Wow guys, I wasn't expecting all the reviews from the first chapter! It really means a lot that you guys are reviewing, favoriting, (don't think that's a word but it is now) and following. All your reviews made me :). Thank you so much for your support! Glad you like the idea.
This chapter is more drabble than stating the obvious, but episode 6 (Three For the Road) didn't really have a lot of ironies/obviousness. At least the scenes I focused on, anyway. The next coming episodes definitely will though. I can already tell you that episode 8 (Docu-Trauma) is already one of my favorite ones to write. It's 90% written, so that will be up after episode 7 (We Need to Talk About Danny) is up.
Twisted Drabbles
Outside of Green Grove High…
Danny's Lacey senses were tingling as he spotted her near the school and ran up to her. "Hey, Lacey! Lacey, Lacey, Lacey, Lacey—"
"WHAT?!" she yelled, whipping her head at him.
"Any new info?"
"No, not yet."
"Well, I thought about the envelope we found. Instead of going to the police because you're choosing to defend your dead friend's reputation over clearing my name, we should go to Connecticut and find out whoever lives in that apartment."
"Great idea," Lacey said sarcastically. "Let's knock on the door and ask why they sent that note. And while we're there, let's ask if they murdered Regina and took her necklace."
"Cool, I'll bring snacks," Danny chuckled.
Just then, Jo popped out of nowhere to cockblock.
"Hey guys, watcha dooooooin'?"
"Gosh Jo!" Lacey shouted, jumping in the air. "Can you wear a bell or something?"
"I heard snacks so I came by," Jo confessed. "Why are you guys staring at each other?"
"We're not staring at each other," Danny said as he and Lacey continued to do just that.
"You guys are totally staring at each other."
"No we're not," Lacey said, still staring at Danny.
Jo gasped. "Is this a staring contest? I wanna join!"
"You're not invited," Lacey said.
"Hey Jo—" Danny started before Jo could say something snarky, "me and Lacey were thinking of taking a road trip to Connecticut."
"Wow, that's a really stupid idea," Jo snidely said.
Danny bowed his head. "It was mine…"
"Haha, I didn't mean that kind of stupid," Jo said, covering her tracks. "I meant stupid as in 'dope fresh it's off the heezy…yo'?"
"Never do that again," Lacey said.
"Sorry, I got it from Rico," Jo sighed.
At the Masterson's with Jo trying to unsuccessfully escape…
"Hey, I'm headed to the diner to meet Rico, I'll see you guys later," Jo said, trying to rush out.
"Hold up, the diner?" Kyle asked.
"Yeah Rico's waiting for me, so, gotta run."
"You told me Johnny Cakes was closed for a private party."
"Oh yeah, I meant at school, they're open late on Tuesdays."
"Didn't you just say Rico was at the diner waiting for you?"
While Jo stood there dumbfounded, Tess jumped to her rescue.
"She got confused, Kyle. Let her go."
"She got confused?" Kyle repeated in disbelief, raising one eyebrow.
"Yes," Tess said plainly. "She's a very confused girl. She speaks random Spanish sometimes; I don't think she knows what language she's supposed to speak in. Sometimes her hair looks like a wet dog, and other times it's curled to perfection like she came back from a photo shoot and her stylist forgot to make it look crappy before she shot her next scene. She's clearly suffering from Bilingual Bed-Head Bipolar Disorder."
"Do we have to pay for counseling like we did for her PTSD?" Kyle asked.
"Yes."
Kyle angrily shook his head and walked away. "I don't have time for this shit."
At the Masterson's once again with Karen and Tess talking in the living room…
Karen pointed to Tess' blue vase. "Is that yours?"
"It is," Tess answered.
"It's beautiful," Karen said, walking towards it while Tess all of a sudden looked shifty.
"Wow, out of all the plain vases on that shelf, that's the one you pick up?"
"Is something wrong with it?" Karen asked.
"No. It's not like I'm potentially hiding anything from you that could forever destroy our friendship."
"You know, I was drawn to this vase because it looked overshadowed by the others and it reminds me of Vik. He liked murky colors. It even smells like him!"
"Really?"
Karen sniffed the vase again. "It kind of smells like his Calvin Klein cologne."
"Uh huh…"
"If we had Vik's body, I'd cremate it so I could put his ashes in here and sniff it every day. That's how much this vase reminds me of him."
"That's so disgustingly morbid and sweet, but too bad his body was never found or I'd help. But hey, instead of looking at that seemingly ordinary, highly simple, uncreative vase that has no foreboding significance whatsoever, wanna make our own vases?"
"As fun as that sounds," Karen slyly grinned, "I'd rather get high and play strip poker."
"Oh my God, yes," Tess breathed.
After Lacey and Jo fight about why they're not friends in Connecticut…
"Theeeeere you go again, Jo Masterson, always the victim!" Lacey shouted.
"Lacey Porter, always popular, perfect, pompous, pretentious, pessimistic, pain in my ass—"
"Stop putting so much emphasis on the 'p'! It's annoying and unnecessary!"
"This road trip is annoying and unnecessary!"
"No one forced you to come!"
Jo stopped before thinking of more stupid alliterations. "…Prickly, pushy, pitiful—"
"UGH!" Lacey groaned.
When Lacey and Jo snoop on the security guard's computer…
"Oh my God!" Lacey exclaimed.
"What?!" yelled Jo.
"Vikram's alive!"
"Yeah, and Danny's mom needs to eat like 50 cheeseburgers. What's your point?"
"I don't know about you Jo, but whenever I hear in passing that someone important suspiciously disappears after a freak accident, I automatically think they're dead and don't question it."
Jo studied Lacey's face intensely. "…And you guys say I'm the dumb one."
After Tess admits to having an affair with Vik and Karen comes back in the house…
Tess looked at Karen bashfully. "Listen, I, uh…"
"I know, Tess. It's—it's ok, I overreacted. You know, it hit a nerve. Vikram and I…well…let's just say we never had the perfect marriage."
"Oh I know."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"I mean I know you guys were rocky."
"Oh, cuz it kind of sounded like you had an affair with him while I was still married and you guys snuck behind my back to sleep together in his Connecticut apartment."
Tess' mouth dropped open as she stared at Karen blankly.
"Just kidding!" Karen laughed.
"Oh." Tess said. "Haha."
When Jo and Lacey try to save Danny from the security guard…
"Remember when we said we had to get in apartment 413?" Jo asked the security guard. "That was a lie—to get in the building. Our friend—he's in love…with a woman that lives here."
"Angela Peck, do you know her?" Lacey asked.
"Angela Peck?" The security guard repeated. "She lives in 431 not 413."
"Oh!" Lacey said at the same time Jo said "431". Lacey looked at Danny. "You got the apartment wrong."
"Shoot, I inverted the numbers again," Danny said in an unconvincing tone. "It's part of my dyslexia."
The guard looked at Danny like he was stupid. "Why didn't you tell me any of this?"
"I was an embarrassed teen with a crush. She never returned any of my calls."
"That's probably because she's married and has 4 kids."
"…Did I mention the dyslexia comes with short term memory loss?" Danny added.
The guard looked at all three teens. "I'm gonna call Mrs. Peck to confirm all this."
"It's late," Jo blurted out like usual. "Won't she be asleep?"
"And her kids?" Lacey said.
"…Ef y'all, I'm still calling Angela." The guard started dialing her number.
Danny blew some stray hair out his face. "Darn it, why are you so realistic and not buying our obviously poorly planned story?"
The guard smiled as he connected to Angela's phone. "Hi Mrs. Peck, sorry for calling—"
Danny's hand collided hard on the left side of the security guard's face, knocking the man out cold on the floor with the phone dangling from the desk.
"Oh my God, Danny!" Lacey and Jo screamed.
"We're on a time limit and were gonna get busted. It was either that or the screwdriver thingy I was eyeing on the desk earlier," Danny said all too calmly. "I call it Juvie Parlor Trick 101." With that being said, he chucked up his deuces to the guard, stepped over him, and nonchalantly walked out the room as if he didn't just K.O. a grown man.
So when I was re-watching certain scenes from this episode, it hit me that the scene where Karen picks up that vase and calls it beautiful is the same vase that had Vik's number on it from the finale! Who would've known that unless you watched this episode again?! It's crazy! Did anyone pick up on that right away without re-watching episode 6? The writers are sneaky.
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