Hey people! So yeah, 2nd chapter. See you at the bottom!
Chloe POV
I stepped back instinctively, hunching forward a little, attempting to shield myself even a little from the dark, towering figure across the clearing.
"I'd say I'm sorry, but really, I'm not," I told Derek, smirking slightly. He growled.
"You think putting these, pink stripes on to me is funny?" he snapped at me, and I just couldn't resist taunting him a little more.
"Actually, yes! Oh, by the way, I found out how your fur relates to your hair," I told him.
"What? Alright, I have to hear this one. Go ahead, surprise me," he muttered.
"Well, it seems to me that it goes like this: you know how you're completely black as a wolf, and how your hair is black? Well, whatever happens to your fur, kind of finds its equivalent on your hair. So now, you kind of have pink streaks in your hair. You're welcome!" I laughed, and he shook his head slowly.
"Sometimes, Chloe. Sometimes…" He grabbed my elbow and began steering me towards the chain link fence again.
"So you're going to get me back for this, huh?" I asked him cheerfully. He just gave me a look before rolling his eyes.
"Yes. And it's going to be a lot better than just dye." I stopped at the fence, put my hands on my hips and cocked an eyebrow.
"Oh really? You think you're going to do a better prank on me?" I asked. He was suddenly standing right above me, hands around my waist, head on top of mine.
"Mmm," he inhaled, holding me tighter. I leaned in to his touch.
"You're cute when you're trying to take me on," he murmured. A reply died before leaving my mouth, something along the lines of "what do you mean, trying?" when he brought his lips to mine. I kissed him back gently, then backed away.
"Aw no. You don't get any lovin' when we're in the middle of a prank war here!" I said, starting to scale the fence. He dragged me back down and pecked me, hard, on the lips once.
"All's fair in love and war, baby," he said, before boosting me up on the fence.
When we finally arrived back at the motel, the others had come back from shopping and were gathered in the female room. We got a lot of "where have you been!" and "it's dangerous for Chloe to be out in broad daylight!", but Derek stopped them.
"We went out because I wanted to show Chloe something," he said.
"Show her what?" Kit asked. Derek smiled slyly.
"Someone just might be able to Change at will now," he said loftily, before getting a huge grin and a back pound from Simon. Why do guys do that? Some sort of display of strength?
"Nice!" he said, his smile about to split his face. "So what does this mean?" he asked.
"I think that now that he can Change at will, he won't Change spontaneously as often, though it'll probably still go on for a while. This is great news, Derek!" Kit smiled widely at his other son, before the grin evaporated as he finally noticed my handiwork. Simon's face also went in to a horrified mask before cracking. He busted up, holding his sides and shaking violently with peals of laughter.
"Dude! Wha- what happened to your h- h- hair?" he choked out, receiving a stink eye glare from Derek. Even Mr. Bae had a hard time keeping a straight face. Tori chose that moment to walk in from the bedroom part, and she gasped. Then she grinned. Then she shrieked with laughter. I could visibly see Derek gritting his teeth, and I smiled.
"I had an idea to prank Derek by putting in some streaks on his fur, so that's what I did when he Changed. Kind of interesting to see how it appeared on his human form," I said, still snickering. Kit shook his head.
"Well, I guess you got him good then." Tori looked at me, suddenly fearful.
"You do realize he's not letting this go without revenge, right?" she told me. I grimaced.
"I'm only too aware of that. I'm actually kind of scared for my life right now." Tori gave me a sympathetic glance.
"You chose your own fate," Derek said with an evil grin. I quailed, and then decided to bail.
"Hey, who want's lunch?" I called, putting a falsely cheerful note in my voice, trying not to show any sign of weakness.
**(time passes)**
Derek POV
I was sitting on my bed, trying to put the finishing mental touches on the prank I was going to pull on Chloe. I was seriously pissed at my newly pink-streaked hair, and she was going to pay for that.
I was going to go for something deceptively simple though, a lot different from what she might normally expect from me. I figured I would set it up at night, when she was sleeping, so the surprise would be right there waiting for her as she awoke. I had everything I needed: a bucket full of water, a bag of flour from the grocery store, a full bottle of honey, and a length of string, most of which I got earlier when I slunk out once everyone was distracted.
At around midnight, I snuck over to the girls' room, being careful not to wake anyone. I went over to her bathroom, filled up the bucket with water, and balanced on the top of the doorframe. Juvenile and simplistic, I know, but it'd do the trick. I edged past the slightly open door and walked deeper in to the bathroom, to where the second door separated the shower and toilet. I took the towel hanging off the doorknob and buried the bag of flour inside its folds. I fixed it so when she pulled it down to dry her face, the string would zip open the bag and coat her in flour. To complete the trick, I filled her soap bottle with the honey, so when she went to rinse off the congealing flour with soap, she'd end up with hands, and possibly a face, full of honey. I grinned as I set it up- it was the perfect payback.
The next morning, I woke up first, as usual. I knew that Chloe would wake up before Tori, so she'd get the effects of the prank. I snuck back in to her room when it was still early, camera in my hands. I wanted full footage of this! I waited, past 6, 7, and then 8 o' clock before I finally heard her stirring. I smiled and sank deeper in to the hollow that most people would prop their suitcase up in. I prepped the camera and waited for her to make her morning bathroom run.
Finally, finally she came over to the bathroom. I braced myself for the earsplitting resounding crash of the metal bucket hitting the tiled floor and drenching Chloe in water. I snapped photo after photo as the sound covered any sound the shutter opening and closing might make. I heard her mumble and curse and then walk in to the bathroom, probably to dry herself off before going to chew me out for such a lame prank. I watched her walk up to the door and reach up to yank the towel down. I started taking more photos, as she was beyond noticing me once her face and upper body were covered in flour. I had to bite my tongue to hold in the laughter as I watched her turn slowly to the sink to rinse the stuff off.
I heard footsteps behind me, and figured the huge crash had woken Tori up and she was coming to investigate. I motioned for her to be quiet behind me as I paused in the photo taking. I watched Chloe ponder how best to get the mixture off, and as I knew she would, she settled on the soap. I resumed snapping photos as she squirted the stuff in to her hands, apparently noticed nothing, and proceeded to smear honey all over her face before realizing what happened.
"Oh, you just got pwned!" I shouted, jumping up and taking picture after picture of her in all her honeyed, floury, and dripping glory.
"I swear, Derek Souza, you will DIE for this!" she screeched at me, and I just taunted her, grinning and teasing her. Behind me, I heard Tori cracking up. To my right, the door opened and I saw Simon and my dad walk in to the room. They both took one look at her, and Simon started laughing too, though Dad was too kind to do that. But I could tell it amused him as much as my new hairstyle had.
In a minute, Chloe had succeeded in removing most of the strange concoction off her face, and was now glaring at me as best she could. She looked up in to the mirror and saw the state her hair was in, with flour and water thickening quickly in it. She huffed out a sigh, and then pitched her hairbrush at me. Actually, it was a good shot, but I caught it before it hit me.
"Damn you and your reflexes," I heard her mutter, and I smiled wider.
"Out! I have to shower to get this crap out!" She shooed her hands at us and closed the door behind her.
"See what you've done now? Now you'll get a woman's vengeance, and chicks fight dirty," Simon teased me, punching my arm.
"Hell yeah, we do!" Tori exclaimed, a sympathetic look on her face for her friend. "You kind of have it coming to you now," she said.
"Yeah, well, it was worth it. And I got a ton of pictures! Awesome revenge op, all in all," I said, hi-fiving Simon. Next to us, my dad laughed.
"Well, I really can do nothing about the 'prank war' that seems to be starting here, so I think it's safer for me to just watch from the sidelines as you two duke it out. Nothing permanently damaging though, please?" he begged, and I chuckled.
"Sure thing, Dad. But I'm not sure whether I'm going to walk away from this the same person…" Tori snickered and shook her head at me.
"You have no idea."
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