The Real me is a southern girl……

Started Wednesday July 27, 2005

Disclaimer:

Woe is me, Woe is me, For I own nothing that you see :bows:

Author's Note:

Hey everyone! This is my first song-fic, and my first Stand-By-Me fic that I plan to make successful. I mostly write Harry-Potter fics, but Stand-By-Me stories are what got be addicted to So, I hope you enjoy this! I know Everyone's pretty sick of 'the new girl' fic's, so I tried to make this as un-new-girlish as possible, that's kind of hard, but I'll try my best. R&R please! Thankies!

Updated Author's Note:

Okay, Yay! I'm posting the second and third chapter right after each other, to make up for lost time, once again, I'm SO SO SOOOOO sorry!

Chapter Two:

……Wish I could save the World…..

Dear Diary,

Hey! Last night was awesome. Just like the old times.

I still can't believe that me and Teddy are… well… you know…. Would, 'going out' be the right term? I really don't know.

Chris was really sad last night. I don't know why. Maybe I'll ask him today, see if I can do anything to help. Maybe he's worried about Teddy's dad being home… or it may be something else. Who knows.

I love them all so much. I am SO glad that I'm moving back. I missed them all so much.

Especially Teddy.

Who knew that one of them had feelings for me? Feelings like more than a sister?

Especially Teddy.

Okay, so I'm a bit obsessed. But who wouldn't be? The boy of your DREAMS likes you, (possibly love? Who KNOWS at this age? But I DO love him like a brother. NOTHING could change that.)

But then there's Chris…

Oh God, kill me now. I Promised myself I wouldn't mention him. HE DOESN'T LIKE YOU, YOU DERANGED FOOL!

God! Yeah, I know he loves me. But only as a sister. Why in the WORLD would Chris Chambers like/love ME in a romantic way?

Besides, I have Teddy now, right? RIGHT?

Right.

Anyhoo, I'll go back to my demented ways of life now.

Melly

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Chris washed the last of the windshields, and scrubbed the last two tires that were ready to go onto the conveyor belt. He watched as they slowly rose up the steep assembly line, and into the inner parts of the machine. He turned off the lights of the main office, locked it up, and headed towards Lola's house .His home for the holidays.

Chris opened the front door, (It was always unlocked during the day) and walked downstairs to find Melissa laying on his bed, writing in some form of a journal. He was silent, watching her from the doorframe. She had a concerned expression on her face, but It soon changed to her normal, 'everything's okay, why shouldn't it be?' smile.

He chuckled at the dramatic change, and she looked up, mildly embarrassed, but obviously done writing anyways.

She smiled, "Hey Chris. Sorry, Lola was cleaning upstairs, and this was the only quiet place I could find."

He shrugged and sat beside her, "No problem. What-cha writing woman?"

She looked skeptically up at him, "None of your business kind sir."

He leapt at the book, "OOOOOOOOH its about a booooooooy!"

She pulled back and slid it under her butt. "I'd like to see you try and get it."

Chris frowned. "That's not nice Melly." He said, poking the sides of her lower back.

She grinned and folded her arms under her head. "So, what are you doing home so early?"

He shrugged, "Nothing much to do at the store these days." He said, laying his head across her stomach.

"You boys are all so touchy-touchy these days. If I lay down, someone's got a body part on my stomach." She said, rolling her eyes.

He laughed and poked her nose, making her pinch his arm. They sat like that for a minute or so, until Teddy came in.

"Hey! My two… favorite people!" He said, leaping beside them on the bed.

Melly grinned and blew him a kiss, as she couldn't move while Chris was still on her stomach.

He wrinkled his nose, "EWWWAA! You two! You don't have to be all kissy kissy in FRONT of me!"

Teddy frowned, then grinned. "Yeah we do!"

Several seconds later, Chris jumped up. "Sandwich! Melly! DO you think Lola would make a sandwich for me? Do ya?"

She nodded and waved her hand towards the stairs in a evasive manor.

He bounded up the stairs, calling, "LOOOLLLLAAAA!" all the way.

Teddy clapped his hands and leaned down onto Melly, grasping her lips into a quick kiss, then pulling away.

She frowned, "Is that all I get? I haven't seen you all day and I get a simple kiss?" She said teasingly.

He laughed and lay beside her, pulling her close. "Well, what else could I give you my Melly?"

She rolled her eyes, "What about a better kiss?"

He looked thoughtful for a moment, "Hmm… Well, I suppose that's agreeable."

Before he could act, she climbed on top of him, then leaned down to kiss him squarely on the mouth.

He loved the feeling of how she felt on top of him. How her hands fit perfectly into his.

He let one hand slip around her waist, while the other tangled itself into her hair. He ran his tongue across her lips, then across her teeth. After a moment's hesitation, she opened up. She tasted like chocolate. No doubt she'd just been eating it. He felt an arm slip around his neck, and another laid casually on his chest.

Several minutes passed, and they pulled away, the need for air becoming the ultimate necessity.

She laid her head on his chest, and felt it rising up and down, breathing heavily.

He leaned down to whisper in her ear, "Again?" he asked in a boy-ish tone.

She laughed and swatted at his hand that was making its way down her lower back. And for an answer, she shifted her weight and pulled her head up to meet his.

"Now Teddy, Am I going to have to set daily limits of me?"

Teddy frowned and shook his head.

"Good." She whispered and leaned in for another mind-blowing kiss.

Around ten to fifteen minutes later, Chris walked in munching on a sandwich, and laughed.

The couple broke apart and literally jumped to different sides of the room.

"Looks like it was a good thing I came down here when I did. 'Cause if I didn't, from the looks of it, there would have been miniature people running around here in about nine months."

Melissa rolled her eyes and laid on Gordie's bed, "We were KISSING Chris. We weren't doing anything that you would do." She teased.

Chris grinned and sat on her legs. "Good. Because if you had been, I'm afraid I would have to give you a good lecturing missy."

Teddy glared at Chris and grumbled.

Melly rolled her eyes and stood up to get ready. "I'm going to the mall with Noelle and Macie… and Abby…and Lissy who I still haven't met. But according to Kiwi, she's better and jumping off the walls."

Chris nodded, "And Kiwi just called to inform me that all of the guys are sleeping over here… and apparently all of the girls are being dragged over to his place."

Melly nodded thoughtfully and said, "Yeah… Macie mentioned something like that yesterday…" She shrugged and continued to get dressed. The guys were used to her getting dressed down there. For some reason, she preferred not having to go upstairs to get dressed.

Chris pretended to be interested in the ceiling as she got dressed, but continuously sneaked a peak over at her. Teddy had run upstairs to get his own sandwich, leaving Chris and Melly alone in the basement/bedroom.

Chris always told her she looked perfect whenever she asked, but she always rolled her eyes and went back to the mirror, fiddling with make up and hair accessories. He just smiled when she did that.

He loved the way she looked. Curves in all the right places, just the perfect skin tone, gorgeous brown hair, and sparkling chocolate brown eyes. Once or twice in the past few days, he had heard some random guys from around town talking about her, saying if she only just changed this one thing, she'd be perfect. And to every guy it was a different 'just one thing.'

But to Chris, (and to Teddy, Gordie and Vern he was sure.) She was perfect as she was. She deserved no one but the best. No one that wanted to change her. She didn't deserve that. Chris would be there to make sure that she got the best, and only the best.

He saw her staring at him. "What?" He asked.

She raised an eyebrow, "You were staring at me. In my underwear."

He frowned, "Sorry. Wasn't really…staring I suppose. Lost in my thoughts."

"Mmm, sure."

He blushed, "I wasn't really staring. I promise."

She laughed and laid down beside him on the bed. "So, what-cha thinking about?"

"Rather not say."

"please? I'll love you forever!"

He paused as the words echoed through his mind. He shook his head violently and said, "You."

It was her turn to blush, and she kissed him quickly on the cheek, then got up to finish pulling her hair into a pony tail.

Teddy walked in, munching on a sandwich. "Hey guys. Have a good look Chris?" He said, grinning.

Chris rolled his eyes, "Get off it."

Teddy shrugged and wrapped his arms around Melly, who gave him a quick kiss on the cheek in return.

He frowned, "Now that's all I'm going to get? I won't see you until tomarrow night! And all I get is a kiss on the cheek?"

Chris grinned and hung his head off of the bed, so that he was looking at Teddy upside down, "She gave you enough earlier. Besides, she's got lipstick on now."

Melly giggled and turned around, "Exactly." She said, winking at Teddy.

Teddy grumbled and fell onto his bed in thought. "I wonder how Abby and Daniel are going to get by without chewing each other's lips off every few moments."

Melly shrugged, "We're not letting Abby out of our sight."

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"Where'd she go?"

"Chocolate store."

"And you LET her? She's already bouncing off the walls!"

"And now she'll do it literally."

"My point exactly."

"I still don't see what you'll be able to do about it."

Macie sighed and looked away from Abby, "Yeah, whatever. I just hope Melissa's giving her SOME kind of limit. Lissy will eat herself sick again."

Noelle shrugged and began to pull her sister and Abby along the large hallways, searching for Melissa and Lissy in any random chocolate store.

Abby jumped, "There they are!"

Melissa and Lissy were walking up a downwards escalator. Or trying to at the least.

"Those girls are going to get themselves killed."

"We should tell them that their allergic to chocolate."

"Then we should send them to the Asylum."

Melly turned around and hurried back down the escalator. "Hey! I prefer to call it the Funny Farm thank you very much!"

Noelle grinned and grabbed Melly's hand. "Are we back down to earth you two?"

Melly nodded and reached over to grab Lissy, who was coming down the up escalator and annoying various shoppers.

"Again! Again!" She called, reaching out towards the escalator.

Macie shook her head, "Kiwi warned us she was hyper. I never thought a week in the house could change a person so much."

Lissy looked up and saw one of the newest shops, "ooooooooh! Its purple! Lets go!"

The girls were dragged from store to store all day. Lissy had found some very interesting stores indeed that day, and though ironic it was, the girls spent a lot of money in most of them.

That night, they all lay in the Pritchet's living room, and spread among them was the various stuff they'd bought that day, sitting about for observation. Noelle and Lissy (Who had finally calmed down to her normal state of mind) were ooh-ing and ahh-ing over some clothes that Macie had bought, whilst Macie, Melly, and Abby were looking over the various 'high-tech' gadgets that they had bought. Ranging from mini-radios, to computer-in-a-pen, Something that would (If not broken) prove useful during the next school year in classes.

Melly had called the boy's earlier, to tell them that they had gotten back so they wouldn't worry anymore.

"Hey Chris. We're back. You won't BELIEVE what we got."

"An organized robot that carries around your bags so we men don't have to carry them?"

"No, we like seeing you squirm."

"Oh. How thoughtfull. Anyways, what is it?"

"A computer."

"…you had enough money?"

"In a pen."

"Hu? Your money was in a pen?"

"No. The computer was."

"Oh. Bet it doesn't work."

"Yeah me too. We're trying to find batteries small enough for it right now."

"Hmm…where'd you find it?"

"At a pawn shop."

"It doesn't work."

Melly sighed, "I know. It just seemed like a cool idea. We wanted to check it out."

"Well, I'll look at it tomarrow. Maybe kiwi can make it do something."

"Yeah. Well, kiss Teddy good-night for me."

"Are you crazy?"

"yeah. Good night Chris."

"Good night Melly. Love you."

"Love you too."

Chris hung up the phone and turned back to the guys. "The girls bought a computer-in-a-pen."

They all wore blank stares.

"Bet it doesn't work." Daniel said.

"Oh it won't." Chris answered.

Several seconds passed.

"Oh yeah, Teddy, Melly sends kisses. She told me to kiss you for her, but I told her that people would stare."

Teddy sighed, then brightened. "I say we go scare the hell out of the women."

"I second that motion." Daniel said, thinking about Abby.

"And I third it." Vern said, "They had the better popcorn."

All the guys laughed, and began thinking of scare tactics.

"Spiders."

"Lame-o Vern-o."

"I say we flip the electricity switch, then brake in a window." Kiwi suggested.

"Kiwi? You do know that you'd have to PAY for the window?"

"Who cares, we'll brake in my bedroom window for all I care."

"Sounds good to me." Chris answered.

So, they did just that.

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"I'll go get some more popcorn." Macie said, taking the empty plastic bowl into the kitchen.

She opened the pantry door, and that's when it happened.

The lights went out, one by one. She could hear the girls rumbling around in the living room for their flashlights, a necessity to any good sleepover. She put the bowl into the sink and made her way back to her sleeping bag.

"What happened?" Melly asked worridly.

But Lissy just shrugged, "who knows. Happens all the time. Dad said something like a faulty wire or something. Don't know why he doesn't get it fixed."

Macie sighed, "I'm thirsty."

"I left the soda upstairs."

"Grr you Lissy."

"What! I thought we'd be sleeping up there! I didn't know that my parents wouldn't be home 'till late!"

Macie climbed up the stairs and pulled open Lissy's bedroom door. She searched around the bed, and grabbed the coca-cola, along with a lemon-lime drink. Walking downstairs, she closed the door behind her. She threw the drinks alongside the paper cups on Abby's sleeping bag.

Someone politely knocked on the door.

Everyone looked at Lissy.

"Er, you wanna get that Lis?" Abby asked.

Lissy rolled her eyes and stood up, shaking the popcorn crumbs off of her as she went.

The light knocking suddenly became sharp and quick blows to the door. With her hand an inch from the doorknob, she jumped back.

Macie stared wide-eyed at the small window, where a blackened hand was slowly sliding down it.

They all screamed.

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The guys could barely stifle their laughter as they heard the girls shriek. Chris saw them bound up the winding staircase, tripping on every stair. He waved the guys over to the side of the house, where they had set up a ladder leading to Kiwi's unlocked bedroom window.

Chris climbed in first, followed by Teddy, Vern, Gordie, and Daniel. Kiwi made sure to lean over and bang on Lissy's window before climbing in himself.

They wrecked Kiwi's room by throwing various things around, banging on walls, and braking some cheap glass cups Chris had found on the road.

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The girls huddled together on the bed, screaming and screeching every time something or someone made a noise. Which was a lot. They screamed for hours, it seemed like, but in reality, it was only about 8 minutes.

The intruders started banging on Lissy's door, and whoever had come in last forgot to lock it. The door swung open and in came…

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Chris fell on the floor, howling with laughter. The sight of the girls all huddled on the bed was just too much.

The rest of the guys filed in behind him, every one of their faces red with laughter.

The girls were furious.

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"Aw, come on Melly! It was a simple prank! We didn't mean to scare… well, yeah we did. But it was all in good fun!"

Melly swung her door back open, face red with rage. "Yeah Chris. All in good fun. Their parents weren't home Chris! A bunch of girls, home alone, who had just watched Horrors in Hollywood, along with The Amityville Horror (A.N, The original one came out in the seventies. My mom said she couldn't sleep right for weeks. Don't know why though. My parents made me watch it, and the scariest part was when the cat jumped on the window.) Damnit Chris, we were already scared enough!"

Chris stood there, open-mouthed. Hell, those movies had made the guys not sleep right for weeks.

"Oh, um… I'm sorry Melly. We thought we'd just give you all a little scare. We didn't know that you'd be watching those movies and all…"

"Yeah, that's right Chris. You didn't know. You assholes also didn't think"