Chapter 2 – Sins of the Friend
In the limo, as it drove from the Salt Mansion to the Middleton School Board, Veruca still petted her white cat as if she were a super agent's super villain rival.
"Hmm…I need more reinforcements behind me…" the twisted deb thought with a couple of taps to her head.
"Ummm…" one of her bodyguards nervously stuttered, "we are your reinforcements, O Great and Mighty and Holy Veruca."
Veruca only giggled evily as another boom of thunder echoed in the distance, "Mmm….not just you, silly," she laughed as she got out her $15,000 cell phone and started dialing up an important number.
Time: 3:55pm, some minutes earlierPlace: The Mansion
Camille Leon sighed as she stared at her road golden color-clothed Mad Dog cheer uniform and the pom-poms right next to them, all prepped up for the series. Still, though, she wasn't happy. The cat food heiress and co-captain of the Mad Dog cheer squad laid in her bed, staring at the golden ceiling as a lightning flash from the window blinded the entire room before it disappeared. Debutante, her cat and best non-human companion, purred as she rubbed her head right next to her owner's. Usually, the only thing that would cheer up the 17-year old would be a shopping spree at the World's Richest Mall alongside with Veruca, but the Leon heiress hasn't gone out with Veruca or her other friend and co-captain on the Mad Dog squad, London Tipton in a month.
She then looked at Debutante and said with another depressing sigh, "Debutante...maybe you can, so like, understand my pain of what I totally went through since these last few months."Debutante gave a low worrying purr, acknowledging Camille's fears.
The deb sighed once more as she got off of her bed, headed toward the dresser, and got a certain section of a newspaper that she dreaded to read. She sighed as she unfolded the paper and read the headline from several months ago in the lonely autumn coldness of her room.
The headline read as she shuddered:
MIDDLETON GAZETTE – JUNE 19TH"NINE MAD DOG FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARRESTED AT A SUMMER BEACH PARTY AT SALT MANSION, COACH BARKIN IMMEDIATELY EXPELLS SAID PLAYERS FROM THE TEAM"Camille remembered that even more horrible and dreadful things occurs within the walls of the Salt mansion than just the Mad Dog football players getting expelled.
(flashback to several months ago, before the football season started)Hours earlier, at the Salt mansion, Veruca motioned to her servant horde to decorate her lavish ballroom with glamorous decorations of balloons made of the finest helium and hydrogen from Europe, plus pictures of Veruca everywhere with pink sparkling diamond frames that would often blind the spectator, but the deb had some protective dis sunglasses on.
"Now, my humble servants, I want this party to be totally perfect for this party! Nothing to go wrong at all!"And everything to go right for me once the Mad Dogs fall apart this season!
"At once, Our Holiest Veruca!" the servants obeyed as they continued with the decorations.
She slyly chuckled as her servants, bodyguards, and butlers worked overtime to make the summer beach party one of the biggest the town has ever seen.
Veruca turned to the head butler who controlled all her other butlers "Now, my butlers, spread the news throughout the town!" She rang her bell with the initials VS on it and most of her servant force appeared with fliers announcing the party.
"We shall gather as many good football players and cheerleaders to your party, O Great and Mighty Veruca, we shall not fail you!" the lead butler did what he was told and bowed twice to Veruca.
The butlers went out of Veruca's presence and went to the limousines to spread the news of the 'party' that Veruca was planning.
At the Possible household that evening, Kim and Tara, whom were in pajamas, sighed as they watched another rerun of Adrena Lynn's old stunt show that, ironically, got cancelled by Kim herself.
Her parents were out on a date to a fancy restaurant on the north side of town. Even though there were a lot of high-class eateries on the west side as much as the north side of Middleton, they want to avoid the western area, for obvious reasons.
The redhead sighed and turned off the TV using the remote, "Tara, I'm a bit bored right now…. I just don't wanna begin my junior year on a down note with Veruca running the squad into the ground and making insults at me and my friends!"
"I know, Kim, but look on the bright side, at least it's her last year since she is now a senior." Tara explained in trying to make the scenario a bit brighter for Kim.
But it didn't work as planned.
"Tara, that Veruca psycho has controlled the squad over the last three years! I just know that she's going to cause more trouble throughout town as well with her servants, butlers, lawyers! I mean…urrghhhh…" She spotted the couch across from her. "I just wanna lie down, Tara, and not think about her for, at least, the next few hours."
"Oh, okay, Kim." Tara looked on in worrying concern while Kim began to sleep on the couch.
Then she heard a motor coming, and then saw the fluttering of paper seeping through the crack of the Possible front door . Before she could identify the sound , the motor belonging to a car of some sort disappeared into the night. She walked from the recliner she was sitting to the door.
"Wonder who could that be?" the blonde cheerleader wondered before looking down at the piece of paper. But then, a familiar aroma caught Tara's scent as she picked up the flier.
One look of her eyes turned from that of concern of wonder to sheer anger.
It read:"Come to Veruca's Summer Party at the Salt Mansion"
Hosted by The Holiest Princess Herself
There will be chocolate fountains, Gucci bags, rare Tiffany's Diamonds everywhere.
With exquisite food and drinks, servants will gloriously give eight parades to Veruca in front of all spectators that are present. We shall parade her on the Holy, Immaculate, and Sacred Golden Throne evermore as the Number One Princess of All Time!FOREVER MORE! LONG LIVE THE ETERNALLY BEAUTIFUL VERUCA SALT!It was more than enough evidence to walk on over to a paper shredder where the Possible parents usually shred their bills to prevent ID theft, especially from Veruca's thugs. Tara walked up and put the party flier with the fancy aroma that came from the Salt Mansion into the shredder from whence it came.
The sound of the paper shredder woke up Kim. "Ummmggh….Tara, what is it?" she asked in rubbing her eyes.
"Unnn, it's some stupid "I'm the top cheerleader in Middleton" party that Veruca wants to set up! That stupid deb just doesn't know when to stop, Kim!" Tara shouted while ever-growing in her frustration.
Kim got up from the couch when she heard the dreaded word of Veruca and groaned! "Can't Veruca just stop holding these parties. Soon, someone's gonna be running into trouble!" "Oh please, remember that a few months ago, our families made an agreement never to go to Veruca's house ever again? In fact, almost the entire town vowed never to go to her parties, with the exception of those upper-class families in West Middleton!"Kim perplexedly answered, "But isn't that where our star football players live?"
"Unfortunately, yeah," Tara sighed "and a few of them have ties with Veruca too. I fear something bad's gonna happen!"
Kim then suddenly stood up with a gleam in her eye "Tara, I'm gonna go to the Middleton Police Station and ask Officer Hobble to keep an eye on Veruca's house!" She rushed upstairs to grab her Kimmunicator.
"Wait, Kim! I gotta tag along too!" Tara asked with a shout upstairs as she rushed up to go outside.
Kim went downstairs, Kimmunicator in hand, and replied "Sorry, Tara. This is something I must do, alone! Can you tell my parents that I'll be a little late in coming home?"
Tara sighed, "Okay, Kim, but be careful out there."
"Please and thank you!" Kim smiled and remarked when she opened the door, "It's no big, Tara! If I can handle Drakken, I can surely handle a crazed cheerleader!"
At the Salt Mansion, Veruca paced around with her head butler! She overlooked all of the balloons, golden streamers and presents wrapped in the finest golden wrapping paper! She turned to the head butler, whose name was James, and demanded "Are the football players going to arrive or what, my head butler?"
The head butler bowed to her and replied, "O Great Veruca! Our servants have called up the football players and around nine are gonna come, and seven of them are the best players on the Mad Dog Squad!"
Veruca rubbed her hands in an evil glee, turning away from the butler "Yes….everything is falling to play! All we have to wait are the players themselves!"
She turned around and looked at the 100ft tall painting of herself being portrayed in a church with a light shining through her and smiled with pure evil in her heart. She then went into her room to prepare for the summer ceremonies with the football players as bait for her trap.
In her room, she got out her $20,000 cell phone that had diamond studded with the initial V on it and began to call up Camille.
"Ohh…..Camille!" Veruca smiled as she finally got the lineup to Camille's cell.
At the Leon mansion, Camille, wearing a halter top and fashionable jeans, excitedly picked up her cell on her fancy bed! Debutante gave a low purr while resting on her kitty bed. She replied with excitement in her voice, "Hey, Veruca! How's, like, the party coming along?"
Veruca twirled her hair, smiling "It's going well, Camille! I'm inviting a few of the football players and gonna go to the swimming pool to swim with them. Y'know, have a few sodas, nothing important!"
"Like, totally poppin', Veruca! Since you live right next to me, I'm gonna, like, come on over in a few minutes! I just gotta ask my parents to come on over!" the cat deb smiled as she prepared to rush out her room.
But before she can do so, the head butler Jeebs came in. "Yes, Miss Leon?"
He apparently intercepted Camille's call with Veruca."Jeebs, I so would totally like to go to one of Veruca's summer parties, pleeeeeeeeease?" She said this as she made a long purr while batting her seemingly-innocent eyelashes while a single tear came from her right eye.
Jeebs rubbed his chin and replied, "Well, Miss Leon, since you and Miss Salt share a very strong relationship with each other, I do not see a problem with you attending tonight's party."
"Ohhhhhhh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!" Camille happily smiled, jumping up and down with glee. "I need to tell my parents this too!"
Hurriedly going down the stairs of her large mansion, Camille put on her red high heels, got her designer bag, put on the latest and finest scents on her, and went into the kitchen where her parents were serving the finest of dinners by their servants.
Mr. and Mrs. Leon were being served dinner in the elongated dining room when their daughter came up to them, all excited-like.
Mr. Leon was the first of the Leon parents to turn their heads, "What is it, my lovely daughter?"
"I'm being invited by Veruca to come on over to her summer party! Could I like go on over there? I mean, Jeebs gave me the like okay!"
"Camille, the flower of my life," Mrs. Leon said in putting down her utensils and turned to her daughter, "there have been some rumors over the last month that Veruca's parties have gotten more….what's the word…..lavish and extravagant than usual."Upon hearing this, Camille was about to weep a little with a teary look in her eyes.
Her father, saw the face Camille made and said in reply, "But since you know Veruca for a very long time since elementary school, I do not see a problem of you going over to her mansion!" Camille gave an elongated smile.
Yet, Mr. Leon also added in a warning, "However, if you detect anything suspicious or anything out of the ordinary, you come straight home! Is that a deal?"
Camille nodded her head, for she loved her parents very much and would do anything to protect her, "Deal, Daddy, I'll, so like, return here if anything, like, goes wrong or whatever!"
"Okay, dearest," Mrs. Leon smiled, "see you at 11:30pm!"
Camille smiled and waved to her parents and said goodbye for now, designer bag in hand to Veruca's house.