Hello!
How have you been? I'm sorry that I haven't posted this sooner; I've just been caught up with revising for a few mock exams that I had to take. As well as that, I've been planning out the chapters and plot lines for this story so that I know what to include in each chapter. So don't worry guys, I won't go waffling on about nonsense in the chapters anymore, I've tried to keep it as concise as I can so that it won't drag out for ages. I'll try to finish it off as quickly as possible so that I can move onto something a bit more popular. XD But in case you were wondering, there are around thirty chapters left of this story, including this one, which will take the total up to 55. So at least it's shorter than Paper Flowers...XD
Well, that's kind of all that I've been doing lately. I know, it's super interesting *says sarcastically*. But it actually took me a really long time to plan out all of the chapters. Hopefully I've included some good things because I'm definitely excited to write them, I just hope that you're as excited to read them!
Speaking of reading, why don't I just let you read this chapter...
After almost an hour of Butchy and Lugnut pretending like they know how to help Brady fix his car, the three boys all trudged inside in need of a break. Their useless tinkering had come to no avail and Brady's car was still very much broken.
"You actually fixed the car?" Mack asked as she saw the three boys walk past her, she couldn't really move her head much though because Lela had insisted on braiding her hair.
"No, we can't figure out what's wrong with it," Brady sighed, collapsing on the sofa with Butchy and Lugnut. They'd only been in the house for a minute and they were already taking over the living room. But two certain surfer boys didn't stay to hear the rest of the conversation because they decided to slip outside instead. Their boredom had gotten the better of them and anything sounded better than just being stuck inside with the girls discussing whether curling or straightening their hair was the best way to get a guy's attention. Plus they wanted to check out Brady's car for themselves.
"Let's see if we can find out what's wrong with this thing then," Seacat said, gently closing the door behind him and walking around to where Brady's car was park. Or rather where it had given up functioning like a normal vehicle and had belched out more smoke than a raging bonfire.
"Yeah, let's see if we can find out what's wrong with it," Rascal agreed, parroting his peers like he always did. Sometimes everyone wondered whether he actually had any thoughts of his own.
"I don't know why Brady thought that the bikers would know what to do, they fix bikes, not cars," Seacat said, popping the bonnet but holding it in place.
"I doubt any of them have even looked at a car's engine," Rascal agreed. "Let alone try to fix one."
"Yeah, we fix our cars if they break down all the time. Why does everyone think that we're such idiots?" Seacat scoffed, finally lifting the bonnet all the way up. A puff of steam poured out, which Seacat and Rascal tried to fan away but still managed to break down coughing from. After a few seconds of inspection, the surfer boys shot each other an unimpressed look. "How stupid are they?" Seacat sighed, rolling his eyes.
"It's not exactly hard to put a radiator cap back on," Rascal agreed, picking up the small part lodged between two pipes and screwing it back in the right place.
"Nice work, buddy," Seacat smiled as the two boys shared a high five.
"Well we are pros," Rascal chuckled. "We used to pretend to be mechanics all the time when we were like six."
"We used to pretend to be everything when we were six," Seacat laughed. "But we did think that cars were pretty far out."
Seacat and Rascal had been friends pretty much since they could walk, their families had both moved to the beach just before the two boys had been born so they had been brought up living right next to the ocean. After endless weekends spending time on the sand, their parents got to know each other pretty well, therefore bringing the two little boys closer as well. And like typical toddlers, Seacat and Rascal became best friends instantly and wanted to spend every moment possible together. With this constant hanging out, a firm friendship was formed and endless games and fantasies were carried out, creating some pretty special memories for the two surfer boys. Particularly significant ones including: the time that they thought that a gecko was a dinosaur when they were five and followed it around for an entire afternoon, the time when they buried Rascal's blue toy car in the sand and then forgot where it was until they recovered it by accident a week later, the time that they were pretending to be mechanics and tried to take apart Seacat's family's car but ended up just smashing one of the windows and the time that they first became friends with Giggles when they were in elementary school, which was after they thought that her pet dog was an alien in disguise. Let's just say that she wasn't too pleased when she saw them yanking its tail, but after they dragged her into one of their ridiculous games she became a definite member of their friendship group, which also meant that they were introduced to Kiki. And these four remained friends all the way up to middle school, which is when they finally took up the hobby they'd wanted to do since they were seven; surfing. The boys had been spending their weekend at the beach, playing some ridiculous game that made perfect sense to them like any other six year olds would, when they spotted some older boys balancing on boards in the ocean and performing tricks on them. The two little boys were so in awe of them that they made a pact to learn how to do what the older boys were doing, which they later found was called surfing. Seacat, Rascal, Giggles and Kiki all blossomed into very skilled surfers and kept up their friendship at high school, despite picking up new friends along the way. And although Seacat and Rascal had hit some bumps along the way, they were still proud to call each other their best friend.
"I sort of miss hanging out like we used to, you know what I mean?" Rascal piped up, catching Seacat's attention.
"Yeah, we should take some advice from our eight year old selves and hang out more, just us two," he agreed, sharing a smile with his friend. Although Rascal got on his nerves sometimes, Seacat had genuinely missed hanging out with him. Yes, technically they hung out together every day, but not just the two of them. And these two needed some serious guy time: best friend edition, they'd been deprived of it for too long. So, in true Wet Side Story fashion, a song started to play. What better to cement their new lease of friendship than with a song?
Rascal: "Take it back to the place where you know it all began"
Seacat: "We could be anything we wanna be"
Rascal: "You can tell by the noise that the boys are back again"
Rascal lowered the bonnet of Brady's car before turning to stand back to back with Seacat, their arms both folded over their chests and smug smiles playing at their lips.
Seacat: "Together making history"
The two boys had a handshake, different from the surfers' handshake though, which they quickly performed before stepping away from the car. Apparently when they were seven they thought that a handshake made them cool, but it didn't stop them still using it now as teens.
Rascal & Seacat: "It's time to show how"
Rascal: "To be a superhero"
Rascal & Seacat: "Just like a showdown"
Seacat: "Will Smith and Bobby DeNiro"
When the surfer boys had returned from their day at the barbeque shack, they found an action film to watch and, even if they didn't want to admit it, the movie had brought out their inner children and they had found it extremely cool. But their girlfriends didn't need to know that they'd been fantasising about being superheroes and spies for the past hour, right? Let's just not mention it to them anyway.
Rascal & Seacat: "We're the best, no doubt"
Rascal: "Doin' it like we used to do"
Rascal & Seacat: "This is our time"
Seacat: "And I'm tellin' you"
Rascal & Seacat: "Ohhhh!"
The two surfer boys, being incredibly mature like always, proceeded to use Brady's rash guard, which was hung over the railing of Mack's house, as a cape before running over to the flag pole a little way down the beach and hoisting it up to show their pride for their hobby. Like I have stressed several times now, they're very mature…or at least they like to think that they are.
Rascal & Seacat: "The boys are back, hey the boys are back
The boys are back, gonna do it again
Gonna wake up the neighbourhood
The boys are back, yeah the boys are back
Climbin' up the walls, anytime we want
The word is out the boys are back
The boys are back, back to save the day
The boys are back, oh yeah"
As the boys carried on with with their super sophisticated dance number (not so subtly being sarcastic), Seacat decided to dash back to Brady's car, pop open the trunk and grab an umbrella. How convenient that there was one right there. He tossed it to Rascal before grabbing the other one himself and then the boys proceeded to wield the umbrellas like swords. I mean, what else would they do, they're really mature, aren't they? It's just lucky that Brady had two umbrellas in his car because if they weren't there then the two surfer boys would be out of a weapon, and we couldn't have that, could we?
Rascal: "Keep coming with the right, win the fight every single time"
Seacat: "Undefeated here in our house, yeah"
Rascal: "We can rock, we can shock anytime we like"
Seacat: "And tonight we're goin' all out"
Rascal & Seacat: "It's time to show how"
Rascal: "To be a super hero"
Rascal & Seacat: "Just like a showdown"
Seacat: "Keep the pedal to the metal, go"
Rascal & Seacat: "We're the best, no doubt"
Rascal: "Doin' it like we used to do"
Rascal & Seacat: "This is our time"
Seacat: "And I'm tellin' you"
Rascal & Seacat: "Ohhhh!"
It's not like Rascal and Seacat had just fake-battled Brady's car as if it was some sort of super villain, because that would be childish, wouldn't it? But after the surfer boys had jumped on top of the vehicle and had tossed their umbrellas to the side, they decided that now the games were over, it was time for some dancing. So they jumped down from the roof of the car and danced their childish hearts out.
Rascal & Seacat: "The boys are back, hey the boys are back
The boys are back, gonna do it again
Gonna wake up the neighbourhood
The boys are back, yeah the boys are back
Climbin' up the walls, anytime we want
The word is out the boys are back"
Seacat and Rascal had made their way back to Mack's house and were currently scaling the outside of it like spies, because since they were 'channelling their inner eight year old selves', everything was a spy movie.
Rascal: "Here to change the world"
Rascal & Seacat: "To solve the mystery, fight the battle, save the girl"
The surfer boys fake-punched thin air before peeking through the window and seeing Struts and CheeChee parading around in some of Mack's pyjamas. Their girlfriends proceeded to fake swoon for their friends indoors, completely oblivious to their boyfriends' antics outside, but the biker girls' actions just caused huge grins to spread across Seacat and Rascal's faces because it looked like they were playing along with their game. They obviously weren't (and probably never would) and the surfer boys new it but the very thought of it made them laugh.
Rascal & Seacat: "No one can stop us now, we're the ones that make the rules
Ohhhh!"
Rascal and Seacat ran over to the steps down from Mack's house and slid down them before breaking into a dance routine again, focusing mostly around Brady's car. But even if they were dancing, it didn't stop them from goofing off inside the car and still living the fantasy that they were part of an action movie.
Rascal & Seacat: "The boys are back"
The surfer boys jumped out of the car and caught sight of their reflection in one of the windows. And if you'd have asked them what they saw, they could have sworn that they'd seen their eight year old selves staring back at them. Channelling their inner child apparently wasn't as difficult as it sounded, Rascal and Seacat were still as good a friend to each other as always and hopefully they'd make their younger selves proud if they could see what they'd gone on to do. If you could call surfing and gorging on chilli fries something to do.
Rascal & Seacat: "Ohhhh yeah
The boys are back, hey the boys are back
The boys are back, gonna do it again
Gonna wake up the neighbourhood
The boys are back, yeah the boys are back
Climbin' up the walls, anytime we want"
Rascal: "No need to worry 'cause"
Rascal & Seacat: "The boys are back, hey the boys are back
The boys are back, gonna do it again"
Seacat: "And we make it look good"
Rascal & Seacat: "The boys are back, yeah the boys are back
Tearin' down the walls, anytime we want
I'm sure that you know by now…
The boys are back"
After another chorus of dancing, checking themselves out in the wing-mirrors, performing back-flips and repeated handshakes, Seacat and Rascal finished the song back to back again but this time stood on the bonnet of Brady's car.
"Dude, we're back," Seacat grinned, sharing a breathless laugh with Rascal. Running around like that had tired them out a lot more than they'd expected. No matter how much they felt like it, they weren't as young as they thought they were.
"I'm glad to hear it, now we've just gotta spend more time with each other," Rascal said. "Starting off at work, as long as we keep Butchy happy then he'll leave us alone and that means we've pretty much got the whole day together."
"I like the way you think, Rascal," Seacat smirked, already coming up with plans to keep Butchy from constantly grumbling to them. But before he could share any of them, voices from Mack's front door started drifting through the air.
"Speaking of Butchy," Rascal muttered, trying to keep his voice down so that the surfer boys weren't found out. Seacat and Rascal quietly jumped down from the car bonnet and ran around to the back door, just avoiding being spotted by Brady, Lugnut and Butchy, who were all going out to have a second attempt at fixing the car. Little did they know that the surfer boys had solved the problem that had been bothering them for over an hour in less than five seconds. Rascal and Seacat didn't really want everyone knowing that they could fix cars; they were pretty content with just being known as the goofy, brainless surfers. And to be honest, they wanted to leave fixing things to the bikers because that's something that they knew they prided themselves on. And despite not always getting along with them, they didn't want to dent their pride. They weren't total jerks. So the surfer boys slipped back inside and pretended like nothing had happened.
"Right, let's see what we can do this time," Brady huffed, not having much faith in his team of make-shift mechanics.
"Why don't ya just try turnin' the engine on again?" Lugnut suggested.
"Why? It didn't work before," Brady said, but opened the driver's seat's door and turned the key in the ignition anyway. To all three boys' surprise, the engine purred and sprung into life like nothing had been wrong. "Oh, I stand corrected," Brady said, letting out a small chuckle. Three very relieved boys walked back through the front door a few seconds later. When Seacat and Rascal saw Brady happily bearing the news that his car was miraculously fine again, they shared a tiny high five and a satisfied smile. Their childish antics at pretending to be super heroes had not only solidified their friendship together but it had also helped out Brady, which was a bonus. But no matter how much they secretly hoped that they could be part of an action movie, they were completely unaware that they were and always would be part of a 1960s musical. Not exactly a high-energy thriller but it would do, after all, Wet Side Story was pretty cool.
I hope that you liked it!
Once again, I'm sorry that this is focusing on the background characters, it's one of the pre-written chapters (so that's why it's not written that well either). I promise that they'll be getting better soon, just stick with me! And in case that you were wondering, the song that I used is called The Boys Are Back from High School Musical 3. I just thought that it fitted nicely with Seacat and Rascal's friendship-y, bond-y moment. Don't judge me. XD
Thank you so much again for all of your lovely feedback, you're the best! Thank you for being so supportive!
But a special thing that I'd like to mention is in Owllover34's review, she (I'm presuming that you're a she, sorry if I'm wrong!) asked which ship was more popular: Struts & Rascal or Struts & Lugnut. Obviously, at this moment in the story my ships regarding those characters are Struts with Rascal and Lugnut with Giggles but, if they don't turn out to be popular choices then I can create some drama for the characters and work something out. ;) Hey, I've already got tons of drama planned, what's the harm of throwing a little bit more in? So since Owllover34 took the time to write a review to ask the question, I thought why no open it out to a wider audience? Who do you want to see together? Struts & Lugnut? Or Struts & Rascal? And depending on your answer, what do you want to happen to the other characters that your choice affects? For example, if you want Struts and Lugnut to get together, what do you think should happen to Giggles and Rascal because of that? Make sure that you let me know though because your input could be the difference in the decision that I end up making. I guess that we'll know by the next chapter though! :)
I know that I say this all the time (I'm back with my little question thing-y again! So, if you're reading this then let me know what you would do if you met me (and you knew that it was me, no stranger danger stuff XD). It's a bit of a random question but I'm interested to know) but I want to say thank you to everyone who sends me PMs, leaves reviews and is just generally supportive of my stories, I think that you're all absolutely wonderful and each of you are so lovely!
Anyway, I think that's all that I've got to say for this chapter! Thank you so much for reading!
-cherrygorilla