Girls Are Such A Drag

By Lauren G.

Chapter 8: To the Moon and Back

Another warning, but more of a notice: After my warning in the last chapter, I warned all readers of the sexual theme displayed in the story. Despite the title, they did NOT, I repeat, did NOT have SEX! Geeeeez peoples! They're 13 and the story is PG-13, not R. Numbuh 86 just exaggerated when she found Kuki and Wally having a war of tongues in Mushi's room. I hope this clears up your fears and heals your scars. Thanx

Chapter 8's warning: There is some swearing/cursing in here, mostly the 'f' word. I will mis-spell it for those with weak constitution. Please don't be offended. On with the story

Wally snored as he slept, tangled in his covers.

"Wally!" said voice.

"Crazy emus, ate my shoes..." Wally muttered, turning over.

"Wally!" the voice said again.

"Kangaroo took my wallet..." he sleepily mumbled

"Oh no! Don't worry, we'll get it back." The voice replied. Wally's eyes flew open. He turned over once again, tumbling out of his bed in a mess of sheets. The voice giggled. Wally untangled himself and stood up and looked to the other side of his bed. Kuki was standing there.

"Wah!" Wally said, falling over again. Kuki giggled again.

"What are you doing here? Its 8 a.m." Wally said, holding his pillow over his ducky patterned boxers.

"Mushi sent me to get you. Guess what? We're going to the moon today! So I guess your wallet will have to wait."

"What wallet?" Wally said, rubbing his hair.

"Your wallet. You said a Kangaroo stole it." Kuki smiled.

"Uh... Rioght. We're going to the moon?"

"Yup! Get ready. Here's your sweatshirt." Kuki handed Wally an orange sweatshirt on a hanger over to him.

"Thanks." Wally said. He took it and put it over his bare chest (author's note: oooh, sexy). He looked at Kuki who looked back.

"Um..." Wally awkwardly said.

"Oh!" Kuki went pink and whirled around. Wally found a clean pair of boxers off his floor and changed them in a flash and tugged on a pair of jeans.

"Ready." Wally said. Kuki turned around.

"Let's hurry to the tree house."

At the tree house, everyone else was waiting. Numbuh 86 was there with crossed arms and an impatiently tapping foot.

"'Bout time you got 'ere. Get in the ship." She jerked her thumb over her shoulder.

"Yay! We're going to space!" Mushi cried, skipping into the ship. Everyone followed suit. Wally and Kuki sat next to each other.

"Strap in. We're lifting off in 15." Numbuh 86 called back from the front of the ship. The ship was filled with the sound of clicks. The ship rumbled to life and soon rocketed out of the sky port.

"WHEEEEEE!" Kuki and Mushi cheered. Wally felt sick.

at the KND Moon base

"Teen Alert. Teen Alert." Chirped the alarm. Several KND members raced out with 2x4 weapons.

"Halt! They're with me." Numbuh 86 said. She led them to a room on the far back of the base. There were several chairs and a large movie screen.

"Take a seat. I have taken the privilege of informing you of your past. Now sit back, shut up, and watch this." The lights dimmed and a film reel clattered to life. Dinky music began to play and a black and white set blared onto the screen.

"Decommissioning and You!" chirped the happy voice of the narrator.

"Oh bloody anvils." Wally muttered.

"SHUT UP!" Numbuh 86 screamed in his ear. The movie continued.

"Here is Sally. Hello Sally!" a girl with pigtails waved at the camera.

"How old are you Sally?" Sally held up a piece of paper with a 12 on it.

"Ah, but your birthday is tomorrow, isn't it Sally?" Sally nodded.

"So you will be 13 then, correct?" Sally frowns and nods.

"Why the long face Sally?"

"Because today is my last day as a KND member. When KND members turn 13, they are sent to the KND Moon base to be decommissioned." Sally chirps.

"That's right! Do YOU know what decommissioning means?" The word 'Decommission' flashed at the bottom of the screen. Sally shakes her head.

"It means we will use toilet plungers attached to old Macintosh computer monitors to wipe your memory of all the missions you went on during your time as a KND member." The camera zooms in on Sally's face and she screams.

"Oh, don't be scared Sally. Its not so bad." Chuckles the narrator. Sally then smiles.

"Once you are decommissioned, you will be taken back to your home and you can continue to live your life a teenager."

"Hooray!" Sally says.

'Fin' displayed the film. The lights came back on.

"See? That is exactly what happened to you."

"I hope those toilet plungers were sanitary." Kuki said, glaring at Numbuh 86. Numbuh 86 cleared her throat.

"So teenagers. Now you know why you have no memory of the KND. But all in good time, you will begin to understand our purpose, to put an end to the Delightful Children From Down the Lane! And the other teen accomplices. Be wary of them. Some of them are people you know, or have known. The new Sector V members will inform you of them. The old members do not know you are involved with the KND and they will trust you because you are teenagers. That way, you can help us by finding out their plans."

"Wow. There's a lot depending on us, isn't there?" Hoagie said. Numbuh 86 nodded.

"We are counting on you. Dismissed." Sarah led them back to the ship and they returned to the tree house.

Sarah handed a manila folder to each of the old operatives.

"Inside you will find pictures and information of all the teens we are fighting against. Good luck. We're going to stay as far away from you as possible so no one detects we're working together."

"Right." Nigel said, taking his manila folder. Sarah saluted Nigel and he saluted back. They left the tree house.

"What do we do now? Are we supposed to find them?" Hoagie said.

"I don't think so. I think we should just keep an eye out for them. In the meantime, why don't we go do something fun?" Abby said. The teens nodded.

"Who's up for the beach?" Hoagie cheered. Everyone raised their hand.

"Whoo hoo!" Hoagie cheered, racing onto the sand. "Oooh ohh! Ouch hot!" Hoagie then jumped into the water.

"I'm going to set up the towel, kay?" Kuki said to Wally.

"Sure. I'm heading into the water." Wally said. He raced off to the water. Kuki hummed as she set up the umbrella. It began to tip over.

"Whoops! Let me help you!" said a voice.

"Oooh! Thank you!" Kuki said, grinning at the dark haired boy.

"There you go." The boy said, twisting the umbrella's pole deep into the sand.

"Thanks!" Kuki said again.

"You're welcome. I'm Jake." The boy held out his hand.

"Kuki." Kuki said, shaking his hand.

"Well, see ya." The boy said, running off, his yellow shirt with the red Hawaiian flowers printed on it flapping at his sides.

"Who was that?" Wally said, coming up beside Kuki.

"Jake." Kuki said with a misty tone in her voice. She sat down on the blanket.

"Jake?" Wally said, sounding annoyed. "What kind of doofus wears ski goggles at a beach?"

"Jake does." Kuki said dreamily.

"Are you feeling okay, Kuki?" Wally said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes." She simply answered.

"I'll... go get you a drink." Wally said, pointing to the snack stand up near the parking lot. Kuki waved him away.

'Geez, Kuki sure is acting funny.' Wally thought.

Kuki stared dreamily at Jake who was playing Frisbee with a couple of people down the beach. She didn't know what it was, but he seemed so familiar somehow. Jake came running to catch the Frisbee that had flown near Kuki's blanket.

"Hey!" Jake waved.

"Hi!" Kuki said, waving back. Jake tossed the Frisbee back to his friends and called something to them. He ran over to Kuki and sat down in the sand next to her.

"What's up?"

"Not much." Kuki said, fluttering her eyelashes at him. He grinned back and pushed his hair out of his eyes.

"You know, you should put on some sun block. Too much sun isn't good for your skin."

"Will you help me?" Kuki said, handing Jake the bottle of Coppertone. Jake grinned.

"Tum te tum..." Wally hummed to himself. What could be better than spending the day with his girlfriend at the beach?

"Hey Kuki, I got you a.... a drink." He dropped the drink and ice and root beer sloshed all over his sandals and feet.

"Hi Wally." Kuki said, waving at Wally.

"Hey! I almost got it in your hair!" Jake said. Kuki giggled.

"You're so funny Jake." Kuki said.

"Kuki..." Wally said.

"Could you excuse me for a second Jake?" Kuki told him. Jake nodded and capped the sun block bottle. Kuki got up and went over to Wally.

"Listen... Wally. Um... I'm going to go get some pizza with Jake later. Is that okay?" Kuki looked at him with puppy eyes, but Wally's eyes turned red with anger.

"Is that okay? Kuki! I... I thought we were..." His eyes softened and he looked at the ice melting around his feet.

"I'm sorry Wally." Kuki said, looking away. Wally turned away and ran back up the stairs and through the parking lot.

"Is everything okay?" Jake said, coming up behind her and sliding a hand around her waist. Kuki stared after Wally for a moment. She turned and looked at Jake.

"Sure. Let's get that pizza."

"Great." Jake put an arm around her shoulders and led her away.

"Hey, I wonder where Kuki is going with that Hawaiian shirt kid." Hoagie said, pointing.

"Yeah. Abby thought she and Wally were an item. You know, with the date and the making out..."

"You guys!" Nigel said. "That's one of the teens in the files Sarah gave us! Look!" Abby and Hoagie huddled around Nigel and stared at the picture.

"Numbuh 30c." They said together.

"We've got to tell Sarah and the others!" Hoagie said, stuffing the rest of his chili dog in his mouth.

"And more importantly, we need to get Kuki away from him and find Wally!" Abby said.

"Let's go." Nigel said. The three teens raced up the stairs and scattered throughout the parking lot.

"Over here guys, I found him!" Nigel called to the others. They went up to Wally who was sitting in his blue swimming trunks with sticky sand covered sandals on a bench over looking the beach. His eyes were puffy and red.

"Hey Wally." Nigel said, sitting on the bench next to him. "What's up?" Wally rubbed at his eyes with his wrist.

"Why are your eyes all red? Looks like you've been cr- ooof!" Hoagie ended as Abby elbowed him in the stomach.

"I uh... tripped... Face planted into the sand. Got sand in my eyes. It's nothin'." Wally muttered. He sniffled.

"Listen, Wally. Do you know where Kuki-"

"I don't want to talk about her." Wally said loudly, turning away from Nigel and crossing his arms defensively across his chest.

"I understand Wally but-" Nigel attempted to talk to him, but Wally interrupted him again.

"You don't understand, and I said I didn't want to talk about her." Wally said louder this time. Abby walked around to the other side of the bench.

"Now you listen here. Where is Kuki?"

"I dunno." Wally muttered. There was silence.

"Wally, please. We need to know. She's with one of the Delightful Children's accomplices!" Abby told him. Wally un-crossed his arms.

"At... at a pizza place." He said.

"Thank you." Nigel said, putting a hand on Wally's shoulder. "We'll go without you if that's okay." Wally shrugged.

"Go home Wally, it'll be good for you. Take your mind off things." Abby said reassuringly.

"Bye Wally." Hoagie said. They left him sitting on the bench. Wally stared out at the ocean for a while. So what if she was with that fucken weasel. He didn't care. She dumped him with no good reason at all. He got up and walked away from the beach and home.

'I've got a lot of heart ache right now.' Wally thought as he walked along. 'I never thought I'd feel this low. Why did this happen? If I close my eyes I can still see her. I loved her little motions, such a nice creation God made. Only to break my heart.'

Wally kicked angrily kicked a rock as he made his way home.

'He's a player, diarrhea giver, probably tries to grow his hair out. I would like to find him Friday night, hanging out with his mom and trying on his fathers tights.' Wally chuckled to himself of the thought.

'Life just sucks. I lost the one. I've giving up. She found someone. There's plenty more for me, girls ARE such a drag.'

Wally stopped to wipe at his eyes. He kept on going, walking through the town. A bunch of giggly girls walked past him. If he hadn't felt so down, he probably would have talked to one of them, tried to unconsciously make Kuki jealous. Hey, he was single now. He continued walking and finally reached the suburbs.

'I've got a lot of heartache. That fucken weasel. Decisions of what to do makes my mind ache.'

He finally reached his house, came in and slammed the door.

"Is that you Wally?" called his mother. "Why home so early?" Wally ignored her and went up to his room and locked himself in. He collapsed on his bed and stared at the ceiling.

'God, please ease away the problems and the pain.' Wally stared at the Rainbow Monkey that had oddly been in his room. It reminded him of Kuki. He closed is eyes and sighed.

'The girl I love chose the kind of guy who makes me want to kick and scream. I just wish that she would have stayed with me. Fuck the guy who took her and ran away. He's a player, diarrhea giver, tries to grow his hair out. I would like to find him Friday night, hanging out with his mom and trying on his father's tights. Life just sucks, I lost the one. I've giving up. She found someone. There's plenty more, girls are such a drag. Fuck this place, I lost the war, I hate you all. His mom's probably a whore.'

He then picked up the Rainbow Monkey and chucked it at the wall. It thumped to the floor.

"Girls are such a drag!" He screamed out loud. Wally buried his face in his pillow and cried.

End Chapter 8

Author's Note: Now, calm down folks. I know what ya'll are thinking, but things will turn out in the end in a super duper terrifically romantic way. How so? Keep checking for the next update! Dedicated to my new friend: Kooky34Girl! Credits of Wally's rant regarding 30c go to Blink 182. They're actually lyrics to one of their songs, of which I don't know the title. I did alter the lyrics a little if any one knows this song or finds the lyrics. Please review, no trash, recycle!

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