Author's note: Two chapters in one day, I am on fire! This one is kind of short but I wanted to get her meeting the Frog brothers done quickly because I hate when you have to wait ages for your OC to meet the guy they'll end up with. So here it is, please leave a review!
Disclaimer: i do not own the Lost Boys, just Nikki.
"You coming to the boardwalk, sis?" Sam asked in my doorway, I set down the book I had been reading.
"Yeah just give me two minutes to change and I'll be right down."
"Great, two minutes to you is an hour to anyone else." he grumbled as he made his way downstairs. I chuckled slightly as I ran a brush through my hair and decided to leave it down, throwing on a denim jacket over my floral shorts and white t-shirt before running down to the car.
Sam and Michael dragged me to a concert down one end of the boardwalk whilst Mom went off to see if she could find a job. The music at the concert wasn't exactly my taste but the atmosphere was pretty awesome, I couldn't help but clap along with the crowd as the guy on stage played a saxophone with no shirt on. I was enjoying myself when Sam's hand closed around my wrist and I got pulled out of the crowd by him, I was about to ask what the hell he was doing when I realised it was Michael who was pulling Sam along, what the hell?
"Where are we going?" Sam asked, that I would love to know, I was having a good time!
"Nowhere." Michael answered vaguely, his eyes forward.
"So what's the rush? You're chasing that girl, aren't you. Come on, admit it. You're chasing her. We're at the mercy of your sex glands, bud." Sam teased; I'd rather not be at the mercy of Michael's sex glands. I looked up ahead and saw a girl walking ahead of us, her long brown curly hair blew slightly in the wind and her beaded skirt flowed out behind her, I guess she's the one Michael is stalking.
"This is borderline creepy, Michael." I said and he pulled Sam and I to a stop.
"Guys, don't you two have something better to do than follow me around all night?" Michael snapped.
"You pulled us out of the concert!" I accused, Sam was a little preoccupied by looking in wonder at something off to the side.
"Yeah, I know I do." Sam said and Michael walked off, trying to catch up with the girl. I followed Sam's gaze to see him staring at a comic book store, I rolled my eyes and tapped his shoulder.
"I don't think I'll go in there. I'm gonna have a look around and grab some ice-cream. I'll find you a little later." I said and Sam waved me off, his eyes never leaving the store as he walked in. I chuckled slightly and headed off back down the way we came.
I had a look around some stores and stalls the place had, I bought some gold bangles off a lady with a lot of piercings and then went to get a large ice-cream. I walked over to some railings and looked out onto the beach, watching the teens have parties and bonfires over it. I always loved the beach when I was younger, Mom and Dad would take Michael, Sam and I when we were younger. That was when things were alright and Dad loved Mom, then things started to get a little strained between them two until it got that Dad hardly spent any time with us, it was just us and Mom. One day he came home and told Mom he'd met someone else and handed her the divorce papers. I could have killed him for that.
So here we were a few months later, not a lot of money and living with our Grandpa, but I suppose it's not that bad. I loved my family and they loved me, I was sure with time I'd settle in to Santa Carla and things would be good. Maybe.
I must have been daydreaming for ages when I finally snapped out of it and went to see if I could find Michael or Sam around any of the other shops. I saw no sign until I had made my way back to the comic book store and decided to check if Sam was still in here, it wouldn't surprise me that he had spent so long browsing through comics.
I walked into the comic book store and glanced around but didn't see him, just some dark haired guy staring from a few feet away as he organised comic books on the shelf. I made my way around the other side and ran smack into someone as I rounded the corner, knocking about five comic books from their hands as I did so.
"I am so sorry!" I said and leant down right away to get the comics off the floor.
"Anyone ever tell you to watch where you're going?" The person in front of me said and I stood up to glare at them.
"Yeah, I was also told about something called manners. Clearly you weren't." I said as I came face to face with a guy a little taller than m, he wore a bandana and looked about my age. Alright, so he wasn't bad looking, but I'm not about to let him be rude.
"Rings a bell." He said with a smirk and I shoved the comics back into his arms.
"Well then you'll know it's not nice to be rude to someone and that when someone apologises for something that was clearly and accident you're supposed to accept it?" I snapped and he raised an eyebrow, I noticed the dark haired guy from before come to stand beside the guy, but I refused to break his gaze.
"Fine. Apology accepted." He said coolly and I shook my head.
"Oh no, I retract the apology. Next time, watch where you're going." I said and walked around him, looking around again for Sam.
"Alright, I'm sorry. Now, anything I can help you with?" he asked as he came to stand beside me again as I let my eyes flick over the comic books on the shelf. The artwork was pretty impressive on them, but I could never get into reading them like Sam did.
"I'm here looking for a guy. He's a little taller than me and also blond except your hair is darker; he's obsessed with comics and has no fashion sense." I said and the guy smirked slightly.
"He your boyfriend?" he asked and I shuddered.
"Ew! NO! He's my twin brother." I said with a shudder and his smirk widened.
"Apologies for the confusion, but you two don't look anything alike. Or dress anything alike." he said.
"I will take both those points as compliments. I love my brother, but the guy doesn't know how to dress." I said with a smile which the other guy returned.
"Got that right." The dark haired guy said as he came to stand by the blond guy's shoulder again.
"This is Allan, my brother. And I'm Edgar." the blond guy, Edgar, said with his hand out. Kinda formal, but okay. I shook his hand with a small smile.
"Nikki Emerson. Nicole, but I prefer Nikki. I didn't catch your last name?" I asked.
"Frog." they said in unison and I managed to supress a giggle.
"Nice. So have you seen my brother?" I asked.
"You just missed him; he left about twenty minutes ago." Allan said and I groaned.
"Ugh, great. Well, thanks for the help. I'm sure Sam will be back and will most likely drag me with him. So I'll see you around?" I said taking a few steps back and the two brothers nodded.
"See you around." Edgar said.
"Bye. Nice t-shirt, by the way." I said and nodded to his white t-shirt which said 'Why waltz when you can rock and roll?', kinda cool. I walked out of the store and headed towards my Mom's car, figuring it was my best bet of finding them if I just hung around there for a while. I reached the car and saw Michael and Sam leaning against the front of the car.
"There you are! I actually braved going into a comic book store to find you." I said to Sam who grinned.
"Did you have the pleasure of meeting Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dee?" he asked.
"Yeah I did, they're not that bad. Just a little weird." I said with a shrug.
"A little weird?" Sam asked incredulously.
"It doesn't matter if they were Class-A wackos, you'd still never be out of that place!"
"True." he admitted and I turned to Michael who was pouting slightly.
"Why so glum, chum?" I asked and Sam chuckled.
"You know that girl he was following? She ditched him and rode off with some bikers." Sam said and Michael rolled his eyes and made his way around to the passenger seat as we saw Mom heading over.
"Bummer." I said with a grimace, Michael was a bit of a heart-throb back in Phoenix, he mustn't be very used to girls not falling head-over-heels at his feet.
"Yep, he'll be alright." Sam said as we both climbed into the back.
"So what do you guys think of the boardwalk?" Mom asked lightly as she got into the driver's seat.
"it's pretty cool. Sam has successfully located his mother ship. How did the job hunt go?" I asked Mom and she smiled at me in the rear-view mirror.
"I got a job in a video store! The owner is very nice, I start tomorrow!" she said and I grinned.
"That's great, Mom." I said brightly.
"Yeah, maybe we can get a discount on videos. Oh, wait! We don't have a TV!" Sam said sarcastically and I tousled his hair.
"Cheer up, Sam. at least you have a comic book store?" I said and he smiled.
"Yeah it is a pretty awesome place. I might head back tomorrow, you wanna tag along?" he asked and I was about to protest but figured it wouldn't be the worst thing, maybe I could talk to the Frog brothers again, they were a hoot and a half, far too serious for some teenage comic book nerds.
"Maybe." I said with a small smile as we set off home.