Jojo drops a bombshell about saving Whoville to his friends? How will they take it? Let's see...

Chapter 13: Curiosity

Seth immediately raced to the cafeteria where the students are still eating lunch. Luckily, it started a half-hour ago and he finally saw his friends sitting there and sits next to them. Jojo asked him, "Where ya been?"

"Sorry I'm late. I got hold up at the principal's office." Seth said, catching his breath.

"Why? What'd you do?" asked Austin.

"Well, to be honest, I got into a fight." Seth replied.

"A fight? With who?"

"Actually, it was Horace that started the fight." Misty said.

"Horace? I thought they suspended him already." Jojo said.

"Unfortunately, he snuck in the school and caught Seth walking in the quad and Horace brought in some verbal assualt with him and Seth was completely fighting this guy, but he stopped himself before he did something totally stupid-no offense, Seth-and then some of his posse jumped on him and Horace raised up the stakes carrying a gun and a taser gun."

"That's crazy."

"I almost got killed until these guys saved me." Seth said.

"We saw it unfold while we were on our way to lunch and I can see Horace was the instigator in all this and out of nowhere, Seth beat Horace up."

"You fought Horace, Seth?" asked Austin.

"I had to. He went too far when he called our mother stupid."

"Which one, your real one or the stepmom?" asked Chad.

"Our real one."

"I bet that made you ticked, right?"

"It did. It felt like a knife was permanently stabbed in my chest and it couldn't be released. Luckily, I stopped myself while I grabbed that stupid dude's neck to try to strangle it."

"Showed your inner tough side, right?" asked Marcus.

"Yeah. That feeling faded away when Horace pointed a gun at me."

"A gun? In the quad?" asked Jojo.

"Yeah. Luckily, Caitlyn, Zeke, Mike, Cody and Misty came in and saved me. If not, I would've been a goner."

"Well, it's a good thing you guys came in when you did. I wish I would've been there." Austin said.

"If you were there, you would've been killed too." Misty said.

"True."

"But Horace did say something that I didn't get about Jojo." Seth said.

"What did he say?" asked Jojo.

"Something about you saving Whoville with this 'Horton' incident."

Jojo figured that the question would come up and they were surprised to hear that. Zeke asked, "Is that true?"

Jojo sighed and said, "Yeah, it was true. See, my dad told us that Horton-an elephant-existed through the golden gramaphone in the city hall. We could only hear his voice there, but anyway, he said that our world is a speck inside some kind of flower and we all had to make loud noises to prove that we're here. And I took the gramaphone, went up in the air and yelled out 'Yopp', which broke through the sound barrier in the sky and the speck suddenly broke open and everyone heard it and they believed that we're here. I kept that story silent for a while, because I was afraid that I'd be a permanent outcast if I told that story and the fact that my dad's a crazy mayor. But I would care less if someone would drop me as a friend that they don't believe me. I wouldn't be surprised if you guys did the same thing."

Most of them were surprised to hear that story and Zeke looked at Jojo and said, "Well, I believe in that story."

"You do?" asked Jojo.

"Yeah. I would never drop you as a friend."

"Neither would we." Cody and Mike said.

"Dude, I wouldn't drop you for anything." Misty said.

"You're a cool person, Jojo. Everyone would be lucky to have you as a friend." Caitlyn said.

"What about you?" asked Jojo.

Marcus looked at Jojo and felt as if the whole story was a big shock to him, but he looked at Jojo and sees that regardless of what happened, he still remembers him as the same person he met at Camp Harmony. He chuckled and said, "Dude, your story is really cool."

"You think it's cool?"

"Anyone who has the guts to save the whole town is an awesome dude. Anyone who doesn't believe will deal with me."

"If our town went through the same thing, I'd do it too...with my ultra-loud guitar." Chad said.

"You know, this story really is cool. And others judge you for that?" asked Austin.

"Yeah, Austin. They do."

"Well, I'm standing by your story."

"If Austin's standing by it, so am I." Seth said.

Jojo chuckled and said, "I'm so lucky to have a group of friends with me."

"You are."

"So, what's gonna happen to my so-called 'boyfriend'?" asked Caitlyn.

"I don't know. I left after they sent them in, but I bet they're gonna get the punishment they deserve."

"Yeah, they should."

Just then, a random student comes along and tells everyone some big news. He said, "Hey, did you guys hear?"

"Hear what?" asked Chad.

"Remember these guys-Horace and those stupid punk cliques?"

"What about them?" asked Austin.

"The principal went ballistic on all of them for torturing Seth and got them kicked out of school."

"Kicked out? Like expelled?"

"Oh, yeah. And the school administrator is gonna give them a harsh punishment for their behavior."

"Like how harsh?" asked Caitlyn.

"He said he'll announce it before school's over. And that's not even the end of it-he told them to not have any contact with of the students, victims that they took out in the past and break the entire clan apart."

"What?"

"Yeah, they're not gonna see each other or communicate with them via text message, IM, phone calls, e-mails,Whosebook, WhoSpace and Twhooter."

"How did Horace take it?" asked Mike.

"I caught a video on his reaction."

He brought out his video camera and played the video of Horace losing it and started screaming at the top of their lungs, kicked the trashcan and kicked the gate door open. Most of them were laughing at Horace's reaction after seeing the video.

"Man, that was crazy." Chad said, laughing.

"Like a 2-year old having a fit for not getting their way only it's high school." Misty said.

"That's kinda like it. I wonder what'll happen if I post it to WhoTube..."

"That'll give lots of laughs all over." Marcus said.

"A new WhoTube sensation." Jojo said.

"Well, anyways. That's all I got. Almost forgot though-the principal said something about juvie."

"Juvie?" asked Misty.

"Yep."

"Amazing..."

"This'll be interesting. Thanks..."

"Oh, my bad. My name's Noah."

"Thanks, Noah..."

"Keyser."

"All right. Later."

As soon as Noah left, the others continued on their lunch and continued talking about that video they saw and started laughing about it, and everything in between.

Well, I gots a new character here, so that helps. Stick around for more!