Chapter 3: Messing with Tala's head: Prank calling: Part 1
"So, you sure this is his number?" Rachel asked Jamie via text message.
"Yes, and can you please tell me what you're going to do Rach?" Jamie replied.
"Sure I'll tell you…eventually."
"Evil Bitch!"
"And you know it." Rachel sent back.
"So greatest sister who knows all their is to know," Khristene started sarcastically, "what are you going to do with Tala's number?"
"You know, a little of this, a little of that."
"What exactly is and I do quote 'a little of this, a little of that."
"Messing with Tala's head." Rachel replied.
"How?"
"Well to start off I'm going to prank call him, then, when I've called him enough times saying things that will really freak him out and when he's really paranoid I'll start doing minor pranks on him while still calling him, then for the big finale I'll do a big prank on him." Rachel explained to Khristene like it was something she did everyday.
"Oh. Cool. I'll help with the pranks."
"Yeah, and if he starts to get suspicious of me, you'll do some of the calls and I'll walk by him so he'll think it can't be me."
"But, won't he notice it's somebody else talking to him?"
"Nope."
"And why not?"
"Everybody says we sound exactly the same on the phone remember?" Rachel prompted.
"Oh, right. I knew that." Khristene stated while laughing nervously.
"Sure you did."
"I really did know that."
"Like I said 5 seconds ago. Sure you did."
"You know, I like you a lot better when you talk, even if you are a smartass. I felt like murdering you, or at the very least yell at you for that silent treatment crap you pulled today."
"Remind me when we get home to put a note in one of our drawers saying that you want me dead, so if I to suddenly turn up dead somewhere, the police will have a suspect."
"Sure."
With the Boys
"Maybe we should get started on the project." Kai suggested.
"I don't wanna. Let the girls do it." Tala said childishly.
"Yeah, you're really going to get them to fall for you by making them do all the work." Kai said sarcastically. "So, if you could have one of them, which one would it be?"
"Probably Khristene 'cause she will talk to you when you ask her something. What about you?"
"Rachel, 'cause she won't annoy you all the time with her non-stop talking like all the other girls around here will do."
"So, you would rather be a relationship with someone who refuses to talk then with someone complimenting you all the time?" Tala asked.
"I guess now that I think about it." Kai replied.
"So, you think I've got a chance with Khristene?" Tala asked hopeful.
"Nope."
"And why not?"
"Well, for one she might already have a boyfriend and secondly in class today she yelled at you witch is different ton worshipping you."
"Don't you want to know if you have a chance with Rachel?"
"No, because I don't want her."
"Why not, she might be a good fuck?"
"She'd be a quiet fuck." Kai said and Tala laughed.
"Right, because everybody knows you like them to scream your name." Tala smirked.
"Of course, don't you?"
Tala laughed, "You got me there."
"So, who's going to be your next toy?" Tala asked while he expertly manoeuvred through the crowd of people.
"That Jenna Anderson looked hot today." Kai replied.
"Oh, a freshmen? Isn't that a bit too young for you?"
"Who cares she's hot."
"Ah men." Tala agreed.
"What about you? Who's your next toy going to be?"
Tala did a thinking pose. "Well, if you're going to go for a freshmen then so will I. I'll go with Jenna's little friend Tina." Tala finally answered.
"That groups going to be in for a surprise tomorrow." Kai said.
"They sure are."
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After about four hours of aimless wandering the two groups found each other and decided to go for dinner. The boys went to get Chinese while Rachel dragged Khristene to Hungry Jacks. She literally dragged her sister to Hungry Jacks.
"You are aware I could've walked here on my own right?" Khristene asked her older sister.
"Yeah, but where's the fun in that? Besides, you wanted Chinese too and I needed to get you alone so you're stuck having Hungry Jacks with me. So here's the plan, after we finish dinner we excuse ourselves to the bathroom over there," Rachel proceeded point to where the bathrooms are located. "That's when we'll perform the first prank call on Tala." Khristene nodded in understanding.
20 minutes later Khristene was excusing her and her sister to the bathroom. When they were in the hall that leads to the bathroom, they took the opportunity to leave with a large group of people to a spot where they could clearly see Tala and Kai.
"You ready?" Khristene asked Rachel.
Rachel nodded while smiling wickedly. She dialled the numbers then waited for him to pick up.
"Hello?" The voice on the other end said.
"Hi!" Rachel said in a very cheerful voice. "Is this Tala Valcov?"
"Um yeah." Tala said unsure of where this was going.
"Oh yah! Brother will be proud that I finally got your number right." Rachel said cheerfully. "My name is Shannon and I want you to know something."
"Ok, what do you want to tell me?" Tala asked feeling a little uneasy.
"That I've been having very naughty dreams about you." 'Shannon told him.
"Oh! You have? Well be my guest and tell me about them." Tala replied more confidentially.
"Well, first we're making out in the living room, then we move things into the bedroom. Then just as we're getting into it I take a knife off the bed side table and slit you're throat for being a bad boy and watch as the blood pores out of your neck in fascination. If you wish I could tell it to you in more detail." Rachel told him while Khristene looked like she was about ready to piss her pants just to stop from laughing.
"Thanks, but no thanks Shannon." And on that note Tala hung up.
"So, shall we go back and join the boys, or shall we go to the bathroom so you can piss your pants?" Rachel asked watching Khristene amused while people around them sent them weird looks that said 'why is that girl jumping around while holding her crotch area?'
"Toilet please," and before Rachel could reply Khristene ran off towards the bathrooms.
Laughing, Rachel followed her sister.
A few minutes later the twins were back with the boys, with Khristene asking them to take them home.
"But we haven't even started the assignment yet." Tala tried to argue. After that prank call from Rachel, it took him a few minutes to calm down, but after he had it was like nothing had ever happened.
"We'll do it some other time, we just want to go home for now." Khristene said.
"Okay." Kai agreed.
"We're going home, where the bed bugs roam, and so do all the annoying siblings." Khristene sang happily.
Rachel chuckled and shook her head at her sister.
"Ready to go home sis?" Khristene asked, Rachel nodded, "even with all the siblings there?" Rachel nodded again. "Even with Mea ready to jump all over you?" Rachel hesitated, but nodded in the end.
Khristene laughed at Rachel's hesitation.
"Who's Mea?" Tala asked confused.
"Our sister." Khristene supplied.
"Why would Mea jump all over Rachel?" Tala asked still confused.
"Because she's 7 and loves Rachel to death." Khristene laughed while Rachel glared at her.
"What?" Khristene asked her older sister. "It's not my fault you two are almost exactly the same."
"Say again." Tala said.
"They have the same personalities." Khristene explained, "Rachel is even more childish than Mea, if that's even possible."
Tala nodded finally understanding.
"So, you going to take us home or are we hitch hiking our way there?" Khristene asked eager to get home.
"Yeah, you go to the car and we'll be right behind you." Tala replied.
"Tala you idiot, we're new here and will get lost if we go off on our own." Khristene yelled.
"Oh right, I forgot about that." Tala laughed.
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In The Car
"So, where do you girls live?" Kai asked.
"You know that park around Lexington Avenue that's always full of kids in the afternoon?"
"Yeah." Kai answered.
"Just drop us off there." Khristene replied.
"Why there and not your house?" Tala asked.
"Well that's not any of your business now is it?" Khristene asked.
"Tell me!" Tala demanded.
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Shut up!" Kai yelled before Tala could get his reply in. "I am not letting you two have this argument again."
"It's not my fault. She's the one who didn't tell me." Tala said childishly.
Khristene poked her tongue out at the seat in front of her in reply.
"I don't care if it was Rachel's fault so the both shut up." Kai yelled.
Rachel frowned wondering how she got dragged into this argument.
"Yes Kai." Tala and Khristene mumbled in unison.
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A few hours have passed since the girls got home and Rachel did indeed get pounced on by Mea. Since then Khristene has finished all her homework, Rachel as usual didn't do her homework partly because she thinks is pointless and a complete waste of time and partly because she didn't pay attention to anything that happened in any of her classes. Rachel has also given a step-by-step of her day after getting the third degree from Mea. Right now Khristene is sitting on the lounge with Mea snuggled up to her while she was watching very amusedly as Rachel and Alvss had a very random argument.
"Look Alvss, you're just jealous because when I act retarded in public people still love me while when you act retarded in public people think you're on crack or something." Rachel yelled.
"But you still had no right to yell that out." Alvss yelled back.
"If it makes you feel any better I said with the best intentions. Besides this happened before we even moved here!"
"So, we knew all those people which made it worse. You yelled out to our whole village I have a STI."
"It's because we know all those people that you shouldn't take it so seriously. Everybody in that village knows I am a compulsive liar. Besides, with all the sex you have it could quite easily be true, player, people have a right to know what might happen if they were to sleep with you."
"Besides Alvss, no one took her seriously. They just laughed, shook their heads at her randomness and continued on their merry way." Khristene interjected.
"Khristene." Mea asked in her cute little kid voice.
"Yes Mea."
"Why are big brother and big sister having this argument again?"
"Because Alvss wants to get his pride back, and he plans on getting it back by beating Rachel in an argument."
"But why is Rachel arguing back?"
"Since when does Rachel turn down a fight, whether it's verbal or physical?"
"Point taken." Mea replied.
A few minutes later and Alvss finally gave up trying to win.
"I win, you lose, any questions?" Rachel asked.
"Yes actually," Alvss answered his sisters rhetorical question. "Why do you always win?"
"Because I rock." Rachel replied.
"Mea go to bed." Lisa, aka the kids mum, yelled from the kitchen.
"But mum, I want to stay up later." Mea sulked.
"No, it's already 10pm and a school night; I bet no other 7 year olds are allowed to stay up this late." Lisa argued.
"Fine!" Mea yelled and ran up to her room to go to bed.
"So, anybody want to watch a movie?" Alvss asked.
"Sure." Rachel replied.
"I'm up for one." said Khristene.
"What movie?" Lisa asked.
"Let's watch Click!" Rachel yelled. (Random movie, I know, but I looked at our DVD case and it was the first one I saw.)
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The next Morning
The sun is shinning, the birds are singing, but in the Metherlands household the eternal fight for the bathroom was going on.
"I go in first!" Yelled Rachel.
"No I do!" Retaliated Khristene.
"Respect your elders Khris!"
"Haven't you heard of ladies first?"
"Lady? You're as much of a lady as I am."
"No, I'm more of a lady than you are, everybody's more of a lady than you are. Alvss is more ladylike than you."
"Scary thought. But I get the bathroom first."
Meanwhile, watching from the bedroom door.
"Imagine the arguments that would occur if this house only had one bathroom." Alvss said.
"Yeah, it really would be chaos." Lisa agreed. "So who do you think will win this time?"
"It's Khristene's turn to win." Alvss informed.
"And it looks like she just won." Lisa said.
Mother and son watched as Khristene quickly ran into the bathroom while Rachel crossed her arms and sulked childishly.
"Don't sulk Rach, you'll the fight for the bathroom tomorrow." Alvss comforted his sister.
"Easy for you to say, you don't have to fight for it every morning." Rachel retorted.
About 10 minutes later Khristene emerged from the bathroom wearing black joggers, black jeans, blue t-shirt with a picture of a silver moon on it, her dark blonde hair was left down while she walked over to her desk and put a navy blue cap on her head.
Rachel sighed and walked into the bathroom.
About 15 minutes later Rachel came back out of the bathroom wearing the same black volleys as she had the day before, black cargo pants, an orange t-shirt with the words 'Bite me and you'll regret it' with a picture of a tiger cub underneath it. She had her brunette hair up in a ponytail. She walked over to her wardrobe and pulled out a blood red baggy jumper and a black cap with the words Kity-Kat written on there in silver glitter.
"So, are we going to stand here all day, or are we going to school?" Rachel asked.
"Yeah, let's go to school ladies, and Alvss that means you." Alvss scolded while Rachel laughed.
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Jenna Anderson was wondering through the halls of Middleton High when she heard a giggle from around the corner. It wasn't the fact that someone giggled that caught her attention-after all that happened a lot around here with all the players they have lurking around-it was the fact that she was sure she had heard that giggle before. Her curiosity got the better of her so she decided to investigate.
She went in the direction she heard the giggle, rounded the corner and turned back around because of what she saw. Around the corner was her best friend, Tina, giggling madly of what Tala was telling her. He was flirting with her, that much was obvious, and she was apparently enjoying it.
Jenna sighed. She just couldn't believe how stupid girls are nowadays, even her friends. There are more and more players nowadays because girls let them do whatever they want to them in hopes that they will be the one to change they're player ways. If they really want to date a player they should make them prove that they actually like them make them put their pride on the line for you.
Girls are idiots.
The bell for first period rang 5 minutes ago so Jenna figured she should go to class. Her first period class was PE. Great, just what she needed to get all hot and sweaty during first period.
As she was walking towards the gym she ran into something. Someone to be precise. And that someone was none other then Kai Hiwatari.
"Ah crap," Jenna muttered.
"Hello Jenna," Kai smirked.
"What the fuck do you want Hiwatari?" She demanded.
"Feisty are we?"
"Go fuck yourself Hiwatari!"
"But that wouldn't be nearly as fun as fucking you."
Jenna growled. "Why don't you leave me alone and go find someone else…" She trailed off when she heard voices from down the hall coming their way.
"We're late." Someone exclaimed rather loudly.
"Who's that?" Jenna questioned out loud and not really expecting an answer.
"Who cares if we're late?" Another voice said, female this time.
"Here, here." Someone who soundly exactly the same as the second person said.
"Khristene." The male said.
"Yeah?"
"You are starting to sound like Rachel."
"And why is that a bad thing?"
"Shut up Rach."
Jenna looked up at Kai and saw he had focused in the direction the voices were coming from so she decided that this was the perfect time to make her escape.
She started to back up and just as she was about to turn the corner Kai turned around and spotted her. She quickly rounded the corner and ran off. Kai cursed and ran after her.
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Ray was sitting in class, staring out the window instead of listening to what the teacher was saying, thinking about Mariah. Oh yes, how he loved that pink haired beauty. He could spend all day just staring into her absolutely lovely golden eyes, which usually annoys the hell out of his friends. Ray sighed. His friends, as much as he likes them he usually has to ditch them to hang out with Mariah. Oh how life would be much easier if his friends and girlfriend got along.
"Mr. Kon, would you please pay attention?" The teacher asked. Ray continued to stare out the window. The teacher tried again. "Mr. Kon, please pay attention." Ray didn't even acknowledge her existence.
"MR. KON, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!" The teacher yelled, all his patience lost.
Ray looked at the teacher, surprise all over his face. "Oh sorry, what was the question?" He asked politely. Behind him he heard Mariah giggle.
"Never mind the question, just tell me why you were looking outside instead of listening to me in here." The teacher asked, his face going red.
"The answer oh wise one is very simple," Ray started, "Outside, there are trees and birds, things that are full of life. Now if you look around in here," Ray gestured to the other students in the class, "you see people on the verge of dying from boredom. I wouldn't be surprised if one was to drop dead at any moment." He said earning a few snickers from the other students. The teachers face , if possible, went even redder.
"Mr. Kon, principal's office now!" The teacher yelled.
Ray grinned. "With pleasure sir. I would be glad to get out of this boring hell hole and go and get a stimulating lecture from the vice principal." He got up out of his seat and looked at the rest of the class. "Anybody want to come with me? I'm sure we could have more fun there than we could in here." Nobody moved but some did laugh. "No takers? None at all? Oh come on, it's got to be better than sitting in this hell hole. The worst that could happen is you end up with a detention, in here your in danger of learning something." Ray sighed. "Looks like I'm on my own then. Goodbye uncaring people." Ray sulked and walked out of the classroom, missing what the teacher started to yell at him.
On his way to the principals office Ray heard voices from down the hall. The further he got the more he recognised one of the voices. In the end, before he even came in view of the people he determined one voice to be Tala's and the other voice to be a girls. Tala's flirting with someone, Ray determined, what else is new? Ray really didn't want to go and see the principal so he decided to take a stop on the way there.
"Oi Tala," Ray called to him.
Tala turned in the direction he was called and frowned. "Hey Ray, how many times do I have to tell you to not disturb me when I'm flirting with someone?"
"Is that what that was? I remember being told by Kai that you are out of the closet. So stop flirting with girls you fag."
"Oh, it sounds like you're jealous that I'm flirting with Tina and not with you." Tala smirked.
"Why would I be jealous of Tina when I'm in love with the most beautiful, most awesomous girl to ever roam this planet." Ray replied all dreamy eyed.
"If you go into detail again on how much you love Mariah so help me god I will hurt you." Tala threatened. "So what are you doing out of class?"
"Got sent to the principal's office for not paying attention and being a smart ass in class." Ray told him.
"Maybe you should go to the principal's office before you get in trouble." Tala told him.
"Maybe you should go to class before you get into trouble." Ray replied.
Tala thought about that for a moment. "Touché," he finally answered. Suddenly a loud ringing went off in Tala's pocket. "Hold on a minute," he told Ray and Tina. He picked up his phone, "hello?"
"Hello Tala, this is Shannon.
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Dum, dum, dum!
A cliffie! What will Shannon say? What will Tala do? Find out in the next chapter!
