Soccorbaby- As you should! ^_^ Thanks for reviewing chica! ^_~
Liz- Ah, thank you! *slips 10 bucks into Liz's hand* Lol, just kidding. ^_^ *takes ten dollars back* HA! Lol...I'm okay...really...okay, starting from the beginning...Yes, I had to have Fulton hitting a car with his puck...it's just a given. Lol...*gasp* you caught me...I had to add in life experiences of mine in there too. ^_^ Thanks! Charlie and Banksie must have constant banter...okay, not CONSTAND but oh well. Yeah, Dwayne is cool! ^_^ He's in American Outlaws too! That's a wicked cool movie! Of course, it has Gregory Smith in it too so all it needs now is a hick Hayden Christensen and Joshua Jackson...and maybe Ewan McGregor just for kicks. ^_^ Lol...I don't' even know who Jordan is...yet...your gonna show me the pictures soon, right? I missed you at church. YOU WERE NAUGHTY! BAD, HEATHEN PIG-DOG SINNER! Lol...j/k! No one can stand Linda! She has to be a jerk-face! I know, Cam didn't care if you had "guy friends" and you didn't care if he had friends that were girls. But Linda has to be a butthead for the effect. ^_^ *eyes shift nervously and blushes* Umm...no? *nervous laugh* Of course not...just like I'm not totally in love with Gregory Smith...nope, no crushes here...*remembers "Revelation" song* Meh, okay...maybe...now you have to tell me YOUR crush! But you can't tell Cam. He'll roll his eyes at me. ^_^ Lol, I figured you would find my "distraction" funny...I thought about taking it out before you read it. Lol...^_^...but I didn't. Thanks for reviewing "sis"! Love ya to pieces!
Joshrox116- Really? Me too! I'm sad people aren't reviewin' too! But I can always count on you! *gives Jochrox116 REALLY big hug* You're just so sweet! Thank you bunches and BUNCHES!
Ashley- Yes, Dwayne majorly rocks yo! The dude doesn't get enough publicity. I'm a native Texan myself so yeah. Dwayne's cool. I'm glad you like it. Dwayne and Averman, they need some fans. Lol. I've gotten to the point where I just post it and hope for the best. I didn't think anyone would like it because no one likes, okay, I won't say NO ONE, but MOST PEOPLE don't like Original Characters right off the bat. But I won't lecture. ^_^ Sure that would be cool with me! I've never done a combined fic with anyone. Well, except Liz but she doesn't count because we haven't actually posted it or put into fic form. And thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my style. ^_^ And thanks for the support!
Disclaimer- ...I only own Ellie and her family, nothing else...
-Chapter 6-
Ellie woke up when the sun poured in through her window once more. Rubbing her eyes, she tossed away the covers.
"I'm not a morning person..." she muttered bitterly to no one in particular.
Walking sleepily to her closet, she flung it open to see what clothes she would wear...
She settled with a gray shirt, black hooded sweatshirt and some loose, flared blue jeans. She then slipped on her worn-down sneakers and let out a sigh.
"I need new shoes..." she said with a grin, knowing that even though she NEEDED new ones, she would probably never wear them. But that wasn't the point. It never is.
Glancing at her hair, she realized for once, her hair was behaving itself. Brushing it and running the slightest amount of calming gel through it to keep it that way, she smiled. For once she would leave it down...
But that didn't means he wouldn't have her trusty scrunchie JUST IN CASE...
Taking one last looks at herself, she grabbed her backpack and headed downstairs. She was supposed to meet up with Dwayne and the others that morning but she was still in rocky waters with Dwayne. It had been about a week since their 'disagreement' and she knew she should apologize...she just...couldn't.
Things with Charlie had been great. He was still dating Linda but Ellie didn't mind. He gave her daily lessons after hockey practice. Too her knowledge Linda still didn't know.
She figured this because Linda hadn't tried to strangle her with her own shoelaces yet...
But both Charlie and Ellie had pretended the little 'moment' never happened. Or at least didn't talk about it.
Ellie had been thinking and was going to ask her parents if she could stay in the Eden Hall dorms. All her friends were so she wanted to be close. Besides, they WERE free...
She approached her parents. Her mom was reading some home improvement book and her dad was reading the newspaper, drinking his coffee every now and then.
She wasn't used to her father being there in the mornings. He used to wake up at five every morning and drive for an hour to commute to work. Mr. King had been sad to leave his job of 13 years. Now he worked as tech support for another computer company, it's just now it 5 minutes away instead of an hour.
"Momma? Daddy?" she said in a sickly sweet voice, putting on the best puppy dog look she could manage at the early hour of 7:00.
"What do you want?" her father asked, his eyes never straying from the newspaper.
She considered playing innocent but then she realized her parents wouldn't buy it and she was kind of in a rush.
"Well...I was just wondering if I could stay in the dorms at the school." She said, cutting straight to the point.
Both her parents looked at her. "Why would you want to do that?" her mom asked in a bewildered tone.
"All my friends are and it IS free." She answered, trying to think of all the good reasons she should...and could find none her parents would sympathize with.
"If all your friends jumped off of a building, would you?" her mom said in that tone all parents have.
Ellie rolled her eyes. She hated that line. "Yes, I would!"
The two parents looked at each other, confused.
"Explain yourself!" her father said, his coffee stopping halfway to his mouth.
"Well, I mean c'mon, as long as they jumped first, I would at least have some padding!" she said with an impish grin.
The two adults just sighed and rolled their eyes. "That is not the point young lady. Why do you want to stay there anyway?"
"To be with my friends. Come on, please?" she pleaded, putting on "the face" again.
Her parents finally gave in.
"Fine, you can." Her dad answered in a defeated tone.
"Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!" she said, grinning ear to ear and hugging both of her parents.
"Yeah, yeah...you better thank us...you know what, you are so spoiled." Her dad replied in only half-seriousness.
She just grinned even bigger. "I know! I love you! Bye!" she said as she darted out the door.
"And to think we bought this nice big house and she wants to live in dorms...crazy child..." her mom muttered.
As Ellie was racing to make it to the corner in time, she saw them about to leave.
"I'm here!" she shouted as she finally reached them.
"It's about time. We don't have all day ya know." Fulton said, circling around on his roller blades. She realized they liked to roller blade to school. Too bad she had forgotten her blades this morning...
She whacks him in the arm and of course, Connie and Julie congratulate her for growing a backbone while Averman got his two cents in.
"Ow, and there goes the El-Meister beating up the Bash Broth-"
"SHUTTUP AVERMAN!" everybody said in unison. Except for Ellie who still hadn't caught on yet.
Averman just grinned sheepishly as they all prepared to leave. Charlie then realized Ellie was wearing normal shoes.
He contemplated the results of his two choices. He could either A) Take off his blades and walk with her, or B) Not take off his blades and she walks by herself.
Either way didn't seem to intriguing. He didn't want her to walk by herself but he knew Linda would be upset if he walked another girl to school alone. Then again, he had been doing a lot of things that would upset her lately, so why not add just one more?
He sat down to take off his blades and replace them with sneakers of his own.
"H-hey man, what do you think you're doing?" Russ said, clearly confused as to why Charlie was taking off his blades. They weren't THERE yet. They hadn't even STARTED yet.
"I'll catch up to you." Charlie said as he stood up, his blades in his backpack and sneakers on his feet.
He turned to give a small grin to Ellie who returned the favor.
Russ cocked an eyebrow but decided not to say anything. "Whatever man. See you at school then." He said as he and the rest of the Ducks started down the hill.
Adam turned back and saw Charlie talking about it with Ellie. Charlie was in deeper than he cared to admit. Someone was going to be hurt...he just didn't know who it would be.
At the same time, Dwayne pursed his lips and silently told Ellie to be careful. He was still worried. It was happening just like he figured it would. He just hoped this didn't cause any barriers between him and Charlie.
"You didn't have to stay ya know." Ellie said, still blushing.
"I know." Charlie said with a smile. The two started walking down the street in silence.
Charlie glanced at his watch, realizing they were already pretty late.
"C'mon, we gotta speed it up! We're gonna be late!" he said playfully as he grabbed her wrist and broke into a sprint.
She let out a scream as her legs were moving faster then she thought possible. Charlie sure was in shape...
They of course had to dodge the occasional person but the mad dash was fairly uneventful.
Charlie wasn't officially showing her around anymore so their free pass out of class early was now void. It royally stunk.
After several apologies on Charlie's behalf for running over people and nearly getting hit by a car, Ellie and Charlie arrived at Eden Hall, out of breath.
"That was...fun..." Ellie said, taking deep breaths, trying to calm her heartbeat.
"Yeah. I second that." Charlie said with a grin. "We should do that again sometime." He said, getting his breath back.
"No...we are NEVER doing that again..." she said, her breathing still irregular but a grin on her face.
"What, did you not have fun dodging people and nearly becoming road kill? I would have never known." Charlie replied as they met back up with the other Ducks. They still had a few minutes before the doors opened.
"Oh, of course I did Charlie. It's just SO much more fun dodging people and nearly becoming road kill while on roller blades, then it's harder to stop." She said, her voice dripping with playful sarcasm.
"Hm, I'll have to remember that..." he said, playing along and looking like he was in deep thought.
She smiled and laughed. "You're such a dork-face."
He turned to her amused and raised his eyebrows. "What?"
"Oh, I was just commenting on your dork-facey-ness." She said calmly, smiling sweetly.
"Dork-facey-ness?" he said, holding in his laughter.
She scrunched up her face. "Hey, are you insulting my insult?"
"No, of course not. Why would I want to insult your insult?" He said, his eyes deceiving his thoughts on the humor of the situation. He was trying to remain serious.
"Because you're mean, you dork-face! I'm insulted!" she said, her hand flying to her heart as she put on a face of mock-horror.
"I'm sorry you're insulted for me insulting your insult." He said, now smiling broadly.
She put on a face off deep thought before looking him full in the face. "Apology accepted." She said with a wide grin.
Charlie shook his head, grinning. She was a weird one...
They walked up to the rest of the Ducks and began talking. Linda was walking by and saw Charlie walking over to the Ducks with Ellie. She immediately became suspicious. What was SHE doing there?
"Sorry we're late. Running on foot usually takes longer than roller blading. Remind me to remind Ellie to bring her skates next time. I don't know how much more of that I can handle." Charlie said with a playful grin.
Ellie gave him a playful glare in return. "How rude..." she said back, crossing her arms in mock-offense.
They all laughed and decided to walk on to class.
Linda watched from afar as Charlie and Ellie exchanged playful banter. She felt jealousy swell up from inside her. She would NOT let some other girl steal her boyfriend. Charlie was HER boyfriend, not Ellie's!
This meant war...
Liz- Ah, thank you! *slips 10 bucks into Liz's hand* Lol, just kidding. ^_^ *takes ten dollars back* HA! Lol...I'm okay...really...okay, starting from the beginning...Yes, I had to have Fulton hitting a car with his puck...it's just a given. Lol...*gasp* you caught me...I had to add in life experiences of mine in there too. ^_^ Thanks! Charlie and Banksie must have constant banter...okay, not CONSTAND but oh well. Yeah, Dwayne is cool! ^_^ He's in American Outlaws too! That's a wicked cool movie! Of course, it has Gregory Smith in it too so all it needs now is a hick Hayden Christensen and Joshua Jackson...and maybe Ewan McGregor just for kicks. ^_^ Lol...I don't' even know who Jordan is...yet...your gonna show me the pictures soon, right? I missed you at church. YOU WERE NAUGHTY! BAD, HEATHEN PIG-DOG SINNER! Lol...j/k! No one can stand Linda! She has to be a jerk-face! I know, Cam didn't care if you had "guy friends" and you didn't care if he had friends that were girls. But Linda has to be a butthead for the effect. ^_^ *eyes shift nervously and blushes* Umm...no? *nervous laugh* Of course not...just like I'm not totally in love with Gregory Smith...nope, no crushes here...*remembers "Revelation" song* Meh, okay...maybe...now you have to tell me YOUR crush! But you can't tell Cam. He'll roll his eyes at me. ^_^ Lol, I figured you would find my "distraction" funny...I thought about taking it out before you read it. Lol...^_^...but I didn't. Thanks for reviewing "sis"! Love ya to pieces!
Joshrox116- Really? Me too! I'm sad people aren't reviewin' too! But I can always count on you! *gives Jochrox116 REALLY big hug* You're just so sweet! Thank you bunches and BUNCHES!
Ashley- Yes, Dwayne majorly rocks yo! The dude doesn't get enough publicity. I'm a native Texan myself so yeah. Dwayne's cool. I'm glad you like it. Dwayne and Averman, they need some fans. Lol. I've gotten to the point where I just post it and hope for the best. I didn't think anyone would like it because no one likes, okay, I won't say NO ONE, but MOST PEOPLE don't like Original Characters right off the bat. But I won't lecture. ^_^ Sure that would be cool with me! I've never done a combined fic with anyone. Well, except Liz but she doesn't count because we haven't actually posted it or put into fic form. And thank you, I'm glad you enjoy my style. ^_^ And thanks for the support!
Disclaimer- ...I only own Ellie and her family, nothing else...
-Chapter 6-
Ellie woke up when the sun poured in through her window once more. Rubbing her eyes, she tossed away the covers.
"I'm not a morning person..." she muttered bitterly to no one in particular.
Walking sleepily to her closet, she flung it open to see what clothes she would wear...
She settled with a gray shirt, black hooded sweatshirt and some loose, flared blue jeans. She then slipped on her worn-down sneakers and let out a sigh.
"I need new shoes..." she said with a grin, knowing that even though she NEEDED new ones, she would probably never wear them. But that wasn't the point. It never is.
Glancing at her hair, she realized for once, her hair was behaving itself. Brushing it and running the slightest amount of calming gel through it to keep it that way, she smiled. For once she would leave it down...
But that didn't means he wouldn't have her trusty scrunchie JUST IN CASE...
Taking one last looks at herself, she grabbed her backpack and headed downstairs. She was supposed to meet up with Dwayne and the others that morning but she was still in rocky waters with Dwayne. It had been about a week since their 'disagreement' and she knew she should apologize...she just...couldn't.
Things with Charlie had been great. He was still dating Linda but Ellie didn't mind. He gave her daily lessons after hockey practice. Too her knowledge Linda still didn't know.
She figured this because Linda hadn't tried to strangle her with her own shoelaces yet...
But both Charlie and Ellie had pretended the little 'moment' never happened. Or at least didn't talk about it.
Ellie had been thinking and was going to ask her parents if she could stay in the Eden Hall dorms. All her friends were so she wanted to be close. Besides, they WERE free...
She approached her parents. Her mom was reading some home improvement book and her dad was reading the newspaper, drinking his coffee every now and then.
She wasn't used to her father being there in the mornings. He used to wake up at five every morning and drive for an hour to commute to work. Mr. King had been sad to leave his job of 13 years. Now he worked as tech support for another computer company, it's just now it 5 minutes away instead of an hour.
"Momma? Daddy?" she said in a sickly sweet voice, putting on the best puppy dog look she could manage at the early hour of 7:00.
"What do you want?" her father asked, his eyes never straying from the newspaper.
She considered playing innocent but then she realized her parents wouldn't buy it and she was kind of in a rush.
"Well...I was just wondering if I could stay in the dorms at the school." She said, cutting straight to the point.
Both her parents looked at her. "Why would you want to do that?" her mom asked in a bewildered tone.
"All my friends are and it IS free." She answered, trying to think of all the good reasons she should...and could find none her parents would sympathize with.
"If all your friends jumped off of a building, would you?" her mom said in that tone all parents have.
Ellie rolled her eyes. She hated that line. "Yes, I would!"
The two parents looked at each other, confused.
"Explain yourself!" her father said, his coffee stopping halfway to his mouth.
"Well, I mean c'mon, as long as they jumped first, I would at least have some padding!" she said with an impish grin.
The two adults just sighed and rolled their eyes. "That is not the point young lady. Why do you want to stay there anyway?"
"To be with my friends. Come on, please?" she pleaded, putting on "the face" again.
Her parents finally gave in.
"Fine, you can." Her dad answered in a defeated tone.
"Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!" she said, grinning ear to ear and hugging both of her parents.
"Yeah, yeah...you better thank us...you know what, you are so spoiled." Her dad replied in only half-seriousness.
She just grinned even bigger. "I know! I love you! Bye!" she said as she darted out the door.
"And to think we bought this nice big house and she wants to live in dorms...crazy child..." her mom muttered.
As Ellie was racing to make it to the corner in time, she saw them about to leave.
"I'm here!" she shouted as she finally reached them.
"It's about time. We don't have all day ya know." Fulton said, circling around on his roller blades. She realized they liked to roller blade to school. Too bad she had forgotten her blades this morning...
She whacks him in the arm and of course, Connie and Julie congratulate her for growing a backbone while Averman got his two cents in.
"Ow, and there goes the El-Meister beating up the Bash Broth-"
"SHUTTUP AVERMAN!" everybody said in unison. Except for Ellie who still hadn't caught on yet.
Averman just grinned sheepishly as they all prepared to leave. Charlie then realized Ellie was wearing normal shoes.
He contemplated the results of his two choices. He could either A) Take off his blades and walk with her, or B) Not take off his blades and she walks by herself.
Either way didn't seem to intriguing. He didn't want her to walk by herself but he knew Linda would be upset if he walked another girl to school alone. Then again, he had been doing a lot of things that would upset her lately, so why not add just one more?
He sat down to take off his blades and replace them with sneakers of his own.
"H-hey man, what do you think you're doing?" Russ said, clearly confused as to why Charlie was taking off his blades. They weren't THERE yet. They hadn't even STARTED yet.
"I'll catch up to you." Charlie said as he stood up, his blades in his backpack and sneakers on his feet.
He turned to give a small grin to Ellie who returned the favor.
Russ cocked an eyebrow but decided not to say anything. "Whatever man. See you at school then." He said as he and the rest of the Ducks started down the hill.
Adam turned back and saw Charlie talking about it with Ellie. Charlie was in deeper than he cared to admit. Someone was going to be hurt...he just didn't know who it would be.
At the same time, Dwayne pursed his lips and silently told Ellie to be careful. He was still worried. It was happening just like he figured it would. He just hoped this didn't cause any barriers between him and Charlie.
"You didn't have to stay ya know." Ellie said, still blushing.
"I know." Charlie said with a smile. The two started walking down the street in silence.
Charlie glanced at his watch, realizing they were already pretty late.
"C'mon, we gotta speed it up! We're gonna be late!" he said playfully as he grabbed her wrist and broke into a sprint.
She let out a scream as her legs were moving faster then she thought possible. Charlie sure was in shape...
They of course had to dodge the occasional person but the mad dash was fairly uneventful.
Charlie wasn't officially showing her around anymore so their free pass out of class early was now void. It royally stunk.
After several apologies on Charlie's behalf for running over people and nearly getting hit by a car, Ellie and Charlie arrived at Eden Hall, out of breath.
"That was...fun..." Ellie said, taking deep breaths, trying to calm her heartbeat.
"Yeah. I second that." Charlie said with a grin. "We should do that again sometime." He said, getting his breath back.
"No...we are NEVER doing that again..." she said, her breathing still irregular but a grin on her face.
"What, did you not have fun dodging people and nearly becoming road kill? I would have never known." Charlie replied as they met back up with the other Ducks. They still had a few minutes before the doors opened.
"Oh, of course I did Charlie. It's just SO much more fun dodging people and nearly becoming road kill while on roller blades, then it's harder to stop." She said, her voice dripping with playful sarcasm.
"Hm, I'll have to remember that..." he said, playing along and looking like he was in deep thought.
She smiled and laughed. "You're such a dork-face."
He turned to her amused and raised his eyebrows. "What?"
"Oh, I was just commenting on your dork-facey-ness." She said calmly, smiling sweetly.
"Dork-facey-ness?" he said, holding in his laughter.
She scrunched up her face. "Hey, are you insulting my insult?"
"No, of course not. Why would I want to insult your insult?" He said, his eyes deceiving his thoughts on the humor of the situation. He was trying to remain serious.
"Because you're mean, you dork-face! I'm insulted!" she said, her hand flying to her heart as she put on a face of mock-horror.
"I'm sorry you're insulted for me insulting your insult." He said, now smiling broadly.
She put on a face off deep thought before looking him full in the face. "Apology accepted." She said with a wide grin.
Charlie shook his head, grinning. She was a weird one...
They walked up to the rest of the Ducks and began talking. Linda was walking by and saw Charlie walking over to the Ducks with Ellie. She immediately became suspicious. What was SHE doing there?
"Sorry we're late. Running on foot usually takes longer than roller blading. Remind me to remind Ellie to bring her skates next time. I don't know how much more of that I can handle." Charlie said with a playful grin.
Ellie gave him a playful glare in return. "How rude..." she said back, crossing her arms in mock-offense.
They all laughed and decided to walk on to class.
Linda watched from afar as Charlie and Ellie exchanged playful banter. She felt jealousy swell up from inside her. She would NOT let some other girl steal her boyfriend. Charlie was HER boyfriend, not Ellie's!
This meant war...
