A/N: Yeah, so I'm really sorry about not updating in a while, things have just been really busy with school and all. But the real reason is, I BROKE MY FOOT! Smart of me right? It sucks so bad though because I was in this play and couldn't be in it because of my stupid foot. So now I'm going to rant about it. It really ticked me off. Yes I cried. It's my leg and I can cry if I want to, cry if I want to. You would cry to if it happened to you.
And you know what's really embarrassing? The reason I broke it. I mean, I could say something cool like I took the lyrics from MCR, a little too seriously, and jumped out of second story building. (Remember when you broke your foot, from jumping out the second story window, I'm not ok, I'm not ooookay...) Or I could say that I was saving a baby from a burning building. But no, I have to tell the truth. The cold, hard, embarrassing truth. I tripped over a ditch. Yup. Aren't I so graceful? So now I have to take an elevator up the stairs when I go to school, conveniently located at the end of the school. And, my friends have given me cute little nick names, when I am in my fragile and weakened state. Hobbles (which sounds like a name for a rabbit, don't you think?) hop-along, gimpy ,gimp, gimpster, and Limping Laura. So yeah, I'll quit stalling and write this.
Disclaimer: I own Hallie, Riley, Tilly, Samantha, Aaron, Mari, and any characters that do not reside in middle earth. I also own the last 3 lines of the song sang by them.
Hallie ran faster than she had ever run before. He lungs burned and her legs ached, but still she kept running. Faster Hallie, faster. Come on your so close!
"Run Hallie!" Tilly yelled, tackling Aaron to the ground.
"Your never gonna make it Hallie! I'm going to catch you!" Riley yelled, almost catching up to her. Don't listen to him, you can't get caught. Keep running! So, with a last burst of energy she raced through the park, and...tripped over a tree root. She watched as the football tumbled out of her hands and into Riley's. "Touch down." He said, laughing at Hallie. " I'm sorry," he said "but you really should see your face!" He walked over, brushing the hair out of his eyes, and helped her up. " If it's any consolation, I never would have caught you if hadn't tripped over that root." He said trying to cheer her up. It didn't work.
" But you did. And we won, you lost!" Aaron said, performing a very stupid looking victory dance.
"Stick to skateboarding, Ricky Martin." Tilly said, walking over to them, arms folded.
"It's just a game, Tilly. It doesn't matter." Riley said, glaring at Aaron. Aaron stopped.
"Yeah your right," He said. Everyone stared at Aaron blankly. " A GAME THAT YOU LOST!" He shouted, earning a smack on the head from Riley, and a 3 second head start from Tilly.
"They're crazy." Hallie laughed, and walked over to the bench to sit down.
"Yeah they are." Riley said following. "Hey, um, Hallie, can I ask you something?" A small flame of hope rose up in Hallie. HE LIKES YOU! HE'S GOING TO ASK YOU OUT! But the cold hard reality of the world had to come and squash the flame of hope. He's not gonna ask you out. Why would he wanna ask you out. He's hot, and your...not.
"Sure, go ahead."
"Alright, well um, there's this girl, who I really like. And I would like to ask her out, but I'm not really sure she'll is she'll say yes." YAY! IT'S YOU! IT'S ONLY YOU BEAUTIFUL! HE LOVES YOU. HE REALLY LIKES ME, HE WANTS TO DATE ME! Positive Hallie thought, but Negative Hallie had to shoot down her enthusiasm, with discouraging thoughts. No he doesn't your a freak. A flame-throwing, stalker FREAK! He'd never want to date you.
"Why don't you just ask her? Why are you so worried?" She asked. Riley laughed.
"Well, I mean a lot of guys like her, and I don't want to get shot down, and see her next week walking around with some other guy." IT IS...not me. No guys like me. I'm to ugly. Why would he wanna go out with me? (A/N: Is anyone else bothered by the fact that Positive Hallie, is becoming negative Hallie.) And Negative Hallie just had to kick Positive Hallie when she was down, with negative thoughts. That's right. It's not you so get over it. Besides you can't get wrapped up with a guy! And now, Crazy-Rabid-Fan girl Hallie thought WHAT KIND OF IDIOT WOULD SHOOT DOWN RILEY! WE'LL KILL HER!
"Just ask her flat out. I mean, you never know what she's going to say. Your a really hot guy so I'm sure she'll say yes." Oh-My-God-I-Can't-Believe-I-Just-Said-That Hallie said OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE I JUST CALLED HIM HOT. OUT LOUD. TO HIS FACE! Crazy-Rabid-fan girl Hallie said HE IS HOTT! WE LOVE YOU RILEY! And positive Hallie, who is temporarily Emo Hallie said Well I'm glad your all positive about this. And negative Hallie, was just happy because she was corrupting Positive Hallie. Riley laughed.
"Thanks. Um Hallie?" He asked. Positive Hallie came back with a new burst of positive and said I TOLD YOU ALL IT WAS ME! HA! HA! IN YOUR FACE NEGATIVITY! And Negative Hallie said nothing, though she had a sneaking suspicion that She was going to spend the rest of the day drowning her sorrows in Hershey Kisses, and getting chubbier, and listening to MCR, or Nirvana.
"Yes?" She asked
X
"That traitor!" Tilly yelled, after Hallie told her what had happened. "How could he dangle that little string of hope, and then yank it from your face?"
"He" sniffle "had a cat." Hallie said, in between sniffles and sobs. (A/N: The whole yanking that string of hope and then yanking it from your face, cam from a Boy meets world episode.) "And he's not a traitor" sniffle "he just" sniffle, sob, sniffle "Doesn't like me."
"Of course he does! Hw just...doesn't know it yet." Tilly said, trying to make Hallie feel better. It didn't work.
"Well he sure knew how much he liked that girl." sniffle. "She's probably some beautiful, blonde, tall preppy girl." Hallie whined.
"Oh for God's sakes woman, grab a tissue! Here." Tilly said handing her the tissue box. "Besides, Riley doesn't like preps, so if she was a prep she's probably a musical genius, or has the voice of an angel. Or both." Hallie rolled her eyes.
"Oh great! He's in love with a beautiful blonde, model looking, preppy musical genius with the voice of an angel! Thanks Tilly. Thanks a lot."
"Oh Lord, Hallie your pathetic!" Tilly said, getting up and walking away.
"Hey! I'm depressed, I'm aloud to be pathetic! Besides, I have just blown my brains out through my nose, so my logic is somewhat obscured!"
"Please. Your impossible!"
"Never underestimate the impossible!" Hallie retorted, chucking a used tissue at Tilly.
"I can when she's drowing herself in Hershey kiss wrappers, is dressed in my clothes, and is listening to 'Thank you for the Venom' (A/N: By MCR) over and over again. And...eww! Was that a used tissue?" She asked, throwing it back at Hallie.
"Why yes it was. And, oh my goodness you sounded sooooo preppy" Hallie said, laughing her head off.
"Oh yeah? Well..." Tilly walked over, grabbed a tissue, blew her nose and stuck it down Hallie's shirt. "Like Oh my God! I am like so sorry!" She said, acting very preppy. For the next five minutes, the participated in a Used-tissue war, shouting out random "preppy" comments and laughing their heads off.
"Like totally!"
"Oooooh my Gawd!"
"Oh I think I broke a nail." Hallie said.
"That's actually kind of funny." Tilly commented.
"No I'm serious. Ow that hurt!"
"Oh man, are you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine." It was quite for a full 6 seconds, and then they busted out laughing, tripping over chairs, and carpets like they were drunk.
"Come on." Tilly said, grabbing her car keys and gasping for breath. "lets go get some ice cream, my treat. Then I will tell you all the reasons why ice cream is better than guys, and we can come home, take showers, and then get ready for our 'concert' tonight."
"Sounds good to me."
X
"Tilly? Tilly! TILLY!" Hallie called from inside her closet.
"What?" She asked racing in.
"Have you seen my favorite pair of pants?" She asked. Tilly looked down at the pants she was wearing.
"Are they the black ones with all the zippers, and safety pins?"
"Yeah."
"The Tripp ones?"
"Yup."
"Nope haven't seen 'em." She said. Hallie turned around and laughed. "Sorry." Tilly said.
"No problem. They look better on you anyway, especially with that shirt. I guess I'll wear this." She said. Tilly was wearing Hallie's pants, combat boots, a red shirt with a black safety pinned heart on it. Her black hair was pulled into two low ponytails, showing off the red tips, with Hallie's red and black beanie.
"No your not! This is our concert, babe! You have to dress up a bit!" Tilly yelled, looking at Hallie's outfit. A gray black and red shirt that said "No strings attached" with a red guitar, blue jeans, red and black vans, her FFAF jacket, and she tied her Brownish black hair into a ponytail. "Aww how cute, you outfit reminds me of the day we first met!"
"Oh shut up, Tilly!" Laughed Hallie. "Well, I mean I don't know what to wear!" Tilly got that I'm-going-to-do-something-bad look. "Never mind, I'll figure it out myself." Tilly smiled slyly.
"I'm not going to make you look bad." She said. "I just got to find that shirt hat you bought, but never wore." She said sifting through all the clothes on the floor.
"I didn't really look good on me." Hallie said, sitting on the bed.
"Man, Hal this room is a mess! It's a pig-sty, it's a... Hey! It's my shirt!" Tilly said, holding up a black and green Invader Zim tank, that had a hole burned right through it. "How did you manage to burn a hole right through my shirt!"
"I'm so sorry, Tilly, what happened was-"
"Never mind, I don't wanna know." She said.
"I'm really sorry! Really, really sorry!" Hallie apologized. Tilly laughed.
"Hal, it's not a big deal! Don't worry about it. I'll put like fishnet's or some funky shirt under it. Now where is that shirt?" She asked herself, and began the hunt for the shirt yet again.
"Wha...aren't you mad at me?"
"Mad? Disturbed? Yes. Am I worried that your smoking? Kinda. Mad? No, end of story. Frustrated because I can't find that STUPID SHIRT! YES! OH THE ANGER! OH THE FRUSTRATION! OH THE...here it is!" She said, happily producing a purplish/black tank-top, that laced up in the front with a black ribbon. Tilly dug around in her on closet for a few moments, and then came back with black pants, that had black lace trimming, some black boots, and a rubber band. "Put that on and then come over here so I can fix your hair." When Hallie, finished dressing, Tilly nodded her approval. "You look hot, now come here." She said, and started brushing her hair. She pulled the front part up in a small ponytail, and left the rest hanging down. "Alright. Looks good, now grab your guitar, and let's go."
X
It wasn't really a concert, they just preformed at this club with other bands. They did four or five songs, and then danced and hung out the rest of the night. But while everyone was there already ready to go up, Riley was missing.
"Where are you, where are you Riley!" Aaron muttered under his breath.
"I for one think this is hilarious! He's always wanting us to be on time, and he's late! He's lucky we don't play 'till nine, or I would never let him forget it." Tilly said, banging on the chair with her drum sticks. "In fact, I don't intend on letting him forget it. I can see it now." She said and pretended to be Riley. "Tilly, you can't always be late all the time, we have to go on in an hour!' 'Oh but Riley dear, do you remember when you, yes you the prompt and mighty Riley was once late?"
It was 8:15 and people were already coming in, filling the club with their conversations. Loud techno music blasted out of the speakers, it was almost totally dark, and people were dancing and loosing themselves in the music. Hallie was tuning her guitar, and anxiously looking at the digital clock on the walls.
"I love these lights!" Tilly shouted over the music, mentioning the neon greens, and oranges and purples, and the random black lights that made the people look a little strange. "Hallie, I am ordering you to loosen up! You are going to dance after we're done right?" Tilly asked. Hallie cringed.
"Um, I don't know, I'm not much of a dancer." Hallie said, satisfied that her guitar was perfectly tuned. Tilly laughed.
"So what? Neither am I. And I can't say much for them." She said pointing to the people in the crowd. "All you really have to do, is move around and try to look hot."
"Meh... Well, um, okay I guess."
"And when there is a mosh pit, you better get your butt in there! Because I-"
"Hey guys, sorry I'm late." Came a familiar voice. Tilly, Aaron, and Hallie turned around to see what looked like Riley, and tall girl, with platinum blonde hair wearing a black spaghetti strap tank, with a white one over it and very tight jeans.
"Oh my God! Where is his head! I can't see his head! Oh my God that girl is eating his head! How's he gonna sing if his head's missing!" Tilly whispered to Hallie. "Skank!" Tilly said, as Hallie elbowed her in the stomach.
"But a very cute skank." Aaron commented. When the girl finally let Riley breath, he came up and joined them.
"Guys, I'm really sorry I'm late, I mean really sorry." Riley apologized, as he started hooking up the microphones, and the amps.
"No problem." Hallie and Aaron said at the same time.
"Oh yes, no problem at all. Even though it is now..."Tilly looked at the clock "8:28 and we now have TWO MINUTES! Man next time I'm late, and we have like an hour, I better not hear a single word from you!" Tilly growled. Riley laughed.
"You got it. You ready guys?" He asked. Why does he keep looking away from me! I don't look that bad do I? Hallie shook her head. It's probably nothing she told herself, and walked on stage with everyone else.
X
"And so when daylight turns to night,
And all I hear is your 'It's all rights'
I'll pretend they helped me!"
Riley screamed the last line, Aaron stopped the muted the bass, Tilly was banging on the drums, and Hallie ended with the last chord blasted out perfectly.
"Our songs started a mosh pit, our songs started a mosh pit!" Tilly sang happily, as she helped put the equipment into Aaron's van.
"And I didn't mess up that chord!" Hallie said, with an extra bounce in her step.
"Yeah, you all did really well." Riley said. Hallie loaded up the amp, noting that Riley wasn't even looking her in the eyes when he talked to her.
"Alright, so now we can dance. I will see you all later, there is a very hott chick in there that I'm going to sneak a dance with." Aaron said, waltzing off, back into the club."
"Well, I guess I'm gonna go hang out with Iris." Riley said, talking about the blonde girl he walked in with.
"You mean make out?" Tilly commented, slamming the trunk shut.
"Ha, ha, ha." Riley said, blushing so red, that the girls could even see it in the dark.
"Go on." Hallie said. "Have fun, but make responsible choices!" Riley laughed, and walked back in, leaving Tilly and Hallie alone to talk.
"You know what sucks is?" Tilly said, reapplying her eyeliner.
"That I thought they were surgically attached when they first walked in."
"Well that to, but the fact that she's so nice it's hard to be angry with her." Hallie pictured Iris kissing on Riley, and him Kissing her back.
"I beg to differ." Hallie said.
"Come on Hal, forget about Riley! Let's go dance! Trust me dancing cures a lot of things, then maybe some hot emo guy (A/N: I believe my friends know who I'm referring to) will dance with you! You can make him jealous."
"The offers very tempting but-"
"And there's bound to be a few more mosh pits, so if she next to you can push her!"
"Fine."
"Yes! I am slowly getting you to loosen up! Come on, let's go dance!"
X
"Wow! I am so tired! But it's so much fun." Hallie said, sitting down at the bar, and ordered two cokes. "Your right, dancing does make you feel better."
"Yup, told you!" Tilly said. "And I am so proud of you! You danced with that guy, despite you being nervous. He was HOT! Hotter than Riley! In fact he was about the hottest guy I've seen! Wasn't he in that one band?"
"Yeah he was the drummer."
" Right. Man I am so tired." Tilly said. " Hey. Don't look now but those two guys area checking you out!" Hallie blushed.
"Now they're not, they're probably looking at you!" Tilly shook her head.
"Nope. It's all you babe. They're like really tall, and hot, and have long blonde hair, and I think they're eye's are blue, but I'm not sure. Oh my God, they're coming over here. What! Don't look, Hallie, you never look!"
"Well excuse me Oh Brilliant one."
"Your excused, grasshopper." Tilly said returning to her drink. Hallie notice that they sat quite near them. She also noticed that they were very hot. "Come on, let's go impress them with our dancing skills."
"Ha ha! Just kidding. I'd much rather slam Iris into a wall." Hallie said, leaving her drink on the counter. Tilly whirled around and grasped Hallie's face with her hands.
"Babe, listen to me, FORGET. ABOUT. RILEY. He's stupid. Just stupid, if he wants to date some twitty little blonde, let him! You can go out with a hot emo/punk/skater/guitarist guy!" With that Tilly, grabbed Hallie's hands and lead her over to the two guys. OH CRAP! She thought.
"You guys wanna dance?" Tilly asked. They nodded, and Hallie was pretty sure they weren't to keen on dancing either. But Tilly set out to dance with the one with the rounder face, and Hallie danced with the other one.
"So...what's your name?" Hallie asked over the rap group that was playing. A few feet away she could see Iris and Riley dancing together.
"Lego-Liam. My name is Liam." He said. "And May I ask what your name is?"
"Hallie." She said, noting the spark of recognition that past through his eyes, but it was gone before she could really notice it. Hallie decided that she enjoyed dancing with him, but panicked when a slow song came one. "Well, um, see you later." She said and walked off. He grabbed her hand.
"Do you want to dance?" He asked. Hallie smiled.
"Yes, thank you." Though Hallie really like dancing with him, she couldn't help wishing it was Riley. FORGET ABOUT HIM! She told herself, and believe it or not, with Liam holding her, she did.
X
"Thank you so much for making me go Tilly!" Hallie sighed happily, flopping herself on the couch.
"I told you." She said in a sing-song voice.
"And you were right." She said happily. "I really liked Liam."
"There are more fish in the sea babe! Noting that most are jerky fish, but fish none the less. Hey check the messages will you?"
"Sure." Hallie replied. She pushed the blinking red button, and the message played itself, filling the small apartment with a familiar voice.
"Hallie?" Came the machine. "It's your mom. Honey, I'm going to need you to pick me up. I'm at the airport. Can't wait to see you. Love you, bye."
A/N: Well that is it my friend! Bet you can't guess who those two guys were? Or maybe you can. Oh well R&r please!