I don't own TUC I do own Sydney and would-you-rather-dares. (Why? Cause I made it up in the 4th grade) anyways enjoy!
I did it! I did it! I did it! Ha! What now?
Chapter 14
"Please Sydney, just stop." Gregor pleaded with her as she helped her brother prepare for his date.
"One day you'll thank me for this." Sydney told him matter-of-factly.
"Of course I will. That's exactly why I'm begging you to STOP!" Gregor yelped as Sydney tugged at a particularly large knot that had formed in his un-brushed hair. "I'm going to kill you in your sleep tonight." He growled as Sydney put some frilly smelling hair gel on her hands and began to plaster it to his head.
"When was the last time you even touched your hair?" Sydney asked ignoring his threat.
"Last week when I took a shower," Gregor replied nonchalantly.
Sydney paused in her preparations, but then continued on remembering that her brother was a slight germ-a-fobe and how he tried never to go longer than two days without bathing. She grinned wickedly; I'm going to have to use that when we play tonight. "What does Luxa see in you again?"
"Well besides my usual charm and good looks," Sydney snorted, and Gregor chose to ignore her continuing, "I'm actually pretty awesome." Gregor smirked and was rewarded with another yank of the brush. "You don't have to pull so hard!"
"Oops." Sydney said innocently. Gregor missed her cheeky grin, but could since something of the nature so he humphed in response. "You're free to go." She said finally, and Gregor shot up from his chair, "Don't you dare mess any of this up Gregor McCarthy!" she yelled after him. "Now to get ready for my date," Sydney smiled.
Howard had asked Sydney to join him on a romantic flight around the city. She sighed contentedly as she braided her hair. The only thing that could ruin tonight was her twin brother. If Gregor knew that she also had a date he would certainly convince Luxa to help him. She vowed that she would enjoy tonight no matter what happened. Even if afore mentioned brother and his girlfriend decided to ruin her date.
Two hours later Gregor went to Luxa's apartments to pick her up. They took a bat to the spot where he and Sydney had set up his picnic, and began to eat, chatting about trivial things. It was romantic, and Gregor actually began to enjoy the night despite his hatred of the day.
Then it was time for desert. *Insert evil laughter made by the author of this fic here* Gregor smiled as they ate. So far things hadn't been that bad. Luxa grinned at him as she popped a watermelon seed into her mouth, and swallowed. Before Gregor could stop himself he yelled, "Oh my gosh you're fruit pregnant!" then he froze, and a wide eyed astonished look replaced his calm *cough* normal *cough* expression.
"What did you just say?" Luxa asked slowly.
"I… um… Well you see… I… I got nothing." Gregor sighed defeated.
"That is what I thought you said." Luxa nodded solemnly, "Gregor, how in the world could I be fruit pregnant?"
"You can't be. It's just something Sydney and I do whenever one of us accidently swallows a seed of a fruit." Gregor tried to explain. He ended up having to tell the story of one of his and Sydney's frequent visits to their parents' house.
It was a warm summer day and Gregor's mom had bought some watermelon from the store. He and Sydney were sitting out on the back porch enjoying the tasty fruit, when instead of setting aside one of the seeds Sydney had eaten it. This caused Gregor to tell her that now that she had eaten a watermelon seed a plant would grow inside her stomach and she would become fat and look like she was pregnant. Suddenly Sydney stood up and yelled, 'Oh my gosh! I'm fruit pregnant," Which in turn caused both of them to fall into fits of laughter. It was now a joke between the two, and whenever possible they would remind each other of that day.
Now Gregor could see what the nasty habit made extremely awkward situations. He spent the rest of the date in awkward silence biding his time until they could go play would-you-rather-dares.
He was glowering by the time everyone had arrived, and he wasn't the only one. Stellovet and Hazard also had had an entertaining day. When Sydney came in the three gave her death glares, and she scooted closer to Howard who rolled his eyes.
"So," Sydney said drawing out the word. All members of the party stared at her. "How was everyone's day?"
Hazard grunted while Gregor shot her another glare. "I'll have you know that I HATE this stupid Overland holiday." Stellovet began, "I was caught under that cursed mistletoe six times today! Six! And I got a very large number of hateful Valentine's from some anonymous person." She ranted, "So my day was not exactly enjoyable, thanks for asking!"
"Stella," Howard warned.
"It was down right dreadful!"
"Stella," he said a bit louder.
"I hate you Sydney McCarthy! And don't you forget it! You will rue the day you ever thought Valentine's Day was a good idea to bring to the Underland! I swear I'll,"
"Stellovet!" Howard yelled causing his sister to stop mid rant. "Are you quite finished?" Stellovet sat down reluctantly still grumbling. "Luxa if you will please start."
Luxa took the bottle and spun. She was delighted when it landed on Sydney. "Sydney, would you rather scream 'The burritos will enslave us!' when someone says 'What' or try and get high off of eggnog?"
Sydney yawned, "Those are lame. Besides been there, done that with the eggnog. We used to have eggnog drinking contests back at the Orphanage. Bet you can guess who the winner was." She smirked triumphantly while Luxa rolled her eyes.
Sydney then took the bottle from her and spun it. An evil grin overcame her face as it slowly came to a stop in front of her brother. "My dear, dear brother, would you rather go around Regalia acting like a person with rabies, or go a month without bathing."
Gregor's face became pale as he thought over his options. "You know I do have a certain reputation to uphold." He growled. Sydney grinned in reply. Gregor sighed, "Iwon'tbatheforamonth." He mumbled.
"What?" Luxa asked.
"The burritos will enslave us!" Sydney shouted on que.
"I said I won't bathe for a month." Sydney grinned and passed on the bottle to her brother who glared at her again. "You know if looks could kill," he began.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah I'd already be dead. Get on with it!"
Gregor sighed again and spun the bottle. It landed, which he noted with amusement, on his favorite rager friend. "Ripred, would you rather go a week without shrimp and cream sauce," the rat gave a sharp intake of breath, "or sing 'You Belong with Me' in the Arena dedicating your performance to the crawler ambassador that will be visiting again on that day.
You could see the struggle going on within Ripred's brain written plainly on his face finally he came to a decision. One he was sure to regret later on, "I," he paused painfully, "I'll go without shrimp and cream sauce." Tears formed in the rat's eyes.
"You're dare starts now." Gregor grinned. No one noticed that when Sydney was writing down the dares she made a little note to tell whoever dared Ripred next to used the song dare again.
The List
(Check) show love and affection to a crawler- R
(Check) sing 'He Could be the One' (HM) in grass skirt and coconut bra- Gr
(Check) eat earwax-Au
(Check) break dance-Ho
(Check) Steal food from kitchen-Lu
(Check) Training routine in Perdita's formal clothing –M
(Check) Shave a bat-St
(Check) in front of class express love for Luna-Ha
(Check) tell group who they like-D
(Check) outlandish comment at council meeting-Ar
(Check) pretend to fall asleep and snore at council meeting-Gr
(Check) kiss Gregor-Lu
(Check) dive into Waterway and bring up lobster used in attack on Fount-R
(Check) try to get sunburned by tanning with torches-Ha
(Check) hug 50 people including Queen Athena-St
(Check) plug up a bathroom-Ho
(Check) yell 'Traitor in the city' and dive bomb someone- Ar
(Check) announce love to Howard in council meeting- M
(Check) go on a dare with Mareth- D
(Check) start food fight by hitting Lidia –Au
(Check) scream Mareth's gone mental' while running through Regalia-Ho
(Check) say 'Rawer I'm a taco. Fear me!' when someone greets him-Ha
(Check) charge money to go to the bathroom-Sy
(Check) ask Aurora out- Ar
(Check) chant 'Free to pee' in front of earlier mentioned bathroom- St
(Check) renounce bond with Luxa bond with Gregor have fight bond with Luxa- R
( ) get overly emotional during play- St
(Check) wrestle a rat- Ho
( ) play patty cake with St in next council meeting- Lu
( ) say 'The burritos will enslave us!' when someone says 'What'- Sy
( ) go without bathing for a month- Gr
( ) no shrimp and cream sauce for a week- R
I did it! *does happy dance* I updated on time! Woot! Thanks to MysticLightning for something in the 12th chapter that I forgot to thank him for, and also to RayvnHawthorne, gilbert48, and crrazythunderpiegal39 for their ideas. You know the fruit pregnant part? heehee that's actually true story. Thanks for reading!
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