so err this is kinda like my first fic here. summary and title from "saviour" by lights. :) reviews are appreciated.
Tap tap. Tap tap.
Clack clack clack clack clack.
Beck Oliver gave a loud sigh and bent over in his plastic blue chair to pick up the pencil he'd dropped. It was just another uneventful day at Hollywood Arts, and though the daily routine was familiar and homely, it was boring.
He straightened up again and brought his iced coffee to his lips, drinking in the cool liquid. Normally, a teacher wouldn't allow food or beverages in a classroom, and Mr. Sikowitz probably wouldn't either, if he wasn't drinking something of his own. Beck looked up to see the teacher coming towards the back of the room, drinking coconut milk straight from the fruit from a red and white straw.
The class was supposed to have their attention turned towards some skit that Beck's girlfriend, Jade West, and his good friend Tori Vega were performing, and Beck usually was at least mildly interested in the plays that went on in the high school drama class. But today, he couldn't seem to get into it at all. He yawned loudly, and Jade stopped in the middle of her sentence to widen her eyes at him.
Beck raised both his eyebrows, and she grunted before turning back to Tori and delivering her line. Beck stared blankly past the actors to the wall clock and saw that it was only ten a.m., and that they'd been in the class for only thirteen minutes.
The red second hand passed up the twelve.
Fourteen minutes.
Beck rolled his eyes. He just wanted to go home, or at least get lunch and take a break from Hollywood Arts for a while. Nothing interesting ever happened here at all.
Exhaling audibly, he turned around slowly in his chair to see if Sikowitz was looking in his direction at all. He wasn't--he was sucking the coconut milk contently, slumped down in his own chair as he watched Tori and Jade with complete fascination. Beck turned around again and fished his Pear Pod from the pocket of his skinny jeans, popping an earbud into one ear. He turned the Pear Pod on and scrolled through the list of music before giving up and hitting "Shuffle." "Dakota" by A Rocket to the Moon immediately blasted into his ears, and, startled, he looked up to see if anyone else heard. If anyone did, they didn't show it. Even Jade was still absorbed in her scene.
Giving a halfhearted smile of relief, he sunk down the chair some more and scrolled the toggle wheel to the left a little so it wouldn't be so loud. He then closed his eyes and leaned his head back a bit, hopefully able to catch a quick nap without any disturbances for at least a few minutes.
It was at that moment when the classroom door decided to open.
Beck's eyes fluttered open at the noisy "creak." He groaned inwardly, trying not to make a scene, and shut his Pear Pod off. What now?
Jade and Tori stopped, Tori's mouth open in mid-sentence. The empty sucking sound of Sikowitz's straw had stopped, too, and Beck twisted around to see what was the big commotion.
In the doorway stood a dark-haired, olive-skinned girl, her face smiling awkwardly at the staring classmates. Her white-fur hobo bag was accented with tan suede straps and blue and salmon-colored beads strung on them. She donned a black three-quarter sleeve Henley over a purple lace-trim camisole, and a navy pleated skirt with black fishnet tights. She was clicking the heels of her black leather buckle-boots together nervously, almost obsessively like she was Dorothy from that one "Wizard" movie.
Beck turned around again to regard Jade's expression. Sure enough, she wasn't too happy that hers and Tori's skit was being interrupted--again. André Harris, Beck's other good friend, nudged him again, and he faced the new girl again.
Sikowitz was smiling, brushing off his worn, coffee-brown paint-stained slacks as he set his empty coconut aside as he stood. "You must be Rebecca," he said proudly.
The girl shifted from side to side, a squeaky "errrr" sort of sound emanating from the back of her throat. After a few short seconds of that, she opened her glossed lips and announced, "Actually, it's Ivory… but Rebecca! You know, I have a sister named Rebecca… but she's not really a girl… she's a guy… and his name's not really Rebecca… it's Ricardo… and he's not really my sister."
Her voice was surprisingly high, and even Sikowitz seemed thrown off by her rambling. She sheepishly brushed her dark purple side bangs to the side of her face, ducking her head as she plopped in the seat next to Robbie Shapiro and Rex Powers. Ivory threw him a small smile, tucking her skirt underneath her legs, and Robbie almost fell out of his chair.
It took a while for Beck to realize he was still staring until Jade let out a loud "ahem." Ivory's mouth pulled up a little at Beck, and Beck smiled back before turning his attention back to Jade and Tori.
Things suddenly got a little more interesting.