sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇʀ ғʀɪᴇɴᴅs - sᴄᴏᴏᴘ ᴛʀᴏᴏᴘ (ʙᴏᴏᴋ ɴᴏ. 1)

ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɴᴏ. ғᴏᴜʀ

"This is not okay!" Dom yelled with his hands on his head.

"You think?" Alex snapped.

"Oh no!" Dom paid no attention to Alex's comment. "Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no..." He kept on repeating while pacing back and forth.

"Would you shut up and start thinking?" Erica crossed her arms.

"What she said!" Alex agreed, also crossing her arms.

Dom took his hands and slipped them from his hair down to his chin, where they fell to his sides. He let out a heavy sigh and nervously twitched his hands.

"I hate the break it to you," he started. "But it's kind of hard to think when four of your friends are litteraly trapped in a Russian base prison thing!" He raised his voice. "Do you know how stressful this is?" He said, widening his green eyes. He looked down, pinched his nose and tightly closed his eyes. He quickly shook his head.

"Oh, my God!" He threw his hands up in defeat. His brain went blank. He had no plan and no idea. Just panic.

This was way too much for him.

One moment he was with his friends, and the next, he witnessed half of them get kidnapped by evil Russians.

"You know what?" Alex spoke up. "I'm not even surprised." She frowned. "You can't even walk without tripping over your own foot and faceplanting, and yet, I'm waiting for you to come up with and idea to save our kidnapped friends."

"I thought you were going to come up with a plan, too!" Dom yelped. "Not start insulting me!"

"I'm not insulting you!" Alex argued. "I'm just making a point!"

"Well, I feel pretty insulted right now!"

"Oh, boo-hoo."

"Yeah, boo-hoo is right, because I kinda feel like crying now."

"Then go cry!"

"Oh, and while we're here, I like to say that it was your idea to come back to Family Video instead of going to save them!"

"We have to make a plan first!"

"Hello?" Erica hollered waving her arms in front of the two bickering teens. "Earth to nerds?"

Dom and Alex stopped their quarrel to look at Erica, who looked back at them with a very unamused face.

"Jeez, I thought Steve and Dustin were bad." Erica sighed.

Alex and Dom both rolled their eyes at Erica's comment.

"Listen, I know it's going to absolutely kill you two," Erica began. "But you two are going to have to work with each other." She said.

The blonde girl and brown headed boy looked at each other for a moment, and then back at the small, yet surprisingly witty girl.

"Wait!" Dom gasped. His eyebrows raise and a smile appeared on his face. "I have an idea!"

"Oh, god." Alex whispered under her breath. "What is it?" She asked.

"We dress up as Russians!" He said, very enthusiastically.

Alex stared at Dom blankly, while he stared back with a large grin, clearly proud of himself.

"You're kidding," said Alex. "Please tell me you're kidding."

"Nope!" He smiled.

Alex bowed her head and looked at her blue and pink sneakers in disappointment.

"We dress up as Russians, sneak in, get everyone, and leave!" He explained. His eyes darted back and forth from Alex to Erica, who looked at him like he was crazy.

"Okay..." His smile slowly faded as he looked down and realized how dumb the idea really was. "Not the brightest idea."

"Glad you figured that out." Alex said. "I'm going to need you to do me a favor and not come up with any more stupid ideas." She said. "Actually, don't come up with any more ideas, please."

"I will not." Dom nodded. "Do you two have any ideas?"

A grin slowly appeared on Alex's face.

"I do."