Ch.16: the Truth is Not So Sweet
I sat there inside the movie theatre watching as my other three friends play in the arcade. My side hurt still and my head was banging but that wasn't what was killing me, it was my heart. Why did she look me in the face so full of hate? I couldn't understand and now I wasn't even going to enjoy the 2 days I had with my friends, so I tried to keep it out of my mind. But as I thought this is exactly what the Beast had warned me, he told me not to go to the pool with Terra and then after that I wasn't feeling anything from him. What was going on?
"Hey Gar you got to play this game!" laughed Victor as he played the Battlefield game with the rotating control pod.
I laugh as he spun wildly with the machine but he suddenly stopped dead cold!
"What's wrong?" I asked concerned.
He lifted up the pod and I could see the green in his skin, almost like me.
"I'm going to barf!" he yelled as he ran around the theater looking for a trashcan but only could see one place.
He did a matrix leap over the counted and hurled into the freshly backed popcorn. I thanked god we had hid our food under a chair in our theater. But as he vomited comically I heard a couple walk by smiling say.
"So that's where they get the taste from!"
I helped my sickened brother up and helped him into the theatre where he sat at the railing and looked at the screen. For a minute he kept looking at the screen until he began laughing uncontrollably.
"Man…that…was…the best thing…I ever did!" he laughed as he slapped his knee.
I joined him knowing it was really funny to.
"You are gonna get us kicked out again do you remember the Gotham Theatre?" I laughed.
: FLASHBACK:
Garfield and Victor stand in front of a movie and looked at each other in front. The Grudge was flashing on the board. Each one of them was too scarred to go back fearing they would yell something out.
"You…you go in!" yelled Garfield.
"No…no…no way man!" Victor yelled as he backed away from the doorway.
The friend Michael sat next to them on a bench shaking his head in laughter, the movie was good and scary but this was hilarious to see two grown kids wetting there pants to go back into a plain movie. He got up and grabbed both the teens by the collar and dragged them both into the movie. He could hear there nails cutting into the wood of the wall holding back.
"Come on you bunch of cabbage patch babies lets watch the movie!"
"No way man!" cried Victor.
"I spent my good hard money I worked up at the pizza shop to watch this movie!"
"You used my money and you didn't do a damn thing in the pizza shop, you ate the pizzas!" Garfield yelled.
"Still it's the principal that counts!"
Michael through the teens into a front row seat and sat next to them with a smile on his face. About half an hour later, Victor jumped up and screamed at the top of his lungs.
"Look out bitch it's gonna get you!"
The teen ran at the top of his speed out of the movie theatre and crashed into a room holding projectors. He crashed and broke three projectors and gave himself a bad headache. Twenty minutes later Garfield and Victor were thrown out the door to the butts on the concrete while Michael; walked out sipping on a soda.
"And don't come back!" yelled the manager.
Michael flipped the man the bird and walked off with the two scared teens.
: END OF FLASHBACK:
"Oh yeah that was fun, what ever happened to Michael?" asked Victor.
"He was adopted by a couple in Texas, during the winter break he's coming back to the home for a visit, he's gonna spend Christmas with us."
"Cool, when he gets back you gotta get your money back."
I froze and grew red in the cheeks.
"He didn't pay me my money didn't he?" I cried.
"Yeah." Victor laughed.
"I'm putting coal in his stocking!"
Victor and I shared a laugh and leaned back in the chairs.
"Good times a?"
"Yeah, I miss those days, but hey we got a good life now."
"True, but sometimes you wonder, if he can get adopted can we? I mean we probably wont but still what if?"
"Don't talk like that man we aren't splitting up Vic, it was you and me before and it's gonna be you and me till the end no matter what!"
He gave me a fake punch to the shoulder and smiled.
"What movie are we watching again?"
"King Kong."
"Alright, I loved the original even though the special effects are crap!" he laughed as he reached under the chair and pulled out a box of popcorn we had placed so we wouldn't lose it.
"Can I ask you something Victor?" I asked with a blush coming to my face.
"Sure kid what's up?" he said trying to keep a calm voice.
"How can you tell what a girls thinking?"
"Something happened between you and Raven?"
"You know this big brother attitude is so creepy coming from you." I said with a smile.
"Tell me about it."
"Well, I don't know, when we went to go see her I stayed and tried to talk to her, but as I began to she slammed the door in my face and as she did her eyes gave me the darkest look I had ever seen and I don't know why." I stated keeping my voice as quiet as possible.
"Well, do you think anything you did could have upset her?"
"Nothing she saw."
"What do you mean?"
"Well the other day I was at the swimming pool talking to that Kip Wave kid, but then Terra showed up and started swimming around. Then out of no where Kip jumps into the water screaming for help. He points to nothing so I take off my shirt but leave my pants on and jump in and Terra is at the bottom with a cut on her forehead. She was out and I mean out. So I dive down and I nearly drown going down, so I grab her in my arms and did a rocket power push on the concrete floor and basically fly above the water and lay her on the ground. The I noticed she couldn't breathe so I gave her mouth to mouth and as I did she pulled me up and actually kept kissing me and I couldn't pull back."
"Sounds like it was a set up?"
"What…why?"
"Someone could have gave Raven a picture of you and her kissing and someone wanted to get you guys apart." He said strong in the voice.
But as I thought who knew I remembered that kid at the café with the Slade necklace! Slade! He did it, he turned on me and Raven!
'Slade!' I yelled in my mind.
'I'm glad you got the picture.' came the Beast.
'You knew? Why didn't you tell me?'
'I warned you! There's something different about that Slade necklace you have around your neck, I can't get to you and help you out anymore!'
'Wait you want to help me?'
'Yes and you wouldn't listen, we have to play to this guys rules or he will strike back against us!'
'So what are you proposing?'
'Something I think you would like! We aren't going to strike against Slade fast, we have to make him suffer.'
'Give me your plan.'
'O.k. but it's going to involve some tricks and pranks.'
'I am willing to do anything, just as long as I can get back at him.'