Present 22: SADIE
The moment the truck pulled up and the worker got out carrying a brown package with green trees inked all over the box, there was a dual scream of excitement from within the house. Seconds later a pair of teenage girls raced outside squealing in excitement.
"KATIE!!! It's here! It's here! I finally got my package!!!" The shorter girl cheered happily while her taller companion smiled back. "Oh yay! Now we can find out what he said about you!"
"I know right?" The postal worker stared at the opposite twins in front of him each still wearing their nightgowns, sunshine yellow in color with pink pajama bottoms and couldn't help but smile at their enthusiasm.
"Package for Sadie." The young man winced a bit as both girls let out another ear splitting happy squeal hugging each other and bouncing up and down in excitement, though Sadie's hug was one armed. The other reached for the clipboard.
The moment the package was in Sadie's hands, she and Katie quickly sprinted back to the house completely oblivious to everything. The package carrier smiled and shook his head as he walked back to the truck.
Two plates. One foor the person I met on the island and the other to share with friends and family eh.
And In case I never said soo, I didn't knoo I was hurting people with my woords and I'm really really really soorry for what I said on the island before eh!
Soory aboot the wait. I did everyboody in order so I would noot forget anyone eh.
Happy Holidays, Sadie
Ezekiel
Sadie unwrapped the green tissue paper revealing the chubby gingerbread girl with the short pigtails. Smiling she held it out to Katie who likewise pulled her own out. Closer and closer the distance between the two cookie cutters were closed until finally they interlocked in a hug.
"Oh yay! The Gingerbread Female Friends for Life are back together again!" Sadie cried out happily while Katie nodded. "Oh my gosh! Wasn't it just so mean when Sam took one of the GBFFL's and…bit off her head?!"
"Seriously mean! And he totally like dove right into your plates without like asking too!" Katie frowned. "Okay like sure those sweets of Ezekiel's were sooo incredibly yummy, but that was no excuse for him being such a…pig!"
"Oh I know!" Sadie commented her scowl becoming an evil smirk. "At least he can't bite off her head." The shorter female said holding up her cookie cutter. Katie smirked back before smiling. "And we can make as many GBFFL's as we want now!"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!" Both girls squealed in excitement before hugging each other again. Sadie was the first to break the hug and she put a finger to her chin in thought. "Do you think I should…?"
Katie shook her head. "Ezekiel totally like used a different address for everyone and none of those went to his house." Sadie frowned. "Well that makes it like harder." Looking over the package again she studied the address.
"Hey maybe it's on Map Adventure!" Katie grinned back. "Let's find out! Duncan got really lucky with the school maybe you were even luckier!" Sadie gasped. "Do you really think so?! As Katie nodded Sadie clapped her hands together in excitement.
A few minutes later both best friends were seated in front of the pink computer in Sadie's room staring dreamily at the screensaver of Justin with his shirt off. Both girls sigh. "He's soooo Yummy!"
As Sadie leaned forward, her hand jostled the equally pink mouse dismissing the screensaver and replacing it with an image of Katie and Sadie hugging. Both girls abruptly snapped out of their daze. "What were we doing again?" The larger twin asked in confusion.
In response Katie looked around and spotted the homeschoolers box. As she held it up Sadie smiled. "Oh that's right." Sadie maneuvered the mouse clicking on the internet link waiting patiently for her homepage to pop up before switching over to Map Adventure.
"Okay so according to the return label he like lives at 1234 Applewood in Northern Canada." Both Katie and Sadie looked at each other in disbelief. "Right." Both said in unison. Sadie typed in the address and sure enough up popped a bookstore.
The pudgy female sighed. "Well at least it was in Northern Canada." Katie nodded before her smile returned. "Hey! Try typing in Ezekiel and Total Drama Island!" Sadie also smiled back at her taller friend and did so.
They're bright smiles had faded the instant the first site had pulled up. Continuing down the list both are shocked at what they find. "Oh my gosh…Sadie…are you seeing what I'm seeing?" Katie whispered.
Sadie slowly nodded her eyes silently taking in the information before her. "Oh my gosh…this is just so so…" The phone suddenly rings. Without moving her eyes from the screen, Sadie reaches for her phone.
Since the discovery of Ezekiel's accidental phone message, the mood over at Geoff's house had greatly improved despite the super early wake up call. "It means we can still make things right!" Geoff announced happily to his friends before proceeding to pull out a single piece of paper.
Each of the present teens at the party had willingly and reluctantly left their phone numbers so Geoff could call them with any new information regarding the elusive homeschooler.
*Yawn* that's great. But seriously can I go back to bed?
Question. Do you have ANY idea what TIME it is Mr. Party Holic?
*BEEP* I'm not here obviously. Leave a message or ELSE.
In retrospect calling at four in the morning wasn't such a good idea. Afterwards Courtney had snatched the phone away and forbid the blonde cowboy from calling anyone else until after breakfast.
"Sure. I can do that." When the party boy started to head for the kitchen, both Bridgette and Courtney stopped him. "In case you have forgotten Geoffey you still have at LEAST four more HOURS."
But what if-
FOUR HOURS!!!!!
To make added sure that there were no more phone attempts; Courtney had instigated a four hour watch on Geoff. Any move he made out of sight was followed by DJ or Duncan. And both the constant watch on that and the clock were driving the blonde nuts.
Slowly the hours passed. Showers were taken, things were gathered and breakfast was prepared. Geoff took a bite of egg before glancing at the clock again. "Guys don't you think that we can cal-"
NO!
Geoff recoiled in reflex to the quadruple yell and frowned. "Okay okay…no need to get grouchy! Sheesh." He mumbled before taking another bite. The others sighed. "How much longer do we gotta do this?" DJ grumbled.
Bridgette glanced at the clock. "30 minutes until 8." Duncan scowled. "Great. Another 30 minutes of Geoff watch. It almost makes me wish I was back in juvy." Punctuating his words the punk removed yet another phone from the party animal's hand.
Courtney likewise moved the list of phone numbers away. "Just a little longer guys. After that he can call whoever he likes asleep or not." She smirked. "With any luck that lying cheating rat is still asleep."
By the eighth and last chime of the clock, Geoff had already retrieved the list from Courtney and one of the phones from Duncan before dialing a random number. This time the responses were a little more positive.
Oh that's wonderful! I'll give that message to Gwennie!
Typical! We spend all this time trying to find Mr. Homeschool and jungle girl and her bottomless pit boyfriend find him by accident!
What part of I'm NOT a farmer do you not understand! That said Izzy got lucky that wild crash of hers landed her and Owen at Ezekiel's house. And knowing those two anything can happen. They'll either mend the bridge or they'll shatter it.
Most of the gathered group winced at LeShawna's comment. Bridgette stood up from the table. "Oh come on! Sure Izzy is a little bit wild, but she and Ezekiel are best friends. Hopefully she'll be able to knock down his wall of negativity."
*Beep* Hey this is Owen! Sorry can't talk right now; I need to help Mr. Zeke's Dad pick out a new TV. Yeah tripping and grabbing the shelf for support wasn't such a good idea. And he and Zeke's mom are still letting us stay here for Christmas! WOO HOO!!!!
The quintuplet looked at each other in horrified shock. Courtney slapped her forehead. "I'd say the bridge has pretty much disintegrated by now." DJ nodded. "Man…I don't even know how this can get any worse."
Oh hi Geoff. I just got my package. Yeah. Katie had this really good idea to search for Ezekiel and Total Drama Island on my computer and…what we found…
"Hold that thought." Geoff interrupted pressing a button on the phone. "Okay Sadie I put you on speaker so everyone can hear and all of us are heading to moi's computer as we speak."
Okay, but it's NOT pretty. And it is probably why Ezekiel ran out of the Communication Center when he did.
Probably? Sadie he forgot to take off the headphones, tripped over the chair, his own feet and crashed into the wall before running out of the door.
Oh right. And looking at this I can totally see why.
Courtney coughed. "Why not start from the beginning. What happened with you two and the sex-I mean Ezekiel in the Communication Center?"
Well like Sadie said we were heading down to the pool and I like totally forgot to check my email!
So Katie and I went into the Communication Center…
Ezekiel gave a wary eye at the machine in front of him. The other campers had spent a varying amount of time here staring into space at something only they could see. Looking to either side he saw that Karan and Pierre were smiling.
He looked back to the monitor before starting to walk away. As expected both staff members blocked his path in amusement. "For zee last time, this is not a zombie making machine." Pierre stated.
Ezekiel glanced back at the flickering square and back at Pierre with an expression of distrust before opening his mouth again. "And it does not cause the walk of sleep." Karan added with a smirk before gesturing again to the chair.
Finally the homeschooler sighed. "Okay, boot I doon't think I'm goona loike this eh." Reluctantly he sat in the metal seat watching as Pierre moved an oval device dismissing the flickering.
Once he had survived sitting in front of the computer for over an hour and had not shown any signs of sleeplessness or a craving of human flesh did Ezekiel finally relax. "Okay so maybe that movie was joost a movie then eh."
Pierre and Karan chuckled. "Usually it is wise to see things of startlement and fear in groups." The Frenchman nodded. "And to not order zee "Night of the Computer Zombies" in the first place. Ezekiel flushed. It was an accident eh! I dropped the remoot and…that came on. How can people watch that stuff?!"
The staff members chuckled again. "Well as fun as this has been we need to get back to work." Ezekiel nodded and thanked the two with a smile before turning back to the monitor. With a sigh he pulled the headset on and slowly started to type words in the search engine.
Unbeknownst to the homeschooler, time was passing and it was now late morning. Also he was no longer alone in the Communication center. Katie and Sadie had barely given the absorbed prairie boy a second glance before running over with a squeal to another computer.
Not long after that the best friend's chat session would abruptly grind to a halt thanks to Ezekiel starting to mumble things under his breath. Katie and Sadie were prepared to tell the homeschooler off for the interruption, until they noticed the horrified look on his face as he stared unmoving at the monitor screen.
Both BFFFL's exchanged a glance. "Hey Ezekiel…are you okay?" Sadie questioned hesitantly. Seconds after her comment, Ezekiel let out an anguished cry before completely losing it.
DJ was close to doing the same. The gentle expression on his face was gone and he shook as he took in the latest website on Geoff's computer. The owner of the site had to say the least an eternal hatred for the homeschooler.
Short of wishing him hacked to bits and buried in several different continents so never to reincarnate, the things that she had mentioned were disturbing, offensive as well as extremely hurtful and damaging to any teen. Especially a naïve one.
Duncan stared at the screen in disbelief. "Okay even I think that's just a little on the extreme side." Courtney scowled. "A little? Graphic pictures of Ezekiel being beaten up and thrown on the Boat of Losers which has ME in the background getting my marshmallow in that STUPID chicken hat… "
"Those stories where they can't even spell his name right. Not to mention the ones that make the Zeke man out to be this insane sex offender or killer out to destroy everyone…I mean man! Have you ever SEEN so much hate?" Geoff added.
Bridgette's lazy eyes were wide and tears were coming to her eyes. "And those comments. I guess that also means that handicapped and…retarded people are…useless." The surfer girl barely got out the hateful words before breaking down.
DJ nodded catching the shaking blonde before she fell. "Not to mention the ones insulting his mama."
I know! They're like sooo awful!
And Ezekiel could have seen any of these!
Geoff sighed. "And this on top of the other stuff at the resort…man. He's lucky he didn't lose his mind with this, plus us and whatever happened to him at the party."
Well we can't like talk to him so we'll do the next best thing!
Let's call Noah! And Cody and Harold!
"HAROLD?!" Courtney started to rage before calming down some. "I mean…why would we need to call those guys?"
Isn't one of them good with computers? Maybe they can like report it or take it down or something.
Oh my gosh! Sadie you're a genius! You'd be perfect with Noah! I mean did you see the way he was staring at you when you told off Courtney?!
"Hey wait a minute! That was completely-" The CIT's comment was cut off as the infamous Wawanakwa twins proceeded to gossip happily over the phone speaker.
My name is Anonymously Kay and my favorite characters are Sadie, Heather,
Beth, and, thanks to your fic, Ezekiel.
Luv your story, keep up the good work!
Imagi's Ramblings: See that everybody? Another camper chapter! :D Which means we now have Trent's chapter AND the rest of Owen's chapter to go! :D
Thanks you guys for sticking with me on this! And thanks for continuing to get me to finish this too! On the plus side I think I get the award for the longest running TDI Christmas story. ;)
Thanks for the reviews, thanks for the criticism and thanks all for continuing to enjoy this! :D
Now all Imagi has to say is this.
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Go see Mary Poppins! Heck of a Musical. :D
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