Fan Fiction |
by Jenny Tran
After an hour, Ivy’s fingers and toes were painted a dark red with white flowers on the big toes and the thumbs. When Mary began cleaning up, she looked up suddenly “Are we done?”
“Yes, you are done. Now just go sit over there with the hand and foot fans to dry your nails up.” Mary advised.
“Shit, more waiting…” Ivy snickered to herself. She looked up and noticed Ben was no longer in the shop. Her brows wrinkled but it didn’t take long for her to react as she grabbed her shoes and raced for the door. But to her misfortune, she was face to face with Ben, who took a short walk and just returned.
“Where are you going?” he asked with his arm crossed.
“I…I was looking for you!” She blurted out “Yeah, I got a little worried when I noticed you were gone. So I ran out to see if you were…” she knew the excuse was down the drain when he rolled his eyes “Damn, I couldn’t buy that crap either.” He laughed with a nod “Now can we go home? I mean, my nails are nice and girly…” she wrinkled her nose.
“I suppose.” He looked at her fingers “We’ll work on the hair and make up tomorrow. If you didn’t injure that girl, we could have worked on your hair and face today.” Ben advised as he walked her to the car. This time he opened the door for her.
“Thank you.” Ivy said without thinking “Oh goody, you mean I get to look like myself for another day?” she asked when they got in the car.
Ben was looking at her with a smile “You just said it.”
“What?” She asked, unsure of what he meant.
“Thank you.” He said.
“For what?” Ivy looked at him strangely.
Ben let out a sigh “I meant, you said thank you earlier. You never say thank you…actually, I think that was the first thank you that you ever said to me.”
Ivy widened her eyes fearfully as she began banging her head with the palm of her hand “Damn! Get out demon, get out!!!” she looked up at Ben with frightened eyes “Get it out of me!! I’ve been struck by the Polite Demon. Get him out!!”
He laughed as he began driving off “It’s not that bad. You seem more human when you say the words thank you.”
“Man, you need to get out more!” she sighed.
When they reached home, she opened the apartment door and walked in to find her father and Tyler in one chair. They were staring at Tara with fear. She was in dirty jeans and a plain black t-shirt and her hair was tousled. She was pointing at the television yelling out words of profanity. Ben widened his eyes at Tyler as he nodded to Tara. Tyler shrugged as he rushed over to his sister “It’s like she’s been possessed by the devil.” He whispered.
“Really?” Ivy smiled.
“It’s not funny! She’s been cursing for a whole two hours.” Tyler whispered. "You know how much she loves school right?” Ivy nodded “Watch this.” He turned to Tara “Hey, how about we study for English?”
“Eat shit!!” Tara cried.
Ben covered his smile as he seated himself next to Mr. Yung while Tyler turned to his sister who was beaming “Damn, she’s cool!!”
“No, she’s not!” Tyler pulled his sister by the arm “What happened to my friend? I can’t pass English without her help.”
“Sorry man, I can’t help you.” Ivy said with fake sympathy. She skipped over to Tara as the girls joined together on the couch “Who’s winning?” she asked as the two watched the game.
Mr. Yung shook his head sadly “I can’t watch.” He got up and headed for his room.
Tyler walked over the dining room table where his books were sprawled out ready to be read. Ivy glanced at her brother and then back at Tara “Hey, let’s mess with Ty.” She whispered.
Tara nodded eagerly “Sure…what are we gonna do?”
“Spit balls.” Ivy whispered as the two raced to the kitchen and came back out with a cup of water, two straws and a balled up napkin. “10 points for the nose, the eye is 5 points and the cheek is 1 point.” Ivy put out the rules.
“Why?” Tara asked as she balled up the wet napkin into her straw.
“Because his cheek is too big. Easy target.” Ivy explained “On three…one, two…three!” together the two blew into the straw as the spit ball flew straight at Tyler’s face.
“Quit it!!” He cried while wiping the paper off his cheeks.
Ivy nodded at Ben, who was watching the game “You take score. It’s one for me and one for Tara.”
Ben shook his head at the girls “Just leave him alone.”
Ivy and Tara exchanged knowing glances as they balled up another one and aimed it at Ben. They blew it and Tara’s ball came flying at his chest while Ivy’s hit his forehead. Ben looked disgusted as he wiped the spit balls off himself while Tyler cackled with laughter “What are you laughing at, gay boy?” Ivy snapped. She balled another one and spit it at him.
“Spit ball war!!!!” Tyler announced when one hit him on the eye. He rushed to the kitchen while the girls scrambled to get their spitballs ready. Within minutes, there was a full on spitball war with Ben in the middle. He remained calm while the three attacked each other with the disgusting wet napkin balls.
Tyler was cheating as he was closest to the kitchen, he ran in and out to get more wet napkins as he hurled it across the room at Ivy and Tara. The girls were getting wet too fast and the next time Tyler tried to run into the kitchen. Ivy tackled him “Tara, get his legs!” her accomplice did as she was told while Ivy stuck her feet in Tyler’s face “How’s that, litte woman!” she laughed evilly.
He was struggling until he realized her feet didn’t stink “Hmm…it smells like roses.” He mumbled through her feet.
Ivy pulled her feet back to her nose and smelled it “Crap! My secret weapon has been destroyed.”
Tara laughed “What now?” she was struggling to hold Tyler’s leg down.
“AHH!!!!” Tyler let out a cry as he rolled Tara to her back and he pointed to his sister “You come near and I’ll tickle her to death.”
Ivy shrugged “Go ahead, I don’t even like her.”
“What?” Tara asked in shock.
“Sorry girl, fight your own battles.” Ivy got up and took a seat next to Ben while the other two tickled each other “You still here?” she asked casually.
“Let me see.” He turned to her with his hands out.
Ivy dropped her jaw as she covered her bosoms “Ben! We don’t know each other that well! At least we should go on our first date!”
He rolled his eyes “We had sushi remember?” he nodded to her fingers “Let me see them.”
She slouched down while her hands reached out to show him “How’s the damage, doctor? Are they going to live?”
Ben nodded “I think they will be just fine.” His hand was touching her nails as he admired the intricate white flower Mary managed to put on her thumbs.
Ivy suddenly felt uncomfortable from his touch as she pulled her hands back “That’s enough touching for one night. That will be $100 dollars please.” She put out a hand.
He laughed, “That’s a bit pricy to touch your hands. How much would it be to—”
“Priceless!” Ivy quickly answered before he had a chance to finish. She stood up and walked around to Tyler and Tara who were done giggling and were now wrestling with each other “Come on kids. Time to go to sleep.”
“No!! Awww, Mommy, it’s only 10 o’clock!” Tyler objected.
“I don’t care.” Ivy argued as she pointed to Tara “You, go home. You can come by and play with Ty tomorrow.”
“Yes, mam!” Tara got up as she saluted Ivy and rushed out the door before waving goodbye to Tyler.
Ben prepared to get up too “I guess I should go.”
“Okay. Bye.” Ivy said shortly. He smiled as he walked himself out. She sat down on her knees as she looked at Tyler who was smiling happily “What’s with the dorky grin?”
Tyler looked at her innocently “What grin?”
“That grin!” She pulled her fingers at the corner of his lips and arched them up “Does someone have a little crush?”
“You think Ben likes you too?” Tyler asked.
Ivy’s face fell as she whacked him across the head “Ew! No…yuck. I would never, I mean NEVER fall for that freak.”
“Yeah, but you can’t help the freak from falling for you.” Tyler said reasonably. He lied on the ground with his arms behind his head.
Ivy too made herself on the floor “Really? You think so?”
“Totally. He wants you so bad.” Tyler nodded.
“In his dreams!” Ivy snapped. She narrowed her eyes at her little brother “You and your sick little mind. How about you and Tara? Giggling and rolling around the ground like that. Add some mud and you two could be in a mud wrestling contest.”
Tyler smiled “She’s…cute.”
“Cute?!” Ivy arched her brow up “Just a while ago, you said she was possessed by the devil. Now she’s cute…damn, you’re more fickle than a woman PMS’ing”
He shrugged his shoulders with the same smile “I don’t know…she seems different. But I can’t help thinking…she reminds me a little of you tonight.”
Ivy whipped her neck back as she looked at him and he looked at her, together they groaned “EW!!!”
“I take that back.” Tyler said.
“You better!” Ivy snapped “Or I will have to be forced to beat you up again. And you know how much I love doing it.”
“Not after Ben’s done with you. He told daddy that he’ll turn you into the daughter he always dreamed of having.” Tyler teased.
“That’s not hard, I’ll just act like you.” Ivy quipped.
His brows flicked up “Do you think its easy being me?”
Ivy smiled “You’re right. It’s hard being a kiss ass goody two shoes.”
“I don’t kiss up!!” Tyler argued.
“Yeah? And I’m really a lady.” Ivy snorted. She pushed herself up “Tara’s not bad, you should think about it. I’m gonna go to sleep now, son. I won’t be able to tuck you in, can you handle it on your own?” she asked in a motherly tone.
“Yes momma. I’m almost 7 years old!” he exclaimed in his high pitched tone.
Ivy smiled as she ruffled his hair “Night, kid.” He smiled after his sister while he continued to lie on the ground. His mind was somewhere else.