OHH-KAYY!!

I'm back to bug you people! Haha, just kidding. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed my last chapter of Haunted a.k.a. Totally Bugged (the third one). I was quite free, so I finished it pretty quickly. This chapter's when the plot begins to thicken, so EEEENJOY!!

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-pisceanGirlpower

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TEN DAYS AFTER THE THIRD CHAPTER

Okay. This so sucks. It turns out that Ariel's a homo. As in, like, LESBIAN. We were getting to be pretty close friends, and whenever I was having difficulty choosing an outfit, she'd come to my rescue with her kewl fashion sense. But unfortunately, she developed a crush on me. She tried to feel me up!EWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!Let me tell you what happened, exactly.

I was sitting in my room, trying to pick an outfit for tonight's date with Jesse. It was getting late and I hadn't yet been able to choose anything. That's when Ariel appeared. She materialized and sat down opposite me on my bed.

"Hi," I said. "What's up?" said Ariel. "Nothing much," I said. "Just trying to pick a dress for my date with Jesse. I'm not getting too far." "Hmm…" said Ariel, scratching her chin with her thumb. "Let's see. Have you narrowed down on anything?" "Um," I said, pushing aside a couple of dresses. "Yeah. These three." I pointed to a plain but sleek black slinky dress, a dark green tight top, and a pair of navy pants and a cream shirt.

"Hmm…" she repeated. "Looks like you're in dark sort of a mood today!" "Not really," I laughed. "But we're going to a posh sort of place, so I thought dark colors look smarter." "Oh!" she laughed. Then she winced. "What?" I said. "Lose the navy and cream!" she said. "You'll end up looking like some sort of a crazy company manager." "Company manager?" I laughed.

"Seriously," she said. "They're the ones who wear such outfits." "Okay," I said, pushing the pants and the shirt aside. "Which one of these?" I signaled towards the other two outfits.

"Um," said Ariel. "Mind if I have a look at the rest of your wardrobe?" "Go ahead," I said. She went to my closet and opened it. "Hmm." She stood there with her hands on her hips. "This looks sweet," She pulled out one of my cute black strapless wrap tops. "I considered that," I said. "But I dropped it." "Why?" said Ariel, looking astounded. "It's so cute! And it seems quite perfect for the occasion!" "Okay," I said. "I'll wear that, then. But what below?" "Um, would you prefer pants or a skirt?" asked Ariel. "I think I'd say skirt," I replied. "Wanna look seductive today!" Ariel laughed.

"Okay, so how about this?" she took out a knee-length denim skirt with cream-colored strings hanging down the side. "Don't you think that's rather casual?" I asked doubtfully. "Nope," said Ariel. "You don't wanna make it too formal, do ya?" "No…" I said, a little confused. "Go for it," urged Ariel. "Okay," I said, giving in. "I'll change."

"You do that," said Ariel. "I can pick out a couple of accessories for you if you like, by then." "Sure," I said. "They're all in the dressing table drawer." "Okie-dokie." Ariel kneeled down in front of the dressing table and pulled it open.

I put on my skirt, but I was having a bit of a problem with the top. The zipper just wouldn't shut. "Urrgh," I said. "Ariel, could you help me out a bit here? This zipper sucks. It refuses to shut." "Okay," said Ariel, getting up. She walked up to me and tried with the zipper.

That's when she started to get a bit too touchy-feely. She practically put her hand down the back of my bra! I got uncomfortable and asked her what was going on. "Mmmm…" she barely seemed to be listening to me. She was too busy trying to feel me up! EWWWWW!!!!!

"Um, Ariel," I said, pulling away. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" "Be my girlfriend, Suze," said Ariel, not at all hesitantly. "We'll do all kindso f cool stuff! We'll have so much f…" "WHAT?" I cried. "I'm engaged to someone! AND I'M NOT LESBIAN! Go away!" "Huh?…" Ariel stepped back, looking startled and hurt. HURT?! She had no right to be hurt! Her own common sense should have told her that I couldn't possibly be a homo if I'm engaged to my longtime boyfriend!

Ariel still looked quite bewildered. "What're you waiting for?" I shouted. "Get out! Go away! You could at leats have asked me before trying to…feel me up!" "Chill," said Ariel, taking a step backward. "I'm going!" "Make it fast," I said, menacingly. She disappeared.

That's when Jesse came running into my room. "Querida! You were shouting? What happened?" he cried. "Eewwww!!!" I cried. "Ugh!" "What happened, Susannah?" asked Jesse, catching hold of my shoulders and giving me a shake. "She…she's lesbian!" I cried. "What? Who's lesbian? What are you talking about?" he asked. "Ariel!" I cried. "She tried to feel me up!" "Feel you up?" Jesse looked confused. "Yeah!" I cried. "As in, touch me! YUCK! And without my permission!"

Jesse's eyes went wide. "You mean…that girl's…" "Yes," I said, sensing his obvious discomfort. "She is." "And she tried to seduce you." "YES!" I cried, impatiently. "I told her to go away." "Okay," said Jesse, still looking like he was trying to make sense of the situation. "We'll deal with this later."

It looked like Ariel was in no mood to leave me alone.

To tell you the truth, after what happened with Ariel, my mood was kind of ruined. I got pretty cranky. We decided to order food in from the nearby Chinese restaurant instead of going out. To fix this grouchy mood of mine, Jesse gave me the apropos medicine – a nice, heavy-duty make out session. And believe it or not, he even gave me a teeny-weeny little bit of under-the-bra action!!!!!! I would definitely have liked more than that, but then beggars can't be choosers.

I was sitting on the couch, channel-surfing. Finally, I got fed up because nothing coming on TV, and just sat there. Jesse came down and sat next to me, and slipped an arm around my waist. I looked up at him in surprise. When I did, before I could say anything, Jesse pulled me toward him in the typically-Jesse way and gave me a pretty intense smooch. I figured that this would definitely be heavy-duty and very satiating when Jesse turned it into a French kiss, because usually I was the one to do that.

I could feel Jesse's fingers moving along the waistline of my skirt, swiftly moving up to the hem of my top. As I had hoped, his hand slid in under my top and upward, into my 34B. I felt like I was going to die with pleasure. I pressed myself closer to Jesse, not missing out on my opportunity to do my own bit of exploration. I slid my hand under his shirt, gently feeling along his abs.

That's when Ariel decided to visit me again. At first, I didn't notice her. Then Jesse seperated his lips from mine and said softly, "Querida. Look behind you." I turned around and whom do I see there but Ariel. "Hello, Suze," she said, in a kind of evil voice. "May I join you?" "Three's a crowd. And this is a date." I said, tersely. "I'm not ASKING you," said Ariel menacingly, bringing her face close to mine. Then she smiled in a deceivingly sweet manner.

"Now," she said in a reasonable voice. "Be sensible and be with me, Suze." "I already told you I'm not interested," I said, though gritted teeth. "And I think you would realize that by what I was doing just now. I was trying my hardest to control myself from slapping Ariel. "Oh Suze," said Ariel, shaking her head. "Do you realize what I could do to this boy if you don't listen to me?" She took out a photograph and showed it to me. It was David a.k.a. Doc, my youngest stepbrother! Ariel had abducted him!

"Doc!" I cried, my eyes going super-wide. "Ariel, you bitch! What have you done to him?" "Nothing more than locked him up at an abandoned spot at the moment," she said, casually, folding her arms. "But I very well could if you don't agree to what little I'm asking of you. And to never call me a bitch again." "I'm not letting you blackmail me," I said, shaking my head. "Besides, I don't believe you've even touched my brother."

What I said to Ariel wasn't true at all. I full and well believed that she had kidnapped Doc – she could definitely stoop to such a level – but this was my trick. If I told her that I didn't believe her, she was guaranteed to show me or at least tell me where he was, just to make me believe that her threats weren't empty. And this trick had just the effect I wanted it to.

"You don't believe me?" Ariel looked as if she wanted to burst. "Nope," I said. "What could a little skank like you do besides make empty threats, anyway?" "COME WITH ME!" screamed Ariel. "NOW!" "All right," I said. "Lead the way." When Ariel turned to walk, I quickly whispered to Jesse to follow us. He got up and came after me and Ariel.

Where Ariel took us was a place not far from home. It was an abandoned old house, one of the near-two-centuries-old places, like Andy's house. Ariel led us to its outhouse. It had a rickety old door, with the paint peeling off piteously. It appeared like the paint was cream in color, but there was no sure-fire way to find out for definite. Ariel pushed open the door with her elbow and there I saw Doc, hand and feet bound, gagged with a dirty-looking piece of cloth. He was asleep, lying about five feet away from the door.

"You bitch!" I barked in Ariel's face, running up to Doc. She merely grinned at me. "You believe me now?" I didn't answer her question. I kneeled down next to Doc, untied his gag, and took his head in my arms. Doc was now sixteen, and had grown to be quite good-looking. He had colored his hair mahogany, and his freckles had practically disappeared and his skin was nicely tanned since Dopey a.k.a. Brad, and Sleep a.k.a. Jake, had been dragging him to the beach to teach him surfing daily since the past two weeks.

"Doc!" I called to him, shaking his head. "Doc! Wake up! it's me, Suze." When he didn't wake up, stroked his face and whispered into his ear. No results. I shook his head again. This time he woke up, with a jerk.

"Huh?" he opened his eyes and sat up with a jerk. "Where am I? What happened?" "Oh, Doc," I said, hugging him. "Suze?" he said, joyfully, hugging me back. "Yes," I said, still hugging him. Ariel was so dead for doping up my brother and dumping him in some stinky outhouse.

"Suze," said Doc, trying to let go of me. But I didn't. I needed to keep hugging him so I could quickly whisper my plan to him without Ariel suspecting me. "Where are we? Jesse?" He looked at Jesse, who gave him a small, silly smile. "Doc," I said. "Everything's gonna be okay." "B-But…" "Just listen to me." I was whispering as low as I could. "Try as quietly as you can to escape from here. If you don't manage, don't worry. I'll be back to rescue you, tomorrow evening tops. But remember, be as quiet as possible." "Y-Yes," said Doc. "Okay, Suze." "And pretend to get all dopey now, and act as if you've gone to sleep." "Yeah." I let go of him and put on an emotional look. I gave a little sniffle to make the whole effect look more real.

"You slut," I hissed at Ariel angrily as I walked past her. She gave me another diabolical grin. "Come on, hon," I said to Jesse, catching hold of his hand and pulling him along. Jesse shrugged in a surprised way and came along. We walked straight home.

When we were home, Jesse said, "Querida, don't you think we should have done something over there?" "What did you want me to do?" I asked, indignantly. "Untie him and throw the rope in Ariel's face? I'm so, so, so gonna murder that skanky bitch!" "Calm down, Susannah," he said, catching hold of me and making me sit down on the couch. I looked up at him in irritation. However, if Jesse noticed my irritation, he showed no signs of it.

"Suze," he said. "Now listen to me. There is no point in getting all huffed up about this. What you need to do is use your brain to get David out of there." "Well," I said. "I do have a way." "What?" asked Jesse. "Besides socking that girl in the nose," he added quickly. "No," I said. "Surprisingly, I have a way other than that, this time. When I was hugging Doc, I told him to try and escape from that place if he could. I said that if he was unable to get himself out, I'd definitely rescue him by tomorrow evening, somehow." "And how exactly do you plan to do so, querida?" asked Jesse, looking faintly amused. But this time, I was serious and I had a good reply to give him.

"I purposely told Ariel that I didn't believe her when she told me that she had kidnapped Doc so that she would lead me to the place where she'd kept him," I said, cunningly. "And to my delight, she did just that. So now that we both know exactly where Doc is, our job will be a great deal more possible. What I'm going to do is this: Tomorrow, I'll call Ariel on pretence of telling her that I've given in to her demand. I'll be doing this simply to get Ariel out of the outhouse where she is sure to be guarding Doc, and to buy you time." "Buy me time? Go on," said Jesse. "Yeah," I said. "So while I'm keeping Ariel engaged, you quickly get to that outhouse and rescue Doc." "Hmm," said Jesse. "Impressive plan. I suggest we do this at around noon, so that if we need any help, we'll have a chance of calling for it." "Yes," I said. "I was thinking about that." "Okay then. But what about David? Ariel might keep him hungry the whole day!" said Jesse, suddenly. "Don't worry about it," I said, smiling. "I grabbed a bunch of Yodels on my way out, and handed them to him."

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OK, guys I hope you enjoyed the chapter, coz I DEFINITELY enjoyed writing it!!!!!!! I realized that this was the longest chapter till now! And I kept my promise that the story would pick up from here onwards.

So I'm expecting a good number of reviews from you people after posting this chapter!! The next chapter's gonna be titled 'It's Sooo Easy to Pull Ariel's Leg'!!

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--pisceanGirlpower