I was beginning to dread weekends, they had a way of bringing consistently bad news; this weekend was no different. Spot, Spades and I were off again to work at the hotel, while Dodger got to stay home and sleep all day, the lucky duck! Although this week, I got to show Jack Kelly and his enormous ego around and introduce him to the way our hotel worked. If it had been up to me, I would have opted to gnaw my own arm off than show Jack around, but since my dad made me I had to be nice. He finally got the hang of what he was doing, leaving me to go back to my job at the counter.
"Hey, I saw you with Jacky Boy, over there," Blink started winking conspiratorially at me.
"Nothing is going on Blink. I despise the man, you should know that, anyone who puts my family down automatically gets put on my black list!" I said.
"Unless they are your family," a female voice said from the lobby side of the counter.
"Well, naturally you don't count, Dodge," I said with a smirk.
"I go away for a semester and I don't count anymore eh?" she laughed.
"Nope"
"Hello, I'm Riley," she said holding her hand out to Blink who was dumbstruck.
"Helloo…Blink? Earth to Kid Blink!" I said waving my hand in front of his eye. He stood there frozen to the spot.
"Is he okay?"
"I think so, anyway, Dodge, the name of your personal statue is Kid Blink, or just plain Blink."
"Yeah, yeah what she said," He said still in a daze.
"So now you speak," I quipped.
"Uh-huh"
"Whatever Blink. So Dodger, what are you doing here when you could be home sleeping?"
"Meh, just thought I'd say hi to everyone."
"Well, go right ahead, I get off in two hours, so come by and we'll go shopping or something like that," I said.
"Sounds good," She replied as she turned and walked away.
"Wow" Blink said as soon as she left.
"Dude, we're twins, you see me, you see her, and yet you never have wowed me!" I said playfully.
"That's because I see you every day!"
"Yeah, whatever!" I said as a customer walked up to the counter to check in. I ran him through the process and at the last little bit; he started to hit on me.
"Hey toots, whaddya say you an' me go get some dinner sometime?" he asked his words dripping with lust as his eyes flicked over me from top to bottom before settling on my butt.
"Mr. Delancy, let's just say that a snowflake in hell has a better chance than me having dinner with you," I replied, I really hated it when slime tried to get on my good side.
"Look here, ya don't know who ya messin with, toots. No one says no to Morris Delancy."
"Oh, well then I guess I'm no one, because I just said no."
"Ya know, my mother told me once that when a girl says no she really means yes," He sneered.
"Angel is there a problem?" Blink asked stepping in to rescue me.
"No, Blink, this gentlemen was just leaving," I said setting my jaw and crossing my arms over my chest, just in case the scumbag got any bright ideas.
"Yeah, I was just leavin." He said as he turned and walked toward the elevators.
"UGH" I shuddered as soon as they were out of sight.
"You can say that again."
"I'm so glad I only work Saturdays," I said shivering with disgust. "I'm glad you were here though Blink."
"Yeah, I'm glad your dad doesn't make you work the counter alone," He said keeping a look out for Morris Delancy. For the next two hours, I was unusually jumpy; someone would ask me a simple question and I would be ready to pull the hotel's stun gun on them. Finally I was off, and I could leave the cares of work behind me. Dodger, Spot, Spades and I all piled into my car and headed for home so that I could get a shower and we could drop off Spot and Spades, since Spot had another study session with Ace and Spades and Skittery had a date. About an hour later, we were at the mall getting some Christmas shopping done and just having sister bonding time when Dodger leaned over to me and whispered something in my ear.
"Do you know that guy following us?" she asked.
"What guy?"
"The one standing behind you," she said grabbing my arm so that I didn't turn around, "Act like you stretching your back out or something," I did that and lo and behold who was standing there, none other than Morris Delancy.
"What part of no does that man not understand?" I asked.
"Then you do know him?"
"More recognize, he tried to hit on me at the hotel earlier and I turned him down flat…he must be one of those people that thinks that no woman has a right to turn him down," I said with disgust.
"Must be."
"Come on let's go!" I said grabbing my keys. We turned to walk back out to the car and ran almost smack dab into Blink and Jack.
"Hey, Angel and Riley!" Blink said.
"Actually, everyone calls me Dodger," Riley told him.
"Dodger interesting! What're the two of you doing here?" he asked.
"Oh you know, getting some Christmas shopping in, but we were about to leave," I said in a hurry, that Morris guy was giving me the creeps.
"Well, before you leave, do you want to grab a bite to eat?" Blink asked Dodger.
"I'd love to," She replied as Blink held out his arm and the two of them walked toward the food court.
"I don't believe this!" I moaned.
"Believe what?" Jack asked.
"The ONE time I really need to go, she gets a date!"
"Why do you need to go so soon?"
"See that creepy guy over there?" I asked. Jack turned and looked.
"Yeah."
"Well, he tried to hit on me earlier today, I turned him down and now he's stalking me!"
"Eek, that's not good," He said.
"No, it's not. I should go catch up to my sister, before he tries to attack me," I said looking back at Morris again and shuddering.
"Yeah, you should get out of here. I'll tell Blink why."
"Y-you're helping me?"
"Yeah, what of it?"
"Nothing, just after the way I've been treating you, I'm surprised."
"Meh, you were acting out of defense for your brother."
"Yeah, sorry about giving you that black eye," I apologized.
"Eh, not a big deal, I've had worse."
"And I'm sorry for being so rude," I gave a nervous chuckle.
"Think nothing of it! C'mon you need to get your sister and get out of here."
"Ok" Had I just had a conversation with Jack Kelly, whom I had made enemies with not a week ago? I was a little confused by my actions, but pushed them out of my head before I started talking to myself. We found Riley and Blink talking away at the food court when I rushed up and told her we needed to go.
"Why?"
"Dodge, don't tell me you forgot?" I asked.
"No"
"The party, remember?" I said jerking my head toward the door.
"Oh, yeah, that…I guess I did forget?" she said haltingly.
"Sorry, Blink I hate to do this to you, but we've got to go!" I said hoping that he saw the sincere apology in my eyes.
"We'll have to do dis again some other time, Dodger," Blink said.
"Yeah, call me," She said flashing him a smile.
"Actually, Blink, maybe we should go too," Jack said looking past me.
"Jacky boy, we just got here."
"I just remembered, I left my wallet out in the car," Jack told Blink with a voice that said that wasn't what had happened.
"Oh, yeah, let's go get it then Cowboy," Blink replied standing up. They walked with us out to my car, where we got in and they stood watching us leave. Once we were on the road Dodger asked me just what the heck I was doing.
"What the heck were you just doing?"
"Dodge, you know that guy who was following us? Well he started inching closer after you and Blink so conveniently disappeared."
"What was the big deal; you could have just come and found us."
"I don't know, but something wasn't quite right about the whole thing, all I want to do is get home," I said pulling onto the freeway and hot tailing our way home. I pulled into my driveway threw the emergency brake on and ran inside to get a shower and wash off the grit from having that scumbag's eyes on me. A very confused looking Bumlets stopped me just inside the door.
"Can I help you?" I asked impatiently.
"Uh, my parent's left town for a week and supposedly made arrangements for me to stay here." He said.
"ARGH! I really don't need this right now!" I growled, usually when kids got dropped off at our house I was stuck with babysitting.
"I-I have a note," He said handing me a piece of paper. I opened it to see a hand scrawled note that had not been written by a parent because it read, "Help me…:("
"Riley, this is Bumlets, he's our friend Mouse's boyfriend and apparently staying here for the week, can you look after him, I need a hot, and I mean scalding hot shower!" I said dropping my bags and racing upstairs before she could say no.
"Um, hi, I'm Riley, you're Bumlets right?" I heard her say as I shot up the staircase, nothing was going to get between my shower and me. I raced to my room and plowed into Spot and Ace who were walking across the hallway. I went flying as usual and we all landed in a heap on the floor.
"Sorrygottagobye" I said as I continued running to my room.
"Nice to see you too Angel!" Spot yelled after me. I answered him with the slam of my door as I locked it and ran into the bathroom and the welcoming sound of running water.
About an hour later I emerged from my purifying shower only to see that we had acquired more people. Mush and Media had shown up along with Mouse. Dodger was in the kitchen attempting to cook for everyone and failing miserably. Let's just say out of the two of us, I got the culinary skills. I got down and when Dodger saw me, she solidified why we called her Dodger; she left and could not be found for the rest of the evening. I took whatever she was trying to cook off the stove and ordered pizza before settling into the living room to relax with my family and friends. I sighed a breath of relief before Media leaned over and started talking to me.
"Aw Acorn, so good to see that you're relaxing!" she said with an evil glint in her eye.
"NOOOOOOOO…. no tickle fight…" I whined, I was tired and didn't feel like putting up with it.
"I got her!" Mush said, as he and Media started in a tickle fight of their own. It was nice to see someone else try to fend her off for once. Of course not too long after that the tickle fight turned into a full make out session between the two of them. I ignored it for a little bit just letting them enjoy themselves, but after a few minutes I couldn't resist the urge to yell something.
"SOMEONE GET THE POPCORN, MEDIA AND MUSH ARE MAKING OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FLOOR!" I yelled, not expecting anything much to happen. Next thing I knew footsteps were pounding down the staircase as Spot rushed in.
"Did I miss anything?" he asked as Ace walked up behind him. Media broke the kiss with Mush and grabbed a pillow to hurl at my head when Mush grabbed her and they started making out again.
"EW make it stop!" Mouse yelled from her position on the couch. Mush broke the kiss with Media, a blush creeping into her cheeks.
"I forgot there were children present," He said as he helped Media up off the floor.
"And there goes tonight's entertainment," I mumbled.
"What was that Acorn?" Media asked.
"Oh nothing, nothing at all," I said innocently.
"Whatever," she replied giving me a one-more-peep-and-I'm-gonna-tickle-you look. After that the evening wore on. I was more relaxed when my parents got home; apparently they had been at a Christmas party all evening and got home late. Shortly before they arrived Skittery and Spades got back from their date and settled into the living room with the rest of us playing Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit, which trying to beat me at that game is like trying to beat Spades at poker; it can be done it's just really hard to do so. And so after an "eventful" night of chilling with my friends and family, I headed up to bed and ended another day.