Chapter 3

3:29

"Duck….duck….duuuuuuuuck……….GOOSE!!!" "CLEO!! Will you stop that!" Tatem yelled, fixing her newly messed up hair.

Cleo placed her spread out fingers on her head and wiggled her butt, while sticking out her tongue. "Nyah, nyah na boo boo! You can't catch meeeee! Hahahahahhaha---oof! OOOOOWWWWW!!! TATEEEM!!" She whined holding her hand over her arm where Tatem punched her. Pouting she plopped down on carpet cross-legged. "I'm bored…" She gasped, smiling. "I know! Let's play--"

"NO!!" Brian, Howie and Tatem yelled.

"Poopy heads…" She mumbled.

"I wonder when the others will get here?" Tatem wondered outloud.

"Exactly how many people are involved in this thing?" Howie asked.

Tatem scratched her head and frowned. "Well six…but I doubt Luchi made it…she never does….I think Kev and her would get along great!" She shifted in her spot on the couch to cross her legs.

"That'd be good. Cuz Kev needs some in a bad way." Brian chuckled.

"You guys haven't even met Nadine yet," She leaned in and glanced over her shoulder. "She's scary!" She whispered. "I mean she's like dun dun dun *THE* bitch! But she's cool, in the over ruling psychotic sorta way." She frowned again. "Now that I think of it…I hope AJ's okay…"

"She wouldn't hurt him, would she?" Howie asked nervously.

"Huh? No way!! Let me put it this way, if AJ and I were hanging over a cliff with sharp jagged rocks were underneath and each of us had one of her hands, she'd would drop me to help him."

Brian nodded. "Nick would do the same for his Nintendo."

Cleo giggled. "No he wouldn't"

"Yes he would believe me!" He looked over at Howie. "Wouldn't he?"

"Yeah he would!" He laughed. "It's like his wife or something! We hid it on him once and he started crying hysterically, he was lost for a week! Haha! But we gave it back when he'd stare at the TV and pretend to hold a controller in mid-air."

They all busted out laughing.

Just then the door flew open and AJ stumbled in wearing handcuffs.

"Jesus Christ!" He yelled.

Nadine sighed and went shut the door behind her. "Ouch!" She turned wide-eyed to see Kevin squished in the doorway.

"Um…would you mind?" He said in a strained voice. She mumbled a sorry and moved away from the door.

"So" Kevin said stepping inside. "Why did you--"

"KEVIN! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR-mmph" Nadine tackled AJ to the floor.

"Shut up!" She hissed.

Kevin scratched his head, confused. "What's going--"

Audrina walked in and shut the door. "Hey guys!"

"Hey!" Kevin pointed down at her. "You're that delivery girl!"

"Ding, ding, ding! Give him a cookie." She said sarcastically.

"Did someone say COOKIE?!" Cleo yelled, eyes wide, licking her lips.

Tatem sighed. "I hope you guys have cookies, cuz now her hopes are up."

"Uh…yeah! Actually we do! I'll get them." Brian stood from the couch.

"Okay now Cleo he's got cookies for you, follow him." Tatem said pushing her off the couch.

"WHOO HOO!" Cleo ran into the kitchen behind Brian. Audrina quickly took her spot.

"I almost got caught on the roof…"

"WHAT?!" Nadine yelled from her rather precarious position on top of AJ.

"Um…n-nothing…" Drina slunk down further in the couch trying to hide.

The burst open again and a pissed off Rina stalked in, with a smiling Nick close behind her.

"You do!" He laughed.

"No I *don't*" Rina growled.

"Yes you do!"

"If I hit him over the head with a lamp, would that break our contact for not injuring them?"

Tatem rolled her eyes. "What's wrong now?"

"Don't she look like Nicole Kidman?"

"Doesn't she" Audrina corrected him.

"I do NOT!"

Tatem shrugged. "Don't you get that all the time Rina?"

"I do but…. AGH!! We look *nothing* alike!"

"You do!" Nick sat down on the floor next to the couch.

"No I don't!"

Howie squinted at Rina and cocked his head to the side. "Mmm, no she doesn't."

"Oh sure take her side…" Nick crossed his and looked up at Tatem. He jumped. "OH MY GOD!! You look *just* like Drew Barrymore!" He turned to Nadine. "And you look like Courtney Cox! And you! You look just like that chick from Urban Legend!" He said pointing to Audrina. Cleo walked back into the living room. "You're the spitting image of…er….uh….well, you really don't look like anyone." **Just so you guys know we look nothing like those people we were compared to (except Audrina and Rina…. shhh, she'd kill me if I said it to her face) but since we don't have pics I thought I'd tell you**

Brian rolled his eyes. "I'm embarrassed for you Nick" He looked down at the couch and frowned. He shrugged and managed to squeeze between Tatem and Audrina ::sending Tatem into cardiac arrest::

"Sooo ladies," He lifted his arms and hugged both the girls around the shoulders ::okay she's officially dead now:: "When do we meet the fans?"

"Fans?" Asked all the other guys, well most of them, AJ's was more like "framms?"

"Um…soon." Rina said, watching Tatem carefully.

"Hey Drina…rmaay nyayoay ymay anmay….OVEMAY!!" Tatem said through gritted teeth. ::That's pig Latin folks! It say 'Arm on my man…MOVE!' ::

"Huh?" Audrina asked confused.

"Dun dun dun" Rina said, trying not to laugh.

"Why did you just do that?" Nick looked down at her.

"Do what?"

"Dun dun dun" He said, mocking her.

"I *didn't* sound like that!" She folded her arms.

"Yes you did!"

"No I didn't!"

Brian sighed. "Here they go again."

"YES YOU DID!"

"SHUT UP YOU DORK!!"

"NO DORKETTE!"

"DWEEB!"

"TWIRP!"

"TWIT!"

"PIP- SQUEAK!"

"ALL RIGHT THAT'S IT!! YOU AND ME RIGHT NOW CARTER!!"

"HEY!!" Nadine yelled, stopping the two. "Stop it already! You're giving me a headache!"

Rina made a face at Nick, who stuck out his tongue.

"You're an idiot, you know that?!" She said, rolling her eyes.

"Oh? Well if I'm an idiot you're…you're a…you're something worse!" Nick crossed his arms.

Rina gripped her heart and stumbled back. "Oh…oh my god!" She wiped and imaginary tear from her eye. "N-nick thinks I'm (sob, sniff) s-s-something WORSE!!"

Tatem shook her head laughing. "Rina cut it out."

"B-but TATEM!" Rina choked, trying not to laugh. "He said I'm (sniff) worse! I mean (sob) that *really* hurt!"

Audrina rolled her eyes and took a sip of her drink. "You're such an asshole sometimes." She mumbled into the cup.

All the girls stared at her bug eyed. Cleo, who was standing in the kitchen doorway, dropped her cookie. "D-did you just swear?" She gulped.

Tatem's eyes glazed over and she faced forward. "That's it," She mumbled "The apocalypse is coming…"

"Leave me alone" Audrina pouted, crossing her arms.

"B-but *you* SWORE!!" Nadine cried, *still* on top of AJ.

"So? I *am* human"

Howie looked around. "What are you guys talking about?"

Rina shook her head, still in shock. "Nevermind…. hey, when did you guys put the shades down?"

"Right after you left." Tatem answered.

"Oh…"

4:00

"Well this is *boring*…"Cleo supplied while glancing around the room. Audrina sat cross-legged at the coffee table, figuring out a calculus problem. Tatem sat practically on top of Brian with her head on his shoulder, while he seemed to be deep in thought about something. Every 10 seconds or so Nick would reach over and pinch Rina's arm, then she would return the pinch 10 seconds later and so on…Nadine was, yup you guessed it, still on top of AJ, while Howie amused himself by drawing little pictures in the carpet. And finally Kevin laid on his back counting the ceiling tiles.

Rina, between the 'pinch fest', looked over to Nadine. "Hey…is he alive?"

Nadine looked down at the back of AJ's head then smacked it. A low groan came from the carpet. "Yup he's still here."

"Oookay, enough of this sitting around crap!" Cleo stood and marched over to her bag. She pulled out a '2 for a dollar' bag of candy containing…..PIXIE STICK!!!" **For those of you that don't know (I think you all do) pixie sticks are little paper tubes containing PURE sugar…yum**



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