A/N: Hey guys! If you read Getting to Lovina, then you know that I said I would be taking a break from writing. Well, that break ended up lasting a loooooot longer than I expected. But now I'm back. And I'm going to finish this fic.
I'm not completely sure how long this well end up being. I am sure, however, that it will not surpass twenty chapters. This is a rather light and fluffy fic, so everything's going to go by pretty quickly, I think. It's not seriously enough to last too long.
Chapter 5: In Which An Awkward Week Passes By, pt 1
Jing Mei's eye twitched as she read the paper Xiang had handed her. It was already Thursday afternoon.
"Excuse me?"
Yong Soo grinned. "What, Mei Mei?"
Jing Mei scowled and thrust the paper into his face. The Korean boy had been a part of the planning, but in order to humor his cousin, he read it once more. The crumpled and well-word piece of binder paper read:
Plan B
Option 1: Tell Anders the truth. You were pranked/dared into prank-texting him.
Option 2: Text Anders again as yourself, pretending that someone stole your phone.
Option 3: Ask him out.
"No," Jing Mei ground out stubbornly. "No WAY."
Xiang smirked. "It's not like you have a choice."
Jing Mei glared. "Why did I ever get myself into this situation?"
Yong Soo grinned. "Because you love us, Mei Mei! You have exactly one week to decide what to do!"
The two boys looked on in amusement as Jing Mei groaned and buried her face into her hands. The Asian girl was annoyed beyond her limit.
"Fine."
Friday:
Jing Mei was glad that it was the end of the week. Her weekly Friday quizzes and her Chapter tests that her teachers had thrown at her had all gone relatively well, and Jing Mei hoped that she had aced them. She had always been a 4.0 student, but she still felt awfully nervous about her grades. Because of Xiang's slightly delinquent behavior, his grades teetered precariously between astounding and less than perfect to their parents. Thus, they expected Jing Mei to uphold the dignity of the Wang family. Yao was a good enough child, and nearly at the top of his class, but his annoyance and dislike of English classes resulted in his only B.
"Mei!"
Jing Mei smiled when she saw Laura Jansen waving at her. She was just grabbing her things from her locker for the weekend when her friend had nabbed her attention.
"Laura! How are you doing?"
The blonde freshman had been good friends with Jing Mei for many years. Despite being a year younger than Jing Mei, Laura had found her way behind Jing Mei's walls of solitude and into the older girl's heart. Jing Mei was a bit bossy, but she was still a rather nervous person at times. Laura boosted up Jing Mei's confidence with her cheery chatter and relaxed demeanor.
"I'm great! Wanna go see a movie?
Jing Mei tugged at her shirt nervously. The gesture went unnoticed by Laura, who as still beaming happily at the girl.
"Uh…Who's going?"
"Oh, not too many people! Don't worry Jing Mei! It's just a few of our friends and a few of my brother's friends. It really shouldn't be too many people. C'mon, Jing Mei, it's a Friday! You've gotta let loose and have some fun."
"Oh, I don't know," Jing Mei mumbled nervously. "I, uh, might have a few chores I need to finish."
Suddenly, Laura's smile wilted. She put her hands on Jing Mei's shoulders. "Mei, are you scared?"
Oh crap, thought Jing Mei. I'm caught.
"Heh…Of course not."
"Then why won't you come?"
"Uh…"
"That's it. I'm NOT taking no for an answer. You're coming."
And with, that, Jing Mei found herself unceremoniously dragged to Laura's house, where the blonde girl forced her to try on various outfits. Jing Mei was partially scandalized by the girl's choices, but she had to choose one of the outfits anyways. Jing Mei wondered how in the world Laura had managed to get into her closet without Yao or Xiang noticing. In fact, Jing Mei was wondering how Laura had found out about the stash of clothing Jing Mei never wore.
"You look wonderful!" squealed Laura.
Jing Mei studied herself in the mirror. She was clad in a knee-length, dark-green dress and black mary janes. She fidgeted with the nice, off-white jacket which Laura had paired with dress as she tugged at her hair. It felt weird to have her hair in a French braid, of all things. Laura had tried to apply make-up on her face, but Jing Mei put her foot down. She was NOT going to wear make-up to the movies, of all places.
Laura, of course, was dressed, as well. The beaming girl was wearing a light blue skirt along with a white blouse and dark-green sweater. Jing Mei thought the look suited Laura, although her friend always dressed nicely on a daily basis.
"We're off!"
The girls arrived at the movie theater to find Gillian Beilschmidt tugging on Matthew William's sleeve as the blonde boy blushed. Erika Lupei and Daniel Héderváry were standing a little ways from the two, engaged in an intense staring match. Next to them, Arthur Kirkland and Nora Bondevik chatted amiably, seemingly blind to the battle of eye lasers between their friends. Xiang and Mari were there as well, hanging out by themselves as they watched everyone else with bored expressions. Yong Soo was surprisingly missing.
"Aunty and Uncle decided that he needed to improve on his grades. He's at home being drilled by Kang Dae," said Xiang with amusement when Jing Mei asked him. She smirked. They shared a conspiratorial look.
"Oy! C'mon! If you walk any slower, we're all going to miss the movie!"
Jing Mei turned around at the sound of Laura's voice. Chiara Vargas, Lars Jansen, and…
"Hey! Sorry! Totally unawesome Waldo has to babysit the Eyebrows' brother so he made me turn off the oven at his house 'cause he was baking some totally unawesome Swedish food! And like the totally awesome friend I am…"
"So I'm assuming neither Berwald nor Tina are coming then?" interrupted Nora. Everyone gave her a grateful look.
Anders grinned. "Nope! I bet they're be making out all over Artie's couch."
Arthur groaned. "Image, Densen, image. My favorite couch. My god! My favorite couch!"
Nora poked him. "We can sanitize it later, idiot."
Jing Mei had only been paying attention to half of what was going on. The moment Anders had appeared, the poor girl had nearly suffered a heart attack. No one had told her that Anders was coming. Of course, she had been idiotic enough to forget that he was Lar's (aka Laura's brother's) friend.
"Well, bastards? Are we or are we not going in to see this movie?"
Gillian flounced over the Chiara and latched her arm around the girl's shoulders.
"'Course we are, Tomato! Let the awesome me take you in!"
"Wa-wa-watch where you're going albino freak!"
The rest of the group sighed and followed them in. Jing Mei sighed; this was going to be a loooooong movie.
"Hey! What's your name? I don't think we've met before! Wanna sit together?"
A very looooooong movie.
She could already see Xiang and Mari smirking at her from the front of the group.
Suffice to say, Jing Mei was not grinning when they came out of the movie theater; however, Anders Densen thought that he had just made a new best friend.
Saturday:
Jing Mei, for once, did not sleep in on a Saturday morning. It was eight o'clock in the morning when she trudged downstairs to find Yao bustling around the kitchen.
"Sometimes I think you're like the housemaid, 哥哥," she remarked in amusement.
Yao glowered at her. "I do not appreciate that comparison."
Jing Mei ignored him and began to take out the bread form the fridge. She had just finished toasting her two slices when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it," grumbled Yao, when she made no move towards the door.
Jing just grinned and became to spread strawberry jam on her bread.
"Aiyaaaaaah!"
Upon hearing her brother's scream, Jing Mei put down her breakfast and rushed to the door. The moment she saw the intruder, Jing Mei giggled.
"Yao-yao!" sang her brother's Russian stalker. "I've got a surprise for you!"
" Noooooo! Go away!"
Yao tried to close the door on her with no avail The girl pouted childishly, her hands crossed over her rather large assets.
"But Yao-yao!"
"Aaaaaaagggggh! Tanya! Go away!"
Jing Mei took this as the prime opportunity to slip away to her room. However, before she could sneak to the staircase, a new person had arrived at the door. Oh was it getting good. Jing Mei changed her mind and decided to watch the show from the fifth step of the staircase.
"Sestra."
Alexei Alfroskaya, Tanya Braginski's step-brother and obsessive stalker had also appeared on their doorstep. The lean, expressionless boy put a hand on his sister's shoulder causing her to flinch.
"A-a-a-a-a-alexei!"
"Sestra. We should get married. Married, married, married."
"Noooooo!"
And with that, Tanya sped away from their porch, dragging Yao with her.
Jing Mei sighed, and closed the door. It wasn't the first time an incident like this had happened. She suspected that Yao would be back by lunchtime. Anyhow, she figured she'd finish cooking it for him. Xiang was not a happy camper in the mornings; it was even worse if there was no food.
At that exact moment, her phone buzzed in her pocket.
Hej stalker person. you a chick or a dude?
Jing Mei wondered if there would ever be any peace in the Wang household.
Sunday:
Jing Mei wanted the weekday to start.
hej!im bored. talk to me!
Anders Densen, it seemed, was an idiot enough to be texting her nearly every waking hour. He was bored. Tina and Berwald were off in Wonderland, skipping along and sniffing the flowers like the happy couple they were. Nora and Arthur were performing some kind of voodoo magic. Mari just told him to piss off. Lars were hiding somewhere with Chiara. Gillian was eating pancakes with Matthew. Yong Soo was being disciplined by his brother Kang Dae.
All in all, Anders had nothing better to do than to text his stalker.
Jing Mei was annoyed.
Finally, she just turned off her phone. For the first time in twenty-six hours, she smiled. It was a good time to take a long, uninterrupted nap.
"Mei! Why wasn't your cell on? I needed to ask you what type of notebook you needed. But I couldn't reach you, so I didn't get them."
Jing Mei's eyes snapped open at the sound of her older brother's voice. It was five-o'clock in the afternoon.
"What do you mean, you didn't get them? I need them tomorrow!"
"Aiyah! Keep your phone on! And go get them yourself. You have your license now anyways.
Jing Mei groaned. Anders Densen was going to ruin her life.
A/N: Haha! Sorry about that filler chapter. The next chapter should also be a filler chapter, unfortunately. xD I'll try to get that up soon, but no guarantees. Life has decided to kick my butt lately, so I'm drowning in work.
And you guys probably know what "big brother" in Chinese is at this point.
