Lucy Van Warren (lucytherockstar) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-03-10 22:20:00 |
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Current location: | Shooting Star Comics |
Current mood: | happy |
Entry tags: | cassie allen, lucy van warren, place: la |
Best Friends Forever!!
Who: Cassie and Lucy
Where: Shooting Star Comics
When: Wednesday Afternoon, 3/10
"Aw, cheese n' rice...." Grumbling, Cassie Allen crossed her arms in frustration, looking at the rack of new releases she'd been putting out. "Great. Missed ONE TITLE. Now I gotta redo half the darn rack. Figures. I can teach myself to bulld an engine block in like, 20 minutes, but I can't properly alphabetize a rack of comic books."
Lucy didn't know if Cassie knew that she was back yet. So, she figured that the best way to go about things was to bring a couple of Sugar Fairy Shooters and talk things out, either to explain that she was back from the dead, or to explain what was going on, as if she really knew.
So imagine her surprise when, as she walked in with the drinks.... Cassie just grinned like nothing abnormal was going on here at all. "Lucy! Just the girl I wanted to see. As pret-ty much my dating sensei, I am in need of your wisdom and advice." See... to Cassie now? Lucy had never gone anywhere.
Lucy didn't know who knew and who didn't, honestly, so, until Cassie brought it up, IF she brought it up, she was going to do things like normal. "Sure, go ahead. Sensei is here to work her magic," she said, sitting the drinks down on the counter.
"Ok, so... Andrew. We had that lonnnnnnng talk a while ago about how you weren't gonna let me even consider taking him back unless I really felt like he wasn't using me as a second choice, right?" The little superbrain winced, trying not to look, well... worried.
"Yeah, I remember," Lucy said to her. "And if you're thinking of taking him back anyway, even with the whole second choice thing, I'm so going to kick your tiny little butt, you know that, right?"
"Yeah." She nibbled her lip, groaning. "Ok. So I was all depressed about a week ago. Honestly, for the life of me, I can't even remember WHY now. But he was there for me. And he made me feel.... loved. Not like, pity-loved, but REALLY loved. And am I making any kind of sense at all?"
More so than she realized, actually. "Well, that's certainly a good start on the way to acceptable," Lucy said to her. "Still, you can't just jump into this again all willy-nilly, you know? You got to make sure that, this time, he loves you for YOU, not for who you're, like, replacing or whatever."
"I know. Really, I do. I just love the doofus, and I think maybe this time he realizes what he had in me. I think maybe seeing me with JC those couple times made it hit home for him." Oh crap. It hit her then. When she mentioned JC, it made her think of school, and then.... "So, um... I know, it's not a huge thing when you miss a week or so of school, because of the music thing, and everything else... but there's somethin' you MIGHT wanna be ready for when you come back."
"Well, as long as he actually realizes what an awesome catch you are, and isn't just being a giant stupid head again, then he can date you again." As if Lucy really had any say in the matter, but damn it her friend deserved better than to be someone's second choice! "And what? What's going on at school?"
"Well. Um... there's sort of a new girl there. A couple new kids, really. They're trying to hide it from everyone, but thanks to some of the people I know? I found out they're kinda sorta from the future. And one of them might sorta be your daughter." And that, ladies and gents? Was officially the strangest thing Cassie ever felt herself say.
"Um...Ash told me a little bit about that." And Lucy had totally thought that she was pregnant instead, like, right then, and he had clairvoyant abilities, but that wasn't it. "And that is SO WEIRD!!! Apparently she looks like me but acts like Ash on a bad day?"
"Lucy? I remember Ash. Even *he* never acted this creepy. You know Talia Portman? She's like, the ONLY person she even acts human toward." Cassie gave a look of worry that came off far more adorable than it was meant to. "She makes Ash look NORMAL. No offense."
Lucy giggled at the thought of Ash looking normal. She couldn't help it. She loved Ash with everything in her, but him being NORMAL? That must mean that her daughter was extra creepy. Wowzers indeed. "Well, then her acting human toward one person means that she CAN act human, right? That's a good thing."
"So... Things still good with you and Johnny Cash Jr.?" Cassie asked playfully, wincing at something on the display. "Aw, frikkin' Xander... All the X-titles go together, even if they aren't alphabetical with the rest of the stuff!"
Lucy laughed at Cassie's complaint of Xander's attempt of alphabetizing the comics. "Yes, things are great between Ash and I." And very interesting, actually, but she wasn't sure if that was a topic for conversation with Cassie.
"You know... Ya don't seem as hyper and bouncy as usual today. Which, is like the equivalent of clinical depression for most people." Cassie raised an eyebrow cutely and 'hmmmm'ed. "Everything ok? You feelin' alright?"
She smiled at Cassie. She couldn't tell her that she had come back from the dead. She didn't remember, and to tell her would either confuse her or upset her, and she didn't want to do that. "I'm OK," she said to her. "I've just got a lot on my mind, you know?" She grabbed one of the Fairy Shooters and took a long sip of it. "An album and touring and stuff. Busy, busy mind. That's what I have!"
"Hrm. NOT entirely sure I believe ya there, but I'll let it go." She smirked, figuring everyone has their own secrets. "As long as you swear everything's ok. So... We gonna double for the next dance again?"
"Oh god! The next dance! I totally forgot about that!" Lucy set her drink down and looked at Cassie. "We've got to get you a dress! We got to dress you up to the nines to show Andrew just how awesome you really are." God, she had to get a dress for herself. She certainly couldn't wear anything that she owned. No, she had to dig out something completely new!
"Luuuuuuucy!" Cassie squealed, liking the makeover she'd been given but still feeling a little weird about wearing dresses. "There's really no way you're gonna let me just... wear like, pants and combat boots, huh."
"No way in Hades am I letting you wear pants and combat boots," Lucy said, putting her hands on her hips. "You don't go to dances in pants and boots!"
"Hades?" Cassie grinned and started laughing, crossing her arms. "Wow... you technically ALMOST swore there, so... yeah. I'm guessing you mean business." She looked at Lucy for a minute, before just walking up to her and hugging her. Tightly. As in, if it wasn't for the fact that wet noodles are tougher than Cassie, it mighta hurt. "Dunno why, but... I just got this really sad feeling inside. Like I needed to hug you. Just roll with it."
Lucy hugged her back tightly. She was about as strong as Cassie was, so it wasn't like she could hurt her, either, but she just wanted to hold her friend for a minute as well. God, she had missed her so much. She had missed everyone so much. She was just SO glad to be back where she felt like she belonged.
"Ohmygod. Lucy. I just remembered something else." Yes, she'd told her about Courtney... but this! THIS! "Guess who ELSE has a future!kid running around school? Ok, loaded question, there's like a small group of them and all... but YOUR BROTHER has one running around!"
"Ash actually told me that, too," she said to Cassie, smiling. "I bet that she's SO cute, if she looks like either of them. Totally won the genetic lottery, you know?" Ash had actually told her all about this already.
"She acts SO much like your sister, Luce. Seriously. It's like Chloe didn't graduate, and instead just went and got all pierced and tattooed." Which, really, was a funny enough visual in and of itself.
"Oh my god, she has piercings and tattoos?" Wow, that was something else. Even Kevin didn't have much in the way of those. Still, she had to be totally cute, and apparently adorable if she acted like Chloe.
"Yeah. And she's apparently claiming to be you guys' cousin. Which is kinda funny. But honestly? When I first heard about them... I really REALLY really thought she had to be Chloe's kid. They're EXACTLY alike."
"Well, it's gonna take an immaculate conception to get Chloe to have a kid," Lucy said, grinning. "I mean, she's with Nica and everything now, so that's just not gonna happen at all." Of course, who really knew what the future held.
"Hey, weirder things have happened, you know!" Cassie said with a cute little huff. "Compared to the fact that Pauley Shore has had at least three starring roles, Chloe having a kid isn't THAT far fetched!"
Lucy thought on that for a moment. "Hmm...true...but that's was the wrath of an angry god, so let's hope that, if Chloe get's pregnant, it's not the same thing, OK?"
"That would be the wrath of a HYPER god, there. Although really..." Ok, so she couldn't help it. Not totally. "Knowing that YOU have a kid one day amuses me no end as well."
"Well, that's at least possible," Lucy pointed out. "How old is she, anyway?" If she was, like, seventeen, then Ash was very soon going to have a lot of explaining to do, or at least a lot more explaining.
"Heh. Yeah. About that." Cassie had, obviously, done the math here. "She's like... fifteen? I think?" Insert awkward smile. Granted, things weren't necessarily going to happen the same here, but... this obviously meant Lucy was gonna be a younnnnng mommy.
Lucy made a face, scrunching up her nose. "Kind of figured that, since apparently she's in high school. I'm just glad that I'm not going to be a mommy, like, in the next ten months, you know?"
"On the bright side, since she's so destructive, a bunch of us are considering leaving a note in her locker insulting her, and signing Camille's name to it." Snickering, Cassie got that bright smile again there. "Watch the fun unfold."
"Oh don't do that!" Lucy squealed. "If you do that, you are stooping to her level, you know? She might be doing stuff less physically deadly, though, but all of her stuff is psychological. Besides, she'll be one of those people who nosedive after high school. Just think of how hard you'll be laughing at your ten year high school reunion."
"You mean when I'm the head of a Fortune 500 company and she's turning tricks for crack money and sending my apologies every week hoping I'll forgive her and send her enough money to pay her pimp off for one more week?" Cassie blushed then, looking away. "Not that, you know, I've thought about it or anything."
Lucy giggled. "Yeah, that precisely. I can tell that you've been plotting that out, now, haven't you?" That was amazingly precise for someone who wanted to claim that she hadn't been thinking about it at all.
"So... maybe I should leave out the part where Jason's destitute and selling handjobs on street corners just to have enough money for food and then he comes to me crying about needing my help and how I was the best thing that ever happened to him?" She thought, then nodded. "Yeah. I think I'll leave that part out. Carry on."
Lucy snorted. "Wow, you're creative aren't you?" she asked Cassie. "That's amazingly detailed for a spur of the moment vision, you know?" She shook her head. "Well, hopefully Andrew will do you a lot better than he did. I can't believe he broke up with you."
"Well..." This was classic Cassie. Saying even sad or horrible things with that adorable optimism. "He's at a point in his life where it's more important, I think, to have a good reputation than it is to have a girlfriend that hasn't been ridden more times than the football field's bench."
"Cassie!" Lucy said, still giggling despite herself. Well, Camille did sort of bring these things on herself. "Just think, in two months, you'll never have to see her again, unless you want to make fun of her in ten years for getting knocked up at Prom."
"Wow.... I can't believe you're actually giving her until prom." Hey, Cassie wasn't mean at ALL, but she really, REALLY hated Camille now. "So... you guys really getting your old band back together? I thought I heard Chloe bubbling over about it when I went to get some drinks for the others yesterday."
Lucy nodded. "Yeah, we're finally going to get everything together, record, tour, all that jazz," she said with a smirk. "I'm SO glad that we're finally getting to do it. I cannot wait to finally get into a studio again!"
"And it's gonna be, like... a REAL album! Something people anywhere in the world can walk into a record store and buy!" Sure, that sounded slightly dumb, but still. "You know what I mean..."
She nodded. "Yeah it's gonna be a real album!" Lucy said to her. "With liner notes and pictures and everything!" She was way excited about it.
"You guys are SO good, too. I had that demo you gave me playing a few days ago when I was outside skating, and I had like, five different people ask me what it was, because they liked it so much. So I had the burden of telling them that it was ONLY my bestest friend in the world and her bad-ass band..."
She laughed. "Yeah, I totally bet that was such a hard thing to do," Lucy said, grinning at her. She grabbed her drink and took another sip of it. "Well, soon enough, they'll be able to buy something in a store from us."
"Lucy?" Cassie was a happy, cheerful girl, even when she wasn't WANTING to be. So this? Had to be a little heartbreaking. "When you get famous.... please don't forget me?"
"Oh goodness gracious why on earth would I do a crazy thing like that?" Lucy asked her. "You're like, my best friend. Why would I forget about you once I become a famous rock star?"
"I dunno!" She squeaked, feeling silly now for suggesting it. "I just figured once yer some big-time rock star, and you're hanging out with movie stars and stuff... you won't need the dorky girl from the comic book store anymore."
"I like you, and you're not dorky," Lucy said to her. "You're a geek, and being a geek is cool, no matter what some blond idiots in high school say." Was Jason a natural blond? She knew that Camille wasn't, but whatever. "I'm not going to be trading anyone for the people I have now."
"Ok, ok... just making sure. I still have my clingy moments, ok?" She admitted with a weak laugh. "So will you be back at school tomorrow? You've gotta see the cast of Back To The Future: 90210 Edition in action. It's kinda funny when you actually know who they are..."
"Yeah, funny in the weird way of knowing that you'll be giving birth to them in a few years," Lucy said, laughing. At least she can keep her sense of humor during all of this weird stuff. Much better than freaking out and running away, that's for sure.
"Maybe it's funnier to me, just knowing none of them popped from MY loins, ya know?" She stuck her tongue out, laughing with a mocking tone.
"Yeah, probably. Let's see how funny it is when your kids by Andrew are popping up everywhere, and we both know that you're going to have a dozen little Star Wars geeks."
"True. Poor kids." She sighed, giving a mockingly sad sigh. "Like poor little Anakin Boba Wells is gonna have a friggin' SHOT at not being beaten up in school..."
Lucy laughed hard at that. "OK, you so can't name your kid that. You do want them to LIVE through school, right? If I have to tie the both of you down and do Chinese water torture to prevent that, I so will for your children's sake."
Cassie just laughed again, leaning against a nearby bookshelf. "You always crack me up when you come in here. You OR Chloe, really. It's like a mountain lion walking around a Wal-Mart. Just... totally out of place."
"Why would a mountain lion go to a Walmart?" Lucy asked. "You'd think that he'd at least go to a feed store, or maybe a pet store...EW! Bad thoughts!"
"That was kinda my point, actually. Nevermind." She snickered, shaking her head. "At least it's not D&D night. Those poor guys don't usually get to even LOOK at a girl as hot as you unless she's in one of their anime videos."
"Not interested in getting drool on my very expensive shoes, thanks," Lucy said with a grin. She looked down at her watch. "Shoot. I should get going. We've got to go dress shopping for the dance. Andrew won't even know what hit him."
"Yeah, yeah. Get outta here. We'll talk later, and plan our next excruciating trip to the mall." Oh yeah, because if she had to suffer? She was calling Janie. Because she wasn't suffering ALONE thank you.
"Oh you like it and you know it," Lucy said playfully. "I'll make a shopaholic out of you yet, Cassie."
"Out!" Cassie laughed, pointing back toward the Sugar Shack across the street. "And no coming back until you're armed with free Shooters for me and my employees!"