When we got to the inn, there were a LOT of people there. The pages and squires waved us over to their table.
"Hey Neal," Seaver said, "Master Numair's supposed to be picking a new apprentice tomorrow!"
"Really? Wonder who the 'lucky' person's going to be?" Faleron said.
"I'm just glad it's not me!" Prosper of Tameron said.
"So," I said, "you guys know any good court gossip?"
"Gossip?", "What's gossip?", and "Huh?" were the replies I got.
"Oh my GAWD, you don't know what gossip is? It's, you know, the unconfirmed junk you talk about at lunch?"
Silence.
Merric thought for a minute. "Would the answers to the algebra assignment be gossip?"
I slapped my hand to my forehead. "Well, since you don't know, I'll just give you examples!"
So for the next two hours I bored them to death with tales of Regina High School gossip: what Tara wore to the last school dance, that Tess was secretly meeting Jake, Nicole's boyfriend, ect., ect.
Then Neal clamped his hand over my mouth and said, "That's it. Go annoy someone else." Then I noticed that in the middle of the room there was a thing like a platform built. Some people were getting up and singing on it.
"Oo! Oo! Oo!" I shouted. "Kareocke!" (A/N--no, I didn't spell that right!)
OK, I act weird when I have a Pepsi, so you can imagine what I was like after a glass of ale.
"I knew I loooooved you befooore Iiiiiiiiiiiii met you, I think I dreeeeeaamed you intoooooo liiife, I knew I looooooved you befoooore Iiiiiii met yoooou, I have been waiting aaaaaaaaaallllllll myyyyyy liiiiiiiife!"
"Oops, I, did it again, I played with your heart, got lost in the game, oh baby baby.. Oops! you think I'm in looove, that I'm sent from abooooooooooooooooooove, I'm not that innocent!"
"Neeeeeeaaar, faaaar, whereeeeever you aaaare, in my heaaart, you will alwaaays goooooo oooon!"
"If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay, I'm a genie in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way!"
"She bangs, she bangs, oh yeah baby, she moves, she moves! I'm crazy cuz she looks like a flower but she stings like a bee--like every girl, in history!"
"Don't wanna be a fool for you, just another player in this game for two, might sound crazy but it ain't no lie, baby bye bye bye!"
Whoooo let the dogs out! Hoo, hoo, Whoooo let the dogs out, hoo, hoo!"
"Lok at that, pitiful, just beacuse I let you go, there you go, look at that, so don't go ta pieces like that!"
Right when I was about to start "If you're Gone," Neal came up and said, "Come on, Laurie, I think you're scaring the murderers." To make a long story short, by the time we got out of there, I was not looking too great.
"Did I really sing Ricky Martin up there? Cuz he's evil. And so is Britney Speares, Christina Aguilara, and Leonardo DiCaprio. None of those songs were his, but I sang My Heart will Go On, and that's from Titanic, and he was in that, and--"
At that time we had gotten to Kel's door, and Lalasa gasped and said, "My lady, what did you give her?!"
Faleron winced. "A glass of ale, a small one. Actually, half a glass. We diluted it with water."
"I'd hate to see what whiskey would do to her!" I heard someone mutter.
"Ricky Spears is evil," I said knowingly. "And so's Christina Martin, and Leonardo Aguilara, and--"
"Kel, just get her into bed!" Neal said, so I was shoved into the room, the door was shut, and I went into my bathroom to change into my nightshirt.
When I came out, Kel was waiting. "That was really funny, but those songs were horrible!" she said.
"Scuse me? Those are some of the so-called best hits of our times! You know what?" I said, sobering up. "In seventh grade, on the last day before Christmas break, Mrs. Globokar, our world geo teacher, brought in a kareoke machine. It was great."
"Did you sing anything?" Kel asked.
"No, but Jess and Juls and I were laughing about when Dan attempted to sing Wild Thang for weeks afterwards." I smiled sadly.
"You miss them," Kel said.
"Yeah, I do. But you know what?"
She shook her head.
"This is the adventure of a lifetime, and I'll make the most of it."
That was when, for some reason, I started to cry.
Author's Note: I AM SOOOOO SORRY!! I know, this took like 2 weeks to get up! But, I am not making this up, for the last 2 weeks my computer's been broken down, so I couldn't get on the internet, get email, ect. *Gets down on knees and begs* Do you forgive me? Please? Hope this chapter kept you entertained!
Annoying Disclaimer: All the songs belong to whoever wrote them.
Apology to People in my Class: If any of you are out there, I apologize for using your names. That means you, Michael, and you, Tess, and you, Jonathan, and you, Dan, and you, Nicole, and you, Jake, and Nicole, I'm sorry, I know you don't like Jake, but it's a story and most likely neither of you are reading this since you haven't read Tamora Pierce you evil people! Oh, yeah, and you, Mrs. Globokar. And the kareoke thing really did happen! Oh, and sorry, Janice, since pretty much you're Jess, and Juls is no one--yet... BEWARE, CLASSMATES!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry about that....that was Evil-roger-ralon-ozorne-joren-cleon-malfoy-youknowwho-eidon-arwan-charlestheseventh---OK, that was too long, from now on I'm refering to him as Evly. Got it? Good.)
"Hey Neal," Seaver said, "Master Numair's supposed to be picking a new apprentice tomorrow!"
"Really? Wonder who the 'lucky' person's going to be?" Faleron said.
"I'm just glad it's not me!" Prosper of Tameron said.
"So," I said, "you guys know any good court gossip?"
"Gossip?", "What's gossip?", and "Huh?" were the replies I got.
"Oh my GAWD, you don't know what gossip is? It's, you know, the unconfirmed junk you talk about at lunch?"
Silence.
Merric thought for a minute. "Would the answers to the algebra assignment be gossip?"
I slapped my hand to my forehead. "Well, since you don't know, I'll just give you examples!"
So for the next two hours I bored them to death with tales of Regina High School gossip: what Tara wore to the last school dance, that Tess was secretly meeting Jake, Nicole's boyfriend, ect., ect.
Then Neal clamped his hand over my mouth and said, "That's it. Go annoy someone else." Then I noticed that in the middle of the room there was a thing like a platform built. Some people were getting up and singing on it.
"Oo! Oo! Oo!" I shouted. "Kareocke!" (A/N--no, I didn't spell that right!)
OK, I act weird when I have a Pepsi, so you can imagine what I was like after a glass of ale.
"I knew I loooooved you befooore Iiiiiiiiiiiii met you, I think I dreeeeeaamed you intoooooo liiife, I knew I looooooved you befoooore Iiiiiii met yoooou, I have been waiting aaaaaaaaaallllllll myyyyyy liiiiiiiife!"
"Oops, I, did it again, I played with your heart, got lost in the game, oh baby baby.. Oops! you think I'm in looove, that I'm sent from abooooooooooooooooooove, I'm not that innocent!"
"Neeeeeeaaar, faaaar, whereeeeever you aaaare, in my heaaart, you will alwaaays goooooo oooon!"
"If you wanna be with me, baby there's a price to pay, I'm a genie in a bottle, you gotta rub me the right way!"
"She bangs, she bangs, oh yeah baby, she moves, she moves! I'm crazy cuz she looks like a flower but she stings like a bee--like every girl, in history!"
"Don't wanna be a fool for you, just another player in this game for two, might sound crazy but it ain't no lie, baby bye bye bye!"
Whoooo let the dogs out! Hoo, hoo, Whoooo let the dogs out, hoo, hoo!"
"Lok at that, pitiful, just beacuse I let you go, there you go, look at that, so don't go ta pieces like that!"
Right when I was about to start "If you're Gone," Neal came up and said, "Come on, Laurie, I think you're scaring the murderers." To make a long story short, by the time we got out of there, I was not looking too great.
"Did I really sing Ricky Martin up there? Cuz he's evil. And so is Britney Speares, Christina Aguilara, and Leonardo DiCaprio. None of those songs were his, but I sang My Heart will Go On, and that's from Titanic, and he was in that, and--"
At that time we had gotten to Kel's door, and Lalasa gasped and said, "My lady, what did you give her?!"
Faleron winced. "A glass of ale, a small one. Actually, half a glass. We diluted it with water."
"I'd hate to see what whiskey would do to her!" I heard someone mutter.
"Ricky Spears is evil," I said knowingly. "And so's Christina Martin, and Leonardo Aguilara, and--"
"Kel, just get her into bed!" Neal said, so I was shoved into the room, the door was shut, and I went into my bathroom to change into my nightshirt.
When I came out, Kel was waiting. "That was really funny, but those songs were horrible!" she said.
"Scuse me? Those are some of the so-called best hits of our times! You know what?" I said, sobering up. "In seventh grade, on the last day before Christmas break, Mrs. Globokar, our world geo teacher, brought in a kareoke machine. It was great."
"Did you sing anything?" Kel asked.
"No, but Jess and Juls and I were laughing about when Dan attempted to sing Wild Thang for weeks afterwards." I smiled sadly.
"You miss them," Kel said.
"Yeah, I do. But you know what?"
She shook her head.
"This is the adventure of a lifetime, and I'll make the most of it."
That was when, for some reason, I started to cry.
Author's Note: I AM SOOOOO SORRY!! I know, this took like 2 weeks to get up! But, I am not making this up, for the last 2 weeks my computer's been broken down, so I couldn't get on the internet, get email, ect. *Gets down on knees and begs* Do you forgive me? Please? Hope this chapter kept you entertained!
Annoying Disclaimer: All the songs belong to whoever wrote them.
Apology to People in my Class: If any of you are out there, I apologize for using your names. That means you, Michael, and you, Tess, and you, Jonathan, and you, Dan, and you, Nicole, and you, Jake, and Nicole, I'm sorry, I know you don't like Jake, but it's a story and most likely neither of you are reading this since you haven't read Tamora Pierce you evil people! Oh, yeah, and you, Mrs. Globokar. And the kareoke thing really did happen! Oh, and sorry, Janice, since pretty much you're Jess, and Juls is no one--yet... BEWARE, CLASSMATES!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry about that....that was Evil-roger-ralon-ozorne-joren-cleon-malfoy-youknowwho-eidon-arwan-charlestheseventh---OK, that was too long, from now on I'm refering to him as Evly. Got it? Good.)