Lemonade Mouth
TLC
Chaptered
Written by Lavender
Not owning Lemonade Mouth. If I did, Rayella would be canon.
(^^)
Stella left the bathroom to give Ray some personal time and went to change her slightly wet clothes. When she re-entered his room, he was sitting on his bed, a clean pair of sweats and a towel hanging over his shoulders as he dried his blonde hair.
He was looking much better than he had on Friday. Stella thought as she came up beside him and waved the pink ointment container at him.
Ray removed the towel hanging over his shoulders. "Alright, let's get this over with."
"Oh come on, it's not that bad."
"It's not the medicine, it's your hands."
"What about them?" she demanded, her brow arched. "They're cold," Ray muttered. Stella shook her head at him and said, "Alright fine," she took his towel from him, which wasn't that damp, and rubbed her hands quickly over it, from there she poured the contents of the container and rubbed it over her palms. "Sit still."
Her smooth hands ran over the planes of his chest and shoulders, gently applying the ointment over his coarse skin.
There was always this silence when she was putting the medicine on him, and Ray didn't know whether to be annoyed or happy about it. The spit was gathering in his throat and he swallowed deeply and cleared his throat. "Bell, Annabelle."
"Her name?" Stella asked, looking him in the eye for a second and then continuing with her task.
"Yeah, she was about two years older than I was."
She waited patiently as she kneaded the taut muscles of his forearms. "She didn't go to Mesa. Bell went to this music school in New York since she started high school."
"Is that why no one mentions her at school?"
"No one knows about her."
"Oh." Stella moved silently behind him and spread the ointment on his back. "Bell came to visit a year and a half ago; she went to my soccer match. I didn't know she was there, only when I found her tripping all over herself after the match did I realize she was back." Ray paused and Stella tried to soften her ministrations.
"Since no one knew I had a sister, when Bell was asking for me, Patty and Jules thought that it wouldn't matter if they could play around with her. Bell didn't do alcohol or drugs or any of that shit. She was like Aunt Claire, obsessed with this whole cleansing thing. During the match, Jules and Patty spiked her water bottle. Since she's never had any alcoholic anything ever, her tolerance for it was practically non-existent." He inhaled sharply. "I found her after the game ended, luckily we lost or else someone else would've found Bell."
"I was pissed from losing and I was even more pissed when I found out that my sister was drunk." He chuckled bitterly. "I shoved her in the car and I drove us home. I was angry as hell and Bell's state wasn't helping…No one should drive drunk. I shouldn't drive when I'm mad."
Ray was slumping now and Stella was sure he'd start crying, but he didn't and simply kept on talking somewhat mechanically, "I didn't see the car that was coming too fast to stop at the red and I went through the green anyway. Next thing I know, I'm in a hospital bed and someone's telling me my sister didn't make it."
Stella had siblings. But she never thought about what it would be like if one of them died.
She couldn't imagine it now; an empty bed in the twins' room, an empty seat at the dinner table and only two sets of mud-tracks during a rainy day when school ended instead of three. There were reminders everywhere. Even if she wasn't particularly close to her twin brothers, Stella wouldn't be able to take it if one or both were to disappear suddenly.
Inwardly she promised herself that she'd hug them more.
The thought that one of them could disappear at anytime made her choke and even if Ray wasn't on the verge of tears she was shaking like leaf. She clutched Ray's back, forgetting about the ointment she just put on him.
He seemed surprised by the sudden weight and contact, and Ray sighed as he felt Stella's warm breath coming out in quick rasps beside his ear. Somehow even though she wanted to offer him some sort of comfort, he was giving some to her as well.
"I don't know how you can still stand Jules and Patty after that," she managed to murmur. "Scott talked me out of publicly butchering them, but it wouldn't matter, they'd still be hanging around anyway."
Stella was still hugging his back, her arms tucking themselves through his arms and clutching onto his shoulders, her head tucked in Ray's neck. "How'd…how'd you deal with it?" she asked slowly.
"I didn't," he said softly. "I just, hope it doesn't happen again. It helps that I'm not good with people. The only people I have to worry about are Izzy and my parents, and Scott I guess, but that normally just depends on whether I'm in a good enough mood to care about him, heh, he doesn't need me to worry about him because he makes people care about him. Like you, you've got a lot of people to lose; your fans, the Lemon Heads, your family."
"And you and Izzy," she added softly, as she smiled slightly, "Let's face it, if I don't have you, I'd be bored at school."
"Well you've gone on three days without me over there. You seem alright to me," Ray said, smirking. "Oh trust me, just because I'm still breathing doesn't mean I'm enjoying it."
"Well you seem to be enjoying hugging me."
"Yeah, my shirt appreciates it too," she joked as she pulled away from him and handing him a clean shirt. "I should change, again."
Stella slipped out of the bed and walked to the door, not daring to look at him just in case he saw the slight pink on her face which had nothing to do with the ointment.
xXx
To Stella
From Olivia
I'm meeting Wen at Dante's.
WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?
xXx
As Stella entered the hallway, Izzy was walking by and smiled at her. "So, he's okay?"
"How can you tell?"
"Your shirt's pink, so you must've hugged."
"Great, now I've got an indicator?"
"Yeah, though I'd never thought it would pink…you look more like a purple to me…"
xXx
To Stella
From Wen
I think I just asked Liv out.
Oh god.
HELP!
xXx
To Wen
From Stella
What's so bad about that? I thought you liked her
xXx
To Olivia
From Stella
You're asking the wrong person here.
Call Mo.
xXx
To Stella
From Wen
Well what should I wear?
xXx
To Wen
From Stella
Clothes preferably
xXx
About an hour and a half later, Izzy and Stella were sitting on Ray's bed with a board game in front of them. The box from the game was turned upwards with the words: FUNNY HA-HA on top of it.
"Okay your turn Izzy," Stella said, re-crossing her legs. "Okay," Izzy rolled the dice and moved the piece across the board and landed on a picture of a waiter.
"Oh no, another cheesy restaurant joke," Ray groaned.
"Shut up, it's not my fault that I got all the stupid cards," Izzy grumbled as she looked through her cards. "Okay, here's one! 'Waiter, waiter do you have Chicken legs?' The waiter turns and says, 'No sir this is how I walk'."
Both Ray and Stella were making Lemonade Mouths as they tried not to chuckle, but Izzy burst out laughing at the sight of them.
"Hah, pay up, five coins," Stella claimed pointing at the centre of the board.
Izzy pouted. "That's not fair! Your faces were too funny!"
"Too bad, you laughed first," Ray stated as he rolled the dice for his turn. He moved his piece across the board and it landed on a funny face. Stella and Izzy looked at each other, and started pulling faces at him to laugh. It didn't work until Stella took a sip of her lemonade (which she went to the grocery store for) and made a Lemonade Mouth.
The Beech siblings burst out laughing and Stella pointed at both of them. "Pay up!"
Two more turns later, everyone was broke. "Aw that sucks, no one won!"
"I swear someone put laughing gas in this room or something," Stella stated as she packed the board game away and placed it on the foot of Ray's bed. "Well that sucked," Izzy claimed with a pout. "Okay, new rule," Ray claimed, "First one to laugh loses."
A silence ensued and Stella was looking between the very stoic faces of the Beech siblings.
She chewed on her lower lip for a second and sent a look towards Ray, who raised a brow at her. Stella looked quickly back at Izzy who was looking interestedly at Ray's blanket in front of her. There was a silent communication as both teenagers reached over to Izzy and started to tickle her.
Loud laughter echoed around the room as the eight year old tried to escape the clutches of her older brother and their babysitter.
Izzy fell over the bed in her attempts at escape and both teenagers high-fived.
"Evil!" the eight-year old screeched, standing up quickly to point at them accusingly.
She was met by the unusual sight of Ray and Stella, still holding each other's hands and leaning towards each other as if lost in the moment. Izzy couldn't resist the urge to interrupt, "Are you two gonna kiss?" Both their heads snapped in her direction and they practically jumped away from each other. "NO!" they both shouted. Izzy snickered.
"I knew Stella was bad at lying, but I never knew you were Ray."
To be continued
Aren't kid sister's the best? By the way the game they were playing is called Funny, Ha-ha. Don't laugh, don't smile and you'll win. But other than that, thanks to all my reviewers who reviewed chapter six:
GrapeGal: I wish I knew how play XD
booklover51089: Funny words!
Xbrowneyesx13: Yeah…I kinda figured XD
Princesakarilita411: Hope you liked it!
: Haha I'm glad you liked their interaction. Sorry that you don't like Izzy though, she just an add-on anyway…
airyfaerie99: I'm not sure about that actually, my friend recently had it and she was ranting to me about it yesterday…she could've been over exaggerating, but in any case…Happy bdaeee to your siblings! My sister's ten too :) And whoa, are they twins?
When I Make It Shine: Glad you liked how they act around each other, hope this chapter answered any questions about Bell..?
ElleBelle: VERY REVERSED. Though I think that would be quite awkward on its own…XD
Lemonademouthluver: Here's an update!
Everybodyelse07: Haha I UNDERSTOOD AGAIN! YAY! Aw…school started already? Well actually, my break only started 24 June and it ends this Thursday which doesn't make sense because we'll only be at school on Friday and then its weekend again…pffttthhh stupid people XD From now on, Tagalog reviews XD
Thanks for reading chapter seven, leave me a line with your thoughts!
Lavender