Chapter 7- Stone Cold Crazy
Sam and Galileo had been walking for a while now and Gaz had not stopped talking all the way there, but Sam had to hand it to him, a lot of what he said was kind of interesting even though quite a bit of it was driving her stone cold crazy. He was just telling her about something called the Macarena when they reached an old fence but luckily there was a gap a bit further down. "I know I talk about myself a lot but- hey- there's a lot to say… All my life, all my life I've felt that I have some sort of purpose, a special destiny. That has to mean something, surely…" Gaz said as he climbed through the fence.
"Oh it does Gazza, it means that you're a self- important, arrogant arsehole. Oh all right, what special destiny?" she thought she better at least be a little bit nice to him seeing as he had just helped her escape,
"It's to do with the stuff I dream. The phrases, they always come back to the same thing, I see a great wide space and people, people everywhere, and noise, huge, huge noise! And then come the words…" "Idiot"
"What words?" Sam asked but it seemed Galileo was not able to detect sarcasm very well as he continued talking,
"Seek salvation in the place of living rock… A bright, bright star will show the way… go to where the Champions played". This time when Sam spoke was serious as what Gazz had just told her…
"Sounds like bollocks to me." "Damn maybe I shouldn't have said that part, oh well I can't take it back now""
"Maybe. Hey I think I found a name for you, you know" "Eh? How'd he do that?"
"How would you do that? You only met me today".
"I always knew I'd meet you, that there was another Rebel Rebel out there, another Wild Thing" Gaz said this with a lot of excitement in his voice, which was surprising seeing as he was standing next to someone who used sarcasm as much as she breathed
"Ok, so what do you want to call me?" Galileo walked up to her
"Scaramouche" he seemed very proud with this name but that went down the drain. "Scaramouche?... Don't you think… that's a bit sort of um… Crap." It was a weird name but she thought it was better than Samantha
"No not really" Gaz said starting to lose his confidence
"People will call me Scary Bush"
"No they wont" he said determined to get soon-to-be Scaramouche to like the name
"I would" she said with the same determination to get Gaz to let the name go.
"Well I dreamed some others but frankly I thought that was the best" he said remembering all the others he had thought of
"What were the others?" Sam asked, hoping they would be better although she was starting to like the name.
"Long Tall Sally, Honky Tonk Woman, Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds, or Fat Bottomed Girl." "excuse me! I don't think I'd really want people calling me fat bottomed would you?" she thought deciding Scaramouche really was the best one
"Ok, I'll take Scaramouche… Scaramouche… Actually, I kind of like it, it sounds… anarchic… almost like what I think they used to call a "tune"." Then suddenly Galileo remembered the dream he had gotten the name from in the first place
"A tune, yes. Scaramouche… Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?" he asked looking at her seeing if that rang any bells which, like all his other attempts at getting along with her, failed when she surprisingly asked
"Are you trying to get in my pants?"
"No!"
"Then what's doing the Fandango?" she asked still looking at him carefully in case he tried something.
"I think… perhaps it's… dancing"
"Oh you mean like Gaga Moves? Excuse me while I… uuuugh… puke. Globalsoft write the song and work out the steps then every kid on Planet Mall does exactly the same thing." She said and this time there was only a slight hint of sarcasm in her voice as this was true and Galileo knew that,
"I think that maybe there was a time when dancing wasn't like that, when it was… free. Kind of individually expressive" and at that he started dancing (if you could call it that) around like the maniac he had half admitted to being for no reason what so ever, although Sam no, Scaramouche couldn't possibly know that he could hear loud noises in his head that were so good he felt he had to dance to them
"I don't think I've ever seen anything quite so embarrassing in my life". Galileo looking a bit embarrassed about what he had just done stood up properly and said
"It looks better when I'm holding a tennis racket" "and why would that be"
"It would need to" Scara thought it was best not to start him off on one of his talks again, "god I've only known the guy a day and I think I already know his life story".
"Well maybe doing the Fandango is just about being friends" "he wants to be my friend? Wow that's not happened, let me think, ever" Galileo was finally getting through Scara's shell
"Friends? I… I've never had a friend" this was true seeing as all the people that called themselves her friends really talked about her behind her back and she knew it. Now it was Gaz's turn to be sarcastic although he did hide it better than Scaramouche did "What… and you with your winning ways!"
"But I always thought I'd like one" now this is a significant moment, Scaramouche being nice,
"So are we friends then?" Gaz said with a hopeful look on his face. "I better not be too nice for the moment, I mean sure I want a friend but I still hardly know the guy"
"If you want" she said starting to warm up to him a bit more
"I do! I really do!" he said this time a hopeful gleam in his eyes, he was starting to like her more and more
"Well then, ok. We're friends" Scara said this whilst also starting to like Gaz a bit more. "This is so cool" Galileo turned to Scaramouche and they looked each other right in the eyes but just as Gaz went to put his arms around Scara, she pulled away "slow down there Gazza I said I'd be your friend, oh great now he's looking at me like that again, I'd better say something fast" .
"As long as you promise to work on you dancing" but before Galileo had time to answer "Let's get them!"