Thank you for reviewing people! I love you all! I know you guys might be kind of pissed off at me for that but, I really wanted you guys to review and like I said before, I wasn't going to keep writing just because of one person. By the way, thank you Burning Impossibly Bright for being to only one to review before I put up the review thing. So, I saw Shutter Island last night! It was actually not a good movie and the ending was not shocking at all. It was a lot like this one book I had to read for school. If anyone wants to hear what happens or just want to talk about the movie, PM me! My puppy got his stitches out on Friday and I okay for anyone who wants to know. He went swimming in our now unfrozen pond yesterday and today so now the whole house smells like wet dog. So did anyone else read the newest Reckoning chapter? If you have please tell me! All I can say right now for people who didn't read it is I still don't like Andrew, I was almost crying for stupid reasons, and oh my God I didn't see that coming! So I'll get to the chapter now. Sorry for the usual and I don't own Darkest Powers.
I woke up to the light shining through my window. I sat up on the bed and looked at the time. 8:48. Wow, I actually got up at a reasonable time for a weekday. Then I remembered what was happening today. Derek and I would be together all day. Alone. In the house. With no one else around. I didn't know whether I should be excited for this, or whether I wanted to just hide in my room all day. I got up out of bed, grabbed some of Julie's borrowed clothes and a towel, and headed towards the bathroom to take a shower. Everyone would leave at 10:30 and I wanted to talk to people before then so I was in and out of the bathroom in 15 minutes. I then went downstairs. As soon as my foot touched the floor of the TV room, Simon came running up to me.
"Hi Chloe!" he said loudly. "You're up pretty early."
"Yeah I know," I said. Simon was really starting to annoy me with being so persistent on always talking to me. "So what did Claire make for breakfast?"
"Nothing," Simon said. I turned to face him with a confused look on my face. He laughed. "Calm down, there's still food. Frank went to go get doughnuts for you and Derek. The rest of us are eating at Denny's."
"Oh, what kind of doughnuts?"
"Um… let's see. I think we decided on six chocolate of some sort, three glazed, and three jelly-filled. Sound okay to you?"
"Yeah that's fine," I said, looking around the room. Almost no one was in there, just Derek, Tori, and Charlotte. "Where is everyone?"
"Well, Casey and Charlie went with Frank to get the doughnuts, apparently they would rather have those then Denny's, and Frank still doesn't trust anyone but James with a car. Jake was downstairs playing Call of Duty. Julie and Alex were down here earlier but I don't know where they went. Libby and Claire were doing laundry last I heard. Miles was watching Star Trek upstairs. I think everyone else is still sleeping."
"Alright then," I said, moving towards the couch, Simon following me. I plopped down in the corner, Simon sitting next to me. I suddenly had the urge to yell at him and tell him to stop following me, but stopped myself. It wouldn't be good if I yelled at him. I instead turned my head towards the TV. It was Arthur.
"Are you guys seriously watching Arthur?" I asked everyone else.
"Charlotte insisted," Tori said. "It actually is better than I remember."
"See!" Charlotte said. "I told you everyone loves Arthur on the inside!"
"Well not me," Derek said. "I have always disliked aardvarks that look like bears."
"Don't you dare insult Arthur!" Charlotte screamed at him. A small ball of water was floating near her hand. Derek seemed to notice this and laughed.
"Alright," he said. "I'm sorry. I didn't know you would be so insulted by me calling Arthur a freak."
"Uhg!" Charlotte screamed as she swung her arm forward, towards Derek. The ball of water was flung towards him, too fast for him to dodge. The water ball hit Derek right in the face, soaking him, the couch, and Simon who was closest to him. Both Simon and Derek stood up and glared at Charlotte, Derek growling. They started trying to dry off, and then Tori and I burst into hysterical laughter at the exact same time. Simon and Derek glared at us but that made us laugh even harder. After only a couple seconds, Casey, Charlie, and Frank came into the room, Frank holding two white boxes. Casey looked from the fuming Charlotte, to the soaking wet Derek and Simon, and then to me and Tori laughing like idiots and immediately joined in. She fell onto the couch and laughed just as hard as we were. Charlie and Frank didn't seem to have any idea what was going on.
"What h- You know what, I don't want to know," Charlie said, taking on of the boxes from Frank and retreating into the kitchen. Frank followed him. Casey, Tori, and I kept laughing for several minutes before Charlotte went upstairs. I calmed down after that and remembered there was now food and ran into the kitchen. Charlie was sitting at one end of the table, a box of doughnuts on one side, and a half gallon of chocolate milk on the other. I saw the other box near the sink and got it, figuring it was meant for me and Derek. I got some milk, not from the one near Charlie, and sat down next to him.
"Are you just drinking that straight from the carton?" I asked.
"Yup," Charlie said, taking a sip from the carton to prove it. "Doesn't matter though, this is my chocolate milk, see?" He turned the thing around so the label faced me. Sure enough, there was a big sticker across the actual label that said "Charlie's. Do not touch, except for Charlie."
"Very funny. Why do you have your own thing of milk?"
"Claire didn't tell you?" I shook my head. "Well then. Each week, all of us get $15 to spend on any food or beverage that we want to keep for ourselves. I always get one of these," he held up the carton of chocolate milk. "and then some Oreos or something."
"Well that's awesome."
"I know!" Charlie said happily. He took another sip of milk before grabbing another doughnut from his box. He stuffed half of it in his mouth. Then he said, with his mouth still full, "Hey Derek." I turned around to see Derek walking into the kitchen. He was wearing a new shirt, that was dry, and well… it was different from what he usually wore. I think it might have been James' or someone else's because it wasn't baggy at all, in fact, it was maybe even a little tight. I looked away from him, blushing, and opened up the box of doughnuts, taking a chocolate one. Derek came and sat next to me, sliding the box towards him.
"This is ours right?" he asked, already taking one and bringing it to his mouth.
"Yeah," I said, still blushing.
"Hey Case!" Charlie yelled right next to my ear. I turned to glare at him but he didn't notice. "I'm eating all your doughnuts!"
"WHAT?!" Casey screamed from the TV room. It took her less that 10 seconds to run into the kitchen and snatch the box from Charlie. "How many times do I have to tell you not to touch my food? Next time, I'm stealing your milk." Charlie drew the milk carton towards him and put his arm around it protectively. I laughed and turned to mine and Derek's doughnut box, and saw three more were gone than the last time I looked. I looked up at Derek, who was still stuffing his face with a doughnut.
"How many did you eat?" I asked him. I glanced down at my own doughnut, only three or four bites missing off of it.
"I don't know," Derek said. "Five maybe."
"Five? That was only like a minute!"
"Yeah I know, maybe I should be a competitive eater." I laughed at that before taking the box away from him. "Hey, I'm not done!"
"Shut up," I said. "I'm just taking some before you eat them all." I took another chocolate and a glazed from the box and sat them down on the table in front of me, then I pushed the box back at him.
"Thank you," Derek said, already reaching for another.
I sat there at the table and talked with Derek, Charlie, and Casey for a long time. Everyone appeared eventually. James and Kyle tried to steal some of our doughnuts, which Derek protected rather viciously. Around 10:20, Claire and Libby came back from doing laundry upstairs. I asked about the $15 food thing then.
"Oh," she said after I finished asking. "That's right, I completely forgot. Okay so every week, we give each person 15 bucks to spend on whatever kind of food they want. That food is then theirs and no one can touch it or take it." Charlie began to prove this by modeling his "do not touch" label on his milk. "Thank you Charlie. So, is there anything that either of you want to eat that you don't want anyone else to have? Derek, since you're a werewolf, you get $20 to spend."
"That is so not fair," Casey whined.
"Shut up," James said, who was sitting next to her. "I let you have like half of the stuff I get anyway."
"Well you have to," Casey said. "You have no choice."
"Thank you guys," Claire said, before turning back to me and Derek. "So is there anything?"
Derek and I both told her what we wanted. Then Claire realized that it was almost 10:30 and started yelling at everyone to get ready to go. Charlie quickly chugged the last bit of his milk and shoved a last doughnut into his mouth before leaving. Soon, everyone was gone in both the kitchen and TV room except for me and Derek. I didn't really know what to say, so I just said, "Well this should be an entertaining day." I mentally kicked myself, I really need to think of better things to say.
"You're right there," Derek said. We sat in an awkward silence for a while, both of us nibbling on doughnuts, before Claire came into the room. She had a brown purse over one shoulder, and car keys in the opposite hand.
"Alright guys," she said. "We're leaving now. We should be back around 8 or 9. Are you sure you're going to be okay by yourselves?"
"Yes Claire," I said. "We'll be fine."
"Okay then, see you tonight." Claire then turned around and left. I heard a door slam a few moments later and figured that meant everyone had left. And I was officially alone with Derek.
"I can't believe they're going to spend almost 12 hours shopping," Derek said, shaking his head.
"Well do you know how long it takes girls to shop Derek?"
"Yes I do, and I don't understand it one bit."
"You know, for a genius, you know next to nothing about people."
"I've heard it before," he said, taking the last doughnut. "So what do you want to do?"
"I don't know," I said. As I began thinking about what we could do, my eyes began drifting towards Derek's tighter shirt. I realized this and shook my head, mentally kicking myself really hard this time. "How about looking at all the movies in that one room?"
"Figures that you would pick the movie thing."
"Does that mean you don't want to?"
"No, it's fine. I've been wanting to see what is in there anyway."
We left the kitchen and headed towards the home theater. Neither of us talked and it was still really awkward. We reached the theater and went into the personal Blockbuster. Even though I had seen the room before, I was still amazed by all the movies. I headed towards the comedy section, not sure why. Derek went back to the horror section, he really seemed to like those movies. I scanned the shelves, picking up anything that looked familiar or interesting. After a few minutes, Derek walked towards the door.
"Where are you going?" I asked.
"You'll see," he said, disappearing into the theater. I never can understand him. About a minute later, Derek came back in. He threw something at me and I instinctively tried to catch it. But I missed. The thing bounced off my hand and landed like five feet away from me. I was getting up to get it, but Derek was already bending to pick it up. I realized that it was a Milky Way bar. Derek handed the candy to me.
"Thanks," I said. "Figures that you would leave to get food."
"So I like food," Derek said. "So what?"
"I'm just saying that only you would leave to get a candy bar."
"Actually," Derek said, smiling. "I got four." He held out his hand and I saw four bars in it. I rolled my eyes and went back to looking at the DVDs. I had been looking at an end-of-the-world movie when suddenly, my inner voice yelled CHLOE! I almost threw the DVD box up in the air. God, what do you want? Aren't you supposed to be spending time with Derek? You said you would figure out if you really did like him or not today! Oh, yeah, I did say that didn't I. Yes you did! Now stop trying to stall and stay away from him and just go talk to the man! Uhg, you're so annoying. But I'm right, and you know I am.As much as I hate to admit it, you are. But what am I supposed to say to him? I don't know, ask him to watch a movie or something. That sounds like a date, and that would be weird. Well do something. I'll talk to you again later.
I sat there thinking. What could Derek and I do that wouldn't be like really awkward or anything? Movie really wouldn't work, that would be extremely awkward. Just watching TV would be too. Uhg! This is so annoying. Luckily though, Derek brought up something by himself.
"Hey Chloe," he said. I stood up to look over the shelf at him. "No offense, but I'm getting bored. Do you want to go watch TV or something?"
"Sure," I said. Maybe it wouldn't be that awkward, if he suggested it himself. "I was getting a little bored too."
We left the home theater and walked towards the TV room. Halfway there, I tripped over my own feet. I prepared myself for the impact with the floor, but, like always, Derek caught me before I touched the ground. I looked up at his face. His eyes were on mine and I suddenly found it hard to form words.
"U-uh…" I began. "T-t-thanks, D-D-Derek." Stupid stuttering! Derek swallowed before talking.
"N-no problem," he said. Wait, did he just stutter? Mr. Always-Calm Souza stuttering? How is that possible? Derek set me back on my feet and then kept walking towards the TV room. I followed, still a little dazed. By the time I reached to doorway that led into the TV room, Derek was already seated on the couch, flipping through channels. I was about to sit down next to him when I figured I could mess around on my laptop some more.
"I'll be right back," I said. Derek just grunted. I walked upstairs and quickly found the laptop, still on the bedside table where I had put it last night. I grabbed it and turned it on then went back downstairs. Derek had already decided on a show, but I had no idea what it was.
"What is this?" I asked as I sat down on the couch by him.
"30 Days of Night," Derek said, looking over at me.
"And what is it about?"
"Vampires attack a small town in Alaska when it's dark for a month."
"Well that sounds exciting."
"So far it is," he said, looking back at the screen. "See, now they're just slaughtering everyone in sight."
"Thank you for that Derek," I said before looking back at my computer screen. I brought the internet up and decided that I might as well check my emails. I wouldn't have to send anything back, but I could at least see what my friends were doing and if they missed me. I signed in and immediately saw the inbox count, 78. Wow, it had only been like a month, less than that since I had checked last. I sighed as I clicked open the inbox. The last email had been sent five days ago, from my friend Kari. I tried to think about where I was then. It would have been just after the picture of me and Derek had been put in the paper. I quickly opened up the email and read it.
Chloe, where are you? Please, please answer this email, I'm really worried about you. I saw your picture with that guy in the paper and am just really freaked out. Please tell me that you haven't been kidnapped. Chloe, what happened? Where are you? We're all so worried about you. Especially your dad. He probably hasn't slept in a week. He's been-
I stopped reading then. I really didn't need to hear about how worried my dad was. I knew he was worried, why else would he put up a half a million dollars for my rescue? And I was worried about him to. I didn't know if the Edison Group would go after him and try to use him to get me to come out of hiding. I would be devastated if they did that, especially since I know I couldn't do anything. I clicked out of the window and closed the laptop, not wanting to be reminded of my father anymore. I turned to face the TV screen, where a bunch of people were all sitting I an attic, not talking. I watched silently until Derek's voice interrupted my thoughts.
"Chloe," he said. "What's wrong?"
"N-n-nothing," I said, surprised at how weak I sounded. I brought my hands up to my face to try to shield it from Derek. My hands touched wetness, and I realized I had been crying. I just buried my face into my hands then, and tried ignore Derek. It didn't work. He kept asking me what was wrong over and over again until he finally just came over to me.
"Chloe," he said as I felt him sit down next to me. He gently grabbed my wrists and pulled my hands away from my face. I just dropped my head, not wanting to see his face. He quickly let go of one of my wrists and brought his now free hand to my face, lifting it to his. I looked up at him just long enough to see the worry in his eyes, then tried to turn my face away. He wouldn't let me. "Chloe, please tell me what's wrong."
"Just forget about it Derek," I said, still trying to turn my head.
"No Chloe. You're crying, and I'm pretty sure it's not from the movie, so things are obviously not alright. Now please, tell me." I looked back at his face and I just couldn't stand the look on it.
"Fine," I said. "I j-just looked at my email a-a-and read one f-from my friend a-a-and…" I started crying harder then. I gulped and continued. "S-s said that everyone was w-w-worried about me a-a-and how my d-dad was really worried a-a-and…" I couldn't finish. I started crying even harder then and turned my face to look at the floor. Derek didn't seem to know what to do. He dropped the hand that was on my face and grabbed my hand.
"Chloe," he said. "It's okay, it's okay. Your dad's going to be fine. He's just worried. No one knows what happened to you, so they're imagining the worst. People do that when they get scared, even if it's something minor. I did it myself when Simon and I found out our dad was gone. I went through all sorts of really bad scenarios, almost all of them involving his death. But now I know that he's still alive, just locked up somewhere by the Edison Group. Eventually, your dad will see that you're okay as well. Chloe look at me." I brought my face up to look at Derek. "It's alright. Nothing is going to happen to him. No one would touch a man who's in the news constantly and offering half a million dollars to have his daughter returned to him. Not even the Edison Group." I nodded and began wiping away the tears on my face.
"Thank you Derek," I said, staring at his eyes. Then, before I could stop myself, I reached up and hugged him. He tensed at first but then put his arms around me as well. "It means a lot."
"No problem," Derek said. We sat there for about a minute, before I pulled away. I smiled at him and he smiled back. Then the whole mood was then ruined by hysterical screaming coming from the TV. I looked at the screen to see a lady getting attacked by a vampire, then back to Derek. I started laughing and he did as well. See! You do like him! Please just admit it! How can you not after that?! Alright, alright, I like Derek. As more than a friend? Yes, more than a friend. And you aren't just saying this to make me shut up? No, I mean it. And don't you know everything about me? You should have known I meant it. I only know what you're feeling, not whether not you know it or if you mean it. Well I do, but I'm not going to do anything about it. WHAT?!! You have to! Did you see how worried he was when you were crying? He loves you! Just tell him you feel the same! NO! That would be so weird and I don't even know if he like me or not, and I'm not risking ruining our friendship. Uhg! I am not done with you! Well for now you are, so leave.
I went back to watching the movie, which was really violent. People got attacked by a vampire like every five minutes, all very bloody deaths. Derek seemed to like that though and was smiling like an idiot every time someone died. Are you sure that's why he's smiling? God, just go away! The movie got kind of depressing during the end. The main characters brother was missing for a while and that really upset me, he was an awesome guy! Then when he showed up again, I was happy but then the main character willingly turned himself into a vampire to kill all the other vampires and save the last few people. Then he died when the sun came up and I was mad at the stupid ending.
"I hate it when movies do this," Derek said, shaking his head. "It's no fun when everyone dies."
"Tell me about it!" a voice came from behind the couch. Derek and I both jumped and turned around to see an astral projection of Casey.
"What the hell Casey!" Derek said. "How long have you been there?"
"For the last few minutes, I like this movie," Casey said. "And I agree with you about the no fun when everyone dies thing. Like in Knowing, the whole world ends on my birthday! It was so depressing!"
"Why are you even here?" I asked.
"Claire wanted me to check and make sure you guys are okay. I'm guessing you are, since no one is missing a limb or anything, unlike in this movie! Well, I should go! Bye!" And she disappeared.
"That is one weird girl," Derek said.
"Yeah," I said. "She watches people sleep when she can't."
"Okay that's just creepy."
"Especially when you wake up and she's floating right next to you.
"And you would know this how?"
"Two nights ago I woke up from a dream and she was right there."
"Yeah that would be really creepy."
"Yup," I said. I didn't really know what to say next, so I just said something random. "Hey Derek?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you have an email?"
"I don't think you really have to email me things Chloe, we're sort of in the same house all the time."
"Yeah I know that. I meant for after all this is over and we leave this house. If we ever do."
"We will but the answer is no, I don't have an email."
"Well then we should make you one!"
"I don't want an email. I'd never use it."
"Not even to talk to me?" I said, using a puppy dog face. It worked.
"Uhg, fine. Make me an email account."
"Yay!" I said. I picked up the laptop and sat back down next to him. "Okay, so what do you want it on?"
"What?"
"What site do you want it from? Like there's hotmail, live, Gmail, stuff like that."
"I don't care."
"Well you have to choose one."
"Fine, hotmail then."
"Okay," I said. I brought up the hotmail main page and clicked the sign up thing. "So what do tou want your name to be?"
"I don't care Chloe."
"Fine, then I'll just use Wolfman532."
"Why 532?"
"I don't know, I just picked those numbers. Do you want to change it?"
"No, you do what ever you want."
"Alright, then it's going to be Wolfman532." I typed in that for the user name and then handed Derek the laptop.
"What's this for? I thought you were doing it for me?"
"Do you want me to make up a password for you too?"
"Oh… that's a good point," Derek said. He turned to the screen and typed a few things, then handed the laptop back to me. I typed in his name and other stuff, then stopped at the zip code thing.
"What are we supposed to put for zip code?"
"I don't know," Derek said, shrugging. "We don't really live anywhere documented."
"Yeah," I said. "Oh well, I'll just use Buffalo." I typed in the zip code for Buffalo and then clicked the finish button. The screen changed to one that said "Welcome Derek." It had a bunch of random stuff on it that I ignored. I found the contacts list and added myself, then turned the laptop over to Derek. "There, now you change it to look whatever way you want."
"Alright," Derek said. He pressed a couple of random buttons, then flipped the laptop closed. "Finished."
"You didn't even do anything."
"Exactly, I told you I didn't care. But I am hungry, I'm getting lunch."
"You just ate like 10 doughnuts like two hours ago!"
"It was actually three and a half hours, and only 9 doughnuts," he said as he got up off the couch, turning back around to face me. "Are you coming or just going to watch TV?"
"I'll eat," I said, sighing and getting up as well. I followed Derek into the kitchen and sat at the table. "So… Simon said you can cook."
"He did?" Derek asked turning around to face me.
"Yeah, and can you?"
"I can make a few things," he said. "But right now, I just want a sandwich."
"Make me one with peanut butter please!"
"You can make your own sandwich Chloe."
"That doesn't mean I want to."
"Well I'm not making anything for you."
"You suck," I said as I got up and went towards the pantry. I found the peanut butter and some bread and brought it out to the table. I grabbed a knife and a paper towel and went back to the table. I watched Derek as made my sandwich. He was trying to find something in the fridge so he had his back turned to me. He then found whatever he was looking for and closed the door, turning back around. He saw me staring at him and said "What?"
"Oh, uh… Nothing, just kind of zoned out," I said, looking back down at my sandwich. I had just finished it when Derek came over to the table.
"Are you done with that?" he asked, pointing at the peanut butter and bread. I was about to say yes when suddenly an idea formed in my mind. I picked up the peanut butter, screwed the lid back on, picked up the bread and walked back to the pantry. I put the bread and peanut butter back where I found them, grabbed a bag of Tostitos and walked out.
"No I'm done," I said happily to Derek, opening the bag of Tostitos and sitting down to eat my sandwich.
"Why'd you do that?"
"You wouldn't make me a sandwich, so you can get your own bread and peanut butter."
"You're mean," Derek said as he walked to get the stuff from the pantry.
"Thank you," I said before stuffing some chips into my mouth. Derek made his sandwich, just a regular PB and J, and sat down across the table from me. He reached over and pulled the bag of chips away from me.
"I wasn't done with those."
"Well I want some, you can have the right back," Derek said, taking two handfuls and stuffing half of one in his mouth. He then pushed the bag back at me, saying something that sounded vaguely like "Rear ro row" through his full mouth. I made and annoyed face and rolled my eyes, then took some more chips. Derek and I sat at the table for a while, just eating in silence, again. Eventually the silence just became too much for my stupid inner voice. Why the hell aren't you talking to him?! 'Cause I'm eating. No you're not, you've already finished your food, look. I looked down at the paper towel I had had my sandwich on and sure enough, it was empty. Well, he's still eating so I don't see why I have to start up a conversation. Are you blind? He's done too. And he's staring right at you. What? No he isn't. I looked back up from my paper towel and looked at Derek. His sandwich was also gone, and he was staring at me. It kind of creeped me out so I said, "What?"
"Oh, uh… Nothing," Derek said, looking away from me. I had to stifle a laugh, it was exactly the same thing I said when he caught me looking at him. He then stood up and went over to the fridge. He grabbed something and turned around to look at me. He held up a can of Coke. "Want one?"
"Sure," I said, getting up to go back to the TV room. I dropped down on the couch and grabbed the remote. I started flipping and saw that the movie Volcano was on so I turned it on. It was just to the part when the tar pit was beginning to turn into a volcano. Derek walked over and sat down next to me. He handed me my Coke before looking at the screen.
"What is this?"
"Volcano, you seriously couldn't guess from that?" I asked, pointing at the tar pit that was now spewing big globs of lava.
"Yes I can tell that it's a volcano movie, I just didn't know what it was called." We opened our pops and drank them while watching. When that one girl just stood there when her leg was being burned, Derek started laughing.
"How is that funny to you?" I asked.
"This kid's supposed to be 13 and she's not only carrying a teddy bear, but just standing there screaming for her dad to come put out the fire on her leg. That's just pathetic. No one would actually do that."
"How do you know? There has never been a real volcano in a city. Maybe people really would just stand there, frozen with fear."
"I'll believe it when I see it," Derek said, turning back to the screen. I sighed and went back to messing with the laptop. I was not going to look at my email again, just maybe play some of the games. I found the games folder and opened up solitaire. I played that while watching Volcano. Derek just sat there, not saying anything, through the whole movie. It was kind of weird, but that was how Derek usually was, so I just left him alone. The movie ended after a while, and some really weird looking movie came on. Derek and I both lunged for the remote at the same time. Derek grabbed the remote first but, even though I knew I could never get it away from him, I tried to pry his hand off. He started laughing.
"Seriously Chloe?" he asked, still laughing and holding his hand tight around the remote. "You can' take the remote from me."
"That doesn't mean, I can't try," I said, still trying to yank the remote from Derek's hand. He just kept laughing, and eventually just pulled it away from my hand. I pulled my hand away and crossed my arms across my chest. Derek just laughed some more and started flipping through channels. I saw that the time was already 4:30. Huh, that went by fast. That's because you- Oh just shut up, I know what you're going to say. It's because I'm with Derek. And I'm not going to argue with it about it. Well-wait did you say you weren't going to argue. No, you're right, and always have been, I've just been in denial. Wow, I never thought you would agree with me about something. Now will you leave me alone? No, I'll just stop bugging you as much.
"How's this?" Derek said, bringing me out of my inner argument. I looked up at the TV screen, seeing the guide and Dirty Jobs highlighted.
"Sure," I said. Derek turned it on and Mike was blowing up something. We watched until the show ended, then neither of us could find anything to watch, so we turned off the TV. "Now what are we supposed to do?"
"Um…" Derek said, thinking. "You want to go see what kind of games there are downstairs?"
"As long as we don't play Mario Kart again," I said, getting up off the couch. We both walked over to the basement and went down the stairs. I found the stash of game boxes and started looking through them. Derek joined me and also started flipping through the large number of games. After a while, Derek held up a box.
"How 'bout this?" he said jokingly. I took the box and looked at it. There were these really creepy bunnies on the front that were doing a bunch of weird things. The game was called Raving Rabbids.
"No," I said, throwing the box back at him.
"You didn't even look at the back, it looks like fun."
"You think something looks like fun? Fine let's play it."
"Cool," Derek said, jumping to his feet. HE held out his hand to help me up and I took it. As soon as I was standing, he let go and turned on the Wii. He started the game, and I immediately regretted saying yes to playing it. The creepy bunnies were doing even weirder things, but Derek didn't seem to notice. There were only three profiles on the screen, one Casey, Jake, and then Other. Derek clicked the Other one and then multiplayer. He grabbed another remote and two nun chucks, handing one of each to me.
"Great," I said, taking them. "So how do we play?"
"I think that depends on the game that is chosen," Derek said, pointing his remote at the screen. I looked at it as well and saw more of the creepy bunny creatures running around. Then the screen changed to a how to play screen and Derek clicked the how to play button. A creepy bunny appeared that was sitting on its butt on the balance board thing. It was moving from side to side with a really creepy expression on its face.
"So we have to play by sitting on the boardy thing?" I asked, still not quite sure how to play.
"Yeah," Derek said. "You lean from side to side to steer whatever it is we're steering and the lean back for a speed boost."
"How do you know that?"
"I read the words next to the pictures."
"Oh…" I said, looking next to the bunny and seeing the written instructions. "Well, you can go first then."
"Alright," Derek said, pulling out the balance board from between the TV and the wall. He put it on the ground and turned it on before sitting down on it. "Well this should be interesting."
"Very," I said, trying to picture Derek doing what that bunny had earlier. I had to stifle a laugh. Just then, a bunny, that was supposedly Derek, dropped down onto the screen, on top of some moose like animal.
"What the hell?" Derek said. He was still staring at the moose thing when 3-2-1 started flashing across the screen. Then something screamed GO and Derek completely messed up the start. He started leaning backwards for a speed boost and the moose thing made a really disturbing noise before shooting forward. Derek kept leaning backwards and tried to lean side to side to steer, but it didn't work. He almost fell over a bunch of times, making me laugh hysterically. Derek kept swearing at the screen the entire time, yelling at the moose thing to go faster, although not nearly that nicely. Eventually, he got to the finish line and stood up, glaring the screen. I laughed even harder when I saw how badly he did. "Shut up Chloe."
"No, it's hilarious!" I said, still laughing.
"Well I want to see you do better," Derek said. He pointed at the board and I sat down on it happily, hoping I could actually beat him at something. He started up the game again and I started my turn. It was actually really easy, for me anyway. I could see how someone as big as Derek could have trouble trying to do this but it was no problem for me. I finished much quicker than Derek had and stood up, beaming.
"I win!" I yelled at him.
"What? That is so not fair, I want a rematch."
"It is to fair and you're not getting a rematch. Let's just play the next game."
"Fine," Derek said, glaring at the screen once again. Apparently, he's a really sore loser. He started up the next game and tried playing that.
Derek and I played the Raving Rabbids game until 8:30. I won almost all of the games, Derek winning only about 5. He kept trying to beat me though, so we didn't stop playing I realized that everyone was going to be home soon. We got off the Wii and went back upstairs to watch some TV and get some snacks. I just grabbed a bag of Goldfish while Derek took a whole bag of Doritos. We watched Mythbusters until 9:00. By that time, Derek had already finished his Doritos and was stealing some of my Goldfish. Then everyone came back home.
"Hey bro, Chloe," Simon said as he walked into the room. "How was your day?"
"Fine," I said, rolling my eyes at Derek's usual grunt. "How was shopping?"
"Fun!" Tori yelled as she ran past Simon. "I got so many new things! Chloe you're going to love what we got you."
"You picked out my clothes?" I asked, suddenly very scared.
"No," Tori said, sounding depressed. "Simon told me I couldn't. Charlotte, Julie, Claire, and Ann picked out your stuff."
"Good, thanks Simon."
"No problem Chloe! Oh my God, you should see how much food we bought! There were at least four cartfuls!"
"What? Seriously?" Derek said, suddenly perky at the mention of food. I laughed.
"Yeah," Simon said. "And I got you what I think you needed and wanted."
"Thanks," Derek said before turning back to the screen and taking the bag of Goldfish from me.
"Hey! I was still eating those!"
"Alright," Derek said, handing the bag back to me and smiling. "Have them."
"Thank you ver-" I began before looking into the bag and finding only crumbs. "You suck."
"That's not nice."
"Uhg," Casey said as she and James walked into the room. She plopped down on the couch next to me. "That was horrible. Next time, I'm staying home with you guys."
"I guess shopping didn't go well for you?" I asked.
"Are you kidding?" Tori said. "She complained the whole day. I can't see why though, shopping is so much fun!"
"Shut up Tori," Casey said. She turned to me. "I had to spend 6 hours in clothing stores. 6! That is like six months of torture for me. And it wasn't even me that was buying stuff! Then stupid James and Charlie got to go to Gander Mountain to buy stuff for the yard with Frank but Claire wouldn't let me go with! She said she needed all the girls there to help pick stuff out. I didn't though, just sat in a corner texting Nikki."
"Who's Nikki?" Simon asked, coming over to sit by Derek.
"She's an awesome shaman!" Casey said. "I love Nikki. She lives like two hours away from here though. Her and her parents come to all the meetings though, sometimes we go to her house for them. Anyway, she is just awesome. She's like really quiet but has an evil mind. I wouldn't be surprised if she took over the world one day."
"Wow," Simon said. "She sounds… interesting."
"Aww," I said. "Does Simon have a crush on a girl he's heard about once?"
"No!" Simon yelled, now blushing. "She just sounds cool, that's all."
"Sure," Tori said. "Anyway, I'm going to go put all my stuff away. If you want Chloe, I'll show you where your stuff is."
"Why not," I said getting up off the couch. Tori led me into classroom, that was now just a sea of shopping bags. A lot of people were still unloading things from the car. Claire saw me and smiled.
"Hi Chloe," she said. "Were you and Derek okay being alone all day?"
"Yes Claire," I said. I had known her for less than a week and she was already taking on the Mom roll in my life. "We were fine."
"Good, well your stuff is right there and you'll get your private stash of food probably tomorrow or later tonight if we put things away quickly."
"Thanks," I said, tuning to the pile of bags she had pointed to. There were only five, compared to Tori's eleven. I tried to balance all the bags so I could bring them up in one trip and succeeded, but barely. I left Tori trying to get Charlie to help her bring her bags up, but I don't think that was ever going to work. I got all my bags upstairs without them all falling and set everything in my room.
I started looking through all the bags and finding places to put different things. By the time everything was put away, it was 11:00. I decided to just go to bed so I got out my new cow themed pajamas and put them on. I turned off the light, slipped under the covers on my bed, and fell asleep.
So did everyone like it? Did anyone like it? I know it probably wasn't what you were expecting, but it was still good right? And it was really long! This one chapter is almost the length of an entire story that I had to write for school! So that game Derek and Chloe were playing, I love it! It's so much fun and hysterical to watch people play. It's called Raving Rabbids TV Party. And the both of the movies I watched during the weekend. 30 Days of Night was hilarious because of how much blood and gore there was and also the really badly played vampires. Volcano I've seen a lot of times but I like it so I put it in the story. Also, I like the Discovery Channel if you haven't already guessed that! Please, please, please review! All I want is five, that's it. Reviews make me really happy so any extra would also be nice. So I hoped you
