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.