Chapter 11: Food Fights
"She's still sitting with that evil girl," Lewis whispered the next day as he sat down at lunch next to Emma and in front of Zane.
"Look, this project will be over before you know it and we can stop watching them talk with those people," Zane pointed out. "We should just try to ignore it."
Emma pointed over to Rikki and Merriam and said, "Rikki and Merriam look like they are really getting along."
Zane swirled around to see his current girlfriend giggling with his ex-girlfriend. He spun back around to face Emma and Lewis as he said, "Not caring."
"Of course you are," Emma said. "If there is one thing living with you has taught me is that you get jealous easily. And that, my friend, would make any normal guy freak."
"Just stay out of this, Ice Princess," Zane shot back.
Lewis looked confused as he said, "Ice Princess?"
Zane and Emma smiled and simultaneously said, "Don't ask."
Charlotte and Cleo
"So bracelet at middle sink in the second floor girls bathroom," Charlotte confirmed as she wrote down what they had decided.
"And the green cloth in the flower bed outside of the Mythical Studies classroom," Cleo said nicely as Charlotte wrote that down.
Cleo quickly looked down at her lunch. Charlotte looked over at Kendall, who was doing the project with Kelly. She looked back at Cleo, who was now looking at her strangely. Charlotte was the one to look down this time. Neither girl spoke for a second. Then Cleo said softly, "You like him."
"No," Charlotte answered fast before taking it back. "Well… he's Kenly's brother."
"I know that. Everyone at this school knows that," Cleo pointed out. "But you like him."
Charlotte looked away. Cleo knew right away that she was embarrassed. They both knew it was hard to like a guy who just saw you as his friend. Cleo also noticed that having her friend be her new crush's twin sister could end badly. She had already been though the best friend family to your boyfriend secret and knew it was definitely something to get use to. She also felt for Kenly. Cleo also had the best friend's boyfriend as family thing too. Both were hard.
"Don't you think this is weird?" Charlotte finely asked, knocking Cleo out of her train of thoughts.
"You mean us… getting along? Yeah," Cleo answered in her soft voice. Then a second latter said still in her angelic voice, "I won't tell."
"Tell what?"
"Kendall you like him," Cleo answered. "He's Clueless. Even if Kenly's not."
Charlotte smiled thinking that she totally misjudge Cleo.
Ash and Byron
Ash held up the old key and asked, "Where?"
"The ocean," Byron answered.
"Not happening. I would say around some girl's neck," Ash told him.
"Why? A girl would be so hard to track down," Byron pointed out stupidly.
"That's kinda the point, stupid," Ash said cruelly.
"You don't have to be mean about it," Byron said calmly.
Ash took a deep breath as he thought about just getting a decent grade and forgetting this guy ever excited.
Lewis, Emma, and Zane
Lewis fiddled with the fish pendant they were to be hiding. He handed it over to Emma, who flipped it in her hand twice before dropping it on the ground. Zane went to pick it up, but in return knocked over his drink. Emma jumped and fortunately didn't get wet. Unfortunately she also knocked Lewis's lunch tray into his lap. As he stood up to wipe to food off his pants, he knocked the spoon sitting on the edge of Emma's yogurt cup, sending it flying through the air. It landed right on Merriam's head, who was only sitting on table away today.
Zane Spun around to see Rikki smiling and Merriam on the verge of yelling, white goop hanging out of her hair. Merriam was so furious. She quickly picked up her spaghetti, from the school cafeteria, and through it right in Lewis and Emma's direction. Luckily, the ducked and it flew right over their heads, but landed right in Charlotte's long, red hair, the sauce blinding in well.
"What in the world," She yelled as she spun around to see Merriam, Emma, Zane and Lewis standing up.
Cleo put her hand to her mouth and looked away, just as Charlotte through her tuna fish sandwich in aim at Merriam. But Merriam ducked and it hit Rikki right in the chest. Rikki stood up and took a spoon full of pudding and flicked it toward Charlotte, but missed and hit Byron.
By now the whole lunch quad was watching the dram, as Byron try to hit Rikki, but got Emma instead. Emma, being mad, through more of her yogurt towards her ex. but hit Ash by accident. She quickly caught here mistake and called in her sweetest voice sorry. But Ash was getting into the fight, just as everyone else was.
Soon, spaghetti was flying, milk was on heads, pudding and yogurt were being flung, and everyone was mad at someone else. In all confusion, someone had managed to call out in his loudest voice, "FOOD FIGHT!" Girls were taking cover behind boys, as they were flinging food in all directions. It was a total mess.
As this happened, Charlotte had found her way towards Lewis Zane and Emma. So had Merriam, Ash and Byron.
"Why did you do that?" Merriam yelled at Lewis.
"It was an accident, Merriam," Lewis told her.
"Then say you're sorry," She demanded.
"Never said I took it back," Lewis said as Rikki and Zane chuckled a little.
"Well you should," Charlotte said cruelly. "You started it and now it is your fault this happened." She pointed to her now spaghettied hair.
"I think it's a pulse," Rikki said. "It hides your hideous hair."
Charlotte lunged forward, but Rikki didn't move an inch. "I'm not scared of you." Rikki smiled with Emma standing behind her, like backup.
"Look at this, man. A new shirt," Byron yelled toward Lewis.
"Well, Barbie, maybe you should be less of a priss," Zane yelled back.
Cleo was watching her friends, and her enemies fight it out and was getting the strangest feeling it would end with someone hurt, or worse, them all in detention. She quickly stormed up to them and stood in the middle of the now, Yell-what-you-want competition. It didn't even look like anyone was listing to what the other was saying.
"Stop it everyone!" Cleo said in a loud, angelic voice.
Everyone was caught off guard, hearing her voice over everyone else's. The other students stopped throwing food and everyone looked at Cleo, who stood in the middle of her friends.
"This is ridicules. Someone is bond to get hurt," She said as everyone put down what they were going to throw next. "Can we all just call it an accident and get on with our days."
With that being said everyone went back to throwing food at one another.
Merriam and Byron both picked up a water bottle sitting on the table and both pored them all over Cleo. She freaked and ran. Lewis, Emma, and Rikki fallowed. That left Zane, Ash and surprisingly Charlotte, close to killing Merriam and Byron.
Just then a teacher came up and saw the three ganging up on Merriam and Byron. She had hear Cleo's speech and called the five of them to the principal's office and told the rest of the students to start cleaning.
