Hey~~ Here's chapter 3. Hope you like!
We were done painting by the end of the next day. I told you we work fast. I'll skip over how the whole house looks like, but I'll tell you this; it look gorgeous inside.
You won't see me saying the word "gorgeous" another time. I still had a lot of time until school started so I started to work on the outside of the house. Jeb would take care of the finance and what ever was inside the house.
I started with the pots. The broken pots could be fixed with a little super glue, so I gathered everything that could hold some soil, but was broken in some way on the porch. Then I cut away anything that was in the way, like out of control bushes and such. That was when I noticed the girl sitting at the porch of the house across from ours. It was that little girl again. Angel. I yelled/said to her, "You wanna help?" She nodded and ran towards me. Damn. She was fast. I looked around to see what she could help me with. I saw the large bags of fresh soil. "Let's get those bags," I pointed at the soil," and spread it all across the lawn. Okay?" She nodded again and we set off to work.
With Angel helping me I got almost all of the garden/lawn finished. She was a really quick worker. We got soil in the lawn mixed and sprinkled with grass seeds so that in a few weeks, there would be beautiful green grass growing. We also cut everything that was in the way of the flowers or just looked weird. We pulled out weeds and even planted a few pots of flower with the flower bulbs I bought yesterday. What was left of the garden was the broken pots that I had to fix tomorrow.
Then I realized I was hungry. I was famished. I didn't eat lunch! I looked down to Angel, "You hungry?" I heard her stomach growl. She blushed furiously and got a sudden interest in her shoes. "Do you know some good restaurant near here?" I asked. She nodded and pointed down the street. She didn't talk much. "Wait here. I'll get my wallet and buy you lunch and dinner. Sound cool?" She smiled real big. I ran into the house, found my wallet in my bag and dashed out while yelling out to Jeb, "I'm going out for dinner!"
While Angel was leading me to whatever restaurant we ran into some kids. They looked like my age, but a lot more… not me. The girls were dressed in mini-skirts and tank-tops that looked like they were about to burst. The guys were sagging so much that if they moved I was afraid that their pants would fall down.
Angel took one look at those people and her normally carefree eyes morphed into fear. She started walking faster suddenly but we were too late. "Hey! Isn't that Fang's little sister!" I turned to see a red-head girl walking towards us. How did she walk with those heels? I would fall on my face! She kind of looked like she was the head of the little group of… you know… Angel looked like she wanted to run away, but her legs were shivering with fear. Miss Red-head bent down to Angel's height and whispered, "You can't keep Fang stuck to your side you know. Someday, I'll get him." Her voice was quiet but not quiet enough for me to not hear.
"You should pick on people your own size." I stood behind Angel like some guardian angel. But I'm pretty sure my expression made me look like a demon. Miss Red-head look up towards me and flinched. It was funny.
"Maybe I should pick on you. That seems fairer doesn't it?" She was slow to make a comeback.
"Excuse me? I'm a practically a head taller than you. Even when you're wearing heels." I looked down to Angel and said in a totally different, sweet voice, "Let's go to that restaurant you were guiding me to." Angel regained her natural self, grabbed my hand and started off down the road.
"I'll find you in school." Miss Red-head tried to make her voice sound as tough as possible. It wasn't working.
"I'll find you first!" I called out. That left her standing on the middle of the road looking a stupid as a rock. Sucker.
We reached the restaurant really quickly, as Angel was practically sprinting with joy of Miss Red-head being beaten up. You know verbally. I was looking forward to pwning her again.
The restaurant was a Japanese one. It had sushi, soba, udon, and practically every type of food related to Japan. Awesome. I loved Japanese as much as I loved Korean, Chinese, Filipino and, well, I like any type of food. I had to eat a lot of take out food to avoid the fans and reporters after and before concerts.
Angel and I ate a lot. She had a similar appitite as me, which is pretty big. You would expect that all of the food that we ordered was really expensive, but when we finished our food, the number on the bill wasn't too big. Just around the price for 4 people…
I paid and we stepped out of the restaurant all full and happen. I hadn't felt like this in a long time. While we were walking back home, it was quiet until Angel asked in her sweet little voice, "What's your name?" She looked up at me with her large blue eyes.
"My name is Max. Max Ride."
Angel giggled and asked me, "Are you Maxine?"
That question surprised me. I was definitely not expecting that. But I figured she could keep a secret and said, "Yes. I am Maxine. But you can't tell anyone. It's a really big secret."
By the time she swore that she would never tell anyone, we had reached home. Standing on the road between my house and Angel's house were six people scattered yelling out, "ANGEL!" "WHERE ARE YOU, ANGEL!" and all that. I wondered how we didn't hear them. They were pretty loud. The tall black one spotted us first. Fang. In a flash, he was bent down in front of Angel, checking if she was alright. It wasn't really noticeable on his face, but you could see in his eyes that he was really worried. I felt sorry for bringing Angel out for lunch/dinner without letting her family know.
In another flash, all of the other kids were surrounding Angel, pushing me out. Finally a tall boy who looked like the same age as Fang, with strawberry-blonde hair stood up, faced me and said, "Who the hell do you think you are, taking Angel out for 7 and a half frikin hours and bringing her back without even telling anyone. What the hell man! And who in the world are you?" He was creeping forward getting angrier with each word.
"It's that girl." A girl about 11 years old stood up and followed the tall boy. "I saw her in that car that almost hit Angel."
Pretty soon, everyone except for Fang, who was talking to Angel, was blocking my sight from Angel and Fang, glaring at me. "First of all," I started out, "I'm not a man," I said facing the tall strawberry blonde boy. Now that I looked closely I could see that his eyes were a bit cloudy… he was blind. I faced the rest and talked on, "And, it's not completely my fault. Yeah, I should of told Angel to go to her house and tell everyone that she was going to eat dinner, but you people should have checked out side for Angel at least one hour after she came outside, when we were working on my garden. I paid for her lunch and dinner at the Japanese restaurant down the road and came back with her in one piece. So you don't have to worry about anything." I crossed my arms and called out to Angel, "Bye Angel! See you tomorrow… maybe… Thanks for the help with the garden and the lawn!" I turned around and walked through the door. I turned around and looked outside before the door fully closed, and saw Fang standing up, facing my house, looking straight at me.
Sooo...? Whacha think?
mary p.