Okay, so I wasn't even planning on updating, except that I was reading another fic with my iPod playing in the background. I guess I spaced out for a second there 'cause next thing I know, I'm here. So anyway, to my reviewers:
RidingtheRoughWaters- Well actually, I'm just a 14 year old who loves music from the 80's. I just recently added that song. Weird eh?
Midnight Angel Sakura- Thank ya!
HealingSpringWaters- Sorry, but not really. Given more time and loads of totally unnecessary thought, it probably would have been.
XS Fanatic- I was eventually gonna do a chapter with Linkin Park, but Aly and AJ is a good idea.
This one's another oldie called In My House by the Mary Jane Girls. Enjoy!
Quiet. Empty.
Funny how the room didn't fit the same description of Raimundo's head. Usually it did, but this time it didn't.
He had chosen the abandoned locker rooms as his escape for the moment. These locker rooms were made for the football team when the school was first built, before there was such a thing as fire codes and stuff. So new ones were built, and these were left behind as storage rooms for easily-replaceable junk. Luckily, it was very rare that anyone ever even wandered in that direction in that time of year, when football season was over. And then there was a rumor that had been going around for a long time that there was a thirty-foot anaconda that had been laying its eggs under the thinly layered locker room floor. In other words, it was a good place to go if someone wanted to be alone.
Raimundo gave a humorless smirk. The last time he was here "alone" was before he became single again. Yep, this was where he and Kimiko got together when they didn't feel like dealing with school or friends, or just people in general. It was sort of their special place for quite a while. Before she happened anyway.
"Hello Raimundo," a voice purred from behind him.
Speak of the devil.
"What do you want Ashley?" he snapped without turning around to face her.
"Aw," she pouted. "Are you still upset about that Kimberly girl?" As she spoke, she walked towards him with his back still to her. "You shouldn't be. You don't need her. Besides, I thought we had something together." Her hands went for his shoulders in a sort of seductive way before he brushed her away roughly.
"Her name is Kimiko! And yeah, I'm kinda upset! Its your fault that she hates me now! And we don't and wont have anything together!" He was breathing hard when he finished.
Ashley pouted a little, letting Raimundo cool off before speaking again. "I think you mean its our fault that she hates you now," she said softly but cheekily. "It takes two to tango, Raimundo. And whether you like it or not, we did have something between us." She paused to let her words sink into the still-fuming boy. When he didn't change his expression, she tried a different approach. She put her hands on his shoulders and whispered, "You know what? You're right. We didn't have anything between us before. But maybe we could change that.
She leaned even farther towards him until their faces were only millimeters apart before he shoved her away from him even more roughly than before so she actually fell on her butt. He didn't look sorry. Nor did he make a move to help her up.
"What does she have that I don't?" she snapped angrily from her spot on the ground.
He only crossed his arms in response. She saw that she was getting no where, she picked herself off the ground and grumbled in defeat as she retreated from the old locker rooms and back towards the school.
Meanwhile
"I have to do what?"
There was a sound of a hand slapping someone in the face.
"Shut-up! Someone will hear you!"
Judy roughly removed the hand that had covered her mouth. "Man, what did ya do that for?" she whispered angrily.
"'Cause you were about to break a few windows," Jermaine smirked.
"Whatever." Judy smacked his arm playfully, but hard.
"So Daily," he said, rubbing his arm ruefully, "Doing the dare? Or being a chicken?"
"No-brainer, stupid," she said matter-of-factly. "You wanna see those anaconda eggs? Fine. I'll be right back."
Truthfully, Judy only saw Ashley try to seduce Raimundo before he shoved her away.
She snickered at the girl's stupidity. After all, Pedrosa had already been out with her, and as his twisted mind goes, it was time to find some other unsuspecting girl's heart before breaking it. That's what he did to Kimiko anyway. It only made sense anyway. Ashley just said something about him and another girl. Two-timing jerk-face!
Judy shook her head before starting for the edge of the locker room where the badly-made floor was chipping away. She tried to hide behind the building before she ended up picking a fight with Ashley before she got those eggs. Anytime afterwards would work perfectly though.
Ashley's POV
Stupid moron! Why is it that every boy just seems to want what they can't have? That doesn't even make any sense! Why can't they just take what they're given? It would make things way easier.
And what does he want that Kimiko girl for? He already went through her! Only makes sense that he just moves on to the next girl that wants him. But then he suddenly decided that once he broke her heart, and she didn't want him anymore, she was exactly what he wanted.
Which brings me back to "Stupid moron!"
It wasn't the fact that he rejected me that was bothering me, 'cause Jake Long had rejected me before, and it didn't really matter much. At least, it didn't until Wuya and Dyris had "accidentally" spread the rumor about it. They had claimed that they were "very secretly started a conversation about it, and a few people nearby just happened to overhear." It was possible that they were telling the truth, but most likely not. It had taken forever to track down and threaten everyone who heard to never speak of it again. A pretty easy threat to make considering who I had as back-up. There were nerds like Jack Spicer, and way cooler intimidating people like Wuya and Chase Young. Plus there were others like Vlad and Dyris and stuff. The only ones who we couldn't scare the crap out of were Kimiko, Robin, Judy, Jake, Raimundo, and that new kid Ryan. But none of them ever said anything about it anyway, so it wasn't much of a problem.
But this was definitely a problem. After the whole Jake thing, I decided I couldn't trust anybody with stuff like that. Thing is, I was so sure that Raimundo and I were good now that he and his "public girlfriend" were over, that I bragged about him and I going through this whole romantic and dramatic scene while we were in the cheerleaders' locker room. When I get back there, and Raimundo is totally ignoring me, its gonna be harder to squash out the rumors, what with my "friends" thinking that having someone fail is actually funny.
And because of that, I didn't feel like getting back too quickly. Right when I turned the corner, I almost tripped over a figure crouching close to the ground that turned out to be none other than Judy Daily.
"Watch it!"
"You're the one who's walking! Why don't you watch it?"
"What are you doing anyway? Resorted back to eating bugs have we? Can't get your own lunch?" Ashley smirked at her own little joke. Judy had to role her eyes. At least she didn't make another stupid cat pun, she thought gratefully, eying the preppy girl's cat-themed get-up.
"What are you doing here? Resorted back to stealing other people's boyfriends? Can't get your own loser?"
Ashley scowled.
"What? Did Raimundo cheat on you with someone else? Or did I hear that little argument wrong?"
"Actually no," she snapped matter-of-factly. "Believe it or not, he's into someone else now. And after all this time, you would think we'd actually be something, you know?"
Arms crossed, Judy clicked her tongue and shook her head. "See? That's the problem with dating a cheater: Destroys all the trust."
"Whatever," she snapped, no longer listening. Ashley began walking back towards the school when Judy's whisper came to her attention.
"Wait till everyone gets an ear-full of this!"
Ashley's head snapped around so fast that she surprised even herself that she didn't get whiplash.
The preppy girl thought it all over. True, she could just tell everyone that she and Raimundo were an item now, or she could wait for Raimundo to just cool off before approaching him again. Both would be good ideas if it weren't another piece in this game: Judy Daily.
She had just witnessed everything. Well, almost everything. Anything she might have missed, she had heard from Ashley herself.
Stupid! She almost slapped herself. Think! Think! Think! she snapped at herself. And suddenly, Light bulb! She quickly rummaged in her kitten purse, looking for something.
"Hey! Raimundo!" she sang sweetly, walking past Judy Daily again, back towards Raimundo.
"What?" he snarled angrily.
She ignored his tone and put something in his hand.
"What the - What the hell is this for?" He held up a little key chain with little kitten decorations. And hanging from it was a single key, painted with hot-pink and black tiger stripes.
"A key," she said in that annoying fake-sweet voice.
"To what?"
"My house. Listen Raimundo, it doesn't matter how many girls you want."
"Oh, it doesn't, does it?" he said testily.
"Nope. In fact, I'm the only girl that you will ever need or want."
He scoffed.
"Well you can just believe
I'm the only girl in your life.
I'll be your sugar in the morning
And the sweet stuff you need at night.
And you can just make believe
When it comes down to makin' love,
I'll satisfy your every need
And every fantasy you think up.
So when you need a little peace of mind,
Come on over boy, anytime.
I'll keep you happy and so satisfied,
In my house.
In my house.
So when you need some love and tenderness,
And its me baby that you miss,
Here's the key to unlock the door,
To my house.
To my house.
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh.
In my house.
Woo-ooh-ooh-ooh.
In my house.
Well anytime of the day or night
When you call me, I'll be there.
Just call me up on the phone
When you need someone around to care.
And when you feel sad and blue
You just come and see me anytime.
I'll be waitin' for you, dear.
And all your fears
You can leave behind.
So when you need a little peace of mind,
Come on over boy, anytime.
I'll keep you happy and so satisfied,
In my house.
In my house.
So when you need some love and tenderness,
And its me baby that you miss,
Here's the key to unlock the door,
To my house.
In my house."
And in case Judy didn't hear any of that from around the corner where she was absolutely watching from, Ashley landed a full-on mouth-to-mouth kiss on him. At first, he was too shocked at her actions to do anything, but after a few seconds, he shoved her off of him, wiping off his mouth in disgust after throwing her house key at her feet.
"Listen! We've never had a thing! We will never have a thing! Stay away from me!"
Sure, it kinda hurt to hear him yell at her in disgust like that; for him to say that he didn't want her, that he wanted the girl he left for her.
But there was one thing that made her smirk in satisfaction: Judy had ran back to the school, wide-eyed when she saw them with their lips pressed together. She was going to tell and already angry Kimiko.