Chapter 14
The next day was very hard for the teens, especially Elle and Cam. They found a way to fight about everything they could. Ivy was just asking questions here and there, but wasn't as annoying as the two girls fighting.
Joey, Kevin, and Ivy all sat on the couch. Joey was trying to read a new book while Kevin was trying to help calm Ivy down her nerves when the girls started fighting again.
"And I'm telling you that s an ugly top. Nobody would wear that, let alone buy that stupid thing," Cam shouted from the kitchen toward Elle. Elle was wearing a button down, light blue top that looked a lot like her school uniform with a patch on it and a tie worn loosely around her neck.
"You're just jealous that you're not this creative."
"Oh, I'll show you how creative I am, fenómeno," Cam said to Elle, pushing up her sleeves and balling her fist. The two of them started to yell back and forth. Everyone in the room tuned and looked at them. They know that the were going to start fighting very soon
"STOP!!!" rang throughout the room, and everyone looked over at Ivy. She stood up, took off her glasses, and walked up to Cam and Elle, who were staring at her. "Now is not the time for you two to be fighting." She turned to Elle. "What time is it?" Elle shrugged and looked over at Kevin, who had his cell phone out.
"It's 10:37. Why?"
"Maris never in her room past 7. I'm scared that something's wrong. AND, as two of her friends, you two are coming with me. So, you either come with me voluntarily, or I'll hog tie y'all and drag you to her room. It's your pick," ivy said. Soon, both girls were running out of the room. Ivy smiled, put her glasses back on, and looked back at Joey and Kevin. "We'll be back later." She walked out of the room, trying to catch up with Cam and Elle.
As Ivy reached Mari's room, she saw a very scared Cam and Elle. Before Ivy could ask what was wrong, Elle answered, "We tried to go in, but she yelled at us to go away. Has she ever been like this before?"
"Well, the last time she was in bed after 10, she was really sick and couldn't even go to school for like, a month. But she never kicked me out. Heck, she would do the opposite," Cam answered. "It was her family who would kick me out. They didn't want me to get sick or somehow cause her to get sicker." She shrugged. "I don't think she's sick though. I mean, we all saw her yesterday." They all thought about what could be wrong when Cam and Ivy's eyes bugged out.
"X!" They both yelled before beating at the door.
"What does this have to do her boyfriend?" Elle asked. Cam and Elle both looked at each other and then to Elle, but then back to the door.
"Mari! Came on, chica." We know you're in there. We want to come in," Cam was shouting through the door. Soon, the door opened, but it wasn't Mari who answered the door, but Titan. He walked over to Cam, lay down and whined. Ivy, Cam and Elle all petted him and walked in, following Titan into the room. They saw that the room had been decorated a little, but what caught their attention was a bump. As he dug, the bump moved and a hand swatted at him.
"Go away, Ti," came a muffled reply from the blankets.
"We're not going away just yet, Mari," Elle said. Mari's head popped up from under the blankets. At fist, she looked shocked that Titan had said something, but she looked at the three girls standing in her room and frowned. Her sunglasses where off, revealing blood-shot eyes.
"GO away," Mari grumbled. She was about to pull the blanket over her head when the blanket flew up into the air and just stayed there. At first, Mari looked at Elle. Elle saw this and shrugged. Mari looked around and saw that Cam wasn't there. Soon, though, she appeared again, holding the blanket.
"That was for your own good." Cam smiled and threw the blanket to the side, landing on top of Titan.
"What do you guys want?" Mari asked madly while looking for her sunglasses.
"We wanted to check in on you. How are you feeling?" Ivy asked, looking sympathetic. Mari looked down.
"Like someone's doing the Mexican hat dance on my heart," Mari mumbled.
"Cam went over to Mari, who was sitting up now, and wrapped he arms around her heart-broken friend. "Aw, come here, chica. We'll go and kill him and make him sorry that he ever broke your heart," Cam promised. Elle, still standing near the door, finally figured out what was wrong.
"You and X broke up?" Elle asked, looking at Mari.
"Sort of. I caught him cheating on me with Balie," Mari explained. Elle immediately regretting saying anything.
"If you want me to, I can make it so he gets mauled by a bear," Elle said, cracking her knuckles. Mari laughed.
"El, you can't even turn into a full adult tabby cat. But thank you for the offer, though," Mari said. Elle chuckled and turned into a little kitten. As the purple kitten hopped onto Mari's lap, Cam came up with an idea.
"You know what you need?" Mari shook her head, still petting Elle in her kitten form. "Slumber party. Juts us girls. Let's see, we'll need ice cream, and lots of it, junk food, pizza, lots of crying movies, and, well, I'll need to go to the store to pick everything up myself," Cam said, starting to pace the room when Elle got up, transformed back into her human form, and grabbed her cell phone. "What are you doing?" Cam asked, seeing Elle on her cell.
"Ordering pizza. What kind do the two of you eat?" Elle said, having her hand over the speaker.
Ivy was the first to answer. "I'm an organic vegetarian, and Cam likes cheese."
Elle nodded and turned back to the phone. "Yeah Sam, that's right. I need two large veggie pizzas, a large cheese, and a large pepperoni pizza…. Yeah, we'll be by to pick it up….Okay."
"We'll come by to pick it up? Who's we?" Cam asked, with a list in her hand.
"I'm coming with you to get the stuff. I've lived in Jump City my entire life; I know where everything is everywhere. So, do you want to walk or get someone o drive us? I think it would be better to get someone to drive, since with that list, it looks like we'll have a lot of things. Also, how are you going to pay for this?" Mari leaned over and grabbed her purse. She rummaged around and grabbed her wallet and pulled out a credit card, and grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and wrote a note.
"Here," she handed Cam the credit card and the note, "show this to the cashiers and you can charge it to my account. I'll explain it to my dad; just don't go off and buy the mall," Mari said with a half smile. "And I think m mom should be home soon with your mom, Elle. Ask her if she can take you, because she probably can." Elle and Cam nodded, and headed out of the room, arguing quietly to each other. Ivy let out an exasperated breath and landed on the bed much like Mari did a few days earlier. "They won't stop fighting. It's getting on my last nerves. If this keeps going on, I'm going to strangle them with vines covered in thorns," Ivy threatened. Mari laughed and laid down next to Ivy. "So, do you still like Joey? 'Cause if so, you have some competition with that Claire girl." Mari smiled and shook her head.
"No. You know how your mind and body knows when something bad is going to happen and takes you over? Well I think that my mind knew that something with X was going to happen, so it wanted to show me that I can easily find a new boyfriend. I don't think I ever liked him like that, but it did sort of help with my decision to break it off with X. So, how do you think we can get Cam and Elle to have a normal conversation that doesn't lead to them fighting with each other?" Mari said. They sat there and thought a little bit.
"Maybe if we get them to start talking about something that they both like, then they will stop fighting, talk, and possibly maybe find more stuff they have in common and become friends. Now, the question is what else they have in common," Ivy reasoned. They thought about it a little longer when Mari struck an idea.
"This Life! That teen soap! Cam and Elle are addicted to it. And I know how we're going to do this," Mari said, smiling and looking at Ivy. "Here's the plan."
Later that night, Cam and Elle returned to the tower with a bunch of shopping bags full of things, a bunch of chick flicks, and 4 large boxes of pizza. All of which was being carried by the reluctant boys. Cam and Elle were about to go through the door and head through the hallway when they were met by Mari and Ivy. Ivy looked they same, while Mari, on the other hand, looked like the walking dead. Her hair was in a messy pony tail with pieces out and sticking up all over. Even though she had her sunglasses on, you could tell that there were bags under her eyes. She had on an oversized sweatshirt and sweats. All in all, she looked like a mess.
"Mari," Kori said, heading over to her daughter and hugging her. "What's wrong?" The rest of the adults all looked at Mari.
"Nothing. Well okay, not nothing, but you don't need to worry about me," Mari said. She looked at her dad, who looked like he was ready to find and attack the person who made his little princess upset. "The truth is that… I was dating someone behind your back." Mari looked down toward the floor, hoping that the tears wouldn't start falling.
"WHAT?!?!?! You know the rules about you dating! How could keep that big of a secret from your mother and I?" Richard was shouting so loudly, Titan started to whine and laid down next to Kori, whose head was down now, too. "Wait, you knew she was dating this guy. What else don't I know? Why did you not tell me about him, Kori?"
"What was it you told the last one? 'I'm not scared to go back to jail'? Was that it? Besides, he reminded me of you, Richard. Though now, not so much." Kori answered, still having one arm around Mari.
"Whatever," Richard mumbled. So, what happened? Wait, he didn't break up with you did he?" Richard guesses, looking like he was going to beat this kid to a pulp. No one broke up with his little girl.
"No," Mari said softly, hugging herself. Now Richard was think the worst and was about half-way out the door when Mari spoke up again. "I broke up with him. I caught him cheating on me with, uh…" She was about to say Baile when she saw that her dad was angry and if he found out the daughter of one of his closest friend was two-timing her boyfriend, it wouldn't end well for anyone. "A cheerleader. I didn't get a good look at her." Now tears were threatening to pull a Niagara Falls and rush down her cheeks. Richard saw this, moved toward Mari, and looked at her.
"His name?" He demanded. Mari smiled through her tears.
"Just don't kill him." She saw the look on his face and knew that he was going to have someone keep an eye on him. "Charlie Red, but he goes by X. I would have stayed in my room, but I was wondering if there was a TV and a DVD player that I can have in my room." she asked looking at Vic. He smiled at the young girl.
"We sure do Little Lady. Let me go and find it and bring it to your room," he said. Mari smiled again.
"Thank you." She looked around the room, noticing something was different. "Where are Tim-Tim and Scott at? I haven't seen them all day."
"They're out somewhere. Scott said something about the Tower being boring," Joey said. "I think they said they were going to a movie marathon."
"Okay, well, enough with the chit chat, we girls are going to be in Mari's room, and no boys or adults allowed. So, adios," Cam said, snatching some bags and a box of pizza from the boys and leading the way to Mari's room. Ivy, Elle, and Mari all followed in suit, taking shopping bags and a box of pizza with them.
When the girls got to the room, they unloaded the bags. "All right, we have all of the necessities," Elle said. She reached into the bags, listing things off as she saw them. "We've got lots of junk food, enough ice cream to probably make our own arctic here in the tower, tear-jerking movies that could make even you grandfather cry," Elle said looking at Mari, who was now smiling," pizza, and" --she reached into a bag-- "every teenage girls' bible." She held at least 15 magazines. They ranged from fashion to gossip. "Let the slumber party begin."
Soon, the girls were all sitting around, listening and singing along to Mari's music player, reading magazines, and eating junk food. They all were have a good time. "Look Cam," Mari said, holding a bag of chips and munching from them, "I don't care what you say, not everything in those gossip magazines is true. They pay people to make those things up. Once I read that my dad had a third eye, five wives, and is the lizard lord. And that's just my dad. Though one was right on the nose with my mom saying that she was a space alien." The girls started to laugh. They were all doing fine until a song on Mari's music player started.
"Man, I hate it when people remix songs. It just ruins the song." Elle said, sketching in her sketch book with color pencils in a case in color order from lightest to darkest.
"I made that song." Cam said, looking at Elle from over the top of her magazine. Ivy face palmed while Mari whined. Soon the two started fighting. Mari and Ivy knew that it was time to deploy plan Marlina.
"Hey Mari, did you see the last episode of This Life? They had it on at the hospital, but it was in Spanish. And I, unlike you and Cam, can't speak Spanish."
"Nope, I was getting settled in and I haven't grasped what channel is what yet. I want to know what's up with Marlina."
"She was back in the hospital for about 5 weeks in a coma, but is now up with amnesia," Elle said not looking up from her sketch book.
"And Dan is using that to his advantage to get back with her, even though Sam is also trying to get her to date him too, since Andy is traveling with Jennet who's trying to get with him," Cam added," looking back at her magazine.
They looked at each other and said at the same time, "Because Jennet and Calvin broke up again!" They smiled at each other.
"You like This Life Too?" Cam asked, bringing down the magazine and smiling.
"Yeah! Remember last season when Leon and Malina finally got together? I didn't think he had the brain power to finally kiss her," Elle said, still drawing in her sketch book.
"I know this will sound mean, but Malina should have almost drowned earlier I kept saying, if he waited around any longer, she was going to be gone. He lost her twice, and after the lake incident, I was happy to see them finally get together. Though, I always thought that she would be the accident prone one and not her twin sister." Cam said. The rest of the night, Cam and Elle talked more about This Life and other things. Near the end of the night, each of the girls had a carton of ice cream (two, in Mari's case) and they were getting close to finishing the traditional break up ritual. "All right, according to the article in All Girls Magazine's May issue about getting over break ups, we have eliminated all things that show his and the evil she-witch formally known as Balie," Cam said, looking at ivy who was finishing cutting out X's and Balie's face from a photo. "And we got rid of everything that would remind you of them." Elle had penned out their name in Mar's address book and was finishing deleting their names form Mari's phone. "So, the only thing we have to do before we start watching the movies is get rid of the final thing that will remind you of him." Ivy looked at Mari, while Elle looked confusingly at all three of them. "Hand over the earrings Mari." Elle looked over at Mari and watched as she took her hair out and pushed it behind her ears. There on Mari's lobes were little birds were that looked like robins. Mari took them off and looked at them in her hands. Slowly the tears fell from her eyes.
"I don't think I can." She whispered. Tears were now flowing down her cheeks. Ivy got up and sat next to Mari and hugged her, while cam did the same thing, but gently took the earrings from her.
"We'll just hide these then. Elle?" Cam said handing Elle the earrings. Elle nodded, knowing what she was suppose to do. She changed into a small bird and flew up into Mari's closet. There, Mari had a few of her things hung on hangers, but most of the stuff was boxes at the bottom. She looked around and saw a shelf on the top of the closet. She flew up and placed them near the back of the wall. As she was about to fly away when something came into view. She was about to take a closer inspection when the lights out in the room turned off and heard sounds from the TV. She turned into a kitten, since she wasn't so sure about flying in the dark, walked to the edge of the shelf, leaving the weird object and heading over to the bed with the others on it. She laid down in Mari's lap, who was surrounded by Ivy and Cam, and started to lick her ice cream out of the carton. All three girls slept like that. For the first time in a few days, Mari slept well and didn't think about X, but thought about her friends.
Yes people, I'm still alive. I'm sorry I've been away, but here is my present to you all; A NEW CHAPTER!!! Please review and check out my profile. I've updated that too. Happy Holidays! I aslo wanted to say tht I own pretty much nothing.
