(A/N – Oh my gawd, it's like a new chapter, yo! LoL… You guys can so tell I'm bored, right? Oh well. Being bored is what brought me to you guys, so I'm thankful for boredness! Except when I don't have any writing utensils nearby… then boredom sucks. Jack agrees, don't you Jack? He feels the exact same way; just replace the writing utensil part with rum…)

Oh my starry-eyed Reviewers!

.: We're gonna dance all night! Dance all night to this DJ, we're gonna… :.

CLE – "Nookie" by Limp Bizkit

Man, Disclaimers are so dumb.

But I like Claimers. They rock me socks! LoL…

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CHAPTER THREE: "Not Parsley!"

"Hello everybody!" Lindsay shouted as the seven of us burst through the front door of our favorite little hangout place. "Long time no see!"

"All right," Michelle said, eyeing our little bunch. "You brought us some people for the game room."

"Yeah," Lindsay said. "You remember Jack, Liz, and Raoul," she said, indicating to each of them, "and this is Paige. She's new." I laughed when she said 'Raoul.' I had almost forgotten about that totally. Man, good times, good times…

"Right," Carol said, setting her cigarette in the ashtray next to her before getting up and walking down to the cash register in front of us. "Alright girls, what'll it be?"

Lindsay and I hopped on two barstools at the counter and we all leaned over a menu.

"Two orders of cheese fries definitely," she said.

"With extra cheese," I said.

"Cheese? Where?"

"Calm down, Jack," Stewie laughed.

"What's a funnel cake?" Liz asked.

"Ooo! We'll take four of those!" Stewie said immediately. "And a basket of sour gummi worms!"

"And peach rings," I said.

"Don't forget the Pepsi," Lindsay added. "Hey, what about a Wings and Things basket to split?"

"Cheese sticks?" Will asked.

"Yeah! Those too!"

"And we've got our rum," Lindsay said.

"Ooo! Get hot wings! Hot wings!" Jess said, jumping up and down.

"Aww, but I wanted butter and garlic…"

"Girls! Girls!" Carol yelled, interrupting us. "Do you really want all of that?"

We looked back down at the menu, reliving the last minute and all of the food we had asked for. Dang. We sound like freaking pigs.

"Well, you can take off the wings," Stewie said. "And make all the candy to go, please."

"Sounds better," Carol laughed. "Usual booth?"

"Usual booth," I said.

"Okay, we'll have it back there to you in a bit," she said, ripping off the paper from the pad and heading back to the kitchen with Michelle to fill our still quite large order.

"This way!" Stewie shouted, pointing into the dark doorway at the back of the room. We followed her into the very small dining area and right to our booth, the one right in the light of the doorway, second one on the opposite wall. Stewie slammed into Will and Elizabeth on one side while Paige, Lindsay, and I crammed into the other. Jack was left standing, and we all laughed at him. It was like he was gonna dive on top of us or something, so we leaned towards the wall laughing more.

"And just where and I to sit?" he asked.

"Floor," Lindsay said, pointing to it. We all laughed even more, though Jack didn't really. So, feeling bad for him, Paige and I went out to Michelle and asked for a blanket from her car to use. Upon our return, Paige and I saw no one at the booth, however.

"Where are they?" she asked, laying the blanket out in front of the booth.

"Two guesses," I said, first turning to my right. "The little one-person bathroom," – then I turned to my left – "or the game room. My guess: the game room, even though we'd probably get as much enjoyment out of cramming into the bathroom."

Paige chuckled as she followed me three steps through the doorway that led to the game room. We passed up the racing games and jukebox which was already blasting 'Nookie,' the song Lindsay played every time we went down there (I don't know why… ask her when it's her point of view). I looked to my left and they weren't at the crane machine or ski ball table, so I looked in the wider space to our right, and there they were teaching them how to play pool at the lone pool table.

"Running out on us, huh?" I asked, clicking on the traffic light in the corner for fun.

"Sorry," Lindsay laughed. "We're teaching them pool."

"Ha, good luck…"

She gave me a look before continuing her lesson. "Anyways, you basically shoot the balls into the hole with the white one. It's called the cue ball. You line it up and shoot for a hole."

"Shoot?" Jack asked. "That's simple enough." He whipped out his gun and clicked it to take aim on the cue ball, and a worried looked crossed our faces.

"Not like that," Stewie said.

"Then how?" Jack said.

"With one of these," Lindsay said, pushing a stick into him hard as she rolled her eyes. Jack made a face as he stood upright, giving Lindsay a look behind her back like he was gonna whap her over the head with that stick.

"Jack, behave," Stewie, said, wagging her finger at him. Jack smirked at Lindsay before switching the stick to his other hand and eventually handing it to Will.

"I don't like this game," he decided, starting to walk away. I looked back at Paige, Lindsay, and Stewie.

"We'll stay here and teach Will and Liz," Lindsay said. "Stewart, you're with Will, I'm with Liz. We'll team up."

"Super Stewie, AWAAAAY!"

I laughed, looking back over at Paige. "Wanna go entertain Jack?" I asked.

"Sure," she said. "Where did he go?"

We started back towards the dining room, and Jack was just about to go through the doorway when we caught him.

"Jack!" I said, stopping next to the jukebox. "Come here."

"What?" he asked, walking up to us.

"Come on in here," I said, walking towards the wall. Paige was confused, but they finally saw the dark arch leading into a small room. It was longer and narrower, like a 5 x 12 room. I went to the back and clicked on the spinney color disco ball for light, and they looked at the front of the room, seeing a huge dartboard on the wall.

"Okay, Jack," I said. "This not only requires aim, but sharp pointy things," I said, walking up to the dartboard and taking the six darts off of it. Jack's eyes got a little bigger. Well at least I have his attention now.

"Sharp pointy things, eh?" he asked.

"Yeppers," I said. "Just throw it at the little red circle in the middle of the board." I said, handing him the blue-feathered darts. Paige got the red ones.

"Watch this," Jack said, stepping up to the line, dart ready to fire. He moved his arm back and forth a few times before releasing it. It hit the dartboard, but then it fell to the ground. I stifled my laughter.

"Well, Jack… that was, um…"

"Oh my god, that sucked!" Paige said, starting to laugh uncontrollably. I stared at her a minute before I started laughing myself. Suddenly, however, Lindsay came flying into the room.

"Li-"

"Take cover!" she screamed, pushing us out of the doorway to the back of the room. We lined up against the wall and just before I was about to ask what this was all about, five pool balls were fired through the door into the wall as we screamed and covered our ears. The balls left dents in the wall, and after some silence, Lindsay decided to check if the coast was clear.

"What was that for?" I whispered to her.

"Shh." She leaned over, looking out the door a bit.

WHAP

"Ow!" she screamed, withdrawing back into the room. "My nose!"

Then, Elizabeth's head came around into the room as we looked for an explanation, and she looked down at us. She looked murderous, but then she knelt, feeling apologetic upon seeing Lindsay.

"Oh, sorry," she said. "I thought you were Will."

"Why are you chasing Will with a pool stick?" I asked in confusion.

"He's cheated me out of a turn," she said.

I shook my head and got up with Jack and Paige, and we looked out the door, being cautious not to become victims of pool-related violence. We stepped outside and made our way to the pool table. We stood there feeling very afraid when we saw Will standing on the pool table acting rabid with Stewie cowering under it.

"Erica! Jack! Paige! Save me!" she yelled, uncovering her head only for a second. We looked back up at Will who was throwing his stick around. I was beginning to think I was in a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon alternate reality.

"WILL! What are you doing?" I asked. He stopped, jumping off the pool table.

"Elizabeth and I got into it," he said. "Oh, sorry, Mary. You can come out from under there now. I'm done."

"Thank god," she said, slowly getting up. "You about took my head off."

"Well I think Liz just obliterated Lindsay's nose from her face," I said uncomfortably. "Smacked her square on it at lightning speed."

Will and Stewie both made grotesque faces at the sound of that, and suddenly we heard Carol shouting from beside our booth: "Girls! Food's ready!"

We all stampeded for the booth, Jack, Will, and Liz volunteering to all sit on the floor. Out of their kindness, we gave them a whole think of cheese fries to themselves. Of course, Jack is hogging the little bowl of cheese…

"Jack, didn't your mother ever teach you to share?" Lindsay asked. "Give some to Liz or I'm taking it!"

"My mother's dead," Jack said right back. "And I'm a pirate, not Robin Hood."

"Which one of you taught him about Robin Hood?" I asked incredulously. Stewie's head lowered across the table, and I needn't ask more.

"Okay "Jack, since you can't share, hand it over," Lindsay said, leaning out of the booth with an outstretched hand. Jack arched his brow.

"You want it?" he asked mischievously, holding up the bowl and picking up some cheese on his fingers. "Here."

He threw a huge glob on Lindsay's face, and we all started laughing really hard. Lindsay looked a bit shocked, but she got revenge but throwing her entire glass of Pepsi on his, accidentally getting Will and Liz a bit, too. Jack pitched a fit.

"No!" he bellowed. "Not Parsley!" He was rolling around like we had melted him or something, and then a food fight became inevitable. After five minutes, Liz, Paige, Lindsay, Stewie, and I ran for the one-person bathroom and crammed inside at the mercy of Will and Jack. Inside, we had fun with foamy soap.

"Is there any way we can go to your dad's and clean up?" Stewie asked. "I don't think the foamy soap is gonna cut it.

"Yeah," Lindsay said, catching her breath. "You and me will run down to see if anyone's there first, then we'll go back and get ready to go to the mall tonight."

"Sounds good," I said. "The rest of us'll just stay here and clean up."

"Good idea," Lindsay laughed. "Come one, Stewie."

When we left the bathroom, Jack and Will were informed of our plan of action, and Lindsay and Jessica ran down the road to her dad's. We stayed back to clean up our food mess and the game room.

"Jack, could you go around and get the pool balls and but them back inside the table?" I asked. "Don't forget about the ones in the dart room."

"Aye," he said. "What about the dents?"

"What dents?" Michelle asked, cutting into our conversation as she passed by the dining room from the kitchen.

"Dents?" I laughed nervously. "Not dents as in hitting something and leaving a dent, but… dentures…" I said slowly.

"Dentures?" Michelle asked skeptically.

"Yeah," I said. "Jack has dentures and doesn't like to admit it, so he refers to them as dents instead." I hoped she would buy it, and she eventually just walked away with an unsure look on her face. I sighed. Shwoo…

I walked over to the claw machine and saw a pool stick leading beside it and decided to collect those. Paige found one cracked in half, so we ducked away into the dart room and taped it up, putting it behind all the other sticks once we returned them to the corner. Shh! No one saw it!

Elizabeth helped Carol and Michelle clean up our booth and the surrounding area with mops and such, and eventually Paige joined her. Will, Jack and I played Nookie one more time as we finished up, and it didn't even take that long. We even had a few minutes to spare.

"Okay!" I said, hopping into one of the racing video games. "Jack, let's see how well you can steer."

"I can steer just fine," he said. "I don't need this thing to help me."

"Sure, you can steer a ship," I said, "but can you steer… a car?"

We all looked at him before he jumped into the seat next to me.

"Put in the money and let's go," he said, adjusting his seat and gripping the wheel. I laughed as I popped the quarters into the slots and we started driving. Jack was pretty good, but he lost.

"Haha, I win," I said, getting up. But Jack grabbed my arm, setting me back down in the seat. I was a tad surprised.

"What're ye talkin' about?" he said. "We didn't have round two yet."

I stared at him a moment, but he was serious.

"Put the coins in, lass! Let's go!"

"Okay" I said, pulling out more change.

-5 minutes later –

Jack was starting to scare me.

Elizabeth, Will, and Paige started backing away a long time ago (smart people). He won every game after I beat him the first time and only lost once. We played another six times before he lost again, and then he went crazy, threatening my life if I didn't produce four more quarters. Thank god Lindsay and Stewie showed up.

"Hey! Go Jack!" Stewie laughed, coming into the game room.

"Lindsay, help me. He won't quit," I said.

When the game was done, we had to pretty much drag Jack out of the game room. He was hooked on the game, and I was scared. Elizabeth eventually slapped him and he snapped out of it. We walked out into the front to leave.

"All systems go?" I asked as Stewie and Lindsay as we left the little dining room. Lindsay nodded, leaning on the bar in front of the candy stand.

"Roger that," she panted. "My dad called while we were there and said that he wants me home tonight by ten since we have school tomorrow. I told him we were going shopping and then out to Divitio to meet up with Holly. That's right, isn't it?"

"You have it down pat," I said. "Let's go."

A quick goodbye to Carol and Michelle and a five-minute walk landed us at Lindsay's Dad's, and we ran upstairs to Lindsay's room, hooking two right turns at the top. We all changed except for Jack, the hardhead, and Lindsay started applying some make-up to us all like it was some sort of make line or something.

"She does do a good job," Elizabeth said, admiring Lindsay's work when she was done with her.

"Well, I'm going to be on the make-up crew for the musical this year," Lindsay said from the bed where she was working on Paige.

"Yeah, well I'm directing it!" I said. "Bwaha!"

"Oh no, help me," Lindsay said in a flat, bored tone.

"Oh, liven up," I said. "You're no fun."

She sighed. "Well, we ready to go?" she said, capping the eyeliner she was using on Paige.

"You're done already?" Paige asked.

"Yeah," Lindsay said. "You're pretty enough, and we're in a hurry to get to the mall. It's almost one."

"Okay! Everyone to the Sunfire out front!" I said, grabbing my purse and keys. "Vamoose! Go!"

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