Thank you for the follows, faves, and reviews. This starts off later in the day, after school during play rehearsal when Sikowitz sets the rest of the bet.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. Here's a new chapter as a gift. And to those that don't celebrate Easter, here's a new chapter.
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No POV
"Cut." Sikowitz says, cutting off the line Jade was about to say, Cat and Robbie on stage with her as the rest sit in the chairs, watching the rehearsal. "Why are you three so distracted?" He asks the three on stage as he stands up and walks up to them.
"I want my phone." Cat says, jogging up to Sikowitz and grabbing his shirt in her hands and pulling him down to her level. "Give me my phone." She demands, eyes wide.
"Cat, release." Jade says, grabbing Cat's hands and prying them off of Sikowitz's shirt. "It's only a week." She says, hiding her thoughts at being unable to get online or anything that's become the norm for the teens in the modern age.
"Oh, please. Like you're so calm without your phone?" Andre asks, remembering how jittery she was in lunch when someone at a nearby table mentioned one of the roller coasters at a favorite place for the teens to visit breaking down, a few of the cars hanging upside down on the loop.
"At least I didn't freak out when the new Bruno Mars song was leaked online earlier." Jade counters, glaring at Andre.
"Enough." Sikowitz says a few moments later as they start to argue, each of them throwing out things about the others and their freak outs without technology.
"Is the bet over?" Cat asks with hope in her voice, the others sharing it in their eyes but not saying anything.
"No. I just thought of a way to make it more interesting." Sikowitz says with a Jade-level smirk, making the six teens nervous.
"And that is…?" Tori asks, nervously looking at the others, barely glancing at Jade.
"Boys against girls." Sikowitz says, his smirk widening when the teens let out a sigh of relief. "Winning team passes for the year." He says, taking his seat again.
"That's it?" Jade asks, laughing a bit. "What does that change?" She asks, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Simply, really." Sikowitz says, grabbing his coconut and taking a sip. "Consider this a team building exercise. Both teams must help their teammates as to not fail. If you succeed, you will last the week and pass. Now, I know only one team will win, or this challenge won't be as important, so to determine a winner in case both teams make it to the end, I will have Sinjin and Burf watching everyone, making sure no one uses technology."
"How will two people watch the six of us? Do you expect us to stay together or something?" Beck asks, raising an eyebrow at their favorite teacher.
"That is of no concern." Sikowitz says cryptically, finishing his coconut. "What is of concern is that, although you are able to trick the others, as long as no one gets hurt, it will be interesting to see how you trick the other team without using technology, and how the other team will crack." He says as he stands up. "Rehearsal over for the day. We will continue tomorrow after school." He says, grabbing his messenger bag and leaving the six behind.
"If you guys use your phones, I promise I won't threaten you until the end of the year." Jade says, glaring at the boys.
"Don't believe her. Her jaw twitched, her tell that she's lying." Beck says, stopping Robbie from trying to grab his phone from the box Sikowitz left on a shelf to the side of the Black Box.
"Go to hell, Beckett." Jade says, grabbing her bag and leaving.
"This is going to be a fun week." Tori says with a sigh, grabbing her bag and leaving, dragging Cat with her to prevent the redhead from grabbing her phone, the guys not helping by trying to entice Cat to use her phone.
A couple of hours later, Tori sits on one of the chairs in the kitchen, working on homework as her mother texts on her phone, Tori failing not to look at the phone in her mother's hands. "What is wrong with you?" Holly Vega asks her youngest as her eldest leaves through the front door, messing with Tori by announcing random tweets.
"Nothing." Tori says quickly, looking through the back of her history book. "This stuff is just too hard." She says, slamming the book shut.
"Why not just look it up with your phone?" Holly asks distractedly, her attention on her phone.
"You know I can't. Why are you torturing me?" Tori asks, her voice slightly dramatic as she stares at her mother. Before Holly can say anything about her youngest's growing freak out, the front door opens and Cat runs in, running up to Tori and grabbing her shoulders.
"Give me a phone. Any phone. Please." Cat says, starting to shake Tori, desperation in her voice.
"Cat, calm down." Tori says gently, not looking at her mother's raised eyebrow, knowing how it must sound after her small freak out a moment ago. "Think about this, if you keep your attention off of using your phone and stuff, you won't have to worry about homework or anything in Sikowitz's class for the rest of the year." She says, standing up and guiding Cat to the couch.
"Phone!" Cat says, getting past Tori and trying to grab Holly's phone from her.
"Cat!" Tori says, grabbing Cat and dragging her to the couch, sitting on her after pushing Cat down. "Mom, do we still have the landline?" She asks, barely keeping Cat from getting up and trying for Tori's mom's phone again.
"Yeah. In the garage. Why?" Holly asks, surprised at how wild Cat is for her phone, eyes wide at the small redhead.
"Grab it for me please? And I recommend you head upstairs or something before Cat gets free." Tori says, struggling to stay on Cat.
"Okay." Holly says, going into the small hallway between the kitchen and the garage, grabbing the wireless wall phone and heading back to the living room, quickly giving Tori the phone and leaving. "Who are you calling?" She asks, keeping her phone behind her back as Cat stares at her.
"Back up." Tori says simply, dialing a number she had memorized for a while, not knowing why she memorized this number over most others.
"Who are you and how did you get this number?" An angry voice says after a few rings, some nervousness in her voice.
"Relax. It's me, Tori." She says quickly, momentarily forgetting about their last night in Yerba. "I need your help." She says, struggling to keep Cat down.
"With what?" Jade asks, clearly hearing Cat calmly tell Tori she's fine. "And why is Cat there?" She asks, a brief moment of jealousy in her voice.
"I'm trying to keep her from stealing my mom's phone and using it. I need your help to keep her from using it and costing us this challenge." Tori says, not believing Cat.
"Fine. I'll be there in ten minutes." Jade says, hanging up and grabbing her keys. "Guess it's our best chance to talk." She says as she puts the phone back on the stand, still not sure when her mother bought a landline for the house.
Nine minutes later, Jade pulls up to the Vega house, sighing as she shuts off her car and gets out, locking the door after closing it. 'I wonder if this is considered using tech?' She asks herself as she walks up to the door.
And this is where I end it. I added the last part because, in a way, it might go against the challenge. Since cars, especially the ones seen in the show, are modern and everything, they might go against Sikowitz's rules of not using anything from after he was born. For the sake of this though, no, it doesn't go against the challenge, since they need cars to get to school and whatnot.
Not as long as I thought, but I think setting up Tori and Jade talking, while preventing Cat from getting up and using technology, needs to happen. So that'll be next chapter. Don't know if I'll use the part where the little girl asks to use their phone. We'll find out next time.
I am working on the 'Girl Meets World' one-shot I mentioned last chapter, but it's taking longer than anticipated because I'm not too familiar with the characters. Writing them, anyways. I'll try to have it out by the end of the week. Sorry for the delay.
Thank you for reading. Hope you liked it.
Blessed Be.