Haha! The last chapter! I think this is the first multi-chapter I've finished.
Disclaimer: I don't own Zoey. Or her dorm room, 101... sorry, that was a terrible disclaimer :)
Michael and Lisa (and Mr. Takato)
"C'mon, Lisa," Michael begged. "I'm telling you, it was the math teacher."
"Dustin said there wasn't a math teacher named Mr. Takato!" Lisa exclaimed, exasperated with her boyfriend.
"Dustin doesn't know everything! If I went up to him and asked him what the capital of Saudi Arabia was, would he know? NO!" Michael stood up.
Lisa stood up, to match his height (but only because she was wearing high heels). "Well, then, let's go ask him."
"Fine!" Michael strode over indignantly to Dustin's table, leaving the rest of the gang in an awkward silence.
"So... what is the capital of Saudi Arabia?" Logan tried to ease the uncomfortable silence, but no one said anything else.
Ignoring Logan's question, the gang instead decided to watch Michael storm towards the table for two in the corner of the restaurant.
"Dustin!" Michael exclaimed, reaching the boy's table.
Dustin rolled his eyes, and muttered "What now?" because honestly, he loved his sister and her friends, but they really interfered with his life a lot.
"Everyone!" Michael announced to the entire restaurant, although the only people there were James and Dustin with their dates, Lisa, Kazu, and the rest of the group.
Lisa shook her head, but everyone else watched attentively, quite enthralled by Michael's ridiculousness.
"I am about to ask this awkward-" Dustin rolled his eyes- "young fellow what the capital of Saudi Arabia is."
"Riyadh," Dustin replied immediately, and resumed conversation with his date.
Time stopped for Michael. He just stared at Dustin, clearly in shock. Dustin just repeated his previous gesture by rolling his eyes, and then turned to his date, "Yeah, I think we should order the yellowtail."
Lisa, meanwhile, was forced to drag the frozen teen back to the table, which had erupted in laughter.
"Ah," Chase wiped the tears from his eyes as the couple resumed their seats, "poor Michael."
"I still don't understand. What exactly happened with Mr. Takato?" Quinn asked.
"Okay," Lisa began to explain. "Michael got a stick shift car from his dad, and told me he would drive me to prom in it," she smiled at the memory of her boyfriend sweetly, yet adamantly making the proposal.
"But, wasn't prom on-campus?" Zoey asked, still unsure. Michael blinked, and came out of his reverie.
"Yeah. But Michael's Michael," Lisa explained, and Zoey nodded, smiling at the little joke.
"B-b-but, I-I... Takato... an-and the grapes," Michael stuttered, unable to make sense of the last few seconds.
Lisa waved a hand in front of her boyfriend, who blinked a second time, before he realized everyone was looking at him.
"I still don't believe Dustin knows everything!" he exclaimed.
"Okay. He doesn't. But, he probably does know the lower school teachers better than you," his girlfriend argued logically.
"Yeah, Michael, I'm also pretty sure there is no teacher named Mr. Takato," Vince chimed in.
Michael's scowl caused Vince to shut up.
"Whatever, Lisa, continue the story!" Lola said, wanting to know the fourth couple's story.
"Well, Michael wasn't really, erm, great at driving a stick-shift, so he said he'd figure it out," Lisa continued.
Michael regaining his normal form, barged back into the story, "Well I did, didn't I? You see, I was trying, when this old dude came up to me. And he told me he was A TEACHER," he raised his voice so that the words would reach Dustin's table.
"But he said to me," Michael imitated the old man's voice, "'Before you learn to drive a stick-shift, you must learn to drive a stick-shift.'"
"What?" Vince asked dubiously.
"That makes no sense," Zoey said.
"Yeah, I didn't get it either. But then he gave me a bowl with tuna, mayo, and onions, and told me to mix it while chanting up, down, over!" Michael finished.
"Yeah, that still makes no sense," Chase said.
"Well, no, aren't those the controls of the stick-shift?" Quinn pointed out. "He must have been trying to quicken your reaction time to-"
"But why would he do that? That's crazy!" Chase exclaimed.
"I thought it was too! But then, he gave me a bucket of grapes to stomp on with my feet-" Michael made an attempt to keep talking, but was interrupted yet again.
"That's why there was a grape stain on our carpet!" Logan said with a sudden realization.
Michael gave Logan a dude-just-shut-up-and-let-me-keep-talking glare before he began talking again.
"And then we tested me driving my car. And I actually did it!" he made a dreamy face, reminiscing his his achievement.
Lisa snapped her fingers in front of his face, breaking his second trance of the night.
"Fine. If I admit that he was real, would you drop it?" she demanded.
Michael jumped up victoriously. "HA! I win! Yeah! Whoo! Yeah!"
Zoey, Lola, and Quinn looked at each other with all-too-knowing expressions. This meant approximately two weeks of Michael at his worst- in his gloating phase. Chase and Logan just sighed, realizing they'd have to hear this all night long. All night. Vince, who did not know Michael all too well, besides the fact that they used to hate each other and he was one of Lola's best buds, just stared up at him; he was kind of embarrassed by the stares they received. Lisa, who was an honestly benevolent person, just sighed, and let it go. She knew better, and decided to just let her boyfriend celebrate his victorious moment.
Vince was pleasantly surprised - he hadn't spent much time with Lola's crowd before, but they were an awesome, crazy bunch to be around. He made the decision to try to get to know them all better.
Lisa, who'd been Zoey's yoga partner since PCA started letting girls in, never knew how close together her friends were. And dating Michael, though hectic and insane sometimes, was amazing.
Quinn was relieved to have the largest weight she was ever sent to carry off her shoulders. Her friends knew, they were cool (well, Lola may have to take a while to adjust), and things were going well. And she and Logan wouldn't have to deal with secret relationship issues anymore.
Lola was experiencing several different emotions at once. Annoyance at the taxi driver. Love for her super-hot boyfriend. Shocked at Quinn and Logan's relationship (shudder). Amusement at the random arguments between Michael and Lola. And admiration at the perfect couple, Zoey and Chase. But still, the night was impeccable.
Michael was as happy as a clam. Finally, he was admitted by Lisa to being right. Mr. Takato, although the mystery still unsolved, was real. And no one would dare to prove him otherwise. HA! Tonighy, he was a winner.
Logan was feeling somewhat odd, just about everyone knowing. Being able to kiss her right in front of everyone. Being able to admit that he loves her, in front of everyone. But it was the best thing that had happened to him. Because now everyone knows that she was his.
Chase was even happier than Michael. After three years of silent adoration directed towards his best friend, his dreams had finally come true. In fact, he was sure he was dreaming; he wasn't sure that Cloud 9 ever existed until now.
Zoey just sat there, eating her meal contentedly. What was supposed to be a night full of Blix and books turned out to be a wonderful evening full of surprises and sushi. Everything was perfect.
And so the night continued in laughter, surprises, and even more entertaining stories.
That was, until James went to the bathroom and the chick sitting at his table, wearing a barely-there dress, stood up and made her way to theirs.
"So... you're James' ex-girlfriend," she questioned Zoey snottily. She winced at the truth shot out.
Heads hung low, faces turned anywhere but Chase's incredulous look.
"What!"
And that's how Zoey 101 should've ended. :P
Kidding ;) I loved the finale, and wished the show could keep going (and it wasn't actually Jamie Lynn's fault - it was slated for four seasons anyways).
But I didn't want to end the story particularly cheesy; so I had to add that in. It was never mentioned to Chase for a whole three chapters xD