Chapter 4: A text to annoy

Author's Note: Underlined phrases mean Text messages

Author's Note 2: The reason I'm adding so much so quickly is that I've been re-watching the movies as of late, and it's got my brain swimming with ideas. After this chapter, I'm gonna take a bit of a break, but chapter five will be here by next Wednesday or so.

The rest of the day went off without a hitch for Jordan and Sara. Classes were easy, no homework, and best of all, no more flashbacks, even though they now knew that they had second, fourth, and seventh period together. Speaking of seventh period, they just got out of it.

It was history, and their teacher told the class to call him 'Mr. Thick-nose' (Sara wanted to question it, but she didn't). He was a pretty smart man, and seemed very patient. All throughout class, he was telling the class stories, including this one myth about five heroes travelling to a promised land. Jordan immediately felt like he'd heard that story before.

Right now he was telling Sara about restaurants near here. "Anyways, there are a lot of good ones, but I think the best is 'The Tree Star'." She looked at him with confusion, before he clarified, "That little diner, just across the street. You should go there sometime."

"Maybe," she said simply, as they headed to the parking lot. Then, out of nowhere, two cars showed up: A purple Dodge Challenger, and a Red Ford Mustang. Out of the Mustang came a tall muscular man, who Jordan automatically assumed would be a military general. Sara then told him, "That's my dad. I wonder who's driving the Challenger though?"

"My grandpa," Jordan said, not trying to be smug. "Well, it was nice to meet you Sara. I'd better get going. I have to practice my guitar today." She stopped him in his tracks, "You play guitar? I'm a drummer."

"Really? Cool!" They were about to talk more about it, but Sara could see her dad was getting impatient. "Alright, I have to go. See ya Jordan." And with that, their school day ended. After getting take out, like Grandpa promised, the two began a conversation.

"So, Littlefoot, who was that girl?" His grandpa asked as Jordan opened up his club sandwich. "Oh, that was Sara. She just moved here," he said before taking a bite, and immediately after swallowing, he continued, "She's pretty cool, too. We sparred in Gym class today." Grandpa looked at him in shock. "Sparred? Coach Lone put you two in the ring on the first day?"

"Yeah. I said I wanted to sign up for the Kickboxing team, and for some reason, he decided to have us fight." Grandpa was a bit amazed by this. He knew Coach Lone was a 'quick to the punch' kind of guy, but he never expected him to get them in the ring on day one. 'This will be on hell of a story to tell Edith,' he thought.

Heading the opposite direction, was the Mustang. Sara's dad and her step mom were both up front, listening to her talk about her day. "... So then, after the whole match and apology thing, we continued to talk. We also found out we have fourth and seventh period together."

"Well, that's great dear," said Sara's step mother, Francine. Of course, members of the family called her 'Tria', especially her husband George. "Don't you think that's great, Topsy?" Sara cringed slightly at the mention of that name. Even with them being married for about four years now, Sara still didn't like hearing that nickname. Sure, she had heard people call her dad 'Topps', before, but she had always assumed that was because he always wore a fedora.

Speaking of Topps, he spoke up with a voice, stern, but proud, "Of course, Sara. Not even on the team yet, and you've already got a rival. Good work." George has loved competition, and to find out that his daughter fought today, and and lost by only three points, was really impressive to him. He continued, "So, how about we go to a restaurant? See what they got out here."

Sara knew where to go. "Jordan told me about this place called 'The Tree Star', just across from the school. We could go there." Topps considered it and said "Alright, just let us pick up your sister from day care." And with that, they had a plan of business.

At this same time, Jordan was back home talking to his grandparents about his day. His grandma was a bit worried when he mentioned sparring, but simply told him, "Just be careful if you do get on the team." She was going to voice her concerns, but she had a flashback of her daughter.

The camera crew approached Cassandra Lowenthal (which was her name at the time). "Ms. Lowenthal! Now that you're champion, what do you intend to do?" Cassandra answered, with a simple response: "Well, I'm going to take a break from prizefighting. You know, give me and Atticus some time to plan the wedding." Many questions bombarded her after that, but there was one question in particular that she had no problem answering. "Do you have anyone you want to thank for your success?"

"Yes. My old high school gym teacher, Doc Lone. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't be here today."

With that, she decided she couldn't question Coach Lone, and that was that. Jordan was in good hands with Coach Lone supervising the team.

After Jordan's guitar lessons, and his training, he began to feel sleepy. Noticing the clock said 9:30. He decided to go to sleep. Before bed, he grabbed out his favorite book, a copy of the Odyssey, and made sure to get through at least five pages before falling asleep. In the middle of the night, he had received a text from his cousin, Allison. When he woke up the next morning, he saw it.

'Hey, Jordan. Comin' to visit. See ya Thursday.'

This was one thing Jordan could have gone without. His cousin Allison (or Alli, as the family called her) was just going to get in his way. She was a nice girl, sure, but she didn't like any of Jordan's friends, and would always drive them away from sheer annoyance. He really didn't want her to visit, but he knew that nothing he would say would change her mind. Then he saw the second part of the text. It said, 'Oh, almost forgot. Gonna be staying for six months'. At that moment, one phrase came to mind:

'Son of a bitch!'