| Chapter 4 |
Ugh… his name just had to be Nick… of all the names. He just HAD to have the same one as my brother. Oh well… let’s just hope they don’t act the same.
“Don’t just stand there, have a seat,” AJ said motioning to the spot he had just made by pushing the Nick and Brian off of the couch. I felt bad for them… I really didn’t need to sit, we (me, cousins and sister) were going to go change in a second anyway, and I just had to find out his name.
“Nah AJ, it’s ok, we were just about to go get changed out of this, and into something more comfortable,” I said.
“WE? Who’s we?”
“Oh, me and my cousins, and sister, ya know the girls who sang with me? Well, we are uncomfortable, so we are gonna go change.”
“Ahh… so there’s more!” he said wiggling his eyebrows up and down. And for that, Brian, who now was back up on the couch we he originally had been, smacked him upside the head.
“J, stop! That was really rude!”
“Ah, shove it!”
“I’d rather not.”
“ANYWAYS!” I interrupted, raising my voice, “I’m going to change. Hopefully I’ll see you guys later.”
“Well, where did you plan on going after changing?” Kevin asked.
“Probably the arcade…”
“THEY HAVE AN ARCADE?!?!?!?!?” Brian and Nick said practically screaming, they’re eyes bugging out of their heads.
“Yeah guys, want me to show you?”
“HELL YEAH!”
“Ok, come with me, I just want to throw something else on, it’ll take me 10 min.” with that, all 5 guys followed me back up to my room, where my sister already was.
“Yo! Em! I’m coming in with guys, so you better be decent!” I screamed.
“So I should put away the leopard skin thong and portable stripper pole?”
“NOOOOOO!!!!” was the unanimous reply from the 5 guys standing behind me. Our door unlocked revealing my fully clothes sister.
“Damn! I though I said no!”
“And I though the doctor said that the male hormone injections would not make you overly-horny.” Emily, my sister told him, while throwing a shoe at me.
“Shit! You bitch! You could have killed me with that damn thing!”
“Sorry, I was aiming for the horny bastard standing behind you. With five targets it couldn’t be that hard to miss,” she called over her shoulder before disappearing into the adjoining room.
“UGH! Anyways, guys come on in; I’ll be right back. The bitch is in my cousin’s room now.” I said, letting them into the room, grabbing some clothing and running into the bathroom. All I could think about when I was changing is that Nick was right out there, waiting for me to come out and show him were the arcade was. Then it hit me, after he found it, would he want to talk to me again? My thoughts were interrupted when I looked at my watch… I had been in there for almost 10 minutes. I quickly put on some lip-gloss, and put my hair up in a high ponytail. Soon I emerged from the bathroom wearing a pair of navy blue Nike warm up pants, at least two sizes too big, and an oversized sweatshirt of the same color.
“K guys, just gotta find my sneaker...”
“Don’t you mean sneakers?” Kevin asked.
“No, I mean just what I said. Sneaker, as in singular shoe.”
“You’re gonna walk around wearing only one sneaker?” Brian asked.
“No shit head, she has one and can’t find the other,” Nick said smacking his head.
“Found it! Let’s go.” I said, coming out from under the bed, trying to pull on my sneaker as I grabbed a bunch of quarters, cash, and my room key.
We soon migrated out of the room, and into the arcade.
“RO!” I screamed, noticing one of my best friends, and neighbor at the opposite end of the arcade playing a video game.
“SPAZ!” she comes over, and gave each other a friendly hug.
“What are you doing here? I thought you were grounded!”
“My ‘rents let me off, and let me come, but once we get back, I’m grounded for a month. Damn, I never knew that prank phone calls, and throwing rocks and screaming could get me in so much trouble. I mean, it’s not I burnt down the house or something.”
“Uh… Liz, you already came close enough last time. Remember? Lighting candles and then playing with the fire? Ring a bell?”
“Oh, yeah, ooops! So, who are they?” she asked nodding towards the guys.
“Oh sorry, Pyro, this is Kevin, Nick, Brian, Howie, and AJ,” I said pointing to each one. “Guys, this is Elizabeth, or Liz.” That was followed by a chorus of heys, hellos, and sup’s.
“Well guys, here it is, we’ll be in the other room if you need us.” I said pointing to the lounge next to the stairs.
“Ok, bye.” Howie said, since the others had already left to play each other at various games.
“Ciao!” With that, we walked into the lounge and began to talk once again.
“So, what are we gonna do to them?”
“Anything, just don’t touch the blonde…”
“Oh… why not? He’d be the most fun!”
“Cause! I don’t want him to hate me.”
“OoOoOoOo…. Laura’s got a crush!”
“Shut up! Not so loud, he can hear u.”
“Uh, your such a loser.”
“Leave me alone! So, what are we gonna do to them, and which one?”
“I dunno… I think we could have some fun with the one with the tattoos.”
“Who? AJ? Yeah… that would be cool, we can do Brian too.”
“Ok, let’s get plotting.” About 20 min. later, we were done. Everything was planned out. We would do it tonight when they were asleep. All we had to do was get their room keys, and we were all set. We both made sure to take whatever we thought we might need for pulling pranks. Let’s just say, never mess with us, cause we will get you back, at least twice as bad as you got us.
“Py, we gotta go back to them now, we still need to get their room key,” I pointed out.
“Yeah I know. Hey, do you know who is in what room? We can just get it from the front desk,”
“No, but I can find out… easily,” I said with a smirk, “but we have to go back to the arcade first.”
“Ok, let’s go.” We soon found ourselves back in the arcade, looking around for the boys. We found Nick first, sitting next to a blonde guy who looked about 12 or 13, like a mini Nick.
“Hey Nick, who’s the short one?” Elizabeth said bluntly, nodding towards the guy sitting next to Nick.
“Oh, hey guys. This is my little brother Aaron.”
“Hey, I’m Laura,” I said shaking his hand.
“Elizabeth… or Liz, whatever. So, what are you guys doing?”
“Playing ‘The Simpsons’ wanna join?” Aaron asked.
“Nah, you guys go ahead. Hey Nick, what room are you guys in? Me and Liz are gonna get something to eat, then maybe see you later.”
“Oh, ok. Me and AC here, are in 219, AJ and Brian are in 220, and Howie and Kevin are in 221.”
“Ok, thanks. We’ll probably see you later, or tomorrow.”
“K, bye.”
“Byez.” With that, we were gone to get the keys to Nick and Brian’s room.
After making up a lie that I got locked out of my room, and Elizabeth out of her’s, we got the keys to both Brian’s and Nick’s room. Surprisingly, they believed us. It was all too easy, we were both really good liars, and they were extremely gullible. Now for the fun to begin!
~ Elizabeth's POV ~
We both went into their rooms around 1:00 in the morning. We both started in Brian and AJ 's room. We both started putting nail polish and talked in low voices while we did it.
"The blonde one was cute."
"Nick?"
"No the other one, Nick is to old. Aaron? Yeah that's his name. Is a hottie. Look at his eyes."
“Look's like some one has a crush…."
"Shut up Laura and finish painting those toes."
Our conversation went on like that. After we did the nails we went on to the faces and then took a few pictures. They were to go on my website. After we finished our 'masterpieces' we put on the *N Sync CD and left the room. Then we went on to the Carter brother's room.
“They are too perfect."
"I know…but we have to leave our mark."
"Go over to Aaron and have him listen to this," Laura said as she pulled out a Ricky Martin CD.
"Fine, but you have to have Nicky-boy over there listen to *N Sync."
We did our deeds of mayhem and headed up to the room I shared with Laura and Emily. I did share one with my parents, but I mostly fell asleep in their room so I moved in and Emily got the couch. We rushed up to the room and started to giggle about the pranks. Just then Emily came in and told us to turn off the light. We both stuck out our tongues at her and went and watched T.V for awhile.
The next morning I went into my parents' room and asked if I could be let off punishment until we went home. They relented and I went skipping back to the room. I got dressed in a pair of dark loose jeans and an Old Navy shirt. I was reading one of my favorite fantasy books when Laura woke up to the sound of screaming coming from down the half. I instantly knew they saw our mark… 30 minutes later we were ready to go, and wrote a note to Emily saying we went downstairs for breakfast.
When we were down there Aaron and the other guys came down. We waved them over and the sat down. I looked down at Brian's hands.
"Nice nail polish? Where did you get it, I like the color?" I asked in all my 'innocent' glory.
"Oh some pranksters," he shot a look at Nick and Aaron, "pulled a prank on AJ and myself." Both Laura and I laughed our asses off at Aaron and Nick's confused faces.
~Laura’s POV~
I couldn’t believe Aaron and Nick’s faces… their look was priceless. I’ve never seen anyone more confused in my life. Once me and Elizabeth stopped laughing, we hear faint humming. I looked in the direction it was coming in, it was AJ. Next thing I knew, he was belting out the lyrics to ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ by *N Sync, I knew our plan had worked, soon Brian and Nick had both join in. We couldn’t hold it in anymore, Elizabeth, Aaron, and myself burst out laughing. It was only 9:00 am, and I already knew this was going to be a great day.