Now, here's the next part of their first day with the Valclez kids!
Chapter 4: The Unusual Bunch
Cat Valentine was utterly shocked right now. Here standing before her, and the rest of the class for that matter, was the mysterious boy who had been preoccupying her mind all day. As Sikowitz continued on explaining to the class about the three students, Cat found herself simply staring at Matt, unable to remove her eyesight from him.
She watched as his eyes slowly darted all over the room, yet not moving his face in the least. When his eyes had apparently gotten tired of surveying the room around them, she saw that he began to take in the various students in their class. When his eyes landed on her, they froze near instantly, and were caught by her brown pupils. The same effect was occurring on Cat as well, as she found that she was captivated by the black pools that were his eyes. They were in their own world now; the laws of the outside world didn't apply to them anymore. They made their own rules in this world of theirs, they only had each other here, but that was all they need, they were trapped and couldn't escape.
However, they were pulled out of their little world by the sound of their teachers voice changing tone, most likely changing what he was about to say.
"Alright class, now that you've gotten past all the formalities, I expect you to become good friends with our new recruits."
"Recruits," asked Andre, not sure if his teacher knew what word he had just said.
"Yes recruits," he answered matter-of-factly.
"Uh Sikowitz, you know this isn't the army right," asked Tori nervously, not sure what Sikowitzs' response would be.
"Of course I do," he answered, again with the same tone.
"So they wouldn't be recruits then."
"Are you sure?"
"Uh, yeah I'm sure."
"Well, then maybe you should teach the class for us then ," he exclaimed, stepping off the stage.
"Wait-what," Tori asked, completely flustered.
"Well it's just that if you feel like I'm doing something wrong and I'm the teacher, then maybe you should teach the class."
"What-no! I wasn't, I mean I didn't try to correct you I was just," Tori continued to stutter, as she didn't know how to react to this. Just then, Sikowitz began to burst into a fit of laughter.
"Oh lighten up Tori, I was merely kidding."
"Well next time could you maybe, oh I don't know, give a girl a heads up?"
"Of course…maybe." Tori just slid herself down further into her seat, needing to relax herself after that.
"Ow, I think I'm getting a headache," she groaned, causing Andre to pat her shoulder, caringly.
"Okay then you three, take any seat you can find, and if that seat's already taken but they're not here, well…tough cookies to them then." The new students then followed his instructions as they then made themselves a part of the class by taking respective seats amongst the rest of the students.
Allen and Sarah took two seats in the back of the room, while Matt took the only left available seat, next to Cat. The second he sat down, he immediately turned his head towards the front of the class, not laying a single eye on the little red-head.
"Hi, I don't know if you remember me, but I'm Cat, we met earlier when I bumped into you," she greeted him; however, he completely ignored her. This caused her to feel slightly hurt, as she knew he was ignoring her, and she was intent on making him reply. So she then began to poke his arm with her index finger, while quietly saying "poke". Cat was sure that this annoying behavior would cause him to at least turn to her and tell her to stop. But to her shock, and agitation, he didn't respond in the least. It was at this that she ceased poking him and decided to stop…for now anyway.
"Alright class, before we begin, I want to talk about your Lucky Flipper assignment. Since we have new students joining us, I have decided to postpone the assignment until next Friday." At hearing the news, the class became both happy and relieved, as they were given an additional ten days to work on their assignment. "Wait, did I say next Friday? I meant next Saturday, or Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday," he continued, crushing the class' relief, as they didn't know if he was actually being serious, or was he just being Sikowitz.
"Yo teach, are you acting crazy for real, or are you just messing with us," asked Allen from the back of the class.
"Pardon," asked Sikowitz, not expecting one of his new students to question his behavior already.
"I just wanna know really, that's all."
"He's just this crazy," answered Jade with a smile on her face.
"He didn't ask you," hissed Sarah, butting in the conversation, causing Jade to glare at the girl.
"No, but my boyfriend here said I should try and be nicer to people, so I thought; 'why not now'? You should try it too sometime," Jade replied, a dark smile creeping on her face. The two girls then entered a stare down, neither one willing to let up even the slightest.
"Ah Jade, making new friends already I see," commented Sikowitz, watching the scene unfold.
"We're not friends," both girls screamed in unconscious unison. "Stop copying me! No, you stop copying me! Quit it," they both continued to argue, each sentence being said in perfect unison, though it was clear that it was irritating both girls to no end.
"Looks like you're gonna be off the hook with Jade for a while," whispered Robbie, as the entire class had now become entranced by the girls' dispute.
"Let's hope so," Tori whispered back, as she really hoped that this girl would take Jades' wrath from Tori.
"Honestly, can they be normal for one day," Matt mumbled to himself, hoping that no one would hear him, unfortunately for him, one person did, and she was giggling quietly to herself, as he then returned to the quiet statute-like form sitting next to her.
Throughout the entire class, no work was really done, as Jade and Sarah were still having their little dispute, and if they weren't paying attention to them, Allen was entertaining them with some rather talented as well as entreating improves. By the time class was over, Sarah had pulled Allen out of the room and to God knows where. Meanwhile, Matt followed them, nearly just as quick, and disappeared with the couple.
"Where do you think those three went," asked Rex, apparently being freed from his prison of Robbies' backpack, wanting to know the location of their new classmates.
"Who cares," shouted Jade, emerging from the room with Beck, as they made their way to their next class.
"Wow, I've never seen Jade get so mad at someone so fast before," Cat exclaimed.
"Well except for Tori," Robbie corrected her.
"Yes, and let's hope that she forgets about me and focus on her new little friend."
"But they said they weren't friends," inputted Cat, remembering the girls said that earlier on in the beginning of their argument.
"It's just a figure of speech Cat," Robbie explained to her.
"What's that suppose to mean," she asked, displaying her usual catchphrase.
"Nothing, it's just a figure of speech," Robbie replied, trying to make her see that he wasn't trying to insult her or anything.
"Oh okay," she replied, happy that he wasn't trying to insult her.
"Anyway, we should get to class before we're late," said Andre, earning the groups' agreement on the subject, as they started to make their way to their next class. Just then however, they were stopped by a familiar, and somewhat irritating voice, calling Tori.
"Tori! Tori Tori Tori Tori Tori!" The group then turned around to see Trina running up to them, more specifically her sister, as she moved the others out of the way to get to her. Upon reaching her sister she then attempted to start talking, however she must have been excited, as whatever word she said came out as nothing more than complete and total gibberish.
"Whoa Trina, calm down. Now slowly, tell me what's up," Tori informed her sister as she did as she was told and began to explain.
"OMG Tori, a total hottie just got put in my class," she squealed excitedly.
"New hottie," Tori asked, causing Trina to take out her phone and show Tori a picture of someone she didn't recognize. This person was a teenage boy, and appeared to be in his late teens as well. Tori couldn't determine his height by the picture, but she did see that he was rather slim, though his body was certainly something to laugh at. He had short black hair, which was kept rather clean, and he also had black eyes. But the most distinguishing thing that Tori noticed about the boy was that although he had a light skin tone, it appeared to be somewhat pale.
"Isn't he just the hottest thing you've ever seen," Trina asked her sister, not noticing the looks she was giving her.
"Trina, don't harass him," Tori pleaded, knowing how her sister was.
"I'm not gonna harass him, I'm just gonna show him what he's missin out on. With any luck, he'll be mine by the end of this week!"
"Trina don't go messing with-Trina!" However, she had left before Tori could even finish her sentence.
"Man, your sister's a whack job," exclaimed Rex.
"Yeah, she is," agreed Tori, not even attempting to defend her sister. The group then decided to make their way to their next class, attempting to avoid any more craziness in their school. However, once they had entered the room, they were greeted by two familiar voices screaming at each other.
"I like your hair, where did you get it, did you just skin the hair off a dead skunk?"
"No, but if you want, I could take some of yours. It'll be the same as skunks' fur!"The group looked to see Jade and Sarah in the middle of the room arguing at each other.
"No way, they're here too," asked Robbie in disbelief. Just then, Allen appeared to them out of nowhere, and said-
"You guys do not want to get involved with this, trust me!" They all just agreed as the girls continued to argue at each other, not really paying attention to what was going on around the remainder of this class and all other classes up until lunch, Tori and her friends were subjected to the added unpredictability of the new students. In fact, by the time lunch came, each of them had something to inform the others about, concerning them.
"You guys are never gonna believe what happened," Rex exclaimed, as Robbie took his seat amongst his friends at their favorite table.
"What happened," asked Cat, innocently.
"Okay, so me and Rex were in our Gym class when we see that Allen's in our class too, so we go over to hang out with him. So we're just hanging out, nothing big, when all of a sudden, the captain of the tennis team hit me in the face with a tennis ball!"
"Ha, that was hilarious," laughed Rex, enjoying the reminder of Robbies' pain.
"It was not, it really hurt," Robbie protested, rubbing his nose, just at the memory of it.
"What happened next," asked Tori, completely ignoring their little argument.
"Right, so then he comes over to us and yells at me for getting his favorite tennis ball dirty."
"Man, that guy really is a jerk," commented Andre.
"I know right," and he's such a spoiled brat too," added Tori.
"Yeah, that guy's a real hobknocker," Rex added as well, earning the looks of everyone at the table.
"What does that even mean," Tori asked, curious as to what the word truly meant.
"You don't wanna know," Andre informed her, to which she simply agreed, yet the frustration at not finding out the words' definition was still present on her face. "What happened next," Andre asked Robbie, wanting to know what happened next in his story.
"Well, while he was arguing at me, I thought Allen was just gonna stand there, or at least walk away and act like he didn't know me. But instead, he actually defended me!" Upon Robbie saying this, he saw that everyone now had a somewhat shocked expression plastered on their face. Not because they were surprised that someone helped Robbie, but the fact that he was helped by someone he barely even knew. Seeing that he had their attention, Robbie continued. "Yeah, like a minute into him arguing at me, Allen just stepped in and told him to knock it off. So the guy said, 'You think you're tough buddy? Let's go, you, me, tennis, one match, now!', and Allen accepted right away! So they start playing and everyone's watching too, and for a minute it looks like Allen's gonna lose, but then at the last minute, he comes back and wastes the guy!"
"No way, but I heard the captain of the tennis team was unbeatable, and that they haven't lost a single match yet!"
"It's true, they haven't, but Allen did beat him, and get this, he even left a small crater in the ground where he shot the winning shot!"
"A crater," they all said in shock, how could anyone be that strong! Robbie simply nodded his head, answering their question. This caused them all to take in the story Robbie just told them, and no sooner than that did Andre come forth with his own tale.
"Actually, Allen's not the only strange one; his girlfriend's something else too."
"What did she do," asked Tori, interested in knowing what Jades' new enemy had done.
"Well today in my Vocal Music class, we each had to sing a song about peanut butter."
"Ooh, I love peanut butter, especially with jelly," Cat exclaimed gleefully.
"Anyway, our teacher wanted to see how well we could sing a goofy song, so he told us to make a song about peanut butter. So he gives everyone some time to come up with a good a song and when it's time to present, everyone's too nervous to perform theirs. Then Sarah, seeing that no one else was gonna perform said she'd go first. Man, I'm tellin you, I've never felt so in love with peanut butter before."
"Her song was that good," Tori asked in disbelief.
"Chizz yes, I'm telling you man, there wasn't a dry eye in the room when she was done. I even started to cry a little! That girl's got some serious talent!"
"Why thank you," they heard a voice thank behind them. They all turned to see Trina standing behind Tori, apparently, she had slightly more make-up on her than before, and her appearance was that of one who was trying to get the attention of someone who didn't even know they existed.
"So, how's your plan going," her sister asked her.
"Not good at all, I mean, I take half my classes with him, and so far I've gotten nowhere."
"Ah I'm sor-wait, how do you know you take half of his classes, the day's not even over yet!"
"Nosey little girl aren't we," Trina commented, teasingly waving her finger in front of her sisters' face.
"I am not nosey," she defended, swatting her finger away."Anyway Tor, I just don't k-." Trina suddenly stopped mid-sentence, as she and the others saw a girl come over to their table and hug Robbie.
"How's my favorite patient doing," she asked, patting him softly on the head. Robbie immediately turned his head toward the familiar voice and smiled when he saw the girls' face.
"Brianna," Cat exclaimed, jumping out of her seat and bear hugging the girl, to which she gave and equal hug.
"You two know each other," asked Tori.
"Yeah, she helped me with Robbie while you were getting the water."
"Oh, thank you. I'm Tori Vega by the way."
"I'm Andre," he said, introducing himself to Brianna.
"And this, is my big sister, Trina."
"Hey, nice to meet you all," she greeted, to which they returned. Brianna then returned her attention to Robbie, as she then started messing with his hair. "So Robbie, promise us you won't do any strenuous activity to much, okay? Your body's not meant for that kind of stuff," she informed him, her voice full of the same concern as before.
"Yes ma'am," he replied, almost resembling a child talking to its' mother.
"Ha-ha, Robbie just got owned," Rex chuckled, yet he was soon silenced by Briannas' eyes glaring down at him.
"Rex," she started. "You shouldn't pick on Robbie so much; after all, it's not his fault his muscles aren't fully developed yet. Besides, you wouldn't want someone to pick on you, would you?"
"N-no ma'am," Rex sighed.
"Right, now apologize to Robbie right now," she ordered him.
"Rob…I'm…sorry."
'Say it like you mean it," she ordered him once more; this time however, her tone was more strict than before.
"I'm sorry Robbie."
"Good boy," she said, patting the puppet on his head. The others, mainly Robbie were generally shocked at this, as no one has ever made Rex apologize without some promise of harm towards him.
"Still a kind hearted angel as ever, aren't you," they heard a males' voice say behind them. They all turned around again to see the boy whom Trina had been trying to earn the attention of all day. Tori could see that Trina was just about to make her move on him; however, a certain girl beat her to it.
"Jason," Brianna squealed with glee, as she jumped into the boys' arms and kissed him passionately on the lips. Trina and the others were taken aback by this sudden showing of affection; however, they had to wait until the two were done before they could let out their thoughts.
"Oh sorry about that, everyone, this is Jason Valclez, he's my husband." If they had been drinking then there would have been one glorious spit take from the table, however since they weren't, all they were left to do was give shocked expressions.
"H-h-h-h-h-husband," exclaimed Trina in disbelief.
"Yep, we've been married for about a year now," Brianna answered.
"Aw, congratulations you two," Cat said, her voice full of happiness.
"Wait wait wait wait a minute, you're both in High school, your parents allowed you two to get married at such young ages!"
"Yeah, our parents were fine with it," she answered, it seemed like she was the more outgoing of the two, as Jason hadn't said a single word.
"Wait, you said his name was Jason Valclez right," asked Cat, to which Brianna nodded her head. "So does that mean you're related to Allen Valclez and Matt Valclez?"
"Someone say my name," they heard Allens' voice call out to them, and turned to see Allen and Sarah, walking arm in arm towards the table.
"Hey Allen, Sarah, enjoying your first day," Brianna asked the two, as they both took their seats amongst the others.
"You bet, this school sure is alot more interesting than the last one we went to," Allen said, his face being overcome by his smile.
"It's okay, I guess," Sarah added, resting her head on her boyfriends' shoulder.
"Oh, you guys all know each other," Cat asked, looking at the four. They all simply looked at eachother with seperate expressions.
"Yeah, more or less," Allen answered for them. Cat then noticed that they were missing one student among the newbies.
"Hey, where's Matt?"
"Oh him, he said he's not eating lunch today. He's always been a loner," Allen commented, however, for a brief second, one could see a look of depression cast over his face. Yet it quickly dissapeared, as he then began munching on a sandwich he pulled out from his bags.
"Well that's no good, he should be here with everyone else, I'll go find him." The other four were about to protest, but she was too fast for them, and she left before they could even get a word out.
"Oh boy, good luck Matt, something tells me you're gonna need it," Allen muttered under his breath.
"I don't know, she seems like a sweet girl," Sarah whispered to him.
"Yeah she does, let's just hope she can melt that heart of his," Allen replied, as the couple, as well as Brianna and Jason watched the little red-head skip away to find Matt.