Ok, here's the long-awaited chapter of this story. Anyway, you guys might wanna read the Author's Announcement chapter again before reading this. Anyway, happy reading!
That same night...
T fought the bile that was rising in her stomach as she climbed up to her window. (A/N Yes, she was that disgusted with herself.) How could she have been so stupid? She had single-handedly proved tonight, that she was a bigger idiot than Ed.
T carefully opened her window, then peeked in to see Erin and Alyssa still sleeping. She put her backpack through the window first, then quietly stepped inside. She pulled her shoes off then crept over to her door and left them beside it.
Then T walked over to her backpack, which was beside her bed where she left it. She sighed and just kicked it under her bed, not caring if it made noise or not. Then she got into her bed, not bothering to change into more comfortable clothes. And, still disgusted with herself, very difficultly fell asleep.
Meanwhile...
"That girl is dead meat tomorrow as soon as those two human girls leave." Shenzi said angrily about T as she and the other two made their way to the back of their house, intending to get in through one of their windows.
"Why? No witnesses?" Banzai said.
"Just shut up an' help me up to one 'a your windows." Shenzi said. Banzai and Ed meerly looked at each other, then back at her. Shenzi looked at them confusedly for a minute, then got a look of realization on her face. She put her hand up to her forehead and sighed.
"Don't tell me you two actually lock your windows at night?" she said, looking up at them.
"Well ya tell us to." Banzai said.
"Alright alright, I got an idea. Good thing for us I forgot to lock my window." Shenzi said.
A few minutes later...
"Easy there boys!" Shenzi said as she struggled to keep her balance. She was standing on top of Banzai's shoulders.
"I toldja we shouldn't 'a put Ed on the bottom!" Banzai said up to her. He was standing on top of Ed's shoulders.
Ed only babbled in gibberish as he struggled to hold his two friends.
"Almost there." Shenzi said as she made a few grabs for her window. Ed lost his footing for a minute and Shenzi waved her arms in the air to keep from falling over; she did not want to fall to the ground from this height...or get squashed by two males when they landed on her.
Shenzi ended up gripping onto her window before everybody fell over.
"Got it." she said.
"Hurry up." Banzai said beneath her. Shenzi pulled her window open and stepped inside her room. She turned around and reached her hands out to Banzai to pull him up.
After pulling with everything she had and then some, she managed to bring Banzai halfway through her window. Banzai managed to claw his way into her room, then the both of them turned around and helped Ed in.
Shenzi sighed as she sat down on the side of her bed. Ed just staggered to his room. Banzai sighed from exhaustion as he sat down beside Shenzi on her bed, then he just fell on his back.
"Hey, watch the sheets." Shenzi said lightly without looking at him. She sighed again.
"I'm boltin' her window shut." she said.
"Aw c'mon Shenzi. None of us got dragged off by cops, I think that's what really matters." Banzai said, not getting up from her bed.
"Besides she left goin' out the door." he said raising his head up a bit, then lowering it back down after talking.
"I mean, whaddya gonna do? Ban 'er from the clan and make 'er live on the streets?" he said.
"Maybe." Shenzi replied. At this, Banzai quickly got up to his elbows, surprised.
"I'm kiddin' Banzai." Shenzi said, looking at him.
"But seriously though, she is gonna pay." she finished, looking at her bedroom wall across from her. Banzai sat up beside her.
"How ya gonna do that?" Banzai asked her. Then Shenzi fell on her back.
"I'll figure it ou." she said, turning on her side, facing away from him.
"Aw, she was just tryin' ta show the humans who's boss. We do the same thing with lions." Banzai said.
"We don't nearly get ourselves killed tryin' ta escape!" Shenzi said, looking at him and getting annoyed again.
"Uh, yeah we do." Banzai said. Shenzi stopped talking when she realized he was right. She sighed again.
"You go on ahead ta bed, Banzai. I'm gonna stay up a little while longer." Shenzi said. After a minute, Banzai got up from Shenzi's bed and walked to the door. He stopped and looked back at her when he had the doorknob in his hand.
"G'night Shenzi." he said, then waited for her to say something.
"Night Banzai." Shenzi said quietly. Banzai shut the door behind him as he left.
Alyssa woke up the next morning to find T making her bed. T was in her black tank top and green pants again due to changing into her pajamas before either human girls woke up.
"Morning T." Alyssa said, smiling. T looked back at her, then smiled uneasily.
"Morning." she said, then went back to making her bed. Alyssa turned over to wake Erin up.
"Erin." Alyssa said, shaking her shoulder with her hand. Erin wouldn't wake up.
"Erin." Alyssa said again, a little louder. Erin moaned and slowly opened her eyes as she got up. She stretched her arms out a bit and looked at her two friends.
"Good morning." Erin said.
A few minutes later...
"We had a great time." Alyssa said to T as she and Erin were leaving. Both girls were outside the door with their sleeping bags tucked under their arms. T smiled at them, but looked behind her without moving her head to see Shenzi at the bottom of the stairs with her arms crossed.
T just looked back at them again and smiled.
"Me too." she said.
"Well, we'll see ya at school tomorrow." Erin said.
"Kay." T said. Then closed the door as the two girls walked away. After a minute, T sighed and turned around to face Shenzi.
"So, what's my punishment? Bed without dinner? All-day non-stop housework? Or am I just banished from the clan when we turn back into hyenas?" T said.
"I think it'd be a little inhumane if I just kicked ya out. And that it'd be even more inhumane if I made ya starve all day. But I'll take ya up on that offer on all-day house duty." Shenzi said.
"Of course." T said, sighing a little depressingly; knowing what was about to befall her.
"Broom's in the closet." Shenzi said, pointing to the closet.
"I know. I know." T said as she walked over to it.
After what seemed like hours, T finally got the house done. She panted for breath as she walked down the stairs, a mop in one hand and a bucket in the other. Her jacket was gone and she had tied back her bangs.
She put everything back in the closet under the stairway, then staggered to the second bathroom downstairs and washed her hands off. She dried off her hands, turned off the water and undid her bangs. She looked at herself in the mirror; her fur was messy and she could clearly see a few smudges of dirt here and there.
She turned the sink on again and washed her face the best she could, then grabbed a towel and dried off.
"Hey, the place don't look half bad." came a voice outside the bathroom. She tiredly walked out to see Shenzi looking around the house. She turned around when she saw T.
"Ok, punishment over." Shenzi said. T sighed in relief, then took a look at herself.
"I'm gonna go take a shower." T said as she walked towards the stairs.
"Yeah, you do that." Shenzi said, noticing how messy T looked. T walked up the stairs and into the bathroom, although there were two bathrooms in the house the upstairs one was the only one with a bath tub and shower.
T closed the door behind her.
A few minutes later...
T opened the bathroom door and carefully peeked her head out to see if Banzai or Ed were around. When she saw the coast was clear, she stepped out of the bathroom. She was only wearing a towel (which was why she didn't want Banzai or Ed to see her), her bangs were still wet, and the clothes she had on when she was cleaning were hanging over her left arm.
T walked to her room and put the dirty clothes in the hamper beside her door, and closed her door behind her. She changed into clean clothes and grabbed the towel she used to cover her body with, then started drying her mane, mostly her bangs.
A few minutes later, she stepped out of her room. She started to walk down the stairs, until the phone rang.
"I'll get it!" T yelled downstairs. Then went over to the phone beside the bathroom and picked up the reciever.
"Hello?" T said.
"Hey T!" came a girl's voice.
"Alyssa?" T said.
"Yeah! Listen, me and Erin were going to show you the computer lab during free time at lunch tomorrow if that's ok." Alyssa said.
"I...guess." T said.
"Great! We'll sit with you at lunch tomorrow! See ya at school!" Alyssa said.
"Kay." T said, then put the reciever down. She saw Shenzi coming up the stairs.
"Who was that?" Shenzi asked her.
"Eh, no one important." T replied as she went back into her room.
The next day...
"You're gonna like the computer lab T." Alyssa said as she, Erin and T walked in the hallway.
"Me and Erin go there every chance we get." Alyssa finished as she grabbed the doorknob to the door of the computer lab. She opened it, and the three were about to go inside until Erin and Alyssa looked up, then frightened looks appeared on their faces.
T looked up too, a saw a boy who had to be at least two years older than Erin or Alyssa. He had red hair, tan pants that came below his knees and a blue shirt. He also had dark green eyes, a slight muscle tone and a nasty glare.
To a regular human, he'd look pretty scary. T scoffed.
"What're you supposed to be? Jackal the Ripper?" she said. (A/N Yeah, sometimes I do spoofs of famous celebrities, movie titles, etc. and replace them with animal names)
"Well well, if it isn't my two favorite victims." the boy said to Erin and Alyssa.
"We don't want any trouble Brian, we were just showing our friend around." Erin said, Alyssa was close behind Erin and clutching onto her shirt in fear. Brian looked up at T.
"Oh. New meat." he said.
"No. That would be, you if I was my regular self." T said, not the least bit scared.
"These three givin' you any trouble?" came a girl's voice from behind T.
Erin and Alyssa's eyes widened and the two looked at each other with terrified expressions on their faces. T looked behind her to see a girl with blonde hair, a red shirt and black jeans. She also looked older than Erin and Alyssa.
"I'd say nice outfit, but..." T trailed off. The girl walked over to Brian.
"H-Hey Micheal." Erin said.
"Cut the chatter squirt. We've been waiting all week for pay-day and it better come TO-day, or else." Micheal said.
"We're sorry Micheal, really. But, well, I kinda forgot to bring a drink from home today so I had to buy a milk carton." Alyssa said.
"You two don't know the meaning of sorry." Brian said. Then he and Micheal were just about to grab onto them until T got in their way.
"And uh, might I ask why you're pushing around 15-year olds for chump change?" she said.
"Stay outta this, newbie!" Brian said.
"Oh I'm shaking." T said sarcastically.
"I'll take care of this." Micheal said, looking at him. Then she made a fist and led a punch towards T. Erin and Alyssa cringed as they waited for a scream of pain, which they did hear, but not from T.
They slowly opened their eyes to see T clenching Micheal's fist in her hand as though it were nothing. The two girls were shocked. Then their eyes widened when they saw Brian lunge at her.
But then they just looked even more shocked when T easily stopped him in place...using only her index finger. T smirked and just shoved the two away.
"Whoa!" the two bullies said as they fell back into the spinning chairs, and spun around until they were so dizzy they couldn't see straight when they got back up.
After shaking it off, the two ran towards T again. T didn't move. Then right when they were about to gang up on her, T stepped aside, causing them to run straight into a couple of trashcans. Both fell in head-first.
Erin and Alyssa couldn't help but laugh. Brian and Micheal got out of the trashcans and looked at T with unbelievable looks on their faces.
"There's more where that came from if you're interested." T said to the two bullies. Brian and Micheal quickly ran away.
"Hmph. Bullies; society's trash." T said, watching them as they ran off. Then she noticed Erin and Alyssa were looking at her.
"Ok. So I mighta heard that from Shenzi, and it mighta been about muggers instead 'a bullies." T said, turning around.
"T, you scared them off just barely laying a hand on them!" Alyssa said.
"Yeah. I don't think we'll be seeing them around here anymore." Erin said.
"So I take it you two had to deal with those two on a daily basis?" T said.
"Yeah." Erin and Alyssa replied, looking a little ashamed as they looked at the ground. After a pause, T spoke up.
"Well, I doubt they're gonna mess with you two again." she said.
Erin and Alyssa smiled.
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