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"No no no nooooooo!" Johnny howled as he dropped to his knees, in front of him stood Ray and Annabelle at the door, gripping onto sleeping bags and totes.
"Oh boohoo dog breath, we're here, so deal with it!" the human girl retorted as she and the vampire walked passed the wolf, who rose back to his feet and pointed his clawed finger to Reed.
"Why. Are. They. Here?" he demanded through gritted teeth, causing a nervous laugh from the human boy.
"Well, after the whole Basilisk incident, I thought that Ray wouldn't like being by herself." Reed whispered to his partner, who still had a look of annoyance.
"She has Annie!"
"Well…less by herself." Was the only answer the human boy could give. The two went into the living room to see the girls on the couch, Ray stretching and Annie cuddling Paradox. Johnny stared at the human girl, with her staring right back. The two continued their stare off until a certain vampire's voice interrupted them.
"Who wants to watch a movie?" Annabelle chirped in, knowing full well what was about to occur. Her statement received three deadpanned looks and the ever famous chirping of a cricket.
"No, that wasn't random at all." The nature girl retorted.
"I was trying to help." The vampiress muttered weakly, shrinking from embarrassment. Ray couldn't help but sigh at her fang filled friend as she patted her on the head.
"Don't worry about it. But, I'm gonna be in the kitchen making a cake, and before you ask Egghead, yes it is your special cake, the one you really need to get help about." The human girl motioned to her human friend, whose mouth started watering at the mention of the pastry.
"Wait a second," Annabelle thought, her thought process ticking, "Cake equals sugar, and sugar equals a happy Annie!"
"Well get in there!" the vampiress exclaimed as she shoved her friend into the designated area before grabbing Johnny, "You too mister!"
"Why me?"
"Because let's face it, Ray's short."
"I can still hear you!"
"Anyway, she will have a harder time reaching the ingredients, which means time lost on fixing the cake, which leads to a very unhappy me…do you want an unhappy Annie?" The raven haired beauty questioned, a dark, menacing aurora engulfing her.
"N…no m'am." Was the quaint reply from the werewolf as he slid into the kitchen, shadowy eyes following him. Annabelle's look quickly became one of joy and glee.
"It's nice to find cooperative people, right Ree…dy?" the vampiress asked as she gazed at the horror-stricken human, eyes full of fright.
"Dox Dox." Paradox chuckled at Reed's discomfort.
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Ray irritably blew a strand of her stringy chestnut hair from her face as she stretched as far as she could; trying to reach the sought item on the third shelf. An agitated edge took on her features; Johnny, all the while, leaning against the farthest bar, arms crossed over his chest, and watching with mild amusement.
"Ya need some help shorty?" The wolf snickered, watching as her eyes narrowed and her hands went firmly on her hips.
"From you? No!"
"Suit yourself; here's a tip though, jump higher."
It was several jumps, groans, and snickers later that the brunette let out a sigh of defeat at the feeling of her limbs growing numb.
"Storm?" The female groaned, allowing herself to go flat footed, while looking meekly at the floor.
"What?" Johnny drawled out, a huge grin plastered on his tan face.
Ray's cheeks gained a slight pinkish tint, rubbing the back of her neck, and avoiding the wolf's now gleaming eyes and cocky smirk. He leaned in, his hand to his ear expecting to hear her request; only to receive a non-comprehendible murmur.
"I'm sorry, what was that?"
"I said will you…get the flour down for me?"
"Why?" He smirked, leaning in dangerously close to the now fuming girl; loving the fire that was burning in those deep green eyes.
"I'm short you jerk and I need you to get it down for me. So will you please get the flippin' flour down for me!" Ray gritted through her clenched teeth; refusing to allow her anger to wane any.
"Geez, no need to be crabby." The milky blonde chuckled giving off his signature smirk; receiving an eye roll in the process. At the action his smirk dissolved into a small frown. "Fine, fine, I'll get it." Johnny reached up, grabbed the white paper bag, and placed it into the petite hands of the female nature wielder. "Anything else?"
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Moments later the sighing werewolf had his toned back firmly pressed against one side of the bar, watching attentively as the brunette began mixing the cake batter adding each item at the sought time. Though Ray's concentration was anything but firm with a pair of azure eyes boring into her, viewing every move her steady hands were making.
"You can go you know. I don't need anything else from the shelves." The five foot five girl noted, scooping out some more powdery white flour, and dumping it into the clear mixing bowl.
"You really think I'm gonna leave the room and meet Annie's wrath? You're high."
A deep disgruntled grumble left Ray's pink lips, causing a smirk to spread on Johnny's. "Fine, if you're gonna stay you're helping. Open the new bag of flour while I get the strawberries."
"Strawberries?"
"The cake that Reed is so addicted to is a chocolate cake with chocolate icing with strawberries and honey mixed into both. The bad part is he always knows if I cheat so I have to make everything from scratch." She sighed, running a hand through her diagonal, side cut bangs that swept slightly just above her right eye. "So can you handle opening the bag and adding two more cups of flour?"
"Pssh! I took on a Gryphon Tree Hugger, I think I can do this!"
"Whatever you say tough guy." Ray shrugged, quirking a small smirk before opening the lower portion, the fridge, and began rummaging for the fruit.
POP!
Ray's head shot up to come face to face with a completely white Johnny. She bit her bottom lip, her frame shaking with restrained laughter, and tears building her green eyes.
Johnny began to twitch his now white eyebrow and sighed. "Go ahead."
Pure laughter rung from the nature girl's pink lips, her arms wrapped around her abdomen, and slightly bent over as tears run down her flushed cheeks. "How…the…crap…do you….managed to?" She managed out between laughs.
"It wouldn't open so I may have had to claw it open." The werewolf blushed, his white coated wolf ears lying flat against his spiky white hair. "She…has…a nice laugh." The blonde thought innocently, feeling his cheeks warm up slightly more.
"O-okay, g-good thing there's another bag up in the cabinet."
"Yeah." Johnny chuckled awkwardly, as he began to reach up to get it.
"Thanks Snow White."
The werewolf's eye twitched as he turned his gaze to the female who still had an amused look on her face. "Oh, I'm Snow White?" Without another word Johnny scooped up a hand full of flour of the floor and threw it in the nature girl's face. "HAHAHA!"
Ray blinked emotionlessly for a few seconds before a small smile pulled at her lips as she scooped up hand full herself. Just before she could throw it the wolf tackled her to the floor, causing the flour to fly upward and rain on the two teens as Johnny straddled the girl while he shook the flour free from his spiky locks making sure it began to coat the girl.
"Stop it Storm!" Ray laughed, surprisingly to the wolf he had been expecting her to be mad.
"No!" He chuckled, as he began to tickle the female's sides laughing as she began to squirm in an attempt to get away from him. Though it didn't work. "Who's stronger McGuire? Come on say it."
"Y-you a-are S-Storm!" She giggled. "Okay, stop!"
"Nope say my first name." Johnny smirked, watching as tears began to run down her cheeks from the intensity of her forced laughter.
"You're s-stronger Johnny!"
"Now was that so hard?"
Ray was still slightly chuckling from the after effects of her laughter, using her hand to wipe them away. "Okay, I have to get up now to fix that cake before Anna kills us both." Swiftly she began to sit up, but froze in her movements when she saw just how close their mouths were.
Here emerald eyes watched his tensing jaw and the small amount of pink sprinkling on his cheeks; while he watched her own face gain the rosy tint as his azure eyes watched her part lips with intensity. "Um…yeah…we should get up."
"Mhm."
Slowly the wolf got to his feet and snatched the smaller girl's hand in his own; yanking her to her feet. Ray rubbing the back of her neck, her cheeks still flushed with embarrassment as they went back to the counter. The brunette focusing on the ingredients she was adding as the blonde pulled out his cell phone and began texting a random girl. Both fighting the tint on their cheeks that was rapidly increasing.
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"You want us to do what?" Annabelle questioned the psychic human, both of whom where hidden in the corner the living room, away from the kitchen.
"You heard me, tonight's the night we prank Johnny." Was the energetic response.
"I cannot condone the torment of my companions." The vampiress stated in a proper manner.
"Come on Annie, think about all of the times Johnny's gotten all three of us." Reed requested and which Annie did. She remembered all of the jokes the werewolf had pull during his time here, from the simple nose flick to a very complex pie in the face (But that is another story for another day.). With each memory, Annabelle's face grew darker and darker, for she also had to deal with his gags in the Monster World, which were a thousand times worse.
"Let's annihilate him!" The vampiress shouted with sadistic joy before the human placed his hand over her mouth.
"Or, or…we could just embarrass the crap out of him." Reed suggested before releasing his grip on the mouth.
"That could work as well." Annabelle stated matter-of-factly.
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"Okay…almost…finished!" Ray sighed relieved, looking over the chocolate cake.
The cake was nestled on a plain white plate, fluffy brown whipped icing coating it's surface, and honey dipped strawberries decoratively along the top. The honey drizzled in intricate swirl patterns allowing the mouth watering effect to be amplified.
"How the crap can you cook like that? Aren't you only sixteen!"
"Yeah, but when you have a dad that can barely boil water you pick up a few things." The nature girl chuckled, taking a knife to the corner of the cake and cutting two squares away from the main cake. She slipped the pieces onto two smaller plates, handing one to the wolf boy as she took a fork to her piece and ate a medium sized portion.
"Um?"
"It's for you. I figured we deserved a piece too. Especially with what happened with the flour." Ray supplied placing another piece into her mouth.
A small smile pulled at the wolf's lips as he began to devour his piece also.
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The brunette hummed slightly in her throat as she scrubbed the chocolate coated glass plates with the soapy white water. Johnny was currently running a fluffy white towel over the mixing bowel so to remove any excess water droplets; while his baby blues glanced over at the preoccupied female.
"Sooo"
"Soooo"
"Uh, well…..how's the weather?" He chuckled nervously, avoiding the girl's questioning gaze. "How's the weather! How lame can I get!" The werewolf growled inwardly at the lame excuse on the comment.
"Um….well raining..apparently." Ray answered, gesturing to the rain drops splattering on the window's transparent barrier.
"Oh…yeah…."
A small smirk spread on the brunette's features as she was grateful for his attempt to get along with her. So with a devious grin she scooped up a handful of bubble's and blew them into the face of the wolf; who growled playfully and retaliated with his tail wagging and a smile on his face.
"Oh, it's on now Treehugger." Johnny chuckled as he threw a cluster of transparent orbs at Ray, thus beginning another play war.
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"Good move Treehugger." Johnny grumbled as he walked down the hallway, referring to the nature girl that had just won their bubble battle. The teen wolf was hoping to get a washcloth from his and Reed's bathroom to wipe off the water/soap mixture.
"Yo Egghead, ya in there?" Johnny asked as he knocked on the door, receiving silence as a reply. Guessing no one was in the room, the werewolf cracked the door opened, his face becoming pale white after doing so. Hanging on the ceiling was a simple beige-colored rope, tied into a noose at the bottom, where a head with a look of horror was hanging on the twine material. The head? Reed's.
"Egghead!" Johnny screamed as he rushed over to the cord, trying to think of some way to help his friend, "What happened?" he asked in a panicked tone, receiving silence as a reply. At this, the teen wolf kept his look of utter shock, with sadness entering its core.
"I'm so sorry Egghead, if I had known, I wouldn't have made fun of you, called you names, stole your money, accidently…" the werewolf paused as he heard the tiniest hint of a chuckle coming from the morbid rope. Johnny looked up to see the psychic human attempting to remain silent as he removed the noose from his neck.
"Hahaha! You should've seen your face." Reed laughed as he pointed to the wolf, who grew increasingly irritated.
"So you didn't…"
"Nope."
"You're not…"
"Nope."
"I'm so gonna freakin' kill you!" Johnny shouted as he chased the psychic human.
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"No."
"Please?"
"No Johnny." Ray stated sternly to a peed off Johnny, who was giving the death glare to Reed, who was hiding behind the nature girl.
"He deserves it!"
"Normally, I would let you. But this is a special moment; Reed actually pulled a prank that didn't blow up in his face. I'm so proud." Ray explained in a motherly tone, tears of joy running down her cheeks as she patted the psychic human on the head, "Now get Mutt!" she added in a much more hateful tone. Twitching, but knowing it was pointless to continue, Johnny stormed out of the kitchen, smoke steaming out of his ears.
"Stupid humans!" he mumbled as he turned the hall, coming face to face with another being.
"Oh sorry, I…" but the werewolf paused as he looked at the face, a face that would make the likes of Freddy Kruger cringe with terror. The face was old and crumbled, with its mouth breathing harsh, shallow breaths and its eyes empty of life.
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Johnny screamed for the second time as he ran in the opposite direction, only for the terror to follow him while radiating an evil laugh.
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"So, Anna done yet?" Ray asked as she forked her piece of cake, plopping the chocolaty goodness into her mouth.
"I'd say she will be in a few minutes." Reed replied as he did the same to his piece, shivering in delight. Outside of the kitchen door, Johnny would run across every few seconds, chased by a Lolita dressed and Halloween masked individual, who was also chased by a much smaller masked form who spotted purple stitches.
"You're mine Wolf Boy." The larger being cackled.
"Doxdox!" followed its tiny cohort.
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"…You want me to do what now?" Was the unsure question from the nature girl, who currently had her arms crossed firmly over her chest.
"Seduce Johnny!" Annabelle beamed, her tone taking on the nonchalance edge to it.
A deadpanned expression crossed the nature girl's features that made the vampiress's eyebrow twitch, her ear to ear grin shaking with uncertainty. "Uh…no."
The black haired beauty dropped to her knees in a comical fashion, her hands clasped in front of her chest, and her voice reaching a new octave. "PLEASE!"
"No."
"PLEASE!"
"Uh…no."
"RAAAAYYYY!"
"No Anna!" The brunette scolded, her eyes flashing with irritancy while her friend shrunk back behind the beloved brown and white haired nerd. This was Reed's cue to step in and do the ever loving task of trying to take the bull by the horns, or the stubborn female by the throat, which ever works.
"Ray, think of it this way. You can get payback on Storm for the prank he pulled on you last week." The human teen offered, watching with slight smugness as Ray's face twisted with anger and her fists clenched at her sides.
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"Oh McGuire!" Came the sing song tone of the spiky haired blonde that leaned against the brunette's once open locker, a wide smile stretching over his tan skin. "So I was thinking….ya know…maybe we could go on a date sometime."
Ray's pink lips parted in shock, while her eyes turned into green saucers. "Where's the punch line?"
A hurt look came over the wolf's features, his bottom lip jutted out in the classic pouting face. "I'm hurt. What's so hard to believe that I might want to date a pretty girl?"
"Now I know you're joking."
"Nope, I'm dead serious." He smirked, leaning in dangerously close to the female's strawberry lips that had begun to burn in anticipation. Ray could feel her heart pick up in pace slightly when he brushed his fingertips across her cheek swiping a stray strand of chestnut from her face. "Please."
"Uhm…..su…re..."
"Gotcha."
Ray's eyes widened at the sudden devious smirk that spread across the wolf's features. "What?"
"Gotcha, you know as in a joke. You didn't seriously think I'd want to go on a date with you, did you?"
The brunette gritted her teeth and smiled acidly at the wolf. "No, of course not."
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Ray ground her teeth while blood flowed to her face giving it the nice red hue that spread to her neck. "So what was it that you wanted me to do again?"
Annabelle and Reed smiled devilishly at the other before returning their mischievous gazes to the fuming brunette.
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Johnny leaned comfortably into the plush material of the couch's back, his azure eyes firmly fixated on the multi-colored screen that was currently advertising a new video game that was going to be released next week. He was waiting for the X-Games to come back on when a familiar warm scent wafted his sensitive nose. Nonchalantly Johnny shifted his gaze to over the back of the couch only for his mouth to drop open and the loud 'thunk' of the remote hitting the hard wood floor be heard.
Ray waltzed down the steps, her bare feet pitter pattering against the surface. She had to bite the inside of her cheek to keep a loud laugh from erupting from her when she saw the wolf's lusty expression. Her long chestnut tresses lightly curled over her tan shoulders, her torso covered in a bright pink crop top showing her toned midriff off, and her jeans contouring to her every curve as she leaned against the couch giving the werewolf a heart breaking smile.
"Hey Johnny."
"Uh….h...h…h...hi….R…Ra….Ray." He stuttered, a small drop of drool rolling down his chin.
"You care if I join you?"
"What?"
"Do you care if I watch TV with you?" She purred lightly, allowing her fingers to gingerly take a strand of milky blonde.
"N…n….no."
With one more blush inducing grin Ray hopped over the back of the couch and plopped down next to the red wolf, which stiffened at her proximity. The brunette arched an eyebrow at his rigid posture and squaring jaw. "You okay? You look...a bit…tense."
"Not at all!" Johnny squeaked, his voice sounding like an over active chipmunk.
"Here, let me help." The nature talented female chuckled, turning him so that his back faced her turned body, and allowed her hands to begin kneading into his hard shoulders. "Better?"
"Sure!"
A devious smile crossed the female's pink lips as she brushed her soft lips against the back of the shaking wolf's neck; inducing a light growl to spill from his throat. In a blur he had the brunette's back pinned against the couch's arm, his arm placed on either side of her, while his lips were a mere centimeter away from her own. Her lips quirked up into a small smirk at the sound of his labored breathing and the way his wolf tail wrapped snuggly around her waist; making escape impossible.
"Isn't this where you say shut up and kiss me?" Without another word Johnny began to lower his lips to hers when, "Gotcha."
His eyes opened as he pulled back slightly, "What?"
"GOTCHA!" Chorused Annabelle and Reed, busting out of the closest closet pointing to the shocked wolf.
"Huh?"
"Who knew Ray could seduce?" Reed noted, examining a snap shot that they had just taken.
Johnny slowly pulled away from the female, her smile slowly melting into a frown at his scrunched up eyebrows and nervous laughter. "Yeah…you guys got me good…heh…funny." He offered a weak thumbs up that only furthered the female's concerned state.
"Are you okay Johnny?" Annabelle questioned, also noticing the change in the wolf's behavior.
"Psh, of course I'm okay! Nothing's wrong, I'm just going to go work on my Gym homework." The milky blonde chortled, a fake edge prominent in his voice as he turned from the group and blurred up the stairs to his room.
Reed began to follow his companion up the stairs, when a swish of pink made him stumble to a halt. Ray glanced worriedly over her shoulder, her hand still resting on the stair railing, "I'll take care of this. It's my fault this time."
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"Storm?" Came the soft feminine voice through the thick wooden door, filling the werewolf's ears, and making him wince. "Can I come in?"
"Uhhh…sure."
She creaked the door open and poked her head into the light blue decorated room. Her body soon followed, while holding a paper plate with two slices of triangle delicacies. "I…thought you might be hungry", She added, weakly holding the plate out to the wolf.
Johnny sat up from his previous lying down position and removed his arm from his face. Momentarily he eyed the food before sighing, "I'm not hungry."
"You sure? I put extra cheese on it."
"…..o..kay."
In a blur the triangles vanished and Johnny returned to his prior place on his back on his plush twin sized bed. His eyes staring up at the ceiling, while Ray bit down on her bottom lip nervously.
"I'm sorry okay, I'm sorry! What I did down there was low, it wasn't right of me to do that and I am truly sorry Johnny." The nature girl rambled, running a hand through her long tresses before heaving a huge breath.
The werewolf quirked an eyebrow at the teen girl, whose emerald eyes remained trained on him. "Its fine, what makes you think that I'm-"
"Gym homework really, what do you have kickball homework? Seriously Storm." The brunette rolled her eyes before taking in another deep breathe, "What do you want me to do to make it up to you? I'll dye my hair green; do your homework for a month, anything."
At this the milky blonde sat up stiffly keeping his suddenly intense gaze on the female. "Anything?"
"Yeah."
Without another word Johnny pushed himself off the bed and strode over to Ray. In one swift motion he snagged the gasping girl around the waist and pulled her into his chest, while whispering, "Shut up and kiss me."
The nature girl shivered at his hot breath caressing her lips before muttering, "Okay."
In a flash the wolf had his lips firmly pressed against her own, her soft hands cupping his face as he moved his mouth in sync with hers, making sure that the sparks kept flying while her fingers began to weave into his messy blonde locks. Hesitantly the blonde wolf pulled reluctantly away from the slightly panting female to be greeted by the sight of her pink sprinkled cheeks. "Even?"
"On one condition."
"Hm?"
It was a blur that she had molded her mouth to his once again, causing a small growl to leave the werewolf's throat as he returned her kisses in full.
A few moments later the two teens pried their lips apart, blood pooling in their cheeks while the awkward silence filled the room.
"Um….well…I guess…I should-"
"Yeah, I guess…" Nervously laughed the milky blonde, immediately releasing the human girl and rubbing the back of his neck.
"I'll see you downstairs."
"O-okay." Johnny blushed, watching as Ray's back retreated from the room, leaving him by himself as he tilted his head back and groaned, "What the crap did I just do?"
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"Nice to see you non suicidal!" Chirped the vampires, slapping the still slightly flustered wolf on the back.
"Uh…yeah…non suicidal." He murmured, noting how Reed had an eyebrow arched and his eyes trained on the wolf's face.
"Johnny, since when do you wear lip gloss?"
"Huh?"
"You have lip gloss on you." Reed commented, casually pointing to a mirror that was hanging from a nail on the wall. "See?"
Much to the werewolf's horror, there it was, a light glossy pink smeared on his mouth; causing said blonde to gain a nice rosy tint to his face, hurryingly wiping the substance from his face.
"Um….I thought…it was chap stick." Defended the backing away monster.
Johnny slowly backed away from the accusing star of his nerdy friend when his back pushed the bathroom door open and sent a rush of ice cold liquid over his form; drenching him to the core. Annabelle gasped, cupping her hand over her mouth to prevent any laughs from leaking out; while Reed openly snickered at the wolf's twitching eyebrow and plastered hair.
"MCGUIRE!"
Said brunette leaned around the corner, a devious smile on her face, "Now we're even."
Johnny couldn't help his own slight smirk from tilting at his lips before he chuckled, "You are soooooo dead."
"Uh oh, GOTTA GO!"
"MCGUIRE GET BACK HERE!"
Annabelle and Reed watched in mild amusement as the wolf chased the nature girl around the room desperately trying to choke her.
