Ok guys, I know I haven't updated in a long while and I AM EXTREMELLY SORRY to make you wait! You guys mean a lot to me for reading my story and I feel bad for making you wait! I just had to pass through my exams, presentations & portfolios period for school (and I may add taht I got straight A's at every single one of them ;)) and to relax a little, because I had many headaches after I finished. I promise that updates will come regularly now, on either Saturdays or Sundays, since I have only 3 days of school left :)!
Oh, and one more thing: I've been to a contest and I guess that now, it's official: I am a writer! I won 1st prize (with many praises from the jury) at a short story contest and one of the persons in the jury was a very known writer in my country and he said many nice things about my short story (BEST DAY EVER!).
Ok, enough bragging, back to the story:
"This is ridiculous! I'm not doing this anymore…especially for a woman!" Derek said angrily after only a few minutes of work, throwing away the vacuum cleaner hose from his hand.
Tatiana lowered the magazine and looked at the enraged man with a cocked eyebrow.
"Go back to work" she said calmly before returning her attention at the article she was reading.
"Now exactly WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" he yelled outraged walking towards the woman "You think you can just enter one's house and boss them around like you own the place?" While Derek was talking, Tatiana lifted herself up from the couch, totally ignoring him, looked for a carpet brush and then picked up the hose "I don't know how it is in your country, lady, but here, we…"
"If you don't wanna vacuum the carpets anymore I guess you want to brush 'em, right?" Tatiana asked interrupting Derek from what he was saying and turning to face him, for he was right behind her because he followed her around the garage.
"WHAT?" he said widening his eyes at the sound of the woman's continuing audacity.
"Here!" she said showing him the brush she had in her left hand.
Derek looked like he was ready to explode of rage, but he kept in mind that it was still a woman he had in front of him, so sticking to his manners, he took a deep breath and calmed down a bit. He then took another good look in Tatiana's eyes and realized she was very serious about him cleaning up the place. Derek tried to reach for the hose that the woman had in her other hand, because vacuuming was easier than brushing in his opinion, but she withdrew her hand and pushed the carpet brush closer to the man's face. The rocker rolled his eyes and grabbed the brush annoyed.
"Okay…I took the brush, but there's no way…" he began, but was interrupted by Tatiana's right leg hitting his ankles lightly and he fell on the floor in his al fours. Noticing the girl looking down at him with a cocked eyebrow and realizing that he had no way out of that, Derek took a deep breath once more and began brushing the carpet, mumbling annoyed in silence at the same time.
Tatiana then went to put the vacuum cleaner away in one of the corners of the garage, but once she did so, something unexpected happened.
"AAAAAHHH!" she screamed out.
"What is it? What happened Tatiana?" asked Tripp concerned while the other three rockers looked in her direction.
"I…I BROKE A NAIL!" Tatiana said almost crying showing the boys her left hand.
The three rockers looked at each other a bit and then gave Tripp an annoyed stare. All the teen could to shrug his shoulders before the others could just roll their eyes and get back to what they were doing.
"Oh man…It's gonna take me forever the fix it!" Tatiana said sadly looking at her broken nail. She then reached for the closest thing she could sit on in order to repair her manicure and that was…Derek's motorcycle.
"And I used the last drop of my favorite nail polish on these!" she said as she sat down and pulled out of her corset-like shirt's décolletage a nail file and started filing her nail.
Burger noticed first that Tatiana sat down on Derek's motorcycle so he immediately pointed it out to Ash. They were both annoyed and at the same time a bit scared of the woman's attitude, so they figured out that Derek might teach her a lesson now, keeping in mind that he would go crazy if anyone would even touch his motorcycle, let alone sitting on it! They both smiled in an evil way and whispered to Derek to look at where Tatiana was sitting. When catching her in his gaze and realizing that she was sitting on his motorcycle, Derek almost felt how his face turned red of fury and his eyes started twitching. Without saying a word, he slowly lifted himself up from the floor and headed to stand right behind Tatiana. She didn't notice anything, for when something happened to her nails or hair, the world would be dead for her. Derek slowly grabbed a tennis racket from nearby, watching Tatiana's frame in extreme, resembling very much the image of some kind of psycho.
"Tatiana…Tatiana…" Tripp was whispering waving his hands desperately to catch the woman's attention "Get off…! GET OFF THE MOTORCYCLE!" he also added whispering so Derek couldn't hear him, after Tatiana turned her attention to him.
"Yeah, yeah…just let me finish fixing my nail!" she said a bit upset of Tripp's interruption from what she was doing.
"Do it! DO IT!" Burger and Ash were gesturing silently to Derek.
Staring down at her angrily, Derek rose up his right hand and looked like he was ready to smash the racket over Tatiana's head, but something stopped him from doing it. It looked like something kept his hand up not allowing it to lower not even a tiny bit and his face, even if it obviously showed burning rage, it also made Derek seem that he was in a battle with himself. The fact that he was gnashing his teeth and his hand was trembling in the air gave a rather scary sight for the ones around him, except for Tatiana of course, who was too busy with her nails and didn't notice anything happening.
"Never raise your hand against a woman" rang in Derek's head.
After the man's sudden revelation, Tatiana finished with her nails and got up from the motorcycle and in the exact same moment, Derek smashed the racket over his own head. The strange noise and the shocked gazes of Tripp, Ash and Burger made the woman turn around and look with a cocked eyebrow at Derek.
"Hmm…had no idea that a racket around the neck is the new fashion among rockers these days…" she said sarcastically.
"No one…touches…my motorcycle…" he simply replied in a shaky, gasping voice, with his hand still on the racket handle and staring bluntly at the object.
"OK…" she said slowly not knowing what to think.
"I think it would be best if you could show us how you can sing a bit sooner…like now…" said Burger a bit hesitantly, backing off a bit scared when Tatiana turned to look at him.
"Or maybe this chick can't even sing…" Derek said returning amazingly quickly to his usual self, approaching Tatiana and glaring at her in the eyes "and she's hiding the fact behind this charade!"
"Yeah…if that's her real name…'Chick'!" said Ash accusingly, also approaching her with Burger.
"No, that's not my real name. It's Tatiana" she stated matter-o-factly.
"SEE!" said Ash pointing his finger at the young woman "I knew it! I bet she's here to spy on us and steal our success!"
"You can barely book a gig…What 'success' is there to be stolen?"
"Well, you little…" Derek began angrily.
"Don't waste bro!" Ash said putting his right hand on Derek's chest to prevent him from what seemed to be the beginning of an attack over the woman "I can prove it to you that she's a spy!" he added starting to make circles around Tatiana "I'll prove that she is a….Russian spy!"
"Cool" Tatiana said chewing on her gum and popping a bubble uncaring.
"I'll test her if she can speak Russian" Ash said to the others, and then turned to the young woman "Can you speak Russian?"
"No" she said quickly and calmly.
"I guess she's not a Russian spy…Then she must be a French spy! Can you speak French?"
"Je n'ai parle pas francais!" her answer came quickly.
"No, she ain't a French spy either" Ash said turning to Derek.
"Who cares what sort of spy she is? All that matters is that she can't sing and came here to put us at work!" Burger interfered.
"YEAH!" Derek and Ash agreed in unison.
"Guys, stop saying that! She's not…" Tripp started coming over at where the others were standing.
"Never opened myself this way
Life is ours, we live it our way
All these words I don't just say
and nothing else matters
Trust I seek and I find in you
Every day for us something new
Open mind for a different view
and nothing else matters"
Tatiana sang amazingly, closing the rockers' mouths around her, the first, being so high, even scaring them a bit. After she finished, Burger, Derek and Ash stared dumbstruck, with open mouths at her.
"Happy now?" she asked sarcastically. The three nodded.
"Then back to work!"
"WHAT?" the three asked in shock shaking their heads.
"Back to work! This place is far from being clean!" she said turning towards the exit.
"Where are you going Tatiana?" Tripp asked curiously.
"To that shop I saw you live close to, to fetch some food" she said before checking her back pockets and adding "and a pack of smokes" and with that, she exited the garage.
"This woman is totally out of control!" said Derek as soon as Tatiana left.
"Yeah! How dare she comes and tells us to clean after ourselves!" protested Burger also.
"Guys, check it out, I'm Tatiana: Aaah! I broke a nail! Ahh! Aah!" said Ash in a girly voice, jumping up and down holding to his right hand which had its index finger pointed up.
"No, I'm Tatiana: Oh, look at me! I'm coming from a small, unknown country and I'm so perfect so I have to boss others around!" said Burger in an even more ridiculous girly voice.
After all of them laughed of the two impersonations of the young lady, Tripp said:
"C'mon guys! Cut her some slack! I mean she's new here in my household and in this country and I'm sure she doesn't mean to be like that!"
"Oh kid! Don't tell me about women! I encountered more than you could ever imagine and that type of woman is the kind who always gets us men into trouble…BIG TROUBLE!" Derek said pointing his finger at the door.
"C'mon Derek! I'm almost sure you acted exactly the same way when you first arrived to the States" Tripp continued with a confident smile "I bet you walked the streets with a cocky smirk on your face, strutting like you owned the place and…"
"I can hardly see the connection!" said Derek obnoxiously before crossing his arms against his chest and continuing "How can one woman be so demonic and evil…That Tat is one impish brat!"
"Wait! What did you say?" asked Tripp.
"Tat, the impish brat!" Derek repeated. His eyes then lit up like he was struck by an idea and when he looked at others, he noticed that they also had that spark in their eyes. Derek then gestured to the others to get to their instruments.
Each of them had something mapped out in their mind, so a new instrumental was made almost instantaneously. Derek also made up some lyrics in his head so he began singing in his microphone:
"Who let the dogs out?
Who let the dogs out?
Who let the dogs out?
Who let the dogs out?"
Burger pretended to be a dog, barking after each time Derek would say the line and after the final time he let out a wolf-like howl.
"As soon as I'm back home she puts me in the leash
I have to do her way or else she will unleash
She doesn't seem the type to play, oh she's no actress
She's more like the type of chick to keep you tied down to the mattress!
She's a demon; she's a femme fatale,
She's a nightmare, oh yeah that's the word to call
But I guess there's nothing good in there, overall!
For she's a sadistic wolf dressed in a sheep
Always hungry for flesh and ready to eat
But at the end all I can say is that:
It's only Tat, the impish brat!
She makes you brush her carpet,
She sends you to the market,
She puts you clean the place till you fall flat on your face!
She knows no mercy, for she'll cut you off
Till you grab to your hair and pull it off
But at the end all I can say is that:
It's only Tat, the impish brat!"
Derek finished the song staying in his knees, the way he would also stay whenever the band finished a song.
"Wow, that was great!" said Tripp while the others were celebrating because of the new song "I just hope Tatiana wasn't anywhere close to hear this!"
"Oh ,relax kid! What do you think that impish brat's gonna do, huh?"
Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you that this chapter was longer but I had to split it in two chapters due to lack of time!
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