Cyberchase Jealousy
Cyberchase Jealousy.
Chapter 6: Spilling The Beans.
Inez wished she hadn't heard Matt and Slider's conversation yesterday afternoon, but on the other hand, she was glad she did. Although she felt bad that Jackie was going to get dumped, she was also glad that Slider would be single again, giving her a chance to ask him out.
Once Jackie arrived home last night, she called Inez on her skwak pad, and spoke about the date. That was when Inez sadly spilled the beans on her. How did it go you ask? Well, let's just say Jackie tried to sleep, face down on a wet pillow, screaming and crying non-stop. She probably didn't get much sleep at all.
The next morning at around ten, Inez was in her bedroom. She was wearing a yellow sleeveless midriff, red frilly miniskirt, white, knee-high socks, which Jackie also owned, and red shoes. In the middle of the yellow midriff were three red R's overlapping each other. Her short brown hair was put back in a very short brown ponytail.
Holding both of her yellow and red pom-poms in her left hand, she reached for her skwak pad on her purple dresser, and texted a message to Slider.
send me a portal
As she slipped her skwak pad into the right pocket of her red miniskirt, an oval purple portal opened in front of her in the middle of her bedroom. She hopped in, as the portal closed behind her. She flipped and twirled around inside the vortex, as she made her way to Radopolis.
Last night after her date with Slider, Jackie used a portal to send all the jerseys and cheerleading outfits out to all of the members of the Radopolis Racing Radsters. That way, they would be dressed and ready by the time she, Matt, and Inez made it to Radopolis the next day.
Inside Slider's garage were Digit, Matt, Jake, and Slider. They were waiting for their team's cheerleaders to show up. The orange Cybercoupe was outside their garage, ready to go. The Radopolis Grand Prix didn't start until noon, so they had some time to hang out and talk, before the big race.
Slider was leaning against his workbench. He was dressed in the team's jersey – red T-Shirt with three yellow R's overlapping each other in the middle of the shirt, with a giant red number one on the back. He also wore his dark green baggy shorts and brown skater shoes Jackie bought for him. His brown hair was in the usual shaggy style.
Matt was sitting on one of the green beanbag chairs. He was wearing the same team jersey as Slider, but with a giant red number two on the back, his usual blue jeans and red shoes. His red hair was still as shaggy as usual.
Jake was sitting on another green beanbag chair on Matt's left side. Like Matt and Slider, he wore the same team jersey, except it had a giant red four on the back. He also wore green plaid shorts and white running shoes. His blonde hair was also in the shaggy style.
Digit was sitting on a wooden stool, next to the workbench, eating what looked like his famous cyberbeet stew. Like the other three Radopolis Racing Radsters, he wore the team jersey, except it had a giant red three on the back. He still wore his red cap and yellow shoes as usual.
Just then, an oval purple portal opened in the middle of the garage, as Inez hopped out, and it closed behind her. She looked at Slider, who was wearing a confused expression on his cute face.
"Hey, Slider," Inez greeted. "What's the matter?"
Slider shrugged his shoulders. "When I called Jackie on my skwak pad to ask if she was ready, she said she was ready, but in some sort of upset tone. I hope she's alright."
Inez didn't want to say anything, thinking Jackie would want to tell Slider herself. She went over to stand next to him, to be close to him when Jackie goes berserk on him.
Just as she predicted, another oval purple portal opened, where Inez's portal used to be. Jackie jumped out, wearing an angry expression on her face, as the portal closed behind her. She was wearing the same cheerleading outfit as Inez, with red and yellow pom-poms in her hands. Her black hair flowed down to her mid back in a wavy ponytail, with side bangs over her forehead.
"Hey, Jacks," Slider greeted, calmly. "Are your ready for the Radopolis Grand Prix?"
Jackie scowled. "After what you were planning to say to me, no!"
Slider raised a brown eyebrow. "What are you talking about?"
Jackie growled. "Don't play dumb with me, skater scum! I heard you were going to break up with me after the Radopolis Grand Prix!"
"What!?" Slider shouted. "I would never do that! I gave you a nice ring. Doesn't that show how much I love you?"
Jackie reached for her right hand with her left, and pulled off the ring Slider gave her about a week ago. "I guess it doesn't, since you were planning to end the relationship today! Well, I'm going to take care of it for you!"
I watched, shocked, as she threw the ring at Slider. It bounced off his forehead, but he managed to catch it in his hands. He looked from the ring in his hand to Jackie, who had her skwak pad out in her right hand.
She tried to frown at Slider, but it was difficult when tears started forming in her eyes. "We're through!"
Inez placed her right hand on Slider's right shoulder. They all watched, their mouths forming o's, as Jackie pressed her few buttons on her skwak pad, and tried to wipe the tears pouring from her eyes.
"Motherboard!" she cried, practically sobbing. "Send me to a random Cybersite please!"
Just then, an oval purple portal opened in front of Jackie. She jumped into it and it closed behind her, leaving a small puddle of tears behind.
Digit dropped his bowl of cyberbeet stew, letting it smash to pieces on the ground. "Tell me that didn't just happen."
Slider sighed. "I think it just did." He slipped the ring into his right shorts pocket. "This is all so sudden. I don't understand why she called it off after a week."
Inez raised a brown eyebrow. "What do you mean?"
"Why does she think I was going to break up with her?" Slider questioned.
"You mean, you weren't going to break up with her?" Inez asked.
Slider threw his arms in the air. "Of course not! I love her for crying out loud! Why did you think I was going to dump her!?"
"It's because you said yesterday at the Radopolis Racing Arena that you couldn't stand her and the relationship wasn't working out," Inez explained.
Matt frowned. "You were eavesdropping on our conversation!?"
Inez frowned as well, looking at Matt. "Hey, it's not my fault you happened to be secretly talking with Slider on the bleachers above the bench I was sitting on!"
Slider sighed, rolling his eyes. "Anyway, I wasn't talking about Jackie."
"Then, who was the poor darling you were going to – "
"You!"
Inez's eyes widened. "Me!? What did I do?"
Slider scowled. "If you listened in properly on our conversation, you would know that I said you're too clingy. You've been flirting with me all week, even though you know I have a girlfriend, which happens to be your best friend!"
"But you said the relationship wasn't working out," Inez protested.
Slider slapped his forehead with his right hand. "I meant our relationship as friends!"
Inez moaned, sitting down on the floor, and burying her head in her arms. "Ugh, what have I done!?"
Jake stood up and headed over to Inez, before Matt could. He knelt down and wrapped his arms around her, making Matt very jealous, but he had to shrug it off for now. His jealousy wasn't the problem here. He hated to see Inez so upset, even if what she did was wrong.
"See what jealousy does to you?" Matt said. "It makes even the nicest people do mean things."
Inez sighed, looking up. "What are we going to do now!?"
"Well, we've got to find Jackie and you've got to tell her the truth!" Slider announced, pointing his index finger on his right hand at Inez.
"But we don't know where in Cyberspace she went," Matt stated, standing up. "Motherboard transported her to a random Cybersite. How will we find her in time for the Radopolis Grand Prix?"
"Well, we better call all the rulers of the Cybersites," Slider said, pulling out his skwak pad from his right shorts pocket. "Someone on their site must have seen her arrive and walking around."
Matt pulled out his skwak pad from his right jeans pocket, while reading the watch on his left wrist. "Okay, but let's hurry. The Radopolis Grand Prix starts in two hours."
Digit, Matt, Slider, and Inez spent fifteen minutes, calling random cybersites from a cyber phone book, in hopes of finding out where Jackie was. Jake helped them, calling cybersites on his cyber cellular phone.
So far, they had no luck. But they did tell the cybersites' leaders to contact them, if they saw her.
Inez wanted to kill herself at the moment. Drown herself in a lake, stab herself with a knife, or get hit by a giant cybertruck, anything. But that would have to wait. The least she could do was help Digit, Jake, Matt, and Slider find Jackie and apologize for what she did.
"There's no sign of her in Castleblanca," Matt said, after twenty minutes had passed in total.
Slider hung up on his skwak pad as well. "She isn't in Aquari-yum either."
"That makes three because she wasn't seen at Frogsnorts either," Jake added, looking at his green cyber cellular phone.
Digit was calling another cybersite. "No Jackie in Solaria as well." There was a pause, before someone on the other line answered. "Hello, Mayor, this is the Didge. Have you seen Jackie anywhere on your site of Poddleville?"
"It's alright, but keep in touch if you see her," Inez said, hanging up. She was about to call another cybersite, when her skwak pad rang. She answered it, sighing. "Inez, here."
"Hey, Inez," a female voice answered. It was Creech. She sensed the sadness in Inez's voice. "Is something wrong?"
Inez sighed, again. "Long story, no time to explain." Pause. "Have you seen Jackie anywhere in Tikiville?"
"I'm not in Tikiville now," Creech replied. "I'm in Sensible Flats, picking up some candy from Chef Foody's shop, before heading to Radopolis for the Radopolis Grand Prix and – wait – is that Jackie?"
Inez jumped to her feet from sitting on the garage floor. "What!? Tell me you're not lying!"
Slider looked up from the cyber phone book to look at Inez. "Huh, do you know where she is?"
Inez was still on the skwak pad with Creech. "Yeah – okay – right – good, see you at the Radopolis Grand Prix."
Matt watched as Inez hung up on her skwak pad, her face brightening. "Did you find her, Inez?"
"Yeah, Creech saw her in Sensible Flats, while buying candy," Inez explained, slipping her skwak pad back into her right miniskirt pocket. "She's heading for somewhere in the deserted desert."
Matt raised a red eyebrow. "But where would she go in the deserted desert of Sensible Flats. It's not like there's a house with a pool there or something."
A light bulb went on in Digit's head. "There is one. Remember Hacker's vacation home?"
Slider was already sprinting to the orange Cybercoupe outside of his garage. "Come on people, the sooner we find her, the sooner we'll be able to get to the Radopolis Grand Prix!"
Jake nodded, following Slider to the Cybercoupe, and hopped into the back seat, while Slider sat in the driver's seat. Digit, Matt, and Inez followed them outside. Matt closed the garage door and seated himself shotgun.
"Great job, Nezzie," Matt commented, as she climbed into the back seat with Digit and Jake.
Inez giggled. "Thanks. Oh, and Matt?"
"Yeah?"
"Don't call me Nezzie!" she yelled, as they took off into the sky, heading for the desert-like Cybersite of Sensible Flats.
They were practically melting after they arrived in the middle of the desert in Sensible Flats. The sun was beaming down on them, making them sweat profusely. And driving around in a Cybercoupe made of steel and metal didn't help much either.
"How much longer do we have to drive, until we reach Hacker's old vacation home?" Inez asked, wiping her forehead with the back of her right hand.
"It should be around here somewhere, last time I remembered," Digit answered.
Just then, they approached what looked like a fenced-in area. It was complete with a large mansion-like house, humongous swimming pool, complete with a diving board and slide, and a beautiful garden. The landscaping done in the entire area of land was amazing, full of sweet smelling flowers and beautifully-trimmed bonsai trees.
Slider parked in the driveway leading to the mansion. "It looks like we're here."
"I'm glad Hacker is in the recycle bin for good," Matt stated, hopping out of the Cybercoupe, along with everyone else. "That way, we won't have to be sneaking around inside the house."
Slider nodded. "I know. I'm also glad Delete is on vacation too."
They walked up the driveway and climbed up the stairs, to the front porch. Slider reached for the doorknob on the front door to open it and, surprisingly, it was unlocked. Leave it to Delete to forget to lock the door. Way to go, Delete!
Slider went in first, followed by Matt and Inez. Digit and Jake followed them, closing the door behind them.
The floor of the foyer was covered with shiny white tiles, while the walls were white, with sparkles. Hanging on the ceiling above them was a candle-lit chandelier. In front of them was a white spiral staircase leading upstairs to the second floor, and possibly many floors above that.
The room to the left of them led into a grand kitchen, while the room on the right led into, what looked like a den. Above all, the whole place was amazing.
"Wow, how did Hacker afford all this?" Jake asked, astonished.
Slider shrugged his shoulder. "Beats me. Now, let's find Jackie."
They all split up, promising they would contact each other if they found anything.
Matt headed into the kitchen, along with Inez. Digit activated his propeller tail and hovered away into the den, followed by Jake, while Slider hurried up the white spiral staircase, determined to find his loving girlfriend, whatever it took.
Upstairs was only a second floor. There were five doors. Three of them were bedrooms, with each of the door's carved with names. Hacker's was first, with Buzz's in the middle, and Delete's at the end. Another was a bathroom, and the other was a small library. The hallway floor was covered in emerald green carpet, while the walls were a nice shade of light green.
Slider spent five minutes, searching the bedrooms, finding nothing but a box of evil and chaos plans in a cardboard box in Hacker's room, a box of chocolate-covered, rainbow-sprinkled donuts in Buzz's room, and a blue bunny inside a rabbit cage in Delete's room.
No one was in the bathroom either, so Slider decided to inspect to small library. He opened the door and went inside.
There was a purple comfy lounge chair next to the window. Against the walls were shelves of books – books on every possible topic you could think of. Besides those, the room was deserted.
Slider was about to leave, when he spotted a book on top of the lounge chair, along with a folded up piece of paper.
He walked over to the chair, picked up the folded up piece of paper, and unfolded it to read it.
If you're reading this, I'm not here
Anymore as you can see
I've ran away to another cybersite
Knowing you no longer care about me.
With the note in his left hand, he reached for the book on the purple lounge chair and read the title on the cover.
"Rapunzel," he said, reading the cover. He reached into his right shorts pocket, pulled out his skwak pad, and called the others. "Dudes, I found a clue. And I think I know where she went. Meet me back outside in the Cybercoupe now."
Chapter 6 up! You probably know what Cybersite Jackie went to now, right?"
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