Welcome to this new story, everyone. I hope you enjoy it and will be able to give me suggestions for the later chapters.
Comedy
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." Basil Hagen read from his copy of Twelfth Night. As he sat in the English class of A. Nigma, he spent less time thinking about the Bard's words and more about everything he had been through. From being the new student to standing up to his long time tormentor Brad Von Chilstein to finding best friends in Lee Ping and Tina Kwee. It would seem things had changed for the better for him. Basil continued to read this long bit of dialogue of Malvolio's from act two scene five and it only caused Basil to wonder why the teacher had given him the role of Malvolio. Sure make Lee Orisno and Tina Viola, Cam Sebastian and Brandy Olivia, Holger Toby Belch and Greta Maria and make Basil the villain for section of English class. It must have been his face that disfigured face of his, why else would the teacher have chosen Basil to read for Malvolio. Basil just remembered who the other students were with named characters. Biffy as Valentine, Chaz as Curio, Steve as Antonio, Ed as Andrew Aquecheek, Zed as Fabian and Irwin as Feste.
"I will not give my part of this part for a pension of thousands to be paid from the Sophy." Basil grimaced as he listened to Zed read Fabian's lines. He had a low opinion of the skaters and that opinion was that all of them put together didn't have enough common sense to fill a teaspoon.
"I could marry this wench for this device." Basil stuck out his tongue as Holger read Toby's lines. If only he were better at English. He mispronounced the words that only from reading the lines off the page could Basil understand what was being said.
"So could I too." Basil laughed for a moment. He saw some similarities between Andrew and the water boy. Basil then started to drift in and out of consciousness. That blasted song his mother had taken him to listen too caused him to keep going in and out of a trance. It was annoying. Finally the scene ended just as Basil was half way into the trance again and was seeing… Brad's head switch places with the taxidermy ferret's head? Talk about a weird side effect of the trance… for him!
Basil shook his head and walked outside of the class as the bell rang. Basil started to walk towards the cafeteria when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned his head and saw Lee. "Hey man, you okay?" Basil nodded. "You don't seem very talkative unless you're reading today. You sure?"
"I'm sure, Lee!" Lee didn't believe Basil. He sounded like he had a sore throat and he was rubbing his eyes like he hadn't been getting any sleep. "Hey, Lee?"
"Yeah?"
"Did you see Brad's head float in the air and switch places with that stuffed ferret's?" Basil's eyes opened wide when he realized what he had said. He had said it loudly too! Tina walked over to Basil with a look of shock on her face.
"Basil, are you doing…"
"No, I'm not!" Lee raised his eyebrow.
"Then why the weird question?" Basil shook his head.
"I don't know, lack of sleep I guess." Basil didn't think he fooled Lee, Tina hopefully but not Lee. He flashed back to when he had bumped into Lee in the hall and that blasted song started playing from his phone. The song responsible for Basil constantly going in and out of a trance at random!
"Basil?" Basil looked at Tina. She was looking curious as Brad walked by. "What is the reason for you and Brad not liking each other?"
"It's complicated and long, I'll tell you both at my house sometime, if Lee can show up at my house." Basil chuckled a bit then stopped. It wasn't funny and Basil knew it. Lee's grounding wasn't funny, neither was his detention. Basil started to walk forward but quickly fell to the ground when he felt a locker door slam into his face. Basil looked up as the person the locker belonged to looked behind the door. It was Brad!
"Sorry man, completely accidental." Brad was taunting Basil. Basil knew, Lee knew, Tina knew it practically everyone knew it! Everyone had come to know the dislike the two had for each other. Some found it entertaining others found it frightening as whenever Brad taunted Basil, Basil got hurt. Basil immediately jumped to his feet and raised his fists aggressively.
"Okay, Brad, you're getting it this time!" Brad started to make over-the-top sounds that are heard in kung fu movies, along with the arms gestures since he did not know karate, kung fu or anything like that. Brad then turned around and started running. A minute passed and finally Basil chased after Brad. Lee then turned to look at Tina.
"Hey, Tina?" Tina looked at Lee. There was something they had been meaning to talk about, something specific. "About what happened with Brad at the…" Lee trailed off as he saw Basil running the way he had just come from. He was being chased by Brad… wielding a metal baseball bat! Tina turned around and saw what Lee was looking at. Both were taken aback by what Brad was doing. Even Basil was screaming something that sounded like "You're breaking the rules!" As Basil ran past both of them, with Brad chasing him, they both watched as Basil and Brad ran out into the parking lot where a week before Murder, the pet turkey vulture of Basil's former principal Bela Legendre had been struck by lightning. Both had a look of shock on their faces.
"Okay, I don't know what those rules are but Brad is going too far with that little war of theirs!" Tina stepped towards the direction Basil and Brad had gone in. "Someone has to intervene,"
"Too bad I have to get to detention." Lee walked away leaving Tina by herself. The newsgirl breathed and walked towards the parking lot. Maybe she could play peace maker.
