Chapter 9 - Paybacks Can Be A Major Bitch
Nick followed closely in pursuit with an evil grin. He stopped on one side of his couch as Arlet stopped on the other. He chased her all around it in circles as the both of them laughed. Finally, Nick jumped over it and grabbed Arlet around the waist. He started to tickle her and they both fell on to the couch.
“Say you’re sorry!” He demanded, grinning.
Arlet couldn’t breath. She was laughing too hard. “No!” She managed to yell.
“Okay, you asked for it!” He tickled her harder. Somehow, she managed to squirm her way out of his tickling embrace and bolted up the stairs to her room. Giggling uncontrollably, she slammed the door, locked it and leaned back against it, for extra safety.
Just in case, she thought. “That’ll keep him.” She said out loud.
“You’re going to have to come out sooner or later!” Nick told her from the other side of her door.
She giggled. “No I don’t! I can stay in here as long as I want!” She yelled back.
“You’ll come out and I’ll be ready for you!” He told her evilly.
Arlet giggled. He was gonna get revenge on her soon enough. Arlet had pulled down his swim trunks when two girls who lived in his neighborhood came strolling down the beach in their direction. The girls started to giggle at him as Nick quickly pulled them up. He saw Arlet make a mad dash to his house and he quickly chased her.
Arlet, still leaning against the door, burst into uncontrollable laughter when the picture of Nick’s reaction came flashing into her head. She laughed so heard she had to bend over and hold her stomach. Tears came running down her eyes and she couldn’t stop laughing.
After a little while later, Arlet stopped laughing. Nick wasn’t outside her door. She tried to look through the tiny gap between the bottom of the door and the floor and saw no trace of his feet or a shadow of them. She quietly unlocked her door and peeked out. She looked left and right, Nick was nowhere to be seen. Arlet quickly shut her door and locked it again. She decided she would take a shower, but with extra precautions. She started to gather all the stuff she needed to for her shower: her favorite blue towel with colorful guitars printed on the front she brought from home, her soaps and shampoos and her PJ’s. Quietly opening the door once more, she peeked out to check again to see if the close was clear. Confirming it was, she leaped a crossed the hall and into the bathroom, locking the door. Giving a sigh of relief, Arlet moved away from the door and started her shower. Stripping off her clothes, she stepped into the shower and let the cool water hit her skin. As she showered, she thought of all the possibilities Nick could have to make his revenge.
“Well, one things for sure,” She said to herself. “He can’t do anything now.”
Little did she know though, that right outside her door, Nick was snickering to himself wickedly as he unlocked the bathroom with the key. Arlet didn’t see him snatch her towel and clothing because of the dark shower curtains. He also removed all the spare towels in the bathroom and ran down the hall to his bedroom where he threw everything on his bed and shut the door.
Nick laughed evilly to himself as he ran back to the bathroom and readied his video camera.
“Oh Carter, you are too good!” He whispered mischievously. When the camera was ready, he quietly stepped into the bathroom, put the camera up to his eye and placed his free hand on the side of the curtain and pulled.
Arlet looked over and found Nick, with a video camera in his hand. “Oh my God!” She screamed. “Nick! Get out!”
He laughed. “Look, wave to the camera!”
She grabbed part of the curtain and tried to cover herself up. “Nick! Turn that off! Get out!” She yelled.
“What are you gonna do about it?” He teased. “You’re gonna come after me?”
“You bet your ass I’ll come after you! I’ll come after you and kick your ass!”
“Okay then, go ahead and try.”
Arlet reached for her towel but found it wasn’t there. She looked around for it and realized it was gone with her clothes also. She looked over at Nick and found him grinning with the camera still on.
“Shit! Nick, where the hell did you put my clothes?!”
He just smiled bigger. “You’re going to have to find them yourself.” He told her, still looking through his camera.
“Nick! Give me my clothes!” She pleaded.
“You’re going to have to follow me to get them.”
“Fine! I’ll just grab another towel and get other clothes in my room.”
“Nope. There ain’t no towels in there. I took ‘em. I also locked your door and I’m the only one with the key to open it.” Nick responded, smirking.
“Oh my God! Nick, please just give me my clothes!”
“No way man! That wouldn’t be any fun!”
Arlet pressed the curtain tighter against herself. “Carter, I swear to God, I’m going to kick your sorry ass when I get dressed.”
“That’s not gonna happen anytime soon, is it? You don’t even have any clothes!” He burst out laughing.
“Oh yeah?!” Arlet yanked the shower curtain and they ripped off. She wrapped it around her body and lunged towards Nick.
Nick stopped laughing and bounded out of the bathroom. He backed away from her and his video camera was not missing any of it. He carefully ran down the stairs, with Arlet closely behind and ran into the living room.
“Nick! Give me my fucking clothes and turn off that camera!” Arlet yelled behind him.
Nick just laughed. The two of them were in the living room and again were chasing each other in circles around the couch. Then they stopped. One on one side, the other on the other side. None of them moved as if daring each other to move first. Nick continued to looking into the camera, recording every second of it.
“Na na na na na!” He taunted like a little boy.
“Where are my clothes?!”
“Don’t get your panties in a twist.”
Arlet picked up one of the toss pillows from the couch and chucked it at Nick. She missed him only by a smidge.
“Oh yeah! I forgot! You don’t have any on!” He laughed out loud once more.
Arlet picked up another pillow and threw it. This time, she didn’t miss.
“Umpf!” The pillow hit him right in the face. He fell backwards with camera in hand. Surprisingly, the camera was perfectly safe. Arlet pounced on him, still clutching the shower curtain against her body and pushed him into the ground.
“Where are my clothes!” She demanded.
Nick smiled even bigger.
“What’s going on here?” Came a voice behind them. Nick and Arlet looked to see who it was.
Brian and Leighanne, AJ and Amanda stood near the front door, with questioning looks on their faces.
Arlet looked at them horrified. Nick just smiled even bigger, if it was possible.
“Oh, hey guy! Didn’t know you’ll be back so soon.” He was still on his back and Arlet was still on top of him. She jumped up and bolted up the stairs. “I’ll be right back.” Nick told his friends. He ran up the stairs and followed Arlet. Brian, Leigh, AJ and Amanda just looked after him, confused and not quite sure what they saw.
Arlet ran into the bathroom and shut the door. Nick came knocking a few seconds later, chuckling.
“Please give me my clothes back.” She begged from the other side of the door.
“Okay, I’ll be right back.” He walked back to his room, grabbed her things and walked back to the bathroom. “I got them.”
“Do you still have that camera on?”
“Yep.” He heard her groan. “Do you want your clothes or not?”
Arlet slowly opened the door only wide enough for Nick to slip the towel and clothes to her. She quickly shut it and Nick walked back downstairs to his friends.
“What just happened?” Brian asked.
“Let’s just say that paybacks are a major bitch.” He responded, grinning from ear-to-ear.
Arlet walked down the stairs a few minutes later, dressed in her PJ’s. She walked into the living room just as Nick finished telling his friends what just happened. She walked up to him and punched him on the arm, hard.
“God! I hate you!” She told him. It was obvious she didn’t mean it at all.
“Ow!” Nick laughed. “I know you do.” He replied dropping an arm over her shoulders.
She removed his arm off of her. “Don’t give me that!” She was smiling.
Nick pulled her into a hug. “You know ya love me!”
“My ass!” She said. Her voice was muffled because Nick was hugging her so tight. He was squishing her face into his chest. Everyone laughed at them. Arlet pulled away from Nick. “You need to shower! Man, you smell!”
He gave her a hurt expression. “I do not smell!” He pouted. “I smell good! I smell sexy!”
Arlet slapped his chest. “Whatever! Go take a shower!”
“Yes mother.” Nick smiled once more then headed upstairs to shower.
When he was finished, Nick joined his friend in his living room to watch movies. After they finished their third movie, everyone was completely tired and decided to call it a night. Brian and Leighanne went up to their room as AJ and Amanda headed to their room they usually stayed in when they visited Nick. Arlet was already sleeping and Nick didn’t want to wake her up. He scooped her up in his arms and carried her up to her room. He laid her in her bed carefully then pulled the covers over her. Before he left the room, he quietly sat on the side of the bed, watching her sleep. He laughed to himself as he remembered the events that took place earlier that day. He moved a piece of her hair out of her face, bent down and kissed her on the forehead.
“Good night.”
With that, Nick slowly walked over to the door, took one last look at Arlet, shut the lights off, closed her door and headed to his room for a good night sleep.
Chapter 8: Having Fun In The Sun (Part 2)
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