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Just wanted to say that :D! Now back to the story:
The morning arrived. Tripp had just finished taking breakfast with his mother, early in the morning before going to school. While eating together, the teen explained to the middle-aged woman that Tatiana didn't reach the band yet, but is under a probation period which slightly unpleased the woman. After seeing the way she acted and dressed the other day, Beth was convinced that Tatiana was nothing but a depraved and vitiated woman who could bring only mishaps to her house and be a rotting influence on her son.
After breakfast, Beth grabbed her bag from the couch in the living room and headed to the door. Exactly that moment, the doorbell rang
"Hey, miss C.!" said Tatiana, after blowing a bubble with her gum, when the door opened.
"Who is it mum?" asked Tripp who had just returned from his room to get his backpack.
"It's…your friend…Tatiana!" Beth said with a tone filled with venom, glaring at the young woman. She then turned to her son with a warm smile and said: "See you later honey!" and she exited passing the girl uncaring.
"Whooa!" Tat said entering the house but not taking her gaze away from the woman who was slowly departing "Someone forgot to her pills this morning!"
Tripp couldn't help but chuckle a bit at Tatiana's sarcastic remark.
"So…I thought we could…" she said slamming the door behind her "Hey wait! Are you going somewhere?" she asked when noticing the way Tripp was dressed and that he had books with him.
"Well yeah…It's Monday so it's a school day!" explained Tripp.
"Wait…you still going to school?" Tat asked surprised.
"Yeah, I'm a freshman!"
"Oh…"
"But you guys could still practice without me. No problems! But…why are you dressed in jogging clothes?" Tripp asked a bit confused.
"I thought I could take the guys to jog with me today before rehearsal…it would do 'em good…" she explained.
"Well, I think that sounds pretty good, judging on how lazy they are…they really need a bit of training from time to time"
"Are they up yet?" she asked.
"No, they're still sleeping! But you can go and wake them up. And I liked the way you dealt with them yesterday but can you be just a little bit more pitiful this time?"
"Okay, okay…" she agreed rolling her eyes.
"Oh, and before I go" Tripp said taking a notebook from the table "Here are the lyrics to all our songs. You'll need to learn them quickly though" he said handing it to the young woman.
"Thanks!" she said beginning to look through it "Hmm…these are a lot of songs! I'll need some time to learn them all perfectly"
"Good luck then! I gotta go now, Jenkins' gonna give me detention if I'm late! See ya' later Tat!" the teen added exiting quickly.
"Bye Tripp!" she greeted before the door shut, and when it did she said to herself: "So today, it's me alone against the weasels…Let game begin!" she then crackled her fingers and headed to the guestroom.
In their bunks, the three rockers where sleeping unimpeded and unaware of what Tat prepared for them. Tatiana promised to Tripp that she would be nicer with the boys this time, so she forced herself to smile and as she opened the door she said in a "warm" tone:
"Guys wake up! Rise and shine sleepy heads!"
There was no answer from their part so Tatiana entered the room and repeated:
"It's morning, wake up dears!" she continued to force herself in a "lovable" tone of voice.
Because there was once again no answer, Tat climbed up to Ash's bunk and whispered to him:
"Ash, wake up, c'mon!"
"Mommy…I don't wanna go to school today…" he whispered in his sleep, pulling his pillow on his face.
"Burger…c'mon! It's morning!" she said lowering a bit to be at the bassist's level, and pulling his bandana up, away from his eyes.
"Oh, ten more minutes and we're off…" he said putting the bandana back on its place on his sleepy eyes.
"Derek!" she whispered getting down and poking a bit the man's shoulder "Wake up, wake up!"
"Not tonight, baby…I'm tired!"
Tatiana withdrew her hand quickly in disgust when hearing what the lead singer let out, before he could turn his back to her to continue his sleep.
"C'mon guys, get up already!" she said loudly, placing her hands on her hips impatient.
"No…" the three let out simultaneously, pulling their sheets on their heads.
"Okay then…we're gonna do it the harder way!" she said in a serious tone before going to the kitchen to fetch a big pot and a wooden spoon.
When she returned to the guestroom, she began hitting the pot loudly with the spoon like a drum, which made the three suddenly wake and scream wildly.
"ATTENTION!" she let out throwing away the pot as soon as the rockers were up.
"Oh, not again…I can't take it anymore!" said Burger looking like he was ready to cry.
"LINE UP!" she yelled at the same time hitting the ground with her foot.
The Weasels did as Tat told them to, Burger and Ash with an obvious bit of fear in their eyes, while Derek looked like holding back a tantrum.
"Weasels…Turn to your right!" she ordered, in order to make them head to the kitchen to take their breakfast.
Derek and Ash turned to their right, but Burger, who was completely confused, kept turning around in different directions.
"Which one is your right, Burger?" Tatiana asked aloud.
"I swear I knew last night!" Burger said almost crying "But I played a little with them and tangled them up and now I'm not sure!" he added moving his two hands in front of his face.
"Burger, come here!" Derek said motioning to his bassist to come stand next to him instead of Ash "The right hand is the one with which you write!"
"Then that means I'm a cripple 'cause I can't write!" Burger said dramatically.
"The right hand is the one with which you eat!" Derek explained, slapping Burger's belly a little.
"I eat with both of them…and with my feet too!" Derek rolled his eyes "And when I'm hungry I stick my head in!"
"Well then…just stand next me and do what I do!"
"Turn to your right!" Tatiana repeated.
Ash and Derek turned to their right, and now, so did Burger thanks to the lead singer.
"To the kitchen. MARCH!"
"How dare you, madam! I am no animal to be told to march!" Derek yelled offended.
"How dare you, madam! He is no animal to be told to march!" Burger also yelled out, impersonating the man's British accent.
"What are you doing, Burger?" Derek asked with his jaw dropped.
"You told me to do what you do, dude!"
"And from now on you'll always do what I do?" the lead singer asked sarcastically.
"I can't wait to go to the garage and practice!" Burger said grinning, which made Derek roll his eyes.
"You three, kitchen, NOW!" she let out exasperated which made the three finally leave to the kitchen.
Derek, Burger and Ash ate their breakfast, which consisted in cereals, in grave silence due to the fact that Tatiana was standing right behind them and breathing in the back of their necks. During their silent meal, Ash and Burger gave a very serious gaze to Derek, who was standing in the middle, like asking: "Why didn't you kick her out when you had the chance…?" The lead singer noticed so he simply mouthed them "Relax, I know what I'm doing" before continuing to eat.
"I'll wash those for you, don't worry!" Tatiana said as the boys finished eating from their bowls.
"Yaay!" they let out in unison happily.
"You guys have to go put on some running clothes" she added calmly.
"WHAT?" they asked in one voice, surprised.
"You'll be jogging with me this morning. You guys need some serious training. If you want Iron Weasel to be as successful as it was when you were young, then you certainly need to look the way you did when you were young!" she explained.
"That makes sense!" said Ash nodding his head.
"Let me get this straight Tatiana: we don't jog and we don't train and there's no way you'll make us do it!" Derek also explained in a calm but superior tone.
"And why not?" she asked.
"Because you're not telling us what to do! At least not in this house, Tat!" Derek said.
"And why exactly 'not in this house'?" she asked with a calm which made Derek more and more furious.
"Because you're not the owner of this house, Tripp is and we're only listening to what he says!" he said nearly throwing a tantrum "And keeping that in mind you should be the one listening to us, we're living under this roof, not you. You're a guest here!"
"And keeping mind that you're not the owners of this house, but also guests because you live in three bunk in the GUESTroom due to the fact that you're broke and homeless, why you should I listen to you?" she asked sarcastically.
"Well played…" Derek smiling and nodding his head.
"Ok then, off you go to change your clothes!" she said clapping her hands to make them haste.
"Oh, Tat…We don't need training, we're all good!" said Burger, sitting back on his chair.
"Looked in the mirror lately?" she said sarcastically, looking up and down Burger's body scared and then added turning to the others "You know, you guys need to have in you weight something beside body fat…like muscles…"
"Well, what do you think those are?" Derek asked slapping his biceps "I used to be a dumbbell addict when I was young!" he added cockily.
"Oh, really?" Tatiana asked sounding pretty impressed. Derek nodded "Well then, why don't you tense a bit so I can check it out Schwarzenegger?"
Derek did as Tat asked him to, tensing his right arm, but when doing so he looked like he was painfully struggling, and in the end it was obvious that there was no trace of "muscle" on the lead singer's arm. Tatiana looked at Derek's arm with a cocked eyebrow and, holding back a chuckle at the sight of his wretched expression, she put her hand on the man's biceps and let out unimpressed:
"Aha…Soft as diarrhea"
After Tat took her hand off, Derek stopped tensing immediately and began gasping like he had just finished doing an extremely uneasy physical task. When noticing that, Tatiana simply said:
"Take it easy, British boy!"
"She called him British boy…" Burger said to Ash before they both began laughing of Derek's new nickname.
"Don't you ever call me that again!" the man said angrily towards Tat.
"Whatever you want, British boy!" she added patting his head which made the drummer and the bassist laugh even harder "Now, as I was saying: You guys need to train some more, I promise that it will be worth it at the end of the day. You'll feel much better and you'll look much better, you'll look very much like…me!"
"You mean we'll have a big chest, long nails and we'll start wearing make up?" asked Ash.
"We won't subject to your word and this is final! We are not jogging!" Derek said wanting to end the discussion, crossing his arms simultaneously with the other weasels.
"Okay then…" she said before beginning to think deeply about what to tell them in order to persuade them "Hot girls like men who train" she said.
And right after Tat finished her sentence, the rockers headed amazingly quickly to their room to change their clothes for running.
"So predictable…" she said laughing and gathering the bowls from the table.
"Umm…Tat?" asked Derek who returned for a few seconds in the kitchen.
"What?" Tatiana turned smiling from the sink but when noticing it was only the lead singer her smile vanished.
"If I work out, how many girls you think I'd get?" he asked cockily.
"You?" she asked with a cocked eyebrow. Derek nodded "In your case: none, only a few drags!" she added before laughing at him.
"Why you little…"
"C'mon Derek, we gotta go change!" said Ash and Burger who came from behind and grabbed Derek's arms, dragging him away.
"This isn't over! You wait and see…you're so gonna regret this!" he said as he was dragged away.
"Aha…" Tat said yawning and turning back at washing the bowls.
