Come On Feel The Noise

---Okie, so this chapter is gonna be pretty light, and the next one will be more serious......oh and just a note: I'm changing the day the boys have to go to school from the 6th to the 7th, this means Gloria has to go home on the 6th instead of the 5th .....sorry for the confusion, but I needed an extra day....thanks for the review Goddess of Silent Tears.....oh yeah, don't own I Want Candy by The Bangles, or Come On Feel The Noise, by Quiet Riot.---

((I know a guy that's tough but sweet.

He's so fine he can't be beat.

Got everything that I desire.

Set's the summer sun on fire....))

"I want candy," Teddy sang at the top of his lungs, dancing around my room like a boy on speed.

It was a Monday night, September 4. Tomorrow would be my last day in Castle Rock. I had to leave by noon on Wednesday the 6th.(AN: Once again sorry for the confusion, but I had to re-arrange some things so the story would make sense.) I wasn't looking forward to it.

"Teddy would you kindly shut the fuck up," Gordie asked? "You're giving me a headache the size of Montana." It seemed as if Teddy had taken an extra dose of energy pills before he came to my house with Vern and Gordie. He had been dancing and singing to one of my mix CDs for the past half-hour.

Over the past month or so they had all become accustomed to the songs from my CD collection, and knew most of the words to most of the songs. Whenever there wasn't anything to do, they always leafed through the CDs, sometimes playing one. They had a new favorite every week and never ceased to be fascinated by the "shiny disks" as Vern called them.

Teddy's favorite this week was Black Sabbath, Iron Man. Vern on the other hand had taken a strange liking to Depeche Mode. Chris liked everything from The Doors to The Wallflowers.

"You're just jealous that I have all this incredible talent and you don't," Teddy replied snidely.

"You wish ass hole," was Gordie's comeback.

"Gordie's right Ted. Why don't you take a break," Vern asked? He looked like he was tired just watching Teddy.

Teddy relented and plopped down on my bed. "Man, I really wish school wasn't next week," Teddy complained, lighting a cigarette.

Chris and I looked at each other uneasily. Leave it to Teddy to bring up the subject we had been trying so hard to ignore.

"Tell me about it," Gordie agreed. "I'm gonna kill myself before Christmas."

"Nah, Gordo you're the smart one. You'll do fine," Chris assured him. Gordie simply shrugged in reply.

"What time do you guys have to be home," I asked, anxious to change the subject? I figured they would all have to be leaving soon since it was already 10:00p.m. and they had been here since 3p.m.

"Soon," Vern replied sullenly.

"Yeah me too," Gordie said, looking at his watch.

I didn't want them to leave though. As a matter of fact I really wanted them to stay. They would keep my mind off going home. And then I had an idea.

"Why don't you guys sleep over," I asked suddenly?

"Sleep over," Vern asked?

"Yeah. You know, when you sleep in a house that isn't yours," I replied.

The boys looked at each other questioningly. None of them had ever stayed at my house all night, including Chris. I had spent the night with him before, but it was always in the tree house.

"Okay," Teddy agreed excitedly.

"Sure," Gordie said agreeably.

"I don't know. I'll be dead if my mom found out I slept at a girl's house," he said skeptically.

"Come on Verno," Teddy said. "It'll be fun. We can stay up all night eating and listening to music. It'll be our last huh-ra, before school starts."

"What about out folks," he argued, still looking doubtful.

"Easy," Gordie replied. "I'll tell my dad I'm sleeping at Teddy's, you tell your mom you're sleeping at my house and...."

"I'll tell my mom I'm sleeping at Vern's," Teddy finished. Vern considered this for a moment.

"Alright. Yeah, that might just work," he said, still trying to convince himself.

"Of course it'll work Vern. Don't worry so much," I assured him, punching him playfully on the arm.

"What about it Chris," Teddy asked? "You staying too."

"Duh," Chris said rolling his eyes. "I'm not about to leave my girlfriend alone with three guys all night."

"Good point," Teddy joked. He started laughing maniacally, going over to the stereo to turn up the music. Come On Feel the Noise, by Quiet Riot blared from the little boom box, and he began dancing around like he was before.

"Come on," he yelled over the music. "Dance."

"Not on your life DuChamp," Gordie and Chris said at the same time.

"Aww, come on," he urged.

I got up and started dancing just as crazily as he was. The boys looked at us like we had gone completely insane. But than to my surprise, Vern got up and started dancing too. Well what Vern was doing couldn't really be construed as dancing, but it was close enough.

Gordie and Chris looked at each other incredulously. "I think they've finally cracked," Chris yelled to Gordie. They looked at each other again and Gordie shrugged.

"Ah, what the hell," he said, and started dancing too.

"Come on Chris," I yelled. "You're the only one left." I walked over to him and held out my hand. "You know you want to," I teased.

Grinning he shook his head in reply, but took my hand anyway and succumbed to the madness.

Dancing around my room like an escapee from the insane asylum with the boys, going home was the furthest thought from my mind........and I was grateful.