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I'm just sat here listening to the Sound Of Music soundtrack and I wanted to put a chapter up for you. I've got two weeks off school, starting today, so I decided to give you an extra chapter each week! I'm going to be working on my story a lot so hopefully I can get a little further ahead with my writing. I'm also trying to get all of the plot lines sorted out so if anyone would be willing to help me with that then just send me a PM. I don't bite, I promise! :)
But anyway, here's chapter 9!
Mack had just been stood listening in on the bikers' conversation for a good five minutes. She was partly paying attention but her mind was mostly focused on how the other characters could have gotten here and why at first they didn't recognise anyone. In the end she just decided that the best thing to do would be to ask. "Um, CheeChee?" Mack piped up, catching the biker girl's attention without interrupting the conversation that was going on. "Can I talk to you for a moment? It'll be really quick, I promise."
"Sure," CheeChee said, stepping away from her group of friends to go and stand with Mack, crossing her arms over her chest as a slight intrigued smile curled at the edge of her lips. "What'cha wanna know?"
"Actually I was just wondering if you knew anything about how you got here," Mack said. "Like, do you know why you couldn't remember us? Can you remember anything?"
"To be honest, Mack, not really," CheeChee answered. "If I concentrate maybe, I can remember little pieces but nothing clearly."
Mack could tell from the way that CheeChee was looking at her that the girl was telling the truth and that she was honestly trying really hard to remember because she wanted to know herself. CheeChee had no idea why she didn't recognise her boyfriend or her best friends and she wanted to find out as much as Mack did but she was trying to play it cool in front of the others.
"Well what parts do you remember?" Mack asked, hoping that if CheeChee explained the things that she did remember then more things would come back to her.
"I remember the morning that the others went missing," CheeChee started. "Coral and Rascal were the ones that told us and we were going to find them when one of the band members in Big Momma's disappeared. Like right in front of us."
"What? He just vanished?" Mack asked, finding the fact rather hard to believe.
"Yeah, it was like a magic trick," CheeChee replied, nodding her head with wide eyes. "He just sparkled up and disappeared."
"And do you know where he went?" Mack asked.
"Not a clue, you know as much as I do," CheeChee answered, picking at the corner of her nail. "'Cause right after that we all decided that we should definitely go and find the others when everything just stopped."
"Stopped?" Mack questioned, getting more and more interested in how this story was turning out, but with the interest came confusion.
"Yeah there was a…" CheeChee paused for a moment, her eyebrows creasing together in thought. "A sharp pain in the back of my neck, I don't know if the others felt it but after that it felt like my memory had been totally wiped."
"Go on," Mack said, hoping that the story didn't just stop there. "You're doing really well."
"I…I…" CheeChee started stuttering, tripping over her words as she tried to gather the memories together. "It doesn't really make a lot of sense what I remember."
"It doesn't matter," Mack said, trying her best to encourage the biker girl to keep talking.
"Well I remember going into Big Momma's and having an argument with the surfers, but I don't remember why," CheeChee said. "It's like everything's all fuzzy, I can't make anything out clearly."
Mack could tell that the girl was getting frustrated with herself, so she decided to try and help. "Why don't you remember why?"
"Because it just seemed like we were arguing for no reason, I didn't understand how we'd gone from being friends to going back to how it had been before," CheeChee explained.
"How it had been before?" Mack asked.
"Yeah, like when the turf war was still on," CheeChee explained.
"See, you do remember," Mack smiled, making CheeChee relax a bit more again.
"That's exactly what it felt like," CheeChee exclaimed, a smile suddenly spreading across her face. "It was like everything had gone back in time and the turf war was still happening. Coral and Lugnut hated each other more than ever and the bikers just refused to go anywhere near the surfers. I just didn't see what was so bad about the surfers though."
'It's like CheeChee was thinking like Lela did,' Mack thought to herself. 'Maybe that's why she played the lead in the film.'
"I can't remember a lot of things that happened but I remember singing Fallin' For Ya and slippin' off the stage," CheeChee started, but then she paused, almost apprehensive to say the next part. "And then Rascal caught me."
"You don't have to go into detail about it if you don't want to," Mack said gently, knowing that the subject was probably sensitive for the girl.
"Thanks, so then after all of…that happened, we found Les and Fusion and got everyone to go and destroy the machine," CheeChee carried on. "Just like when Lela and Tanner got us to go and save you and Brady."
"So you destroyed the weather machine again?" Mack asked, starting to catch on to the story.
"Yeah," CheeChee said. "And then when we were walking back, the storm that the machine created when we destroyed it went a little…haywire."
"What do you mean?" Mack asked, suddenly intrigued again, since this part was something new.
"Well I think that the waves were getting stronger and they were travelling further up the shore than normal," CheeChee said. "That's when we got sucked under."
"And by 'we' you mean you Coral, Rascal and Lugnut?" Mack asked, checking that no other Wet Side Story characters were running around in the future.
"Yep," CheeChee finished with a sigh. "That's all really, and then we found you."
"Thanks, CheeChee, you did really well," Mack smiled.
"No problem, why'd ya wanna know?" CheeChee asked. Now that her interrogation was over, her arms went back to their crossed position over her chest.
"Just so Brady and I can know a little more about how you got here, we think that it'll help us get you back," Mack said, plastering a big smile on her face in a hope that CheeChee would buy it and she wouldn't have to go into more detail.
"Ok," CheeChee said nonchalantly, turning on her heels and sauntering back over to the bikers just as Brady walked back in.
"Hey," he smiled, instantly making Mack's face light up. "What did I miss?"
"Just CheeChee explaining to me how she got here," Mack replied.
"Anything we didn't know?" Brady asked.
"Just that everything was as it normally was until she felt a sharp pain in the back of her neck, then everything reset," Mack explained, recalling the information CheeChee had just passed on to her.
"I wonder what it was," Brady thought aloud.
"I have no idea, but I have a feeling that it's something that we're not going to find out about," Mack sighed. "I don't see how we could, it's probably just something that happens in the movie. Nothing that we should worry about."
"Alright, I'm glad you're deciding not to worry about something for once," Brady said, wrapping his arms around Mack's waist.
"Well I've got so much to worry about already that something like that isn't significant," Mack replied, tilting her head upwards as Brady leaned down towards her. Their lips connected for a second and they broke apart, small yet grateful smiles playing at the corner of their lips. "Oh, there is something new actually," Mack said, the thought popping back into her head. "Apparently people in Wet Side Story have started vanishing."
"Vanishing?" Brady asked, his eyebrows slightly creasing together in confusion.
"Apparently, to quote CheeChee, 'the band member just sparkled up and disappeared, like a magic trick.'" Mack said, imitating CheeChee's biker accent as she spoke.
"Wait, so people have just been disappearing right in front of their eyes?" Brady asked, letting out a small chuckle at Mack's impression.
"I think so," Mack said. "Brady, what if this has something to do with Lela and Tanner and everyone not being there? This could be serious."
"Mack," Brady said, cutting her off mid speech and planting another kiss on her lips.
"That was a really nice way of telling me to shut up and calm down," Mack sighed after their lips broke apart, relaxing again in Brady's arms.
"I just don't want you to worry so much," Brady said, gently kissing the top of her head. "Can't you just have fun with all of it? Don't panic about everything, it's all gonna work out fine."
"Alright," Mack sighed, deciding to change the topic. "So what have you been up to?" she asked.
"I just gave Seacat a quick lesson on how to use the internet," Brady explained, earning a small chuckle from Mack.
"Quick lesson?" Mack asked. "So I'm guessing that he totally understood it instantly."
"Not exactly," Brady smirked. "It did blow his mind a little bit." Mack let out spluttering laugh before composing herself again, slightly biting her lip to help calm down as she looked back up at Brady. "But he seemed to get it after a while. He found Youtube pretty useful for whatever he wanted to do."
"You don't know what they were doing?" Mack asked, slightly cocking her head to the side as Brady continued to explain.
"Well all the surfers were outside, Coral and Tanner were setting up two chairs in your backyard and Rascal and Giggles were filling up two huge jugs with water in the bathroom," Brady explained.
"What would they need that for?" Mack asked, even more puzzled by the 60s teens' behaviour than usual.
"I don't know, they're probably bored," Brady said. "They're not used to being kept indoors all day. And anyway, Seacat mentioned something about a twin experiment."
"Oh, I remember Butchy saying something about that," Mack said. "Apparently they'd discovered that Coral and Tanner thought the same things at the same time."
"I'm not surprised," Brady chuckled. "So they're probably doing some high-tech lab experiment that the government can't find out about, am I right?"
Mack let out another laugh, throwing her head back a little as she did so. Brady always knew how to make her laugh, and it was one of the things that made her love him more than anyone.
"Spot on," Mack smiled, letting herself relax into Brady's arms, resting her head on his chest so that she could hear his heart thudding against his rib cage. The heart that only beat for her.
I hope you enjoyed it!
I really enjoyed writing this chapter, even though it wasn't very long, I think it's because I don't normally write a lot about Mack and Brady because I struggle with it, but I think that it actually turned out quite nicely. :)
Thank you so much for three reviews since I last updated! I love every single review that I get and it's so lovely to know that you're enjoying the story.
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I know I say this all the time (if you're reading this then let me know if you like the songs from The Sound Of Music. I know it doesn't really have anything to do with the chapter but I'm listening to it at the moment and I'm thinking about including some of the musical numbers. So let me know what your favourites are!) 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're all so wonderful and I'm so lucky to have you!
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-cherrygorilla