Okay guys, so first of all: SORRY FOR UPDATING SO LATE! It's been some really, really busy weeks with all the school projects and I barely had time for myself, let alone writing a new chapter. But thankfuly, it's over, at least for now 'cause I have a one week holiday ;). And to DerekJupiterLUVER, I promise I'll review your story ASAP, you give me amazing reviews and I think it's fair if I do the same to you :).
You guys have to keep in mind that I WILL NEVER abandon this story! I may update only on Saturdays or Sundays, but will never forget about it, for I have a notebook which is ENTIRELY written (with ideas for this story of course) and I promise this will be a very funny, juicy and gripping plot, so stay tuned people.
Anyways, here's chapter 6 (It was supposed to be longer, but due to the lack of time I had to leave some things for the next chapter). ENJOY!
"So this is our garage where we rehearse" said Tripp when Tatiana stepped inside the garage.
"Oh" she said looking around astonished "It's…nice…" she lied in order to be polite, not wanting to tell the guys that she actually thought that the place was a total mess.
"Yep, a total beauty!" Burger added proudly. Tatiana nodded her head with a fake smile on her face.
"Umm, Tatiana can I talk to you for a few moments?" Tripp asked longing to inform the young woman of a few things.
"Yeah, sure!" she agreed quickly.
Tripp then led Tatiana out through the glass door of the garage in the garden and shut the door behind him in order to have a private talk with her, leaving the three Weasels inside playing one of their usual games.
"Look Tatiana, I know you can sing and I'm sure you'd do great on stage in front of an audience, but there's one more thing you should know before making one step further into joining Iron Weasel" explained Tripp.
"Please don't tell me it's another requirement" Tatiana begged, staring into Tripp's eyes pleadingly.
"Well, kind of…I mean not really a requirement…" the teen was struggling to find words while scratching his head roughly "Look, the guys can be a little…larky at times"
"Larky?" Tatiana cocked one eyebrow confused.
"Yeah…and in those times they're not really in the mood of rehearsing and they do all sorts of stuff…"
"What kind of stuff?"
"Crazy and unpredictable stuff…"
"Oh c'mon Tripp…" Tatiana chuckled "You talking to me? I'm Romanian. What's the worst thing they could do, huh? Hijack a school festivity and pull the pants of a mix martial arts fighter?" she added the last part laughing.
"Umm, they already did that" Tripp answered with an innocent smile which made Tatiana's laugh stop abruptly.
She then took a look over the teen's head to look in the garage through the glass door and observed the three rockers doing foolish jumps and falling on their backsides, acting like a bunch of kids.
"Okay, now I'm scared" Tatiana said with widened eyes looking back at Tripp.
"But don't get me wrong: I too do these crazy things with them and have a blast and have fun, but sometimes, when I try to convince them to rehearse, they get all lazy and stuff like that…so most of the time, we're not really practicing…" Tripp explained.
"Aha…"
"Basically, that's why I wanted to bring a woman in the band, I was the one who came up with the idea, so she can help me handle them at times"
"So you mean I'm here to help you baby-sit a bunch of toddlers?" she said in a really mean way.
"No, don't get me wrong! You're here to join and perform with us on stage, but I just might need the help of a woman when putting them rehearse that's all"
"Alright then, I think I can do that" Tatiana said nodding and taking one more look inside the garage.
"But, you know, not all the time…I mean, I'm a teenager I wanna have fun at times and I'm sure you want too, I mean you're young"
"Yeah, of course" Tatiana agreed "And to be honest, back home I wasn't known as the 'sanest' person" she added smiling.
"You know, just help me when I ask you to, ok?" Tripp said trying to conclude.
"Sure" the girl agreed heading to the door and putting her right hand on the doorknob.
"Like, could you help me out…NOW?" Tripp asked smiling.
Tatiana took a look back in the garage and then back at the teen and said smiling widely:
"Of course!"
She then crackled her fingers and her head and headed to enter the garage.
"Just be a bit bossy with them and try to show 'em who's boss somehow…" Tripp continued with his explanations, but was interrupted immediately by the young woman:
"Do I teach you how to…what did you say you do in this band?"
"I am the lead guitarist"
"Do I teach you how to rock with your guitar?" she said sarcastically "Relax, I know what to do" Tatiana then added entering the garage with Tripp.
"Good that you're back Tatiana!" said Derek when noticing the girl had entered the garage "Now go on and sing, we can't wait to hear you!"
Derek, Ash and Burger then sat back on the couch simultaneously and stared smiling at Tatiana, waiting for her to begin singing. She cocked one eyebrow at the sight, forced a smile and said slowly:
"You want me to sing?" the three nodded their heads "Well, you should start cleaning this place up then!"
"What?" the three asked in one voice, still keeping their smiles on their faces thought.
"I think I was clear enough the first time: I want you to clean this place up, it's a total mess!"
"Oh, sweetie, let me tell you something: We don't 'clean up', we're rock stars!" explained the lead singer cockily leaning back more on the couch.
"Oh really?" Tatiana cocked her both eyebrows while her both.
"Yeah! And besides that, it's our naptime! How about you sing a lullaby?" said Ash before the three could lean back even more on the couch and close their eyes.
After hearing what Ash had said, Tatiana almost lost her cool. She tapped her foot while thinking what she should do next. She decided that if they didn't want to listen when she spoke to them nicely, it was time she did it the harder way:
"ATTENTION!" Tatiana yelled like a general would do when angry on his soldiers in army.
The three rockers opened their eyes and let out a few screams when hearing the angry tone in Tatiana's voice.
"LINE UP!" she yelled again. The three men did what Tatiana had ordered them immediately and lined up by height.
"Why did she order us to line up?" Burger asked quietly, not wanting to be heard by the young woman.
"Maybe she's related to Ernesto…" Derek said slowly, statement which made the three of them look at each other concerned and then grip the belts of their pants quickly.
Tatiana started walking in front of them from one end to another of the line, staring them fiercely in the eyes. She then stopped at the end which had Burger standing and said firmly:
"Gentlemen, my name is Tatiana Popa and I do not like questions, understand?" she said making the three rockers feel very much like in a boot camp.
The three of them nodded their heads quickly.
"You answer only with 'Yes, madam, I understood'! Understood?"
"Yes, madam, I understood!" the three said in one voice.
"Can I go pee?" asked Ash.
"Was that a question?" Tatiana asked glaring at the drummer.
"But I gotta' go!"
"HOLD IT!" she yelled.
"But I can't anymore!" Ash said pleadingly.
"THEN DO IT YOUR PANTS!" she yelled making the three rockers flinch once more "Here we have only order and discipline! Understand?"
"There! I did it!" said Ash.
"Dude...!" said Burger disgusted, while the two rockers backed away a bit from the drummer who was standing in the middle.
Tatiana slapped her forehead, tired already.
"I said: HERE WE HAVE ONLY ORDER AND DISCIPLINE!" she yelled out "Do I look like I don't know what I'm saying?" she asked looking towards Derek.
"Yes, madam, I understood!" replied Derek in order to mock Tatiana's 'authority'.
"At the end of my arm lies a huge imbecile!" she said annoyed, pointing her hand at Derek.
"Yes, madam, I understood…" he replied "but at the other end, sweetie!" he finished making his band mates have a huge laugh about it.
"Wise guy, huh?" she replied insulted "Get at the floor and give me twenty!"
"What?" Jupiter replied puzzled.
"Twenty push-ups sonny! NOW!" she said between her teeth.
"Sweetie…" he said chuckling "You don't mean that!"
"Thirty!" she said in the same way.
"How dare you order me what to do?" Derek asked insulted.
"Forty!" Tatiana also continued.
"Don't you dare…"
"You want fifty? Okay then, fif…"
"No, wait, wait, wait!" he said desperately "I'll do forty!" the lead singer then got down on the floor and began some painful attempts on doing some push-ups.
"One…..Two…." Tatiana began counting slowly, in the same slow pace as Derek was doing push-ups.
"Whoa, check out all that coldness behind all that hotness!" Ash said watching Tatiana.
"Oh, you want to comment?" she said turning to Ash "No problem, I'll give you something to comment on! Down and give me twenty!"
Scared of Tatiana's rough tone, the drummer immediately got down and obeyed.
"Dude! You two actually do what this harmless chick is telling you two…? Sheesh!" Burger said laughing.
Hearing what Burger had said, Tatiana turned her head and gave a death stare to him. Seeing this, the bassist flinched and said almost tearing:
"Oh man…She's EVIL!"
"Get up yow two!" she said clapping her hands "Derek, you go get the vacuum cleaner and vacuum the carpets. Ash, I'll bring you a bucket of water and a sponge and you'll scrub the floors. Burger, you go order the tools, it's a mess on that shelves!" Tatiana ordered the three.
"And what should I do?" asked Tripp who till then only stood and observed.
"Well…What do you wanna' do?" she asked in a very warm tone.
"I'll just put that laundry from the couch in the washing machine then!" Tripp said.
"Listen up Tatiana! I don't know who you think you are, but nobody comes and bosses me and my boys around…" said Derek giving Tatiana a death stare.
Tatiana simply stared careless in Jupiter's eyes as an answer, and when Tripp gave her the vacuum cleaner she had requested for cleaning the garage, she handed it to Derek saying nonchalantly:
"Here's your vacuum cleaner!"
"Gee, thanks" the lead singer said between his teeth, forcing a smile.
"And Ash here you go: your bucket and sponge" she then said handing the drummer the bucket filled with water.
"Thanks" he replied with a friendly smile "But what am I supposed to do with it?" he then asked confused.
"Scrub the floor" Tatiana explained, but when the man gave her an even more puzzled gaze, she continued "Don't tell me you never scrubbed a floor before…"
Ash nodded no, so Tatiana took him by his free hand and took him to the part of the garage which had a really dirty floor. After she told him to kneel she started explaining what he had to do:
"You put the sponge in the water, get it out and squeeze it a little bit then start rubbing it on the floor till the dirt comes out. Got it?"
"These are way too many things I gotta' do once" Ash whined "Do I look like Napoleon to do many different things at the same time?"
"What different things?" she asked puzzled.
"Well, put the sponge in the water, get it out, squeeze it, scrub the floor, breathe, blink, think, wear clothes, exist…See? Way too many! Tell me to do just one thing and I'll do it!"
Tatiana rolled her eyes and then turned to Ash, putting her hand on his shoulder saying: "Ash…THINK!"
After looking in her eyes a little, the drummer said quickly: "Okay, I'll do the scrubbing thing!" before starting his work.
Tatiana then left to sit on the couch. She glanced over and saw Burger working silently at ordering the tools like she had told him to. Tatiana looked around the couch a bit and when noticing a magazine she opened it curiously and started browsing it. When finding an interesting article, she also laid her legs on the couch, beginning to read in a very relaxed position.
"Hey Tatiana, aren't you gonna do any work?" Burger asked a bit frightful.
"Me? Sweetheart, I am the guest in this house and you are the hosts, you should be the ones working not me!" she answered not taking her eyes away from the magazine.
"Okay…" Burger slowly said before returning his entire attention at the tools.
"'Let's bring a woman in the band' you said, 'She's gonna help us with our comeback' YOU SAID!" Derek said to Tripp who was standing right next to the carpet he was told to vacuum sorting clothes, while he was struggling to find out how to turn on the vacuum cleaner.
"Derek, relax…it's just…"
"I'm hearing chit-chat and I hope it's just my imagination" Tatiana said firmly, once again not taking her eyes away from the magazine.
The egocentric lead singer already had enough of Tatiana's behavior from the moment she put him to work, but that remark was the drop that filled the glass, so he said angrily:
"Will you cut it out? What is this, some kind of boot camp?"
"What is this?" she asked finally taking her eyes away from the magazine "WHAT IS THIS?" she then added glaring at Jupiter and getting off the couch "As long as I'm here, this is a boot camp, this is a maternity, this is a morgue…YOU'RE BORN HERE, YOU DIE HERE, UNDERSTAND?" she yelled out, pointing at the floor dramatically after each mention.
Tatiana's answer made the rockers silence and stare at her with wide eyes, having no idea what to say to what they just heard.
"The switch of the vacuum cleaner is right there, Derek" she then added calmly pointing at the small switch from the side of the appliance before once again lying down on the couch comfortably and continuing to read the magazine like nothing of that had ever happened.
"Who let the dogs out…" Ash said quietly and dramatically before returning to his work.
Yep, Tatiana was really mean with guys in this chapter ;) I'd appreciate if you guys would review and tell me what you think...Anyways, I hoped you liked it! XOXO