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You might be wondering why I'm posting this on a Wednesday instead of a Thursday, but it's just because tomorrow I've got the second performance of my school's play and I won't have any time to upload it. I didn't want to leave you without a chapter though so I thought that I'd just post it today!
So here's chapter 7!
"What are they doing here?!" Mack cried, quickly being shushed by Brady.
"I have no idea," Brady replied, trying to keep as quiet as possible. "We're going to have to go and ask them."
"Are you insane?!" Mack exclaimed. "We can't just go and ask them why they're here!"
"Why not?" Brady asked.
"Because they're not supposed to be here!" Mack cried. "They're supposed to be performing musical numbers back in the 1960s!"
"But they're not, because they're here," Brady said, trying to calm Mack down. "And we'd better go and help them. We helped the others, so we'll go and help them."
"This is not happening," Mack muttered, dumping the crushed and melted ice cream cone into a nearby bin.
"Is everything alright, Mack?" Lela asked, noticing that her friend was panicking.
"No way," Seacat breathed, something catching his eye down the beach.
"Here we go," Brady sighed, knowing that Seacat had spotted his friends.
"Guys!" Giggles exclaimed, abandoning her ice cream and running off down the beach with Seacat. But as soon as the other four 60s teens saw what was going on, they followed, screaming in excitement.
"Oh my gosh!" Struts squealed.
"I can't believe you're here!" Tanner cried, running up to the four friends with a huge smile on his face. Mack and Brady were right behind the six teens, but as soon as they reached the new arrivals, everyone seems to stop dead.
"We've missed you so much!" Lela exclaimed, holding her arms out to go and hug CheeChee, but she was just returned by a united step back from the four teens.
"Um…" Coral trailed off, slightly leaning away from the big group of grinning teens.
"Do we know you?" Rascal asked, putting his arm in front of Coral in defence.
"What?" Giggles squeaked.
"Stop messing around, guys. Of course you know us," Seacat chuckled.
"Oh my," Mack breathed. "Brady, what if they don't recognise them because the movie's changed?" she asked, just loud enough that Brady could hear and the others couldn't.
"Oh no," Brady sighed, realising that Mack might have made a good point.
"I'm not sure we do," Coral replied, giving Seacat as puzzled look.
"It's us," Lela said, smiling at her friends. "You couldn't possibly have forgotten about us already, we only saw you a day or two ago."
"No we didn't," Lugnut snapped, earning a look of disapproval from CheeChee.
"You don't have to be so rude about it, Lugnut," she said.
"Guys, if you're pranking us then this isn't funny anymore," Butchy said, starting to get concerned.
"Why would we be pranking you?" Rascal asked.
"I'm so confused," Coral murmured.
"Maybe they hit their heads when they washed up here," Giggles suggested.
"We didn't hit our heads, we just don't know who you all are," CheeChee explained, cutting straight to the point.
"You all seem like lovely people," Coral started.
"But I think you're mixing us up with someone else," Rascal finished.
"Come on, guys," Lugnut said, starting to lead CheeChee, Rascal and Coral away.
"Wait, maybe they could help us," Coral said.
"We don't know if we can trust 'em," CheeChee replied.
"They seem friendly enough," Rascal said.
"Why don't they recognise us?" Lela asked, watching in despair as the four soaking wet friends all argued about their situation.
"I don't know," Tanner replied. "Maybe we could try to jog their memory a bit."
"Should we take them back to your place, Mack?" Struts asked, hoping that she didn't sound too rude.
"I think that would probably be best," Mack sighed, having calmed down a little bit now.
"Um, guys?" Brady called out, catching the four teens' attention. "We can take you back to Mack's place if you want, so you have a place to stay."
"How kind of you," Coral started, a huge grin spreading across her face before Rascal grabbed her arm and held her back.
"We still don't know if we can trust them," he said.
"Yeah, what if they like kidnap us or something?" CheeChee squeaked.
"Kidnap us?!" Coral gasped, her eyes almost popping out of her head.
"Now you're being ridiculous," Lugnut huffed, taking Coral's arm and keeping holding her back so that she didn't bombard CheeChee with questions. "But I still don't think that we should just walk off with them, we barely know them."
"But you do know us," Seacat cut in, diverting the bickering group's attention to them again. "We're like your best friends."
"And our boyfriends," Struts carried on.
"Or girlfriends," Butchy added.
"Woah," Rascal started.
"You know you can jump to conclusions further with a running start," CheeChee stated, partly sarcastically but she said it in a way that could be taken seriously.
"What do you mean 'jumping to conclusions'?" Giggles asked.
"We've all been dating for a while now," Seacat agreed.
"Um…" Coral trailed off again, slowly inching towards Lugnut, CheeChee doing the same with Rascal.
"I think that you're confused," Rascal said.
"You're telling me," Butchy huffed.
"We couldn't possibly be dating any of you, we've only just met," Lugnut said.
"And unless you're really friendly, then I don't think that we will be any time soon," CheeChee continued as Rascal wrapped his arm around her waist. The pair turned to each other and dreamily gazed into the other's eyes, their faces melting into smiles as CheeChee let out one of her signature giggles.
"…What?" Seacat questioned, completely dumbfounded.
"Oh bother, nothing's making sense," Lela sighed.
"This is wigged out, man," Tanner muttered.
"Let's just get everyone back to my house and then we can start questioning them about what happened," Mack said, explaining her plan to the six Wet Side Story teens and Brady. But when they turned back around to talk to CheeChee, Rascal, Coral and Lugnut again, they'd wandered off.
"Where did they go?" Struts asked, but the sound of guitar strings being strummed gave them a huge clue.
Rascal was perched on a rock with CheeChee standing next to him, and as the guitar played he started to sing, their gaze never being broken.
Rascal: "I believe we all have a soul mate
The chance for a perfect duet"
"This is my song," Tanner said, a little hurt that his song was being sung without him.
"Oh no," Mack murmured. "Please, no. No more songs."
Rascal: "I believe in hopeless devotion
I just haven't found her yet"
"What are they doing?" Giggles asked, clearly very puzzled by her four friends' actions.
Rascal: "But in my mind I see
The chick who is meant for me"
Rascal jumped off the rock, turned to CheeChee and grabbed her arm.
Rascal: "She'll be someone who is lovely
Someone wonderful and true"
CheeChee: "The kind of boy, who makes you smile
Even when you're feeling blue"
Rascal and CheeChee spun into each other's arms, continuing to sing as they performed the Meant To Be routine that Lela and Tanner knew so well.
Rascal & CheeChee: "And I know, I know she's/he's out there
Most definitely"
Rascal: "Oh yeah"
CheeChee: "Not a phoney or a fake"
Rascal & CheeChee: "Sweeter than a chocolate shake
My 'meant to be'
When it's meant to be, you go kinda crazy
Meant to be, you forget your own name
When it's meant to be, it's destiny callin'
And nothing ever will be the same
Oh yeah"
Rascal and CheeChee were twirling around, perfectly in time with the music despite their lack of knowledge of their location. But next, it was someone else's turn to show their affection, and this was a pairing that no one ever thought would happen.
Coral: "You need a girl who's into music
To ride up high on cupid's wings"
Lugnut: "Find that boy with perfect hair
Hello Hollywood ending with strings"
Coral and Lugnut spun over to the are where CheeChee and Rascal were stood, starting their own part of the song. Both dancing their hearts out, finding more confidence in the dancing than the singing.
Coral & Lugnut: "Oh I know he's/she's out there
Can't you see?"
Lugnut: "Oh yeah"
Coral & Lugnut: "Maybe you've already met
The one you'll never forget"
Coral: "Your 'meant to be'"
Coral & Lugnut: "When it's meant to be"
Lugnut: "The stars seem to glisten"
Coral & Lugnut: "Meant to be"
Coral: "All the clouds depart"
Coral & Lugnut: "When it's meant to be, it's destiny callin'
And if you listen you'll find your heart"
Coral and Lugnut finished their part of the routine, shyly smiling at each other before joining in with CheeChee and Rascal again.
Coral & CheeChee: "Four eyes meet
And the meet is sweet
Could it lead to something more?"
Rascal & Lugnut: "What's the deal
When the way you feel?"
Rascal, CheeChee, Coral & Lugnut: "Is something you've never felt before"
The two boys spun the girls out and unintentionally sent them right over to where the others were stood, leaving the two girls rather shocked.
CheeChee: "Oh!"
Coral: "Gee!"
Rascal: "Um"
Lugnut: "Plan B"
As the two boys led CheeChee and Coral away, the other Wet Side Story characters and Mack and Brady hurried after them. But they managed to get caught up with the dancers that had appeared out of nowhere and were now apparently joining in with the song. So as CheeChee, Rascal, Coral and Lugnut happily danced around, Lela, Tanner, Giggles, Butchy, Struts and Seacat were trying to make a pathway to them, but were finding it hard to succeed. Mack and Brady had no clue what they were doing so they just tried not to get trampled by any of the dancers and hoped for the best.
Rascal, CheeChee, Coral & Lugnut: "When it's meant to be, you go kinda crazy
Meant to be, you forget your own name
When it's meant to be, it's destiny callin'
And nothing ever will be the same"
"Wait, so CheeChee and Rascal are together now?!" Lela exclaimed, not sure whether to be excited or sad.
"And what about Coral and Lugnut?!" Tanner agreed. "When did that happen?!"
"Why did it happen?!" Giggles asked.
"This is so weird," Butchy muttered.
"They can't stay like this, we've gotta fix them," Struts said.
"Just start walking them back to Mack's place and try to help them remember things, keep them separated too," Brady instructed after having a quick planning session with Mack about what they were going to do.
"Alright," Lela smiled, running over to where CheeChee was stood with Rascal before she grabbed her fellow biker girl's arm and dragged her away. Tanner and Seacat targeted Coral, Giggles tried to drum some sense into Rascal, Struts went over to help Lela and Butchy started to interrogate Lugnut. But with everyone so confused, it all started to go a bit pear-shaped.
I hope you enjoyed it!
The song I used in this chapter is Meant To Be from Teen BeachMovie (of course).
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