Disclaimer: Even THINK about saying I own CATCF and die a slow, painful death!
Right, here's the next chapter Sian, again, I'm REALLY sorry it's crap again but hopefully it will make you smile... Or maybe hate me... I'm not particually sure..
"Where have you been?" His father asked as Mike came gingerly back into his room. "Your mother and I have been sick with worry!" He added as Mike sat down on the bed, scrunching the piece of paper into his hand.
"I just went for a walk – Don't throw a wobbly!" Mike muttered as he laid back and closed his eyes, pretending to be sleep until he heard his father sigh then the door shut quietly.
Mike's eyes sprung open and he glared at Nicole. "Why didn't you cover for me you retard?" He spat as she rolled her eyes.
"First of all, I don't want you getting her number anyway – Otherwise I would have given it you from my phone, secondly –"
"You have her number in your PHONE!" Mike yelled crossly.
"Yeah, you don't honestly think I was gonna tell you that? She's great and all, but ain't no way you're going out with her!" Nicole replied in a 'Don't you mess with me Stick!' kinda way.
"I don't wanna go out with her freak! I just wanna thank her." Mike protested grumpily.
"Boy
since when did you apologise for owt?"
"…When did you turn
into a black Yorkshire woman?"
"…I got bored and watched Emmerdale the other night." Nicole mumbled after a moment.
"…Figures."
"SECONDLY – I just wanted to see you get a telling off." Nicole grinned and ducked as Mike threw his pillow at her again.
"Boy, you need to get some new moves!" She scoffed happily.
"And you need to start acting your age… and race!"
"Draco?...Here, Dracy, Dracy"(sob)"…Draco!" Sian cried as she crawled along the kitchen floor, holding a packet of chocolate buttons in one hand, and trying her best to ignore her mum's shouting and banging on the front door.
"Here Dracy, Dracy, Draahhh!" Sian yelled slightly, spilling the chocolate buttons over the floor in shock as a tap on the window startled her.
"Let me in! It's bloody freezing out here!" Came Steph's voice through the window.
Sian jumped up and ran to open the back door.
"ZK!" She yelled, hugging Steph.
"Do you mind? I nearly dropped the cage on my foot! No let go before I zombify you into oblivion!" Steph warned as Sian let go and shut the kitchen door as Steph put Tini's cage on the floor.
"Looks like your family were pleased when you told them I was coming to stay." Steph joked weakly.
"No, I…Mike-" Sian started but Steph cut her off.
"You met Paper boy on the bus, you got in a fight, Chris threw you off – I know." She said with a sigh, before looking down at Tini who was mewing in that squeaky way of hers.
"Can I let her out? She's driving me insane!"
"No! – Draco's missing! Mum found out about him, and she thinks I'm having boys over! And Mike's in hospital! And… And… And your treading snow and mud all over the floor!" Sian hyperventilated.
"Oops." Steph replied, kicking off her boots. "Right, and don't worry about Tini hurting or catching Draco – the only thing she can catch is a cold and a runny nose, and that's only coz they are genetic!" Steph said with a smile and a nod at her black & white, half Siamese cat as she unlocked the cage and lifted Tini out.
"Well will you help me pick up these choccies and find Draco?" Sian asked, running a shaking hand through her hair.
"Ok then – Oh by the way, if you didn't tell your parents I was coming, where were you planning on keeping me? – In your wardrobe with the ferret?"
"What kind of host do you think I am? – You'd have been in the basement with all the other un-dead house guests!" Sian said with a thin smile as she began to pick the chocolate buttons up and put them back in the packet.
"Thanks a lot… Though I prefer the attic – If there's a house ghost for me to chat to I bet you I'll find it up there!" Steph retorted, cuddling the now purring Tini.
"Something tells me it may be me who ends up being the ghost in the attic if mum's got anything to go with it." Sian replied sadly, jumping slightly as her mum continued yelling and banging on the door.
"Gawd, she doesn't half go on – She's gotta be thicker than you told me though otherwise she'd have come through the window by now!"
"Stick! STICK! I hereby FORBID you from ringing Sian – There's my school reputation at stake here!" Nicole said as she followed the determined looking Mike down the corridor towards the pay phone.
"Nicole, you already have a reputation!" Mike retorted with a roll of his eyes.
"OI! Anyway, I FORBADE you from ringing her! So you can't!" Nicole said sulkily as she stood in the way of Mike and the phone.
"Look – Spotty!" Mike hissed, causing Nicole to gasp and cover her face. "I forbid you to do a lot of things – And you never listen, so move before I tell everybody at school that you go to bed with a pink teddy called Snookums!" Mike watched happily as Nicole swore at him and stormed off down the corridor. – Blackmail was a wonderful thing!
He turned back to the phone, and after hitting his head on a weirdly placed 'Mind Your Head' sign, began to type in Sian's home number…
"Sian? This may sound like an odd question… But where's your kettle? I wanna make some noodles." Steph said, putting Tini on the floor as she walked into the living room near Sian, who was walking round, still holding the packet of chocolate buttons.
Steph and Sian looked up in shock as there was a crash and a kettle came flying through the window.
"Never mind." Steph said, watching as Sian struggled not to throw the chocolates into the air and all over the floor again.
Steph walked over to pick up the kettle but spun round as the phone rang, and simultaneously there was a shower of chocolate buttons.
"I have a feeling it's gonna be one of those days." Steph stated as she picked a chocolate out of her hair and walked over to pick up the phone…
