Ashi

Chapter 2

Chapter 2.) Demanding Garden Gnomes and Shedding Chickens

      "No one says do this. No one says be there. No one say stop that. No one say see here! We will run around all day. We will do it all my way!"

     I'm watching The Lion King with my best friend Carly. "Zahzoo is fantastic." She said. "Timon and Pumba are perfect." I said. She stuffed popcorn into her mouth.

     "Ashi, me and your dad are going to the mall. We'll be back late. Is there anything you need for school?" My mom asked. I thought about what I needed. "I think I have everything. I need more Glenna skirts, and a new pair of Doc Martins."

      "Alright. I left money for you girls to get food if needed. Maybe pizza take out? Chinese? Whatever pleases your hunger." With that she walked out of the den. I stopped the movie. "Come on." I whispered. I knew my parents were leaving. Now its time to party.

     Carly followed me and we walked to the living area window. We watched as my parents entered the car, and drove away. We ran up to my room and entered my walk-in closet. I grabbed the empty jelly jars and two giant bottles of glitter. Carly grabbed the glow sticks.

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     It was pitch black. The only source of light was the jars filled with glow stick guts and glitter. I walked down the hall trying to find Carly. We are in the middle of a Nerf gun war.

     I heard footsteps so I got close to the wall. "Gotcha." She whispered into my ear. I screamed and attempted to run but I got stuck in a net. The hall light turned on. "Well well well. Ashi, you are caught again." Carly spoke while smiling viciously at her Nerf gun. "Carls, y-you win. No ne-need to shoot." I stuttered.

     "Where's the fun in that?" She smirked. She then started pelting me with rubber bullets. She was laughing while I hopelessly tried to escape. Why did you make these traps so strong? I asked myself.

     After he bullets ran out she pulled the rope and I fell from the ceiling. I looked up at her and smiled. "Run." I didn't have to say it twice, Carly was running towards the stairs. Right where I want you. I smiled.

     She saw my trap, but it was too late. She stepped on the mattress and started sliding down the stairs. She rolled over the trip wire, and then a shaving cream pie hit her face. I doubled over laughing. I dropped my gun in the process, it rolling down stairs.

     I heard the pop of the gun, then felt a pain in between my eyes. There was a bullet stuck on my face. I looked over to Carly. The second our eyes met, we both doubled over into a fit of laughter.

     "Oh gosh Ashi! Your face was priceless!" Carly said. "Mine? You should have seen yours! " I laughed. After we calmed down, we ordered a half cheese half pepperoni pizza.

     We cleaned our mess up, everything was back to normal. The doorbell rang. We ran to get our pizza. Right when we opened the door, a bucket full of chocolate syrup and feathers fell onto us. "I knew we were forgetting one!" Carly said. I looked over to the pizza delivery boy.

     "Brendan Prince?" I said although it sounded more like a question. Brendan is the heartthrob and bad boy in our school. He is totally gorgeous, and mysterious. He smirked. "Scott Anderson's girl and her friend."

     Oh yeah did I mention he hates Scott?

     "We have names." Carly said. "I don't care." He retorted. They had a starring contest while I was licking the chocolate off my hands. "Okay well you both win the starring contest. Thank you for delivering our pizza, here's the Money keep the change. For a tip. Bye!" I handed him a 20, grabbed my pizza and shut the door.

     "You have guts girl." She said while grabbing a piece of pepperoni. I gave her a skeptical look. "You just slammed the door in Brendan Prince's face."

     I shrugged. "Big deal. What is he going to do? Feed me to the monster under his bed?"

     She laughed. "He is the monster. But a sexy one at that." I bit into my pizza. I heard the door open. "Ashi, Carly, care to explain why there is chocolate syrup and feathers all over the entry way?" My dad asked.

     I put my pizza down. "...um...Well you see, we were watching The Lion King and...um...we were attacked my garden gnomes. They demanded we make them a chocolate slip-n-slide. Oh they also needed the feathers for their chickens. Said something about shedding chickens." I lied.

     My parents sighed. "Ashi, there are no chicken anywhere near us. Carly will you explain?" dad asked.

     "Oh. Yeah. We were going to make chocolate milk and I accidentally hit Ashi with the pillow I was holding. She got chocolate syrup on her Glenna skirt and told me to run. So I did. She caught me as I was trying to get out of the door and then we had a pillow fight, and syrup war." She said.

     I rolled my eyes. Like they'd believe that. "Thank you for the truth Carly." My mom said. She turned to me. "Demanding gnomes and shedding chickens my left foot."

     My mouth fell open. My dad patted my back. "Nice try though." Then he laughed. "I got your skirts, and Doc Martins. Also a few shirts. I hope you like them." Mom said. I knew I would. Surprisingly she has good fashion sense. She handed me a bag.

     "Let's clean our mess up Ashi. I have to leave soon." Carly spoke up. We grabbed the swifter and cleaned up.

     After Carly left I ran into my room and jumped onto my king sized bed.  I stared that the white carpet. I heard a soft scratching noise. I rolled, literally rolled off my bed and over to my hedgehog Prickle Pants' cage. I gasped. "You need water!" I opened the cage and grabbed the watering can and ran to my bathroom. I turned to the water fountain and filled the can then placed it back into Prickle Pants cage. I shut the cage door and locked it.

     Just as I was getting up I felt something soft, but prickly run across my hand. "Oh so sneaky." I muttered. He rolled into a ball then started rolling across my room. My door opened, and Prickle Pants rolled into my dad's black house shoes.

     "Nice to see you to Prickle." Dad spoke before lifting him off the ground. "Tomorrow is school preparation day, and you have orientation at three."

     He handed me Prickle Pants, then kissed my forehead. "Goodnight honey." I placed Prickle Pants in his cage. "Goodnight dad." He closed my door.