[Sikowitz's classroom, later that day]
"So have you and Jade practiced your scene yet?" Robbie asks Beck, who's sitting next to him in class.
"Yep."
"Have you kissed?" asks Tori.
"Nope."
"Why not?"
"She refuses to. She's okay when we're coming up with the scene and rehearsing, but that's probably only because she insists it be a story about two people who hate each other and only realize they like each other at the end, so that she doesn't have to 'pretend to like my wazzed-up head any longer than necessary.'"
"She said that?" Robbie seems surprised at Jade's choice of words.
"It's Jade, whaddya expect!" Rex says from Robbie's lap. "She's the queen of the witches of the wazzed-up words!"
"The queen of the witches?" Tori tilts her head, thinking.
"Well the point is, Jade and I need to rehearse our kiss, and this thing is due tomorrow. We only have one more day to work on it, and I have a feeling Jade's not gonna be cooperative." Everyone turns to look at Jade, who is sitting on the other side of the room, cutting up paper with red scissors.
"Why don't you just improv the kiss when your perform it for Sikowitz? That way you only have to do it once." Andre suggests.
"We can't. The kiss has to look real, that's what we're being graded on. Jade doesn't care if she gets one bad grade, so she'll either kiss me for a millisecond or just not kiss me at all. I don't know what I'm gonna do!" Beck throws his hands in the air.
"You'll think of something," says Tori just as Sikowitz walks in the room.
"Hello, students, before we begin I'd like to remind you that your stage kiss assignment is due tomorrow. And hopefully I don't actually have to remind any of you, because that means you haven't started and you are probably going to fail." Everyone stares at him. "Well, this IS going to count as a big chunk of your final grade!"
Beck leans his head back and closes his eyes, unhappy. Jade looks over at him but says nothing.
"One time, my brother's friend was at a doughnut store, and he was shot, so he had a big chunk of his leg missing, and when he came back he had to get it removed and so now he uses a pogo stick to get around, except his dog always growls at it. His dog is deaf in one ear." Cat smiles and looks around.