Hello beautiful readers! I would have updated sooner, but I've been studying for my Parliamentary Procedure test. Normally, I wouldn't have worried, but my teacher told me that he was going to find a way to fail me, and guess what I did. I got a 97 on that stupid test of his. Anyways, here's the next chapter!
Things were going wonderfully, until she checked the time. It was almost ten o'clock, and she was sure that almost everyone would be about ready to sleep by the time midnight rolled around.
"Hey guys! Ready for karaoke?" She yelled over the music. She could feel the heat rising in her cheeks. This was going to be beyond embarrassing.
"Sure!" They all yelled back. In a matter of moments. The music had been turned down, and the four turtles and Splinter had gathered, awaiting her instruction.
"Alright." She gulped. "I'll go first, to demonstrate, and to get my dare out of the way. Donnie, did you get the machine hooked up when we got everything ready in the beginning?"
"Yes I did." He piped up helpfully. "Do you need me to set up a camera, since you said your friend and a person of her choosing needs to see it?" Was she just imagining things, or did his voice sadden a little at the end?
"Yeah," She shrugged it off. "And it's going to be embarrassing, but it's better than Josh Robinson stalking me even more than he already does."
"Who's this 'Josh Robinson'? Do I need to 'teach him a lesson'?" Donnie growled, and it appeared to her that he was trying his best to sound 'tough'.
"No, it's fine." She sighed. "I just want to get this over with."
"Well then, go on up there. We won't laugh; I promise." Donnie glared at the others for effect, who looked positively 'innocent'.
Hesitantly, she stepped up onto the makeshift wooden platform where the machine was set up. With shaky hands, she grabbed the microphone and entered the first song: Touch my Body. She could have opted to do We belong together, but she figured that she might as well get the most embarrassing one out of the way first.
Just like she had been instructed, she set it to the 'music video with subtitles' setting. At this point, she was debating whether or not the letter would be that bad.
Every single one of their jaws' dropped when the prologue to the music video began to play. She didn't even have to turn around to know what had surprised them. The music video and words were on the screen of the karaoke machine, but it was attached to a TV, so everyone else could see. Despite it's availability, she didn't even look at the screen; she simple knew what they were seeing.
So far, they had just seen a dorky, Volkswagen Beetle, pull up to a mansion. A 'nerd' stepped out of the car, and the name 'Compu Nerd' was now visible on the car's side, as well as on the guy's shirt. The guy knocks on the mansion door, and a gorgeous girl, a million, trillion miles out of the poor nerd's league, answers the door. She wore nothing but a silk robe and lingerie, inviting the nerd in. She escorts him to a room with a computer and instructs him to being the system up to date, before heading to her bathroom, where she promptly discards her robe. After that, it cut directly to the nerds 'fantasy', and it was her cue to begin singing."
"Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah. Boy I know you've been waitin' for this, I've been waiting too. In my imagination, I'd be all up on you. I know you got this fever for me, one hundred and two. Boy I know, I feel the same way, my temperature's through the roof." She wasn't a half bad singer, but when her hands quaked from nerves, there was definitely room for improvement.
It wouldn't had been so awkward if she hadn't caught site of Donnie staring up at her. Unlike the others, who were staring at the music video in disbelief, he was actually staring at her, with glazed eyes and a half-open mouth.
Brushing it off, she continued to sing the next verse. "Boy, you can put me on you like a brand new white tee. I'll hug your body tighter than my favorite jeans. I want you to caress me like a tropical breeze, and float away with you in the Caribbean sea. "
Another super awkward part of singing this song: the chorus. It wouldn't be that horrible with just the verses, but 'Put me on the floor, wrestle me around, play with me some more', 'Throw me on the bed, I just want to make you feel like you never did, ' 'Let me wrap my thighs, all around your waist,' And "Know you love my curves, come on and give me what I deserve,' are not exactly things you sing in front of your guy friends. It is beyond weird. The worst was when she sang the chorus to the song for the second time, and she accidentally made eye contact with Donnie. Once it was started, she found herself unable to look away.
She finally broke eye contact when she started to sing the third and final verse. "I'm gonna treat you like a teddy bear, you won't wanna go nowhere. In the lap of luxury, layin' intertwined with me, you won't want for nothin' boy, I will give you plenty." After that, there was just one more chorus to go.
One traumatizing experience had ended, and now another was going to begin. She quickly changed the song to We belong together.
There wasn't much of a prologue to this video, it pretty much cut straight to the singing. "I didn't mean it when I said I didn't love you so, I should've held on tight, I never should've let you go. I didn't know nothing, I was stupid, I was foolish, I was lying to myself. I could not fathom that I would ever be without your love. Never imagined I'd be here sitting beside myself, 'cause I didn't know you, and I didn't know me, but I though I knew everything, I never felt." It was a dramatic change from the goofy, upbeat song before.
She noticed Donnie was still staring at her. His eyes weren't glazed over, though. They held a sad, knowing look. It made her wonder just what had happened to put that look there.
By now, she was already starting the next verse. "I can't sleep at night, when you are on my mind. Bobby Wommack's on the radio, singing to me 'If you thing you're lonely now,' Wait a minute, this is too deep. I gotta change the station, so I turn the dial, tryin' to catch a break, but then I hear Babyface 'I only think of you' and I'm tryin' to keep it together, but I'm fallin' apart."
She was thanking her lucky stars that the song was almost over. Whenever she saw Ellie again, she was going to be dead meat. She'd get revenge somehow.
"Who else am I gonna lean on when times get rough? Who else is gonna talk to me 'til the sun comes up? Who's gonna take your place, baby there ain't nobody better. Come back baby, 'cause we belong together!"
Oh thank god that was over. She exited the makeshift stage after Donnie gave her the clear that the filming was done, least she have to do that all over again.
"Sooo, who'd like to go next?" She asked a little awkwardly.
"I'll go." Donnie volunteered, for which she was eternally grateful.
He fumbled at the controls for a second, before singing 'White & Nerdy' by Weird Al. It was absolutely hilarious. She could tell he was making fun of himself, most likely to make her feel better. How sweet. He even managed the rap part, which she had absolutely no idea how he did.
After his breaking the ice, the rest of the crew followed suit. Leo sang 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons. Raph sang 'Everybody loves me' by One Republic, and Mikey sang 'The Lazy Song' by Bruno Mars, which surprised her, although she noticed he sang a more censored version of the song than the original. Last, but not least, even Splinter got up and sand 'Kung fu fighting' by Carl Douglass.
By the time everyone had gone through, the room was a laughing mess. As Raph was going up for his second turn, this time to sing 'I'm sexy and I know it' by LMFAO, Donnie pulled her aside.
"Do you want me to help you get it sent?" He inquired.
A blush burned in her cheeks at the mention of her dare, but she nodded anyways.
"Alright." He muttered, seemingly to himself. "So I'll just send the video to your phone, and, who's this going to again?"
She figured that was Donnie's way of subtlety figuring out what guy it was for, but she just replied "Just send it to 'Ellie J'. "
"But that's only one person." He protested. "Didn't you say it had to be sent to a guy of her choice?"
"Yes." She responded vaguely.
"Then why don't y-"
"Just trust me, okay Donnie?"
"Fine." He grumbled a bit, but lightened up almost immediately. "Done." He handed her back her phone.
'Thank you." She smiled.
As soon as Donnie left, she put her face between her hands and muttered. "He's already seen it, Donnie. You saw it, didn't you? She only said see, not send."
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The party was finally over at about one in the morning. Everyone had enjoyed karaoke more than she had expected, and no one was willing to stop until their voices were hoarse and they were out of pizza. The lair was a mess, but that was something they'd have to deal with in the morning, because she was way too tired to clean.
She found her way to the guest bedroom she called hers when she wasn't at her aunt's, and flopped down on the bed. She was asleep before her head hit the pillow, with her dress and heels still on, since she had put them back on for the karaoke.
IT"S FINALLY DONE! This one's a whole three and a half pages, not double spaced on word, a whole page-page and a half longer than the past few chapters. What'd you guys think? Be sure to let me know what you think in the reviews, since I just love reviews, (and they secretly boost my self esteem.)