Ch. 4: Caught Dating
Drago and the boys are struggling to get out as the steam in the locker room got worse and they sweat up a storm.
"Help!" Drago yells
"Someone help us!" Hsi Wu loudly pleaded.
Luckily, Principal Ramsey is walking when he hears the cries for help and sees the broom on the door. He runs over and takes the broom away from the door, causing the boys to fall looking pruned and red.
"Are you boys okay?!" Principal Ramsey said with concern.
"We're fine," Drago coughed, "but someone turned on the hot water. We nearly got cooked."
"I'll have the pipes checked for sabotage right away," Mr. Ramsey said as he ran to his office.
After school, the J-Teens met at the field to talk about what happened.
"Someone with the power of water had to use the pipes to try and turn us into steamed vegetables," Ice said, "but the question is why?"
"Well that steam treatment serves you right for what you said to Stacey during lunch, Drago," Colleen lectured.
"Colleen, who's side are you on?" Drago asks.
"I'm not taking anyone's side, Drago. If she tells her mom what you said, it could ruin your Uncle Xiao Fung's chances with dating her."
What the teens don't know is that is that Stacey is overhearing everything they are saying and she is shocked and angry to here that her mom is dating someone other than her dad.
"My mom is dating that loser Drago's uncle?!" she angrily shouts and screams.
That night, her mom Tori has just come home from work and sees Stacey angrily looking at her while sitting in the living room.
"Stacey, what are you doing up?" Tori asks.
"I overheard Iggy talking to his friends about your date with Drago's uncle," Stacey angrily states, "Is it true?!"
"Sweetie, Xiao Fung is a nice guy, and we are just dating right now. Besides, your father and I have been divorced for five years. "
"You two would have gotten back together if you weren't so stubborn!"
"Look who's talking. Stacey, your father has lied about a lot of thing to me, and I'm not going back to a marriage of dishonesty."
"You should talk honest! When I asked why the divorce happened, you never answered me. Why? Because you don't want to be blamed!"
"Stacey, you're being unreasonable! Xiao Fung has been good to me ever since you got kidnapped during that ski trip."
"So it's okay for you to see someone I wouldn't like, but not okay if it was vice versa?"
"Mikey is different! His idea of dealing with divorce is hurting kids just to make his dad suffer! He was a bad influence!"
"He was also the only kid who ever understood how much divorce hurts! Now you'll remarry and replace me the way Mr. Collins did with Mikey.
"I would never replace or hurt you!"
"You already have the hurt part down! You took me away from dad and my penthouse home; you won't buy me anything to make me feel better; and you keep me away from the only friends I have because you love Iggy more than me! It's your fault the divorce happened because you wanted! It's your entire fault!"
Stacey runs upstairs to her room and slams the door as Tori looks at her with sadness.