After the long wait, I finally finished chapter 8 of the story. Before we begin, I need to say some stuff. First of all, I begin school again on January 10 so my time on the computer will be shortened, so I'll update less often. Second, I can write Fanny's Irish accent but Wally's is another story, so I'll write his speech normally and you'll have to imagine the accent. Also I rewrote chapter 6 and changed Adams explanation on how he got paraplegic, because the other one wasn't very realistic. Ok, enough with the boring stuff. Let's begin the chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own C: KND, Mr. W does. I only own Adam, Wendy, Ellie, Houdini, other OCs, Sonya and Lee's surnames and the plot.
End of First School Day. Meeting Nigel's Girlfriend!
Harvey McKenzie exited the school along with his buddies; Tommy Gilligan, Lee Johnson, Sonya Cahill, Adam Jefferson and the new kid Paddy Fulbright. The six kids had decided to wait together for their parents and/or siblings after they got out of school. The dirty-blond boy looked around for his older sister, Rachel. He saw her standing near the wall, talking with other four kids.
Harvey saw that three of them were Bartie Stork, Virginia Sims & Patton Drilovsky but didn't recognize the red-headed girl that was with them.
"Ok guys. There's my big sis and her friends but, who's that girl that's talking to them?" he pointed to the red-haired kid.
"Don't know, but she looks alot like Paddy." said Tommy, the chubby boy looking at the Irish boy next to him.
Paddy chuckled. "That's because that girl is my sister, Fanny." he said to his friends, who looked surprised.
"That's your sister? Cool!" exclaimed Lee, flicking his green yo-yo.
"Yeah, I mean is kinda obvious." said the red-headed boy. "We and our brother Shaunie look alot alike."
The others saw that he was right. Both siblings had red, frizzy hair, freckles in their faces, light green eyes and even had similar outfits. Fanny wore a green shirt, an orange skirt and combat boots; Paddy had a green shirt, wore orange pants and also had boots on his feet. Yes, no one could deny that the two Fulbrights looked so similar.
"He's right guys," agreed Adam. He then rolled toward the older kids, motioning to his friend to follow him. "Come on guys, let's go meet them."
The others nodded and followed the crippled boy toward the other group of children. The older children noticed the approaching crew and waved to them. "Hi Harvey! Hey guys!" called Rachel to her brother and his friends.
"Hi there, Rachel!" greeted Harvey, Adam, Sonya, Lee and Tommy in unison.
Fanny approached her brother. "Hey Paddy, how was yer day?"
Paddy smiled at his older sister and answered. "It was great! Check it out, I made some new friends." the lad pointed to his new mates. The younger kids looked at the Irish girl with welcoming smiles.
Sonya was the first to come close. "Hi, my name is Sonya Cahill" she said timidly. "It's nice to meet you, Fanny. Paddy told us about you."
Fanny shaked the hand of the young blond girl. "Nice to meet ye Sonya," Then the boys introduced themselves next.
"Hey I Harvey McKenzie, Rachel's brother and I don't like to be touched."
"Okay…"
"My name is Adam Jefferson, and please don't feel sorry for me because I crippled."
Fanny chuckled. "O.K. Adam."
"This here is Lee Johnson," he motioned to the yo-yo boy. "He is our teacher's son."
"That's interesting."
"Yeah it's cool," was the only thing that Lee said.
Finally Tommy said his name. "Hi I am Tommy Gilligan and my big brother is Hoagie Gilligan!" he almost screamed.
Fanny raised her eyebrow at this. "So you're Hoagie Gilligan's brother?"
Tommy nodded proudly. "Yes he is. He is the coolest kid in school."
The other kids, minus the Fulbrights, rolled their eyes at this comment. Obviously, not everyone agreed with 7-year-old chubby boy.
Looking for a moment at the others, Fanny then turned to Tommy wearing a fake smile. "Yeah, I'm sure he is."
"Of course he is! He is so… Hey there he comes!" He pointed behind Fanny. She and the others turned around and saw that indeed Hoagie Gilligan Jr was coming their way. Along with him were Nigel Uno, Kuki Sanban, Wally Beatles and Abby Gilligan.
The five kids came up to them and Tommy ran to greet his brother. "Hey Hoagie!" he said, hugging him.
The older Gilligan hugged Tommy back. "Hey there Tommy! How was your day?" he asked, letting his brother go.
"It was cool! The others and I made a new friend! He's pretty great, and you gotta meet him, and he's Irish and you have to seriously meet him!" Tommy said excitedly as he dragged Hoagie by the hand to where the other kids were. The rest of Hoagie's group followed.
"Hoagie, this here is Paddy Fulbright. He moved here from Ireland!" He said, motioning to the red-haired boy who waved back.
"Hi, nice ta meet ye, lad." greeted Paddy.
"Same to you kid." Then Hoagie looked at him more closely and realized that he was familiar. "Hmm, you look familiar. Wait! I know! You have an older sister who is in my History class! What's her name? Fiona?"
"Is Fanny idiot!" yelled Fanny, coming from behind Ginny and Patton. She walked up to Hoagie and stood in front of him glaring. "And yeah, I'm Paddy's sister."
"Oops, my bad. He he he!" Chuckled Hoagie, nervous by Fanny's glare.
"Well, I think we must introduce ourselves guys." said Nigel to Kuki, Wally and Abby. He stepped forward and cleared his throat. "I'm Nigel Uno." He held out his hand, expecting Fanny to shake it. However, the Irish girl just looked at him with a frown.
"Yeah, I know I saw ye and yer friends at lunch. Rachel, Bartie and Patton told me that ye are cocky and reckless and let me tell ye that I'm not a fan of that kind of people."
Nigel raised an eyebrow and lowered his hand. "Ok. Well I suppose that they also told you about Abby, Kuki and Wally." He motioned to the other three kids.
Fanny nodded. "Aye, they did. They said that Abby is smart, talks in 3rd person and hits annoying people with her hat."
Abby raised her hat from her eyes. "What they said about Abby is true, girl."
Fanny then looked at Wally. "Now about ye, they said that your name is Wallabee but ye like ta be called Wally, that you and Patton spend alot of time in detention together and you like Kuki but won't say it because she's girly and you are boyish."
"What! That last part ain't true!" said Wally blushing. The other children laughted at his embarrassment, while Kuki also blushed.
"The only thing that isn't true is that you are smart, Mr. 'I don't know what 2+2 equals to'." laughted Patton at the Australian.
Wally stopped blushing and glared at his Polish friend. "I am smart and I know that 2 plus 2 equals PIZZA." he said crossing his arms.
Fanny and Paddy stopped laughing and looked at each other with confused looks, both of them wondering how dumb could the Aussie be.
After the others finished laughing, Kuki raised her hand and waved it around. "Oh oh oh! What did they said about me?"
Fanny snapped out of her confusion and turned to the Asian. "Oh, they told me that ye liked Rainbow Monkeys."
"Well that's true. Because they are the most loveliest and cuddliest of all the toys in the world!" she said happily.
Wally groaned at Kuki's excited rambling, covering his ears. "Can you talk about anything that isn't cruddy Rainbow Dorkies?"
The Asian stopped her rambling to look at her short friend. "Aw Wally, they're a not cruddy."
"Yes they are!" he yelled.
"No they're not!" she yelled back.
"Yes they are!"
"No they're not!"
"They are!"
"They're not!"
"STOP IT!" yelled Nigel, getting between the quarreling kids. Both Wally and Kuki looked at the Brit then at each other before starting again.
"They are!"
They're not!"
Nigel sighted as he slapped his forehead. He then felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Rachel smiling at him with pity. "Don't stress yourself." she said. "They'll stop eventually."
Nigel smiled back at the blond. "Thanks Rachel, you always know how to cheer me up."
Rachel blushed a bit. "Hey, that's what friends are for." It looked like a very sweet moment was happening between the bald Brit and the oldest McKenzie kid, but unfortunately-
"NIGEL UNO!"
Nigel winced at the sudden voice that screamed his name. All the kids turned to where it came from and saw a chubby girl with reddish hair in braided pigtails, a tallow shirt with a light blue oval on it, a blue skirt and glasses walking (or more precisely stomping) her way toward the group.
The Fulbright kids looked confused as their friends looked at the girl, in annoyance, fear or worry. What was it about this girl that had them like that?
"Who's the lass?" asked Paddy to Harvey, who was looking at the girl with a frown.
"That's Lizzie Devine, Nigel's 'girlfriend'" he said, putting air quotes on the word girlfriend. "She's a bit possessive of him."
Adam scoffed at the remark. "A bit? More like alot! She gets very jealous when she sees Nigel with other girls (especially Rachel) and always thinks that they are trying to steal him from her. She such an idiot that cow face."
"Shh." Tommy hushed him. "Want her to hear you?" Adam shocks his head. "I thought so. One thing you must never do is get on Lizzie's bad side. Believe me you haven't seen someone with such an explosive temper."
"Well, believe when I say that after growing up seeing my dad and sister lose their tempers, I'm not intimidated by 'explosives tempers'." said Paddy, with a smirk.
"Still, don't do anything to get her mad at you." warned Sonya. "Because if you are at the receiving end of her rage…"
"It would not be cool." finished Lee, flicking his yo-yo.
Lizzie had arrived to where the group was and got into Rachel's face. "What do you think you are doing, Blondie? Trying to steal my Nigie again?" she screamed at the poor girl.
Rachel backed a bit from Lizzie before responding. "Of course not, Lizzie. We were just talking."
Lizzie wasn't convinced. "Just talking? How do I know that you weren't telling him bad stuff about me so that he'll dump me and you can have him for yourself?" as she that, she jabbed her finger on Rachel's chest, making a certain Irish lass angry.
Fanny wasn't going to let this Lizzie girl accuse her friend of something. She quickly stepped in between both girls and brought his face close to Lizzie's. "Listen here, the lass already told ye that she wasn't stealing yer dumb boyfriend so leave 'er alone!" she yelled, surprising Lizzie and all of the other kids. Not even one of them had the guts to talk to Lizzie like that when she was angry so what the Irish did have them astonished.
Recovering from the initial surprise, Lizzie's ire returned but now it was focused on the other red-head in front of her. "Oh yeah? And who are you to tell me what to do?"
"Me name is Fanny Fulbright! Eye just started school after moving 'ere!"
"Oh yeah, you are that new girl from Ireland." she remembered.
"Aye," Fanny nodded, "And eye not gonna let some fat pig accuse me friend Rachel of something she didn't do!" she screamed, her voice getting higher.
"Fat pig!?" said Lizzie, outraged by the insult. "Now don't come and call me names you filthy banshee!"
"BANSHEE!" screeched Fanny, her eyes alighting with flames. "NOW YE ARE CALLING NAMES, BIGMOUTH!"
"YOU ARE THE BIGMOUTH, BIGMOUTH!"
Before the fight could turn physical, a voice called. "Nigel, old bean. Time to go home, and bring your girlfriend because she's having dinner with us!"
Nigel sighted in relief when he heard his dad call and Lizzie calmed down a bit, but she still glared at Fanny, who glared back. With an "Hmp", Lizzie walked away with her noise up, toward the car where Mr. Uno was waiting. "Come on, Nigel. Let's not waste anymore of our time here with these people."
Before leaving, Nigel turned to Rachel and his friends. "So, see you tomorrow Rachel, guys."
"See ya." said the others.
"NIGEL!"
"Coming!" called Nigel, running to catch up to his girlfriend. The other children watched as the couple got into the car and the vehicle drove off.
Fanny noted that Rachel looked a bit sad when the Brit left. Concerned, she asked. "Are ye ok, lass? What that pig said didn't affect ye, did it?"
"Oh she's just sad because her little crush couldn't spend more time with her." said Patton, chuckling. That got Fanny's attention.
"Ye like that idiot?" she asked turning back to the blond.
Rachel blushed. "N-no." Fanny arched an eyebrow and she sighted. "Ok, yeah but what does it matter. Nigel likes Lizzie not me."
"If I can give my opinion," joined in Bartie. "You'll make a better girlfriend to Nigel than that crazy girl."
"Yeah," agreed Harvey. "I may not be the Number 1 fan of the James Bond wannabe, but any girl, including you, would be better suited for him than Miss 'I think that every girl in school wants to take my Nigie from me' Bleh!."
Rachel smiled a bit. "Thanks for saying that guys, but if Nigel wants to be with Lizzie, then I have no right to get between them."
Just then a familiar voice called, getting the Fulbrights attention. "Fanny! Paddy!" Both redheads turned and saw their mom's car and Shaunie sticking his head out of the back window, waving to his older siblings. "Come on! We are going home!"
"Ok!" called Fanny back, then turning to her new friends she said to them. "Well time for me and Paddy ta go home, guys."
"Ok Fan, see ya soon!" said Rachel, Bartie, Virginia, Patton and the other older kids.
"Bye guys!" called Paddy as he and his sister ran to the car.
"See ya Paddy." Called back the younger kids as both Fulbrights boarded the car, greeting their mom and fastened their seatbelts. They all watched the car started and turned the corner, taking the Irish kids home after their wonderful first day in their new school in America.
And that was chapter 8. Hope it wasn't too bad. Now for the questions:
1. What do you think of the chapter?
2. Did I make Lizzie right?
Ok that's all for now. See ya on the next chapter of From Ireland To America.
Read & Review. KND Operative Numbuh 227 over and out, peace!