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In this chapter, Telfie makes a MAJOR screw up.
**
It was Monday. Three in the afternoon. High school was out fifteen minutes ago.
It could easily have been said someone more dangerous than the dreaded androids was out roaming the roads. Well, not roaming to be precise, more like /speeding/ down the road.
Telfie's little brother gripped his seat in horror as his sister hit the gas.
"Oh my god do you /have/ to go so fast?!" he screamed and ducked as Telfie spun the wheel to turn.
Admittedly, it was more a matter of perspective.
"Oh calm down, I drive like this every day," Telfie snapped. "You're just being dramatic."
Zeke, Telfie's brother, looked over at Telfie.
No matter how safely she drove, Zeke always managed to find something to scream in terror about. Something about it being a little brother's duty.
He 'calmed down.' "So, how did that presentation go today?"
Telfie grinned. "It was great! That--erm...extra research paid off!"
"Extra research?" Zeke asked sarcastically, his classic 'bullshit' face in use. Of all her siblings, Zeke was the only one who seemed to have caught on that the mysterious number with the extra long description - 'Jinzouningen Juunanagou - Never never NEVER call this number except while drunk' was the /actual/ jinzouningen. Randy, the older one, was too much of a dunce and Lane just too young.
"As soon as we get home, I've got to make a phonecall, alright?"
Zeke looked over at her. "You're not going to call /him/ are you?"
"Sure," she replied. "Wouldn't he like to hear how my day went? Especially since we almost caused a school wide panic?"
*
Juunanagou let the phone ring five times, then he quickly picked it up and put it to his ear. "Hello, you have reached 817-472-1--"
"Nice try jinzouningen, you managed to say my friends number. Plus I recognize your voice," the already too familiar voice of Telfie said dully. "And that's a really bad imitation of an answering machine message. It was too animated."
"Hn, damn. You called two days ago. At least the first time you let four months go."
"And two days ago was an accident," Telfie reminded him impatiently. She definitely wanted to 'talk' with him.
"But today isn't," he muttered.
"Yeah, that's about right. We did our presentation today!"
"Whoop-dee-doo."
"Oh come on now jinzouningen! Don't you want to hear how me and my group nearly got arrested? I think we made the evening news. Maybe we knocked you out of the frontline news! Ain't that cool?"
"Yes. And no I don't want to hear about it."
"Well you're gonna hear it anyway. Anyway, me and my friend Alex put the actual presentation together and my job was to introduce things. The other four's jobs were to talk, and Alex's job was to work the machinery."
"And Alex did something wrong," he filled in boredly.
"No, Alex was fine. Letty couldn't read my handwriting and she improvised. And you talked to Letty, right? The dumb rude one?"
"I remember," he said, and glanced out the window.
"Anyway, she started talking about talking to you."
Juunanagou blinked. "Really?"
"Yeah, it seems she put two and two together after all," Telfie said, and sounded like she was rolling her eyes.
"And how did this nearly get you arrested?" Juunanagou asked, and flipped open the TV guide.
"Well, put simply Letty started saying that I had convinced you and your sister to come in and give a talk to my class," Telfie said, and stifled a snicker. "You know. As a guest speaker."
Juunana stopped flipping the TV guide.
"Well anyway, the other three got into it and my class was half asleep. The instant they heard 'the androids are coming here' they jumped out of their desks and ran out down the halls, screaming the whole way that the androids were coming to kill us all. Me and Alex had to calm the teacher down, who had /also/ been half asleep and the second he heard 'android' was out of his seat."
"Uh huh," he said dully. "And?"
"Well one thing led to another and pretty quick the entire school was about to be evacuated. By this time someone had called 911 and when 911 is called in response to the androids, so's the local TV station. My teacher was /pissed/ and he made us come outside and explain to the cameras why it'd happened."
"Why, what had happened?"
"Weren't you paying any attention? The mass panic Letty pretty much put my school in!" Telfie yelled through the line.
"Calm down I heard you!" he snapped back at her.
"Nobody actually got out of the school, they lock us in except for the front door, and do you want to know something stupid?"
"Not really."
"We have these really dumb drills where we have to huddle under our desks like it's going to actually help if you come and start blowing things up. The school calls them 'attack drills.' They're about as useless as those tornado drills they make us do. But all the teachers take 'em real seriously."
"/Very/ interesting," he commented blandly. "Are you done now?"
"Why? Do you have somewhere else to be?" she asked. "Some new town to go and blow up?" she asked harshly.
"What if that's what it is?" he sneered back at her.
"Back to how I nearly got arrested. /Everyone/ was pissed off at us, and me and Alex could just /tell/ the cops were itchng to arrest us for disturbing the peace. Thankfully my principal stopped them. On the whole she's a nice principal," Telfie rushed out uncomfortably.
"So...do you think it would make /national/ news?" he asked, a little inkling of a plan forming in his head.
"Maybe, it wasn't that big a panic, you couldn't even call it a riot. But then nothing exciting except for you has been happening lately so it's a...possibility," she finished, her voice coming low and suspcious now. "Why?" she asked bluntly.
"No reason. Just interested."
"Bullshit! You're trying to figure out where I am!" she accused, and Juunana's face twisted into a smile.
"No I'm not. I could care less where you live. Believe me," he said smoothly.
"No way, I'm not that stupid," Telfie snapped cautiously. "Besides, you've never /actually/ been interested in one fact about my life so why now?"
"Well /you're/ the one who told me you might be on the evening news," he reminded her quietly, grinning to himself. "I just want to see what you look like is all."
She did not respond.
"You're the one who was stupid enough to tell me that," he continued despite her lack of reply. "And on all news reports they tell where it happened, when it happened, and the details about who it happened to."
She still did not respond.
"What makes you think I'll still be in town tonight?" she asked quietly.
"Well, you don't live alone, do you?" he asked.
"...Yes."
"Liar, two nights ago you hung up on me to deal with someone called Lane."
"A neighbor's kid."
"The first time you had to hang up because of your mother."
"I moved out of the house," she explained slowly.
While he couldn't prove Telfie was lying, he had a feeling she was. "If you're lying, when I kill you, it'll be all the more painful," he threatned coldly.
Telfie did not say a word.
"I, do not live, with my parents anymore," Telfie said slowly, like she was tensed all over.
A hundred zeni said she was.
"And besides, if you're in school, how come you can live without your parents."
Telfie barely missed a beat this time. "I wanted to. I have a job you know, I pay the rent. Besides I've known the landlady since I was a kid. I told you I lived in a small town."
"If you live in a small town why do they have /apartments/?" he asked patiently.
"Because most of the jobs here don't pay shit," she said, and that time it sounded sincere.
"I'll believe that," he said, and sat down on the red couch. "So do you have anything /else/ to talk about?" he teased.
"Where do /you/ live?" she asked after a moment.
"/Why/?" he asked with one raised eyebrow.
"Curiosity," she snapped quickly.
"On this little island in the middle of an ocean. In a pink house with 'Kame' on the front in badly painted red stick letters."
"Somehow I couldn't have imagined that."
"I'm sure," he replied. "Anything /else/?"
"No," she replied quietly.
"Good. Goodbye," he said and hung up, feeling immensely better than he had lately.
*
Telfie sunk back in her chair, feeling immensely stupid. How could I have just /volunteered/ that information? she thought miserably. She leaned forward and put her face in her hands, elbows on her knees.
Okay, consider the options. Randy was probably unsalvageable, he'd not listen to her. He'd blow off her pleas to go screw with his chick of the week, Zeke would be uncertain but he at least trusted her when she was serious, and Lane could be brought along whether she believed her sister or not. Her parents were out of town visiting some friends.
She jumped up to her feet. "Zeke! Dammit boy get down here!" she yelled up the stairs. When he did not respond she went up the stairs and opened the door. "Zeke, we have a minor problem," she started, starting to laugh nervously. "Um, we might have to leave the country," she said. "Where's Lane?"
"At Macy's house," Zeke replied and looked up from his Lego Gundams. "Why? What minor--"
He looked at his sister's rather pale face. "What happened," he deadpanned.
"I screwed up big time," Telfie moaned. "I said we might be on TV, he said he'd watch the news," she explained as quickly as possible.
He stared. "You're kidding."
Telfie shook her head. "No."
"What are you /on/?!" her brother yelped. "So what'd he say..."
"Well he said if I lied to him he'd kill me all the more painfully," Telfie said and fiddled nervously with the curly bits of her hair.
"And?"
"I lied the entire last half," she muttered quickly, and looked anywhere but her brother's face.
"What time does the news come on tonight?"
"I think at eight thirty," Telfie said. "I think we aughta get as far away from here as possible."
"Well no fucking /duh/," Zeke commented. "Okay, we've got four hours to get out of here, and we'd better be quiet about it after today," he said, throwing a meaninful glance at his sister.
"Right, I'll go get my keys and some cash," she said and turned around and headed out his door and towards hers.
**
And the plot thickens...I'm much happier with this one than the last one, but I still don't like that as much as the first one. *WAAHH!*
Telfie is yes, kind of ditzy herself, but can we PLEAE REMEMBER SHE'S BASED ON AN ACTUAL PERSON...erm, me? Plus, Zeke's two years younger than her, Randy's a year out of high school, and we already know how old Lane is. Zeke's based on my younger brother who is, sad to say, a little more mature than me in some ways. .
Also, I like reviews! Please gimme feedback!
Thanx so much to those kind people who have thought to review this thing!
Also...I was way ahead of ya Kelly Neptunus, and quite a long time ago. They're going to meet but it won't be an EXTREMELY fluffy meeting...17's not exactly thinking she's the greatest person on the planet ya know. ^_^ Be patient!
In this chapter, Telfie makes a MAJOR screw up.
**
It was Monday. Three in the afternoon. High school was out fifteen minutes ago.
It could easily have been said someone more dangerous than the dreaded androids was out roaming the roads. Well, not roaming to be precise, more like /speeding/ down the road.
Telfie's little brother gripped his seat in horror as his sister hit the gas.
"Oh my god do you /have/ to go so fast?!" he screamed and ducked as Telfie spun the wheel to turn.
Admittedly, it was more a matter of perspective.
"Oh calm down, I drive like this every day," Telfie snapped. "You're just being dramatic."
Zeke, Telfie's brother, looked over at Telfie.
No matter how safely she drove, Zeke always managed to find something to scream in terror about. Something about it being a little brother's duty.
He 'calmed down.' "So, how did that presentation go today?"
Telfie grinned. "It was great! That--erm...extra research paid off!"
"Extra research?" Zeke asked sarcastically, his classic 'bullshit' face in use. Of all her siblings, Zeke was the only one who seemed to have caught on that the mysterious number with the extra long description - 'Jinzouningen Juunanagou - Never never NEVER call this number except while drunk' was the /actual/ jinzouningen. Randy, the older one, was too much of a dunce and Lane just too young.
"As soon as we get home, I've got to make a phonecall, alright?"
Zeke looked over at her. "You're not going to call /him/ are you?"
"Sure," she replied. "Wouldn't he like to hear how my day went? Especially since we almost caused a school wide panic?"
*
Juunanagou let the phone ring five times, then he quickly picked it up and put it to his ear. "Hello, you have reached 817-472-1--"
"Nice try jinzouningen, you managed to say my friends number. Plus I recognize your voice," the already too familiar voice of Telfie said dully. "And that's a really bad imitation of an answering machine message. It was too animated."
"Hn, damn. You called two days ago. At least the first time you let four months go."
"And two days ago was an accident," Telfie reminded him impatiently. She definitely wanted to 'talk' with him.
"But today isn't," he muttered.
"Yeah, that's about right. We did our presentation today!"
"Whoop-dee-doo."
"Oh come on now jinzouningen! Don't you want to hear how me and my group nearly got arrested? I think we made the evening news. Maybe we knocked you out of the frontline news! Ain't that cool?"
"Yes. And no I don't want to hear about it."
"Well you're gonna hear it anyway. Anyway, me and my friend Alex put the actual presentation together and my job was to introduce things. The other four's jobs were to talk, and Alex's job was to work the machinery."
"And Alex did something wrong," he filled in boredly.
"No, Alex was fine. Letty couldn't read my handwriting and she improvised. And you talked to Letty, right? The dumb rude one?"
"I remember," he said, and glanced out the window.
"Anyway, she started talking about talking to you."
Juunanagou blinked. "Really?"
"Yeah, it seems she put two and two together after all," Telfie said, and sounded like she was rolling her eyes.
"And how did this nearly get you arrested?" Juunanagou asked, and flipped open the TV guide.
"Well, put simply Letty started saying that I had convinced you and your sister to come in and give a talk to my class," Telfie said, and stifled a snicker. "You know. As a guest speaker."
Juunana stopped flipping the TV guide.
"Well anyway, the other three got into it and my class was half asleep. The instant they heard 'the androids are coming here' they jumped out of their desks and ran out down the halls, screaming the whole way that the androids were coming to kill us all. Me and Alex had to calm the teacher down, who had /also/ been half asleep and the second he heard 'android' was out of his seat."
"Uh huh," he said dully. "And?"
"Well one thing led to another and pretty quick the entire school was about to be evacuated. By this time someone had called 911 and when 911 is called in response to the androids, so's the local TV station. My teacher was /pissed/ and he made us come outside and explain to the cameras why it'd happened."
"Why, what had happened?"
"Weren't you paying any attention? The mass panic Letty pretty much put my school in!" Telfie yelled through the line.
"Calm down I heard you!" he snapped back at her.
"Nobody actually got out of the school, they lock us in except for the front door, and do you want to know something stupid?"
"Not really."
"We have these really dumb drills where we have to huddle under our desks like it's going to actually help if you come and start blowing things up. The school calls them 'attack drills.' They're about as useless as those tornado drills they make us do. But all the teachers take 'em real seriously."
"/Very/ interesting," he commented blandly. "Are you done now?"
"Why? Do you have somewhere else to be?" she asked. "Some new town to go and blow up?" she asked harshly.
"What if that's what it is?" he sneered back at her.
"Back to how I nearly got arrested. /Everyone/ was pissed off at us, and me and Alex could just /tell/ the cops were itchng to arrest us for disturbing the peace. Thankfully my principal stopped them. On the whole she's a nice principal," Telfie rushed out uncomfortably.
"So...do you think it would make /national/ news?" he asked, a little inkling of a plan forming in his head.
"Maybe, it wasn't that big a panic, you couldn't even call it a riot. But then nothing exciting except for you has been happening lately so it's a...possibility," she finished, her voice coming low and suspcious now. "Why?" she asked bluntly.
"No reason. Just interested."
"Bullshit! You're trying to figure out where I am!" she accused, and Juunana's face twisted into a smile.
"No I'm not. I could care less where you live. Believe me," he said smoothly.
"No way, I'm not that stupid," Telfie snapped cautiously. "Besides, you've never /actually/ been interested in one fact about my life so why now?"
"Well /you're/ the one who told me you might be on the evening news," he reminded her quietly, grinning to himself. "I just want to see what you look like is all."
She did not respond.
"You're the one who was stupid enough to tell me that," he continued despite her lack of reply. "And on all news reports they tell where it happened, when it happened, and the details about who it happened to."
She still did not respond.
"What makes you think I'll still be in town tonight?" she asked quietly.
"Well, you don't live alone, do you?" he asked.
"...Yes."
"Liar, two nights ago you hung up on me to deal with someone called Lane."
"A neighbor's kid."
"The first time you had to hang up because of your mother."
"I moved out of the house," she explained slowly.
While he couldn't prove Telfie was lying, he had a feeling she was. "If you're lying, when I kill you, it'll be all the more painful," he threatned coldly.
Telfie did not say a word.
"I, do not live, with my parents anymore," Telfie said slowly, like she was tensed all over.
A hundred zeni said she was.
"And besides, if you're in school, how come you can live without your parents."
Telfie barely missed a beat this time. "I wanted to. I have a job you know, I pay the rent. Besides I've known the landlady since I was a kid. I told you I lived in a small town."
"If you live in a small town why do they have /apartments/?" he asked patiently.
"Because most of the jobs here don't pay shit," she said, and that time it sounded sincere.
"I'll believe that," he said, and sat down on the red couch. "So do you have anything /else/ to talk about?" he teased.
"Where do /you/ live?" she asked after a moment.
"/Why/?" he asked with one raised eyebrow.
"Curiosity," she snapped quickly.
"On this little island in the middle of an ocean. In a pink house with 'Kame' on the front in badly painted red stick letters."
"Somehow I couldn't have imagined that."
"I'm sure," he replied. "Anything /else/?"
"No," she replied quietly.
"Good. Goodbye," he said and hung up, feeling immensely better than he had lately.
*
Telfie sunk back in her chair, feeling immensely stupid. How could I have just /volunteered/ that information? she thought miserably. She leaned forward and put her face in her hands, elbows on her knees.
Okay, consider the options. Randy was probably unsalvageable, he'd not listen to her. He'd blow off her pleas to go screw with his chick of the week, Zeke would be uncertain but he at least trusted her when she was serious, and Lane could be brought along whether she believed her sister or not. Her parents were out of town visiting some friends.
She jumped up to her feet. "Zeke! Dammit boy get down here!" she yelled up the stairs. When he did not respond she went up the stairs and opened the door. "Zeke, we have a minor problem," she started, starting to laugh nervously. "Um, we might have to leave the country," she said. "Where's Lane?"
"At Macy's house," Zeke replied and looked up from his Lego Gundams. "Why? What minor--"
He looked at his sister's rather pale face. "What happened," he deadpanned.
"I screwed up big time," Telfie moaned. "I said we might be on TV, he said he'd watch the news," she explained as quickly as possible.
He stared. "You're kidding."
Telfie shook her head. "No."
"What are you /on/?!" her brother yelped. "So what'd he say..."
"Well he said if I lied to him he'd kill me all the more painfully," Telfie said and fiddled nervously with the curly bits of her hair.
"And?"
"I lied the entire last half," she muttered quickly, and looked anywhere but her brother's face.
"What time does the news come on tonight?"
"I think at eight thirty," Telfie said. "I think we aughta get as far away from here as possible."
"Well no fucking /duh/," Zeke commented. "Okay, we've got four hours to get out of here, and we'd better be quiet about it after today," he said, throwing a meaninful glance at his sister.
"Right, I'll go get my keys and some cash," she said and turned around and headed out his door and towards hers.
**
And the plot thickens...I'm much happier with this one than the last one, but I still don't like that as much as the first one. *WAAHH!*
Telfie is yes, kind of ditzy herself, but can we PLEAE REMEMBER SHE'S BASED ON AN ACTUAL PERSON...erm, me? Plus, Zeke's two years younger than her, Randy's a year out of high school, and we already know how old Lane is. Zeke's based on my younger brother who is, sad to say, a little more mature than me in some ways. .
Also, I like reviews! Please gimme feedback!
Thanx so much to those kind people who have thought to review this thing!
Also...I was way ahead of ya Kelly Neptunus, and quite a long time ago. They're going to meet but it won't be an EXTREMELY fluffy meeting...17's not exactly thinking she's the greatest person on the planet ya know. ^_^ Be patient!