"Hey, guys! Getting punished for your ghost alarm thing, huh?" Sarah asked approaching them. Serena followed after with headphones in her ears, not really listening to their conversation.
"Guys, can I ask you a question?" Benny asked, "Do girls have like way more earwax than guys? Is it a puberty thing?"
"Do guys have fewer brain cells or is it just a Benny thing?" Sarah resorted before walking off.
Removing her headset, Serena greeted obliviously, "Oh hey guys. Never thought you'd be the type of people who did outdoor work."
Pulling out another weed, Ethan told her, "Actually this is our punishment for setting a ghost alarm in the P.A"
"Wait," She began, glaring at the two boys, "That was you!"
Benny shrugged and asked her, "What's the big deal? All it did was break the principals window."
Pulling out her phone, Serena showed them the cracked screen and exclaimed, "That's not all it shattered. That blast managed to crack my phone's screen during my call with Jackson."
"Still don't see the problem." Benny said, making Serena groan in annoyance and stomp away.
Ethan gave Benny a look in which Benny only shrugged his shoulders and asked innocently, "What?"
"And that is why I'm no longer welcome at the bowling alley." Benny joked, leaning against the wall just as Serena turned the corner, "You know, I think you're really interesting. Do you want to talk about yourself for a bit?"
When the girl didn't respond, Benny waved his hand in front of her before she walked away like she never saw him. Approaching the boy, Serena said surprising him, "Saw that."
"What kind of girl can resist both my bowling anecdote and talking about herself? Strange." Benny asked her as they began walking down the hallway.
She shrugged, "Girls are confusing. I've given up trying to understand them."
They both looked at each other softly before hearing a familiar voice shrieking in the halls. Turning their heads over to the source, Serena rolled her eyes and said, "Speaking of strange-Hey, Rory, what's up?"
Rory smiled and pointed down at his shirt, "Erica and I totally like the same band."
"Single Tear?" She read, "Aren't all those songs about how hard it is to be them?"
"Yeah, they totally speak to me. They're rich and famous. I'm a vampire. Nobody gets us."
Raising an eyebrow, Benny stated, "Nobody's ever got you. I don't think liking the same band is gonna make much of a difference."
"Ah, maybe not right away, but like Single Tear says: There's no time like the future." Raising his earphones up to his ears, Rory began nodding his head rhythmically to the music blasting unaware of the roots trying to seep into his ears. In less than a second, Serena pulled the earphones away from his ears wide eyed.
"Do you know what's going on here?" She asked them, looking down at the headset.
Benny thought for a moment before answering, "Yeah, the music industry is finally fighting back at illegal downloads."
Holding back an eye roll, Serena said, "No, but this is messed up."
"Yeah, messed up with 4 gigs of clutch tunes. Can I have it back?"
"Can you first tell us the last place you plugged it in."
"My parents won't let me download at home." Rory informed them as the three arrived at the computer lab, "They think the internet is a bad influence."
Raising an eyebrow at him, Benny asked, "You're already a soulless undead creature of the night. How much worse can you get?"
Turning around to face them, he said, "Dude, if my mom knew I was a vampire I'd be grounded for, like, a month." Returning back to his previous activities, he told them smirking, "I've got 80% of my future love life downloaded. By tomorrow, I predict Erica and I will interface."
"Hey!' Serena suddenly shrieked, looking down at the wire that previously coiled around her foot, "Did that cord just move?"
As Serena bent down to touch the wire, Benny asked her, "What the heck is that?"
Looking up at Benny, she responded, "I don't know but I know someone who might."
"Whoa, this is weird." Ethan told the two as he looked down into a microscope, "Chlorophyll polymer ectoplasm? It's like a combination of paranormal weed and Ethernet cable."
"There's plant matter in the cables?" Serena asked.
Ethan shook his head, "No, they're combined. Half alive, half plastic."
Benny smirked, "Like Heidi Montag."
"Ooh! Nice burn." Both boys high fived and returned back to what they were doing.
Looking down at her phone, Serena sighed and told them, "I am so sorry you guys but I have to go."
"Oh come on. What's more important than this?" Benny asked just as Serena began her way out the door.
She answered, "Surprise monster attack in the backstreets. Call me if you need anything."
"Ah!" Screamed Benny as the root got a hold of his leg and began dragging him towards a plant infested Rory.
Raising her axe, Sarah shrieked, "I got you!" Before she as well got her feet tangled. Right before she fell down, a blast from besides her managed to stop the root from pulling her down. Turning her head around Sarah saw Ethan's cousin holding one of her blasters as she blasted the root that bounded Benny's feet to the tree.
"Thanks." Sarah told her, picking up her axe again.
"No Prob." Serena told her back, helping Benny back up.
Picking up his weapon, Benny began hitting the tree again and soon they all were working together to take the tree down.
Looking over at the tree, Ethan yelled, "Get ready to be Nick rolled!" With just a push of a button, the tree was defeated and Rory was released.
Just another day in Whitechapel.