Tale of Cash
Part 57: how does it work?
The boys seemed dead tired, but also starving, after their 'fit'. They were sitting down at the table, eating bratwurst, trying to figure out where all this strength and rage came from. Simon theorized that it was because they were closer to the animal state, being chipmunks and young men. With the hormonal fluxes inside them and the little wild parts to their brains, they were like walking time bombs. The part of them that was, to an extent, human, could only bottle up so much. When the reservoir peaked, the anger would begin filling up the one part of their brain that was still wild, the rage center. When this thing's threshold was crossed, they would 'hulk out', as Alvin put it. " Think of it as an extreme, built -in, last resort defense mechanism. It's a natural, albeit, bizarre means of self defense. But, as the girls and everyone else will tell us, we do appear to be very dangerous and vicious when we are an this state. I think we should earn ways to control this, suppress it until we absolutely must use it. An ace in the hole is one way of think about it." Simon said. " So, basically what your saying Einstein, is that we need anger management?" Alvin asked." No, Alvin. Anger management couldn't help this. We need to just go in our minds or something, find our angry selves and say ' from now on, you work for me and come out when I say so, not when you feel like.' Maybe we should try it for a bit. Some meditation, perhaps?" " Sure, I'm game." Cash said. " Let's do it." They all said. So, they laid down and concentrated. They opened their minds and began searching. Eventually, they found them. The four they saw terrified them. But, they all bravely confronted their other selves and made them submit to their wills. The four wild chipmunks began to shrink and fade away. Then, they woke up. Dave and the girls were looking over them. " What are you doing?" Eleanor asked. " We just made tem give in to us." Theodore said. " Made who give into you?" Jeanette inquired." Our wild sides. We won't go all beastly anymore, unless we want to. We have complete control." Simon boasted." Well, that means no more wild munks?" Brittany asked. " Nope! Just us. What you see is what you get." Cash said. The girls sauntered up to the boys, with as sexy of struts as they could. " We're glad to here it." Katrina said. " your just trying to turn us on, aren't you?" Alvin asked." Of course! Is it working?" Brittany asked. " Sure is. Come here." Cash said. The girl leaned into the boys and kissed the as if they were going to eat the boys faces. " Whew! I love this life. Lord, don't strike me down now!" Cash cried. The girls giggled. Later that night, the high the boys were on left them. The girls felt bad that they had been stupid enough to fall into the traps. " Hey, it's over. No one is worse for the wear from it. Everything is going to be just fine, I can feel it. Now, it's late. Let's get to bed. We got that benefit tomorrow." Cash said. The couples said goodnight and went to their bedrooms. All four couples had their own bedrooms, since they had proven themselves with the tents. The couples kissed good night and went to sleep. However, the light in Cash and Katrina's room stayed on. They couldn't sleep and didn't understand why. Cash felt strange and so did Katrina. Katrina pulled out these two large, red, pod like earrings she always had with her. They were hand made by Mrs. Choy. Cash was mindlessly sliding the sheath up and down the blade of his sword. " Why do we feel so bad?" Katrina asked. " Probably because you feel bad that we were flung in that mess and we feel bad that we tore into that guy." suddenly, the others came in." Can't sleep?"
Tale of Cash
Part 58: Secret notes
" Any idea why we feel so bad guys?" Brittany asked. " I guess, because it all happened so fast that we didn't even take time to figure out what's really going on. Guess our minds are trying to register it all and it's throwing our hormones completely out of whack." Simon said. " I think it's cause, though he was a really bad guy, we feel guilty over the fact that we really hurt that guy. And, though we got revenge for the girls and Katrina for what he did to them, we didn't get to enjoy it. Those two feelings are mixing and making us feel sick." Theodore said. " I think we should pray." Cash said. " They all held hands and nodded. " Dear lord, let this odd feeling leave us. This feeling of guilt for hurting Jack Franklin, of retribution, of the sick feeling we have from seeing so much blood and feeling it on our hands. We beg of you to forgive our actions and cleanse us so that we may perform in your house tomorrow. Amen." And just like that, the feeling left.. " Man, Cash, you good at leading prayers." Brittany said. Cash just laughed. However, Cash still wondered what Mr. Ikebana would think if he saw him in this state. Katrina wondered what Mrs. Choy would tell her to comfort her after a day like this. The others tried to tell them what they thought they would say. Then, Katrina tripped over Jeanette's foot and dropped her earrings. On her way down, she bumped the sheath of Cash's sword. " Are you alright, baby?" Cash asked. " I'm fine. Huh? Look some little paper fell out of my one earring when it fell on the floor. Say, look, there's a hollowed out part in your sheath, Cash." The kids opened their notes and read. " Dear Cash, If your reading this, then I must be gone. But, I want you to know. I'm very proud of you. I'll be watching over you and I'll visit you in dreams to make sure your alright. And, no matter what you do in life, no matter how wrong it may seem, if you did it for the right reason, then I am proud of you. Give my warmest to your new family and the girlfriend I'm sure you have by now. Also, there are little trinket's in the sheath for all four of you, you and your brothers. I love you son. Love, Sensei." Cash read his note. Katrina's read about the same. Both had four trinket's, little medallions on string necklaces. He medallions had the Japanese( for the boys) and Chinese( for the girls) symbols on them for the words 'brothers' and 'sisters'. When stuck together, the extra symbols on the boys medallions read 'together till the end'. The girls read the same. The kids put on the necklaces and suddenly felt better. " I think God willed us to find these. To clear our minds of any lingering doubts. To make us understand that, no matter how bad things get, we always have each other to fall back on. Family, tied by blood or not, is still family. And, we boys agree, the chipettes we aren't dating are like sisters to us. The ones we are dating, are of course, more to us than that." Cash said. " What a coincidence. The girls think the same of you guys. To me, AL, Sy, and Theo are my brothers. Brittany says the same of You, cash and Theo and Simon and…well, you get the idea." Katrina said. " Yeah, we're more than just four couples, we're family. We're more than eight individuals, we are one!" Alvin said. " that was beautiful, Alvin." Brittany said. " I try." Alvin said. After brief hugs and having fun calling the ones they weren't dating 'brothers' and 'sisters', the kids went to bed at last. Cash said the next morning that he never slept so well before in his life. They all agreed that they all felt weird last night, then after reading the notes, felt great.
