Since I took so long to get my last chapter up, I am giving you a double feature! Enjoy!
A Week Later!
"Can somebody pass me a towel please. I tink I forgot one." Midnight called out.
"Here ya go." Jester smirked as she passed her one over the stall.
"Thanks." Midnight said and then realized that the towel was soaked. "Hey!"
Jester burst out laughing and ran out of the shower room.
"You better watch yer back. I'll get you back." Midnight laughed. She enjoyed getting pranked, but she was one to prank back and usually worse.
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Brooke Lyn looked around to make sure everyone was up. She spotted Artemis still in bed and sighed, walking over. She didn't much care for waking Artemis up. She tended to be very cranky in the morning. Brooke Lyn had already put herself in the role of Mother Hen.
"Artemis!" Brooke Lyn called out her name as she stopped a few feet away from her bed. She didn't want to be subject to her swings again. She absently rubbed her bruised arm where Artemis had punched her yesterday.
"Leave me alone!" Artemis growled and threw her pillow at Brooke Lyn and rolled over onto her stomach.
"Get up, gotta sell papes." She demanded.
"Cant you see the sun's not even up yet. Why don't you yell at the sun." Artemis mumbled into her mattress.
"The sun's up. Now get up." She kicked the frame of the bunk, satisfied when Artemis picked her head up. Brooke Lyn headed towards the stairs. In a few minutes Artemis would be fine.
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Tac sat on the steps of the DO perusing the paper.
"How's da headlines Tac?" Hair asked walking up to her, her stack of papers in hand.
"Not so good. Pullitzah definitely created dis Woild." She smirked and smacked the corner of the paper where the name of the paper was.
Hair laughed lightly. "Yeah, I bet Hearst has better headlines. We should just head that way and sell dose papes."
"Amen ta dat sistah." Tac winked.
Fire walked over carrying a lit paper. "What are we amenin' to?"
"Fire what are you'se doin'? Ya boinin' ya money down the drain." Hair exclaimed.
"Naw, I found dis in the guttah. Its yestadays." She dropped the paper once the flames got too close to her hand. "Sides its bad anyway."
"Well it's no better taday." Tac said.
"One of these days yer gonna light yaself on fire." Hair said as she stepped out the fire.
Tac smirked. "Now wouldn't that be ironic."
Fire and Hair both giggled in response.
"Well bettah start hawkin' headlines." Hair said as she headed for her selling spot.
"Yeah yeah. 'Nother day, 'nother nothin'." Tac smirked.
"See ya at Tibbys fer lunch." Fire called out to them.
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After they gave the waiter their order: Jester, Midnight, and Brooke Lyn sat down in a booth and waited for the others to arrive.
"So how was sellin'?" Midnight asked.
"Good good. Thanks ta you guys showin' us. I think I got the hang of it real well." Brooke Lyn sipped her coke.
"Yeah, I ain't so bad myself." Jester grinned.
"Yeah shore. I had ta sell half ya papes for ya." Brooke Lyn smirked.
"So! At least I sold like ten of them." She grinned.
"Out of what 40." Midnight laughed.
"Exactly!" Brooke Lyn winked at Jester. Jester nudged her under the table.
"You shush."
"Oh hey, I think our order is up. I'll go get it." Midnight said as she scooted out of the booth. This was the perfect time for her to get back at Jester for this morning.
"Sure." Jester and Brooke Lyn said in unison and then laughed at themselves, not suspecting a thing. Jester had already forgotten about this morning's adventure.
Jester stood up. "I have to go to the little girls room." She said in her most proper voice. "Now if you'll excuse me." She got up and made her way to the bathroom.
Spot walked in and saw Brooke Lyn. He walked over and sat down.
"Brooke Lyn isn't it?" he asked.
Brooke Lyn nodded glancing up at him. She recognized him as Spot. She hadn't seen him since that day at the Lodging House. She hadn't actually looked at him either. Her mouth nearly dropped when he shot her his trademark smirk.
"Where's da troublemaka?" he asked. Brooke Lyn willed herself to look away from him and his mesmerizing blue eyes.
"She's around here somewhere." She grinned. Come on Brooke Lyn pull yaself togetha. Since when do you get this way around guys? She looked up at him and offered him a slight smile. Since they started lookin' that. She shook her thoughts away.
"Why if it isn't my pal Spotty boy." Jester smirked as she sat down next to Brooke Lyn. She had only gone to wash her hands and hadn't been gone long. "Did ya miss me?" She gave him a huge smile.
"Right, I forgot how annoyin' you were." Spot growled when she called him Spotty boy.
"Aww I tink he did miss me. What do you tink Brookey?" Jester patted his cheek and then pulled her hand away when she saw the death look in his eyes.
"Um…What?" Brooke Lyn blinked. She must have started staring again. Her cheeks flushed slightly until she pushed it down.
Midnight came back with their food and set it down on the table.
"Here you go Brooke Lyn." She said as she passed her order to her. Brooke Lyn thanked her as she took her plate. She picked up Jesters plate and handed it to her a mischievous glint in her eye. "Jester, your plate."
"Why thank you Night." Jester grinned.
"Hey Spot." Midnight grinned at him and then looked at the girls
"Enjoy ladies!" Midnight said as she sat down to eat her fries.
"Oh Mr. Burger. How are you today? Did you miss me? I missed you. Now its time to feed me." Jester said to her burger.
Spot and Midnight exchanged mock-scared looks. Brooke Lyn just shrugged; again this was something she was used to. "Yer just lucky she's not singin' to it." She smirked.
Jester smirked. "I could ya know."
"No thanks." Spot shook his head. "Please no."
Jester smirked and shrugged. "Yer loss."
"I'm sure." Spot rolled his eyes.
"Now where were we before we were so rudely interrupted." Jester was back to talking to her burger. She made a kissy sound to it and was about to take a bite out of it when a spider crawled out of it.
Jesters eyes widened and instantly threw her burger, making it land on Midnight, who was across from her. She jumped up, screaming at the top of her lungs and wiping at herself as if there were spiders crawling all over her. "Get it off! Get it off! Oh my god! Get it off!" she kept yelling frantically.
Midnight had let out a small scream out of surprise and flung the burger back onto Jesters plate. The three at the table burst out laughing.
"Looks like it pays to stay awhile." Spot commented through his laughter.
Midnight fell out of the booth and onto the floor as she held her stomach. "It hurts, it hurts." She got out through her laughter. She had been laughing so hard her stomach now hurt.
"Touché Miss Midnight. Touché." Jester's brow rose as she smirked at her. She was now convinced that the spider was not on her and had sat back down.
"Jester's deathly afraid of spiders. How'd you know?" Brooke Lyn asked after the laughter had subsided.
"Just a wild guess. Most people jump at them." Midnight explained.
"Well I'd pay to see that again." Spot smirked.
"I bet you would. Well how bout it be you next time buddy boy." Jester pointed to him and grinned. She was beginning to like picking on the Brooklyn leader.
"Would you like that." Spot smirked.
"IT would be interesting." Jester laughed. "Right girls."
Brooke Lyn and Midnight nodded. "Right!"
Okay for some reason its not letting me put breaklines in there so i hope this isnt messed up now. I hope you liked it :).
