Chapter Nine:
Author's Note: Hey! It me again! Sorry it took so long... I've had a virus on my computer adn I just got a new one. So please don't be mad.
Disclaimer: DO NOT OWN IT! And if you're one of those people who loves to sue people for that cuz you look so damn hard at it... get... a ... life... you... freaking... loser.Anywayz, This chapter we interview Haru! Kyou and Tohru come in next chapter I promise you that.
"Adrianna-chan… Adrianna-chan…. Adrianna-CHAN!" Audrey yells at her.
"WAAAH!" Adrianna is brought out of her stupor.
"Jesus. 'Bout time you started listening. I've been trying to get your attention here."
"I'm sorry, I was thinking."
Audrey laughs "It's okay. You looked bored sitting here and I came to see what was up."
Adrianna smiles back. "Oh nothing… just how cute you and Haru look together."
"Alaina put you up to this didn't she?" Audrey stiffens. "Well I'll put a stop to that!" Audrey immediately runs out of the room to track Alaina down.
Adrianna laughs. She actually wasn't thinking about that. She was thinking about the terrible news she had to give her friends. They hadn't yet raised enough money to go back to the states and Brittney's patience was wearing thin. She had priorly stated that if she did not get it done by the end of the week… then Brittney would tell them herself and she wouldn't be too kind about it either. Adrianna shudders. She would tell them today… well okay, maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow was her own personal deadline and there she got serious.
Audrey suddenly returns back up the stairs. "You know what I just realized?" Audrey asks dumb-foundedly. "Today is our day off and Alaina's out with Momiji. So we can do anything we want to… that reminds me I need to go run a few errands." Audrey's voice trails off.
"You can go on ahead and get all that done before we actually start the day off, because I have a few things I need to have a look at too." Adrianna says hoping it will get her out of her hair and give her time to think.
"Oh great! Okay well, I'll see you later!" Audrey runs down the stairs and grabs her purse heading out the door not giving Adrianna a chance to object, which she didn't really so she brushed it off as an important appointment.
15min.ltr.
WITH AUDREY:
Audrey is walking down the street at 12:30 in the afternoon to her destination, of which she was truly scared. Audrey sees the building and starts dreading each step that takes her closer. A frightening figure exits the building and Audrey ducks in an alley waiting for the person to walk on along. The figure passes and Audrey watches as Brittney disappears into the distance. Audrey sighs with relief and walks up to the store cautiously looking around for her fear. She opens the door and slowly walks in so she is three feet from the door and is very surprised to hear the voice erupt with joy BEHIND her.
"Audrey-sama! How good of you to come! What will you be looking for today… or would you rather continue where we left off?" Ayame jokes playfully.
"Don't joke about that." Audrey hisses venomously picking up a stray needle.
"My, my. Just like my dear younger brother. Alright, calm down and follow me to the counter." Ayame opens up the register. "Okay, that will be 1300 yen." She pulled out her tip savings… 1400 yen. That's cutting it close, but she had enough. Ayame began laying out the merchandise.
"Ayame, do you mind if I ask you a question?"
"Darling, I like you too, but you're too young to get married to such a stud like me!"
Audrey gets a dangerous glint in her eye. "That just shattered me… really… Honestly now, do you know anyone who wouldn't mind going out on a date with someone who needs it?"
"Didn't you go out with Akito last week?"
"I didn't mean for me!" Audrey is looking at the small box of safety pins with a friendly smile in her brain.
"You know I'm just joking, but it would be a nice joke to pull on your friends one time or another."
"Excuse me?"
"It would be funny to see your friends' faces if they think that you and I are romantically involved." Ayame says.
Audrey stares with her mouth agape and gets a teary look in her eye. "Oh… that's the sweetest thing a pedophile's ever said to me." Audrey smiles with a hint of a 'heh' in it.
"Touché, dear Audrey-sama… touché." Ayame smiles.
"I meant for Brittney."
"Ahh, her. I believe I know just who to get for the job."
"Thank you. I'll come back later to talk about the final details." Audrey walks out the door. After Audrey leaves, Ayame turns excitedly to the room Mine's in and yells "Mine, dear! You'll never guess what Audrey and I have planned for her friends!"
15min.ltr.(agn.)
WITH ADRIANNA:
Brittney walks in the door. "Hi Adrianna-chan! Did you talk to them yet?"
"Not yet, but they haven't been home long enough for me to tell them."
"That's what you said yesterday when you took them to the bathroom with you to talk then chickened out." Brittney is unimpressed and annoyed.
"You need to tell them soon other wise when I tell them there will be no mercy…"
OUTSIDE THE HOUSE…
"YOU HEAR THAT! NO MERCY!" Audrey hears from the porch where she was taking her shoes off.
"Uh, oh." Audrey stands there too scared to go in with her bag of things. Audrey quietly walks in the house and up the stairs and into her room before she yells. "Keep yelling like that and our next-door neighbors just might call the cops!" Audrey slams the door hoping the two girls downstairs would finish their conversation silently.
BACK DOWNSTAIRS:
"Remember, no mercy." Brittney says softer than before.
"I'll tell them when I feel the time is right." Adrianna says.
"When will that be, Adrianna?" Brittney asks. "Surely not the day before. They'll be so mad if that happens… I say you tell them either tonight or tomorrow morning."
"Okay." Adrianna says defeated. "I'll tell them tonight after dinner."
"Good. Now let's go see what our dear friend Audrey is doing." Brittney and Adrianna head upstairs.
IN THE ATTIC:
Audrey coughs relentlessly "Jesus, doesn't anyone ever clean up here?" Audrey climbs down the attic ladder and onto her balcony. She had just finished brushing off the dust when…
Knock knock knock.
"Yeah?" Audrey asks opening the door. "What is it?"
Brittney smiles. "We just came up to see what you were doing."
"Yeah, we thought you might be bored." Adrianna adds.
"What did I do this time?"
"You hid from me in an alley." Brittney says gaining the attention of Adrianna and receiving a slight sob from Audrey. "Do you mind telling me what you were doing that for?"
"You came up here to hassle me about that?"
"When you hide from me for no reason… yes."
"I'll have you know it was a very good reason." Audrey defends.
"And what is it?" Brittney inquires.
"I didn't want to stop to talk… I was on a mission!"
"What was your mission?" Brittney interrogates
"I went to go get my paycheck." Audrey says smoothly.
"Where is it?"
"Huh?" Audrey asks.
"Where's the paycheck?" Brittney repeats.
"Hang on." Audrey walks over to her night stand, opens her drawer and pulls out an envelope with the words 'Musicians Pay' stamped in red calligraphy. "Are we finished with twenty questions now?" Audrey seems annoyed.
"Yeah, for now anyways." Brittney says.
"Hey, Adrianna. Why don't you go get Alaina. I'm sure she's down by her building. " Audrey says. "It's almost two-thirty, if she wants to help cook and do everything she wants to tonight, then she needs to get her but back home."
"Okay." Adrianna smiles and heads downstairs.
After Adrianna leaves Brittney glances back to Audrey and asks. "Do you mind if I take a look at the date?"
Audrey sighs mentally.
WITH ADRIANNA:
Adrianna is skipping down the road quite fast and trips and falls on the dirt. "Ow." Adrianna says registering the pain on her knee. She takes a look at it. Not bleeding, so she's fine.
"You okay, Adrianna?" Adrianna gasps looking up at the face of an unfamiliar man. The first thing to go through her mind was 'stalker!' He had black and white hair. (You do the math)
"How do you know my name?" Adrianna says frightened.
"I know Alaina and Audrey. So I figured you must be the infamous Adrianna-chan. I'm Hatsuharu by the way." Haru says. "But my friends call me Haru."
"Pleased to meet you and yes I am Adrianna-chan. My friends call my Adrianna or Adrianna-chan." Adrianna says smiling. "So you're the one who jacked her cell phone."
"She told you about that?"
"Yeah, stalker." Adrianna continues walking.
"That's a bit harsh." Haru says following her. "So where are you off to?"
"I'm going to see Alaina and I was joking about the stalker part."
"I know that." Haru says. "It kind of gave it away when you laughed afterwards."
"Darn." Adrianna laughs.
"You are completely opposite of them." Haru says.
"Well someone has to balance them out I guess." Adrianna smiles.
"Do you mind if I walk with you?" Haru asks.
"No, not at all. I need someone to talk to anyway." Adrianna says.
"Okay, so what to talk about though?"
"Do you like Audrey?" Adrianna asks.
"That wasn't very subtle." Haru says. "Well, how do you see it?"
"Alaina keeps saying that you two kissed." Adrianna says as Haru lets out a small chuckle.
"No. We didn't. Don't listen to her on matters like that anymore. She doesn't know what's going on." Haru suggests.
"Oh. Okay… but do you like her?" Adrianna couldn't help pressing the question.
"And here I thought you were the innocent one." Haru laughs.
"Well do you."
"It's hard to say. I've only met her twice. I don't gather much from two days."
"Darn." Adrianna snaps her fingers. They turn the corner and see Alaina a few minutes later. "Alaina-san!" Adrianna runs up and hugs Alaina.
"Hello, Adrianna." Alaina says grudgingly. "Can you quit hugging me now?"
"Oh, I'm sorry." Adrianna apologizes and hug her again receiving whines from Alaina. Adrianna just chuckles softly.
"What? Are you stalking me again?" Alaina looks up at Haru. "Oh, hello, phone flirter."
Haru sighs. "Good evening Alaina-san."
"So what's up?" Alaina asks walking. "What do I owe this visit to?"
"Audrey sent me to get you so I wouldn't have to hear Brittney interrogate her."
"Why's Brittney interrogating her?" Alaina is suddenly interested in the conversation.
"She hid from her in an alley." Adrianna answers.
"Idiot." Alaina laughs. "Why?"
"She was on a mission and she didn't want to stop and talk."
"That could be the reason." Alaina says positively.
"Yukii!" Adrianna says waving happily.
Yuki turns around startled "Oh, hello Adrianna. What are all doing here?"
"We were just walking to our house." Alaina responds. "What are you up to?"
"Nothing really, I suppose." Yuki answers. "Do you mind if I join you?"
"No not at all." Adrianna shakes her head.
"Hey look someone's giving away puppies." Haru says. Alaina and Adrianna look to where Haru indicated. They were Husky puppies and Alaina and Adrianna run over and look at the puppies. The one that really caught their eyes was a pure white, male Siberian husky.
"It's so cute!" Adrianna exclaims.
"How much are they?" Alaina asks the woman giving them away.
"They are free." She answers.
"Adrianna gasps. "Alaina, c'mon! we have to take this one home with us!"
"Have they gotten their shots?" Alaina asks.
"Actually yes."
"Alaina." Adrianna whines.
Alaina sighs. "Alright. This puppy's got a home now. But you know that Brittney and Audrey are going to kill us right?"
"Oh well." Adrianna says.
Alaina is too shocked to say anything so they continue their walk in silence.
ONCE THEY GET HOME:
Adrianna and Alaina are standing outside the door when they hear…
"TELL ME NOW! WHAT HAPPENED!" Brittney yells.
"Uh oh." Alaina and Adrianna mumble right outside the door and slowly open it. They see Audrey's hands tied to the staircase, the entire roomdark and Brittney pointing a flashlight at Audrey's face.
"Brittney, this is why you're not a politician." Alaina jokes walking in, grabbing the flashlight pointing it at Audrey and yells "So did you kiss him or not!" She receives a glare from Audrey and a completely meant 'I'm going to get you back.'
"Look what we brought home!" Adrianna holds out the Husky puppy while Yuki and Haru start taking their shoes off outside, Audrey yanks her hands free of the rope and Brittney's eyes gleam dangerously.
"WHAT!" The two girls yell enraged.
"No way is there going to be a dog living with us!" Brittney opposes.
"Yeah! We barely get by with our living expenses now we have a dog aswell?" Audrey screams.
"NO WAY IN HELL!" Brittney and Audrey say.
"But look at how cute it is… and it needed a home." Adrianna tries to persuade.
"I will never let an animal set foot into this house!" Brittney fumes. Unbeknownst to them Haru and Yuki sweat-drop outside the doorway.
"If now's a bad time…" Yuki trails off.
"We'll leave." Haru finishes.
"No. You two are okay. You're hot guys." Audrey sighs at Brittney's response. "What?"
"You just ruined the mood." Audrey slightly chuckles.
"What. Do you think they are ugly?"
"No but that's a bit irrelevant to our conversation." Audrey says. "There's still the issue of the dog."
"Please?" Alaina and Adrianna plead.
Brittney walks up to the dog, examines the ears and teeth, and says. "I'll call him Inu-chan!" Audrey's jaw drops.
"But didn't you just say-"
"So? I changed my mind." Brittney says. "Now what's this about Audrey kissing who?"
"I didn't kiss anyone!" Audrey defends.
"We thinks doth protesteth too much." Brittney says for her and Alaina.
But it's true!" Audrey says. "Haru, did I kiss you?"
Haru looks at her for a moment before saying. "No you didn't."
"Ah, so he kissed you!" Alaina twists the words.
"I give up!" Audrey sighs, walks out of the room and sits down on the porch out back just in time to hear Momiji's voice erupt from the living room.
"Hello!"
"Momiji!" Alaina greets happily.
Audrey hears foot steps coming her way across the wood. "Have they been doing this frequently?" Haru asks sitting down beside her.
"You have no idea." Audrey says shaking her head.
"They do this all the time is the message I'm getting." Haru says.
"Yeah." Audrey looks up at him. "Are you thirsty or anything?"
"Sure, I guess. What do you have?"
"Water, milk, and diet soda."
"I'll take the water."
"Okay." Audrey goes inside and brings out two waters in hand after a while.
"How do you put up with them?" Haru asks.
"We're friends so we have to put up with each other whether we want to or not. It's one of those weird bonds friends share. Let's face it… if you know for a fact that your friends can make grown men cry, you have some real good connections." Audrey answers.
"So does that mean that they'll keep berating you about-"
"Yeah, it does…" Audrey listens closely. "I think we should move somewhere else."
"Why?" Haru says as Audrey stands up.
"It's too quiet. I think they're listening in on us." Audrey looks back to see her assumption was correct. "Are you quite finished on eavesdropping yet?"
"Damn!" Brittney snaps her fingers. Audrey walks off with Haru following her. "Just where are you going?"
"Some where where we can talk in private!" Audrey yells back. She runs into the trees with Haru following and turns around and runs up to the ladder that lead up to the roof without Brittney and the others noticing. Once they climb up on the roof, Audreys realizes that it's 4:30. "Whoa."
"What?" Haru asks.
"How long did I take in the kitchen? Because it's four thirty."
"Not very long. I guess time is just flying by with all the commotion going on around here."
"I should be helping cook but they can handle it for a few minutes." Audrey gets back to the previous topic. "To answer your question from earlier… Yes, they will never let me live it down." Audrey starts laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"What me and Ayame have planned for them. It's going to be so beautiful to see their reactions!"
"What do you have planned?" Haru asks interested.
"Me and Ayame are going to pretend that we are romantically involved when we have all three of them together. Oh, I'm getting excited just picturing the looks on their faces!" Audrey smiles.
"Wow."
"Wow, what?"
"This is the first time I've seen you smile like that." Haru says.
"Am I showing too much teeth?"
" No, I think it's … cute, in a revenge-like sort of way." Haru answers.
"Thank you." Audrey smiles again, but this time sincerely.
"Audrey-sama?"
"Yes?" Audrey looks at Haru.
"After you play that joke on your friends… would you mind being romantically involved with me?" Haru asks.
Audrey smiles bigger and says. "Of course I'll go out with you, Haru-kun."
Haru smiles then asks. "Are you going to kiss Ayame?"
"It really depends on how we rehearse it. Why? Are you jealous already?" Audrey asks.
Haru answers "Wouldn't you?" Audrey looks stunned at Haru. Haru leans in and kisses her lips softly.
"Of course I could always kiss him twice." Audrey says jokingly.
"Well then, I'll have to fix that." Haru kisses Audrey a second time, but longer now. He breaks away.
"We haven't even gone on our first date, but we just kissed twice!" Audrey says stunned.
"Maybe we should consider this our first date then."
"With five third wheels?" Audrey asks.
"Unless you have a better solution."
"Yes I do… We can make up for these kisses on our real date… I f that's alright with you." Audrey says.
"It's fine… Should we go help with dinner now?" Haru asks.
"You don't have to. You can just sit and relax with Momiji and Yuki. I'll help with cooking. If they start to berate me again I can always pretend to take out my anger management out on the steak."
"You're almost broke, but you buy steak?"
"I get a discount from buying it from 'Yumi's Cooking'." Audrey says climbing down the ladder. They walk inside to see Yuki and Momiji trying to watch T.V. and the yelling voices of Adrianna, Alaina, and Brittney in the kitchen. "Oh, boy." Audrey walks into the kitchen, opens a drawer, pulls out a whistle, and sends a shrill ring into the air. There, that got their attention. "Do you mind telling me what the hell's going on here?"
"You needed to help us cook and we were arguing about what steps to do first." Alaina says.
"Marinade the steak sirloins in the teriyaki sauce after ten minutes, tenderize them in the sauce. Put them on the grill. After ten minutes put the soba noodles in the pan. After five minutes, put the broccoli in with the noodles. Wait ten more minutes and serve." Audrey says quickly.
"Mas despacio, por favor?" Brittney asks.
AFTER DINNER:
"We'll see you ladies later." Yuki says goodbye along with the rest of the men. Once they leave Brittney nudges Adrianna and says loudly. "I think Adrianna-chan has something she wants to share with y'all!"
"Okay then, we're listening." Alaina says.
"Don't be mad at me you guys okay?" Adrianna asks timidly.
"Okay." Audrey and Alaina draw the okay out.
"Next week… we'll um… we'll kind of have to go to umm, school." Adrianna says watching her friends' faces fall.
"NOOO!" Audrey and Alaina yell.
"I thought we had enough money saved up that we didn't need to go to school." Alaina says.
"That was before we bought this meal on discount and got a dog." Brittney says evenly.
"We all still work at the same places right?" Audrey asks as Brittney steps up. "Just where are you working now?" 'Great, there go discounts on fabric.' Audrey thinks to herself.
"I'm going to be your English teacher this year." Brittney says evilly.
"But you're not certified to be a teacher!" Audrey stammers.
"I am now!" Brittney holds up her certificate. Audrey and Alaina begin crying.
"That's right! So I suggest you not get me mad between now and spring break." Brittney laughs.
Meanwhile Adrianna thinks to her self 'What have I done to my life?'
Author's Note: Hello! Great chapter right? Thank you. I hope it was worth waiting about a month or two for. Now please welcome Hatusharu Sohma! (crowd cheers)
Haru: thank you for having me today.
Audrey: No problem.
Brittney from the audience: You know why you asked him on the show!
Audrey: Of course I did. Other wise it would be pointless.
Haru: She has a point.
Brittney: No you're just biased.
Audrey: Okay, how about we get to some fan mail? (pulls out piece of paper) Dear Haru, were you really jealous or did you just try to find an excuse to kiss Audrey? Your answer...
Haru: I'd say a little of both.
Audrey: (pulls out anothermail)Dear Haru, How do you feel about Audrey's plan with Ayame to trick her friends? Do you have a response?
Haru: Well, I feel-
Brittney: Hang on! Plan with Ayame? What! Explain yourself now Audrey!
Alaina: Hahahahahaha! Loser!
Audrey: (glares at Alaina) You'll find out next chapter.
Brittney: Well we are definitely interviewing Ayame ne4xt chapter!
Haru: I feel that Audrey and Ayame know what they are doing.
Audrey: Thank you. Well we'll see you next chapter... Oh! and here's thescore so far...
Alaina-2 votes
Adrianna-1 vote
Brittney-1 vote
Audrey-1 vote.
Audrey: If you don't want Alaina to win, you better vote if you haven't already. That's all for today! Happy R&Ring!
Everyone: (waves goodbye)