Hello!
How are you?
I've had a pretty good week but nothing particularly interesting happened, although I do have to go into school on Saturday for play rehearsals. :/
But let's just get on with the chapter, here's chapter 5!
"Ok, so I've got everyone's rooms set up," Mack said, walking back into the living room. "I hope you don't mind sleeping bags because sadly, I don't have six beds for you all."
"That's fine," Lela chirped, sitting on the sofa with Giggles and Butchy. Struts was sat in one of the arm chairs, reading a book that Mack had given her after the biker girl claimed to have been bored. But Brady, Tanner and Seacat were no where to be seen. "Tanner, Brady and Seacat are through there," Lela said, as if reading Mack's mind.
"This place is so groovy," Seacat breathed, marvelling at the surfboards that lined the walls of Mack's grandfather's workshop. "I mean awesome," Seacat said, correcting himself.
"Um," Mack piped up, standing by the doorway, her back pressed up against the Wet Side Story poster so the surfer boys didn't see it and freak out.
"Looks like it's time we said good night," Brady said, noticing that Mack had walked in and ushering the two boys from the 60s out of the workshop.
"Your grandpa's workshop's really cool," Tanner said as he passed Mack, shooting her a bright smile before going to join the rest of the Wet Side Story gang.
"Come on then, let's get you guys off to bed," Mack announced.
"But it's only nine o'clock," Butchy protested.
"You don't have to go to sleep yet, but you might as well get settled in your rooms," Mack said, starting to lead people down the hallway. "The girls' room is on the left and the boys' room is on the right," Mack explained, signalling to the two doors across from each other.
"We should have a slumber party!" Lela gasped, her face breaking into a huge grin as Giggles and Struts clapped their hands in approval.
"I think I'll pass," Seacat sighed, walking past the giggling girls and straight into the guys' room.
"Me too," Butchy agreed, quickly following Seacat into the boys' room.
"Goodnight, Lela," Tanner said, the couple stopping for a goodnight kiss before Tanner left Lela with a smile and disappeared through the door to the boys' temporary bedroom. The girls all then burst into a fresh wave of giddy giggles before skipping into their own room.
"I've laid pyjamas out on the beds for you guys," Mack called, her only response being the doors closing in unison. "Alright then," she murmured as Brady wrapped his arms around her shoulders.
"Are you sure that you're going to be alright with them here while I'm gone?" Brady asked.
"Sure, what's the worst they can do?" Mack asked, still standing in the middle of the two doors. A crashing sound echoed from one of the rooms, followed by a thud, answering Mack's question pretty quickly. "Are you heading home now?" she continued, trying not to let the cast's actions affect her.
"I guess so," Brady replied as he and Mack started to walk to the door through the workshop. "Since my parents are away on business I'm having to look after everyone."
"Don't you have Abby to help you?" Mack asked, bringing Brady's older sister into the conversation.
"Well yeah, but she's not exactly the biggest help," Brady grumbled.
"I know you two don't get along but," Mack started, but Brady quickly interrupted her.
"Mack, she told Garrett that she cared about her cuticles more than him."
"I'm sure she didn't mean it," Mack tried.
"Wanna bet?" Brady asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
"I'm sure she cares about her siblings as much as you do," Mack said.
"She has a funny way of showing it," Brady huffed. "I'm gonna need to get someone to baby sit them for the next few days."
"I'm sure Zack will be thrilled about that," Mack smirked, knowing all too well that Brady's ten year old little brother acted like he was twenty and that he thought that babysitters were patronising.
"Yeah," Brady chuckled, before mentioning his six year old twin brother and sister. "Garrett and Saffron will probably love it though."
"Are you sure that you'll be alright getting home?" Mack asked as the pair got to the doorway.
"I'll be fine," Brady reassured.
"I keep thinking that in the morning I'm going to wake up and none of this will have happened," Mack said, softly chuckling to herself as she spoke, finding the whole thing rather unbelievable.
"But on the other hand, you're going to wake up and find the Wet Side Story cast destroying your house," Brady said, earning another laugh from Mack.
"It's all so strange," Mack murmured, but Brady's gaze was fixed on a spot on the wall.
"Speaking of strange, look at this," Brady said, walking past Mack and over to the place on the wall where the Wet Side Story poster hung.
"What's wrong?" Mack asked, not noticing anything out of the ordinary.
"Look at the poster," Brady said, a panicked edge to his voice.
"I don't see…oh no," Mack said, her eyes widening as she realised what was different. The whole poster had completely changed. Instead of Lela and Tanner standing at the front with their two groups behind them, CheeChee and Rascal were stood in each other's arms with dreamy gazes on their faces while Coral stood behind Rascal and Lugnut stood behind CheeChee, a group of surfers on Coral's side and a group of bikers on Lugnut's. "Where are Lela and Tanner?" Mack hissed, running her hand over the poster to make sure that it was real and that she wasn't just imagining it.
"I don't know," Brady replied. "You don't think that the movie's changed because they're not there, do you?"
"If that's the case then we'd better get them back as soon as possible," Mack said.
"Look, we don't know if the movie's actually changed yet, what if it's just the poster?" Brady suggested, trying to look on the bright side. But Mack just raised one of her eyebrows at him, clearly thinking that that was not the case.
"Brady, do you remember what happened to us when we first went into their world?" Mack asked. "We almost zapped out of existence. What if that starts to happen to them?"
"What, because they don't belong here?" Brady asked.
"Yes, and we don't even know when the next storm is," Mack said. "What if there isn't one for months? What if we can't send them home? They might be wiped from existence."
"Mack, calm down," Brady said, placing two hands on his girlfriend's shoulders. "Let's watch the movie and see if anything strange is going on there, maybe then we can figure out what's happening and go from there."
"Alright," Mack sighed, running over to the small TV in the workshop and turning it on. They couldn't watch it in the living room because one of the 60s teens might hear it and wonder what's going on, so it was a lot easier to just stay out of their way.
"We're probably just overreacting, as soon as it starts Giggles is going to fly onto the screen and Tanner's going to jump out of the car and everything's going to be just like it always…" Brady started, but as the screen flickered into life, Kiki was thrown into the air in place of Giggles, making Brady stop talking instantly. As Surf Crazy started to play, Seacat, Giggles and Tanner were no where to be seen. When the car pulled up at the beach and the surfers started pouring out, second to last Rascal jumped out and shot a quick smile at the camera before letting Coral hop out beside him, she tossed her golden brown hair over her shoulder and placed a hand on her hip, sending a dazzling smile down the camera lens before running down to the beach with Rascal. Coral pretty much took the lead in Surf Crazy apparently taking up the role of head of the surfers, but it was almost like a duet because Rascal did sing a lot of it with her. When they all went into Big Momma's and the bikers arrived, it started off with Axel and Jett storming in, and then Jazz and Dimples before finally Lugnut rode in on his bike, obviously the new leader of The Rodents. The confrontation was normal, but with different people and as the bikers started to sing Cruisin' For A Bruisin', CheeChee took Lela's place and Lugnut took Butchy's. Later at the shindig when Lela normally sings Fallin' For Ya, CheeChee took her place again and when she fell off the stage, Rascal caught her. Lugnut and Coral quickly ripped the pair apart and started the dance war, but CheeChee and Rascal slipped away to sing Meant To Be. Like Me was sung by the surfer boys and the biker girls like normal, just with Seacat, Lela, Tanner and Struts missing. CheeChee and Rascal ran off the next day and found out about Les Camembert and Dr Fusion's plan whilst Lugnut and Coral met up with each other to figure out a plan to break up Rascal and CheeChee, performing the funniest rendition of Can't Stop Singing since they were both trying to be deadly serious around each other. CheeChee and Rascal managed to unite the surfers and bikers and together everyone destroyed the weather machine. CheeChee and Rascal got together at the end of the film but the little elements of flirting from Lugnut and Coral didn't go unnoticed. So when the credits started to roll, Mack and Brady sat there in silence, too shocked to say anything.
"Ok, it's definitely changed," Mack sighed, quickly switching the TV off.
"How has it changed so quickly?" Brady asked. "They've barely been here for a day."
"Brady, what if they've been permanently taken out of it? What if they can't get back in?" Mack asked, starting to panic again.
"I'm sure everything will be fine, we've just got to try our best to get them back as soon as possible," Brady replied.
"That's easier said than done," Mack sighed, putting the movie away and out of reach. If any of the Wet Side Story characters discovered this then there would be a lot of explaining to do.
I hope you enjoyed it!
Again, this chapter isn't very long but it's quite necessary. Sorry, the chapter's will start getting longer again soon!
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