Summary: Remake of my original story "Bluebells and Lavenders". Drastic change ahead, beware!
My beta reader is BluebellsAndLavender, so if there is any problem with the grammar, feel free to take it up with her!
"speaking"
'thoughts'
The main characters are in their senior years (grade 12).
A/N: Today's chapter title is by P!nk.
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An Ikarishipping Fanfiction
Re: Bluebells and Lavenders
Chapter Fifteen
"Funhouse"
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Previously...
"Wrong again, Leaf." Brendan chimed. He sauntered towards the entrance and stopped midway. Brendan turned his head over and gave his three girl friends a sly yet knowing smile. "You coming or what?"
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Upon entering the building, Funhouse, the three girls were shocked with a mixture of awe and nervousness.
"What's up with these crazy-ass clowns?" Leaf asked quietly.
"It's a theme they have. Every month is different. Guess this month are clowns." Brendan explained without even flinching at all the horror-movie-like clowns that roamed around.
Dawn, Leaf and May were glad there were actual some people in the club who were in normal attire instead of white pasty faces, red thick cheeks and goofy clothes unlike some people in the club.
"This is starting to get creepy." May whispered to her two equally scared friends.
"Brendan!"
The boy looked around and glimmered with happiness as he embraced someone in a hug. May, Leaf and Dawn stood there and observed their friend acting chummy with someone else.
"It's been a while since I've seen you here," he said. Thankfully, he was one of the normal ones. He wasn't wearing any clown outfits. No overly-large shoes, no red nose, no nothing. Just a simple plaid button-up shirt, black tank top, skinny jeans with a dazzling chain that looped from the front to the back pocket and a pair of converse.
May leaned in to the other two girls with her and whispered. "Hey, that guy's pretty cute..."
Dawn nodded. Leaf however only laughed and said that that kid wouldn't stand a chance against her.
"How have you been?" Brendan asked.
"Good, good. It's been getting crazy here in Funhouse. We've gotten a lot of clienteles and everything. We're even thinking about renovating some of the private rooms here to something more subdued and friendly."
He nodded. "Good. Because the rooms you guys have now are still forever creepy."
The boys laughed, completely ignoring the girls existence.
"How about that boyfriend of yours? How's he been doing? You guys haven't been clawing at each others throats, right?"
"Boyfriend?" May clamped her mouth shut with her hands as she realized she had said that a bit too loud. Loud enough for the two boys to hear.
"I see you brought friends." Said the guy as he playfully winked at the red-faced May. He turned over to Brendan and smirked. "What are you building here? A harem of girls or something?"
Brendan laughed. "Please. These three are much too delicate to handle me, if you know what I mean."
Leaf scrunched her face up and pretended to gag. "Okay, ew much? That's just nasty. You're not even my type." She pointed to Brendan.
The boy feigned hurt and pressed the palm of his hand against his chest. "I'm hurt, Leaf! I thought we had something special going on."
"Please..." She rolled her eyes in disgust.
"You going to introduce us, Brendan?" May pondered while she continued to look at the very attractive guy in front of her.
He chuckled. "Right, sorry." He faced his male friend with a smile. "This is-"
Before Brendan could even say his friends name, a loud crash was heard in the background. Brendan's friend groaned and excused himself before he rushed into the heart of the club to see what had happened.
"Dammit," May cussed.
Leaf giggled and gently pat her shoulder. "It's okay, hun. You'll get a chance to know the guy... In like, never, ha ha!"
May pouted and crossed her arms.
"And you heard what Brendan said. Boyfriend. So whether or not he's gay or bisexual, you don't stand a chance. He's taken." Leaf continued.
May waved her hand and dismissed the taller girls' assumption. "Yeah, yeah. Whatever..."
"You'll always have Drew." Dawn added happily. However, with that being said, May turned as red as burning sun up in the sky and tried her best to glower at Dawn.
"You're cute when you try to look intimidating." Leaf commented while she gave Dawn a fist bump.
"Sh-shut up!" She squeaked.
"Come on," Brendan started. "We should check up on what made that loud noise."
The girls nodded and they four of them rushed inside. There was a crowd of people that had surrounded whatever it was that made the crash. They squeezed in past the normal people and the evil clowns. In the middle of the giant human-circle was a girl with drill-like pigtails and a couple of shattered glass around her. On the ground was a dorky looking guy. There was blood on and around him.
Dawn gasped. "That girl..."
Leaf's eyes remained on the sight before her as she turned her head towards Dawn. "What?"
"I've seen her before," she whispered. "She goes to our school."
"Hey... Yeah, you're right." May interjected.
Brendan adjusted his glasses and frowned. "Her name's Ursula. She's a grade below us."
The bluenette groaned and wiped her face with her hands, gently pulling down her skin.
"What's wrong?" Asked May.
Dawn twiddled her fingers and looked down at the shards of glass. "Well... I kind of bumped into her in the halls. Then she got really pissy and I kind of made fun of her pigtails..."
Brendan gasped.
The three girls shot their head around to him with raised brows.
"What? What's the matter?"
"You never say something like that to Ursula!" He hissed worriedly.
"H-how come?" Dawn clutched her hands together tightly.
"Her parents are damn filthy rich. Her mother is on the school board – hell, she's the executive. If you say anything bad to Ursula, she'll tattle on you like one of those tyrant Queen's or something. Not to mention her mother can have you kicked out of school!" He warned.
Dawn's heart was pounding ridiculously loud. Her palms began to sweat and her stomach churned with the elegance of a blender turning fruits into delicious smoothies. "Oh fck."
"Oh fck is right, Dawn." Brendan added as he patted her back. "You better watch out for her, Dawn. Ursula is trouble."
May turned her attention from Dawn to Brendan. "And how do you know so much about this Ursula chick?"
"She's in my textiles class." He said bluntly. But he then started to tap on Dawn's shoulder to add one more thing. "Oh yeah. And it turns out that Ursula is Solidad's cousin."
"Wait what?"
He nodded. "Yeah. I couldn't believe it either. But last year when I was a community service student for Solidad, I saw a picture of her and Ursula with a bunch of people around them. I was curious and asked her about it. That's when Solidad said that Ursula's her cousin and shit."
"Well then..." May paused.
"That's just great... So very, fcking, great..." Dawn finished and she dropped her head into her hands.
"I told you to get lost!"
The current three friends heard Ursula shrilled. Everyone made way for the poor lanky boy to run from her. He tripped midway and his glasses slid across the ground and over to Dawn. She picked them up and made her way over to him. She stretched her hand out while the other held onto the glasses.
"Need some help?" She asked him.
The boy looked up from the floor. It was hard to see his eyes being that they were covered by what Dawn thought was dark green hair – and of course the dark lighting in the room didn't help either. He smiled and took her hand and stood up with the support of her hand and generosity.
"Here," Dawn said as she passed his glasses back to him.
"T-thank you..." he whispered. He bowed and rushed off out of the club.
"Oh would you look at that? It's the bitch who said my pigtails were some sort of fcking weapons."
Dawn flinched as Ursula called her a name. Her head rose and her lips formed a subtle thin line. "Well if it isn't drill head." She shot back.
Ursula clenched her fists and stopped the ground. It was so powerful and loud that people could have mistaken it as an earthquake. She strode over to Dawn and looked her straight in the eye.
"You think you're all nice and shit? Well guess what, bitch. Once you mess with me, I make your life a living hell. So you better watch your fcking back." She spat.
Dawn blinked for a moment and wiped her face. This prompted Ursula to fume even more.
"Well then. I'll look forward to what you have in store. What are you going to do, anyways? Have me expelled?" She laughed.
"Please," she scoffed and folded her arms in front of her. "That'd be way too easy. Besides, I heard you and my darling Paul are working on some assignment."
She had to do a double take at Ursula's statement. "What does he have to do with anything?"
Ursula sneered at the older girl. "He's mine. Sluts aren't allowed to go anywhere near my man. And since you're working with him, I have no choice but to make your life at Veilstone Academy horrible."
"Hey!" Dawn shouted. "I'm not a slut. And it wasn't my choice to be partnered up with him! He volunteered to be my partner! The damn asshat is already making my life at school hell!"
Slap!
Gasps were thrown out of each and everyone's mouths.
"Dawn!" Her friends shouted. They rushed in towards the middle of the girls argument and supported Dawn with whatever she needed.
She however was perfectly fine. She held her hand up to the scorching mark that was left by Ursula.
"Don't you fcking talk about my man like that, you whore!" Ursula boomed. She pushed Dawn and her friends to make a path for her to leave. Dawn was too stunned to do anything. Her fingers grazed the battle scar while her eyes just stared at the place where Ursula once stood.
"Arceus frick..." Leaf muttered. She gently grabbed Dawn by the shoulders, her sea blue eyes met with Dawn's once dazzling blue eyes. "Dawn. Dawn, are you okay?"
"Leaf, if you hadn't forgotten, Ursula fcking slapped Dawn! And now, our friend is frozen stiff from the aftershock!" May exclaimed as she threw her hands in the air.
"That little bitch..." Leaf hissed through her teeth. "She's going to get it."
Brendan put his hand on Leaf's arm. "Whoa there. You need to calm down."
"How exactly can I do that!? That spoiled princess slapped my friend and called her a bunch of names!" Leaf barked.
May nodded. "And now Dawn's broken! How can you not be mad, too? She's your friend, isn't she?"
He sighed and scratched his head. "Yes. Dawn's my friend. But in case you guys didn't remember, Ursula's mother is the executive in the school board. Even if you complain to the school about Ursula, her mother is going to brush it off. Hell, they may even pay their way out of trouble. And that would only get you guys expelled or something. We need to think this thing through. We can't go willy-nilly about this. Ursula may be a rotten egg, but she's freaking cunning and sly."
May's brows arched upwards as she looked over at Dawn. She unconsciously held onto Brendan's arm for comfort – though he didn't mind at all. Leaf however was the opposite of May. She was ready to murder Ursula at any moment. Her eyes grew pitch black that one would think she's some sort of monster.
"What the fck's her problem?" Leaf snapped. Her gaze continued to rest on the exit and entrance of the club. Hoping that Ursula was still there so she could do the same thing Ursula did to her friend.
Brendan shrugged. "Don't know. But we ought to get out of here..."
May and Leaf nodded in agreement as they held onto Dawn. They took her away from Funhouse and made their way to Leaf's red convertible.
Dawn, still stunned, tried to go through everything that had just happened before the physical abuse. Her mind blanked on her countless of times, but that only made her try to think more about it.
'What even happened?' She thought. 'Okay... So... Ursula's mad... Something about Paul being her boyfriend or something... Which is really weird because not once have I seen them together... But then again... It's high school. Maybe they want a secret relationship? Ack! I'm getting off track here!'
"Is her seat belt fastened?" Asked Leaf as she revved up her car.
"Yup," May replied.
"This is not going to go over too well..." Brendan whispered.
"If I see that bitch at school. I'm most definitely going to give her a piece of my mind." Leaf threatened and drove off.
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A/N: Sorry about how slow the story's goin'. If you guys hadn't noticed yet, each day in the story is five chapters long. So this is the last chapter for a specific day (in this case, Thursday) and chapter 16 will be Friday. And I'll give you a small hint for that. In the last two chapters for the "Friday" section will have Dawn movin' in with Paul. Until then, ya'll got to wait a bit.
And regarding time skip – I actually haven't thought about that, but I think I will probably use that. In the later later chapters I mean, but yeah. Anyways, thanks for readin'!
-EPRika-