A/N: Okay! So, with majority of the OCs registered in my files I'll be using most of them within this chapter! So, I'm going to list your username whose OC will be in this chapter. If you have given me an OC, but the OC isn't evident in this chapter please notify me, I'll place your OC in the next chapter.
- List of Usernames –
- EmmaLennyEddie - (Two OCs: Jenny and Jared.)
- A Person Who Likes Comedy - (One OC: Andrew.)
- Comedian Leah – (One OC: Terra REFERENCE .)
- PersonWho'sTooLazyToLogIn- (… I don't think she's on here anymore...) (One OC: Misti.)
- Fanboys girl forever- (Her included.) (One OC: Jamie REFERENCE.)
- Holly Tiger – (And totally doubt she visit this fanfiction too.)(One OC: Crystal.)
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Unexpected Fate is So Weird
Chapter Thirty One: Meet and Greet.
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Everything's just so… boooriiiing! Lying on the comfy sheets for more than an hour, eyes glue to the ceiling above her is slowly becoming nauseous. Suppose it's an awesome to be out of school for the next two weeks, but it freaking sucks when you have nobody to hang out with! So what's the point in leaving California anyway? Bah! And don't even start with her aloof twat of a brother, Jared.
"Now thinking about it, where's Jared anyway?" Jenny muttered and sat up from her relax position. She didn't have anything better to do after preparing for a regular Monday morning, after all, she's excused from school before everyone else… hmm, maybe she can hang out at the arcade!
…Wait, no, the arcade's not open until after school.
"Crud. Well, I can check out a few rooms." Jenny never treaded further into the Foster's residency due to personal and privacy reasons, it's the least she could do out of respect, but now thinking about it… what harm will it do? S'not like Francine nor her servants really bothered her or anything, besides, she's freaking bored! If only she could return to the hotel to recollect her handheld videogames. Nope, out of the question. Her parents just dropped them off without a legitimate reason, said something about 'business' and 'personal time' and blah blah blah…
You know, adult stuff.
They didn't bother answering when they would return, let alone if they'd return until the day of Thanksgiving. Hmph. The girl hopped off the dull azure bed with a grunt, not bothering to brush messy brown curls from her smoothed peach face. Normally her dark aqua shirt would be wrinkly…- not like it ever bothered her, unlike Jared-McFancy Pants , but Mr. Butterman absolutely detested wrinkles and directly told her, quote: "individuals who reside here at the Foster's mansion must represent Mr. Foster, and appropriate attire applies to his reputation as well." Next, she had to wait a couple minutes in her pajamas while Eric ironed her clothes. Alright, Jen was pretty annoyed at first, but now she can't help but to snuggle in the warmth of her newly ironed clothes. Anyway, she's losing focus here, and that's investing this freakishly huge mansion.
Makes her a bit jealous, though. Her parents are pretty rich, but they don't have awesome butlers nor maids, or huge rooms… or cool purple cars… well, whatever, she's not complaining. At least Francine doesn't have to worry about money, or selling valuable items and suddenly becoming frugal with money. "Wait, what I am doing? I can't be thinking about that! I gotta enjoy myself!" Why constantly worry? Dad says he's going to take care of it, so he's going to take care of it! Jenny shoved her hands into her pockets and left the guestroom.
…
"Jared? Jaaareeeed!" Going through these hallways felt like some twisted maze, opening doors leading to another hallway, find extra doors that leads to empty rooms and… just too many doors! Heck, it's been five minutes since she trespassed the 'non-guest' areas, only to lead to a bunch of cluttered rooms for whatever reasons. Ah, screw this, she'll just head downstairs and maybe watch some TV. "What's the point in having so many rooms if no one uses them?" Jen muttered to herself, becoming slightly baffled at the idea of multiple rooms being untouched for… years. It probably sucks being a servant at this household to constantly clean and sweep and serve… for what? Thirty bucks or something? Jenny walked down the stairs quietly, or at least tried to but loud squeaks from the wooden door isn't aiding silence, instead, making quite the opposite of silence. Where is everyone anyway? When Jen arrived to the living room she couldn't find a single soul…- did they, like, disappear?
"Hello? Guys! Jared…!" Ugh, she freaking hates complete isolation, it's freaking freaks her out.
"Kitchen!" Ah, there's her brother's voice, probably trying to flirt with that maid again. Pfft. The girl friskily walked through the living room without insecurity, enjoying the feeling of her hair bouncing between her face, brushing against her shoulder blades and tickling her skin. Jen felt a wide grin stretching her face and sapphire eyes twinkled in mischief, "ah ha! I knew you'd try to hit on Kimiko!" Caught her little brother getting close to that woman, his face freaking snuggling around her waist that it's… creepy. What's worse is that Kimiko look so oblivious! Can she not tell that Jared's a freaking creeper? Oh did she fall for his 'I'm a cute kid' look? "Quit assaulting her! Or I'll tell mom!"
"I-I'm not assaulting anyone! I just wanted to give her a hug!"
"Yeah, right, and I bet you didn't try to smother your face in her-"
"NO! How could you think of such thing?" The blush on Jared face is so freaking laughable. And then there's Kimiko, trying to assess the situation with her 'innocent' critical thinking. "Please children! Arguing will not solve the answer!" The woman exclaimed, unaware of the intense glaring between the two children, and she continued, "y-young master was giving his appreciation, mistress! Please try not to accuse." Kimiko said softly, carefully prying Jared's arms away from her waist. Jenny couldn't help but to mumble, "fine." The doubtful expression still lingered upon her face.
I still don't believe him…
"I apologize to interrupt this 'intense' moment," everyone turned to find Mr. Butterman standing beside the kitchen sink, gloved hand placing the telephone back into its socket. Dark grey eyes hidden behind casual stony glasses told many things, starting with complete irritation…- suppose he have been here all this time, watching things simply unfold between them? A simple, deep glare from Eric and complete silence followed. Taking this opportunity, Eric smoothed his vest and clasped his hands together, "but I've spoken with Ms. Dallie-"
"Francine's aunt?" Francine's mom's sister, Ally Dallie, the woman that lives in Texas. Jenny never knew much about Francine's family on her mother's side, except that she had another cousin, James or Janie… someone like with a 'J' Francine last told her a few years ago. "Yes. Ms. Dallie is coming to Galaxy Hills within-"
"We're going to meet our family-in-laws?!" Jenny exclaimed, eyes brightening at the thought of hanging out with someone other than her brother, Jared. For a split second Jenny thought Eric eyes twitched, but maybe it was just her imagination… "Yes, yes you are." The revelation just felt so joyous that she could just…! "I'm super excited!" The girl hopped repeatedly, hands clapping at the thought of bonding with her estranged cousin-in-law… if that's even a legitimate term to describe non-cousins. Besides, what if she (or he) has the same interests like she does? It'll be so awesome! Then they could hang out together and talk and play games and have fun and… "Please try not to become too elated, Miss Jennifer-"
"Jen, it's Jen."
Eric sighed. "Miss Jen, but they won't be here until evening."
"…Seriously?" Ughh! It's going to take forever! It's not even ten o'clock yet! "What can we do while we wait?" Just staying in this house is driving her to insanity. Eric hummed, "well, what do you wish to do? I still carry duties within the mansion so I cannot be with you at the current moment." Everything fun isn't accessible until all the kids are out of school, and no freaking way is she going to the mall! Hate libraries because they are boooooriiiiing, ice cream parlor isn't open yet, and that store doesn't have anything interesting to buy!
"We can go to the bookstore." Jared suggested, and Jenny just stared at her brother, appalled. Bookstores are boring too! Well, exclude they have more variety in stock, like awesome comics, manga, books…- but nevermind that! It's still a replica of a library! And it's boring! She has to be silent and do all these other boring stuff that's just like school! "C'mon sis, you don't have to be immature about it." Jared responded as he folded his arms. Jenny shook her head, "I'm not immature! Just… why that place? We already visited a few days ago."
"Because I like books."
"Well, I hate books!"
"Oh? Well your interests suck." Oh no he didn't! Did Jared just say that her liking in awesome stuff sucked? He's freaking dressing up like some stinkin' anime character for goodness sakes! And he tells her that her interests suck? Jenny marched towards Jared and snatched his collar, pulling him closer to her burning eyes. "You're interests suck just as much!" She shouted, feet firmly planted on the ground when Kimiko tried to pull them apart.
"You don't even know what I like!"
"Oh please, everyone knows you try to act like-"
"Like nothing!"
"Enough!" Suddenly Jenny felt herself fall onto the tiled floor with a harsh thud. Pain sprouted from her spinal cord down to her feet, and Jenny couldn't help but to moan in agony, "ow…" In-between them stood Eric, appearing quite upset. "Behave yourselves, children! I wish not to report this inappropriate behavior to your parents. Such disappointment will not bestow on the Foster's name!"
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"Here I am reading my life away." Jen grumbled, eyes staring into the colorful pages of a supposedly 'awesome' comic book. It's some random comic she snagged while browsing through shelves, and Jared went off to do… something. She sighed, fingers tracing the thick outlines of ink surrounding the heroine figure, "so freaking bored." By the end of the argument Jared still won, like… Every… Freaking… Time because he's the 'little brother'! Pssh, so much for acting like the little brother, it's the other way around.
… Not implying that she's the little sister or anything.
Jenny was too bored to acknowledge sounds of screeches from the chair in front of her, nor bother to look up when a shadow loomed above her. "Well, that sucked." This particular character, Nana-ban, is already shoved into the 'action princess' genera that's born with martial arts and have extraordinary powers! Not like it's a complete problem but geeze! Have some freaking characterization. Like, her personality is so freaking cheap and lame and totally one-dimensional! Nobody acts like some extremely smart, terribly elegant, obviously talented and natural leader in real life! That's just Mary Suish.
"Whatcha got there?"
"A cheap, lazy scripted comic with crappy characters."
"Oh, well that sucks."
"I know right? This stupid chick named Nana-ban acts like a know-it-all…-" This time Jenny halted her rant, suddenly realizing she's talking to a living being. Blue eyes met light blues… brighter than her own, almost pales, and then Jenny blinked, "uh, who are you?" The girl in front of her smiled, curly blond hair drifting to the side of her freckled face. "Name's Crystal Lui. I'm visiting across the country." Lui? Could that possibly mean…? Her facial structure might imply Asian descendant, but the hair color is an obvious statement of American.
Biracial, maybe?
"Yeah, I know what you're thinking. I just dyed my hair blond, so yeah." Complete hot pink nails, multiple jeweled piercings, glittery bracelets, and lipgloss and inked lashes… oh no.
She's a prep!
"What?" Crystal tiled her head, bangs covering part of her face. Jenny laughed nervously, "uh, n-nothing at all! Nope! Haha, nope! Nothing! Nada!" The girl… errm… teen, stared at Jen in a strange manner. Jen had the urge to kick herself for acting silly, looking like some dork, "uh, that's a nice name! I like crystals! Do you like crystals? And are you Asian?" Suddenly Crystal laughed, sounding rather high-pitched and kind of squealy like a crying pig…- hey, just being honest. "Yeah, I like crystals. And yes, I'm Asian, Japanese in fact." Ooooh…! Japanese? Jenny's eyes sparkled in curiosity and the pre-teen scooted closer towards the blonde, "oh! So does that mean you live in Japan?" She couldn't help but to ask! The thought of living in the most epic country is just… epic!
"Yeah! I do! I'm touring with my classmates across America! It's a National Foreign study trip." Crystal explained, "it's similar to a foreign exchange program. We're learning American subjects along with their culture, and then we return and take a major test."
"A test? Not cool."
"Yeah… I know, but my parents didn't pay tons of money for me to flunk my test."
"So, whadda doing in this place?"
"Huh? Oh, I'm just interacting and using my foreign language to the test. Am I doing okay?" Jenny blinked at the question. Okay? More like perfect! "You're doing great! I'm sure you'll pass your test." Crystal giggled, a blush tainting her freckled cheeks, "thanks. Hey, do you like comics?"
"Heck yeah!" Jenny exclaimed, and then clasped her mouth when tense glares from disturb individuals lingered on her. "I mean, yes, yes I do." Jen said calmly. "That's wonderful. I'm starting to become more intrigued by these American comics, and I want to know your perception and why you're interested." Jen felt a grin tugging at her lips, and she chuckled. "Alright, lemme' tell you my history dealing with comics…" Maybe it wasn't a bad thing to revisit this rinky-dink library knock off.
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It felt like ages when Jared moved his eyes away from the pages, and the intense feeling to rub his eyes was immense. The boy sighed, dropping another paranormal book into the pile of horror themed novels. Half of the books Jared read wasn't much thrilling than he anticipated, it's a lackluster of paranormal and more fulfilling in silly romances and other pointless teenage drama garbage. Sigh. Can he have a decent horror/paranormal book that focuses on the superstitions than have some hot ghost chick as a main love interest and pointless paranormal triangles?! Jared stared across the isles and sighed.
Then, he blinked.
She's a pretty girl… It was an immediate thought when he glanced at the girl, but Jared quickly shook his head. He can't indulge in immature doings, it's just not… proper.
Unlike his sister.
Short, ebony hair tied into a tiny ponytail somehow complimented her sea blue eyes…- but that begs the question, why do they appear tired? Shouldn't they be active and alive like common young kids? And that brings another good question. "Shouldn't she be in school?" Jared mumbled to himself, observing the young girl appearing no older than his age…- unsure, possibly older, rearranging books in what seems like chronological structure, something commonly employees would do. Curiosity spiked his interest, and oddly, the boy found himself walking towards the girl. Thick blue glasses slid down her button shaped nose, and the girl pushed them back with her pale two fingers… "Hello there," A gasp along with an abrupt jolt, the girl dropped a few books held in her grasp, squeaking as they clattered to the floor in a cluttered heap. Jared took a step backwards, suddenly feeling intrusive for disrupting her… moment, if you will.
"I-I'm sorry." Jared stuttered as he bent down to snatch the books. Screw his gentlemanly nature, but Jared cannot simply watch a girl clean messes on her own.
Besides his sister.
"No! That's alright. My apologies for not responding right away!" She said, laughing quietly in a soft manner. At first, Jared planned to give the girl her books, but decided to assist her instead. "Are you rearranging books?" He asked, glancing at the covers and tried to place them in correct order, "huh? Oh! Um, yes I am." The girl replied as she held another rack of books in her arm. Is this what she had done for the past hour? Personally, who would do that? It's rather tedious and uninteresting… unless she's an extreme bookworm.
"What's your name?"
"Misti. What's yours?"
"Jared." He doesn't have a reason to continue talking with this individual, but she does appear appealing indeed. "Aren't you supposed to be in school?" He asked, watching the girl shrug, "technically, yes, but I'm homeschooled so… yeah."
Homeschooled? Oh, so she doesn't have a specific timing for education? "I see." Jared said, swapping out action novels with romance. "That's cool." Waking up at any hour… studying any type of subject, and the best part? Not dealing with lame teachers. Misti shrugged again, "it's alright. Homeschooling has advantages compared to regular school, and sometimes disadvantages. Overall I think it's nice."
"I see. Do you… hang out at this place often?"
"I work here." Jared couldn't help but to blink. Work here? Is that even allowed? What about child labor laws?! Or does that not apply here? Misti stared at Jared with a grin, "I know what you're thinking. No, I don't actually work here, I just volunteer majority of my time here."
"… Oh."
"Excuse me." The two turned to find a boy-… what a second. Immediately staring his attire just screamed emo! Oh, that's right, Jared seen this dude before… wasn't he hanging out with Francine or something? "What are you doing here?" Excuse Jared's rudeness, he just cannot withstand emo wannabes. The emo wannabe blinked, red and black bangs sweeping to one side of his pale face…- gah! Just staring at his face is just making Jared angry!
"Oh, hey Drew." Drew?! Misti knows this guy? Jared looked at Misti in a surprised expression and then glanced at this 'Drew'. Drew was taller than Jared, probably a foot taller in height…- who knows, probably taller. Jared couldn't help but to loudly tsk, folding his arms as he gazed at Drew's crappy attire. Look at this tacky outfit! It screams 'pity me! I'm emo!' it's so pathetic! Jenny cannot mock his own clothing as anime inspired, just freaking look at this guy! Did he come out of some TV show? "I come here often." Drew explained as his pale blue eyes bored into Jared's own. \
"You should be in school." Jared muttered, narrowing his eyes in slight irritation. One thing Jared absolutely hates is pathetic posers.
Drew narrowed his eyes, and Jared couldn't help but to internally smirk. "Likewise to you, too." Misti stared between the two, unsure how to ease the abrupt hostility. "Um, hi Andrew!" Misti butted Jared with a façade smile, hoping to lower the tense atmosphere, "how you're doing? Do you need anything?" She asked, smoothing her purple and green striped long sleeved shirt and stared at him with her big sapphire eyes. Andrew crinkled his nose in disgust before moving his long bangs away from his face, curling it around his studded pierced ears. "Not exactly. I was wondering if it's possible to order a book from another store."
"Um… I'm not really sure but I can check if you'd like."
"That'll be nice."
Look at Andrew, trying to smooch up some girl with his emoness. Jared felt his eyes narrow even further, "decided to ditch class?" He said in a sickly sweet tone, watching with amusement as Andrew frowned. "Why does my business interest you?"
"It doesn't. I frankly don't care what you do, but don'cha think mommy would be worried? I mean, the school should've reported you missing! … That is if you're in school."
"What's that suppose to mean?"
Jared shrugged, nonchalant, "nothing, to be honest. It just sucks to find an emo poser walking around ditching class." He said, checking his nails with obvious disinterest. "Okay, you don't know anything about me." Ah, typical excuse of emo person, so sad. Jared found himself sighing, "sure, and you surely didn't dress in all black for attention? Right?" Look at Andrew! Becoming pissy over a comment? Must be an emotional sissy.
"Jared! You're being insensitive and just plain cruel!" Misti replied hotly, face scrunching between twisted anger and hurt. I'm not the one begging for attention! I'm not desperately trying to gain friendship and other gothic necessities! Yet I still get shunned. A growl escaped from Jared's throat, deep beneath the pooling gut of anger, and the boy placed his hands inside his army pants' pocket and turned his back towards them. Fine, they want to support pathetic posers? Go ahead, shove the stupid agenda down people's throats.
Jared can't understand how Francine like some wannabe like Andrew. He can't help but to chuckle, "oh yeah, your 'girlfriend' Francine?" His head angled slight to see a red face coloring previous pale for skin, Andrew's. "Instead of ignoring her, you should acknowledge her sometimes." And with that Jared walked away from the fuming nerd girl and a mildly upset gothic boy.
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"I know right? Like, last time I eaten potato chips they tasted bland and…"
So this is what Jenny been doing all this time? Talking to some random blonde without a care in the world? Jared couldn't help but to scoff at the immaturity of Jenny's hyperactive thinking. He's tired of reading cheap Twilight knockoffs, tired of being bored and certainly tired of seeing posers for one day. The girls didn't even see him when Jared walked straight into their view, barely giving a second glance until Jared coughed. Jenny stopped midsentence about how disgusting Lays chips were and… stuff, and finally, she looked at Jared. "Oh, hey Jared! Didn't see you there." His sister said with a laugh, "I was talking to this awesome girl, Crystal." Jenny's hand motioned to the teenage, freckled blonde on the opposite side of the table.
"Mm." Patience started to run thin, down to the seconds of bursting in sudden anger. No Jared, keep it together. He's not going to act like some immature prick- besides meeting a poser, but you get the point. Must be responsible, must be mature.
He's not going to disappoint dad. Unlike his sister.
"Is this your brother?" Jared heard Crystal say, and Jenny nodded with a sigh, "yeah, my little brother. Don't mind him, he's naturally a stoic person with a stick constantly up his butt." At least I'm trying to become a responsible person. Look at you, acting like a five year old! I'm doing this for our parents! What about you? Anyway, they need to leave… the ice cream parlor is going to open soon. "Let's go Jen. I'll be waiting outside." Jared didn't bother seeing his sister staring at him, stunned.
His fingers brushed against the door's handle, ready to open the door- WHAM! Abruptly, dull pain smacked straight against his skull, the pressure knocking Jared backwards onto the hard tiled floor. The cold floor greeted his backside with numbing shock, causing the boy to gasp in silent agony. "Crap!" He hissed underneath his breath, eyes squinted in hopes to sullen the throbbing pain… "Oh my gosh! Are you alright?" Jared heard to what sounds like a girl, say, and cracked open an eye, only to find the… figure, rather blurry and disoriented.
Wait, where's his glasses?
Jared opened his eyes and stared the girl, narrowing his eyes further to find a tiny blob- assumingly a hand, in his altered sight. Shaking his head, Jared pushed himself off the ground and dusted away any disgusting particles attached to his clothing, "I'm fine." He muttered darkly, eyes strained from the nakedness of his medicated lenses.
"Here's your glasses." He felt something slide into the palm of his hand, cold and smooth as his thumb rubbed across the glass's rough texture. "Thanks." When he slipped them on, total coolness refreshed his burning blue eyes, and he stared at the clear, refined girl in front of him. "Oh! You're that little boy hanging around with that blonde girl, wasn't it?" She asked with curiosity, her green eyes twinkling.
… LITTLE BOY?!
"Excuse me, missy, but I'm not a little boy." Jared retorted, becoming immediately defensive. Why does everyone finds him a kid?! Sure, he's young but don't call him little! The girl reverted in surprise, "I'm so sorry! My bad." Baggy sweat pants hung across her hips along with a thick red hoodie, barely giving any view of her body. "Whatever." It's obviously the chick dyed her hair, and personally, it doesn't look appealing with dull brown hair intermingles with blond.
Black's more attractive.
"Anyway, I'm leaving."
"Okay! And try not to slam into any doors! Okay?" Jared huffed and turned his head. His pride is already cracked, don't break it any further.
A/N: TEN PAGES! TEN!
Anyway, I tried to give each OC some spotlight in their own way while trying to give them character. Next chapter is going to land in Fanboy's perspective of things.
PS. I know this is kind of silly, but I keep confusing the words after '…' in capital or lowercased words. I know I should be ashamed of myself and return to grammar school, but what's the appropriate way to have a word after '…'? I should probably look it up, I know, but I'm just curious if the words should remain lowercased or capital.
Thanks.