Space Pirates 3: Russel's Revenge by Amber Riel (sad books to read .txt) 📕

          “Did he just say he was raised by chickens?” Zack asked.

          “Yea,” Austin answered.  “A rule that we have around here is don’t listen to him.”

          “Okay.”

          Zelda and Ben where out on the deck of the White Rose.  Zelda sat on the ground, playing with Max.  Ben was standing there, watching Zelda and Max.

          “Where did you find him?” Zelda asked.

          “He was hanging out with the rats in the wine cellar.”

          Zelda smiled at Max.  “Is that right?”  She looked up at Ben.  “I really have to tell you something.  Sit down.”

          Ben smiled.  “Ok-ay.”  He sat down next to Zelda on the wood floor of the deck.  “What do you have to tell me?”

          “I’m….”

          Olivia walked over to them.  “Zelda, Ben, me and John wanted to know if you two wanted to hang out with us tonight.  Like a double date and that way we can come up with a way to stop the bounty hunters.  Oh yea.  John’s cooking the diner and I’m making the dessert.”

          “Do you want to go?” Zelda asked Ben.

          “Yea.  It sounds like fun.”

          “Yea,” Zelda told Olivia.  “We’ll be there.”

          “Okay.”  Olivia walked away.

          “SEE YA, OLIVIA!” Zelda called to her.

          “I’m glad to see that you two are getting along.”  Ben wrapped his arm around her.  “So what were you going to tell me?”

          “I just forgot.”  Zelda didn’t forget, but Olivia had ruined the moment and now she was going to have to wait longer.

          John and Olivia were in the kitchen.  John was cooking a big, juicy turkey, and corn casserole which was in the oven.  The turkey was already done; he was just adding the finishing touches.

          Olivia was waiting for the oven to place the chocolate cake mix in it.  “Everything looks really good, John.”

          “Would you like to try a piece?”

          “Sure.”

          John cut off a little piece of the juicy turkey and blew on it.  He let Olivia try the piece.

          When she took the bite, her eyes grew with delight; she loved the taste of the turkey.  Words couldn’t describe how good the turkey had tasted.  “This is sooooo good.  I never knew that you could cook.”

          “Ben taught me when I was younger.”

          “Wow.  Ben will be proud.”

          “Yep.”

          The oven started beeping to let them know that the corn casserole was ready to devour.

          John placed the cooking gloves on as he moved toward the oven.  “The corn casserole is done.”  He took the casserole out of the piping hot oven.

          Olivia thought the turkey looked good, but her mouth dropped, when she laid eyes on the golden hot casserole.  It looked just as amazing.

          John sat the casserole on top of the oven.  “You can put the cake mix in now.”

          “Okay.”

          After John had moved away from the oven, Olivia moved over to it and placed the cake in side, careful not the touch the hot walls or racks in it.

          “What are we going to do, while we’re waiting on the cake?” Olivia asked.

          “Well, we can set the table.”

          “Yea.  Actually, Ryan’s setting the table.”

          John was surprised to hear that.  “Why?”

          “He thinks that Zelda will fall for him, if he sets the table.”

          John kind of laughed.  “Zelda loves Ben.  That’s why she married him.  She’s not going to leave Ben for Ryan because Ryan set the table.”

          “I told him that, but he doesn’t believe me.  Not only that, he is an idiot.”

          “Good point.”

          “Should one of us go get Zelda and Ben?”

          “Yea.”  John kissed Olivia’s cheek.  “I’ll go get them.”

          “Okay.”

          John left as Ryan walked in.

          “Everything’s ready, captain,” Ryan told her.

          “Okay.”

          “Do you think that I have a chance with Zelda?” he asked.

          Olivia looked at Ryan.  She couldn’t believe that he would ask that question, after all, he was at the wedding.  She felt kind of bad for Ryan.  “She’s married now, to Ben.”

          “So.”  He ignored what she had just said.  “What do you think?”

          She gave him a funny look.  She tried not to laugh.  “Didn’t you hear what I just said?  She’s married, to Ben.”

          John was on the White Rose.  He was walking around, looking for Zelda and Ben.  He ran into Jeremy.  “Hey, Jeremy, do you know where Zelda and Ben are?” he asked.

          “They’re married now, where do you think?” Jeremy asked, rudely.

          “In their room?”

          Jeremy glared at him.

          “I’ll take that as a yes.  Jeremy, do you hate my brother?”

          “I despise your brother.”

          “Why?”

          “Why?  Because he took the girl of my dreams.”

          “Oh.”  John pretended to laugh.  Jeremy was kind of worrying him.  “Well, I’m going to go ahead and walk away.”  He left.

          When he arrived at the office, he knocked on the door.

          “COME IN!” John heard Zelda call from inside.

          He walked into the room and Max walked over to him and started sniffing.  “Hey, Max.”  John patted Max’s furry grey head and looked up at Zelda and Ben.  The both of them were sitting on the bed.  “Dinner’s ready.”

          “Alright.”  Ben stood up and grabbed Zelda’s hand.  “Ready, love?”

          Zelda smiled as Ben pulled her to her feet.  “Of course.”

          “Then let’s go.”

          They left.

          Ben, Zelda, and John walked into the dining room on the Black Velvet.  Ben smelled the food from the kitchen, the smell filled the air, and it reminded him how hungry he was.  “Something smells really good.”

          “I’m going to go tell Olivia that you’re here.”

          “Okay.”

          John walked into the kitchen as Ryan walked out.  Ryan noticed Zelda and walked over to her.  He had his chance to impress her.  “Oh, Zelda.  I set the table.  Do you like it?”

          Zelda looked at the table then to Ryan.  She smiled.  “It looks nice.”

          “I did it for you.”

          Zelda was confused and she lost her smile.  She knew he liked her but didn’t understand why he would set the table for her.  “Ok-ay.”

          Ryan left the room.

          Ben couldn’t help but burst out into laughter.  “He likes you.”

          Zelda smiled again.  “You’re not jealous?”

          “No.  He’s harmless.  I don’t have to worry about him.  He’s not like Jeremy.”  Ben knew that Ryan wouldn’t try to do anything so he didn’t have to worry.  He had to worry about Jeremy because he that Jeremy would try to do something no matter what.

          John walked out of the kitchen with the turkey.  Olivia followed him, holding a smaller plate.

          Zelda couldn’t take her eyes off of the food.  Her mouth watered just looking at the golden brown turkey.  “That looks really good.”

          John set the turkey down in the middle of the table.  “You two can sit down,” he told Zelda and Ben.

          Ben pulled a chair out from under the table and offered it to Zelda, then he sat in the chair next to her.  Olivia set the small plate on the, which had the corn casserole.  Then her and John sat down.

          “Now, let’ eat,” Olivia said.

          Ben took a bite of the turkey.  He was impressed by how amazing the turkey was.  “This is the best turkey that I’ve ever had.”

          Zelda had a taste of her turkey and she was in love.  “This is really good, John.”

          “Why thank you.”

          When everyone was done eating, Olivia went to get the cake.  “Who’s ready for dessert?” she asked.

          Now, Zelda was really in love, when she laid eyes on the frosted chocolate goodiness, which Olivia set in front of her.  “Ooo, cake.”

          They all took a piece of the cake.  Zelda, Ben, and John all took a bite.

          Zelda faked a smiled.  She didn’t want to hurt Olivia’s feelings.  “This is really good cake, Olivia.”

          “You guys really like it?”

          “Yea,” John agreed, “yea.”

          “It’s different,” Ben admitted.

          Olivia smiled.  “That’s good.  I’ll be right back, I have to do something.”

          “Okay,” Zelda said.

          After Olivia left, all three of them spit the cake out.

          Zelda was disappointed by the taste of the cake.  “That was the worst cake ever.”

          “What are we going to do?” John asked.  “We can’t tell her that we don’t like it, because we told her that we did.”

          “I don’t know,” Ben answered.

          Zelda noticed Donny lying down.  An idea popped into her head.  “Come here, Donny.”

          Ben and John watched to see what she was doing.  Donny stood up and walked over to her.

          “Good boy.  Now, eat that.”

          Donny took a bite of the cake then spit it out.  He didn’t like the taste either.  He walked back over to where he was before and laid back down.

          Zelda looked at John and Ben.  “Now, that’s sad.  Not even the animal will eat it.”

          “Not good.”

          “What are we going to do now?” John asked.

          “We need to hide it before she comes back,” Ben said.

          “Okay.  Where?” Zelda asked.

          Ben looked around.  “I have an idea.”  He took John’s, Zelda’s, and his plates then left the room.  When he walked back into the room, the plates were empty.

          “Where’d the cake go?” John asked.

          Ben set the plates on the table.  “I dumped it over board.”

          Olivia walked into the room.  She was glad to see the empty plates.  “Would you guys like some more cake?”

          “That was good cake,” Zelda lied, “Olivia, and we would love to have more, but we’re foul.  Right, guys?”

          “Yea,” Ben agreed.  “If I wasn’t foul, I’d have more.”

          “Thanks, Olivia.”  John faked a smile.

          “Okay.”  She didn’t know that they hated the cake.  They didn’t plan on telling her either.  

          Zelda and Ben were heading back toward the White Rose.  Olivia and John held a conversation with them before they left.

          “Thanks for coming,” Olivia said.

          “No,” Zelda replied.  “Thanks for inviting us.”

          “Let’s go back to the ship.”  Ben held up his arm to let Zelda go first.

          Zelda headed onto the bridge.  She stopped and turned to face the other two pirates.  “You two can come and hang out with us.”

          “Okay,” Olivia agreed.

          They all crossed the bridge to get from the Black Velvet to the White Rose.

          Ben helped Zelda down from the bridge and John helped Olivia down as well.

          “John,” Zelda asked, “can I talk to you