~*~
Author's Note:
I've finally read Stephen King's 'The Body'. Yay!
~*~
It had been a week since Ace's and Juliette's first date, they had gone on another date, this one was just Ace introducing Juliette to the 'mighty' Cobras. They had all hung out at the junkyard, Juliette did most of the talking, they were all asking her questions about her life and New York, apart from Ace. Ace just watched Juliette sit on the hood of his car, taking the odd sip from the beer they had given her; he had smiled when he thought she preferred coke, remembering their first date when she had made a complete mess.
That was the Juliette Ace wanted to get to know better, not the beautiful, smiling Juliette, but the Juliette that didn't care what others thought, drank beer, made messes, told great jokes and became some-what unladylike because she was laughing at some of the guy's dirty jokes. The tomboy in her, her wild side.
It was now the following Thursday, The Cobra's were at Eyeball's house sitting on the steps of the porch talking about women, mainly most of the Cobra's asking Ace about Juliette. Ace hadn't given them any details about his date with Juliette or how far he had gotten with her. In fact after Juliette gave him the answer 'yes', they just sat there for a few minutes looking at each other, trying to catch their breath. After that they had talked about nature, Ace told her that there was a lake and asked her if he could take her to see it one time, and she'd answered him 'yes', with another date with Juliette, Ace drove her home. Juliette had caught him off guard when she quickly kissed him on the cheek, thanked him for a great night as she climbed of the car, and as she ran up the steps and got to her door called to him, "I'll see you around."
Eyeball was half way through asking Ace another question, when they spotted Juliette and Dawn arguing about something.
~In The Avalon's Front Yard~
"Take it back," cried Dawn.
"No." Replied Juliette.
Dawn and Juliette had been in the attic, which Juliette had claimed as her bedroom, when Dawn had asked her why Juliette replied: "'Coz I want to be as far away from The Indian Burial Ground that this house has been built on." Juliette and Dawn were both superstitious, they both believe in vampires, ghosts, witches, zombies, Frankenstein, bad luck, anything really. Juliette often joked about places being haunted, Dawn knew most of the time Juliette was joking, always joking, Juliette was like that, never really being serious, but when Juliette talked about superstitious things, Dawn always believed her, mainly because Juliette had many books about magic, the dead etc, so she knew more things about the living dead than Dawn did, and Juliette used that to her advantage.
"Take it back." Demanded Dawn more insistently.
"No," Juliette said as she began to walk around in circles. "Come on Dawn, its just a bit of hocus pocus."
"I don't care, take it back."
"No."
Dawn gently pushed Juliette as if to say 'take it back now or there's going to be trouble'.
"Look you little munchkin," Juliette said playfully pushing Dawn back, "I'm not taking it back, you'll just have to live with the fact that dead Indians could rise from their graves and eat your brains while you sleep," she continued with a reassuring smile.
What Juliette had said about the Indian Zombies hadn't bothered Dawn, what annoyed Dawn was the fact that her sister had called her a 'munchkin', Dawn was only a couple of inches shorter than Juliette. "How can I be a munchkin?" She asked, feeling deeply insulted.
"Because you are." Juliette answered matter-of-factly.
"I thought you had to be born as a munchkin"
"Dawn, I need to tell you something, something I wish I'd told you a long time ago. You were born a munchkin, we adopted you." Juliette said with a caring look on her face.
Dawn's mouth hung open and was then held angrily in a straight line when Juliette began to laugh. "That wasn't funny."
"Yes it was."
"No it wasn't"
"Is."
"Isn't"
"Is."
"Juliette it's not funny, first you tell me about brain-eating Indians living in our basement, then you tell me I'm a munchkin and that I'm adopted, it's not funny."
Juliette had stopped laughing and was looking at her sister thoughtfully, "Okay, I admit it, we didn't adopt you, you're our flesh and blood." Juliette said as she slung her arm over Dawn's shoulders and began to walk towards the road. "I mean, even if you aren't our flesh and blood, your still my sister, nothing is gonna' change that."
Juliette then removed her arm from around Dawn's shoulders and began to walk ahead, "But I'm not lying about the Indian Zombies that are going to eat your brains in the middle of the night." Juliette quickly began to run with her sister in hot pursuit, they were both laughing, having a good time like they used to, before their parents had gotten divorced.
~Chambers' Porch~
Ace and the rest of the Cobras watched as the two girls ran about their front yard, every so often they'd go into the house, through the front door and appear again, running from the back yard. They were both wearing jeans, which was good because they wouldn't have been able to run in skirts, Juliette's were tight and torn at the knees, Dawn' were clean and loose. They were both wearing t-shirts; Juliette's was a short-sleeved, bright pink with black lace at the hems, Dawn's was also short-sleeved, but a dark blue. Dawn and Juliette didn't really look-alike, you couldn't have guessed that they were sisters, let alone related. Juliette looked like their father, brown, wavy, hair, that at that precise moment looked quite curly, held in loose spirals, with blue eyes. Dawn must have looked like their mother because she had straight, dark-blonde hair and emerald-green eyes. The only thing that made them even appear to be sisters was the way they acted around each other.
~Avalon's Front Yard~
Juliette stopped, she was out of breath, she hadn't run around with Dawn in a long time, too long. Dawn stopped to, smiling, enjoying the quality time she had spent with her sister.
A crash from inside the house made them panic, they were both afraid of their father, someone who was once a loving, caring man was now an abusive asshole. A Smokey-grey cat quickly jumped through the cat-flap on the front door of the house, obviously being disturbed by the loud noise inside.
The Smokey-grey cat was actually Romeo, Juliette's Russian Blue Cat, she knew the idea of calling him Romeo was cheesy, but she couldn't help it, he really was a Romeo. To prove this, Romeo had now elegantly trotted across the yard and was entwining himself within Juliette's calves, rubbing himself up against her, showing her affection.
"Hey Romeo," Dawn welcomed the Russian Blue as if he were family, and in a way he was, Dawn had enjoyed many conversations with Romeo, she had enjoyed his company, although he was strictly Juliette's cat, Juliette had bought him, fed him, cleaned him and named him, Juliette often let Romeo cuddle up to Dawn when she had been ill and couldn't go to school, given her some company. Even if Russian Blue cats did play favourites, it was obvious his favourite was Juliette, he didn't mind keeping Dawn company, he saw it as his duty to entertain.
Juliette was bolder with her greetings than Dawn, Juliette picked up Romeo by his underarms and held him above her head, as she did this she hollered, "Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?"
Romeo purred in response as Juliette clutched him tightly to her chest and began to sway about the garden, dancing with Romeo, humming a tune.
Dawn laughed at her sisters antics, it wasn't a bad thing that Juliette could hardly ever be serious, but a good thing, she laughed off insults, didn't mind when people hated her, Juliette always had something better to do or say than get in a fight with some cheerleaders that called her a nut.
Juliette continued to dance around the garden with Romeo, as Dawn sat down and started to decapitate the flowers that were growing in their yard.
~Chambers' Porch~
The Cobras had heard the noise from inside the Avalon Residence, the guys all looked a little shocked, Ace was still concentrating on Juliette, he saw the worried expression on her face, he was just about to get up of the steps, go over and say 'hi' when Eyeball interrupted his thoughts.
"That was unusually quiet." Eyeball stated, still looking at the house.
"You call that quiet?" Asked Vince, another member of the Cobras.
"I mean it's usually a lot louder over there," Eyeball explained.
"What do you mean 'usually a lot louder over there'?" Ace asked, getting worried.
"Man, you should here their," he said gesturing to Dawn and then Juliette, who was being twisted with a cat, "old man, he's worse than mine." Eyeball continued.
"Worse?" Questioned Billy, yet another Cobra.
"Yeah, sometimes at night you can here him yelling, I mean really hear him, I think he's awake at night though, I've not seen him in or outside the house during the day. At night is when it all happens, him yelling, their screaming, crashes, bangs, sounds like a minefield in there at night."
Ace was still concentrating on Juliette, she had looked worried when she had heard the crash, but now she was dancing around her yard with the cat like nothing had happened. At the same time Ace was listening to Eyeball's words 'screaming', 'bangs', the words revolved inside his head, echoing throughout his mind. He felt a pain in his stomach, a pain for Juliette.
Ace stood up from the steps finished his beer and put out his cigarette with the heel of his shoe. He told the rest of the group, "See you guys later," and began to walk towards the Avalon Residence. Towards Juliette.
~Avalon's Yard~
Dawn was the first to notice Ace walking towards them, and felt like running away, then remembered that he and her sister were dating. What had seemed terrible a week ago now seemed wonderful, she shouldn't try to talk her sister out of dating Ace, if anything she should encourage it. If Ace likes Juliette, Dawn thought, then that means he can't pester me anymore, he wouldn't dare pester me, he'd be afraid of losing his chances with Juliette. The thought brought a smile to Dawn's face, and she greeted Ace, "Hi Ace."
"Hi Dawn," Ace returned the greeting and continued to walk towards Juliette, who was still dancing with the cat, looking like an escaped mental patient.
He approached Juliette, who still hadn't noticed his presence, "Juliette?"
Juliette stopped dancing as she heard Ace's smooth voice say her name, and turned to him, "Hey Wild Thing," Juliette had given Ace that nickname since that night in the clearing, "what's up?" she asked, noticing the troubled expression on his face.
"I need to talk to you."
"Sounds important."
"It is."
Juliette felt the seriousness of the situation and felt that when they talked about whatever Ace wanted to talk about it would have to be in private. She glanced at Dawn, deciding it would be safe to leave her by herself, she told her, "I'm just going out for a quick walk with Ace, okay?"
"Sure," Dawn replied.
Ace and Juliette began to walk down the pathway, away from Dawn, Juliette's old man, and the Cobras. Juliette looked down at Romeo, and thought she best leave him with Dawn for company.
"Before he has to leave," Juliette started, "Ace this his Romeo, Romeo this is Ace." She introduced the two.
"Romeo?"
"Yeah, you know Romeo and Juliet? That famous play by William Shakespeare"
"I know it, I just thought I was your Romeo," Ace replied, the more playful side of his personality coming through.
Juliette laughed, "Well now that my two Romeos are acquainted." She corrected herself. Juliette turned towards Dawn and called her name to get her attention, when Dawn looked up at her sister, she saw her put down Romeo and watched him once again, elegantly trot towards her. "For company." Juliette yelled.
"Thanks!" Dawn shouted.
"Welcome!" Responded Juliette
"You guys?" Dawn questioned.
Ace and Juliette turned towards Dawn who was now stroking Romeo.
"Yes?" They both asked at the same time.
"Have fun you crazy love birds!" Dawn cried at the top of her voice.
Most the people living on that street heard Dawn's voice, the Cobras also heard what Dawn had said.
Ace and Juliette turned away from a now grinning Dawn, and tried to ignore the whistles and howls that were coming from Eyeball Chamber's porch.
~*~
Author's Note:
Dude.....Juliette is written 77 times in this chapter.....wow.
Mood forecast - lazy throughout most of the day with some humorous spells taking place later on in the afternoon, heavy showers of practical jokes in the early morn. Reviews!
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Author's Note:
I've finally read Stephen King's 'The Body'. Yay!
~*~
It had been a week since Ace's and Juliette's first date, they had gone on another date, this one was just Ace introducing Juliette to the 'mighty' Cobras. They had all hung out at the junkyard, Juliette did most of the talking, they were all asking her questions about her life and New York, apart from Ace. Ace just watched Juliette sit on the hood of his car, taking the odd sip from the beer they had given her; he had smiled when he thought she preferred coke, remembering their first date when she had made a complete mess.
That was the Juliette Ace wanted to get to know better, not the beautiful, smiling Juliette, but the Juliette that didn't care what others thought, drank beer, made messes, told great jokes and became some-what unladylike because she was laughing at some of the guy's dirty jokes. The tomboy in her, her wild side.
It was now the following Thursday, The Cobra's were at Eyeball's house sitting on the steps of the porch talking about women, mainly most of the Cobra's asking Ace about Juliette. Ace hadn't given them any details about his date with Juliette or how far he had gotten with her. In fact after Juliette gave him the answer 'yes', they just sat there for a few minutes looking at each other, trying to catch their breath. After that they had talked about nature, Ace told her that there was a lake and asked her if he could take her to see it one time, and she'd answered him 'yes', with another date with Juliette, Ace drove her home. Juliette had caught him off guard when she quickly kissed him on the cheek, thanked him for a great night as she climbed of the car, and as she ran up the steps and got to her door called to him, "I'll see you around."
Eyeball was half way through asking Ace another question, when they spotted Juliette and Dawn arguing about something.
~In The Avalon's Front Yard~
"Take it back," cried Dawn.
"No." Replied Juliette.
Dawn and Juliette had been in the attic, which Juliette had claimed as her bedroom, when Dawn had asked her why Juliette replied: "'Coz I want to be as far away from The Indian Burial Ground that this house has been built on." Juliette and Dawn were both superstitious, they both believe in vampires, ghosts, witches, zombies, Frankenstein, bad luck, anything really. Juliette often joked about places being haunted, Dawn knew most of the time Juliette was joking, always joking, Juliette was like that, never really being serious, but when Juliette talked about superstitious things, Dawn always believed her, mainly because Juliette had many books about magic, the dead etc, so she knew more things about the living dead than Dawn did, and Juliette used that to her advantage.
"Take it back." Demanded Dawn more insistently.
"No," Juliette said as she began to walk around in circles. "Come on Dawn, its just a bit of hocus pocus."
"I don't care, take it back."
"No."
Dawn gently pushed Juliette as if to say 'take it back now or there's going to be trouble'.
"Look you little munchkin," Juliette said playfully pushing Dawn back, "I'm not taking it back, you'll just have to live with the fact that dead Indians could rise from their graves and eat your brains while you sleep," she continued with a reassuring smile.
What Juliette had said about the Indian Zombies hadn't bothered Dawn, what annoyed Dawn was the fact that her sister had called her a 'munchkin', Dawn was only a couple of inches shorter than Juliette. "How can I be a munchkin?" She asked, feeling deeply insulted.
"Because you are." Juliette answered matter-of-factly.
"I thought you had to be born as a munchkin"
"Dawn, I need to tell you something, something I wish I'd told you a long time ago. You were born a munchkin, we adopted you." Juliette said with a caring look on her face.
Dawn's mouth hung open and was then held angrily in a straight line when Juliette began to laugh. "That wasn't funny."
"Yes it was."
"No it wasn't"
"Is."
"Isn't"
"Is."
"Juliette it's not funny, first you tell me about brain-eating Indians living in our basement, then you tell me I'm a munchkin and that I'm adopted, it's not funny."
Juliette had stopped laughing and was looking at her sister thoughtfully, "Okay, I admit it, we didn't adopt you, you're our flesh and blood." Juliette said as she slung her arm over Dawn's shoulders and began to walk towards the road. "I mean, even if you aren't our flesh and blood, your still my sister, nothing is gonna' change that."
Juliette then removed her arm from around Dawn's shoulders and began to walk ahead, "But I'm not lying about the Indian Zombies that are going to eat your brains in the middle of the night." Juliette quickly began to run with her sister in hot pursuit, they were both laughing, having a good time like they used to, before their parents had gotten divorced.
~Chambers' Porch~
Ace and the rest of the Cobras watched as the two girls ran about their front yard, every so often they'd go into the house, through the front door and appear again, running from the back yard. They were both wearing jeans, which was good because they wouldn't have been able to run in skirts, Juliette's were tight and torn at the knees, Dawn' were clean and loose. They were both wearing t-shirts; Juliette's was a short-sleeved, bright pink with black lace at the hems, Dawn's was also short-sleeved, but a dark blue. Dawn and Juliette didn't really look-alike, you couldn't have guessed that they were sisters, let alone related. Juliette looked like their father, brown, wavy, hair, that at that precise moment looked quite curly, held in loose spirals, with blue eyes. Dawn must have looked like their mother because she had straight, dark-blonde hair and emerald-green eyes. The only thing that made them even appear to be sisters was the way they acted around each other.
~Avalon's Front Yard~
Juliette stopped, she was out of breath, she hadn't run around with Dawn in a long time, too long. Dawn stopped to, smiling, enjoying the quality time she had spent with her sister.
A crash from inside the house made them panic, they were both afraid of their father, someone who was once a loving, caring man was now an abusive asshole. A Smokey-grey cat quickly jumped through the cat-flap on the front door of the house, obviously being disturbed by the loud noise inside.
The Smokey-grey cat was actually Romeo, Juliette's Russian Blue Cat, she knew the idea of calling him Romeo was cheesy, but she couldn't help it, he really was a Romeo. To prove this, Romeo had now elegantly trotted across the yard and was entwining himself within Juliette's calves, rubbing himself up against her, showing her affection.
"Hey Romeo," Dawn welcomed the Russian Blue as if he were family, and in a way he was, Dawn had enjoyed many conversations with Romeo, she had enjoyed his company, although he was strictly Juliette's cat, Juliette had bought him, fed him, cleaned him and named him, Juliette often let Romeo cuddle up to Dawn when she had been ill and couldn't go to school, given her some company. Even if Russian Blue cats did play favourites, it was obvious his favourite was Juliette, he didn't mind keeping Dawn company, he saw it as his duty to entertain.
Juliette was bolder with her greetings than Dawn, Juliette picked up Romeo by his underarms and held him above her head, as she did this she hollered, "Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo?"
Romeo purred in response as Juliette clutched him tightly to her chest and began to sway about the garden, dancing with Romeo, humming a tune.
Dawn laughed at her sisters antics, it wasn't a bad thing that Juliette could hardly ever be serious, but a good thing, she laughed off insults, didn't mind when people hated her, Juliette always had something better to do or say than get in a fight with some cheerleaders that called her a nut.
Juliette continued to dance around the garden with Romeo, as Dawn sat down and started to decapitate the flowers that were growing in their yard.
~Chambers' Porch~
The Cobras had heard the noise from inside the Avalon Residence, the guys all looked a little shocked, Ace was still concentrating on Juliette, he saw the worried expression on her face, he was just about to get up of the steps, go over and say 'hi' when Eyeball interrupted his thoughts.
"That was unusually quiet." Eyeball stated, still looking at the house.
"You call that quiet?" Asked Vince, another member of the Cobras.
"I mean it's usually a lot louder over there," Eyeball explained.
"What do you mean 'usually a lot louder over there'?" Ace asked, getting worried.
"Man, you should here their," he said gesturing to Dawn and then Juliette, who was being twisted with a cat, "old man, he's worse than mine." Eyeball continued.
"Worse?" Questioned Billy, yet another Cobra.
"Yeah, sometimes at night you can here him yelling, I mean really hear him, I think he's awake at night though, I've not seen him in or outside the house during the day. At night is when it all happens, him yelling, their screaming, crashes, bangs, sounds like a minefield in there at night."
Ace was still concentrating on Juliette, she had looked worried when she had heard the crash, but now she was dancing around her yard with the cat like nothing had happened. At the same time Ace was listening to Eyeball's words 'screaming', 'bangs', the words revolved inside his head, echoing throughout his mind. He felt a pain in his stomach, a pain for Juliette.
Ace stood up from the steps finished his beer and put out his cigarette with the heel of his shoe. He told the rest of the group, "See you guys later," and began to walk towards the Avalon Residence. Towards Juliette.
~Avalon's Yard~
Dawn was the first to notice Ace walking towards them, and felt like running away, then remembered that he and her sister were dating. What had seemed terrible a week ago now seemed wonderful, she shouldn't try to talk her sister out of dating Ace, if anything she should encourage it. If Ace likes Juliette, Dawn thought, then that means he can't pester me anymore, he wouldn't dare pester me, he'd be afraid of losing his chances with Juliette. The thought brought a smile to Dawn's face, and she greeted Ace, "Hi Ace."
"Hi Dawn," Ace returned the greeting and continued to walk towards Juliette, who was still dancing with the cat, looking like an escaped mental patient.
He approached Juliette, who still hadn't noticed his presence, "Juliette?"
Juliette stopped dancing as she heard Ace's smooth voice say her name, and turned to him, "Hey Wild Thing," Juliette had given Ace that nickname since that night in the clearing, "what's up?" she asked, noticing the troubled expression on his face.
"I need to talk to you."
"Sounds important."
"It is."
Juliette felt the seriousness of the situation and felt that when they talked about whatever Ace wanted to talk about it would have to be in private. She glanced at Dawn, deciding it would be safe to leave her by herself, she told her, "I'm just going out for a quick walk with Ace, okay?"
"Sure," Dawn replied.
Ace and Juliette began to walk down the pathway, away from Dawn, Juliette's old man, and the Cobras. Juliette looked down at Romeo, and thought she best leave him with Dawn for company.
"Before he has to leave," Juliette started, "Ace this his Romeo, Romeo this is Ace." She introduced the two.
"Romeo?"
"Yeah, you know Romeo and Juliet? That famous play by William Shakespeare"
"I know it, I just thought I was your Romeo," Ace replied, the more playful side of his personality coming through.
Juliette laughed, "Well now that my two Romeos are acquainted." She corrected herself. Juliette turned towards Dawn and called her name to get her attention, when Dawn looked up at her sister, she saw her put down Romeo and watched him once again, elegantly trot towards her. "For company." Juliette yelled.
"Thanks!" Dawn shouted.
"Welcome!" Responded Juliette
"You guys?" Dawn questioned.
Ace and Juliette turned towards Dawn who was now stroking Romeo.
"Yes?" They both asked at the same time.
"Have fun you crazy love birds!" Dawn cried at the top of her voice.
Most the people living on that street heard Dawn's voice, the Cobras also heard what Dawn had said.
Ace and Juliette turned away from a now grinning Dawn, and tried to ignore the whistles and howls that were coming from Eyeball Chamber's porch.
~*~
Author's Note:
Dude.....Juliette is written 77 times in this chapter.....wow.
Mood forecast - lazy throughout most of the day with some humorous spells taking place later on in the afternoon, heavy showers of practical jokes in the early morn. Reviews!
Pip Pip!