The
Towel Rack
Rated:
PG
Chapter
Four: The Beginning of Operation Towel Closet
Day:
Still Saturday
----Raye POV----
I drug Serena up the temple stairs, listening impatiently at her whining voice.
"Raye, sloooooww down! My legs are killing me!"
I rolled my eyes. "Sheesh, Meatball head! It hasn't been THAT long a run! How can you be tired already? You run more than this on your sprints to school!" I know…I see her dash by the temple almost every morning…
She wrenched her arm out of my grip and stared up at me angrily. "I don't run up the temple stairs every morning either!"
I blinked. "You've got to be kidding me…Serena, you're so lame!" Grabbing her arm again, I drug her up the rest of the steps. She groaned, yelled, whined, and made a huge fuss the rest of the way up…this stupid plan had better be worth all this! Darien and Serena had better get married someday! And I had better be the maid of honor!
Finally, we reached my bedroom. I let go of Serena's arm and watched her dash towards my bookshelf…I sighed.
Please…please don't let her drool all over my manga…
She looks like a dog that just dug up a bone….
She snapped her eyes up at me and stuck out her tongue. "Shut up, Raye! I'm not a dog!"
Oops…I said that last part aloud…
The other girls filed into the room and took seats around the small table in the center of the room. I plopped down on one of the pillows and let out a huge breath. Step one is complete. The closet is right outside my bedroom door. One shove and Serena's trapped.
Now…we shall see what Andrew has planned for getting Darien here…I don't really trust the arcade boy.
----Andrew POV----
I stared dully through the arcade doors, trying to will Darien to appear with my mind. Yet, his figure did not appear through the glass doors…
Sighing, I stared down at the counter and started to count the little gray specks that appeared…one, two, three, four, five…
……two million five hundred and sixty-seven….two million five hundred and sixty eight…two million five hundred and sixty-nine…two million five hundred and seventy…hey, cool! Would you look at that? There's a blue speck! Oh, crap…where was I? Two…Two million five hundred…uhhh….
One…two….three…four….
The glass doors to the arcade slid open.
I looked up and noticed the tall man standing in the doorway.
I swore that at that moment, I heard angels from above start singing "Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Haaalleeeeeluuuuu-----"
"Uhh…Andrew? Are you alright, man?"
I snapped out of my reverie and saw Darien looking at me with a wide smirk on his face. I hate being caught off-guard…
"Yeah, dude! I'm just great now that you're here!"
He raised a black eyebrow at me and sat on a stool. "Now that I'm here? And why is that?"
I started to chew on the inside flesh of my cheek. Okay, Drew, this is where it gets interesting. You want to make him believe this, right? RIGHT? Okay, time to buckle down and get to work! You cannot, I repeat, CANNOT let TTC down!
I set determination in my eyes and stared squarely at him. "I'm off work in fifteen minutes. I need your help."
The eyebrow was not budging from its rose position. "With what?"
Think, Andrew! THINK!
…THINK FAST!
I threw a hand behind my head and laughed. "Well, you see…"
I'm losing it! He's going to start to suspect if I don't hurry this up! THINK!
AHA! I got it! Genius Andrew Furuhata strikes again!
"It's about Mina."
"What about her?"
"Well, we got in a fight."
"What about?"
Oh, shoot…what about, Andrew? What ABOUT?
"I told her...I told her she looked fat!"
He blinked several times at me.
"You have got to be kidding me."
I sweatdropped. "No, no, I'm not."
"That's the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Are you insane, man?"
"It just…slipped! Anyways, I need your help. I want you to come with me and convince her to talk to me…she ran out with the other girls a while ago, and I couldn't leave. Work and all, you understand, right?"
"Uh-huh…dude, why do you need MY help to talk to Mina? Just apologize!"
Think again…
Think…think…
"Well…it's…it's just not that SIMPLE. She swore she'd never speak to me again. You've gotta talk to her for me! Convince her to talk to me!"
Now HE was sweatdropping. "ME! Dude, I can't."
"Why not?"
He blinked. "Is Meatball head a good enough example for you? That's what happens when I talk to girls."
"I've seen you talk to lots of girls! Come on, Dar, I need your help!"
...oh, you had better say yes.
"…and what exactly will I get out of this deal?"
….how about I won't knock your lights out? Or how about a lifelong relationship with a beautiful blonde girl once we lock you in a towel closet and you have to confess to her you love her? No? Those excuses won't work?
"I'll…give you free coffee?"
"You already give me free coffee."
Oooh, idea!
"Fine then! If you won't help me, you won't get any more free coffee!"
"That's blackmail!"
"…and your point is?" I gave him an innocent look.
He shot me a dirty one in return. "Fine. But I'm only doing this for the coffee."
The man can't live without his coffee, you see.
"I knew I could count on you, Dar!"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. So where's Mina?"
"She and the girls were talking about going to Raye's temple. Come on! Let's go! I'll clock out and meet you at the front! See you in a minute!" I rushed off towards the back room, leaving him sitting there speechless…I wonder if he's thought about the fact that usually when I say 'the girls', Serena is included?
He better not back out now!
Too bad I didn't get the chance to tell my lovely Mina about these plans…her not knowing that I said we were fighting could mess the whole thing up.
Well…too late for that!
I quickly told my sister Lizzie that I was leaving, and ran out the front door, nearly knocking Darien over.
He grinned. "In a rush?"
I nodded frantically. "I can't let this stay like this for long! She could get madder and madder and madder and madder and her anger would brew and brew and brew and brew and…"
"I get it, I get it! To the temple it is!" He covered his ears with his hands and started down the street.
I grinned. Operation Towel Closet has commenced.
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End Chapter Four.
I hope to complete the next one soon!
