High School Mayhem Chapter Five
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Disclaimer: This applies for this chapter and last, as I forgot about it last time: The characters from this story, and anything else you recognise from the books belong to Traci Harding, I shall never own them, and I don't plan to, no need to sue me.
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And now, without further ado, the very late arriving chapter five
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"You did what!" gasped Tory to Ione, who was still quite proud of her success with Brian and Katren.
"I set up Brian and Katren, they're going out together tomorrow night!" squealed Ione, wondering what Tory thought of the combination. "Do you think they'll make a good match?"
As Tory was about to reply, a cheerful male voice coming from behind them remarked "My, my, my, looks like there are no secrets around here huh Brian?" Maelgwn shook his dark hair out of his eyes, nodding in way of greeting to Ione, and enquiring of Tory "What time do you want me at your place, and what day?"
Brian's eyebrows rose about a mile in the air at this statement, and seeing this Tory quickly said "It's not like that, I'm tutoring Maelgwn and Ione in French. It'll be the three of us" she stated, pointedly looking at Maelgwn.
To this Ione replied "Uhh, sorry to break in like this, but what? When did I say I was going to do this? Actually, when was I asked?"
Tory flushed, and looked at the ground, suddenly realising she'd never actually asked Ione "Oh, sorry, I meant to ask after French, but I was distracted" Maelgwn smiled here, realising that he had at the very least caught her attention "So what do you say Ione?" Tory finished, looking almost pleadingly at her.
"Yes, of course, thanks ...But are you sure you really want me there?" Ione playfully asked, waggling her eyebrows suggestively at her and Maelgwn, who had subconsciously been moving closer together since the start of this conversation.
Maelgwn, who felt bad about how he'd talked to Tory earlier that day, jumped back from Tory, whose first thought at this action was "aww, I wish he'd come back and stand that close to me again" However, she told Ione "Maelgwn and I? Haha, no there's nothing happening there!" (though she didn't pull this off very successfully, her facial expressions told anyone looking that she wanted more) "I'll see both of you at my place, 7 tomorrow night"
With that out of the way Brian glanced at his watch, and realising how late it was said "C'mon Tory, we'd best get home, I'll wait for you by the car"
Tory had her own car, but her and Brian always went in the same car to and from car, they didn't see the point in paying for twice as much petrol each week. She drove a black 90's convertible, in impeccable condition, a real find. Her brother, on the other hand,drove a dark blue sedan, in not so great condition, but he was only keeping it because it was cheap to run, his real passion was motorbikes, one of which he was saving for.
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"How was school today?" asked Renford Alexander asked his two children, as they dropped their bags in the living room and proceeded to the kitchen, where he awaited them. "What're the people here like? Finding your way around the school alright? I know it's bigger than your last one."
Tory and Brian, who were both very close to their father, answered all his questions with great enthusiasm, sharing their day's events, with only one or two omissions. They also took this chance to tell him about their plans for the next night, just to make sure he was ok with it all. "Hey Dad, I've asked a couple of people over here tomorrow night, for tutoring in French, you're alright with that?"
This interested Renford, as Tory wasn't normally the type to bother trying to teach others, she thought it better that they worked it all out themselves. "Yes, of course it's alright. Who are these people? New friends of yours?"
"Yep, their names are Maelgwn and Ione, they're both in my year level"
"Maelgwn? A guy?" Renford smiled, waggling his eyebrows just like everybody else who'd heard this plan had done. "Sure you're not just doing this tutoring thing to get him over to our house? Anyway, I won't be home, so you'll all be left in peace and quiet to ...err...study"
"I...no...what...but...how. No!" exclaimed Tory, getting quite worked up, before noticing the knowing, yet playful grin on her father's face. "Whatever" she said, smiling, before retreating to her room, to get started on her homework.
"What about you Brian, have you got plans for tomorrow night?" Renford asked, figuring that Brian, who was quite the ladies man, would have already got a line a mile long of possible female candidates to go out with.
"Oh, yeah, about that. I'm going out with a new, ummm friend. Katren." Brian replied, uncharacteristically withdrawn and closemouthed about the whole date. This was strange for Brian, who would normally brag and boast about his newest conquest for days and days, until his sister threatened to (and usually ended up trying to) beat him into silence.
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"Come on! You can do better than that! Haha, careful, better keep your defence up a bit more, jeez, Katren won't wanna go out with a guy who was given a black eye by his younger sister!" taunted Tory, who was breathing heavily, again carefully aiming a high kick at the Brian's undefended left side.
"Careful? I'll give you careful!" he puffed, grabbing her led mid-kick, and twisted hard, hard enough to make his small-framed sister lose balance and land on her back, on the padded matting she and her brother used to practice tae-kwon-do on when at home.
"Who's gonna look bad for their date now?" he teased. "You won't be able to sit down by tomorrow night, your butt's gonna be that sore. Maelgwn'll think you're an old lady." He chuckled, not seeing his sister stealthily reach out and grab his foot, yanking him down beside her, then flipping herself on top of him, pinning him to the ground.
"It's not a date" she growled, sounding unconvincing ever to her own ears. Tory, though undoubtedly beautiful, rarely had dates. Most guys found something about her intimidating, she wasn't sure what it was, but it was definitely there. Maelgwn however, with his silky, dark hair, handsomely flopping into his eyes with a casual grace that he seemed unaware of, now he was her kind of guy. "Stop that!" her mind ordered, "You're not a giddy 12 year old, so stop acting like one. You're not going out with him, he's not your kind of guy, so quit it!"
Brian, taking advantage of her distraction, rolled out from under her, and pinning her in the same way she had pinned him, looked down, laughed when he realised she was still totally spaced out and said "Whatever...I bags first shower!"
That broke Tory out of her daze, and as he sprinted for the bathroom she ran behind him calling out "Hey, no fair, you had first shower yesterday! It's my turn! Brian! Come back here! Fine, I've got it first tomorrow night, hehe, I'll make you late for your date!
The only response was the sound of a slamming door, the snap of a lock being used, and the torrential sound of the shower.
"Fine" muttered Tory, trailing off to her attic bedroom to plan what she'd wear the next night. Of course, not because she cared what Ione and Maelgwn thought of her, just because she wanted to look nice. Of course...
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Meanwhile, Katren was at home doing exactly the same thing as Tory. At least she wasn't in deep denial about whether her outing was a date she thought with a chuckle, thinking about how Tory seemed determined not to recognise her attraction to Maelgwn for what it was.
She wondered what Brian was doing now, and as she pondered away the phone rang. On the other end of the line was Tory. "Hello, Katren?"
"Yup. How are you? Where'd you get my number?" Katren queried , mildly confused over that issue
"Brian had it in his pocket, I ...erm ...borrowed it" Tory chuckled, knowing that he wouldn't be pleased that she'd been through his pockets again.
"Hehe, aaah, alright. What's your number then?"
"9327 2845" recited Tory
"So, you rang for...?"
"Oh, just to chat."
"Cool. So tomorrow night, what's that about? Why invite Ione on your date with Maelgwn, hehe, surely you're not into some kinda kinky threesome type thing" teased Katren, though she wasn't actually 100 convinced this wasn't true, she couldn't see any other reason to invite a third person.
"It's NOT a date " state Tory, for what felt like the millionth time. She sighed.
"Oh, ok then, sure whatever you say. What are you wearing for this "tutorial" then?" Katren enquired of her, knowing fully well that nobody save for Tory could convince Tory to come out of denial.
"It IS a tutorial, nothing more, nothing less!" replied Tory huffily, becoming frustrated with all these people who wouldn't believe her protests that it was an innocent study group.
"I never said it wasn't" said Katren sweetly, acting far too innocent.
"But the tone of your voice, you implied, you meant...Ah never mind" stuttered Tory, knowing she had no proof and that she sounded a bit stupid.
"So what are you wearing?" Katren changed the subject, curious to see what kind of effort Tory had put into planning
"Black bootleg jeans, black heeled boots and a green striped, long sleeved v-neck top" replied Tory somewhat anxiously, wanting Katren's opinion.
"Ooh, nice, Maelgwn'll love it" cooed Katren, quite amazed at how Tory seemed to know exactly what her beau-to-be would like.
"You think so?" asked Tory, still nervously.
"I know so. But I thought you didn't care what you were wearing because it's not a date" teased Katren
Tory knew that Katren had a point there
"Just because its not a date doesn't mean I don't want to look nice!" retorted Tory
"Aah, ok" replied Katren in a voice still sounding unconvinced of Tory's continued denial
"Hey, I've gotta run, Brian just got out of the shower, he wants the phone, probably to call you. See ya"
"Ok, buhbye" Katren said, hanging up once she heard the dial tone from Tory's end of the line.
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The next morning in home room Ione met up with Tory and Katren, grilling them on what they were wearing to their dates. "So what're you wearing Katren, Tory? And Tory, what are you and Maelgwn planning on doing, locking me in a cupboard?" she asked mischievously, winking at Maelgwn as he walked past to get to his seat, laughing fit to burst, having overheard her comment.
"Nah, we were leaning more towards the basement than a cupboard, but it's your choice Ione. Hey Tory, your 'rents gonna be home?"
"My mother left us for her composer boyfriend, a total sleaze bag he is. She lives somewhere in New York now. Dad'll be out, I'm not sure where, or when he's coming home"
"Score!" though Maelgwn, his couldn't have worked out better even if it had been planned. And if I know Ione, she'll give us all the space we need. I still can't work out what it is about Tory that's got me so interested, but I'd really like to get to know her better, she's so...amazing, wonderful, awesome...No, those don't describe her. She just seems perfect. Gee Maelgwn, calm down, you've known her 24 hours, don't fall too fast"
At the same time Tory was thinking "Well this is good, Ione seems willing to let us have a moment or two together, I really like him. He's not the type I'd normally go for, yet he's so confident, he doesn't seem like the others...I want to know more about him, to see what he's like away from all these people"
Up the front of the class room their home teacher wasn't having much success at capturing the classes straying attentions. "Class, I need to tell you about...Ahem, these are the details for...OI! LISTEN UP! That's better. I need to tell you about the school camp you've got coming up next month. It's an outdoor ed camp, it's going to be held out in the bush. You'll spend three nights in a cabin, and one night camping in tents. You'll campout in groups of six, and be sharing two three-man tents between the three of you, so naturally we want you to have three girls and three guys in each group. There's going to be an information night next week, I expect to see all of you there. Class dismissed"
The room erupted into even more chaos and noise, as the bell rang for first period, science.
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