I do not own any of the characters expect Arabella.
~Arabella's POV~
We all were sitting in Falafel's Phil, eating lunch, I was sitting next to Jack leaning into him and holding his arm.
"Does your hummus smell worse than it normally does?" Eddie asked us.
"It's not the hummus." Milton said as he pointed at Jerry, "It's coming from him."
"That's my new cologne." Jerry said as he pull out a cologne bottle, "It's called Impurity." As he sprayed it in front of our foods.
"Whoa, do not spray that shit in front of my food!" I said to Jerry as the others move their foods away from the smelly cologne that Jerry was wearing. I heard a girl giggling and we all look over to students wearing a uniform from the rich school.
"Check it out. Swathmore academy students. Perfect skin, perfect hair, perfect teeth--" Jack said as he describes the swathmore students.
"Perfectly disgusting." Kim stated in a disgust look.
"They must have finally realized Phil makes the best falafel in town." Milton said.
"Put it in a doggie bag, you. It's for our dogs." Claire, one of the Swathmore kids ordered then chucked, "Can you imagine? He thought we were going to eat this." She and the guy next to her started laughing.
"What's next-- should we go bathe in the mall fountain?" The guy said then the both of them laughed even more. I had a disturbed look on my face at what they said.
"Oh, uh, not-- not from 3:00 to 4:00. That's Jerry time." Jerry told them as was he looked at them.
Claire walked over to our table, "Hello, Jerry. I wish I could stay, But my poor pug is starving. Woof." She said to him, she was obviously flirting with Jerry who gave her a confused look.
"My poor pug is starving. Woof." Kim mocked her, "Who talks like that?"
"Unfortunately, no one I know." Eddie responded.
"They think they're so much better than us just because they go to a private school." I said crossing my arms.
"Well, we are eating their dog food." Jack said eating the falafel balls.
"And they're a week away from showing us up again during Seaford on parade." Milton stated.
"You know, I thought our float last year was a winner." Jerry admitted.
"It was Ernie the janitor sitting in a shopping cart with a tube sock on his head." Jack deadpanned at Jerry.
"Winner." Jerry said proving his point.
"I don't know why they always win the float competition. I mean, what was so impressive about their giant space shuttle last year?" Kim asked.
"It flew." All the boys said in unison.
"They do have a point." I said, taking one of Jack's falafels from his basket.
"Hey! That's mine!" Jack exclaimed as I put falafel in my mouth.
I give him a smirking look and continue to chew on the falafel.
Don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball, run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much, I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.
Here we go, let's start the party, chop it up like it's karate.
everybody, don't you get all tough with me, I'm saying won't you come kick it with me? and we can have a ball, run up the wall, this is how we do, and no matter how much I chop and punch, it's not as cool as kickin' it with you.
We were all warming up in the dojo and looked over to Eddie who walked in, "I was selected to be the head of the float committee because I am the only person who even has a chance of pulling it off."
"No one else wanted the job, did they?" I asked him.
"No, they did not." Eddie admitted.
"It's already Seaford on parade?" Rudy asked, "I hate this time of year."
"What's wrong with seaford on parade?" Jack asked and I smacked his arm, "You just had to asked him."
Rudy let out a dramatic sigh, "This is the week where the whole town is reminded of the horrible thing I let happen. The year was 1996."
"Oh, no."
"Yep. Here we go."
"This is all your fault, Jackie."
"I was proudly pushing the seaford float down the street. My theme? The mighty lentil. In honor of seaford's number one crop." Rudy told the story.
"I love a good lentil story." Milton said excitedly.
"Out of nowhere, ten-- nay! A hundred rich kids from swathmore academy attacked me, led by Teddy Kavanagh. Oh, I fought back." Rudy continued dramatically, "But when the dust settled, the seaford high flag was gone and my lentil had been... violated." He ended it like it was the hardest thing to say, "Our flag has been held captive by Swathmore ever since."
"Rudy, that happened a long time ago." Kim said dismissively, "You're an adult now. Just go over there and get it back."
"Yeah." Rudy agreed, "Maybe you're right. I am gonna March right over to swathmore academy and get back what Teddy kavanagh took from me."
"Do you have any more good lentil stories?" Milton asked him.
"Why, Milton, why?" I whine in annoyance.
"Hundreds. Here are my top five."
"Oh, no. Not again, I'm leaving." I said walking away with Jack.
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I siting in front of Jack, who had his arms wrapped around my shoulders and on a couple of mats with Jerry and watching Milton walked around Kim, who was wearing a red hideous dress.
"Wrong, wrong, wrong." Milton said, "Turn around." He ordered and Kim did, he grimaced, "Oh, sweetie, wronger."
Kim looked at him offended, but Milton didn't seem to notice, "What were you thinking when you put on that abomination?"
"My aunt loaned me this dress." Kim told him, glaring at him.
"Let me say this as delicately as I can.." Jack started, "Your aunt does not love you." I finished.
"You know, the pageant's a pretty big deal this year." Jerry told us, "The winner gets a crown and gets to go to England to represent Seaford for a month."
"I don't care about crowns or England." Kim smirked, "I just want to wipe that smug smirk off of Claire's face."
"Well, Kim, you have to beat her at her game, and you can win this." I said to her.
"How come you not doing this pageant this year?" Jack asked me.
"Because I already did one, way before you moved here and win it with a landslide." I answered him.
"Farm girl." Milton clapped at Kim getting her attention, "You want to win, this is what you do. Get yourself over to gown depot. Talk to Georgio, tell him I sent you, and that you need... The disaster package.
Make it work, Kimberly."
Kim scoffed, "I don't need you or Georgio's help."
Kim looked over to us and we all nodded at her to do it.
"Give me that." Kim snapped, snatching the card from Milton's hand and storming out of the dojo.
"I hope Kim, win this pageant, I'm rooting for her." I said.
"Jack, this float thing is killing me." Eddie stood at the other side of us painting said, "I don't have a theme.I'm blocked. I'm freaking out, man! I'm freaking out!" He grabbed onto Jack and screamed in panic.
"Eddie." Jack said firmly, "Eddie, man, just calm down. We'll help you come up with an idea. Right, guys?"
"Yeah, let's just do a little free association." Milton suggested, "Uh, you know, spitball."
"Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that may work." Eddie said, now a little calmer, "Uh, why don't you guys just say the first word that pops into your head when I say...Seaford."
"Seaford!" Jerry said quickly.
"No, no." Eddie turned to him, "It can't be Seaford. Any word but--"
"But." Jerry said.
"No, no." Eddie turned to him again, "Dude, just say what pops into your--"
"Pops! Keep 'em coming, man. I'm in the zone." Jerry yelled.
"Forget it." Eddie sighed, sitting down on the bench in defeat.
"Believe that?" Jerry asked in disbelief, "Try and help a guy."
"Kavanagh wouldn't even validate my parking..." Rudy muttered to himself as he stormed out the dojo.
"So what I'm getting that you didn't get the flag." I said, earning as a soft shove from Jack.
"Rudy! How'd it go over at swathmore?" Jack asked him.
"Actually, it's a-- it's a funny story." Rudy said, sounding like he was going to cry, "I, uh-- I went down there and--This is totally going to make you laugh."
"Um... The kid who took the flag is now the headmaster." Rudy laughed forcefully, "It's funny, huh?" None of us were laughing so Rudy became even more dejected, "It's funny!"
"So you asked for the flag back and he said no?" Jack asked, not believing it.
"Yeah. Not only that--But he said when he took the flag, Seaford high officially became the home of the losers."
"You know what-- that's it." Jack asked, "If they won't give us our flag back,We're gonna take it."
"Then you know what you guys could do--" Rudy asked, excited by the idea, "You could climb up on that general Swathmore statue in front of the library and put a big bra on it. And one of those adulty diapers on the horse." He laughed, "Wouldn't that be so...Wouldn't that-- diaper in the-- or you guys could just go get the flag back."
I looked at Rudy with a disappointed look on my face, "You are an idiot."
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Me and the boys were undercover at Swathmore Academy, wearing the school uniforms. "That uniform look make you very handsome." I said to Jack.
Jack raised an eyebrow then smirked at me, "Oh, does it?"
"Yeah." I stated and looking at him very flirtatious and wink at him. Jack gave me an amused look wrapping his arm around my waist, pulled me closer to him and lean down to kiss me.
"Uh, can you guys not." Jerry said as we separated from our kiss and look over to Jerry, "You know it will be a lot easier if we had Eddie and Kim here to help us find the flag."
"Nah, Kim's building a float for the parade and Eddie's in the pearl of Seaford pageant." Jack said.
"I think it's the another way around." I said.
"Now we just have to blend in." Milton told us, "Put these caramel jolly whoppers in your mouth and bite down. They'll make our teeth stick together and we'll sound just like 'em."
"How do you know—-What?" Jerry asked confused.
"How is biting down on some candy gonna make us sound-- oh." Jack put the candy in his mouth and. His voice changed, "Oh, oh, Oh, it totally works. Milton, you're a genius."
Milton offered me one but I declined, "Thanks, but I can manage without candy."
The boys looked at me in disbelief so I sighed, I clear my throat, "Like did you heard my daddy, brought me a yacht yesterday." I said in most snobbish voice.
"She got this." Jack said before they were approached by a blonde girl.
"And I said, "Pull over, daddums, I will not be caught dead in a white Ferrari after Memorial day." Milton said to act cool and the guys laughed weirdly, "Seriously. Huh?"
The girl walked away, "What it do, girl?" Jerry flirted but the blonde just continued walking away.
"Hey, let's split up and find our flag." Jack told us, "Just don't draw any attention to yourselves. Let's go."
"Okay, cool." Jerry said in we all walked our own ways. I heard a loud crashing sound, but keep walking away.
I was searching the school of the damn flag, I was going to give up, I turned on a corner and crashed into someone. I stumble back a bit, and look over to the person and it was a boy.
"Who do we have here." A boy with blonde hair and brown eyes smirked down at me. He was wearing the uniform perfectly and his hair slicked back.
I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms, "I was just walking along."
"I haven't seen you around before." The blonde boy smirked, "What's your name, babe?"
I smiled at sarcastically and said, "It's Arabella."
"What a beautiful name for a beautiful girl." He said to me, I look at me in disbelief, "Ok, can I go."
"Aren't you going to ask my name." Blonde boy smirked, taking a step closer to me.
"No, I wasn't planning no asking you." I said giving him a fake smile, and attempting to walk past him but he grab my arm.
"I'm Samson, Samson Anderson." He told me with a smug look.
"Wow, that's a nice name." I said in a sarcastic tone. I tried to rip my arm from his grasp only for him to pull me against some lockers. "You probably shouldn't have done that." I glared at him and kneeing him in the stomach.
"Oh, I'm so sorry. But I will be going now, bye." I said running away from them. As I was running, I ran towards the boys, "Run!" Jack yelled as a horde of Swathmore students came into view and we quickly ran out of the school.
...
"They're gonna fly our flag on their float?" Rudy asked when we returned to the dojo and Jack told us what he overheard in the principal's office. "That taffy-tugging tyrant!"
"Ooh, an alliteration, that's good." I said.
"Guys, I've been thinking about this." Jack said while untying his tie, "I think I've got a solution."
"Yeah, me too." Jerry said.
"Really? What have you got?" Jack asked curiously.
"Uh, no. No. I don't know. I thought you were gonna go first, And I was just gonna say, 'That's what I was thinking.'" Jerry admitted sheepishly.
"All the floats start in that hangar by the train station." Jack said, "What if we got our flag back before the parade starts?"
"Yep, that's what I was thinking. Mm-hmm." Jerry snapped his fingers, nodding along.
"How are we going to get near their float?" Milton asked, "All the Swathmore kids know what we look like. They'll be guarding that flag."
Just on time, Eddie rolled in a log like float in the dojo, "Guys, I finished our float."
"Great!"
"Awesome."
"What is it?" Jack asked.
"It's a replica of the screaming log of Seaford." Eddie stated proudly.
"Oh, legend has it that the founder of our town crawled into a hollow log To survive the harsh winter of 1808." Rudy said.
"Why do they call it the "Screaming log"?" Milton wondered.
"Unfortunately, a family of wolverines had the same idea." Rudy said.
"Guys... I think I know how we're gonna get our flag back." I said in confident tone.
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~No POV~
The boys and Arabella were inside of the log, waiting to make a their entrance. As Eddie was rolling the float to the area where the others are at. They heard the lady in charge giving orders and Eddie was having a conversation with Kim. Then they heard Teddy Kavanagh spoke.
"What is that thing?" He snorted, "Some kind of a sea turd?"
"Your float's a joke." A familiar sounding boy said as Teddy laughed mockingly.
"Ha ha! Joke's on you!" Rudy yelled from inside the log, followed by a loud thud as he tried but failed to jump out. "Ha ha! Joke's on you!" He repeated, but the same thing happened again, "Eddie, open the stupid latch."
"Oh, my bad." Eddie said followed by him opening the door and they climbed out dressed like lumberjacks.
"Ha ha! Ha ha!" Rudy yelled back, "The joke's on you! We've come to get our flag back." He stepped out of the log only to stumble and lean on Bella for support, "Oh, oh, foot's asleep."
"Let's go." Jack said as they quickly started to climb the large ship that was the Swathmore school's float.
"They're taking the ship!" Teddy yelled.
Jack and Bella were the first ones up and immediately started fight the Swathmore kids that attacked them. "Well, well, well. If it isn't the little lady" Samson said with a clearly fake smile.
"You really can't take a hint, can you, Sean?" Bella wondered as she knocked one of the other boys to the ground.
"It's Samson!"
"That's what I said didn't I?" she smirked and he lunged for her.
"Two minutes! Two minutes please!" The lady in charge yelled, not even bothering to look at the fight on the ship.
Bella picked up a fake sword from the ground and started to fight Samson who she assumed knew how to fence from his skill. But her many years of training with a bo-staff, not to mention the many hours spent watching Pirates of the Caribbean, had actually paid off.
When she finally managed to knock the sword out of his hand she kicked him in the stomach, causing him to fall back, knocking over one of Milton's opponents as well. "I would have made such a great pirate." she concluded.
Bella turned around to see that Jack had been backed out on the plank and were having some problems so she quickly jumped up on the railing, taking ahold of the rope that hung down from the sail and swung herself over, knocking all three Swathmore kids to the ground.
"Thought I would swing by." She smirked at her boyfriend.
Jack just rolled his eyes at her before jumping down to join her on deck again.
"I had it sorted out." he scoffed.
"You didn't really." Bella snorted.
"I got it, I got it, I got it!" Rudy waved the flag in victory like a madman, knocking down Jerry in the process just as the poor boy finally had managed to climb up on the ship.
"Really?" Jerry exclaimed in frustration.
"Well, if it isn't the new Pearl of Seaford everybody!" Bella cheered as she saw Kim, who she assumed had joined the fight earlier, walk towards them. "Is her Pearl-iness too good to take a ride with her friends on a log?"
"Now way!" Kim exclaimed, "I can't leave the Swan Queen alone, can I? Let's do this!" She cheered.
"Oh, I was a fun experience that I had." Bella said.
"Kimberly, it's go time." A man in a suit and purple tie said, "Let's get back in your clam, girl." He said but the next second Eddie managed to shoot him in the head with a canon as he climbed onboard, "Guys, I think I might be really, really hurt." The guy said, soot covering his face. "I'm driving that clam over to the hospital."
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Eddie drove the ship-float out of the hangar as the others stood onboard. "Do you think this is okay?"
Milton wondered, "Us taking their ship."
"They abandoned it." Jack shrugged. "We might as well."
"I feel so bad for Eddie." Kim admitted, "He worked so hard on his log."
"I'm driving a pirate ship!" Eddie cheered.
"I think he will get over it." Bella chuckled.