Author's Note: So, yeah, I just had this weird craving to write a WordGirl future-fic. So, here it is. They're all freshmen here, so roughly around fourteen and fifteen.
Disclaimer: Yeah, nothing belongs to me. Pfft.
Chapter One -
"So, I'm giving up the school newspaper." Todd 'Scoops' Ling was walking down the street with his childhood friends Becky Botsford and Violet Heaslip. "It's just too much work this year - what with the school play coming up and all, I'm going to be busy."
"You can't do that, Scoops," his friend Becky said, exasperated. "We've called you Scoops for, like, five or six years now. You can't just give that up. The newspaper has always been your life." And it was also the reason that Becky had become so attached to Scoops - she was secretly WordGirl, and as a word lover, of course she would become so fond of a news reporter. But if he gave that up…
"Yeah, but since that brick wall part in Romeo and Juliette fifth grade year, I've really been going places." After Scoops' ad-hoc "Brick Wall" adaptation of Romeo and Juliette when they were all ten, he had been scoped out by various community theatres and beckoned to more school plays. In all the confusion and excitement, Scoops found less and less time to do something else he loved to do: Write.
"I think it's a good idea," Violet said, quietly. "If you don't find enough time to do something…you know…that you don't like as much as something else…you should give it up for the thing that you really…love."
"But Scoops loves reporting, not acting!" Becky said, sharply.
"I love both," Scoops cut in, before Violet could say something back. "And if I don't say so myself, I'm pretty darn good at both, too."
The girls exchanged glances with each other, then burst out in a fit of giggles. Scoops had been incredibly cocky for years.
Scoops didn't even blink an eye at the girls' reaction as he continued walking.
"So I have decided to ditch this camera!" Scoops held up the camera he always wore around his neck. "Rather cumbersome, anyway." He threw it down to the side of the road.
"Hey! What are you doing? That's a perfectly good camera, Scoops!" Becky crouched down to examine it - what remained of it, that is.
"I ditched the camera," Scoops said, continuing to walk, not noticing that Becky and Violet had stopped to peer at the dismembered camera. "Get it? Ditched? I threw it into a ditch? Good, right?" In spite of himself, he laughed. It was a good joke.
Becky sighed and picked up the pieces of camera lying on the ground. Maybe she could get her pet monkey Bob to repair it. He was usually good with this type of stuff.