Title: Must Get Out
Rating: PG-13 for language and themes
Characters: Ellie, Spinner, Paige, Ashley, Marco…(pretty much everyone, eventually)
Pairings: Spinner/Ellie, Manny/JT, not sure about any other pairings
Summary: Slight AU. She thinks he's an immature, self-centered pig. He thinks she's a weirdo, gothic freak. What happens when they start to care? Ellie/Spinner shipper fic.
Disclaimer: None of these characters belong to me. Don't sue.
A/N: Well, Chapter 7. Can you believe it? I, for one, cannot. 'MGO' has been the most fun project I've worked on in my short writing career and I can't wait to see where this story goes. Of course, I can't go on without thanking the readers and everyone who reviewed. You guys rock it to the max. In other news, I'm thinking of changing the rating to 'R' because of my horrible potty mouth. I can't seem to get the 's' or 'f' words out of my system - For any updates, see the 'UPDATE' section on my profile. Now, onward!
[ Ashley, 7-6-04 ]
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Chapter 7: Hold The Wheel And Drive
"I'll see you on Friday," Ellie said to Joe as they headed out of Government. Joe nodded.
"Bye Elle," Joe waved before they went their separate ways. Ellie sighed as she headed down the stairs.
'Food and Nutrition. Sounds fairly painless, but then again, so did Psychology,' she thought as she continued to make her way to the kitchens.
"Oh Eleanor!" she heard a familiar voice call her. "Where are you headed, my dearest?" Ellie smirked.
"Why Elaine, darling! To Food and Nutrition," she waited for Lain to catch up to her.
"Well, then we must walk together," Lain said as she caught up. "For I, Elaine F. Maxwell, am headed there as well." Ellie snorted.
"Lovely." Lain ignored her comment and linked arms with Ellie, starting to drag her down the stairs.
"To the kitchens!" she exclaimed, causing a few of the hallway dwellers to stare. When they made it to the first floor, they were disappointed to find that it was not as secluded as the stairway. In fact, they were finding it almost impossible to move without getting elbowed in the stomach or getting their feet stepped on.
'Jesus Christ, when the hell did Degrassi get this crowded?' Ellie thought to herself as she saw one poor Grade 7 get pushed down and completely trampled on. Ellie heard something beside her growl and looked over at Lain, who had a mean look on her face.
"Alright Elle, were gonna have to go all out here! Remember," she said as she once again linked arms with Ellie, "no mercy!" And with that, Lain let out a war cry and began hitting everything in sight. Ellie looked on in disbelief as she watched her friend trip a girl that was in her way.
"Lain, what the hell-," Ellie started, but Lain continued to drag her friend through the crowd without responding.
"Whoopsie!" Lain said unapologetically to the fellow she had just kneed. "Look out, comin' through!" Lain looked over at Ellie who still had a look of disbelief on her face. "Come on, Elle! Join the fun!" She pushed a young woman into the wall and grinned at her friend. In return, Ellie just rolled her eyes.
When they finally made it to the kitchens, Lain clasped her hands together and let out a relieved sigh.
"Now that was hardcore!" she said with a smile. "And although I did all the work, mission accomplished. Congratulations Eleanor!" Ellie shook her head.
"You are so weird," she replied and entered the kitchens, leaving her friend behind. Lain caught up with her and the two stood in the back with the rest of their classmates. The bell rang shortly after they arrived and the rest of the class quieted down as the teacher walked in.
The teacher was a thin woman, probably in her mid-forties. She had cropped blonde hair and a short stature. Over her pantsuit, she wore an apron that read 'Nothin' Says Lovin' Like Somethin' From The Oven.' She looked around the classroom and smiled.
"Good morning class, my name is Mrs. Hunter and welcome to Food and Nutrition," she said warmly. "Throughout the year-," she started, but was interrupted when someone ran into the room.
"SorryI'mlateitwasreallycrowded," the young man said quickly, barely understandable. Mrs. Hunter raised her eyebrow, but continued.
"Anyway, as I was saying, throughout the year-," the teacher again started, but this time Ellie wasn't able to hear the rest because of something, rather someone, poking her side continually.
"What?" she whispered irritably to Lain. Lain pointed to the person who came in late.
"You know who that is?" she asked in a teasing voice. Ellie tried to get a better look at him, but the head of a fellow classmate blocked her view.
"No, who?"
"Only the love of your life!" Lain whispered back. When Ellie continued to look bewildered, Lain smacked her forehead. "It's Spinner! D'uh!" Ellie rolled her eyes.
"Are you serious?" she asked incredulously. Lain grinned and nodded, causing Ellie to let out an annoyed sigh. "What the hell is with this? Is Raditch out to get me, or something? I mean, he knows I hate Spinner! I bet he decided to put us in the same classes for shits and giggles." Ellie snarled and Lain laughed.
"Calm down, dear. We sometimes like to call situations like these coincidences…or is it luck of the draw? I don't know, but it's definitely one of them," Lain told her. "No one is conspiring against you."
"Yeah, I'm sure," Ellie replied sarcastically. "I guess Spinner just had to take Food and Nutrition, right? Come on now, who takes Food and Nutrition anyways?"
"Um…us?" Lain shrugged.
"Besides us."
"Everyone else in the class?"
"Alright, fine! But that still doesn't explain why Spinner is in three," she held up three fingers to emphasize her point, "of my classes so far. Not to mention homeroom and my constant run ins with him."
"Hmm…you know, you and Spinner have been in quite a few compromising situations lately," Lain said thoughtfully, scratching her chin. "Sheesh, this is like a Britney Spears music video!" Ellie rolled her eyes and returned her focus on Mrs. Hunter, who was currently taking a head count of the class.
"26…27. Perfect! There are six kitchens, so there'll be five groups of four and one group of three. Everyone can pick there own group, as long as you pick people you work well with because these will be your groups for the rest of the year," she warned. "So go ahead and get with your groups and then we'll assign you to your kitchens." Ellie looked over to Lain who was scanning the room.
"Quick Elle! We need to recruit people!" Lain grabbed Ellie by the arm and dragged her over to Hazel Aden and her friend, Jackie Baron.
"Hey friends!" Lain said cheerfully. "What do you say we group up?" Hazel snorted and Jackie eyed Ellie with disgust.
"Thanks, but no. We're already in a group," she informed the duo. Lain frowned as Jackie and Hazel left to go sit with the third member of their group.
"Crap," Lain said, scanning the room once again. "Aha! Fresh meat!" She then dragged Ellie towards two boys she didn't recognize. Ellie wondered if Lain knew these guys, and if she did, she also wondered if she could introduce them. They were rather cute.
"Howdy fellas!" Lain greeted. "Would you mind being in our group? It seems like everyone else is taken."
"Sorry," the shorter of the boys apologized. "We're already in a group with our girlfriends."
"Girlfriends? Boo!" Lain exclaimed loudly, making the two boys jump and Ellie very embarrassed. Before Lain could scare the young lads anymore, Ellie dragged her away.
"Nice going, hotshot," Ellie hissed. "I think you've successfully managed to scare them away for good."
"Oh well, you win some, you lose some," Lain smiled. Ellie threw her hands up in defeat.
"I give up," Ellie said, exasperated. She looked around the room to find that almost everyone had found a group, except them. "Great, now we're groupless!"
"Well if it isn't my favorite lady friend. What's going on, Nash? Couldn't stay away from me for more than an hour?" Ellie whipped around to find Spinner approaching Lain and herself, with Jimmy Brooks in tow.
"Spinner! Jimmy!" Lain said before Ellie could say anything. "We were just looking for you two!" Spinner raised an eyebrow.
"You were?" he asked.
"We were?" Ellie piped in.
"Sure we were!"
"Um…why?" Jimmy asked.
"Because we wanted to be in your group of course," Lain said with a smile. Ellie was about to say something, but Lain shut her up with an elbow to the stomach. "Yeah I mean, everybody in the class was coming up to us asking to be in our group, but we saw you two and we knew that for this group to be complete, you guys were going to have to be in it." And Lain smiled the most shit eating grin Ellie had ever seen.
"Really? Well, sorry to disappoint, but I don't think-," Jimmy started.
"We'd love to be in your group," Spinner interrupted with a grin. Jimmy narrowed his eyes at Spinner.
"What did you just say?"
"I said that we'd love to be in their group," Spinner repeated, grinning even wider when Ellie groaned. Jimmy shook his head in disbelief.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Who said that we wanted to-,"he started again, but was cut off this time by Mrs. Hunter.
"Hopefully everyone is in a group and settled," she said, placing a clipboard on the table in Kitchen #6. "Now, when I assign you to a kitchen, I want everyone in the group to sign their name on the clipboard. When everyone has signed, I'll collect the clipboard and wait in your kitchen area for further directions," she instructed. She looked around the room and pointed to a group of four in the back. "Okay, you four will be in Kitchen #1, right over there." Mrs. Hunter guided them to their kitchen and went on to the next group.
"Dude, what the hell are you thinking?" Ellie heard Jimmy whisper to Spinner. Spinner laughed.
"Chill out, man," he patted Jimmy on the shoulder. Before Jimmy could retort, Mrs. Hunter walked up to them.
"Are you four a group?" she questioned. Ellie looked up when no one answered. Lain was apparently too busy fiddling with the zipper on her jacket to even realize Mrs. Hunter was there. Jimmy was glaring at Spinner, who in return was cracking up laughing. Mrs. Hunter raised an eyebrow at Ellie.
"Uh, yeah," she answered quickly. "We're a group."
"Great," Mrs. Hunter smiled. "You four are going to be in Kitchen #4." Ellie smacked Lain on the back of the head to get her out of her zipper daze. Lain's head snapped up.
"What? What happened?" Lain asked, looking around. Ellie let out an annoyed sigh and followed Mrs. Hunter, with Lain, Spinner, and Jimmy right behind her. They made it to their kitchen and the teacher handed the clipboard to Spinner.
"Everyone sign their name on the clipboard and I'll be around to get it in a minute," she told them and went off to the last two groups. Spinner scribbled his name on the paper and passed the clipboard to Jimmy.
"This year is going to be so much fun," he said, sending a smile to Ellie, only to get a glare in return. "Isn't it, Jim?" Jimmy rolled his eyes and passed the clipboard to Ellie.
"Oh yeah," he plopped down on one of the chairs occupying the table. "Looking forward to it." Ellie quickly signed her name and gave the clipboard to Lain, who truly did look excited.
"Well I know I am," she said while writing her name. She looked up from the clipboard and smiled. "I hope we have a cooking competition. I make a mean Mac and Cheese." To Ellie's surprise, Spinner laughed.
"Psh, my spray cheese omelet would dominate your lame macaroni," he said.
"A battle of the cheese dishes…interesting," Lain said, toying with the towel that was hanging on the oven door. Jimmy shook his head at the two.
"You guys are bizarre," he said and Ellie nodded. Ellie then turned her attention to Mrs. Hunter who was now standing in the front of the classroom.
"Great, now that everyone's settled in, we'll do our first activity," she clasped her hands together. "Now, if you'll notice, your kitchens aren't in the best condition. That's because they haven't been cleaned out since last year." Mrs. Hunter paused while some of the more nauseous folks groaned.
"Ew!" Jackie exclaimed from Kitchen #2. "Gross me out!"
"Now, it's your job as a group to clean your kitchens," Mrs. Hunter continued. "You'll have to wash the dishes and the silverware, clean out the refrigerator, wipe the counters…" she went on. "When you think you're done, call me over and I'll inspect your area. If I think it's okay, you will be done cleaning. If I don't think it's good enough, you'll keep cleaning until it is. Now, start cleaning!"
"Alright, now let's assign jobs," Jimmy said, the perfectionist in him kicking in. "Let's see, Lain, you can clean out the refrigerator."
"Aye, aye Captain," Lain said with a salute and went over to the refrigerator.
"Ellie, you can wash the dishes, and Spin you can dry them and put them away," Jimmy instructed. "And I'll mop the floor and clean the table." Ellie nodded and went over to the sink. She turned the handle, but it refused to move.
"Argh," she groaned as she continued to pull. Spinner laughed from beside her. "Shut up!" Ellie pulled as hard as she could, but the faucet would not turn on.
"Need some help?" Spinner asked as he too started pulling at the handle. Ellie glared at him.
"No, I don't need your help!" Ellie hissed at him as she continued to pull.
"Fine," Spinner said, taking his hands off the handle, "let's see you do it, then." Ellie sent him another glare.
"I…will!" she exclaimed with one last pull. The handle finally moved and the faucet finally turned on. However, the water did not flow into the sink. Instead, it sprayed Ellie and Spinner right in the face.
"What the…?" Jimmy said from his position on the floor. He looked over to Ellie and Spinner and gasped. "Oh my God!" he shouted and rushed over to them. Ellie pushed Spinner and herself out of the path of the water, but the damage was already done. They were both soaked, head to toe. Spinner glared at the faucet and turned it off. Lain, finally realizing the commotion, walked over to them, a rotting watermelon in her arms.
"Did you two go swimming or something?" Lain asked, confused.
"Or something," Ellie mumbled. Jimmy looked over at the faucet and sighed. He picked up the piece of metal sitting next to the sink and screwed it on the faucet. He glanced at the two soaking, angry teenagers before him and laughed nervously.
"Uh…all fixed," he told them, but just got glares in return. "Hey don't be mad at me! You two were on sink duty, you should have inspected the faucet before turning it on."
"Oh, sorry, you're right. I'm just not used to faucets spraying in my face!" Spinner seethed. Lain clicked her tongue.
"You guys! Look what you did to the kitchen!" she said, placing the moldy watermelon on the table and walking around the messy kitchen. Ellie snorted.
"What a shame," she said sarcastically, squeezing the water out of her hair. "And hey, I don't think that watermelon's doing anything for that table." Jimmy let out a girlish scream and ran over to the table.
"I just washed the table, get it off!" he cried. Lain quickly grabbed the watermelon and threw it in the trash. Jimmy sighed and looked around at the kitchen. "I guess we're just going to have to clean it up. Do we have any paper towels or anything?"
"We have this," Lain said, holding up the towel she was playing with before. Ellie rolled her eyes.
"Yeah, cause that's gonna clean up all this," she gestured towards the soaked floor.
"Listen, you and Spin go to the washroom and get as many paper towels as you can, okay?" Jimmy told the soaked duo. They didn't move. "Don't just stand there! Go! Run!" Spinner groaned, but headed to the door, mumbling obscenities under his breath.
"Unbelievable," Ellie shook her head and followed Spinner. They both made it out of the kitchens and into the hallway. They began walking to the washroom, their wet shoes squeaking along the way. "Why me? Why do these things always happen to me?" Ellie said more to herself than to Spinner.
"I guess you're just that special," Spinner laughed.
"Oh no, if I was special, we wouldn't be in any of the same classes and I wouldn't be walking in the hallway with you, drenched in water."
"Oh, Ellie, I'm hurt!" Spinner said, putting his hand over his heart. "You don't want to be in any of the same classes?" Ellie let out a short laugh.
"I'd rather listen to Lain play 'Can You Feel The Love Tonight' on the clarinet. You don't know pain if you've never heard that," Ellie joked, but Spinner didn't laugh. Ellie looked over at him. "Oh come on. Like you actually enjoy being in the same classes with me, let alone being in the same room as me? Yeah right. You hate me, I hate you. That's the way it's always been."
"I never said I hated you," he said quietly and Ellie was shocked when she heard sincerity in his voice. Ellie stopped walking and stared at him.
"I…" she started, but couldn't find any words. Spinner smiled faintly at her and continued walking, leaving Ellie standing in the hallway staring after him.
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Gah! Could I get any more melodramatic? Anywho, I'm terribly sorry for the long wait. Hopefully the next chapter will be up a lot sooner than this one was.
Thanks:
TrappedinAb0x: Hey, no problem. And I'm glad I made your day. Thanks for reviewing -
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Kryptonite: Ahh yes, the curse of heredity. Luckily, I am fully convinced I am adopted so I am in no way like my "mother"…I hope. LOL! Thanks for reviewing!
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One last chance: So have you jumped on the nonexistent Ellie/Spinner bandwagon yet? Thanks for the compliments on the original characters - And thanks for reviewing!
AR: Ah yes, that would be rather funny, but Ellie has already been traumatized by being locked in a janitor's closet once! She might go crazy if it happens again, especially with Spinner, LOL! Thanks for reviewing.
Solus Nemo: They most certainly will be a unique couple, if they ever get their acts together and realize they got the hots for each other…or rather if I ever speed up the plot and get things moving with them. LOL! Thanks for reviewing!
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Golden stars for all of you lovely folks. And hey, if anyone wants to chat or something, feel free to IM or e-mail me. I love to chatter! Hope everyone liked this chapter and pray for writer's block to burn in hell every night before you go to bed -
[Ashley, 7-12-04]