Chapter six:
I placed the rock under the middle cup.
"Okay keep you're eye on the cups…" I said, starting to mix up the cups' order quickly. They tried to stay with the cup with the rock in it. A minute later I was done.
"Okay, now which cup has the rock?" I asked,
"I'm confused, how does this make money?" Elisa asked.
"You have people pay to guess. If they get it right, you give them double their money, but if they get it wrong, you take the money that they bet…"
"That won't make any money! If I had a hundred dollars I'd bet you!" Teddy said.
"Fine Teddy, let's say that you did bet $100, which cup has the rock?"
Teddy picked up the middle cup there was no rock. He picked up the right cup there was no rock. And surprise, surprise, in the left cup, there was the rock.
"Well Teddy if you really did bet me money, you'd be out 100 dollars…"
He was determined to get it right. He tried 18 times, and lost 18 times. On his 19th try, he finally got it right.
"Ha! I got it! See, I told you…"
"Yeah ya did, and it only took you 19 times… Way to go Teddy…" I said sarcastically.
"Yeah, but I still got it!"
"Yeah, nineteen times later…" Chris said.
"Who cares man, I still got it…"
After a while, everyone started asking questions about me.
"So Jessie, do you have any brothers or sisters?" Ali asked.
"Yeah. My older brother Jared, who's 18 now, used to be best friends with Denny. I have two younger siblings. My 12 year old brother, Greg, and my six year old sister Fay."
"What about you're parents?" Chris asked.
"My parents are separated, thank god. My dad lives in Tennessee, and my mom is back in Vegas."
"Well how come you were dumped here then? What were you making everyone else's life a living hell over there, and they just got sick of you?" Teddy asked.
"Teddy!" Chris, Ali, and Elisa said, with darting looks at him.
"Actually no… I wanted to get away from the people in Vegas, because it's a real bad place, and I wanted to escape from my mom…"
Soon after that, Gordon and I started to walk home from the tree house. We ran into Eyeball on the way.
"Uh Gordon, here's some money, get some candy okay?" I said, shoving him inside the candy store.
Eyeball and I stayed outside.
"So I guess you told the Cobras what happened, the other night?" I said.
"No, why would I?"
"Why not? I thought you would've…"
"We don't tell each other about when we don't get laid… That's not cool…"
I laughed.
"I really thought you would've said something…"
"Nope… They're assholes…"
"Well keep this act up and you might get some action…"
Gordon came out of the store.
"Really?!?" Eyeball asked eagerly.
"Nope, probably not…"
Gordon and I went home after that.
"You know Gordon, I actually had fun today…" I said, as he cringed. "What?" I asked.
"Do you think you could stop calling me Gordon…"He said, and I laughed.
"No…"
"Please, Chris and Teddy are making fun of me…"
"Are you sure that they are making fun of you for your name, and not something else?" I laughed.
"Listen, Jessika…"
"Oh that's it Lachance, you're in for it!!!"
I said laughing, then started tickling him.
"Okay! Okay! I surrender!" He said laughing.
"Okay good." I said, stopping.
We both fell on the floor, on our backs, laughing.
"Ya know Gordon… Chris and Teddy are kind of cute…" I said.
"Eww Jess, those are my friends." He laughed.
"Hey I'm just saying… You know, Elisa looks kind of familiar, do I know her from somewhere?"
"I don't think so, unless you know her sister, Cheryl…"
"CHERYL?!? Ace's Cheryl?!?"
"Yeah…"
It was like old times again. When Gordon and I were friends, and Jared and Denny were the ones tickling us. I miss those days sometimes. But things are different now. Way different.
Day after day went by. With a little more that a month of me being here, I hung around the Cobras everyday. It was about 5:30 pm, when the phone rang.`
