Chapter 10, As if nothing ever happened
A week passed since the incident and everything became normal again as if nothing ever happened. Luckily Sikowitz' room wasn't severely damaged, thus it was restored to its old self, thanks to Jade and Courtney. The bizarre tale that this odd room told was enough to throw me through loops. In short, I was troubled. "Hey, Beck! Why the long face? You got rejected by West or heartbroken that Tori's gone? I didn't even realize that Tori was gone. Anyway, I have my own agenda now. And that doesn't involve having a songbird and classmate to kill me out of the blue over Jade. Besides, a classroom shouldn't be a battlefield. Haha, oh yeah. That's right…..it felt like a dream. Shit, this must be the anti-climatic ending where I find out that this was a dream. "Hey Beck, did you hear about Tori? Everyone is saying that a fight broke out between her and someone else in that hippie/teacher's room." The thing is that I had already realized the truth by now.
All of a sudden, I heard a megaphone from the Asphalt Café. "Now accepting members! Our club, Odd things and such, is now looking for new members! Let's find weird, unusual, and creepy things around the world!" I didn't want to accept it. Because whether it was a dream or not, I was already entangled with them. Tori's gone and it hasn't even been a month since school started. There was no doubt that everyone was a huge fan of her. Still people are still asking why she's gone…but I know what happened. I figured that Jade was indirectly eavesdropping on the news. "Yo, Canada. You sure sound busy nowadays." It was Burf, one of Sinjin's friends. "What are you talking about?" Then Sinjin joined the conversation, "Don't pull that stuff on us, Beck! You're going afterschool again, aren't you? To the great grandmaster. You gotta report in about your findings because of this!" Sinjin shoved a flyer in front of my face and continued to ramble on. Sinjin, you bastard.
"Canada! What's the meaning of this?" It was after school as Jade and I were in the clubroom. Courtney was home sick so it was just the two of us, unfortunately. "Well, uh..there really isn't much to explain. It's like I said, I haven't gotten anything, Jade. Besides, where did you get off?" That's right…she exposed my cell phone number without asking..."How dare you use someone's cell phone number without asking! Dammit, do you have any common sense, Jade?" All of a sudden, Jade turned dark. "Where do I get off…what?" Oh shit, everything is a mystery to me too. And why do I always find myself in the same damn place that Jade's been? Especially after what happened. I noticed that Jade was holding a piece of paper and became perplexed. "This is unacceptable! Hey Beck, do you think that there's something wrong with this?" Everything…everything is wrong with this, Jade. Ugh, it's not like I could say that either. "Listen, I just happened to overhear this, but you've joined every club in school, right?" Jade was silent for a few moments. "What of it? Oh please don't tell me you're thinking of dropping out….." Damn it, stop jumping to conclusions, Jade. "It's not like that. Look, maybe Odd things and such is too vague. And they probably don't get what it's about." Jade let out a hmph. "God, I thought that once I got into high school, things would be different. But it's the same as junior high, completely normal. And I hate normal! Ugh, couldn't there be at least one weird club?!" And just what constitutes weird or normal? "Come on, that's not how it was in middle school or is in high school. Besides, you were pretty popular with the guys in junior high so shouldn't that make you happy enough?" Shit, I shouldn't have said. Jade turned around, "So, you heard it from that Burf guy, right? Whatever. Everything what he probably said was true. All of them were lame to the point of idiocy. Tell me, Canada, is that all?"
Damn it, this isn't good. "If you're going to say something, say it for crying out loud!" Letting out a sigh, I told her that it was true. "Yeah, I guess so."
Jade's POV:
The problem is that there are only worthless guys in the world. God, I swear that I spent my entire middle school career suffering from it. Man, the only kind of guy that would be any good would be someone mysterious. That way, things would be more interesting.
Beck's POV:
What Jade said might be definitely true. After all, I can't disagree with her perspective…or her ideas anyway. Still, the fact that it's true perplexes me. And Tori. To begin with, she got into Hollywood Arts by filling in for her sister, Trina, after she had an allergic reaction. After all, she was a mysterious yet active student. "Hey Jade, what was your deal with Tori Vega?" Smiling, which is a very scary thing, especially when it comes to Jade, told me that they were friends. Lies.