The next day, Dmitri Petrovich discovered he had a crush on an actress named Jennifer Rose. When he came to school he wouldn't stop telling him about how much he loved her.
"Why do you love her?" Jorge asked him.
"Because she's such a talented actress and she's so pretty to boot," said Dmitri. "In fact, I even have a song for her!"
He sang "8675-309 Jenny."
"Okkaaayyyyyy….." said Jorge.
Jorge called Tony after school.
Tony and his phone fell off his bed and he jumped right back up.
"Yesss?"
"Tony, Dmitri said my secret was safe with him. However, he always tries to let it slip. Like today, he even said "Gee, I wonder who that dashing young man who fights Tiffany Stevens could be?" I'm getting sick of it."
"Why don't you just tell him?"
"Okay."
Matthew went to talk with Jorge.
"You know, Tiffany wants to brainwash everyone at Bricksfield Junior High into being her slaves."
"Uh oh…that can't be good. How does she want to do it?"
"She's putting special bugs into everyone's ears when they probably won't notice. And then she'll program these bugs to their heads to control what they think, say, and do. People with magic powers, like yourself, are immune to it, though."
"Oh dear."
"Oh dear is right. Also, Jorge I read somewhere that the real you is who you are when no one's watching. Do you know what that means?"
"What?"
"When you transformed into a panther that other day, after you transformed back into yourself, you destroyed your father's car and bank. That was your angry, animalistic side shining through."
"I know, Matthew."
Jorge then talked to Reese at lunch the next day.
"Reese, I have a deep, dark secret."
"What is it? Are you Batman?"
"Shut up, Reese! I hate Batman! He wears his underwear over his tights!"
He then met up with Dmitri.
"Dmitri, you just can't-"
"Hey look, Jorge, squirrel!" said Dmitri, pointing to the window. (There was no squirrel.)
Jorge face-palmed.
Dmitri went to talk with Reese privately, and Jorge went to see Anavi.
"Anavi, you're pretty and all, but after you take your beautiful hair out of that bun and stop slouching, you'd be lovely!"
"I can't. Tiffany is making me."
Jorge then used the mind control spell to make Tiffany nice to Anavi, then undid her hair.
"There. Now you're beautiful."
Anavi was so happy, she hugged Jorge.
Tiffany was using her magic powers to keep herself even more beautiful and evil than she already was, checking herself out in mirrors, and making sure everyone in school knew she was the most beautiful girl in the world. She even turned a couple of kids (Dante and Marky) into rats for even thinking otherwise.
The last class of the day was science class, and Mr. Morrison gave each of the kids permission slips.
"We'll be visiting the Liberty Science Center the day before Valentine's Day, February 13th."
Jorge went to photography club after school. It would be his first meeting there, his father just signed him up.
"Oh and by the way Jorge, Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, so six more weeks of winter," said Pablo out of the blue. (It was Groundhog Day, and Pablo was also at photography club.)
"Pablo, remember that rhyme bout Groundhog Day we learned in first grade, if Groundhog doesn't see his shadow here, spring is very near, but if he sees his shadow small, winter isn't gone at all…or maybe the first two rhymes are the other ways around…oh Pablo, those were the good old days when we were still young children and the world was beautiful place and my mother was still alive."
"I'm still a young child!" said Pablo.
"Oh."
Pablo Sanchez rapped the song from The Simpsons Zorro movie.
"From the Z to the O to the double R-O,
he's the dude in the mask from the barrio.
With his horse and his mask and his big old sword,
he'll cut your butt from a '52 Ford.
"Ah, my favorite Simpsons episode."
"Gee, I wonder why," said Jorge sarcastically. He already knew that Pablo was a huge Zorro fanboy.