Hello!
How are you?
I'm pretty good, I got some good feedback from my teachers at Parent's Evening and I started to make some decisions about my GCSE options!
I'm really pleased that you all liked the first chapter, it means the world to me that you're enjoying the story already!
But enough about me, here's chapter 2!
"Here we are!" Lela grinned, bouncing to a stop as she approached the stretch of stalls. "Butchy's over there with Giggles and I think that Seacat went that way with Struts," Lela continued to explain, pointing in two different directions. Mack and Brady quickly spotted Butchy and Giggles, who had their faces pressed up against the glass of the arcade's window like children outside a sweet shop.
"Guys!" Tanner called out, waving at the pair to catch their attention.
"Keep your voices down," Mack hissed, worried that someone would notice that six movie characters were invading their beach.
"Why?" Tanner asked, giving Mack a puzzled look, clearly not understanding.
"It doesn't matter," Mack mumbled, hurrying towards Butchy and Giggles as they approached.
"Oh, hey Mack!" Giggles beamed upon seeing her friend, flicking her head to the side to move a piece of her hair, causing the fringe on her bikini to shake.
"Hey," Mack quickly babbled, managing a small smile. "Do you have any idea where Seacat and Struts are?"
"I told you, they're over there, silly," Lela giggled, pointing in the opposite direction again.
But just as Mack was about to set off in that direction, Butchy stepped in. "No, they're over there," Butchy said, motioning further down the stretch of stalls. And sure enough, Seacat and Struts were marvelling at a huge blow-up dolphin at a stall selling beach themed items.
"Guys!" Tanner called out for the second time as Struts and Seacat turned around. The pair hurried over to the others, both wearing big grins like the others.
"Hey, guys," Seacat greeted, as Struts tottered over the sand in her hot pink stilettos.
"Ok, is everyone here?" Mack checked.
"I think so," Struts drawled in her biker accent.
"Are you sure?" Brady asked, causing the six Wet Side Story characters to nod.
"No one else is here?" Mack asked, now paranoid that even more teens from the 60s were going to emerge from the ocean. Yet again the Wet Side Story characters nodded.
"What's with all the questions?" Butchy asked, crossing his arms over his chest.
"Butchy, be polite," Lela snapped, slightly scowling at her older brother.
"Actually, we have a question for you," Tanner cut in, stopping Lela and Butchy's bickering.
"We do?" Giggles asked, turning to face Tanner with a surprised look on her face.
"Yeah," Tanner replied, goofily grinning at the blonde surfer girl.
"Are you going to tell us what it is?" Mack asked after a short pause.
"Oh, yeah," Tanner chuckled, acting like he'd completely forgotten about the question in the few seconds of silence. "We're sort of lost."
"We don't really know where we are," Seacat agreed.
"But now we've found you," Giggles grinned.
"Although this beach doesn't look very familiar," Struts sighed.
"Yeah, it's not like the beach we're used to," Butchy agreed.
"And it seems awfully far away from our beach," Lela added.
"So could you help us find somewhere to stay?" Tanner finished, finally getting to the question.
"Sure, you can stay at Mack's house," Brady said, earning a slightly shocked and not too pleased look from Mack.
"Are you sure? If it would be too much trouble then-" Lela started, but was quickly cut off by Brady.
"No, it's cool," Brady reassured, earning a lot of excited whispers from the 60s teens.
"Brady, can I talk to you for a moment?" Mack asked, trying to keep her smile on her face.
"Yeah," Brady replied, walking a few steps away from the Wet Side Story cast members.
"What did you say that for?!" Mack whisper-shrieked, trying to keep her voice down as much as possible but still managing to show how annoyed she was.
"What did I say what for?" Brady asked, not fully understanding his girlfriend.
"Why did you say that they could stay at my place?" Mack asked, expanding on her original question.
"'Cause they can't stay at my place, I've got my siblings to worry about and they can't just sleep on the streets," Brady explained. "Plus you're grandfather's not home…Hang on, didn't we just have this conversation earlier?"
"Brady, I don't know if I can handle six Wet Side Story characters living with me," Mack replied, having trouble making sense of the very thought of it.
"I'll help out, I'll come over every morning to help you keep them all under control. And we'll get them back home before school starts," Brady explained, trying to get Mack to warm up to the idea. "We'll be fine."
"Yes but will they?" Mack asked, motioning to the group of teen in question, who were all gathered together, laughing at something one of them had said.
"Mack, they're going to be fine," Brady said. "We'll make sure of it. How hard can it be? They pretty much go along with anything."
Mack pondered the idea for a moment, trying to decided if she was willing to get herself into this mess. "Alright, let's get them back to my place."
"Really? Mack you're the best!" Brady exclaimed, pulling Mack into a quick hug before spinning back around to face the Wet Side Story cast.
"Apparently so," Mack murmured, not being able to help but smile as Brady eagerly explained the plan to the 60s teens. Her smile only widened at the delighted smiles and excited whispers that soon followed Brady's comment.
"Looks like we're heading back to your place then," Struts grinned, slipping her pink stilettos off and holding them in her hands so that she could walk easier.
"Thanks again for this, Mack," Lela gushed. "I'm sure we won't be any trouble, I'll make sure everyone behaves themselves and-"
"Lela, everything's going to be fine," Mack said, trying to reassure the bubbly biker girl and herself.
"Ok!" Lela chirped, skipping off ahead to catch up with Brady and Giggles.
"So this is your beach?" Seacat asked Mack as they began their journey back to Mack's house. Since all eight of them weren't going to fit in Brady's car, they decided to just walk back, it wasn't far but it would have been a lot quicker in the car.
"Yeah," Mack replied, not really knowing what else to say.
"It's a lot different to our beach," Struts noted.
"Speaking of your beach, how did you get from there to here?" Mack asked, deciding that now was a better time than any to find that out, because maybe it would give her and Brady a clue on how to get them back.
"Oh yeah, we were gonna tell you that," Tanner said.
"Well, it started last night after the huge fight at Big Mommas," Butchy started.
"Wait, there was a huge fight?" Brady questioned, back tracking so that he could hear the story better.
"Yeah, between the Rats and the surfers," Struts explained.
"It wasn't fun," Seacat huffed.
"So we'd decided to have a meeting the next morning to decide how we were going to put a stop to the arguing," Tanner explained.
"And that's when things started going wrong," Lela said after she and Giggles returned to the rest of the group.
*Flashback*
"Is everyone here?" Butchy asked, standing on the small wooden pier that led about fifty metres out into the ocean with the rest of the people he'd gathered.
"No," Struts answered flatly, trying to stifle a yawn. The sun wasn't even fully up yet, leaving the sky a pretty mix of pale pink and baby blue, but this also meant that the bikers weren't used to being up that early and that made them grouchy.
"Well who's not here?" Butchy snapped.
"CheeChee and Lugnut said that they'd be here but they probably forgot and just slept in," Giggles answered, causing Butchy to roll his eyes at the absence of his crew members.
"Coral and Rascal aren't here either," Lela noted, scanning the group for the pair of surfers but coming up short.
"Rascal was staying over at Finn's place, so he might just be late," Seacat said.
"But why isn't Coral here? Shouldn't she have come with you, Tanner?" Butchy asked.
"I got up and asked her if she was getting ready and she said she had a head ache and that she'd get up in a few minutes," Tanner replied. "So she'll probably show up soon."
"Let's just start without them, Butchy," Lela said, trying to get things moving.
"What are we even going to talk about? The solution is to get Axel to stop bullying everyone," Struts ranted, not too pleased about being woken up this early.
"She does have a point," Seacat agreed. "There's not really much to discuss."
"So we're just telling Axel to keep his mouth shut?" Tanner checked.
"I guess so," Giggles replied.
"Wait, so we got up early for nothing?" Struts squeaked.
"I guess so," Giggles repeated.
"That didn't take as long as I thought," Butchy said.
"So what are we gonna do now?" Lela asked, earning a shrug from everyone. However, the skies had turned from a pretty pale pink to a smudgy grey and the wind had picked up a lot. And as the six friends started to make a move to head back to the beach, a huge wave crashed over the end of the pier, drenching all of them.
"What the-?!" Lela squealed, the cold water almost taking her breath away.
But before anyone could do anything else, another huge wave rose above them and crashed down with such force that they were dragged down with it.
The six teens managed to surface and get close to the shore line, the relentless waves constantly crashing behind and around them. But something wasn't right. The beach didn't look familiar. The people didn't look familiar. And most importantly, they were all soaking wet.
"What's going on?" Lela squealed, as another wave crashed on her back and propelled her forwards a little.
"I don't know," Struts squeaked, stumbling and causing her hot pink stiletto to fall off, but she quickly retrieved it again.
"Where's Big Momma's?" Butchy demanded, just before another wave crashed at the six teens' back and made them all cry out in surprise.
"Where are we?" Lela asked, gazing at her surroundings with a furrowed brow.
"My fringe!" Giggles whined, staring down in horror as the white fringing on her turquoise bikini clung to her skin from the water.
"My hair!" Tanner cried, his hands immediately finding his head and his fingers starting to comb through the wet, golden brown mess that was now plastered to his scalp.
"My shoes!" Struts shrieked, holding her beloved high heels out in front of her before tipping them upside down and watching in despair as the water drained out.
"Dudes." The voice startled the six teens so much that they all let out a resounding yelp and jumped at the sight of possibly the strangest looking boy they had ever seen. His blonde hair was styled up into one big spike that ran down the length of his head and his outfit was incredibly bright and different to what they were used to. He was unlike anyone they'd seen before. "You guys are totally lost," he continued. The six friends all stepped closer together, unsure whether or not to trust the strange boy. "Do you need to use my phone?" the boy asked, holding out a small blue box to the six teens. But the most peculiar thing of all was that there was a screen on the front of the box, showing a picture of another strange boy. Naturally, the six teens all jumped in surprise. They'd never seen such a strange device and they didn't know whether to be afraid or intrigued. The all exchanged glances, some shocked and some nervous before Lela gingerly outstretched her hand. She delicately took the thin blue box from the boy and with her other hand reached out her other finger to touch it.
"Say a command," a robotic woman's voice droned, coming from the blue box.
The six teens all cried out again, all jumping back in shock and almost making Lela drop the bizarre, talking object. They all exchanged glances again before eventually crowding around Lela in a huge circle, all marvelling at the blue box with the screen. Lela sent a grateful smile to the blonde boy with spiky hair before going back to tapping the screen along with the rest of her friends.
"Look the screen moves when you tap it!" Giggles exclaimed, swiping her finger backwards and forwards on the screen.
"It's so hip!" Struts cried, pushing in front of Butchy to get a better look at it.
"What do you think it's used for?" Tanner asked, puzzling at the thin blue box.
"He said it was a phone," Butchy replied.
"But aren't phones in houses with wires and stuff?" Struts asked. "How come this things so small?"
"He must have been joking," Seacat said, tilting the blue box so that he could get a better look at it. "But whatever it is, it's pretty groovy."
The six teens all murmured their agreements and continued tapping it for a few more seconds before Lela cried: "What's this?" Lela pressed another button on the screen and a flash went off, temporarily blinding the six teens, causing them to cry out in surprise again and making them drop the blue box.
"Erm…can I have my phone back?" It was the blonde boy again, looking a little bit freaked out by the six teens' weird behaviour. The six teens backed away when he moved towards them and he quickly snatched up his phone from its place on the sand before running off, leaving the six teens rather lost again.
"What now?" Tanner asked, watching the retreating blonde boy along with the rest of his friends.
"Maybe we should start walking, we might start recognising things," Lela decided, and with that the six teens took off, trudging down the beach and leaving a trail of water droplets behind them.
"Gee, wet leather is not fun to walk in," Struts moaned, trying to adjust her leather jacket but failing.
"And my feet are hurting," Giggles sighed.
"Can we take a break?" Butchy asked, almost tripping over a bump in the sand.
"Sure, I don't see why not," Lela said, trying to keep positive with a bright smile. So the six teens found a group of rocks and palm trees and all found spaces to sit on the sand.
"This place isn't looking any more familiar," Tanner piped up after a little while.
"Yeah, I still don't have a clue where we are," Seacat agreed.
"And this is nothing like our beach, everything just seems different," Struts sighed.
"We're really lost, aren't we?" Giggles asked, an edge of sadness in her usually perky voice.
"We're not lost we just…don't know where we are," Lela replied, still trying to keep everyone positive.
"Lela, that's pretty much the definition of lost," Butchy said, watching Lela's face fall as she tried to fish for words to prove her brother wrong. But nothing came to her. Lela tilted her head forwards, her eyes focusing down as she nervously played with one of her bracelets. The group sat in silence, no one knowing what to do. All hope was lost. And no more than five seconds later, Lela's body shook and lurched forwards slightly. Tanner looked up from the sand, having sensed her movement, and watched as Lela's back heaved up on down again. He moved from his space on the sand and sat next to her, putting one of his arms around her and placing his other hand on top of hers. It was then that Lela let out a tiny sob and Tanner felt a tear slip down Lela's cheek and splash onto his hand.
"Hey, Lela, don't cry," Tanner said, hugging her closer to him. "We'll be fine, we'll sort something out."
"Yeah, don't worry, Sis. We're gonna find something…" Butchy trailed off, his efforts to cheer his sister up not really going anywhere.
"I know you guys are trying to cheer me up but don't lie to me, I'm just worried," Lela murmured, her words coming out shakily as she wiped away another tear. "What if we're completely lost and we can't get back home?"
"We're going to be fine, Lela. I promise," Tanner said, gently tilting Lela's head upwards and turning it so that she was facing him. He then wiped away her tears with his thumb and gave her a light kiss, making Lela's face break into a small smile.
"Hey, if you need cheering up, Lela, how about doing what we always do to cheer up?" Giggles suggested, sitting up straight and beaming up at the biker girl.
"What's that?" Lela sniffled, delicately wiping her nose with the back of her hand.
Her five friends all mocked a collective gasp of horror.
"You don't remember?!" Struts cried.
"But it's what we always do!" Butchy cried.
"Are you sure you're thinking straight, Lela?!" Seacat cried.
Lela let out a small, uneasy laugh, not sure if they were joking their surprise or not.
"We sing!" Tanner, Butchy, Giggles, Seacat and Struts chorused.
Tanner: "Where is the moment we needed the most?"
As Tanner started to sing, the six friends all drew closer together, all forming a semi circle around Lela.
Tanner: "You kick up the leaves and the magic is lost"
Tanner scuffed the sand with the toe of his shoe. This beach wasn't like their own. It seemed different, dull, like it had lost the spark that the teens were used to.
Tanner: "They tell me your blue skies fade to grey
They tell me your passion's gone away
And I don't need no carrying on"
Butchy scooted a bit closer to his little sister, resting his hand on her shoulder.
Tanner & Butchy: "You stand in the line just to hit a new low"
Tanner sent a grateful smile to Butchy, appreciating the fact that he was joining in with his idea.
Tanner & Struts: "You're faking a smile with the coffee to go"
Struts was the next one to start singing, joining in on the effort to cheer Lela up again.
Tanner & Giggles: "You tell me your life's been way off line"
Giggles stepped in next, followed by Seacat.
Tanner & Seacat: "You're falling to pieces every time"
Before finally, all five of the teens were singing to Lela, trying to get her smile to make an appearance again.
Tanner, Butchy, Struts, Giggles & Seacat: "'Cause you had a bad day
You're taking one down
You sing a sad song just to turn it around
You say you don't know
You tell me don't lie
You work at a smile and you go for a ride
You had a bad day
The camera don't lie
You're coming back down and you really don't mind
You had a bad day"
Lela finally looked up at her friends, a tiny smile curling at the edge of her lips as she locked her fingers with Tanner's.
Tanner, Butchy, Struts, Giggles, Seacat & Lela: "You had a bad day"
The six teens all harmonized on their last note, all not being able to help but smile. Then something strange happened, again. The bikers and surfers' wet clothes were replaced different, dry outfits. Lela was in her red and white dotted dress, Tanner was in his brown polo and shorts combo, Giggles was in her pink fringed bikini, Struts was in her regular leather jacket but with her white and black striped crop top and red and black checked skirt, Seacat was in his green Hawaiian shirt with a white t-shirt and a pair of colourful board shorts but Butchy was just in a cleaner version of his red t-shirt and leather vest with jeans combo.
"Hey, dry clothes!" Struts said, standing up and spinning around, watching her skirt fly out around her.
"And our hair's back to normal!" Tanner exclaimed, running his free hand through his now perfectly styled hair.
"See, Sis, not everything's so bad," Butchy said earning a proper smile from Lela, who was just as pleased as the others to be in some dry clothes.
"Hey, what's that over there?" Giggles asked, standing a few feet away from the rest of the group and peering into the distance.
"It looks a bit like a carnival," Seacat replied, following the blonde girl's line of vision.
"Maybe we can find something there that'll help us figure out where we are!" Giggles cried, doing a little jump up triumph.
And with that, the six teens set off down the beach again, a new found confidence driving them on.
*End of Flashback*
"And that's when we found you guys!" Lela finished.
"But we didn't find anything that gave us a clue on how to get back home," Struts sighed.
"Speaking of homes, here's mine," Mack piped up, trying to process everything that the six movie characters had told her as she walked up the steps to her house on the beach. She was going to have to have a discussion with Brady about what had happened to the six teens because very few parts of it seemed logical.
"Oh, it's so pretty!" Lela squealed, running up the steps and admiring the decoration.
"Thanks," Mack smiled, pushing the door open. The six movie characters all pushed past her, eagerly running into the house and starting to take in their surroundings, marvelling at objects and scurrying from place to place like excited children.
"Looks like they like it here," Brady said, wrapping his arm around Mack's shoulder before leading her into the house with him.
I hope you enjoyed it!
I was going to add the first part of this chapter onto the end of the first one but I decided against it, it's just a little on the long side.
I'm still trying to work on chapters so I can't go back to posting twice a week yet, but I have half term next week, which means that I can get a bit more writing done. I promise you that I'm trying!
The song I used in this chapter is called Bad Day by Daniel Powter, I just thought that it fitted really well with the situation.
Thank you so much for five reviews again! Every one makes me so happy and I love knowing that you're enjoying the story!
Thank you so much DynamicGiraffe, Guest (1), MaddieGerbz, Guest (2) and Guest (3)! Don't hesitate to leave a suggestion if you think of one, I love hearing them and using ideas that you want to read! :)
Since Valentine's Day is coming up soon, in two days actually, I've been trying to decide whether I want to just write another one-shot or hold a contest. Let me know what you'd prefer me to do! If you choose the one-shot, I'll probably write my one-shot and post it on Saturday, but if you choose the contest, I'll still post my one-shot on Saturday with the rules and I'll leave it up for a week, which is how long the contest will be open for. If you don't want a contest then let me know, last time I tried to hold one it failed miserably. :/
I know I say this all the time (if you're reading this then let me know what you would do if you were completely lost) but I want to say thank you to everyone who sends me PMs, leaves reviews and is just generally supportive of my stories because you never fail to make me smile!
Thank you for reading!
-cherrygorilla