Hey everyone!Here it is! Enjoy!Just for the record the day of the week this starts for both points of view is Thursday.
All of the girls in the car were silent. None of them wanted to speak over the music that Q's mom put on. The volume was already to the point of making the car vibrate. Q, Mac, and Coco would have been content to stay that way till they got to their school, but suddenly Q's mom turned off the music.
"Hey!" they all complained.
"You guys can survive for a while without music."
"How do you know that?" Q said accusingly.
"Yeah! We could have this skin disease that only stays inactive if it feels the vibration of music!" said Mac.
"Or worse...the army made us sleeper agents to take down schools that they don't like, so they made it that whenever we don't hear music, we go kung fucrazy on the school federation," Coco blurted out.
"Yeah...," Q's mom looked confused for a second. "What if I told you that you had a chance to see your dad soon, in Ireland?"
"You say it as if it's a bonus that he's in another country," Q mumbled.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing, just that..." she turned to her friends ,smiled comically and yelled,"You guys are so lucky you get to see your dads!"
Coco covered her ears and Mac scrunched up her eyes in pain. After Q's yell-fest was over, they both glared at her, and in her mother's case, looked at her angrily through the rear view mirror. Q stayed smiling but then quickly screamed and pointed. They all turned in time to see a big truck heading right for them. All three girls hugged each other for dear life, completely helpless in the back seat . Q's mother thought fast and maneuvered the car out of the line of fire before the truck ran them over. They all let out a sigh then started laughing. It was another normal day...well, the almost-getting-killed-on-the-way-to-school part. Q wasn't very sure about the whole father-being-in-Ireland part. Yes, she had always known that her father didn't live in the country, but she never thought that her mother would intentionally tell the principal of their school about the all-boy boarding school in Ireland, just so Q could meet her dad. They all seemed to have forgotten what they were talking about because it all fell silent as they neared an old Victorian manor. The car came to a screeching halt in front of the gate.
"Time to fill your heads with knowledge!" Q's mother said cheerfully.
"Aw, man!" Mac cried, disappointed .
"What?"
"I wanted to fill my head with cheese!" Mac laughed as she opened the door.
"Well, at least we won't go hungry," reasoned Q jokingly, and followed Mac out the door.
Coco seemed to be trying very hard to remember something.
"What is it Co?"
"Now I remember. What should we call you today?"
Know it was Q's mother's turn to think.
"Hmmm. I think Stella will do today."
"'Kay. Bye."
Coco clambered out of the car and all three ran up to the front door.
Mac, Coco, and Q slinked down the hall, bent so that no one looking out the glass of the doors would see them. They made their way to a room marked 'History' quietly. Just as Coco was turning the doorknob, slowly, so as not to alert the teacher what was lurking behind it, it flung open to reveal none other than said teacher. Ms. Kansti only smiled when children were about to get detention, and she was smiling right now.
"Hello ladies," she hissed.
"Hello," they grumbled back.
"Now, you three seem to be setting a record for the most tardies from my class. Or better yet, cutting my class all togther," she went on cheerfully.
"Actually Ms. Kansti, we were just coming to inform you that we won't be coming to your class tomorrow," Q said smoothly.
"Oh. Really?" Ms. Kansti raised an eyebrow in amusement. "Why is that, Ms. Q?"
"Well, it is Thursday, and Friday is the day before the trip to Ireland, so why not enjoy the last day in the US?"
"You're skipping? How can you if we're having very important tests tomorrow?"
"Easy," Mac replied, "We just don't wake up on time that day and say, 'Oh well. Too late to go to school anyways.'"
Ms. Kansti turned red. She was getting ready to shout, but before she could scream a word, they dashed down the hall and ducked into a room marked 'Principal'. Even behind closed doors they could hear Ms. Kansti scream.
"AND YOUR UNIFORMS ARE WRONG TOO!"
Coco giggled. "Duh, we're not wearing uniforms."
Q and Mac laughed. The room that they had escaped to looked more like a dentist's lounge then a principal's waiting room. There was a coffee table filled with old magazines, a sofa, and Stella was working at a computer. She didn't even bother to look up.
"Did you piss off your teacher again? No...wait, let me answer my own question...ya. Right?"
Q only rolled her eyes and slumped into a chair. Mac snatched up the old magazines from the table and started tearing out pages randomly. Coco went to Stella's desk and started reading what she was typing.
"You write the principle's speeches for him?" she bluntly asked.
Stella started to panic. "Uhhhh...no?" she offered.
"Yeah. Right. Why does he make you do that? He's supposed to do it himself."
She turned to Q and Mac. "Right?"
Q and Mac mearly mumbled their agreement. Stella suddenly jumped up.
"I just remembered that he's waiting for you."
Q was then the one to come to her feet.
"Really. Do we have to go and talk to him? It's just some ploy to get us to tell him about you." Stella looked at them with a disgusted expression on her face.
"Oh please don't deny it," Mac pitched in. "He's completely gaga over you."
"Want to know what I would do if I were you?" Q didn't even wait for her mother's response. "I'd use that power to get us all off school."
That's where Stella drew the line .
"Look! He doesn't have a crush on me and that is manipulation, Q."
Q rolled her eyes and all three huddled around the door before they entered Mr. Pannyeck's office.
"Well, it has the word man in it,"Q whispered to her friends.
They all quietly laughed.
"What are we going to do now?" Coco said worriedly."We won't be able to get out of this one easily."
"Don't worry Co - Q's got a plan."
"I do?" Q said surprise, only to have Mac shoot her a dirty look . "I mean, yeah. I do. This is the plan. We go in there, see what he wants, then we just leave and go to the mall."
"Just like that?" Coco looked suspicious.
"Yup."
"Okay!" Coco grabbed the door and swung it with all her strength. As the door swung around, the knob hit the wall with such force that it fixed itself into the plaster. They rushed in to try to pull the door off the wall, but no matter how hard they pulled the door seemed permanently attached to the wall.
Mr. Pannyeck was sitting in his chair but just sighed and waved them over to three leather seats in front of his desk. They simply shrugged and sat down. Mr. Pannyeck moved around papers for awhile then decided to actually tell them why they were there.
"Our school trip to Ireland is coming up very soon - "
"Duh!" Coco interrupted.
Mr. Pannyeck glowered at her long enough to make her shrink into her seat.
"What do you want from us?"Q drew his attention to her.
"Well, Ms. Q I want you to stay out of trouble and your friends to promise not to help you cause trouble for your mother."
Q raised an eyebrow in suspicion. "Now, why would we do that?"
"Well ...I..."Beads of sweat started to form on his brow.
"Did you force my mom to go to another one of your important dinners with you? When will you learn that she doesn't like you like tha - no, wait, she doesn't like you at all!" Q shot up. Her face showed her anger at her principal's abuse of power. "You're a disgusting pig. You know that?"
Q stormed out as only she could. It was now Mac and Coco's turn to get angry.
"You have to be the saddest man/guy/it/thing ever." With that Coco left the room.
Mac simply looked at him blankly, then left. Everything was already said.
The three of them had quietly made their way to the mall in time for lunch. As they walked to the food court they each thought of ways to mess up their principle's life.
"We could blackmail him," suggested Coco.
"No," Mac replied solemnly. "He'll just tell everyone and get us in trouble and then fire Stella."
"We drive him insane, "Q said hopefully.
"No," Coco responded for Mac.
Mac looked at Coco angrily. "I second that 'no'. We tried that before. It didn't go work 'cause he's already insane." And twirled her finger at her temple for emphasis.
"Hey, Q?" Coco stopped, looking confused.
"What Co?" Q said as she stood next to her friend. She already knew what was coming.
"What did your mom mean when she said you were going to meet your dad in Ireland?"
Both Mac and Coco turned to Q, whose expression had changed to that of a tired teacher sick of saying the same thing over and over again and not being heard.
"Let's go get something to eat first, and then I'll tell you what's up."
They followed her to their favorite Chinese food place, Coco found seats, and Mac and Q got the food. Once settled down Q got ready to tell them a long story as they ate.
"My mom and dad went to the same school when they were young. I don't know if it was college or some other school. So the whole romance falling in love thing happened, whatever, and you know..me. So, here's the thing, my dad had this messed up predestined thing or something and my mom knew that she couldn't be with him because of something or other. So she never told him about me even when he left her. My mom didn't tell me exactly why he couldn't have stayed with her and said "screw it" to the whole chosen-for-you thing, so...yeah. And, well. He went to Ireland and she went to Australia but then went to Cali - so I'd be born here. And that's basically it; I can't hate him for not knowing about me, but I don't like him for leaving mom. It sorta bugs me that mom did nothing to stop him but - I'm hungry." Q broke off and started scarfing down food to avoid talking about it.
Coco and Mac rolled their eyes and ate their food. When they were done they looked around for Clyde, the rent-a-cop that took his job way too seriously, then raced up the down escalator to their favorite store, The End Of Time.
This store was one that everyone avoided. The entrance was uninviting and a short but muscular man stood in front glowering at everyone that came close. The girls waved to him as they passed by him. He didn't wave back but he dropped his glower for a second to show he knew them. Inside was very different from the outside, it had all kinds of costumes for plays, props, old scripts, and backdrops on one side. The other side had many CDs and movies from whichever era you could imagine...within reason, of course.
In the middle of the floor there was a TV and a cash register parallel from each other and around them were bean bags. The back of the room was dominated by bookshelves with old books, except for a doorway that had hanging beads for a door. An old woman emerged from the back carrying a very heavy box.
"Oh, 'ello girls. Why don't you give this ol' bat a hand?" she said, fighting with a box that seemed to not like the idea of being captured by this woman.
"I would, but why don't you just drop the box? We'll get it later for you," Q replied.
"All right then," the woman said before she dropped the box on her foot by accident. She hopped on her better foot while rubbing the other, swearing all the while. The girls just laughed as they picked up the paint guns that had fallen from the box. The lady looked at them angrily.
"You lot are evil, laughing at an ol' lady in trouble."
"We are laughing, you are a lady, but you're not in trouble...well, not yet," Mac said in their defense, inspecting the paint guns carefully.
"What are we going to do with these?" the lady said, pretending not to hear Mac.
Q frowned for a few seconds and Coco started to hum 'Lonely Tropical Fish.' The lady then looked at all of them, surprised.
"It shouldn't take all of you this long to cook up a evil plan with all the materials at hand. Paint guns, costumes, means of transportation..."
"What do you mean by...oh...wait. I've got an idea," Q said excitedly.
They huddled, even the old lady, and they started to plot their evil plan.
Q peeked around the corner and saw Officer Clyde McNoly coming down the mall hallway in his little police scooter that was trying to impersonate a pickup truck.
"He's coming," she said into her walkie-talkie. "Are you in position?"
"Mac, ready and waiting for orders"
"Q, this is Coco. Is he eating doughnuts again?"
Q peeked, and just as expected there was Officer McNoly, in his scooter/truck, eating two doughnuts at once.
Q grimaced. "Yeah, the pig. He's gonna end up choking on those things."
"Lady G. Ready and waiting."
"'Kay."
Q peeked over again. Officer McNoly was choking on his doughnuts. Q almost fell down, she was laughing so hard. "Hey Coco, I got my wish."
Coco peeked from her hiding place, not far from where Q was standing. Officer McNoly had recovered but his face was still bright red. She started laughing, but they both ducked when Officer McNoly started looking around for the source of the noise.
Deputy Jopelner was innocently walking up to Officer Mcnoly to ask him if he had seen where his lunch went, two jelly filled doughnuts. Then McNoly started yelling at him,
"YOU ALMOST KILLED ME BOY!!HOW DARE YOU TRY TO MURDER ME!!"
Officer McNoly started driving away from a very confused Deputy, right in the direction of Q.
"Ok. Here he comes. Wait for the signal."
Right when he had the car in between Q and Coco's hiding place , Q dashed out into the hall and jumped on the back of the car. Coco jumped on the front.Officer McNoly was screaming his head off,
"HOW DARE YOU!!GET OFF MY DAMN CAR!!"
Lady G. and Mac came running down the hall . Lady G. had a rope. Mac went to one side and Lady went to the other. Togheter they got the screaming Officer out of the car. Q and Coco got in and drove in the direction of 'The End', while Lady and Mac tied up McNoly and started dragging him into a store . Q and Coco got the car on the escalator and to the store they quickly started loading four paint ball guns ,a packet of water balloons,and a big box of silly string cans.Lady and Mac were dragging McNoly to the back of the store were the dressing rooms were. No one seemed to notice and if they did they didn't care. Many of them had to with stand his constant yelling and ordering around . If hiding him in the dressing room was the only way to get peace and quite while they shopped ,they were ok with it.Lady and Mac closed there eyes as they entered the men's dressing room .They blindly found a empty one (after slamming into every wall along the way) and put him inside .They had wrapped him up in the rope so now he looked more like a rope mummy then a security guard. As they left Lady simply said,
"By Clyde. Hope you get out never!"
They both laughed as evilly as they could, which was pretty good , and closed the door.Q and Coco were having a great time getting the scooter-car down the escalator.Once they hit the bottom they sped off in the direction of the store were Lady and Mac were.Once Lady and Mac were out of the store the car was there waiting for them . Mac and Q got on top of the car and Lady got into the drivers seat.Coco handed Mac and Q paint ball guns.
"These are the soft shells right ? We don't want to hurt anybody."Mac said looking around for random targets.
"I'll check " said Q. She took out a shell and try to lightly pop it but all of the paint splattered right in Mac's face . Mac now had purple hair and a yellow face.
"Thanks Q. That was really smart ."
"Oops sorry!Are you okay?"
"Ya ,luckily I closed my eyes before that happened."
Q laughed in relief and they both secured themselves to the top.Coco took out two string cans for herself.Lady started driving down the hall, Mac and Q shot at people who would get that the shot was a joke . They would laugh and throw things back . Lady went to the food court Q snipped someone sitting in the far back , catching him on the shoulder. He threw his food in her direction but he came up short and hit a burly man who was happily eating with his friends . The burly man stood up looking extremely mad .He lifted up his burger , then yelled
"FOOD FIGHT!!"
Everyone took up their food and started launching it at each other. Within three minutes the food court was a disaster, food everywhere, chairs and tables turned over to form shelters, and three girls and one crazy old lady driving around shooting people different colors. The maddness finally ended when the Grand Clock Tower in the middle of the mall struck 10 o'clock and everone went home. The girls and Lady G. went back to 'The End'. They were all covered in food and soaked to the bone with soda. Mac and Coco put the cans of string in the back, while Lady and Q put the paintball guns on the prop-side of the room. When they were done the bouncer came in.
"Hello girls. M'Lady."
He then bowed to Lady G. . Lady only giggled, looking more like a teenage girl herself then a dignified and wise old woman.
"Oh Rasmus. Your so charming." She twittered back. Fluttering her eyes at him.
Q started facking death, silently gasping for air, reaching to the heavens for some divine help, and then letting herself fall to the ground with her eyes closed. Mac pretended to barf on Q, who stayed still, and Coco laughed and hit Mac's shoulder. Lady turned on them and playfully tapped Q's stomach with her foot. Q's eyes flew open and she rolled on her back dramatically moaning,
"My poor stomach!! How could you? Oh woe is me!" Everyone laughed. They then locked up 'The End' , the mall closed, and the girls went to Q's house to play video games until Stella came home around 12am.