Hey everyone, another chapter...they are going to be a little more regular now bc we have the end written and I have a bunch saved up bc me and Ducky can't write over the break until Jan 8...so we wrote a bunch so you all wouldn't be without the strory...um...like I said we have the end written but have already begun on the sequel...and I am currently closing the casting call...if it opens up again I'll let you know and when we start on the horror story I'll most likely have one for that...um...yeah so enjoy...and keep an eye out for the sequel Newsies Legacy! Coming in January
Thankyou's- Bugle Girl, Mouse, Dodger, and Spades...thanks my ever faithful readers
Ducky...who just plain rocks!!!
Homeward Bound
I wish I was Homeward Bound
Home where my thought's escapin
Home where my music's playin
Home where my love lies waiting silently for me
I woke up the next morning to hear the others up and awake downstairs.
"That's gross Spot." Dodger said.
"It's true!" He replied.
"Yeah da beahs crapped out dere." Blink said.
"You guys are gross!" Ace said.
"It's not like we'se touchin it!" Jack said.
"Yeah but the way you guys are talking about it you might as well!"
"It's a huge pile of crap!" Mush said.
"That doesn't mean you have to talk about it forever!"
"We'se haven't been talkin bout it fohevah!" Spot countered.
"No just the past half hour!"
"Well it went right in da path, so someone's gonna hafta move it!" Jack said.
"Feel free." Dodger said.
"Why don't you go Dodge?" I asked walking in.
"Ew, no!"
"Hehe." I laughed sleepily.
"No, but it is right in da path." Blink said.
"So grab a shovel." I said.
"We don't know where the shovel is." Mush pointed out.
"Well, do we have cardboard or a sheet of metal or a thick plastic bag?"
"There's cardboard boxes in the attic." Mush says.
"Anyone got a knife or a box cutter?"
"Angel, deres a kitchen full a knives." Jack said.
"I just woke up leave me alone, besides if you use kitchen knives on cardboard it dulls them."
"Why would we bring knives up heah wid us when we came ta relax?" Spot asked.
"Because, you never know what might happen and I would have thought that someone would have been prepared. Anyway whatever, Mush will you get a box down for me and will someone else please find me a thick plastic bag?" I asked.
"Ok." Mush said going to the attic. I got up to leave a second later.
"Where're ya goin Angel?" Spot asked.
"To get dressed, since apparently no one else is going to pick up the pile of crap I will but I'm not going out in my pjs."
"Aight."
I went upstairs to get dressed and emerged a short time later ready to face the oh-so-dangerous pile of crap. I heard a loud thud and something crashing in the attic. I walked over to the entrance and called up to Mush.
"You okay up there?"
"Freakin box! I'm fine!"
"I got scared, I heard a thud!"
"Yeah that was me, sorry."
"Did you trip over something?"
"You could call it that. Incoming!" he said sending a box down my way.
"Thank you Mush." I said grabbing the box and heading downstairs.
"One of you guys needs to be a man so that we don't have to pick up the crap." Ace said.
"I'se da one who almost stepped in it, I ain't pickin it up." Blink said.
"I ain't pickin up da crap of an animal dat almost had me foh a midnight snack!" Jack said.
"Ironic, seeing as how I was in the same boat and I'm picking it up." I said walking in with everyone else.
"Dat's cause ya like ta fix problems." Spot said.
"Or you're just a wimp."
"I ain't a wimp."
"Then go and pick it up."
"Just because I don't wanna pick up sumptin dat came out of a beah's butt, don't mean dat I'se a wimp."
"You really think that I want to?"
"No,"
"And yet I am."
"Ya don't have to."
"But who will if I don't? None of you boys will and I'm sure that the only girl here who would is Media whom I have seen neither hide nor hair of since I woke up."
"So she's sleepin?"
"I don't know ask her fiancé"
"Mush is she sleepin?"
"Why?
"So we can wake hah up and she can get da crap."
"Let her be."
"My point is, no one else is going to do it." I said.
"How are you gonna get it?" Mush asked.
"You see the cardboard and the bag? I'm going to use the cardboard to scoop the crap into the bag."
"Aw heck I can do dat." Jack said.
"You're actually going to?" I asked for a moment not believing that he would.
"He will." Mush said smiling at him.
"Yeah I'se got it Angel." Jack said.
"Oh, well thank you Jack." I said pleasantly surprised.
"Not a problem." He said taking the things from me and heading out the door.
"I was not expecting that." I said.
"No one was." Dodger said.
"I figured the way you were all arguing."
"So what are we doing now?" Ace asked.
"Well, we could go sledding again." Dodger suggested.
"I actually kinda miss Spades and Skittery." I said.
"Yeah don't ya classes staht soon?" Blink asked.
"Yeah they start next week." I said.
"Mine too." Dodger said sadly.
"So ya hafta leave?" Blink asked.
"Yeah, you can always come and visit me though."
"I tink I will."
"But we should probably head home." I said somewhat reluctantly.
"Oo, food!" Spot said from somewhere in the kitchen.
"Ya gotta heat it up first!" Mush said.
"Dere's nothing wrong with cold pizza!"
"Where did pizza come from?" Jack asked rushing in from the cold before everyone ate all the pizza.
"Wash your hands!" Dodger yelled.
"I was about to." He said.
"Come join the cold pizza for breakfast group." I said patting a spot on the floor next to me.
"Ya sound like a group invite on Facebook." Jack said sitting down.
"Haha, but you still love me." I said my mouth full of pizza.
"Yeah, dat I do."
"Awwww, they love each other!" Ace squealed. I felt my cheeks flush with embarrassment, because I had actually forgotten how much they like to tease me.
"Awwww…she's blushing." Dodger said, causing me to blush even more.
"Because you're embarrassing her." Mush said.
"No, Jack makes her blush!" Ace said.
"Guys, please stop." I said somewhat quietly for me. They continued teasing me until I couldn't take it any longer and I abruptly stood up and went upstairs.
"You know what you have to do." Mush said looking at Jack.
"Yeah, I'se just scahed to."
"Just talk to them."
"Oy, heya guys, if ya don't mind would ya please stop teasin Angel about stuff dat she says or dat I say ta hah?" Jack asked Dodger and Ace.
"We're just playing." Dodger said.
"Well obviously she doesn't think so."
"Yeah she does!" Ace said.
"Den why does she run outta da room every time ya staht?"
"Because she's being overdramatic?"
"I don't tink ya can fake a blush dat deep."
"Good point."
"So ya gonna lay off?"
"We'll try."
"Tank ya." After a long pause, Mush kicked Jack in the shin and nodded to the stairs. Jack hastily got up and headed to the stairs before Mush kicked him again. Jack knocked on the door.
"Angel, ya okay?"
"I'm fine, go away!" I growled.
"I'se been getting dat a lot lately."
"I don't care!"
"Ah ya decent?"
"Don't you dare open that door!"
"What was dat?" Jack said opening the door.
"Never mind."
"If ya really wanted me ta stay out, ya woulda locked da dooh."
"Maybe next time I will."
"I don't tink dere'll be a next time."
"Why not, because unless by some miracle of God my sister and Ace decide to stop, there will most definitely be a next time."
"People can change."
"Yeah but when they have so much fun teasing other people, it's hard for them to." I said punching a pillow.
"I tink if dey was awah dat it annoyed ya so much den dey'd stop doin it."
"Yeah, maybe, but they all think it's hilarious."
"Regahdless of what dey tink, ah ya okay?"
"Yeah, just annoyed."
"Ya cute when ya blush."
"I'm glad someone thinks so." I said sarcastically.
"Just let it go, I don't tink it'll happen again."
"If you say so."
"I do." I shook my head and smiled. "What?"
"I don't know, you just, you have a way of getting me to smile even when I don't want to."
"Dat's a good ting."
"So did you mean what you said down there?"
"About me not wanting ta touch da crap, heck yeah."
"No, when I said that's why you love me and you said that yeah it was."
"Well dat ain't da only reason."
"Oh really?"
"What ya want me ta make ya a list?"
"It'd be nice." I said playin with him.
"Well I don't have a pen or paper on me."
"But you have a voice."
"Aight. Ya know guys don't really like havin ta shah, but whatevah."
"Get used to it."
"I am. Okay, ya smaht, ya got spirit, ya beautiful, and ya kinda weiahd."
"Oh is that all?" I asked sarcastically as I smiled.
"And ya know how ta cook."
"I thank thee kind sir." I said doing a deep curtsy.
"No problem fah maiden." He said bowing.
"Wow, don't tell anyone that just happened." I said laughing.
"Dis is what happens when theatah kids get tageddah."
"AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" I heard Media shriek from her room.
"What the san juan hill just happened?" I asked running out into the hall.
"EW!!" Media said running to the end of the hall and slamming her door shut.
"Media, what happened?" I shouted through the closed door.
"NASTY THING IN THE ATTIC!"
"What was in the attic?"
"What's going on?" Mush said rushing upstairs.
"I don't know, we heard a shriek and she ran by and slammed the door talking about something nasty in the attic."
"Media what's in the attic?" Mush asked. She slowly opened the door and poked her head out in the hallway before coming out.
"You may not think that it was scary but it was."
"Not if you don't tell us love." I said.
"There's a rat in the attic!"
"Ew!"
"Yah, it was by my face and could have eaten me."
"Med, it was dead." Mush said.
"How do you know?"
"Because I killed it and haven't thrown the body out yet."
"Is that what you tripped over earlier?" I asked.
"No, I tripped while chasing it."
"Ew."
"Why were you in the attic?"
"He was getting a box so that we could get the bear crap out of the path." I said.
"Why was ya in da attic?" Jack asked.
"Because it's my attic."
"And you'll do what you want to." I started to sing.
"Please stop." Mush pleaded.
"Fine, since no one appreciates a good song anymore." I said feigning hurt.
"Jack, you have sauce on your face." Media laughed.
"I do, where?"
"Right there." I said kissing it off.
"Clearly you found the pizza."
"Yeah I saved you a slice." I said.
"Actually, Spot ate it." Mush said.
"It's okay, I don't like peppers on my pizza anyway."
"How do ya know it had peppahs on it anyway?"
"Because I made it last night, I knew you guys would be hungry."
"You made pizza last night?" I asked.
"It was a frozen one, I tossed it in the oven and then put it in the fridge."
"And pie." Jack said.
"Really?" Mush said.
"Yes, I hid it downstairs so Spot wouldn't eat it."
"How did you know she made pie?" I asked Jack.
"Da smell woke me up."
"Oh."
"Yep," Mush said looking at Jack like he knew something.
"What?" Jack asked.
"Nothing."
"Da way ya said yep, makes me tink it was sumptin."
"It's nothing you need to get your hands dirty about." Media said tapping her wrists.
"Oh." Jack said.
"I'm lost!" I cried.
"It's okay Jack. And you're in Michigan." Mush told me.
"I knew that!" I said, "I meant the conversation."
"It's okay, you're still waking up." Media said.
"Is it my fault my brain is stubborn?"
"Ya brain ain't da only ting dat's stubborn!" Jack said laughing.
"Anyway, you okay Media?" I asked turning back to her.
"Yeah, just as long as the rat gets thrown out of the attic."
"I'll get right on that." Mush said.
"Thank you."
"You, we need to have a little talk." I told Jack.
"What did I do?"
"Nothing, just explaining."
"Explain what?" Media intervened.
"What exactly the three of you were talking about just now."
"Pie."
"No duh."
"That's what we were talking about."
"It seems to a certain Acorn, that there was something that you weren't telling me."
"Perhaps the nut has become nutty."
"Media," Jack said.
"What?"
"What did we talk about last night?"
"Pie."
"STOP IT WITH THE PIE ALREADY!" I exclaimed.
"I can tell you just woke up."
"JUST TELL ME WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT LAST NIGHT!!!!!"
"Ok, first off, I'm gonna need you to stop yelling. And secondly, technically I don't have to tell you."
"Ya doin it again." Jack said.
"I'm not gonna change overnight."
"Yeah but ya ain't even tryin ta change."
"How do you know?"
"Cause a da conversation we'se havin."
"This is why I was staying in my room!"
"Oy, whatever!" I said walking back to my room.
"Told you Jack." Media said turning to go back in her room.
"Wait a minute!"
"WHAT?!" I snapped.
"Just hold on."
"GRRRRRR!!!!!"
"And Media."
"What?"
"Angel come heah."
"Why?"
"Please just do it."
"Okay geez, don't throw a cow!"
"Goils."
"Okay I'm here what now?"
"Media what's dat outside ya window?" Jack said pointing in her room. Her and I both looked at the room to see what he was talking about and he pushed us in.
"Jack what are you doing?" Media asked.
"I'se hold da dooh shut until ya two talk." He said holding the door firmly in place.
"JACK KELLY LET ME OUT!!!!!" I said banging on the door.
"It won't budge, the hinges are good." Media said.
"YOU'RE A DEAD MAN!"
"Whatevah!"
"So it doesn't look like we're going anywhere anytime soon." I said sitting on the floor.
"Not unless you want to jump off a two story building."
"Not really, I'd like to stay alive a little longer."
"Good to know."
"So why did he shove us in here?"
"Because, he thinks we need to talk or something."
"Do we?"
"Um, if you want to."
"Sure, we've got nothing better to do."
"Ouch."
"Well, we're both stuck in here so what else would we do?"
"Okay."
"So what are we supposedly needing to talk about?"
"Last night, which I don't get, because I already talked about last night."
"Huh?"
"Jack wouldn't leave me alone so I had to talk to him."
"Sounds like someone else I know." I smiled.
"I don't provoke people to hit me though."
"Your fiancé does."
"What?"
"That night that you and everyone came downstairs and Mush was standing over me…yeah he pestered me until I got really mad and tried to hit him."
"I'm assuming he caught it."
"That's how I ended up on the coffee table."
"Jack has that charm about him as well."
"Yeah, I just haven't experienced it yet. So what did he pester you about?"
"My open maze of communication, or lack thereof."
"Oh, you mean the way you avoid telling people what's wrong?"
"Yes that would be the one."
"So did you figure anything out?"
"Aside from the fact Jack can run fast, yeah."
"Really, such as?"
"Like, I need to not be so hard on myself…."
"Anything else?"
"I just told you that which I usually never would and you ask me that?"
"Sorry, I am glad you said that but part of me thinks if we weren't trapped in here you wouldn't have."
"Shows what you know."
"Excuse me?"
"I was getting ready to tell you but you left! You turned your back and walked away."
"I thought you weren't going to open up because you never do! Or you usually don't so I was tired of begging you to talk to me!"
"I'M WORKING ON IT!"
"I can kinda see that now."
"A second ago you said you couldn't."
"Yeah but if you weren't trying you would have found away to get on the roof or something by now."
"Haha, that's true."
"I'm glad you told me though."
"I know."
"So, yeah."
"So, how are things with you?"
"Good."
"Just good?"
"Interesting…"
"What happened?"
"Well earlier, everyone was sitting downstairs eating pizza, I said something, and Jack said I was weird and I said that's why he loved me. And then he said yeah it is and of course everyone, well Dodger and Ace started pestering me."
"Wow, good thing I was up here."
"Why you would have killed them?"
"No, just beat the shit out of them."
"Yeah so I came up here and was really annoyed and pounding my pillow.."
"Which one?"
"Um, the fluffy one. What does that matter?"
"My grandma made the pillow case on it, don't ruin it!"
"I won't, anyway!"
"Sorry."
"So then Jack came up and he said it was going to be ok, and I asked him if that's what he meant when he said he loved me and then he gave me a list."
"A list?"
"Of reasons why he loved me."
"And?"
"He said because I'm smart, I have spirit, I'm beautiful, I'm weird and I can cook."
"Hehe."
"I feel special now."
"I'm glad you two are doing better."
"Me too. I had to stop denying that I loved him."
"And how does that make you feel?"
"Really good."
"Oh my gosh! You answered honestly!"
"Don't I usually?"
"Yeah, but usually there's an angry rant that goes along with it."
"Well I could start if you want."
"What would you rant about?"
"I don't know. I'm pretty happy."
"Bueno."
"so how does it feel to be engaged?"
"Wow, um I don't think it's hit me yet, I mean I know what it means but I don't feel that different yet."
"Are you supposed to feel different?"
"I dunno."
"We've never been engaged before, we don't know this stuff."
"I'll have to ask my mommy."
"Are you sure we can't just revert back to childhood?"
"Hmmm, no."
"I've also been thinking that I need to move out."
"I knew there was something else! Where to?"
"Just on my own so I stop sucking my parents dry."
"Ya know, half the time you buy the food."
"Yeah I know I just want to get out ya know."
"I hear you, but I'm stuck at home till Mush and I marry, unless I move in now, but that would look bad."
"Why are you stuck at home?"
"Because of college, I can't afford to be by myself, and honestly wouldn't want to."
"Same here."
"So what shall we do?"
"We live at home until we get married. Or find roommates."
"But it's hard to find good people to room with, I've heard horror stories about bad roomies, and not scary ones like bad roommate ones."
"Well we get along pretty good, and you practically live at my house."
"Hun I'm just wakin up, what's your point?"
"What if we room together?"
"Like until I marry and you mar- do what you will do?"
"Yeah."
"We so should!"
"We should."
"Where?"
"An apartment?"
"Wow, thank you captain obvious."
"Cheap ones."
"But not ghetto."
"Ew no."
"Ok, we'll go home searching when we get home, that sounds funny."
"It does. By the way when are we going home?"
"Naturally I would so in a few days, but since there's rats, we go tonight."
"You might want to go tell everybody so they can pack."
"Ah yes that would be wise."
"Jack you can let us out now." There was silence. "Jack?"
"Hey stink butt are you there?" After a moment Media and I opened the door to find Jack sleeping.
"That's your guy."
"Yeah, I know…."
"So lets wake him." Media smiled mischievously.
"That can be arranged." I whispered a mischievous glint growing strong in my eyes.
"Let's whitewash him!"
"How do we get him out without waking him up?"
"We bring the snow to him."
"Too messy and suspicious."
"So what?"
"I'm thinkin,"
"Let's mess with his hair!"
"Ok, what?"
"Like put twisties and bows and make it all girly and nasty!"
"Hehe, I like it. Go get your stuff and I'll get mine."
"I'm hoping you have more girly stuff than I do."
"Yeah, I've got ribbons at least and mousse/gel."
"That'll work."
"Hehe."
We toyed with his hair until it was sticky, twisty and full of pink ribbons. We then decided to use it as blackmail and took pictures.
"Aw, he's so cute when he sleeps." I said.
"He looks kinda scary with his hair like that!"
"Hehe, yeah but I meant his face looks sweet."
"It didn't look so sweet last night."
"What?"
"I swore at him and he got mad."
"And that did something to his face?"
"His expression was scary, I don't like it when people grab me, especially after creepy guy in the house."
"Oh you mean like this?" I said grabbing her waist.
"Wow, you're weird."
"And you've known me for how long?"
"Too long."
"Aye…but long enough to know your ticklish spot!" I said going after it.
"Ah, stop it!" she said tickling back.
"Hehe, stop!"
"You first dweeb!"
"Hehe, no you!"
"You're evil!"
"So are you!"
"Whoops, I stepped on him."
"OW!" Jack said bolting up.
"Morning starshine, the earth says hello!" Media said.
"Do you always say that when you wake someone up?" I asked.
"No, I said it when we came back from the alley that one night."
"I was preoccupied."
"With what?"
"Oh I don't know the giant cut on my brother's arm."
"Oh it's all about Spot."
"Yes exactly."
"I think it should be all about Jack."
"Hm, yes, I think you're right."
"With such a 'cute' face and great hair."
"Hehe, yeah…(snort) you're right." I said trying to keep the laughter in.
"What is wrong wid ya two?"
"There's nothing wrong with us, however, may I suggest that the next time you sleep out here, don't do it in the cobwebs!" Media laughed.
"What?"
"Go (laugh) look!" I said doubled over.
"Yeah, ya may not recognize the person looking back at you!" Media laughed.
"Foh some reason I don't trust da two a ya!" Jack said walking into the bathroom.
"I'm hurt Jack, you don't trust your own girlfriend?" I laughed.
"Wait for it." Media whispered.
"WHAT DA, OH GAH!!!!!" He yelled from the bathroom.
"And now we run back into your room!" I said dashing in and locking the door.
"I'SE GONNA KILL YA BOTH!"
"You wouldn't want to do that now love would you?"
"Why wouldn't I?"
"Because you love me…"
"And because we have pictures and we'll post them everywhere if you hurt us!"
"You wouldn't…"
"Wanna bet?"
"No."
"So are you going to hurt us?"
"I wasn't gonna hoit ya anyway!"
"You promise?"
"I promise!"
"Ok, we're coming out now." I said signaling Media to step behind me as I opened the door and stood out of the way letting Jack fall in.
"OW!" he said falling on the floor.
"Hehe."
"Watch your step Jackie Boy."
"Now dat I wil get ya foh!"
"What if I promise to help you get all of that stuff out of your hair before you go downstairs?" I asked.
"Angel."
"Yes love?"
"Ya owe me."
"I know."
"Aight so get it out!"
"We have to go to the bathroom trust me we're gonna need shampoo!"
"We're gonna need a toothpick, right Jack?"
"What?" I asked.
"I meant ice pick."
"Jack what did you say about a toothpick last night?" I asked.
"Just da truth."
"Which was?"
"Aight, I said dat tryin ta get info outta Media was like tryin ta climb Mt. Everest wid a toothpick!"
"Hehe, I said it was like tryin to get meat out of the armature of a crab."
"Haha, keep it up and you'll be fixin his hair yourself!"
"All right, I'll stop." I smiled.
So for the next hour, we tried in vain to get Jack's hair back to normal.
"We're gonna have to cut some of it!" Media whispered.
"How much?"
"It'd just be like a trim."
"Don't you come neah me wid scissors!"
"Jack do you want your hair back to normal?"
"It won't be nohmal if ya come neah me wid dem!"
"Yes it will, just a little shorter."
"Yeah, this way the bangs won't hang in your eyes."
"I like his bangs." I said.
"He'll still have them they'll just be a little shorter."
"Aight just don't cut me!"
"Which is why Media's doing it!"
"Should I be scahed?"
"Please, I've cut Spot's hair a million times."
"Really?"
"Yah when my mom doesn't have time, Media does it…I have a tendency not to cut in a straight line."
"Yeah Spades found out the hard way."
"Yeah…I was trying to cut it shoulder length and I had gotten it wet because that's what my mom does so it started drying and getting shorter until one side was at shoulder length and the other one was at her chin."
"And that is why Acorn did not go to cosmetology school."
"Indeed."
"I dunno, maybe ya should have."
"Hahah, nice one."
"You know what, give me the scissors." I said grabbing scissors.
"Don't play with pointy objects!"
"Especially neah me head!
"Yeah Jack has enough problems!"
"Hehe."
"Ya two ah da devil!"
"No, I'm the devil's pixie dust fairy!" Media said.
"It's funny cause it's true!"
"Ya know I don't tink da two a yas ah mentally stable enough ta be playin wid scissors!"
"Watch out Jack love, we hold your hair's fate in our hands." I cackled.
"Are you scared yet?" Media asked coming toward him with the scissors.
"As a mattah a fact…" Jack mumbled.
"We're just playin with ya love."
"Now don't move, I'm going to start cutting."
"Aight." Jack gulped.
Twenty minutest later, Media was done.
"Viola!" She declared.
"Do I wanna look at it?"
"What do you think Acorn?"
"Well, I think…it looks fine."
"Dat wasn't very convincing."
"I know, I did that on purpose. Hehe."
"Just get off your butt and look in the mirror!"
"Ya so pushy!" Jack said standing up and looking in the mirror.
"Well?"
"I thought ya said ya was gonna cut it."
"No, I said trim."
"And dat would be why I don't notice anyting different."
"See how good she is!" I told him.
"Thank you, Thank you!" Media said bowing.
"Dat aint bad Media."
"And you were acting like such a girl at the beginning!"
"I don't trust many people wid me haih."
"We've noticed."
"But now, hunger beckons."
"Aye lassie that it does." I said leaving the bathroom.
"Whad ah we gonna eat?"
"I'm not sure love."
"We'll find something."
"Like pie?"
"Oh crap! Mush is gonna be itching for that by now!"
"If he hasn't already dug in!"
"He better save some for me!"
"Well go then!"
"I'm gone!"
"Sometimes I wondah about da two a yas."
"And sometimes we wonder about you."
"Whad did I do?"
"Oh you know…you're just weird sometimes."
"It happens!"
"Yeah I'm living proof!"
"Yeah ya wanna go eat?"
"Um, yeah, so long as no one makes fun of me."
"Dey won't."
"I'm holding you personally responsible for that."
"And I'se holdin Mush responsible foh it too!"
"What does Mush have to do with it?"
"He uh, just gave me some advice."
"Like?"
"Like not usin violence everytime deres a problem."
"Anything else?"
"Uhm, ta not be in a hurry."
"Over what?"
"Life."
"Ah, I see."
"So did you an Media have a nice talk?"
"Yeah actually, we uh decided that we're both gonna move out."
"Move out wheah?"
"On our own."
"On ya own wheah?"
"In Dallas."
"Could ya be a bit moh specific?"
"We don't know yet! Probably somewhere near our school!"
"Where's ya school?"
"It's on the corner of Frankfort!"
"Oh, okay."
"Why do wanna know?"
"I wanna know where I can visit me goilfriend."
"Uh huh, is that all?"
"And visit Media?"
"Haha," I laughed.
"Ah, I need food."
"Come on ya walkin stomach you!"
"But at least I ain't da biggest one in da woild!"
"No, that would be the bear."
"I was talkin bout Spot."
"Yeah, I swear he could eat his own weight in one sitting!"
"I wouldn't give him da idea, he may just."
"Yeah, in fact I think he did once."
"Ah ya serious?"
"Well he was younger so yah."
"Wow, him and Pie Eatah would've gotten along great."
"Who?"
"Ona da guys from New Yawk."
"Pie Eater?"
"Den again, he'd get along bettah wid Mush."
"Cute."
"I know."
"You are such a dork!"
"Whatevah hobbit."
"Short people rock!"
"And roll?"
"No, just rock." I smiled.
"Ya roll around when ya tryin ta get away from Media attackin ya!"
"You do too!" I said tickling his neck.
"Ah ya evil!"
"No I'm not."
"What we're leaving at night?" Dodger said as we entered the room.
"Is that a problem?" Media asked her.
"Well, I'd just prefer not driving in the ice at night but whatever."
"But the ice is going to be slick whether it's day or night."
"Yeah."
"And if you think about it," I added. "Night is better because you can't see the cliffs."
"Don't tell hah dat!" Blink said.
"A better reason for going at night is that there will be less traffic." Mush said.
"Dat's true. Den we can go fast!" Spot smiled.
"Should I fear for my life?" Ace asked..
"Um,yes." I told her before dodging the pillow Spot threw at me. "Hey it missed me!"
"Not this one!" Dodger laughed as she pelted me with another pillow.
"PILLOW FIGHT!!!" Ace yelled.
"STOP!" Media warned.
"Why?" Jack asked.
"Because it's not our house and I'll be murdered if anything gets messed up."
"But, dere pillahs." Spot said inching his way closer to Jack.
"Umm, don't break anything!" Media laughed as she hit Blink with one, causing chaos to break loose.
"Ow!" Jack exclaimed as Spot hit him in the head with one. "Ya little punk!"
"Heheh." Spot laughed as Jack tackled him on the couch and the two began to wrestle. At first I thought they where fighting but I then noticed they were both smiling.
"Eek, Angel!" Ace complained after I hit her with my pillow.
"Finally." Mush smirked.
"Haha! The Angel Stikes!!!!" I said standing victoriously on the couch.
"Get her!" Dodger yelled.
"Watch the head!" I yelled as everyone ran after me.
"Haha, that's what you get!" Media laughed.
"No fair! I always get hit and the ONE time I get someone else, you all gang up on me."
"Stop whining." Mush teased. I grabbed a pillow and threw it at him, missing by a mile.
"And dat's why Angel aint in sports." Spot said.
"I was good with a softball!"
"And cheerleading!" Dodger said in an overly peppy voice.
"I warned you never to speak of that dark time." I said pulling a dramatic faint.
"Yes! More leg room in the car." Mush said before sitting on me.
"Ugh, Mush get off of me!" I said hitting his back.
"Why does it mattah ta you, ya ain't stuck in da back wid hah!" Jack said.
"She kept kicking the seat!" Mush said smothering me into the couch.
"She was layin on me!"
"I didn't hear you complaining!" I said still trying to get Mush off of me.
"Aright babe, she might rip one of your stitches, get off her." Media said pulling on his arm.
"Thank you Media!" I said.
"I'm not off you yet." Mush said staying put and pulling Media on his lap creating more pressure on me.
"Gah, why'd you do that Mush?!"
"It seemed like a good idea at the time!" Mush laughed.
"How about now!" Media said as she began to tickle Mush making him dig backwards trying to get away again making more weight for me to deal with.
"Media you just made it worse!!!"
"After awhile he'll give up."
"In the meantime, I can't BREATHE!!!!!"
"Baby stop it!" Mush laughed.
"Get off her and I will."
"Ah, fine now knock it off crazy!"
"Was that so hard?" Media asked as she got off him.
"Okay breathing is easier but could be better!!!" I scoffed from underneath Mush.
"What was dat Angel?" Spot mocked.
"Mush please get off her or I'll let Spot eat the pie." Media said walking into the kitchen, Mush launched off me squishing my leg in the process and followed Media.
"OW!" I exclaimed.
"Whad happened ta ya now?" Jack asked running over.
"My knee!!!!"
"Whad's wrong wid ya knee?"
"Mush squished it when he got up!"
"How bad?"
"Bad…it hurts, really bad!!!!"
"Media we need the first aid kit!" Dodger called.
"Why?"
"Angel hurt her knee!"
"It's in the bathroom!"
"Why can't you get it?"
"She's busy." Mush answered.
"EWWWW, we eat in there!"
"Not like that you dweeb!"
"Come on Angel, I'll carry ya up dere, since, well, yeah."
"Whatever, just don't make me move it!" It looked like Dodger was getting ready to say something, but she refrained. Jack picked me up and carried me upstairs to our room while he got the first aid kit from the bathroom. I then heard Spot and Ace go in their room talking about packing. Once Jack came back I mentioned that we might want to start.
"Yeah, let me get ya knee wrapped."
"Okay."
"I wondah, how many of us can be injahed at da same time."
"Yeah, it seems like we've all been injured this week." I laughed.
"Yeah…dangah seems ta follow us, don't it?"
"Unfortunately."
"Yeah but we can take it."
"I hope so."
"Whad else can happen?"
"Well, someone could die…or become paralyzed, loose a limb."
"We aint at wah Angel."
"It feels that way sometimes, like it's me against the rest of the world…like I'm the only thing standing between impending doom and the people I love…like I go up to the front line and everyone else decides it's time for a break."
"Ya know dat aint true, da group ya hang wid would nevah desoht ya, and neiddah would I."
"Thanks." I said. "I appreciate it."
"It's da truth, and now ya leg is bettah, well wrapped anyway."
"Well thank you. Now we need to pack!"
"Yeah befoh anuddah rat pops up."
"That was funny, though not as funny as us putting all of that stuff in your hair."
"Yeah laugh it up shohty."
"See though, now I have the power, I have pictures and I will post them everywhere if I need to." I smiled mischievously.
"An whad is it I would do dat would cause ya ta to dat?"
"Callin me shorty again."
"It's a nickname!"
"Haha, no!"
"Aight, I'll tink of sumptin else."
"Thank you."
"Ya welcome, sh-sweetie."
"Close call."
"Ya can say dat again!"
"Close call"
"Ya do realize it's just an expression, ya don't actually hafta."
"And I thought you were so serious!"
"Shut up."
"You love me you know it!"
"Yeah yeah, and ya love me?"
"You actually have to ask?"
"It's comfohtin ta heah it."
"Then yes I do love you…a lot!"
"Aight, lets get packin." We spent the rest of the afternoon packing for the trip home.
"I don't wanna go back to class!!!" I whined as I threw my stuff in Media's trunk.
"Um, we can't go yet." Media said looking around.
"Why not?"
"I still haven't found my shoe…"
"I'll buy you a new pair let's go!" Mush said as the other car was already loaded and waiting for us.
"Ok, so everything is locked?'
"Yes." I answered hoping she wouldn't run through a whole list.
"And the sleds are takin care of?"
"Yes." Mush said flatly.
"Right and the windows are good, curtains pulled, snow mobile is locked up?"
"Yes Media can we go?!" Jack complained.
"Alright you impatient bunch of punks!" She said getting in the drivers seat.
"We still have to eat before we hit the highway." Mush said as we pulled out of the driveway.
"Oh, I forgot about that." Media said.
"I'll call the other car and tell them we need to eat before we get on the highway." I said pulling out my phone.
"Hey Dodger, Media and Mush are sayin we need to eat before we get on the highway."
"Yeah we were thinking that too." She replied.
"So um…call when you guys get hungry."
"Or if you guys decide to stop first."
"All right. Byes." I said hanging up the phone.
"What did they say?" Media asked.
"That they'll call if they get hungry before we decide to stop."
"Last time we was in heah dere was a beah outside." Jack said.
"Ugh…don't remind me." I shuddered.
"Jack thought it was a dog. Hehe." Media laughed.
"All I saw was sumpin on fouh legs and eyes."
"That's just about every animal up here." Mush said.
"It was growlin, dat's why I tought it was a dog!"
"Spot's stomach growls like that." Media said.
"But Spot doesn't generally crawl around on all fours…in fact I don't think he's crawled since he learned how to walk." I said.
"Why would he crawl." Mush asked.
"I dunno, sometimes if I'm on the floor and don't feel like standing up I'll crawl."
"That doesn't help his defense."
"I know I'm just stating facts." We drove by a car with a fairly nerdy looking guy behind the wheel and Media started laughing hysterically.
"What is so funny?" I asked.
"Stop laughing while you're driving, the car is shaking!" Mush protested.
"You're pretty, hehe, it was so funny yet creepy!" Media laughed.
"Does anyone else know what she's talking about?" I asked confused.
"I told you guys."
"Uh, I hate to break it to ya Med, no ya didn't."
"Oh, okay I'll tell you now."
"Okay."
"It was the day that Mush was in the hospital. And you two were annoying me." Media said glaring at Jack and I in the mirror. "So I went to get everyone lunch. And there was this really weird nerdy guy hitting on me."
"Ew."
"Did ya get his license plate?" Mush asked.
"Oh he's not the one I'd want you to beat up, of course that one is in jail now."
"Oh da guy who jumped Ace." Jack said.
"Yeah, but no the guy at Quizno's he had a nasally voice and was like 'you're really pretty…' and then he had this freakishly weird laugh."
"Oh that snort that nerdy guys have."
"Yeah and then said he'd be my Han Solo because earlier he said I looked like Princess Leia."
"Wow…"
"Are ya sure I shouldn't get his plate?" Mush asked.
"No, he's just a creepy little nerd man."
"Yeah but ya tought dat da oddah one was just a joik an look what he did."
"Thanks a lot Jack."
"Anytime."
"Dork." I said smacking his arm.
"Why didn't you smack his head?" Media asked.
"I'm closer to his arm."
"I'll smack his head." Mush mumbled.
"No violence in my car." Media said.
"And not in public either." I said seeing an evil glint in Jack's eyes.
"Define public." Mush said.
"Public, anywhere where masses gather, public." I said.
"But a few people wouldn't be a mass."
"Just wait til we get home!" I said.
"Wait what is going on here?" Media asked sensing the tension.
"You said no violence in the car, and I said or in public since Jack got an evil glint in his eye, and then Mush said that a few people didn't count as public so I said wait til we get home before they beat the crap out of each other, even though that isn't a good idea just yet because both of them are in-" I said before Jack clamped his hand over my mouth.
"Thank you!" Mush exclaimed.
"OW!" Jack yelled when I bit him.
"That's what you get for clamping your hand over my mouth." I said triumphantly.
"You didn't bite me last night." Media said.
"That's because I knew you wouldn't leave it there."
"Media you're driving on the shoulder again." Mush stated.
"It's distracting."
"What are you going to have to take it off everytime you go driving?"
"Take what off?" I asked.
"My ring."
"Wow."
"She keeps looking at it and I have to keep grabbing the wheel so we don't crash!"
"Hehe." I laughed.
"You've been around Acorn too long."
"I have not!"
"Then why ah ya bein so dramatic?"
"Hey!" I said.
"Yeah, well when you get a ring on your finger you'll be walking around staring at it and walk into even more things." Media said.
"Note to self, not too shiny." Jack mumbled to himself.
"What was that Jack love?" I asked not hearing what he had said.
"Uh, Media look out an ahmadillo!" Jack yelled at the last second causing us to swerve madly to the right.
"AH!" I screamed.
"What, there are not armadillos up here you retard!" Media snapped.
"Den why did ya swoive?"
"Because I didn't know you were gonna be a little dork and lie!"
"Hehe" I giggled. We drove along and actually went on the highway only to take an exit two hours later to eat.