Fight

Movie Night

The next day was uneventful for the two bands. It was 'cleaning day' as Riley and Rhuben put it. Being tired of having to cook and clean everything, they made it that twice a month; there was a day where the men of the house had to help them with the chores. And that included the laundry, vacuuming, dishes, dusting, cleaning rooms, mowing the lawn, and the stuff like that. Because they were so preoccupied with the cleaning, the Jacksons hadn't thought about their father once. So, to make sure that they wouldn't think of them again, Sydney proposed that they should have a movie night, where each person got to pick a movie that they liked and they voted on the top four to watch, when they were done with their chores.

That seemed to help.

McFly quickly, yet efficiently, finished all of their chores, without one complaint. And they were so eager with getting their chores done that they helped the Jacksons with theirs. Shortly after five o' clock, they decided on two movies. Back to the Future, just so Tom would shut up about it, and one of the exorcist movies. Dougie had a bad feeling when the scary movie was chosen, he didn't know what it was, but it seemed like something was going to happen if they watched that movie.

"Doug hurry up! I want to start the movie!" Danny called impatiently to his band mate, after finishing the movie Back to the Future.

"Settle down! Do you want popcorn to eat during this thing or not?" Dougie bit back as he plopped down next to him on the couch.

"You're probably gonna be too scared to eat anything anyway," he teased and grinned wickedly, "Exorcist: The Beginning. It's meant to be heaps scary. You know, if ever you're frightened during this, just grab onto Tom and he'll make sure to keep you safe."

"Ha ha" Tom said rolling his eyes.

"I'll be sure to keep that in mind," Dougie responded coolly.

"Good, turn off the lights would you?" Rhuben said, motioning to the light switch

"Do we have to? I mean, isn't it bad for your eyes to watch TV in the dark?" Patrick asked his eyes wide.

Harry rolled his eyes and turned off the lights. They were thrown into darkness, with the flickering images of the title credits being the only weak light to fill the room.

Fifteen minutes later, and Dougie, Patrick, Noah, and Sydney had already had their fair share of heart racing moments, jerking frequently when something spooked them. Danny, the jackass, would chuckle every time.

Harry, grinning to himself, noticed the same thing and came up with a plan. Excusing himself to go to the bathroom. Coming back, he noticed that the four boys, who were afraid, were huddled together on the floor, their eyes wide, but hadn't looked away from the TV. He caught Danny's eye as he silently creeped up beside them and grinned. He waited for the right moment, when the movie got the most scary, and leapt forward, screaming.

Screaming at the top of their lungs, Patrick and Noah leapt to their feet and raced upstairs. Dougie screamed and jumped over the couch. And Sydney held his hands over his ears, closed his eyes shut and started to rock back and forth, whimpering.

"I HATE YOU GUYS!" Dougie shouted as he stood up from behind the couch. Tom, Danny, and Harry were cracking up. Riley and Rhuben had small smiles on their faces, as if they didn't want to laugh, but they were going to soon.

Laughing, Danny turned off the TV and turned on the lights. Rhuben kneeled down by her baby brother and tried to pull his hands off of his ears. But he pressed them tighter, whimpered louder, and rocked harder.

"Hey, is he ok?" Tom asked as he stopped laughing, a concerned look on his face.

"Yeah, he just get a little spooked by scary movies" Rhuben sighed as Sydney finally stopped rocking, his eyes wide. "You ok?"

"Yeah, just kind of freaked out," Sydney replied, his cheeks turning a little pink. "I know its fake, but its still really scary" he added quickly.

"Where'd Patrick and Noah go?" Riley asked, looking around.

"Oh, they went sprinting upstairs as soon as I scared them" Harry replied and grinned as he high-fived Danny.

"Great, now they're going to be screaming for the rest of their lives" Riley sighed as she rolled her eyes and stretched. "And on that note, I think that we should go to bed."

"Hey, are you ok?" Danny asked Rhuben as he grabbed her arm, to keep her from leaving the room. Rhuben avoided his gaze and nodded. "You didn't seem too into the movie."

"I don't really like scary movies, they're too predictable" Rhuben explained. Danny grinned.

"What, are you a chick flick kind of girl?"

"Hell no, you dill." Rhuben replied and gave a small smile. "I guess I'm just tired from the cleaning we did today. Goodnight" she kissed his cheek and walked towards the stairs. Danny looked at her back pocket and saw a lump that looked to be in the shape of a dagger.

"Rhu?" he called.

"What?" she asked, turning around again.

"Nothing, never mind" Danny replied, shaking his head, deep in thought.

Danny sat up as he heard a rustling sound. Blinking the sleep out of his eyes, he turned and looked at the clock; it was only 2:30 in the morning. Thinking he must have been hearing things, he lay back down and went to sleep. But hearing another rustling sound shot him awake. Throwing his covers off of his bed, he grabbed a flashlight that was on his dresser and left his bedroom. He walked into Dougie's room and walked over to his bed.

"Dougie, Dougie wake up" Danny said, shaking his arm. Dougie cried out in fear, and Danny placed his hand over his mouth, turning on the flashlight. "It's just me."

"What the bloody hell are you doing, waking me up at a time like this? Are you purposely trying to scare me?" Dougie demanded, rubbing his eyes. "Because its not going to work you know."

"No, I heard something downstairs," Danny whispered back.

"And you seriously don't have the balls to go down there and check what it is?" Dougie asked sarcastically.

"I'm going to kill you for that later," Danny said and shined the flashlight into Dougie's face. "Come down with me to check it out."

"Why don't you just go by yourself, you're the one who's not afraid of the dark" Dougie said and pulled the covers of his duvet over his head. Danny grabbed the end of his covers and tugged. "Don't make me cut you, I have scissors in here somewhere." His voice came out muffled.

"I'll leave you alone when you come downstairs with me to check what is making that sound." Danny replied.

"Fine," Dougie grumbled and pushed his covers off of his legs. He grabbed a baseball bat that was underneath his bed and followed Danny out of his bedroom.

The two crept down the hallway, Danny holding the flashlight in his hand as if it were a club, and slowly moved towards the stairs. When they passed the bookshelf that was at the top of the stairs, two figured tackled them from behind and started to beat them with pillows.

"Die! Die! Die!" Patrick cried as he hit Danny over the head with a pillow repeatedly.

"Hey, stop, it's just me and Dougie!" Danny cried. Noah grabbed the flashlight and shined it into Dougie's and Danny's faces.

"Patrick, he's right, it's them" he said and got off of Dougie's back.

"What the hell are you, little ninjas?" Dougie asked as he got to his feet.

"So we made a blue (1), so sue us" Patrick said as he rolled his eyes. "Were you the ones that were making that sound?"

"You heard it too?" Danny asked, getting to his feet.

"Yeah, I thought it was one of you" Noah said with a nod. And then the four boys turned to the staircase as they heard the sound again. "Come on, let's go see what it is."

The four boys crept down the stairs, listening very closely for the sound of the person that was in their house.

"You know, its king of weird that Ri-Ri and Rhu-Rhu are able to sleep through all of this noise" Patrick whispered.

"They're probably really tired" Dougie whispered back.

"Hey"

Patrick, Noah, Danny, and Dougie jumped and turned the flashlight to the side to see Harry, Riley, and Rhuben staring back at them. Riley was holding a super soaker water gun in her hands.

"Don't do that, you scared the crap out of me!" Dougie snapped.

"Sorry," Riley shrugged. "Why are you guys making that noise?"

"Its not us, we thought it was you up until now" Noah replied.

"What are you guys doing?" Tom asked, snapping on the light and stared at them, a sandwich was in his hands. "Don't you know how late it is?"

"Were you making that sound?" Harry demanded.

"Yeah, I was just making a late night snack," Tom replied and motioned to his sandwich that was in his hand. "What?" he asked when he noticed the angry looks on his friends' faces.

Riley grinned down at the water gun that was in her hands and sprayed him with the water. With that, the others went back upstairs to their rooms to go back to sleep as Tom shook his head to get the water off.

Australian Words/Phrases

1. Made a blue: Made a mistake