Outnumbered | Jake Brockman X Reader

Stranded

*That picture is tyger on a tv show I was watching while writing this*

On the day that I had sent off my university applications Sue had gotten rid of Stacey. Hmm, maybe I was wrong when I told Stacey that Sue would eventually start to like her. It's a shame really, because even though I completely understand why Sue had got rid of her, I was going to miss Stacey. Sue had sent her to Scotland with a one way ticket. Of cource Karen was going to be moody after that happened as she had really looked up to Stacey, but I didn't expect that she wouldn't even want to talk to sue - or anybody. Perhaps she was still upset about her swimming competition a few months back.

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Jake and I were waiting at the bus shelter but we weren't waiting for the bus. We didn't have any money and neither did our Oyster cards.

Mine had ran out weeks ago from going literally everywhere there was to go with Rebecca and Emily, but mainly Jake. We were using Jakes... or Pete's Oyster card originally but we lost it.

"Any chance of a lift?" He asked into the phone when it rang. It was probably Pete ringing. "I've lost my Oyster card and it looks like snow...yeah I took yours... yeah, bummer eh? ..... I can't do that, I've got no cash, and neither has Chelsea," he then pulled his phone away from his ear and looked at it, annoyed. "He just hung up on me!"

"So let me guess, he can't come and get us?"

"No! He said we have to find our own way back,"

"I mean... I could ask my mum for a lift but I don't think she'll be too keen to come all the way out here - she's still annoyed about my Oyster card..." I said, dialing her number. "Hi mum!"

"If you want me to come and pick you up, then I'm just going to say no now. It's your own fault that you've used up everyone's Oyster cards," mum said and hung up.

"Wow, rude much," I mumbled. Hmm... what could we do? I didn't have an Oyster card, Jake didn't have an Oyster card and now Pete didn't either... Rebecca was probably nowhere near here to come and give us her card, and Emily doesn't like to share things. The only solution would be to..

Suddenly Jake's phone rang again. "... I could probably make it home in time. Provided I get a taxi..." then he out down the phone again. "we need to get home in time for Karen to come home," his phone turned back on again and Pete was back. ".... so, about this taxi, if-............................................... come on dad, look- ughh" he shoved his mobile back into his pocket frustratedly. "He's not paying for a taxi,"

"Well.. then.. we're gonna have to walk.."

"All the way back?"

"Well there's nothing else can do is there? Unless we can think of anyone else who has a spare oyster,"

We managed to get Mikey's dad's oyster but we had found another problem. Jake had lost his keys. He got into the phone with Pete for like the hundredth time that day. "Hi dad.. I'm ok to get home now. Mikey leant me his oyster.....................................................oh I've got those..... I wish I knew...... nope I didn't get that. Your phone is crap,"

"I suppose we could let Karen into my house but she'd have to go through the window because I haven't got keys either," I said, which didn't really help.

After we had gone back to school (we had to tell Ben his phone was with some chinease guy called Lee.. but Ben wasn't there) We finally got back the bus station and the bus came, but they kicked us off! Jake had to ring Pete again. "... they wouldn't let us on the bus. Mikey's oyster had nothing on it....... he didn't know, it was his dads oyster.... er, no. He wasn't there the rehearsal got cut short. Ben'll probably be home by now. So if I get a cab, he can pay for it when I get back... dad? ... dad...?"

"So basically we're stranded with no money," I said.

Jake started texting Pete - I was glad of it, I couldn't stand another Jake-Pete phone call.

In the end, we managed to walk home but we wasn't sure if we was in time for Karen or not. We rang the doorbell to see if anyone was in. It took a while, but the door finally opened.

"Oh! Let me guess, you've lost your key, or rather you've lost my key," Pete said when he opened the door and we filed into the house.

"Er, no. I've lost the feeling in my hands - couldn't turn the bloody thing," Jake said. "Thanks for picking us up by the way!"

"I couldn't get the car... or the pump,"

Karen came into the kitchen and offered us a cup of tea each. We were astonished. "Any takers?"

"Yes, I'd like one please Karen, thank you,"

Suddenly, there was a loud crash.

"What's was that?" Pete asked.

"Oh that's the plumber. I let him in earlier,"

Pete went out to talk to this plumber guy who was apparently called Dave.

A few minutes later, we were on the phone to Sue because - well, because Pete was stamping on his phone.

"What do you mean stamping?" Sue asked.

"Well it's hard to explain... have you ever seen river dance?"

A/N so that was the chapter for today, I'm really sad because there's only two more episodes left and that'll be the end of this story I'm afraid...

I will be making another outnumbered story afterwoods, so stay tuned for that.

I'm very exited for the next episode though because guess what, it's the Spartacus performance!!

See you till then!✌🏽

~Thursday 2nd July 2020~