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Something But Ordinary – Chapter 12 – Story

Enlarge ImageThis chapter is for all my readers especially Emerald Glitter, Shantel and Bailey!

I had very long comments written for all of you but the stupid thing deleted them all :’( so I’ll say the main things here: Thank you for all your dress ideas, i think I know what I’m going to do but you’ll just have to wait and see. Feel free to give me ideas about anything else (Unless it changes the whole story I will most likely use it!) I also want to thank you all for commenting. For me the best part of writing is reading the comments like yours, they always cheer me up and they really do mean a lot to me! So to say thankyou I updated faster and a lot longer than usual
Love you all!

Bailey – Thank you so much!

Shantel – Thank you verrry much! lol I’ll tell Marissa to make it half price for you

Emerald Glitter – Really? That made me smile so much, thank you. I’m really flattered Sorry I didn’t see your question! Anyway Luke’s mum thinks Marissa isn’t good enough for her son (although they’ve both tried to explain that they are just friends… for now anyway) Also she doesn’t like the fact that Luke spends more time with Marissa than at home. I’ll try and put it into the story later

Picture: (From left to right) Shay Mitchell as Kitty, Lucy Hale as Marcy and Ashley Benson as Lucy
(As you can see my new obsession is pretty little liars =P)

Chapter 12

“Why did you get two dresses?” My mum attacked me as soon as I walked through the door.
“Because I need two” I answered giving her a look that said ?duh? as I held my shopping bags out of her reach. No one was allowed to see them. Not until Saturday when they were fixed.
“How did you pay for them?”
“Um there?s this thing called ?money?!”
“Marissa you know what I mean so tell me now”
“There was a clearance sale” I sighed
My mother eyed my shopping bags dubiously.
“At belleza elegante?” She asked incredulously.
“Yes” I rolled my eyes running past her.

If I wanted my plan to work I was going to have to first make up with Luke. I needed him to like me for my plan to work and I didn?t mind if that meant I had to apologize to him. I grabbed my cell phone and speed dialed Luke?s number. I knew it without looking!! Luke answered on the fourth ring.

“Hello” he said
“Hi” I said
“Oh it?s you”

OH. MY. GOD! And I was about to apologize!

“Who were you expecting, Evelyn because she?s not going to ring you. She?s just waiting for you to get the hint.”

There was silence on the other side of the line.
“I don?t need relationship advice from the girl who thinks she?s in love with Peter Weitz. Anyway Evelyn already spoke to me, we?re going out this Saturday and I didn?t need any of your ?super natural? help”
“She?ll get bored of you sooner or later Luke and… Wait Saturday? What about the party?”
Luke let out a dry chuckle,
“I?m sure you?ll be having too much with Peter to notice I?m not there”
“You know what I called you to apologize but I have nothing to apologize you. You?re a stupid jerk!”
“Ouch whatever am I going to do now?” He asked sarcastically.
I didn?t have a reply to that so I slammed the phone down.

I didn?t need Luke. I gritted my teeth to keep the tears back and turned to the only source of comfort I knew I could rely on. I opened up a blank document on word and began typing. When I finished I tidied up my document folder. If I was going to keep this up I was going to have to organize myself.
So I created several new folders and moved the documents into the correct folders. In total I created folders

Evelyn
Luke
Tanya
Tessa
MKL (Marcy, Kitty and Lucy)
Peter
Other

I put all these folders into another folder (stories) and hid it in the Microsoft folder that had already been installed on my computer. No one would find it there. Then I smiled at the computer screen in satisfaction. Tomorrow was going to be a long and extremely eventful day.

The next day Tanya and I were sitting at our own table. She looked surprised when I walked straight past Luke without even a smile but she didn?t say anything. We talked about everything under the sun excluding the mutually forbidden topics: Luke and Scott.

I was laughing about how Lee had blatantly been hitting on Tanya in class whilst she protested that he had only been commenting when he said the colour of her T-shirt complimented her skin when we became aware of three figures standing above us. Marcy, Kitty and Lucy. I smiled up at them knowing what they would ask next, part 1 of my story.

“Hey are these seats taken?” Marcy asked
“Nope” Tanya said shooting me a puzzled but delighted glance.
“So what have you lot been up to?” I started up the conversation.
“What do you think?” Lucy grinned giving us a knowing wink.
“Speak for yourself!” Marcy laughed shoving her playfully “I?ve brought a dress for Ross? party”
“You?re going too?!” I gushed pleased. I really hadn?t known that.
“Yes it?s going to be the party of the year!”
“My cat?s in love with my goldfish” Kitty said suddenly. We all turned to her in surprise.
“He won?t stop staring at it” She elaborated.
“Um honey I don?t think that means he?s in love with it” Tanya explained gently.

“Aaanyway” Marcy drawled “So what are you wearing to the party”
“Clothes” Tanya mumbled
“What colour?” Marcy amended rolling her eyes.
“A dark blue taffeta dress with a black belt”
“Wow that sounds gorgeous” Lucy commended
“Yeah can?t wait to see it, what about you Mars?”
I smiled at that nickname. No one had called me Mars in ages and although I had used to hate it I kind of missed it.
“I can?t tell” I grinned “You?ll have to see at the party but I have two dresses and I?m having them customized.”
“You?re wearing two dresses to the party?” Kitty asked confused
“You?ll see what I mean” I told her knowing it was useless to try to describe it to her.

“Marissa” Peter called. I turned to see him making his way through the crowd to our table. Almost everyone watching (especially Tessa) looked at me enviously.
“Hey” He said breathlessly when he got to me.
“Hey Peter” I said as seductively as I could, peering up at him from beneath my eyelashes.
“I didn?t know if you?d heard but I wanted to tell you myself, Ross? party is canceled. He?s moving it to next Saturday”

“What?!” Marcy exclaimed drawing attention away from the fact that I was not surprised.
“I blew my date with that hot French guy off for that damn party”
“I think hot French guy has a name” Tanya teased
“Something important came up, they have to leave town to visit some distant relative for a few days but he?ll be back by next Saturday and the parties gonna be then”
“Thanks for telling me” I smiled
“No problem” Peter grinned back. “You?re still going to come right?”
“Yeah”

“Hey Peter” Lucy called suddenly
“Yes Lucy?”

Uh how does he know her name?

“Are you going to be there?” She asked and I wished I could look as flirtatious as her.
“Wouldn?t miss it for the world” He answered
“Good” She said “I?m going to need somebody to keep me company”
Peter gave a polite chuckle then excused himself heading back to his own table.
“Lucy have you forgotten the girl code?” Marcy scolded
“What code?”
“Never hit on another girl?s guy!”
“Come on, every girl needs competition” Lucy grinned mischievously at me.
“Game on!” I grinned right back at her.
For some reason I did not mind Lucy flirting with Peter. Now, if it was Luke it would have been a whole different story.

I was in the library when I saw them. I hadn?t planned this in my story so I jumped ten feet in the air. Hey, maybe I did have more than one supernatural power.

They were sitting at a table just staring at me. I raised my book to my face but I could practically feel their eyes burning through it, so I lowered it slightly to check if they were still there. They hadn?t could have been statues because they hadn?t moved an inch. Finally I could stand it no longer so I stood up and stormed over to their table.
“What do you want?” I demanded
“You promised to help us” The middle aged lady said.
“Why would I help you if I don?t even know you?re names?”

“Xin and Teng?”
“huh?”
“I?m Xin” she said “and he?s Teng”
“Xin Teng,” I tried out the names “and I thought the restaurant name was creative”
“Now will you help us?” The lady, Xin, ignored my comment
“No” I scoffed “I?d rather jump of the tallest cliff in the world”
“That can be arranged” The man, Teng, replied coldly.
“What do you want?” I gulped

“We?ve received information that a terrorist group are planning the abduction and assassination of the Duchess of Primala falls. We already have a rescue team set up but we need you to make sure there are no obstacles, stray guards, fences, locked doors et cetra”
“Um in English please?”

“Basically they want you to write out their rescue mission to make sure everything runs smooth”
A voice answered from behind me. I spun around so fast and when I saw him my heart leapt so high. It was like there was some kind of bird inside me trying to set itself free. He wasn?t looking at me though, he was glaring at the couple opposite me.
“Luke” I said quietly.
At last he turned, somewhat reluctantly and met my eyes,
“You don?t have to do anything” Luke told me. I smiled gratefully at him.
“Actually she kinda already agreed” Teng countered
“What?” Me and Luke asked at the same time
“That day in the cafe, you promised to help us so we let you keep your powers”
“You promised to help them?” Luke asked incredulously

Oops one more tiny little detail that was actually important.

“I kinda sorta might have maybe said something along those lines” I admitted
“Rissa!” Luke groaned in frustration whilst my heart sailed at the little word.
“So what?s your choice?” Xin asked
“Urm…”

FREEZE!

Okay that didn?t work which means it might take me a little while to answer. I have two options on the one hand I could

1) Give up my powers – Now while this may seem like the only logical way forward you must remember that my future is resting on my powers. Remember the party? Yup that one, well my plan is not going to work unless I have my powers and then how am I going to get Luke to fall in love with me?

2) Accept my mission – It?s not like I have to risk my life or anything all they want me to do is write out their rescue mission. It will be just like the planning I had done before except at the end the world will have one duchess more than it is supposed to. But this way I get to keep my powers. If you think about it, it?s a bargain!

“Okay I chose option 2″ I answered.
“So she?s not turned to stone, she?s turned mental” Teng muttered.

Oh yeah I forgot they didn?t know what my options were.

“I accept your mission” I said in a significant voice.
“Marissa, are you crazy?” Luke demanded
“My theory was right” Teng jibed.
Everyone ignored him. I explained my reasoning to Luke and after an eternity of silence he said,
“Fine but I?m coming with you”

 

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