Ch11
"Haven't
seen you around much." Scott mentioned to Kurt as they
passed
in the hall the next morning. "I've been busy."
Kurt
mentioned with a distant tone.
"So I've heard."
Scott mentioned. "Any luck getting Rebecca Roijm-
Stamos to
come with you to SOB Shultz by the end of this week?"
Kurt
whirled around in surprise. "How did you find out about
zis?"
Scott chuckled and shook his head. "Here at Mutant
High, news tends
to travel fast. But seriously how's it coming
along?"
Kurt's bleakness quickly disappeared as he suddenly
thought to ask
Scott for his advice. "Perhaps you could be of
zome help ja?" Scott
smiled thinking that Kurt was so
impressed with him that he would
even assume he was able produce a
Hollywood personality on
demand. "A-hem," Scott humbled
himself. "I'm afraid I don't know
anyone out in Hollywood
Kurt."
"Nein ,nein, mein freunde;" Kurt corrected
Scott. "But could you
please tell me vhere I vould look to
buy a book printed during zhe
medieval times?" Scott paused
for a brief and disappointed moment.
"Um…try the internet,
is probably your best shot, or
maybe Barnes and Noble;
if nothing else try Ebay. Um Kurt, how
exactly does an antique
book fit into you getting a movie actress to
come here?"
For
one of those rare occasions, Kurt elected not to go into one of
his
full detailed and lengthy stories. "It's quite a long
story
Scott, I'll have to tell it to you zometime but for now, I
must be
looking for a computer."
Kurt walked into the
kitchen and made himself a couple of pop-tarts
and got a glass of
milk. He sat down to eat his breakfast when
Jubilee came in, with
her brand new lap top under her arm. She
plopped it down on the
table next to Kurt and opened it up. "Heard
you were looking
for a computer?" she said as she pulled out the
chair next to
Kurt and sat down.
"Scott vas right, news does travel fast
around here." Jubilee turned
and gave him a board smile.
"Lightening speed, blue boy, lightening
speed."
For
the time being, Kurt let his breakfast alone, leaving his pop
tarts
and milk sit between him and Jubilee, as he watched her start
the
computer up. "Do you know how to operate one of these?"
she
asked the teleporter as she unconsciously reached for one of
Kurt's
pop-tarts and took a bite.
"Ah…no." he
meekly admitted too embarrassed to fend for his
breakfast. "No
problem, I can help," Jubilee added as she took
another bite.
"Now what exactly are you looking for?"
"It is a
rare medieval book printed in 1528. Zhe exact title
is
"Commentarii di Caio Giulio Cesare," he began to explain.
"O-o-o-
o-kay; Can you spell that for me?" she asked as
she took another
bite from Kurt's pop-tart. "Perhaps I should
vrite it down ja?"
Jubilee reached into her purse and handed
him a small writing
pad. "Sure," she mumbled through
another mouthful of pop-tart; by
now, the first pop-tart was
nearly gone.
"You're lucky I was on my way down here to get
something to eat
before first hour. I…" Suddenly Jubilee
was aware that she had been
eating Kurt's breakfast all the while
by mistake. "Oh! Oh, oh, I'm
so sorry about that!" she
emphatically apologized. Kurt merely
chuckled as he handed her
writing pad back and waved it off.
"No worries. I'm just
grateful you can help me vith zis zing," he
mentioned lifting
his cloven hand. "Computer keyboards are just a
number of
many zings not built vith zese in mind."
"I see what you
mean," Jubilee glanced over to look at his hands
then at the
book title he had written on her note pad. "OK, let's
see if
we can find this bad boy here on line," and after a few
moments
of key taps and a succession clicks, Jubilee smiled
cheerfully as
she pointed to the page on the computer. "Here's the
links to
several book stores, and also for Ebay. Let's try this one
first,"
and she clicked onto one of the bookstore links. But alas
the book
was not available. She tried another bookstore website,
then
another, and yet another but not one had this rare antique book
in
stock.
"Vhat is vis Ebay'?" Kurt wondered. Jubilee
shrugged her
shoulders. "It's like an auction house; except
you bid for stuff on
line and its like open to everyone in the
world who has a computer."
Kurt nodded his head. "Let's
look zere," he suggested.
