Chapter Six:
It was the second day back at West Beverly and the bell had just rang informing the students at lunch to get their asses to their next class. While most students aren't enthusiastic about going to class, Navid was completely depressed about going to his next class, gym. The previous day, he had ditch his class with Annie and today, wish he could do the same. Unfortunately for him, no one wanted to ditch with him and was caught by Ms. Taylor trying to leave the school premises.
As he entered guy's locker room, Navid was surprised to find out that it wasn't as bad as he had remembered from his freshman year. Since he had arrived late, the room was empty and Navid decided to change into his gym clothes in the corner of room and was surprised to find another brunette male, with a light complexion there. The guy looked up at Navid and said, "Looks like we think alike," as he removed his shoes. "Excuse me?" said Navid, still standing in the entrance of the row. "I meant getting dressed in the corner where there aren't as many people," he responded as he took off his shirt.
"Yeah, that's why I came over here, just thought that I would be alone since the bell rang like ten minutes ago," said Navid, as he sat on the bench next to the guy and began to undress. "So do you hate gym as well?" asked the guy as he pulled on his gym shorts. "Yeah. So what did you guys do yesterday?" asked Navid as he took off his pants. "Don't know, I was out yesterday," said the guy as he put on his running shoes and got up, "Well I'll see you out there." "Okay," said Navid, who was just in his boxers, "I'm Navid by the way." The guy turned to Navid and said, "I'm Bryce. You know, I think I'll wait for you by the door seeing as we're both late." "Ok, I'll finish up in a second," said Navid, still sitting in his boxers. Cool, new friend. Gym might not be so bad.
Naomi lifted her head off the pillow and everything was fuzzy. Her vision, her memory, and her hair. She could barely remember how she got home; let alone how she got into bed. I'm never drinking this much again. As Naomi pulled herself out of her bed, Jen walked into her bedroom. "Well look who's finally up," said Jen, leaning against the doorway, holding a piece of paper and a glass of water. "Here," said Jen handing Naomi the water and some pills as she tucked the paper under her arm. Naomi looked up at Jen. "It's aspirin." "Thanks Jen."
Jen walked away from Naomi and stopped. She began picking things off Naomi's shelves and began pacing the room prompting Naomi to ask what was wrong. "I got this letter this morning," she said holding up the paper. "The Beach Club is being reposed. According to this, Olivier is having financial troubles and sold it to some Farris people." "Jen," said Naomi, "I'm sorry this happened." "Well it's not like you had anything to do with it. Anyways, since your suspended, why don't you make your drunk ass useful and do something outside this house." Jen walked out of the room Naomi tried to stop her. "Not now Naomi, I have yoga." Naomi stood in her door in a now alone house and couldn't believe that Caroline Farris had actually managed to take the Beach Club away.
Adriana was looking out the window of the tour bus wondering where things had gone wrong. Last night had been a wonderful night. The concert went well and she was happy, well at least until the after party. Adriana knew that there were going to be problems with touring with Javier for the year and she had prayed to whatever higher power that drugs wouldn't be one of the issues. Unfortunately for Adriana, they were.
Javier was sitting one the opposite side of the bus, laying his head back, with sun glasses on his face, dealing with the aftermath of the after party. Adriana couldn't believe that Javier had actually partied as hard as he did, well she could, but the fact that he started snorting cocaine was something that she couldn't. Adriana was no longer staring out the window but instead at Javier, who could feel her staring at him. "What?" he said in an angry tone. "Nothing," said Adriana in response. "Then stop staring at me," said Javier as more of a demand than a request. "So you're still mad at me?" said Adriana, walking over towards Javier.
"Not mad, just disappointed in you." "Disappointed? Why, because I wouldn't snort the coke," said Adriana, rather annoyed. Javier sat up straight and responded, "Yeah actually. Hopefully, you won't disappoint at the next one."
Annie was bored out of her mind. Suspension was nothing to be proud of nor was it any fun for her, but then again, that probably had to do with the fact that she was also grounded for said suspension. After spending her entire morning cleaning her room, Annie was bored and that boredom continued to grow until she decided to rearrange her bedroom, which then ended up in the original layout, which it had started in. Hunger had finally kicked in and Annie decided to go to the kitchen and get lunch when she ran into her mother, who had just return from her errands.
"Hi mom," said Annie as she opened the refrigerator. "Annie, good day?" "Yeah, I guess. Didn't you go to the store yesterday?" asked Annie, as she watched her mother unpack the bags. Debbie hesitated but ultimately responded, "Yes, but I needed some things for dinner." "Does dinner involve alcohol mom?" asked Annie, staring at Debbie. "Annie, what are you getting at?" Annie wanted to respond that she knew that her mother was having some consumption problems but remembered that she had promised Dixon in the morning that they would confront their mother together. Instead, Annie responded, "Nothing, just hungry I guess." "Well, how about I make you sandwich?" said Debbie with a smile. "Sure mom."
Navid and Bryce were back in locker room getting changed, chatting about the fact that Navid was dating Adriana, who was touring with Javier. "That must be tough, having your girlfriend miles away like that." "Yeah, it is, but…who am I kidding, it sucks," responded Navid. "So what class you got next," asked Bryce, as he put his jeans back on. "Calculus," responded Navid, as he tied his shoe lace, "you?" "Calculus as well," said Bryce with a smile. Navid was going to say something back to Bryce when two other guys from came up to them. These two guys were well built, obviously members of the football team. One of the two was taller with light brown hair while the other was short, with blonde hair.
"I'd be careful around that one if I were you Shirazi," said the blonde, patting Navid on the shoulder. Bryce began to tense up due to the blonde's comment. Navid, who was still seated, turned to the blonde and asked, "What's that supposed to mean?" "He might get a bit touchy with you, that's all," responded the brunette, as he and the blonde walked away. Navid turned to Bryce and said, "What was that all about?" Bryce quickly put his gym clothes in his locker and grabbed his things and responded that he didn't know what the two were talking about. "I need to head to class, see you there." "Wait, I'm almost…" Bryce left so quickly that he didn't let Navid finish his sentence. "That was weird."
Silver was standing outside of Mr. Matthews' classroom, leaning against the wall, waiting for Teddy to come by. She had been looking for Teddy all day but had seen no sign him anywhere and really wanted to talk about the kiss that they had shared the night before. Silver glanced around the hallway and instead of seeing Teddy, saw Georgiana. Silver didn't want to ask her if she had seen Teddy but really wanted to talk to him in person about the kiss so when Georgiana got close enough…
"Hey Georgiana, do you have a sec?" said Silver, blocking the girl's entrance into the classroom. "And you are?" said Georgiana, sounding annoyed. "Silver. Remember, Teddy's friend. I saw you last night at your party." Georgiana gave Silver a blank stare for a second and then responded, "Yeah, I know. I'm good with faces." "Oh, sorry," said Silver quickly, "it's just the blank stare was throwing me off…" "What do you want exactly?" asked Georgiana, trying to get Silver to get to the point. "Have you seen Teddy?" "He didn't come to school today. I would either check a strip club or a tennis court. Now can you move aside?" said Georgiana, shoving Silver aside. The bell rang and Silver was still standing outside, thinking of where Teddy might be. What if he's with a girl? "Silver," said Mr. Matthews, sticking his head out of the classroom, "would you care to join us?" Silver walked inside and took her seat and before she knew it, the bell rang again and class was over.
Ivy and Dixon were outside in the parking lot making out and enjoying themselves, when Liam came over. "Well you two sure seem happy," said Liam as he reached them. "Yeah, we are," said Ivy, arms wrapped around Dixon. "So anything going on right now?" asked Liam. "Well Dixon has to take care of something with Annie and I'm free if you want to hang or something," responded Ivy. "I would, but I have to see Ms. Taylor about community service stuff." "Then why do you ask?" asked Dixon. "Just wondering," responded Liam. Ivy unwrapped her arms from Dixon and said, "Well in that case, I'm going to go skate board with Trent and the guys. Later losers." Ivy walked away from the two and immediately spun around. "Call me if you need anything Dixon and good luck."
"What's going on exactly?" asked Liam. "Annie and I think that our mom has a drinking problem," said Dixon quietly. "Seriously?" "Yeah, we found her last night passed out on the couch with a bottle of vodka," exclaimed Dixon. "That really sucks." As Liam finished his sentence, Navid came over. "Hey, what's going on?" he asked. "Well my mom is having a drinking problem which Annie and I have to talk to her about. So I'll see you guys tomorrow," said Dixon, as he gathered his belongings and walked to his car. "Is he serious about that?" asked Navid. "Yeah." "Damn. Hey you want to do something?" asked Navid. "Can't, I have more community service to do. Now if you excuse, I have to see Ms. Taylor," responded Liam, walking back towards the school. "I thought you were finish with that crap." "So did I. I'll talk to you later Navid."
Navid was now standing alone in the parking lot, not having a desire to go home. He could go to the media lab and work on Blaze related things, but had little desire to do so. He was about to give in when he saw Bryce walking out of the school and decided to ask him if he wanted to hang out or something since they've barely spoken since gym. "Hey Bryce," said Navid, running up to Bryce. "Hey Navid, what's up," responded Bryce sounding confused.
"Nothing really. So I was wondering if you wanted to hang out or something. That's if you're not busy or anything or if you don't have plans or…" "Navid, you're rambling," responded Bryce as they walked over to where Bryce had parked. "Yeah, sorry about that. I must be nervous or something. So do you?" Bryce opened his car door and responded, "Yeah. So what do you want to do?" "We could go to the Beach Club or the Peach Pit if you want." Bryce thought about it and said no. "I rather go to a place where people form this school don't normally go if you don't mind."
"You like video games?" asked Navid. "Yeah, why?" "We could go to my place and play some. I got a massive collection. Whatever genre, which ever system." "Ok, let's go then." "Cool. So you wanna follow me or do you want a lift?" Bryce stared at his car door and closed it. "I'll just get a lift." Navid and Bryce walked over to Navid's car and drove off, not knowing that the guys from gym had been watching them. "Well we warned him," said the blonde. "His funeral," responded the brunette.
Silver was in the media lab working on Blaze related things when her sister Kelly came in. "Hey Silver, I might need to stay a bit later than I thought I would." "Still no leads then?" asked Silver. "No and I'm swamped with being both counselor and principle. Would you mind picking up Sammy for me?" said Kelly, pleading with Silver. "No I don't mind, I was about to leave anyways." "Okay," said Kelly handing Silver her car keys. "Call me when you're done and I'll come pick you up," said Silver, gathering her things. "You're the best sis, I owe you," said Kelly walking out of the room.
Silver quickly gathered the rest of her things and ran after Kelly. "Hey Kelly, can I ask you something?" "Sure, can we make it fast though, I have Liam waiting in my office." "Should I be worried that Teddy is not at school and that he hasn't responded to any of my text messages?" asked Silver. "Not necessarily sweetie. You still contemplating what that kiss meant?" "Yes and what if he just meant it as a 'friend thing' and not a 'I want to get back together' thing?" asked Silver, rather emotionally. "Silver calm down. Unless you guys decided to be friends with benefits, I highly doubt that it was a friend thing. Why don't you go over to Teddy's place and ask him what that kiss meant for him."
"You're right. I should be asking him the questions, not you. Thanks Kelly." "You're welcome and could you please pick Sammy up before you decided to see Teddy?" asked Kelly. "Yes, going right now." Silver and Kelly parted ways and Silver made her way to the parking lot, where she decided that she needed to talk to Teddy, even if it was his voicemail.
Silver dialed Teddy's number and waited for his voice but the call was picked up. Silver was very hopeful that it was Teddy and said, "Hey Teddy it's me Silver." "I'm sorry, but Teddy is occupied at the moment, but I'll tell him that you called. Bye now." Silver couldn't believe that some girl had just answered Teddy's phone and to make it better, it was Georgiana, Silver was certain of that. Silver hung up her phone and put it in her bag. She got into Kelly's car and drove out of the school's parking lot and drove towards his house, no even knowing if he was actually there. What was worse then the Teddy dilemma was the fact that Silver allowed her feelings towards Teddy cloud her judgment that she completely forgot about Sammy.