(A/N – Ok, I'm starting this on Tuesday the 25th. How much you wanna bet it won't be posted until next Tuesday? Like I said. Really sorry about not being able to always put this first, but you gotta keep checking back. Don't lose faith in me! lol... BTW, this is a serious chapter... not all that funny... important info in the chapter below! But that doesn't mean I can't through in a few laughs... cya down below!)
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CHAPTER NINETEEN: "The same way we got here."
After cleaning up that mess in the kitchen (Jack's gonna get it...), Elizabeth and Jessica started making a cake, and Lindsay and I were making tacos for dinner. We were chatting girl talk about everything that had happened that day, when we heard screams, splatters, and shatters.
"What happened?" I asked, removing my arm from in front of my face. I looked up to see icing all over the kitchen. I started to smile. I walked up to Jessica and layed my hand on her shoulder.
"Ya know, I did that in cooking last year," I said, looking around at the frosting-covered kitchen.
"Hey! Edible mess!" Lindsay said. Clatter came from the floor, and we saw Elizabeth stand up from around the counter. She, like the rest of us, was a total mess.
"I'm so sorry," Elizabeth said quickly. "The mixer... it –"
"Liz, chill out," Jessica said. "It's cool. We'll have it fixed up in no time!"
"I feel so guilty," Elizabeth said, sitting down on the floor.
"It's just a little icing and flour," I told her. "Don't feel bad. I did the same thing." We sat on the floor (well, we tried... the kitchen is very tiny and narrow...) around her. This was much more than icing and flour she was upset about.
"Not that..." Elizabeth said. "Jack, Will, and myself have caused you all so much trouble since we got here..." she said, holding a bowl in her hands. I thought about it... that was true... soooo much trouble...
"No trouble at all!" I lied. "If there's trouble, we can all handle it!" I looked back at Lindsay for a supportive smile. She wasn't smiling. It was more like a death stare that read loud and clear that Elizabeth will die. The look told me this wasn't about the baked potato in her face at Wendy's or anything; it was about Will. I looked away and rolled my eyes. What is it with her?
"You mean it?" Elizabeth asked. I elbowed Lindsay for her to answer. This crap was getting annoying between these two...
"Sure... why not?" Lindsay said, trying her best to give a smile. Elizabeth gave an exasperated sigh.
"I need to tell you girls something that we should've told you a while ago," she said. She wiped her face free of flour on her apron, and we exchanged worried looks. "It is really important that we get home. We need to get there soon."
"Why?" Jessica asked.
"Well, first you must promise me that you tell no one else – that it'll stay just between the four of us. Jack and Will already know, but we've been wanting to tell you alone."
"But you've had lots of opportunities to tell us," Lindsay said. "Why did you wait so long?"
"Yes, but we had to make sure we could trust you. You've got to understand... the three of us were landed in this place we knew nothing of, and we didn't know who to turn to for help. But when you two took us in, and your friend came, we knew we could trust you. We've been wanting to tell you for about a week now. But with all these people coming around, we couldn't get you alone with us."
"Well, don't be afraid of us," I said.
"Yeah," Lindsay said. "You can come to us." Elizabeth smiled.
"So? Why do you need to get back so badly?" Jessica asked.
"Whoa..." Lindsay said. "You said Jack and Will need to be here, too..."
"Just so long as one of us does, then we'll be fine," Elizabeth said.
"Well?" Jessica asked again, eagerly. Another sigh from Elizabeth, and then she told us... well, sort of...
"Well, we need to get back home because... well..."
"Maybe if we guessed at it!" I suggested. Everyone nodded, and we started our little guessing game. We thought a moment...
"I know!" Jessica shouted. "You're pregnant!" We looked at Elizabeth whose flushed cheeks confirmed Jessica answer. A million thoughts must've been floating through our minds at that moment. No, not floating... racing.
"Whoa! When did this happen?!" I said.
"Oh, don't worry!" Elizabeth said. "We knew a month or two before we ever showed up here." We stared at each other... they waited an entire week to tell us. This wasn't happening...
"You need to get back!" Lindsay said.
"How?" Jessica questioned.
"The same way we got here," Elizabeth said.
"And that would be..?"
"The ruby," Elizabeth said plainly.
"What?" I asked, confused ( -Jessica, Lindsay, and Erica's heads spin- ). Elizabeth looked up and let out a long sigh.
"Lemme guess... long story, huh?" Jessica said.
"Somewhat," Elizabeth said. "Well, it starts off on the Black Pearl. It was late into the night, and the three of us were going through a treasure chest we had looted that day. We were dividing up into shares. Well, in the bottom of the chest, there was one large ruby left, so we decided to give it to the baby when it was born. Well, the last thing I remember on the ship was looking up at the black sky."
"Dude..." Lindsay said in amazement. "What happened to the ruby?"
"We don't know," Elizabeth said. "It was gone when we fell on the floor in your kitchen. So, we search every room we come across that looks like the one we arrived in that night. We miss home."
"How do you know the ruby isn't back on the ship?" Jessica asked.
"We heard it hit the floor next to us, but then it disappeared." Lindsay and I weren't paying attention, but we were thinking of Elizabeth's last comment.
"That explains why Jack attacked Holly in the van this morning!" I said. "He thought that she had the ruby!"
"And that's why you three trash every kitchen you come across!" Lindsay said excitedly. Elizabeth nodded proudly. We have solved the mystery! Yes! Victory is ours! Yippee! Oh yeah! We...err... -ahem-... sorry 'bout that. You can read on now...
"We just want to find the ruby so we can go home," Elizabeth said. "Jack and Will are worried just as much as I am." We couldn't help but giggle a bit.
"Jack? Afraid?" I asked.
"Of what? That squirrel?" Lindsay said. We laughed a bit more.
"I know Jack acts like he's immortal most of the time, but he's still worried for our part. When he examined the ruby a little closer on the ship, he found it to a rare iced ruby. It was somewhat frosty-looking. Well, these iced rubies had the power to transport people over the time of two weeks," Elizabeth said. "Then it will appear in a new location."
"Hold the phone," Jessica said.
"Yeah... you mean you can only stay in the place you traveled to for two weeks?" I asked. Elizabeth nodded. I stood up and looked at the calendar on the refrigerator. They had gotten here Friday the eighteenth...
"Only four nights until the ruby is gone!" Lindsay said. "How are we gonna find it?"
"Now you see why it's important?" Elizabeth asked us.
"I wish you would've told us sooner," Jessica said.
"You all been great friends, but we need to find that ruby," Elizabeth said. "We're all very concerned for the baby, and Jack misses the Black Pearl." We gave a small laugh (I don't see anything funny about the whole situation right now, but we laughed.).
"Speaking of Jack..." Elizabeth trailed off. She gave us a smile, and we huddled around her. "Now, don't mention this to Jack, but Will and I plan on making him godfather to the baby." We smiled.
"I could just see it..." I said.
"He'll be chasing it around all day!" Jessica laughed. We broke into excited chatter about the baby, and the business of finding the ruby was locked away. We cleaned up the kitchen as we talked, and a couple more food fights broke out at some point. As we cleaned up the last of the icing and flour, our conversation came to a close.
"So, you can help us find the ruby?" Elizabeth asked.
"Of course!" Lindsay said. "Besides, you can't stay here forever."
"That's not what you told me the night they came," I said. "You said that you wanted them to stay as long as possible!" Lindsay smiled and looked up.
"Thank you. You've all been great," Elizabeth said. "Even you..." she said, putting a gentle hand on Lindsay's shoulder. They exchanged smiles, and I sighed (Finally! They're friends now! Celebration! lol...).
"Well, I try..." Lindsay said, faking her modesty. Elizabeth sighed, and she and Jessica decided to wash up in the bathroom.
"Around the corner, down the hall, first door to your left," I told them. When I heard the bathroom door shut, Lindsay and I returned to making tacos, and I started a conversation because Lindsay was being this little hermit after her moment with Elizabeth (-receives hit from Lindsay- "Was not!" she argued.).
"See, she doesn't hate you," I said to Lindsay.
"Yeah... only when I'm not swooning over Will..." she responded.
"Well, cut it out," I told her. "I swoon, too, but he's got a family goin' now."
"But they aren't even married!" Lindsay whined. "he's so hot, how can't you gawk at him every time he walks by and smiles at you?" Lindsay was going into her own little fantasy world daydreaming about Will...
"Lindsay? Earth to Lindsay!" I yelled, waving a hand in front of her face. She stood there with a blank expression, so I hit her. But, that didn't work either, so I grabbed the sink hose and sprayed her with water. She leapt out of her trance, sputtering and coughing.
"What was that for?!" she coughed.
"Come out of your little World of Will and help me make tacos!" I said, spraying her again.
"That is it! I didn't want to, but –"
"Go for it," I said with a smile. I could tell she was weighing her options as I held up the sink hose. She grabbed a glass of blue Kool-Aid and ducked as I went to spray her again. Then I was covered in the Kool- Aid, and so was our dinner.
"Nice job, dip!" I said, looking at the frying pan of taco meat.
"Oh, well..." Lindsay said, shrugging it off. "Wanna go clean up?"
"Yeah, whatever," I said. We stood in the hallway dripping water and Kool-Aid from our clothes. When Elizabeth and Jessica came out staring at us, we just smiled and walked into the bathroom.
"Dinner's done," I said.
"Yeah," Lindsay added. "But if the taco meat tastes like Blue Raspberry Kool-Aid, it's not toxic."
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- Well, It's now Tuesday the 1st. Told you it'd take a week to post! I blame Memorial Day weekend! We went camping and just got back Monday morning only to go to a family picnic that got rained out. Doesn't Pennsylvania's weather sound great? Well, just remember this info for future references. The next few chapters are very entertaining. You'll be seeing things through Lindsay's eyes in an upcoming chapter. It's my new fav, so look for chapter 22 soon! Thanks for reading, now please review! -
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Riddle-Me-That – Girl, it's all good! When I find I story I really like, I sign every chapter! Ask Rach... lol... It really is good that you review for me because it motivates me to write more. At least I know someone is interested in my story when they review. Otherwise, I would've quit a long time ago! Thanks for your patronage! lol... I reviewed your one story, too...
.. You fabulous reviewers all get a free pizza! lol... ..
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CHAPTER NINETEEN: "The same way we got here."
After cleaning up that mess in the kitchen (Jack's gonna get it...), Elizabeth and Jessica started making a cake, and Lindsay and I were making tacos for dinner. We were chatting girl talk about everything that had happened that day, when we heard screams, splatters, and shatters.
"What happened?" I asked, removing my arm from in front of my face. I looked up to see icing all over the kitchen. I started to smile. I walked up to Jessica and layed my hand on her shoulder.
"Ya know, I did that in cooking last year," I said, looking around at the frosting-covered kitchen.
"Hey! Edible mess!" Lindsay said. Clatter came from the floor, and we saw Elizabeth stand up from around the counter. She, like the rest of us, was a total mess.
"I'm so sorry," Elizabeth said quickly. "The mixer... it –"
"Liz, chill out," Jessica said. "It's cool. We'll have it fixed up in no time!"
"I feel so guilty," Elizabeth said, sitting down on the floor.
"It's just a little icing and flour," I told her. "Don't feel bad. I did the same thing." We sat on the floor (well, we tried... the kitchen is very tiny and narrow...) around her. This was much more than icing and flour she was upset about.
"Not that..." Elizabeth said. "Jack, Will, and myself have caused you all so much trouble since we got here..." she said, holding a bowl in her hands. I thought about it... that was true... soooo much trouble...
"No trouble at all!" I lied. "If there's trouble, we can all handle it!" I looked back at Lindsay for a supportive smile. She wasn't smiling. It was more like a death stare that read loud and clear that Elizabeth will die. The look told me this wasn't about the baked potato in her face at Wendy's or anything; it was about Will. I looked away and rolled my eyes. What is it with her?
"You mean it?" Elizabeth asked. I elbowed Lindsay for her to answer. This crap was getting annoying between these two...
"Sure... why not?" Lindsay said, trying her best to give a smile. Elizabeth gave an exasperated sigh.
"I need to tell you girls something that we should've told you a while ago," she said. She wiped her face free of flour on her apron, and we exchanged worried looks. "It is really important that we get home. We need to get there soon."
"Why?" Jessica asked.
"Well, first you must promise me that you tell no one else – that it'll stay just between the four of us. Jack and Will already know, but we've been wanting to tell you alone."
"But you've had lots of opportunities to tell us," Lindsay said. "Why did you wait so long?"
"Yes, but we had to make sure we could trust you. You've got to understand... the three of us were landed in this place we knew nothing of, and we didn't know who to turn to for help. But when you two took us in, and your friend came, we knew we could trust you. We've been wanting to tell you for about a week now. But with all these people coming around, we couldn't get you alone with us."
"Well, don't be afraid of us," I said.
"Yeah," Lindsay said. "You can come to us." Elizabeth smiled.
"So? Why do you need to get back so badly?" Jessica asked.
"Whoa..." Lindsay said. "You said Jack and Will need to be here, too..."
"Just so long as one of us does, then we'll be fine," Elizabeth said.
"Well?" Jessica asked again, eagerly. Another sigh from Elizabeth, and then she told us... well, sort of...
"Well, we need to get back home because... well..."
"Maybe if we guessed at it!" I suggested. Everyone nodded, and we started our little guessing game. We thought a moment...
"I know!" Jessica shouted. "You're pregnant!" We looked at Elizabeth whose flushed cheeks confirmed Jessica answer. A million thoughts must've been floating through our minds at that moment. No, not floating... racing.
"Whoa! When did this happen?!" I said.
"Oh, don't worry!" Elizabeth said. "We knew a month or two before we ever showed up here." We stared at each other... they waited an entire week to tell us. This wasn't happening...
"You need to get back!" Lindsay said.
"How?" Jessica questioned.
"The same way we got here," Elizabeth said.
"And that would be..?"
"The ruby," Elizabeth said plainly.
"What?" I asked, confused ( -Jessica, Lindsay, and Erica's heads spin- ). Elizabeth looked up and let out a long sigh.
"Lemme guess... long story, huh?" Jessica said.
"Somewhat," Elizabeth said. "Well, it starts off on the Black Pearl. It was late into the night, and the three of us were going through a treasure chest we had looted that day. We were dividing up into shares. Well, in the bottom of the chest, there was one large ruby left, so we decided to give it to the baby when it was born. Well, the last thing I remember on the ship was looking up at the black sky."
"Dude..." Lindsay said in amazement. "What happened to the ruby?"
"We don't know," Elizabeth said. "It was gone when we fell on the floor in your kitchen. So, we search every room we come across that looks like the one we arrived in that night. We miss home."
"How do you know the ruby isn't back on the ship?" Jessica asked.
"We heard it hit the floor next to us, but then it disappeared." Lindsay and I weren't paying attention, but we were thinking of Elizabeth's last comment.
"That explains why Jack attacked Holly in the van this morning!" I said. "He thought that she had the ruby!"
"And that's why you three trash every kitchen you come across!" Lindsay said excitedly. Elizabeth nodded proudly. We have solved the mystery! Yes! Victory is ours! Yippee! Oh yeah! We...err... -ahem-... sorry 'bout that. You can read on now...
"We just want to find the ruby so we can go home," Elizabeth said. "Jack and Will are worried just as much as I am." We couldn't help but giggle a bit.
"Jack? Afraid?" I asked.
"Of what? That squirrel?" Lindsay said. We laughed a bit more.
"I know Jack acts like he's immortal most of the time, but he's still worried for our part. When he examined the ruby a little closer on the ship, he found it to a rare iced ruby. It was somewhat frosty-looking. Well, these iced rubies had the power to transport people over the time of two weeks," Elizabeth said. "Then it will appear in a new location."
"Hold the phone," Jessica said.
"Yeah... you mean you can only stay in the place you traveled to for two weeks?" I asked. Elizabeth nodded. I stood up and looked at the calendar on the refrigerator. They had gotten here Friday the eighteenth...
"Only four nights until the ruby is gone!" Lindsay said. "How are we gonna find it?"
"Now you see why it's important?" Elizabeth asked us.
"I wish you would've told us sooner," Jessica said.
"You all been great friends, but we need to find that ruby," Elizabeth said. "We're all very concerned for the baby, and Jack misses the Black Pearl." We gave a small laugh (I don't see anything funny about the whole situation right now, but we laughed.).
"Speaking of Jack..." Elizabeth trailed off. She gave us a smile, and we huddled around her. "Now, don't mention this to Jack, but Will and I plan on making him godfather to the baby." We smiled.
"I could just see it..." I said.
"He'll be chasing it around all day!" Jessica laughed. We broke into excited chatter about the baby, and the business of finding the ruby was locked away. We cleaned up the kitchen as we talked, and a couple more food fights broke out at some point. As we cleaned up the last of the icing and flour, our conversation came to a close.
"So, you can help us find the ruby?" Elizabeth asked.
"Of course!" Lindsay said. "Besides, you can't stay here forever."
"That's not what you told me the night they came," I said. "You said that you wanted them to stay as long as possible!" Lindsay smiled and looked up.
"Thank you. You've all been great," Elizabeth said. "Even you..." she said, putting a gentle hand on Lindsay's shoulder. They exchanged smiles, and I sighed (Finally! They're friends now! Celebration! lol...).
"Well, I try..." Lindsay said, faking her modesty. Elizabeth sighed, and she and Jessica decided to wash up in the bathroom.
"Around the corner, down the hall, first door to your left," I told them. When I heard the bathroom door shut, Lindsay and I returned to making tacos, and I started a conversation because Lindsay was being this little hermit after her moment with Elizabeth (-receives hit from Lindsay- "Was not!" she argued.).
"See, she doesn't hate you," I said to Lindsay.
"Yeah... only when I'm not swooning over Will..." she responded.
"Well, cut it out," I told her. "I swoon, too, but he's got a family goin' now."
"But they aren't even married!" Lindsay whined. "he's so hot, how can't you gawk at him every time he walks by and smiles at you?" Lindsay was going into her own little fantasy world daydreaming about Will...
"Lindsay? Earth to Lindsay!" I yelled, waving a hand in front of her face. She stood there with a blank expression, so I hit her. But, that didn't work either, so I grabbed the sink hose and sprayed her with water. She leapt out of her trance, sputtering and coughing.
"What was that for?!" she coughed.
"Come out of your little World of Will and help me make tacos!" I said, spraying her again.
"That is it! I didn't want to, but –"
"Go for it," I said with a smile. I could tell she was weighing her options as I held up the sink hose. She grabbed a glass of blue Kool-Aid and ducked as I went to spray her again. Then I was covered in the Kool- Aid, and so was our dinner.
"Nice job, dip!" I said, looking at the frying pan of taco meat.
"Oh, well..." Lindsay said, shrugging it off. "Wanna go clean up?"
"Yeah, whatever," I said. We stood in the hallway dripping water and Kool-Aid from our clothes. When Elizabeth and Jessica came out staring at us, we just smiled and walked into the bathroom.
"Dinner's done," I said.
"Yeah," Lindsay added. "But if the taco meat tastes like Blue Raspberry Kool-Aid, it's not toxic."
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- Well, It's now Tuesday the 1st. Told you it'd take a week to post! I blame Memorial Day weekend! We went camping and just got back Monday morning only to go to a family picnic that got rained out. Doesn't Pennsylvania's weather sound great? Well, just remember this info for future references. The next few chapters are very entertaining. You'll be seeing things through Lindsay's eyes in an upcoming chapter. It's my new fav, so look for chapter 22 soon! Thanks for reading, now please review! -