Chapter 6: Surprises Galore
The boys sat in Elle's basement... anxious.
"I hope they like it." Mush said.
"They're gonna love it, Mushee.. they might not like the delivery, but they'll like it." Blink said, patting Mush's shoulder.
"Yeah, what time do they get out?" Spot asked.
"Well, Shelley, Elle, Izzy, and Alison get done at 1. Elise and Katie get done at 12:30, and McKenna and Ariel get out at 1:15." David said.
"Soo, what are we gonna do for.. an hour?" Skittery asked.
"Wanna watch something?" David suggested.
They all nodded in agreement.
1:15,
"Hey! You guys here?" McKenna shouted.
"Downstairs." Skittery hollared.
The two girls walked down the stairs to the basement.
"Good, how that you're all here, we have something to tell you." David started.
"What?" Elle asked.
"But first.. we have to blind fold you." Blink said.
"What?" Elle asked, her tone changing from curious to furious.
"If that's okay with you?" David asked.
Elle just started at him.
"Okay, then... Blink you can blindfold Elle." David whispered to Blink.
"No way, man! I'm not that crazy!" Blink shouted.
"Thanks Blink! See if I ever do anything for you again." David said.
"You've never done anything for me." Blink said, blindfolding Shelley.
"Well, see that! I'm not gonna start either!" David shouted.
Blink rolled his eyes and blindfolded Shelley. "Alright, we're going to go and show you the surprise… but first, we have to get there."
"We have to what?!" Elle said.
"You'll see." Skittery said.
On the way to the surprise,
"We're on a subway aren't we?" Ariel asked.
"Yeah, why?" David asked.
"Good thing I'm wearing a jacket and jeans." Izzy said, squirming a little.
Race smiled and wrapped his arm around her. "We'll be there in a few minutes."
There was a few minutes of silence before Shelley spoke up. "Well I'm thwarted by a metaphysic puzzle, and I'm sick of grading papers that I know. I'm shouting in my sleep I need a muzzle. And all this misery pays no salary so," She sang.
"Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe, sunny Santa Fe would be nice." Izzy continued.
"Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe, and leave this to the roaches and mice." Elle joined.
"Why does everything remind you of Rent?" Itey asked.
"Well, we're on a subway so why wouldn't that remind you of Rent?" Elise asked.
All of the guys rolled their eyes and waited until their stop… and the girls kept on singing.
"Alright, we're here. Let's get off of this subway." Blink said, getting up and helping Shelley up in the process.
Once they were up and out of the subway station, they were crossing the street when a guy came speeding past them and not even slowing down or stopping.
"Get out of the road, asshole!" He shouted.
Blink took his left hand off of Shelley's shoulder and promptly flipped the man the bird, "Try slowing down!"
"You just flipped that guy off didn't you?" Shelley asked.
"Maybe."
You couldn't see it, but you knew Shelley was rolling her eyes. Once they were across the street the boys lined the girls up.
"Okay, we're going to take the blindfolds off and then you can see the surprise." Race said.
Then they undid the blindfolds and the girls gazed upon the loft building from Rent. They couldn't believe it. They just stared at it in disbelief. They were wondering if it was just a big backdrop but there had to be something holding it up… or maybe it was cardboard.
There were so many possibilities that they couldn't figure it out. They turned to the boys and stared at them, dumbfounded.
"So.. what do you think? Pretty cool huh?" Blink asked, beaming.
Shelley stood there and cleared her throat. "Well, it definitely is something… and uhm… how did you get it?"
"Well… that's kind of a funny story." David said.
"Do tell." Elle said, facing David.
"Well, you see, we were thinking about how you guys were doing so much for us to try and fit in and we thought we'd just help you guys and ourselves out by finding a place to live." David started.
"And, since we don't have that much money, we were looking for a really cheap place for all of us and, if need be, we'd split up and live in the same vicinity as each other." Race continued.
"So, we were walking around the East Village and we came upon this little building. And we looked and noticed it was for sale so we called the guy and he gave it to us for $100." Skittery said.
"And we couldn't pass up a deal like that, so we bought it." Itey said, smiling.
The girls stared at them and had these I-can't-believe-you-did-something-that-stupid look on their faces. The boys stared back at them waiting to get yelled at. They had a feeling that they would… and boy would they ever get yelled at.
"I can't believe you did that! You guys are smarter than that!" Elle said, flipping out.
Izzy just scowled a little and rolled her eyes. Shelley went over to Elle and calmed her down.
"Now, let's just all calm down and go inside. Give me the key." Shelley said.
The boys looked at the ground.
"You got a key from the man didn't you?" Katie asked, looking at them.
"Well, uhm… not really." Mush said.
"What?" They girls asked, obviously annoyed.
"Well, the guy really didn't give us a key…" Specs said.
The girls rolled their eyes. "See… this is why we don't want you doing anything by yourselves until we've taught you things." Izzy said.
"We know, but felt unmanly and we wanted to do something on our own." Spot said.
The girls looked at them. "Well... maybe it's open since you only bought it for $100." McKenna said, walking up to the door.
"It's bolted." She said.
"Padlocked… great." Izzy said.
"A total dead end." Elle said.
"Just like my ex-girlfriend." Shelley sang.
"Hold on, I'll get it." Blink said, going to get a trash can.
"What are you doing?" David asked.
"You'll see." Blink said, walking over to the door and hitting it off of the lock.
"Watch your fingers." David called.
Blink hit it again and the lock fell off. "Door open."
They all rolled their eyes and walked in when Blink opened the door. They all stood at the bottom of the building looking up towards the top.
"David and I call the top floor!!!" Blink yelled, grabbing David's arm and running up the stairs.
"God, Blink! My arm! It needs to stay in its socket… where it belongs!" David yelled at Blink as he was being pulled up the stairs.
"Oh, you'll live! You have two arms!" Blink shouted as they arrived at the second floor and continued to the top.
The rest of the gang stayed at the bottom and watched them run up the stairs. They all looked at each other and decided to divvy up the rooms.
Mush, Spot, and Race would take the second floor, since there were only 3 floors, and Skittery, Specs, and Itey would take the first floor. They all walked up to their respective floors leaving Elle and Shelley on the second floor landing looking up at Blink and David, who was nursing his arm.
"Why do you have to have the top floor?" Elle asked.
"Because we're Mark and Roger!" Blink shouted opening the door into his and David's loft.
"Yeah, if they were Mark and Roger, Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal would be here.. and I don't see them any where." Shelley said, as she and Elle walked up the stairs to the third floor.
"Yeah really." Elle said.
With Blink and David,
Blink walked around the room and David wasn't really looking around, he was too busy with his arm.
"David… it looks just like the loft from the movie." Blink said, touching the window seat.
David looked up and actually looked around for the first time and noticed that it did look like the loft. It was kind of creepy. Okay really creepy… yet cozy somehow. "It does." Was all he could manage to say.
"Whoa."
The boys turned around to see Elle and Shelley standing there. "We know… creepy huh." Blink and David said.
"Yeah." They agreed.
A/N: Yeah I know, kind of a weird place to end it there but still… it's an update. More will be on the way and it will be funny. Review please