Chapter 2 Of pranking and whoring
There were only two things that could get a JLU girl angry and blood thirsty. One was finding out one of the girls in dorm Beta had stolen underwear from the Alpha dorm and the other finding out your boyfriend was a jerk. In Zatanna's and Raquel's case they had messed up with both.
Not only they had probably the worst boyfriends in campus but they also had lost more panties than any of the other girls. Zatanna didn't blame them though because her dad always brought her the cutest bras when he traveled. That happened basically every weekend.
She didn't want to question how her dad purchased the merchandise because she could only laugh when she pictured the old chapped Zatara walking into a lingerie store. It always made Raquel snort and choke on her bubblegum.
"Girl, those guys need pain as harsh as we're having it." Raquel spoke propping her feet on the small coffee table in front of the tv.
They were finishing the second Kill Bill movie when Zatanna remembered how much she wanted to be Uma Thurman and just cut some asshole dick.
"You know this is unhealthy, I call this movie/regret/anger marathon off." Zatanna concluded with a raspy voice that meant she clearly had too much smoothies.
Raquel simply stared at the almost empty popcorn bowl on her lap and placed it on the table. The next thing that followed was a long sigh of frustration and some good stretching.
Zatanna noted how Raquel loved the tall punk guys. She did, and she usually had the bad luck of choosing the horrible ones and not the poetic nice ones. Like her current boyfriend Tommy Terror, he was a natural blond, muscular, arrogant smirk, and had recently acquired two ear perforations.
He wasn't the cheating type just the aggressive, possessive jealous kind of ape. Just yesterday he had almost hit Raquel's biology II classmate for inviting the brunette on a study session. Zatanna always found it illogical how the most independent, provocative and opinionated African-American woman dated the Terror twin. Because he had a sister, she was equally horrible in personality.
But Zatanna couldn't talk either. Her taste was even worse. She got the cheaters kind of material. Eric Needham was a cutie. From his chiseled jaw to his washboard abs Zatanna had to just admit it was hard to resist. That eased some of the pain that swiftly came back when she pictured his lips rubbing all over Linda's.
Yuck. She got the creeps just of remembering.
"Listen, I say we buy a death note pad and write their names on it." Zatanna said with half assed ironic humor in her tongue.
"No kidding." Raquel answered squinting at the tv that still played the angry samurai movies. That's when Zatanna's phone started vibrating, even when they had clearly established the no communication rule during serious movie marathons of despair.
Pursing her lips, the short haired girl started smirking at her blue-eyed friend. Zatanna took a moment to dumbly stare at the neon pink highlights in Raquel's hair. Her friend was a geek, even though she gave the vibe of a rebel lazy girl with how she always wore combat boots military pants. Even her hair yelled Raquel Ervin in the house take notice. She woke from her thoughts when the light of her phone went off.
"Zee, it's not worth it. Turn it off and play 47 ronin movie or something." Raquel yawned while stopping the movie that already played the credits.
"No." Zatanna whispered
"What?" Raquel curiously poked her head near Zatanna's eyesight.
"Raquel those bastards will pay."
Looking clearly confused her friend dropped her feet from the table to give her full attention "How?"
"Are you willing to break the no communication rule?" Zatanna said grabbing her phone and dangling it in front of Raquel with the most malicious smirk she could muster.
Zee couldn't contain the spark that flashed in her eyes. It meant the party started.
Kaldur loved the smell of fresh cut orquid blossoms. It was hard to find, and expensive but his mom used to have a Flower shop and every time she could a bouquet of orquids would adorn their dining table. That's why he would buy orquids for Tula today.
When they met at the plaza outside of campus she was carrying a dark blue book with some weird symbols. Her white summer dress fitted her tiny form cutely and she adorned her pixie hair with flower pins. He could feel his insides clenching right then.
"Hi." He could almost feel her hesitation through her voice.
"Hello." Kaldur addressed her and softly took her hand.
"I got this for you." He managed when they were already walking to their roundevou point. She smiled as she held the orchids lightly and pressed her nose to them. "It's like you're a magician." She commented.
Kaldur made a confused gesture clearly not getting it.
"You'll get it later." She laughed politely.
They walked like that until they got to the tattoo store. "So what did you decide on?" Kaldur asked curious about his childhood friend.
"As you predicted, I'm getting an orchid," She said turning to face him. Kaldur noticed how her skirt ruffled when she did and just then admired the little yellow flowers adorning it.
Kaldur took the time to process it. He didn't just like orchids in fact. His mom died when he was still in high school. He remembers a room full of orchids. He loved orchids because they reminded him of everything that went right in his life.
When they exited the store Tula had a beautiful dendrobium on the back of her neck. Kaldur resisted the urge to kiss the redness off it.
Eric Needham:
So cutie how about we grab that smoothie?
Raquel E. 3
Sure handsome, just let me clarify, tonight at parking lot B and you bring the smooth in smoothie?
Eric Needham
You got it. Meet you there at six.
Raquel placed her Samsung on the coffee table smirking evilly towards Zatanna. "He bought it like the idiot you said he was."
The blue-eyed girl was so mischievous. That's why she was so happy her roommate was said ebony beauty. The plan was simple according to Zee. Step one, text each other's boyfriends to get them to point of intersection, followed by encountering them there, some trash talk culminating on nut shot. Simple and perfect as Zatanna had specified to Raquel.
"So Zee, did you manage to convince Tommy? He's not really a cheater you know." Raquel said clearly enjoying the plan her friend had created. Not only were they going to get even but they were going to make it clear not to mess with them. And after that the two would be single and ready to mingle.
"When have I ever let you down?" Zatanna laughed smirking at Raquel. With a swift flip of her cover she showed a clearly photoshopped Raquel enjoying smoothies with said Eric Needham.
"And it's sent to Tommy. Let's just hope they get the time and place correctly." Zatanna said placing her phone beside Raquel's.
"So this means we're starting phase two." Zatanna said brushing the crumbs off her kool aid red lips. Raquel started putting on her usual combat boots as her roommate began preparing the bag with the concrete blocks.
At parking lot B two street lamps had given off. It was five thirty pm but there were few cars because of the freshman welcome party on the Gama fraternity.
Eric Needham was tall and dark-skinned like Raquel and if she didn't know him better she'd have used the moves on him. He wore a black shirt with a silver and ochre spider on it. Raquel couldn't help but notice how nice his biceps looked in it. Zatanna smiled sadly as if she understood Raquel's thoughts.
They were hiding on a bush directly in front of the meeting smoothie place. "Strings in place?" Zatanna asked Raquel who woke from her admiring session with Zee's voice.
"All in place." Raquel assisted.
"Ok then, go meet him and wait for him to enter the store." Zee whispered while she rubbed a black stripe below each of her eyes. "What? Camouflage mode." Zee smiled sheepishly.
Raquel smirked happily wishing she had the chance to wear it too. Seriously this rouge revenge thing was getting her adrenaline on.
When Raquel waved towards Eric his attention went straight to her chest. 'Ugh I get you so much now Zee.' She thought hoping somehow Zatanna could read her mind.
She was about to smile and flirt a bit when the blonde she wanted to dump stormed near them and placed a sucker punch on Eric.
Raquel could only gape towards the nearby bush. 'What now?' She thought.
Improvising was so not her thing. Luckily for her Zatanna had that part covered. It all happened too quickly. One second she was saluting Eric and the next Tommy and he were barreling inside the smoothie shop only to have a fist sized rock drop right in their testicles.
Because with the right pulleys, ropes and physics everything was possible. Raquel could hear Zatanna's crazy cackle outside. For her part, Raquel could only smirk happily.
"You know what they say; if life gives you lemons squirt them in the face of your enemies." Raquel said while pasting the 'Assholes' paper on the pair of idiots lying helplessly at the floor of a quiet store.
The manager just called for the cleaning help.
The Gama fraternity was closer to the Beta dorms but everyone seemed to have received the invite. It was a big old-fashioned house like the one the old man in 'Up' had just that instead of yellow and pink the Gama house was plain white and brown.
Linda was the first one to arrive. She was expecting her boyfriend to be here first but there was no sign of him at the moment. All she could see was a hammered Dj playing Arianna Grande's greatest hit songs and some very promiscuous couples dancing with lust.
Being a journalist major everything around her could be a potential header. Even if the party was the most common thing around she knew about Professor Strongman and how he hooked his students with the best of Kr. She had been paid not to divulge the information though.
That's why she had invited Wally to the great welcome party. He was supposed to distract her from all the awful things she was doing. Kissing Eric had been one of them. All she remembered was accepting the silver box from her biology professor and the next thing she knew she was hanging out with the druggies of campus.
"Linda! Good to see you." Megan cheered beside Linda who winced at the high pitch tone of the redhead. In the darkness Linda could barely make out smiles and eyes.
"Hey, have you seen Wally?" Linda asked directly trying to focus on anything but the blinking lights killing her head.
"Oh, yeah, last time he was by the pool with the new guy." Megan said the last part blushing. Probably new guy was hot.
When the journalist major got to the pool all she could see were some guys playing bar games. There was a pink elephant floater on the middle of the pool as well. It confused her, everything, from the black and white suited guys to the blaring 'Love me harder' theme on the background.
That's when the bucket of cold water fell on her. Damn it if Wally is behind this she swore she would finish this.
And to confirm things when she turned around, soaked to the core, a flushed redheaded assisted by an unfamiliar brunette twig were chuckling from the second floor.
Linda took the mental steps of how things would go from there. She could yell angrily, he would act defensive and alarmed, everyone would take notice.
So inhaling deeply and hoping the water wasn't soiled she spoke loud and with just a tad of murder "Not funny Wally." With that she stormed away from the party.
AN:/ This is going to be friendship and I'm adding some plot so I expect reviews. Now thank you for your reviews and favorites I appreciate them and they make me happy. I'm updating soon so yay! :) If I don't (but I will) here's a bonus for those who read.
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Adventures at Mc Donalds Or why Dick wasn't in the Frat party
Jaime looked at a couple of juniors head straight towards him. Their relationship scared him to put it nicely. After all he was just a freshman and after accepting the Mc Donald's midnight shift things had gotten weirder than usual.
"Welcome to Mc Donalds what can I get you?" Jaime recited hoping this would be one simple and normal customer.
"Listen amigo, I'm Dick, this is Artemis, and she's been cheated on. Get us a Mcflurry, and a new man." The black haired and smaller guy spoke before the tired blond, Artemis did he hear? , could even open her eyes.
She looked tired but even with the bags below her grey orbs he had to admit she was hot. Jaime hadn't seen such a long blond hair in his life. It was exotic and the kind of thing he looked forward seeing in the midnight shift.
"No just get him a happy meal and I want the breakfast please." Artemis drawled in a husky tone. Jaime figured her voice was that way because it was late and she was probably sleep deprived.
"Ok, that will be…" Jaime got cut off by the black-haired one again.
"No, no, no…" Dick said poking the middle of his eyebrows in concentration, then sighed in what Jaime thought was condescending attitude and got too close to his personal space almost sitting on the attending counter.
"I see Jaime…" Dick spoke slowly noticing the name tag. "That you didn't get it. My friend here is in the need of a shoulder to cry on and you're not doing your thing."
Jaime blushed almost dropping the straw bin. He looked between the blond and the guy and started getting nervous.
"Listen man I'm just trying to do my job." Jaime tried hoping his voice didn't show how awkward he felt.
"Jaime please just place the order I'll handle this moron." This time the blond spoke, still using her husky voice. So that was her natural voice! Damn he liked it.
"Jaime, don't ignore it. I know you want it." Dick yelled as Artemis dragged him away from the counter and back on place like a regular costumer.
As Jaime looked at them both he thought whether they were a couple or not. He would never dare ask her out if they weren't together anyway but he liked to think she was single. She seemed too annoyed by the ebony haired one anyway so it looked like they were family.
When he was putting the toy inside the happy meal Dick jumped over the counter and almost kissed him. Jaime remembered the 'Jaime notice me' coming from the junior as he leapt. The next shift Jaime made sure to place a paper sign on the counter that read 'do not get closer than twenty inches from that point on'.