Lights, Camera, Action
Social Studies was a fun class for our misfit heroes, and Mr. Beshinski made it twice as fun for everyone since he was not one of those boring teachers that yelled at you, Morgan and Zarbon sat right next to each other.
"Ok class we're going to skip World War 2 and go straight to the Cold War. We're going to watch a video about how the Cold War started." Mr. Beshinski then popped the tape in the video player.
"What is the Cold War? Why did it start? Does it have anything to do with temperature?" The video announcer asked.
"Oh god what a bad joke," Zarbon thought.
"Here we are in Berlin, after the war with Germany. At the conference, we see Harry S Truman, Josef Stalin, and Winston Churchill talking about the fate of Germany. As we can tell, Stalin and Truman despise each other. They both have a different opinion about how the government should be run. Many believed that the different opinions started the Cold War." The announcer said.
"This is so boring; I already learned this in military school." Zarbon said.
"Wow isn't Stalin just sexy in that white suit of his?" Morgan asked she was head over heels in love, err more like lust with Stalin, what could maybe be seen as a crush no different than a crush a girl would have on a more handsome fellow, who probably would have been a pop star, was a double sword in the chest to Zarbon.
"Oh Morgan what am I going to do with you?" Zarbon asked sighing and shaking his head.
After at least an hour, Mr. Beshinski turned the video off.
"Now class I'm going to pair you all into fives, you'll all do an event that happened in history having to do with the Cold War. Go home and video tape the event, it can be comedy or drama, I don't care. Ok Morgan will be in a group with Zarbon, Jada Banks and Yulta Monlavic and Olga Monlavic." Mr. Beshinski said.
At Morgan's house, she put on a fake mustache, "Ouch! Why did he have to have a mustache?" Morgan asked getting flustered.
"Come on Morgan we don't have all day," Zarbon said.
"Ok fine I'm coming!" Morgan said sitting down.
She looked over at Zarbon, "Why aren't you in costume Zarbon?" Morgan asked.
"Are you kidding I can't play a white man, besides I'm supposed to look good and nobody said I had to be a great actor," Zarbon said.
"Ok is everybody ready?" Olga asked, everyone nodded their heads yes, "And action!" she yelled.
Olga got in front of the camera, while Jada held the camera, "This is how the Cold War started between Russia and the United States. Oh Jada I'm up here not down there!" Olga said getting mad.
"Oh I'm sorry I couldn't help but notice that you have nice jugs!" Jada said.
Olga rolled her eyes, "Anyways we continue let's go to Berlin where this all happened…"
Olga then looked at Jada again, "Jada sit down now!" she yelled.
Jada then dropped the camera; "I'm going!" he then sat down.
Later on after they taped a reenactment of the Potsdam meeting between Stalin, Churchill and Truman, no need to go through the major details of this being taped, it was time to turn the video off for good. Thank God the nightmare was over!
It's not like they took this project very seriously either, Morgan didn't try to sound or look too much like a man, and she just put on a fake mustache is all. Zarbon never got into character as Churchill on purpose, and neither did Yulta as the interpreter for the Soviets and English speakers, nor Jada as Truman.
"That is how the Cold War began!" Olga said then putting a sign up in front of the camera, "The End!" Olga yelled.
Then Jada turned the video off. "So did I do good Olga?" Jada asked winking at her.
"You make a fine Truman," Olga said since Jada was like the only good actor out of all three of them.
"So was I really into character?" Morgan asked.
"You sure were you'd make a fine actress." Olga said lying.
"That means I sucked doesn't it?" Morgan asked.
"I think you are way too girly and way too nice to be another Stalin," Olga said.
Morgan however could tell that Olga was lying to her to make her feel good, "Jada don't forget to edit the video ok?" Morgan said.
"Ok Morgan, I'll be right on it." Jada said.
In class a week later, everyone was watching the presentations on video, in all honesty Zarbon and friends did terrible even when they took so many takes, also they had no idea what was to come when the video premiered to the entire class.
"Ok now it's Morgan's group's turn," Mr. Beshinski said.
"Ok, this is it guys," Morgan said. She got up; put the video in the tape player and the tape started playing.
It showed Olga, but it showed her wrack instead of her pretty face, Olga's voice on the screen said, "This is how the Cold War started between Russia and the United States. Oh Jada I'm up here not down there!"
Sadly, Jada forgot to edit the beginning! "Oh I'm sorry I couldn't help but notice that you have nice jugs!" Jada said on the tape.
"Jada! You forgot to edit the tape!" Morgan yelled furious.
"Only the first half I swear I edited the second half!" Jada yelled.
"Oh no I'm the laughing stock of the entire class!" Olga said as people were laughing hard at the tape, and Olga started to cry.
"Jada I hate you!" she yelled pissed off at him.
Jada turned red, "I think I have malaria!" Jada yelled running out of the room into the boy's bathroom down the hall.
"Ok let's continue to watch the video. Zarbon go find Jada for me will you?" Mr. Beshinski asked.
"Oh I wanted to watch our video, oh well its stupid anyways," Zarbon then got up and went to look for Jada.
Zarbon used his primal changeling intuition to find Jada, he then smelled Jada's scent and went into the boy's restroom, and he then saw Jada crying under the hand dryer, "Hi Jada, what's wrong?" Zarbon asked compassionately.
"Olga hates me!" Jada yelled.
"No she doesn't she's just mad at you is all, besides you two are just friends anyways."
Zarbon's eyes then grew wide yup he had seen this behavior before, in himself before he officially started dating Morgan. "Oh so it's that way hum?" Zarbon asked.
"You don't understand I love her a lot! Those beautiful green eyes of hers and that beautiful, long dark brown hair, I want see it in the light at least once in my lifetime. I forgot to edit the first half of the tape, because I was so busy watching the first half of the tape about twelve times this weekend that I forgot to think to edit it and…" Zarbon then interrupted Jada.
"I knew you loved Olga, I just knew it! Calm down, have you told her how you felt about her?" Zarbon asked.
"I've given her hints, but she never seems to get them!" Jada yelled in tears.
"That's the thing about women, they're so naïve. They aren't mind readers, how is she going to know for sure if you don't tell her?" Zarbon asked.
"Well you and Morgan formed a telepathic connection and somehow you two went months without telling each other how you felt about the other." Jada said.
"Look at how long I had to wait until I got to know Morgan well enough before officially asking her to go out with me. It took me a few months to get to know her properly, had I ended up with her from the very day that we first met, we could have been a disaster." Zarbon said.
"But I thought you asked her to marry you and have your children soon after you met her. Then she rejected you even back then, so why did you decide that after she told you no, that you would still pursue her even after she told you no the first time around?" Jada asked.
"First of all, I was desperate and when I saw how beautiful she was, I thought she would make a good wife for me. Second, her mother had to tell me to slow things down, and even though we both sent each other many obvious hits that we wanted to ask each other out, we were both too afraid to, because we had only known each other for a few months." Zarbon said.
"So you are saying that I have to be friends with her first? I don't know if you noticed, but we are friends and it's been a few months already." Jada said.
"Ok I say now is the time to ask her out, just remember though, if she says no then don't push your luck, find someone else that will like you for you. Look the point is that a relationship can only work if both of you are attracted to one another. It's not one sided, and with Morgan and I it was never one-sided, we just were too shy to ask each other out is all, it took months, but it happened." Zarbon said.
"This used to be so easy, I used to be able to walk up to girls and ask them to hang out with me, but this is different, she's so difficult to ask out." Jada said.
It did not help that Zarbon was being rather vague with Jada. On the one hand, Zarbon said that Morgan rejected his advances the first time they met and yet she said yes after months of waiting it out. On the other hand, he told Jada that if Olga said no, then it meant that he needed to give up. What the hell was up with that?
Perhaps Zarbon was secretly in love with Olga and planning to dump Morgan for her, so his front was that he would discourage Jada from asking her out more than once? Wait, no that's not right, Zarbon never showed any interest in Olga as being more than friends; Jada would have picked up on this by now.
Zarbon was no expert on women himself, did not have enough experience with women to get an idea of how they worked. Also remember that when Zarbon told Jada a while back that he was interested in Morgan, Jada told Zarbon to wait it out to see if she expressed similar interest in him. Sure enough, it was worth the wait. So does this mean that Jada should wait longer, or ask Olga out?
"Let's go back to class," Zarbon said.
"They'll laugh at me," Jada said.
"Who cares," Zarbon said.
They went back to class, "Wow Jada that video was good, it's so funny," Melissa said snickering.
"Thank you," Jada said.
"Oh my God Jada likes Olga!" Michael Pickens yelled laughing.
"Can it Pickens!" Morgan yelled.
"No you can it Stalin's bitch!" Michael Pickens said.
"Ok that's enough, we won't make fun of anyone in this classroom," Mr. Beshinski said.
The bell then rang, "Ok class dismissed!" Mr. Beshinski said.
Morgan and Olga walked in the hallway together with Zarbon; Olga was still mad at Jada and wanted to die right there and then, "That Jada Banks is such a screw up!" Olga yelled furious.
"Olga calm down, he just forgot is all," Morgan said.
"Oh and he's so handsome with those Vietnamese shaped blue eyes, yet very stupid!" Olga said angrily.
"Yes he is pretty handsome; he's not as stupid as you think he is he's just a boy in love is all." Zarbon said.
"In love with whom?" Morgan asked.
"With…Ashley Garner," Zarbon said lying.
"Well I don't know what he sees in that bitch?" Morgan asked.
"He likes her hair and wishes he could see it in the light more often, it's too bad that she's on steroids," Zarbon said.
"He likes her short haircut, which makes her look like a man? I'd say she has a nice mustache, like the East Berlin woman of the Olympics." Morgan said laughing.
"What was that Macskavsky?"
It was Ashley Garner, she was about 5'7 feet tall compared to the only 5'2 feet tall Morgan. She also had a deep voice for a woman and had the appearance of Jullian Michaels, better known as one of the trainers on "The Biggest Loser". That show wouldn't appear until the fall.
"I'm sorry I didn't mean too, we were discussing how Jada likes you," Morgan said.
"Jada likes me? Oh, he's so handsome and sweet with his short hair and his blue eyes. Does he talk about me a lot?" Ashley asked flattered.
"No he doesn't a whole lot, we just know this. Well good luck with getting a date with him!" Morgan said as she, Zarbon and Olga walked away from Ashley.
"Jada likes Ashley seriously?" Olga asked.
"I don't know I just heard a rumor is all," Zarbon said.
"I'm going to my next class," Olga said walking faster away from them.
"Morgan I lied, Jada doesn't like Ashley at all, he likes Olga," Zarbon said.
"Oh my gosh, he likes Olga? I knew it! He was always looking at her funny," Morgan said.
Jada and Yulta talked in the locker room after gym class. Yulta was much better at sports than Jada, Jada freaked out when they had to play dodge ball, the only thing that did not make a lick of sense was that they were not allowed to beat people but, but they were somehow allowed to throw balls at people really hard.
However, that was not what Jada and Yulta were talking about; they were in fact talking about movies that sucked really badly.
"Did you see that movie Crossroads with Britney Spears?" Yulta asked.
"No why?" Jada asked.
"Don't it's the most God-awful movie I've ever seen in my life." Yulta said taking his gym shirt off.
"I've seen Gigli it's probably ten times worse," Jada said.
"Yulta I have to tell you something and you have to be ok with it, I'm in love with your sister, and I'm not just trying to have sex with her either," Jada said.
"How do I know that you have her best interest at heart?" Yulta asked raising an eyebrow.
"Will you relax I just care about her feelings," Jada said.
"Yah that's what every man says then he sneaks up behind you and is talking to his friends about his conquest with a beautiful woman." Yulta said.
"I'm not interested in sex ok? I just want her to marry me, and maybe raise a few big Newfoundland dogs with me," Jada said.
"Aren't you a bit young to get married, you need to chill it. Oh well if you're in love then I suppose it's all right with me, although it's not me you need to convince it's my mom, she's very protective of Olga almost as much as my dad is," Yulta said.
"Yes I…" Yulta then interrupted Jada.
"However if you break my sister's heart, I'll break your neck you got it!" Yulta said.
"I swear I don't want to sleep with anyone else!" Jada said.
"Welcome to the family," Yulta then shook Jada's hand and hugged him.
As far as he was concerned Jada was a nice boy who just made some mistakes like everyone else on the earth. It did not matter to him if Jada was a Christian, as long as he made his twin sister who was about twelve minuets older than he was, happy.
Olga was at her locker later on and Morgan and Zarbon stood by her side like the good friends that they were, "Oh jezz this has been one rough day," Olga said sighing.
"Don't worry you'll feel much better when you get home and do your homework." Morgan said.
"How could anyone feel better about doing homework?" Olga asked.
"I love homework, it kills time really quick." Zarbon said.
Jada then walked up to them, "Hello guys, hello Olga. You look nice today." Jada said smiling.
"Don't talk to me you idiot!" Olga said still angry with Jada.
"Look Olga I'm so sorry I just got really sleepy is all," Jada said.
Zarbon then whispered to Morgan, "That's not what he told me," he then smiled.
Then Michael Pickens had to show up, "Hello Olga, are these losers bugging you?" Michael asked.
"Michael these losers are my friends, besides losers are subjective, who might be losers to you, might be winners to me." Olga said.
"Wouldn't you rather go out with a sexy guy like me?" Michael asked.
"I'm Jewish I can't just date any Christian that I want to," Olga said although in truth that did not matter to her as much as it did to her mother.
"Do you want to hear this Holocaust joke that my twin brother told me?" Michael asked.
"Let me think about that. Uh…no!" Olga said.
"I thought that since you are a Jew that you would find it funnier than a non-Jew." Michael said.
"You are brainless, now leave me alone before I spit in your eyes." Olga said.
"Come on you know you want to," Michael said to Olga getting too close to her.
"Back off Pickens, she said no ok?" Morgan said.
"I wasn't talking to you Morgan! Go read your Stalin books." Michael said.
Zarbon was pissed off; he felt it was his duty to protect Morgan since he loved her so much, "Now that was uncalled for! You apologize right now to the love of my life!" He yelled in Pickens face.
"What are you going to do about it you spineless alien?" Michael asked sneering at Zarbon.
"Oh Zarbon isn't spineless at all, he's very brave and way smarter than you." Morgan said.
"Shut up you're getting on my last nerves!" Zarbon said walking up to Michael and looking him straight in the eye.
Although deep down inside Zarbon scared the living daylights out of Michael, not just because he was an alien, but also because he was taller than he was and he was muscular and considered a big man.
"I'll just come back later," Michael said walking away.
"You're my hero!" Olga said hugging Zarbon.
Jada then looked at her and walked away in tears. "What's the matter with Jada?" Olga asked.
"He's just really sensitive is all, to the light," Zarbon lied to make Olga feel more comfortable around Jada than she already felt that day.
Later on Olga was reading a medical book outside during lunch time since she wanted to be a doctor someday she took Jada's advice and started reading medical books, that her uncle Sherman lent to her. It was a warm winter's day, yes I said warm winter's day, I was not kidding. Sometimes days of winter in Indiana tended to be warm since Indiana weather had the tendency to be bipolar.
Michael then came up to her, "So what do you say Olga, a date with me on Friday at the movies?" Michael asked.
"I can't I have a study date with someone all ready," Olga lied.
Michael then grabbed her wrist, "Come on baby you know you want me, you might be a Jew, but you can always convert to Christianity in case we get married someday." he said.
Who the hell knows if Michael seriously wanted to marry Olga, he could have just been telling her that so he could have sex with her. Hell Jada claimed he wanted to marry her, but we don't know just how serious even he was being. These three were teenagers, who said that most people find who they are supposed to be married to later in life, in high school and know about it ahead of time?
"Marriage, you're crazy, I would never ever marry someone as big of a jerk as you!" Olga said.
"You just made a huge error in judgement!" Michael said tightening his grip around her wrists.
"Let go of me!" Olga yelled.
Jada saw what was happening since he was crying close by. He then knew what he had to do to win Olga's trust back, he stopped crying, put on a brave face and he walked up to Pickens.
"She said she's not interested! Now back off!" Then Jada did something unexpected, he took Pickens's hand off Olga's wrist and twisted it back.
"Ouch! You just crossed the line buddy; meet me at the park at 4:00 sharp!" Pickens said.
"You got it asshole!" Jada said.
"Outside, be there or be square!" Pickens said running off like a chicken shit.
Morgan then walked up to Jada and Olga, "Jada do you realized that you just challenged Pickens to a fight?" Morgan said.
Later on at 4:00, Michael's friends and our heroes stood in the park. It was still an unusually warm winter's day; the sun was out even though it was a little bit cloudy. Jada and Michael were in the middle of the circle about to fight.
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Everyone yelled.
"When this is all over and I come out as the victor, Olga will be mine! What makes you think that she'd go out with a loser like you?" Michael asked.
"I have good looks and intelligence, unlike you! Oh and I don't make disgusting Holocaust jokes either, who would want to date a guy who makes terrible racist jokes?" Jada asked.
"Well I have muscles!" Michael said taking his shirt off and showing his muscles.
"Oh no he's hot!" Jada cried.
Michael grabbed Jada, threw him onto the ground and started beating him up.
"Come on Jada kick his ass!" Morgan yelled.
"I'm trying to!" Jada yelled.
"Remember the karate I thought you those months ago! Just whack him in the jaw and run as fast as you can!" Zarbon yelled.
Jada grabbed Michael's wrist and twisted it again, punched his nose and kicked him off him and started beating him up. Who knows what it was, it was probably the fact that Jada was under so much anxiety and pressure that his adrenaline ran through the roof and made him ten times stronger than usual.
Olga came by to see what was happening, "Stop fighting, it doesn't solve a thing!" she yelled.
"I'm doing it for you Olga! I want to make sure that this loser doesn't bother you ever again!" Jada said punching Michael in the jaw.
"What are you trying to say?" Olga asked.
"I like you a lot Olga!" Jada then jumped onto Michael's spine about to jump onto it multiple times.
"Ok that's enough Jada." Morgan said taking Jada off Michael.
Then Morgan kicked Michael in the tailbone, "That was for making fun of the fact that I like Stalin…Pickens!" Morgan said.
"You really like me, but I thought that you liked Ashley Garner." Olga said crossing her arms with embarrassment.
"No she's ugly and she looks like a man and sounds like one too." Jada said.
"Zarbon, why did you lie to me?" Olga asked looking over at Zarbon.
"I'm sorry, but when I tried to read your mind, you were sending mixed messages about whether or not you liked Jada as being more than a friend. One moment you thought you did, the next moment you were pissed off at him." Zarbon said looking the other way feeling ashamed.
"I'm so sorry that I was mad at you. You're so sweet!" Olga then grabbed the two inches shorter Jada and kissed him on the lips.
Jada blushed, "Do you like me more than a friend? I thought you liked Zarbon!" Jada said.
"No I don't like Zarbon like that; I was just thanking him for scaring Pickens off. Of course, I like you, I just never told anyone. I love your blond hair and blues eyes and your personality, you're better than any Jewish boy I've ever dated!" Olga said.
"Oh Olga!" Jada then picked her up, held her in his arms, and carried her away from the crowd.
"Oh that is so romantic," Morgan said sighing with a huge grin on her face.
"I say we dump Pickens in the trash bin!" Yulta yelled about to hurt Pickens.
"No let's let him lay there and think about what he did. Let's go get some ice cream." Morgan said.
Zarbon then got touchy, "No I don't feel satisfied with my vengeance Morgan!" he said.
Zarbon tied Michael to a tree.
"Where is Jada I'll kick his ass!" Michael asked.
"You already tired doing that! Don't you ever try to come near Olga, Jada or my girlfriend and I ever again!" Zarbon yelled.
"Now let's go get ice cream!" Morgan said.
"Yes let's Morgan," Zarbon said taking Morgan by the hand, kissing it and walking off with her and Yulta following behind.
"Come on guys have a heart! Untie me at once! I need to go to the bathroom! I'll be your friend!" Pickens said hopelessly tied to that tree. Hours later his brother found him tied to the tree and untied him.
End of story
