Chapter 59: Nebula meets Dendy
The following day, Rad levitated a sleeping Nebula off of his chest and onto his hammock bed before he went to his doorway to begin his morning pull ups. Nebula let out a yawn as she stretched. She then tried to carefully got off of the hammock bed. She ended up falling face first onto the floor. She let out a series of grumbles and groans as the lay there face first on the floor. Rad turned his head at the sound of her muffled grumbles and groans and he continued his work out with one arm as he used his other finger to levitate her off the floor and onto her feet.
She left his room and came back moments later with a mug of coffee. He moved on the bar a bit so she could enter the room. He then began to do one handed pull ups with his other arm as she handed him the mug of coffee that she had made for him. As he was about to take another sip of coffee, she heard sounds coming from outside Rad's window. "I wonder what that could be" she mumbled to herself, still half asleep, as she walked over to the window to investigate the mysterious noise. Nebula looked out the window and she saw a small figure with it's fingers on the glass. She let out a few unintelligible noises and grumbles. After noticing that Nebula was looking at it, the figure quickly took it's hands off of the glass and tripped over some bushed before running away. "Wonder what that was" Nebula mumbled in a low tone. "Everything okay babe?" Rad asked as he levitated the coffee mug to his dresser. After the mug was safely on the dresser, Rad swung himself off the bar and landed next to a zoned out Nebula. "Babe?" Rad asked as he waved his hand in front of her face as he tried to get her attention. "Neb? You okay?" Rad asked as he looked into her dreary eyes that were locked in a blank stare. He then began to poke her and call her name as he tried to get her attention. Rad smiled as he came up with an idea before kissing her on the lips. "Nebula? What's wrong?" Rad asked her as she was still staring blankly out the window. "There is nothing out there. Come on. Let's go eat!" Rad said enthusiastically as he took her hand. "Babe, your phone is going off" Rad called. This seemed to snap her out of her trance as she rushed over to her phone.
Later that day, Ko went with Dendy to Rad's house to help him work on his van. Rad was under his van working it and Nebula was sitting on his toolbox nearby with her phone in hand. "Oh my gosh, Nebula! What happened to your hair?" Ko asked. Nebula fluffed her now short hair. "You like it?" she asked. Ko only furrowed his brows at her. "What's with the outfit?" Ko asked as he motioned to the blue top, light red belt, black pants, and blue heels with a strap with pink makeup. "What? Can't I change my style up now and then?" she asked. Ko was silent and she cleared her throat.
"Okay… So, who's your friend?" she asked. "That's right! You two have never met! Nebula, this is Dendy and Dendy, this is Nebula, she's Rad's girlfriend" Ko said. "Greetings and salutations" Dendy greeted. "Hi! It's nice to meet you" Nebula said. Rad then came out from under his van and Nebula handed him a towel. He kissed her cheek and rubbed the sweat and oil off of him.
"So, are you guys excited for 'Plaza Film fest 2.0'?" Ko asked. "Totally! We need to start coming up with ideas so we can beat those Boxmore losers" Rad said. "Worry not my hunky honey bunny" Nebula said proudly. "So what should we for for our film this year? They said that this year, the theme is romance" Ko asked. Nebula smirked and then pulled out what appeared to be a script. She then called Enid and minutes later, Enid rode up on her bike.
Nebula then projected their last film on her phone. "Okay so, let's review. Enid, your camerawork was okay but in this shot, I can see you filming. Ko, the editing is good and I've seen your latest work. Keep it up. Rad, my dear sweet Rad. You know I love you but your acting was not that impressive. When you cried over your father's death, there isn't that much emotion. It seems forced" she explained. She then texted everyone the script. "Read these over tonight and let me know what you think" she said. They all looked at her questioningly and she shrugged. "What can I say, your time in New York got me inspired" she said. "It looks great" Ko said. "Awesome! Then we can begin filming. Rad, could you and Enid please go get some good props while Ko, Dendy, and I stay here and plan the scenes?" Nebula asked. "Sure" Rad said. He and Enid then took off in his van.
On the drive to get the props, Rad and Enid began to do impressions of others to pass the time. "Okay okay, who am I? Oooh look at me~ I'm so in love with you Rad! But I'm also so in love with my phone" Enid said mimicking Nebula's voice. "Dude come on, that's my girlfriend" Rad replied angrily. "Sorry. Sheesh… I was just messing around" Enid said. She then took Rad's phone and started his song playlist. A k-pop song came on and Enid turned to Rad. "What is with this song?" She asked in confusion. "What? Nebula and I listen to this all the time! We know all the words!" Rad responded. "But fine. Since you have a problem with it" he said as he had the song changed to another song. A song then came on and Rad softly sang along. "We are not listening to this" Enid said. Before she could change the song, Rad stopped her. "This is actually another one of my favorite bands" he admitted. "Really Rad? First that one when we were doing the delivery before I went to P.O.I.N.T Prep and now this?" Enid criticized. "Nebula likes the music I play" Rad said. "Of course she does, she likes everything about you. You could burp and she would think that it was the greatest thing in the universe" she responded. Really Enid?!" he said with a mad scoff. "I'm just saying, she's like obsessed with you" she responded. He huffed and went quiet and she changed the song.
A soft melody played and Enid stared at him in shock. "Okay, since when have you liked these romantic songs?" she asked. "This happens to be Nebula and I's song" he said dreamily. "Okay, what is with you and Nebula lately? You guys seem to be more joined at the hip then usual" Enid said as she changed the playlist to something else. "I never told anyone this but, when she broke up with me, I made a vow to myself that if I ever won her back that I would do anything and everything to keep her. I love her and I never want to lose her again! It took me losing her to realize just how much she means to me! Who knows, maybe one day you'll understand" Rad explained. Enid looked around his van and noticed that "Nebula &" was added in fancy letters in front of the "Rad" on the driver's side near the sunroof. "Don't you ever get tired of being with her all the time? Especially now that she's living with you and your parents?" Enid asked. "Not really. We were actually thinking of getting a place together after we graduate" Rad responded. He then went silent and nervously glanced at his glove box. Enid followed his gaze and opened the compartment. "You didn't!" she said in shock. Rad nodded his head nervously. "Aren't you scared that won't want to?" she asked and Rad let out a sigh. "You don't think I'm not? I mean, if we didn't break up the way we did, I wouldn't be that scared. But, seeing as how she got hurt and I was too careless to notice, I'm terrified! Just please, don't tell her, or anyone for that matter" he said. "Okay" Enid said softly. She spotted something shining and she pulled it out. "Really?" she asked in slight anger as she held up a keychain figure of Nebula winking and holding up two fingers. "Let me guess, she has a tiny one of you" she said. Rad rolled his eyes and Enid looked on her phone at Nebula's social media to see the figure of her with one of Rad flexing his arms and smirking. "Haven't you ever thought that things were better when you guys were broken up? She wasn't so obsessed with you" Enid remarked as she went through Nebula's photos from when she and Rad broke up. "I would never think that. I was miserable without her. I've gotten used to her always greeting me when I got to work, falling asleep on me when we watched a movie, and I missed the way she crinkles her nose and groan when she has to wake up but doesn't want to and basically, everything about her" he explained.
They then got the props from a local costume store and drove back to where they were going to film. "Ah good. You got the props" Dendy said when they unloaded them from Rad's van. Dendy began to label them and then she used her label on Rad when she was finished. Nebula came over and frowned at the label that read "Dendy's" on her boyfriend's chest. She took a marker from nearby and crossed the "Dendy's" off and wrote "Nebula's" and she smirked once she had finished. She then kissed his cheek she walked over to a nearby box and stood on it.
"Okay, let's start auditions" Nebula announced and Rad began to set up some props for the auditions. "Great job honey" Nebula praised. "Thanks babe. I honestly couldn't have done it without my killer muscles" Rad said as he flexed an arm. He then kissed is arm and Nebula let out an "Ahem" as she falsely cleared her throat. Rad then leaned over to her and pecked her lips and she smiled widely. Auditions had finally started and anyone that was not working on their own film came to audition. The auditions seemed to last forever and Nebula groaned as when auditions were done. She looked to her notes and saw that she had only filled a few roles.
A rustling in the bushed nearby was heard and it was then followed by what sounded like writing. Nebula, Rad, Ko, and Enid went over to investigate the noise and they saw Darrell, Shannon , Raymond, and Jethro hiding in the bushes with notepads and pencils in their metallic hands. Except for Jethro who was just rolling around saying "I am Jethro" once they were spotted. "Well well well. Look what we have here. Why am I not surprised that you bolt for brains can't think of an idea for a movie for the film festival that is actually original yet crowd pleasing so you have come here to spy on us" Nebula said angrily. She then levitated them into the air and threw them back to Boxmore. "Well, seeing as how we don't want them to spy on us again, there is only one thing we can do" she then said with a smirk. "You don't mean?" Rad questioned as if he read her mind. "Oh I mean" she said confidently before she made her announcement.
"We're goin' back to New York!"
Uh Oh! What does Rad have in his glove box that he doesn't want Nebula or anyone to know about? Stay tuned~