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Chapter 7: Fear and loathing

"OHMYGODKILLITWITHFIRE!!!" Victoria blurted out in half of a second before disappearing down the hallway and jumping over the couch to hide, leaving Mari to defend herself against Tom's tarantula. Before Mari even had the chance to move she could clearly hear Tom laughing like a mad man on the other side of the door trying his best not to laugh too loudly he covered his mouth and started coughing and wheezing.

Enraged Mari begins to bang on the door, as she grabbed the handle to try shaking the door she realized Tom forgot to lock it. Smirking she waved for Victoria to come over and gestures at the door handle. Vicky catches on and runs to the kitchen as she walks to the bathroom door with each hand full of ammo evil grins spread over the two girls faces as they prepare to 'Storm the fort' with a carton of eggs and a squeeze jar of mayo.

Before they could open the door to start the assault though it appears to open on its own, Only to let out the mechanical cockroach!!. Upon seeing her arch enemy rear its ugly head once again Victoria screams and runs away leaving Mari alone with just a carton of eggs to defend herself. Seeing as the situation turned do or die Mari clenched her teeth and kicked the door all the way open preparing to at least hit Tom with an egg before running.

Only to find Tom lying on the ground holding his crotch and covering his face, apparently he was hiding behind the door in case of retaliation and didn't expect the door knob to strike him in his 'no no spot'. As Tom laid there on the ground with foam frothing out of his mouth and only a towel to cover his shame Mari couldn't help but feel bad for him before pelting him with an egg and walking back to the living room to let him clean up again...

"Dude you take longer showers than all the girls in my house put together" Mike says as he hands Tom a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch. "Thanks Mike, and I wasn't bathing the whole time I just decided to run the hot water out as a nice surprise for Mari, we should hear a scre..." "Mother F∆¢ker!! I should have used all the eggs!" Tom's sentence was cut short as Mari started screaming every profanity she knew, both English and French.

"Could you quit pulling ponytails and just ask her out already?" Victoria plops down between the two and asks in one of her rare moments of seriousness. Tom just looks at Victoria before he shrugs and keeps eating which only elicits a pinch from Vicky. "Seriously Tom, you know she's why Ashley cancelled on you right? everyone in school knows you two like each other but neither of you will admit it."

"That's because we don't. I've said it a million times she has no interest in me that way, Besides she's like a sister to me so there's no.. wait what do you mean that's why Ashley cancelled on me?? Answer now or Mr and Mrs Crawley will find their way to your house". Victoria just rolls her eyes and walks off to make toaster strudels.

A wet slapping noise can be heard running down the hallway and Tom looks up just in time to see Mari launch into a flying headlock. Her clothes wet and clinging to her body as if she didn't even towel off to get her revenge.

"You're such a dick you should have been named after your father!" Mari yells in Toms ear causing Vic to smirk before biting into her strudel. "Mari would you please describe our relationship to everyone? Victoria says we're undercover lovers and that's why Ashley stood me up.." Tom has never been one to beat around the bush and since him and Mari knew each other since they were in diapers he has no shame in saying what he's thinking around her.

Mari instantly drops the head lock and pushes him away while gagging. "Victoria that's just nasty he's my baby brother" "I'm older than you by two months.." "I said what I said, besides who spread that rumor?". Victoria looks to Larry and Chelsea for back up. Larry starts counting the hairs on his knuckles and Chelsea walks to the bathroom to avoid getting dragged into an awkward situation. Mike senses that he's next and disappears before he gets dragged in to a losing battle.

"Well everyone in school honestly I mean you guys eat each other's food and are always hanging out.." Victoria starts mumbling a few other reasons before Mari cuts her off. "You mean like how you snatch Larry's fries in the cafeteria and how Mike is always helping Chelsea get ready for her games by pointing out hard counters for her opponents off to the side away from the camera?" Vic looks dead into Mari's eyes "Me and Larry Are dating.."

Silence... followed by more silence..

"""What?!?!""" Chelsea ran out of the bathroom to see Tom, Mari, and Mike staring at Victoria "What happened? why's everyone yelling now?" No one could respond so Victoria continues "We've been dating for like two years now right Larry?" "Yeah next month is our two year anniversary.. but I thought we were gonna wait till we graduate to drop that bomb on them Vic".

Victoria looks a little guilty for a second before she grins "I couldn't help it, besides now we don't have to hide it anymore". Tom stands up and points at Larry "Mike use submission!!" before Larry could blink Mike magically reappeared grabs him and twisted him like a soft pretzel "I give I give!! let me goooo!" "Now Mike use fire punch".

Mike begins giving Larry an atomic noogie Mari comments "Its super effective, the opponents Larry has fainted..." Chelsea couldn't help herself and quips "should have known better than use a bug type against a fighting/fire type Vic" "That's not fair! he used two moves back to back my turn got skipped..." as they bicker Larry just moans before Tom looks at him with an evil expression "You have violated the bro code.. do you know the consequences of your actions?"

Larry gulps before deciding to act self righteous "I would do anything for the woman I love!! you heartless plebs wouldn't understand". Victoria leans in to Larry's chest "Awww baby I love you.." the world starts turning pink so Tom pretends to start clawing at his eyes "It Burns's it Burns's make it stop! please make it stop!" as Mike and Mari start laughing Larry shoots the stink eye at Tom "Dude shut up your just jelly, but hey you guys brought this on yourselves we behaved and never so much as held hands in front of y'all so now we're just gonna rub this in your pathetic loner faces".

"I move that any and all signs of affection are hereby banned and punishable by cruel plot development in game.. those that agree please raise your hands.." Mike, Chelsea, Mari, and Tom have their hands raised. "All who oppose?" Larry sighs deeply "we're outnumbered Vic" "That's ok Larry let them grow old bitter and alone besides I don't know if I'm comfortable with being touchy feely in public yet.."


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Sum12hate Sum12hate

Ah childhood romance.. I don't remember it too fondly but I hear it's nice for most people anyways... 2,000 views woot! I hope the mushy stuff doesn't drive y'all away I promise no harems and no love interest for the MC in the immediate future.. maybe after a couple hundred chapters idk I feel most MC's become henpecked lately. BTW this chapter was not sponsored by Redbull ™ but it had a helping hand

Chapter 8: No Nose!!

After everyone adjusted to the fact that Larry and Victoria are dating they began rehearsing for Chelsea's play immediately. Everything went smoothly until Chelsea got to her first line. In very high pitched and nasally voice with a slight southern drawl "The Lord told me to come to the Lester house, I was at home sweeping out the kitchen when he came to me an said..."

Tom clamps his hands over his ears before shouting "What the Hell is that!" Chelsea instantly stops reading and stares daggers at Tom. "Sister Bessie Rice is a southern woman who was born with out any cartilage in her nose, how else should I sound?" Mari gets up and walks over to Tom's father's study and rummaged through his desk returning with a sharpie and a sticky note.

"Here you have no nose and our ears don't have to suffer" before Chelsea could ask what Mari was going to do, Mari stuck the sticky note over her nose and placed two black dots for nostrils leaving Chelsea very confused. Everyone laughed but for some reason Mike couldn't stop laughing and tears started rolling down his cheeks.

"Dude it was funny but not that funny.." Larry says while shaking Mike to get him to stop. "No man you guys don't get it.. Mari just did a 'Got your nose' and Chelsea had the exact face of a two year old the first time it happened to them."

Mike starts laughing again while Chelsea is getting held back by Victoria and Mari all the while screaming at Mike. "Keep laughing slim shady, I'll give you a real reason for those tears in a second!"

They eventually got through the rehearsal, and Chelsea felt satisfied after whacking Mike a few times. After everyone put away their scripts Chelsea took off her 'nose holes' and they made their way back to the living room to finish the game of Mario party. While Larry was rolling a blunt for them to smoke Tom threw a frozen pizza in the oven, everyone stepped into the basement for a few minutes.

Mike threw some puddle of mud on his Pandora and psycho was the first song to play so everyone sand while they smoked. Eventually they came back up smelling like smoke while coughing and laughing. Mike plops onto the couch picks up his controller and started his turn... landing directly on a Bowser space.

"NOOOOOOO!!!" "Shut up you big baby, it's not like you just lost" Mari laughs while elbowing Mike in the ribs. "If you're not in first you're losing, besides you're the one who took my place so I don't want to hear that from you till I sick a Bow wow on your @$$" Mari keeps goading Mike while laughing "Oooh soo scared whatever will I do?".

Mini-game after mini-game, a few lucky rolls later and Larry was deemed king of the night. being unable to resist rubbing it in Mike's face he offered a handicap he instantly regret. "I feel bad for you Mikey boy how about you pick the next game? I'll go easy on you don't worry"

Mike yells into Kitchen at Tom who happens to be pulling out the pizza. "Break out the PS3.. we're playing drunk DBZ tenkaichi 3!" everyone can hear Tom grumbling as the room fills with the absolute mouth watering smell of pizza. "Yeah sure whatever but I'm eating first"

After a quick pizza break the guys grabbed some beer, while Victoria and Chelsea had wine coolers leaving Mari as 'odd man out' with a Pepsi. "why don't you ever drink at Tom's house?" Chelsea asks knowing that Mari can turn up a pop off vodka like it's water. "Because Tom only has beer or whiskey, beer tastes like crap and I get mean on brown liquor.." "I have some homemade Muscadine wine in my room if you want it? I was saving it for after prom.. but that didn't go as planned." Tom says as he starts looking depressed again.

"Oh I see how it is you made wine just for Ashley but never for your best friends huh?" Mari teases while running to his room. Tom looks indignant while shouting at her receding figure "It's in the Bottom left shelf of my dresser..." he seems to remember something important and jumps up.

"Wait! I'll get it don't go through my stuff!" As he runs after her Chelsea turns to Larry "what's got him so jumpy?" "I dunno might have a porno mag or something embarrassing in there?" Victoria starts laughing "Do people still use magazines for that? I figured those would have disappeared by now thanks to the internet".

Both Larry and Mike stare at Victoria before Mike opens his mouth. "there's still books right" "Well duh there's something satisfying about turning the page that clicking a mouse will never... oh nevermind, wait.. Larry do you have any magazines I need to know about?"

Larry starts sweating and mumbling before he answers her "Do you want to know about them? I could lend you a few?" stupidity runs in the male Gene and he decided to make it into a joke. Victoria just smiles and looks coldly into his eyes "Let's just pretend neither of us said anything and you get to keep those dirty books of other women safe.."

Before Larry could reply Tom and Mari come back acting awkward. "what did we miss?" Mari asks looking like she wants to forget what ever she may or may not have seen in Tom's dresser. "Oh just Larry being an idiot like usual so nothing much, what about you two? Did you get a good look in Tom's dresser? tell us everything" Chelsea is absolutely beaming at everyone else's embarrassment.

""NOTHING!!"" They reply and Tom continues "There was nothing to see besides the wine and my designs for the next robot". "Ooooh is it a sex bot? you guys are acting weird, TELL ME!". Feeling like she hooked on to something forbidden Chelsea would rather die than let Tom get away scot free.

"There are some thing's we are better off not knowing and sadly I know one now, so no I'm not saying a word and by the way I have something for you Chelsea". Mari starts somberly and slowly breaks into smile as she ends her sentence.

"Gimme" Chelsea just holds her hand out to take whatever Mari 'Found' before Mari reaches out and stick another sticky note to her face. ""You got no nose!"" Tom and Mari start laughing as steam rolls out of Chelsea's ears.


CREATORS' THOUGHTS
Sum12hate Sum12hate

sorry about the delay my schedule got switched up and I've been pulling long shifts the past few days... Anyone care to guess what she found?

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