Forever Together
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Twilight characters or anything Twilight related.
Thanksgiving & Black Fridays
Present Time:
Lucas's POV
The women were aweing at the story of my date with Meghan.
"That was so cute!" Nessie said.
"How do you guys always come up with these romantic things?" Alice asked jumping up and down from where she's sitting.
"Okay I admit that was really sweet of you for what you did for Meghan." Krystal said kindly.
"Thanks beautiful." I smiled.
"You are crazy Lucas just to see Meghan and end up getting sick." Tiffany laughed.
"Hey nothing wrong with a man to show how much he loves his girl." Emmett stated.
"Nice of you to find your way around Mark's loop." Carlisle chuckled.
"And I thought Charlie was the one who has problems accepting to let their daughters to have boyfriends." Edward chuckled. You're one to talk Edward.
"Well the only difference between him and Mark is that Mark doesn't own a gun but he could file a restraining order on me." I said as everyone laughed.
"I'm sure Charlie would've done that to me a long time ago." Edward laughed.
"So what else happened in your human life?" Bella asked me.
"Let's see here," I thought. "I remember doing the SATs and having a bonding night with my teammates where we watch Hot Rod and played Zombie tag,"
"What's zombie tag?" Nessie asked.
"It's a really fun game. I'll show you guys later tonight how to play and maybe we could play it vampire style." I said.
"Oh I definitely wanna play that game!" Emmett said excitedly.
"I'm in." Jasper said.
"Me too!" Nessie said.
"I wanna play!" Lucina said and it looks like everyone is in.
"Okay so back to your story." Jacob said. "What else happened?"
"Oh tell them about that time on Black Friday in Portland you told me." Tiffany laughed.
"Ooh, what happened?!" Alice asked excited. Of course anything that involves shopping, Alice would definitely want to hear it.
"It was brutal even though I enjoy shopping but not like this." I said. "And then there were things that I wish Tiffany didn't brought up. God, I thought I was gonna die. Okay so my family and I celebrated Thanksgiving with my mom's family in Portland…"
November 26th 2014
"How the flight went?" Meghan asked.
"Went by smoothly." I answered on the phone. "A little chilly but the weather is nice."
"I miss you already." Meghan said sadly. "I didn't get to see you before you left."
"I know, I'm sorry babe," I said sincerely. "But my practice ended at four thirty and my family and I had to catch our flight an hour after. Again I'm sorry."
"It's okay, I understand." Meghan said.
"Hey, I promise I'll buy you something during the Black Friday sale," I said. "And when I get back to Washington, the first thing I'll do is see you."
"I look forward to that." Meghan said happily. "I love you."
"I love you too Meggy bear." I said and I can tell that Meghan blushed when she said,
"Lucas, stop." She said making me chuckle.
"I'll call you later." I said and we both hung up afterwards.
My family and I just got off our flight from Seattle to Portland where we are spending Thanksgiving with my mom's family. As I explained to Meghan, we had to go to the airport straight after I was done with swim practice. We were riding up the escalator with our luggage behind us when we made the top. There they were waiting for us with smiles on their faces.
"There they are!" My grandpa Dan said.
"Mom, dad, it's so good to see you again." Mom cried hugging her parents with tears in her eyes.
"It's good to see you as well." Grandma Julianna said hugging mom back fighting off her tears. "We miss you so much!"
"Oh so you don't miss me or the kids?" Dad teased as I chuckled. Grandma let go of mom and smiled at dad, Lilly and I.
"How could I not miss you guys?" She said giving us a hug as grandpa happily did the same after hugging mom.
"There's my favorite grandson." Grandpa said giving me the one arm hug.
"How's it going pops?" I asked gently thumping his back.
"Man, look at you Lucas," Grandpa said taking a good at me. "You've grown since the last time we saw you, and you're graduating this year?"
"That's correct." I smiled.
"Oh my goodness Lucas, every time I see you, you become more handsome than ever." Grandma said grabbing and feeling my face which I wish she didn't do it in public. "And where is that beautiful girlfriend of yours, Meghan? I was really hoping she would come this year."
"She's with her family back in Washington but she sends her best wishes to you." I said knowing how disappointed grandma is for not getting to meet 'her future granddaughter-in-law.' One word about me having a girlfriend and you would think she hears wedding bells already.
"Where is everyone?" Lilly asked looking around as we started walking to the parking lot.
"They are all back home where they are very excited to see you." Grandma answered as we made it to their blue minivan. I think excited is an understatement when we arrived at my grandparents' house an hour later and walked through the front door and when my grandma said 'they,' she meant my cousins. We all came inside where I got attacked by the four little minions.
"Lucas!" They cried happily as they all tried to hug me at once.
"Howard, Hugo, Vivian, Kayden, nice to see you guys but you need to work on the hellos." I said trying to keep my balance while hugging my cousins.
"I'm sorry Lucas," My mom's younger sister Aunt Diana said after hugging my mom. "I thought I raised those two better." She said mentioning eight year old Howard and seven year old Hugo.
"And you know how much Vivian and Kayden love you so much." My Aunt Christina, mom's youngest sister, said as her five year old son let's go of me along with her seven year old daughter who went to hug Lilly.
"Yeah I can see that." I said. "Okay which one you guys took my wallet?" I asked when I felt emptiness from my back pocket.
"Hugo." Aunt Diana scolded as Hugo laughed handing me back my black wallet. "Again, I am so sorry about him."
"No worries Aunt Diana," I said waving it off. "I know Hugo can be such a jokester."
"Alright kids," Grandma said. "Let's let Lucas and his family get settled and have dinner. We got a big holiday to celebrate tomorrow and then we got a big day Friday morning." Friday, my parents, Aunt Diana and Christina and their husbands Buster and Troy, Aunt Diana's oldest daughter sixteen year old Anastasia, Buster's seventeen year old brother Dustin and I will be going shopping for the big Black Friday sale and you know how crazy Black Fridays get.
On Thursday the next day, Thanksgiving with my family is amazing. We spent the day taking family photos, Thursday night football watching the Seahawks take on the Broncos, talk about random things or keeping an update on what's going on in each other's lives and of course devouring the Thanksgiving dinner that includes stuffing filled turkey, steamy mashed potatoes, salad and grandma's special soup. You can say that I would've passed out right after that. I'm surprised that I didn't explode.
"Okay Lucas, you better get off to bed." Grandma said an hour after Aunt Diana, Aunt Christina and their families left to return to their homes. "You got a busy day tomorrow with what to buy and stuff." She said leading me to my guest room. "Get some sleep sweetheart."
"Sure thing grandma. Goodnight." I said closing the door behind me once I'm in the room.
I felt as though I barely lay down to sleep on the guest bed when I was being shaken awake by dad.
"Come on Lucas, time to get ready." He whispered. I slowly sat up and opened my eyes just enough to see the clock reads four in the morning.
"That early?" I asked groggily.
"Yeah, now come on, you need to get dress." Dad said as I groaned and flopped myself back down where my head hit the pillow and I closed my eyes. I heard my dad sighed and then the sound of metal being picked up. Without warning, I yelped when something cold splashed over my body after the covers were yanked away from me causing me to bolt up and use my arms to cover my shirtless chest as my body was shaken from the coldness. I looked at my dad to see him chuckling with a small bucket in his hand.
"Seriously dad?!" I asked.
"Hey, you're the one who refuses to get up." Dad said smirking.
"Well thanks a lot." I said sarcastically. "Now I'm wide awake to go back to sleep."
"That's the general idea." Dad chuckled. "Now seriously Lucas, get your lazy ass off of bed, get dress and then quickly eat breakfast. We got a long day shopping for us." We do have a long day indeed. With many stores we planned to go and things we wanted to buy or see things that catch our eye, we'll be shopping until one of us starts dropping.
We spent the morning going to Target, Sears & Walmart where we bought some clothes on sale, house items and lots of toys for the kids and that's only part one of the trip. The big trip is at the capitol mall where all the good stuffs are at Best Buys, JC Penny, Macy's, Kohl, Sports department and many others. I hope I can find something good to buy for Meghan.
We arrived at the capitol mall at around one after we had lunch and we saw the place swarming with customers from all stores getting what they want. You would think the place would be less crowded after this morning.
"Well then, let's hope all the good stuff isn't taken." Dad said looking around at where to start.
"I think we should go to Best Buys first." Aunt Christina suggested.
"Mom, Jaxon and Kathy are here. Can I go with them?" Anastasia asked Aunt Diana.
"Yeah can I go too Buster? Shailene and I are supposed to shop together here." Dustin said.
"Okay, you can go ahead and go with your friends but meet us here when you're done." Aunt Diana said.
"And Lucas has to come with you guys." Dad said.
"What why?" Dustin asked. Yeah why am I dragged into this?
"Someone has to be in charge of you. Not to mention to watch you guys from anyone trying to jack your stuff." Dad said. Okay now that is a good point about all these crazy shoppers willing to do anything to get what they want.
"But I'm the uncle to these two." Dustin stated.
"But Lucas is of age before you." Uncle Buster pointed out looking amused.
"Okay that is so not fair." Dustin complained.
"Hey, just be thankful that we're still in high school and we act like teenagers." I said.
"Good point." Dustin said.
"So, are we okay with Lucas going with you guys?" Aunt Diana asked.
"Sure, I could use some extra hands." Anastasia said.
"As long as I can use one of my hands for the gift I need to find for Meghan." I said.
"I'm sure you'll manage." Mom said. "Just make sure nothing happens to those two and be back here in three hours."
"I'll do that mom and come on, you know you have nothing to worry about." I said.
"That's what you said on Halloween and looked how that turned out when I saw you on TV jumping out of the three story mansion." Mom said.
"Oh man Lucas, you were hilarious on TV." Dustin said as I punched him on the shoulder.
"Mom, I'm positive that everything will be fine." I assured her and we went our separate ways in the big mall. Five minutes later Anastasia, Dustin and I found three people who must be Jaxon, Kathy and Shailene waiting by the fountain.
"There you two are." Kathy said as she ran to hug Anastasia. She let go and then saw me with an interest look. "And who's this?" She asked as Anastasia went to kiss Jaxon.
"This is Anastasia's cousin and my nephew Lucas." Dustin said putting his arm around Shailene. "Lucas, this is my girl Shailene, Jaxon, Anastasia's boyfriend and her best friend Kathy."
"Hi, do you have a girlfriend?" Kathy said coming up to me.
"Hi and yes I do actually." I said in surprise by Kathy's sudden approach.
"Kathy, quit hitting on my cousin or else all the good stuff will be gone!" Anastasia said. Thank you.
"Well what are we waiting for, let's go." Kathy said excitedly as she tried to take my hand which I avoided by pulling it away to scratch my head. We spent the first hour going through stores and bought some new clothes at JC Penny, American Eagle and Old Navy. We didn't buy a lot with the budget we have with us. Why do you think we have part-time jobs apart from getting money for our upcoming college tuition? We have to learn about how to use money right? After the first hour of shopping, we took a break and sat down on the benches setting down our bags. There was nothing much in my bag; just two new shirts and a pair of jeans.
"I'm down to thirty dollars left." Anastasia said taking a peek at her purse and then turned to Kathy. "What about you?"
"I got twenty left." She answered.
"I got fifteen on me." Jaxon said.
"Same here." Shailene said.
"I'm left with five." Dustin said. "How much do you have Lucas?"
"I only got two hundred on my debit card right now." I said.
"Do you think you could spare some for me? I'll pay you back." Anastasia asked hopefully.
"No, I need them to buy a gift for my girlfriend." I said.
"Oh my gosh Lucas, you didn't have to buy something for me!" Kathy said happily as she went over to hug me. What is with this girl?
"Not you," I said gently getting her arms off me. "Meghan."
"What did you save two hundred dollars for?" Anastasia asked.
"Something to make up to Meghan since she didn't get a chance to see me before I came here." I said.
There was one gift I saw at the mall that caught my interest. During our trip, I stopped at this jewelry store and saw this Charm Diamond Star inside Heart Cute Studs/Earrings in display on sale. It's beautiful the way it sparkles into the light and perfect for Meghan. I was about to go in there and buy it but the excitement on my face fell when I saw the price. The pair is worth four thousand dollars and there was no way I could afford it even with my upcoming paycheck from Starbucks. That ruined the moment. Well I could always imagine the look on Meghan's face when she sees them and picture the way she looks wearing it.
"Hey whose bag is this?" Jaxon asked pulling out a small black bag from inside some plants that must have been sticking out.
"It's not mine." Shailene said showing her purple bag.
"Nor mine." Kathy said and Anastasia said the same as they both show their pink bags.
"Yeah mines the blue one." I said pointing at mine.
"Well what's in it anyway?" Dustin asked in curiosity. Jaxon took a peek inside the bag to see what's inside and at that moment, his eyes widened in shock.
"Holy crap!" He said. Before we could ask Jaxon what it is, he reached into the bag and pulled out something that made our eyes bulge out of its sockets.
"What the, is that money?!" I asked as we all stared at the huge wad of cash in Jaxon's hand with our mouths hanging open.
"Well obviously it looks like it," Jaxon said as he raised the money to his nose and took a whiff of the big lump of green paper. "Smells like," He then took it to his ear and let it flap all the way down the air. "Sounds like it too. And if my estimation is correct, I say we're looking at $40,000, if you give or take a hundred." Forty thousand dollars?
"Oh my gosh, do you know how much stuff we could buy with this money?" Anastasia asked as I quickly looked around to check that no one's listening.
"We could practically buy the whole mall." Kathy said.
"Wait a minute you guys, this isn't even our money." Shailene said. "I mean some poor person must have lost it. We have to return it." I hate to say it but she does bring up a good point. It's not right to take things that doesn't belong to you even if involves money that's this big.
"Shailene come on, what kinda poor person has $40,000?" Dustin asked as if his girlfriend lost her mind. He does bring up a good point too. I mean come one, $40,000? Who would just leave behind that amount of money?
"Well if they weren't poor before they're poor now." Jaxon said examining the money. As we continue looking at the money, I felt something off about it but I can't quite put my finger on what it is that doesn't feel right and it has nothing to do with being guilty for tempting to take someone's money.
"We can't keep it. This is someone's money." Shailene stated. "Lucas, back me up here." She said to me. That's when the rest turned to me. Oh man, I hate confrontation.
"Uh well, it is crazy to find money that big lying around in the mall," I said nervously as I ran a hand through my hair.
"See, that's five against one. We win!" Dustin said triumphantly.
"But this isn't ours guys."I finished. "Someone must be on their way back to find it."
"You're no nephew of mine!" Dustin said to me as Shailene smiled at my statement.
"Oh come on you two," Anastasia complained. "You're not at least a bit curious at what you would buy with this money?"
"Yeah come on babe," Dustin said as he took the money out of Jaxon's hand and held it to Shailene's face. "I saw how you much wanted to buy that purple strapless dress back in Macy's and I know you would look great in it when I take you out next week."
Shailene looked like she was struggling to resist the temptation as Dustin waved the money left and right with Shailene's eyes focused on it as if she were watching a hypnotist holding out a watch letting it swing in front of their eyes.
"Give me five hundred of it." She finally said. Well so much for doing the right thing. I thought.
"And Lucas," Jaxon took the money back from Dustin and held it up to me. "Don't you wanna buy something for your girl? I know that whatever it is you're gonna get, she will love it."
"Yeah I'll love you forever!" Kathy said but I didn't listen to her as I stare at the money and felt as if it was staring back at me.
I could feel as if the money is giving out some sort of scent to lure me into its hands and I would walk right into it with no control of my will. Oh crap, I'm in such a bind. If I use the money, I could buy those diamond earrings for Meghan. The look on her face will forever be in my memory that I will never forget as she tells me how much she loves me and will pass on the story forever and ever. Then there's the part of taking the money that could get us in trouble since it belongs to someone else. Who knows what the person, whoever he or she is, will do to us. Then again, this is $40,000 that has been left around by some random person by the looks of it and whoever the owner is hasn't come back already. Well what's the worst that could happen?
"Okay but we're not using up the whole thing and this doesn't get out to our parents." I said and everyone gave out a yes of agreement and soon we took off and went on a killer shopping spree.
We spent the next hour going through every store we went to get what we want while I did my best to make sure everyone limits the profits. Throughout the stores, the girls bought new clothes, shoes, dresses, makeup and other things girls buy while us guys bought some sneakers, new video games and some CDs.
"Oh my gosh look at all the stuff we bought." Anastasia said happily as we carried our bags to our next destination.
"And that was only worth ten thousand." Jaxon said.
"Let's go here." Kathy said excitedly at our next stop and what we arrived at made my eyes widened in horror.
"Oh hell no we are not going in there!" Dustin said stopping right in his tracks at the sight of Victoria's Secret.
"I'm with him on that." I said.
"Same here!" Jaxon said as the girls giggled.
"Fine, you boys can stay outside while we girls look for something hot to wear but we're taking the money." Kathy said.
"Can you hurry up? I need to get to this jewelry store before they sell the thing I wanted." I said.
"Don't worry, we won't be long." Anastasia said and with that, she and the other two went inside.
"Don't go overboard in there." I called.
"Whatever you say Luke." Anastasia called as I rolled my eyes. I hate to meet someone who goes way overboard with shopping than Anastasia. (A/N: Too bad he met Alice. Hahaha.)
Dustin, Jaxon and I just stood near the store and took a look at what we bought making sure we didn't leave anything behind. I hope our parents don't question us about how we were able to afford such things. I was looking through my bags that held my new clothes, dark blue Vans shoes, the new Just Dance and Pokémon X video games, The Weeknd's Beauty Behind The Madness and Fetty Wap's self-titled CDs and new speakers when I heard voices.
"It has to be around here somewhere." I looked up and saw to my left two guys coming in our direction. One short guy had sandy hair while the tall one had black curly hair both wearing black leather jackets and my cops senses started reacting to them. That can't be good.
"Guys," I whispered to Dustin and Jaxon who looked at me. I pointed at the two men and they took the hint at what I'm talking about. "Act natural." Jaxon quickly took out his phone and pretended to be texting as Dustin and I faked a conversion. The two leather jacket men stopped and we were able to hear the conversation.
"I knew we shouldn't have left that money back in the sitting area but you said we should leave it there and we'll come back to it later." The sandy hair guy said in frustration. Oh please don't me they're talking about the money that we found, and spent.
"Well how was I supposed to know they would actually stumble across it in the plants I hid Harley?" The tall black hair guy asked. Shit!
"They're shoppers Al. They'll do anything to get what they want." The guy named Harley said. "I swear when we find the ones who took our money, they'll be dead, literally." All three of us simultaneously gulped as Harley and Al walked away searching for… us.
"Did you guys hear that?" I whispered.
"Yeah I heard, and it's not good." Jaxon said. This must be what my cop senses were trying to tell me. Those two must be part of a mob or something and we're in the middle of their schemes.
"Okay whose idea was it to go ahead and spend someone's money? OW!" Dustin cried when I smacked him in the head.
"We gotta warn the girls." I said.
"I'm not going in there." Dustin stated.
"Me neither." Jaxon said holding out his hands in surrender.
"Well it certainly won't be me." I said. No way would the guys back home let me live this down.
"Okay, then let's put it to a vote," Dustin said.
"Lucas." Dustin and Jaxon said before I even got the chance to speak.
"Ugh, fine!" I said and walked into the place with my bags in my hands where I wished someone would just put me out of my misery. The place was filled with pink and red lingeries, nighties and many other beauty products. I hid my face so that no girls would see me as I walked up outside the changing room.
"Stasia, Kathy, Shailene, you girls in there?" I whispered loud enough for them to hear.
"Lucas? What are you doing in here?" Anastasia giggled. Yeah that's just what I needed.
"Did you come in here to see how we look? We do need someone's opinion." Shailene said sounding very amused. I'd rather run around the mall in my underwear.
"Do you wanna see what I got on?" Kathy asked excitedly.
"No!" I said not wanting her to come out in whatever she's trying on. I heard another giggle but it was not coming from Anastasia, Kathy or Shailene. I turned to see two girls giggling at me. Oh God just kill me from where I'm standing!
"That's not why I'm here." I whispered to them. "We got a huge problem on our hands."
"What's so big that made you come inside this store?" Anastasia asked.
"The guys and I were outside and saw two men in leather jackets walking by looking for the money," I explained. "The money that we found."
"What!" The curtains flew open and I had to cover my eyes to avoid seeing what the girls are wearing.
"You can't be serious." Kathy said.
"They couldn't be talking about the money we have now." Anastasia said.
"Do you think I just came in here if it wasn't important?" I asked.
"What are we gonna do?" Shailene asked.
"Look, just change back into your clothes, grab your belongings and meet us outside. Don't lose the money." I said and once the girls went back into the changing rooms, I removed my eyes and went back outside to Dustin and Jaxon who were keeping a lookout for Harley and Al. The girls soon came out five minutes later.
"Do you have the money?" I asked.
"Yeah it's in here." Anastasia said as she handed me the small black bag that came out of her pink one.
"There it is Al!" Crap! We turned to see Harley and Al coming back to us and they saw us with the bag of money.
"Hold it right there kids!" Al said.
"RUN!" I said and we all broke off running away from the two as they started coming after us. We all ran as fast as we could with the bags in our hands as we ran through the crowd and past the fountain where we met earlier. Luckily for us, Harley and Al were way behind but they're still chasing us. These guys just won't quit. We soon saw an escalator up ahead and started running up the stairs. Once we reached the top, we looked around at where to go next.
"Over there you guys." I said pointing at Old Navy and we started running towards it just as we saw Harley and Al arriving at the foot of the escalator. We entered Old Navy where there weren't many people. I saw an empty changing room big enough for all of us to hide. We quickly ran inside the room and quickly shut the door and locked it. A few seconds later, some hurried footsteps, no doubt from the leather jacket duo, ran passed us as we held our breaths.
"They're not here." Al yelled.
"Let's go to the next store." Harley said. We all waited a few seconds until we heard that those two left the store and all let out a breath of relief.
"We shouldn't have spent their money." Shailene said.
"Well we didn't want this money to fall into the wrong hands now do we?" Dustin asked.
"We are in the wrong hands!" I stated in a freak out tone.
"I knew we should've left it where we found it." Shailene said and then turned to Kathy and Anastasia. "Why did you girls have to be so greedy?" She does have a good point as the guys and I agreed with her.
"Don't blame us. Jaxon was the one who was being so nosy and founded it." Anastasia said. Good point as well. I thought as we rounded on him.
"Why me? If there's anyone to blame, it's Lucas." Jaxon said. Wait what!
"Hold on, how could you say that this is my fault?" I asked when everyone ganged up on me.
"You're the one who's in charge of us." Dustin pointed out. "You were supposed to be responsible about what to do."
"Me?! You guys were the ones who bribed me and Shailene into this predicament!" I said and that's when everyone started arguing fighting over whose fault it is. We froze where we're at when someone in heels walked passed us. We resumed where we left off and I realized that this was getting us nowhere.
"Hold it!" I said causing everyone to stop. "This is no time to be fighting. We have to find a way out of this before our parents find out."
"And how do we do that oh great leader?" Dustin asked me.
"Why can't we just put the money back where we found it and meet up with our parents hoping that we get out before those thugs find us?" Kathy asked.
"They'll probably be expecting us to do that." Shailene said.
"We have to find a way to return the money without getting killed." Jaxon said.
"Well does anyone else have a great idea?" Anastasia asked.
"I think I have one." I said and everyone looked at me. "We find the security officer, tell them we found the money and those bozos are after us and hopefully they don't question us too much and stop them."
"Why can't we just tell your dad, I mean he's a police officer, right? OW!" Dustin cried when Shailene smacked his head.
"First of all, what part of finding a way out of this without our parents knowing did you not understand?" I asked.
"Oh right." Dustin said.
"And second of all, have you lived with my dad?" I asked. Not that I ever would do something bad but I would never get away with my dad knowing especially from his cop senses which reminds me; I need to remind everyone to act natural when we meet up with our parents so that dad won't be able to notice.
"Oh yeah, sorry." Dustin said.
"So are we all agreeing to my plan?" I'll take that as a yes since everyone nodded their heads. "Okay, let's move." I opened the door and checked if those two are still out there. Once the coast was clear, we left Old Navy and rushed down the elevator and so far we didn't run into Harley or Al. We continued searching for security until we finally found a guy with grey hair in his early fifties sitting at the food court wearing his security uniform.
"Officer, officer," I said as we approached him. The officer named Gary jumped when he was about to eat his jelly filled doughnut when I called him out. "Thank goodness we've found you."
"We need your help." Anastasia said.
"Look, there are two guys in leather jackets in a mob chasing after us." Dustin explained.
"They want this money that we found and wanna kill us just because of it." Kathy said as I held out the black bag to show Office Gary.
"Um, kids, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm on break." Officer Gary said. "Come back in ten minutes." Are you kidding me? My dad or Charlie, or Logan or Carlos or James are more professional than that even on break. Shailene pulled Officer Gary out of his seat away from his snack.
"By then we'll be balled to a chain and end up sleeping with the fishes." Shailene begged.
"We're talking about dead ones just so you know." I said.
"Okay, okay, my breaks over." Officer Gary said straightening his uniform. "Now what can I do for you all?" The girls screamed as the guys and I jumped when we saw Harley and Al running to us. The two of them stopped when they saw us with the cop. Good.
"Save us from those guys!" Jaxon cried pointing at those two as we all got closed to Officer Gary.
"Why should I?" We all looked at Officer Gary in confusion and then he smiled. "I'm with them." Say what!
"What!" I said as we all gasped and jumped away from him as if he were a ticking time bomb.
"I want my mommy!" Dustin cried. Too bad his and Buster's mother along with their father passed away.
"Alright kids, hand over the dough." Harley demanded.
"Okay, okay, here. Here's your money." I said carefully handing Al the black bag. Hopefully they're not gonna check the bag now and see that we already spent a quarter of it. "Here you go. See ya." I said quickly as we turned away and was about to make a run for it.
"Hold on kids," Harley yelled causing all six of us to stop where we are. Shit, they found out. We slowly turned to see Al looking through the bag as Harley said, "You're not going anywhere."
"We're dead!" All three of the girls cried as they held on to each other for dear life. Man and just when I promised mom again that there's nothing to worry about.
"No kids," Al said as he and Harley smiled. "You're on Candid Video!" Say what now! I thought as the cameraman and the guy holding the boom mic appeared and came to us. "Wave to everyone at home."
"You mean the television show?" Anastasia asked as we all just stared into the camera waving awkwardly.
"Wait, so you're saying that you've been filming the whole thing?" Dustin asked Harley and Al as they nod their heads.
"That's right." Harley said. "The money at the sitting area, the changing room you guys were hiding, Victoria's Secret, everywhere you guys went to." Wait, they filmed me going into Victoria's Secret? Great, now everyone will never gonna let me live this down. Someone else soon appeared and my eyes widened when I recognized the guy's smiling expression.
"Hey Lucas, funny seeing you here." Dylan Wilde smiled walking up to me.
"You again?!" I said in disbelief. "You're the host of this show too?"
"Yeah crazy, right?" Dylan said facing the camera as he stood next to me with his hand on my shoulder.
"Unbelievable, I wasn't wearing my best outfit." Kathy complained.
"And for being guests on our show," Officer Gary said. "Candid Video is letting you keep the money you found as your grand prize." He said as Al handed me back the black bag where the $30,000 money is still there as we all couldn't believe our eyes. After they were done filming, we said goodbye to Dylan and the rest of the TV crew.
"I hope to see you on the Christmas special." Dylan said to me happily.
"No thank you." I said to him praying that this will never happen again.
"That was crazy!" Shailene said five minutes later after we left Dylan and the others.
"I can't believe we were on live TV this whole time." Jaxon said. "Man Lucas, you must be famous now for being on TV twice."
"He'll be more famous when we become the next power celebrity couple." Kathy said happily as she took my arm. I gently pulled her away from me.
"So what do we do now?" Dustin asked allowing me to look at my watch.
"Well we still have forty minutes before we meet up with our parents." I said. "We still have time kill,"
"And we got a lot of money that Dylan Wilde gave us." Anastasia said. "This is good because there are a lot more things I need to get."
"Hold on, you're not spending our money." Dustin said.
"Yeah, I was the one who found it in the first place." Jaxon pointed out.
"And what else were you guys planning to buy?" Kathy asked as everyone else minus me started arguing again about who needs the money the most.
"Look I have a solution for this money problem." Dustin said.
"How, give it all to you?" I asked causing Dustin to be silent for a few seconds.
"Okay then what do you suggest nephew of mine?" Dustin asked.
"Simple, we split it up." I explained. "There are six of us and there's $30,000 left. Do the math. We each get $5,000 and that should be enough to get whatever we want. Alright?"
"I guess it makes sense." Anastasia said.
"It sounds fair." Jaxon said as everyone else agreed. Everyone gathered around me as I handed each person $5,000 and we went off in different directions agreeing to meet back here in half an hour. I had my fingers crossed as I ran to the jewelry store and thankfully the diamond earrings are still there. Yes!
"Can I help you?" One of the lady employees asked me when I walked in.
"Yes, the Charm Diamond Star earrings on the window please." I said pointing at it. The woman smiled and went to the window to pick up the diamond earrings and put them in a small white box. I paid the woman $4,000 which she was surprised at what I got and thank her for her assistance as I left the store. I can't wait to see the look on Meghan's face when I give it to her. I met up with everyone at exactly half an hour and soon we met up with the adults ten minutes later at the place we were told to meet.
"Right on time kids." Uncle Buster said in amazement.
"And wow, how were you able to afford so much stuff?" Dad asked looking at our bags.
"Did I accidently give you one of my credit cards?" Aunt Diana asked looking inside her purse.
"No, we just got lucky on those sales." I said casually as the rest of us acted calm in front of my dad.
"Alright then, you kids say goodbye to your friends and let's go home." Mom said. Dustin, Anastasia and I were about to say goodbye to the others when one guy stopped when he saw us.
"Hey, congrats on the money. You guys were awesome on TV." He said causing me to feel as if ice has slipped inside from my chest to my stomach as he walked away like nothing happened. The six of us slowly and turned to our parents who were looking at us suspiciously.
"What was that guy talking about?" Uncle Troy asked.
"Uh, beats me. He must have mistaken us for someone else." I said nervously as everyone nodded their heads.
"Okay," Aunt Christina said looking at her phone. "Then what's this I'm reading about you kids being chased by two mob guys on the Candid Video TV show?" She showed us her phone where on the screen shows an image of us running from Harley and Al. Ah crap. None of us kids didn't answer as we didn't look at our parents and whistled like nothing's out of the ordinary.
"Lucas Kendall Stone," Oh no not the middle name. I slowly looked up to see mom with her arms crossed and a stern look on her face. Dad was doing the same but I could tell he was amused. "Care to explain what happened?" Yep, I'm probably gonna be grounded when we get home.
"Well for the record, none of this would've happened if you adults put me in charge." Dustin said receiving hits from me, Jaxon, Anastasia, Shailene and Kathy. "OW!"
How you liked the Thanksgiving special? I hope you all will enjoy your Thanksgiving. Next chapter will be a Christmas special.
Good news; I finally have an idea on what to write for the next sequel after Full Of Surprises. So as soon as I finish this story, I'll post the new story once I get them written out. Also for the next sequel, would you guys like me to post the trailer of it and write the preview at the end of each chapter like I did with Full Of Surprises? Please review.
