8: Revenge (II)
Arden slammed down the phone with disgust. She hated prank phone calls… oh if she only knew how much worse it was going to get!
The Dark One and the Wee One doubled over with laughter while Anakin mimicked Arden's response over and over again. That had been great fun, yet it was only the beginning. They had the steppingstone, but now they needed something really good. And this time, it was Frodo who came up with the great idea.
AFTERNOONS WITH ARDEN
She was about to go on stage when a gentle knock came at her door. Arden turned around in her revolving chair and stood up to see whom it was. From time to time a fan or two would somehow manage to get past security, but maybe it was another agent. However, it was neither of those two. What Arden saw at her door was a pizza delivery boy standing with a wheelbarrow full of pizza boxes.
"Miss Ashwood?"
If Arden hadn't been famous and therefore had a chance of being unrecognized, she would have denied the identification. Yet that was not an option, so she decided to take the bait.
"Yes?" she asked, dreadingly.
"We got an order for sixty two large double-all pizzas for you right here. Now that'll be $495. 38 if you would."
"Four hundred ninety five dollars?" Arden cried. "I'm sorry there has been some mistake!" With that, she slammed the door in the man's face. Yet he continued to mutter.
"I thought that Vader guy's cheese was a little off his cracker…"
Vader! Arden's eyes darkened as her fists began to clench. It had been him who called last night and him who had ordered the 62 pizzas, she knew it now! Surely he and that hobbit pal of his had discovered who "Lilly" really was and that she had exploited Anakin's deepest darkest secrets on live, daytime television and wanted revenge. Well now she wanted a little comeback too… hell hath no fury like Arden Ashwood pranked on!
VADER RESIDENCE
Anakin and Frodo now sipped from their diet-coke cans (even a Sith knew where all those extra calories went!) while Attack of the Clones danced about on the big screen TV. The last prank had gone smoothly enough, both of them thought with relish of how infuriated Arden must have been to pay nearly five hundred dollars for pizza! Oh, it was a marvelous idea; Anakin had told his accomplice several times.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Frodo hopped up to get it and came back into the room a few minutes later followed by a police officer.
He jerked a thumb at the helmeted one. "You Anakin Skywalker?"
"Depends on who is asking, my donut-consuming official."
"Well the neighbors have all been complaining about you two causing too much noise in here!"
"Nonsense!" Vader said. "I had the neighbors liquidated months ago—" he paused. "You did not hear that," he added.
"No I didn't," the officer said, beginning to open the briefcase he had carried behind his back. What he then pulled out and placed on one of the coffee tables was a boom box. "But I do hear this!" He pressed the play button and Vanilla Ice began to play as the police officer started to whip off his clothes and dance around in front of Frodo and Anakin.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
THE HUBBLE
Astronaut Rick: "Hey, did you hear something just then?"
THE ASHWOOD RESIDENCE
As Arden tucked herself in and clicked off the light, she went to sleep with a broad grin across her face.
