Chappie 4

Jumping

Tori's Point of View

Ok, so, Odd just flat out stared for about 2 minutes before we got tired of it, so I pretty much smacked him on the back of the head to make it stop. "Odd, enough oogling already! You decided to show me around the town, remember?"

"Oh, right. I did. Umm.. well.. ok then. Let's go," he quietly replied, still obviously trying to get used to the real me.

He got up, beckoned for me to follow, and then proceeded towards the Kadic gates. "Should I be scared??" I asked Zoe.

"Nah," came her reply. "You only need to be scared if he asks you to play DDR with him. He doesn't stop until his name is the only one on the top ten highest scores."

"Ok, gotcha." I said a quick goodbye, then ran to catch up with Odd who was surprisingly already at the gates. "Where to tour guide?" I questioned.

"Hmm.. well first I thought I'd show you the mall, which is probably where you wanted to go anyway, and you can tell me more about your escapades as Scottie McDottie," came his less-than-enthusiastic response.

"Umm.. ok. Works for me!" I told him about some of the funnier incidents of the Scottie world, like how one time Zac Efron slipped on some ice and fell into the chocolate fountain at a REALLY important party, and then how while he was falling he dragged Mitchell Musso in with him, who in turn grabbed Emily Osment, who snagged Miley Cyrus, who finally latched onto Ashley Tisdale's arm, and then the whole bunch fell in after Zac. I started crying because I was laughing so hard, but then they started throwing chocolate at me, so I blocked myself with the first person I saw, who happened to be Vanessa Hudgens.

"No. Freaking. Way. That is too cool! I wish you had gotten that on camera!" Odd laughed.

"Well actually... I did," I said quietly.

"WHAT?!? YOU DID?!?"

"Umm.. yes?"

"NO WAY! I'M THINKING INTERNET!!!!!"

"NO!" I yelled. "I wouldn't do that to them! I promised!"

"Aww..."

"Well, maybe I'll show it to you sometime..."

"YEA!!!! That just totally made my day!" Odd said as he jumped into the air. We started laughing as we arrived at the mall, walking in only to decide that we wanted to go to the arcade, who's entrance was outside.

We talked about the most random things as he dragged me to the DDR station, much to my joy, and then we played 17 straight games as an ever-growing crowd cheered us on.

"You're not so bad missy!" Odd said as he jumped on the dance pad.

"Right back atcha Odd!" In the end, I dominated, so Odd finally gave up and we chose to just sit down on the carousel in the food court. Once on, I brought about a subject that I had a feeling Odd had been avoiding, crushes. "So Odd, Zoe and Yumi tell me most things that go on at Kadic, but there are still some things that I don't know much about and I was wondering if you could help me with this predicament."

"And this predicament is...?"

"Crushes," was my immediate reply. "I want to know who likes who, who's going out with who, and so on and so forth. Only the essential people of course though."

Odd's Point of View

I was getting a feeling that, for some Odd reason, I could trust Tori with all the group's little secrets, well, minus one big one that Zoe didn't even know about. So I decided to tell her. "Well," I started, "for starters, Yumi likes Ulrich ("I knew it!" came from Tori), and Ulrich likes Yumi ("Go figure.), but they're too shy to do anything about it, which you might be able to help fix ("Really? I'd love to help!"). Then Jeremy and Aelita are together, no surprise there. They liked each other for such a long time! And... well..." he stopped.

"What? What is it?" Tori begged.

"I don't know if you can keep this one a secret.."

"Pleeeeeeeeease?!?!?! I'll keep my mouth shut, I promise!" Tori implored.

"Gah, fine. Well, I kind of like... Zoe."

"Aww! How sweet! I had my suspicions when I first saw you, what with the way you couldn't take your eyes off of her..."

"You noticed that?!" I said, truly astonished.

"Well, yeah. It was kinda obvious to everyone but Zoe," was her simple reply. "But I think I can help with that..."

"Really?" I said with a sparkle in my eye.

"Really. But we'll do that later, ok? Right now let's just try and figure out what to do about Yumi and Ulrich."

For the next half hour, Tori and I plotted and schemed, schemed and plotted, until we came up with a brilliant- and a little devious- plan to get Yumi and Ulrich together. "You really think it'll work?" Tori wondered.

"Definitely."

Fast Forward (yes, yet again) about 2 hours

Tori's Point of View

"Ok, is everything ready?" I asked. I got 4 "Yes"'s in response. "Good. Let's go then." If our plan went smoothly, Yumi and Ulrich would be together in the next five minutes, and we'd have a picture of it to remember it by. I sent a text to Yumi telling her that it was urgent that she get to Ulrich's favorite tree at the school as fast as possible. Odd sent a text to Ulrich saying that he(meaning Ulrich) needed to get down to his(meaning Ulrich's) favorite tree pronto, something important was happening.

Yumi and Ulrich got there at about the same time, and by then the rest of us were high in the tree; high enough that they couldn't see us, but low enough that we could see them. They(meaning Ulrich and Yumi) saw each other, approached each other, and both said at the same time, "What are you doing here?" They then turned and saw something shining in the knothole, a small screen that had a message on it that read as follows: "Ok, this is somewhat of an intervention. You two have been too shy for too long and we can't take it anymore! So here's what we're going to do. Both of you stick out your right hands and place them into the knothole." Yumi and Ulrich looked at each other puzzled, then decided to try it. They stuck their hands inside the knothole.

That's when we came in. A trap suddenly sprung on the wrists in the knothole, trapping them there. Once finished, the gang and I sprung down from the tree, landing right behind Yumi and Ulrich. "Ok, let's get this over with. It's late and I'm tired," I stated.

"TORI?!? GUYS?!? WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?!" both Yumi and Ulrich yelled.

"Call it "Friend Intervention". That's what we're here to do. Intervene between friends," said Odd as I slipped into the shadows for the next part of the scheme.

"Umm... not to be a party pooper or anything," Yumi started, "but what the heck are you guys talking about?"

"Well, don't let us say it, let the preacher," Jeremy responded.

"Preacher?" Ulrich asked.

(In a gospel preacher like voice (you know like "Hallelujah! Praise the Lord) that sort of thing) "Yes, preacher," I said. "Now, I bet y'all are wondering why we are gathered her together on this glorious day, or night really. Well, we are gathered here today to join two peoples together in holy, umm.., togetherness!"

"Togetherness?" Odd whispered to me.

"Well, it's not matrimony," I whispered back. "Anyhow," I said back in my preacher voice, "If there is anyone here that does not wish that these too annoyingly ignorant lovebirds to be together, speak now or forever hold your peace."

"Umm... don't we get a say in this?" asked Yumi.

"NO!" was the reply from everyone except Ulrich.

"Well then."

"Alright now, on with the ceremony!" Odd exclaimed.

"Ok, ok. Hold your horses there buddy." I joked. "Now, Ulrich, do you like Yumi? Let me answer that for ya, of course you do. Yumi, do you like Ulrich? Uh, yeah. That goes without saying." Everyone just looked at me like I was crazy. Yumi and Ulrich thought I really was, but the others just hadn't thought I'd be able to act like this without cracking up. "By the power 'vested in me, I now proclaim this lovely couple boyfriend and girlfriend. You may now, with a little help of course, kiss your respective 'friend'." At that, Odd and Zoe got behind Yumi, Jeremy and Aelita got behind Ulrich, and together they pushed Yumi and Ulrich together, making them share that long awaited first kiss.

"WOO HOO!!!" we all yelled, after releasing our captives, but it was only because they kept kissing after we let them go. "Aww, that's so cute!" Aelita exclaimed. They finally broke apart, faces BRIGHT red.

"Uh, thanks guys," came Ulrich's sheepish comment.

"Any time!" I replied. But then I pulled him aside and whispered to him, "Odd and Zoe are next. You and Yumi get to help with that one." He looked at me with excited eyes, and I knew we'd have him on board, no question. Then out of nowhere, Odd grabbed me around the waist, swung me around, then picked me up and started jumping out of sheer joy.

"THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! THEY'RE TOGETHER! FINALLY!!!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! YOU'RE A MIRACLE WORKER!!!!" he shouted as he jumped.

"ODD! YOU'RE. WELCOME. BUT. PLEASE. STOP. JUMPING." I squeaked out between jumps. He finally stopped jumping, and I gasped for breath. "Oh gosh, I didn't think I'd be jumping until tomorrow night!"

"WHAT?!"