I'm sorry they've been out of character, but I am kind of trying to make the story fit. Thanks for your suggestions I will put them to work. Also, I have quit, if you haven't noticed, the colons on my stories, I thought they might be easier, but they were a pain. I am back to using quotation marks. As for Perry's part, I was upset how they completely cut him out of the movie, and so I have decided to add him to my story as a surprise ending (SHH) and believe me, it goes. Paul, yes I know, it was cheesy, but listen to what Lena has to say. Win moving out was kind of awkward, but Carmen is in mind for a lot of changes. As for Tibby and Brian, I just made up stuff, and when I looked back reading that chapter, I noticed you were right that Brian was out of character. Thank you for reviewing, I may get slightly annoyed at the first sight, but they really do help.
Bridget:
Billy walked into the room where Bridget and Eric were happily rejoicing. He clapped his hands and jumped up and down. In a squeaky voice he said, "Why are we so happy?"
They joy washed out of Bridget's and Eric's faces. "We were so happy that you're finally here!" Bridget covered.
"Too happy," Eric smiled.
"C'mon guys, what's really going on?" Billy asked.
"Well," Bee said, "It's kind of personal."
"Bridget something Vreeland, tell me what you're so happy about!" Billy demanded.
"Billy something Klein, um, go get your bags!" Bridget sort of mimicked.
Billy shook his head. Bridget sighed, "Billy, Perry's getting married."
"Yes! Now I can have Lisa!" Billy shouted.
"What?" Lisa asked as she entered the room. Bridget looked sternly at Billy.
"Um, Lisa is this girl in Alabama, and she, well, I kind of like her. And her boyfriend just broke up with her, so guess who I am going home to?" Billy covered.
Lisa gave him a look. Billy excused himself and was gone for a little while. Lisa gave Bee a look that said he was sort of loco. Bridget laughed. Lisa left the room to go to the grocery store. Billy came back again.
"So, who's he marrying?" Billy asked. "Is she hot?"
"Excuse me? Don't call Lisa hot, even though she is!" Bridget shouted.
"Wait, he's marrying Lisa?" Billy asked. "Lisa was mine!"
"Technically, not really," Eric interrupted. "Perry is marrying Lisa, and that is that."
"Well, at least I still have Bee."
"What?" Bee demanded.
"What?" Eric echoed.
"You heard me," Billy said, coolly, "Bee likes me and of course I like her." I think I kind of made Billy sound bratty there, hold on. Rephrase: "Bee, come on, you like me don't you?" He made puppy dog eyes at her. Bridget laughed.
"We'll see about that…" Eric said.
"Um, Eric, can I talk to you alone?" Bee asked. They moved to the next room and Bee and Eric were huddled in a corner. They were whispering to each other.
"Eric, I didn't tell him you were my boyfriend. You see, I kind of liked him during the summer after we met the first time, and well, he likes me, and…" Bee started.
"Bridget! You didn't tell him I was your long wanted boyfriend? If you don't tell him, then I guess you won't ever have to if it isn't true," Eric said.
"Eric, don't leave!" Bridget cried. Literally, tears were streaming down her cheeks. "We have so much together, like that time you took care of me when I was sick, and…"
Eric picked up his bags that were standing toward the doorway of the room. "Bee, we can't do this. It is like you are cheating, leading on one guy, and faking out another. I'm sorry."
"No! Don't leave Eric, we were meant to be, you know it. Billy can't come in the way between us. I have a plan!" Bridget shouted.
"I'm listening."
"We can go to Las Vegas tonight while he's asleep and get married. Then when we come back in the morning, he will think that all chances are gone."
"Good, good, is that all?"
"Um, we could stay a few days longer."
"I like it, get packed for tonight."
And so they did. They didn't speak a word to Billy that afternoon and they seldom looked at him. Billy was going to tear their relationship apart, unless they could stop him.
Carmen:
Carmen took a walk, one bright Saturday morning and her walk led her to the park nearby. Carmen watched the guys play basketball in the park. It reminded her of Win, she turned away. She walked toward a bench and began to cry. She promised herself she wouldn't cry.
I gave up everything I had, on something that just wouldn't last, but I refuse to cry, no tears will fall from these eyes.
But she did. After all, to her, promises were meant to broken, just like rules.
"Are you okay?" A voice asked. Carmen looked up to see a guy, she'd say, about a year older than her. He had brown hair and tan skin, and was probably about 6 feet or more, and had nice strong shoulders.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said as she looked into his deep chocolate brown eyes.
"You don't seem like it," he said as he sat next to her on the bench. "My name is Jordan. I've seen you a few times, like at the store. I think that was like a year ago, sorry."
"My mom lives here. I go to college at Williams."
"Do you really? I go there too. That's where I saw you! You are in my English class!" Jordan answered.
"Yeah, I recognize you too," Carmen lied. "My name's Carmen."
"Do you want to talk about it?" he gently asked.
Carmen zoned into his eyes again, "About what?"
"You know, why you're crying."
"Oh, right," Carmen recovered. "Well, my boyfriend left me. He told me he met another girl and he was seeing her a week before he dumped me." The tears came to Carmen's eyes again.
"Do you want to get some coffee?" Jordan asked.
Carmen nodded and they went to the local coffee shop. Carmen and Jordan spent an hour there and then decided to go browsing in the mall.
"Jordan, do you have a girlfriend?" Carmen asked.
"Um, why?"
"Well, I don't want you to waste your time on me, if you have a girlfriend."
"My girlfriend's name is Kara. But I know she's been cheating on me, so it will be alright if I dump her to go out with you," he smiled.
"Why do you go out with her still if you know she's been cheating on you?" Carmen asked.
"Well, this morning I was waiting until all my anger was burned off while I was shooting baskets to confront her, but then I saw you…" Jordan answered.
Carmen smiled, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. Now, let's see, what else do you want to do?" he asked.
Carmen's cell phone rang. She held up one finger to Jordan as she answered.
"Hello?" she answered.
"Carma, do you feel like going on a road trip?" Bee asked.
"Bridget, what the heck?" Carmen walked slightly away from Jordan so he didn't hear. "What the heck do you mean?"
"Eric and I, well, we're going to Vegas. Do you want to watch hopefully my only wedding?" Bridget replied.
"Sure, hold on." She walked over to Jordan. "Do you want to go to Vegas tonight?" she asked him.
"Um, I don't want to get married!" He shouted.
"SHH, we are going to watch my friend get married."
"Oh, okay, fine with me."
Carmen returned to Bridget, "Yeah sure, did Eric finally ask you?"
"Nope, Billy's here, and, I'll explain on the way."
"Okey dokey. Bye Bee."
"Bye."
Carmen and Jordan packed their things and were ready to leave at any moment…
Lena:
"Wow, Paul," Lena said. "I didn't expect this. I just wanted to know if you loved me."
"Oh, well, I love you," Paul said, his cheeks turning red from embarrassment from his performance. "Lena, I'm sorry, it was too soon."
"That's okay Paul; I just don't think it is right for us as teenagers, still, to get married."
"You're right," Paul agreed. "Um, do you want to..."
"Paul, don't try to push it away. I know you were kind of just doing it because you didn't want Kostos to get in the way. Well, he won't, okay? Can we just be boyfriend and girlfriend without any pressure of getting married?" Lena asked.
"I bet if Kostos said it, before there was a you and me, you would've agreed immediately," Paul reacted.
"Paul, I was 16, don't be snobby."
"I'm sorry Lena. Kostos has to go."
"That is what I told him, remember?"
"For good."
"Paul? You're going to kill him?" Lena was shocked.
"Love drives some people crazy," Paul answered. "MUAHAHAHAHA!"
Paul ran out of the room and out the front door. Lena called him on his cell, she was truly worried. The next best thing she could do was call Carmen. Carmen answered.
"Paul is going to kill Kostos!" Lena screamed into the phone.
"What? My step-brother, sha- right!" Carmen scoffed. "Lena, you have gone mad. Paul would never do anything that bad."
"Paul has gone mad, he's after Kostos, and he's afraid Kostos is going to get in the way of our relationship!" Lena shouted.
"Lena calm down. Did you just take a nap? You must've been dreaming it."
"No, Carmen, you have to stop him! I still love Kostos!" Lena shouted.
Carmen gasped. Oh no, what have I done? Lena thought. I do love Kostos, I do. I do, that sounds weird. Oh no, Paul!
"Lena, do you really love him?" Carmen asked.
"Yes, no, I don't know!" Lena said, confused. "I love Paul and Kostos; I don't know how this can be!"
"I'll be right there," Carmen sighed. She arrived a few minutes later. "Lena, you are a wreck. Now, where's Paul?"
"I don't know, but he's after Kostos!" Lena screamed.
"Then let's go!" Carmen finally gave in. They hopped in her car and drove around the city. They could not find either of the men anywhere.
"The airport!" Lena shouted. "I told Kostos to go home!"
Carmen stared at her and then drove to the small airport. There they saw Paul standing with Kostos against the wall.
"Let me go!" Kostos was yelling.
"Kostos!" Lena shouted. She walked over to him, tore Paul's grip loose and hugged him tight. "I am truly sorry Kostos, I, I, I…"
"You don't love me," Paul answered.
"Paul, Lena is just going through…" Carmen started.
Paul ran off, to somewhere neither Lena nor Carmen could guess, but he was gone.
"You love me don't you?" Kostos smirked.
Lena said, "I am still unsure, but don't get too sure of yourself!"
"Well, that is too bad, because I am in love; with a beautiful woman they call Christine. Oh, how she moves me when she walks by, her hands take my heart. And she lives in Greece, and will return to our tiny island in Greece after the summer. Lena, do not love me, for I cannot bear it," Kostos said.
"But…" Lena started.
It was too late. Carmen punched Kostos in the face. He was knocked unconscious. Lena's eyes grew large and she took Carmen by the arm and ran. Carmen yelled behind her, "That'll teach you to mess with a girl's heart!"
When they reached the outside of the building, Carmen invited Lena to the Vegas runaway and Lena agreed, only if she could get Paul to go.
Tibby:
Tibby was managing her closed down store really well, especially since there weren't any customers. Brian had completely ripped everything pretty much off the outside of the building, and smelly men were constantly at work on it. Whenever Tibby walked outside to get away from the inside of the store, she saw men old bald men scratching their showing cracks, and Tibby immediately went inside. She was desperate to get away for a few days, or so. She couldn't take watching Brian yell at these ignorant 50-year-olds.
That's why she was happy when Bridget had asked her to go to Vegas. Tibby agreed right away, and decided she would let Brian take care of her store. Thank goodness for a getaway. Bridget had picked her up in Eric's new SUV and she hopped in the back, where Carmen, some guy, Lena and Paul sat. Of course Eric drove and Bridget sat in the passenger seat. Tibby stared at the guy; he gave her curious looks back.
"Carmen, who is that?" Tibby asked, not afraid of the fact he might think she was obnoxious.
"Oh, Tibby, that's my new boyfriend Jordan," Carmen answered.
"Nice to meet you," Jordan said, "Tibby, is it?" She nodded.
"Anyways, I was telling Carmen about how I got my Paul back," Lena interrupted.
"Go ahead," Tibby started, "Wait, did you say back?"
"Yeah, we had a little argument. You see, Kostos came back, and well, I told Paul everything. Then he went after Kostos, which I thought was for real! But really Kostos and Paul were playing a mean joke on me. So we found Kostos, and then Carmen punched him after he told us he had a new love. We found Paul, and he told us that Carmen shouldn't have punched him because it was all a joke. So Kostos came back conscious in a few min…" Lena started.
"Wait, Carmen knocked him unconscious?" Tibby asked.
Lena continued, "Yeah, she did. Anyways, he came back conscious a few minutes later, and Kostos and Paul laughed together. Kostos had gotten over me, in fact, he's married again, (got another girl pregnant)and he wanted to come back to approve of my boyfriend, like a father. That was kind of sweet, I thought. So Kostos is happily on his way back to our tiny island in Greece. Things do work out!"
"Eww, you think that's sweet? If I had an old boyfriend and he did that…" Tibby shuddered.
"We're here!" Bridget squeaked joyously. They pulled up into the parking lot of the small airport of Bethesda. They all hopped out of the car, took their luggage, and boarded their plane. Bridget and Eric sat with each other, Carmen and Jordan sat with each other, and Paul and Lena sat with each other. Tibby ended up sitting with a little girl of about 13 years of age. Tibby moaned, not another snot-nosed kid, she thought.
"My name's Hayden," the girl squeaked.
"My name is Tibby, Tabitha, liked to be called Tibby," she answered in a monotonous voice.
"Hi Tibby, where are you going?" Hayden asked.
Tibby answered, "Las Vegas."
"I'm going there too!"
Tibby moaned. A few hours later, and Tibby finally landed in the Las Vegas airport. Hayden had fallen asleep hours ago, and Tibby felt very happy for that. Tibby woke her up. They all stepped out of the plane in the tunnel that led to the airport.
When they reached the light of the terminal, Tibby's face had gone pale white. There stood two men dressed in black with their guns pointing at the staff behind the counters. Tibby stood there frozen, while the others bumped into the back of her. The men looked over at her.
"Look here," said one to the other, "this girl's mighty pretty. Will you marry me girl?" He looked straight at Tibby.
"Um, I can't. I'm legally not… allowed… to get… married," she answered.
"Girly, you think we go by the 'legal system'?" the second man asked. Tibby shook her head.
"If you don't marry me," said the first, taking Hayden by the arm closer to him, "I'm gonna have ta shoot this here girl."
"Please don't do that, she's innocent!" Tibby cried.
The second man responded, "that's too bad, 'cuz so's the rest of your little friends," pointing at the teenagers behind her.
"Please, don't! If you have any goodness, any, in your heart, you'll let these innocent teenagers go!" Tibby shouted. She looked around the terminal. All the security was gagged and tied, and there wasn't a single undead soul in the room. A gun fired.
Tibby jerked her head toward where the shot was. The first man held a lifeless, red, Hayden in his hands. "It seems as if your little friend here has had an accident."
Tibby ran over to him, dropping her bags. She took the gun he held firmly in his hand and shot him right in his chest. His eyes rolled into the back of his head, and he let his body and Hayden's body fall to the floor. Tibby shot the gun again at the second man, and he instantly fell to the ground. Tibby grabbed Hayden's hand and cried.
"Tibby, are you okay?" the seemingly lifeless Hayden asked.
"Hayden? Are you, alive?"
"Of course, 'twas only a flesh wound," Hayden answered, in a British accent, imitating the guy from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Tibby laughed harder and more than she ever had.
"Are you mad? I've cut off your leg!" Tibby played along.
"My God, Tibby, this is kind of awkward," Bridget came up from behind. "I didn't want this to happen, I mean, on my wedding trip!"
"You guys are going to a wedding?" Hayden asked.
Tibby nodded.
"May I go along? I have no where to go, I was just running away from home, I can't take that evil step-dad!"
"My goodness, of course you can come," Bee responded. They picked up their bags and went straight to ALI BABA'S FABULOUS HOTEL AND CASINO, home of the two-minute weddings. (I.E. Full House, Becky and Jesse go to Vegas and feel a sudden urge to get married)
They checked into separate hotel rooms, one for Eric and Bee, one for Lena, Paul, Carmen, and Jordan, and one for Tibby and Hayden. Bee had decided to make their wedding for the next day.
Bridget: Her first official part was a little bit of the story needed to be included. I know, I kind of made Billy sound arrogant and bratty, but I was trying to make him more of the heartthrob of a friend. Sorry about that, it's hard to write about someone they don't give you enough information. It is so like Bee and Eric to all of the sudden agree to go to Vegas to get married.
Carmen: Meeting Jordan, typical chapter. Win isn't gone forever I promise. Oh, and you'll also hear more from my lovable Jojo song. I think I gave a good enough description of Jordan for you; I totally made him up on the spot. I am so good at that!
Lena: Good, she turned him down, that would've been a little awkward if she said yes, especially when she was only 18. Now Bee on the other hand… You have to finish reading the end of the chapter before you criticize my work; I know I would've gotten a lot of ugly reviews if I had left off at Paul going after Kostos. So don't get mad at me for the sudden Paul going crazy, when you haven't read the end of the chapter.
Tibby: My goodness, now you see why I've rated it T! Bloody blood, geez! Hayden was another made up on the spot character, really surprising, even for me, when she came back to life. More to come, probably in Bee's part, about the wedding. Oh yeah, you are also going to learn more about Hayden's home life before meeting Tibby.
Thank you for reading, and hopefully reviewing to help me. I really do appreciate, it helps me think, geez that was a really stupid mistake. Point out whatever, but I don't want to hear mean things about the Paul going crazy thing!
