Hello!
Wow, long time no see, huh? It's been 4 months and 11 days since I last updated this story, how crazy is that? Sorry it's been so long but I've been finishing up my one-shot story and my holiday-themed short stories so that once I do eventually get back to this, I can have my full attention on it. But don't worry, I'm back now and I've been using the time off (as well as my little one-week or so break from writing and posting, I hope that you don't mind too much about that, it sort of happened by accident XD) to develop the ideas that I have for this story even further, so hopefully it's going to turn out well. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!
Anyway, it's a new year so there's going to be a new Cherry too. I've really developed my writing style by writing my one-shots so if there's a really harsh difference in the way that this story is written (even in the next few chapters because some have been pre-written and I don't want to re-write them) then I do apologise, it couldn't really be helped that I had to abandon this story for so long. Not only has my writing style evolved, but I've also realised that this story was going to end up being way too long if I kept on writing it like I did. So, I've put up a poll on my profile for you to vote on who you'd like to read more about in this story. I've got plot lines set out for everyone so it just depends on which characters' story lines you want to read about. I'd really, really appreciate it if you took the time to take a look at it because then I know what direction to take this story in. You can vote for more than one person at once, so select as many people as you like or, if you can't access the poll, then just leave the characters' names in a review. It will really help me out so please don't hesitate to let me know what you think!
Ok, so I don't know if you're here because you were reading the story way back when I was properly updating it or if you've come here from Surf, Sun, Sand or another of my recent stories, but either way I'd be very surprised if you knew what has been happening in these chapters up to this point. So, like I promised, I'm going to do a quick recap of what happened in all the chapters up to the last one that I posted just so that if you're a new reader you don't have to go back to read all 24 chapters up to this point or if you're a returning reader you can remind yourself of the story a little bit. And if you have any further questions about characters or things that you don't fully understand then please let me know in a review or a PM, I'd rather make sure that you understand everything than get confused whilst you're reading the story.
Prologue – Coral and Axel start a fight between the Rats and a few of the surfers. It has to be broken up and it's decided that things have to change at the beach, the arguing and teasing can't continue.
Chapter 1 – Mack's grandpa leaves for a one week vacation before school starts and after spending the day together, Mack and Brady stumble across Lela and Tanner on their beach.
Chapter 2 – Mack and Brady find the remaining four Wet Side Story characters that came into the modern day: Butchy, Giggles, Seacat and Struts. They explain that they were sucked into the sea by a wave and they wandered around the beach until they found Mack and Brady. Brady tells them that they can stay at Mack's house since her grandpa's on holiday.
Chapter 3 – Mack and Brady introduce the Wet Side Story characters to some modern technology and break the news that they're in the future to them.
Chapter 4 – Back in Wet Side Story, the remaining characters soon realise that their friends are missing and come up with a plan to rescue them. But before they can put it into action, the movie resets with the parts being recast to the people that are there and the background characters start disappearing.
Chapter 5 – Mack and Brady send the Wet Side Story characters off to best and discover that the movie's changed and the characters are all cast differently.
Chapter 6 - Mack and Brady take the Lela, Tanner and the others out to the boardwalk to show them around a bit. Lela and Struts accidentally get into a fight with a girl after saying that her outfit was too revealing and they end up singing to fix the problem. Meanwhile, Mack and Brady spot CheeChee, Rascal, Lugnut and Coral looking very lost.
Chapter 7 - The four characters who originally stayed behind in Wet Side Story don't recognise their friends who had spent the night in the future. They break out into singing Meant To Be and show that in the new version of the film, CheeChee falls for Rascal and Coral and Lugnut end up kind of crushing on each other.
Chapter 8 - CheeChee gets hit in the back of the head with a Frisbee on the way back to Mack's place and that reverses the changes that have been made to the four newcomers' memories, so now they remember their friends but can't remember anything that happened since the movie reset. So they are told what they di and they get the whole 'you're in the future' speech.
Chapter 9 - Mack interrogates CheeChee to find out what happened back at the beach but she can't really remember anything and Mack and Brady have a cute little fluffy moment thing.
Chapter 10 - The surfers get bored and set Coral and Tanner up playing innuendo bingo and they end up crying with laughing. Then Lela and Butchy are forced into having some sibling bonding time and play 'Who's Most Likely To?' (It was a bit of a boring filler chapter, I promise there won't be any of those anymore XD)
Chapter 11 - The surfers get caught sneaking out to go and surf and Mack and Brady ban them from going out on the waves in case something happens to them. Brady then suggests that they get the Wet Side Story characters jobs to keep them out of trouble.
Chapter 12 - Mack and Brady sort out everyone's jobs but catch the bikers singing Cruisin' For A Bruisin' out of the house. They say that their excuse is that they're looking for the surfers, who snuck out to find something to do since they couldn't go surfing.
Chapter 13 - The surfers find a skate park (which is like surfing but with wheels according to them) and end up setting two people up on a date by singing Like Me. But the singing led Mack, Brady and the bikers straight to them. They're obviously caught and are taken straight back home again.
Chapter 14 - Mack and Brady break the news to everyone that they've now got work to go to, which they don't take very well. Lela and Tanner then offer to go and babysit Brady's little brother and sister. Also, Struts, Rascal, Butchy and Giggles decide to play a board game. (Another pointless part XD)
Chapter 15 - CheeChee, Seacat, Lugnut and Coral play the whisper challenge and Brady's little brother and sister adore playing with Lela and Tanner (since they practically act like children themselves).
Chapter 16 - Basically, Butchy burns his arm...it was kind of a boring chapter...again. (Why did anyone read this story?!)
Chapter 17 - The girls tell the stories of their first kisses. Lela's was with a biker called Henry, Giggles' was with a surfer called Reef, CheeChee's was with a boy called Grayson when she was nine, Struts' was with a biker called Alexander, Mack's was with a boy called Jack (hehe, their names rhyme) and Coral's was with a boy called Tom.
Chapter 18 - The Wet Side Story characters get dropped off at work. Struts, Tanner and Giggles go to work at a beach-themed clothing store and get dumped folding clothes because they showed up a few minutes late. Seacat, Butchy and Rascal are sent to work at a barbeque shack opposite CheeChee and Lela, who are working at an ice cream stall.
Chapter 19 - Coral and Lugnut get dumped off at the primary school they're working at and Struts, Tanner and Giggles bond with their two fellow employees over their awful boss.
Chapter 20 - Coral and Lugnut get so bored supervising their class of 4th graders that the biker boy falls asleep and Coral starts trying to get to know the kids in the class a little bit better.
Chapter 21 - Mack and Brady get some time to themselves and Mack finally stops panicking about what the Wet Side Story characters are getting up to.
Chapter 22 - Coral and Lugnut go out to spend recess with the kids in their class and while Lugnut's playing football, Coral teaches a few of the kids how to sing.
And finally, Chapter 23 - Butchy and CheeChee admit to each other that they're not dealing very well with having to work. But Lela's totally loving it and she and CheeChee accidentally end up giving a musical performance to their customers.
So there you go! That's more or less everything that's happened in the story so far. Looking back on it, most of it's pretty boring, isn't it? Well, this story's content shall be no longer be boring, I've got so many plans for this story and I'm going to make sure that it's great for you!
Sorry that there's not actually a chapter here today, I just thought that the recap and a chapter would be a little bit much. But don't worry, I'll try to get one up as quickly as possible!
Please don't forget to answer the poll question so that I can start writing the chapters again!
Thank you so much for all of your support last year, it really does mean the world to me and sometimes feels a little surreal, I just hope that it can continue into this new year. Speaking of that, Happy New Year! I hope that this year brings nothing but good things for you because you definitely deserve it!
Anyway, I think that's all from me for today. If you're reading this then I want you to know that the fact that you've stuck with my work means the world to me and I can't wait to see where this year takes my writing.
Thank you very much for reading!
-cherrygorilla