Hello!
How are you?
I've actually had a pretty stressful past few days. As some of you may know, I couldn't post my Valentines Day one-shot on time because my little brother wasn't feeling very well and I was looking after him. And then yesterday, my dad was feeling ill too and when he went to the doctor he collapsed. He was then rushed to hospital, where he spent most of the afternoon on a drip, drifting in and out of consciousness. So it's been a pretty eventful week, but I did manage to get a lot of writing done! I'm really pleased with how far ahead I've gotten. :)
But something that definitely did make my week a thousand times better is the Teen BeachMovie 2 trailer! It looks amazing and I can't tell you how excited I am for it to come out! :D
Anyway, enough about me, let's get on with chapter 3!
"So you're sure that this is a phone, Brady?" Seacat called from one end of the room, where the bikers and surfers were crowded in a circle.
"Yeah, don't phones have cords attached to the wall?" Giggles agreed, not convinced that the thin black box could actually allow you to speak with people.
"It's a mobile phone, which means that you can take it wherever you like and still be able to make calls," Brady replied, sitting at the kitchen table and trying to get his thoughts straight. He'd decided to give the six teens his phone to distract them so he could have time to think. About forty minutes earlier, he'd had a conversation with Mack about what they were going to do with the 60s teens. Obviously they couldn't just go about their normal business, not everyone sings in the real world, but they couldn't just coop them up in the house until they came up with a way to send them back home. There was also the issue about clothes, unlike in the film, outfits didn't just randomly change in the real world, despite what the six teens claimed had happened to them that morning. So Mack had gone shopping, hoping to find some clothes for the teens to wear since she and Brady didn't exactly have huge wardrobes. They hadn't really come to any conclusions yet but they decided to have a deeper conversation later, hopefully after the teens in question had gone to sleep.
"Ooh, what's this?" Lela asked, before the bikers and surfers all started excitedly chattering at once.
Moments later, Mack walked through the door, weighed down with shopping bags.
"Woah," Brady said, trying not to start laughing as Mack struggled to get all the bags over to the kitchen table. "How much did all of that cost?"
"Fifty dollars," Mack huffed, dropping the bags onto the floor around the kitchen table, instantly relaxing.
"Fifty dollars?!"
"Hey, I get a lot of money from tutoring people," Mack grinned, watching Brady's face try not to twist into a smile.
"Did you bring my car back?" Brady asked, trying to change the subject.
"Yeah," Mack replied, reaching into the pocket of her shorts and tossing Brady's car keys back to him.
"Thanks," Brady said, catching the set of keys and slipping them into his own pocket.
"What are we going to do with them then?" Mack asked after a short pause, glancing over at the six chattering movie characters in her living room.
"I say that we try and keep them here for today," Brady said.
"I agree," Mack replied. "But maybe tomorrow we could let them explore a little bit. I don't want to keep them cooped up."
"Good idea, Brady said. "There is one more thing we need to discuss though."
"What is it?" Mack asked.
"Whether we're going to tell them where they are or not," Brady said, making Mack completely freeze.
"Are you crazy?!" Mack hissed, hoping that the Wet Side Story teens wouldn't hear her.
"What I mean is, they're gonna be curious about where they are. They're going to realise that it's nothing like what they're used to and they're gonna get suspicious," Brady said, trying to explain his reasons. "They're gonna want to know what's going on."
"So what are we gonna do? Just tell them that they're all just made up characters from an ancient movie musical?" Mack asked, an obvious sarcastic edge to her voice.
"No, I'm not saying that we tell them that they're not real, I'm just saying that if they ask we should tell them that they're…" Brady said, trailing off after he realised that he didn't know how he was going to break it to them.
"Tell them what, Brady?" Mack asked, biting her lip a little bit.
"That they're in the future!" Brady cried, quickly being shushed by a panicked Mack.
"The future?!" Mack hissed, trying to keep her voice down as much as possible.
"Well it's true," Brady shot back.
"There's no way that they're gonna believe that," Mack sighed.
"Sure they will," Brady replied. "Mack, they thought that someone was trapped in my phone."
Mack turned around, looked at the six teens all marvelling at Brady's cell phone, then looked back at Brady.
"Tanner, look! Now you're trapped in there!" Lela squealed, making Mack jump.
"But I'm stood right here," Tanner replied.
"Maybe there's two of you," Giggles suggested.
"Two Tanners?" Tanner questioned, confused for a second before his face broke into a grin. "Groovy!"
"See?" Brady said, motioning to the giggling 60s teens.
"Yeah," Mack sighed. "So we'll tell them when they ask?"
"Sounds like a plan," Brady said. "Do you want me to set them up doing something while you put the clothes away?" Brady asked.
"Sure," Mack replied, bundling the shopping bags together and walking down the hallway to her room, still trying to make sense of everything that had happened.
"Butchy!" Lela squeaked. "That was so unfair! I was winning!"
"Sis, it's just a game," Butchy snapped.
"But I was winning!" Lela cried.
"Which way am I supposed to be going?" Giggles piped up, her eyebrows furrowed in concentration.
"What's going on?" Mack asked, walking back into her kitchen and catching Brady laughing at the Wet Side Story cast's antics.
"I set them up playing Mario Kart," Brady chuckled, taking Mack's hand and leading her so that she could see the teens gathered on the couch, all pushing each other out of the way to try and get the best spot. "You should have seen them at first, they had no clue how it worked. It was hilarious, Lela tried talking to the screen."
"Giggles, just turn it this way," Seacat said, trying to help the blonde girl, who was currently in last place.
"This thing is so hip!" Struts said, amazed at the game. "It really beats checkers."
"Yeah, how come we don't have stuff like this back at our beach?" Seacat asked.
"There's a very logical explanation for that," Mack murmured.
"Someone else can play now," Lela said, a little mad that she'd lost to her older brother, passing the controller to Struts and bouncing off the sofa to go and sit with Tanner, who wasn't playing either.
"Mack, you're back!" Tanner cried, just noticing the presence of his friend again. "Hey, that rhymed!"
"Yeah, are you guys having fun?" Mack asked as Lela and Tanner bounded over to where she was stood with Brady.
"Definitely, everything's so neat!" Lela exclaimed. "Those little boxes that connect with that big screen are far out! It's so groovy here!"
"We need to get them to stop talking like that," Brady whispered to Mack, her only response being a quick nod.
"I have one quick question," Tanner said, returning Mack and Brady's attention to him. "Where exactly is here?"
This was it.
"Let's just say that you're in the future," Brady said, praying that the teens from the 60s didn't freak out.
Tanner and Lela just stood there, their eyes almost popping out of their heads and their mouths slightly hanging open.
"The future?" Lela asked.
"So we, like, time-travelled?" Tanner asked.
"You could say that," Mack said.
"Golly," Lela breathed, a smile spreading across her face. "That explains a lot."
"Really?" Mack asked.
"Yeah, I mean there are a lot of things here that we don't have back home," Lela replied.
"And there are a lot of things that you do back home that we don't do anymore," Brady said, trying to bring his next point into the conversation. "For example: words."
"Words?" Tanner and Lela questioned, both cocking their head to the side at the same time.
"Yeah, some of the things you say like: groovy, far out and neat, aren't really said anymore," Mack explained.
"Oh," Lela sighed, before her smile brightened again. "What do you say instead then?"
"Things like: awesome, cool, insane," Brady said, listing off all of the words he could think of at that moment.
"How strange," Lela murmured, puzzling over the words for a few seconds.
"So if you guys want to fit in around here then try using those words," Mack said, smiling at the 60s teens.
"Cool," Tanner grinned, testing out his new vocabulary and making Mack and Brady chuckle.
"Is there anything else we need to know?" Lela chirped.
"Not at the moment," Mack replied.
"Ok!" Lela grinned, skipping back into the main part of the living room with Tanner at her side. "Wait!" she cried, scrambling back over to Mack and Brady. "Can we tell the others that this is the future?" Lela asked, unexpectedly attracting the attention of the four teens on the sofa.
"What's the what?!" Struts questioned, all four friends tipping their heads to the side at the same time, much like Lela and Tanner had.
"You're in the future," Brady explained.
"How far in the future?" Seacat asked.
"Well it's currently 2015," Mack said, watching the six teens' mouths drop open.
"Woah," Butchy said. "That's a lot in the future."
"So you guys went back in time to see us?" Giggles asked.
"Do you guys have a time machine?!" Tanner exclaimed.
"Not exactly, we got transported back to the 1960s by a wave during a storm," Mack explained.
"We're not really sure how it works," Brady carried on. "But we know that every time we surf in a storm we go back in time to your beach."
"So how are we gonna get back then?" Seacat asked.
"I guess we're gonna have to wait for a storm for you guys to ride out of here on," Brady replied.
"So we can stay until there's a storm?" Lela checked.
"I don't know any other way to get you guys back home, so yeah," Mack replied, earning an excited squeal from Lela and a big hug too.
"We are going to have so much fun!" Lela exclaimed, twirling around Mack's living room before running over to the window with Tanner, the other teens quickly going back to their game.
"They took that better than I thought," Mack said, watching was the 60s teens all started chattering at once, all buzzing about the piece of news they'd received.
"So you can get food delivered to your house?" Butchy asked as Mack and Brady walked back in with a stack of pizza boxes a few hours later.
"Uh huh," Mack replied, setting the boxes down on the table.
"That's so nea- I mean cool," Giggles said, correcting herself mid-sentence.
"So I have two plain cheeses, one Hawaiian, one pepperoni and one vegetable," Mack checked, opening up the pizza boxes and watching as the six teens all dived in, apparently very hungry.
"We should start things like this back at home," Seacat said.
"Yeah, it's really fun!" Struts said. And it was true. Mack and Brady had actually had a lot of fun with the Wet Side Story cast that afternoon and everyone had a great time.
"Speaking of back home and fun," Giggles said. "What do you think the others are doing?" the blonde surfer girl asked, prompting the teens to all say their thoughts. But nothing was actually correct, because things weren't going very well back at the beach.
I hope you enjoyed it!
I know that it's not a terribly interesting chapter but it was sort of necessary and it's sets everything up for the next chapter.
Thank you so much for four reviews! Every one makes me smile and I love knowing that you're enjoying the story because it motivates me to write!
Thank you so much Guest (1), MaddieGerbz, DynamicGiraffe and Guest (2)! Don't hesitate to leave a suggestion if you think of one, I love hearing them and using ideas that you want to read! :)
I'm posting this early because I've got a completely free day today, which means that I can get even more writing done but I also get quite bored. So feel free to send me a PM! I'll literally talk about anything and I'll always reply! XD
I know I say this all the time (if you're reading this then let me know how you that the Wet Side Story characters are going to cope in the future) 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 honestly make me so happy! I can't thank you enough!
Thank you for reading!
-cherrygorilla