Band of Rusty Gold

SEE part One for disclaimers and stuff.


*Lij, Orli and Craig are still locked and cemented into the theatre*

Lij: It\'s no use. I\'ve looked everywhere and there\'s no way out. We\'re stuck here. *sits and cries*

Craig: It\'s not all bad. We have each other.

Orli: *screams* It\'s STARTING!!!

Craig: And, of course, we\'ve already *had* each other..So perk up, Lij. It\'ll be okay.

//Chapter 4: Come with me //

Craig: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Lij: You okay?

Craig: WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH.

Lij: Cos, y\'know...we have each other. Perk up. It\'ll be okay...

Craig: *thwack*

Lij: .....

Orli: Come with me? Mmm....Craig?


//\"Hell with it Ally, go ahead do what you want, your a free bird now\" //

Orli: Yeah, don\'t worry about me. All alone. No-one to talk to. No company except for that bucket of piss in the corner. *sniffle* I\'ll be fine..

Lij: Ally the shapeshifting heroine has now, apparently, morphed into a canary.

//\"Thanks Adee\" Ally blushed as she looked down at the fidgety hands in her lap//

Orli: How the hell did they get there?

Craig: She glanced angrily at the old man next to her, whose fidgety hands they were.

// and the
long smoking stick between her index and middle finger.//

Lij: Is it just me or does this girl have a major problem with the word cigarette?

Craig: Well, come on. I mean, it is more than two syllables. I guess she probably can\'t spell it..

Orli: (as Ally) What\'s a sill-ah-bull?

Craig: A daft cow. Like you.

//\"I\'m only telling the truth, as a winning hair stylist\"//

Lij: Adee would occasionally drop this into everyday conversation, lest anyone forget.

// he grinned a wide, rapture smile that
stretched his stud in his lower lip. Adee was a numbee ste stylist in London after
winning five best hairdresser awards in five different hair award shows. He was a short,
noble man with many ambitions and his clean, shaven head and outrageous clothes
sense made it seem right.//

Craig: Is she trying to tell us he\'s gay?

Orli: I\'m gay and I don\'t have outrageous....oh...

Lij: He must be gayer than I am!

Orli: Very, very, very gay? *nods to Blistergirl*

//\"Don\'t complement yourself\" Shalini snapped back in a mocking gesture.//

Craig: She gestured really loudly these days.

Orli: Where the fuck did she come from?

//\"What do you think Shal, if I do get this\" Ally raised both brows, not to sure what she
thought?//

Lij: (as Shal) I think if you move to L.A. then Elijah Wood will move out. So don\'t do it, yeah? Stay here. With me. Said mockingly, of course.

Orli: Fishe she doesn\'t know where to put question marks, now she doesn\'t seem able to stop.

Craig: She has a whole box full of unused ones. She\'s going to sling them in where she gets the chance now.


// she didn’t want to leave her good friends for a job,//

Lij: Fortunately she didn\'t have any, so this wouldn\'t be a problem.

// which was half way across
the other side of the world.// raigraig: *reads that twice and checks atlas* That would put her right...here. In the middle of the Atlantic.

Orli: Ah! Things are looking up!

Lij: Best place for the bitch, you ask me.

//\"I think it\'s grel, bl, but what are we to do, when you go?\"//

Orli: (as Ally) Oh, I know you won\'t be able to get over it. I know you\'ll pine for me for months then probably commit suicide in any number of terrible ways. Don\'t worry. I\'ll understand.

//Shalini shrugged and looked
at her friend with sad brown eyes.//

Craig: Hers, or somebody else\'s?

//“If she goes” Char said in pure mock. Char was Ally’s younger sister,//

Orli: (as Ally) Shit, better explain who Char is right quick!

Craig: Pure mock? Yeah, \'cause we all hate that diluted mock you can get these days.

//also in the
make-up business she had a few films all ready wrapped up under her belt.//

Lij: Wouldn\'t they weigh her down a bit?

Orli: Modern Technology strikes again, with ready wrapped films!

//She was
similar to Ally but had sparkling, emerald green eyes instead of toast brown//

Craig: I thought they were chocolate brown?

Lij: So, not really like Ally at all then...

Orli: She needs a new toaster...

//and her hair
was a light brown with flashes of blonde streaks in them that Adee mastered.//

Craig: A Hair Dom? WOW!

Orli: I\'d say Adee\'s pretty much on a par with the biting January wind. *grins*

Lij: Fucking streak I say! AHA! HA!

//Totally ignoring Char\'s caustic comment she turned back to her two loyal friends \"Well I
was thinking you both could come with me\" Ally asked, her hulking brown eyes//

Orli: RUN AWAY FROM THE EYES!!!

Craig: She managed to spell caustic right. I\'m impressed. *impressed*

Lij: It was even in context. Although her friends don\'t seem *that* loyal. Always mocking her and stuff.

//in plea
and her hopes building. She went down to the table and flicked the excess ash from her
cigarette before putting it back in her mouth, for another drag.//

Orli: Down to the table? What, is Ally ten feet tall now??

Lij: *is just impressed that Ally managed to call it a cigarette instead of a smoking stick, a burning stick, a cancer stick or a cough stick.*

//“Of course I’ll come” Shalini snapped back watching her inhale the death trap.//

Lij: I spoke too soon.

Orli: She inhaled it? That can\'t be healthy!

Craig: Maybe it\'ll set her heart a-razing. *sniggers and nods to Legolas Finds Love And Loses A Mitten.*

//Ally looked to Adee \"How about you?, you know I don\'t want to leave you behind\" she
said with a grin but wiped it off as she noticed the sorry look in his blue eyes.//

Orli: I foresee a fight. *mumbles* Pass the popcorn.

Lij: *stares at Orli* Uhh. If you insist. *shuffles under seat, emerges with a suspiciously brown paper bag*

Orli: *reaches in, raises hand to mouth*

Craig: Ooh, \'Cuff Me Roughly From Behind\'? Haven\'t seen that one..

Orli: Lij.. This is Cop Porn.. What the Fuck?

Lij: You said-

Orli: *stuffs the bag under his shirt* Nothing. Nothing. La de da, nothing.

//\"Your the governors Ally ...//

Orli: *speechless*

//you know I love you, But I\'ve got my clients, home, family
here\" he stated with dishearten blue eyes.//

Lij: At least now we know what colour his eyes are. I was starting to feel like we were missing out on that.

//\"I suppose\" Ally blinked into thin air,//

Craig: Shit, I was hoping she\'d *disappear* into thin air.

Orli: She *supposes* that a family and a home is more important than dropping everything to be with her?? Wow, someone widen the doorway so she can get her head out of it!

//she had forgot about that, who will take over her
job at the theatre? But she didn’t care about that anymore.//

Lij: She didn\'t give a fuck about anything any more. Her husband had left her, she was a bum who spent all day looking at internet sites for mp arp artisits.

Craig: Why was she looking for jobs when she\'s already got one?

Orli: Well, if you remember, her husband was the Top Man in theatre. It could be, y\'know.. awkward.

Craig: I thought this girl had a backbone?

Orli: I\'m hoping it turns out that she has balls. *titters*

//“Sorry Al. But I would come and visit\" he looked at his bare arms \"I\'m in need of some
sun\" he laughed.//

Lij: No. Comment.

Orli: Gayer than gay.

//Ally smiled “Well at least your coming” she glanced at an easygoing Shalini who had a
grin from ear to ear.//

Craig: Not to make Adee feel bad or anything.

Orli: Shalini\'s got some weird facial structure there.

Lij: It\'s to go with the weird sentence structure. See? Everything matches! It\'s totally gay!

//\"But what about me? Your own sister!\"//

Craig: Yeah, what about her?

Lij: Well, she introduced all her friends *and* her agent before her own sister, so.. it\'s not like we care, either.

//\"Char, you\'ve got a production starting tomorrow\" Ally gave a mid sentence laugh//

Lij: Yes, you\'ve got a *Wuahahaha* production starting tomorrow.

Craig: Don\'t forget, Lij. You still owe me a *hehehAHAH* blow job.

Orli: And *muahahah* me.

//as
Char sighed and nodded her head. She glanced at her watch, seven O’clock.
“I should be getting back” she looked round the table.//

Lij: To where??

Orli: She should leave now. It\'s way past her bedtime.

Craig: If she leaves, do we get to go too?

Sean\'s Voice: Nooo HAHAHAHA.. Yer don\'t.

//“Yea same here” Adee added draining the last remainders of beer from his glass and
standing up, wrapping his red and white scarf round his neck tightly.//

Lij: OHHH. They\'re at the *pub!* Finally, some scene-setting! At the end of the chapter.. Hmm.

//The table rose up.//

Lij: HOLY SHIT!

Orli: Gotta love the haunted, poltergeist-infected pub!

Craig: *chants* Drop on her head, drop on her head. drop on her head...

//Ally said her goodbyes to Char and Adee as she and Shalini walked
out the pub the rumpus, crowded pub that started to develop in an up roar.//

Orli: Um. *scratches heaUm. Um.

Craig: *kisses the top of Orli\'s head* There, there. Don\'t think about it too much.

//The fresh
cold night air, smacked both their faces//

Lij: A relative of the January Wind. Bypassing the hair and going straight for the pretty face!

Craig: SMACK! SMACK! Oh Yeah. The fresh cold night air *brings the smackdown*

Orli: Well at least it doesn\'t bite.

//making them come out of the hazy daze of the
pub and into the bright night life of London,//

Orli: How terribly poetic. \'Hazy daze\'.

Lij: Moments ago it was a rumpus..

Craig: *kisses Lij\'s head too* Like I said, don\'t think too hard about it, love.

//the smell of the days pollution and fish and
chips wafted the air//

Orli: Interesting mixture.

Craig: I\'m sure that\'s a lovely smell, wafting the air around like that.

//as they walked down the high street, bright lights a daze and car
horns sounded in every direction with the shouting of gangs on every corner.//

Orli: Has she ever been to London?

//“So are you sure you want to tag along?” Ally asked her friend as they walked down the
busy road together.//

Craig: That\'s a bit dangerous, isn\'t it?

Orli: *covers Craig\'s mouth* Don\'t warn her. Maybe a bus will come out of nowhere...

//London seemed to be more busy at night rather then the day.//

Orli: She actually hasn\'t been there, has she?

//\"Of course, Ally I know you want me to come because you don\'t want to be alone in the
big wide world\" she grinned.//

Lij: She does know there are other people living in L.A., right?

Orli: I want to come. *sighs and looks pointedly at the other two.*

Craig: You\'re the one with the cop porn.

Lij: *imagines Craig in a cop uniform...*

//Ally nodded at that statement, she was scared of a lot of things, but being out in the
world alone was her biggest fear \"I don\'t want to get shot, robbed or rapped//

Orli: I wouldn\'t want to get rapped either. I bruise easy.

Craig: So loving the stereotypes here. London\'s busy and full of gangs and pollution, while L.A.\'s a place where she\'ll wind up dead. .
.

Lij: *dribbling*

//I would like
to see a friendly face first thing in the morning”.//

Craig: AHA! Closet lesbian!

//\"I know, I would do the same if I was you\" Shalini replied back.

\"Well, I\'ll call you tomorrow and let you know if they\'ve replied back\"//

Orli: Did she have some excess \'backs\' that she needed to use up, too?

//Ally said
Shalini nodded her head \"OK, but you better start looking for an apartment or
somewhere to stay in\"//

Craig: Ally said Shalini nodded her head? No wonder Shalini thinks she\'s a bit strange..

Orli: Isn\'t an apartment somewhere to stay in?

Craig: Yeah, she doesn\'t want to find somewhere to stay out, now does she? She might get rapped. Or worse.

Lij: Craaaaiiiigg.......

Craig: *looks at Lij* You alright there, mucker?

//\"Oh yea, I forgot about that,//

Orli: Ally really shouldn\'t be allowed out on her own..

//Thanks. I’ll see you” Ally waved off her friend//

Craig: *waves hands* Shoo! Shoo, Shalini...

//as they went
their own separate ways back home.//

Orli: They each had a special secret path?

Craig: Cool.. *helps Lij out a bit with his \'problem\'*

//Ally hadn’t thought of that. She kept on forgetting a
lot of things lately, probably because of the divorce and everything tiring her down.//

Orli: That almost makes me feel sorry for her. Almost.

//Where should she look? What is her property going to be, Apartment or house?//

Craig: Caravan or mansion? She could stay in Elrond\'s mansion in Riverdell... *nods to Here to Over There and Back Again*

Orli: Cardboard box or Shalini\ox? ox?

Craig: *hits Orli*

Lij: ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Hmmm. Mmmmmm. Bettttttter.

//She
sighed knowing she\'ll be back on the net doing more research, like she did when she
was seventeen and it was for different types of make-up, etc.//

Orli: She just wanted to end this chapter with a bang, didn\'t she?

Craig: Shame she failed miserably.

Orli: Sorry, I forgot the tense-change warning. I was..er.. *mutters and slides off his seat*

Cra*tur*turns to Lij* So, any more of this shite?

Lij: *nods* Uh-huh...

Orli: Hey you guys! I found a trapdoor!!

END.... for now...