Chapter 4-the talent show
"Hi guys." Racetrack
caught up with Spot, Skittery, and Sage in the lunch room of the school.
"Hey Race." Spot turned
to him.
"Hey Race." Sage said and
Skittery nodded.
"Let's sit down." Skittery
said.
They sat on a lunch table
nearby. Skittery took his lunch tray with him. Spot had a pop tart and
a science book he
was thumbing through.
"So where are we going to
play at dis week?" Sage asked.
"The talent show."
"What?" Sage said.
"You're kidding, right?"
Skittery said.
"No I'm serious guys. It's
all I could get you for dis week."
"Did ya hear dat?" Sage
asked Spot.
Spot wasn't listening.
"What's in that book that
you have to look at." Skittery asked Spot.
"Genetics. I wanna clone."
Spot looked up at Skittery.
Skittery was chewing through
an apple. "Race got us in the talent show for this week."
"What?" It was a 'what?'
of confusion, not complaint.
Racetrack nodded.
"Here at school." Sage added.
"Have you told Jack and
Blink?"
"No. I haven't found dem
yet."
Jack just walked in the
lunchroom door. He approached their table. "Whose going home with me today?"
"Race signed us up
for the talent show." Sage announced.
"Where's Blink?" Jack almost
ignored the statement.
"I dunno." Race said.
Then Blink and Ebony approached
their lunchroom table. "Hey."
"Race got us in the talent
show." Skittery said.
"Oh, I was hopin' one of
us would sign us up for the talent show." Blink was excited. Everyone gave
him a look.
"Are you serious?" Skittery asked
him.
"Yeah." He said, without shame.
"So who's comin' with me?"
Jack insisted.
"How come Spot don't
drive or Skittery?" Ebony asked.
"My car got towed." Spot
answered.
"How?.."
"I snuck out in the middle
of the night with Elyssa to get Ice cream. The engine stopped, we didn't
get far." He
shrugged.
"How old are you, even?"
She asked him.
"Fourteen."
"I....don't have a car."
Skittery commented.
"Your a mechanic and you
don't have a car?" Racetrack said.
"We have to practice for
the talent show, guys." Jack said impatiently.
"Alright well I gotta go.
I'll see you guys." Racetrack was off.
The rest walked to Jack's
car and were off to rehearse in Sage's garage.
At 7:30 the next day was the talent show....
Around 8:15 they had already
gone on and played in front of all of the teenagers in New York.
Right now they were unsetting
up. They were taking apart their drums and mics and so on behind the closed
curtains.
"They wasn't feeling
our music." Spot said disappointedly as he loaded some equipment.
"They wasn't feeling Skittery's
mohawk." Blink made fun of Skittery.
"Hey I got it just for today!"
He exclaimed.
"Hey You guys were good!"
Ebony came backstage interrupting them.
They were kinda discouraged
so they didn't really listen to her.
"Let's go home." Jack said.
They loaded stuff on his
trunk. And this time they went to Spot's house.