Wow, we're already on the fifth chapter I never would've thought it would happen.
Anyway glad y'all liked the last one.
I don't own these properties.
"Why do I gotta hear this song again?" Naruto groaned as he was stacking DVDs on the shelf in the horror section. "Uzumaki!" He heard one of his co-workers say, "Your turn to be on the counter!"
"Alright, I'm on it" He answered with an irritated tone. Walking to the counter he greeted a customer "Hello how may I help you today."
"I didn't know you work at Blockbuster, we also gotta stop meeting like this." Recognizing the voice, he looked up and saw the customer standing there. "Tori? What the fuck are you doing here miss goody to shoes."
"Hey, that is not a nice way to greet a friend and customers also watch your language."
"Yeah, yeah just put the movies on the counter." He said Tori put the movies on the counter like he said.
Full metal jacket
Mean girls
And A Walk to Remember was placed on the counter, taking the DVDs he scanned them "here you go." Naruto handed them back, but he saw that she was in her own world. Mumbling New Perspective by Panic! At the disco.
He cleared his throat, causing her to snap out of it "sorry sometimes I get too focused on a song I start to mumble along to it."
"I can see that, anyway, cash or card?"
"Cash" Tori took money out of her purse and gave it to him, taking it, he put it in the register and handed her the change with the receipt "make sure you bring it back." He said as she was walking out to the car where he saw Trina singing exaggeratedly in the car.
"Why does she think she's so talented?" He thought seeing them pull out and exit the parking lot.
"Boo!"
He saw a bat on a string and the string was tied to a stick. Taking it, he broke it with his knee in two. "Nice try Alexis but bats don't scare me."
Naruto then saw a wind-up spider on the counter grabbing it and he put it in the drawer. "Spiders too."
"Damnit!" She leaned on the counter "something has to scare you." Running her hand through the side bangs of her pink dyed hair she had an idea " oh maybe-"
He cut her off "don't even try it. Last time I scared someone I got hit with a flashlight." Naruto said with a bit of annoyance
"You're no fun- you got hit by a flashlight?"
"Yeah, and I'm lucky that I wasn't busted open."
"Oh, it was one of those metal ones, wasn't it?" She asked with a cringed face "Yup" Naruto said, popping the p.
"What were you doing to get hit by a flashlight?" She asked
Naruto tapped his fingers on the counter "the girl that just rented those three movies right there hit me with a flashlight as I tried to scare her."
"But where were you during this?"
"I was just about to get to that emo."
"It's a scene for your information." She corrected him.
"Scene, emo whatever you guys have the same hairstyle, bangs that are to the side whether it be to the left or right, then you guys dye your hair or put color streaks in." He explained
"Okay thanks for the explanation, but what does this have to do with you and the flashlight?"
"Oh well, it's simply we explored an abandoned hospital, but only 5 floors." He told her.
"Why an abandoned hospital?"
"My two friends and I were bored plus we didn't feel like playing any games at the time." He confirmed it to her.
"Well, that's nice. While you and your art friends were having fun, I went to go watch Scott pilgrim."
"Already saw it." He said opening a bag of pretzels.
Taking one he handed it to her "so what are your plans for Halloween?" She said, taking the pretzel from his hand.
"No idea, plus why are we talking about this, it's September twenty ninth?" Naruto replied
Alexis crossed her arms "cause Halloween is cool."
"You do know that we haven't even put the decorations for that yet," Naruto said, pointing around the store.
"I know but once we do, I'm going to take a photo and put it on Tumblr."
"Yeah, keep telling yourself that and sooner or later those three-row pyramid studded belts are gonna go out of style." He said looking at the magazine she was reading
"You take that back!"
"Never." He told her with a serious face
Hearing some DVDs drop in the bin he picked them up and gave them to her "your turn."
Alexis stuck her tongue out, walking further she went to the monitor "Oh, and make sure they're in the right section this time!"
"Yeah, yeah I hear you."
Hollywood Arts- Auditorium
"What's in the box? What's in the fucking box!?"
His computer was then closed "Hey I was watching that!" Naruto was then handed a paper "what is this?"
"A flyer."
"A flyer for what exactly?"
Jade rolled her eyes "the school is going to have some spirit week."
Crossing her arms, she sat down with him "and by the looks of it they just want to fit in like regular high schools."
"Is that so?"
"Yeah, by the way what are you doing here all alone?"
"Our department was cleaning up the props from a play that we are rehearsing. I'm not in it but. They asked me to pitch in and help out." He said, putting his laptop in his backpack. Jade put her head on his shoulder "you studied last night for that test?"
He shook his head "no I didn't, but I'm pretty sure I passed it. History is easy, it's just basic memory." Tapping the side of his head with his finger
Sikowitz busted through the doors "Ah I found you two."
He walked towards the stage and walked up the stairs "I need to ask you guys a favor."
"What kind of favor?" They both said at the same time. "I need your guys's help with something." Fixing his scarf, he continued "you two need to come up with characters that you and your friends will play "
Naruto was about to speak but Sikowitz cut him off. "And don't worry it could be any kind of character."
Walking down the stairs he was about to exit "oh and I almost forgot you have a few weeks to do this so hurry it up." And with that, he left the Auditorium.
Naruto looked at Jade "any ideas?", Jade looked back at him "not at the moment." She said, Then Cat opened the doors "guys come on did you hear the bell? It's lunch already!"
"Yeah, I did, and did you hear that I sell out more seats than you guys?" Naruto said sarcastically. Cat gasped "What's that supposed to mean!"
He was elbowed by Jade "nothing Cat, he didn't mean it."
"Oh okay, well come on!" Cat ran down the hall. Getting up he grabbed his bag. "Come on, I'll buy."
He jumped off the stage, and she did the same with Naruto catching her. Walking out of the auditorium, they walked to the Asphalt café.
Buying food from the school's food truck they went and sat down waiting for their friends "so have you heard from your dad yet?"
"No, I haven't, said he was going on a business trip last time I heard," he said,
"And when was this?"
"Like two months ago." He replied
Jade had a smirk on her face and pulled the hood over his head "cheer up. How about we visit her after we come up with these characters?"
A small smile appeared on his lip "Sure why not, it would be nice." He then took the hood off his head.
"And we'll get her an aster and a jasmine that sound, alright to you?"
"Yeah…. It does sound alright"
The rest of the group arrived, and Tori put her head down " what's wrong with her?" Jade asked
Beck opened his water bottle " Gradstein gave us a project which is to write a script."
"Is that why she looks like shit." Jade chuckled. Tori brought her head up "not funny West I have to go on a trip to NYC with Trina."
They all winced at the name "and when is the flight?" André asked
"Tonight"
"Is that why you rented those movies?" Naruto asked. She nodded her head. "Torii" Trina came running looking for Tori "Hey I found you, be sure you're all packed for tonight alright see you later." She walked off not even saying a word to them.
"Have fun with that." Rex piped up, Tori took the puppet and threw it "Rex!" Robbie screamed, getting up he ran to the puppet.
They laughed at his reaction. "Alright then be safe on your trip to NYC." André said.
"Thanks." She replied
"So, what did Sikowitz want with you guys?" Cat asked Naruto and Jade. "He wants us to create characters for some reason that we don't know." Jade said
"Wonder what he wants with that?" Robbie said coming back with Rex "who knows? He just found us in the Auditorium and told us that." Jade said
Beck then thought of an idea
"Hey Tori, how about you do the project on the flight, so you don't have to worry about it." Beck suggested to Tori.
"That doesn't sound like a bad idea!"
Later
"How about a mentally ill cyclist?"
"No"
"A Corrupt Corporate boss?
"No"
"A Robber?"
"No"
Crumbling the paper, she threw it at him "argg how are we going to come up with this shit!" She yelled as she was spinning around in his rolling chair.
Naruto grabbed the paper ball and threw it in the trash bin "wanna hear my ideas?"
She scratched her star tattoo "Sure why not." He cleared his throat a bit before reading "a failed stand-up comedian, a junkie, a play-by-play sports commentator, and a crazy surgeon."
"Keep the crazy surgeon." Nodding he tore it out and put it in the hat "so that's two so far a cop with lipstick and a surgeon."
"Don't forget the Raisin Bran."
"Why Raisin Bran?" He asked. "Cause why not or do you have a better cereal?" She questioned.
"As a matter of fact, I do Cheerios." He said showing her a picture of the box on his laptop "you see this doesn't have raisins, it has honey that gives it flavor." Jade rolled her eyes "I'm still going with Raisin Bran."
"Still don't understand why you chose it."
"Still don't know why you dream of getting a dodge viper." She spoke
"And I don't know why you still have a fall out boy as your background when they already broke up." He fired back
"It's called a hiatus." She clarified
"Whatever."
"Anyway, back to the assignment, this character has an addiction to Raisin Bran so the person that chooses it has to eat it." She explained the reason for the Raisin Bran
He quickly changed his opinion "Ok I got to see how they react to that."
She shrugged her shoulders "thank me later." Suddenly his slap notification went off "who is it?"
Naruto crossed his arms "I don't know so I'm going to ignore it." He said moving his cursor to the red ignore button he clicked it and the notification went away.
"Now that interruption is over, back to work." Naruto said, grabbing a notebook and pencil he started thinking of ideas "oh how about a spokesman that gives out bad advice."
She thought about it for a moment. "yeah, that's not too bad." Taking the paper, she folded it and put it in the hat.
The notification went off again "who is it this time?" Opening the tab, he saw that André was inviting him to a video chat "why is André inviting me to a video chat?" Naruto asked himself, moving the cursor to the green button he clicked accept.
"Hey" he said, then Naruto noticed that Beck, Cat, and Tori were on the call. "Why did you not accept my invite?" Tori wondered "oh that was you sorry, I didn't even look at the name." He apologized
"It's okay we just needed something to ask you."
"And what is that?"
"How do you come up with a plot twist?" Beck asked.
Naruto mentally slapped himself in the head "okay first of all tell me what you have so I could answer your question." André responded, "Sure Just let me share the doc."
Seeing that the doc was shared he clicked on it, scrolling through the doc he read the script and laughed "hahaha oh my gosh you went for the kid looking in the closet cliché what is this Narnia? haha."
Wiping a tear off his face he stopped laughing "anyway I'll do this quick there is this new show on HBO called boardwalk empire that I recorded."
"You can watch your show later, just pause it." Tori said as she fiddled with her Saint bracelet.
"Fine, now if you want to make a good plot twist, I suggest you rewrite half crap." He said, grabbing the remote he paused the tv
Tori proceeded to protest "what! No, we spent 40 minutes on this, please, it's not a good idea."
Jade grabbed a nail file from her back pocket "Hey! You wanted his help, so you are getting his help."
"Enough! Now how would you make a good plot twist?" André said
Naruto put a hand on his chin and thought for a moment "you would have to have a good build-up, like give a small foreshadowing of what's going to happen in the future, please don't do the father was the villain the whole time, those are getting old." He explained.
André was going to thank him but was interrupted by a notification "awe man who is it now?"
"Robbie." Tori answered "Hello." He waved at them. She leaned into the camera "and goodbye" she said moving the cursor to kick him out of the chat "wai-" but it was too late.
"Thanks, Tori" André said
"You're Welcome."
Suddenly four paper balls were thrown in his face "did you really have to do that?" He asked in confusion.
"Yes, yes I did." Jade replied
Uncrumpling one of the paper balls he read it "a pirate really?"
Jade tapped the paper "a pirate with two eye patches."
"And does he have eyes underneath the patches?" He asked
She moved her finger left and right signaling that it was a no.
He let out a sigh "next" Naruto said, tearing the paper down the middle and went to the next one.
"A surfer with one arm." Naruto gave her a blank look. "Is this a reference to the woman getting her arm completely bit off by a shark."
"Nooooo," Jade said dragging the 'o'
"Nope"
"Why not?" She replied
"Cause I don't want to see one of them have an arm tucked in their shirt plus it's going to look silly." He told her
Putting it in the trash bin he opened the next one "an artist that is a perfectionist."
Thinking about it for a moment, he gave out a sigh.
"Soo?" Jade said with extended arms out.
Naruto got up from the bed and took out a marker from the pencil cup. uncapping the marker, he drew a big red X over it.
"Ugh, this is hard!" Kicking an Ewok plushie it hit the tv "Why does he even want us to do this in the first place." Jade said in anger
"Um not to interrupt you guys but we got work to do."
Jade walked over to the laptop and sat on the bed "We!? who is we, as far as I'm concerned you guys asked for our help and got it ."
" Yeah, I mean we could go now, right? Since I already helped?" Naruto said with a raised eyebrow. Tori shook her head " nope no no no you are-"
she was then cut off "ouuu a person with so many lost memories they don't know who they are." Naruto said as he read the last one of the crumbled balls of paper.
"So is that a yes or a no." He saw Jade had a face of hope.
Naruto sadly shook his head "while it is great, and the concept is on point it's gotta be a no."
Going to put it in the trash she grabbed his arm "what if we hold on to it for now, we have three out of seven characters right now."
"Let me think about it nope!"
"At least read the other three please." She said with a pleading face pointing to three more that were on his desk "ah uh fine I'll read the rest." Naruto said in defeat
"Thanks."
Cat turned on one of the effects and started laughing "Cat what are you doing?" She laughed "I clicked on the kaleidoscope!"
"Cat please focus." Tori groaned. She quickly turned it off "sorry I promise I'll focus, plus you need some pep in your step."
"Pep?"
Jade rolled her eyes and put the pen down and sat next to Naruto "jeez Vega you went to Sherwood High, how could you not know what pep is?"
"I know what pep is!" She exclaimed but was shushed by one of the passengers "sorry." Tori said quietly.
"Sure, you do." Jade said, "was little miss Tori a cheerleader back then?" She teased "Stop that and focus." Tori quickly said with a flustered face
A name popped up on her screen "Spears Rules29?" Clicking on accept it turned out to be Robbie.
"What is it now!" Tori exclaimed
"I thought if I changed my name, you'd accept my request, and you did!"
"But why, Spears Rules29?" Beck asked
"I was going to go with LiL Stephanie21, but I thought about it and just made a random username." He explained with a face of sorrow.
"Lil Stephanie21? Dude what gave you the idea to make that a username." Naruto said, pinching the bridge of his nose.
Robbie uncomfortably scratched his head "I think I'm just gonna go now" he left the call
They just stood there in silence "Well that was."
"Awkward" Naruto said Finishing Jade's sentence
Tori hit the tray table lightly "can we please, please try and get this done?" Tori said as she rubbed the sides of her head.
"I don't see what's the problem, you have a week to do this, meaning you can do this over the week in New York." She said knowing she was right. Tori leaned back in the chair and dragged her hands across her face
"Wow I haven't seen a devastating look like that since the Seattle Supersonics moved to Oklahoma." Naruto said.
"Or when Hulu started charging money." Jade added
Tori breathed in and out "the fact that we're only at 4 pages right now is getting me really frustrated."
"Hey, it's not that bad, we can try and do ten pages." Beck said.
"That doesn't sound too bad. When does your flight land?" Andre asked. Tori checked the time on her phone.
"In an hour."
"And have you had any sleep?" André asked her, Tori's eyelids slowly began to fall then she caught herself "I took a 5-hour energy." She said, "Now let's continue with this script." She continued.
"Alright let's write a few more and call it a night." Cat said, grabbing a composition book to write down ideas.
"Few? I think we could do an all-nighter." She yawned. She was going to write but it was too late as André stopped her.
"No, what I think you need is some rest." André said, "talk to you later." He signed off soon the rest signed off.
Tori closed her laptop and put it in her backpack. Closing the tray table. She then laid back in the chair and closed her eyes.
"Hello passengers and welcome to New York please grab your items as you walk out thank you."
Her eyes opened and saw that everyone was getting up and leaving, grabbing her backpack she unbuckled her seat belt and got out with Trina following.
"So did you finish your script?"
Tori rubbed her left eye " no, we decided to do the rest over the week." She said walking over to the baggage claim she grabbed her red luggage.
"And so we left it off at 4 pages and have to come up with a new plot twist." She finished. "Come on sis, follow me." She heard Trina say. Following her, she looked at the sign that showed arrows pointing to different terminals.
Following Trina both were now outside "were taking a taxi?"
"Yep." She said, signaling for a taxi "I thought we were renting a rental car?" Tori questioned putting her luggage in the trunk.
"No, we are not doing a rental, Cause we have to keep those clean and not damaged?" She said seriously
Both got in the taxi and told the driver where to take them. "Well, what if I want to go to the store?"
"You can take the subway."
"Ewww I'm not taking the subway!"
"Hey, at least you won't have to deal with traffic."
"Can we please get a rental car?"
Trina looked at Tori and saw that she was doing puppy dog eyes "don't do those eyes they may work on mom and dad but not me."
Tori leaned in closer and closer "tch alright fine we'll get a rental. Hey, change of plans-"
"Already on it." The taxi driver said
Soon they arrived at the hotel in a Chevy Tahoe, getting their luggage and both walked to the hotel "Wait right here Tori I'm going to check if we're booked." Trina said walking to the front desk.
Tori stood by the stairs, taking her phone out. She took it off airplane mode, and the moment she did her phone died. then a card was thrown in her face "what was that for?" Picking it up she saw that Trina had the same card as well.
"That's the spare key card to our hotel room."
Tori picked up the card and looked at the number.
360
"360?"
"The three means that there's a third floor Tori, now come on there's an elevator by the vending machines."
Walking to the elevators Trina pushed the button that goes up. Tori then pushed the button to go to the 3rd floor. Arriving on the third floor. "Oh that's nice there's a vending machine right here too." Trina said walking out of the elevator, Tori nodded a little and followed her "this way Tori."
"Are you sure it's right here?" Tori asked, Trina, stopped at the door "It's right here I read the sign before walking down the hall for your information." She said sliding the card in and taking it out she opened the door.
Trina ran to the bed close to the window "I call this one!" She said, Tori, smirked, "well I call this one that's close to the closet."
"People don't use hotel closets, you know that right." Trina raised an eyebrow.
"What do you mean?"
Trina walked to the closet and opened it, using her index finger and thumb she picked up what looked to be a poster. "Big time rush? Must be a new boy band or something" she said with curiosity.
Tori scrunched her face in disgust "and it looks like they love that one in particular." Pointing to the one in a red shirt and suit jacket over it. That had a heart around him with kisses of red lipstick.
Trina crumbled it up and threw it away. "Come on, we have a lot ahead of us this week."
Friday.
Birds were chirping on this sunny day, the stained-glass window shined through the mausoleum. A door opens and steps are heard then they stop.
"Hey mom, how's it going?" Naruto said with flowers in his hand.
Kushina looked up and quickly dropped the wet rag into the bucket.
"Oh, how's my baby boy doing at this fine hour of the day." Kushina said as she was hugging him.
Naruto returned the hug then stepped away, "you remember Jade, right?" Naruto said introducing her to Jade in case she forgot.
Kushina clasped her hands together "of course how could I forget about her." She spoke
Jade extended her hand out and Kushina accepted it "nice to meet you again how have you been?"
"I've been well Jade thanks for asking but I have a question for the both of you." She said as her eyes then narrowed.
Giving the flowers to her, Naruto and Jade walked backwards until he opened the door so both of them could Exit.
"Come on, let's get going, we still need three more characters, we'll do it in the library." Naruto said walking out of the mausoleum and to his car.
"That was a quick visit don't you think?" She told him with curiosity. "I know it was short, but we have to get to school or else my mom will fucking kill me!" He replied walking to his car.
Jade whiped her head back and groaned "but I don't want to." She said kicking her feet as she walked to the passenger side.
"Well, where do you want to go then?" He asked
"I have just the place."
Splat'
"This is not what I had in mind." Naruto said in a monotone voice. Seeing a patty of a burger getting stuck to a window.
Jade took a nugget out of the purple share box "I thought you liked McDonald's?" She spoke
He shook his head "Yeah when I was little, but that's changed. Although their Sprite is good." Naruto said
"Ok, let's get this done." Looking at his notebook he read the ones that they had "so far a cop with lots of lipstick, a person who gives bad advice, a crazy surgeon, and an A-List list Actor." He confirmed
"Right"
"Alright, got anything else?"
Jade thought for a moment then she reminded herself of what she saw on the internet "a conspiracy theorist."
Naruto liked the idea "I like it, you never see those that often." He said writing it down. then there were just two more to go.
"Any ideas for the last two?" Naruto asked. "A comedian but they only use dark humor, and a meteorologist." She said quickly.
"Dark humor huh?" Naruto questioned "doesn't seem half bad to me." He spoke
He wrote the last two down and closed the notebook, "now we just need to figure out who to play them." He spoke
Jade looked at her black and green nails "or we could have them choose in a hat, that way it wouldn't be that difficult."
"How is it that you always come up with easier ideas?"
"I don't know, you tell me."
Then a cup was thrown to the window "jeez what are these kids on?" Naruto wondered.
"Candy? Or maybe they gave them the wrong toy." Jade joked, calling back to the time they gave out Kidz bop CDs.
Naruto let out a small laugh, pulling his phone out he decided to check what was going on "would you look at that, Tori is in New York." He said showing Jade the photo of Tori in Times Square.
"Did she ever say why she's going to New York?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders at Jade's question "don't know she never did say why she was going maybe it's family, or a casting call the Trina heard on the radio or internet."
Getting his stuff together he got out of the booth "Come on let's get going." He started to walk but his arm was pulled to a stop.
"No no no." He spoke
"Why not?"
"Because we could just buy some cookies at the store." Jade then looked him straight in the eye "but I don't want a cookie."
"Then what do you want?"
"Mcflurry"
Sighing he took his wallet out and handed her the money "here you go." She quickly got up and hugged him "Thanks!" Grabbing her leather jacket from the booth she ran to the cashier counter.
Picking up his cup he went to refill it dumping the ice out, Naruto refilled it with new ones he then put blue powerade into the cup once filled he put the cap back on.
Looking to the right he saw that Jade had got her Mcflurry "at least the machine wasn't broken this time." She said scooping the oreo covered treat.
Walking out of the McDonald's he got into his car. But as it turned out life had other plans.
"RAHH" a man who looked like a homeless hippie screamed at his window causing both Naruto and Jade to jump.
Then they got a better look at him "Sikowitz?"
"Hello" He waves
Naruto gave him an uncomfortable wave "what is he doing here?" Jade whispered "I don't know" Naruto replied
"Shouldn't you two be at school?" They heard him say. "Same with you baldly." He told Sikowitz.
"Good one anyway, have you two finished the characters yet?"
"Yeah we did but we have to wait for Tori because she's in New York right now." Jade said
"Fair, but please stop skipping, you guys are still in high school so please take it seriously." Giving them both a serious look. Naruto put his hands on the steering wheel.
"Alright, I promise that we won't skip anymore."
"Good now, can you give me a ride?" Sikowitz asked them. Naruto put in reverse "nope" Sikowitz moved his feet from almost getting run over.
"Well now, how am I supposed to get back?" Looking around he saw a bike walking to it he saw that there was no lock.
Taking the bike Sikowitz started a head start, hopping on the seat he started to peddle "days like these I wish I put some shoes on." He mumbled under his breath as he hit a bump on the sidewalk.
Still could be worse.
Pedaling faster he never noticed that his scarf got caught onto the chain causing him to fall forward off the bike.
"And to leave the scarfs too." He said in pain. Getting up he held his side and started to limp "Ah forget it I'll just walk." He said taking a look at the bike and started to walk away from it.
She needed to get used to the time zone here. It was 3 hours ahead in New York. Typing on her keyboard she decided to continue to work on the script.
Tori was in one of the internet cafés while Trina was doing auditions.
She looked at the plastic bag that was next to her taking an item out. She looked at it, the item in question was a necklace that had the statue of liberty.
"I just hope he'll like it."
Putting it back in the bag, she continued the script. That was until a boy with a hockey helmet took her earbud out "hey the name's Carlos what's yours?"
Tori slowly turned her head towards him "not interested." She said to him grabbing the earbud she put it back in her ear.
"Man" slamming his fist on the table "James always said that'll work"
Then the bell chimed when the door opened "Carlos! Carlos!" A boy yelled, meaning that it was one of his friends.
The friend had his hair styled up and was wearing a black Jean jacket with a Minnesota Vikings shirt under it.
"There you are man! We've been looking everywhere for you." He got his arm to help him off the seat "come on, Gustavo is waiting at the mansion." He then gave Carlos his helmet that was on the ground "here"
Carlos took it from him "thanks man." They both left the internet café. Tori's eyes widened and let out a little whistle.
Typing a bit more she put a period at the end of the sentence "it's almost just a few more pages." She said to herself
Her phone buzzed, looking at it she saw it was from Trina.
Trina: auditions have finished, on my way to pick you up.
She typed her response
Tori: alright I'm heading outside
She got her stuff together and walked out of the Café, the sounds of horns honking from multiple taxis led her to believe that Trina was in traffic.
In times like these, she wished that she had her license, so she wouldn't have to wait long. Tori used her hand and waved the smoke away that was coming toward her.
She then waited and waited and waited some more.
Until she got another text from Trina.
Trina: just take the subway that has the nearest route to the hotel.
Tori let out a sigh. Putting the phone in her pocket. She decided to walk to the subway, luckily it wasn't that far from where she was.
"Sorry, sorry, I'm sorry." She said walking down the stairs trying not to bump into people. Once she hopped off the last step of the stairs, Tori walked to the turnstile, but it wouldn't budge.
"Sorry miss, you gotta pay for the subway" a middle-aged man walked past her. Tori looked back at the turnstiles and saw there was a thing to swipe the card next to it.
Looking around to see where she could get a card, Tori found a machine on her far left. She cheered inside hoping that she'll be able to get on the subway.
But as it turned out things weren't going as planned.
Out of order
That's what a sign said, well more like a piece of paper taped to the screen of the machine. "Seriously!" She exclaimed. Tori hit the screen with her hand.
"Now how am I going to ride the subway?"
Tori walked back to the turnstiles using her left hand. She tried to push it again, but it was no use.
Then an idea popped into her head, Tori placed her hands on the card swipe. Lifting herself she hopped over the turnstile. Tori thanked the lord that no one was looking.
Taking some hand sanitizer out of her side pocket, and putting some in her hand she walked over to the map to see which route to take.
"Okay. If I take this one it'll take me to the hotel nearby and by the looks of it, the walk from the stop to there is not that far." Hearing one of the cars come by she decided to sit on one of the benches.
She just tapped her shoes on the ground as she was waiting for it to come.
Pulling the earbuds out of her bag, Tori plugged them in, scrolling through her apps she found the one she was looking for.
PearTunes
She had Pandora but didn't use it that much, scrolling through the app she found her playlist that she made.
It started off with Bad Romance by Lady Gaga, "totally forgot I had this song on my playlist!" She said in her head.
Lightly bobbing her head to the song "what else should I get them?" She pondered. As she continued to move her head to the beat. zipping up her Yellow Hollister jacket, Tori got up from the bench and put her hands in both of the pockets.
A sub car with an orange Q came, the doors of the car opened walking inside and she sat down in one of the seats.
Once the sub car was filled, the doors closed and started to move. After a long day of walking and writing, well more like typing, she could finally rest at the hotel.
Looking up she saw an ad for the new pear phone that was coming, "it's the shape of a pear?" Looking at the one next to it, it was an ad for Natalie Portman's new movie Black Swan. Then the next track played.
Going up the Country by Canned Heat, Tori remembered the first time she heard this song was when her dad took her fishing when she was little.
Tori smiled as she remembered that day, she even cheered her dad on when he was trying to catch a fish. Luckily, he caught four fish, two trout, and two basses.
He even cooked the fish too, "ah the memories." Tori said at the memory. Taking the phone out the pocket of her jacket. She decided to go on the slap.
The first post that Tori saw when she opened it was by Jade.
Jade West
I Hate Monkey Bars!
Feeling: Angry
She giggled at the post. Scrolling down she found the result of why she hated monkey bars.
A photo of her laying in pain on the wood chips of a playground, with the caption "Epic Fail." Posted by Naruto
Tori laughed at the post, she wished that he got it on video though. Liking the post Tori continued to scroll more down, as she was still amazed that a school could make a social media page.
She even thought to herself that maybe, she could try to make a video series like the rest of the students do at Hollywood Arts.
The subcar then stopped at its station, taking an earbud out and the wire hung on the jacket next to the zipper.
"6th avenue already? Guess I was close to the stop." Tori said in surprise, standing up when the door opened. She saw stairs to her left.
Once she walked up the stairs. The next track on her playlist was Katy Perry's Hot n Cold, "now was it this way? Or the other way?" She said looking both ways.
Deciding to go right, she waited for some cars to pass by. Seeing that the light changed to the pedestrian walking. Tori crossed the street.
The first thing she saw when she crossed was a photo studio. Tori looked at the window display; it was just the basic photo frames and photos of the class of 2011, weddings and families.
She smiled at the pictures. Tori used her index finger to twirl a strand of hair as she continued to walk down the sidewalk.
Turning the corner, Tori moved to the music coming from her phone. To the citizens of New York, it was just another day in New York
It didn't even cross her mind that she went into a store. An employee walked up to her and tapped her shoulder.
"Excuse me, but this is a costume slash Halloween store, not a music store." The employee pushed his glasses up, "if you want music, I suggest you go to the shop a few blocks down I'm sure they have what you are looking for." The employee went back to what he was doing.
Tori looked around the store "oh you're staying great." She heard the employee say with sarcasm in his voice.
Looking at the basics there were masks, fake swords, on the other side it was costumes. The costumes that were hanging were the classic werewolf, vampire, and the morphsuits which were rising in popularity these days.
Moving further they had other costumes " A PB & J matching costume?" Tori said in curiosity, going to another aisle they had Jason Voorhees, Micheal Myers, and Pennywise.
"Ah sweet the horror icons! Naruto would love to see thes-" she cut herself off "I mean he is going to flip when I tell him about this." She corrected herself
Reaching for the Michael Myers costume she lightly touched it "what are we even going to do for Halloween?" She asked herself.
Heck she didn't even know what to dress up as for Halloween even though it was the first of October.
Tori shook her head "forget it I'll figure that out sooner or later." She said,
walking to another aisle. Tori found nothing interesting, continuing to look, she didn't pay attention to where she was going and bumped into a stand that had necklaces and bracelets that went with some of the Halloween costumes.
Luckily, she caught it before it went to the ground, but some of them fell to the floor like the 's cross, pumpkins and bats, even a red gem.
"And that should do it, there we go!" She said, putting everything back on the rack.
"Sorry for the mess everybody." She apologized, "you're the only one here." The same employee said. He then grabbed an X-men comic book and started to read it.
Tori looked around to see if he was right. "Huh, I am the only customer in the store right now."
"Yeah, so are you going to buy something already or are you just going to look around still?"
"Have some patience will you!" She exclaimed, getting a costume that was closest to her, speed walking to the cash register "there happy now!" Tori put the costume on the counter
The employee took the costume and scanned it. "A cop costume?"
"No dummy, it's a swat team costume." She said in frustration with a hint of sarcasm. Rummaging through her bag Tori grabbed her wallet and handed it to him.
Swiping the card, he handed it back to her "do you want that in a bag or are you just going to carry that around?" He asked
"I'll just take it in a bag."
He nodded and got a plastic bag that had a yellow smiley face on it and said, 'thank you for shopping!'
She took the bag and walked out the store little did she know that the costume would come in handy soon to come.
"Oh, hey Tori didn't know you were around here!"
"Trina? What are you doing? I thought we were going to meet up at the hotel?" Tori said in confusion
"Well, I got hungry, so I stopped by and decided to get a hot dog." Trina showed the half-eaten hot dog to her.
Tori sighed and rolled her eyes "whatever, just finish your hot dog so we can go."
"Alright, Alright." Trina took one last bite before throwing it away. Walking to the rental car and starting it
"So how was your day sis?" Trina asked buckling in her seatbelt.
"Well, I did some work on the script, got some souvenirs for my friends, and a cop costume!"
"I see you had an amazing day." Trina commented. Pushing on the break, she moved the stick to drive.
"But I have to ask Tori, is one of those souvenirs for the boy that you like?"
Tori's eyes widened, and tried to find the words to respond, "uh I um oh." She closed her mouth in embarrassment and turned to look out the window
Then Trina giggled a little "relax sis, I don't really know if you like him. I'm just joking around." She said, giving her a playful slap to the arm.
Tori continued to look out the window and gave a fake smile "Yeah just joking" she said quietly.
And that's it for the chapter, been taking a little break for a bit if you're wondering why I haven't updated in a while. Pretty hard trying to come up with a concept that was a bottle episode due to the fact this was originally going to be The Wood.
Anyways glad you liked it
