Note: Thanks for all the love for Collins' hacking action. Te he I actually left hints chapters in advance that was gonna happen. Cookies for all who noticed them. (eats muffin) Thanks for all of your reviews. I hope you enjoy this chappie!
Mark stood up on his tiptoes to get a better look at the line. Mark, Lori, Joanne, Maureen, and Mimi waited not so patiently to get on "The Rocket" roller coaster. He shook his head and sighed, "It's no hope. We will never reach the end." Lori patted him lightly on the arm. Both of them smiled lightly.
"I just realized something." Mimi said sitting on the bars which kept those in line in their spots, "It's June 3rd isn't it?"
Joanne nodded wiping some sweat off her forehead, "That it is. Considering yesterday was the 2nd. Though I wonder what day it will be when we get at the end of this line." Maureen bounced up and down in her spot, someone had the horrific idea of giving the girl some sugar on the car trip. Everyone was suffering.
"Mo, please sit still." Mimi groaned wondering how Joanne dealt with the drama queen at such times, "It's two months."
"What's two months?" Lori asked quietly blushing immediately. Although she was still ridiculously shy she was actually speaking more than three words. Mark liked to think that she was starting to get comfortable. Joanne smiled at her cousin and knew it was true.
Mimi stood up to move an inch in the line and sat down on the bars again, "Collins and Angel have been together for two months now. We should do something." She offered. Maureen seemed very enthusiastic about this.
"Yay! We could have a party!" She said hugging Joanne in the middle making her girlfriend squeak.
"Um…honeybear right now?" Joanne asked, "Right here?"
Maureen sighed and shook her head, "No, silly, not until we get off the roller coaster. Then maybe we could buy them ice cream sundaes or something like that."
Mark nodded with a grin, "That would be nice. I don't even know if they realize it."
"I'm pretty sure Angel knows." Lori murmured fiddling with her shirt which was exposing a bit to much of her midriff in her opinion, "She was bouncing around all day…worse than Maureen."
"That's kinda Angel 24/7 though isn't it?" Maureen asked not being offended at all by Lori's comment.
Mark chuckled pulling out sunscreen from his pocket, "Yeah it is. Especially since her and Collins got together. Lots of squealing."
Mimi giggled knowing what he meant, "Oh gosh I remember the day they got together. When Collins left her house she called me right away and squealed at the top of her lungs into the phone. I thought she broke my eardrum truthfully. I even thought what will ever become of a deaf dancer." She quieted thinking to herself, "We should do something like Maureen suggested. They're so ridiculously happy…"
Joanne put her hand on Mimi's shoulder, "It doesn't always come that easy to everyone, Meems." She glanced over at Maureen who was leaning over the bars to talk to a group of girls their age. One of the girls, a blonde, seemed particularly talkative with Maureen, her leg dangerously close to the drama queen.
Mimi frowned watching Maureen. She had obviously not learned her lesson from the breakup. But Joanne didn't seem very phased although her smile got tighter with every moment. Mimi got up to move another inch, "It's not that me and Roger aren't…good. We are. But…I always think that there's something stopping him. That there's something blocking me from truthfully seeing him. I thought maybe it was April…he made it clear last night it wasn't her."
Joanne nodded sympathetically, "I haven't known Roger for…a long while…but I get what you mean." She looked towards Mark who blushed. The filmmaker didn't know if his words were welcomed with all of the girl talk. Apparently his sex was void in the conversation.
Mark squirted some sunscreen on his arm and rubbed it in, "Roger…has issues." Mimi giggled a bit moving in the line once again.
"That might be an understatement Mark. If only I didn't like him so damn much." Mimi crossed her arms glancing back at Maureen who was holding up the line. She had planted herself in front of the blonde blocking others from continuing. "Mo!" Mimi called out biting her lip.
The drama queen raised her head, "In a minute Mimi." She called facing the blonde again ignoring the people behind her yelling for her to move.
Joanne sighed and walked over to Maureen taking her arm, "Now." She said tensely.
"What baby I was-" Joanne held her hand up and said, "No. Not now." Maureen ripped her arm from Joanne's and left the line. She pulled her hair up into a bun and never looked back.
"Maureen!" Joanne called after her and uttering a swear word under her mouth. Lori came over to her cousin and took her hand.
"Come on Jo. We have to move up." She said quietly. Joanne nodded wiping her forehead again.
"Yeah…the roller coaster." She whispered.
"I cannot believe the two of you." Angel said crossing her legs and shaking it.
Collins and Roger were sitting with her outside of the roller coaster pavilion. The rocker was picking dirt out from under his fingernails while Collins took a sip of his lemonade.
"If you wanna clean up my throw up after I go on the roller coaster then feel free, Angel. Pull me all the way through that five hour line just so I can puke on you." Collins said with a smirk nudging her. "Wouldn't that be romantic. Even my stomach fluids like you."
"Ummm..eww." Roger mumbled to himself.
Angel shook her head at Collins but moved her attention to Roger, "And what about you mister? Everyone in school thinks you eat frogs for breakfast and you can't handle a little roller coaster?"
Roger shrugged not looking away from his fingernails, "I don't like them."
"What I would like to know baby, is why you aren't on that line." Collins replied pointing.
Angel grabbed the lemonade from her boyfriend and took a few sips, "Then who would be here to watch over you?" She said quickly.
Collins leaned his head back and laughed, "The prom queen is scared of roller coasters."
"Am not." Angel said in a dramatically annoyed tone.
"Am too." Collins retorted holding out his hands to tickle her stomach. She let out a squeal and squirmed away from him.
"No tickling!" She managed to say through numerous giggles.
"I will never surrender. Bah hahahahaha!" Collins let out an evil laugh that would make any goody-too-shoes tremble in fear.
Roger raised his brow watching the couple engage in a ticklefest, "Yeah, maturity."
Collins stopped tickling Angel but she continued to giggle as she poked Roger in the belly, "Says the man who started a pillow fight at midnight last night."
Roger smirked, "I won, though."
Collins nodded taking his lemonade back from Angel and finishing it up, "Oh winning is all that matters then."
"Exactly." Roger smiled and sat up straight pointing to an approaching figure, "Look who's coming."
Angel frowned and whispered to Collins, "She doesn't look so happy." Angel, as well as the rest of the group, wanted this day to be perfect. No arguments, no problems, just plain fun. But secretly they all knew that spending so much time together…something was bound to happen.
Collins sighed and kissed Angel's cheek, "Whatca doing here, Mo? Couldn't handle the lines anymore?" Maureen sat down next to Collins and crossed her arms.
"Something like that. Apparently people can't stand me in line. It's not my fault that I was having a good time talking to someone." Maureen said exasperated.
"And who was that someone sweetie?" Angel asked almost too afraid to hear the answer.
"Some girl named Noel. She was real nice but then we had to move in the line, and all of these people were yelling and Jo grabbed me. C'mon." Maureen shook her head, "They were so…inconsiderate."
Roger sighed deeply and rubbed his head.
"What?" Maureen asked sharply glaring at him, "What's your problem now?"
"I don't have a problem, Maureen. I wish that you would stop flirting so god damned much. It's not comfortable for any of us, especially Joanne." Roger said bravely. Collins closed his eyes, it was the truth. But was this really wasn't the place to have an intervention. Angel seemed to have the same idea. She grabbed Maureen's hand before the girl could reply to Roger and pulled her away.
"C'mon honey, I need to powder my nose." She said guiding her towards the bathrooms.
Collins glanced over at Roger who shrugged, "Sorry…Somebody has to make Maureen wake up."
Collins nodded throwing away the lemonade cup, "Yeah you're right. I don't know what will make her…hopefully something will before it's too late."
"You mean before Joanne leaves her for good?" Roger asked his friend.
"Yeah." Collins said quietly.
Mimi led the group off of the roller coaster.
"I don't know about you guys but I feel…" Mark started to say his shoulders sagging.
"Jipped?" Lori finished for him.
Mark nodded putting his hands in his pockets, "I mean, we stand on line for hours for a two minute ride…wait…" Mimi and Lori stopped as Mark held up his hands, "Where's Joanne."
Lori gulped and looked around, "She was right next to me on the ride. Oh Jo!" She spotted her cousin who had taken a seat on a park bench a few paces back. The girl looked very queasy. "Joanne, I told you this roller coaster was stronger than what you were used to." Lori said taking her arm while Mimi took the other.
"I know…" Joanne murmured holding her breath for a moment, "But Maureen wanted to go."
Mark frowned, "Maybe we'll take a break." He said guiding the girls towards a table with an umbrella over it. Joanne met the tabletop happily and lay her upper half on it.
"Yeah I go with the whole break idea." She said closing her eyes to help the world stop spinning. Collins and Roger spotted them come out and rushed towards Joanne.
"Is she ok?" Collins asked Lori with a frown.
Joanne's cousin nodded, "She's just…a little nauseous." Lori rubbed her back gently trying to be some comfort.
"I know how you feel, girl." Collins mumbled to Joanne.
Mimi looked at the boys, "Where's Angel and Maureen?"
Roger sat down at the table and shrugged, "Angel took her off to the bathroom to 'powder her nose'." He said using his fingers to make quotation marks.
Mimi sighed, "That's Angel code for we're gonna have a talk in the bathroom." She started to bite her nails glancing over at the carrousel.
Angel came out of the bathroom as if on cue with Maureen behind her. The red head seemed less than thrilled with Angel at the moment.
"Alright to the carousel?" Angel asked clapping her hands in excitement. All of the drama that happened in the bathroom seemed the go unnoticed with her. Collins went to her side and grabbed her hand.
"Hell yes." He said, "I'm getting the horse with attitude!" Angel and Collins ran to the carousel.
"Hey guys wait!" Mimi laughed grabbing Roger's hand and pulling him along.
Lori looked down at Joanne, "Is it ok if I go on the ride, Jo, or do you need me?"
Before she could answer Maureen titled her head, "Go ahead Lori…Markie." The couple nodded and headed off towards the carousel.
Maureen sat down next to Joanne and rubbed her back gently, "How you feeling?"
"Lousy." Joanne said without a thought, "Real lousy."
Maureen bit her lip and titled her head so she could look at Joanne's face, "I love you…you know that right?" Joanne grumbled something inaudible from her arms. "I really do Joanne." She kissed her arm, "And that girl I was talking to she…she was pretty. And she sure smelled real good-" Joanne snapped her head up and glared at Maureen.
"That's it." She said louder than she intended, "If you loved me you would back off all of these other girls. You may not have cheated on me physically…but emotionally…I don't know if I was ever yours." Joanne got up from the table and walked away from Maureen.
Angel sat on the rooster and winked back at Collins who got the horse that he wanted. Mimi sat right beside him on the ostrich. Roger occupied a manly looking horse by Angel and helped a little girl buckle herself in. Mark and Lori were sitting on the chariot together their hands shyly intertwined.
Mimi grinned at Roger, "He can be sweet sometimes…" She whispered to Collins.
Collins nodded, "Yeah. He can be." He eyed Mimi for a moment wondering how they were doing. Roger and Mimi. But Mimi seemed to have other things on her mind.
"So…" She said as the ride started, "You know what today is right?"
"Giddy up horsy!" Collins called out causing Angel to crack up. Lori giggled resting her head on Mark's shoulder. The filmmaker was taken aback but didn't move. Instead he smiled.
"Huh?" Collins asked Mimi.
Mimi licked her lips, "You know what today is…"
Collins played with reigns of his horse, "Yeah our two month anniversary. I got something planned for tonight…why what do you take me for Ms. Marquez? A crappy boyfriend?"
Mimi laughed and leaned over to hug Collins, "Of course not. I was simply checking. I'm so glad you're with Angel…." She paused and then bit her lip, "You just remembered this morning didn't you?"
"Oh yeah." Collins flashed her a smile, "Don't worry. Thomas B. Collins is always prepared." The ride screeched to a halt, all of the teens got off. Collins' heart flipped to see Maureen her hair covering her pale face.
"It didn't work Angel." She muttered brushing her hair away to reveal tears falling on her face.
Post: Ok next chapter is uber importante…very important. I cannot stress it enough!You'll see why. Next Chapter: Angel and Collins celebrate their two-month anniversary.