Here we go. Starting a new multi-chapter... :) By the way, since I'm so freaking lazy, if I don't update a story within 5 days then review that story of PM me telling me so. I'm buried alive in homework nowadays and there's just no time to make new chapters D: BUT now there will be... hopefully in the not-so-distant future.

PS: This story contains some of my OC, Lily Gillan. Since she's an OC here's some background on her: her mom's a doctor, which is how she and Josh met, and it's how she got called to Terra Nova. She's also Josh's best friend. And you know how I get when a guy and a girl are best friends... ;)


"Okay, so... blue or black?" Josh held up the cans for Lily to see.

"Dunno. Flip a coin," Lily said absently, spraying lime green onto a sample paper. "Why do you want to use spray paint to paint your room, anyway?" she asked. "That's a mess waiting to happen."

"Because, Lily, it's quicker and easier to use spray paint than have me manually paint something," Josh said. He sighed. Girls. So narrow-minded. "Hey, check this out." He picked up a can of fluorescent pink. "I wonder if the color actually looks like this." He went to spray it on one of the sample papers.

"Wait, Josh, don't-!" Lily started, but too late. The can sprayed pink alright- but directly on to Josh's face. Luckily, he'd closed his eyes and mouth before the paint hit. Josh opened his eyes and touched his face. His hand came back pink.

"The nozzle's turned the wrong way," Lily finished in a small voice.

A small silence engulfed them. Then, Josh's surprised face turned into a more familiar mischievous smile.

"Tag!" he said, spraying a small spot of pink on Lily's shoulder.

"Hey!" Lily shrieked, twisting to see the bright pink spot on her sweater. She reached for a can of blue paint. Josh started backing up, his face lit up with smiles. Then he turned on his heel and ran.

"Hey!" Lily shouted again. "You come back here!" she yelled, but she was laughing at the same time. Several people in the aisle looked at them, with expressions like What the hell? and Oh, teenagers.

"Tag!" Lily said, spraying his hair with pink as she darted past him. She swiveled around and started jogging backwards, just to get a view of her handiwork.

"Oh, it's on," Josh said, and shook a blue can, the marble clinking against the metal insides.


That was how Josh went home drenched head to toe in paint. Lily tagged along, and together they looked as though they had been dipped in the rainbow and been left to dry. There were spots of green here and there, and blue dotted Lily's hair. Josh's pink face added to the humility.

Soon they found themselves standing outside the Shannon's front door. "You go in first," Lily said hurriedly. Elisabeth was an absolute neat freak and would fly off the handle if she saw them.

"No, you go," Josh said.

"Rock, paper, scissors?" Lily offered.

He complied, and he lost.

"Go on," Lily said.

Josh opened the door and walked in sideways, as though he had a large pole shoved up his backside."Oh, for heaven's sake," Lily huffed, and shoved him inside.

It turned out that the rest of the Shannons were seated in the living room, talking and generally being a family, when they walked in. Everyone fell over laughing at the sight of them, even Elisabeth. Josh recounted the story, Lily chiming in with details.

"...And that's how it happened," he concluded fifteen minutes later.

Jim tried to sit up. "How did you manage that, son? Did you even look at the can?" More laughter.

Josh's ears turned red, but it was hard to tell, what with the pink paint. "All the sides look the same, okay? It's not my fault!"

"Oh, wait till Mark hears this!" Maddy said, and scurried off.

Josh moaned. "I'm going to take a shower..."


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