Cyberchase Jealousy
Cyberchase Jealousy.
Chapter 4: Hanging Out?
Inez took Shari's advice and hoped it would work. She had to find some time to try it out. But with running errands in Cyberspace, preparing for the Radopolis Grand Prix, and her daily chores back on Earth, she was really busy.
She wasn't the only one busy. Jackie had already designed the Radopolis Racing Radsters' jerseys, as well as the cheerleading outfits for herself and Inez. She took the body measurements of herself, Inez, Matt, Slider, Digit, and Slider's Radopolis friend, and got straight to work. The Radopolis Grand Prix was next weekend, and she had to make six pieces of clothing in almost a week.
Jackie has been cooped up in her bedroom, doing nothing, but making the jerseys and cheerleading outfits. Her mother questioned the red and yellow cotton material and asked what she was up to, and Jackie answered that she was making clothes for the needy children.
So far, she made Slider and Matt's jerseys. They were currently hanging on hangers at the back of Jackie's closet. She was sitting by her desk, running Digit's jersey through the sewing machine. Next to her was a notebook, flipped open to the page with Digit's jersey design and body measurements.
Jackie was just sewing a large red three to Digit's yellow jersey, when her skwak pad beeped on the chair next to her. She reached over to the chair and answered it. On the screen was a text message.
help send flyers of radopolis grand prix 2 everywhere in cyberspace
Jackie stood up, with the skwak pad still in her hands. She guessed the jerseys would have to wait. Her boyfriend needed her and the others.
be rite there send me a portal
Just then, an oval purple portal opened in front of her, and she jumped it. The portal closed behind her, as she travelled through the vortex to Radopolis.
In Slider's garage on the cybersite of Radopolis, Slider was behind his workbench, printing out flyers from his computer, advertising the Radopolis Grand Prix next weekend. The workbench was practically covered in flyers. Cyberspace was huge, and they were going to need a lot of flyers.
Next to him, Matt was packing all the flyers in brown satchels. Digit was helping him, almost swamped in a pile of flyers himself.
Just then, an oval purple portal opened in the garage. Inez rolled out, followed by Jackie, who hopped out, as the portal closed behind her. They both happened to meet each other in the vortex and exited it together.
"Ugh, what a ride," Inez moaned, rubbing her sore head. She was wearing a new accessory along with her silver hoop earrings: one silver hairclip on each side of her head, pinning back her brown bangs.
Jackie dusted off her sky blue miniskirt with her hands. "What's up, Slider?"
"Hey, Jacks," Slider greeted, smiling. "We have work to do."
Inez was still rubbing her head. "Okay, where do you want us to start?"
"Well, first of all grab a satchel," Slider said. "Okay, Matt, I want you to start handing out flyers at Frogsnorts School of Magic."
Matt sadly strapped the satchel full of flyers to his back over his orange backpack. "Ugh, why must I be near Stalking Shari Spotter!?"
Slider ignored him, turning to Digit. "Digit, start advertising in Happily Ever After."
"Right away, Slider," Digit answered, grabbing a satchel filled with overflowing flyers.
Slider nodded, turning to Inez and Jackie. "Inez, you can start handing out flyers in Tikiville. Jackie, you can begin in R-Fair City."
Jackie planted a kiss on Slider's cheek. "Alright, I'll see you later."
Inez nodded, biting her bottom lip. "Sure thing, Slider!"
Slider pressed the red button on the side of his workbench, opening an oval purple portal for the four of them. "I'll stay here and make more flyers. If you run out of flyers, text me on your skwak pad and I'll open you a portal to send you back here to refill, as well as transfer you to different Cybersites if necessary."
Inez ran her right hand down Slider's left arm. "I'll be sure to do that."
Slider twitched away, as Inez gave him a smile, before hopping into the portal after Digit, Matt, and Jackie. The portal closed behind her. Slider sighed and got back to printing more Radopolis Grand Prix advertisement flyers.
An oval purple portal opened in Tikiville and Inez hopped out, with the portal closing behind her. Inez adjusted the strap on her browns satchel, and began walking through Tikiville.
She handed out flyers to any person that passed by her. Each of them accepted, reading the advertisement flyer, as they walked away. It was a good thing a lot of people were spending their time outside that day.
It wasn't long until she spotted the Big Kahuna of Tikiville – Creech. She was strolling through Tikiville, making sure all was in order.
"Hey, Creech!" Inez called, waving to her.
Creech had her back to Inez, but she turned around, spotting Inez, and smiled. "Hi, Inez!" What brings you to my beautiful cybersite of Tikiville?"
"Oh, I'm just handing out flyers for the Radopolis Grand Prix next weekend," Inez answered, reaching into her satchel and pulling out a flyer, which she gave to Creech. "See, Digit, Matt, Slider, Jackie, and I are advertising for it."
Creech read the advertisement. "It sounds like fun. Maybe I'll go."
"That would be great," Inez said, passing an advertisement to a bystander by the road.
"Speaking of Slider and Jackie," Creech began. "How are the lovebirds lately?"
"Sadly, still together," Inez thought. "Oh, they're doing fine."
Creech smiled. "That's great! And you and Matt?"
"Nah, we're not dating," Inez corrected. "We're just friends. He doesn't like me that way."
Creech raised an eyebrow. "Really? You two are usually inseparable."
It was Inez's turn to raise an eyebrow. "What makes you say that?"
"Since I'm Tikiville's leader, Motherboard tells me almost everything," Creech explained, giggling. "And I remember her telling me a funny story that involved you and Matt during Halloween."
Cue Flashback:
"What did I tell you about calling me Nezzie!?" Inez yelled, annoyed.
"Sorry," Matt said, apologetically.
Inez gave Matt a flirtatious look. "It's okay, I don't mind – Matthew."
Matt blushed, though no one could see.
End Flashback.
"That was, like, puppy love," Inez protested. "Like I said, I like him as a friend."
Creech smirked. "Whatever you say."
"But you're right, I do like someone," Inez said, rubbing the back of her head. "I just need some advice on how to get with him. Flirting is not working."
Creech thought about it for a moment. "Well, Inez, flirting is not enough. You must make him want to be near you. Complement him, but don't lie because he'll know when you do. Ask him to hang out one day, not on a date though, just like friends. Oh, and laugh at his jokes, even if you think they're not funny."
Thoughts ran through Inez's head. "Do you think it will work?"
"It should," Creech replied. "If not, that guy is just not right for you." Pause. "Is it King Duducus?"
"No!" Inez called, as she ran off. "Thanks, Creech! See you at the Radopolis Grand Prix!"
Creech waved goodbye to Inez, as she hurried off, handing Radopolis Grand Prix flyers to everyone that passed by.
Meanwhile, Jackie was in R-Fair City, with a cheerful face and a satchel full of Radopolis Grand Prix advertisements. Since R-Fair City was such a popular place, there were so many tourists to hand our flyers to.
She spent only two minutes there, and her overflowing satchel of flyers was now half empty. Some people turned her way and whispered into each other's ears. The Cybersquad were kind of like celebrities in Cyberspace, after defeating Hacker, and many remember Jackie as the sweet, kind one of the group.
As Jackie made her way through the crowded streets of R-Fair City, a little poddling from Poddleville, who happened to be one of the tourists in R-Fair City that day on a tour bus, walked up to her, holding a notebook and a pen in her hand.
"Are you Jackie?" the poddling asked, looking up at Jackie with hopeful eyes – er – eye.
Jackie smiled, sweetly. "Yes, I'm Jackie."
"Can I have your autograph?" the poddling asked, holding out her notebook and pen, anxiously.
Jackie grinned, patting the poddling on her triangular back. "Okay, sure."
She took the notebook and pen and signed it in her neat cursive writing, even adding a couple of stars around it to make it special. She then handed it back to the poddling, who held it happily in her arms.
"Thank you!" she chirped, hurrying back to her parents by the tour bus.
Jackie smiled and continued walking through the crowds, handing out flyers to everyone she passed. She noticed the wall, which was covered with large rectangles to post advertisements about everything happening or is going to happen in R-Fair City.
Jackie remember that was the place Inez and Lucky were writing down multiplication tables to figure out how many Delete clones there were and how many were left to catch. She figured it was a great place to paint a giant version of the Radopolis Grand Prix advertisement, using her artistic talents.
And luckily, there was a bunch of open paint cans in front of a blank rectangular board, filled with different colours of overflowing paint, and paintbrushes by their sides.
Jackie reached into her satchel, grabbed a flyer, and made a hole near the top of it, so it could hang on a loose nail on the wall next to the blank rectangular board. She reached down for a large paintbrush, deciding to paint the background bright yellow first.
While Jackie was feverishly painting fast, and neatly I might add, an oval purple portal opened in Slider's garage, and Matt hopped out. He managed to hand out all his flyers at Frogsnorts, and leave before he ran into Shari Spotter. Luckily, Slider was able to act fast when Matt called.
The portal closed behind him. Matt searched the garage for any sign of Slider. Everything looked the same as always, with a three foot tall pile of Radopolis Grand Prix flyers behind Slider's workbench. All that was missing was Slider, who was nowhere to be found.
"Yo, Slider!" Matt called. "Where are you!?"
The pile of flyers shook, as Matt turned around to look. Slider popped his head out of the top of the pile, followed by his upper body and arms. He sighed, pulling a flyer out of his shaggy brown hair.
"The printer went berserk," Slider explained, before Matt could ask. "Don't ask. Oh, well, I least we have more that enough flyers needed to hand out throughout Cyberspace."
Matt laughed. "Well, Digit and Inez texted me a couple of minutes ago. They're coming back for a refill soon."
Just then, another oval purple portal opened in front of Matt and Inez hopped out. Digit flew out after her, as the portal closed behind them. They dropped their browns satchels on the ground.
Digit was panting hard. "Okay, three cybersites down, a lot more to go."
"Looks like everyone is back for a refill," Slider stated, looking at each one of them, who was standing there, talking. "What about Jackie?" Slider asked.
Matt shrugged his shoulders. "I don't know. I haven't heard from her."
Slider made his way through the large pile of flyers to his skwak pad on his workbench. Ever since he joined the Cybersquad during the Cyberolympics at Mount Olympus, he received a skwak pad from Motherboard as well. Jackie explained that Slider was just a part of Team Motherboard as any of them, and she approved.
He turned it on. "Jacks, how's it going?" Pause. "Jackie?"
Meanwhile, Jackie was still painting her poster, which was almost complete. The background was bright yellow, with Radopolis Grand Prix at the top and July 3-4 at the bottom, both in large red letters and numbers.
In the middle was a picture of Slider, holding a red racing helmet under his right arm. He was wearing a matching red jump suit. He was leaning against a red Cybercoupe. She changed the racer from the original flyer to Slider on the giant poster. Around the entire picture were stars of every colour of the rainbow.
Jackie was adding a few more stars to the poster. Her yellow skin-tight jacket and sky blue miniskirt had different coloured paint blotches all over them, with a few of them on her face. Between her teeth was a thin paintbrush. In her right hand was another paintbrush, which she was using to paint with.
Just then, there was beeping coming from her right pocket in her miniskirt.
Using her left hand, she removed the paintbrush from between her teeth, and placed it in one of the open paint cans on the ground. She then reached into her right skirt pocket and pulled out her skwak pad to answer it.
"Hello?" Jackie said, looking at the screen.
Slider popped up on the screen. "Hey, Jackie. What are you doing now?"
"I'm painting a giant version of the Radopolis Grand Prix flyer on one of the rectangular boards in R-Fair City," Jackie explained. "I just finished. I'll send you a picture. Can you open a portal for me while I scan the picture?"
Slider nodded. "Sure thing, sweets."
Once Slider hung up, Jackie held her skwak pad out in front of her finished poster, the screen still facing her. She held down a button with her thumb, as the skwak pad scanned the entire giant poster. It beeped, indicating the scanning was complete. She pressed another button, sending the picture to Slider.
Just as she finished, an oval purple portal opened next to her. She smiled and, after dropping the paintbrush from her right hand onto the ground, she slipped her skwak pad into her right skirt pocket, and hopped into the portal, as it closed behind her.
Meanwhile, the picture of the giant poster Jackie scanned and sent to Slider appeared on the screen of Slider's skwak pad. He examined it with great interest.
"Wow, this is amazing!" he exclaimed.
Inez looked over at Slider. She never recalled seeing him so happy before. "What is it?"
He showed Inez the picture on his skwak pad's screen. "Jackie painted a larger version of the Radopolis Grand Prix flyer on one of those giant rectangular boards at R-Fair City, replacing the racer on the poster with me. Isn't it great!?"
Inez pretended to care. "Yeah, fantastic."
Just then, an oval purple portal opened inside the garage, and Jackie jumped out of it, with the portal closing behind her.
Slider walked up to her, handing her a wet cloth Digit gave him. "Here Jackie, clean up, you're a mess."
Jackie took the cloth from him, wiping the paint blotches off her face. "Thanks."
Inez glared at the two lovebirds, as they were laughing about something.
"Ask him to hang out?" she thought, crossing her arms. "Sure; once the time is right."
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