Chapter 30: Rock On

"I got it," Jenny exclaimed. "What if I change your image." She dug in her purse for her makeup kit, pulled it out and walked over to Craig. "I heard glam rock is making a come back."

"Whoa." Craig moved out of the way before Jenny could apply a coat of mascara. "I don't think that is going to help."

"We'll I'll just leave it here for now." Jenny put the kit on a table. "Just in case you change you're mind."

"Thanks, but I doubt it." Craig strummed on his guitar. "What about this?" Craig read from a sheet of paper he had and started to sing. "One and one should equal two. Love is nothing but a game to you. You broke my heart you just had to leave, Ohhh sweet misery Ohhh swee."

"That's.. interesting." Jenny interrupted.

"You hate it," Craig asked.

"No, it was good, it's just... I thought you said the Kevin Smith movie was a comedy and it had a little romance in it, you know kinda bordering romantic comedy."

"Yeah, it is."

"We'll heart breaking and leaving doesn't make me want to laugh or smile quite the opposite it's makes me really depressed."

Craig crumpled up the paper. "I guess it's back to the drawing board."

"Yeah," Jenny sighed she walked to the piano and sat on the bench. "This would've never happened if we wouldn't have been interrupted at the beach." Jenny pushed her bench up to the piano. "G major this time."

"Dylan, just stall OK," Paige pleaded with Dylan over the phone. "I know mom's been bugging you but just tell her I'm really busy and I'll call her sometime this week. I just don't know why she can't call me on my cell...Yeah, well I promise you if you do this favor for me I'll well I don't know yet but hey I'm getting some money from the movie it's suppose to be a really big check I was going to save it for college and a brand new car but I'll just buy a used one and use the rest to fix up you're car what do you say about a tuneup...fine..ok a new paint job too,just stall her OK, we'll be home in a couple of days just tell her the school enjoyed us so much that they're offering us a few more days to check out the campus...Ok..wow that's even better,thanks big bro..bye."

"Paige, that's good that you convince Dylan to stall your mom but what about mine," Hazel asked.

"Already taken care of along with Manny's mom too, Dylan paid the computer geeks in his school to forge a official notice from the Dean to our parents for a couple of days on special honorary student retreat."

"I just hope it works." Hazel replied. "Somethings telling me we're going to regret it."

"See Hazel that's the thing with you." Paige put her arm around Hazel. "You worry too much. Now let's enjoy the time we have here while we can. Since Jimmy taking a nap let's go downtown "

"Oh, I almost forgot I have to take Manny to that store."

"Not that weird arts and craft store."

"I promised her."

"Oh well, at least were going shopping." Paige pulled the keys out of her pocket and gave it to Hazel. "Lets go find her I think she's taking a dip in the pool."

"So let me get this straight. You think that the real J is dating Emma and he's going to take advantage of her."

"Yeah," Jay replied.

"And that guy we saw last night, Lenny is J's friend and he told you all about the plan well he didn't really but you caught on with the bits and pieces he did give you."

"Exactly."

"Now you want me to help you trade places with J and sabotage his plan by impersonating him, again." Spinner looked at Jay. "Which will make Emma hate his guts and make J the biggest laughing stock of the Hampton's." Spinner rolled his eyes. "It's a good plan but why do you care what happens with Emma it's not like you two were an item in school at least not from what I heard."

"Shut up." Jay exclaimed. "Emma's a cool girl and I don't want to see her get hurt by scum like J."

"It wouldn't be any different then what happen between you two at school last year."

"That was different."

"I don't think it was."

"We'll I didn't ask for you opinion." J washed his hair in the sink. "Just give me a dry towel." Spinner handed the towel to him and Jay dried off. He looked in the mirror to check out his hair. "So are you going to help me or not?"

"Yeah," Spinner sighed"I'll help."

"Good," Jay looked in the mirror again. "So, what do you think?"

"It's looks well you look just like him from what I've seen in the pictures and glanced at when we weren't running for our lives at Parish's party."

"This is going to have to do because I'm not doing that again." Jay threw a box of temporary hair dye in the trash can. "Hand me a blow-dryer."

"What about this," Manny asked Emma. She pointed to an expensive dress in a magazine.

"It's nice but don't you think it's a little too soon to start thinking about spending our paychecks from the film, on clothes especially and especially expensive clothes like this."

"Why not, once my check comes in I'm going to buy a whole new wardrobe of designer threads."

"I'm saving my check for college." Emma replied.

"College is the last thing on my mind right now." Manny got up from the lawn chair and jumped in the pool.

Emma walked towards the pool house and peeked in. "I wonder if we're ever going to go inside that place?"

"Who cares," Manny said while splashing in the pool. "Were in the main house anyway unless that house has a larger and more extravagant room then were staying in already I couldn't care less." Manny went back to swimming laps in the pool.

"We'll, I'm curious." Emma turned the pool house knob but it wouldn't budge. "I'll be back." She said to Manny who was still swimming in the pool Emma walked around the pool house and peeked in the windows which were closed except for one which was open, just a little. She looked inside and noticed it didn't look that bad from what she was seeing no paint, tools or sawdust on the floor just a regular small house. "I wonder why Jenny would tell us it was a mess in there when it looks fine to me." Emma thought. She peeked in the window again and saw a person walking inside. She glared as hard as she could but couldn't quite make it out but it looked like. "No it couldn't be." Emma said to herself. "J."

"Hey,"

"Ahhh," Emma screamed. She turned around and saw Paige looking at her."What's wrong with you are you trying to scare me to death."

"No," Paige replied. "I was just asking did you want to go with me, Hazel and Manny downtown." Emma stared at Paige but didn't say a word. "If you don't want to go you can just say so."

"Uhh, no, I'll go."

"OK, well Manny went inside the house to change." Paige looked at Emma who was wearing a bikini and a robe. "Maybe you should do the same."

"Did you hear that?" Spinner asked Jay.

"Hear what," Jay exclaimed still blow drying his hair.

"I think someone's in the pool." Spinner replied. "I'm going to go take a look." Spinner walked to the front door and peeked through the windows. He saw Manny swimming laps in the pool. "Great I guess we won't be sneaking out of here until later on tonight." Spinner mumbled. He walked to the kitchen and looked in the refrigerator which only had a carton milk which was down to a sip, bottle water, a half eaten orange and a cans of dog food for Jefferson. "Great." He pulled out his cell phone and called Jenny. "I hope she can sneak in some food for us without being seen."

"Spinner can you hand me." Jay noticed Spinner had left. He turned off the blow dryer. "Fine," He said to himself. "I'll get it myself." Jay walked to his room and searched around for some hair gel. He walked back to the bathroom and just as he was about to finish up his do he noticed someone was peeking in the window."Spinner is that you?"

"What," Spinner exclaimed.

Jay looked at the window again but no one was there he peeked outside the window but the only thing he could see was the plush green lawn.

"What do you want?" Spinner said.

"Nothing, I thought I saw someone outside," He pulled the curtains back. I thought it was you but it was no one."

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