Texts, Lies, & Video
Arabella's POV
My dad and I were in the Man Cave when we heard the elevator doors open to reveal Henry and Charlotte. Right as they got up and walked out they were fighting over something and I wasn't interested in what they were fighting about to be honest.
"What's the beef jerky's?" My dad asked after they finished fighting.
"Okay, get this. Henry wants me to shoot a video of him blowing one of his bubbles and transforming into Kid Danger so that he can watch the video and see what it looks like." Charlotte explained to us and I grinned at this. "Now, will you both tell him how insane that is?"
That's so awesome! I wanna see.
"Oh my god!" My dad and I said with shock.
"Right?"
"That's so awesome!" I beam and Henry smiled and Charlotte was shocked.
"Bella!"
"What?"
"Can we do it together?" My dad asked with eagerness.
"Yeah!" Henry beamed and Charlotte was in disbelief.
"Can't believe I never thought of transforming into Captain Man on video so I can see what it looks like!" My dad exclaimed, hi-fiving Henry.
"Right? So let's do it together now." Henry tells him.
"Are you guys crazy? You can't do this. What if this gets out?" Charlotte asked us and I rolled my eyes.
"Why you always gotta say no?" I asked her.
"You don't wanna be the party of no." Ray added.
"That's not a fun party" Henry said.
"Well, I'm sorry if I'm the one around here who actually thinks things through." Charlotte mentioned and I stared at her as Henry and my dad scoffed.
"Excuse me?" I asked her.
"Name one time I didn't think something through." My dad retorted.
I can name countless times he didn't think something through.
"Okay. How about the time there was a fly on the elevator door." Charlotte said.
"I don't remember any fly." My dad remarked, pretending not to remember.
——
Two weeks ago.
Henry, my dad, and I were watching Drake and Josh and Charlotte was trying to catch a fly.
"Hey, has anyone seen where the fly went?" Charlotte asked and I turned to see it on the elevator door.
"It's on the elevator door." I pointed and Charlotte was about to get it when my dad pointed a blaster at it.
"I'll get it."
"Dad-"
Before I could finish my dad fired the blaster and it blasted a hole in the wall. Henry and I looked at my dad, while Charlotte was still on the floor. My dad slowly sunk back into his seat when Charlotte got up and we continued watching the show.
——
Present Day
"Remember it costed four thousand dollars to repair that elevator door?" Henry chuckled.
"And you missed the fly." Charlotte added.
"Ah, he got the message." My dad remarked.
"Just like the goat at the fair when I was eight?" I smirked and my dad chuckled nervously.
"What goat?"
——
Six Years Ago.
"Daddy! Look!" I pointed at the goats in the pen. "I want one."
"You can't have one, but you can pet it." My dad said and I reached my hand out to pet the goat. Instead of petting it, the goat spat on me and I cried.
"It spat on me." I cried and wiped the spit off of my face.
"Bad goat! No one spits on my daughter!" My dad lifted up a blaster and blasted the goats in the pen. I screamed and everyone around us fell to the ground. All the goats ran free in the fair and it caused the entire fair to be ruined. I looked at my dad and seconds later he picked me up and ran off.
"But I didn't pet the goat..."
——
"That goat deserved it." My dad protested.
"It was a little spit." I said and he rolled his eyes.
"Okay, come on, let's shoot the video." Henry said, interrupting our moment and handed me his phone.
"Here's my phone."
"Charlotte here's his phone." I handed Charlotte his phone and she sighed.
"Yeah, all right." She reluctantly agreed and pointed the camera at them.
"How's my hair?" My dad asked, adjusting his hair.
"Perfect."
"Yeah, I know. Why do I even ask?" My dad laughed and they poured themselves a gum ball.
"Hey, your sister just texted you." I tell Henry when a message came in.
"What does she want?"
Charlotte opened the text. "She says, "Text me that pic where I look great and Marla looks like a frog right now."
"Just ignore it." Henry waved off.
"Okay." Charlotte closed the messages and began recording the boys. "Recording."
"Ready?"
"Yeah. Let's get busy yo, then watch the video."
Henry laughed at my dad and Charlotte and I groaned.
"Oh, the rhymes..."
My dad and Henry blew a bubble and it popped transforming them into Captain Man and Kid Danger. Charlotte stopped the recording.
"Come on, let me see it." My dad smiled.
"No, it's my phone." Henry objected.
"Hey, I'm Captain Man."
"It's my phone."
"It's my phone." My dad mocked.
"Okay, we'll watch it together." Henry concluded.
"Okay, we'll watch it together." My dad mocked. "Oh yeah, let's do that."
Henry got his phone and opened his videos. "Videos." Interrupting us, Henry got a message and groaned. "Ugh. Why won't Piper quit texting me about the stupid pic of her and Marla?"
"Just send your sister the pic she wants so she'll stop interrupting us." I suggested.
"Yeah. Alright." Henry agreed and sent the pic to Piper. His face fell and he was shocked. "No! No, no, no! I did not just do this. No, no, no!"
"Hen, what's wrong?" I asked him.
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Henry, what?"
"Was it my hair?" My dad asked and I hit his arm.
"I-I texted the video to Piper."
This shocked us all.
"WHAT?!"
——
Henry immediately called Piper to see if she got the video.
"Come on, come on, come on. Piper, answer your phone."
"What are you gonna do if she saw the video?" I asked Henry.
"She'll probably show it to everybody!" My dad exclaimed.
"What happens if she posts it online?" Charlotte asked.
"How old is she?" My dad asked.
"I don't know! I know! I don't know! Ten!" Henry frantically replied and I consciously put the answers together to the questions we asked.
Henry started to laugh and looked at his phone, but then groaned.
"What?"
"Is it Piper?" I asked him.
"No, it's Jasper calling me." Henry said.
"Jasper!" My dad snarled under his breath and Henry answered him.
"Hey. Hello....what are you doing at my house?...please shut up!"
"Ask him if he's seen Piper!" Charlotte advised Henry, who shushed her.
"Have you seen Piper?" Henry asked Piper and seconds later Henry seemed relieved. "Thank god!...Hey, hey, hey! Where's Piper's phone?" Henry pulled away from his phone to speak to us. "It's there charging next to my mom's phone."
My dad smirked. "Your mom?"
"Stop that." Henry and I both glare.
Henry returned to his call and smiled. "She hasn't seen it yet?... Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes! Yeah!...Wait, no, no, no! Don't hang up yet!" We looked at Henry with worry and shock as he yelled at Jasper to stay on the line. "Jasper, if you've ever been my friend, if you've ever cared about me even a little bit... Then bring Piper's phone to me at Junk-N-Stuff right this second no matter what...hurry!"
Henry hung up and we waited for a response.
"All right. He's on his way."
We sighed with relief and I clapped.
"Thank goodness."
I heard buzzing it and I saw that the fly was back. Charlotte noticed and tried to swat it away.
"Ah, man, the fly's back." Charlotte complained and my dad grabbed his blaster
"Put it down." I ordered him and my dad lowered it, sadly.
——
The four of us went up to the store and anxiously waited for Jasper to appear with the phone. We were eating popcorn and pacing around the store.
Out of nowhere, Charlotte yelled. "Where's Jasper?!"
This made Henry jump and spill most of his popcorn. "He's on his way here."
"What if he watches the video?" My dad asked with worry.
"No, he can't. Piper's got a passcode on her phone so there's no way--"
The door flew open and Jasper ran in, panting, cutting Henry off. Jasper tried to speak multiple times, but he was out of breath and was panting heavily.
"Oh god!" Jasper panted.
"Speak boy!" My dad snapped.
"Do you have Piper's phone?" I asked him.
"Where's the phone?" Charlotte asked.
"It's—Right...here!" Jasper breathes heavily, pulling out Piper's phone and we all sighed with relief.
"Oh, yes!"
"Oh, he brought it!"
"Oh, thank goodness!"
"Oh, hallelujah!"
"Ahhhhh!"
Suddenly, Piper ran in and tackled Jasper, scaring all of us. Jasper spun around in circles, attempting to get the girl off his back and we all grabbed onto Piper and tried to pry her off of him.
"Ahhh!"
"Gahhhh!"
"Ahhh!"
Eventually, we pulled Piper off Jasper and held her back.
"Okay! Okay! You need to calm down!" Henry began.
"He jacked my phone!" She protested.
"I was told too!" Jasper cried.
"By who?"
"Look, the important thing is we have it." My dad mentioned, taking the phone.
"Why is that important?" Piper asked. "Wait. That's not my phone."
My eyes grew and Henry grabbed the phone. "This is my mom's phone."
"What?" Jasper snatches the phone.
"What?!" My dad takes the phone with shock.
"You grabbed the wrong phone?!" Charlotte asked Jasper.
"You had one thing to do, kid!" My dad snarled and grabbed Jasper's shirt. "One thing!"
My dad moved away in panic and worry.
"I thought you cared about me?" Henry asked Jasper with betrayal.
"I do! She was all over me! I'm sorry!" Jasper frantically apologized.
"Okay! Okay." Henry said.
"Wait!" I chimed in, realizing something. "Henry. If that's your mom's phone, that means Piper's phone is-"
"Still at my house." Henry finished for me and looked at Piper for a moment before he suddenly ran out of the store and Piper chased after him.
"HENRY! You leave my phone alone!"
Jasper approached Charlotte and I. "Feel how sweaty I am."
"Nope." I denied and moved away from the sweaty boy.
"No thank you." Charlotte denied, following me.
——
After Henry and Piper left, we waited patiently for Henry to return or call us.
Soon, Henry beeped my dad and he answered.
"Henry! Did you get your little sister's phone away from her?"
"Yeah, but I need to talk to Bella and Charlotte." I heard Henry say and I grinned.
"Oh." My dad said with offense. "Bella, Charlotte. Someone wants you two and not me."
My dad walked away and Charlotte and I walked into frame.
"Yo, Hen."
"Hey, Henry."
"Girls, listen, if Piper lost her old phone and then she got a new phone." Henry began.
"Yeah?" We say.
"When she restores her data from the cloud, would she get everything back?" He asked us.
"Well, yeah, if her old phone was set to back up automatically." I inform him.
My dad popped in. "I could've told you that."
"Move, Ray." Henry groaned and I pushed my dad away.
"Okay, what about text messages she hasn't read yet, like pics and videos?" Henry asked and my eyes grew.
"Oh, no, she'd get everything back." Charlotte said with worry.
"Dang it." Henry sighed.
"This is bad." I say with panic.
"This is really bad." Charlotte added and my dad popped in again.
"Yeah, you never should've let me and Henry shoot that video." My dad mentioned and I rolled my eyes.
"I told you not to do it!" Charlotte objected.
"You did not make that clear." My dad stated and I gently pushed him out of frame.
"Girls, what do I do?" Henry asked us.
"Okay. Just wait until she finishes downloading, then you got to get that phone away from her and delete that video from her phone and from the cloud." Charlotte explained to Henry.
"Okay. Delete the video from her phone and from the cloud, got it." Henry repeated. "I'll just wait till she's done-"
"Henry!"
Henry quickly ended the call when a woman showed up.
Okay then.
I hope Henry can get the phone and delete the video.
——
Jasper left to return Piper's phone and that left my dad, Charlotte, and I alone in the store. We were talking about Schwoz impressions and Charlotte wasn't doing a good impression.
"No, no. To sound like him, you got to do it more from your throat like, "I am Schwoz." My dad demonstrated, doing a grudged voice like Schwoz.
"I am Schwoz." Charlotte said, but she wasn't doing it right.
"You got to put more gravel in your throat like, "I am Schwoz. Ha, ha. My sister, she look like a horse." I demonstrated, using the voice.
"I am Schwoz. Ha, ha. My sister, she look like a horse." Charlotte repeated and I shrugged.
"Ehh..."
"Eh, not everybody can do voices." My dad said.
Henry ran in with Piper's actual phone. "I got it! I got her new phone, but she's right behind me! Here, delete the video of me and Ray transforming!"
Henry handed me the phone and I looked at him. "Why didn't you just delete the video at your house?"
"I deleted it from her phone, but I don't know how to delete it from the cloud." Henry explained.
"Nobody knows how to delete things from the cloud!" My dad groaned.
"The cloud has a mind of its own." Henry exclaimed.
"Okay, just give us a sec." Charlotte said and the both of us worked on deleting the video.
"HENRY!"
"Here she comes!" My dad called. "Watch out, boy! She'll chew you up!"
"Okay, okay! I'll stall her." Henry said. "You two hide in the back until you get the video off the cloud."
"Okay." We said and we ran to the back to delete the video.
It didn't take long to delete the video and we walked out to see Piper chasing Henry around the store with a chair attached to her leg.
"Hey! Here's the phone!" I called and tossed Henry Piper's phone.
"Yeah, yeah!" Henry said. "Hi, I found this phone! Is this yours?"
Piper snatched her phone back, angrily. "Yeah, it's mine, you weirdo!" Piper groaned and marched out of the store with a chair dragging behind her as she left.
The chair got caught and she yelled. "AHHH!"
She stormed off after that.
That girl irritates the crap out of me.
"Okay, now, delete that stupid video from your phone so it can never cause another problem ever again." Charlotte ordered Henry.
"Okay, on it." Henry nodded and took out his phone.
"Wait!" We turned to my father. "We haven't even gotten a chance to watch the video yet."
"Oh yeah." Henry said. "We should at least watch it once before I delete it."
"Yeah, I want to see what we look like when we transform." My dad agreed.
"Okay." I shrug and Henry pulled up the video.
"Here."
The video played, but we didn't see my dad and Henry, we saw Charlotte. I placed my chin on Henry's shoulder and he grinned at me.
That gave me a fuzzy feeling when Henry smiled at me. What is happening?
"Wait, why are we seeing Charlotte?" I asked with confusion.
"Let's get busy yo, then watch the video." My dad's voice was heard on the video and Henry chuckled
"Oh, the rhymes." Myself groaned on the video and we could hear the popping and transformation, but only saw Charlotte.
"Charlotte, you had the front facing camera on." I tell Charlotte, who was looking away nonchalantly.
"You didn't even get us on video." My dad said
"You just video'd yourself." Henry added.
"So, there never even was a video of us transforming on Piper's phone." My dad mentioned with slight irritation.
"Yeah." Charlotte sheepishly agreed. "Well, I guess this whole thing was just one big old waste of time." She smiled, but we were unamused and she pretended to point at something. "Eeep!"
She walked off and I sighed.
I bet she did that intentionally and set Henry and Jasper on a wild goose chase just for fun.
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