~Behind the Black Curtain~ By Glittery Fabulous Showstopper | Forums

[camiliyah]

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Chapter 3

" I don't even feel like going to gym class." I said imperceptibly.
" Then let's skip." Grayson said.

I couldn't believe the words that had come out of her mouth. Grayson would had never done something like this. She was never this spontaneous. I liked this side of her.

" What did you say?" I said astonished.
" You heard me!" She said hugging me. " Let's skip! It is an emergency! My best friend is moving away,and I need to spend waking moment with her!
" Well, I guess the worst we can get is detention. I'm up for it!" I said.
" Great! The mall and Starbucks! Just like old times!" She said.

We ran out the door, and to the mall. It was drizzling, but we sprinted liberally. It felt so freeing. Just being full of spirit. I danced as the rain splattered my face with ice cold water. Each drop stung like a soft ***** of a safety pin.

We finally reached the mall. It was the same oversized building, filled with department stores, shoes and accessory shops, and the aroma of coffee with a hint of pumpkin spice. I caught a whiff of fresh baked biscotti and sugar cookies. It was overcrowded with people trying to catch to sales and doing some of their early Christmas shopping.

“ Home sweet home!” I said to myself.
“ Let’s go to Bath & Body Works! Then we can go to Claire’s and Forever 21!” She said as she dragged me across the building.
“ Don’t forget Abercrombie!”


Standing in front of the boutique, we walk in and a wind of perfumes and cologne fills our nostrils. I immediately head to the hand sanitizer stand. I look at the new collection for Thanksgiving.

“ Wow!” I said surprised. “ Turkey and Tangerine! They’ll come up with anything!”
“ Missy had the Skunk Surprise!” Grayson added.
“ Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse.”
We laughed.
“ Oh my gosh! Is that who I think it is?” Grayson whispered in a yell as she dragged me behind a rack in the boutique.
“ Who is it?” I asked.
“ It is your mom! And she is coming in!”
“ We have to go!”
“ No duh!”
“ This is not the time to be sarcastic Grayson!”

I ran to the racks to put our stuff back. Just as she was walking in I flew across the shop to the racks. I throw the stuff back on the shelves and walk stiffly and slowly back to Grayson as I if I had nothing to hide.

“ We need a diversion!” Grayson said.
“ Wait!” I have one.

I ducked back down behind the shelves and yelled…

“ There is a 75% percent off sale at Walmart! Hurry! It only last for a couple of more hours!”

A crowd of people exited the store immediately including my mom. Grayson and I were almost trampled by the women shopping a couple of feet behind us. There was also this soccer mom dragging her kids out of the boutique.

“ That was close!” Grayson said.
“ What are you talking about I did all the work!”
“ Hey! You wouldn’t have spotted your mom if it wasn’t for me!”
“ I guess so!” I nudged her slightly in the arm. “ Let’s go to Abercrombie and Fitch!”

We exited the shop and continued our rendezvous around the mall.

[SkyeBreeze]

Wow I just read some more of your story. It has such a good quality. Plus, it's really funny.

Love,
Sparkly Glitzy Showstopper

[sassyfashion]

LuV IT!

[camiliyah]

Thanks Jaja and Sparkly!

I'll post a new chapter in a couple of hours! You may like it!

[camiliyah]

Chapter 4

We finished shopping and went back to Starbucks for lunch. After that, we went back to school. It was already 5th peroid by the time we got back.

“ That was fun and scary!” I said.
“ I know right!” Grayson agreed. “ I hope it never happens again!”

We reached our lockers and grabbed our science books for Mr. DiMaccio’s class. Then we went into the girls bathroom. We sat down our books by the sink and looked at the names written on the walls until the bell rang for the period begin.

“ Is that my name!” I said squinting to see.
“ I think it is!” Grayson said.
“ What else does it say?”
“ Becca is ……” Her voice trailed off.
“ Becca is …… What?” I asked anxiously.
She whispered in my ear.
“ Oh my gosh who would say that!” I yelled.
I looked closer at the handwriting.
“ Carlee wrote it!” I said.
“ How do you know!” Grayson asked.
“ Because she was dumb enough to put her infamous heart above the I’s.” I said irritably.
“ Oh. Nice observation.” She said blandly.
“ What did I do to her?!” I asked myself. “ Why would she do this?”

I contemplated on a reason why she would do this. I found one….

Flashback

When we were younger, Carlee used to come over to my house for play dates and stuff. We were good friends, until 6th grade. She started hanging with a crowd of girls that were mean to other people and stabbed each other in the back. She was funny when she wasn’t insulting people. Grayson liked her at one point, but then they had gotten into an argument and stopped talking to one another. That put me in a rut between my two friends. Eventually, Carlee stopped talking to me and hung around those other girls. Ever since then, her grades have dropped, she has been getting into more trouble, and she is meaner than ever. I say they have a bad influence on her, but she doesn’t listen. In fact just a couple of days ago, we were in the cafeteria getting lunch when she bumped into Sally on purpose.

“ Watch where you are going klutz!” She yelled at Sally.

Carlee slammed Sally’s tray on the ground. The tray hit her feet and splattered her shoes with English peas and some type of mystery meat. I stood up in my seat and looked at Grayson. She gave me a warning look. I ignored it and walked over to Carlee.

“ What makes you think you can talk to her like that?” I asked questioningly.
“ Uhh. Because I can. Do you think I care what you think?” She said with a scoff. “ Besides I did her a favor, those Oxfords look way better now that the peas are covering them.” She gave a little giggle.
Her group giggled along with her.
“ This nerd is lucky I would even give her the time of day!” She said egotistically.
“ She may be a nerd, no offense Sally, but at least she has an IQ higher than a rock! Besides Sally is intelligent, pretty, and has friends that aren’t afraid to stand up to what they believe in!”
The other people in the cafeteria oohhed and laughed at my comment.
Carlee glared at me and walked off. Her posse followed her.

I helped Sally up and took her to the restroom to wipe off the food from her shoes, and the tears from her eyes.
“ Are you ok?” I asked.
“ I’m fine.” She sniffled. “ Thanks. That was really nice.”
“ No problem. I couldn’t let her get away with that. You’re too nice to be treated that way anyway!”
She smiled at me. We continued cleaning her up when Grayson walked in……..

“ Hello?” Grayson said. “ Earth to Becca!”
She clapped her hands in front of my face, and snapped her fingers. I fell backwards on my gluteus maximus (that means behind). She helped me up.
“ We gotta get to class!” She said as the bell rang.
We rushed out of the bathroom and headed to class.

[fabiona12]

LOLZ GLUTIUS MAXIMUS!!!! I learned that in grade 3 or 4, and we played glutius maximus tag

[camiliyah]

Here is another chapter!

Chapter 5

We barely got over the threshold of the classroom when the late bell rang. Mr. DiMaccio began talking about our assignment for today. When I walked in I almost forgot Carlee was in this class with me.

“ Okay class. Since we are studying Earth Science, today we are going outside for class.”
The classroom hooted, hollered and yelled. Papers were thrown in the air and at other people.
“ But!” He said loudly. “ We have to make this educational so I won’t get fired.”
“ Boo!” The class yelled.
“ Hey! Hey!” He said as someone threw a paper ball at him. “ Detention Jake! As I was saying, would you rather stay in and do work from the book?”
The whole classroom fell silent.
“ Good.” He said with a goofy smirk on his face. He walked to his closet and grabbed a bag of candy. The class started to whisper to each other and stare at Mr. DiMaccio. He opened the bag and smiled at us and said.
“ Candy is bad for children’s teeth. Line up at the door.”
Everyone rushed to the door except for us. We waited to be last so we could talk.
“ We are going to the tennis courts.” He ordered.
“ Why can’t we go to the track? It has a lot more flowers and trees. ” I asked.
“ It’s too far.”
“ But it’s right behind the school.” I argued back.
“ Keep walking!” He barked as he popped a butterscotch in his mouth.

Grayson and I stayed behind while everyone else was ahead.
“ So what are you going to do about Carlee?” Grayson asked.
“ I don’t know I guess I just tell the school counselor or principal.”
“ But then everyone thinks you’ll be a rat!”
“ I don’t care what anyone thinks as long as I get this fixed! I don’t want anyone think of me as that!” I yelled at Grayson.
The class was way ahead of us so we had to break into a jog before they got too far ahead. After we reached them, we stopped and leaned over panting like dogs.
“ I didn’t realize we were that far ahead!” I said.
“ Me either!” Grayson said almost out of breath.

When we finally reached the tennis courts Mr. DiMaccio finally began to tell us what to do.
“ Okay, when you find a plant that you recognize, you will write a 3 page report on its life cycle and how it makes its own food and if it makes its own food. You may partner up into groups of three, but each of you have to write a report.”
I immediately grabbed Grayson’s arm and pulled her over towards me.
“ Who else are we going to have?” I asked.
“ I don’t know, but I hope it is not Carlee.” Grayson said.
“ Me either!”
“ Hey! Look the Imagine Town Olympics are coming!” I pointed at the billboard. “ It’s cool that they can get their ads for the website on the billboards!”
“ I know its awesome!” Grayson agreed. “ Let’s enter you can be my partner! I’ll log on and enter us this afternoon when I get home!”


As Grayson and I continued talking, Carlee came walking towards us with an ugly look on her face. She stopped in front of us and started talking.
“ I guess I’ll I have to work with you two losers.” She said while picking at her nails.
“ If you don’t like us then why are you over here?” I asked.
“ Because, I don’t want to work with anyone else. They are all more geekier than you two.” She said with retort.
“ Or is it because no one wants to work with you?” I said under my breath.
“ What did you say geek!”
I yelled. “ Or is it because no one wants to work with you! Did you hear me clear enough? You have a bad attitude towards other people, and the only reason you have friends is because they are scared of you!”
“ Ughh! You will take that back!” She stalked off.

As she walked the heel of her shoe broke. Grayson and I stifled a giggle. She continued walking like she had a limp, then the other one broke. She stumbled and fell to the ground. I saw her get up, with mud stains all over her blouse. She yelled and stomped her feet. She almost fell again. Carlee walked up to Mr. DiMaccio to ask if she could call her mom to she if she could go home and change. He showed a look of agreement. She turned around walking in our direction, when she got towards us she glared and pushed me. I did nothing but smile.

[nicole92598]

OMG Thanks sooo much! BTW, keep ur typing going! I love the story!!

[artsaboveall]

This is so awesome!!! I LOVE your story!! Please keep writing!!!

[camiliyah]

I won't be posting much this week. Loads of homework!
But there will be an extra special chapter next week or later this week! Keep watch!