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Chapter 4: Like Brother, Like Sister

"Come on, man, what is it?" Gordie asked impatiently as we stopped behind a diner. Chris looked around to make sure there was nobody watching and reached to his sleeping bag. Before I knew it, he was showing a gun .45 right before us. He handed it to Gordie and said, "You wanna be the Lone Ranger or the Cisco Kid?"

"Walking talking Jesus!" Gordie whispered as he turned the gun over and over in his smooth hands. He looked at as if it were a card telling his future. "Where'd you get it?"

"Hawked it from my old man's beareau. It's a .45."

Gordie rolled his eyes. "I can see that." He then lined the gun up with a garbage bin and put his fingers between the trigger. He moved it and made a sound with his mouth, pretending to shoot. I smiled: he looked so cute when he did that!

I turned to Chris. "Chris, you sure that bringing a pistol on this trip is a good move?"

Chris shrugged and screwed his AMAZING features. "Why not?"

"Do you even know how to fire that thing?" I asked, "What about Gordie or Teddy or Vern*?"

Chris gave a little scoff and pointed to Gordie. "Gordo will be fine. Look at him, he's a natural."

Gordie looked over at Chris and me and asked Chris, "Is it loaded?"

Chris laughed. "Hell, no, who do you think I am?"

At that, Gordie clicked the safety off and pulled the trigger… and before we knew it…

BANG!

…a bullet flew out of the gun and smacked the garbage can.

Gordie, Chris and I all screamed at the top of our lungs, "JESUS!" and ran off as fast as we could. "HOLY CRAP!" I kept on screaming.

Chris yelled, "GORDIE DID IT! GORDIE LACHANCE IS SHOOTING UP CASTLE ROCK!"

"SHUT UP!" Gordie shrieked. Chris laughed as he fled off. Behind us, I could hear a woman yelling, "Hey, who did that? Who's letting cherry bombs off out here?"

When we were finally far away from the diner, I heard Chris laughing. Gordie looked pretty pissed…but still cute. I was pissed out of my brain! I grabbed Chris by the shirt and pinned him up against the wall. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT, CHAMBERS?" I yelled at him.

Chris was began to squirm but I held on tighter. "Sam, calm down! Let go! She just thought it was fire crackers or something."

It was Gordie's time to get angry. "I DON'T CARE! THAT WAS A MEAN JOKE, CHRIS!"

"Please," said Chris. He faced both of us with honest, pleading eyes which made me melt on the spot. "I didn't know the gun was loaded," he said.

I stared at him, hard. "You swear?"

"Yeah, I swear."

Gordie cut in with, "On your mother's name?"

Chris yelled "Yeah."

"Even if she goes to hell, 'cause you LIED?" I intoned dangerously.

Chris was starting to get extremely annoyed. "Don't get so heavy on me, I swear."

Gordie and I looked at each other and nodded. I was able to take in that face I loved. We both held up our pinkies, looked Chris square in the eyes and intoned "Pinkie swear?"

Chris held his pinkie and said, "I pinkie swear."

He interlocked pinkies with both me and Gordie. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the worst duo since Mickey and Minnie," snarled a voice from behind.

We turned around and saw Mandy walking up the street. She pushed me and Gordie out of the way and planted a kiss on Chris' face. "Hey, babe." I was going to throw up!

"Mandy, be nice to my friends," Chris said. Mandy wore a fake, porcelain smile and said "Okay."

She turned around and said "you know, I am so nice that I am going to invite you to a little loser club in heard of called 'The People Who God Hates!' The group excepts losers and gaybos so invite Buddy Holly and Einstein's love child and what you get when an elephants eats a year supply of food."

After referencing Ted and Vern, she turned to me and said "Maybe you and Elephant Man could go together seeing as you're both mortally obese. Just be careful not to eat all the food in one go."

"MANDY! STOP IT!" Chris yelled. Mandy turned around and laughed. "Or what?" "Or else I'm breaking up with you," Chris said with a smile.

Gordie and I shot our attention to Chris. Did he really just say that? Was he going to end his relationship with Mandy? Could I have a chance with the boy of my dreams?

Mandy looked as shocked as I was. "You do not want to break up with me-" "Or what?" said Chris. He then smiled at Mandy's defeated look. "It's over!" Chris declared.

I was happy, relieved…shocked. Not just because Mandy got a kick up the ass but because I may have a chance with my crush.

Mandy was shocked…but she suddenly smirked. She clicked her fingers.

Then, all of a sudden, behind us snuck up the meanest jerks in town, Ace Merrill, and Chris's brother, Eyeball. Ace reached up and yanked Gordie's cap off his head.

"Come on, man, my brother gave me that!" Gordie protested.

Ace just smirked and continually held the hat out of Gordie's reach. "See what you get for messing with my sister," Ace laughed through his mouth with a cigarette hanging from the lip.

Chris was shocked. He turned to Mandy and said "Wait, you never told me that you were Ace's sister!" "Because I was saving him until you may have broken up with me," replied Mandy, her same porcelain smile coming into place. I looked at Mandy with anger and said "Being an asshole must run in the family!" She looked at me with anger and I smirked back.

Gordie was still trying to retrieve his cap. "Give it to me! COME ON, MAN, THAT'S MINE!" he screamed at him. Ace just shoved Gordie out of the way. That made Chris angry."You're a real asshole, you know that?"

Ace advanced on Chris and I stepped in between them. "I'll send you to hell before you hurt him, Retarx" I spat venomously at Ace.

"Ooooh. Not very polite, are they, Eyeball?" Ace asked, turning to Eyeball.

Eyeball just laughed menacingly. "Now, Sammy, I know you didn't mean to insult my friend."

I scoffed. "Jeez, Fatass, I'm surprised you even knew that was an insult!"

With that, Eyeball shoved me to the ground and pinned me there, and Ace did the same to Chris. "Oh, crap," I thought as Eyeball lit a cigarette and held it up to my face.

"Take it back kid," Eyeball whispered dangerously in my ear.

I fought to keep Eyeball off of me, but he just held me down even harder. "You wouldn't hurt a girl, would you Eyeball?" I mumbled as he nearly shoved my face into the sidewalk.

Gordie was just standing at our side yelling, "Come on, cut it out." Eyeball ignored him and replied to my comment.

"By the way you act I don't think you're a girl," he sneered, "Playing with four loser boys who are you're only friends because girls hate you."

He let me go. I held up my middle finger right in Eyeball's face. Eyeball growled but I gave him a smirk that read "Wouldn't hurt a girl, would you Fatty Boomba?"

Ace still pressed Chris against the concrete. I could feel his face of discomfort. "Take it back, kid," Ace hissed in Chris' ear. He pressed harder and Chris finally cried "Ok, ok, I take it back." Ace finally let go and Chris ran up to me and Gordie.

"Now, I feel a whole lot better about this, how about you?" Ace smirked. He lightly slapped Gordie's cheek before he stalked away.

Eyeball followed closely behind with a a stupid comment, "See ya later, girls," and a confident walk away with Gordie's beloved Yankee cap hanging on his head backwards. Mandy smiled before she flicked her blonde ponytail and followed her brother.

Gordie sighed. "What's wrong with your brother, Chris?" "Don't know," he replied. "Probably angry that he didn't get a good enough make-out session with Ace," I joked. We all laughed.

"C'mon," said Chris. We began walking down the road. "Hey you guys," I said out of the blue, "I just realised that both of you are single." Gordie and Chris smiled at each other and skinned their hands.

I also realised that two of my crushes were both single. I didn't think much of it but if I knew how it would have changed my life…I would have taken serious thought to it.