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Chapter 4 ; Bad Karma

Joey stood there with other rolls of plans, paint cans, drills, and other contraptions from C09.

"Plotting, boys?" Joey asked, loathing in his eyes. Spot pocketed the piece of paper quickly and shook his head.

"Well, I just wanted to see if you guys needed any help"

"We got it under control, thanks" said Race, speaking up.

Joey dropped all of his contents he was holding onto a table nearby.

"Well? What are you waiting for? A written invitation? GET GOING!"

Joey stayed and ordered the boys about as the got to work.

"FASTER!" he yelled.

"We can only go so fast!' said Mush, straining underneath a huge pile of balsawood.

"Joey, we can take it from here, if you want"

Joey looked over to see Danielle and the six other girls standing behind them.

"O.k." said Joey and with a quick glare to the boys, left. The girls looked at each other and smiled.

"How are we doing boys?" Jacquie asked, a huge smile plastered on her face.

"Erm...fine" replied Race, a little suspicious.

"We just wanted to tell you guys how grateful we are to have you all helping us" said Katie.

"Without you, this production may not have been possible" Tanya stated, fakely.

"We would like to extend our gratitude with taking you all out for dinner tonight!" said Laura.

"Oh really?" said Spot with a smirk.

"Yep, our treat!" Brittany replied.

"Where?" asked Blink.

"The Ritz Carlton...so dress nicely" said Danielle, whose father was a personal friend of the owner of the hotel.

"You're going to pay for us?" asked Race, in slight disbelief.

"Uhuh" said Jacquie slowly.

"No, you're going to pay for all of us" whispered Brittany to Tanya. Tanya felt a twinge of guilt, but that quickly was swept away with what Spot said next.

"That's good, because we never pick up the tab for any chick. Especially you" Race gave him a jab.

"What he means is, we usually don't have that kind of money, since we have never dated such refined women as yourselves," said Specs, trying to save face.

"Oh, no one is as refined as us!" shouted Kara snobbishly and marched out.

"You'll have to excuse her, she just got a call from her sister with some bad news, so she's not in a good mood" said Tanya as Danielle ran out after her.

"So, you guys said you're going to help?" said Jack, holding a hammer.

"Erm...sure. Why not" said Tanya, not really one to do tech work. She walked up to Jack and took the hammer. Katie and Brittany walked up next to her.

"We got to go...do that thing...right Laura?" said Jacquie, tugging Laura towards the door.

"Oh yeah...that thing..." said Laura, jogging out fast.

"Ok...so what did Joey give you guys to work with?" asked Brittany.

"Um, these are the directions..." said Blink and Brittany put them on a table to look them over.

"Hmm..." she pondered. "Well, what have you started to work on?" she asked no one in particular.

"This" the boys showed her their progress.

"Not too shabby" she said, mildly impressed. The platform they were making was coming out quite nicely.

"We are going to start to make the roll cart thingy, so we need as many people as possible on that, but we need one or two more people to help Jack finish hammering up the platform" said Crutchy.

"I'm a very good with a hammer" said Katie matter-of-factly.

"I'll help too" said Tanya, but never actually hammered anything in her life.

"And I'll help you guys" Brittany said, walking over to were the boys had all of the supplies ready to make a rolling platform.

"Now, do you know how to drill?" asked Spot, talking to Brittany as though she was a small child. Brittany, who was not one to be talked to like a 3 year old, picked up the drill and turned it on. Mush, who was naturally clumsily, had tripped over the extension cord for the drill when she turned it on and Brittany, not expecting it, dropped the drill on Spot's foot in surprise.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" yelled Spot in pain.

"Oops...sorry" said Brittany, trying to suppress a laugh.

"It could have killed me woman!" Spot screeched.

"Too bad it didn't..." Brittany grumbled and stocked over to where Jack and Katie were attempting to teach Tanya how to hammer.

"Now, you just have to hit the nail head" said Jack as Katie demonstrated.

"But what if I miss the target?" Tanya asked.

"Then you hit the wood" explained Katie.

"But..."

"Just watch" said Katie, doing it.

"Here...I'll hold the nail, and you hit it" offered Jack.

"It's kind of like whack-a-mole" said Katie.

"O.k., ready, go!" and Tanya hit...Jack's finger.

"AHHHHHHH!" Jack yelled in pain, clutching his finger to his chest.

"Oh, are you okay?" asked Tanya, who turned red.

"I GOT BANDAIDS!" Brittany yelled.

The boys were cracking up at this point. Jack shot them a dirty look as Tanya carefully inspected his finger.

"Well, I think its okay..." she said "but I'm no doctor"

"Here" said Brittany, giving Tanya the band-aid to put on Jack's finger.

"That's a...interesting band-aid" he said, staring at the band-aid. It had pictures of little bras all over it. Brittany just smiled and walked away.

"A band-aid is a band-aid" said Tanya, who felt guilty about hitting his finger.

"True" he said, sitting up. "But its ok, I do it all the time"

"You smash your finger with hammers all the time?" asked Katie.

"No! Well...erm" he said, not wanting to sound stupid "I just mean I get hurt worse than this"

"Yeah, me too. Last year, I tripped and fell down the stairs to the auditorium and wound up with 20 stitches on my head" said Tanya.

"Yeah, drama is dangerous!" noted Katie.

"That's almost as bad as the time I got stepped on my horse, Tex. Cracked 5 ribs."

"Ouch!" said Tanya, cringing.

While Jack continued to tell the girls about his horrific accidents, the boys were talking while building the rolling platform.

"Dinner!" said Spot. "That sounds bit sketchy"

"Dude...it's free food!" said Mush as he screwed a wheel into a corner.

"But why?" said Race. "That's my concern"

"Because those girls are obviously wrapped around our fingers" said Blink.

"They want us" Mush stated, who was always disillusioned.

"We'll see about that tonight" said Specs.

Later on that night, everyone was getting ready. The girls had earlier went through their entire closets to find the perfect dress, and later met up at Brittany's house with clothes, shoes, and other accessories to get ready together.

"So we are chewing and screwing?" asked Danielle as she applied eye shadow to her eyelids.

"Damn straight we are" said Jacquie, adjusting her dress straps.

"So order expensive shit" Brittany grinned, spraying her hair.

"I don't know...something about this doesn't feel right" said Katie, buckling her shoes.

"Um, hello? if I had stayed in that room a minute longer, I would have punched them in their ugly faces" said Kara, applying lipstick to her lips.

"They are all asses" Brittany replied.

"Yeah...good job nailing Jack today Tanya, literally!" Danielle commented.

"That was a total accident" she explained.

"Right..." said Kara and the girls laughed. Then Tanya's cell phone started ringing.

"Hello..." she sang into the phone. "Um...hold on a minute" Tanya said, holding up her hand to the receiver. "SPOT is on the other line? How the fuck did he get my number?"

"That's a little creepy" said Brittany.

"What does he want?" asked Kara.

"A ride" replied Tanya.

"Wow, doesn't Jack and Spot drive?" asked Laura.

"Let me ask...hi, Spot? Well...we were kind of hoping you could pick US up" said Tanya, putting Spot on speaker phone.

"Uh...I can't do that" he said a little confused "I mean I can but...didn't you invite us?"

The girls scoffed.

"Wait... "whispered Brittany, so Spot couldn't hear her. "Drive them; it's an easier escape for us"

"True" said Kara.

"Alright...I guess" said Tanya.

"O.k. whose car?"

"Jacquie's, but it's going to be a tight squeeze"

"Alright...pick us up in 15 minutes. BYE" and with that he hung up.

"Asshole" muttered.

"Ya think?" Laura yelled as the girls rushed to finish getting ready in the 15 minutes they had. In the car, after they got the boys, it was tightly packed and many people were on laps

"Who is touching my thigh?"

"Is that you foot?"

"Ow my butt!"

"Who's even driving?"

"God, Brittany you have a bony ass"

"Sorry Blink...erm…Spot...erm…Katie!"

"Who stole my cowboy hat?"

"Where you wearing one?"

"Stop yanking my hair!"

Finally, they arrived.

"LAND!" Mush shouted as they all piled out of the car.

"Ready for dinner guys?" asked Brittany.

"Are we ever..." said Crutchy. They strolled inside and sat down.

"This place is really nice" said Race.

"We know...very expensive" said Kara, emphasizing the expensive part.

"We didn't get a chance to tell you ladies how nice you look tonight" said Crutchy.

"Thank you Crutchy" replied Laura.

"Yeah...ya'll look HOT" yelled Spot.

"Erm..." said Danielle as everyone stared at them. Just then, the band started to play and people started to get up to dance.

"I want to dance!" Jacquie squealed.

"Come on!" yelled Brittany over the music and the two girls went out on the dance floor.

"Are they going to dance...together?" asked Spot.

"Why not?" said Kara curtly.

"Because we should be dancing with them" said Specs, grabbing Kid Blink and then walked up to Jacquie and Brittany on the dance floor. "Hey ladies"

"Hello!" the girls replied as they slow danced together.

"This is some good erm...music" Blink said sarcastically.

"I enjoy it" said Jacquie as she spun Brittany around.

"Hey, do you boys know how to Charleston?" Brittany asked.

"Erm..."Specs said as Jacquie grabbed him. Brittany and Jacquie began to do it as the boys looked on dumbly.

Meanwhile, back at the table...

"What are they doing?" Spot said, putting his head in his hands.

"What we should be doing!" said Danielle, standing up.

"I'm not dancing to this!" he retorted.

"Why...can't handle it?" asked Danielle.

"No! I...um..." and he stood up. "Alright..."

Danielle grinned at Tanya as she walked away with Spot in tow.

"Jack..." she said sweetly.

"Yes?" he asked, looking up at her.

"Please?" she asked.

"Erm..." said Jack, who really didn't like to dance.

"Please" she batted her eyelashes.

Jack sighed, "I don't know..."

"Jack?" she whined.

"JACK GET YOUR ASS UP HERE!" Spot yelled from across the restaurant.

"Fine" he said "but I'm warning you, I'm not good"

"I think I can manage" said Tanya, grinning.

He was right, he wasn't good at all. The other boys snickered at him while he attempted it. Finally, someone noted how hungry they were. So they went to sit back down just as the food was being served.

"Wow, you sure ordered a lot!" said Spot with a grin.

"Oh we are mighty hungry" said Laura, digging in.

"Maybe this isn't enough" said Jacquie with a smirk.

"Nah, this is plenty" said Crutchy, oblivious to the situation.

"Well are you sure? We can get more" offered Brittany.

"Nope, were good" said Jack, grabbing a lobster tail.

"Ok" said Tanya, cutting up her slab of steak. The kids finished all the plates off without leaving a crumb.

"That was delicious" said Spot.

"Sure was...um...excuse me boys...I need to refresh myself in the bathroom" said Brittany, looking at Katie.

"I think I'll join her too..." said Katie, standing up.

"Me three" said Kara.

"Let's all go" said Tanya.

"...ok" said Blink, glancing at the other boys.

"We'll be right back" said Jacquie, grabbing her things.

"You need your coat to go to the bathroom?" Specs said skeptically.

"Um...my womanly products are in here" said Jacquie "and I just don't want to whip them out"

The boys scrunched there noses as the girls left.

"You believe 'em?" asked Race.

"Not at all" said Jack.

"Those bitches" Spot said spitefully.

"Well, what do we do?" Blink began to ask, just as a waiter walked over.

"Your bill" he said snootily and walked away.

"I have an idea" said Mush and he caught the girls as they were about to pass the bathroom.

"Oh...erm...hi!" said Danielle, startled.

"I thought you guys were going to the bathroom?" Mush said innocently, "accidentally" bumping into Jacquie, but really swiped the keys from her pocket.

"Oh, we were, Jacquie just needs to ask the valet a question" said Katie making it up off the top of her head.

"Well, the last time I saw her, she was in the bathroom" said Mush, who also was making it up off the top of his head.

"Wasn't the valet a guy?" asked Tanya, questioningly.

"Nope. That was a girl" said Mush.

"Oh..." said Tanya, a little suspicious.

The girls, looking weirdly at Mush, piled into the bathroom. Mush ran back to the guys, keys jingling in his hand

"Let's go boys" he laughed.