The Addams Family

Chapter Two

Wednesday smiled at her murky reflection in the bath water. The water was already soothing, even before she entered it. The fragrance of the amines assailed her delicate nose and she sighed in delight. As she soaked, all the problems of the previous week dissolved with the fizzy algae her Aunt Mildew had given her for her birthday. In the distance she could hear her brother and her father clashing swords, they were having a sword fight as they usually did around this time of the day.

She grimaced as part of her wrist caught in the muted sunlight coming from the tattered curtain in her private bathroom. With the accompanied pain she remembered instantly how her wrist had come to be battered and bruised in a way that would have made Pugsley proud.

It had been wednesday afternoon and she had just had double English. She was searching her locker for her rat bone bracelet, when she heard from someone behind her say tauntingly

"Oh look the freak's lost something", it was a jeering feminine voice that could have only belonged to Suzy, the blonde senseless blob of her grade. Wednesday knew that the word freak was intended to hurt her, after all Suzy had been calling her all sorts of names that her little brain could come up with since second grade. Frankly Suzy's words brightened her day especially on those bright sunny days that everyone seemed to love so even though considering her brains, they were not very imaginative.

At that moment, she had felt her locker door shut firmly upon her wrist and to her utmost delight she heard the crack of a bone. It had been Suzy's dumb jock of a boyfriend Tyrone, he laughed smirked wryly as she considered telling Suzy what he had tried to do to her the week before, after that he was limping a while.

"Awwwh-Suzy Mon Amie I see your mental capacities have deserted you completely this fine day. Pray, how does your mediocre brain cope with coming up with such ditty little phrases like freak?" Wednesday had decided to counterattack Suzy's stupidity with big words and long sentences.

Suzy's face crumpled prettily with confusion just as Wednesday had had intended, Wednesday had noticed that Suzy actually was very pretty, even with the really bad makeup she had slapped on. The whole of Suzy's posse had morphed into a ball of confused puzzled faces; Wednesday could not stop herself from chuckling evilly. "And for your mental satisfaction I was looking for my-state-of-the art bone bracelet, not that you would anything about that".

"How do you expect a bracelet to make you pretty" Suzy had replied, giggling airily having recovered from the onslaught of Wednesday's wit.

"Ask Jeeves" she had said smartly slipping her crushed appendage from the grip of her locker. Leaving Suzy and her "posse" even more confused. "Oh and call me up when you recover from your life long mental nap".

Wednesday chuckled evilly as the memory but as she remembered what came next her smile slid of her face like butter off hot pancakes.

After her confrontation with the dumbest people on earth she had been striding confidently down the halls of Hill High school dressed in a deep red pirate shirt, black skirt and red high heeled shoes when she realised that someone was watching her she stopped and turned on her high heels into the eyes of "Raphael Jackson but you can call me J".

"Hey there pretty lil' lady" he boomed at her, a sunny smile aimed at her. Wednesday was sure that she had been blinded by the brightness of his pearly white teeth. At that moment the sun rose suddenly in its full glory, bursting brilliantly behind ye gods, he looked like a sun god Wednesday hated him for being so amazing and then to her utmost horror he started heading towards her. She looked frantically around her for a means of escape, finding none she sighed and resigned herself to his evil beams of sunlight.

He was dressed, barely. In a blue plaid shirt, Wednesday was no queen of fashion but what self respecting 18 year old would wear plaid to school and loose fitting jeans. The way he wore the clothes was just so lazy that Wednesday wondered if they were really on him, he sauntered lazily as was his style to her.

"Why are you always so gloomy Nessie?" he asked still smiling lazily. Wednesday, eyes narrowed wondered if he ever did anything without that lounging air about him.

"First of all, I was shot Wednesday by my parents not Ness, Nessie and secondly I am gloomy because I just saw your face."She was taking it easy on him, wanting to give him a chance to leave.

He smiled brighter as if it was possible but he still did it, somewhere a bear was missing his smile "Chillax, go with the flow Nessie" he was saying as he took her arm and led her in the direction of the dining room singing the song about the purple dinosaur.

Wednesday stared at him in shock then decided he was a maniac … a happy maniac. When they got to the canteen she saw her best friend N.J.

"Help me" she said had tried to say telepathically but she was not telepathic so he carried on snogging his girlfriend Sally.

The evil happy maniac dragged her past her normal table of despair to his table of happiness. She was traumatised for life.

Wednesday felt a few drops of tears run down her cheeks into the murky green water ,she had never felt the same since then. She decided she had soaked enough and left the bathroom.

Just as she had finished dressing she heard her father's voice yelling "Wednesday someone here to see you".

Slowly she left her room to the main lounge feeling a deep premonition in her heart that something bad was going to happen. When she got there not to her surprise she met smiley Jay having tree root tea with her father as best as he could since her father was hanging upside-down.

She gulped.

"Ah Nessie "he said smiling at her some more somehow managing to light up the dimly lit up house. She was about to tell him not to call her that when her mother said, "What a charming young man. You can have some more poison ivy tea."

Morticia was unbelievably glad when the handsome young man showed up at her doorstep introducing himself as Wednesday's friend from school; she had gladly welcomed him into her home and watched his face languidly lit up as he saw her house.

"What do you want Jackson?" she asked him glaring from under her eyebrows. He was not even undeterred by her whole glare but smiled ever so brightly at her, Wednesday wondered if he was blind or deaf.

"I've come to take you out to a movie" he stated, letting himself lazily unto a chair. Wednesday looked at him and was starting to believe that he actually was mad.

Gomez grinned from ear to ear "Wednesday first date" he said proudly and Wednesday found herself being bundled up by Lurch outside the house.

Wednesday knew that she was going to need counselling later in life.

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