So, did you guys like the last one? I hope so! Anyways, here's the next :) R&R please and tell me what you think!
"Betsy, Betsy!" Jade cries in a fake Southern accent. Beck watches in fascination as the two girls do their scene. It's pretty believable once you get past the massive stuffed pig Cat's got under her arm and the horribly fake Texas accents. "That animals delicious flesh can keep us all alive for another week!"
Beck doesn't miss the way when Jade reaches out to touch the not-so-little pig, Cat's scowl gets darker and she pulls it away from the dark girl.
"But I don't wanna be alive without Pontsy!" Cat yells back, shaking her head. Her brown eyes are wide with horror and her accent isn't quite as bad as Jade's. "This pig is everything to me that my daddy never was," Beck had to laugh there, "and I'll be d- Ah!"
Cat is cut off as a green ball goes flying into her face, and she falls to the ground. Beck is on alert automatically. Cat's basically his little sister, and seeing her get hurt is one of his least favorite things in the world.
"Sikowitz!" Jade says, sounding exasperated. Beck knows that secretly, Jade cares about Cat too, even though she doesn't like to show it. They've been best friends since they were in third grade.
"You hit me in the face with a ball!" Cat yelps, holding her cheek. Her eyes are huge and scared.
"Oh come on! A truly great actor can stay in the scene, no matter what's happening around her!" Sikowitz yells, throwing his arms around. Beck raises an eyebrow, then turns back to look at Cat. She's really beautiful. Especially now that she's just gotten her hair straightened. But he's with Jade. And he loves Jade. And Cat's his best friend. And he's running out of excuses but he knows it's wrong.
"But it really hurt!" she gasps, and Beck's blood boils automatically. Lucky for Sikowitz he's a teacher. Then the lunch bell rings, and Cat's happy again.
"Oh, lunch! Yay!" she squeals and runs out the door. Beck chuckles and pulls his backpack onto his shoulder, following the easily excited little girl.
Tori's talking to Sikowitz about the stupid "Bird Scene" when Cat appears in the doorway. She's asking a question that Tori doesn't hear, because Sikowitz throws a ball at her. All she gets is,
"Hey Sikowitz, I forgot to ask you a question about the homework. Will we have to-" and she sees Cat leaning against the doorframe. That, and a flash of red hair as Cat dodged the ball with a scream and wide eyes and ran from the doorway.
"We'll never know her question," Sikowitz says with a sniff. All Tori can do is wonder how she got stuck in this school with crazy hippie-teachers and bipolar cats.
Cat watches attentively while Tori does the Bird Scene. She's really good, but she's not going to get it right. She's too nice to correct Sikowitz about her doing it wrong.
"And so went my spirit," she finishes. The class is dead silent. Like, nobody makes a sound. I guess we're all waiting to see if she does it right. "How was that?" she continues, and I lean back in my chair.
"What do you mean?" Sikowitz asks.
"Did I do the scene right?" Tori persists.
"Oh! No, not at all," Sikowitz says, and Aaron, the boy sitting next to Cat, shrugs.
"I think you're the only person who ever got it right," he whispers to her. Cat remembers how when Sikowitz told her that she did it wrong, she screamed at him saying no, she did it perfectly, and he was just too stuck in his stupid coconuts to pay attention!
He then congratulated her and said that she was a fantastic actress. Very bold. Even Jade had to do it twice before she was fed up with Sikowitz telling her it was wrong. Robbie went six times before Rex chewed out Sikowitz.
Anyways, poor Tori probably has to do it again tomorrow. Cat hopes that she'll figure it out soon.
While Jade, Beck, Cat, and Robbie are walking out of the math room, Tori follows them, moaning about her failure. She has been asking them about the Bird Scene for the past three periods, and it's getting kind of (really) annoying.
"Oh come on! How am I supposed to do the scene right if no one will tell me what I did wrong? I thought you guys were my friends!" Tori whines.
"Well I'm not your friend," Jade says, dragging Beck away to lunch. Robbie almost laughs at the annoyed look on Tori's face. She had that coming.
"I was hoping we could be more than friends," Rex says automatically, and it's not really that Robbie likes Tori – because she's nice and all, just not his type – but Rex has a reputation to uphold.
"Ugh, it's so gross how he's always hitting on every girl," Cat says, and Robbie feels the words coming from Rex's mouth before he can stop them.
"I never hit on you." It's cruel, and he knows it. He wants to apologize, but the damage has already been done. It's true though. Rex never hits on Cat. That's too close to home. Rex isn't supposed to be Robbie.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cat asks, hurt. It means that you're special, he thinks. Luckily, he's saved from having to actually respond by Tori.
"You guys!" she calls out. "My problem?"
"Number one rule of the Bird Scene, no one's allowed to help you," Beck says, pushing off of the vending machines where he'd been leaning. Robbie sometimes wishes he was as cool as Beck. Then maybe…
"No one," Rex breaks through Robbie's thoughts. It's become second nature to him to have Rex be obnoxious.
"So this is what you did with your locker?" Jade asks. Robbie can tell that she's planning to do something nasty. That's the look she had on her face when she filled his locker with fish oil. Man, that was gross.
"Yeah! See, it's a dry erase board with a bunch of colorful pens and a convenient cup, so whoever wants to can write or draw whatever they want."
"But you're supposed to decorate it yourself," Beck admonishes with a small grin.
"It's a Hollywood Arts tradition," Cat says, and she sounds very calm for once. Maybe she's not angry anymore. Robbie sort of stares at her for a second, losing his train of thought. She's so pretty. Then he notices Jade scribbling on Tori's whiteboard.
"What's wrong with letting other people write stuff on my locker?"
"Well, for one thing, they can do that," he says, pointing with his free hand. Tori turns to see Jade walking away from 'Tori's STUPID Locker' with Beck.
"Yeah? Well my locker's smarter than your locker!" Tori calls out after her lamely. Cat's already responding in typical Cat fashion.
"How can a locker be smart-"
"I don't know!" Tori cries, frustratedly stomping her foot like a little girl. "Come on, somebody tell me how to do the Bird Scene or I'm gonna cry."
"Can't," Cat says, walking away.
"And don't be so whiney!" Rex snaps.
"Yeah, man up," Robbie finishes. Then, of course, he promptly skips away to attend his first ballet class with Andre.
Tori sees Cat texting by the steps, and she's ready to find out how to do this darn Bird Scene.
"Cat!" she drawls, walking towards the girl.
"Hey," Cat says, looking excited as usual. Jeez, that girl always has a smile on her face. Tori often wonders why she's always so happy. Also, she wonders what Cat uses to keep her skin so clear, but that's beside the point.
"You have to try something," Tori says, trying to sound as awestruck as she can.
"Handcuffs?" Cat asks, her forehead crinkling ever so slightly, and a puzzled look flitting across her bubbly expression.
"Uh huh," Tori says, trying to figure out how to open them. Got it, she thinks. "Put 'em on one wrist," she says, holding it out for Cat to put on.
"Okay," the redhead says trustingly as she places her arm in the loop. Tori really can't believe Cat's letting her do this. She feels a little guilty taking advantage of the girl's childish innocence, but she really wants to figure out how to do this stupid scene.
"Good, now we lock the other part, around here!" Tori says as if she was speaking to a toddler.
"Fun!" Cat giggles, then stares off into space, waiting for the next step.
"Kay, now try these," Tori says, pulling a box of her 'special treats' out for Cat to see. The girl sticks her hand out quickly.
"Oh candy!" she says impatiently. The girl pops them in her mouth. "Mmm, these are so… so hot! What are these?" she squeaks, spitting them out onto the floor. Tori's pretty sure one lands in a freshman's hair, but she doesn't question it. She just keeps moving with her plan.
"Chuchu peppers," Tori says quickly.
"Chu-" Cat gasps. "They're burning my mouth!"
"I know!" Tori says, trying her hardest to ignore the pitiful way Cat is dancing around, trying to relieve some of the pain in her mouth. "Want some water?"
"Yes!" Cat shrieks, reaching for it.
"Tell me the secret of the bird scene!" Tori yells back.
"I can't, and I need water!" Cat screams, motioning towards the water bottle. Tori tries to resist for a few more seconds, but it's pointless, and she gives in.
"Oh, fine!" she growls, stomping her foot and handing Cat the water bottle. Then she storms away, forgetting to unlock the poor girl.
Cat watches while Robbie and Andre waddle into class, clearly in pain. She wonders what happened, but then decides that she doesn't care enough to ask.
"Happy birthday!" Sikowitz announces, bursting through the door.
"Whose birthday is it?" Cat wonders. She loves birthdays. They're so fun and festive and happy.
"Someone's somewhere," Sikowitz says. Cat thinks that that's so cool, and she loves that idea. The idea that somewhere, somebody is having their birthday today.
"That's so true," she gasps, smiling. Then she turns around and sits down. Tori's all ready to do her scene, and Cat thinks that today is the day that Tori will get it right.