As Sam was watching the last of Dennis's pool games, he realized something important. "Ah, shoot, I forgot to tell him!" he said to himself as he ran out of the rec room. Meanwhile, Calvin had just got out of the showers and was about to enter his room, when Sam came up behind him "Wait!" he said "Before you enter, there's something you should know." "What?!" Calvin said as he opened the door "What could it possibly b- waahh!" he said as a small, grayish dog jumped up towards him. "Sam! What is this?" he shouted. "Shhh." Sam whispered "You want me to get in trouble?" "What do you mean? Why is he even in my room?" Calvin shouted. "First off, you mean our room, second off, it's a 'she', and third off, Kiwi Jr.'s got nowhere else to stay, and if you think I'm putting her in a shelter until summer break, think again. Now promise you won't tell anyone." "Fine, just as long as- Kiwi Jr.?" Calvin said questioning the dog's ridiculous name "Uh… My dad named her."
The next morning, Calvin woke up to take care of his morning routine only to find a long line in front of the boy's showers. "Oh, come on!" he exclaimed "What's the hold up? Sam!" "Not me, I got up an hour early so that this wouldn't happen." "So that what wouldn't happen?" Calvin asked annoyed. "Every Monday, that 'narcoticist' Dennis hogs the entire boy's bathroom for like an hour as he models himself in the mirror." "Uh… I think you mean 'narcissist'" "Whatever! The point is…" "Um, you realize I've been standing behind you the entire time, right Della Robbia?" Dennis had said. "I may be a narcissist but at least I don't spend all day worrying about my ridiculous hairstyle." "You take that back, Dunbar!" Sam had shouted, hating it when people insult his hair. "What are you going to do about it, you scrawny little shrimp?" Dennis said to him. "I'm not scrawny, I'm svelte, there's a difference!"
As Calvin was watching the quarrel between the two, someone came up behind him. "Hey, Stern" she said, it was Sammy. "What do you want?" "You know," she said "there are some showers downstairs that no boys use at all, no line or anything." "Why should I trust you?" he said. "Because, my mom knows this school inside and out, so I think I know where everything is" "Uh… okay, I'm convinced, I guess, thanks" he said as he headed downstairs, oblivious to the trap that had been set up for him. As he entered the downstairs showers, he was met with many screams. His sister, Rumiko, and Antea, the girl he met in the rec room last night, were pushing him out. "Get out! Get out! Get out!" Rumiko had shouted as Calvin was pushed out the door. As Rumiko got a closer look, she was surprised to see who it was. "Calvin, you sick pervert! What the hell do you think you're doing? This is the girl's showers!" Rumiko had shouted. "But I… but…" What's going on down here" A loud voice had shouted, it was Jim Morales. "Thank God you're here." Rumiko shouted "This kid tried to sneak a peek at us!" "Is that so, Calvin!?" "No, I didn't mean to, I swear. I was told there were showers down here I could use" "You spaz!" Antea shouted "Everybody knows that down here is the girl's dormitory." "As for you Calvin, 2 hours detention in the library when school's over. Honestly, I expected better from you!" "Yes, Mr. Morales." Calvin said as Jim left. Calvin than heard loud laughter coming from the other end of the hall. "You should have seen the look on your face, priceless!" Sammy said laughing. "You liar, you told me that there were boy's showers down here." Calvin said "I didn't say that, I said that no boys used those showers, you really need to pay attention, Stern." Calvin didn't bother with her and went back upstairs, took care of his morning routine, got dressed and headed to his first class, history, and as luck would have it, both Sam and Sammy were in the same class.
"Good morning, class" the teacher said, "As you all know, your beloved history teacher, Mr. Fumet, had retired yesterday, so I will be teaching history from now on." The teacher was dressed in a burgundy suit and had short, black hair and a beard, and he was carrying a, bulky, white binder with him. "My name is Mr. Xavier, rhymes with Javier, but spelled like Xavier." He said as he began today lesson. "Now it's time for a pop quiz." The students groaned, as it was their first day back from summer break. "Whoever gets a 100 on theirs doesn't have to do homework for the rest of the week." He said as he was passing out the quizzes. "However, these tests cover everything that will be taught in this class, and seeing that this is your first day back, I highly doubt any of you…" "Finished!" Calvin said. "What?" Mr. Xavier exclaimed as he looked over his test "But that's impossible, nobody has ever passed my tests let alone get a perfect sore on them." The class just stared at him; they haven't even gotten past the first question, how could he have gotten a perfect score in only less than a minute? "I've read a lot of history books when I was a kid, I think I know most of this stuff." Mr. Xavier could only stand there dumbfounded; he walked over to his desk and gave him his white binder. "Here" he said, "This contains some cryptic codes even I can't decipher, see if you can do it." Calvin began to open the binder. "After class is finished, I don't want you wasting valuable class time on this." "Very well then." Calvin said as Mr. Xavier continued with his lesson.
After his classes, lunch, and detention, Calvin met up with Sam and decided to have a chat with him. "That was so cool! The way you went up to Mr. Xaver like that and BAM! That sure showed him, huh, Cal?" "Yeah, I guess, by the way, I saw that one girl, Antea, hanging out with Dennis, is he supposed to be her boyfriend? And my name's Calvin!" "Actually, yes, they've been going out for like two weeks now. Why are you bringing this up, do you like her?" He said again, mockingly. "I told you, NO!" he shouted. "Besides" he said quietly "She already has a boyfriend, so what's the point." "With Dennis" "So?" "So, Dennis is a playboy, he dates a girl for a little while, he looks for an even more attractive girl, and dumps his first girl on the spot when he finds another. The way I see it, Antea will be dumped in around 3 days" "WHAT THE HELL, DENNIS?" they heard Antea shout. "Ooh, better make that 3 seconds" Sam said, as they ran towards the source of the shouting, Calvin couldn't believe what he was seeing: Dennis was making out with Rumiko right in front of Antea, his girlfriend. "I can't believe you would do this to me! I thought you cared about me." "Yeah, well times have changed, so get over it" "That does it! We are through, Dennis!" she said as she ran of crying. "Get off of me!" Rumiko shouted "I don't like you, don't you get it?" "Yeah, that's what they all say, baby. But you'll come running back to me." "Hey, you, leave my sister alone!" "Oh, hey, I know you." Dennis said "You're that lower classman who punked Mr. Xavier right in the middle of class." "I said, leave her alone! What right do you have to cheat on a girl for a girl that doesn't even like you back?" "Listen, Stern." Dennis said to him threateningly "If you care about your sister so much, you'll stay out of this, you aspie punk." "You really shouldn't have said that" Rumiko said. "What did you call me!?" Calvin had shouted "As-pie" Dennis said emphasizing each syllable. "What are you going to do about it, huh aspie?" Calvin ran over, and flipped him on his back. "Alright, kid, playtime is over." He said as he ran toward him, but Calvin easily moved out of the way, grabbed his arms, placed them behind his back, and pinned him to the floor face down. "Alright, I give, I give!" He said as he got up, after getting up Rumiko approached him and slapped him in the face. "Don't ever mess with any of my siblings again, got it?!" Dennis nodded "Good! Calvin, why don't you go upstairs before you get another detention."
"That was amazing, you practically owned Dennis! How did you do that?" Sam had said to him; he still couldn't get over what he had just seen. "Um… I don't think you can own a person, I believe that would be slavery." Calvin said, not understanding the idiom. "But to answer your question, I come from a family of Pencak Silat practitioners. Mom trained Dad, Dad trained Rumiko, Rumiko trains me, and I train Ami." "Cool" Sam said "What's Pancake Sitar?" "Pencak Silat," Calvin said "It's a form of mixed martial arts that originated in Indonesia. It's like karate, but you're actually trained to use weapons as well as your fists." "Cool." Sam had said again. "Think you could teach me sometime." "Sure, if you want me to." "By the way" Sam had said. "What's in that binder Mr. Xavier gave you?" "I don't know; I didn't check yet, want to look at it together?" "Hell, yeah!" Sam said as they headed back to their room.
What sort of information could this binder contain? Find out next chapter.