maddie and becca

the renie story
2004-12-18 21:09:46 (UTC)

Chapter Fifteen

TWO MONTHS LATER

Today was the last day of school. The last day Steven
would see Irene. The last day, he reflected, of his happy
life.

The bell rang. The students ran out of the rooms. They
were free! Steven walked out like a man condemned. HE
wasn't free. He was enslaved. Enslaved by love! He thought
about striking a pose as a man walking to the gallows, but
realized that Ms. Murphy might want to take a photograph,
and decided against it.

He spotted Irene, her head down, through the crowd. A
glimmer of hope arose in his sad heart. WAS SHE UPSET
ABOUT LEAVING HIM???

He hurried his way to her side. Her face was streaked with
tears. He was surprised. He didn't know her love and
devotion for him was emotional enough that she'd cry! This
was very exciting!

"Don't cry," he said. "I won't forget you. We can make a
long distance relationship work. I know we can!"

"I'm not crying because of you!" she glared at him through
her tears. "Did it ever occur to you that I'm leaving all
my friends? Don't be so conceited. It's not because of
YOU!" She spat the last word out and ran away to Maddie
and Leah and Becca.

Steven watched her go, and ran to his locker to get the
present he'd brought for her. He knew it would cheer him
up if he was leaving! Maybe Irene would smile again!
Grinning his freakish grin, he approached the huddle of
sobbing girls.

Suddenly Leah spun around. "Go away!" she shouted. "I WILL
ORDER THE PICKLE BRIGADE TO ATTACK!!! LEAVE US, OR YOU
WILL BE DOUSED IN BRINE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Steven was scared. Leah was a very strange and insane
being. Still, his love for Irene would carry him on, past
Leah's pickle brigade!

Maddie joined Leah. "Get - away - from - us!" she growled
in a very low voice. "Or I will drag you into the girls
bathroom and tie you to the revolving fan for the whole
summer!"

Steven was tempted. He'd always wanted to see the inside
of the girls bathroom! But Irene was more important.

Becca joined them. She was shorter than both of the
seventh grade girls, but Steven was very scared of her,
because she wore solid black all the time and he thought
she was almost an albino. Also, she was obsessed with "The
Lord of the Rings", which Steven did not like. THERE
WEREN'T ENOUGH NUMBERS!!! WHAT WAS TOLKIEN THINKING???

She smiled at Steven. That was encouraging! He smiled
back, but the smile faltered. Her smile was changing and
changing until she looked rather like a blonde version of
Gollum. "Leave now, preciousss," she hissed. "Leave now
and never come back."

Steven really wanted to run away, but he had to give Irene
his present. He tried to walk past the three girls to
Irene, who was sobbing onto Shelby's shoulder.

Maddie, the tallest, seized him by the collar and held him
up against a locker. "I've always wanted to kill him," she
told Leah.

Leah pouted. "I want the pickle brigade to do the killing!"

Maddie frowned. "I'M killing him, not your stupid pickles!"

Leah sat on the floor in the corner and wailed.

Maddie considered. "I could strangle you. I could hang you
with your socks. I could electrocute you...So many
options! What should I do, Becca?"

Becca grinned in a rather gollum-like way. "Give him to
usss, preciousss. We'll wring his filthy little neck!!!"

Maddie smiled at her indulgently. "It's ok, Becca. Don't
worry." She turned back to Steven. "I guess she wants me
to strangle you."

"Yessss, precioussss, we oughtses to wring his filthy
little neck, yessss..."

"THE PICKLE BRIGADE!!! THE PICKLE BRIGADE!!!"

"Say goodbye, Steven." And as Leah sat in the corner
wailing and Becca grinned from beneath her hair as she
rubbed her hands together, Maddie's hands were at Steven's
throat.

WHAT WILL HAPPEN???




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