Unrelenting Love
I am the Teriyaki man!
I don't own the show, or any music!
7# Hanging Around (Part 1)
The entire gang (Matt, Tai, Joe, Izzy, Davis, Sora, and Mimi,) were all in Matt's "Garage" after school. The "Garage" was actually a single out building in the back of the Ishilda estate and was simply referred to as the "Garage". The ground floor was wall to wall thick dark carpet, and the walls hung with the accumulated posters and pictures and other crap the seven had collected over the course of their long association. A single heavy metal door faced the direction of the house, and a single window with heavy shutters, that when closed, shut out all outside lights. Inside was a drum kit, a couple of guitars and basses, amps and a microphone, and a little bit of amateur recording equipment. The boys were there just tooling around on random instruments. In the back of the room a ladder bolted to the wall, leading up to a steel trap door, currently open. Inside, a couple of squishy chairs, beanbags, and even an old couch, a table with a computer, and a entertainment center with a decent size TV and some game systems. The girls were sitting at the computer, doing… whatever it is girls do on the internet (Not porn if you can believe it!)
"What the hell are they doing up there, it's been three hours!" Matt whispered emphatically.
"I know," Tai agreed in equally grim and quiet tones. "At most I can spend an hour on the internet a week, not counting porn time!" Izzy, Joe, and Davis all agreed.
"You guys know that we can hear you from up here, right?" Both girls called at once. A few seconds later, Sora's head popped out the trap door. "Anyway Matt, we already looked through your, as you labeled it, "Special Collection" and you don't have anything worth getting exited over." Sora said with a sly, albeit upside down, grin. Mimi yelled down next.
"Yeah, and judging from what you got, I am way above your tastes." Matt turned bright red, and Tai gave a derisive snort, and was about to start laughing when Sora cut back in.
I don't see what you find funny, Tai. We've seen yours, and it's not any better." Now Tai and Matt were both red, and the other three just kept quiet. Suddenly, Sora got a surprised look, brought her head back up, and popped her head back in after a minute.
"Hey Matt, I'm going to have a friend come over to help us, is that cool?" Matt just nodded, still too embarrassed to say anything. "Oh, and TK called, he wanted me to tell you to answer you phone occasionally, and to tell your dad that he's going to be out late with Ken and Cody." Matt nodded again and Sora disappeared back into the room. The boys continued to tool around and a few minutes until the door opened, and Kari walked in, followed by none other than Deja.
"Hi Guys!" Kari called, Deja simply waving timidly, as Kari closed the door behind the guest.
"Hey, Kari, Deja, come up here!" Sora yelled before the boys could say anything, and the two girls obeyed quickly. The boys just gave each other a blank stare, and finally got back to quite conversation and their instruments. Every once in a while one of the girls would yell down a song request, which they managed simple verses and notes from a couple of them. After about half an hour, Mimi's head popped down, her brown hair hanging about 2 ½ feet further that the top of her head.
"Hey guys," Mimi batted her eyelashes, "we're hungry, and we decided that you get to go get us food. Where do you want to go?" The five boys eyed each other, before Tai stood up from behind the drums, and walked forward.
"Let me get this straight, your hungry, and you want us to go get food, but you want us to pick for you?" Tai raised his eyebrow, quizzically at her. Sora's head popped out next to Mimi's, and she answered the question.
"No, were hungry, you ARE going to get us food, and we want to know what sounds good." Both girls blinked at the boys like they were stupid. The boys blinked back like they were stupid.
"Ok… how about Burger King?" Joe suggested, to the assent of the other four. Kari's head popped out between Sora and Mimi.
"Nah, already had it today."
"Del Taco?"
"No" this went on until each boy had got their idea shot down twice, before finally, all three of them said in unison, "Jack-In-The-Box." The boys all sighed.
"Why could you just pick that in the first place?" Tai asked explosively.
"Tai," Kari said in a sweet voice, "Don't be difficult, just make with the fetchy." Tai sighed again, slumped over to a table, and grabbed a piece of paper.
"Ok, Sora, spicy chicken sandwich combo with an unsweetened ice tea, and Kari, # 5 with curly fries and a sprite. What about the other two?" He took Deja and Mimi's orders, grabbed a sweatshirt of the floor, which the other boys mimicked, and charged out the door. The three girls giggled and retreated back into the loft.
Boys:
The five boys piled into Joe's SUV, and Matt busted out his Ipod as Joe started the engine.
"Now that I think about it," Matt said as he shuffled through his albums, "I am hungry. Do us a favor and see if you can reach a speed at least close to the limit, instead of driving like a old lady?"
"Up yours, Matt." Joe said, even as he did crank it up to 45. Matt selected a song, and rendered further conversation nullified.
Girls:
"See, they're not strictly helpless, but you need to lead them around to the correct answer." Kari was lying on her back on the couch, reading a magazine by the desk lamp by the computer, which was the only light on aside from the computer screen.
"I still think it seemed a little mean." Deja said, leafing through reading the same magazine as Kari, who had her legs across Deja's lap.
"Look at it this way," Mimi said and started ticking things of on her fingers. "1. these boys are our closest friend, and we are entitled to say whatever needs to be said to them. 2. Matt and I are essentially dating, so I can do just about anything and get away with it. 3. Tai is Kari's brother, and IS dating Davis so those to are taken care of. 4. Joe is the nicest guy we have ever met, and Izzy isn't to far off, so they are good. 5. Tai has proved that he is stupid and needs to be directed, buy the way him and Sora have been dancing around each other since they both hit puberty, and yet he still hasn't grown the rocks to try anything." Mimi was sitting at the computer with Sora, who had not said anything. Deja didn't look totally convinced. Sora took over, turning her chair around to face her.
"Look at it this way, Deja, we've all been the best of friends for many years, and we would never take advantage of our boys. We go through this every night, and it always ends the same. They get hungry, and then turn to us and ask us what we want and refuse to chose themselves, and get offended if we offer money. I think they just played up the victim card to try and impress you."
"How is that supposed to impress me?" She asked, shocked. Kari picked it up.
"Not a clue. We're guessing that their brains are wired weird or something. Like some kind of machine that has all the parts that it need to perform the basic functions, but is missing critical components to make them run at the full capacity that we run at. And when we are around we stress the capacity, and make them try and work fully, but just cause small overloads and hampers efficiency." Deja blinked thoughtfully, and Mimi grabbed the topic.
"For example, have you noticed how the struggle with even simple tasks whenever you first appear?" Deja nodded timidly. "Well, that, to quote a great author, is like "Throwing sand into machinery that doesn't work to well at best.""
"But, as you have already pointed out, they are all crazy about you, and don't have the same reaction to you."
"Easy, due to the long period of time we've all spent together, they've had time to get used to our particular sand, and have adjusted automatically to cope with it." Sora added. "With Matt and Tai, it's not a problem, they are ours, and we just have to wait for them to figure it out." Mimi continued.
Boys:
"Damn it Joe! I told you not to choose the drive thru!" Tai complained again. "We've been sitting here for 15 minutes, and we're not even up to the speaker yet!"
"Oh! You mean that were not the only ones who want 50$ worth of cheap food at 7 at night?"
"Yes! How dare they inconvenience us like this." Matt said, rolling his eyes.
"Hey, shut up…"
"All of you shut up! We're at the speaker!" Joe roared, quieting them momentarily. Joe efficiently read the orders off of the paper, made his own, and thanked the person on the other side, then pulled up. He sighed deeply, the addressed the car as a whole.
"Why do we have to go through this same rigmarole every time we come here?"
"Why can you just go into the place like a normal person?"
"Oh, you know you love it"
"Hey! We didn't even say anything!"
Girls:
"Long story short, we would never manipulate our simply use them, and they know it." Sora was finished, no flipping channels on the TV.
"So then, it works out to where you guys are essentially family where it counts?" Deja asked.
"Yeah! That's about it." Kari answered flipping a page. "Anyway, where the hell are they, I'm starving!"
"Me too!" the rest echoed.
End of chapter…
Anyway, as you all prolly know already, I am a review WHORE, and I do love my reviews, good or bad, long or longer. And a note now, because I like feed back, I am planning to do a full song page for each of the original 8 characters, and Davis, and prolly Deja as well, and I plan to write out the entire lyrics to the songs, because they are all going to be songs I like. So let me know what chall think about that, and maybe some ideas for directions I might be taking this story, cause I'm getting close to being tapped.