They read about Randall and Fungus going on a camping trip. And they learn that they made a new friend in the process!
Chapter 7: Meeting Cheyenne Wags
After work everyone had again met at Sulley's and Mike's apartment. They were almost caught by Randall at some point during work. They were glad that Fungus had come in when he did, and guided the lizard monster somewhere else. Bud 'Lucky' had taken the book.
"After a month of Uncle Rhoul's babysitting disaster, the school went on a camping field trip. Oh what fun? Of course it took Emilia and Cheryal a long time to be persuaded by Fungus to let me go and that we would be watching me the whole time. Reluctantly they agreed, before going over rules and other things and that I wasn't allowed to go anywhere without Fungus or a teacher.
Me and Fungus was sitting together on the bus. He was talking about something, but I was focusing on something to not hear him.
"Uh Randall? Hello? Randall?" He asked, knocking on my head.
"Ah!" I exclaimed in surprise, putting my top hands over my head. "Fungus? What is it?"
"You weren't even listening!" He scowled at me.
"Sorry… I was too busy thinking…" I trailed off.
"Don't sweat it. Now why don't you tell your best buddy, what's on your mind?"
He put an arm around me. I know he was trying to comfort me, and get my mind off what I was thinking about. He was like a big brother to me. A geeky older brother, but a brother nonetheless.
"It's…. It's that… it's my first time staying a whole a weekend away from Mommy Cheryal and Mama Emilia…"
"And you're scared?"
I looked at him and nodded. He could always read my mind… it was freaky. He smiled gently at me and pulled me closer.
"Don't worry. I'll be with you the whole step of the way. If Bruno, Skeeter and Rico try anything I'll give them a good licking."
I smirked. Oh Fungus. He tries so hard to prove that he's tougher than he looks. I couldn't help lean against him.
"I know Funk. But you and I both know that without each other they'll clobber us. Me especially."
"I don't see why you don't tell your parents…"
"I can handle this!" I paused. "I'm sure that it's because they come from a bad home… I did too when I was really, really little…"
"Now Ran, you can't expect…"
"But it's logical Fungus! Just look at the facts!" I told him.
"Okay, okay, no reason to be so huffy." He laughed. "You just worried about not getting beat up this weekend."
"What about you?"
"I'll be fine."
"Are you sure? What if…"
"Don't worry your little capped head. I'm the oldest and I promised Emilia and Cheryal that I would look after you. You know we'll be sharing a tent together."
"Okay, I won't worry about it anymore."
The bus came to a stop and I looked out to see that were at a camp site. I looked at it in wonder. I had never been to a camp site let alone been outside Monstropolis before. It was so… unique. The trees, the dirt… Okay I've dirt before, but it was only visible in Emilia's garden. The flowers were different too. I've seen many flowers, but the ones there were different.
"Okay everyone, off the bus!" One of the teachers replied.
I looked up in surprise and watched everyone got off the bus. Me and Fungus were the last ones off. When I got off I had accidentally bumped into a skinny brown furred female monster. She had beautiful brown hair and eyes. She was wearing a T-shirt and jeans and sneakers.
"S-s-sorry…" I stammered.
She looked at me kindly and gave me a gentle smile. She walked off without another word. I took a hold of Fungus's arm and jerked on it.
"Fungus… who was that girl?"
"Her? That's Cheyenne Wags, she's a sixth grader. Not very popular, but she's very defiant."
"Wow…"
After everyone had their tents sit up all the other kids had went off and played. I was sitting with Fungus under a tree, attending to Teddy.
"Fungus… about that girl… how come we've never seen her before?"
"She just moved from Screamattle. She's an only child. I don't know much about other than that."
"An only child…" I echoed.
He nodded. I started shivering. He helped me up.
"Come on. Let's get you inside before you get sick." He told me, guiding me into one of the tents.
I followed him without protest. I don't know why I was so transfixed on her. Was it because she was new? Or was it because that I felt some connection between her and me? I didn't have an idea. Fungus had pulled a blanket over me. I had wrapped another blanket around Teddy.
"Thank you," she smiled at me.
"You're welcome Teddy."
"You and that Teddy bear." Fungus chuckled.
I took my pillow and threw it at him. It hit him in the head, causing his glasses to turn sideway.
"Nice hit." He grumbled at me.
"Don't make fun of Teddy." I stated to him.
"Okay lesson learned. Don't come between you and your Teddy bear. Noted. Ow… you got a good arm, you know that right?"
I smirked at him. Without warning a pillow smacked me upside the head. I fell over. I looked up to see Fungus grinning at me with a pillow in his hands. I glared at him.
"So that's how you want to play it, huh? Well game on!" I smiled, taking my own pillow and whacking him with it.
Our pillow fight probably lasted a good hour before we had landed on the ground panting.
"Draw?" He asked.
"Draw." I agreed.
I stood up, fixing my sleeping bag and my pillow. I'm a perfectionist, okay? If it's not neat and clean, I get a little upset. I sat teddy on the pillow, adjusting her a bit.
"You're a perfectionist, aren't you?"
"What's that?"
"A perfectionist is someone who has to make sure everything is in order, neat and clean and that everything has to done a certain way, right?"
"Yes… but I don't see…"
"What's your room like?" He asked.
"Uh… neat and clean, everything where it's supposed to be."
"You're a perfectionist."
"Okay… I don't see why you have to tell me that…"
"Sorry, I just sorta had assumed."
"Okay, can we go out looking at the scenery? I've never been in the woods before."
"Hmm… I don't know…" Fungus staled, a smirk on his face.
"Please?" I begged, batting my eyes innocently, "I really want to see it."
"Okay. There's a creek not far from here, we can go there and come back."
"Yes!" I exclaimed, running out.
He laughed as he followed me. He's always seems to know just what do, when I don't. I was looking at all the plants, taking mental notes as I studied the plants. I have a photographic memory. I saw on particular flower that caught my attention. It was a bright blue, with red stripes. I was thinking about picking it when Fungus was yelling at me.
"Randall, look out!"
Before I could turn, I felt two hands push me. I turned my head to look at the perpetrator, only to have my head shoved into the mud.
"Well, I didn't think Randy boy liked flowers, but guess I was wrong," A voice sneered.
I gulped. I felt someone peel my hat off and grabbed my fronds and jerked my head up.
"Ah…" I whimpered.
"Let him go!" Fungus growled.
"Back off six eyes! He is mine." Bruno growled.
I heard a thud.
"Ow! Who threw that rock at me?" Bruno demanded, letting me go.
I scurried over to Fungus, hiding behind him. I looked to see it was the girl that I bumped into. I blushed. She had another rock in her paw, tossing it in the air and catching it.
"Why don't you pick on someone your own size Bat breath?"
"Why don't you make me Fuzz rug?"
"I don't make monkeys I train them."
I giggled. Bruno glared at me, causing me to cower. The girl smiled and turned back to him. She threw the rock at him again, hitting him square in the forehead. I covered my mouth to keep from laughing. I looked at Fungus to see that he was smirking, shaking, but smirking nonetheless. I was clinging onto Fungus's arm, admiring her. She was so pretty. Her sweet brown eyes, the flowing motion of her fur as it moved…
Was I in love? I didn't know. Possibly a crush? I didn't know that either. I never felt this way before. Fungus cast a glance at me and gave me a knowing smile.
"Yea well you… you… you're an ugly girl!"
"And you're a pea-brain who has to ride the short bus!"
"Yea? Well… well… you're stupid!"
"Look who's talking pig!"
"Scape eater!"
"Human pet!"
"Tomboy!
"You make your weenie with yo mama's toe jam!"
"And you bob apples in the toilet and you like it!"
"At least I don't smell like a human!"
Bruno and his gang gasped.
"What did you just call me?" He growled.
"Ya heard me Skunkzilla. You're a human pet, and if I catch ya being mean to the kid again and I'll skin ya. Now get out of my sight." She growled.
"Fine, but I'll be back Warthog face."
"Count on it pee drinking crab-face." She shot.
Bruno and his gang took off. The girl smirked as she watched them leave. She turned to me and Fungus and bend down to where she at my level, just like how my parents would do when they needed to talk to me. I blushed deeper, trying to blend so she didn't have to see me.
"Whoa there kid," She replied, grabbing my arm before I fully turned invisible. "Don't disappear on me yet. I ain't gonna hurt ya. Watch ya name kid?"
"R-R-Randall…" I replied shyly.
"Nice ta meet ya Randall. I'm Cheyenne." She told me.
I looked at her and she looked at me, like she was staring at me. I felt a little cautious and shrunk.
"Fascinating…" she muttered, pulling me close, "I'm actually meeting a reptile for the first time! This is so awesome! I've always wanted to meet a reptile! You guys are so fascinating! The way you can blend or climb walls… Your awesome scales… oh what it's like?"
I just looked at Fungus who shrugged at me.
"I-I…" I stammered.
She batted her eyes at me and I think I fainted. I don't remember because I woke up in my tent. I sat up to see Fungus reading a book.
"Oh Fungus… what happened?"
"You fainted."
"What? I Randall Jonathon Boggs does not faint!" I snapped at him.
"Well you did." Fungus told me.
I sighed. Great my first camping tripped caused me to meet a girl and blow it and get beat up at the same time. You'd think nothing could've gotten worst after that, but you were wrong."
"Aw… his very first crush! How adorable!" Celia exclaimed.
"Ha! Dude got his butt saved by a girl!" Mike laughed.
"Now Mike, Randall was seven when this happened, I'm sure he didn't about the girl/boy thing." Sulley told him.
"Whatever Sul, but this gold." Mike grinned looking at the book.
The blue furred Scarer sighed. This did make him wonder. Did his friends help him cope with life struggles? Or was the age gap to much? They'll find out soon enough. And it was unsure if that was a good or a bad thing.
Always stand up against someone who is harassing/bullying someone. You never know. You might make a new friend!
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