//AN: Hey all. I hate this part. ^^;; It sucks. It doesnt totally make
sense, but it makes a hell of allot more sense than before, and for that
reason I 3 my beta. ^^ without my beta, I am stupid.
I know I mention v-day, and I know the next part will take place on v-day, but I'm leaving on vacation and wont have a chance to post for a week and a half. Happy reading, see ya'll when I get back.//
As the three of them went to leave the male dorm, they saw Luis, Portman and Fulton standing around in the hall. All three looked ready to head out.
"Laverna, darling," Luis said, obviously trying to be charming, "you look great." Adam snorted to himself, Luis, when will you learn that smooth- talking doesn't always work? Especially not on a girl like Laverna. Being a little protective of his friend, Adam put his arm around her shoulder and glared at Luis.
"Portman, Fulton. How are you guys? Wanna go to the mall with us?" Laverna asked, pointedly trying to ignore Luis.
"Come on, Laverna! I just want to be your particeps crimini." Adam had seen this before, he was just worried about what else they had taught Luis.
"Sure you can Luis. If you can define the phrase particeps crimini for me." Laverna told him cockily. Adam suppressed a laugh, it was kind of funny to see Laverna comertable and joking around people like Luis.
Luis looked surprised then nudged Fulton, "Quick, man, tell me, what does 'participes crimini' mean?"
Portman and Fulton shared a grin. "It is Latin for 'partner in crime'."
"Told ya he'd buy it!" Portman and Fulton high fived each other. Adam overheard Luis asking them for help to win Laverna over and they had told him the phrase knowing he wouldn't know it. Adam was so surprised that Fulton knew Latin that he almost missed the look of shock on other people's faces and Laverna's amusement.
She eventually gave in and they all headed to the mall.
~~~
"Adam! Get your ass in this store before I beat you with a spork!" Shopping had started out okay, but had gotten progressively worse... Luis wouldn't stop hanging off of Laverna and Portman and Fulton were trying to sabotage him. It was fun for all of them, well, with the exception of Luis.
When they arrived, they stopped by the food court since none of them had eaten. This was where Charlie had a slice of pizza, Portman and Fulton pigged out on McDonalds breakfast, Laverna had two Cinnabuns, and Adam and Luis watched them all in awe while taking bets on who would throw up first.
After Portman and Fulton stopped eating, which took awhile, they made their way to Hot Topic to pick out some stuff for Laverna and hair dye for Adam. If they could ever get him in the store...
"Adam Banks, do NOT make me use your middle name," Laverna told him while giving him, 'the look'. She then turned to Charlie and started speaking in a very happy tone. "Hey Charlie! Wanna know Adam's middle name?"
"Actually, I've always wondered what it was, Laverna..." Charlie loved to help with teasing. But in all honesty, he really did want to know. That whole "making fun of Adam" just being a fringe benefit.
"Okay! Okay, I'll go in the damn store." She obviously knew he'd cave, either that or she'd call out Fulton and Portman, who were already inside to help 'coerce him' into coming in.
"Thanks, sweetie," she told him with a kiss to the cheek as Luis looked on with envy. Charlie was starting to suspect that the two of them were coupl- ey things just to piss Luis off. "Now, come on in! I swear, nothing in here will kill you. Just traumatize you. Promise, Scout's honor."
"You weren't ever a Scout!"
"So? What's your point?"
Charlie looked back and forth between the two as they verbally spared. He hadn't really noticed how close the two of them were and now he was starting to wonder what he has obviously missing.
As the two of them continued to bicker, the boys started to wander about the store. They noticed all the shirts up front, half of them they had already seen on Laverna, so they started to make there way to the back were they saw some more, uh, skanky clothing. Charlie and Luis found a decent looking dress and held it up trying to get Laverna's attention.
"Hey! Laverna, try this on? For us?"
They actually managed to get her into it, much to Charlie's surprise. Charlie and Adam told her she looked great in it, Portman and Fulton siad she looked hot, and Luis was speechless.
"Almost makes me wish I had something to wear it to," she told the guys as she stood about in it. Adam walked over to her, grabbed her hand and twirled her.
"Laverna, you should get it. I'll take you to the Valentine's dance this Saturday," Luis offered her, once he managed to form coherent words anyway.
They all burst out laughing as Laverna gave Luis a look.
"What? What's so funny?"
Charlie stopped laughing long enough to answer Luis. "Laverna? At a dance? You're kidding me!
"Besides that, she HATES Valentine's Day!" Adam said confidently. Charlie rolled his eyes. It bothered him a little bit that he was missing so many inside comments between the two of them.
Laverna grinned sheepishly at Adam. "Sorry, dear." After thinking for a bit she came up with a better idea. "I know, let's watch slasher movies instead."
They all agreed to each pick out a slasher movie and meet at Charlie and Adam's room on Saturday. They even convinced Laverna to get the dress and wear it to their movie marathon.
Picking out dye proved to be more difficult however. Adam wanted brown, which they all immediately rejected. Laverna's philosophy was 'don't dye your hair a color it can naturally be.' Well, aside from black.
Portman and Fulton suggested black, Luis was trying to tell Adam that pink was 'so his color'. And Charlie was telling him that blue would bring out his eyes.
Laverna immediately nixed the idea for blue, mostly because she said blue faded weird. They all vetoed pink because it was so close to Valentine's Day. Laverna wouldn't let him do black since that was her current hair color. At least, most of her hair; the burgundy streaks were an exception.
"Purple and green. Duck colors." After quite a bit of thinking, Charlie decided that Adam would be a great 'Duck mascot'.
"Naw, Charlie, Adam can't dye his hair green. It looks wired. Trust me," Portman said with an air of authority.
"Portman, when the hell did you dye your hair green?!" Fulton immediately asked his Bash Bro.
"Don't ask," he said, "it was a phase."
"Either way, I could defiantly see Cake-Eater with purple hair."
And thus it was decided. While watching slasher movies, Adam would get purple hair courtesy of Laverna with perhaps a little help from Portman.
~~~
It should have occurred to Adam, perhaps, that his day was going too well (except for the hair dye, of course). It had been, until they ran into Adam's "favorite" people: Larson and McGill.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" Larson asked mockingly.
Everyone looked kind of confused except for Adam and Laverna, who would have known them anywhere.
"Looks like a couple of REJECTS!" McGill responded just a little too loudly. Adam started to get paranoid and kept looking at everyone around him.
Adam could see that Charlie was starting to understand as was Fulton. Thankfully, Luis and Portman had never formally met McGill and Larson and didn't seem to recognize them from the game earlier that week.
"Crap." Adam's day now officially sucked. Running into Larson and McGill was defiantly the WORST thing possible. Aside from a rogue meteor hitting him, which was right now sounding pretty good...
The two of them walked over to Adam and started to almost circle him.
"Watcha doing at the mall? Out on a DATE Banksey-boy?" They both laughed.
Adam caught on to what they were getting at. They were going to out him in the middle of the mall in front of his friends. After he surprised his fear he decided that he would try and avoid it for now, but maybe tell them later, unless he could get away to a foreign country. So, the best option was to just play it cool and act dumb. "Yeah, actually. I'm here with Laverna."
"Yeah right." Adam knew that tone. McGill obviously didn't believe him, and Adam was kind of surprised that he was smart enough to not fall for it.
"But if you're into punks, I could defiantly see you with him." Adam glanced over to were Larson was pointing at; Portman.
Fulton and Portman exchanged a glance that the others had only seen while they were on the ice. They were going to start a fight with them, in the middle of the mall. There went that whole 'not telling people and not making it a big deal'.
"Portman, Fulton. Please, don't sink to their level. Let's just go." Charlie said, trying to avoid a fight. Adam sent a silent prayer to whatever god was watching and made a mental note to be extra nice to his Captain later.
"Yeah, run away, you scared little ducks!"
"Quack, quack, quack, you fag!" McGill said while laughing. They went away after that, but it was pretty obvious that they had achieved their goal: Mess with Adam's head.
end part 6
I know I mention v-day, and I know the next part will take place on v-day, but I'm leaving on vacation and wont have a chance to post for a week and a half. Happy reading, see ya'll when I get back.//
As the three of them went to leave the male dorm, they saw Luis, Portman and Fulton standing around in the hall. All three looked ready to head out.
"Laverna, darling," Luis said, obviously trying to be charming, "you look great." Adam snorted to himself, Luis, when will you learn that smooth- talking doesn't always work? Especially not on a girl like Laverna. Being a little protective of his friend, Adam put his arm around her shoulder and glared at Luis.
"Portman, Fulton. How are you guys? Wanna go to the mall with us?" Laverna asked, pointedly trying to ignore Luis.
"Come on, Laverna! I just want to be your particeps crimini." Adam had seen this before, he was just worried about what else they had taught Luis.
"Sure you can Luis. If you can define the phrase particeps crimini for me." Laverna told him cockily. Adam suppressed a laugh, it was kind of funny to see Laverna comertable and joking around people like Luis.
Luis looked surprised then nudged Fulton, "Quick, man, tell me, what does 'participes crimini' mean?"
Portman and Fulton shared a grin. "It is Latin for 'partner in crime'."
"Told ya he'd buy it!" Portman and Fulton high fived each other. Adam overheard Luis asking them for help to win Laverna over and they had told him the phrase knowing he wouldn't know it. Adam was so surprised that Fulton knew Latin that he almost missed the look of shock on other people's faces and Laverna's amusement.
She eventually gave in and they all headed to the mall.
~~~
"Adam! Get your ass in this store before I beat you with a spork!" Shopping had started out okay, but had gotten progressively worse... Luis wouldn't stop hanging off of Laverna and Portman and Fulton were trying to sabotage him. It was fun for all of them, well, with the exception of Luis.
When they arrived, they stopped by the food court since none of them had eaten. This was where Charlie had a slice of pizza, Portman and Fulton pigged out on McDonalds breakfast, Laverna had two Cinnabuns, and Adam and Luis watched them all in awe while taking bets on who would throw up first.
After Portman and Fulton stopped eating, which took awhile, they made their way to Hot Topic to pick out some stuff for Laverna and hair dye for Adam. If they could ever get him in the store...
"Adam Banks, do NOT make me use your middle name," Laverna told him while giving him, 'the look'. She then turned to Charlie and started speaking in a very happy tone. "Hey Charlie! Wanna know Adam's middle name?"
"Actually, I've always wondered what it was, Laverna..." Charlie loved to help with teasing. But in all honesty, he really did want to know. That whole "making fun of Adam" just being a fringe benefit.
"Okay! Okay, I'll go in the damn store." She obviously knew he'd cave, either that or she'd call out Fulton and Portman, who were already inside to help 'coerce him' into coming in.
"Thanks, sweetie," she told him with a kiss to the cheek as Luis looked on with envy. Charlie was starting to suspect that the two of them were coupl- ey things just to piss Luis off. "Now, come on in! I swear, nothing in here will kill you. Just traumatize you. Promise, Scout's honor."
"You weren't ever a Scout!"
"So? What's your point?"
Charlie looked back and forth between the two as they verbally spared. He hadn't really noticed how close the two of them were and now he was starting to wonder what he has obviously missing.
As the two of them continued to bicker, the boys started to wander about the store. They noticed all the shirts up front, half of them they had already seen on Laverna, so they started to make there way to the back were they saw some more, uh, skanky clothing. Charlie and Luis found a decent looking dress and held it up trying to get Laverna's attention.
"Hey! Laverna, try this on? For us?"
They actually managed to get her into it, much to Charlie's surprise. Charlie and Adam told her she looked great in it, Portman and Fulton siad she looked hot, and Luis was speechless.
"Almost makes me wish I had something to wear it to," she told the guys as she stood about in it. Adam walked over to her, grabbed her hand and twirled her.
"Laverna, you should get it. I'll take you to the Valentine's dance this Saturday," Luis offered her, once he managed to form coherent words anyway.
They all burst out laughing as Laverna gave Luis a look.
"What? What's so funny?"
Charlie stopped laughing long enough to answer Luis. "Laverna? At a dance? You're kidding me!
"Besides that, she HATES Valentine's Day!" Adam said confidently. Charlie rolled his eyes. It bothered him a little bit that he was missing so many inside comments between the two of them.
Laverna grinned sheepishly at Adam. "Sorry, dear." After thinking for a bit she came up with a better idea. "I know, let's watch slasher movies instead."
They all agreed to each pick out a slasher movie and meet at Charlie and Adam's room on Saturday. They even convinced Laverna to get the dress and wear it to their movie marathon.
Picking out dye proved to be more difficult however. Adam wanted brown, which they all immediately rejected. Laverna's philosophy was 'don't dye your hair a color it can naturally be.' Well, aside from black.
Portman and Fulton suggested black, Luis was trying to tell Adam that pink was 'so his color'. And Charlie was telling him that blue would bring out his eyes.
Laverna immediately nixed the idea for blue, mostly because she said blue faded weird. They all vetoed pink because it was so close to Valentine's Day. Laverna wouldn't let him do black since that was her current hair color. At least, most of her hair; the burgundy streaks were an exception.
"Purple and green. Duck colors." After quite a bit of thinking, Charlie decided that Adam would be a great 'Duck mascot'.
"Naw, Charlie, Adam can't dye his hair green. It looks wired. Trust me," Portman said with an air of authority.
"Portman, when the hell did you dye your hair green?!" Fulton immediately asked his Bash Bro.
"Don't ask," he said, "it was a phase."
"Either way, I could defiantly see Cake-Eater with purple hair."
And thus it was decided. While watching slasher movies, Adam would get purple hair courtesy of Laverna with perhaps a little help from Portman.
~~~
It should have occurred to Adam, perhaps, that his day was going too well (except for the hair dye, of course). It had been, until they ran into Adam's "favorite" people: Larson and McGill.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" Larson asked mockingly.
Everyone looked kind of confused except for Adam and Laverna, who would have known them anywhere.
"Looks like a couple of REJECTS!" McGill responded just a little too loudly. Adam started to get paranoid and kept looking at everyone around him.
Adam could see that Charlie was starting to understand as was Fulton. Thankfully, Luis and Portman had never formally met McGill and Larson and didn't seem to recognize them from the game earlier that week.
"Crap." Adam's day now officially sucked. Running into Larson and McGill was defiantly the WORST thing possible. Aside from a rogue meteor hitting him, which was right now sounding pretty good...
The two of them walked over to Adam and started to almost circle him.
"Watcha doing at the mall? Out on a DATE Banksey-boy?" They both laughed.
Adam caught on to what they were getting at. They were going to out him in the middle of the mall in front of his friends. After he surprised his fear he decided that he would try and avoid it for now, but maybe tell them later, unless he could get away to a foreign country. So, the best option was to just play it cool and act dumb. "Yeah, actually. I'm here with Laverna."
"Yeah right." Adam knew that tone. McGill obviously didn't believe him, and Adam was kind of surprised that he was smart enough to not fall for it.
"But if you're into punks, I could defiantly see you with him." Adam glanced over to were Larson was pointing at; Portman.
Fulton and Portman exchanged a glance that the others had only seen while they were on the ice. They were going to start a fight with them, in the middle of the mall. There went that whole 'not telling people and not making it a big deal'.
"Portman, Fulton. Please, don't sink to their level. Let's just go." Charlie said, trying to avoid a fight. Adam sent a silent prayer to whatever god was watching and made a mental note to be extra nice to his Captain later.
"Yeah, run away, you scared little ducks!"
"Quack, quack, quack, you fag!" McGill said while laughing. They went away after that, but it was pretty obvious that they had achieved their goal: Mess with Adam's head.
end part 6