Chap. #3- Girl Talk/ Boy Talk
Squiby-J- I like the part with Rick and Sunny too, just a heads up though, they're not going to get together, if that's what you're hoping. He's her principal (ugh!). LOL
Nevermore the Raven- Thanks again for the spellings, keep it up! You remain my most critical reviewer! he! Oh ya, and I will explain about Nate too.
Summary so far- The whole gang has decided to fly to Hampstead to face the past once and for all.
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"Squib! Come on," Cody said to the bathroom door, " You spend more time in there than I do! Besides, this was your idea and we are going to miss the plane!".
"What? I'm ready," he said stepping out of the bathroom fully dressed and ready to go andsmiling smugly, "let's get going slow poke!".
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"And where have you two been?" Nate asked, his lisp now unusually present with the stress of the time and situation.
Cam smirked, "Squib finishing up the moose bottle no doubt,". Squib gave him a dirty look and put the keys in the ignition of the car. It was a promotional vehicle, the 15/Love logo on the side ( two tennis rackets put together to look like a heart and '15/Love' spelled out in minnie tennis balls on the net part of the picture). Rick and Sunny were meeting them at the nearest airport. From there, Hampstead was only hours away.
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"There you are!" Sunny said in her usual exasperated tone.
"Wow, Sunny! You've changed in a year!" Adena remarked impressed by the young tennis player. Her twelve your old figure had changed to a striking hour-glass shape, giving her a more womanish look, fitting the temper that was far beyond her years.
"I can still kick anyone of your assess any day of the week," she said smiling smugly at her old opponents.
"She's probably right," Rick laughed, " Her swing is faster that a cheetah with a bee sting!". Adena and Cody exchanged looks. Same old Rick!
Nate looked at Tanis and she looked back, "Um, we were just wondering," Tanis said cautiously, "Why are we getting these dreams?".
"Ya, we didn't even know these two. They died before our time at Cascadia," Nate finished.
"I've been thinking about that, It could be because of your ties to all of us. I mean, we are in love," Adena blushed slightly, "plus you were the first new things to come into our lives and maybe your ties to the rest of us could me ties to Megs and Sab,". A couple years ago, anyone of them probably would have said something to the fact that 'she had been thinking' because of her ditsy nature, but now, perhaps because of her new profession and education, Adena Styles' opinion was much more respected.
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They all sat beside each other in the row of eight seats in the middle column of upper class.
"Please fasten your seat belts. We will be departing for Hampstead momentarily," the stewardesses said over the load speaker.
All buckled safely in their seats, the gang each took the hand of the person next to them while the plane lifted off. Adena and Squib sat together in the middle holding tighter to each other than anybody. The two had miraculously managed to avoid getting on a plane since the death of their best friends. This was obviously the hardest for them out of everybody.
After a while they let go. All deciding that it most likely looked a bit foolish for grown men and women to be sitting on a plane with their eyes shut tight, holding each others hands.
Finally, the plane touched down in Hampstead.
"Everyone still in one piece?" Cody asked trying to lighten the mood as the walked out of the terminal. Nobody had talked the whole trip and they were all a bit tense.
Adena answered Cody, "I really think were are now," she said with a relieved air.
"Good!" Sunny said impatiently, "Now will somebody please take me shopping! Since 'President Rick' here hasn't let me off campus long enough to get my drivers licence I still need to car-pool with somebody. Besides, I'm starved!".
"Come on Sunny, let's see if we can find a mall around here and leave these boys to do what boys do best, we'll meet back here around five o-clock," Tanis said leading the girls away.
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"So guys, tell me what boys do!". Cameron, Rick and Squib looked at their journalist friend with a skeptic look of surprise. "Gimme a brake guys! I married the girlyest girl on the planet and all the time that I don't spend in her company, I spend writing for a nature magazine. I am a sheltered man!".
All laughed at his sorry truth went in search of a bar and a burger.
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"So, could anyone tell me about Megan and Sebastien?" Nate asked the rest of the table. They were sitting in a restaurant eating burgers (there were no good pubs or clubs open).
"You mean, Adena never talked about it?" Squib asked.
"Well, I got bits and pieces like that it was a plane crash and that her and Megan were best friends, but that's about it. I think it's still a little hard for her so I haven't really pushed the subject. Those tid-bits are from scattered conversations,".
"I know how she feels, Seb and I were best friends. But what do you want to know?". Squib saw the nervous look on Nate's face, "Don't worry, talking is how I got over it in the first place,".
"All right, then tell me the whole story, don't leave anything out. That's one of the reasons I came here in the first place," he answered.
"Okay, this could take a while, so get comfortable," Squib started. Cam and Rick leaned in as well. Not being part of group A, they, like Nate had only heard the main parts of the story. It was one that all three had been dying to hear for a very long time.
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"Not quite an Arnie's burger, but still a burger," Adena said biting in. Even though she was a physio therapist, Adena still played a bit of tennis, therefor eating very little junk food as a result. The funny thing was that, all though the gang had moved on to different stages in their life, whenever they wanted a burger, no one could quite satisfy the craving like Arney.
Cody laughed, taking a bite of her garden salad. Sometimes the old Adena still shone through, "When is the flight back home scheduled for?".
"Seven-thirty," Sunny answered, "President Rick cannot bare to be away from his precious school for more than a day! It's like his baby!".
"He has done a good job since Bates retired. Nobody can deny that!" Tanis reasoned.
"Has anyone heard what our old president has been up to lately?" Cody asked.
"Owns a tennis thymed restaurant now, 'The Gourmet Tennis Ball'!" Adena answered almost automatically. The three others at the table looked at their friend surprised. They would have thought her least likely of all of themto keep up with the news on Bates!
"What?" she asked seeing her friends faces, "I married his only son remember! Poor Nate though, Bates still treats him like a naughty kid! I found myself acting as peace maker last week when he was over for dinner,". Tannis, Cody and Sunny all nodded in agree meant, they all knew all to wellof the built up resentment Nate had towards his dad, but only Adena knew the reason for it.
After a long silence, Tanis spoke up, "So where do ya think Megan would be in life right now if she were still alive?". Tanis had been told the whole story by Bates before coming to Cascadia because of the fact that she was going to be Adena's room-mate and basically replacing Megan's place at the academy.
"Dating if not married to Sebastien, she always liked him," Adena chuckled.
"What about career wise?" Cody asked.
Without even stopping to think it over, Adena answered immediately. "Megan would be the number one Woman's World Champion Tennis star!".
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To my reviewers- Yes I know this is not that great of a chapter, but it's sort of a connecter. It will lead you into the rest of the story plus tie up a few loose ends that you were wondering about. Thank-you soooooooooo much to all my reviewers keep it up! Sorry about the long wait but like I've said before, ideas come in spits and spurts, I can't help the way I think!
HEY GUYS! I'VE GOT A CHALLENGE FOR YOU! I NEED A QUIRCKY GIRL'S NAME.SHE'S GOING TO BE FOR RICK! I WAS THINKING ABOUT 'PIPER'. IF YOU LIKE THIS ONE, TELL ME! IF YOU DON'T, GIVE ME AN IDEA! IF THERE IS A NAME I LIKE, I'LL USE IT AND THANK YOU PERSONALY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CHAPTER! GOOD LUCK!
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PS- Nevermore The Raven, could you give me a hand? I can't remember Megan's last name. I'll fill it in if you tell me. Thanks!