What I Would Give

The Reveal

Okay so after rereading my first published parts, stuff didn't flow so, I fix. Now stuff should make more sense because everything seemed a little wonky. I hope you guys are enjoying What I Would Give!

Once again I asked Grey how he knew Josh but he answered with,"I think Josh is calling me...yea I'm coming! Sorry, manly duties call." I shook my head, but realized there was a more pressing matter.

I shifted over to Taylor, who raided our fridge.

"Do you have any soda?" Taylor asked.

"Yea, on the side of the door can you grab me one?" She handed me a ginger ale and I thanked her. I pulled Taylor into my bedroom and sat her on my bed. "How did the whole parent, principle fiasco go?"

Taylor pretty much snorted her ginger ale, and practically died in an attempt to breathe again. She managed to keep a steady breathe then she finally spoke up,"there is ginger ale shooting out of my nose!"

I could hardly stop myself from laughing, while I tried to point her toward my bathroom. Taylor quickly ran to the bathroom and fiercely washed out her nose with water. She walked back, sat down, and continually wiped her nose with my hand towel. "It went entirely as expected, my parents bickered about how I was a hooligan, and blamed my behavior on each other. When the principal and the dean asked where the dog came from; I told them I honestly didn't know. Apparently, the dog had dug a hole under the fence that divided the school property from neighboring houses. When it came time to explain why I left the dog in my seventh period class I had just run out of, I had no answer. I kinda just felt like putting the dog in her room because I needed to get rid of it, and I knew Ms. Davis was still there."

"I can see how that was a problem. What's the punishment?" I sighed.

"Two Saturday schools and a formal apology letter to Ms. Davis," Taylor nodded.

A quiet knock sounded throughout on my door, "come in!"

Grey opened the door and immediately look around at my decorations. His eyes stopped on the old teddy bear on my bed; he seemed entranced. "Star command to Grey, come in Grey," Taylor teased. Grey's changed his eyes back over to us, "Josh wants you out here so we can eat."

He turned to leave, "We'll be right there,wait Grey, why were you staring at my bear?" I asked.
"I had one of those when I was little; it just reminded me of something," he smiled. Taylor and I shrugged and moved out towards the dining room.

Josh still seemed really off, so I planned to get him before he got me. I grabbed my rigged gift box, that was fully weaponized with a spring and board to put powder on. I grabbed a bag of flour from the cupboard and threw it into the box. I grabbed a glass and filled it with the rest of my ginger ale, then poured in soy sauce to match the color of rootbeer. I walked over towards Josh while he was distracted, and replaced his root beer on the table with my nasty concoction. I moved the original root beer back into the kitchen, and made my way back towards him to set my plan in motion.  I politely apologized to him for my behavior and handed him my sinister box. He started to open the box, "Nat that was very sweet of you..." But then he quickly aimed the box back at me. The bag of flour attempted to launch but it ended up stuck. "Nat I know you better than anyone, you would never give someone a gift just out of the kindness of your heart, plus I was there when you bought it, you of all people should know I am the king of all pranks." I faked defeat, but not for long because he reached for his glass and took a huge gulp of victory. The next thing I knew carbonated soy sauce was spat all over the tile and some on a chair.

My stomach hurt so bad from laughter, and everyone else joined with me except Grey, what was their problem. "That was disgusting, what was that?" Josh exclaimed.