AN: sorry i havent updated in almost a week! but i've been really busy with hw, etc. anyways, heres chapter 4! plez enjoy! and to david and eric- ur welcome about dr d's place xD
"WHAT!" Everyone in the diner exclaimed, excluding Poison and me. "I'm sorry, but it's too dangerous to stay here." Poison said, slightly cringing at the evil glares being shot his way. "No way! I'm tired of running. Let's just face our enemies." Ghoul said with a pout. "We don't stand a chance if we stay here! That's why we're going to go stay with Dr. Deathdefying. Pony already skated over there after the fight." Poison replied, scowling at Ghoul.
"When do we leave?" Kobra asked with a sigh, looking quite depressed. I walked over to where he was sitting and patted his back, "We leave tomorrow. We're waking up bright and early, so everyone should get to sleep soon." "Good idea! I'm tired from watching your fight this afternoon!" Missile said with a laugh. I smiled and waved at her as she turned to leave, but almost screamed as a hand grabbed my shoulder and spun me around. Kobra looked at me oddly and asked if I could get up so he could get out of the booth.
"Oh, sure, sorry…" I mumbled as I stood up. "G'night everyone, see you in the morning!" C.C. said while leaving to her room. Before I knew it, Ghoul and I were the only ones remaining in the room. I looked over at him and frowned at his expression; he still appeared upset. "Ghoul, don't be sad. I know the diner is your home but-" "That's not why I'm sad!" he shouted. "Shh! You're gonna wake everyone up!" "Woops…" "So why are you sad?" "Cause… Cause… Cause you lied! You said we could paint the car tomorrow but you're a liar!" he screamed, breaking down and crying.
"No, no, no; Ghoul calm down! We're still painting the car in the morning- that's why we're waking up so early!" I screamed back. I realized how loud we were and slapped my hand over my mouth. While holding a finger over my mouth, I pointed to the back of diner towards the rooms. I waved to Ghoul before dashing to my room as silently as possible, shutting the door softly behind me. With a sigh, I climbed into bed, not even bothering to change. Sleep soon took control as I entered dreamland.
"ROSE! ROSE! ROSE!" Wow, what a great way to be woken up. I cracked one eye open to see who this evil person was, "Ghoul. WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" He stopped jumping on my bed like a child and climbed onto the floor. "It's morning! Time to paint the car!" he exclaimed, overly excited for this early in the morning.
I flipped him off and tried to go back to sleep, only to have him yell "WAKE UP" a million times. I leaped out of my bed and glared at him. "Ghoul, if you don't get out of here in five seconds, I'll paint the car with your blood." He turned extremely pale and wordlessly left the room. I sighed and walked over to the door, locking it. I did not want anymore unwelcome visitors.
I walked towards the dresser and realized I should have packed last night. Everything I brought with me I pulled out of he drawer and folded them on the bed, with some difficulty. I picked out some clothes for today: a black t-shirt that had some holes on the sleeves, and a pair of dark gray shorts- I couldn't care less if I got paint on these.
I grabbed my boots and was half way through lacing them when I heard a knock on my door. "…Rose?" "What is it Ghoul?" I said, harsher then I intended. I could tell he cringed. "I just wanted to say how sorry I am… Do you forgive me?" I finished lacing my boots and walked over to the door. Yanking it open, I jumped when I saw Ghoul standing in front of it, head down, and his hair covering his eyes.
"Ghoul?" I said softly; he looked up. "I can't stay mad at you!" I said, giving him a hug. "Now, help me put my stuff in the car, then we can start painting." "Alright!" he exclaimed, grabbing half of my stuff and darting out the front door; I jogged after him. We put my stuff in the trunk and I hoped that everyone else's stuff would fit as well.
"Can we paint now? Please!" Ghoul begged. "Not without the others! Speaking of which, where the hell are they?" I asked, looking around and noticing that we were alone.
"Oh, umm… Ok first, promise not to kill me." "Why would I kill you?" "Just promise already!" "Ok, ok! I promise!" "Good." "Now tell me, where is everyone!" "They're all still asleep… I was too excited about painting the car that I stayed up all night. The sun just barely came up when I woke you…" Ghoul explained, not meeting my gaze.
I narrowed my eyes at Ghoul, feeling anger rising up inside me. But realization set in; just before yelling at him I bit my tongue and placed my hand gently on his shoulder, telling him I forgave him. "So, you're not mad?" he asked, his voice sounding unsure. "Not at all. Besides, I just came up with the best plan ever!" I exclaimed, grabbing hold of his shoulders and shaking him lightly. He gave me an unconvinced look, so I whispered my plan to him.
"We're gonna need lots of pots and pans, or anything else we could use to make lots of noise. Catch my drift?" Ghoul nodded and an evil grin spread across both our faces. He led me behind the counter and opened up some cabinets. Reaching inside, he passed me a variety of bowls and metal pots/pans. Once we had about 10, we decided that that would be enough, and gathered them up in our arms. Unfortunately, my arm was still in pain because of the wound- so this hurt like crazy! But I kept quiet.
"I'll take the left side, you take the right." Ghoul said in a hushed tone. I nodded and we went our separate ways. Standing in the middle of the hall, I started counting down from five, and Ghoul joined me. "5, 4, 3, 2, 1!" we exclaimed, dropping whatever we had in our arms. The diner suddenly filled with noise, and I could hear doors being ripped off their hinges from the other half of the diner.
Suddenly, the door closest to me on my right tore open and a half-asleep half-about-to-fucking-kill Party Poison stood in the doorway. Next, the remaining doors flew open as well, and I was face to face with some very pissed off killjoys. Kobra Kid, Jet Star, and C.C. were all wearing the same expression as Poison. I burst out in laughter and was practically rolling on the floor, when I heard a strange noise from the opposite side of the diner. I got to my feet and slowly, cautiously, walked to the other side, the others close on my heels.
What I saw completely shocked me: Missile had Ghoul pinned to the floor and was (what appeared to be her attempt at) strangling him. His eyes were wide with fear, and when he saw me, he reached out his hand. I lurched forward and managed to pull Missile off of him and pulled her as far from Ghoul as possible. He sat up and gasped for air, holdig a hand to his throat. I looked up and saw Street Mime had witnessed the whole ordeal and had a wicked grin on his face.
The diner suddenly filled with noise once again, but this time with laughter. "Hey!" Ghoul exclaimed, struggling to his feet. The laughter stopped and we all turned to face him, "She almost killed me!" Laughter filled the room once again. "Alright, alright, enough!" I shouted, "Let's go paint the car!" With that, we all charged out of the diner.
"Alright! I think we're done!" Poison exclaimed. I walked around my car again and again and I almost didn't recognize it. I had been laboring over a large, black desert spider that I painted all across the hood with Ghoul and Poison's help. Everyone else worked on some other section of the car. There was an American flag painted across the left side, and on the right there were the words "NA NA NA."
"Hey," I asked, everyone looked up. "What does 'NA NA NA' mean? It kinda sounds like song lyrics…" "Oh… Sorry… It's just something that was in my head…" Poison said, looking down and kicking at the desert floor. "Sorry? Don't be! It sounds awesome! In fact, that gives me an idea…" after saying this, I got questioning looks from everyone, I shrugged them off. "Come on, let's get going; Dr. D's waiting for us." Kobra said, gesturing to the amazing car.
We all piled in and it was extremely cramped- the car could only fit 5 comfortably. Poison offered to drive and I gladly accepted. I sat up front and shared the passenger seat with Missile. Ghoul, C.C., Kobra, Street, and Jet all squeezed into the backseat. Everyone looked extremely uncomfortable at this situation, so Poison asked for the third time if everyone had what they needed before left- and for the third time everyone said yes. Poison revved the engine and tore off into the desert, leaving behind the diner in a cloud of dust.
The idea that I still had previously was still in my head, so I decided to give it a shot. "Ahem." I said, clearing my throat; everyone looked towards me. Once I was positive I had everyone's attention, I began: "NA NA NA NA NA NA NA!" I exclaimed in my best singing voice. Everyone glanced at each other awkwardly before C.C. decided to sing along with me. Poison shrugged and sang his own lyrics, "Drugs! Gimme drugs, gimme drugs! I don't need it, but I'll sell what you got, take the cash, and I'll keep it!" "Eight legs to the wall!" Jet suddenly exclaimed.
"Hit the gas! Kill 'em all!" Ghoul added. "And we crawl, and we crawl, and we crawl!" C.C. continued. "You be my detonator!" I yelled, pointing at Poison and adding a wink. He began to blush a deep red and this caused me to laugh. We continued like, exclaiming lyrics that barely made any sense (ok, didn't make any sense) but still fit perfectly, until Poison concluded our song with, "Pull this pin! Let this world explode!"
The car erupted with cheers, and I could still hear people humming or whistling our new song. "That was totally the best idea- EVER!" Missile exclaimed, tuning and hugging me. "Almost there guys!" Poison said cheerily, though his expression was drained. "Thanks for driving, Poison." I said once Missile and I had stopped hugging. "No problem. Hey, we're here!" he exclaimed, stopping the car.
I looked up and saw a building that was painted emerald green, and appeared to be an old restaurant. Upon further inspection, I discovered it was an old Fresh Choice. Everyone started to get their things out of the car, when Pony skated over to us. "About time you finally got here!" he exclaimed jokingly. "We got your rooms set up for you; come on!" We all gathered up our thing and hurried inside after him. Pony led us to the back of the building, where I assumed the rooms were.
He pointed to the first door on the right side f the hallway and said, "This is where the girls will stay. This," he said while pointing to the door opposite ours, "is where the guys will stay. If there's not enough room, you may use the room next to the girl's." We all nodded. "You all must be tired from the drive over here." Pony continued. "Yes we all are- we were woken up terribly." Poison said, glaring at me and Ghoul; we giggled.
"Then you should get some rest. If you're not up to sleep, then come meet us in the living room. See ya'!" Pony said before skating away. The other girls and I walked into our room and I shut the door behind us; we were all tired. "I got dibs on this bed!" Missile yelled while leaping onto the bed on my right. There were three rooms in total: one against the back wall, one to my left, and one to my right (the one Missile had chosen).
"No fair!" C.C. said. "Rose and I didn't even get a chance to look around!" The two continued arguing like sisters would, and I could feel tears filling my eyes.
(Flashback)
"No fair!" my little sister yelled. "It's totally fair! I'm older, I get to choose first!" I yelled back. We continued to argue, but eventually worked it out, just like we always did. We were such close sisters, but she was also my best friend. The one person I cared about the most…
"Oh my gosh, Rose; are you alright?" C.C. asked, walking over to my side and wiping away some tears. "I'm fine." I responded, my voice shaky and unconvincing. C.C. took my hand and led me over to the bed that was against the wall. "You should get some rest, we all need to. When we wake up, we can go find the others." I nodded and crawled under the covers. C.C. turned off the light, and fell into her own bed; soon we all fell into a deep and much needed sleep.