Hello!
How are you?
I've actually had a really good week! The rest of the performances went really well, I got A*s in my biology, chemistry and physics tests and on Tuesday night I saw my favourite band perform for the first time. They were amazing and we had really good seats, they even walked right past us at one point! Eek!
But enough about me, because you probably don't care. So here's chapter 8!
"CheeChee, you have been our best friend for almost ten years now, we've known each other since grade school," Lela explained, watching CheeChee's reactions in despair.
"Yeah…sure," CheeChee trailed off, looking at Struts and Lela as if they had three heads.
"Coral, Tanner here, is your twin brother," Seacat explained, grabbing Tanner's arm and pushing him in front of Coral as they walked. "You have literally known him your whole life." But Seacat only got a very confused look from Coral and an uneasy laugh.
"Rascal, you've lived next door to me for almost three years now," Giggles started, before Rascal interrupted her.
"I live next door to a girl called Kiki, what are you talking about?!" Rascal cried.
"Kiki's my best friend, she lives like five doors down from us, what are you talking about?!" Giggles shot back, frustrated that her plan wasn't working.
"Lugnut, what do we do every Thursday night?" Butchy asked, hoping that his constant questions would help Lugnut remember something.
"I don't now, man. I don't know who you are," Lugnut replied, throwing his hands up in the air in frustration.
"Just try and remember," Butchy snapped.
"I don't know," Lugnut shot back. "Knitting club?"
"Knitting club?!" Butchy cried, horrified at the answer.
"Like I said, I don't know!" Lugnut exclaimed. "I don't know what you want me to say!"
"This is getting us no where," Brady sighed, listening in to the different conversations. "If anything, it's setting us back."
"I know," Mack agreed. "We've got four more 60s movie musical characters to control, who don't have a clue who we are, we have to try to make sure that no one recognises any of them and we have a week to get them back home before school starts." Mack took a deep breath when she'd finished, glad that she'd gotten all of her dilemmas off her chest.
"Mack," Brady said, turning his girlfriend to face him and placing two hands on her shoulders. "We'll be fine."
"You say that a lot," Mack said, stifling a smile.
"Well if you say something more than once, it'll make it true," Brady replied, his face breaking into a smile.
"Is that a Disney quote?" Mack asked, raising one of her eyebrows.
"…Maybe," Brady said after a slight pause, Mack letting a slight chuckle pass her lips as he spoke. "I'm sure there's something like that."
But the couple's moment to themselves was broken when a loud shout sounded from behind everyone.
"Heads up!"
A frisbee flew through the air and hit CheeChee square in the back of her neck, in the same spot where the four teens had felt the pinprick sensation the day before. CheeChee stopped dead in her tracks and let out a yelp of surprise before the frisbee dropped down to the sand. Brady picked up the plastic toy and tossed it in the direction it had come from, earning a shout of appreciation. But CheeChee still hadn't moved, it was like she was frozen to the spot, and Rascal, Lugnut and Coral had all done the same thing.
"Guys?" Seacat questioned, looking around at his friends with a puzzled expression.
But all of a sudden the pinprick sensation returned, the heat and then the cold again. The four teens shuddered and lurched forwards a bit, Tanner, Seacat, Giggles, Butchy, Lela and Struts all rushing to help them. CheeChee, Rascal, Coral and Lugnut regained their balance again, blinked a few times and let out a sigh.
"Are you alright?" Lela asked, clearly very concerned.
"Woah," Coral breathed, straightening up again.
"What happened?" Butchy carried on from his little sister's question.
"Giggles?" Rascal questioned, his eyes locking with the blonde girl in front of him for a second. "When did you get here?"
"Wait, you recognise me?" Giggles asked, hardly able to believe what was happening as she glanced around at the teens around her, checking that they heard what Rascal had said too.
"Of course, why wouldn't I?" Rascal replied. Now it was his turn to be confused at his friends' behaviour.
"Rascal!" Giggles cried, throwing her arms around her friend's neck as a huge grin spread across her face.
"Seacat? Tanner?" Coral questioned, just recognising the two boys for the first time.
"Yeah?" the replied in unison, unsure of what she was about to do. Considering that she'd just completely forgotten their existence and freaked out on them. But her lips curled into a grin as she threw herself at the two boys and wrapped them into a hug.
"I'm so happy to see you!" she exclaimed.
"Lela? Struts?" CheeChee questioned. "What's going on?" But CheeChee's question wasn't answered, she was just met with two grinning biker girls, who enveloped their best friend into a hug.
"Boss, where are we?" Lugnut asked, looking around at his surroundings before turning back to the Rodent Leader.
"It's a long story," Brady said, stepping into the conversation as Butchy brought Lugnut into a bro-hug.
"So we're actually in the future?" Coral asked, tucking a stray strand of her slightly damp hair behind her ear.
"Yeah, isn't it cool?" Tanner replied.
"So…wait, it's not cold," CheeChee said, her eyebrows creasing together.
"Oh no, it's an expression," Lela explained. "It's what people in the future say instead of groovy."
"Really?" Rascal asked.
"Wow," Coral breathed after Lela nodded.
"Ooh! We're back at Mack's house!" Giggles exclaimed, rushing up the steps to Mack's house, dragging Coral behind her.
"Your house is so pretty, Mack!" Coral said, marvelling at the decoration as Giggles pushed her through the door, too excited that she had her friend back to let the surfer girl have a proper look at the decorations.
"Thanks," Mack said, herding the ten 60s teens into the building.
"That's quite a nasty black eye, Rascal," Struts fussed, walking Rascal over to the window so that she could see the bruising clearer in the light.
"Struts, I'm fine," Rascal replied.
"But it wasn't there before, it only showed up when you started acting normally again," Struts replied.
"Actin' normally?" CheeChee questioned. "What'cha mean?"
"You guys don't remember when you were acting weirdly?" Brady asked, watching in confusion as the four new Wet Side Story characters shook their heads. Brady then turned to Mack, who just gave him a puzzled look.
"When we first found you, you were all acting like you had no clue who we were," Seacat explained.
"Really?" Lugnut asked, pulling out one of the chairs at Mack's kitchen table before slumping down on it.
"Yeah, and you were all acting differently around each other too," Giggles added on, perching on the table Lugnut was sat next to and swinging her legs.
"Around each other?" Rascal asked, slightly turning his head in Giggles' direction, only for it to be tilted back by Struts.
"Let's just say that, CheeChee and Rascal, you were pretty much head over heels for each other," Mack explained.
"What?!" CheeChee and Rascal questioned, their eyes darting in the other's direction before darting over to Mack as Coral and Lugnut let out a bizarre snorting noise that was apparently a laugh.
"Yep, you were pretty loved up," Brady agreed.
"Are you sure?" Rascal asked.
"Why would that happen?" CheeChee asked.
"And why can't we remember it?" Rascal added.
"And you guys can't talk," Seacat said, looking over at Coral and then at Lugnut. "You guys were clearly pretty into each other too."
"WHAT?!" Coral and Lugnut cried. Lugnut jumped out of his seat and Coral whipped around to face him, they shared a horrified look before shuddering and making fake vomiting noises.
"It was all very strange," Lela thought out loud.
"That's disgusting. I would never be interested in you," Coral called across to Lugnut.
"Exactly, and I hate Coral," Lugnut said rather bluntly.
"Oh, alright then," Coral mumbled, slightly turning away from Lugnut and finding Butchy walking towards her.
"It doesn't matter now, you're all back to normal," Tanner said, stopping an argument before it even started.
"Yeah, I don't want any more arguing," Coral agreed, earning a few puzzled looks from her friends, especially Seacat.
"But you started-" Seacat started before Rascal led him to the side. He'd managed to escape Struts and was determined to get to the bottom of why Coral was acting so strangely.
"Speaking of arguing," Butchy started, brushing off what Coral had said and going to stand next to her. "How's your head?"
"Alright, I think," she replied, as Butchy tucked a piece of her hair behind her ear so that the cut was more visible.
"Woah, is that from the fight at Big Momma's?" Brady asked, starting to get intrigued. But Mack just sent him a look saying that he shouldn't get involved along with a poke on the arm.
"Yeah, she took a high heel to the head," Giggles explained as Coral smiled and nodded, apparently no longer phased at all.
"Nice," Mack said sarcastically, leading Brady to the side so that they could get out of the conversation.
"Looks like things aren't going so well back in Wet Side Story," Brady stated.
"No kidding," Mack said. "We'd better make sure that no one starts anything here, the last thing we need is for them to start another fight."
"Another fight? I'd hardly call that thing back at the ice cream shop a fight," Brady said.
"You know what I mean," Mack sighed.
"Would you stop worrying?" Brady said, stopping Mack from walking away. "I've told you, everything's going to be fine."
"If you say so," Mack sighed, plastering a smile on her face as she moved over to where Lela was stood gazing dreamily at Tanner.
"Dude, what's up with Coral?" Seacat asked once him and Rascal made sure that no one was listening.
"I don't know, but I do know that she's been acting differently since you guys originally left," Rascal answered. "And apparently CheeChee has too but I haven't seen anything for myself."
"But why?" Seacat asked.
"I have no idea," Rascal answered truthfully. "Why did I act differently when you found us?"
"This whole thing is just really wigged out," Seacat said. "Should we keep an eye on her? Make sure that nothing else strange happens?"
"Well so far she's been really anti-violence and a lot…" Rascal started, struggling to express his thoughts. "Less like herself."
"So we'll keep an eye on her?" Seacat asked again.
"Sure, shall we monitor her today and see if anything else is out of the ordinary?" Rascal suggested.
"Sounds like a plan," Seacat said, high-fiving Rascal before they both walked over to Coral. By this point everyone was just having their own conversations, so it wasn't hard for Seacat and Rascal to slip back in unnoticed.
"Do you and Tanner think similarly then too?" This was the first thing that Seacat and Rascal heard as they walked over to where Coral, Butchy and Giggles were stood. It turns out that Giggles was the one who asked the question and she was actually quite interested in the answer, her attention fully focused on Coral.
"Yeah," Coral smiled. "I guess so."
"Tanner," Butchy called out, catching the surfer's attention almost instantly. "Come over here for a second." Tanner obeyed and Lela skipped over to Struts, CheeChee and Lugnut with Mack.
"What?" Tanner asked innocently, flashing a smile identical to Coral's.
"Just stand next to each other," Giggles ordered, gently pushing Tanner in his sister's direction so that the pair were stood shoulder to shoulder.
"Woah," Rascal breathed, his eyes flitting back and forth between the twins.
"You two are so similar," Seacat said, marvelling at how much the siblings looked like each other.
"Well we are twins," Tanner and Coral said in unison, looking at each other straight afterwards and letting out a small chuckle.
"But you two look so much alike," Butchy said. "Yet one of you is a girl and one's a boy."
"And you two still look almost exactly the same," Giggles added. "Anyway, I'm getting side-tracked. Do you two think as similarly as you look?"
"Probably," Tanner and Coral said in unison, looking at each other straight afterwards again and smiling.
"I'll take that as a yes," Giggles said.
"Let's test this," Seacat continued. "Both of you think of a number and then say it out loud when I say 'go'."
"Ok," the twins replied, still in unison.
"One, two, three, go," Seacat announced, the four friends all expectantly waiting for the answer.
"Five," Tanner and Coral said at exactly the same time, yet again exchanging a smile and a small chuckle afterwards.
"Woah," Seacat, Giggles, Butchy and Rascal all breathed, all floored by the siblings' ability to think alike.
"I've gotta tell the others about this," Butchy said, walking across the room to the bikers, leaving Tanner and Coral with the three other surfers.
"We could have a little fun with this," Seacat said, a mischievous grin spreading across his face as a plan started to form in his head.
I hope you enjoyed it!
I'm sorry that nothing really happened in this chapter, but I promise that the next few chapters will be a little more interesting. :)
Thank you so much for four reviews since I last updated! Each and every review means so much to me and it's so lovely to read what you have to say.
Thank you so much DisneyChannelLover, Guest, Maddie and RossLynch4ever! Don't hesitate to leave a suggestion if you think of one, I still want them and I love hearing and using ideas that you want to read about! :)
And also, I'm looking for a little bit of help because I'm trying to plan out all of the plot lines I want to use for this story and I'm getting a bit stuck with things for a few characters. So, if anyone's willing to help then feel free to send me a PM, it would mean the world to me and I'll be sure to give you credit!
I know I say this all the time (if you're reading this then let me know what you think is wrong with the Wet Side Story characters that have just arrived or if you don't think that anything's wrong at all) but I want to say thank you to everyone who sends me PMs, leaves reviews and is just generally supportive of my stories because you never fail to put a smile on my face, you're all so wonderful!
Thank you for reading!
-cherrygorilla
