Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry with a dollop of Whipped Cream
Name: Dream-Chan
Challenge: Vanilla #24 (A Gift), Chocolate #14 (Vengeance), Strawberry #30 (Pillow)
Topping: Whipped Cream
Story: Snapshots
Title: The Gag Gift
Words: 1954
Rating: PG-13 (For swearing)
Genre: Humor, some Angst
Characters: Kevin, Isabelle, (Age 13), Christiana (Age 12)
Summary: Set between May and July of 2000, in middle school Kevin tries to take a now snobby and man-hating Isabelle down a few pegs using a gift, a secret and some well placed knowledge.
Kevin was not having a good day
First he missed his bus and ended up going to school late and that old battle axe Anderson gave him a detention. (He was sure that he saw that teacher smirk, smirk! at him as he gave him the detention slip).
Then some stupid shithead decided to mess with Tia because she was quiet and hung around the library; but she wasn’t a geek ‘cause Izzy told him that she liked the library’s quiet and didn’t like the cafeteria ‘cause it was loud; so he had to teach that asshole a lesson and then his friends didn’t like that so then he had to beat the crap out of them all, and then someone squealed so now he’s suspended.
But damn it Izzy didn’t have to go and tell his parents about it. Now he’s grounded and can’t go and get that new game he wanted to buy this weekend! Izzy’s been on his back for ages with her “you better study you moron. If you drop out I am not going to save your sorry butt when your parents find out,” just because she got into a big shot school by being a geek didn’t mean that he was hopeless. She should just stop ragging on him; she never nagged Tia this much. Ever since the divorce she’s turned in such a bitch. She didn’t hang out with him anymore because she’d rather ‘study,’ but she went out with Tia for the past three weekends. (He checked, which ended up causing Tia to have a ‘sorry’ attack for forgetting about him. It was cool though. It’s Izzy’s fault for being a ‘ball-breaking bitch’ [whatever that meant] not Tia’s.)
Izzy needed a reality check because she couldn’t just go on and on hate him just ‘cause he was a guy. But first he needed an idea and a plan that would really embarrass her. It had to be smart though or else she’ll just say “stupid Kevin trying to look smart when everyone knows he’s an idiot.”
***
It was when he was talking to Tia two weeks later that she accidentally planted the seed of Izzy’s doom.
“What cha listening to?” he asked obnoxiously. He was trying to get Tia to lighten up ‘cause her life sucked and she needed more fun and who better than himself to teach her.
‘She didn’t even see me!’ he thought indignantly. ‘I’ll start poking her then.’
That did the trick she jerked like that rabbit his neighbors use to have when it saw a dog. He quickly repeated his question.
“Huh? Oh it’s this new CD that Isabelle let me borrow. She really likes this group, but I don’t think I do.”
“What kind of music is it?” He asked warily.
“Um… It’s by a boy band cal-” She tried to explain.
“Oh god! Why does Izzy even like that music? Burn it! Burn it!” He shouted as soon as he heard to words ‘boy band.’ As a rock fan he couldn’t stand those little preppy boy bands. Trying to remove this travesty (a useful word he learned from Izzy’s endless lectures at him) of music he grabbed Izzy’s CD player off of Tia and ran off to chuck it out and free her of this demon.
“Wait a minute!”
***
Fortunately for Kev’s continued good health today Tia managed to grab the CD player, after a chase through the school that no one really paid attention to as they figured that it was Kev being Kev, before he threw out and/or broke it.
“Fine, fine I won’t burn it.” He muttered, resenting the fact that he couldn’t get rid of the ‘demon music.’ “But what the hell is she listening to this time”
“It says N’Sync on the CD.” Tia mumbled as she peered through the peep hole on the cover of the CD player.
“You got the case for it?” Kev asked, because he was getting an idea on how to knock Izzy’s arrogance down.
Nodding the girl fished inside her bag for a minute before passing the square case to Kev. On the case was a picture of five guys hanging on strings on some sort of stage. He grinned a memory from when they were kids bringing out a plan.
“Thanks Tia. You helped me a lot today.”
***
“Hey Gary, can you do me a favor?” He asked one of his neighbors from the stairway of the apartment building that they lived in.
Explaining what he needed from Gary and passing him a copy of the picture that he spent the last two days searching for and telling him when he needed it by, he walked away from the other guy with an evil smirk on his face.
‘This’ll get to Izzy.’
***
It took a few weeks, but it was finally ready. Just in time for the main event. It was time to knock a ‘ball-breaking bitch’ off of her pedestal.
***
“Kevin, where are you going?” Tia asked him as he left his locker, which as on the same corridor as hers, and headed to the front doors with a large, lumpy package wrapped in gaudy giftwrap.
“Don’t you remember what day it is Tia?” he asked her, shocked that she could forget. “Today is 1 week before Izzy’s B’day, and I’m going to go and give her, her present.”
“Right now?” Tia asked looking worried. Well it was in the middle of the day on a weekday and the teachers hated it that students skipped during lunch to do shopping or to eat at McDonald’s or something. But it needed to be given now for maximum effect or Izzy will just keep being a bitch until he gave up on her and Tia avoided her to keep out of their fight.
“Yep, you coming?” This was spur of the moment, but Tia should get the chance to witness his brilliance too
“Um… Well… I… Er…”
Watching Tia’s face as she stammered and tried to say either or yes or no to him was normally funny enough for him to stick around he didn’t have the time to wait around.
“See you later Tia.” He called out as he dragged his present/revenge out of the school.
“WAIT FOR ME!!!”
Well that was surprising. “I didn’t know you could be so loud Tia!” he teased her as they headed off to Izzy’s school.
***
The walk to across town to Izzy’s school was boring. No one even asked what they both were doing out of school during a school day. How lame.
***
"HEY IZZY!!!” Kevin shouted as he entered the school’s cafeteria. 'This schools security sucks' he thought, 'at my school someone would have caught us by now.'
The look of horror on her face just seeing him in her ‘high class’ school would have been worth it if Kevin didn’t already know that his present for her upcoming birthday would blow her mind. That’s why it had to be given here, in front of all of those snobs, so that Izzy can really feel the humiliation for being a stupid bitch.
She shot out of her seat like fans at a football game and stormed over to him. “What the hell are you doing here you idiot.” She hissed as she grabbed his arm and tried to drag him out of there. she might have been able to do it a few years ago, but now he was stronger than her (‘All that working out DID pay off after all Izzy.’) as well as several pounds heavier. She could barely budge him much less drag him unwillingly from where he wanted to be.
“Aw, don’t be mean Izzy.” He pouted. “I came all this way to deliver your B’day gift from me early and you act so ungrateful. I thought we were friends.” Kevin was piling on the guilt trip, determined to get her to accept his gift. Calling them friends in public was the kicker, because no matter how much of a man hater Izzy was now they’ve still known each other for so long that she’d feel guilty if she just brushed him off now. Having Tia here was genius on his part because if she does brush him off Tia will start wondering if she was annoying Izzy too.
‘I’m sooo telling her that if she refuses. She’ll flip out trying to make her believe that she doesn’t hate her. Which means that she’ll have no CHOICE but to take my present and then the trap will be sprung!’ he plotted as he worked to make Izzy’s struggles to get him out of her school useless.
“Arrg, you are just such a- Goddammit! Fine I’ll take your stupid present.” She shouted bitterly. Grabbing the lumpy thing roughly from him, she ripped off the paper quickly to get it over with.
‘Yes! Yes! YES!!!!!’ he felt victorious as he watched her unwrapping her doom.
“Kevin.” She said as she stared at the item in her arms, her voice coated in ice. “What the hell is this?!” she demanded as she shoved his gift to her in his face.
“Why Izzy, do you really need to ask.” He told her. “I thought that since it was my fault that your teddy bear Mr. Cuddles was eaten by your neighbor’s dog I would get you a replacement, since you can’t sleep at night without your teddy.” Kevin explained, keeping his voice nice and loud enough for the whole cafeteria to hear.
Izzy’s face meanwhile started to turn red with rage at the secrets that Kevin was blurting out to almost her whole school. They both knew that within the week everyone at Izzy’s middle school would know that Izzy can’t sleep without her teddy.
“So I got you a replacement.” Izzy chocked and looked down at the large pillow that was human shaped with the image of the lead singer from her latest favorite boy band on both sides of it. Naturally that was when Kevin continued his explanation loudly for all to hear.
“I heard that you like this boy band now and I thought that you could hug Justin Timberlake as you fell asleep. I mean how often would you get to sleep with someone else in your bed. You could even practice kissing using it!” He exclaimed mock happily. That did it. The snickers that had been coming up since he mentioned Mr. Cuddles turned into hysterical laughter. “You could definitely improve your technique using it.”
There wasn’t a soul that wasn’t laughing at that last comment. Izzy turned white with horror before her face darkened with pure raging hatred.
“KEVIN FEIR I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
***
Christiana bolted down the street. The teachers got involved with the intrusion because of how loud the laughter from the cafeteria was and came in time to stop Isabelle from strangling Kevin and committing murder. Now she had to get back before Isabelle’s school called and the teachers checked to see if anyone else had skipped. If she was caught… Mother would not be happy with her. She’d punish her again. Hopefully though Kevin will stall, he and Isabelle never asked about her house and family but they did their best to protect her and keep her out of trouble.
‘I should stay away from Isabelle for now.’ She decided fearfully as she dashed through the hole in the fence at back of the school. Walking quickly to the library for her free period she shuddered.
‘Kevin’s really going to get it this time.’
She could only hope that this wouldn’t destroy their friendship and leave her all alone here.
Challenge: Vanilla #24 (A Gift), Chocolate #14 (Vengeance), Strawberry #30 (Pillow)
Topping: Whipped Cream
Story: Snapshots
Title: The Gag Gift
Words: 1954
Rating: PG-13 (For swearing)
Genre: Humor, some Angst
Characters: Kevin, Isabelle, (Age 13), Christiana (Age 12)
Summary: Set between May and July of 2000, in middle school Kevin tries to take a now snobby and man-hating Isabelle down a few pegs using a gift, a secret and some well placed knowledge.
Kevin was not having a good day
First he missed his bus and ended up going to school late and that old battle axe Anderson gave him a detention. (He was sure that he saw that teacher smirk, smirk! at him as he gave him the detention slip).
Then some stupid shithead decided to mess with Tia because she was quiet and hung around the library; but she wasn’t a geek ‘cause Izzy told him that she liked the library’s quiet and didn’t like the cafeteria ‘cause it was loud; so he had to teach that asshole a lesson and then his friends didn’t like that so then he had to beat the crap out of them all, and then someone squealed so now he’s suspended.
But damn it Izzy didn’t have to go and tell his parents about it. Now he’s grounded and can’t go and get that new game he wanted to buy this weekend! Izzy’s been on his back for ages with her “you better study you moron. If you drop out I am not going to save your sorry butt when your parents find out,” just because she got into a big shot school by being a geek didn’t mean that he was hopeless. She should just stop ragging on him; she never nagged Tia this much. Ever since the divorce she’s turned in such a bitch. She didn’t hang out with him anymore because she’d rather ‘study,’ but she went out with Tia for the past three weekends. (He checked, which ended up causing Tia to have a ‘sorry’ attack for forgetting about him. It was cool though. It’s Izzy’s fault for being a ‘ball-breaking bitch’ [whatever that meant] not Tia’s.)
Izzy needed a reality check because she couldn’t just go on and on hate him just ‘cause he was a guy. But first he needed an idea and a plan that would really embarrass her. It had to be smart though or else she’ll just say “stupid Kevin trying to look smart when everyone knows he’s an idiot.”
***
It was when he was talking to Tia two weeks later that she accidentally planted the seed of Izzy’s doom.
“What cha listening to?” he asked obnoxiously. He was trying to get Tia to lighten up ‘cause her life sucked and she needed more fun and who better than himself to teach her.
‘She didn’t even see me!’ he thought indignantly. ‘I’ll start poking her then.’
That did the trick she jerked like that rabbit his neighbors use to have when it saw a dog. He quickly repeated his question.
“Huh? Oh it’s this new CD that Isabelle let me borrow. She really likes this group, but I don’t think I do.”
“What kind of music is it?” He asked warily.
“Um… It’s by a boy band cal-” She tried to explain.
“Oh god! Why does Izzy even like that music? Burn it! Burn it!” He shouted as soon as he heard to words ‘boy band.’ As a rock fan he couldn’t stand those little preppy boy bands. Trying to remove this travesty (a useful word he learned from Izzy’s endless lectures at him) of music he grabbed Izzy’s CD player off of Tia and ran off to chuck it out and free her of this demon.
“Wait a minute!”
***
Fortunately for Kev’s continued good health today Tia managed to grab the CD player, after a chase through the school that no one really paid attention to as they figured that it was Kev being Kev, before he threw out and/or broke it.
“Fine, fine I won’t burn it.” He muttered, resenting the fact that he couldn’t get rid of the ‘demon music.’ “But what the hell is she listening to this time”
“It says N’Sync on the CD.” Tia mumbled as she peered through the peep hole on the cover of the CD player.
“You got the case for it?” Kev asked, because he was getting an idea on how to knock Izzy’s arrogance down.
Nodding the girl fished inside her bag for a minute before passing the square case to Kev. On the case was a picture of five guys hanging on strings on some sort of stage. He grinned a memory from when they were kids bringing out a plan.
“Thanks Tia. You helped me a lot today.”
***
“Hey Gary, can you do me a favor?” He asked one of his neighbors from the stairway of the apartment building that they lived in.
Explaining what he needed from Gary and passing him a copy of the picture that he spent the last two days searching for and telling him when he needed it by, he walked away from the other guy with an evil smirk on his face.
‘This’ll get to Izzy.’
***
It took a few weeks, but it was finally ready. Just in time for the main event. It was time to knock a ‘ball-breaking bitch’ off of her pedestal.
***
“Kevin, where are you going?” Tia asked him as he left his locker, which as on the same corridor as hers, and headed to the front doors with a large, lumpy package wrapped in gaudy giftwrap.
“Don’t you remember what day it is Tia?” he asked her, shocked that she could forget. “Today is 1 week before Izzy’s B’day, and I’m going to go and give her, her present.”
“Right now?” Tia asked looking worried. Well it was in the middle of the day on a weekday and the teachers hated it that students skipped during lunch to do shopping or to eat at McDonald’s or something. But it needed to be given now for maximum effect or Izzy will just keep being a bitch until he gave up on her and Tia avoided her to keep out of their fight.
“Yep, you coming?” This was spur of the moment, but Tia should get the chance to witness his brilliance too
“Um… Well… I… Er…”
Watching Tia’s face as she stammered and tried to say either or yes or no to him was normally funny enough for him to stick around he didn’t have the time to wait around.
“See you later Tia.” He called out as he dragged his present/revenge out of the school.
“WAIT FOR ME!!!”
Well that was surprising. “I didn’t know you could be so loud Tia!” he teased her as they headed off to Izzy’s school.
***
The walk to across town to Izzy’s school was boring. No one even asked what they both were doing out of school during a school day. How lame.
***
"HEY IZZY!!!” Kevin shouted as he entered the school’s cafeteria. 'This schools security sucks' he thought, 'at my school someone would have caught us by now.'
The look of horror on her face just seeing him in her ‘high class’ school would have been worth it if Kevin didn’t already know that his present for her upcoming birthday would blow her mind. That’s why it had to be given here, in front of all of those snobs, so that Izzy can really feel the humiliation for being a stupid bitch.
She shot out of her seat like fans at a football game and stormed over to him. “What the hell are you doing here you idiot.” She hissed as she grabbed his arm and tried to drag him out of there. she might have been able to do it a few years ago, but now he was stronger than her (‘All that working out DID pay off after all Izzy.’) as well as several pounds heavier. She could barely budge him much less drag him unwillingly from where he wanted to be.
“Aw, don’t be mean Izzy.” He pouted. “I came all this way to deliver your B’day gift from me early and you act so ungrateful. I thought we were friends.” Kevin was piling on the guilt trip, determined to get her to accept his gift. Calling them friends in public was the kicker, because no matter how much of a man hater Izzy was now they’ve still known each other for so long that she’d feel guilty if she just brushed him off now. Having Tia here was genius on his part because if she does brush him off Tia will start wondering if she was annoying Izzy too.
‘I’m sooo telling her that if she refuses. She’ll flip out trying to make her believe that she doesn’t hate her. Which means that she’ll have no CHOICE but to take my present and then the trap will be sprung!’ he plotted as he worked to make Izzy’s struggles to get him out of her school useless.
“Arrg, you are just such a- Goddammit! Fine I’ll take your stupid present.” She shouted bitterly. Grabbing the lumpy thing roughly from him, she ripped off the paper quickly to get it over with.
‘Yes! Yes! YES!!!!!’ he felt victorious as he watched her unwrapping her doom.
“Kevin.” She said as she stared at the item in her arms, her voice coated in ice. “What the hell is this?!” she demanded as she shoved his gift to her in his face.
“Why Izzy, do you really need to ask.” He told her. “I thought that since it was my fault that your teddy bear Mr. Cuddles was eaten by your neighbor’s dog I would get you a replacement, since you can’t sleep at night without your teddy.” Kevin explained, keeping his voice nice and loud enough for the whole cafeteria to hear.
Izzy’s face meanwhile started to turn red with rage at the secrets that Kevin was blurting out to almost her whole school. They both knew that within the week everyone at Izzy’s middle school would know that Izzy can’t sleep without her teddy.
“So I got you a replacement.” Izzy chocked and looked down at the large pillow that was human shaped with the image of the lead singer from her latest favorite boy band on both sides of it. Naturally that was when Kevin continued his explanation loudly for all to hear.
“I heard that you like this boy band now and I thought that you could hug Justin Timberlake as you fell asleep. I mean how often would you get to sleep with someone else in your bed. You could even practice kissing using it!” He exclaimed mock happily. That did it. The snickers that had been coming up since he mentioned Mr. Cuddles turned into hysterical laughter. “You could definitely improve your technique using it.”
There wasn’t a soul that wasn’t laughing at that last comment. Izzy turned white with horror before her face darkened with pure raging hatred.
“KEVIN FEIR I’M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
***
Christiana bolted down the street. The teachers got involved with the intrusion because of how loud the laughter from the cafeteria was and came in time to stop Isabelle from strangling Kevin and committing murder. Now she had to get back before Isabelle’s school called and the teachers checked to see if anyone else had skipped. If she was caught… Mother would not be happy with her. She’d punish her again. Hopefully though Kevin will stall, he and Isabelle never asked about her house and family but they did their best to protect her and keep her out of trouble.
‘I should stay away from Isabelle for now.’ She decided fearfully as she dashed through the hole in the fence at back of the school. Walking quickly to the library for her free period she shuddered.
‘Kevin’s really going to get it this time.’
She could only hope that this wouldn’t destroy their friendship and leave her all alone here.