Chapter 4: Lunch

After an hour in the heat as our energy has been spent, we were all excited to have lunch. Being a putlock, there were a variety of food brought by my classmates and I. Among them are pizza (a must), roasted chicken, a bucket of fried chicken, stir-fried noodles, spaghetti, barbecue, rice, cake, donuts, ice cream, and soft-drinks.

Naturally, hungry people would just come and grab as much food as they can. However, as majority of us our Filipinos, we naturally tend to pray first before eating. That is of course, depending on what one believes in. The after the prayer, everyone lined up, plates and plastic utensils in hand. Everyone in the line took an equal amount of food so that the person behind has the chance of getting the same food. I took one roasted chicken thigh, one pizza, and a fork full of noodles. Naturally, I don't really eat the Filipino version of spaghetti. Approaching the drinks counter, I then poured some Coca Cola on my plastic cup. My classmate behind me had this idea of mixing drinks like in a bar, basically it is bar tending. He mixed Coke with Sprite, Orange, and Mountain Dew.

"Hey, that's a great idea!" I said.

I did the same thing whilst the rest followed soon.

I then sat with my circle of friends as we ate and talked about how fun the waterfight was. A classmate of mine then provided music using her iPod shuffle connected to a speaker. The classroom was then lively, with songs player from artists like Flo Rida, Avril Lavigne, Akon, Usher, Eminem, and a lot more, mainly coming from The Disney Channel. The PS2 sat idly in the teacher's table, with its wires connected to the projector. With the disc book at its side, it would definitely be used later, but now since everyone was eating. In the same room, my classmate Steph was making a video from her Nokia phone as part of the memories made of this day.

"Hi guys." She said as she waved the camera at us.

"Hello." I said.

"It's done! It's done, it's finally summer." my friend Ted said.

"Wohoo!" Daryl screamed at the camera.

Phineas and the gang then visited our room about 15-20 minutes as we ate. We all greeted them and invited them to eat with us. It appears they were visiting all classrooms, giving summer ideas and basic do-it-yourselfs (DIYs) for having a productive summer. It ranged from inventions similar to the ones they used during the water fight just roughly an hour ago, to other innovative ideas like a homemade remote control helicopter, a bike-helicopter modification to give simple flight, glow-in-the dark bubbles (yay, summer nights here we come!), and neon-ball pits. Everyone was now excited on what to do during their summer. These ideas seemed too possible to do, even in our ages of 11-12.

"If you don't mind, can we guys have a picture with your class?" Phineas asked.

"Sure!" Our class president said.

Then we all gathered in front of the whiteboard as our background. Phineas and his gang were positioned in the center, while the rest of the batch stayed at the sides. The short guys like me stayed in the front. The picture was taken using several digital cameras and simple phone cameras.

"I'll email you the pics." The class president said. "And I'll upload it on Friendster."

Now the thing is, everyone in this classroom has a Friendster. Since I only had my first Internet last March 5th, 2008, I am a newbie to all this social networking sites. I was thinking whether or not I should make one. Should I cave in to peer pressure? I guess not for now.

"Thank you so much guys. We'll now proceed to the next classroom." Phineas said.

Meanwhile in Mountain View Resort...

Perry the Platypus arrived via helicopter backpack where he caught site of his nemesis, Dr. Doofenshirmtz, building a sort of anti-aircraft ray gun next to a giant cross on the mountain resort. The weapon specifically pointed at the view of the city below. Perry showed up right in front of him, surprising the scientist who did not expect to see his platypus enemy to be in Cebu City at the same time.

"Perry the Platypus! What are you doing here?" The bewildered evil scientist said.

Perry gave him an angry glare and pointed at the weapon, forcing Dr. Doof to explain himself.

"Oh that, it's the Cross removerinator." The scientist said.

The platypus took approach to subdue Dr. Doofenshimrtz. Suddenly, Dr. Doofenshimrtz took out a net gun and shot towards Perry. Perry was entangled in the net whilst Dr. Doofenshimrtz gave off an evil look as he explained what the fiasco was about.

"You see Perry the Platypus, these crosses in the church have caused my kites to get stuck when I was a kid. No, I don't hate Christians and Catholics, it's just that these crosses get annoy me when my kite get stuck in it. I mean, look where in the Philippines right? Look below you." The scientist pointed at the kites that lined the sky, a symbol of summer in the Philippines.

"I will actually be doing these kids a favor, they will be able to fly their kites without it getting stuck in a cross! But there is one problem...I haven't actually finished assembling this yet, can you help me out?"

Perry gave a look of "are you kidding me" since the scientist apparently forgot the platypus was caught in his net.

"Oh right right. Oh well, time to get this work done. You just stay and watch while I finish this machine, and then I will remove all the crosses, including this giant one behind me, and there will be no more kites stuck forever"

Perry struggled as he looked for a way to escape. He then began searching for things to cut the net, such as a stone, a twig, and his bare teeth. Yet, he would only do this at the right time. For now, he was forced watch as Dr. Doofenshirmtz continued assembling his invention.

Author's Notes:

P.S. Well, the part about Dr. Doofenshirmtz's invention is an excuse plot for the series since I could not think of anything and partly due to how I forgot about the details of my dream since that was roughly 10-11 years ago.

Peace out!