Chapter 9

Tommy was at his new job. The ticket guy for the train station. Tommy sighed as someone came up to him, someone familiar. "Yeah, give me one ticket to...Tommy?"

"Huh?" Tommy looked up and gasped. "Oh dear God! Wallace, is it?"

"Yeah, oh, say hi to Roxanne." Wallace smiled.

"Who?"

"My snake, Roxanne." Wallace pulled his snake out of a suitcase. "The suitcase is her home."

"Good for you. Now, where are you going?"

"You didn't say hi to Roxy." Wallace said with a mean look on his face. "Say hi, you dirty, ticket, guy."

"Sorry, sorry. Hi Roxy."

"You cant call her that. Only I can call her Roxy. You will refer to her as Roxanne." Wallace popped his knuckles. "So, you wanna start something?"

"Not me."Tommy said and pressed a button under the counter. "But these guys might." Two very large muscular security guards came up to him and grabed him. "Take him away."

"You haven't seen the last of me! I'll be back! I will!" Wallace screamed as the guards dragged him off.

.....

Back at Phil's place, him and Kimi were watching a movie. "Phil." Kimi said.

"Yeah?"

"Um, did you quit your job?"

"Yeah. Why?"

"You didn't have to you know."

"I know, but that Italian kid just kept bugging me. And did everything I could. I tried giving him candy, and porn, and-"

"Why didn't you just give him detention or something?"

"Well, Vinny said that detention was awesome and it was more of a reward than, a punishment."

"Vinny's a tricky dirty liar." Kimi said.

.....

"So, you ready for tomorrow?" Daniel asked walking into Lil's office.

"Yeah. Cant wait. But, um, where is the boat?" Lil asked.

"At the marina at the county lake. Cant miss is. Huge house boat. Cost me a fortune."

"Cool."

.....

The next day, Tommy and Lil were preparing to leave for the lake. The phone rang."Tommy! Could you get that?" Lil shouted.

"Yeah." he replied and picked it up. "Hello? Yeah. Okay. Oh. I'm sorry. Oh?" Tommy smiled at the last oh. "Alright, thank you." Tommy hung up and smiled at Lil. "Guess what?"

"I'm fired?"

"No. Why dont you just quit?"

"I dont know. I just want get fired.To show my parents I'm not perfect. "

"Hm. Anyway, your boss's wife got sick and they cant come. But, he said we could go on without him. The keys should be in the boat."

"Awesome." Lil smiled. "Hey! Why dont we invite the guys?"

"Who?"

"Our friends?"

"Ohh." he said. "Okay. But, um, he did say just us two."

"So? Screw him. Lets invite everyone else."

"Okay." Tommy said.

......

After a few hours, Tommy,Phil,Lil,Chuckie,Kimi, and Dil were at the marina. "Why couldn't Angelica or Susie come?" Dil asked.

"Angelica had work, and Susie gets sea sick." Tommy answered.

"Tch." Dil chuckled. "We're not even on the sea."

Tommy stared at him then changed the subject. "Okay, it should be the big blue, red, and white one."Tommy said. "That one!" he pointed the biggest boat in the docks.

They got onboard and prepared to go out on the water. "Hey T, can you drive this thing?" Phil asked.

"Of course not." Tommy replied loading their stuff. "But, um, how long are we staying?"

"Three days is what Daniel said." Lil said.

"Oh my God!" Phil yelled.

"What?" Kimi asked.

"What if Lil has the baby here on the boat?" Phil asked. Everyone remained silent and stared at him. "Huh? What would we do?" they again stared at him.

"Phil, she's been pregnant for like, a week." Chuckie said.

"So? She could still have it." Phil said. They again stared at him.

"I dont know Phil. I guess we'd have to..." Tommy said sarcasticlly,"...go in... and get it." he was disgusted by his own words.

"I'm not doing it." Dil waved his hands in defense. "Anyway, lets get this mother out on the water."

"Does anyone know how to drive a house boat?" Tommy asked.

"I do!" Chuckie said.

"No you dont." Kimi said.

"How much you wanna bet?" Chuckie asked. "I bet you this trip will be safe and not life risking."

"I'll bet you fifty dollars." Kimi said.

"One hundred." Chuckie said.

"Two hundred."

"Three hundred."

While Chuckie and Kimi continued to bet, Tommy said, "Do they always do this?"

"Yeah, I think so."Lil said.

"The other day, Kimi bet me I couldn't stuff 12 gram crackers in my mouth." Phil said.

"What does that have to do with this?" Dil asked.

"Well, I wanted to bring it up." Phil said.

"Who won?" Tommy asked.

"Kimi." Phil said. "After the tenth one, I choked. I had to spit them all out."

"So, lets go. If we wreck or something, I'll give you all $500." Chuckie annoucned."Thats how confident of myself I am."

"Oh cool." Dil frowned.

.....

"Hi Angelica." Jack said taking a seat.

"Is this like, the only restaraunt in town?" Angelica asked. "I mean, this place sucks. Hal's sucks."

"Is that the name of this place?" Jack asked. "Hm. Cool. Anyway, you wanna get dinner sometime? Just you and me?"

"Okay, how about now?" Angelica asked.

"Huh?"

"Yeah." she said and sat down. Another waiter walked by them. "Um, sir, we'll have some wine." she said to him.

"Angelica, dont you work here?" he asked.

"Um, excuse me? Wine please!" she ordered. He stared at her and headed to the kitchen. "So, Jack, tell me about yourself."

"Um, I grew up in Texas, but moved to New York when I was 11. Then came here a few months ago." Jack said.

"Interesting." Angelica said. "I've lived here my whole life. I went to Paris when I was three. Got lost in the woods and almost killed by monkeys and a wolf. Went to New York for a job interview about a month ago. My cousin's married to someone he knew when they were one."

"Whoa." Jack said. "Heh. Cool. You've lived a life."

.....

"Okay, here we go." Chuckie said starting up the boat. He slowly backed out and it made its way out onto the lake.

"Not bad so far." Kimi said.

"Not so bad, um, all the time, actually." Chuckie said.

"Hey check this out." Phil said reading a map of the lake. "There's this little part of the lake with all this open area. Good place for house boats, it says."

"Lets go there, then." Dil suggested.

"Okay." Chuckie said. The boat then headed towards the spot that Phil talked about. They were then there. No other boats were around. Not one. "No other boats."

"Cool." Phil said. "We'll get this place to our selves."

"Check that out." Tommy pointed to what looked like an island. It was quite large infact. "Cool. Lets dock over there."

Chuckie drove the boat up to the island and they tied up. "This is a nice little place." Lil commented. "I'm hungry." she then turned to the others. "I'm gonna get a snack." She jumped back onto the boat and went to a cabinet. She grabbed some chips and headed back out the door, but she noticed something. Next to the steering wheel was a gas gauge that said empty. "TOMMY! CHUCKIE! PHIL!" she yelled. The three ran in.

"What?" Tommy asked.

"Look." she pointed to the gas gauge.

CHuckie turned and looked at it. He noticed that it said empty. "Oh no." he said. "Oh no. No, no , no, no, no. Please no!" he begged. He tried starting it but it was no use. It was epmty. "WHY!?"

"What is it?" Kimi ran in and asked. "Ooh. Its empty. Chuckie owes us $500." she chuckled. The others turned and glared at her.

"Kimi!"Phil yelled. "Do you see any other boats?"

"Any at all?" Chuckie asked.

"We're stranded!" Tommy yelled. "There's no one around to help us!"

"You guys!" Dil ran in. "Guess what!"

"WHAT!?" they all asked.

"Sor-ry." he said. "I was just gonna say I saw a fish in the water."

"dil! We're stranded!" Tommy yelled.

Phil took a deep breath and shouted, "WE'RE DOOOOMMMMMMED!"

"We're not doomed." Lil said. "Okay, we are."

"So." Chuckie slapped his hands together. "What now?"

"Um, well I'm going to go to the bathroom, in the bedroom." Phil said as he nudged Kimi. "I mean, heh, I'm going ot the bed room, and not the bathroom. I'll take a nap." he said and ran to the back bedroom.

Kimi waited a moment then said. "I'm sleepy too. I mean, peey. I'll go pee now." she said and ran back to the bathroom. The others went outside and when they were gone, Kimi peeked out then ran to the bedroom with Phil.

.......

"Hello!" Angelica entered the apartment cheerfully.

"Have a good day?" Susie asked turning off the TV. "Hey, and I've been asking myself something."

"What?"

"Do you think Tommy and Lil got married too soon?"

"Hell yeah. They went out, what? A week?"

"Um, no. About five months, then got married, and now are going to have a baby. Things are happening to fast for them."

"Yeah, whatever." Angelica sighed. "I'm going to go take a bath, now." she sighed and walked into the bathroom.