Well thanks to those who reviewed and um, apparently some of those people that are mad at me are a tad more violent then I guessed so at this point I am writing this chapter in my safe house far far away from society...
I REFUSE TO TELL YOU WHERE IT IS!
Okay well, off of that topic, here is the SECOND update in A WEEK. Because that is how awesome I am. Or maybe it is just compensation, but not really the point. Hoping you enjoy. Oh and reminding you to read Happyzen's Cahill Family Reunion in case you haven't already, because it contains the first three chapters of this story.
Oh, and I don't own 39 clues or McDonalds.
Dan's POV:
I was SUPER excited. Like peeing-in-my-pants-but-not-really-cause-ninjas-don't-do-that-kind-of-stuff excited. We get to eat at McDonald's! I really wanted McDonald's. I haven't eaten McDonald's in forever because Nellie gets all mad whenever I bring it up. Talking about how it isn't 'real food'.'Real food my rear end. And on top of that, we get to take a pack of Kab- I mean Cobras to a fast food restaurant. My life is complete!
I practically skipped (key word being practically because men don't skip) over to Natalie's room where she was probably doing something Natalie-ish like getting dressed in the most outrageous dress ever or putting on ten pounds of makeup on those really bright, chocolate brown eyes...
Or doing something else completely stupid psh. Doing stupid stuff.
I took a deep breath (completely unnecessary. Just cause I felt like it.) and knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" I heard a melodic...completely nasally voice from the other side of the door.
"Can I come in?," I asked.
"The door is unlocked," she replied. I opened the door and saw her laying on her bed, blow drying her hair. She was wearing an...odd outfit. It looked...
Gangster?
Well, about as gangster as Natalie could get. She had a baggy pink hoodie with rhinestones and a pair of dark wash jeans and a pair of skater shoes. A wide-brimmed pink hat that said "Rich Kidz"was sitting next to her. She frustratedly tried to blow dry all of her hair but failed miserably. Of course I was still taking in her odd clothing choice when it hit me.
She was trying to impress Jonah. His name stuck in my mind and suddenly, the once cool cousin of mine now seemed horrible in my eyes.
"Hello Daniel. Is there something you wish to speak to me about? Is the fire put out?'
"My name is Dan. The fire is put out, and we are going to a fast food restaurant with a major health issue in about 20 minutes," I replied. I just wanted to get out of there. The room was suffocating me. Taunting me.
"Hey, can you bring Jonah in here? I need some help blow drying my hair," she smiled and even giggled a little bit.
"Whatever you say Princess," I spat. Suddenly here smile dropped.
"Wait," she said, "You do it," she said.
Excuse me? In her dreams.
I started to head out when she stood up and walked over to me. She grabbed my arm and yanked me over to where the hairdryer lay on her bed.
And let's get something straight. She did not overpower me. I was simply taken by surprise.
Not that a ninja is ever surprised.
I'm digging a hole.
She handed me the hairdryer and sat with her legs crossed, her back facing me.
I turned the hairdryer on and ruffled her hair with my free hand as I shook the dryer back and forth over her wet, black locks. Her hair was really soft, I unconsciously noted, after her hair was completely dry.
"Okay, you can leave now," she said perkily as she put the hat on her head. This snapped me out of whatever trance I was under at that point and I stood up abruptly.
"You're supposed to say thanks. It is the least you could do after I just ran my fingers through your oily hair," I replied.
"Get out," her expression darkened. I smirked, just to annoy her, and then I left.
Natalie POV:
I dressed in the most utterly repulsive clothes today so this better work or else I was going to die of humiliation.
Everyone else had rushed downstairs to figure out why the smoke alarm was going off but I didn't want to. I was getting around to go downstairs and eat a wonderful meal and flirt with Jonah. And of course he is going to notice my utterly hideous yet completely gangster clothes and then fall in love with me and then we would run off in a beautiful limo where my chauffeur Henry would drive me to the designer shop where I could show Jonah how to dress like a true upper class citizen. And what is a positive point is we are both already rich so it would be a worthy marriage which Ian would approve of. I truly do love my fantasies.
It would be even more perfect if I could just blow dry my hair! Mother used to always do it for me, but it isn't like she is here anymore.
No, Ian is my only family left and I wasn't going to give him up for anything. But you can't tell anyone that I actually love my family because it would ruin my "independent rich beautiful woman" image.
I was about to call down to Jonah to see if he would do it for me when I heard a knock.
"Who is it?" I asked, hoping it was the man of my dreams.
"Can I come in?," a heard a voice from the other side that belonged to Daniel. How rude! He didn't even answer my question! But my cool exterior answered before my temper thank goodness,"The door is unlocked."
He opened the door and I saw his eyes travel to my attire. He seemed to be shocked for a moment until understanding crossed his eyes, and then anger.
I will never understand poor people, they have crazy mood swings and then completely give away all of their emotion through their eyes.
"Hello Daniel. Is there something you wish to speak to me about? Is the fire put out?" I asked calmly.
"My name is Dan. The fire is put out, and we are going to a fast food restaurant with a major health issue in about 20 minutes," his voice was rushed like he was in a hurry to get out. I wasn't surprised however. We hated each other. Used each other as slaves. Speaking of which...
"Hey, can you bring Jonah in here? I need some help blow drying my hair," I smiled and even giggled a little bit, unintentionally of course. But it wasn't like he didn't already understand how much me and Jonah were meant to be.
"Whatever you say Princess," he spat. But before he reached the door I reached a realization. Jonah couldn't see me like this! My hair wasn't done and I wanted to surprise him with my outfit. So what do I do? This is going to bite me in the butt...
"Wait," I said, "You do it,"
His face didn't seem to agree with what I had asked, and because I hadn't already humiliated myself enough I literally got off of my bed and dragged him back and sat him down.
I heard the loud buzz of the hairdryer and I felt his rough hands rustle my hair and the heat from the dryer go back and forth. It felt so good. It was crazy but it made me feel odd. Like my stomach started hurting, but it didn't hurt. I don't know. It was just weird.
I heard the dryer turn off and I snapped out of whatever trance I was in and tried to say in as un-suspicious voice as I could for him to leave.
"You're supposed to say thanks. It is the least you could do after I just ran my fingers through your oily hair," he was once again spitting out his words venomously. And how dare he insult my hair. It was probably greasy because he did it wrong. Wait. What am I thinking? My hair is never greasy. My hair is always beautiful.
"Get out,"I said as menacingly as I could. Guess what he did? He just smirked. Like it was some joke. My hair is never a joke. I resisted to scream at him but that would only satisfy him and it would make me look like a fool. I stood up and looked at my hair in the mirror, trying to fix it so it looked less oily. I then realized that, for once in my life, I was not the person with the upper hand. He was.
And that thought frightened me.
Sinead POV:
That was the cutest thing I have ever witnessed in my life. Cuter than when Evan tucked Amy into bed that one night.
Cuter than freaking PUPPIES.
Dan obviously had a thing for Natalie and Natalie did for Dan as well. I am pretty sure neither of them realize it though because they are too caught up in hating each other.
That made less sense then I thought it would.
I really really wanted to tell someone, but like that was going to happen. Imagine if I had told Ian or Amy? I shudder at the thought. And telling Evan would be like telling Amy. I could tell Fiske or Uncle Alistair but that would be awkward.
Hamilton came to my mind but I shut it out quickly. As much as I wanted to talk to him, I just couldn't. He has a girlfriend. A pretty, Thomas girlfriend. Not some lonely Ekat. And everytime I saw him, I just couldn't think about him in a 'friends' sort of way. It was always a 'oh hey I'm kind of in love with you so could you just ditch that one girl and come date me okay thanks' sort of way. I headed over to talk with Uncle Allistair to see if he wanted to go to mcdonald's.
"Oh no, you kids go have fun. Me and Fiske are in the middle of a game of cards and McDonald's is stealing my business anyways. Why would I go to such a horrid place? It always smells horrible in there." he replied immediately. I have a feeling cards was not the reason he didn't want to go. I smiled and I ran down to the stairs where all of the kids and Nellie were gathered.
The scene was quite amusing. Natalie was wearing that ridiculous outfit trying (and failing) to flirt with Jonah. Dan just sat there in jeans, a tee, and a ninja mask with two swords on his back, seemingly sad, looking back at Jonah once in a while and muttering. Amy and Evan were doing their little "adorkable" things (you know, he would hug her, she would blush, they would continue to talk and smile and make lame jokes), Ian's eyes were switching back from Amy and Evan to Natalie and Jonah, he still had some of the fire-extinguisher foam on his face, Hamilton and the annoying little brat were uh, to put it lightly, making out, and Nellie was covered in piercings and a few tattoos with her ear buds blaring music.
So now you can sort of get an idea as to what the employees' faces looked like when we walked into the building.
We ordered an insane amount of food. 4 mcdoubles, 2 fries, 3 McFlurries, a 15 piece of chicken nuggets, and 6 hash browns. Of course, that was just for Dan. Nellie didn't eat anything, mumbled continuously, and looked disgusted whenever someone took a bite of food.
We all laughed as Dan dug into his 3rd McDouble.
"How could you fill your face with such an abomination?" give you two guesses as to who said that.
"Oh c'mon Nattie! This is heaven!" Dan said.
"Did you just call me 'Nattie'?" Natalie asked, furious.
Dan just nodded, "Did it make you mad? Cause that was the goal."
We looked to the two Kabras and eagerly awaited the outcome of their first bit of McDonald's chicken nuggets.
Ian stuffed it in his mouth first, the whole thing. His face was priceless as he chewed and swallowed.
"This is, uh, I guess it isn't bad," he said putting another one in his mouth hesitantly.
We all cheered and looked over Natalie's way, except for Dan, who's eyes I assumed never left her in the first place.
She took a bite off of the chicken nugget and her face paled as she swallowed. She stood up and ran to the restrooms.
"Wait don't..." we all said. She apparently has never had an experience with a fast food restaurant's bathrooms.
As we all predicted she came running out of the restrooms two seconds later and squealing all the way to the car. We all laughed.
We hurried our eating and then met up with Natalie in the car.
"That was disgusting," she said, "How can you poor people do it? It's so much easier being rich."
"Great, I'll try that out sometime," Dan replied sarcastically. She glared at him and he glared back. I could cut the tension with a butter knife.
We arrived to the mansion with an eager faced Fiske with a calm Uncle Allistair beside him.
"Would you kids like to do something tomorrow? I mean, other than visit McDonald's," Allistair asked. We didn't have time to answer before Fiske burst.
"We get to go to the mountains! We can climb them and then we can go swimming down at the lake and then we can have a picnic and it is gonna be fun!" I'm pretty sure he has never been this excited in his entire life. He must really like mountains.
We all looked at one another for approval. No one seemed to object. Evan looked more excited than Fiske.
So it was settled. Hamilton will have a new place to make out with his girlfriend.
Evan's POV:
When I heard they were going to an environement that was more open I freaked and ran upstairs and sent a text to Number 1.
Cahills are going to the mountains tomorrow afternoon.
We can carry out the plan there.
All of this work was finally going to pay off.
So that is it for today. I basically got that scene with the hairdryer from a Kdrama I finished a couple weeks ago called Personal Taste. Anyone want to see more of one character? Let me know. I have never had to account for so many characters at once so I am trying but I want to know if there isn't enough of one person. Nellie will be coming in shortly to meddle with people's lives and Fiske and Allistair will come in for a bit but not as much as Nellie or any of the kids. And I basically don't put Hamilton's girlfriend in at all.
So thanks a ton for reading! It means a ton to me :)
