A/N: I DID IT. HERE'S A CHAPTER (balloons rain down). Oh, and lots of questions about Drew agreeing to the date with Brianna… XD Figured as much. Here's your answer for that…sort of.
Chapter Nine
All four girls gaped at who their housemates' dates were. Then, they all promptly held their menus up to cover their faces inconspicuously before beginning to converse.
"What is Ursula doing here?" Dawn hissed from behind the temporary menu barrier that hid the four friends from sight.
"Better yet, what are all of them doing here?" May muttered in a lowered voice, peeking over her menu to check on the table they were creeping-not-so-creeping on. And why on Earth would Drew agree to go on a date with Brianna of all people?
"And who's the girl across from Ash?" Leaf wondered out loud, turning to Misty.
"That's Melody," Misty sighed. "I met her at the mall. She's not like the other girls, she's actually really nice."
Looking at her friend's disheartened face, May tried to reassure her. "Don't worry Misty, I bet Ash doesn't even know her name."
"Plus, you and Ash look way cuter together." Dawn gave an encouraging wink.
Misty gave a small smile at that before turning back to the table. The other three girls followed her lead and watched the quadruple date commence.
"I wonder what they're talking about," May pondered as she watched Brianna laugh way too hard at something Drew said.
Leaf shrugged. "Who knows?"
"…And then I was like, that is so not your color!"
As Ursula cackled at Cassie's story, Drew covered his face with his hand and slid down his seat a little. This was killing him.
"Oh Mister Drew," he peeked through his fingers to look at his "date" who was speaking to him, "I'm so glad you came on this date with me. You make me the happiest girl in the world!"
"Th-" Drew opened his mouth to let out a sarcastic remark, but one devious look from Gary beside him made him close his mouth and nod, plastering a fake smile on his face instead. As Brianna threw her head back to try and "giggle adorably", Drew felt his eye begin to twitch. That's IT.
"I have to go to the bathroom," he announced, jumping up from his seat whilst glaring at Gary, daring him challenge him. As the two rather egoistical teenagers gave perplexing stares at each other, Ash also leaped from his seat. "I have to go too!"
Paul said nothing as he set down his glass of water and stood as well.
"You have to go too," Drew continued, drilling holes into Gary with his eyes. "…Don't you, Gary?"
Gary stared back for a moment longer before lowering his head with a sigh and getting up from his seat. "..Right."
"We'll be right back," Paul informed their dates unconvincingly as they all walked away from the table.
"Okay Paul," Ursula purred as Cassie nodded eagerly.
"I'll be waiting for you Mister Drew!" Brianna added in a sing song voice directed towards the green-haired boy.
As Drew urged his friends to hurry up in their whole walking-away-to-avoid-their-dates thing, Melody covered her face with a hand and shook her head. They aren't coming back, are they?
Dawn sipped on her water slowly as she watched Paul interact with Ursula. She could tell that he was uninterested from the one sided conversation from Ursula as well as how he was more interested in the bricks on the wall. Dawn gave a small smile to herself; she was rather relieved that Paul didn't show any signs of acknowledgement to Ursula. He obviously didn't like her right?
Then Dawn furrowed a brow as another thought came to mind. But if he doesn't like her…why did he agree to go on the date with her?
A sudden prod on her shoulder brought her back to her own table. "Look! They're leaving their table!"
Having her eyes follow the direction Leaf had just indicated, Dawn watched as the four boys got up from the table and began to speed-walk to the edge of the restaurant where the bathrooms were located. "Where are they going?"
Misty shrugged before lowering her menu back to the table. "Who knows?"
The girls all tossed their menus onto the table, being no longer worried about being spotted by the boys. Unfortunately, they were spotted by someone else.
"Well, well, well," Ursula snickered haughtily upon catching sight of Dawn and her friends. "Look who it is…"
"Ursula…" Dawn sighed. She really did not want to put up with this right now.
"You're stalking Mister Drew!" Brianna gasped dramatically, leaping up from her seat while raising a finger to point at May accusingly.
"I'm the stalker here?" May asked Brianna incredulously.
"Still in love with Gary huh?" Cassie sneered over at Leaf. The latter was furious and jumped out of her seat to meet Cassie's challenge. "Why on earth would you think that I'm still in love with that player?"
"Um, maybe because you're following him around like some lost puppy?"
"That is not the reason I'm here!"
Now, everyone was standing, heated from their own arguments. Misty stood off to the side with Melody, sweatdropping at the sight of her friends being locked in verbal combat with the guys' dates.
"So…how's it going?" Misty turned to Melody awkwardly.
Melody returned the same awkward smile. "Well…things could be better."
As the two non-chaos producing teenagers stood idly, Ursula began to shake salt onto Dawn's head in the background.
"…Salt? Really?" Dawn asked Ursula in disbelief, reaching up with a hand to sweep some of the tiny salty specks off her head. "Why the heck did you do that?"
"I was hoping you'd shrivel up like all the other leeches do," Ursula sneered at her in answer. Dawn just stood and stared at her somewhat rival for a moment, not sure how she should feel about the answer she'd just received.
"LIAR!"
The piercing voice of Cassie came in a screech. All the other quarreling teens in the room paused to watch the scene between Cassie and Leaf along with all fifty-and-some people in the restaurant who were already watching the group already.
"The only liar here is you, Cassie," Leaf nearly growled, glaring at the offending blonde-haired girl.
Said girl sniffed, sticking her nose up into the air. "Yeah right Green, you're obviously so not over what happened."
"I…what are you talking about?"
"I'm talking about the time Gary chose me over your sorry self."
The feud became silent. Leaf began to feel a prickle from behind her eyes as the memory of what happened returned to her mind. Cassie smirked over at Leaf triumphantly.
…But the gleeful expression didn't last for long.
SPLASH
It was now near silent, with the exception of sounds of plates falling to the floor with a crash in the kitchen, and the scolding voice of a manager lecturing a no doubt new employee. Everything else in the restaurant was still except for the drops of water now dripping to the floor from Cassie's face and hair. Misty glared straight into Cassie's eyes from behind a hand that was now carrying a glass emptied of water. "I'd stop talking now if I were you."
Cassie gaped at Misty for a second, as what'd just happened settled in. Then-
"MY MAKEUP!" Cassie screeched, clawing at her face as if though it were melting away.
"Cass!" Brianna and Ursula scurried over to their comrade with readied mascara brushes already in hand.
"Oh goodness gracious," Leaf rolled her eyes, having recovered enough to let out a small grin at the three girls obsessing over their makeup emergency.
"Oh goodness gracious yourself," Cassie snapped back from underneath soaked blonde bangs.
"Um, excuse me…"
The noise paused as everyone turned to look at the waiter, Rudy, who was standing nearby with a platter of food and a sheepish smile. "Sorry to have to do this, but you're all disturbing our customers so I'm going to have to ask you to leave."
"What?" Ursula cried, outraged. "Do you know who we are? You can't just throw us out like this!"
"Yeah!" Brianna agreed. "I'm still on my date with Mr. Drew!"
"I'm not moving from this very spot!"
"Yeah!"
As another man, presumably the manager, appeared at the scene, May sighed and rubbed her temples. "Well, might as well get my purse and get ready to head out the door."
Minutes later, all 8 girls found themselves stationed outside of the restaurant.
"Well, that's that," Misty sighed.
Cassie stomped her foot angrily. "This is all your fault Green!"
"Me?" Leaf asked incredulously.
"Guys," Melody interrupted before it could all escalate again. "Let's just go home, alright?"
Misty watched, expecting refusal, and was surprised when Cassie grumbled "Fine," and walked towards a bright pink convertible.
"The car's so pink," Dawn whispered in awe before regaining herself and turning to May. "So, what now?"
May shrugged as the pink vehicle peeled out of the parking lot after one last exchanged wave between Misty and Melody. "I have no idea how we're going to get home."
Just as the words left her mouth, the honking of a car horn travelled across the road to where the girls were standing. A vehicle pulled up in front of the 4 girls.
"Hey gals," the old taxi driver grinned up from behind the window. "Need a ride?"
Leaf facepalmed.
Meanwhile, in the bathroom…
"Alright," Drew continued to pace around. "How much longer do you think we have to act like teenage girls going to the bathroom together until those crazy chicks are gone?"
Paul shrugged. "I still say we push Gary to them and run."
"I dunno," Ash said mindlessly, trailing circles on the sink counter where he was leaning against. "My date wasn't too bad…I'd feel bad for ditching her."
"Do you even know her name?"
"…"
"Alright, point is," Drew interrupted. "This is all Gary's fault."
Accusational stares were immediately pointed towards Gary who sweatdropped. "What, no it wasn't…"
"If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have gotten stuck on this horrible group date," Drew deadpanned.
"Well, it really isn't too bad if you consider the food they have here…"
"Just stop Ash."
"Hey, guys, I'm sorry alright?" Gary brought back the attention. "If I had known her friends were your crazy obsessed fans, I would've just made it a single date instead of quadruple."
Ash frowned. "Why did you want to go on a date with the Cassie girl anyways?"
Drew flicked his hair and smirked. "Probably to try and make Leaf jealous."
"…Maybe," Gary admitted.
Paul rolled his eyes. "Even I know that's not the way to do it Gary."
"Well, whatever," the auburn haired boy retorted. "I've tried all the other methods and nothing good has come out of them."
"Yeah, yeah," Drew waved his hand in the air lazily. "But next time, leave us out of your plans."
"Oh come on," Gary smirked over at his green haired friend. "Don't tell me you weren't at all curious as to how May would react to your date."
With that, Drew gave a microscopic blush out of guilt as he flicked his hair. "Whatever. I'm only here because you freaking blackmailed me-"
"Same."
"Same!"
"-And if you say anything to her about that," Drew continued, ignoring the voices of the other two. "I will hurt you."
"…Heh."
"-and I'm bored," Paul announced monotonously as he stood up straight.
"Me too," Ash agreed with a sigh.
Gary reluctantly looked over at the door. "Well, guess we might as well head back now."
Drew felt his insides die a little. "Oh, great."
Slowly, the four boys exited the restroom and took their time making their way back to their table that they were previously sitting at. Upon arriving, they stared down at their dates. Or at least, their dates' empty chairs. Drew exchanged somewhat bewildered glances with Gary and Paul.
"Yes!"
Drew blinked and looked over at Ash. "What?"
"It came true!" the raven haired teen exclaimed happily.
"What did?" Gary inquired.
Ash beamed. "I wished for them to disappear. And they did!
A/N: Weirdest ending to the chapter ever? Yeah I think so.
And after a long and tedious month…I have created a lovely filler chapter for you guys.
-gets mobbed-
I'm sorry! D: Ever since school started, I've been getting involved in a lot of activities and I've just haven't had to time to work on this. But hey, I'm not quitting!
Anyhow, a while back I drew a picture that depicted a scene out of this fan fic actually. If you're interested in checking it out, the link will be posted on my profile page. I'm not much of an artist, it's more like a doodle that escalated quickly, but…I don't know, it's interesting to see my story in a picture I guess. Plus, everyone but May, Drew, Dawn, Paul, and Brianna are Slender people. XD But, I'd be honored if you'd go check it out anyways. :P
Oh and thanks to all of the awesome reviews I received in the last chapter! Those include Drifted Daisy, L. , Mudkipster, maycontestdrew, eeveeluvr, Eeveelover123, Fprmr1, Unicess, Noxibus, Guest, improvise me, and Contestshipper16! Thank you all so much!
And so I leave you now with this chapter, and I will hopefully return soon with another chapter!
Until next time!
