A/N - This chapter is a little longer than the last one....I
think...ANYWAY! Read and enjoy!
Ch 12: Rendezvous and Robots - 3/21/07 - Monday - 10:00pm
Riley and Travis had planned to meet at the park later that night. Riley didn't know why Travis wanted to meet her so late but she agreed to come. Riley didn't come in the car because Ray and Lily had a date that night. Riley walked to the park and sat behind the biggest tree in the park and she was frozen. She sat there, a human popsicle, shivering as she waited for her boyfriend to arrive.
When Travis got out of his Camero and walked through the park he figured he'd have to wait for Riley. He soon found that he was wrong. He wouldn't have to wait at all. She was sitting there, knees drawn to her chest, jacket pulled as close to her as she could get it, being a human popsicle. "What are you doing?"
"W-waiting...for you...." Riley said through chattering teeth. She could see her breath now. She hadn't realized that before.
Travis shook his head. He helped her stand and put his arms around her, guiding her to his car.
"Wh-where are we going?"
"My car...it's warmer there for some reason..."
When Riley got into the car she could almost feel the invisible ice melting away. "Ahh...warmth...I love you're car...."
"I'd think you would love any car right now, as long as it had a working heater."
Riley nodded, "Yeah, that's true..."
There were a few moments of silence. "...So....why did you want me to meet you here at ten in the freeze my ass off cold night?" Riley was rubbing her arms; she was still really cold.
"Riley...don't you have a jacket?"
Riley shook her head as she put her hands in front of one of the vents of the car. "Nu-uh...I didn't think it'd be that cold..."
"Riley.....it's still winter and the sun is down. It didn't occur to you that it would be cold?"
She shrugged, "I guess not..."
"Why didn't you drive?"
"I don't have a car...Ray and I fought over who got the car tonight...Usually I win...but...I have my tactics." Anyone that knew Riley would know that when the phrase 'I have my tactics' was said in the fact of fighting a guy, that she just kicked him where it would count and ran. "Anyway, I didn't drive because Ray and Lils had a date tonight...."
"Lily could have driven..."
"You think I would think of that when I woke up a six thirty this morning? And on top of that, you honestly think Ray is going to let Lils drive?"
"No, not really..."
"Now...back to everything....why are we here so late?"
"I wanted to..." He stopped.
"Wanted to...what?"
"I...I...It's kinda stupid..."
"Travis...I don't think it's possible for you to do, say, or plan anything that was even near stupid...Now. What is it?"
"I just..." He shrugged, "I wanted to celebrate...alone..."
"Celebrate?" Riley sat up more straight, "What are we...celebrating?"
"Riley...."
"Oh! Duh!" She clapped her hands to either side of her head. "I'm such a moron!"
"Yeah...so...uh...do you...do you wanna go back out there?"
Riley looked up at him, eyes wide, and she shook her head furiously, causing her hair to go everywhere and slap her in the face. "Ow! No...not unless you have another jacket around...."
"Actually...I..I do."
"Really? Cool...where is it?"
"I...get out of the car first."
"Uh-uh! No way! You're insane!"
"Just for a minute, you'll get the jacket."
Riley looked at him like he was the craziest guy on earth, which was slightly possible, but she got out of the car anyway. She stood there, jumping around, rubbing her arms and just trying to stay warm. Within moments, Travis emerged from the car with some kind of...box? Riley, who was still jumping around, raised an eye brow. "What's in the box?"
"Open it."
She did as she was told and immediately let out something that seemed to be a cross between a squeal and a scream. "Travis!" She looked up at him, "Is this..is this for real?"
He smiled and nodded, "Yeah."
She let out the squeal-scream again and, before she even took it out of the box, she went around to the other side of the car and threw her arms around him. "Ohmygod! I can't believe you! That's a thin black leather duster...like Spike's! I mean, almost exact, except for the fact that they payed an extra six thousand just so it would look worn...but...that doesn't matter! Ohmygod! I can't believe you! And...right now I can't believe me cause I'm really cold and I'm not wearing it!" She ran over to the other side of the car and took the leather duster out of the box and slipped it on. "Perfect fit! I can't believe you, Travis!" After a few moments of Riley twirling around like an idiot, she stopped, facing Travis. "Wait...why..." She tilted her head to the side, "Why did you..."
"It...it was...It was supposed to be for when you left but...." He swallowed. "I tried to take it back...get my money back but...they wouldn't take it..."
"Why?" Riley asked, walking over to her boyfriend and standing in front of him. Even though she had her duster, she wrapped herself in his jacket best she could seeing as how he was still wearing it, looking up and smiling at him.
"Probably because...the girl that works there, Lisa, she knows me pretty well...and, uh...she..she knows that I wouldn't buy something that expensive for someone who...who, uh..didn't...who didn't uh...mean....ev- every..." He swallowed. He'd gone over this millions of times in his head. "S-someone who didn't...she...she knew that....I...I..." He shook his head. This was going every way but how he'd planned.
Riley raised an eyebrow and turned at face him. "Travis...what are you going on about? You're not making any sense..."
Travis sighed. "Lisa, she knew that I wouldn't buy something that expensive for someone who...someone who didn't mean e-ev-everything to me..."
"But...but Travis...I...I don't know...I don't know what to say..." A tear rolled down her cheek.
"No...baby, why are you crying?"
Riley was trying to contain laughter, but she failed and laughed lightly. "You did it again..."
"What?" Travis looked thoroughly confused.
She laughed again. "You look so cute like that!"
"What?"
"Confused! I like it when you're confused. Wait a sec, don't move." She motioned with her hands to stay still.
"Can I breathe?"
Riley put her left hand on her hip, "Yes, you can breathe."
"Just wondering because breathing requires moving."
Riley rolled her eyes, "Oi!"
"Now...what did I do to cause all of this?"
"You called me baby..."
"I don't understand why you make such a big deal over it...it's nothing..."
"Nothing? When Travis Anthony Strong calls me baby it's huge!"
"Why is that?"
"Well...you know when you're little and you're mom only lets you have ice cream every once in awhile, cause you're a kid and ice cream makes you bounce off the walls? Yeah, well, moms can only handle so much of that. So she takes you out for ice cream about once every month...ya know it's...it's different...it's a treat because you don't get it that often...It's the same way with you calling me baby." "But every time I do...you act as if you've never been called baby before.."
"Oh don't take that wrong, I've been called baby lots of times...and other names too. Baby, babe, sweetie, sweets, honey, hun, chick, the occasional bitch from the ditsy little popular girls back in Cali...but...none of it's ever been like this though...when you say it, it's like....it's like I know you mean it, ya know? I know you're...sincere."
"I don't believe I've called you many of those names..."
"Especially not 'bitch' right?" Riley said, taking a step away from him. She shed the duster and lay it on the hood of the car.
"What are you doing?"
She shrugged, "Got a little hot..." She turned on her heel and ran like a bat out of hell.
"What are you doing?" Travis repeated, chasing after her.
"You'll see!" Riley said with a glance over her shoulder. She ran across to the center of the park and stopped behind a tree. She really had no clue what she was doing, but she felt like running.
Travis had seen where she went and ran after her. When he stopped he was on the other side of the tree she was standing behind. Riley peeked around to see where Travis was. When she saw him she ran again, this time she really didn't know where she was going. Travis ran after her and wasn't too far behind. Riley looked over her shoulder and then around her. There weren't many places to go for hiding. She shrugged and stopped at one of the lower set trees, which she proceeded to climb to a fairly high branch. Travis had started to climb up after her until he realized she was only a few branches away from the highest one--This tree had to be at least sixty-three feet off the ground, if not higher. He stopped, way away from her.
"Come on, Travis!"
Travis stayed where he was. Looking up at her, he shook his head, "No..."
"Why not?"
He simply shook his head again.
"Aww...come on! Don't ruin the fun! Get up here!"
He looked up at her again, she had to be about sixty of the sixty-three feet off the ground. He swallowed and shook his head frantically.
"Whyyy?"
"I...I don't like heights, ok?"
"Scared of heights, eh?"
He shook his head a little. He didn't really like many people knowing the fact. "Could you..." he swallowed and motioned in a way that said "Come down here."
"Why?"
"I...I don't really like you being up there." "Why? Cause you won't come up ta get me?" She teased as she slid and climbed down. She stopped when she was eye level with him. "Better?"
Travis nodded, turned, and jumped down. Riley followed suit. She sighed and looked around. She slowly made her way over to the stream running directly in the middle of the park. Travis followed her and they both sat down. Riley leaned back on her arms and closed her eyes. After a few moments of silence, Riley rolled her head to look at Travis, "So..." She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "Now what?"
"I don't know..." Travis sat there, watching the stream. He glanced at Riley and saw her shivering.
"Got cold all the sudden..."
Travis smirked, "It's been cold.."
"Yeah, well, my body suddenly decided to realize it!" she rubbed her arms.
Travis shook his head as he took his jacket off and put it around her shoulders. Riley didn't even bother putting the jacket on properly before she moved to sit in front of Travis, leaning into him. Travis put his arms around her. She looked up at him and blinked. Was that a rain drop? Naw...she was imagining things. This was the perfect night, it would not rain. Riley had thought too soon because about twelve minutes later the two were running half way across the park for the car so they wouldn't get soaked.
Once they got there, Riley grabbed the leather jacket, shoved it on, and got in, handing her boyfriend his jacket. When she closed the door, she looked at him, "This seems oddly familiar..."
"I wonder why..."
"I don't know...for some reason it seems like this might have happened on one of our dates..."
"Man...that date was..."
"The first date from hell? My thoughts too." Riley said, then quickly changed the subject, "So..anyway...what are we gonna do now?"
"I don't know. Go...some...where?"
Riley clapped a hand to her forehead, "Oi! This is great!"
"Well, I didn't know it was going to rain tonight..."
"You should have....you know everything else!" Riley joked. "Honestly, where should we go?"
"I'd say back to you're house."
She shrugged, "Alright...to the Brennon house it is!"
~*~ 3/21/07 - 11:09pm
Travis pulled into the driveway and both teenagers just sat there for a few minutes. Riley looked at him and kissed him. "Later or you comin?"
"I'll come in..." "Ok." With that, the two teenagers opened their car doors, got out, closed them and ran into the house. Riley closed the door behind Travis. She shed the duster and checked it over. "Good...no water...well, not enough to count anyway."
~*~
3/21/07 - 11:18pm
Travis and Riley had soon found that they weren't the only ones in the Brennon residence, Ray, Lily, Robbie, and Kim were all in the living room, talking when the last couple of the group came in. Riley acted casual then Lily's eyes widened, her mouth dropped open and she pointed at Riley.
"What?" Riley asked.
Kim noticed Lily's reaction and turned to look as well. Her reaction was just like Lily's. The two girls chorused, "Ohmygod!"
"Where did you get it?" Lily asked.
"How is more like it!" Kim said.
Riley cast Travis a glance, "I've just got a really great boyfriend."
"Travis got it for you?" Lily asked, to which Riley nodded.
"How much did it cost?" Lily and Kim chorused, both looking at Travis.
"That's for me to know and none of you to ever find out." Travis said as he sat down on the couch.
"I don't even know how much it cost. Every time I asked he just said 'enough...trust me...' he was sooo starting to sound like my aunt and uncle!"
Conversations between the six were mixed around and confused until midnight hit. The lights suddenly went out. Kim let out a squeal, Ray and Riley let out a chorused, "Dammit!" and Lily simply said, "Well, isn't this grand?"
Someone flicked a lighter on. After a few moments, Ray was snapping it shut, "Ow...hot..." Even in the darkness, Lily knew where Ray was and she punched him in the arm. "Lily!"
"What? That was stupid. Did you expect the fire to be cold?"
"Yes, and hell's going to freeze over tonight too."
Before anyone could say anything else, the lights came back on.
"Ow! Bright! Light! Ahh!" Ray and Riley chorused. They looked at each other and glared. "Shut up!" there was a moment, "Be quiet!" another moment, "Hush!" yet another moment, in which they flicked each other off.
"Ok, do they have off switches?" Lily asked.
"No, sorry, we're not robots..." The two cousins chorused again.
Ray looked at Riley and said, "Riley, I thought we had established that Travis was turning you into a weird-confusing Riley-android..." "But I'm not a robot, yet." She said, emphasizing the 'yet'.
"Hmm...how long you think it'll take?"
"At least another four months."
"Just...stop..." Lily said. "Both of you...just...act like you have an off switch..."
"Ok...but what's that got to do with anything?" The cousins chorused.
Lily stood up and walked over to stand behind either of them. She slapped them both on the back of the head, "I just flipped the switch to off." She went back to the couch and sat.
Ray and Riley had silently agreed to do this next. They stood still, eyes closed, heads down.
"What are you doing?" Kim asked, giving them a weird look.
"Lily turned them off. They're taking their part of...being off." Robbie said, shaking his head. "Can someone please just...turn them back on so they don't just stand there like idiots?"
"They don't have to stand there to be idiots, they're more idiotic when they're on, you know?" Lily joked.
No one got up to do anything, but after Lily had commented in the way she did, Riley and Ray's heads jerked up, "Hey! Shut up!"
"Are you sure you two aren't twins separated at birth and have been told you were twins all this time?" Robbie asked.
"Ah...I see...they've only got off switches, they come back on whenever they please." Lily said.
The lights flickered. Riley sighed, "Bet the generator's gonna go out soon...."
"Why don't we go get flashlights, candles, and any other possible source of light..." Kim suggested.
"Great idea!" Riley said with enthusiasm. Everyone was staring at her, even Ray, "What? I'm bored!" She took off upstairs to her room. She grabbed her flashlight, the only two candles she had, which were both black, and ran back downstairs. She set the candles on the coffee table and took the flashlight with her as she went down to the basement. She never even realized that no one else had even moved.
She shone the light around to find the light switch then flipped it on. The light flickered three times before becoming steady. She turned the flashlight off and went down the last few steps. She looked for any kind of thing that might provide light. She sighed and climbed up on the washer to look in the cabinets above them. She was on her knees and as she opened the door she almost fell backwards. "Aahh!" She grabbed on to the side of the washer to try and steady herself. She sighed as she looked in the cabinet. "Bug spray...bug killer...ant killer...some kind of acid stuff...no...wait...that's more bug spray..." She rolled her eyes.
When she opened the cabinets above the dryer she found flashlights and candles galore as well as a camping lantern and five small cans of propane that it would use. She grabbed six flashlights, four candles, the lantern, and two of the propane containers. She didn't bother closing the cabinet door and she ran up the steps quick as she could without dropping anything. When she came back up, she threw the candles and flashlights down on the couch. "Ok! Enough, ya think?"
"Seven flashlights, six candles, and a camping lantern....yeah, probably." Robbie said sarcastically. "I just grabbed stuff once I found it, ok? So you can shut up!" She said jokingly, smiling all the while.
No longer than three seconds after she spoke, the generator kicked out and the electricity was gone. Someone turned on a flashlight, that someone was soon found to be Ray. After that, everyone else got flashlights out. Riley suddenly realized something. "Well, hell! After I got all this ya know we can't light the damn candles?" She rolled her eyes at her self and went upstairs and got her lighter out of her purse, as well as her pack of cigs. She couldn't help it, she hadn't lit up in the last eight months. As she came back down, she lit the cigarette. When she reached the living room, everyone was staring at her. "What?"
"I didn't know you smoked..." Ray said.
"Only sometimes..." Everyone was still staring at her, "Come on, people! I lived in LA! What'd ya expect? You want me to be pristine?" She lit all the candles with her lighter and let it be until they needed more light.
After a few minutes of silence, Ray spoke. "Interesting...isn't it?"
"Uh...what's interesting, Ray?" Lily asked. I swear...my boyfriend thinks everyone can read his mind... She thought. Sure, we all basically can but...not all the time...
"Six teens, three couples, alone....electricity gone...and it's extremely quiet and making me go nuts!"
Another few moments of silence went by, then Riley spoke. "Choose: A day with Disturbed or a day with Good Charlotte?"
"Good Charlotte." Came the answers from Lily, Kim, and Travis.
"You guys are insane! Disturbed!" Ray said.
"I agree, cous...I agree..." Riley turned to Robbie, "What'd ya say, Robbie? GC or Disturbed?"
"Hmm...I'd have to say Good Charlotte on this one."
"No! Rock lost to punk!" Riley exclaimed.
~*~*~*~
A/N - Well, that was fun! ....or...maybe not, I don't know, tell me what you think! Ok...so the chapter title was a little sad but...it was kind of last minute because I forgot that I didn't have a title for it! Hope ya liked this chapter! Drop me a line!
Later days!
~PFB
Ch 12: Rendezvous and Robots - 3/21/07 - Monday - 10:00pm
Riley and Travis had planned to meet at the park later that night. Riley didn't know why Travis wanted to meet her so late but she agreed to come. Riley didn't come in the car because Ray and Lily had a date that night. Riley walked to the park and sat behind the biggest tree in the park and she was frozen. She sat there, a human popsicle, shivering as she waited for her boyfriend to arrive.
When Travis got out of his Camero and walked through the park he figured he'd have to wait for Riley. He soon found that he was wrong. He wouldn't have to wait at all. She was sitting there, knees drawn to her chest, jacket pulled as close to her as she could get it, being a human popsicle. "What are you doing?"
"W-waiting...for you...." Riley said through chattering teeth. She could see her breath now. She hadn't realized that before.
Travis shook his head. He helped her stand and put his arms around her, guiding her to his car.
"Wh-where are we going?"
"My car...it's warmer there for some reason..."
When Riley got into the car she could almost feel the invisible ice melting away. "Ahh...warmth...I love you're car...."
"I'd think you would love any car right now, as long as it had a working heater."
Riley nodded, "Yeah, that's true..."
There were a few moments of silence. "...So....why did you want me to meet you here at ten in the freeze my ass off cold night?" Riley was rubbing her arms; she was still really cold.
"Riley...don't you have a jacket?"
Riley shook her head as she put her hands in front of one of the vents of the car. "Nu-uh...I didn't think it'd be that cold..."
"Riley.....it's still winter and the sun is down. It didn't occur to you that it would be cold?"
She shrugged, "I guess not..."
"Why didn't you drive?"
"I don't have a car...Ray and I fought over who got the car tonight...Usually I win...but...I have my tactics." Anyone that knew Riley would know that when the phrase 'I have my tactics' was said in the fact of fighting a guy, that she just kicked him where it would count and ran. "Anyway, I didn't drive because Ray and Lils had a date tonight...."
"Lily could have driven..."
"You think I would think of that when I woke up a six thirty this morning? And on top of that, you honestly think Ray is going to let Lils drive?"
"No, not really..."
"Now...back to everything....why are we here so late?"
"I wanted to..." He stopped.
"Wanted to...what?"
"I...I...It's kinda stupid..."
"Travis...I don't think it's possible for you to do, say, or plan anything that was even near stupid...Now. What is it?"
"I just..." He shrugged, "I wanted to celebrate...alone..."
"Celebrate?" Riley sat up more straight, "What are we...celebrating?"
"Riley...."
"Oh! Duh!" She clapped her hands to either side of her head. "I'm such a moron!"
"Yeah...so...uh...do you...do you wanna go back out there?"
Riley looked up at him, eyes wide, and she shook her head furiously, causing her hair to go everywhere and slap her in the face. "Ow! No...not unless you have another jacket around...."
"Actually...I..I do."
"Really? Cool...where is it?"
"I...get out of the car first."
"Uh-uh! No way! You're insane!"
"Just for a minute, you'll get the jacket."
Riley looked at him like he was the craziest guy on earth, which was slightly possible, but she got out of the car anyway. She stood there, jumping around, rubbing her arms and just trying to stay warm. Within moments, Travis emerged from the car with some kind of...box? Riley, who was still jumping around, raised an eye brow. "What's in the box?"
"Open it."
She did as she was told and immediately let out something that seemed to be a cross between a squeal and a scream. "Travis!" She looked up at him, "Is this..is this for real?"
He smiled and nodded, "Yeah."
She let out the squeal-scream again and, before she even took it out of the box, she went around to the other side of the car and threw her arms around him. "Ohmygod! I can't believe you! That's a thin black leather duster...like Spike's! I mean, almost exact, except for the fact that they payed an extra six thousand just so it would look worn...but...that doesn't matter! Ohmygod! I can't believe you! And...right now I can't believe me cause I'm really cold and I'm not wearing it!" She ran over to the other side of the car and took the leather duster out of the box and slipped it on. "Perfect fit! I can't believe you, Travis!" After a few moments of Riley twirling around like an idiot, she stopped, facing Travis. "Wait...why..." She tilted her head to the side, "Why did you..."
"It...it was...It was supposed to be for when you left but...." He swallowed. "I tried to take it back...get my money back but...they wouldn't take it..."
"Why?" Riley asked, walking over to her boyfriend and standing in front of him. Even though she had her duster, she wrapped herself in his jacket best she could seeing as how he was still wearing it, looking up and smiling at him.
"Probably because...the girl that works there, Lisa, she knows me pretty well...and, uh...she..she knows that I wouldn't buy something that expensive for someone who...who, uh..didn't...who didn't uh...mean....ev- every..." He swallowed. He'd gone over this millions of times in his head. "S-someone who didn't...she...she knew that....I...I..." He shook his head. This was going every way but how he'd planned.
Riley raised an eyebrow and turned at face him. "Travis...what are you going on about? You're not making any sense..."
Travis sighed. "Lisa, she knew that I wouldn't buy something that expensive for someone who...someone who didn't mean e-ev-everything to me..."
"But...but Travis...I...I don't know...I don't know what to say..." A tear rolled down her cheek.
"No...baby, why are you crying?"
Riley was trying to contain laughter, but she failed and laughed lightly. "You did it again..."
"What?" Travis looked thoroughly confused.
She laughed again. "You look so cute like that!"
"What?"
"Confused! I like it when you're confused. Wait a sec, don't move." She motioned with her hands to stay still.
"Can I breathe?"
Riley put her left hand on her hip, "Yes, you can breathe."
"Just wondering because breathing requires moving."
Riley rolled her eyes, "Oi!"
"Now...what did I do to cause all of this?"
"You called me baby..."
"I don't understand why you make such a big deal over it...it's nothing..."
"Nothing? When Travis Anthony Strong calls me baby it's huge!"
"Why is that?"
"Well...you know when you're little and you're mom only lets you have ice cream every once in awhile, cause you're a kid and ice cream makes you bounce off the walls? Yeah, well, moms can only handle so much of that. So she takes you out for ice cream about once every month...ya know it's...it's different...it's a treat because you don't get it that often...It's the same way with you calling me baby." "But every time I do...you act as if you've never been called baby before.."
"Oh don't take that wrong, I've been called baby lots of times...and other names too. Baby, babe, sweetie, sweets, honey, hun, chick, the occasional bitch from the ditsy little popular girls back in Cali...but...none of it's ever been like this though...when you say it, it's like....it's like I know you mean it, ya know? I know you're...sincere."
"I don't believe I've called you many of those names..."
"Especially not 'bitch' right?" Riley said, taking a step away from him. She shed the duster and lay it on the hood of the car.
"What are you doing?"
She shrugged, "Got a little hot..." She turned on her heel and ran like a bat out of hell.
"What are you doing?" Travis repeated, chasing after her.
"You'll see!" Riley said with a glance over her shoulder. She ran across to the center of the park and stopped behind a tree. She really had no clue what she was doing, but she felt like running.
Travis had seen where she went and ran after her. When he stopped he was on the other side of the tree she was standing behind. Riley peeked around to see where Travis was. When she saw him she ran again, this time she really didn't know where she was going. Travis ran after her and wasn't too far behind. Riley looked over her shoulder and then around her. There weren't many places to go for hiding. She shrugged and stopped at one of the lower set trees, which she proceeded to climb to a fairly high branch. Travis had started to climb up after her until he realized she was only a few branches away from the highest one--This tree had to be at least sixty-three feet off the ground, if not higher. He stopped, way away from her.
"Come on, Travis!"
Travis stayed where he was. Looking up at her, he shook his head, "No..."
"Why not?"
He simply shook his head again.
"Aww...come on! Don't ruin the fun! Get up here!"
He looked up at her again, she had to be about sixty of the sixty-three feet off the ground. He swallowed and shook his head frantically.
"Whyyy?"
"I...I don't like heights, ok?"
"Scared of heights, eh?"
He shook his head a little. He didn't really like many people knowing the fact. "Could you..." he swallowed and motioned in a way that said "Come down here."
"Why?"
"I...I don't really like you being up there." "Why? Cause you won't come up ta get me?" She teased as she slid and climbed down. She stopped when she was eye level with him. "Better?"
Travis nodded, turned, and jumped down. Riley followed suit. She sighed and looked around. She slowly made her way over to the stream running directly in the middle of the park. Travis followed her and they both sat down. Riley leaned back on her arms and closed her eyes. After a few moments of silence, Riley rolled her head to look at Travis, "So..." She tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, "Now what?"
"I don't know..." Travis sat there, watching the stream. He glanced at Riley and saw her shivering.
"Got cold all the sudden..."
Travis smirked, "It's been cold.."
"Yeah, well, my body suddenly decided to realize it!" she rubbed her arms.
Travis shook his head as he took his jacket off and put it around her shoulders. Riley didn't even bother putting the jacket on properly before she moved to sit in front of Travis, leaning into him. Travis put his arms around her. She looked up at him and blinked. Was that a rain drop? Naw...she was imagining things. This was the perfect night, it would not rain. Riley had thought too soon because about twelve minutes later the two were running half way across the park for the car so they wouldn't get soaked.
Once they got there, Riley grabbed the leather jacket, shoved it on, and got in, handing her boyfriend his jacket. When she closed the door, she looked at him, "This seems oddly familiar..."
"I wonder why..."
"I don't know...for some reason it seems like this might have happened on one of our dates..."
"Man...that date was..."
"The first date from hell? My thoughts too." Riley said, then quickly changed the subject, "So..anyway...what are we gonna do now?"
"I don't know. Go...some...where?"
Riley clapped a hand to her forehead, "Oi! This is great!"
"Well, I didn't know it was going to rain tonight..."
"You should have....you know everything else!" Riley joked. "Honestly, where should we go?"
"I'd say back to you're house."
She shrugged, "Alright...to the Brennon house it is!"
~*~ 3/21/07 - 11:09pm
Travis pulled into the driveway and both teenagers just sat there for a few minutes. Riley looked at him and kissed him. "Later or you comin?"
"I'll come in..." "Ok." With that, the two teenagers opened their car doors, got out, closed them and ran into the house. Riley closed the door behind Travis. She shed the duster and checked it over. "Good...no water...well, not enough to count anyway."
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3/21/07 - 11:18pm
Travis and Riley had soon found that they weren't the only ones in the Brennon residence, Ray, Lily, Robbie, and Kim were all in the living room, talking when the last couple of the group came in. Riley acted casual then Lily's eyes widened, her mouth dropped open and she pointed at Riley.
"What?" Riley asked.
Kim noticed Lily's reaction and turned to look as well. Her reaction was just like Lily's. The two girls chorused, "Ohmygod!"
"Where did you get it?" Lily asked.
"How is more like it!" Kim said.
Riley cast Travis a glance, "I've just got a really great boyfriend."
"Travis got it for you?" Lily asked, to which Riley nodded.
"How much did it cost?" Lily and Kim chorused, both looking at Travis.
"That's for me to know and none of you to ever find out." Travis said as he sat down on the couch.
"I don't even know how much it cost. Every time I asked he just said 'enough...trust me...' he was sooo starting to sound like my aunt and uncle!"
Conversations between the six were mixed around and confused until midnight hit. The lights suddenly went out. Kim let out a squeal, Ray and Riley let out a chorused, "Dammit!" and Lily simply said, "Well, isn't this grand?"
Someone flicked a lighter on. After a few moments, Ray was snapping it shut, "Ow...hot..." Even in the darkness, Lily knew where Ray was and she punched him in the arm. "Lily!"
"What? That was stupid. Did you expect the fire to be cold?"
"Yes, and hell's going to freeze over tonight too."
Before anyone could say anything else, the lights came back on.
"Ow! Bright! Light! Ahh!" Ray and Riley chorused. They looked at each other and glared. "Shut up!" there was a moment, "Be quiet!" another moment, "Hush!" yet another moment, in which they flicked each other off.
"Ok, do they have off switches?" Lily asked.
"No, sorry, we're not robots..." The two cousins chorused again.
Ray looked at Riley and said, "Riley, I thought we had established that Travis was turning you into a weird-confusing Riley-android..." "But I'm not a robot, yet." She said, emphasizing the 'yet'.
"Hmm...how long you think it'll take?"
"At least another four months."
"Just...stop..." Lily said. "Both of you...just...act like you have an off switch..."
"Ok...but what's that got to do with anything?" The cousins chorused.
Lily stood up and walked over to stand behind either of them. She slapped them both on the back of the head, "I just flipped the switch to off." She went back to the couch and sat.
Ray and Riley had silently agreed to do this next. They stood still, eyes closed, heads down.
"What are you doing?" Kim asked, giving them a weird look.
"Lily turned them off. They're taking their part of...being off." Robbie said, shaking his head. "Can someone please just...turn them back on so they don't just stand there like idiots?"
"They don't have to stand there to be idiots, they're more idiotic when they're on, you know?" Lily joked.
No one got up to do anything, but after Lily had commented in the way she did, Riley and Ray's heads jerked up, "Hey! Shut up!"
"Are you sure you two aren't twins separated at birth and have been told you were twins all this time?" Robbie asked.
"Ah...I see...they've only got off switches, they come back on whenever they please." Lily said.
The lights flickered. Riley sighed, "Bet the generator's gonna go out soon...."
"Why don't we go get flashlights, candles, and any other possible source of light..." Kim suggested.
"Great idea!" Riley said with enthusiasm. Everyone was staring at her, even Ray, "What? I'm bored!" She took off upstairs to her room. She grabbed her flashlight, the only two candles she had, which were both black, and ran back downstairs. She set the candles on the coffee table and took the flashlight with her as she went down to the basement. She never even realized that no one else had even moved.
She shone the light around to find the light switch then flipped it on. The light flickered three times before becoming steady. She turned the flashlight off and went down the last few steps. She looked for any kind of thing that might provide light. She sighed and climbed up on the washer to look in the cabinets above them. She was on her knees and as she opened the door she almost fell backwards. "Aahh!" She grabbed on to the side of the washer to try and steady herself. She sighed as she looked in the cabinet. "Bug spray...bug killer...ant killer...some kind of acid stuff...no...wait...that's more bug spray..." She rolled her eyes.
When she opened the cabinets above the dryer she found flashlights and candles galore as well as a camping lantern and five small cans of propane that it would use. She grabbed six flashlights, four candles, the lantern, and two of the propane containers. She didn't bother closing the cabinet door and she ran up the steps quick as she could without dropping anything. When she came back up, she threw the candles and flashlights down on the couch. "Ok! Enough, ya think?"
"Seven flashlights, six candles, and a camping lantern....yeah, probably." Robbie said sarcastically. "I just grabbed stuff once I found it, ok? So you can shut up!" She said jokingly, smiling all the while.
No longer than three seconds after she spoke, the generator kicked out and the electricity was gone. Someone turned on a flashlight, that someone was soon found to be Ray. After that, everyone else got flashlights out. Riley suddenly realized something. "Well, hell! After I got all this ya know we can't light the damn candles?" She rolled her eyes at her self and went upstairs and got her lighter out of her purse, as well as her pack of cigs. She couldn't help it, she hadn't lit up in the last eight months. As she came back down, she lit the cigarette. When she reached the living room, everyone was staring at her. "What?"
"I didn't know you smoked..." Ray said.
"Only sometimes..." Everyone was still staring at her, "Come on, people! I lived in LA! What'd ya expect? You want me to be pristine?" She lit all the candles with her lighter and let it be until they needed more light.
After a few minutes of silence, Ray spoke. "Interesting...isn't it?"
"Uh...what's interesting, Ray?" Lily asked. I swear...my boyfriend thinks everyone can read his mind... She thought. Sure, we all basically can but...not all the time...
"Six teens, three couples, alone....electricity gone...and it's extremely quiet and making me go nuts!"
Another few moments of silence went by, then Riley spoke. "Choose: A day with Disturbed or a day with Good Charlotte?"
"Good Charlotte." Came the answers from Lily, Kim, and Travis.
"You guys are insane! Disturbed!" Ray said.
"I agree, cous...I agree..." Riley turned to Robbie, "What'd ya say, Robbie? GC or Disturbed?"
"Hmm...I'd have to say Good Charlotte on this one."
"No! Rock lost to punk!" Riley exclaimed.
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A/N - Well, that was fun! ....or...maybe not, I don't know, tell me what you think! Ok...so the chapter title was a little sad but...it was kind of last minute because I forgot that I didn't have a title for it! Hope ya liked this chapter! Drop me a line!
Later days!
~PFB