Hello! I'm writing a Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn (NRDD) fanfic! I'm excited because this will be the first one I actually post! I also really love the idea I had of putting someone like myself into the lives of NRDD! I'm always talking to the TV saying things like, "that's a stupid idea" or "Come on, why would you do that?" and sometimes the situations they put themselves in and I just get all icky inside. So I decided to try it out hope you enjoy it!
Chapter 1: Who Are You?
Ricky was simply working on a little science experiment. He didn't really know what would come to it, and he thought nothing of it at the time. But when the air in the room started blowing and Ricky saw that the window was not open, and the wind sped up more and more. He looked to the contraption he had made and stashed under his bed, which now had a blue light beaming out of it. He quickly pulled the metal, thing, out from under his bed and stared at it as the blue glow brightened and the wind blew harder. Until there was a sudden stop. The blue light was gone, the air back to normal, but someone he did not know now stood before him. It was a girl who was probably as tall as Dawn She had brown hair that went slightly past her shoulders and matching brown eyes to go with it.
"Who are you?" Ricky asked, his voice sounding more scared than he wanted to. The girl had the same expression of shock on her face as Ricky. She looked at Ricky and asked,
"Who are you?" with more anxiety than Ricky had ever heard come from his own anxious mouth.
"N-no, I asked you first," Ricky said. His mind was going haywire, berserk, insane.
"Where am I?" she asked looking around the boys' room. She gasped. "Oh my, am I? Is this?" she couldn't form a sentence.
"What? What is your confusion?" Ricky asked more confused than when Dicky didn't understand a metaphor.
"Your Ricky?" the girl asked.
"Uh, ye- I mean who are you?" Ricky replied. He couldn't tell this stranger anything.
"Oh, I'm so stupid," she said, "I'm Lainey," she held out her hand Ricky shook it.
"Well then Lainey, yes, I'm Ricky. But how'd you know?" Ricky said taking her hand.
"Wait!" Lainey whisper-shouted.
"What?" Ricky whispered.
"You must have used your brain to somehow get me here. It makes sense you're the smart one. And whatever you built was somehow able to let me travel through universes." Lainey said. She sounded excited but now had an angrier looking face on.
"Uh, what? Travel through universes. No way," Ricky stated, as he started backing away from Lainey.
"It's the only way I'm here," Lainey said, her arms crossed looking straight at him with dead serious eyes.
"What do you mean it's the only way you're here?" Ricky asked, going back into his state of confusion.
"You have to promise me you won't freak out when I tell you this," she said, her arms uncrossed and she wore a softer look on her face. Ricky nodded and started thinking of all the crazy reasons why she would know his name. His name out of all the quads. She probably heard of the Harper quads, but know about just one, that was something that usually didn't happen.
"In my universe, you and everyone you know, are uh," she stopped she had a weird look on her face Ricky couldn't quite place.
"What? Everyone I know and me what?" He asked impatient and nervous.
"Are fictional TV characters!" she blurted. Covering her mouth as soon as she did. "I'm sorry to rush that on you so hard, but technically in this universe, I don't even exist, I think," Lainey said. She felt sorry for giving him the world's weirdest information.
"I'm a TV show character?" he asked. Lainey nodded.
"But, you exist here and that's what matters," Lainey nodded, an awkward smile on her face, "also, I know some things about you and your life," she said hesitantly.
"Now that's just creepy," Ricky pointed out, Lainey tilted her head to the side in agreement, but defended herself by saying,
"It's like anyone watching a TV show, you know about their life and they don't actually exist. In your universe as the character. Because there are always actors." Ricky nodded and decided he didn't want to hear too much of it.
"Then we might as well tell your siblings so you don't have to hear it too many times," Lainey said.
"Wait!" Ricky said sliding in front of the door, "what about my parents?" he asked, eyebrows raised in concern. Lainey got the same expression on her face and nodded.
"Yeah, I see your point. How about- wait what's the weekday?" she asked abruptly.
"Tuesday night why?" Ricky asked.
"So you do have school tomorrow?" she asked, he nodded, "then tomorrow we meet up at the school, introduce me to your siblings and friends, then take me home with you to meet your parents as 'the new girl at school', and I act like I need to stay the night," Lainey said in a cheerful tone that she just came up with the plan.
"One question," Ricky asked,
"Where am I going to sleep?" Lainey asked as Ricky asked,
"Where are you going to sleep?" Ricky's jaw dropped when she said the question at the same time.
"I already thought about it. When you and the others were nine, you went up in the vents right?" Lainey asked.
"Yes, but we were nine," Ricky said in a confused tone.
"Your father was a grown man who fit up there as well," Lainey pointed out. Ricky's face then lit up with understanding.
"Do you have an extra comforter, two blankets, and two pillows? Preferably one fuzzy pillow," Lainey asked in a serious tone. Ricky nodded and ran into the hallway. In a few seconds, he had everything she requested, except the fuzzy pillow.
"Sorry I couldn't find a fuzzy pillow," he said setting the bed supplies on the floor.
"It's ok, just a preference," she looked up at the ceiling, "wait, how do you get in the vents?" she asked. Ricky went into the bathroom and pointed to the ceiling.
"You might have to smell Dicky's poops, and mine, and Nicky's…" he trailed off.
"It's ok, I can bet I've smelled worse," Lainey said taking the comforter and climbing on the counter. She used their old step stool to open the vent and climb in while Ricky stood there in shock. A girl, not caring about the smells of things. He'd never met someone so strange. Then another idea hit him. After another few minutes of Lainey finding a spot to sleep in the vents and taking all the bed stuff with her he asked,
"Hey, Lainey,"
"Yeah," she said, feeling relieved of being done.
"What about food?" he asked, she bolted up straight and turned to him,
"That's going to be a problem if I'm hungry," she said pointing towards the ceiling.
"Why is that the problem?" he asked confused.
"The vents have echoes, and my stomach is pretty loud when I'm hungry without an echoing vent," Lainey confessed.
"Ok, I'll get some food from Nicky,"
"But then you'll have to tell him why you want that," Lainey said.
"Well, we're telling them anyway," Ricky stated.
"But the point was to tell them all at once, remember," Lainey replied. Ricky nodded then said,
"I could tell him I have a big appetite, then that I want to go eat upstairs in our room."
"What if someone comes to check on you?" Lainey asked.
"We lock the door!" he said.
"They'll want to know why the door is locked," she said,
"I'll say I'm going to the bathroom. And before you say you could just use the bathroom door's lock, I'll say it wasn't working and I didn't want anyone walking in on me." he fished out the plan. Lainey smiled, nodded and said,
"Good job, now can you lie?" her happy tone went to dead serious in an instant. He quickly nodded,
"Good. Now onto the major problem," she said, squinting at the floor.
"What's the major problem?" Ricky asked so scared he might pee his pants. Lainey laughed and said,
"Me! I'm the major problem!"
"Huh?" he asked,
"You know when you were younger and had the quad club in your garage?" she asked,
"Yeah, and then the but-er, topped ours with all-day breakfast," Ricky stopped when Lainey's hand went up.
"Exactly. And why did Nicky say Mae wasn't coming back?"
"Because bacon is never bad! Ugh, darn delicious bacon," Ricky complained.
"When I was watching the show I had a different reaction than almost every person in the world. When Nicky asks, 'when is bacon ever bad?' I responded to my phone with, 'always'" Lainey said. Ricky stared at her in disbelief,
"You don't like bacon?"
"Hate it," she said, as plain as could be.
"Wait, how's bacon the problem?" Ricky asked.
"The problem is I'm a picky eater," Lainey clarified.
"Oh. Uh oh. You might not like whatever Nicky makes!" Ricky came to the realization of the actual matter at hand. Lainey nodded.
"Hey, Dicky, Ricky, Dawn, Mae, Mom, Dad, dinners ready!" Nicky shouted from the stares. Lainey quickly whispered something into Ricky's ear, before running on the counter and into the vents.
First chapter finished! I feel lie it's a long one, but hey, I think it's good. If it wasn't clear Lainey is basically me, who travels to the world of NRDD. She is definitely more relaxed than me and a little faster at spitting her plans out. I can come up with plans quickly, but it takes a while for me to form words out of them. Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter I know I enjoyed writing it. Have a great day and please leave a review!