Chapter Six
Little Punishment
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Spikerina: Thanks for the review! Paul will not be too harsh and I didn't really get what you were saying but okay! I hope that you like his reaction and the Tuck Everlasting was in there just for you. I LOVE the movie though. I gotta rent it again!
Mrs. Nikki Slater: Thanks for the idea. I don't really think I will put Jack in the story because I reread parts of Darkest Hour and in the story Jack is 8 and so this is a year later so he'd be 9. I don't think he'd really fit in but I'm thinking about it!
Koizak: Yes you are a wonderful muse! Lol! Pam will get out of this on. Well barely!
Pam POV
UHHHH! I'M IN DEEP DOO DOO! Okay so just act like you didn't do anything.
Well that's kind of hard to do Mrs. I-Have-To-Get-Caught because all of the papers are strewn in front of you and you're holding the shifter new article.
Good Point
When am I wrong?
Do you want a list?
Fine be mean!
I will
After I had the mind battle. Well I may be going crazy if I'm talking to myself. I should get myself checked. Stop spewing nonsense girl and pull yourself together. I looked up at Paul and his ice blue gaze made me feel like I was in Antarctica. No scratch that like I was in space. Except I could breath…..mmm…. Anyway I finally stuttered because it looked like Paul was barely keeping his temper in check.
"Y-Y-You s-see I saw the d-door open and so I walked in a-and I j-just saw the b-box peeking out of the corner and I-I was curious. He he." I tried to look (A/N: The radio song just said "Caught red handed." kind of ironic.) I gave a pitiful smile like the kind you give when you have your hand caught in the cookie jar. Well Paul just kind of blew up.
"GET OUT!" That's not a good sign is it. I sped out of there. I went down the stairs like I was Jerry and Tom was after me. I raced past the Tuck Everlasting movie which was still playing and I kind of cowered in a corner near the front entrance. I noticed that in my hurry to get out of Paul's room that I had accidentally taken the newspaper article I was looking at before. I carefully hid it in my pocket. Paul then descended.
"Why you little midget." Hey that was a little harsh to fun of my height. Sure I was barely 5" but that was no reason to criticize the short people. I as offended. Deeply. I was still terrified to the bone and that kind of override the offended side of me so I just ended up shaking. Paul grabbed me by the wrists. His grip was like iron and it hurt. Let me tell you it hurt. He then opened a door and threw me in like I was a discarded rag doll. I landed on a vacuum? What the heck. Then my light supply was cut off when I heard a slam of the door. Apparently Mr. Paul Slater had thrown me in a closet! A Closet! Of all places. This can so be considered child abuse. I looked around but I could only make out the outline of things from the thin line of light coming from under the door. There were coats and a few shoes and a vacuum that I had hit before. This sucked so I sat myself down on the floor and started fiddling with my hair. I knew that I was in for a long wait. I then remembered the news article and took it out. I strained my eyes and I couldn't make out anything. There wasn't enough light! Dang! This just sucks so I leaned my head back and closed my eyes. It didn't really matter because the closet was already dark. I sighed and just leaned against the door and started twiddling my thumbs.
Suze POV
After we had dropped off my cousin me and Jesse headed over to this girls mother's house. We had decided to write a note. It said all about how it wasn't her mother fault that her daughter had gotten hit by car. That it was no ones fault and it was just an accident. It also had a I love you in there. After we delivered the note the girl started shimmering and she faded away. Another good deed and I got that warm fuzzy feeling. You know the one you get when you have done something good. Well I get that feeling a lot so I ignored it and me and Jesse walked back to the car. He said
"We must go pick Pam up at Slater's house." When he said Slater it wasn't in a very nice tone. We got into the car and I said.
"Jesse can't we just hang out. She can hang out with Paul awhile right?" When I said hang out I meant make out. Jesse of course understood what I meant perfectly.
"No we cannot Susannah. I think your cousin would like to be picked up she did not seem to happy of us leaving her behind." Jesse always had to ruin the fun. I then started sliding my hand ever so slowly up his neck so my arms were around his neck. I pouted and said
"Come on Jesse. You ruin all the fun." He hen proceeded to take my arms off him.
"No Qu-" I silenced him by pressing my mouth to his. He stopped resisting after that. He slid his arms around my waist and I pressed my body against him. He seemed to like that. I then kissed him harder and as the kissing progressed Jesse started getting closer and closer to getting his hand under my shirt. We ran out of air so we surfaced and Jesse then very quickly took my arms from around his neck and placed them in my lap. He then turned towards the wheel and started the car. I just crossed my arms and turned to look out the window. I hate it when Jesse goes all 18th century gentlemanly on me. He always ruins the fun. Below the neck is off limits until after the wedding. Well it's the 21st century and a times a changing. I want to have a little fun is that so wrong? I guess to Jesse it is. The little one always had to ruin everything. I bet he would of made out with me if we didn't have to pick up Pam.
God my life sucked! We then arrived at the glass house. I got out of the car and we walked towards the door and rang the doorbell. I was still a little miffed at Jesse so I didn't stand too close to him and didn't make eye contact. Okay so I was being a little childish but I was miffed. The door opened and I saw a mad Paul. He opened the door wide and we walked in he then shut the door and exploded.
"That little midget went through my shifter papers." I immediately became alert and said
"SHE WHAT?" I gave him an incredulous look.
"She went to the restroom and then I noticed that she had been gone for a pretty long time so I went up to check on her right. I see my bedroom door wide open and that monstrosity is sitting on the floor with all my shifter papers strewn over the floor! I was so mad!" I wasn't processing the information and then Jesse finally asked
"Where is Pam?" Ya I want to see the guilty party! I looked around and didn't see anything. Paul just answered non-chalantly
"Oh I locked her in the closet." Both Jesse and me gave him a disbelieving look when he finally said "Do you want me to show you?" he then walked to the hall closet and a little body came flying out. It looked like she had been leaning against the door. She looked up at me and said
"Oh hello my dearest cousin Suze." That little leprechaun did know she was in trouble and was just trying to butter me up. Well that wasn't going to work today!
Pam POV
I heard the doorbell ring. Oh yes my savior. I had been sitting in that closet for who knows how long but I was bored out of my mind. I was so gonna call the cops on this Paul guy when I got out of this tiny space! I heard some voices. One sounded like Suze's and then Paul answered and then I distinctly heard Jesse. I then heard footsteps come close to my little closet and the door opened I forgot that I had been leaning on the door so I unexpectedly slid on the floor so that the upper part of my body was out side of the closet. I looked at everyone and just smiled a guilty smile. Suze gave me a hard look and said
"Pamela what have you done?" Oh so she was going to say my full first name was she well two can play at that game.
"I was just curious dear Anna." Okay so I was little and couldn't pronounce Susannah or Suze. Paul looked questioning at Suze and was like
"Anna?" Suze just looked madder after that and said
"Come on Pamela you are going home with me and are going to be under my close eye for the rest of your stay here. Now apologize to Paul." I put my head down in shame. So I realized that I shouldn't of gone and explored through his personal things. I was wrong but I was sort of happy at the same time. I had a feeling that whatever this shifter nonsense was it had something to do with the strange even that involved Suze and Jesse and I was starting to think Paul.
"I'm very sorry for messing with your stuff." I said in a muffled voice and then what I asked next was something that made Jesse, Suze, and Paul all nervous. Well you know the saying. Curiosity Killed the Cat but Satisfaction Brought it Back! I had a feeling I was defiantly going to be satisfied with what I found out. So I said
"What is a shifter anyway. You all seem to be pretty nervous that I discovered those papers. What are you hiding." Suze and Jesse exchanged nervous glances and then Paul said.
"Nothing it's nothing. I was researching for an ancient Egyptian project and I stumbled upon those old newspaper articles." I gave Paul a disbelieving look.
"Okay." I said quietly "Can we get out of here." I then walked out with my head down. I was ashamed and I felt bad. Oh not that bad you know about Paul but that I let down Suze. I did look up to her and she was my role model. It feels so bad when you disappoint your role model. So I silently walked past Jesse to the door and I walked out to the car where I waited for Jesse and Suze to come to come out and take me to Suze's house. I needed to think things through and piece it all together.
Suze POV
I felt kind of guilty about yelling at the kid now. She did call me Anna though. When she had stopped calling me Anna and started calling me Suze I thought that she had forgotten the little nickname. Clearly she hadn't and she was going to annoy the hell out of me with that name. I turned to Paul and said.
"Sorry she got into the shifter stuff. Though you shouldn't of locked her in the closet. I would of expected better of you." Jesse then put in in a non too pleasant voice now that Paul had given him more reason to hate him.
"You cannot lock a little girl in a closet."
"She wasn't harmed in anyway as you saw." Paul answered not really concerned. I couldn't believe the least he could of said was that he was sorry he had locked her in the closet! What a jerk. He can still be a jack ass sometimes.
"I better go check on Pamela to see if she's okay. Come on Susannah." Jesse said as he grabbed my hand. I quickly said as Jesse leaded me out of Paul's house.
"Bye Paul." I then realized that he had said Pamela instead of Pam. Great he was going to start with the whole proper name thing. I just followed along. I saw Pam sitting in the back seat. She didn't look too happy. I wouldn't either if I had been locked in the closet for god knows how long. Though she did go through Paul's stuff. He still had no right to lock a 13 year old in a closet. Wait wasn't that child abuse in some way. I hope Pam didn't call the cops or anything. We finally reached the car and the drive home was quiet. Jesse and me still weren't on the best of terms and Pam was just mad. So when I got home I just said
"Good bye Jesse. Come on Pam." Today wasn't really fun for any of us.
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