best.kind.of.crack
Title: Well Damn
Author: Rachel
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Um.... None... ^^;;
Words: ~1595
Characters: Cassie, Catherine, Natane, Tasia, Me
Summary: Five girls are finally going on a road trip to the biggest anime convention in the US, Anime Expo. But things don't go as planned.
Notes/Warnings: This was utter crack that I was challenged to write. Basically Natane told me I had to use real people I know, and then gave me a bunch of things that had to be included and this crack popped out.
"You guys ready?" Catherine asked the other girls.
"Oh we're ready," Natane answered pumped up.
Cassie cheered her agreement. The other two girls, Tasia and Stachia stayed quiet for the most part while finishing the final packing.
They were getting ready for a road trip that had been in the works for the past year. Now that summer had finally arrived they could finally go. All the components were in place. They were leaving from Seattle, Washington and taking a three-to-four day trip down to Los Angeles for the biggest anime convention in North America, Anime Expo. They'd all dreamed of attending this convention for years, and finally their dreams were coming true. Thanks to graduation money from Tasia and Natane, who had just graduated from high school two weeks ago, and money that Stachia had recieved from a lawsuit to a hair growth company earlier that year, they were finally able to get together enough funds to go. With Catherine providing them with a car, and Stachia having already used some of her money to fly Cassie up from Arkansas they were finally ready.
"Well let's rock and roll!" Cat called out and they all climbed into the car. Natane had shotgun as she easily got sick on car rides. A few minutes later Catherine was peeling out of the drive way on screeching tires while cranking up the radio.
* ~ *
When they finally stopped for the night it well past midnight. They'd already left the Washington state boarder behind and were camping out in Beverton, Oregon. They had plenty of camping supplies, a large tent, and decent cooking utensils. Though Stachia and Cassie tried to vie for fast food the others all shot them down. Natane wasn't big on fast food, and Tasia didn't really care. But Catherine really wanted to have a campfire cook out.
They didn't end up having much for dinner. Mostly snack food. Then they started a campfire and made S'mores. At some point they attempted to tell scary stories, but they eventually turned into funny stories and it wasn't long before Natane had them all falling over themselves laughing.
The next morning they set out again, most of the girls still asleep while in the car. The only one who stayed awake were Cat and Stachia and they talked for a while.
* ~ *
The first night had been spent in innocent fun. They were young girls on a road trip for the first time. There were no parents, no rules, they were free to do what they wanted. They were having fun. None of them expected tragedy to strike. No one ever does. The worst things happen when you're having the best time, and it was no different for this group of girls away from home on their own for the first time.
* ~ *
The second night before heading to a campsite they restocked on their snack supply so they would have food to eat. Basically they found a store and each of the girls went through and picked out three to four items they wanted. Stachia payed, being the only one with a credit card, and it was much easier that way then having them try to pool all their money together and having to count it out.
"Jesus I'm starving." Cassie said as they walked back to the car.
"You're always hungry, cow." Catherine teased.
"Shut up!"
Cassie dug through her stuff and pulled out a box of Red Velvet Cream Cakes. She'd had to bring them all the way from home, because they didn't sell them up north. She grinned at Stachia, whom she called Rachel and dangled one of them in front of her. "Hey Rach, want it."
Stachia snatched it from her, "Yes I want it. Whore." She stuck her tongue out.
Cassie just rolled her eyes and pulled one out for herself. She then changed her mind and put it back, before digging through the bags they'd just got at the store. "Oh sweet! Whose Pizza Combos are these?"
"Mi~ne" Cat answered slowly giving her a narrowed-eyed look in the rear view mirror as she drove down the street.
Cassie smiled sweetly at her, "Can I have some Neko-chan?" She used the cute nickname hoping it would work to her favor.
"Go for it." Cat rolled her eyes and waved a hand dismissively.
Cassie smirked triumphantly and opened the Combos. After a few minutes of silence Natane turned on the radio and started looking for a good station. Tasia pulled out a Propel Water. They continued on to the campsite.
* ~ *
Late that night after everyone had gone to sleep Stachia got up. She'd been tossing and turning for a while now and couldn't sleep. Her stomach was a mess and she felt really feverish. She got up and half stumbled out of the tent. She kept herself from puking up the contents of her stomach immediately. She knew Cassie hated when people threw up. So she made her way further into the woods.
* ~ *
"Hey guys," Natane called as they were packing away their camping stuff. The others had turned to face her. "Has anyone seen Stachia this morning?"
"Well yeah, she... come to think of it... no..." Cassie frowned.
"Maybe she went to use the bathroom." Cat suggested.
Tasia shook her head.
"Tasia and I were just there." Natane explained.
"Well!" Cat said, "Let's go look for her."
They found her in the woods about ten minutes later. She was dead. Catherine had even, reluctantly checked her pulse.
There was silence for a long time.
"Well damn." Tasia finally said. Everyone looked at her. "Now whose credit card are we going to use."
Cassie burst into a fit of inappropriate laughter, followed quickly by an onslaught of tears.
From the looks of things she'd been beaten to death on the back of the head by a blunt object. The back of her head was bloody and what little hair she had was matted and tangled.
Eventually they went back to the car and just sat there. They had decided to leave her body there. Cassie with all her knoweledge from watching Law and Order so much, knew that they'd be prime suspects. She also didn't want to call the police, because she was still just a kid, and now a scared kid with a dead best friend.
"Should we just go back home?" Natane asked after a while.
"I think we should go to the convention." Cassie said. Everyone gave her strange looks wondering if she had gone crazy at the loss. "I think that's what she would have wanted. I mean, this is what we've always talked about. When are we going to get another chance to do this. I think she'd want us to have fun."
There was silence.
"Yeah" Tasia finally said. It was probably agreement.
So after a few minutes Catherine started the car and they continued their trip to California.
* ~ *
Unfortunately for the four remaining girls, Tragedy was not through with them. The wind had started to pick up on their drive, and by the time they were ready to camp it was howling. Turning on her radio and switching it to a news station.
".... .... Repeat, this is not a drill. A hurricane is fast approaching northern California. Winds are blowing at 90 mph. Stay in hour houses, board up your windows. This is a record event!"
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Natane exploded "OH JESUS CHRIST! This just figures! I go on vacation and California SUDDENLY gets a fucking HURRICANE and my friend just mysteriously DIES! I AM NEVER LEAVING MY HOUSE AGAIN." She shut up after that.
"So what do we do?" Cat asked helplessly.
"Fuck if I know!" Cassie snarled.
In the meantime Tasia had pulled out the box of Red Velvet Cream Cakes and had opened a package. She was idly picking apart the red cake when she saw a small creature making it's way toward them. She ripped off a piece of the cake and threw it toward the creature. It turned out to be a stray cat. The starved cat quickly chowed down the piece of cake and Tasia threw it another. After the cat had finished half of the cake it suddenly stopped. Then it started hacking and after a moment keeled over. Tasia nudged it with her foot.
"Well shit." She said.
She then turned to the rest of them. 'Hey guys, I think I know how Stachia died." They all turned to look at her.
"She wasn't beaten to death. The cake thing killed her. I think it's poisonous or something."
"What makes you think that?" Cassie asked.
"I was just feeding this cat one of these things and it just died on me."
"Oh man guys!" Cassie said after a second. "We have to go back to the scene of the crime"
* ~ *
"Okay, what did you want to show us?" Natane asked.
"See this," Cassie said gesturing to Stachia's beaten in head. "This makes it look like she was beaten to death with a rock. But if we go up this hill a little, we see that she threw up here...Ew... Because of whatever poison was in the Red Velvet Cream Cakes it made her week, so when she threw up she fell and hit her head on this rock here. See! There's blood! And then she rolled down the hill and hit this rock and this rock. So it gave the appearence that she was beaten to death."
There was silence.
"Wow," Natane said, "You need to stop watching SVU."
A bird chirped in the distance.
"So what do we do now?" Tasia asked.
"I say we go to Anime Expo!" Cat exclaimed.
And so they climbed back into the car and made the rest of the trip to Las Angeles.
THE END.
Author: Rachel
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Um.... None... ^^;;
Words: ~1595
Characters: Cassie, Catherine, Natane, Tasia, Me
Summary: Five girls are finally going on a road trip to the biggest anime convention in the US, Anime Expo. But things don't go as planned.
Notes/Warnings: This was utter crack that I was challenged to write. Basically Natane told me I had to use real people I know, and then gave me a bunch of things that had to be included and this crack popped out.
"You guys ready?" Catherine asked the other girls.
"Oh we're ready," Natane answered pumped up.
Cassie cheered her agreement. The other two girls, Tasia and Stachia stayed quiet for the most part while finishing the final packing.
They were getting ready for a road trip that had been in the works for the past year. Now that summer had finally arrived they could finally go. All the components were in place. They were leaving from Seattle, Washington and taking a three-to-four day trip down to Los Angeles for the biggest anime convention in North America, Anime Expo. They'd all dreamed of attending this convention for years, and finally their dreams were coming true. Thanks to graduation money from Tasia and Natane, who had just graduated from high school two weeks ago, and money that Stachia had recieved from a lawsuit to a hair growth company earlier that year, they were finally able to get together enough funds to go. With Catherine providing them with a car, and Stachia having already used some of her money to fly Cassie up from Arkansas they were finally ready.
"Well let's rock and roll!" Cat called out and they all climbed into the car. Natane had shotgun as she easily got sick on car rides. A few minutes later Catherine was peeling out of the drive way on screeching tires while cranking up the radio.
* ~ *
When they finally stopped for the night it well past midnight. They'd already left the Washington state boarder behind and were camping out in Beverton, Oregon. They had plenty of camping supplies, a large tent, and decent cooking utensils. Though Stachia and Cassie tried to vie for fast food the others all shot them down. Natane wasn't big on fast food, and Tasia didn't really care. But Catherine really wanted to have a campfire cook out.
They didn't end up having much for dinner. Mostly snack food. Then they started a campfire and made S'mores. At some point they attempted to tell scary stories, but they eventually turned into funny stories and it wasn't long before Natane had them all falling over themselves laughing.
The next morning they set out again, most of the girls still asleep while in the car. The only one who stayed awake were Cat and Stachia and they talked for a while.
* ~ *
The first night had been spent in innocent fun. They were young girls on a road trip for the first time. There were no parents, no rules, they were free to do what they wanted. They were having fun. None of them expected tragedy to strike. No one ever does. The worst things happen when you're having the best time, and it was no different for this group of girls away from home on their own for the first time.
* ~ *
The second night before heading to a campsite they restocked on their snack supply so they would have food to eat. Basically they found a store and each of the girls went through and picked out three to four items they wanted. Stachia payed, being the only one with a credit card, and it was much easier that way then having them try to pool all their money together and having to count it out.
"Jesus I'm starving." Cassie said as they walked back to the car.
"You're always hungry, cow." Catherine teased.
"Shut up!"
Cassie dug through her stuff and pulled out a box of Red Velvet Cream Cakes. She'd had to bring them all the way from home, because they didn't sell them up north. She grinned at Stachia, whom she called Rachel and dangled one of them in front of her. "Hey Rach, want it."
Stachia snatched it from her, "Yes I want it. Whore." She stuck her tongue out.
Cassie just rolled her eyes and pulled one out for herself. She then changed her mind and put it back, before digging through the bags they'd just got at the store. "Oh sweet! Whose Pizza Combos are these?"
"Mi~ne" Cat answered slowly giving her a narrowed-eyed look in the rear view mirror as she drove down the street.
Cassie smiled sweetly at her, "Can I have some Neko-chan?" She used the cute nickname hoping it would work to her favor.
"Go for it." Cat rolled her eyes and waved a hand dismissively.
Cassie smirked triumphantly and opened the Combos. After a few minutes of silence Natane turned on the radio and started looking for a good station. Tasia pulled out a Propel Water. They continued on to the campsite.
* ~ *
Late that night after everyone had gone to sleep Stachia got up. She'd been tossing and turning for a while now and couldn't sleep. Her stomach was a mess and she felt really feverish. She got up and half stumbled out of the tent. She kept herself from puking up the contents of her stomach immediately. She knew Cassie hated when people threw up. So she made her way further into the woods.
* ~ *
"Hey guys," Natane called as they were packing away their camping stuff. The others had turned to face her. "Has anyone seen Stachia this morning?"
"Well yeah, she... come to think of it... no..." Cassie frowned.
"Maybe she went to use the bathroom." Cat suggested.
Tasia shook her head.
"Tasia and I were just there." Natane explained.
"Well!" Cat said, "Let's go look for her."
They found her in the woods about ten minutes later. She was dead. Catherine had even, reluctantly checked her pulse.
There was silence for a long time.
"Well damn." Tasia finally said. Everyone looked at her. "Now whose credit card are we going to use."
Cassie burst into a fit of inappropriate laughter, followed quickly by an onslaught of tears.
From the looks of things she'd been beaten to death on the back of the head by a blunt object. The back of her head was bloody and what little hair she had was matted and tangled.
Eventually they went back to the car and just sat there. They had decided to leave her body there. Cassie with all her knoweledge from watching Law and Order so much, knew that they'd be prime suspects. She also didn't want to call the police, because she was still just a kid, and now a scared kid with a dead best friend.
"Should we just go back home?" Natane asked after a while.
"I think we should go to the convention." Cassie said. Everyone gave her strange looks wondering if she had gone crazy at the loss. "I think that's what she would have wanted. I mean, this is what we've always talked about. When are we going to get another chance to do this. I think she'd want us to have fun."
There was silence.
"Yeah" Tasia finally said. It was probably agreement.
So after a few minutes Catherine started the car and they continued their trip to California.
* ~ *
Unfortunately for the four remaining girls, Tragedy was not through with them. The wind had started to pick up on their drive, and by the time they were ready to camp it was howling. Turning on her radio and switching it to a news station.
".... .... Repeat, this is not a drill. A hurricane is fast approaching northern California. Winds are blowing at 90 mph. Stay in hour houses, board up your windows. This is a record event!"
"WHAT THE HELL!?" Natane exploded "OH JESUS CHRIST! This just figures! I go on vacation and California SUDDENLY gets a fucking HURRICANE and my friend just mysteriously DIES! I AM NEVER LEAVING MY HOUSE AGAIN." She shut up after that.
"So what do we do?" Cat asked helplessly.
"Fuck if I know!" Cassie snarled.
In the meantime Tasia had pulled out the box of Red Velvet Cream Cakes and had opened a package. She was idly picking apart the red cake when she saw a small creature making it's way toward them. She ripped off a piece of the cake and threw it toward the creature. It turned out to be a stray cat. The starved cat quickly chowed down the piece of cake and Tasia threw it another. After the cat had finished half of the cake it suddenly stopped. Then it started hacking and after a moment keeled over. Tasia nudged it with her foot.
"Well shit." She said.
She then turned to the rest of them. 'Hey guys, I think I know how Stachia died." They all turned to look at her.
"She wasn't beaten to death. The cake thing killed her. I think it's poisonous or something."
"What makes you think that?" Cassie asked.
"I was just feeding this cat one of these things and it just died on me."
"Oh man guys!" Cassie said after a second. "We have to go back to the scene of the crime"
* ~ *
"Okay, what did you want to show us?" Natane asked.
"See this," Cassie said gesturing to Stachia's beaten in head. "This makes it look like she was beaten to death with a rock. But if we go up this hill a little, we see that she threw up here...Ew... Because of whatever poison was in the Red Velvet Cream Cakes it made her week, so when she threw up she fell and hit her head on this rock here. See! There's blood! And then she rolled down the hill and hit this rock and this rock. So it gave the appearence that she was beaten to death."
There was silence.
"Wow," Natane said, "You need to stop watching SVU."
A bird chirped in the distance.
"So what do we do now?" Tasia asked.
"I say we go to Anime Expo!" Cat exclaimed.
And so they climbed back into the car and made the rest of the trip to Las Angeles.
THE END.