. This is the most stupid thing I have ever seen and I can't stand to watch you play with your little buddies in it. Take it off."
A little scared, he agreed. "Ok, Angelica. It's coming off."
He took the shirt off and ran to play with the rest of them.
It was vacation anyway... and their parents were no where in sight.
UP NEXT:
A slow start... but what happens next when poor Chuckie. F. gets bossed around yet again on "who's the boss"... oh, wait... "all grown up"... ;p