/Everyone was still sitting in a circle/
"So what now?" asked Chase
"How about we tell stories?" asked Aelita
"Sure why not?" said Jennifer
"Who wants to go first?" asked Yumi
/They heard another loud blast of thunder that made everyone jump a little/
"Man, that storm is brewing up" said Ulrich
"I'll put on the weather channel" said Chase
"Thanks ghost" said Ulrich
/Chase turned off the DVD player and switched it back to regular TV, he got the remote and turned it on the weather radar/
"How bad?" asked Ulrich
"Its a big one, looks like fucking Texas its so big" said Chase
"I never thought I would say anything like this but its a lot bigger than Texas" said Jennifer
"Look at that, its going from England to Sicily!" said Rebecca
"This is a huge fucking storm" said William
"And its all over France, man I hate the rain" said Miranda
"Really?" asked Rebecca
"Oh yeah, I'd rather have the sun" said Miranda
"Can we get back to story time?" asked Odd
"Odd teishi! We'll get to that" said Yumi
"Who's going first?" asked Yumi
"I'll go first" said Dylan
/Everyone sat down on the couches and either looked at Dylan or the weather channel/
"Me and Chase went to Israel about ten years ago" said Dylan
"Israel? What happened?" asked Rebecca
"Well we were walking in Tel Aviv when we saw a group of Jews and Muslims fighting, we decided to at least try and play peacemaker for a little while. So we walked to the group and started trying to calm them all down, then one of them threw a fucking beer bottle at Chase" said Dylan
"That's actually what gave me my beauty scar on my eyebrow" said Chase with a grin
"Anyway Chase went down and I tried to help him up, but then a Muslim comes walking over and punched me in the face" said Dylan
"What? Why?" asked Yumi
"Because we were Americans, now anyway we're both on the ground wondering what the fuck was going to happen next when a big dog bites the Muslim and takes him down, then I look over and see a hell of a lot of Israeli police come over and start beating the shit out of the Jews and Muslims to get them away from the two of us, then they walked over and thanked their dog, the dog's name was Riley" said Dylan
"So Riley is not named after a video game dog?" asked Jennifer
"Nope, just a good dog in Israel" said Dylan
/Riley barked and Chase and Dylan started petting him/
"Who else wants to say something?" asked Ulrich
"I'll go" said Alexandr
/Everyone looked at him/
"About a year before I got here I heard my sister was starting to date-" said Alexandr
"Wait, you have a sister?" asked Aelita
"Yeah her name is Galina, anyway when she told me that her and this asshole guy I knew Dima were dating I told her I was against it" said Alexandr
"How did she react?" asked William
"Naturally she said she didn't care and dated him anyway, he was a good looking kid, smart, and could handle himself. The first time he hit her she came to me and I wanted to bash his brains in but she said that it was her fault, she picked the fight, he was stressed, you know, the whole nine yards. The second time she didn't come to me, she went to my ex girlfriend who was her best friend" said Alexandr
"What'd you do?" asked Jennifer
"I did what any loving brother would do, I took care of it" said Alexandr
"How?" asked Miranda
"I called a guy who called another guy who handles stuff like this, I don't know what he did, I don't know what he said, all I know is that he didn't kill him and my sister never heard from Dima again" said Alexandr
"How did she react?" asked Aelita
/Alexandr looked saddened/
"She called me names you wouldn't believe and worse, she said I was dead to her" said Alexandr
"Oh man, I'm so sorry" said Chase
"Me too, I'm not proud of most of the things I did but I'm pretty sure I'd do it all again in a heartbeat" said Alexandr
"Hoorah" said Dylan
"Anyone else?" asked Chase
"Sure, I guess" said Ulrich
/Everyone looked at her/
"I lived in Germany until I was eight, that's when my father decided that my old school wasn't 'appropriate enough' for a kid like me to go to at that age. So then we moved here" said Ulrich
"How did you take it?" asked Jennifer
"Actually I took it pretty well, I was excited to make new friends even if they were French, it was my mom that had a huge problem with it. She and my dad always got in arguments after we got to Kadic about anything and everything, my homework, bills, and even just for the hell of it I guess" said Ulrich
"How was your mother?" asked Yumi
/Ulrich smiled a little/
"She was my mom, we used to talk about everything and anything" said Ulrich
"What happened to her?" asked Yumi
/Ulrich sighed sadly as his smile went away/
"After she died my father sort of snapped, he always seemed more distant and always looking towards his work, I don't know. But then he started hitting me when I was ten" said Ulrich
"Good lord" said Miranda
"One of my neighbors heard it one time and called CPS, the cops came and dad put up a fight, he was arrested and I was sent to live at Kadic" said Ulrich
"What happened to him?" asked Chase
"He got out of jail last year, and he always tries to reconnect with me" said Ulrich
"When was the last time he tried?" asked Dylan
/Ulrich's phone rang and he looked at the caller ID/
"Right now" said Ulrich
"You aren't going to answer are you?" asked Yumi
"I'm more worried about what will happen if I don't" said Ulrich
/Before the group could object, Ulrich already walked out on the porch/
"Damn, that really killed the mood" said Odd
"God that is not a good situation to be in" said Rebecca
"Anybody want to say one last story? Help brighten the mood?" asked Jeremie
"I'm going to go and see if he's alright" said Yumi
/Yumi got up and walked outside/
"I guess I'll go then" said Jennifer
/Everyone looked at her/
"I used to live in Texas before I got here, in Dallas actually" said Jennifer
"I've been there, its so nice" said Chase
"Yeah, anyway one day I was walking towards downtown when this guy who was the unofficial town idiot started screaming at these construction workers, he shouted things like 'your mom's a whore!' and 'dude tell your wife thanks for giving me head last night!' basically just the meanest things you can imagine" said Jennifer
"Then what?" asked Rebecca
"The workers walked over to him and beat the living hell out of him!" said Jennifer
"Wish I could have seen it" said Dylan
"They beat as much out of him as they could, in fact they didn't stop until the cops had to stun gun all of them off, and during that whole time he took it with the biggest fucking grin I have ever seen. No one ever saw him again after that" said Jennifer
"Huh, maybe he just liked getting hurt" said Odd
"He probably did, I heard he did something like that a few months before" said Jennifer
/Yumi and Ulrich walked back in with grins and huge tomato red blushes on their faces/
"What are you two so happy about?" asked Miranda
/Yumi and Ulrich sat down and didn't answer Miranda, their blushes getting redder/
"Alright, I think I can guess what happened thanks to the look on your faces" said Miranda
"Let me guess, you two made out" said Jennifer
"GUYS!" said Yumi
"Alright! Alright! We won't ask what we already know" said Rebecca
"How's the storm looking?" asked Jeremie
/Chase saw the radar, it appeared that the storm got bigger/
"Its bigger" said Chase
"What? Man that looks bad" said Odd
"How long is it going to last? Because I'm not walking all the way back to Kadic in weather like this!" said Miranda
"Probably until the day after tomorrow" said Alexandr
"So, we're stuck here until Monday?" asked Yumi
"Thank god its a three day weekend" said Ulrich
"Then I have to call my parents and tell them I can't get back home until Monday" said Yumi
/Chase took out his phone and threw it to Yumi, she caught it/
"Thanks" said Yumi
"No problem" said Chase
/Yumi walked to the kitchen and dialed her parents number/
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