The Barefoot Violinist

The Missus

One afternoon, Bennett and Victor were sitting at their usual lunch table, waiting for Blue and Ellie to pitch. They were already halfway through lunch, and there were still no signs of them.

"Do you think anything happened?" Victor asked looking slightly concerned.

"You think they got detention again?" He frowned at Victor.

"Well, they were pretty serious when they were talking about their Revenge Craze, I wouldn't put anything past them."

"Come on," Bennett scoffed. "I'm sure they've forgotten about it. Anyway, Ellie doesn't hold a grudge and I'm not even sure she knows how to prank anybody." he shook his head, sure that he was correct.

"I don't know mate. Elli can be very intense when she's on a mission." he informed Bennett, who raised an eyebrow in surprise. "I'm worried that they're going to kill each other doing this."

"Well, we can ask them when they get back." Bennett said, looking at the entrance to see if there was any sign of them.

"Oh Shit!" Victor suddenly exploded, briefly closing his eyes with his hand. Bennett looked at up at him, his head turning to where Victor nodded.

Ellie came in with what looked like the worst tan anybody could ever get. Her skin was stained and blotchy with a bright orange hue. Next to her walked Blue, who looked like she had an accident at the hairdressers. Her hair at that moment was a bright shade of blue, with some of the dye staining her face and her neck.

"Erm, are you guys okay?" Bennett asked looking from one to the other, trying to suppress his laughter, with very little success.

"Piss off, you little weasel!" Blue snapped at him, self-consciously smoothing her hair.

"Right, that means you're okay at least." he grinned at her, before turning to Ellie. "It looks like the Revenge Craze has started."

"Not another word from you Bennett!" she said moodily, causing Bennett to snort in humour.

Victor stayed quiet the whole time, his mouth open. The two of them had been messing with each other's shampoo and shower gel, it seemed. Bennett was surprised that Blue would fall for it, since she could smell that something was off a mile away, but obviously Ellie was more devious than he thought.

"Well, at least you got it out of you." Victor said hopefully, although you could still see the consternation on his face.

Blue and Ellie, kept glaring at each other. Until they got up to go to class.

"This is far from over, isn't it?" Victor asked worriedly as he and Bennett walked out of the cafeteria.

"Far from over." he mused, wondering what next disaster they were planning. He shook his head bemusedly. A year ago he would never have imagined that he'd have friends that were this crazy, or even friends, period. Ever since Blue had entered his life, things had changed drastically. The quiet had been disturbed, it had been replaced with these boisterous group of people that made him feel like he finally belonged.

"What happened to Red?" Cory frowned as he reached Bennett at the end of the day, watching as Blue left in a whirl of patchy blue hair.

"Her and  Ellie are on a revenge craze, because Blue landed them in detention." he explained, shaking his head with a slight smile playing on his lips.

"Are you sure it's safe?' his frown deepened. "Blue can cause some real damage to a person, I should know." he shivered as he remembered what she'd done to Jake and then her pranks on the rest of the football team that bordered on dangerous.