Unforgettable
Chapter Five
Backwards Progress
shoutouts!
treece! you get to do dis for me from now on huh? yeah! take good care of my stories while i'm at college k?
A.N. i am going away to college where i cannot access fanfic but do not fear. i will send my chapters to my friend Treece and she will update and everthing for me so that i can keep going with my stories. how does taht sound? okay let's get on with the story.
Backwards Progress
"...AUTOMOBILE RUNS OVER COLONY OF ENDANGERED HAMSTERS! BIG SCANDAL!..." Racetrack Higgins and Mush walked down the street shouting out headlines as they went. They were on their way to Spot's part of town where he always sold his papes. Spot always managed to get done earlier than the rest of them and today was no exception. They found him talking to a group of teenage boys who were listening to him intently as they sat on a bench in the middle of Central Park. "...and den I says
to dem, 'Lissen ta me boys! I'm Spot Conlon! Der ain't nobody who messes wit me,' and den dey stand up and says ta me, 'Oh yeah?' and I say back to dem, 'Yeah,'
and den I soak em both!" There was a round of applause as these boys admired their hero. Spot stood there drinking it all in till he turned and saw Mush and
Race. He then turned back and addressed the group again. "Okay boys. Dat's all till tomorrah! See ya den!" and with that they all just up and left. Spot went
and approached his friends. "Heya Fellas! What brings you down heah to my humble sellin spot?" he asked them. The other two boys just smiled as Mush said,
"Heya Spot, we have a question for ya as well as a way to make whatever you answer possibly maybe become a reality, cuz we know what ya might or might not know so ya might want ta heah bout what we know dat you might not know." Spot and Racetrack just looked at him for a long time, Race looking amused and Spot looking confused. Race just smiled. He then addressed Spot by saying, "Spot, Mushy-boy has been hanging
around your sistah for a bit too long. He is startin ta talk all fast and gibberish like her." All three boys smiled at that comment. Race continued, "What he
meant ta say is, we knows some stuff dat could make ya happy again." Spot eyed them with suspicion. "Whadda ya know?" he asked his friends with a flicker of hope in his eyes. Race and Mush looked at each other and smiled. Race lowered his voice and began, "Well, ya see, it's like dis..."
"No! No! NO!" Manders yelled. "I won't go back ta him even tho I likes him a lot. He deserves bettah." Lindi and Petals looked helplessly at their friend. Surely there was SOMETHING that they could do! "Well...," Petals grasped for words. "Maybe...you...could......" she stopped when she saw the devious look in Lindi's eyes. It lasted for only a moment but she had seen it. She made eye contact with Lindi and silently told her to take over. Lindi wasted no time in resuming Petal's "suggestion."
"Well, Manders, I have a proposition for ya. If we was ta find out if Spot still DID want ya and nobody else, wouldja take 'em back?"
Manders sat quietly for a moment. "He would have ta prove it ta me. I don't want him ta be forced inta sayin' something dat he doesn't mean and hafta live a lie again!"
At this new information, Lindi just smiled and sat back. She hid the fact that she had a huge plan concocting and taking shape in her mind by offering her support to Manders. "We will be heah for ya Manders...through ALL of dis." With that, she gave her a hug. However, she also at the same moment made more eye contact with Petals. Her eyes clearly transported the message to Petals...'We'se gotta talk! I gots another plan!'
"...so dat's the story, Spottie boy," Race concluded. "She still likes ya, and it's our job ta find out if ya like her still after all dat's happened and if ya would take her back if ya could. So do ya? Could ya? Would ya?" Spot pondered what they were saying for about half a second then replied vehemently, "In a hearbeat!"
Mush heaved a sigh that sounded like a mixture of groaning and relief. Spot looked at Mush with a puzzled countenance. Mush quickly explained, "Well, dis means dat your sistah will be thrilled at de prospect of hookin ya two up again. Dat's da relief part. It's good dat she'll be happy...the groan is for whatever cockamaney plan dat she'll concoct and volunteer me an' Race ta be a part of." Spot burst out laughing, making the other two follow suit. When they finally got control, Spot spoke by saying, "Well, let's go see dat deah sistah of mine an' see what she's up to!" and with that, the threesome took of towards the Brooklyn lodging house.
The excited boys came bursting into the lodging house and ran upstairs to knock on the door of Lindi and Petal's bedroom. They heard muffled squealings and hard smacks of pillows as they listened through the door. Finally, Spot just said, "Ready or not, here we come!" and burst through the door. Lindi and Petals stopped dead in their tracks and stared at each other. A silent message that was just subtle enough to be lost upon the trio passed between them, as well as a silent understanding. Half a second later, the boys were being bombarded by two little girls wielding pillows, claws, and high pitched voices. They were quickly subdued since there were three boys and two of them. Besides, the boys were stronger. Race spoke first. "Well, Petals, my pet, what puts you two in such fine spirits taday?" Petals eagerly replied, "It all depends on what YOU TWO found out today!"
"Well, it just so happens dat I'm in on your little plan, sistah of mine and her friend!" Spot retorted. "I'd be willing ta take her back! I WANTS ta get her back!" Lindi and Petals just smiled. Lindi spoke next. "Dat's a good attitude, bruddah dearest, cuz you're gonna hafta! She still likes ya, but she won't force ya ta take her back. She said ya gotta show her it's of your own will dat ya get back togethuh. It just so happens dat we've gots a plan...are ya in? and no, we are not talkin' bout you and Race, Mush, cuz you've already been volunteered."
Spot replied with no hesitation, "Count me in."