Ok. I'm still alive. I have had my first case of writer's block. With the school year about to end I have to get ready for high school next year. I may, just to warn you, not have any new chapters up until the new school year. Sorry.
Disclaimer: I own Dittaly Squat. Literally. He's sitting right here next to me. Hi!
Chapter Six
The next day, Mari told Elle she could go. They spent the rest of the day talking about the carnival and different things. Sometimes Kevin would join them. Mari and Joey still gave each other the cold shoulder. At the end of the day, they all walked home with not too heavy backpacks. Elle gave Mari her phone number so they could talk later.
The rest of the evening was somewhat normal; Richard came home late, so they ordered pizza and watched TV like normal people would do. Right after Mari finished her pizza, Elle called. Most of the time, unless it was Cam, Ivy, Charlie, or Ryan, Mari would try to get off as fast as she could, yet Mari and Elle talking almost all night. The only thing that stopped them was Elle's mom yelling at her to get off the phone. After getting off the phone, she laid down in bed and started thinking about the carnival until she fell asleep.
The next morning, Richard made waffles. Right after breakfast Mari did her chores (which didn't take that long), and Elle called to make their plans for that night.
Later that night, around six, the Graysons left their house to go to the carnival. It too about five minutes to get to the pier were the carnival was being held. Mari looked like a little kid, as a little kid, she ran right out of the car toward the pier.
It didn't take that long to get through the crowd toward the water gun booth that Elle was working. As soon as Mari saw Elle, she waved at her. Elle waved back at her right before she jumped over the counter and was yelled at by the adult watching her. Right before Elle ran over to Mari and her parents, she waved some people over.
"Hey, Mari. You must be Mr. and Mrs. Grayson. I'm Elle; it's nice to meet you," Elle said, introducing herself to Mari's parents. Mari was shocked at how politely Elle was speaking. "I would like to introduce you to my parents," Elle started as two people started to come into view. She was going to introduce them until Kori interrupted them.
"Rachel?!" Kori almost shouted. Rachel stopped. For the first time many people had ever seen Rachel smiled. She handed Gar her purse before running to Kori and hugging her. Gar was trying to catch up to her when he saw Richard.
While this was going on, Elle and Mari were off to the side staring at their parents. "Oh, my gawd!" they said at the same time.
"My mom just smiled," Elle said, staring at their moms before looking at Mari.
"My mom always acts like that," Mari said, looking humiliated.
Back with the parents, who were catching up with what each other missed. Rachel went back to her usual look, no smile, though she was really happy. Rachel and Gar told Kori and Richard that they were married. You probably could have knocked Kori and Richard over with a feather for about twenty seconds before they regained their posture and congratulated Rachel and Gar late for it.
"Wait. So you guys know each other?" Mari asked, looking socked at the parents and looking back at Elle for help.
"Yes. Why do you look so surprised?" Rachel asked the kids. Before the girls could answer, four more people walked up. Two of the four looked strangely familiar…
"Hey Elle. Hey Mari." Kevin said walking up with his mom, his dad, and Joey. "Elle, shouldn't you be at the booth?"
"Oh shoot! Mari, want to come with?" Elle said as she started running toward the booth. Mari followed her.
"Later Mom, Bye Dad," she called back.
"Hey Rach, Gar. Who are you talking to?" Vic asked, looking behind them to see who it was. As soon as he looked, he saw red hair. "Kori?"
"Vic? Oh my gosh!" She hugged him," Karen, how have you been." They all went on just like earlier. The boys starter to back off slowly and quietly toward the rides and booths.
The girls were sitting around talking because Elle didn't have any more customers, when some big jocks came up and started making fun of Elle and flirting with Mari.
"Look, buys," Mari started saying, reaching behind her, "why don't we have a blast?" She finished before squirting them with the high powered water gun. Some people started to look (part of them being the parents). By the time Mari stopped squirting them, the water had pushed them to the strength tester. The leader of the group landed on the platform and set the little ball straight up till it hit the bell. By then, a lot of people were staring at them. When the bell rang, people started laughing. Mari and Elle high-fived each other and laughed until their parents started walking up to them. They stopped and looked like deer in the headlights. They knew that this could only mean one thing: they were I trouble.
"Arella Marie Logan!"
"Mari Robin Luna Grayson!" both mothers yelled. People started to go back to their own businesses. "You two are in so much trouble," Rachel said, scaring both the girls and others. "First, would you like to tell us what happened?"
"Well, these boys came over and started messing with us and flirting with Mari, so she blasted them with the water gun and squirted them with it," Elle said, hoping the adults would believe her.
"What she said," Mari added.
"We'll talk about this later, young lady," Rachel said. Kori nodded in agreement. Both girls hung their heads low until the parents left. As soon as they were out of ear shot, the two girls started to laugh really hard.
"Hey, lunatics!" Kevin yelled. "Your shift is done, do you want to ride the Ferris wheel? Joey is coming as soon as he wins something form that booth." He pointed toward the Ferris wheel.
"Shoot. Hold on, I have to get tickets," Elle said when they started walking toward the Ferris wheel.
"Dang, you're right. I need some too. Mari, could you maybe go and get Joey and stop him from spending his life saving?" Kevin said while the two of them walked off, not giving Mari any time to eject the question.
As she walked over to the booth she could hear Joey say things like "I'm the star quarter back, I should be able to hit ten little bottles down." and "My dad can do this, why can't I?" When she reached him, he was laying down more money and getting more balls.
"So Hotshot, trying to buy the booth?" Mari asked with a smirk on her face.
"Ha ha Very funny. Why are you over here?" Joey said throwing a ball. He hit the back tarp.
"'Cause we're all riding the Ferris wheel and the others wanted me to get you before you spent every last thing you own," Mari said, watching him miss the next two throws. "Let me make a deal with you. If I can knock over all of the cans, you start being somewhat nice to me and you come ride the ride with us, and if I don't, I really don't care what you do and you can spend all of your money. Deal?"
"Deal," Joey said, knowing that she probably wouldn't knock them over.
"Three please," Mari said, putting down money. They first toss hit the first one. Joey laughed. This was going to be an easy deal. After hearing Joey laugh, Mari got really confident with herself. She brought back the ball, aimed it, and really threw it hard. She threw it so hard, it knocked down the bottles and it went through the tarp.
"WINNER!!" the man behind the booth shouted. "Here's your prize, Little Lady." He handed her a big stuffed chicken. "Here, tell them you finally won it." Mari said, handing it to Joey.
"Aww, but I really wanted the big dog," Joey said, purposely trying to bug Mari. Mari started to walk away toward the others, who were saving a place for them in line. When she passed Joey, she hit him on the back of the head.
"Sorry. Joey wanted one last try at the booth. He actually won something," Mari said. Joey gave her a look that said "When did this happen?" The line started to move. When a cart came by, the guy put Elle and Kevin on it. When Mari went to go sit with them, the guy told her that there was two to a seat. The next one came and Mari was forced to sit with Joey and his new chicken. Things went pretty smoothly and quietly. When they reached the top, the ride jerked to a stop. "What the heck? Why did we stop?" Mari asked looking around.
"Look. Just look out that way." Joey said pointing out toward the ocean. Right before Mari could ask him what he was talking about, fireworks went off out off of the coast. Mari just stared in awe. She loved fireworks, just like her mom. The whole time Mari was looking at the fireworks, Joey looked at her and saw a really beautiful smile on her face. Mari turned and saw him looking at her. She blushed. "What are you looking at?" She asked a little rudely to try to hide the blush on her face.
"Uh, nothing, just I thought that I saw a fight over there. It was nothing," he replied hiding the blush that crept onto his face. "Here comes the finale!" He yelled, trying to distract her. Mari and Joey both watched as the fireworks fired off right after another.
Back down on the ground, the parents went to different areas. Kori and Richard walked off toward the pier. They walked hand in hand. "I'm happy that you talked me into this," Richard said, kissing Kori's hand. "Do you know what this reminds me of?"
"You mean the time I was taken by a purple glop thing, my sister came, tried to takeover my life then set me up so I was almost arrested by intergalactic police?"
"Well, no. I meant the carnival before were I think that I may have started falling in love with you.
Kori laughed. "Yes. Hey look, firework!" She exclaimed happily. She loved fireworks. While Kori watched the fireworks, Richard looked around a little. He looked toward the Ferris wheel and saw at the very top Mari was with someone. 'It looks like Gar and Rachel's boy. Um, Joey, I think.' he thought. Right when he was about to start think of ways to get rid of him, he hears Kori squeal happily. He looked and saw the finale start. Richard started to smile when he saw Kori smile. He completely forgot what he what thinking about.
When the Ferris wheel finally restarted, they got off. Elle and Kevin thought that Joey and Mari were starting to act a little weird. "So what are you going to do with the giant chicken, Joe?" Elle asked finally paying attention to the chicken Joey was carrying.
"Oh, right. I forgot. I'm going to send it to Clair," He said.
Mari looked at him. "Cool, just one quick question. Who's Claire?" Mari asked.
"Claire is a friend of ours. She moved away right before you moved in. Also she's Joey's girlfriend," Elle said, sounding like it really wasn't a big deal. Mari felt a little sad, though she didn't know why. "Hey, there are the adults." The adults all started to walk toward the kids. They all told each other good night. Elle and Mari made plans to meet tomorrow. Mari went straight to bed as soon as she got home and couldn't wait for the next day.
That's the chapter.
If anyone can gusse what episode I kind of based this chapter off of, you get the title of Teen Titans Episode Know-It-All. Also, if Rachel being ooc bothers anyong, I apologise.
