I do not own Avatar the Last Airbender
I do not own the song My Happy Ending
Jason is Jet. He is second in line for primo boy, or he would be.
"Their parents are even weirder," a kid with a sly sounding voice told Zack. When Zack turned around he saw a pair of wolfish eyes, but everything else about him said he was and idiot who's brain decided to have a hormone party in between his legs. This guy was so practiced in flirting that pick up lines slipped out of his mouth uncontrollably, which happened in his sleep according to half the cheer team.
"Who are you?" Zack asked shortly. He already knew that he wouldn't like this guy.
"I'm Jason," Jason said with an involuntary smoothness.
"I'm straight, I will not buy anything, and I am in no condition to join a gang," Zack listed all of his defenses for a guy like this all at once.
"So am I, that would be a waste of time, and nobody's dumb enough to think you are," Jason bit back. "Now let's hear your name."
"Zack."
"So how did you get in the chair," Jason changed the conversation.
"Was born with this disease that I gave up on pronouncing a long time ago," Zack explained. "It involves muscles being to weak to support weight, but it only effects my legs."
"So you have never walked a day in your life, that's sad," Jason said with tone bordering on mocking.
"Not really," Zack masked anger with friendliness, but Jason wasn't that dumb. "Since most of my energy doubles back I have a killer punch."
"Point made," Jason gave in.
"Why did you want to talk to me?" Zack asked. "You don't seem like the kind of guy who would do that just to be nice."
"Ouch, you really know how to hurt a guy," Jason teased.
Zack stared at him with that intense look that your mother usually gives you. He had a straight face and the 'I know you better than that' eyes.
"Okay your right," Jason pleaded. "You act like my parents."
"Just tell me what you want," Zack was getting really tired of this whole charade.
"I want answers to the test," Jason said abruptly. "No teacher will be looking for you because you're the new kid and there is the whole pity factor."
"I never abuse the pity factor," Zack defended himself "And I have a feeling that I shouldn't deal with you."
"You just made a big mistake," Jason threatened.
"I have a feeling that I have made bigger," Zack said without knowing what he was saying at all. After that he just shook himself to get rid of the creepy dream feeling he just had. "I had no idea where that came from."
"Well I have an idea about punishing you," Jason snarled. "If you tell that is."
Zack just glared at Jason as he walked away with a smirk.
"I have got to talk to the office about being dismissed earlier," Zack though aloud.
Kat and Sean had just stopped yelling at each other.
"I got this weird feeling when I talked to Zack the first time," Sean said attempting civility.
"I got one too," Kat went along with this. "Almost like I knew him before and I felt sorry for him."
"That's the wheelchair talking," Sean shrugged off.
"No. It was more emotional pity, like I knew he had been through something horrible," Kat explained.
"I got the feeling of hostility and that he was a bad person," Sean told Kat. "I will always trust my instincts."
"Well I felt sorry for him," Kat challenged with her voice now starting to rise.
Isaac finally arrived at the school ten minutes later.
"So how was your day?" He asked hopefully.
"Weird, now get me out of here," Zack replied shortly. "I don't care about people seeing this."
Zuko wheeled up to the open convertible and grabbed the door. He lifted himself out of the chair with his arms and thrust himself head first into the seat. Then he proceeded to squirm into and upright position. Needless to say this had gotten the attention of at least 20 people.
"Why couldn't you do that before," Isaac asked an extremely messy and disheveled looking Zack. Zack glared in return.
"Alright, I get it," Isaac gave in.
When they arrived back at the house Zack didn't pull his door stunt, much to the dismay of his uncle.
"How is your relationship with your mother grandparents?" Isaac asked as a conversation starter.
"Do want me to tell you it in Japanese of English," Zack asked.
"My Japanese is a little rusty," Isaac confessed.
"You shouldn't have mixed superior Japanese blood with a mut," Zack mimicked with a high choppy accent. "It's bad enough that his ancestors did it."
"There one of THOSE people," Isaac grumbled. "Kudos to your mother for knowing better."
"They tolerate me though," Zack defended halfheartedly. "But I think they blame my disability on bad blood. They don't even consider that a thousand years of inbreeding on a tiny island might have had a hand."
"I think that you have issues with them," Isaac commented.
"Yes I do," Zack admitted. "But they are just too stinkin proud. Why do they have to be like that?"
"I think people who are too proud of their country are annoying too," Isaac agreed. The way he said sounded like he was giving in. Then he looked at his watch and slapped himself on his forehead. "I have to get to the club before the rush. Do you want to come?"
"Sure, it sounds cool," Zack said s they left to his uncles club.
Zack was wheeled into a circular room that was about 40ft across, not counting the stage, with an octagon stage in the middle. That was about that was big enough to a hold the equipment of a good rock band and room for the lead singer to move around, but all that was there right now was a CD payer and a mike.
The walls were primarily black, but there was a silver dragon that seemed as if it had wrapped itself around the walls twice. There were also pictures that seemed to be placed at random. It was pretty cool.
There were already about 20 people in there, and there was a lot of room to spare.
Zack was surprised to see both Tally and Tara walk in. One of the two, he assumed it was Tara gave him a tired smile and walked towards a table. Once she sat down she moved one of the chairs to make space for his wheelchair and motioned for him to sit down.
The other twin, whom he assumed was Tally, went up on stage with look of silent moaning. She yanked the microphone out of it's resting place irritably.
"Number fourteen," the twin sighed.
The sound of a guitar solo began to fill the room. Tara, or who assumed was Tara, began singing like a pro.
"Ohh, ohh
So much for my happy ending
Ohh, ohh
So much for my happy ending
Ohh, ohh, ohhhh
Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?
Don't leave me hangin'
In a city so dead.
Held up so high
By such a breakable thread.
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything
That I wanted,(that I wanted)
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it (we lost it)
All of the memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
ohh, ohh,
So much for my happy ending
Ohh ohh
You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say (they say)
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they (But so are they)
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?(even know you?)
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do (all the shit that you do)
"Never thought I would see the day a person like Tally would sing on stage," Zack laughed. He turned his head around to see Tara smirking.
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything
That I wanted (that I wanted)
We were meant to be, supposed to be
But we lost it (we lost it)
All of the memories so close to me
Just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
It's nice to know that you were there
Thanks for acting like you care
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me know we were through
The twin that sat by Zack nodded to the twin on stage. Suddenly the twin on stage threw the mike to the ground making it shriek. After everyone in the club jumped and groaned the poor tech man tried to say something.
It was at that moment when the twin on stage picked up the mike.
"SHUT IT!"
Then she donned a cheerful smile, calmly walked off the stage, and took the seat on the other side of Zack.
"Okay, what the heck just happened?" Zack shouted; which made everyone in the club stare at him.
"We love to freak out our new friends like that, right Tally?" Tara said.
"You should have seen his face," Tally cackled.
"So you, the cheer-leader, sang happy ending on stage and threw a temper tantrum," Zack worked out slowly. "And you… sounded like Avril Lavigne."
"I know I'm the last person you would expect huh?" Tara guessed.
"So why do you do this?" Zack asked. "You know, freak your new friends out?"
"Our family is incredibly weird," Tally said bluntly.
"So we have to tell if you're up to meeting them," Tara finished with a smile. "And you are. You may not be the hardest to freak out, but your very open minded about freakiness."
"Pa-lease, He hasn't even seen your all-out freakiness," Tally rolled her eyes.
At that moment Isaac decided to walk by and saw the two twins sitting with his nephew. He gave them a warning glance.
"He doesn't like me disturbing the customers," Tara said with embarrassment and Tally mocked at the same time.
"We never were on the jerks good side," Tally explained. Her tone of voice screamed that she had done things Zack did not want to know about.
"I heard that he and his father have shunned his brother from the family for things that the guy can't even remember. And he still hasn't talked to him!" Tara said; for the first time, other than the song, Zack hadn't heard her voice sound diabetic.
"He was willing to take in his brother's son from what I heard," Zack said nonchalantly.
"I heard that from 'Queen Katie' too," Tally spat. "Don't believe a word she say's. She will do anything to defend that jerk, and she's a lair."
"Like that story about the crazy squirrel living in her yard," Tara continued. "No animal is like that."
"I heard that it mauled a paperboy last night," Zack commented, and then his uncle started to walk towards him.
"Better go before the old fart finds a way to punish us for nothing," Tally mumbled. "See ya later Zack."
Uncle Isaac walked over. Zack had no idea what to think now.
"Ask them to stop their acrobatics once and they think your out to get them," Isaac mumbled as he went to Zacks table.
"I came with your backpack just in case you wanted to get your homework done while your stuck now that I have scared off your new friends," Isaac sounded friendly and apologetic at the same time. Then he left knowing that the girls would come back soon.
The twins checked if he was there about two minutes after Isaac left.
"Sorry about that," Tara apologized. "So howd' your first day go?"
"Well a crazy guy who was like a wolf threatened me and wanted me to help him steal some test answers."
"Jason huh?" Tally asked even though she knew the answer. "I got nailed for refusing him. That was when 'Queen Katie' wrote me off for a bad girl because she's stupid enough to trust that idiot. Even helped in on the rumor mill."
At that moment the song 'Day in the Sun' rang out with bad sound quality and low volume. Tara picked up her purse and answered her phone.
"Yes, no I did not eat any weird foods. Yes I did make new a friend, NO HE'S NOT?" Tara chatted. "I don't think that he's a druggie."
Zack spat out some bottled water that he had been drinking while she talked.
Tally waved goodbye before she grabbed her sister and pulled her out of the establishment.
That is my 4th chapter. Hope you guy's like. I had a sever case of writers block / unable to make myself sit down and write. It is probably shorter than the other, but I will do my best to make the next chapter longer and write it sooner. I did make it the opposite on purpose to show that circumstances can change everything, even if it is only for a short while. I am almost finished with the next chapter for The Ghost. Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry for waiting so long.