Author's Note: Hope you liked the prologue. You get to meet the full cast of characters in this chapter so hold on to your shorts. Ummm, yeah. Like I said, this chapter is also dedicated to Randy and Taylor and if you don't remember why you can read the prologue again. Just as before, please review, it is mucho appreciated, and I'll send you a *mental* basket of goodies. I love you Q and I miss you! This whole story is for you!!!
KP and Fifi sat in KP's car in the parking lot outside the school, waiting for Fifi's uncle to leave the building. KP sat behind the wheel twiddling her thumbs wanting desperately to listen to the Rent soundtrack she knew was in her stereo.
"Couldn't we just turn it on for a little while? Just one song, that's all I want, just one—"
"—KP look! There he goes," Fifi said in a harsh whisper as she tensed up and a wave of adrenaline washed through her body.
KP turned to her much too wired friend and gave her a questioning look.
"What are you staring at!?" Fifi inquired, in a much harsher whisper.
"Why are you whispering, you dumbass? We're more than100 feet away from him in a parked car with the windows up?"
" . . . Shut up!" Fifi glared at KP for a moment before the two girls burst out into equally uncontrollable giggle fits. As the laughter subsided, KP turned to Fifi.
"Look, he's gone now. Let's go."
The two girls made went into full-fledged, and quite unnecessary, spy-mode, complete with crouching behind bushes, and arm over arm crawling. As they approached the steps to the main entrance they stopped and looked at each other. Giving a nod they raced up the stairs and through the doors.
Two and a half minutes later they entered the main office.
"Which one is your uncle's office?" questioned KP as she turned to her friend. Fifi glanced around the room until her eyes fell on the door marked "Headmaster."
"Right there," she replied signaling. As the two reached the door, Fifi grabbed the handle. "Shit. It's locked. Damn it! What a half-assed plan this was . . ."
KP stared at her in complete amazement as the rant became more and more intense, then finally she put her hand on her shoulder and shook her as she attempted to get her friends attention.
"Fifi! Dipshit! Bobbly pin, hello!?" She reached into her pocket and dangled the hair accessory in her friends face.
Fifi stopped her ranting. Staring at the pin sheepishly she muttered under her breath, "Oh . . . yeah."
"Here you go," KP said feeling badly for Fifi. "Go ahead and do the honors."
In a matter of moments the two were inside the office.
"Remind me to thank Pooka later for educating us in the fine are of breaking and entering," Fifi said as she picked up the keys and turned for the door. She stopped when she realized that KP wasn't by her side. She turned to find KP staring at something on the desk.
"What are you doing, KP? We need to get going," Fifi said as she approached her friend. She stopped as she followed KP's hungry gaze to the stack of manilla folders on the desk. The two girls turned to each other, devilish grins spreading across both of their faces.
"Personal files" they said in unison as they raced to the desk. Just as they were about to dig in Fifi stopped.
"Wait a second, we don't go to this school, we don't know these people, why do we care about their personal information?"
KP paused, then looked at her friend with the tiniest amount of disbelief. "Look at it like we're just perusing the merchandise. I mean, it is an all boys school."
"Oh, yeah."
For the next ten minutes the girls sat sifting through the papers devouring the information as it met their eyes. They were having a great time laughing and joking around about the people when Fifi caught a glimpse of the clock on the wall. A feeling of dread washed over her and her face went white.
KP, totally oblivious and still digging through the files, held up a piece of paper and exclaimed, "Look Fifi, this kids got psychopathic tendencies, how awesome is that!?" KP's smile faded at the lack of response from her friend. She noticed the horrified look on her friend's face and followed her gaze to the clock on the wall.
"Oh SHIT!" She exclaimed as her face fell.
"RUN!!!!" Fifi shouted.
The two jumped up and raced for the doors.
They slammed into the doors and they pulled, and they pushed, but the doors wouldn't budge a millimeter.
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Racetrack awoke in a groggy, hazy state of mind. He glanced around the room, his eyes falling on several empty liquor bottles on the desk. The events of the previous night came rushing back to him. Race's eyes fell on Jack, who was passed out on the floor.
"Hey Jacky boy, wake up ya bum."
"What's a mattuh wid youse?"
"What's a mattuh wid me?
"Yeah, what's a mattuh wid youse?" Jack rolled over and glanced at the alarm clock. "Oh, shit! Is dat P.M.?"
"No, it's always pitch black at ten o'clock in da mornin'," Race replied sarcastically.
"Haha, Race, very funny." He glanced around the room at the other three boys, still deep in a drunken slumber. "We bettuh wake up dese guys."
Race walked over to Skittery and smacked his face.
"I didn't do it!" he said immediately as he sat forward quickly. He had only a little bit of a headache, but being the pessimist that he is, he blew it way out of proportion and treated it as if the sky were falling down around him. He let out a long, drawn out moan of pain.
Race smacked him again. "Come off it, glum and dumb, you're not that hung ova."
Mush on the other hand, was that hung over, but he decided to ignore it and rolled off the bed with a smile on his face. I wonder how Blink's feeling, Mush thought to himself. When he noticed Blink was still sleeping he ran over to him and shook his shoulder gently to wake him up.
Blink rolled over and opened his eyes. The second he did so a searing pain shot through his head and he realized just how much he had had to drink the previous night, and just how much he was gonna have to pay for it today. Being in a bad mood and extremely irritable, he decided it would be best if he interacted with his friends as little as possible. But knowing Mush would be hurt if Blink just ignored him he muttered a polite, but unenthusiastic 'good morning' and rolled back over.
"Haha, it's not morning silly, we slept the whole day away." With that Mush skipped to the other side of the room.
Jack, taking his usual leadership role, stood up on the bed and re-informed his friends that they had slept through an entire day of classes and that it was now vacation, so they could all leave.
"Well thank you for your permission, your honor," Racetrack mumbled as he headed out of the door closely followed by the others.
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"I can't believe we're stuck in here, this is all your fault! If you hadn't wanted to stop and look through all those damn files, we would be halfway to the lake by now!" Fifi shouted at KP.
First of all we wouldn't be halfway to the lake by now. It's only been twenty minutes since we got here. And secondly, you were having just as much fun as I was going through those files so –"
"—shhhh," Fifi interrupted. "Did you hear that?" The girls heard what sounded like a small heard of cattle and muffled voices.
"People!"
"Hide!"
KP and Fifi dove behind a random, yet convenient, assortment of extremely large potted plants for cover.
Jack, now leading the pack, reached the doors and pushed. He turned around and looked about for something high to stand on. He saw nothing close enough and decided to make his announcement from ground-level.
"Well boys, the doors are locked."
"Well thank you Captain Obvious," Blink muttered under his breath.
"Are ya sure it's a push door and not a pull door? Maybe you should try pullin'," Mush suggested sincerely.
Jack looked awfully offended for a moment, but then realized that Mush may be right so he turned back to the door and tried pulling, but to no avail.
"Nope, still locked." Jack looked down, a hint of defeat on his countenance.
"Oh great," said Skittery.
The boys all hung their heads in frustration but picked them right back up again when they heard a whistling noise coming from a dark hallway. They all turned to see their friend David.
David smiled as he approached them. "Hey guys!" he greeted, with way too much enthusiasm. "Did you all leave your books too?" He questioned holding up what appeared to be a science book.
"We're locked in ya halfwit!" Race answered.
"Shit!" David exclaimed.
The boys all turned quickly to David, stunned to hear a swear come out of his mouth.
Skittery grunted, "Yeah, it really sucks that we're gonna miss our vacation because we're trapped in this hell hole."
"No, that's not it! The rest of my school books are in my car." They all shook their heads in annoyed amusement.
"You're and idiot." A sharp voice startled them from the top of the stairs.
"Spot! What are you doing here?" Mush asked.
Spot glanced at Mush acknowledging his presence but ignored his question. Then he added, "And dere are two goils watching youse from behind dose plants."
Figuring they were caught anyway, KP and Fifi bounced out from behind the plants and greeted them with wide smiles.
"Hi guys."
"Who the hell are you two?" Spot demanded.
"I'm KP."
"And I'm Fifi."
Jack, feeling the need to be back in the spotlight and also to inform the newcomers of the situation at hand mounted a nearby chair and cleared his throat.
"Ahem! I'm Jack Kelly, but you can call me Cowboy. Dese guys here are—"
"—I'm Racetrack." He nodded toward the girls.
"Da name's Mush." He greeted with a huge smile.
"Skittery." He said glumly and looked away.
"I'm Kid Blink." He said, trying to sound upbeat, but it came out more like a series of grunts.
The girls smiled at them, looking from boy to boy, trying to make sure to remember their names. KP's gaze wandered up to the stairs and her eyes fell on a boy, the same boy who had given them away. She gestured to him and in a rather condescending manner asked, "And you are?"
Spot shot KP and icy glare. "I don't like your tone," he said sharply.
KP stared right into his eyes and though she was intimidated she refused to let it show on her face. Jack, sensing the tension, decided to speak up and break the silence.
"That's Spot Conlon." KP and Spot broke their stare and turned their attention back to Jack begrudgingly. Jack, who was still up on his chair, proceeded.
I feel it's my responsibility to inform the newcomers," he gestured to Fifi and KP," that we are locked in."
Fifi stepped forward, a slightly amused half-smile (not to be confused with a smirk) on her face. "Well your highness," she began, her voice dripping with sarcasm. She felt KP silently egging her on so she continued, "Thanks for the update, but we figured out long before you did that the doors were locked. And even if we hadn't, we've been sitting behind those plants listening to you guys since you got here. So either way, we would have figured out that we are, in fact, locked in. And please, oh please get off of that damn chair. My neck is starting to hurt from having to look up at you."
Jack stared at Fifi completely mortified and at a total loss for words, he climbed slowly down from the chair. The others also stared, surprised that she was so bold but impressed none the less. Racetrack made a mental note to keep on his toes, and Blink gawked openly. The silence stretched on and Fifi began to grow rather uncomfortable with everyone staring at her. Thank goodness for Mush, though, because he stepped forward to break the awkwardness.
"Maybe we could try another door," he suggested hopefully.
Spot spoke up for the first time in a while, only to dash any prospect of escape. "I already tried all the other doors, they're all locked too."
"Who would have guessed the doors would all lock when we left for vacation?" Jack asked, quite honestly baffled.
"I knew," said a boy as he ominously stepped out from a dark corner. "I knew all along. It's all part of my plan, my master plan. Mwahahahahahaha."
KP grabbed Fifi's arm harshly and under her breath exclaimed, "That's the guy with psychopathic tendencies!"
"Itey, what are you doing here?" Blink asked. Itey's demeanor changed completely as he thought about how to best answer Blink's question.
"I had nowhere else to go," he answered nonchalantly. After a few brief moments of awkward silence Itey spoke again. "Well, we all know why Davey is here, loser" he added under his breath, "but why are all of you guys here?" he asked gesturing to the group of people in front of him.
Jack almost got back up on the chair, but he checked himself. He took a deep breath and was about to tellthe whole long story, but Race, seeing what was about to happen knew he had to prevent it. He interjected quickly and stated simply, succinctly,
"We got drunk, den we passed out."
There was a short silence. Jack looked up at Spot thoughtfully. "Why are you here, Spot? I would have figured you'd a been back ta Brooklyn hours ago."
Spot shot him an icy glare, his pierce-me-blue eyes shimmering with anger. "I don't gotta answer ta nobody, Kelly." Everybody fell silent and looked around, all of them quite ill at ease.
"SHIT!" exclaimed Skittery loudly, his outburst breaking the uncomfortable silence. "We're stuck here for two whole weeks, we've got no food, no water, and no electricity. We're all gonna DIE!!"
Fifi shot her head toward Skittery, "Hey! Negative Nancy—"
"—Haha, Nancy," KP mumbled under her breath.
"—chill out, we are in a school after all. Schools have cafeterias, and cafeterias have food. Schools also have drinking fountains. That takes care of the whole food and water thing, so I'm quite certain we'll all survive." Skittery lowered his eyes to the ceiling thoughtfully.
KP sauntered over to a lamp in the lobby and placed her hand on the switch. "Hey Nancy!" she yelled, trying to call Skittery's attention to herself. Skittery looked up unsure as to whether or not she was actually talking to him. She turned the switch on and off and sure enough the lights went on and off with it. "Electricity's fine Kid, calm down."
"Huh?" Kid Blink snapped out of his own thoughts at hearing his name and looked around to find its caller. Fifi stifled a laugh, shaking her head, silently telling him 'never mind'. KP was a little harsher, though.
"Not you, NANCY," she corrected drawing everyone's attention to the exchange.
"My name is not NANCY!" Skittery raged, his face flushed crimson with anger. Spot looked from KP to Skittery, and then let his gaze rest again on KP, slightly amused.
KP turned to Fifi, and grabbing her arm pulled her to the side. Lowering her voice she said, "Fifi, we're suck here with an egomaniac, a psychopath and . . ." KP raised her voice making sure that the others, especially Skittery could hear her, "and NANCY!" Fifi groaned and turned to her friend.
"Correction, make that two egomaniacs. We're so screwed."
"Oh sweet fuck."
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