CHAPTER TWO
"IN THE CUFFS"
"MAN! Drake growled, walking into their room behind his brother and slamming the door: "I can't believe Meghan is so evil! I just feel like someone should beat a little sense into her!" "Aw, Drake, it's okay! We're only grounded for a week, unable to go anywhere, and in the line of fire of Meghan's pranks! Noooo, there is nothin' to worry about!" Josh said, throwing up his hands: "And on a lighter note, no telling what Dad's gotten himself into with the police!! …POLICE!"
"Oh my gosh, I almost forgot about that!" Drake gasped. "YOU FORGOT THAT OUR FATHER MIGHT BE DOING SOMETHING ILLEGAL?!?!?! WAKE UP, DRAKE!" Josh shouted. "Hey!" his brother gasped. "What?" Josh asked. "Wake… Drake-- that rhymes!" Drake said, with a childish amusement written on his face.
Josh sighed and looked at Drake. After a moment, he walked to his bed, kicked off his shoes and turned off the light. "Goodnight!!" he yelled.
Drake stood, puzzled.
"…What?" Everything was completely still. "…Josh?" It was only silence. Drake finally exclaimed: "Hello?!" Suddenly a flying pillow smacked him in the head from across the room.
"…Oow."
"Goodnight." Josh growled.
After Josh had gone to sleep, Drake turned on the small desk lamp and sat down. He opened his laptop and signed on to the internet. He planned to only check his email box and then to get off, but suddenly an instant messenger window popped up.
AnitaPrescott007: Drake!!
Drake frowned in amazement. Anita was his girlfriend about a year ago, when another girl—a previous girlfriend named Amanda-- had begun stalking him, Nita had thought that he was dating Mandy behind her back and so she broke up with him.
Snapping back to reality, he quickly typed his message but had to back-space it and re-write it at least twice before sending it.
TheDrakeanator05: Anita? Hey! What's up? How are you?!
After a minute, an "AnitaPrescott007 is typing" sign popped up and finally the message appeared:
AnitaPrescott007: Hey! I'm fine; I know it's been a while. I just had to get a hold of you! Are you going to the Kate McGin concert the day after tomorrow? I know you're a big fan of hers.
TheDrakeanator05: Yeah!! Don't tell me your going?
AnitaPrescott007: I sure am!
TheDrakeanator05: Dude, that is so awesome! Do you want to meet there?
AnitaPrescott007: Can we?
TheDrakeanator05: If you want to! I've like really missed you! I mean… if you'd like to see me, I think that would totally rock. It would be so cool to see you again!
AnitaPrescott007: I would love to see you! That sounds so fun! Are you free to meet up?
Drake paused a moment of think of what to say and laughed to himself as he typed another message into the text box of the messenger program.
TheDrakeanator05: Well, my brother Josh will be with me, but nobody else other than that so, yeah, I'm fine with it!
Anita returned with a 'lol' and then the two planned where and at what exact time they'd meet in the huge San Diego concert dome, the day after next. They chatted for a long time about the concert and lots of other things. School, music, brothers, sisters and everything else. After all, they had a lot to catch up on, over the span of a year. By the time the chat came to a close, both had a happy feeling that replaced their old feeling of tension and uncertainty. It was like they were old friends again. Finally after a very long goodbye, Drake signed off the internet & closed his laptop, unplugging it.
Unplugging the laptop was a habit Drake had gotten into after Josh argued with him over and over about the "battery charging" light keeping him awake. The argument had lasted for about a week and finally Meghan settled it by cutting the cord to the laptop. Of course, Drake had to buy himself a new cord with his own money and Meghan didn't get into any bit of trouble.
As Drake put on his pjs and climbed up into his elevated bed, he laughed to himself after looking back at the day's happenings. "This life is so weird." He said aloud to himself with a laugh. "WHAT?!! WHAT IS IT DRAKE?" Josh gasped, waking up. Drake (who still had a smile scrawled across his face), picked up a sock from the ledge of his bed and threw it at his brother, hitting him in the face and turning over in the bed: "Go to sleep, Josh."
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Lights filtered through the windows of the brothers' room. Drake, who had been fighting it for a while, finally opened his eyes and sighed. He was actually happy for once. He yawned and became even happier when he suddenly realized it was a teacher's work day so there was no school today. Belleview High rarely had these and so now that they did have one day off, Drake decided before hand to relax and have some lazy fun today.
He sat up but was suddenly pulled back down to the bed. With a majorly confused look covering his face, he jerked around and looked behind him, with some difficulty. "Ah! MEGHAN!" he screamed to the top of his lungs. "Josh, wake up, dope!" Drake exclaimed, managing to kick the alarm clock off of the bed. It smacked the sleeping teenager and Josh sprung up from his bed with an "OWWWW!"
A silent moment reigned while he rubbed his head: "What the heck was that for?!"
"What do you think?" Drake yelled, struggling in his covers.
"Dude!" Josh exclaimed, jumping up on the ladder to the bed: "You're… handcuffed to the bed!!"
Drake raised his brow severely and look from the cuffs to his brother, he exclaimed: "Ya' think?!"
"Well how'd you get that way?" Josh asked. Both were quiet for a moment but then looked at each other and simultaneously muttered: "Meghan."
"You rang?" Meghan said, standing in the doorway with a slithery grin.
"Yes, I rang!" Drake snarled: "Get over here!"
"No. I don't have to." "What 'you talkin' about, little girl?" Josh mocked.
"Mom says I don't have to go near you if I don't want to." she scoffed.
"Well you came in here and handcuffed me to my bed!" Drake shouted.
"Yeah I did… but I wanted to come in, then." She said with an evil grin playing over her lips. "…See ya', boobs."
"HEY!" Drake screamed as she began to walk away.
"Yeah?" she asked, rolling her eyes.
"Aren't you going to give me the key to these?!" he said.
"…Well… nope. Gott'a go. Deal with it. Bye." she said, running away form the door.
"UGH DARN MEGHAN!" Drake yelled after her.
"Nasty little demon child." Josh exclaimed, shaking a fist at the door.
