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Chapter 4: Trippin' For You
Crystal paced her room back and forth, thinking about that little scene the night before. Paranoid. That explained her fully. She was becoming really paranoid. Yesterday was nothing, but there she went again, making nothing into something. Finally she stopped thinking.... Well, that's because she tripped on a sweater that was on the ground.
She sat on the floor, blowing the loose strand of hair out of her face.
"Hey Crys..... why are you on the floor?" Corey asked as he entered her room, sitting on her bed.
"I have a question....." She ignored his question and gave her own. With the totally uncalled for dramatic tone in her voice, Corey decided that this must be important.
"Shoot."
"Okay, if you saw, well.... Your date with a bikini top and you accidentally fell on her, but she didn't mind that much, how would you feel?" She scratched her head as she fiddled with her silver bracelet. He rolled his eyes while muttering "Crys" in a ragged voice. He thought something serious was going on and she ended up asking him a pointless question. But then again, he did put some thought into it and it looked like it could be a worse case scenario for his date/ girlfriend, Emma.
"Well... ugh... I don't think you should be asking me if this has happened to you because I would probably act the same way as you." Corey stood up and sat on her blow-up chair pretzel-style.
"So?"
"I would be mortified and embarrassed and would avoid her until I was completely mature and rid of the images at hand."
"Are you sure you're in the third grade?" She inquired. He seemed too smart for grade three.
"I'm close to skipping it."
"I see. Well, thanks, I think. Anyway, let's go downstairs." She dragged her bag, along with Corey down the stairs. They walked into the kitchen where she could see everyone rushing. Brooke wasn't there, thankfully. She was officially in the CBS. Ugh. Now, she was really done for.
"So, mom... Wow, I never called you that before.... Well anyway, uh, could I by chance have a ride?" Crystal gave a hopeful smile to Mrs. Matthews. Corey was right, they did act the same in certain situations. Even Brooke too.
"Sorry, hon. Core had this 'work thingy' and he has to come to work with me today. We're gonna be late already. Can you walk?" She put Crystal to her so-called death sentence. 'Not so fast, I ain't dying of embarrassment yet.' Crystal thought with determination.
"Sure."
"Okay, let's go Core." Mrs. Matthews kissed him on the head and they were about to leave, when Corey passed the table and whispered something to Crystal.
"So, it's Freddy?" Corey smiled and left with their stepmother.
Crystal gave a huff and walked out the door, locking it of course. She looked next door and although she knew it was very stupid, childish, and dramatic of her, she peered through one of the windows and saw Freddy hurriedly sitting down and attacking his breakfast. When she saw that, she made a run for it, determined to get through school without encountering him.
Boy, was that mission a hard one. Avoid Freddy. Well, it was easier said than done especially when all her classes matched his. She ate her lunch in lab, still afraid of the treachery plans of the CBS. This time, she really dozed off. She hadn't really gotten any sleep because of that stupid conscience of hers. It kept say 'you like him' or 'you can't avoid him' or 'shirtless Freddy' or 'you were falling for him. Really, you fell on him'. Okay, so the last one she kind of made up, but hello, the voices wouldn't go away.
So, to ward it all off this time, she screamed. "Shut up!"
Boy, did she always have to scream at the wrong time. People were looking at her as if she was crazy and it was only then she realized, she did the exact same thing yesterday. Wow, talk about de jávu.
"Ah.... Shut up all of you...... I, uh, heard the teachers were making up an, um, a plan for homework. Maybe we can all listen up?" She made up the story and everyone was silent.....and it was actually because they believed her.
She gave sigh of relief as the teacher popped in, who actually said he wasn't giving the pop quiz he was going to give to them because they were so quiet. Everyone thanked Crystal for her quick thinking.
School ended quickly and Crystal felt like she was playing Mission Impossible. She was looking out every corner, watching her every step, spying through every door, and acting really, really cautious.
She exited the last school door and looked out to see many teenagers. They were just exiting the school, waiting for the bus, or just talking while they waited for their ride.
"Oh, yeah." She said, as she couldn't find Freddy in the big bustle.
"Hey." Someone said behind her and she jumped. She turned around and saw Zack with Katie.
"What's with you today? You seem so jumpy." Katie imitated her. It looks like Zack and Katie had been following her. Crystal playfully hit Katie on the arm.
"I've just been doing a little avoiding. You know the cheerleaders; always out to get me." She partly told the truth. Hey a woman is entitled to her own privacy. 'I'd tell Katie, but not with Zack around, I won't.' Crystal thought to herself.
"Yeah, that sucks. Don't worry, Crystal. Just wait for someone else to come around and ruin their manicured nails and they'll be the next target." Zack reassured and Crystal chuckled.
"Hey Alicia has sore throat and we were wondering if you knew anyone who could... sing?" Katie asked Crystal hopefully.
"Well, I can sing, but what does that have to-"
"Thank God... I mean well, we're having these auditions in the gym after school for our band. We have back-up singers and well we need a back-up singer, for our back up singer..... does that make sense?" Katie asked, who was out of breath from talking.
"Somewhat...." Crystal looked at her with a confused expression.
Zack decided to cut in to make things clearer. "Basically Alicia is one of our back-up singers for our band called 'School of Rock'. But, however, she has sore throat and we're landing a gig somewhere at this café, plus Battle of the Bands is coming up. So, we're making auditions for our band. The person who makes it will be apart of the band if he or she wishes to. So, you in or out for the auditions?"
"Uh, maybe.... And maybe not...... I'll see....."
"Well, here's a form. Fill it out just in case. Remember auditions are on next Monday after school in the gym." Katie handed her a pink paper.
"They actually let you use the gym?" Crystal asked, while looking at the form.
"After a lot of pleading, yes. We were going to use our normal hang out, but we figure we'll get a lot of people's attention here." Zack shrugged.
"Hey, you want to come with us? We're going over to my house to study." Katie offered.
"Sure. Let me just call my mom." Crystal took out her cell phone. She found it weird to call her step mom, mom, but she was getting used to it and it didn't seem so bad.
"Hey mom.... Sure... I'm going over to a friends.... It's Katie.. I slept over at her house before...you have a party?.......Brooke's with Corey right now?...... okay...bye." Crystal clicked the end button and turned back to Katie and Zack, who were smiling at each other.
"Did I interrupt something?" Crystal questioned with a mysterious smile.
"No, nothing at all." Katie replied. "Did your mom say yes?"
"Yeah, my parents won't be home till late."
They continued walking and talking about different rock artists. Katie and Zack told Crystal that they could even jam together if she joined the band. Crystal already told them that she played electric guitar.
They arrived at the porch of Katie's house. She looked under her doormat for the key, but didn't find it there.
"They all must be inside waiting for us. I told them so many times to put the key under the mat when you unlock the door." Katie rolled her eyes.
"They? Who's they?" Crystal asked, as Katie rummaged in her bag for her key. She eventually gave up and just rang the door bell.
"Uh... Marta, Summer, Freddy, Eleni, Leonard, Michelle, Tomika, Frankie, and Billy. The others would have come, but they have a group project." Zack replied and Crystal was suddenly not liking the whole Freddy being there. 'Oh well, I'm going to have to face him someday..... I was just hoping not today.' Crystal silently grumbled to herself.
Tomika answered the door and greeted them all.
"They're here!" She yelled out to the other's who were in the den. The four of them entered the den to see some people on the couch, floor, and chairs.
"Hey all!" Crystal waved to them and they all gave their greetings to her and Zack and Katie.
Crystal sat on the floor, which was the only available seating area.
"Hey, Chris." Leonard greeted her with a handshake as well.
"Hey Lenny." She smiled to him and they both began their homework like everyone else.
An hour passed and a lot people were still doing their homework, partly because they talked most of the time. Crystal, Frankie, Eleni, Michelle, and Leonard were just playing video games since they were done their homework.
"I'm thirsty..... Crystal could you get me a drink? Pretty please?" Katie gave her the puppy eyes that wouldn't work on her, but she decided to get a drink anyway since she was thirsty.
"Sure."
"Could you get me one too?" Summer asked.
"Ditto."
"Ditto that."
"Same here."
"Okay, gee, would you like me to call for pizza too?" Crystal asked sarcastically.
"That'd be nice." Most of them replied.
"I was just joking yo-"
"Thanks so much." Summer said and Crystal trudged into the kitchen. She walked inside the kitchen and spotted the box of cokes on the side. She picked them up and saw the phone and a glass of water on the edge of the counter. She carried the box of cokes and walked to the counter and when she tripped on something. Her hand flung to the glass of water, which fell onto the floor. It shattered into pieces and also managed to leave a big gash on her arm.
"Ow, ow, ow." She turned around and sat up straight seeing the gash. She looked over to what she had tripped on and it was two pairs of legs. It was Marta and Freddy, who looked like they had been making out. His spiked up hair was messy and her pony tail was lob-sided.
"Oh my gosh! Are you okay?" Marta asked with concern, while she was retying her hair.
"Just dandy." She replied sarcastically. She was a little-okay not a little-she was really pissed off at the fact that she had tripped and gotten a gash on her arm because they were making out on the walkway. They were completely blocking the way and with the huge coke box in front of her, it was clearly hard to see what was in front of her or under her. And now, every weird possible voice that was screaming 'shirtless Freddy' was now screaming 'dead Freddy'.
Suddenly, the rest of the gang bolted into the kitchen to see the fuss.
"What happened here?" Katie asked, while getting the broom to clean up the glass.
"It was my fault. I tripped on my own foot and hit the glass." She lied. She looked at the two love birds and could tell they didn't want anyone to know.
"Okay, all of you get back to your homework. Zack, could you give me a hand?" Katie asked.
"Uh sure." Zack got a spare plastic bag from a drawer.
"Crystal, you know where my room is. Go to my washroom, there's a first aid kit there and Freddy you go help her, since I know you don't even do your homework." Katie gave out the orders.
"That's not true." Freddy said as he followed Crystal out the door.
"You don't have to come with me. I'll be fine." She reassured him with a fake smile.
"Well, I'm coming just in case." He said as he walked up the steps with her.
She turned around and rolled her eyes, obviously not wanting him with her. She would rather have Summer, Alicia, Marta, Tomika, Katie, Zack, Leonard, or any of the girls or guys except him.
They entered Katie's room, and walked into her washroom. They got the first aid kit in the cabinet and started cleaning her cut. She decided for Freddy to do it since she knew she would have only put a little alcohol if she did it herself. She was a little wimpy when it came cleaning up her cuts or scrapes.
"So, were you trying to avoid me today?" He asked as he dabbed some alcohol on her cut.
She winced, "Trying, but obviously, I wasn't trying hard enough."
"Why? Why are you avoiding me?"
"You didn't mind two weeks ago. Why do you care now?"
"Answer my question first."
"I wasn't avoiding you before." She said truthfully. "I just always hung out with the girls and Zack and Leonard and Lawrence and Billy and-Ow!" She moaned in pain.
"Sorry." He smirked.
"Hey, you did that on purpose." She smack him with her good arm and he laughed.
"And don't think that I'm still not pissed off at you because of this scrape on my arm. I don't really like the fact that I got hurt because of your little make-out fest with Marta, which is completely grossing my mind out." She gave a vomiting expression and he gave a chuckle.
"I can't help it if I'm the ladies man." He started wrapping the bandages around her arm.
"Ow. It's too tight. No, that's too loose. No-"
"Okay, how about now?" He rolled his eyes.
"Perfect. Hey, she has pain killers in there. Could you give me the bottle?"
"No, here's two pills. Now let me read the bottle." He said while reading the bottle.
"Wow, you can read too." She said with an amazed voice while he just shot her a glare and continued reading. "Okay, so you need half a pill every six hours." He looked back up at her and she had this uneasy smile.
"Okay give me the pill, I'll half it." He said giving his hand out.
"Uh, I kind of ate both of them." She twiddled with her fingers. "Oops."
"What?!?" He asked with his eyes widened.
"I said: I ate both of the pills!" She screamed at the same pitch as him and started giggling. He could already see the affects of the overdose, but as far as that, Freddy was sure that it would ware off by tomorrow around the same time or in the morning if he was lucky. For now, she was just going to act a little tipsy.
"I'm hungry. Let's get ice cream." She grabbed his hand and led him out the door.
"Uh, maybe you should rest?" He suggested, with an uneasy smile.
"No way! I'm not even tired yet. It's like five o'clock! Who would be tired at this time? Unless you're on another part of the earth and there is time difference, I don't think anyone is sleeping right now! Let's go to the others!" She raced down the stairs. She walked into the den with a big smile, beaming eyes, and a look that really made people wonder if that was her evil twin or not. Freddy walked in with an uneasy smile, knowing that Katie would probably be yelling at him for not watching over her that well.
"Uh, Freddy, what did you do to her?" Frankie asked as he saw her dancing to the 'Thriller song by Michael Jackson' on MTV.
"Okay, Jones, let it out or I will yell at you louder because I know you did something wrong. What did you do to her?" Katie walked over behind him with her hands folded over her chest with Zack walking over to him as well, with a smirk on his face.
"Hi Katie!" Crystal went over and hugged her. "It's been such a long time since we last saw each other!" She swung her arm around Katie's shoulder and everyone looked at Freddy for an explanation.
"She took two pain killers." He sighed.
"Two pills! I told you to help her, not kill her!" Katie looked at the poor girl.
"Don't worry Katie! I'm fine. I'm just a little tipsy, that's all. Oh, you know what? Why don't you cut my hair? You've always been asking to do it, s why don't you do it? And you can dye it an ebony black with red streaks too!" She started jumping up and down and everyone was surprised to see Katie jumping up and down too.
"What? I've been dying to do her hair." Katie said, in a as-a-matter-of-fact voice.
"I want to see this." Michelle stood up and walked over to them.
"Me too. I can't wait to see her face when she snaps back. This is gonna be great." Frankie and Leonard high-fived each other.
"Guys, don't you think we're just taking advantage of her. She's acting drunk." Summer reasoned with them but they just looked at her with a shut-up look.
"I think she's right too. I mean, what if she like totally freaks out. What are we going to do?" Eleni asked them and then they really thought about it.
"We'll just blame it on Freddy." Tomika said out of no where.
"That works." Zack shrugged, but Freddy smacked him on the head.
"Well, you did give her the pills, bro." Zack massaged his head and Freddy gave Marta a little glare for not speaking up for him, but Marta she didn't know what to do.
"Wait, if we're doing this, I want to help too!" Billy told them all.
"Okay, let's go already! I'm tired of the talk already." Crystal started tugging on Katie.
"Yeah, let's go!" They all went up the stairs to the big washroom, which was at the middle on the hall. Everyone sat themselves in a respectable spot and the girls plus Billy, began to work.
They dyed her whole head of hair a dark, raven black and began to work. After they shampooed her head, they began to cut her hair and the overwhelming stench of the dye still stayed the room, so the people who were just watching left the washroom and started to play video games. By then, her hair was layered and was above her shoulders. She had bangs that were parted from the side and she looked 'rockin', which was a compliment Eleni gave. Her hair was flicked out at the ends, which Billy did and it actually gave her a good look. They all decided against the red streaks, not knowing if she'd like them or not.
She looked into the giant mirror in the washroom and gaped, as she touched her hair.
"I look rad! Wow!" She stood up and went closer to the mirror. "Thanks!" She hugged all of them. "How do you think I look?"
"I think you look awesome." Marta commented.
"Totally." Alicia agreed, as everyone gave out there comments, but now they all seemed uneasy at what they did. Summer was thinking of what would happen tomorrow. Would she freak? Would she like it? Would she faint? All of the questions would be answered tomorrow but for now they just had to be happy for her.
They all raced downstairs and showed the rest of gang. They were all phased by it, but they had to say she looked good.
"Heya neighbor!" She slung her arm around Freddy and another around Katie.
"Lookin' good Matthews." Freddy commented.
"Thanks! Where's the ice cream?" She started looking around the den for ice cream. They had to shut her up about ice cream. That's all she wanted and asked for.
"Uh, on the newspaper it said there was a deadly virus hidden in the dairy products by ice cream factories around the world....." Leonard quickly made something up.
"Yeah, it's killer. It can get you sick for weeks and we wouldn't want that for you." Eleni patted her on the back.
"I guess you're right. Anywho, I think I should get home. Corey is awaiting entertainment and I shall entertain! " She stuck her hand in the air. She picked up her bag and grabed her cell phone.
"Oh my gosh, I left him all alone with Brookie! What if she has already cooked him?! Sorry, gang, but I must leave at once!" She walked to the door, but the rest followed and Summer stopped her.
"Not so fast. What will her parents think when she comes home tipsy and all? They will come to Katie and she will be held responsible!" Summer raised her hands up.
"Don't worry Summy Wummy. My parents won't be home till late. My step mom has this office party already and she brought step daddy along. When they get home they are most likely to sleep! Now let me go, Brooke is going to fry Corey!" Crystal whined.
"Okay, but Freddy is coming with you. Freddy, follow her inside her house and make sure she stays in her room. Her sister is most likely to tell on her about her being drunk or something." Summer glared at Freddy and he rolled his eyes, while going to get his back. He came back and he left with Crystal.
While they were walking to her place, Crystal started dancing.
"Freddy, you know, I've been really mean to you, haven't I?"
"Uh well.." And then he smirked, deciding that whatever she had to say was good for blackmail, "Yes you have."
"I'm sorry. It's just I haven't been exactly in a great mood with the move in all. I miss my the few friends I had and stuff, but you guys are great. I haven't had friends like this in a while. Anywho, what we gonna do with Corey's date? It's on Saturday."
'Whoa, what a mood swing.' Freddy thought they began talking a lot as they journeyed there way to her house. They talked about him and Marta, Corey, Brooke, Katie and Zack, and a lot of things, even ice cream.
"Okay, well you better get to your room."
"But what if Corey is being tortured by Brooke?" She asked with a small, cute pout.
"It's a trap, that's what she wants you to think, but if you stay in your room all day than she will be defeated?... I mean she will be defeated." He started to speak more confidently so he believed her.
"Good thinking." It was only then he realized how stupid she was with these pain killers, but he found it to be really funny.
"Here, I'll escort you." He said as they walked up to the door. She took her key out and unlocked the door.
He walked up the steps with her, until she started tripping profusely from getting a little woozy, so he picked her up and carried her to her room, which she pointed out to him. He could hear snippets of her talking to him. Something about, 'the voices just wouldn't stop, they just kept saying' or '...less Freddy' or 'it was ridiculous'. But, however and thankfully for her sake, her talking was muffled by her continuous giggles of what she was talking about.
He laid her on the bed and as if by magic, she was already asleep. Smiling, he shook his head, and left her to her dreams and silently hoping she'd be okay by tomorrow and thinking just how hard would the contact of her fist in his face would be.
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Hope you liked it! Sorry I haven't updated! My bro got jaw surgery and everyone was banned from the computer! Sucks, I know, but what ya gonna do? Anyway, again, thanks for the reviews my friends! Hope you like my story!
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