Hello Lemonade Luvers! This sequel toIt's Obvious That Ray is Stella's Honeybee is long overdue, but I present it with pride! I'm back, and hope you read and please review! It warms my heart:) Enjoy Chapter 1 Rayella warriors! It's summertime!
"Now students, as this is our last assembly of the year, I want to leave you with some of my best quotes I have given to you throughout the semesters." Principal Brenigan said as he stood at his usual podium in the auditorium and uttered his all too familiar, self-centered, and so called "empowering" words. To say all the students were bored to tears was an understatement; and our lemonade radicals all sat wishing they were deaf.
"Is it time yet?" Mo whispered to Wen.
"When I was five, I didn't get the Raggedy Andy that I so desperately wanted. No, I received Raggedy Anne. But you know what I did? I took that as an open opportunity to make a bad situation good and coined the phrase: empower or be overpowered. And with that, I thought that saying everyday as the bullies chased me home from school." Brenigan told with a slight whimper in his voice. Wen leaned over to Mo.
"Not yet." Mo let out a disappointed sigh. After another 5 minutes of Brenigan's pitiful story, Wen leaned over to Olivia.
"Is it time yet?" Olivia looked at the clock and shook her head no.
"What time is it?" Asked Charlie who sat directly behind them.
"Time for me to pluck out my arm pit hair with a toe nail clipper." Scott said with a dull tone as Mo ewed.
"You ready?" Ray said to Stella with a sneaky smirk.
"Just give it a second…" Stella said as she watched the clock intently. In her mind she counted, '5…4…3…2…' The bell then rang and Stella smirked and looked over and nodded at her friends. Then they all stood up and with a handful of school paper's, silly string, and confetti guns, and screamed at the top of their lungs,
"SCHOOL'S OUT!" And with that the entire auditorium of students cheered at the top of their lungs and stood up and threw their previous school work in the air, while the lemonade clan shot confetti and silly string around the gymnasium.
"Wait! Students wait! This is unruly behavior! I will give you all detention!" Brenigan threatened from his throne.
"Good luck with that!" Stella said as she ran excitedly with the rest of her peers. The school was in a teenage frenzy of summer exhilaration.
"Hey Stel, are we still on for All American Rejects Saturday?" Yelled their friend Tori, as Stella was being pulled by the tide of students fleeing to their lockers and the door.
"You know it!" Stella yelled back as she made it to her locker to grab her book bag and posters in her locker.
"Students: do not forget that tonight is the Blazing Summer Dance, and I can and WILL give summer school to anyone who decides to do the annual 'full moon'. Not butts allowed!" Principal Brenigan's voice said from the overhead and Stella laughed to herself. Suddenly everything went dark and Stella felt two soft, but calloused hands covered her eyes.
"Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump." Stella smiled at the voice, and removed his hands from her eyes and turned to face him. Ray stood there giving her a signature smirk and his blue eyes shining.
"Charlie Brown's father was a barber." Stella said back with the crossing of her arms.
"That fact so is not better than mine!" Ray said in disbelief.
"Oh yeah it is! Who would have known that the iconic Peanuts character, who was the leader of an entire generation, was the spawn of a barber?" Stella counter argued as she went back to throwing things in her book bag. This random fact competition had started between the dysfunctional couple over 3 weeks ago, when Ray had come over to help Stella baby-sit her brothers, as they were reading aloud their Guinness book of random facts. Ever since, they had started collecting points as to who won for their daily battle of unnecessary facts. As you can see, it was still going strong with Stella at 15 points, and Ray at 17.
"Well who would have known that one of the biggest and smartest animals on the planet was incapable of jumping?"
"No one cares if an elephant can never play a game of jump rope." Stella said back.
"And no one cares if Charlie Brown's dad could give you a Mohawk." Stella zipped her book bag and shut her locker, turning her attention back to Ray.
"Charlie Brown is awesome." Her final argument was irrefutable to Ray, as he himself as a kid read Peanuts every Sunday. But he was not going to let her know that she had won.
"That's not an argument, which means I win. But I am too good of a person to rub the stench of losing in your face, so I'll let this one slide." Ray said with an arm slung around her shoulders as they walked down the hall and the other laying on his chest thoughtfully, with an innocent look. Stella just rolled her eyes and took the hand that dangled over shoulder in hers.
"You're so full of yourself, you know I won."
"Whatever you want to believe Lucy." He said making a reference to the on and off bully of Charlie Brown.
"Are you calling me a bully?" Stella said.
"If the guitar strap fits." He said as she pulled away and pushed his chest playfully.
"You wanna fight?" He said with that familiar sparkle in his eyes and held a fighting pose, with his fists out. Stella did the same and threw playful jabs and Ray dogged them as he maneuvered his way to grabbed her by her waist and pull her back against him, as she kicked her legs in the air and laughed hysterically. As if they forgot that the hallways were packed with summer-fiend teens, Stella accidentally kicked someone in the arm during her and Ray's impromptu tussle. And with Stella's dumb luck, that person she kicked was Ray's ex Patty.
"Gosh Stella can you stop acting like a total idiot for one second and watch where you're going?" Patty said with one of the ugliest faces anyone could have ever made.
"Still bitter Patty?" Ray said with a spiteful look as Stella was still in his hold. Patty scoffed.
"You wish Beech. And you can kiss my Gucci covered butt!" Patty said pitifully with a quick hair flip to hide her on coming tears.
"Yup. Still bitter." Ray said.
"I kind of feel bad for her. I mean you did dump her." Ray looked at Stella incredulously.
"Stel! All I did was break her delusional fantasy that I was her boyfriend. And I did that to be with you!"
"I know, but she's so shallow that her black heart may never recover." Ray just shook his head at his girlfriend as he opened the door to the outside of Mesa High.
"You never cease to amaze me Yamada."
"That's my gift." She said cockily and Ray rolled his eyes.
"Well my gift is the ability to drive over 80 miles per hour because my uncle is the police chief. Wanna go for a spin?" Ray said with a twirl of his keys on his index finger and wiggling of the eyebrows.
"I'd love to but-" Stella began but her 2 best girlfriends appeared out of nowhere.
"But she's going shopping with us!" Olivia said as she flung her arm around Stella excitedly. Mo flung her arm around Stella's other shoulder and smiled cheekily at Ray.
"Sorry Ray." She said sing-songy and Stella shrugged sympathetically as she was dragged away by her bandmates. Ray was left standing on the steps of the school by himself, when Charlie came running out of the school and stopped in front of him panting.
"Dude I need a ride. I'm being attacked and chased by 5 girls highly upset with me because I promised all of them they could go to the dance with me tonight." Ray was about to tell him no when a thought hit him. 'Why waste a chance to speed?'
"Okay fine. But don't get your blood on my seat!"
"Oh my gosh, I am so excited for tonight!" Mo said with enthusiasm as she flipped through racks of clothing.
"You have performed at Madison Square Garden, met Leonardo Dicaprio, and went to a party hosted by Paramore, and you're this excited for a high school dance?" Stella said with disbelief as she looked disinterestingly at the dresses that hung on the hangers.
"I'm just excited to dance with Wen under the stars." Olivia said dreamily as she held a dress up to her body. Mo and Stella looked at each other and tried to hold back their laughs.
"You do know the stars are made out of cardboard right?" Stella joked and Olivia's cheeks turned red as she realized she had said that out loud.
"I'm just glad that Baba decided to let me go, and didn't flip out when he found out I was going with a boy." Mo said as she ransacked all the jewelry.
"Who did he think you were going with?" Olivia asked.
"You guys." The girls let out a laugh at Mo's Dad's over protectiveness.
"So what about you Stella? Happy to be going with Ray now that you two are all out in the open?" Olivia asked. Stella let out a grunt.
"Eh. It's just a dance, not a Hollywood party. I didn't even want to go, but Ray is making me."
"Stella! You're the only person I know who would deny the opportunity to go to a dance with her boyfriend. Especially when you get the chance to slow dance with him." Mo said wiggling her eyebrows suggestively. Stella rolled her eyes.
"Please, it is not that great." Stella said as she went through more racks.
"Oh really?" Olivia said as she sent a look to Mo, and then turned her attention back to Stella.
"You don't get a little excited about being pressed up close to Ray's chest as his hands lay delicately on your hips?" Olivia teased as she leaned in close to Stella. Stella's face began to grow hot from embarrassment at her undeniable excitement at the thought.
"Or having him leans in close, and whisper sweet nothings in your ear?" Mo said teasingly as well.
"Him kissing you passionately as they play the last notes to a romantic ballad?" Olivia said. Stella had had enough and shook her head furiously and covered her ears.
"Enough, I get your point! Stop being gross!" Stella said as the two friends laughed at her expense as she tried to cover her burning face at the thought of Ray being pressed so close to her.
"It's too fun to mess with you Stel now that you're dating Ray." Olivia said still laughing.
"Yeah! Its total payback for making all those jokes about me and Scott, and Olivia and Wen. " Mo said.
"I just speak my mind, is that a crime?" Stella said innocently.
"Only when it gets you thrown in jail." Olivia said with a smirk as she looked at some shoes.
"One trip to jail, and you guys never let me live it down." Stella said exasperated. Olivia scoffed.
"Like you ever let me live down the time I forgot to wear my contacts and mistook the Gorilla Glue for my lip gloss and we had to go to the hospital to get my lips unglued!"
"Or like you'll never let me live down the time we had the school lock in, and you guys dared me to use the urinal in the boys' bathroom and then the entire football team walked in!" Mo said with a blush as she said that fact a little too loudly, and several customers gave her a weird look.
"Okay, Olivia's was bad but funny, and Mo yours was just plain hilarious you have to admit!" Stella laughed as Olivia and Mo couldn't help but join in.
"Yeah, try telling that to my Baba when I tried to explain to him why my detentions slip said 'Bathroom Promiscuity'." Mo said making the other 2 girls laugh even harder.
"Ladies," a snooty woman with a name tag that read 'Vivian' and a snobbish facial expression said to the Lemonade rebels, "Please keep your voices down, the entire store doesn't need to be informed of your…" She stopped looking over Mo with a disgusted expression, "personal issues." Mo scratched her head in embarrassment and apologized, but Stella was far from apologizing.
"Vivian is it?" Stella said mocking Vivian's current snobbish expression, "Last time I checked, the constitution clearly states freedom of speech. And if we want to discuss personal issues," Stella then pointed to sales clerk's shoes, "maybe you should be courteous and keep the toilet paper in the bathroom." All the girls looked down where Stella was and saw a piece of toilet paper stuck to the saleswoman's shoes. Mo and Olivia covered their mouths trying to stifle laughs but were for the most part unsuccessful. The saleswoman now looked like Bambi caught in the headlights, and with that expression, Stella thought mentally, 'check and mate'.
"Come on guys, let's blow this Popsicle stand." Stella said and the girls' immediately followed her out of the store, leaving a stunted and defeated Vivian.
"Oh my Gosh, you are my hero!" Mo exclaimed once on the sidewalk and high fived Stella and Olivia low fived her other hand.
"Well I am a revolutionary icon." Stella said with a playful, egotistical grin that almost exactly matched the one Ray wears every day. Mo rolled her eyes.
"You have been dating Ray WAY too long."
"I'm glad Stella told off that lady and all, but where are we going to get dresses now? The dance is in 6 hours." Olivia pointed out, a little bit of her usual panic in her voice.
"Delia's?" Mo suggested.
"Already looked there last week remember?" Olivia answered.
"D.E.B.S?" Mo said.
"Too far from here without a car." Olivia countered again.
"Marsha's Boutique?"
"Too expensive."
"Hot Topic?" Stella offered and her two friends just looked at her.
"Fine, I guess we're not feeling the skull and cross bones thing for tonight." Stella said defensively with her hands raised in surrender.
It took the girls a few moments of walking in silence on the busy shopping sidewalk, for a light bulb to go off in all of their heads.
"Magdalena's!" They all said in unison and realization, and with a new destination in course, the best friends became a blur of colors as the brushed past the crowded streets of Arizona and entered the unique world of Magdalena Soto.
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