A/N: Thank you for all the spectacular reviews, dolls! I just reread Raise Your Voice and even I hate Molly. Haha, how about some replies?
SMonkey6: Thank you! Getting a picture in your head is my main plan!
Danii: That's so sweet! No way am I better than any professional writer, but thank you so much!
Alright, are you ready for another Stevie vs. Molly showdown? Before I give it to you, I have a question. Anyone watch Footloose and/or have the movie on DVD? Even if it's the original, although I'd prefer the remake. If so, mind reviewing or PMing me what part comes after this one in the movie? This is the scene where Ren and Chuck have the tractor/bus race. I would really appreciate it if you remember and tell me! Anyways, hope you enjoy!
I don't own How to Rock or the Footloose plot.
[Zander]
Once we get home, Grace immediately hops out of the back seat and rushes inside. I stay put in the passenger seat and run my hand through my hair.
From the driver's seat, my dad starts, "Zander Robbins…"
I turn to him and interrupt, "I know, dad! That whole thing at the diner was stupid and illegal…."
I bite my bottom lip before adding, "But that's my life."
Dad drops his jaw in shock. I shake my head and continue, "I'm not going to lie to you. I might play piano, but I love playing my guitar and especially my ukulele. I love to sing. I want to make a career out of music, dad! There's no way in hell that I can do that under your supervision and all these damn restrictions!"
Dad points a finger at me and warns, "Watch that mouth."
I scoff, "Or what? You'll have me arrested for swearing?"
A look of disappointment spreads across his face, making me roll my eyes. He waits a few seconds before interrogating, "What does your sister have to do with this? Did you drag her into this world?"
I answer, "Gracie and I have been together on this since you created this stupid law! She loves to sing! Don't you remember how she would always want to go caroling for Christmas when her and I were kids? How she always sang so loud in the shower, not caring about who heard? It wasn't just a silly little thing she did on the side, dad. Both of us love music but we can't do anything about it because we have to maintain a goody-goody preacher's kid image!"
Dad flinches at my tone and mutters, "What am I going to do with you two?"
I unbuckle my seat belt, open the car door, and respond, "There's nothing to do, dad. This is it," before hopping out and joining Grace inside.
I take off my Aviators as I head into Danny Mango's. I walk up to the counter and look at the back of the employee with messily tied up hair and a navy blue beanie.
She must've heard me because she dully greets, "Welcome to Danny Mango's. What can I get for you?"
I tease, "That's not very good customer service, now is it?"
Stevie turns around and hisses, "What do you want, pretty boy?"
I chuckle and ignore her question. Instead, I question, "So, the chick that can't be tied down is serving smoothies for the man?"
Stevie laughs. "I'm just trying to pull my own weight around here. Are you going to order something?"
I smile and reply, "I'm here for you. This wasn't intentional, but it saves me a trip from having to talk to you at BHS (A/N: Brewster High School). Molly Garfunkel wants to see you at her daddy's racetrack after school at 4 pm."
She stands up straighter and asks, "What's going down at 4 pm?"
I wink as I say, "Show up and find out."
I take a few quarters out of my pocket then put it in the tip jar and add, "Get yourself something pretty."
I spin around and walk away. Before I step out of the doors, Stevie calls, "Why did she send you?"
I smirk and turn back to her. I slip on my Aviators and state, "I volunteered."
I cough at all the smoke coming out of Tony's cigarette.
Behind me, Molly says, "Watch he drinks and smoke. If is dad smells any of that on him, we're dead."
On my right, Dean carelessly throws his beer bottle on the sandy ground while Tony hops off the open tailgate of my truck and walks to the front of it. Finally, I see Stevie, Kevin, Nelson, Kacey, and Grace walk through the fence of the racetrack and over to us.
Molly hops off the hood of the truck and sneers, "Aw, Britney Spears brought her whole little High School Musical gang. Adorable."
I scoff, look over to Grace, and question, "What are you doing here, Gracie?"
She raises her eyebrows. "You think I'd leave Stevie alone with the devil and her crew?"
I shake my head and turn back to Stevie as she asks, "Why the hell am I here, Barbie?"
Molly narrows her eyes and explains, "Bus race. You, me, and my guys. Last one standing wins. Or is Hannah Montana too scared?"
Stevie chuckles and responds, "I'm ready to get down and dirty. I wouldn't want the princess to ruin her new manicure, though."
I laugh, as do Kevin and Nelson. Molly shoots me a look so I hold my hands up in defense.
She turns back to Stevie and commands, "Justin! Show Little Miss Rock-n-Roll to her bus."
Justin Cole, one of the jocks at school, walks over to Stevie, puts his right arm around her waist, and holds his left arm out all gentleman-like. With his track record, it's safe to say he's not. Stevie obviously realizes it because she scoffs as he leads her to the middle of the racetrack. I watch as his hand slides down to her belt.
"Keep your hands north of the equator."
Justin immediately retreats his hands and puts them behind his neck. I laugh and hop off of the tailgate. Kevin, Nelson, Grace, Kacey, Tony, Dean, Molly and I all follow them till we reach four buses. Tony hopped into white bus with graffiti on the sides while Dean went into the yellow one with a dragon on the left. I turn to my right and see Molly climb into the black one with yellow and orange flames. Stevie shrugs and walks into the remaining bus, not caring that it was pink and had stuffed animals hanging from the side.
Over the loud engines of the buses, she shouted, "What are the rules?"
Molly smirks and answers, "There are no rules!"
After Kevin, Nelson, Kacey, and Grace hop into the stands, I turn around and see Spencer Haynes in the driver's seat of my truck. I hop into the bed and stand as he drives around the track, the buses all following.
I bend my knees, lean over to the open window, and ask, "Where's the green flag?"
He shrugs. I groan and face the buses again. Thinking quickly, I take off my green shirt and swing it in the air.
Molly honks the horn of her bus and shouts, "Preacher's son, my ass!"
I laugh and swing my arm down, officially starting the race. Spencer stops the truck in front of the stands so I hop out and stand on the metal benches beside Nelson while putting on my shirt. In front of us, Kevin had his arm around Kacey as she and Grace were clutching the fence with fear in their eyes.
Trying to ease the air, I tell them, "Relax. The guys know what they're doing and Molly's dad owns the racetrack so she knows how to get around on one of these things."
The girls turned their heads to me, horror in their eyes.
Kacey yells, "Stevie's from New York, she doesn't drive! Everyone there walks and takes subways! She doesn't even have her license!"
Grace adds, "You expect her to survive a deadly race with three experienced truckers?"
I widen my eyes as all of us turn back to the racetrack. Molly and Tony's busses are on the side opposite of us while Dean and Stevie are passing by. Since Dean's driving on the outer side, it was easy for him to ram his truck into Stevie's, making hers jerk towards the middle.
Kevin shouts, "He's trying to get her killed!"
I watch as Stevie stops her bus and waits till Dean is in front of her until she starts up again. She rams the front of her bus into the back of his, making him jerk forward. Stevie turns her bus to the right so she's on the out and rams him from the side. While Stevie's catching up to Molly and Tony, Dean's bus swerves out of control until it reaches the center of the racetrack and shuts down. I laugh as he hops out and slams the door shut furiously.
Nelson states, "Stevie said she loved riding bumper cars when she was a kid."
Back on the track, Tony kept on driving around Stevie while Molly was way in front of them. When Tony was turning to the left, Stevie rammed him from the side, making his bus tip over right next to Dean's. As Stevie caught up to Molly, Tony slid out the window and walked over to Dean, both with pissed expressions on their faces.
When I notice Grace squint her eyes at Molly's bus, I question, "You okay, Gracie?"
She widens her eyes and yells, "Molly's not oven driving the damn thing, Justin is!"
All of us turn our attention to Molly's bus as she passes by and see Justin behind the steering wheel while Molly is beside him.
Kacey clenched her fist and starts, "That little..."
A scream cuts her off. We look at the two remaining buses and see Molly's bus ramming into the fence on the other side of the track. I widen my eyes but calm down when I see her and Justin walk out.
Kacey smiles brightly as Stevie's bus passes by us and exclaims, "The race is over! You won!"
With the loudness of the bus, Stevie didn't hear. When she drives by, I notice oil dripping out from the bottom. That can't be good.
Kevin questions, "Why isn't she stopping?"
I shrug but widen my eyes when I see smoke coming out of the back door of her bus.
I hop off the bench and run out into the racetrack shouting, "The bus is on fire!"
After nagging from Grace and Kacey, I hear Nelson and Kevin follow. We run after Stevie's bus, avoiding the fire coming from the back of it.
As we pass Molly's broken bus, she angrily yells, "Zander!"
I ignore her as I run up to the side of Stevie's bus. She opens up the doors when she sees me coming.
When I'm close enough, I yell, "Hit the brakes!"
She replies, "They're stuck!"
I grab onto one of the bars inside of the bus and hop in. After helping the guys inside, I kneel down by her feet and pull the brakes. It didn't budge, as if it were glued down.
I remember that Justin was messing around in here before Stevie showed up and stood up saying, "I'm going to kick that guy's ass!"
Nelson holds onto one of the bars in the back and exclaims, "You can't do that if we're dead!"
Kevin questions, "Um, are you aware that your bus is on fire?"
I turn my head around to see almost half of the inside of the bus on fire.
I turn back to Stevie and command, "Let me drive!"
She groans, hops out of the seat, and holds onto the pole beside it. I sit down in front of the steering wheel and steer the bus away from crashing into Molly's bus. I watch as Stevie tosses a fire extinguisher to Nelson who throws it to Kevin. When I turn back to the track, I see that we're about to crash into the stands where Grace and Kacey are.
The guys scream, "Turn!"
I jerk the wheel to the left, making Nelson slide over to the left of the bus and Stevie fall onto my lap.
Over the loud engine, I say, "I guess this is a bad time to mention that your hair smells really good!"
Stevie punches me in the shoulder and shouts, "You think?"
When she hops off of me, I realize that we've drove to the middle of the track and are about to crash into Tony and Dean's buses. Both of them run to the side when they see that we're coming towards them.
I widen my eyes and shout, "Jump!"
Kevin and Nelson run over to the door but stay on the steps.
Stevie yells, "Come on!"
I shake my head. She rolls her eyes and shouts, "I'm not going to be held responsible for your death so come on, pretty boy!"
Immediately, I hop out of the seat and tackle her out of the bus, taking the guys out also. When we land on the ground, I look up and see the bus crash into the other two, causing a giant fire. I look to my right and realize what kind of position I'm in with Stevie. I had my left arm around her waist while her back was pressed up against my chest.
She turns her head to me and says, "Thanks."
I pant a little and whisper, "No problem."
I turn my head to my left and see Molly storming towards us with her fists clenched.
I lean back on the sandy track moaning, "Oh no."
Nelson stands up and exclaims, "Let's do that again!"
Like? Hate? I tried fitting in as much Zeviness as I could. If you own the original or remake Footloose DVD or you remember what happens after the bus/tractor race, please PM or review it to me! Be sure to tell me your thoughts in your reviews!(:
