It seemed peaceful and quiet at Cartoon Network School, even the bullies were behaving themselves for the time being, but all that changed when the students heard yelling and arguing from a familiar couple.
"What's going on this time?" Jade asked.
"Jo and Justine are fighting again." Zoey sighed.
"This is the third time this week they'd been going at it." Melissa frowned.
"Seriously! He was just saying hi to me!" Justine's voice said.
"He looked at you in a funny way!" Jo's voice replied.
"Jo, I wish you would stop being so jealous all the time," Justine glared. "Don't you think if I wasn't interested in you, I would've left by now?"
"Who says I was jealous?!" Jo replied.
"I can't even talk to my guy friends without you getting jealous!" Justine complained.
"Because they might-" Jo said.
"That is enough!" Justine glared. "They're not gonna steal me from you! For goodness sake's, Jo, you need to get a grip!"
Everyone was just looked shocked, not saying anything since they didn't want to get involved.
"Me? Get a grip?!" Jo replied. "It's you who should get a grip! If I recall correctly, when Ed's cousins first came to visit here, you were obviously crushing on that punk rock girl, Luna!"
"She was only teaching me how to play the guitar!" Justine told her.
"Then you kissed!" Jo said.
"Yeaaah... No, I didn't," Justine replied. "We were just playing together, and I showed her my old ukulele that my dad used to teach me how to play when I was a kid. You only saw what you thought you say because you're a green-eyed monster."
"I AM NOT A MONSTER!" Jo snapped.
"Yes, you are!" Justine said before trying to keep cool, but soon breathed shallowly. "Look, I think we should take a break from each other and cool down."
"We're breaking up?" Jo asked.
"No, we're just taking a break from each other." Justine said, walking away from her.
"You're basically breaking up with me?" Jo asked.
"You know what? Fine!" Justine glared before going off to the girl's bathroom. "If that's how you're gonna act, fine by me, I'm just not talking to you for a while!"
"Fine with me!" Jo replied.
Both girls walked away from each other as everyone just stood there, looking shocked.
"...Dang." Eddy commented.
"Good heavens..." Double D said.
"I have no words." Ed added.
"Aww... Poor girls..." Dee Dee pouted.
"Maybe they will make up with each other by the end of the day." June said.
"We can only hope." Mike replied.
Jo soon went off to the gym, obviously feeling in a bad mood while Justine began to cry in the girl's bathroom.
"Wow, I actually feel bad for them." Duncan said.
"Is there anything we can do for them?" Cindy asked.
"I don't know, but I'm not getting involved with either of them right now, just give it some time for later." Mike shrugged.
The others looked at each and shrugged as they left for the two girls alone.
As they walked away, Skarr was in the office, talking to Principal Wartz on the phone.
"A scavenger hunt, huh?" Skarr asked.
"Oh, yes, I was thinking about both of our schools doing a fun little activity together." Wartz said on the other line.
"Hmm... That's not a bad idea," Skarr replied. "So, how do you wanna do this?"
"Well, maybe we could pair them up, one of my students with one of yours?" Wartz suggested.
"That's a good idea." Skarr replied.
"Do you know which students yet?" Wartz asked.
"I dunno right now, but I'll call you back." Skarr replied.
"All right," Wartz said. "And don't forget to bring your poker chips tonight."
"I won't," Skarr said before hanging up. "A scavenger hunt, hmm...? Well, it would be good to have my students to interact with other schools and then those up-tight principals from The Principal Convention will worship me!" he then let out an evil laugh.
The students looked at the intercom in confusion as their principal accidentally left on the PA again.
"Oh, dang it, I did it again," Skarr said before turning off the PA. "Erm... Carry on!"
The students shrugged and continued to do their own thing.
"Now, I just have to think of who would be best qualified for this activity..." Skarr said to himself in thought. "No doubt I couldn't lose with Jo Elliot and Justine Reid..." he then leaned back in his chair which soon broke down, sending him on the floor. "Grr... NELSONS!"
Duncan and Abby had a saw in their hands, laughing by his door high-fiving each other.
"I bet George doesn't have these kinds of problems in HIS school..." Skarr grumbled to himself.
Cut to Nicktoons High where Wartz was hanging upside down with a rope tied to his ankle. "LUAN LOUD!"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Principal Wartz, but I got 'roped' into pranking ya," Luan said before laughing. "Get it?" she then said before frowning. "But seriously, I'm not gonna have detention, am I?"
"If you don't get me down from here in five minutes..." Wartz narrowed his eyes.
Luan soon came to help out her principal, but he fell flat on the floor on his head. "Ooh..." she then winced.
Wartz glared as he rubbed his head, looking up to her.
"Heh... Heh... Um... That's one way to get 'a head'... Right...?" Luan smiled nervously.
"Miss Loud, you have about five seconds to get out of my office... One!" Wartz told her.
"Gone!" Luan said as she ran off.
"That girl... I wonder about her sometimes..." Wartz shook his head. "Now, who could I get to participate in this activity?" He looked at the pictures of his students and then the picture of Skarr's students. "Hmm... She would probably be a good candidate with this young lady..." he then said, looking between pictures of Justine along with Luna.
Luna was seen going to her next class before smiling to Sam. Not Dullard or Manson, but her girlfriend, Sam Sharp. The two smiled to each other as they were on their way to class.
"Yes... This might be just fine..." Wartz said to himself as he watched Luna while she put up her bag since she was in Science Class and not in music class right now.
"Miss Loud, I hope you remembered to put up your guitar." The teacher said.
"Yes, sir, Mr. Sweeney." Luna told him.
"Luna Loud, please come into my office." Wartz announced over the PA.
"Ooh..." The students oohed from that.
"I just got here... Oh, well..." Luna shrugged before walking off to the principal's office. "I'm not tardy, Sweeney!"
"Just go see what he wants." Mr. Sweeney said as he began to write on the board.
Luna soon came into the office. "Uh, yes, Mr. Wartz?"
"Ah, yes, Miss Loud, please, sit down." Wartz told him.
"Look, if this is about me shattering the windows again, I'm sorry," Luna said to her principal. "I was only teaching my bro how to play the guitar."
"No, you're not, in fact, you're one of my students who is going to be part of the scavenger hunt with one of the students from Cartoon Network City." Wartz told her.
"Cool," Luna smiled. "So, who's my partner?"
Wartz soon handed her a picture of Justine.
"Justine Reid?" Luna asked. "Um... I dunno, man..."
"She's a nice girl... I sometimes wish she could've been a student here instead of Cartoon Network School." Wartz said.
"Well, yeah, that sounds cool and all, but... There was an issue the last time I talked to that girl." Luna explained.
"You know her well?" Wartz asked.
"Well, she IS friends with my cousin, Ed." Luna replied.
"Then what's the problem?" Wartz asked.
"I don't wanna bore ya with the teenage drama details, but a friend of hers got weird when I was alone with her," Luna said. "I wanna like that Jo kid, but she needs to get a grip and take a chill pill, it's like she can't go three minutes without yelling or threatening someone."
"Just like my mother." Wartz mumbled.
"What?" Luna asked.
"Oh, nothing; the important thing is that my students and Skarr's students get to go have fun-" Wartz began until he soon looked out the window to see that Carl and Hoodsey had stolen a heart from the Biology Lab. "Hey, you two, put that back!"
"Run, Hoodsey!" Carl cried out to his best friend.
The two soon ran off.
"FOUTLEY! BISHOP! YOU GET BACK HERE!" Wartz called out as he went to chase after the boys.
Luna soon walked off back to class as she thought about the last time she hung around Justine.
Flashback to a couple of months ago to when Ed introduced his cousins to his friends...
"Luna, this is Justine, Justine, this is Luna." Ed smiled.
"Hey, there, luv." Luna greeted Justine in her traditional British accent.
"H-Hi, there, it's nice to meet you." Justine said bashfully.
"Oh, I like your look," Luna smiled. "Especially that necklace."
"Oh, thank you," Justine smiled back. "You kinda remind me of Yumi."
"Yumi is my role model, next to Mick Swagger of course." Luna replied.
"Mick Swagger? I did a commercial shoot with him when I was 11." Justine said.
"Seriously?" Luna asked.
Justine pulled out her phone to show her the commercial for herself.
"Whoa, dude, that's pretty awesome!" Luna beamed. "I bet you felt honored."
"Yeah, pretty good for a first try." Justine smiled.
"Ever think of playing guitar?" Luna asked.
"Sometimes, but I don't know if I'd play it all the time..." Justine shrugged. "Trent does make it look like a lot of fun though."
"Well, how about if I teach you, dude?" Luna offered. "It'd be fun."
"It would be nice to try it out." Justine replied.
The two soon sat down on an old stage together.
"Mm... Nice..." Luna said. "Cartoon Cartoon Fridays looked like a lot of fun."
"I'd imagine so." Justine agreed.
"So, how long have you lived in the city?" Luna asked.
"Well, I've lived in Hawaii all my life, but I ran away from home to live here when I was 14." Justine replied.
"Why?" Luna asked. "Wouldn't your parents worry about you?"
"My dad died when I was six... From a car accident... And my mom took my twin brother away so that she could make him a model," Justine explained as a tear rolled down her face. "She didn't care about us, she just cared about the money."
"Oh... I'm so sorry..." Luna said softly. "That sounds pretty rough."
"It is... Especially if you've lost someone who was basically your best friend since the womb and people just like you for your looks and your body and nothing else!" Justine soon got angry.
Luna glanced to her. "You gonna be okay?"
"Just thinking about when my brother and I were separated." Justine sighed.
"Well, don't think about that right now," Luna said. "You should chill out with music."
"That's a good idea." Justine replied.
"It always helps me out whenever I felt sad." Luna replied.
The guitar lesson soon began, but luckily, Justine had a good idea of what she was doing since she used to play the ukulele.
"Not bad, dude, but you might wanna try not to press too hard on the strings... Like this..." Luna said as she went behind Justine and grabbed her fingers to help loosen up her grip on the strings. "There we go."
"Thanks." Justine smiled to that.
Jo was looking around for Justine, though no one seemed to know where she was, especially Cindy who was competing against Lisa to see who was smarter. "Man, how did those guys hang around this old studio all the time? Every room looks the same..." she muttered to herself. She then heard giggling coming from one spot with some guitar playing. "Huh? What was that?"
"I'd like to say I've been playing all my life... I mean, I had a guitar toy when I was a baby, but I really found myself when I was about 12 years old." Luna smiled.
"And that's when you decided to be a rock star?" Justine guessed.
"Yeah, dude, you could be my partner if you wanted to be." Luna offered.
"Oh, but I just started to learn how to play the guitar." Justine said, blushing a little bit.
Jo soon finally found Justine and saw her laughing and having fun with Luna, which made her look a bit ticked off.
"You're amazing, Luna." Justine smiled.
"Ah, I don't know about amazing." Luna smiled back.
"Well, I think so... Um... Say, do you like dancing?" Justine asked.
"Brah, I love to dance, especially at concerts!" Luna smiled.
"Wanna go to Club Paradise with me?" Justine invited.
"I'd be happy to, dude." Luna replied.
"No, you are not!" Jo's voice said.
Luna and Justine looked over.
"Jo, when did you get here?" Justine asked.
"I've been looking for you!" Jo told her.
"Sorry, I've been hanging out with Luna," Justine said. "She's been teaching me how to play the guitar."
Justine and Luna did a rock pose together then laughed.
"Okay, bye-bye, kid." Jo said, taking Justine out of the way.
"Ow! Hey!" Justine cried out as Jo pulled on her arm. "Jo, we were just having fun!"
"Stay away from her!" Jo glared at Luna.
Luna winced, squeezing her eyes shut until she stared at the floor back in school as that day haunted her for a while. "I miss you, dudette... The pain in your eyes... I want to hold you in my arms and keep you safe..." she soon began to lament. "I'm so glad that Sam understood after I told her."
Mr. Sweeney wrote on the board as Luna came back to class.
"You okay?" Sam asked Luna.
"I think so." Luna replied.
"Luna, you know you can tell me anything."
"I know, Sam."
"Is there whispering back there?" Mr. Sweeney asked.
Luna and Sam stayed quiet for right now since they were in class.
"I didn't think so." Mr. Sweeney then said while he continued to write.
At Cartoon Network School, Skarr was telling Justine the same thing.
"So, all of the students are going to participate?" Justine asked.
"Somewhat, yes, and each of you guys will be paired up with a student from Nicktoons High." Skarr nodded.
"Who's my partner?"
"Luna Loud."
"Oh... Great..." Justine said.
"You don't sound very enthusiastic." Skarr said to the shy beauty.
"Oh, I'm sorry, sir, I know you're not interested in teenager drama, but Luna is the cousin of Ed and when she came here to visit, we became friends until Jo butted in." Justine replied.
"That's understandable; it happens to a lot of teenagers, why, when I was your age-" Skarr said until he soon looked over to see Bart skateboarding in the hallway. "SIMPSON! NO SKATING IN THE HALLWAY!"
"Problem?" Bart replied.
"Yes, that's against the rules, I could expel you!" Skarr told the boy.
"Hey, is that Jennifer Aniston in a bikini?" Bart asked.
"Where?!" Skarr asked as he turned around.
Bart skated away as Skarr chased him down.
"GET BACK HERE!" Skarr demanded.
Justine sighed as she walked down the hallway.
Justine soon found herself thinking about the same thing Luna thought about. "Luna... It's been a long time since we've seen each other..." she then sighed. "I miss you."
Today indeed wasn't a normal day for Cartoon Network School as Jo and Justine separated. Jo sighed as she took a break from her exercises in the gym while thinking about what happened between her and Justine.
"Problem?" Eva asked.
"Go away, the last thing I want is to deal with you." Jo rolled her eyes.
"Cool your jets, Elliot, I've been through this before." Eva told her.
"You have?" Jo asked.
"Yeah. I've liked some guys in my day," Eva explained to Jo. "I even had a thing for your girl's brother. I let my anger get the best of me though and a lot of guys ran away from me."
"I can see why." Jo replied.
"Look, I know you and I are kinda enemies and all, but you shouldn't let your anger and jealousy get in the way, otherwise you'll be a bit of a loner like me," Eva said. "I know it might be hard, but you should find a way to control it, plus, I doubt Justine would ever cheat on ya."
"It's just that ever since Luna arrived into this city, we've been fighting." Jo said.
"Luna?" Eva asked, not knowing who that was.
"Luna Loud, she's Ed's cousin," Jo said. "She and Justine have been hanging around each other since she first came here."
"...So?" Eva replied. "What's the problem? I've seen Justine hang around other girls all the time and you've been okay with it."
"Well, Luna likes girls too since she's bisexual." Jo explained.
"...And...?" Eva asked. "What makes you think she's interested in Justine like that?"
"She's been hanging out with Justine, like going to the movies, giving her guitar lessons, I mean, she even calls her love." Jo explained.
"I think they're just friends and you're being paranoid," Eva said. "This has happened to me before."
"Oh, what do YOU know?" Jo rolled her eyes.
"Do you want help or not?" Eva glared. "I know you and I pretty much kill each other all the time, but that doesn't mean I can't help out once in a while. I'm off the clock."
"Fine... You can help out." Jo grumbled.
Eva nodded as she shook the jockette's hand.