Against All Odds Chapter 3: I'm Too Cool 4 A Girlfriend, a victorious fanfic

Welcome for the long awaited Chapter 3!

Yes again it's been a while but I can't make any promises that I can posts new chapters since I'm now a HS freshman so yeah hopefully this can make up for lost time for now.

As Mal and his new found friends enter Sikowitz's class they are greeted by well the man himself.

"Alright welcome back class, hopefully everyone's weekends were nice. I mean mine was pretty bad trying to sell coconuts at the beach but got them thrown at me instead."

The class got a good laugh out of this as Mal thought to himself Now I guess I can see why they said he can be a weird ass teacher.

Back to the rest of the class, Sikowitz noticed something different or new I guess.

"Well what do we have here?" he said going up to Malcolm oddly.

"Uhhh hi sir?" Mal said clearly weirded out by his teacher's antics.

"So you the new kid huh? Nice to meet you uh what was your name again?"

"Malcolm or Mal sir."

"In all seriousness it is nice to have you here at Hollywood Arts Malcolm and hopefully you get to make new friends and just have fun." Sikowitz said.

"Thank You." Mal said back to him.

He then saw that Andre was next to him and decided to ask him a question.

"So from what I heard from you and your friends is that he can be not normal I guess." He whispered.

"Yep why?"

"Well you know what kind of weird shit does he do?"

"I mean the man is straight up addicted to coconuts, he looks like he's high I mean look at his hair, and he comes thru class from a window so yeah." Andre said back.

Clearly Mal was not expecting this answer and just sat back and drifted to his thoughts again.

Wow so this teacher is very… well… not normal I guess but then again Lane told me this school in general is different but this is kinda taking it to another level.

"Malcolm!" Sikowitz shouted.

Mal snapped out of his thoughts

"Uhh yes sir? Something you want me do?"

"Do you want to tell everyone why you decided to transfer here to Hollywood Arts?"

He then proceeded by basically telling everyone what happened(want to now full details see 1st chapter) from how his dad inspired him to be an NFL player, how he was an amazing athlete, got many scholarships, till it was washed by a career ending injury.

"And now here I am, pursuing something else I am passionate about, music." As Mal finished his story.

"Wow pretty sorry to hear about how everything went for you." Sikowitz said.

"It's something I you know still haven't gotten over, but you know I can't do anything about it. I guess it's just how the way life goes man."

On the other side of the room, Tori couldn't help but feel bad for her new found friend, one minute he was hyped up as a possible NFL superstar at just age 17, the next minute it was basically all gone.

She couldn't imagine or even dare to think what to do if her music career flopped she honestly didn't know what she would do in that situation.

Minutes went by and Mal was actually enjoying Sikowitz and his class.

Yes he was weird but when he has to be serious and talk about the world that everyone will enter after HA it's according to himself some deep shit.

Class was about to end in a couple of minutes as SIkowitz thought of something.

"Hey Malcolm."

"Yeah what is it?"

"You came here to pursue a career in music right?"

"That is correct."

"Well why don't you show of some of your artist skills and see how good or no offense bad you are."

Well Mal to say the least was not onboard with this idea.

"You w-want me to s-sing in front of the whole class when I just got here." Mal said.

"Yeah so you can make a fool outta yourself." Jade smirked.

"Come on Jade, he's new here take things easy." Beck said.

Everyone looked at him to see if he would take the stage as he had a nervous look on his face.

He sighed as he went onto the stage not before he saw Tori looking at him with a reassuring look. She knew he was nervous and well she can relate to him especially having to perform in front of an audience on short notice. *cough* Pilot Episode *cough* The look she gave him actually kind off calmed his nerves a bit and felt some confidence as he sat on a chair at the stage (Since you know he's still on crutches ).

Mal plugged his phone to a speaker so he can play an instrumental and was looking through some of his songs.

"Yeah I like this one guess I'll choose it" He said to himself.

He turned back to the class once again eyeballing Tori as they both stared at each other for a second before they both looked away with Tori blushing a bit.

Mal eventually took a deep breath as he was about to start.

Here goes nothing….

Nowadays I'm too cool for a girlfriend
Nowadays I don't know when the world spins
Live your life like we die when the world ends
So it's alright every time we fuckin' break a sin
Nowadays just not the same
Life switch lanes, now my friends act strange
And I lost my grip on the world in bliss
It's so, it's so

To say everyone was surprised was an understatement. Everyone even Jade of all people where kind of shocked to see how he sounded calm and not nervous. He also on the "Nowadays just not the same
Life switch lanes, now my friends act strange
And I lost my grip on the world in bliss
It's so, it's so" part was pretty good at being able to transition from rap to kinda going into an rnb to voice.

Aye, it's so lonely on the east side
I don't give a fuck, I keep it real I'm not gon' let it slide
Now she see me up, she let me f*ck
Want me to go inside?
Broski going dumb, hopped in the car, he said he down to ride
You a little pup, stop playing tough, ain't make no sacrifice
Yeah, smokin' cookie for my appetite
I don't trust nobody, people talking and be telling lies
We just wanna win and shock them all and catch 'em by surprise
I was saucin' down until we up and then we all rise, yeah
But niggas don't stick to the G-code, balling on my haters
I think that I'm stuck in beast mode
Make it through the foul run to the line and make the free throw
I think that I'm D. Rose, do 'em like I'm Deebo

Aye, but I like to fade away
I got these diamonds on me, and these bitches all in my face
And you wanna be a star, and you wanna win the race
But you cannot rock with me 'cause I was caught on the chase

Everyone was now jamming out to his rapping/singing people head bobbing, having shocked and surprised faces as they didn't expect him to be pretty damn good also to choose an explicit song was surprising to them to.

I think it's so damn strange what these people be saying
I can never even listen to a word that they say
I'm on the west side, that's the best side
By the cliff smoking blicks, that's the best high
And I got a shawty with the best eyes
Talking shit girl, why you putting up a fight?
I'm in my own world, far from the satellites
They want my information, they get no conversation
'Cause nowadays everybody calling
I need a manager 'cause I can't really fuck with nobody (I can't really fuck with nobody, so)

Tori to say the least was probably the most impressed and interested in his performance as he was really good rapper but also had an amazing voice that sorta sounded like her friend Andre. It also sounded like he was a bit pissed or irritated like maybe a past relationship didn't go well because it sort off sounded like he wants to ignore the past with his ex or something.

She obviously wouldn't ask him about it yet but damn it was only the first time they met but she already had a small crush on him (And yes this small crush will amount to a lot more probably).

Nowadays I'm too cool for a girlfriend
Nowadays I don't know when the world spins
Live your life like we die when the world ends
So it's alright every time we fuckin' break a sin

Well that's it for now! Like I said I don't know when I will put the next chapter in but I already have an idea of what it might be. Till then see ya later!

Song: Lil Skies - Nowadays ft. Landon Cube