Curtain Making

Curtain Making
All of us make use of curtains in some parts of our houses. Curtains are probably the single most important feature of any room. They provide privacy to our homes and are also used to block the afternoon sun. They are also there to provide color to a plain room. Plus, these curtains give a great way to get a cozy feel and have a personal touch to our homes. However, there are a lot of curtains on the market which may look more or less the same as your curtains at home, and some of us do not want that.

Homes-furnishing.com provides a complete curtain-making resource that aims to provide professional help, hints and instructions to anyone who is interested. After training from the workshops of professional interior design companies during the early 1990’s and a decade of making curtains, this site has come up with a set of guides to help those who want to make their own curtain. The site’s aim is to answer all the questions one may have about making your own curtains, drapes and blinds for your homes.
It is not mandatory to be an experienced seamstress to be able to produce beautiful curtains and drapes. Since ready-made curtains are expensive and custom-made ones cost even more, it is better to create one yourself. With careful thought and experience, great effects can be achieved every time you sew. It is worth planning carefully and living with naked windows for the meantime before you decide on what type of look you want. Never rush into buying fabric and making your curtains just for the sake of having them. With professional help, your curtains and drapes will look far from “home-made.”

Some people spend a long time thinking and imagining what window treatments they want. The site offers advice on how to choose and care for your fabric, hanging the curtains, styling, sewing equipment, together with instructions from how to miter a corner, making lined and unlined curtains, joining together fabric panels to making up your own complete blinds. Soon enough, you will be able to achieve the look you want for your room and have fun seeing your creations come to life.

Portrait Artist

Portrait Artist
A portrait is an artistic representation to depict the visual appearance of an object or a living thing. The face and the expression are predominant so as to display the likeness and the emotions of the subject with the image. Most portraits often show a person looking directly at the artist in order to engage the subject with the viewer.
Portrait-artist.org is a tutorial site where one can find tutorials for sketching and drawing faces, digital art, overview of art and drawing techniques, art supplies, book recommendations and anatomy. Artists or students who are interested in creating portraits could find assistance, tips and resources here. The site is ‘newbie-friendly’ and provides easy-to-follow instructions for beginners even though a little bit of experience is needed to create a portrait.
The tutorials provide details about the face and the head, as well as their overall structure. Understanding features is better since it would help the artist save time from having a trial and error method and it would enable them to create a more realistic portrait. It is the goal of the site to help the artists understand these features better. Freehand drawing is also encouraged in the tutorials since this is the most important artistic skill. Artists need not have to feel that learning how to draw more accurately is difficult but that it can actually be fun and exciting.
Artists using “traditional” art techniques, or those who make use of pencils, oils, watercolors and etc when drawing, are bound to be benefitted the most by this site. On the other hand, digital artists may also find helpful information regarding head structure from this. There is a Photoshop section but there is no 3D Studio Max. Artists who prefer drawing anime or ‘manga’ style would find this site helpful to them, too.

Henna Tattoos

Henna Tattoo
The origin of henna tattoo was during the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. The women put on henna tattoos when they were welcoming their husbands for they believe that the intricate designs are for luck, joy and beauty. It was noted that it was the women who have a lot of henna tattoos than the men, however there may be lack of evidence to prove otherwise. During the 1990’s, the use of henna on skin spread worldwide. It was called the ‘Night of the Henna’. Since then, where there is joy, there is henna.
Henna tattoos are used in place of real tattoos. It is a non-permanent dying or staining of the skin with the use of a henna paste called Menhdi or Mehendi. This paste is from the Henna plant, which is a shrub indigenous to parts of Australia and Africa. Henna paste is made of dried and ground henna leaves with filtered powder. Oils, most preferably eucalyptus oil, is added afterwards. Other liquids like lemon, water or tea are added in the mix by some henna artists to create a thick paste. This may appear to be black but when looking at it closely, one will find that it isn’t.
A component of the henna dye called hennotanic acid, does not pass through the dermis but only stains the dead cells. This is applied topically, usually on the hands and feet with the use of a cone, sticks or a paintbrush making it painless. The stains are darker and stay longer on thicker skin, like the palms of the hand and the soles of the feet, than on thinner skin. Color may also vary depending on the location of the henna tattoo and the way the person cares for it.
There are two kinds of henna: the natural henna and black henna. Natural henna paste is greenish and smells like spinach or hay bale. Henna artists may add natural oils or herbs to spice up their fragrance and darken the color. These usually take 6-12 hours to stay on the skin and produce a brown/orange/red color. Natural henna fades naturally within 2-4 weeks but one may also use hydrogen peroxide on the area daily.
On the other hand, black henna paste is deep black or grayish. It is left to stay on the skin for 1-2 hours. Black henna is pre-mixed henna and is avoided because this contains dye p-Phenylenediamine (PPD) to darken stain or to change color. It is harmful to the skin since it penetrates the dermis and blocks the circulation and causes allergic reactions resulting to permanent injury or death. This has not been approved in the US but is approved in South Asia, Middle East, North Africa and Somalia. To check for allergies, apply a small amount of dye on your skin.

The Story Draft [and the roughest rough draft at that..haha]

REVELATIONS
(Secrets Revealed)

Kimberly Canavelle Mileaco Xanders
Lane Parsel Jacent Vallen
Rain Thorton Gaven Vallen
Charzie Evans Cedric Galvin
Aish Ross JM Lee
Mage Masons Athan Basseterre
Airah Clark Benjamin Andrews
Samantha Johnsons Zander Nicholson
Ashley Smith Jace Hilton
Maisie Bronwen Tyler Fields
Lara Crabbe Tanya Lowell
Halley Myers Dana Gregory

First day of class...
Student1: Hey! Good to see you again!
Student2: Timothy?
Student1: Yeah!
Student3: Excuse me please.
Student4: There you are. I've been waiting for you!
Kim: Nice turn out this year.
Ella: Kim, over here!
Kim: Hi Ella!
Ella: Hello!
Kim: Classes start again... Oh yeah, I heard your Mico has come back?
Ella: Yeah right. He's not my Mico.
Kim: Ella's happy cause Mico's back.
Ella: Seriously, I'm not. We're on the same class, right?
Kim: Nope.
Ella: Oh, sorry.
Kim: But you're classmates with Mico, though.
Student: New student or is that Jace Vallen?
Ronald: C'mon, let's go. What's your section again?
Mico: Jade.
Ronald: Excuse me...
Student5: C'mon, move. We're blocking the way!
Ronald: Never mind...
Airah: It's good to see you guys again!
Mage: Hey, did you hear? Mico Xanders's here in school again!
Friend: What?
Friend2: No kidding!
Mage: Yeah, really! He transferred here from his previous school.
Airah: Shh... Look at him.
Kim: Hey, it's bad to stare.
Mage: He's grown taller, huh?
Friend: Yeah. Much, much taller!
Friend2: He's cute.
Kim: He does not. He just looks like a person.
Mage: You're always kidding, Kim.
Kim: What? It's true. He doesn't look like a monkey, right?
Lane: Hi guys! I finally got the principal to transfer me to your section!
Airah: Really? That's great!
Nica: Have you guys seen Aish?
Friend3: Nope. Maybe she'd arrive a li'l bit later.
(Mr. Cole opens the door to their classroom...)
Airah: Is that our teacher?
Mage: Yeah, most probably.
Ashley: Where's the list of sections?
Student2: It was already taken. Don't you know what section you're in?
Ashley: Uh, no.
Kim: You're in our class. It's up here.
Ashley: Oh, okay.
Airah&Lane: Good morning, sir!
Mr. Cole: Good morning.
Nica: He sounds strict, doesn't he?
Lane: Yeah. Scary.
(Bell rings...)
Aish: Guys, am I late?
Mage: First day of class and you're almost late.
Dana: Make way!
Mr. Cole: Form your lines in an orderly manner, please.
Aish: Oh my... I thought he was a guy.
Lane: Hey, shh...
Benj: Yeah, we're sophomores this year!
Ronald: Jade. I guess this is it.
Mico: Yeah. Thanks.
Benj: Whoa, who's that? Is he new?
Girl: Isn't it obvious?
Athan: Don't you remember him? Mico Xanders?
Tyler: What? Are you sure?
Athan: Of course I'm sure.
Benj: Mico?
Mico: Huh?
Benj: Oh, nothing.
Athan: See...
While returning to the classrooms...
Kim: What?! I am not in Jade. I'm originally in our class!
Nica: Why, what's wrong?
Kim: They did transfer Lane to our class but I get to be in Jade? Why me?
Dana: You're not the only one... Dana's transferred too.
Kim: I am not transferring to another section.
Mr. Cole: Get seated. How many are you here?
Classmate: Thirty, sir.
Mr. Cole: Okay. Let us start. I am Mr. Henry Cole, and I will be your History teacher.
(Mr. Cole goes through the list of students in the class...)
Mr. Cole: Who was not called?
Mage: Kim and Dana were not called, sir.
Airah: But Lane was called, right?
Mage: Yeah.
Mr. Cole: What's your name?
Kim: Kimberly Canavelle.
Dana: And that's Dana Gregory too.
Mr. Cole: Sorry, but your names don't happen to appear in my list of students.
Aish: Look, the principal's outside. Try talking to him.
Kim: Excuse me, sir. I have to go and talk to the principal.
Mr. Cole: You may go.
Kim: Excuse me, sir.
Principal: Yes?
Kim: My name is not in this section's list, however, Lane's name is there when she was the only one who transferred.
Principal: Oh, I see. You see, Lane Parsel is a student with high caliber. Intelligent. So, in exchange for her, we have to have someone replace her in Mr. Hathaway's class, or else he might get mad at us. Lane was the best student that we placed in Jade.
Kim: But why are there two to be replaced?
Principal: It is because you and Dana put together could make Mr. Hathaway's class okay already. Or if you don't really want to transfer, try talking to Mr Hathaway, or get five people to transfer to his class.
Kim: Um, okay. Thanks, sir.
Mr. Cole: What'd he say?
Kim: He said that in exchange for Lane, there should be someone of the same caliber as Lane. So it's two for one.
Airah: Two for one? That's so unfair!
Dana: So why the two of us?
Kim: He thinks we make up one Lane. Or, there could be five who'll be transferred to Mr. Hathaway's class.
Mr. Cole: Five? That's too many.
Lane: I don't want to be in that class.
Kim: Maybe I should just go then.
Nica: Don't transfer, Kim. We'll just be here.
Mr. Bart: Sit down, please, people.
Kim: Sir, may I go to Mr. Hathaway?
Mr. Hathaway: Take your seats, take you seats. Where's Lane?
Ella: She transferred to the other section, sir.
Mr. Cole: Huh? How come?
Kim: Ella, would you please call Mr. Hathaway?
Ella: Sir, Kim wants to talk to you.
Mr. Hathaway: Kim, you'll be here?
Kim: I was originally in Mr. Cole's class, sir. But they transferred me and Dana in exchange for Lane.
Mr. Hathaway: Oh, so where's Dana? Come on in.
Dana: Sir, we don't want to transfer anymore.
Mr. Hathaway: Then call Lane or the five people to be here.
Kim: Oh man...
Lane: Hey, who wants to transfer to Jade?
Guy1: I do.
Guy2: Me too.
Girl2: I do, too.
Airah: Okay, that's three. Lacking two more!
Gaven: Is there still somebody who wants to transfer?
Ashley: Nope. They've already transferred.
Kim: Lara has already transferred to the other section even without permission.
Dana: How about Gaven transfers since he's got the same caliber with Lane.
Mage: He really won't transfer cause JM and Anthony are here.
Lane: I don't think anbody else would be transferring. I have to go.
Mr. Cole: Okay, is that settled?
Anthony: Guess so.
Mr. Hathaway: Ella, is Lane already there?
Ella: No, sir. Oh, she's coming, sir.
Tyler: She's coming?
Athan: I thought she didn't want to transfer.
Lane: (gets inside the classroom;crying) Sir...
Mr. Hathaway: Welcome to Jade, Lane.
Student1: Why are you crying?
Mr. Hathaway: She's not crying, that's tears of joy.
Recess...
Nica: Let's go see Lane.
Lane: (crying) I don't really like it here.
Mage: It's okay, Lane. We will still be friends.
Charzie: She was crying since she got inside the class.
Kim: I hope it's not my fault, Lane?
Airah: What's done is done. We have to get on with it.
Mr. Cole: Aish Ross, sit over there. Next to Aish is Ashley Smith.
: At the back of Aish, um, Bonnie Miller. No, you are before Bonnie.
Bonnie: I told you you're before me. You don't believe me, don't you?
Mr. Cole: Anna Barkin, next, Kimberly Canavelle. Oh, it's Lana Cussack then Kimberly Canavelle. Then over there, Anna. There behind Mage.
Aish: Hey, Kim!
Kim: Oh, you're there.
Aish: Where's Nica?
Kim: She's too far. She's beside Dana, way over there.
Mr. Cole: Okay, that will be your seat plan for now. You may go.
In the carpark...
Lane: Aren't you going yet, Nica?
Nica: No. We already transferred. It's near Kim's and Airah's houses.
Airah: Really? Did you know that, Kim?
Kim: Um, no.
Nica: Now you do. I have to go guys. Bye!
Mage: There's Mico. He's really grown unlike before when he was so short.
Kim: May I borrow your phone?
Mage: Yeah, sure.
Kim: You've got Mico's number?
Mage: Yeah. His mom and my mom are friends.
Kim: Here.
(Kim calls her mom...)
Kim: (thinking) Ow, wrong number.
Mage: I have to get going, Kim. See ya tomorrow.
In Kim's house...
Chris: Hey Mom, you won't guess who's back in school.
Mom: Who?
Chris: Mileaco "Mico" Xanders...
Mom: What's he look like? We talked with his mom before and she said that she's transferring him back here.
Kim: Yeah, and he is here.
Mom: His brother, Ronald, is here too.
Chris: Believe it or not, he's grown, much!
Mom: Mage's mother told me that he had his pants sewn from her, and she thought he was still that little kid before.
Chris: But, Kim, is Jace Vallen back in school?
Kim: No. He's gone to some other school, don't you remember?
Chris: Then who was that I saw?
Kim: I think you meant Mico, too. They say Mico looks alot like Jace.
Mom: Really?
Chris: So that was Mico? You're playing with me, huh?
Kim: I am not playing with you.
Ronald: How was school?
Mico: Fine. I got some new friend, Athan.
Ronald: I thought some girl.
Mico: Ha! (texting) Who is this?
Kim: Huh? (thinking) I'm so dead. (texting) I'm sorry. I kinda dialled the wrong number. I meant to call my mom, really.
Mico: (texting) It's okay. Who are you, then?
Kim: (texting) I am Kimberly Canavelle, we study at the same school. You're Mico Xanders, right?
Mico: (texting) Kimberly. Hmm, yeah, I'm he. Mileaco Xanders' the fullname. Anyway, where'd you get my number?
Kim: (texting) Well, I got it from Mage Masons. I'm kinda "collecting" numbers.
Mico: (texting) Oh, I see. Bro, do we know someone named Masons?
Ronald: Masons..? Um, I've heard that before. I dunno, I'm not sure.
Mico: (texting) The name sounds familiar to me.
Kim: (texting) Of course. Your mom and her mom are friends.
Mico: (thinking) Told you so it seems familiar... (texting) Well, I gotta go. I still have to do something. See ya in school.
Kim: (texting) Sure. See you in school.
In school the next day...
Mr. Cole: You've got a new seat plan right now. This will be your permanent seats. Thank you, Nica, for making it.
Nica: You're welcome, sir.
Mr. Cole: Airah, Dana, Samantha, Anna, Mage and Lana, occupy the first half.
Dana: Yeah! Thanks, Nica.
Nica: No prob.
Mr. Cole: Bonnie, Aish, Ashley, Nica and Kim, here.
Aish: Nice work.
Nica: I even had to change it twice!
Bonnie: Twice? Why?
Nica: Dana wanted that their group would be together too.
Aish: Well at least you placed Anthony in front of me and JM at my upper right.
Anthony: Huh? Why, what's the big deal?
Aish: Oh nothing. (murmuring) It's just that I prefer having you guys right here than Dana.
Anthony: Sure, whatever!
Nica: Hey guys, let's go to Lane's classroom this recess.
Kim: Why? She might breakdown?
Nica: She'd rather be happy that we still care to see her. And let's check out their classroom. You know, nose around.
Kim: Nosing around... I can deal with that.
Zander: (twirling his notebook) Where're you going? Tell him he was supposed to be here.
Athan: Yeah, sure. Someday I'll tell him!
Samantha: Right, Zander. Stop twirling your notebook.
Zander: Huh? What'd I do to you?
Sam: You almost hit me with yur twirling notebook.
Zander: Sorry. It's not my fault I didn't see you.
Dana: Sam, you're wasting your time talking to him. He doesn't listen.
Zander: I do listen too.
Dana: C'mon, let's go.
Recess...
Aish: Hey Lane!
Lane: Hey guys! C'mon in.
Nica: We heard you were the president of this class?
Lane: You heard right. And I heard you were also th president of your class too...
Kim: Oh yeah. It was supposed to be you, but since you were trasferred again, we voted for her.
Nica: Haha, thank you, Kim.
Aish: And guess who our treasurer is...
Lane: Not Kim again?
Kim: Yup, it's me again. I'm tired of being treasurer. Don't tell me I'm going to be treasurer next year. It's so boring!
Lane: Tsk tsk tsk... Deal with it.
Nica: You've got a nice bulletin board. Tell Mr. Hathaway I said that, okay?
Lane: Sure.
(Kim goes out and sees Mico. She gets back inside...)
Kim: Hey, we better get going. Mr. Coleman doesn't like it when someone gets late.
Aish: You know how our adviser could be. See ya!
Athan: Move a bit, Tyler. You're using up much space.
Tyler: Are you serious? Look, you're bigger than I am!
Mico: Athan...
Athan: Yeah?
Mico: Who was that girl, the one walking ahead of them.
Athan: That's Kimberly Canavelle.
Mico: Oh, okay.
That night...
Mom: Kimberly, why aren't you studying your lessons? Why are you watching television?
Kim: Mom, it's the first week of class. What's there to study?
Mom: Scoot over, I can't see.
Mico: (texting) Ey! How are you?
Kim: (texting) I'm fine. How about you? I saw you in school today.
Mico: (texting) Likewise. Yeah, I saw you too, near the classroom. I asked Athan who you were cause I didn't know it was you.
Kim: (texting) Really... So what's new?
Mico: (texting) Well, I'm in the hospital right now cause we met an accident.
Kim: (texting) What? Why? Are you okay?
Mico: (texting) My brother was driving and the car fell off some shallow cliff. But I just got bruises and all.
Kim: (thinking) He still sounds happy. Anyway... (texting) How's your brother?
Mico: (texting) He's okay. But the car's damaged.
Kim: You guys, you won't believe it but Mico and his brother met an accident.
Mom: Are they fine? Where are they?
Kim: He says they're fine. They're in the hospital already.
Mico: (smiling; texting) I'm sorry... I'm just kidding. We didn't meet an accident. I'm just here at home.
Kim: (thinking) He's one weird fellow. (texting) I totally fell for it. You're crazy!
Mico: (texting) Are you mad? I'm sorry, it's just that... I dunno. Sorry.
Kim: (texting) I'm not mad. I'm just angry that I believed your story.
: He was just kidding, Mom. It was all a joke.
Mico: (texting) Peace! =)
A week after...
Lane: Did you know the elections is coming up?
Aish: Well, no. But it's bound to come before we're going to have our acquaintance party.
Nica: Are you running for any position?
Lane: I dunno. I'm not sure. But I guess your sister is, right?
Nica: I dunno. I didn't ask her.
Cedric: Are you running, Lane?
Lane: Are you? I'm not sure.
Cedric: I'm still thinking about it too. Just tell me if you are running, okay?
Lane: Sure. Bye, Ced!
Nica: Bye, Cedric!
JM: Hi Lara! Hi Tanya!
Lara: Hey JM. What class..?
JM: Mr. Coleman's class.
Tanya: You're with Anthony and Gaven, right?
JM: Yeah. Your class adviser is..?
Tanya: Mrs. Alkamire. She's a great teacher.
Lara: Yeah. But I guess Mr. Coleman is also a great teacher, isn't he?
JM: I can't really say that since it's like, what, five-six school days?
Tanya: Sure. We better get going, JM.
JM: Okay.
Senior1: Hey, aren't you going to run for any position?
Airah: Who, me? No way!
Senior2: C'mon, it'll be fun.
Airah: Nuh-uh, no way. But, how about campaign managers... Got one?
Senior2: Have we got campaign managers?
Senior1: Guess not. Since you're not running, I guess we could have you as campaign managers.
Mage: Wait, what do you mean campaign managersssss?
Senior2: We mean the both of you.
Mage: Me too? Okay.
Senior1: Yeah. So, we'll just be telling you when we'll be having a practice for the presentation, okay?
Airah: Sure. Nice talking to you.
In class...
Nica: Hey Kim, may I borrow your phone for a minute? I'm just gonna look at something.
Kim: You sure you're just gonna look at something?
Nica: Yes. C'mon, please... Thanks!
Aish: Oh no, did you bring your T.H.E. materials?
Bonnie: Yeah, of course. You forgot yours, right? Tsk tsk tsk...
Kim: Oh yeah. (checking the bag) Thank goodness I brought mine!
Ashley: What's your plan? Maybe you could borrow our materials after we're done using them.
Nica: Kimmy!
Kim: What?
Nica: You're not telling me anything. You're textmates with Mico?
Aish: Mico? As in Mileaco Xanders?!
Bonnie: There's no other Mico here, Aish.
Kim: Yeah. What's the big deal?
Nica: Hello, Kim! He's like the most popular guy in campus this year? How come you know each other?
Kim: I dunno.
Aish: You can't just say I dunno. Tell us...
Kim: We're just friends. He texted me, that's all.
Bonnie: Where'd he get your number?
Kim: It was a mistake. I got to miscall him when I really intended to call my mother.
Nica: Oh how Lane's going to shout when she hears about this.
Kim: Wait, what are you going to tell her?
Nica: That you two are friends. I think she has a teensy weensy bit of a crush on him.
Kim: Why? He isn't really good looking. Plus, he's such a clown.
Aish: No, no, no. It always start at some point, you know.
Teacher: Focus on what you are doing...
That night...
Mico: (texting) Ey! How many siblings do you have?
Kim: (texting) I've got an elder and younger brother. How about you?
Mico: (texting) I've got three elder brothers... Ryan, Harry, Ronald and then me, Mico.
Kim: (texting) Really... Wow.
Mico: (texting) Um, would you mind if I asked you something personal?
Kim: (thinking) How personal could this question be? (texting) What's your question?
(Message sending failed!!!)
Kim: Oh man! Not today..!
Mico: (thinking) Why isn't she answering my question? (texting) Is it not okay?
Kim: How could I answer you when I've got no load left..?
Ronald: Mico, dinner!
Mico: Coming, bro. (texting) Well, I just wanted to know, do you already have a boyfriend?
Kim: (thinking) What could his question be? It probably is another joke...
: What? Do you already have a boyfriend? Why does he wanna know? (thinking) Why, do you wanna apply?
Mico: Still no reply.
Ronald: What're you waiting for?
Mico: Just a message from a friend.
Ronald: Is it that important?
Mico: Kinda. (smiling)
Ronald: Oh... I know that smile, Mico.
The next day...
Athan: Hey Tyler, look who's here... Nica Thorton.
Tyler: Whatever, Athan. Why, where's your girl?
Athan: Shut up.
Mico: Hey, Athan, what's Kim like?
Athan: She's okay. But I remember one time in fourth grade when she teased every single guy in class.
Tyler: Yeah, I remember that. She cried when we teased her, didn't she?
Athan: Yup. But she's a good person. Why the curiousity?
Mico: Really... Cause we're friends and I just wanna know what kind of person she really is.
Kim: Nica, you won't really believe this!
Nica: Why? What's new?
Kim: (whispering) Mico just asked if I had a boyfriend.
Nica: Is he courting you?
Kim: I have no idea. Is that it?
Nica: Hey, you tell me the details if he does, okay? Don't lie to me.
Aish: What are you guys talking about?
Nica: (whispering to Aish)
Aish: What?! Lucky you!
Kim: Hey, shh! You're so noisy.
Aish: Are you serious?
Nica: Why would she tell us if it's not true, huh?
Kim: Just keep quiet about it. I don't want anyone else to know but you guys. And don't tell Lane.
Lane: He what?! Ow, I'm hurt. Nah, I'm kidding, Kim.
Kim: What? It's not as if I like him or something that you'd have to tell me that...
Lane: He just asked?
Kim: Yeah, duh. What do you expect, that he'd court me? As if!
In class...
Dana: Could someone let me borrow a saw? Thank you! (getting Russell's saw)
Russell: Hey, I was using that!
Dana: C'mon just let me borrow it. You're almost done, I'm not.
Russell: Just let me finish this a bit.
Halley: No, I'll be next to you with that saw, Dana.
Russell: I'm the owner of that saw and I'm still using it.
Halley: You're nearly done. We haven't finished half of this yet.
Russell: Fine, take it!
JM: Russ, borrow this.
Dana: Thanks guys!
Halley: Hurry up, Dana.
Russell: Thank you. Can't they get their own saw?
JM: Just leave them be. You know how they are.
Ashley: Did you just see that?
Bonnie: See what?
Ashley: Dana took Russell's saw even if she saw that he was still using it.
Bonnie: She's simply despicable.
Aish: Along with that Halley Myers.
Nica: Shh...
Halley: Anybody wants to borrow a saw?
In Jade...
Mr. Cole: Does anybody know which place Kublai Khan was a native of?
Tyler: Either Iran or Iraq, right?
Mr. Coleman: Yes, Tyler?
Tyler: Um, no idea, sir.
Mr. Cole: Okay, how about Mileaco?
Athan: Mico..!
Mr. Cole: Sorry. Mico, do you have any answer?
Mico: Nope, sorry.
Recess...
Benj: Hey Mage, where's Will?
Mage: Haha, that's so funny, Benj. Airah...
Airah: What?
Mage: Nothing.
Airah: Don't disturb me today, please.
Mage: Sorry.
Benj: Look at what you just did...
Mage: It's your fault she's not in the mood.
Benj: My fault, my fault? What did I do? I didn't do anthing, you did!
Mage: Shut up. It's your fault.
Lara: JM, where's Mico?
JM: He's in his classroom or maybe probably around the school. Why are you looking for him?
Lara: No reason. Abegail's in Jade too, right?
JM: Yeah. So as with Heather.
Tanya: Okay, thanks. We'll just go and see them in Jade.
JM: Okay.
The next day...
Marice: Lane, will you join our party?
Lane: Sorry, I already did join the other party. How about asking your sister?
Marice: Nica, c'mon, run.
Nica: No, I don't wanna run. Ask Kim or Aish.
Aish: Don't even think about making me a politician.
Kim: Don't, I don't wanna run.
Marice: Just run, Kim. Anyway if you win, this could be counted as part of your extracurricular activities.
Lane: Yeah, Kim. And, it's not just the points. How about the experience?
Kim: Don't force me in this.
Nica: C'mon, it'll be fun. Anyway Airah and Mage are campaign managers too. So you don't have to be ashamed.
Marice: Just agree, please. We really need only one more candidate for press relations officer.
Aish: Yeah, she is going to join, right Kim?
Senior: Please... I tell you, you really won't regret joining.
That night...
Kim: (texting) I'm sorry I wasn't able to reply to your message the other night.
Mico: (texting) It's okay. So, do you have a boyfriend already?
Kim: (texting) Of course not. Who would like someone like me?
Mico: (texting) I dunno... Maybe someone like me.
Kim: You're kidding! (texting) Yeah, right. Don't make fun of me.
Mico: (texting) I'm not making fun of you. It's true. Will you allow me to court you?
Kim: (texting) Why me? There are alot of girls in school, you know. Why not Tanya, or Heather, or someone?
Mico: (texting) It's because they're kinda flirty, especially Tanya.
Kim: (texting) But Heather's not flirty. We hardly even know each other.
Mico: (texting) I know Heather's not flirty, I just meant Tanya. I see you as different from them.
Kim: (thinking) Yeah, different in a way cause I'm the only girl wearing glasses in our level. (texting) Why,
what's your reason that you wanna court me?
Mico: (sighing) I dunno, maybe because you look serious than the others.
Kim: What do you think of me? Old? (texting) What do you mean?
Chris: Ho, Kim! Dinner? Didn't you hear?
Kim: Just a minute!
Mico: (texting) I mean, I told you, different. Different in a positive way.
Kim: (texting) Hey, I have to go eat my dinner. My brother's calling me already. Text ya later!
Mico: (texting) Sure. And hey, do away with those diet things. It's not nice.
Kim: (reading) Diet? Me? (grinning)
In school the next day...
Ronald: I'll pick you up later, okay. Be ready by then.
Mico: I will.
Candidate: We don't have any campaign managers yet. Who do you suggest?
Candidate2: How about that new guy? Your batchmate...
Candidate: Yeah, Mico... Would it be okay?
Candidate2: It's really fine. That way a lot of people would be paying attention to us.
Candidate: We'll be the ones to ask. Mico and..?
Candidate2: I dunno. Does he get along well with others?
Candidate: I suggest we get Athan Bassterre too. They're friends, so if he agrees, Mico won't be ashamed.
Kim: Hope your plan works.
Mr. Coleman: Who are running for any position in the elections here? Only Kimberly?
Gaven: Yeah.
Mr. Coleman: How about Airah and Mage? Aren't you running?
Classmate: They are not running.
Airah: We're just campaign managers, sir.
Mr. Coleman: Oh, okay. That's good. Good luck, Kim.
Kim: I never really wanted to run, you know.
Ashley: Why aren't you running?
Nica: I don't want to be a politician, right, Aish?
Aish: Yeah. Join the club.
Bonnie: You don't wanna run, it's better to walk... Really.
Nica: Yeah. (grinning)
Outside Jade...
Candidate: You'll be the one to call him.
Candidate2: (knocking) Excuse me, sir. We'd like to talk to Mico for awhile.
Mico: Yes?
Candidate2: Has anybody asked you to be their campaign manager?
Mico: Actually, yeah. Lane's party. Why?
Candidate2: Because we hoped we could have you as our campaign manager. Please?
Mico: Um, no thanks.
Candidate2: But we'd also be asking Athan to be your partner.
Mico: If Athan agrees, then I'll do it. But if not...
Athan: No way! I don't wanna be a campaign manager. Why not just Mico?
Candidate: He won't agree if you won't. So just agree.
Athan: No. My answer's no.
Mico: You heard him, the answer's no.
Afterwards...
Candidate3: How was the recruitment?
Candidate: Not fine. He didn't agree.
Candidate3: I thought you said he'd agree if you asked Athan to be his partner.
Candidate2: Yeah. The problem was Athan did not agree.
Candidate: Let's just look for another campaign manager.
Candidate3: We should. The campaign's tomorrow.
Candidate4: Hey guys, change of schedule. We will be having our campaigns today.
Candidate2: What? Why is it on such short notice?
Candidate4: I don't know. We don't have any other choice but to follow. So, let's just prepare.
Mrs. Alkamire: Faster please. We still have the moving exams today.
Candidate: Kim, what's your class? We'll be having our campaigns today.
Kim: Today? But we still have a moving exam.
Candidate2: Just hurry. We'll wait for you.
Kim: Okay. Uh, Mrs. Alkamire, I want to go first. I still have to go and campaign with the others.
Mrs. Alkamire: Okay. You go after him.
(Kim takes the moving exam quickly...)
After several minutes...
Kim: Could I already go?
Mrs. Alkamire: Yeah.
Senior: Where is she?
Candidate3: She's coming.
Kim: Sorry for being a little bit late. Where shall we proceed?
Candidate2: How about your section?
Senior: No, we'll be having our test, so we can't disturb them.
Candidate: How about Jade? I guess they are free today.
Candidate3: Okay, let's go.
Campaign Manager: Next in line, is Kimberly Canavelle for Press Relations Officer!
Mico: Kim?
Kim: Good afternoon, everyone. I am here standing in front of you, asking for your support in the
upcoming student body elections...
Lane: (looking at Mico) Do you know who that is?
Mico: What?
Lane: Oh, nothing.
Kim: So, don't forget... Vote Kimberly Canavelle for Press Relations Officer. Thank you.
Inside the classroom... RING!!!
Ashley: Where'd you campaign, Kim? What class?
Kim: Jade.
Nica: (clears throat) Jade?
Kim: What? Yeah.
Aish: Was he there? I mean, of course he's there. Did he look at you?
Kim: I don't know. I didn't look at him, duh. I looked at the back.
Nica: You should have looked so that you could have seen his reaction.
Aish: Did you tell him your were running?
Kim: No. Why should I? It's already shameful as it is, why make it worse?
Mage: Vote for Kimberly Canavelle and Lane Parsel...
Airah: Press Relations Officer and Treasurer, respectively.
Sam: You guys already practicing for your campaigns?
Dana: Guess so. But they've already started their campaigns.
Ashley: Airah, Mage, campaign in our class tomorrow, second period.
Anthony: Why Biology?
Ashley: It's tiring.
That night...
Nica: (on the phone with Kim) What are you doing now?
Kim: (picking up her phone) Nothing really. Texting. How about you?
Nica: Nothing in particular too.
Kim: (phone beeps) Wait a sec. (reading mentally) Was that you campaigning?
Nica: Who're you texting with? Is it Mico?
Kim: (texting) Yeah, it was me.
Nica: Hello... Earth to Kimberly..?
Kim: Oh, um... Yeah.
Nica: Kim, that seems to be something more than friends...
Kim: Oh, shut up. We're just friends, okay? Remember that please.
Nica: Oh really... Yeah, I'll remember that.
Mico: (texting) I will be voting for you, Kim.
Nica: What are the stuff we'll be doing tomorrow?
Kim: I don't know. Why ask me when I was supposed to ask you. (texting) Thanks.
Mico: (texting) You're welcome. Anyway, I have to go eat dinner. Are you done eating?
Nica: Man, I'm hungry! My phone's of no use now, no one ever texts me.
Kim: How about Tyler? Doesn't he text you?
Nica: Of course not!
Kim: Right...
Nica: It's true. Promise!
Kim: I was not referring to that. I meant the text message, okay? Chill!
Nica: Then, maybe next time, will you please specify what you mean?
Kim: Sure...
Nica: I'm bored.
Kim: Uh-huh... No one's texting me too. Where're the people at?
Nica: Huh? Where's Mico?
Kim: He's eating dinner, well, according to him, that is.
Nica: Kim, I know you miss his text messages. He's just eating dinner!
Kim: Shut up, I do not!
Nica: Ahemm...
During the day of the elections...
Nica: Kim, aren't you going to see the tallying of votes?
Kim: No. I already know I won't win.
Nica: Well, if you don't wanna watch, I'll watch. You'll be alright here, right?
Kim: Right.
That Saturday...
Aish: Where's the change?
Driver: It's with her already. (pointing to Nica)
Aish: Oh, thanks.
Nica: (laughing hard) Didn't you see?
Aish: Don't do that again! It makes me humiliated.
Kim: Yeah right. (going inside an internet cafe)
Nica: Tell them we'll be using three computers.
Aish: Who me?
Kim: Don't look at me...
Nica: Fine. (approaching the desk)
Aish: (sitting down) Why do we have to research about this anyway?
Kim: I have no idea. This is just to kill time, I guess.
Nica: Move over, Aish.
(Researches a bit, but opens www.sfogs.com...)
Kim: Hey, wanna see?
Aish: Oh yeah! Are you done researching?
Kim: Nope. You haven't found any yet?
Nica: We haven't. Try looking at that...
Kim: It looks like you, Nica. And someone I don't know...
Aish: Yeah. It really does look like her. Try posing that way too.
Nica: What do you think of me, scary?
Aish: Of course! (laughing hard)
Kim: (checking her phone) A message!
Aish: What's that? Have you heard about the site that tells when you will die?
Nica: Yup! Um, what was that... Deathclock.com?
Aish: Let's try... (typing in)
Nica: Who's that?
Kim: Huh? Are you asking me?
Nica: Yeah.
Aish: It is deathclock.com alright... Wanna try?
Nica: Eww! Are you crazy? I don't want to die at an early age, you know.
Kim: You're not dying tomorrow...
Nica: Who are you texting with?
Aish: Maybe it's Mico, right, Kim?
Nica: I've heard news about him.
Aish: What news? I mean - which news?
Nica: Never mind. I just won't tell cause Kimberly might be discouraged.
Kim: What? What is it? And why would I be discouraged too?
Nica: They said, back in his home town, he had a girlfriend and slept with her.
Aish: Oh, that!
Kim: Really? Who told you?
Nica: His classmates did. Like the guys too and Ella...
Kim: Ohhh... Then what?
Aish: That's about it. It isn't good to know a guy's like that... He might get a girl pregnant.
Nica: You said it. But, we're not sure if it's really true. I think he's a good guy.
Mico: Have you seen Ronald?
Cousin: Nope. Maybe he's watching the carpenters.
Kim: (texting) Is it true that you slept with your girlfriend before?
Mico: Huh? (texting) It isn't true. Who told you that?
Kim: It isn't true, guys. He said so himself. (texting) Some people did.
Aish: You asked him?
Nica: You must be crazy to ask him! What'd he say?
Kim: He just said it isn't true and asked who said that...
Nica: What did you say?
Kim: I told him some people did... I did not tell your names, okay?
Cousin: Mico, who are you texting with?
Mico: Someone from school... (smiling)
Cousin: I see... Could it be the one you're courting?
Mico: (grinning) Guess...
Cousin: That's way difficult... Kimberly Canavelle..?
Mico: How would I know? (smiling)
Tuesday afternoon...
Bonnie: Nothing to do again. PE time...
Aish: Let's go to the canteen. I'm hungry.
Nica: What are you going to buy?
Aish: Maybe ice cream.
Nica: I'll buy ice cream too. Are you going to buy something, Kim?
Kim: Ice cream in a cup.
Ashley: Yeah, I think I'll buy the same.
Bonnie: I'll have the drumstick.
(They sat down on the grass near the playground...)
Aish: Kim, tell us about Mico.
Kim: What? What am I going to say about him? You already know him...
Bonnie: How did he court you?
Kim: It's just through texting. It's not personal.
Ashley: Courting through text could not really be trusted. Just like Jace last year.
Nica: Jace? Jace Hilton?
Ashley: Yeah.
Kim: Who's he? I mean, which one? I don't really know the new students except maybe for Zander.
Ashley: He's in Jade.
Aish: And they say they're relatives with Lane.
Kim: Oh...
Bonnie: Please continue, Ashley...
Ashley: But he did court me personally...
{Flashback... Inside the Jade classroom now, the first year classroom before...}
Jace: (leaning forward to Ashley) Would your family be mad if one of you will have any relationship while in school?
Ashley: Yeah. Everyone will get mad if they know.
Jace: But we won't let them know. We'll keep it a secret.
Ashley: I don't want to keep something like that a secret. I want it that when I enter that, I'm free from fear.
Jace: We won't let anyone know but the two of us. I promise.
Ashley: Any secret will really be divulged sooner or later, right?
Jace: Right. But I would really like it if you say yes.
Ashley: I really can't say what my decision would be...
Jace: Then I'll wait for you.
{End of flashback}
Bonnie: Aw... Is he still courting you now?
Ashley: I don't know.
Nica: Hmm... You are still young. Stop thst courting thing. Haha! As if!
Kim: For all we know, Nica likes Tyler.
Nica: Huh? Never!
Aish: Be sure that that never is really never. Watch out if that's only to fool us.
Anthony: Hey cuz!
Nica: Cuz, where have you been?
Anthony: In the gym. We were playing basketball...
JM: (sitting down) Ahh...
Afternoon the week after...
Mico: Can't you call mother?
Kim: I can't call, I only text.
Mico: Where's Chris?
Kim: I don't know, you look for him.
Mico: Why me? I'll just be over there, okay?
Mico: (thinking) There's Kim... Where's her brother?
Kim: (looking up from her phone; thinking) He's still here... I thought he already left...
(Mico tries to go near Kim, but he sees Chris...)
Mico: (thinking) On second thought... (goes back)
Kim: (thinking) Where's he going?
Chris: Kim...
(Kim's mom was already there to pick them up. They went inside and she saw Mico...)
Mico: (waves) Bye. (getting his phone) Ronald, are you on your way?
Ronald: Yeah. I'll be there in ten minutes.
The next day...
Bonnie: All the participants for the acquaintance party please remain..!
Mage: Yay, Kim's going to dance!
Kim: Haha Yeah right. I'm changing my mind.
Aish: Just leave her be, Mage. At least you're finally going to see her dance. (grinning)
Mage: Oh yeah.
Kim: Just make fun of me...
Aish: I was just kidding, okay. Don't take it seriously.
Nica: Hi Lane!
Lane: Hi! Hey Kim, come over here for a while.
Kim: Yes?
Lane: Were you late in going home last night?
Kim: Yeah, why?
Lane: (smiling) Nothing. He just said he wanted to sit beside you yesterday, but then he saw Chris.
Kim: Are you sure?
Inside the classroom...
Sam: Stop disturbing us.
Dana: Just stay outside if you are not going to join.
Zander: Don't let me join then. (going out)
Lane: Yeah, of course!
Zander: Hey Lane!
Lane: Hi Zander.
Kim: That guy's going to do a back flip for us this coming acquaintance party...
Lane: Really?
Zander: Change in plans. Dana and Samantha are not making me join anymore.
Lane: I know you're still going to join, Zander.
Zander: No, really!
Kim: Yeah, you look like joining and all.
Lane: Oh, I have to go. I just came by to let you know. Bye! Bye, Zander.
Zander: Bye Lane!
Kim: (about to go inside the classroom)
Zander: Hey Kim, where's Mico?
Kim: What?
Zander: I know he's courting you.
Kim: Who told you that?
Zander: Them of course. The guys, I mean.
Kim: I don't know. You ask him. (going inside the classroom)
Sam: Where are the participants?
Bonnie: Went home, I guess.
Kim: I'm still here!
Sam: We'll just have to postpone this tomorrow then.
Dana: Tomorrow, those who won't be here won't be included in the dance already, alright?
Zander: What, no one came? (snickering)
Dana: That's so funny.
Zander: I didn't say it's funny.
Sam: Good night, people! (going out)
Zander: (picking up Mr. Cole's tiki man and pretends to throw it at Kim) Woosh!
Kim: What are you doing?
Zander: If I throw this at you, Mico will be here in an instant and catch this. (smiling)
Kim: Yeah right.
Zander: Where is he anyway?
Kim: I don't know. Why are you asking me?
Zander: You might know.
Kim: Ha! (laughing; went out)(texting) Zander's asking where you are...
Aish: Aren't you going home yet?
Nica: Just a sec!
Mico: (texting) Yeah, I'm home. Who's your partner this acquaintance party?
Kim: (texting) Zander. How about you?
Nica: Yay, Zander's going to do the back flip once more!
Zander: They're lying. I'm not going to do it.
Aish: Really..?
Mico: (texting) Do you like Zander? Well, since you chose him as your partner and all...
Kim: (taken aback) What?
Nica: What's up, Kim?
Kim: Oh nothing. Just read this.
Aish: What's that?
Zander: Who's that? Is that Mico's message?
Kim: Of course not.
Zander: Let me see...
Nica: (holding the phone) What would I think of this question, ah yes! Green-eyed monster.
Aish: Yeah. Same here.
Kim: Give me that. (texting) No, I don't like him. Mr. Cole was the one who paired us up.
Zander: Promise I won't tell anyone on what's in that message if you let me read it.
Nica: C'mon, Zander. Get real.
Zander: Fine. (walking away)
Kim: Sorry but it's not really a guy's thing.
Mico: (texting) Oh, sorry. I thought you did.
Nica: (screaming) Kim! He's jealous!
Kim: No way!
Aish: If you won't believe us, then don't.
Kim: Hey, look at the time. I really have to go. Bye guys!
Nica: Hmm, quick get away.
Two days after...
Kim: (waiting for their car)
Carrie: Hey, I heard you and Mico were fighting...
Kim: What?
Carrie: Let him fix it himself. Bye Kim!
(During their practice, Mico was hanging out with his classmates...)
Tyler: You're really not going to win.. Ha!
Athan: (reaching for the ceiling) Can you reach that?
Mico: Why not? (reaching the ceiling) See that?
Kiara: Will you stop fooling around? You aren't joining anyway.
Athan: I'm not disturbing you guys...
That night...
Kim: (texting) You told Carrie we were fighting?
Mico: (texting) What's wrong with that? She's my friend.
Kim: (texting) But you told her WE were fighting.
Mico: This doesn't make sense at all. (texting) Okay, I'm sorry.
During the day of the acquaintance...
Kim: Why are we the first to arrive here?
Zander: I don't know.
Kim: Two, two. Where's number two? Ah, here. Quicken up your pace.
Zander: Yeah.
(Kim and their classmates watched as the gymnasium filled up...)
Sam: (laughing) Look at that Zander...
Heather: Mico, have you seen where Kim is?
Mico: No. Where is she?
Heather: Left diagonal to you. She's with Zander?
Mico: They're partners.
Heather: But did she choose him?
Mico: Mr. Cole chose them to be partners.
(Samantha and the others danced...)
Mico: (texting) You dance well...
Kim: (texting) Really? But I'm a bad dancer. (failed) Crap...
(Then the games started...)
Emcee: Let's have two contestants from each group for the water balloon catch.
Heather: Mico's joining!
Mico: What?
Heather: Just go and join. It won't hurt.
Zander: Hey look, Mico's joining. (grinning)
Kim: (turns to look) Oh yeah.
Sam: Kim seems to be always looking at Mico... (smiling)
Aish: I can't see. Plus it's too noisy.
Thomas: (giving some beats) Hahaha!
Zander: Ha! Look, he's drenched!
Kim: What?
(The water balloon had Mico's shorts wet...)
Mico: Great. It feels like I've peed in my shorts.
Guy: Sorry about that. I didn't mean to.
Mico: It's okay. Damn.
Emcee: This next game has to be participated by all group members.
Kim: What? I don't like to.
Emcee: Please stay at the center and we'll be giving you the instructions.
Junior: Just pretend you're willing.
Emcee: You have to pose the movie that I will have to tell you guys. So you have to have teamwork.
Okay, Harry Potter!
Zander: Pose away!
Junior: Just pose like you're holding wands then.
(Kim was so mobile that she accidentally stepped on a freshman's foot...)
Kim: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.
Girl: It's okay.
Thomas: Who's the winner?!
Emcee: And the winner is from the seniors!
Lane: Tell them they can already eat.
Emcee: You may now start eating.
In the classroom...
Mr. Cole: Next week is the Socio week. One of the contests is interpretative dance with five to eight members.
Nica: For sure Sam is the leader! (laughing)
Sam: No, sir. Make Nica the leader!
Mr. Cole: Samantha, Nica, Airah, Mage... Who else knows how to dance?
Ashley: Kim, sir!
Mr. Cole: Kimberly?
Kim: No, I can't dance! Make Aish and Bonnie join.
Mr. Cole: Oh yes. Samantha, Airah, Nica, Mage, Aish, Bonnie... Lacking two more to reach the maximum.
Airah: Just Dana for the last one, sir. Never mind reaching the maximum number.
Mr. Cole: Dana? Okay. You have, what, 4 days to practice for that. Okay?
Sam: What's the dance about?
Mr. Cole: Just any song that you could easily interpret.
Bonnie: Oh! Why not use the one you used during the sixth grade?
Mage: Which one do you mean?
Nica: We weren't classmates that time with them, Bonnie.
Halley: Can't I join, sir?
Mr. Cole: For the interpretative dance?
Halley: Yes, sir. Can't I?
Mr. Cole: We'll just have seven members... Maybe you can join in the other contests.
JM: What are the other contests?
Mr. Cole: Comical skit. Three members.
Anthony: Comical skit? Anything about social studies?
Ashley: Why are you looking at me? Ask him.
Anthony: Sir, anything about social studies?
Mr. Cole: Yes.
In Jade...
Lane: Members for the interpretative dance, Heather, Ella, Mico, Christian, Tiffany and Kiara. Practice tomorrow.
Mico: Huh? Me?
Lane: Yes. Just join the interpretative dance. Christian's with you anyway.
Christian: Yeah. Just don't shake your body like an epilleptic guy, Mico. (laughing)
Ella: (laughing boisterously) Epilleptic?!
In their classroom...
Nica: Keep quiet! We don't have a teacher today so shut up if you don't want a substitute teacher..!
Zander: She said shut up!
Sam: Shhh! Keep quiet you!
Dana: If I know, he just wants to get your attention, Sam...
Sam: Yeah. I know you like me... Char! (laughing)
Zander: Huh? Me, like you?
Dana: You're so Zatanic.
Anna: Yeah. Zander is Zatanic. (laughing)
Zander: Look who's talking!
Anna: What?
Sam: Are we going to let him get away with this?
Dana: Of course not.
(Zander runs out of the classroom while Dana, Anna and Sam go after him...)
Nica: No going out of the classroom! Arrgh!
Kim: Where'd they go?
Nica: Who cares where they went...
Gaven: (peeping out the door) Where are they? Hey, get back inside or you'll be scolded.
Anthony: Yeah right. Like they're going to listen to you?
Gaven: I hope so...
(Zander gets inside and the three girls still behind him...)
Anna: Ha! You have no escape now...
(Anna, Dana and Sam tickle him and pinched him...)
Zander: Ouch!
Sam: That will teach you not to mess with us, alright?
Dana: (laughing) Look, he's turning red.
Zander: Who wouldn't turn red when it's so painful. Stop pinching me!
Anna: (laughing) Too bad.
Mage: Nica, Mr. Cole says you assign them what to do about the landscape.
Nica: What landscape?
Mage: Our section's landscape...
Nica: Kim, we have to come here this Saturday morning.
Kim: Why?
Nica: For our landscape. We'll have to buy the plants this Saturday. How much do we have?
Kim: I don't know, I didn't count it.
Nica: Okay. Just bring it this Saturday then. (shouting) All officers come here this Saturday for the landscape!
Ashley: Yay, I'm no class officer!
That Saturday...
Nica: Where are the guys?
Aish: They have not arrived yet.
Gaven: Is Anthony here yet? He has his vehicle for our transport.
JM: Try contacting him and ask his permission first.
Nica: He says he's coming.
Anthony: (arriving) Who are coming with us?
Nica: Me, Aish, Kim of course, Gaven, JM, Dana, Airah and Sam...
Anthony: What? All those? We won't fit plus the plants here.
Kim: I just won't go.
Aish: Are you crazy? The money's with you!
JM: We just won't go with you. We'll just wait here.
Nica: Are you sure?
Anthony: Yup. Now go.
(They went and bought the plants. They were there for about an hour with the heat of the sun and all...)
Nica: You think these are enough?
Airah: I suppose, but if you want to add more...
Sam: How much money do we have left?
Kim: Umm... (looking at her wallet) Well, we only have a hundred left with some coins.
In school...
(Getting all of the plants they bought...)
Gaven: Let me help.
Anthony: Is that all you bought?
Dana: Yeah. We onl had less money from the class fund.
Kim: That is why you should pay your dues daily or weekly.
(They placed the plants in their landscape. Then, they visited the Jade class during their practice...)
Airah: (opening the door) Can we get inside, Lane?
Lane: No. Your shoes are dirty. The floor's still clean 'cause we cleaned it today.
Airah: Oh please... (getting inside)
Christian: Hey trespassing!
Sam: Are you done with your dance?
Ella: Yeah, kinda.
Airah: What's your song?
Lane: The Prayer...
Sam: Oh yeah! That's a really nice religious song.
Kim: What are they doing there?
Aish: Let's go see.
Heather: Mico, you just stay there. You and Christian will be sitting down, okay?
Kim: Christian, let me borrow that. I'll just return it later.
Christian: Yeah sure.
Kim: (putting the chain on Aish's neck) You look like a dog with a leash.
Aish: Haha! Yeah, whatever.
Nica: Aren't we going to practice yet?
Airah: We're practicing this afternoon at two.
(Mico was texting Kim and the other girls were reading her messages...)
Dana: He's courting you?
Nica: Yes. Didn't you know that?
Dana: No, I dodn't. Ahem, Kim!
During the contest in the audio visual hall...
Emcee: Let us see the interpretative dance from Amethyst!
(Dance)
Emcee: Thank you, Amethyst. Let us now welcome the dancers from Jade!
(Crowd cheers loudly)
Ashley: (clears throat) Mmm...
Kim: Need a strepsil?
(Mico and the others dance...)
Athan: Wohoo! Epilleptic!
Nica: Tsk tsk tsk... They're teasing you.
(Then there was a part when Mico and Heather got to be pairs that her friends got a picture of them...)
Friend: Go Heather!
(At the end of their dance, Heather was holding the Bible and Mico was behind her holding the Cross...)
Tyler: Yay Jade!
Afterwards...
Mico: (texting) Are you home?
Kim: (texting) Nope. Nice dance.
Mico: (texting) Thanks but it really was shameful. Especially that time when they took a picture!
Kim: (texting) Oh yeah. I see you've got a lot of fans.
Mico: (texting) But I was not minding them...
The following week was already their exams...
Mr. Hathaway: Don't forget to bring your formulas or else you'll get zero.
All: Yes, sir!
Kim: (washing her hands when phone beeps) For a sec...
Mico: (texting) What subjects are going to be on the first day?
Kim: (texting) Algebra, Social Studies and Computers...
That night, Kim was with her mom fetching Liam from tutorials...
(Kim looks at her cellphone and sees that Mico is calling... She chose not to answer.)
Mom: Who was that?
Kim: It's Mico.
Mom: Oh...
(Mico calls again...)
Mico: What's with her? Why isn't she answering?
Kim: (answering) Hello?
Mico: Umm, hello. Kim, could I borrow your notebook in Social Studies for a little while? I'll return it after.
Kim: When will you get it?
Mico: I'll get it tomorrow. I am not complete with my notes...
Kim: Okay. Just give me a message or what tomorrow.
Mico: Sure. (someone with Mico laughs) Shh...
Kim: (smiling) Who was that?
Mico: Sorry. That was our helper. Anyway, thanks in advance.
Kim: Your welcome in advance too.
Helper: Say I love you.
Kim: (laughing) Huh?
Mico: Don't listen to them. Well, bye and thanks.
Kim: Bye.
Helper: You did say it, but she already put it down.
Mico: What?
Driver: You should also give her something.
Helper: Yeah. What does she like?
Mico: Hmm... Maybe just after the exams. (texting) Did you receive an endangered letter?
Kim: (texting) Nope. How about you?
Mico: (texting) Yeah, I did. I guess I won't be able to give you a ride in the car if I fail.
Kim: (texting) (grinning) That's okay.
Mico: (texting) But I was already thinking a lot, that I'd really try my best so I could be with you.
Kim: (raised eyebrows) Right... (texting) It's really okay. Don't worry about that.
Mico: (texting) Good for you 'cause you are intelligent.
Kim: (thinking) Intelligent my foot... (texting) No I'm not. I'm pretty dumb.
After te exams...
Mrs. Alkamire: Canavelle, Kimberly...
Kim: What?! This is mine?
Aish: How much did you get?
Kim: It's not a score...
Ashley: You think that's bad?
Bonnie: Nica's got a good score though...
Nica: It is not... I've still got low mastery tests.
Aish: Well at least you've got a good score fot the periodical tests. It's still 40% of the grade.
Russell: This is my score? Whoa!
JM: How much did you get?
Anthony: Not bad enough.
Lunch...
Mico: (texting) Did you get good scores?
Kim: (texting) I wish! My Biology score was really low.
Mico: (texting) Yeah, mine is low too. How about your Mathematics?
Kim: (texting) It's fine. Kinda big score...
Mico: (texting) Yeah. I really love math.
During the getting of cards...
Ryan: Mr. Hathaway, I'm Mico's brother. Ryan Xanders.
Mr. Hathaway: Good morning. Mico has some failures in Mathematics.
Ryan: Is that all?
Mr. Hathaway: Yeah.
In the carpark...
Aish: Kim, where's Mico?
Kim: Mico, my brother? I don't know. Have you seen him?
Lane: Ever wonder why he's asking you?
Kim: I haven't seen him. Don't you know that all people named Mico are crazy and stupid?
(Kim just passed by Mico...)
Mico: Kim!
Zander: Kimberly Canavelle!
Lane: Hey Kim!
Kim: What?
Aish: Mico and Zander...
Kim: (facing Mico)
Mico: (holding out a smart prepaid card)
Kim: Thanks. I'll just pay you tomorrow.
Mico: Okay.
Lane: What's that?
Kim: He bought me a prepaid card from his friend. He says it's cheaper.
Aish: Really?
Kim: Oh, bye. I gotta go.
Inside their car...
Mom: Where'd you get that?
Kim: From Mico Xanders.
Mom: Mico? Did you pay him already?
Kim: Nope. I told him I'll pay him tomorrow.
Mom: Oh, no. You have to pay him now. He might be using the money he used to buy that. How much is it?
Kim: Two hundred and fifty.
Mom: Go and pay him.
Kim: (to Mico) Here. And thanks for the card.
Mico: No, thank you!
Kim: Geez, it isn't even the right card. Oh well!
In their house...
Mico: Did you get it already?
Ryan: Yes.
Mico: Do I have any failures?
Ryan: Yes, you do. In Mathematics...
Mico: What?!
Ryan: Mathematics. I thought you were good in Math?
Mico: I don't know why I failed. Maybe there was one of the two subjects that pulled me down.
Ryan: Do better next time. Dad's not going to like it when he learns about this.
In class...
Mr. Cole: You guys have low scores on your other subjects, huh?
Sam: Yeah. Especially in your subject, sir.
Mr. Cole: Oi! The test was very easy.
Dana: No, it wasn't! How come we've got low scores then if it was easy?
Airah: Yeah, sir. If that's easy for you, I wonder what difficult would be.
JM: I guess that would mean not even the most intelligent student could pass.
Anthony: Maybe, maybe not. Right, Gaven?
Gaven: Huh? What did that have to do with me?
Mr. Cole: Anyway, next Friday is going to be Card Distribution Day. Tell your parents to come, okay?
Ashley: I hope it's my mother who would come. I don't want my father to come.
Bonnie: Why not?
Ashley: He's so... I just don't want him to be the one to come.
Days after the Card Distribution Day...
Ronald: Mico, we have to go visit our aunt's house.
Mico: What, now?
Ronald: No, of course tomorrow.
Mico: Sure. Just get the tickets and I'll get ready.
Ronald: Don't leave the house. Tell her to prepare dinner already.
Mico: Alright! (texting) Hey, what do you want me to buy you?
Kim: Huh? (texting) What do you mean?
Mico: (texting) I'm visiting my aunt and I want to buy something for you. What do you want?
Kim: (texting) Anything. Just anything.
Mico: (texting) Anything? I heard you loved books?
Kim: (texting) Yeah.
Mico: (texting) What kind of books do you want? Mystery, sci-fi...?
Kim: (texting) Mystery books. But anything's fine.
Mico: (texting) Okay. What are you planning to play this Intrams? I heard you're pretty good at softball.
Kim: (texting) Yeah, I'm playing softball, but I'm not really good at it. And you?
Mico: (texting) I dunno. Maybe softball.
Kim: (texting) Softball's pretty easy, right? I have to go, I have to eat dinner. See ya!
Wednesday, the week after...
Mr. Hathaway: Are you done answering?
Students: Just a sec, sir!
Mr. Hathaway: What day is it today?
Anna: It's August 20, sir. Wednesday...
Dave: Yes, and the Intramurals is coming up in a month.
Mr. Hathaway: Oh, yeah. Have you started practicing for your cheerdance?
Nica: We already started last Saturday.
Aish: Yup! Because we are going to be free this Saturday, right?
Nica: Hahaha
JM: Oh yes! Advance, Nica!
Sam: Everybody is invited to Nica's birthday this Saturday!
Mr. Hathaway: That's great! Make sure there are a lot of food, huh.
Mage: Yehey!
Zander: Russell, you're going, right?
Russell: Oh yeah, haha!
Anthony: Why are you mad? He's just asking you, isn't he?
Dana: There's only room for 32 students and some teachers, right, Nica?
Nica: Huh?
Halley: Sir, I have the answer already.
Mr. Hathaway: What's your answer?
Halley: Oh, no wait. That's not right.
Bell rings...
Mr. Hathaway: Is that the time? You guys haven't even answered it yet...
Mage: It's because you're so talkative too...
Mr. Hathaway: Oh talkative shmalkative! That'll just be homework, alright? I'll be getting that tomorrow.
Halley: Just a minute, sir!
Dana: Forget it, Halley.
Mage: Bye, sir!
(Everyone packs their things and leaves for lunch...)
Aish: Hurry up, Kim.
Kim: Coming!
(Nica closes the door and locks it...)
In the carpark...
Jeremy: Hey Mico, where's your brother? You gonna be fetched?
Mico: Uh, yeah.
Jeremy: Really?
Mico: Yeah. Well, I gotta go.
Kim: (calling) Pick up please...
Aish: Isn't your mom coming yet?
Kim: Nope, not yet. Hi Mage!
Mage: Hey Kim!
(Mico sees Kim and he waves at her...)
Mage: (smiling) Kim, I saw that...
Kim: Saw what?
Mage: Never mind. Anyway, I have to go. I'm hungry. Bye!
(When Mico's car came to pass by, he waved and smiled at her again...)
That afternoon, dismissal...
Bonnie: Who wants to play badminton?
Sam: Me, I'd like to play!
Bonnie: Could we borrow afterwards?
Classmate: Sorry, but I am going to play with it.
Bonnie: Oh, okay.
Classmate: Maybe you would want to bring a badminton racket tomorrow so we could play...
Kim: C'mon Bonnie, let's go.
That night...
(Mico and Kim text...AGAIN...)
Kim: Didn't you say you had a racket?
Mico: Yeah. Why?
Kim: Could I - could I borrow it for some practices for intramurals?
Mico: Sure. I'll give it to you tomorrow.
Kim: Yeah? Thanks!
The next day...
Kim: Bonnie, let's go play.
Bonnie: This is great! We finally have our own rackets to use and we don't have to borrow from people.
Kim: (chuckling) Yeah.
Bonnie: Well, where is it?
Kim: Um, I have to get it still.
(They proceeded to their landscape and saw a black badminton set...)
Classmate2: Move over. Get this bag and move it aside so many people could sit.
Classmate3: What is this? (holding the badminton set)
Classmate2: I dunno.
Classmate4: I think that's from Mico.
Classmate5: You think?
Bonnie: Hi guys!
Classmates: Hi Bonnie!
Kim: (sitting down) Have you seen Nica?
Classmate3: Nope. Oh, there she is, with Aish and Lane.
Kim: (seeing the badminton set) Who owns this? (opening the inside)
Classmate4: It's from Mico.
Kim: Really?
Halley: Can I borrow that?
Kim: What?
Halley: Can I borrow that badminton racket?
Kim: Um, that's may I... not can I.
Halley: Right. May I borrow that, then?
Kim: Uh, no.
Halley: Why not?
Kim: Because I'm borrowing it, and I'm playing with Bonnie.
Lane: Hey, that's Mico's. I saw him bringing that in the classroom.
Classmate4: Maybe he lent it to her.
Bonnie: C'mon, Kim!
Kim: Alright!
(Kim's younger brother comes and calls her but she wouldn't listen...)
Aish: Kim, your brother's waiting for you!
Kim: Let him wait.
(Bonnie got tired so Kim's brother took over...)
Airah: Go Mico! Kim, you both are good at badminton, huh?
Kim: Nah, it's just me. (laughing)
(Kim's brother hits as hard as he could that she was not able to reach it...)
Afterwards...
Kim: Alright, let's go home. Where's the cover?
Nica: It's over there.
(As Kim placed the rackets back inside, she felt there was something else inside...)
Kim: What's this?
Nica: What is?
Kim: (taking it out) A cd...
Nica: Probably it's from Mico Xanders. You should better keep it in there.
Kim: Right.
(They proceeded to the carpark. Kim was looking for Mico, but didn't see him...)
Halley: Are you going to bring that home?
Kim: Yeah.
Chris: Kim, let's go.
Kim: On second thought, maybe you should bring this, Halley.
Halley: Why me?
Kim: Okay, nevermind.
Chris: Who owns that thing?
Kim: Mico does.
Chris: Mico? Then where is he? You should return this to him.
Kim: I guess he already went home.
Inside the car...
Mom: Good evening! What's that you're holding, Kim?
Kim: It's a badminton set.
Mom: Really? Who's it from?
Chris: From Mico. She borrowed it.
Mom: You did?
Kim: I did.
(After several minutes, they arrived in their house. Kim went upstairs and changed and looked at the cd inside...)
Kim: What do you think this contains?
Mico: Don't ask me.
Kim: Where's Chris? Let's play it downstairs.
Chris: Where's the cd then?
Kim: (texting) Mico, your badminton set's with me. Oh, and there's a cd inside it too.
Mico: (texting) Oh yeah. You can hold on to the badminton set for me. And by the way, the cd's for you...
Kim: (surprised; texting) What? Well, uh, thanks.
(Kim comes downstairs...)
Kim: Chris, that's an audio cd. Mico gave it to me.
Chris: Really?
Kim: Yeah. Just play it...
(Still was played... The next day...)
Kim: He gave me a cd.
Ashley: Really?
Kim: Yeah. It contained several wonderful love songs.
Ashley: (teasing Kim)
Aish: You should bring it here. Let us listen to it.
Nica: Yeah. What songs are there?
Kim: I just know that the song Beautiful is there yet it's corrupted -
Aish: Beautiful?
Bonnie: Corrupted? What kind of person is he?
Nica: At least he gave you something. What other songs were inside?
Kim: And there was um, Ignition, More Than Words, I Swear and some other songs. But they're really nice songs.
Aish: Oh I bet they are nice songs... (smiling)
Mr. Cole: Okay, listen here!
That Saturday morning...
Marice: Nica, who are going? Our mother is asking so we can estimate the food!
Nica: Let's say, ten?
Marice: Are you sure there won't be more?
Nica: Fine then... You decide.
Marice: Don't be so grumpy, I'm just asking you!
Nica: Whatever! (calling Kim)
(Kim was watching television...)
Mico: (answering the phone) Yeah? Wait a minute. Kim...
Kim: Hello?
Nica: Hi Kim. It's Nica.
Kim: Oh Nica, happy birthday!
Nica: Yeah, thanks! Well, I was thinking, come over to our place, not our house.
Kim: Where's that?
Nica: Just near the house of your younger brother's friend... The one where he goes for tutorials...
Kim: Oh, oh! Yeah, I see. What time?
Nica: About three or four...
Kim: Okay, I'll ask and we'll see you.
Nica: Okay, bye.
That afternoon...
Lane: (texting) What time are you going to Nica's?
Kim: (texting) I'm going there now. How about you?
Lane: (texting) I'm going to buy a gift first. Do you have a gift for her right now?
Kim: (texting) Nope. But my mom says we'll give her her gift next week 'cause we didn't have time to buy one.
Lane: (texting) Right. You go ahead and we'll see each other, okay?
In Nica's place...
Nica: What time is it?
Marice: It's 3:20 pm.
Nica: Where are they? Is the food ready?
Marice: Yeah, of course.
Kim arrived...
Nica: Kim! Hi!
Kim: Hi Nica! Happy birthday again. About your gift, would you still accept it next week?
Nica: Of course! It's okay. (laughing)
Kim: Are they here already?
Nica: Nope. You're the first one to arrive.
Kim: What? I thought Lane and Aish are here already.
Nica: No, they aren't.
Kim: But I thought Lane was already coming because she told me she was buying a gift and is on her way.
Nica: Nope. Anyway, let's go sit down. Maybe they'll be here in a while now.
Lane: Nica?
Hilary: She can't hear you...
Lane: Nica? Are you there?
Nica: Lane, Hilary!
L&H: Happy birthday, girl!
Nica: Thanks!
Dana: Hi Nica!
Kim: Guys!
Nica: Hi Dana! You guys, come in.
Tiny: Don't forget me!
Lane: Tiny!
Hilary: Hi!
Nica: C'mon, let's go and eat. C'mon, Hilary.
Dana: Hi Kim! First one to arrive huh?
Kim: Yeah.
Marice: Nica, let them eat already.
Nica: I know, I know. Here are your plates.
(Then they took their food and ate...)
Tiny: I am really gonna get full here.
Kim: What's that thing?
Nica: That's a Chinese food, Kim. You want one?
Kim: Uh, no thanks.
Lane: (always texting)
Nica: Who're you texting?
Hilary: Someone special, maybe?
Lane: No, not really. (laughing)
After eating...
Lane: I feel like going swimming. Nica?
Nica: I brought my swimsuit aready.
Kim: How ready can you get - Or did you guys plan on going on a swim?
Lane: I also brought mine.
Hilary: Sorry, Kim. But we have swimming classes with our THE teacher every Saturday.
Kim: Really? Since when?
Dana: Since last week. We went there at five, I guess.
Lane: Yeah. Wanna come with us?
Kim: Sure, but I don't have any swimsuit so I'm not going to swim with you guys.
Tiny: You guys are going swimming when you're still full?
Hilary: Aren't you coming, Tiny?
Tiny: I'm not. I have to go home.
Hilary: C'mon, let's go!
Outside...
Hilary: Do you think she's already here?
Lane: Maybe not yet.
Nica: How much are we gonna pay again?
Lane: Thirty pesos for those who are going to use the pool for swimming lessons... And it's consumable.
Kim: How about those who won't be using the pool?
Lane: Sixty pesos, I guess. Right?
Dana: Yes. You should have brought your swimsuit.
Kim: No one told me at all.
Bald Guy: How many are you?
Nica: Six people.
Bald Guy: That will be three hundred pesos.
Lane: Oh, the five of us would be taking our swimming lessons. And it's just thirty pesos if we're going to have them ,right?
Bald Guy: Then where's your teacher?
Dana: She's just a little bit late. But she's coming.
Lane: So it'll just be one hundred and eighty pesos.
Bald Guy: Is your teacher really coming here?
Hilary: Yes! She's just late because her house is far away from here.
Bald Guy: But you have to pay sixty pesos so as to be sure that you really are going to have your swimming lessons.
Lane: But we really are. You saw us here before!
Bald Guy: Where do you go to school?
Dana: We're from BWS, sir. We go to the same school as the owner's son...
Bald Guy: But you still have to pay sixty pesos. We'll just give the refund when your teacher arrives.
Kim: For me there's no problem.
Lane: Why not accept the thirty pesos now, after all, we are going to have the swimming lessons now?
Bald Guy: Please approach the counter and you're going to pay sixty pesos each. Okay?
Lane: C'mon, listen to us. We are going to have our swimming lessons.
Bald Guy: Let them pay sixty pesos each.
Dana: We're going to pay thirty pesos and one will be paying sixty pesos, okay. Here!
Lane: And we won't take those back!
(The bald guy then accepted the money...)
Lane: Why is he insisting that we pay sixty pesos when he saw us last week?
Kim: He just wants us to be humiliated. People were looking at us!
Nica: Don't mind that old guy...
(They changed into their swimsuits while Kim waited for them...)
Kim: (smiling; standing up) Nica? Mico says happy birthday.
Nica: Tell him thanks.
Lane: Is he still courting you, Kim?
Kim: I don't know... (going out)
(The others were already swimming in the pool with their teacher...)
Teacher: Raise your feet there first.
Dana: Like, here?
Teacher: Yes!
Lane: Ma'am, aren't we looking rather funny?
Teacher: Not really. (laughing)
Nica: You're looking worse, Lane!
Dana: Worse than you ever were! (laughing boisterously)
Teacher: Ms. Canavelle, are you not going to join them?
Kim: Uh, no. I - They didn't tell me you were going to have swimming lessons today.
Teacher: Ahh... I see.
Minutes later...
Lane: *sigh* I can't really do this!
Teacher: You have to go underneath.
Dana: Just try standing there, Lane. Is it like this?
Nica: Let's follow that, Lane.
Kim: (laughing) As if Lane is going to fit! Just kidding, Lane!
Lane: I know, Kim. Oh...
Kim: What?
Lane: Hi Mico!
Nica: Mico?
(Mico bowed his head down and sat beside Kim...)
Mico: Hi.
Kim: Hi...
Dana: C'mon, let's continue and not disturb anyone. (grinning)
Mico: Aren't you really going for a swim?
Kim: Nope. I don't have a swimsuit.
Teacher: Hi!
Mico: Good evening.
Kim: Aren't you going to swim too? (grinning)
Mico: No, I wouldn't. Are you really sure? Because it looks like they're really having fun.
Kim: Yeah, I'm fine.
Nica: How come he's here?
Lane: Maybe someone got him to be here?
Hilary: Ah, I know what you're thinking...
Lane: What?
Dana: That Kim -
Hilary: I didn't say that. I have nothing to do with that.
Mico: (texting someone)
Kim: May I borrow your phone?
Mico: Um, yeah, sure. But my phones just cheap 'cause we're poor, unlike your phone.
Kim: No, you're not. Who's this Jody?
Mico: That's a friend from my hometown. They say they're coming to visit.
Kim: I see...
Mico: You could meet them if you want.
Kim: (smiling) No thanks.
(Kim looks through Mico's inbox and sees that almost all of her messages were still stored...)
Kim: You don't erase them?
Mico: What?
Kim: My messages, I mean...
Mico: Do you want me to erase them?
Kim: Yes, please.
Mico: Okay. (taking the phone)
Kim: How's your house?
Mico: Still unfinished. It's really, really small. It might even be just as big as that comfort room. (smiling)
Kim: I know it's a big house.
Mico: No, really. It's so small. Our other house is even a nipa hut.
Kim: You're rich... You even have two houses.
Mico: We're not. If it rains, it's a really big problem because the house would seem flooded. (grinning)
Kim: Yeah, right. (smiling)
Mico: And our dog, it keeps on biting its leash. It destroyed the leash and we have no money to buy another one.
Kim: Ha-ha-ha Your father's a councilor, that's impossible.
Mico: (grinning) You have dogs, right?
Kim: Yeah.
Mico: You should have brought them here so you could go water skiing. Hold them by leash and there you go...
Kim: (grinning) Our dogs hate water so much.
Mico: Oh, really. I didn't know that. (smiling) (looks down at his shorts) Oh, bad luck...
Kim: What?
Mico: (zipping up his pants) My pants weren't zipped up. (embarassed) And I was walking around with those...
Kim: You did?
Mico: Yeah. (smiling) Because you told me to come already.
Kim: Sorry.
Mico: It's okay, really. No harm done.
Lane: Look at them.
Nica: Stop looking, Lane. Give them a little privacy...
Teacher: Alright, that's enough. I still have to go back home and it's already dark. Okay?
Hilary: Yes. It's okay, ma'am.
Dana: Bye!
(The girls went out of the pool...)
Lane: Hi!
(Kim and Mico smile at them... Then the girls went to change...)
Mico: They're a funny group.
Kim: You think..? They're always like that.
Mico: I think they're nice people.
Kim: They are. Especially when you get to know them one by one.
Mico: (looking up at the sky) The stars don't seem to be twinkling tonight.
Kim: Really? Maybe because Hilary's down here. (grinning)
Mico: (grinning) Maybe...
Lane: Kim, Mico, maybe you guys should get your snacks or something.
Kim: Um...
Mico: Let's go.
(Lane gets back inside the changing room. Mico and Kim transfer near the changing room...)
Kim: Councilor, it must be great to be his son...
Mico: I don't know. My brothers are making jokes that my dad has other girls.
Kim: What? Why?
Mico: Probably because he's not always around with us. I don't know.
Kim: Shouldn't we - shouldn't we go get something to eat? Like what Lane said...
Mico: We could get them together.
(The girls got out of the changing room...)
Hilary: Guys, sorry. My driver's waiting outside. I have to go. Thanks for the invite and food, Nica!
Nica: Your welcome.
Hilary: Bye Lane. Bye Mico and Kim! Dana...
Dana: Uh-oh, my mother's here too. I have to go ahead. Bye.
Mico: They're already leaving?
Lane: I thought you already got some snacks...
Kim: No. We didn't know where we could get them.
Lane: Just approach the bald guy. Ask him for your free snacks.
Nica: Yeah, Lane forgot that we can't avail of the consumable thing.
Mico: (standing up) I'll get them.
Lane: You go too...
Kim: I will? But -
(Lane and Nica walked towards the bridge and were watching the fish ponds...)
Bald Guy: Give him one junkfood and a drink. That's all he gets.
Mico: But I also have a friend who has to avail of this too.
Bald Guy: Where's the slip?
Mico: I don't think you gave her one.
Bald Guy: No slip, no food. Just ask her for any of your choice, okay?
Mico: Um, okay.
Kim: What'd he say?
Mico: We've got our food. Where are Lane and Nica?
Kim: Oh great...
Lane: (grinning) Nica, look. They didn't see us.
Nica: (smiling) Yeah.
Mico: Where could they be - There. Behind that tree.
Kim: Where?
(Lane and Nica approach them and they sit down...)
Nica: Kim, let's trade places.
Kim: Why would I? But, let's play rocks, paper, scissors.
(They played and Kim lost, so she now sat beside Mico...)
(Mico opened handed them the Nova junkfood...)
Mico: Do you want some?
Kim: No thanks.
Nica: I'd like to have it if no one will.
Lane: Give me some. How about you, Mico?
Mico: No. I'm fine. How about this Coke?
Lane: I don't want to drink Coke. Nica?
Nica: Pass. Give it to Kim.
Kim: I would be glad to have it.
(Mico hands her the can and opened it...)
Lane: Wait a minute, a simple question, guys. Are you both -
Kim: Thank you. (seeing a pen, played with it) No.
Mico: (shaking his head) No. (smiling)
Lane: Is this the truth?
Kim: Yes!
Lane: Let's play truth or dare.
Nica: Okay, game! Hey, we're all wearing red tops.
Kim: Oh yeah.
Lane: But you both have the same shade of red. (smiling)
Kim: (twirled the pen) Ha! Nica!
Nica: It's not me! (turning it to point at Kim, then turning it)
Lane: It's Mico!
Mico: No, it's not me.
Kim: It's Nica who should answer; truth or dare?
Lane: No one wants it. I'll have it truth then. What do you want to know?
Nica: What's there to know? We know everything.
Kim: I do not.
Mico: Tell us about your lovelife.
Lane: (smiling) Okay. (starting to talk)
(Kim was not really listening but was playing with the umbrella. When it went up, Mico put it back down...)
Kim: (murmuring) Thanks.
Nica: (smiling then grinning)
Lane: Then I told him that who would ever want someone ugly like me. And -
Kim: Hey, that's a familiar line... (grinning shyly)
Nica: Really, Kim?
Lane: Uh-huh... I see. Anyway...
(Lane continued her story while the others were just listening to her. When she finally stopped...)
Nica: Yeah, amen! (laughing)
Kim: Nice story... I guess. (chuckling)
Lane: Yeah right! (laughing)
Mico: Dear Charo... (smiling shyly)
Lane: What?
Kim: That ain't me, Lane. I was saying that was a nice story, sort of...
Lane: (laughing) You guys! Hey, are you two...?
Kim: No. No, Lane...
Nica: Sure?
Kim: Sure! A hundred percent sure!
Mico: (murmuring) Tyler...
Nica: What?
Kim: It wasn't me anymore, Nica. Not my fault!
Nica: (grinning) Lane, how are we going to get home now?
Lane: What time is it?
Kim: Oh, just ten o' clock.
Lane: Ten?
Nica: Yeah. Could we just have a ride with you?
Lane: Okay. How about you, Mico?
Mico: I'm going to live in my brother's friend's house. Just near the school.
Lane: Near our house?
Mico: Yes.
Lane: Okay.
(They stand up and walked out of the place. Mico was beside Kim, then Nica and Lane...)
Mico: Uh, how old are you guys?
Kim: I am going to be fourteen next month.
Nica: I just turned fourteen today.
Lane: I already am fourteen.
Mico: Oh, so I am the youngest here.
Nica: The youngest, as well as the tallest. (grinning)
Lane: Shut up, Nica. At least I am this tall, you know.
Nica: Yeah, yeah. Whatever.
(Lane pushes Nica who hits Kim who narrowly missed hitting Mico...)
Kim: Stop it... (murmuring)
Lane: Sorry.
(By the road, they were alone with no vehicles passing by...)
Lane: Why aren't they here yet?
Mico: (murmuring to Kim) Was what you said really true?
Kim: Uh, yeah.
Lane: What's true?
Kim: Uh, um, nothing.
Mico: In my hometown, my brother's friend got a ride because he laid down on the street. Plus it was raining that time.
Nica: Really?
Mico: Yeah. (walking towards the center of the road)
Nica: What are you trying to do now?
Mico: I'm trying to do the same thing. (Then went back towards them...)
(Lane was busy calling her parents when Nica saw three mysterious people around them...)
Nica: Kim, look at the three people around you.
Kim: Why?
Nica: They look really mysterious.
Kim: Huh?
Nica: Yes, they walked away! Yeah!
Kim: Why are you even scared?
(Then Lane's parents drove towards them. Nica and Lane sat on the other side of the back, Kim on the other while Mico was on the floor...)
Lane: Kim, move over. Let Mico sit down.
Kim: Okay.
(They dropped Nica by their house...)
Lane: Bye Nica!
Mico: Do we have to wait for her?
Kim: (turning around) Oh...
(Then they fetched Lane's younger sister from their cousin's house and proceeded to Kim's house...)
Lane: Bye Kim!
Kim: Bye, Lane. Thanks for the ride!
Lane: No problem.
Mico: (murmuring) Bye.
Lane: Say bye to him too.
Kim: Um, bye.
(Kim went inside and up to her room...)
Meanwhile...
Mico: Thanks for the ride, Lane. I really am grateful.
Lane: You're welcome.
Two days after...
Ashley: Kim!
Kim: Yeah?
Ashley: How was Nica's birthday party?
Kim: Well -
Nica: It was fun!
Aish: Fun? Just fun?
Kim: How else would you want it?
Bonnie: Didn't anyone unexpectedly arrive?
Kim: Oh, no. No one unexpected arrived.
Ashley: What are you guys talking about?
Nica: Should I tell her or would you guys want to tell her?
Bonnie: Nica will tell Ashley.
Aish: Yeah. It was your birthday after all...
Nica: Okay... Ashley, Mico went to the party with Kim.
Ashley: What?
Kim: No, he was not with me..!
Nica: He just came to the pool party and was with Kim.
Kim: He arrived late.
Nica: They talked.
Kim: About stuff! And jokes!
Nica: About stuff? Like what?
Kim: Their house and - What?
Ashley: Kim, did you say yes to him?
Kim: I did not.
Aish: Not yet though. But she probably will. I mean, could!
Kim: We talked about you guys, Nica. And our dogs, and ther unfinished house. That's it!
Nica: Sure. Whatever...
That night...
Mico: (texting) Can you please decide already?
Kim: (texting) Decide? I really have to think about it.
Mico: (texting) Please think it over. I am serious. Don't get mad at me, please. I'm not forcing you to say yes, okay...
Kim: (texting) I know. I'll just think about it first.
Mico: (texting) Good night, Kim. I love you.
The next day...
(Tuesday, it was PE...)
Teacher: Pair up now. You are going to dance chacha today.
Kim: Dance again?
JM: C'mon, Kim.
Anthony: Weren't you my partner the other week?
Kim: Yeah... Before you were replaced to JM. (grinning) You always make fun of me!
Anthony: I do not. Aish, you'll be my pair.
Aish: Sorry, Anthony. Dave is my partner.
Anthony: Oh, sorry.
Break...
JM: I am so tired!
Nica: Where is my partner?
Ashley: Dave, let us be pairs. I've had enough with Halley, yet.
Dave: I've got a lot of pairs already. Aish, Bonnie...
Ashley: Okay. I got you.
Teacher: Start practicing again. This time, with music.
Kim: C'mon, JM. Stop napping already.
JM: I am so tired, Kim. Just for a little while, okay?
Kim: Okay.
(Kim practices with Dave for a while...)
Halley: JM, let's dance.
JM: (standing up) Kim, let's dance already.
Kim: Oh, okay.
Halley: Ashley, let's start dancing already.
That evening...
(Kim was eating alone and was texting at the same time...)
Mico: (texting) What's your decision? Are you going to say yes?
Kim: (texting) Um, wait a while.
Mico: (texting) If you're going to say, I would be the happiest guy alive.
Kim: (sweating and feeling cold) I really don't know how to put it...
Mico: (texting) Yes or no?
Kim: (texting) Yes.
Mico: (reading) Whoa! Yes! Yes! (smiling broadly) (texting) Yes! Thank you! I truly am the happiest guy alive!
Kim: (texting) Yeah.
Mico: (texting) I love you so much!
Kim: (texting) Sure...
Mico: (texting) What shall I call you then?
Kim: (texting) Um, I dunno. My name's fine.
Mico: (texting) Ah, I got it. Baby... Is it okay?
Kim: (texting) Yeah, sure...
Mico: (texting) Now that it's us, shouldn't we have a theme song?
Kim: (texting) Normally, people do. Yeah. Um, what's the title of the song in the cd? The first song?
Mico: (texting) Still? Do you like it?
Kim: (texting) Yes. My friends even like it. What song do you like in the cd?
Mico: (texting) I like all the songs in the cd because they are everything that I want to tell you. But I specially like I Swear.
Kim: (texting) I see... They are nice songs.
Mico: (texting) I know... How about Still as our theme song?
Kim: (texting) It's okay. I mean, that is my fave song at the moment.
Mico: (texting) Then it will be Still, okay?
Kim: (texting) Okay.
Hours after...
Kim: (texting) I'm going to sleep already. Good night!
Mico: (texting) You're sleeping already? Good night, baby. Love you!
Kim: (texting) Yeah, good night.
Mico: (texting) Aren't you going to say I love you too?
Kim: (texting) Right.
(Kim quickly deletes the message. She felt awkward sending the message...)
Kim: (thinking) Ew... Hope he deletes it rather than reading it over and over again.
The next days, Mico was looking much happier than usual...
Athan: What's wrong with you?
Mico: Who me? Nothing, I'm fine. Actually I feel great.
Tyler: Right...
And Kim, on the other hand... was... just was...
Mr. Cole: Wow! Look at all those certificates! Very good, well done, class!
Dana: Of course. What did you expect from us?
Anthony: Where's the tikiman? Here Mr. Tiki..!
JM: It's down in our landscape, Anthony. What's wrong with you? (chuckling)
Anthony: Oh yeah! (chuckling)
Mr. Cole: Don't forget to practice this afternoon. Boys, be there.
Damien: Yes, sir.
Mr. Cole: Alright, Damien. You check if your classmates really would be practicing.
JM: Aw c'mon, Damien. It's boring stuff. (whispering) You won't list us, right? (grinning)
Mr. Cole: Keep in mind that those who are going to join are going to get good grades in homeroom.
JM: Aw, great!
Everytime Kim and Mico would meet in the carpark, Mico would say hi and Kim would pretend as if it was not her...
But Mico understood that since they had an agreement with Kim about that.
Ashley: (standing on the ledge near the door) Hey, it's nice dancing here!
Classmate: Really? But it's scary if you fall from up there.
Classmate2: Of course. I mean, that's high enough to break a bone or something.
Kim: Where's Ashley?
Classmate: Way up there.
Kim: (creeping behind Ashley and startles her)
Ashley: HEY! (jumps down and looks mad)
Kim: (looking frightened but laughing at the same time) Uh-oh...
Classmate: You shouldn't have done that, Kim.
Kim: I know... Ashley?
(Ashley doesn't mind Kim and just looks at some paper...)
Classmate2: She's mad, she's mad. She's heating up, Kimmy!
Kim: Stop that.
Bonnie: How do you answer this?
Aish: Just answer it like Nica does.
Bonnie: Lemme copy too!
Nica: Shush!
Bell rings...
Ashley: (goes out of the classroom)
Kim: Great...
Bonnie: Let's go to the THE room.
Kim: Aren't we gonna stay here?
Nica: Uh... no. Our teacher said that it's better for us to be there.
Aish: Where's Ashley?
Bonnie: She's outside already. C'mon.
Gaven: Hi Ash!
Ashley: Hi.
Anthony: What's wrong?
JM: Just stop asking.
Kim: Oh, I forgot to bring a ruler. Could you come with me to my brother's classroom?
Aish: Sorry, but we have to go. We're kind of in a hurry ourselves, Kim.
Nica: Sorry.
Dana: Let's go, Anna.
(Kim goes to her brother's classroom and sees Ashley...)
Kim: Do you have a ruler?
Ashley: Yeah, but it's only one.
Kim: Would you come with me and borrow one?
Ashley: Sure...
Chris: Hey Kim! Here.
Kim: Thank you!
In the THE room...
Mage: Are you done, Kim?
Kim: Not really, but I'm almost done with the upper part.
Dana: Is it like this?
Anna: See, I told you so, Dana. But you wouldn't listen.
Sam: (screaming) Be careful!
Anna: What?
Sam: My project almost fell. It could get dirty.
Airah: I thought it was an emergency or something!
Sam: It still is..! (grinning)
Teacher: Work on those things here in school. And he deadline would be on the last day of exams.
Russell: How about those who aren't able to bring the materials?
Teacher: You're going to sweep the room.
Russell: What?!
Gaven: Tough luck, Russ...
The week of the Intramurals...
Mr. Hathaway: Lane, are you going to practice today?
Lane: Of course, sir. This week's Intramurals.
Ella: We're almost done though.
Mr. Hathaway: Are the boys joining?
Tyler: Some are... Like me!
Mico: (lauhing) No, you don't!
Jace: I guess none from our section among the guys are joining. I guess!
Heather: Just add points to the girls, sir!
Tyler: Hey, that's unfair!
Mr. Hathaway: We'll just see about that. (smiling)
That weekend...
Mico: (texting) Sorry I wasn't able to reply quickly. I was playing basketball and I didn't see that there was a message.
Kim: (texting) It's alright. What are you doing now?
Mico: (texting) I'm just going to take a bath. To get the stench off... I'll text you right after, okay?
Kim: (texting) Sure.
Mico: I'm just going to leave my phone here, Auntie.
Aunt: Who were you texting, Mico?
Mico: (grinning) Guess who.
Aut: I have no idea.
Mico: Anyway, I really hace to take a bath. Don't touch my phone, alright?
Aunt: (ruffling Mico's hair) Of course! Now go, stinky. (taking his phone) A?
Kim: (texting) I thought you were taking a bath?
Aunt: (texting) Uh, yeah. This is Mico's aunt. Don't tell him I texted you alright?
Kim: (texting) Okay.
Aunt: (texting) Who is this? Because he just placed a letter A in your name. Is this his girlfriend?
Kim: Uh-oh. His aunt, like, my mother's friend? (texting) Uh, yeah. I am Kimberly Canavelle.
Aunt: (texting) Canavelle? How are you related to the Canavelle's down the street?
Kim: Great... (texting) I am the daughter.
Aunt: (texting) Oh, okay. I'll just leave Mico's phone here. He might see I was using it.
Kim: (texting) Sure!
Mico: Auntie?
Aunt: What? I didn't touch your phone. I was just looking at it.
Mico: Yeah? (aunt nods) Right! (reading the message) See?
Aunt: Alright, you caught me. Sorry, I was curious!
Mico: Now you know who she is?
Aunt: Yes. And she's the daughter of my friend.
Mico: Really? But don't tell anybody about us, okay?
Aunt: I promise.
Mico: (texting) Sorry about that, baby. My aunt said she just got kinda curious and you know... Sorry.
Kim: (texting) No, it's fine. She was kind.
Mico: (texting) Really?
Kim: (texting) Yeah. Really.
Everyone was busy practicing their different events and their dances. But Kim was not practicing any sport at all.
With her birthday coming up, plus the rigid practices of their cheers, there was no time... And she didn't want to...
Airah: Kim, advance happy birthday!
Kim: Thanks! (smiling)
Lane: Oh yeah! Advance happy birthday!
Aish: Where are we going this time?
Nica: The mall again?
Kim: No... I was thinking of having a pool party.
Lane: Yeah, that's great!
Airah: I would really be there!
Bonnie: Counting on it, Kim!
Ashley: I'm not sure if I can go... You know my dad...
Nica: Yeah... Too bad.
Benj: I'm courting you.
Tanya: Is that what you're doing?
Benj: Isn't this what it is?
Tanya: No, it isn't.
Hours after...
Benj: Hi Lara!
Lara: Hey there, Benjamin.
Benj: You broke up with JM already, right?
Lara: Yeah. Why?
Benj: (smiling) Will you allow me to court you?
Lara: Court me?
Benj: There's no one else I'm talking to... (grinning)
Days after...
Angela: Lara and Benj?
Benj: What? You think I was gonna get rejected?
Lara: It's officially us!
Tanya: Congratulations, Benj. You too, Lara. Nice couple!
Lara: Thank you.
(Tanya stares at Benj and smiles...)
Zander: Hi Benj!
Lara: Hi Zander...
Zander: Lara? Benj, she's your -
Benj: Yeah.
Zander: Great!
In their classroom...
Teacher: Settle down! Benjamin Andrews, Kent Graham, Jake Benson, where are they?
Tanya: As usual, they're cutting classes, again!
Lara: Just you wait, Benj...
Tanya: You really should scold him, Lara. I mean, he should be under your power.
Lara: He should be!
First day of the Intramurals...
Guy: What time is it?
Gal: A minute before seven.
Lane: Where is she?
Nica: Late again, probably. She always is.
Lane: How about me? I am always late, maybe except for today!
Kim: Can't blame it on her, Lane.
Athan: Lane, where's the paper?
Lane: It's with Mico.
Mico: Here.
The festivities were started. The cheerleading competition began, and Nica's team landed first runner up.
In the volleyball court...
Halley: Titans, come over and cheer for our players!
Dana: Shut up, Halley.
Halley: Go, go Titans. Go, go, go TITANS!
Bonnie: Poor fellow... So innocent, and so stupid.
Kim: You think?! She is very weird!
Ashley: Let's go watch the game. But not too near her.
(Kim sees Mico pass by and put his bag down...)
Kim: (taking her phone and dials, then puts it down)
Mico: (looks at his phone and smiles)
Ashley: Wohoo! Go Titans!
N&Ai: You can do it!
Bonnie: Go Titans! Win this game!
That noon, the Titans were playing softball women...
Girl: Pitch it straight this time!
Guy3: C'mon, what are you doing? Hello! The batter's that way?
Kim: Aw, geez. Airah, I don't think I'm going to stay here for long!
Airah: What?
Kim: It's too hot!
Bonnie: What's that Kim's saying?
Dana: No, Kim. We'd lack players!
Kim: I don't care. What's wrong is that my head's already boiled up!
Girl2: I've got a cap! Zander, please give this to her.
Zander: Hey Kim!
Kim: Where'd you get this?
Zander: From a junior...
Kim: Well, thanks.
Minutes later...
Kim: I'm really going!
Sam: We're going to lose! If you quit, we've got no one lined up for substitution!
Kim: Do you want me to dehydrate? (walking away)
Airah: Anyone, replace Kim!
Ashley: What's wrong with you? Why'd you walk away from the game?
Kim: It's too hot. We're losing anyway, so what's their point?
Nica: Let's go before they see you.
That afternoon, while watching a kickball game...
Dana: Scoot over.
Mage: There's no more space here.
Sam: Well, somebody could stand up or move...
Kim: We don't wanna be there.
Ashley: Yup! (looking back) Hey, look, Kim.
Mico: (walks toward Kim) Hey...
Kim: Hey...
Mico: Do you wanna play badminton with me?
Kim: Um... (looking at Ashley)
Ashley: Go... (smiling)
Kim: Um, okay. We'll be in the softball field, Ash.
Ashley: Sure. I'll just be watching the game here.
Mico: Let's go.
(Kim walks towards the field ahead of Mico who was bringing the rackets...)
Cedric: Let me play afterwards?
Damien: Maybe.
Cedric: After you play?
Damien: Guess so...
Classmate: Kim! Mico?!
Cedric: Hi Kim! (smiling)
Kim: Hi Cedric! (smiling)
Airah: Kimmy! Are you going to play?
Mage: Isn't it obvious, Airah? (grinning
Classmate: Hey Charzie, why don't you play with Damien.
Damien: Yeah, Charzie. We could be badminton pairs.
Mage: And these two could be partners.
Kim: No. Charzie and I would be partners, and the guys would be partners too.
Airah: No, that's not nice.
Cedric: It would be unfair, Kim. A girl and a boy on a team. That'd be great.
Mage: Yeah. Just play properly, guys.
Kim: You wanna serve?
Mico: Alright.
(They play but Kim and Mico look tense because they keep on dropping the shuttle cock...)
Airah: You need cooperation! Teamwork!
Classmate: Don't be shy...
Cedric: (grinning) Now I know something, Kim.
(While they were playing, Tanya, Lara and their friends were watching...)
Tanya: Oow... Interesting...
Next morning...
Mico: It's her birthday today, bro.
Ryan: Who? Kim?
Mico: Yeah. Who else?
Ryan: What's your gift to her?
Mico: I dunno. I don't have any money on me.
Ronald: Buy her something she would want.
Ryan: He's right. Talk to her today, too.
Friends: Happy birthday, Kim!
Kim: Thanks. And stop shouting it out loud.
Lara: Hi Kim! Happy birthday!
Kim: Happy birthday to you too...
Damien: Kim! Happy birthday.
Kim: Yeah, thanks.
Damien: Let's go play badminton. Where's Mico?
Kim: I don't know. Not here yet, I guess.
Damien: Let's just go play. He can just join us.
Kim: Alright.
Aish: We'll just be here if you need us, Kim.
When Mico arrives...
Mico: (signing in)
Athan: Hurry up. Let's go watch the game.
Mico: Have you seen Kim?
Athan: No. Why?
Mico: Nothing...
The whole day, Kim and Mico didn't meet...
That afternoon, while playing badminton again...
Damien: Who wants to play?
K&Ai: I do!
Damien: Okay... How many rackets are here? Three...
Aish: Just let me play first, Kim. How could three people play badminton, anyway?
Kim: Alright. But just hurry up will you.
Ashley: Why is it so boring...
Bonnie: It is because we are not playing any games at all.
Ashley: I don't play sports at all.
(Lara and Tanya with their posse pass by...)
Bonnie: Look who's here...
Ashley: Yeah. I can see.
Halley: Are you not going to watch the basketball game?
Bonnie: Who're playing?
Halley: I don't know. All I know is that our team is playing against some other team.
Ashley: Of course. Why, our team can't play against our own team, right? (sarcastically)
Aish: Your turn, Kim. I'm already worn-out. Where are you guys going?
Nica: Guys, let's go to the gym.
Aish: Why? Who're playing?
Nica: Titans and Trojans, I guess.
Kim: Make sure I can see you, okay?
Ashley: (laughing) We won't. You can count on it.
Damien: Bye-bye.
Kim: (hitting the shuttle cock very high up) Uh-oh...
Damien: Excuses please. (throwing a stone) How are we going to get that down?
Kim and Damien tried evreything to get it down and even threw a racket at it but the shuttle cock didn't fall down...)
Damien: We'll just have to tell Mico it's stuck.
Mico: Where is it?
(Mico then threw a racket at it and it fell down...)
Kim: Thanks and sorry.
Damien: We'll still borrow it, okay, Mico?
Mico: Yeah.
Damien: Okay.
Tanya: Where's Benj?
Lara: I dunno. He's playing basketball, probably.
Tanya: Well, aren't you gonna watch him play?
Lara: Maybe... Maybe not.
Kim: I'm going to watch the game.
Damien: Oh, okay.
Kim: Why don't you come with me. I might not find where they're sitting.
Damien: Sure.
Kim: How many rackets are there?
Damien: Two.
Kim: Where's the other one?
Damien: Oh, yeah! (slapping his head) Reggie borrowed it.
Kim: Where is he?
(They looked in the canteen and they saw Reggie...)
Damien: Hey, Reg. Where's te badminton racket you borrowed?
Reggie: It's there on the table.
Damien: Thanks for not returning it.
Reggie: Sorry, I forgot.
(They went insde the gym. Kim sat beside her friends while Damien went out...)
Lane: Go, go, Titans!
Kim: You're not a Titan.
Lane: But I support your team than theirs. (grinning)
Halley: Go Titans!!!
Airah: Hey Halley, stand on top of that so they can see you.
Dave: Shout and do some weird "dance ritual".
Dana: Go Titans! Go Halley! (smirking)
Halley: (standing) Go Titans!
Sam: Tell them to commit seppuku because it'd be easier for them if they can't accept defeat.
Halley: (shouting) Commit seppuku, will you! (whirling a net over her head)
Lane: Oh, she's really crazy, isn't she?
Ashley: You think? And she's saying we're relatives.
Kim: Didn't you say you were?
Ashley: I won't accept her.
Aish: (laughing boisterously with Bonnie) Who would?
Airah: No, no. You better go to the other side so that they could really hear you.
Halley: Okay. (walking)
Bonnie: What an idiot! (laughing)
At the other side...
Halley: Hey you! Commit seppuku already because we are going to win! Titans!!!
Lane: Look at her! She's looking stupider than ever!
(Everyone in the Titans box were laughing...)
Mr. Cole: Go Titans! Where's Halley?
Nica: Look over there...
Mr. Cole: Halley? Geez, that kid is really, I dunno. Crazy.
All: You think?!
(Before the game ended, Kim and the others went out already...)
Kim: Don't forget to come to my birthday, okay?
Nica: Of course.
Kim: You too, Lane.
Lane: I'll be there.
Ashley: I have to ask my parent's permission, Kim. I'm not sure if I can go.
Kim: Just ask their permission, okay?
(Kim was fetched by her mom, but while she was walking, she saw Mico's car. He waved at her and smiled...)
In the party location...
Aish: Hi Kim! Happy birthday!
Kim: Hi! Where're Bonnie, Lane and the others?
Aish: I guess she's still watching the game.
Mom: Kim, let them sit down already. Where are the others?
Kim: They're still in school, Mom.
Then Lane, Bonnie and the rest arrive...
Bonnie: Happy birthday, Kim.
Kim: Thanks. Well, sit down.
Lane: Hi! Oh, you're already here, Aish.
Aish: Yeah. So who won?
Lane: I guess we did. (laughing)
Dana: Hi Kim!
Kim: Yeah. Hey, you guys... Um, let's go get some food so we could go and dip in already.
Lane: Yeah. C'mon.
(Before they could get their food, Mico and some people came in...)
Lane: Did you invite him?
Kim: Huh?
(Mico and company went to the other side and sat down. The other girls were still exploring the place...)
Mom: Where are your classmates?
Kim: They're looking at the fish ponds, I guess.
Mom: Call them already.
Ryan: Are those your classmates?
Mico: Some of them.
Ryan: Then talk to them for the meantime. Where's she?
Dana: Hey, nice fish ponds. I wish we had like these at home.
Bonnie: Don't worry, you could make some of these if you've got money.
Kim: Guys, let's go eat. My Mom's calling us already.
Mico: Oh, you guys go already.
Lane: Please, Mico. C'mon people, let's go.
Kim: Hurry up, guys.
Nica: Oh no, you're staying here for awhile.
Lane: Talk to him.
Kim: But -
Aish: See ya!
Mico: Uh - hey.
Kim: Yeah... Hey.
Mico: Um, happy birthday. I'm sorry I am not able to go with you. You see, my aunt arrived and...
Kim: It's okay. Isn't Athan coming too?
Mico: He said he's ashamed.
Kim: Right...(grinning)
Mico: I'm really sorry. My brother just decided we'd be here...and...
Kim: Really, it's alright. (SILENCE then...) I - I better go.
Mico: You should. You're guests are waiting for you.
Kim: Yeah.
Mom: Kim - Are you not going to join us, boy?
Mico: Um, (smiling) no. My brother's here...
Mom: Oh. I thought you were eating with us. Anyway, Kim...
After eating, Kim changed...
Kim: Please hold my glasses, Mom.
Aish: The water's great!
Lane: Where's Ashley gone to?
Kim: She said she isn't coming. Her father didn't agree.
Bonnie: Poor Ashley... She doesn't seem to be able to come to some gatherings...
Dana: That's part of life. Some are lucky, some are not.
After awhile...
Ryan: Shall we go?
Aunt: Maybe we should. How about Mico's friend?
Mico: It's okay. I'll just say that I have to leave already.
Aunt: Are you sure? Because we could just wait you know. So you could talk.
Ryan: Oh no. You're already tired, auntie. You can't wait any longer or you'll doze off.
Aunt: Are you saying I'm too old, Ryan?
Ryan: Of course not. I just -
Mico: Auntie, I'll just say I have to go. It's okay for me.
Aunt: If you say so...
Dana: (splashing water at Lane) Can you take this? (laughing boisterously)
Nica: Hey, watch out! You could get someone wet.
Dana: No one going to get wet...
Aish: Stop! Mico and company...
Lane: Are they already leaving? Kim?
Kim: I wouldn't know.
Bonnie: I guess so. And they're gone...
Nica: Now, you can continue splashing water around.
Bonnie: Oh, wait... Look who's back.
Lane: Mico... (clearing her throat)
Mico: (kneeling near the pool) Kim, we have to go. My aunt has to go home and take some rest.
Kim: I see...
Mico: Happy birthday once again, and sorry.
Kim: It's really alright. I understand that you've got a visitor.
Mico: Actually, I think my brother wanted us to be here because you invited me... (grinning)
Kim: (grinning) Okay...
Mico: But, I really have to go now. Happy birthday again.
Kim: Thanks.
(Mico walks away...)
Bonnie: What'd he say?
Kim: He just said bye and happy birthday...
Lane: Are you sure there wasn't anything else?
Kim: Of course.
Nica: (laughing) Kim... Lane, how was that done again? (hanging by the side of the pool)
(Lane demonstrates, then everyone follows. Then they got out of the pool and changed...)
Mom: Aren't you going to eat again? There still is a lot of food left.
Kim: C'mon, don't tell me you are shy... Not now, though.
Lane: Yeah, we are. A bit... (chuckling)
Dana: Yeah right, Lane! As if!
Mom: Kim, isn't that Bonnie's mom?
Bonnie: Where? Mommy... Sorry, Kim. I have to go. But I enjoyed your party. Thanks!
Nica: Bye, Bonnie.
(Bonnie's mom greets happy birthday to Kim and then they leave...)
Monday the next week...
Ashley: So, how was your birthday?
Kim: It was fine.
Nica: Yeah right! It just wasn't fun. She had a special guest!
Ashley: You're kidding. Right?
Aish: No, obviously not. Mico was there.
Ashley: What?
Bonnie: Yeah!
Dana: Everybody, Mr. Cole's coming.
Russell: Whatever.
Halley: Everybody sit down!
Ashley: Whatever.
Senior: Hey, look. It's your crush.
Senior2: What? Where?
Senior: Over there, sitting down beside Athan Basseterre.
Senior2: Oh, him. Well, he's not my crush anymore.
Senior: What? Why not?
Senior2: He's already taken.
Senior: Really? By who?
Tyler: Who's that?
Athan: Who's where? I don't see anybody around.
Tyler: No, not there. Up in the second floor.
Lane: Nice try, Tyler. But she won't notice you.
Mico: Why's that?
Tyler: Why won't he even notice me? I'm handsome.
Athan: (laughing boisterously) *Yeah right.* (fake coughing)
Mico: Oh, okay, I get it.
Lane: (laughing) You're so ambitious, Ty.
Tyler: I'm not ambitious. You'll see...
Lane: Right, then. We'll see about that.
During their scouting class...
Scoutmaster: Girls, you need to buy all the things you need for the camping.
Girl: We have a camping?
Girl2: When?
Tanya: Will you just listen for a minute?
Girl: (whispering) Fine.
Scoutmaster: The camping would still be next year. But you have to wear the girl scout uniform by that time. Complete girl scout uniform.
Halley: Where are we going to buy that?
Kim: How about the store? (grinning)
Tanya: Of course you can buy that anywhere where they sell it. (whispering) Duh!
Lara: Is it already sure, ma'am?
Scoutmaster: Yes, I guess. But just wait for further notice.
Dana: Would that include the black belt?
Scoutmaster: Oh yeah. Yes. But I think there are times when the stores are having no stock of these things.
Halley: Why don't we just order from the Girl Scout Office, then? So that we'd all have the uniform stuff.
Lane: Who's going to go and buy?
Nica: Hmm... That'll be the hard part. No one would want to volunteer.
Scoutmaster: How about, one scout from each patrol would go and buy?
Halley: I'll buy for our patrol, Sam.
Samantha: Are you sure?
Halley: Yes!
Samantha: Okay... If you say so.
Nica: How about in our patrol, Dana?
Dana: I'll go We're nearer.
Scoutmaster: It's, I guess, one hundred and fifty for all.
Dana: Don't forget to bring your payment tomorrow, okay?
Ashley: Be sure to complete the collection by tomorrow, Halley.
Halley: Yes, of course.
In school, past five pm...
Airah: Will we still be going and have our swimming lessons with our THE teacher?
Lane: Yeah, of course.
Kim: Who else are coming?
Nica: I can't go. Sorry.
Aish: I can't too. I have somewhere to go with my family.
Kim: So, it'll just be the three of us?
Lane: Guess so.
Airah: When are you going to go there, Kim?
Kim: I dunno. (texting) Do you want to come with us again? We're going to take our swimming lessons.
Mico: (reading the message) Bro, are you going somewhere else?
Ryan: Yes. Why? I'm going out with Rachel.
Mico: Could you drop me off to that same place during Kim's birthday?
Ryan: Why, she invited you?
Mico: Yeah. Could you?
Ryan: Yeah. You better get ready. I'm just going to change and I'd fetch Rachel afterwards. I'm not coming back after I fetch her.
Mico: Okay. (texting) Sure.
Kim: (texting) Okay...
Nica: Did you already inform her?
Lane: Who? Our swimming instructor aka our THE teacher?
Nica: Yeah.
Airah: We just did.And she said she'd try.
Kim: Try? Maybe we shouldn't go then. (texting) Ey, I think we're not pushing through. Sorry.
Mico: (reading the message) Oh, bro. She said they're not pushing through.
Ryan: Oh, okay. I'm leaving already. I'm off to Rachel's house. See ya later!
Mico: Bye.
Lane: Let's just go, Kim. It's going to be fun.
Airah: I know Lane's dying to go swimming again. Right, Lane?
Lane: Yeah!
Kim: (texting) Hey, I guess we're going after all...
Mico: (texting) Sorry, I can't go. My brother brought the car with him, and I have nothing to use. You should have made it clear at first.
Kim: Oh... (texting) Okay.
Mico: (texting) I'm sorry.
Lane: I'll have to go home first and change. We'll just meet up there, okay?
Kim: Okay. You're going home first, right?
Airah: Yes. I'll just drop by your house, then.
Outside of the place...
Kim: Where's our teacher? Is she coming already?
Airah: I guess so. Oh no, it's going to rain. (And it did)
(The two of them went underneath the tree and waited for Lane...)
Airah: Where is Lane?
Lane: (texting) I'm coming. It's just that it would take me a longer time to reach there because my whole family's coming too.
Kim: What? Whole family? (grinning)
Airah: Yup. And we might spend the whole night waiting.
Kim: Did our teacher say it was raining in their place?
Airah: (reading a message) Uh-oh. She said she can't come. She said it's raining. She also said we could do it on our own.
Kim: Great. It's raining, plus our teacher's not even going to come here.
(Then Lane and her family arrived...)
Lane: Sorry, guys. Let's go inside already.
Airah: (reading a message) Whatever...
Kim: Who's that?
Airah: It's Benj.
Kim: Oookayy...
(Lane and her family were swimming alone. Kim and Airah were just talking...)
Airah: (reading a message) He's so annoying.
Kim: Why?
Airah: He keeps talking about nonsense.
Kim: Okay...
The week after...
Mom: C'mon, let's go. It's already eleven.
Jace: (texting) What time do you usually sleep? You're still up late?
Kim: (texting) Not really. Just for tonight. We're fetching my dad in the pier.
Jace: (texting) Oh, he's arrived?
Kim: (texting) Yes. How about you, why're you still up?
Jace: (texting) I've got nothing to do. I'm in my uncle's house.
Kim: (texting) I see.
In school...
Samantha: (laughing hard) Puny little guy!
Jim: Ha ha ha. Shut up, cheeky little girl!
Samantha: At least I'm taller than you are. Puny guy!
Leander: (laughing) Puny guy and cheeky girl!
Samantha: You're laughing? But you aren't even laughing when you both have the same crush.
Leander: Hahaha Cheeky girl!
Jim: So what if we have the same crush, huh?
Kim: My dad's arrived.
Ashley: When. last night?
Kim: Yeah.
Bonnie: Oh, hey! Chocolates, Kimmy. (grinning)
Kim: I'll try if I could bring some for you guys.
Bonnie: Hey, I was just kidding.
Ashley: Don't you like it? At least she's going to try to bring us some, right?
That night...
Dad: How's school?
Kim: Fine. Except for some teachers who are annoying.
Dad: Have you been good?
Kim: Yes.
Dad: Are you sure?
Kim: Pretty sure of it.
Dad: Very good.
(Then they all went to buy something, when Mico texts...)
Mico: (texting) Hi. How are you?
Kim: (texting) I'm fine. How about you?
Mico: (texting) I'm great. What are you doing now?
Kim: (texting) We're just waiting for my mom and brother. They're buying something. By the way, thanks for the book.
Mico: (texting) Oh, yeah. Sorry that that's just what I bought. I was kinda in a hurry.
Kim: (texting) It's fine. I like it.
Mico: (texting) Did you see those stickers? It was our servant who stuck them.
Kim: (texting) Yeah, they're nice little hearts.
Mico: (texting) And about the book still, sorry it isn't a mystery book.
Kim: (texting) It's really a nice book. I've almost finished it even. Thanks, really.
Mico: (texting) Okay. You're welcome.
Kim: (texting) Umm... I have something to say.
Mico: (texting) What is it?
Kim: (texting) About this. I think they're getting suspicious. And I'm afraid because my dad has arrived, he might know.
Mico: Huh? (texting) Okay.
Kim: (texting) I think it's also best that you don't greet me in school or even smile. Or anything. Is that okay?
Mico: (texting) Okay.
Kim: (texting) I'm really sorry.
Mico: (taking a deep breath) Sure, whatever.
Rachel: Hi, Mico!
Mico: Hey.
Ryan: What's up, bro?
Mico: Nothing.
Ryan: Rach, I'm just gonna go up and change.
Rachel: Okay, sure. (sitting beside Mico) What's wrong?
Mico: Nothing, really.
Rachel: Don't even pretend. I practically know you already. C'mon, just tell me what it's about.
The next day...
Mr. Cole: Good morning, class!
All: Good morning.
Mr. Cole: Get properly seated. We - I have an announcement.
Ashley: Another boring announcement, if I know.
Anna: Just keep quiet, will you? He's trying to give us an announcement.
Mr. Cole: Huhum. Thank you. Anyway, intelligence reports say that there has been a girl-boy relationship from among your batch.
(The whole class gasps...)
Mr. Cole: And they say that it involves a girl here and a guy from Mr. Hathaway's class.
Mage: Oooh, who could that be?
Ashley: It could be me!
Nica: Yeah! It's Ashley and Jace. (laughing)
Ashley: As if!
JM: (grinning) No, it's Nica and Tyler.
Nica: Oh yes, it's him and me.
Anthony: Hey! You're hurting Russell, JM...
JM: Oh yes. Sorry about that.
Russell: Shut up.
Bonnie: Who could it be?
Ashley: It could be Kim and Mico!
Kim: (smiling) Yeah right.
Bonnie Yeah, it's Kim and Mico.
Dana: Really?
Aish: Of course it's a joke.
Nica: (whispering) Duh! (laughing)
Mr. Cole: I don't know. That's just what they said. But even if I knew, I wouldn't tell you.
Airah: You're so bad, sir!
Mr. Cole: Why is it bad? I'm just keeping the privacy, you know. Of the people involved.
Gaven: Who do you think it is?
Nica: Don't know...
Mr. Cole: Okay, shush! Copy and answer your activity already.
Kim: (sigh) Another long activity... Geez.
Mr. Cole: (squatting beside Kim) Hey, is it true that -
Kim: Of course not. Sir, just let me answer my activity.
Ashley: What are you doing, sir?
Mr. Cole: Nothing.
Next period...
Mrs. Alkamire: Good morning!
Class: Good morning!
Mrs. Alkamire: What did we discuss about yesterday? Hmm, who will answer?
Kim: (murmuring) What's so good with this morning?
Mrs. Alkamire: Yes, Kim? You seem to be inspired today.
Kim: (looking up) Hm? I'm not inspired, I have no answer too.
Mrs. Alkamire: (smiling) You should have a good day.
Dismissal...
Ashley: See ya later, Kim.
Lane: Kim, Kim!
Kim: Just a minute, Ash.
Lane: Kim! Wait up!
Kim: Hi Lane.
Ashley: Hi Lane. What's up?
Lane: Kim, Ashley, did you already hear about the rumor?
Ashley: Yeah. Why?
Lane: It's about Kim and Mico. They say you were a couple, but then broke up.
Kim: What?
Ashley: That can't be. She didn't even say yes to him, right, Kim?
Kim: Yeah.
Lane: Well, I don't know. But that's what the teachers think.
Kim: If they're not sure, then where'd they get that info from?
Lane: They said that came from the CAT officers.
Ashley: Why can't they just observe themselves if they don't have that relationship thingy?
Kim: Teachers are playing dumb to them.
Lane: Just be careful about these rumors, Kim. Especially if it reaches the directress's ears.
Kim: Right.
Ashley: Just forget about it, Kim. This will pass by.
Lane: Yeah. We're friends. But I have to go now. Bye.
K&A: Bye Lane.
Ashley: How could they think that, when you don't even say hi to each other?
Kim: I have no idea.
The week passed full of teases and jokes...
Classmate: Where's Kimmy?
Nica: Just stop teasing her.
Classmate: Oh, here she comes. Kim, I heard your boyfriend was Mico.
Kim: It's not true.
Mrs. Alkamire: Everybody, you should start working on your project. Girls and boys.
Nica: Let's make it in your house, Aish.
Aish: I'll try and ask if it's alright.
Bonnie: When are we going to make it?
Kim: There's no class this Friday. Why not use that time?
Nica: Okay, then.
During their scouting period...
Ashley: Halley, were are the things you were told to buy?
Halley: I wasn't able to buy them yet. I had a lot of things to do.
Samantha: When are you going to buy them, then?
Halley: This weekend. Promise.
Scoutmaster: Has everybody bought the things already?
Dana: I've given the money already, but they said that they'd just send them in together.
That evening...
(Kim looks at her phone and deletes all of Mico's messages after rereading them. Then her phone beeps...)
Kim: Who could this be...
Rachel: (texting) Avid fan of Tweety bird, what happened? Why is it that Mico has been crying every night in his room?
Kim: What? Avid fan of Tweety bird? What're you playing at? (texting) Who is this?
Rachel: (texting) This is Rachel.
Kim: Oh. He's been crying? I can't reply to this. (deleting the message)
That weekend...
Kim: Where are they?
(Ashley and Nica arrive...)
Nica: Where's Bonnie?
Kim: She hasn't arrived yet.
Bonnie: Guys, sorry I'm late. I had to get this from the shop. I spent hours looking for this.
Ashley: Let's go.
In Aish's house...
Ashley: Where's she?
Nica: Somebody text her. They've a got dog who could bite us. It's Cookie.
Kim: Cookie... (grinning)
Bonnie: I've texted her already.
Aish: (coming out of the house) Guys! C'mon in. I've put on Cookie's leash.
Nica: Are you sure?
Aish: Yes.
Inside...
Ashley: Look at what we bought. Remember the Christmas decorations?
Kim: (laughing) I know our project would really look stupid to Mrs. Alkamire.
Nica: You think? At least we've helped with the project, unlike the others.
Bonnie: Let's start making already.
Kim: Aish, may I borrow your guitar for a while?
Ashley: Play the Princess Diaries soudtrack.
Aish: Yeah. Play 'Miracles Happen'.
Nica: What shall we do with this?
Bonnie: I know, we'll use these. (bringing out the metal wire)
Nica: How are we going to let it stand?
Ashley: That's the problem. We'll just have to make sure that it is balanced.
Kim: Miracles happen...
Nica: If I were you, Kim, I'd help here.
Kim: Yeah, I will. Later.
Ashley: What could I do?
Nica: (giving her a ball) Here. You could paint this.
Ashley: Me and my big mouth... Never mind, I like painting.
Kim: (putting down the guitar) What about me?
Aish: You could also paint this.
Kim: Okay, sure. Give me the brush.
Aish: You have to look for one. I'm using this. (laughing)
Ashley: (grinning) Look at this ball, it's so cute.
Bonnie: As if! This ball looks well-painted. (showing the ball she was painting)
(The telephone rings...)
Aish: I'll get that.
Bonnie: (looking out to the garden) Let's stay there. It's not hot anyway.
Nica: Yeah, let's go.
Aish: I thought you guys already left.
Nica: No... Who called?
Aish: It was Lane. She asked what I was doing and who was with me. I told her it's you guys and that we're making our project.
Bonnie: Then what did she say?
Aish: She said she's coming here later, around 1 pm. Oh, and, it's going to take us forever, so you will have to eat lunch here.
Nica: Great!
Bonnie: I'll just text my mother.
Kim: Yeah, me too. She knows you, anyway. So there won't be a problem.
Ashley: I'll just tell my mom that Kim is here so she would agree.
Kim: Why me?
Ashley: She knows you.
After lunch, they went back outside...
Kim: The spaghetti was nice. Thanks for lunch!
Nica: Yeah. Thanks!
Ashley: Of course Kim loved. Spaghetti's her favorite.
Bonnie: (laughing) It is nice.
Aish: Let's rest for a while, alright?
Nica: (seeing the swing; lying down) Aaahh. Relaxation.
Bonnie: Move over, Nica.
Aish: (swinging the two) You guys be careful. The ropes could cut off.
Nica: No, it won't.
Ashley: How do you play this thing?
Kim: You just follow these. You look at it sideways. Got it?
Ashley: Nope. (returning the guitar) I don't really understand it. (smiling) Talk to my brother about it.
(Suddenly, Nica and Bonnie screamed. The ropes did cut off...)
Aish: I told you so...
Nica: Ow... My back hurts.
Bonnie: Mine too.
Ashley: What happened to you?
Kim: (laughing) I really believe that you guys put together are heavy. You know...
Nica: No, we're not. I saw the rope before it cut off, it was about to cut off.
Aish: Then why'd you still stay?
Nica: (stammering) I - I have no idea.
Bonnie: What time is it?
Kim: Twenty minutes before one.
Nica: Is Lane coming already? Try texting her.
Aish: She says she's coming. But we have to wait for several minutes to pass before we go down.
Ashley: (grinning) It just shows that she's taking a lot of time, huh?
Then Lane arrives...
(They all went to fetch her by the road. Kim was riding Aish's brother's bicycle and almost crashed into Lane...)
Lane: Careful there! (smiling)
Kim: (laughing) Sorry. Didn't mean to. I lost control.
Lane: What have you guys been doing?
Nica: Making our project in Biology.
Lane: Isn't it supposed to be a group project?
Ashley: We still are a group, even without the others.
Bonnie: But our project really looks strange.
Lane: (seeing the project) That's your project?
Nica: Just don't criticize it, Lane.
Lane: I'm not criticizing...
Bonnie: Do you think Mrs. Alkamire would accept this?
Lane: How are you and my cousin?
Ashley: Who are you talking to?
Bonnie: Isn't anybody going to answer me?
Nica: We'll just have to see, Bonnie.
Lane: I'm talking to you, Ashley. How are you and Jace?
Ashley: Me and Jace? There's no we with him, Lane.
Lane: Let me rephrase that... Is he still, you know..?
Nica: Oh, how cute!
Bonnie: Is this your dog, Aish?
Aish: Yeah. That's Maki, anyway, before my mom changed it to Sancai.
Kim: Sancai? (chuckling)
Aish: I know it's funny. I liked to call her Maki.
Ashley: I wonder why... (grinning)
Aish: That's my 'Japanese' name according to the quiz.
Lane: Where were we? Oh yes...
Ashley: I guess he still is. Kim, today's his birthday.
Kim: Really?
Ashley: That's what they said.
Lane: Today? But he told me his birthday was on October.
Kim: You're his cousin. Don't tell me he didn't tell you the truth...
Ashley: They said it was September 26. But I'm kinda confused.
Lane: Let me text that guy.
Ashley: Hmm, what do you think, should I greet him?
Kim: Why not? There's nothing wrong with that, I guess.
Ashley: But I'm ashamed.
Hours later...
Bonnie: Hey, we have to go. It's getting dark.
Ashley: Yeah, Aish. Thanks for the lunch.
Kim: What are we going to do about our project?
Nica: I'll just have to continue it someday.
Aish: Your welcome! (Bonnie and Ashley go home)
Nica: Stop playing 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire', Kim. Let's go.
Kim: Just a sec.
Lane: You go with me outside later, alright, Aish?
Aish: Sure. That's as always.
Nica: We have to go, Aish. Thanks.
Kim: Thank you!
Aish: Welcome.
Lane: Bye bye! See ya in school.
On their way outside...
Kim: Oooh, I'm shaking with fear, Nica.
Nica: Stop scaring me!
Kim: What? I'm just kidding. But it is already dark.
In school...
Dana: This is our project?
Samantha: It looks like it. Look, Group 1.
Nica: (murmuring) You didn't help, you still criticize it?
Dana: We can do better than that. At least I didn't waste my time helping to make that.
Gaven: Well, at least you have something to show. We guys don't have any at all.
Halley: Didn't you make one?
Gaven: We weren't able to.
During their computer class...
Halley: Excuse me, ma'am. I have to go get something. I left it in the classroom.
Teacher: Okay.
Jim: Ma'am, I have to return my notebook inside the classroom. I will just be a minute.
Teacher: Sure. Just hurry up.
Inside the classroom...
Jim: (sigh) Class hours... (gasp) What are you doing?
Halley: (picking up a wallet) I'm just picking up Gaven's wallet. It fell.
Jim: (silent for a moment) Hurry back to the computer lab.
(Halley returns Gaven's wallet and closes the door...)
Jim: Did she just steal something from Gaven? (shrugging)
Mr. Cole: (seeing Jim going out of the classroom) Jim!
Jim: Mr. Cole, great thing you're here.
Mr. Cole: What were you doing inside your classroom?
Jim: I was returning m other notebook. Listen, sir. I just saw Halley inside when I opened the door.
Mr. Cole: And...?
Jim: She was getting something from Gaven's wallet, sir. She lied to me that it just fell on the floor.
Mr. Cole: Where is she?
Jim: She's back in the computer lab, sir.
Mr. Cole: We don't have enough evidence, Jim. Did you see her actually getting the money?
Jim: No, but -
Mr. Cole: It's your word against hers. Now, go back to your computer lab before they suspect it was you.
(Jim scratched his head and went back inside the computer lab...)
During their scouting class...
Scoutmaster: Halley, you haven't given the money to the Girl Scout Office yet.
Halley: I didn't have the time, ma'am.
Samantha: But you said you were busy last week, and that you could go by this week.
Halley: I wasn't able to go.
Nica: (whispering to Ashley) She hasn't been able to go? Is that possible?
Ashey: (whispering) I'm beginning to get worried about our money.
(Days passed on and still, Halley was not able to give their money to the GSO. Foundation days was already coming up...)
Samantha: Halley, just give us back our money.
Halley: I don't have it. It's with my mother.
Mr. Cole: Everyone, the judging of our classroom would be this afternoon. You better bring the things needed for decorations.
Kim: Yeah. I still have to bring those for the birthday chart.
That afternoon, homeroom class...
Mr. Cole: C'mon, where's the gas? Light up the bamboo already.
Airah: Wohoo! How nice the effect!
Belle: Picture-taking, sir!
Mr. Cole: Oh yes! Just after the judges would come by.
Anthony: (coughing) Will somebody please open the windows? It's getting white in here with the smoke.
JM: I like it. White...
Nica: JM likes it because he'd already be seen.
JM: Shh... Don't tell Halley, she might want to come in this part too.
Aish: You're so cruel, JM.
Gaven: You think?!
JM: Shut up, Gaven. You're just jealous. (laughing)
Classmate: Sir, the judges are here.
Principle: May we come in?
Mr. Cole: Of course, sir.
Mage: Sir Cole! (pointing at the birthday chart that was about to fall off)
(Mr. Cole quickly puts his hand on the chart so that it wouldn't fall off...)
Principal: Sir Henry?
Mr. Cole: Yes, sir?
(The class laughs...)
Principal: You're so close with your class, aren't you?
Samantha: Wow, char!
Dana: Not really. (giggling)
Principal: So you have many certificates compared to the other classes in the sophomore level, huh.
Mr. Cole: Yes, sir. They are intelligent pupils. (grinning)
Ashley: Whatever, sir...
Principal: I think that's all, Mr. Cole.
Mr. Cole: Goodbye, sir.
Belle: C'mon, sir. Picture-taking time!
Mr. Cole: Okay. Everybody on the platform.
Bonnie: Who's going to take the picture?
Kim: I don't know.
Student: Hurry up already.
Anthony: Stop pushing me.
JM: It's not me. Zander?
Zander: The platform's kinda full.
Russell: Just scoot over a bit, Anthony. Just a bit.
Anthony: Alright, just a bit. (accidentally hitting the bamboo)
Gaven: Hey, you just put the wall on fire.
Aish: What?
Kim: Oh great.
Mr. Cole: Oh no! Quick, put the fire out.
Anna: Fire!
(Anthony and the guys tried stepping on the fire to make it go out but it didn't work...)
Classmate: It's not working. Sheesh! (going out and getting water)
Airah: Wow! We've got a girl scout here.
Russell: That was close!
Kim: No, it would have been okay if the school burned down.
Ashley: It would, if it just burned down.
Nica: Then maybe we would be transferring schools...
Bonnie: Your former school?
Nica: Yeah, it's okay.
Mr. Cole: We almost caused the school to burn. Put out that bamboo.
Mage: Look how black the wall is.
Samantha: Did you see Mr. Cole's shoes when it caught fire?
Dave: Yes! He looked so hilarious with the expression on his face.
Halley: It's Anthony's fault.
Airah: It was no one's fault, Halley. He did not mean to knock down the bamboo.
Anthony: (shivering) Was I scared that I'd have burned the school!
Gaven: It's okay. Better you than me. (laughing)
By the stairs...
Athan: Where's my bag? Have you guys seen my bag?
Tyler: No.
Athan: C'mon, guys... I know one of you has it. Give it to me already.
Mico: I know it's not with me.
Zander: Don't give me your accusing stare. (raising his eyebrows)
Athan: Then where is it? (seeing Tyler and Jace smile)
Benj: (laughing) It's not with me. Even if you'd have to check my bag.
Tyler: (bursting out laughing and whooping)
Athan: Jace? It's with you isn't it?
Jace: I don't even have my bag with me. It's in the classroom.
Mico: (smiling and catching Tyler's gaze) I think it's with Tyler.
Athan: (looking abruptly at Tyler) Ah, it's you!
Tyler: (laughing hard) Then look for it. (looking somewhere by the stairs)
Mico: (standing up) I know where it is, Ty. (grinning)
Athan: You think you're so smart, Tyler!
Tyler: Am I not?
Benj: Eeww! (laughing boisterously)
(By the stairs, Mico checks his bag when Kim arrives...)
Mico: Hi, good afternoon...
(But Kim walks straight as if not hearing Mico. He then sits down with his friends forgetting the bag...)
Athan: What's with you? Where's my bag, did you find it?
Mico: He placed it inside my bag.
Athan: Idiot...
Tyler: (laughing) I knew you wouldn't check his bag.
Zander: Nice hiding place. Why didn't I think of that?
Jace: Oh, so you think?
Zander: Shut up. Of course I do!
Benj: I just knew that now... Really.
Athan: (looking at Mico) What's wrong with you?
Mico: Nothing.
Another day...
Mrs. Alkamire: Alright, since it's almost your foundation days, we have to choose a song for your presentation.
Airah: Would it be by level, ma'am, or by section?
Mrs. Alkamire: It's by level this year according to the directress. How about...'White Christmas'?
(Everybody sang 'White Christmas', but with a change of lyrics...)
All: I'm dreaming of a WHITE LADY...!
Mrs. Alkamire: You like that? White lady? (grinning) Anyway, my husband, Mr. Alkamire will be helping us.
Dave: Oh how nice!
Mrs. Alkamire: Anywway, that would still be arranged and all. You just wait, okay?
Before classes were dismissed that afternoon...
Lane: All second year students, we are to proceed to the laboratory if you are interested to join the Foundation Days presentation. That's all.
Kim: Are you joining?
Ashley: If they would join...
Nica: Let's go!
Bonnie: Wait for me.
Aish: C'mon Ash, Kim.
Mrs. Alkamire: Everyone is supposed to sing a part of a song to me so that I would know whether you're an alto or suprano or whatever.
Kim: Sing? Do we have to? I can't sing. I don't sing!
Ashley: You think you're the only one? But, let's just sing 'As Long As You Love Me'. You know that, don't you?
Kim: Yeah, but it's humiliating.
Ashley: It's just Mrs. Alkamire. And if the others like Dana would listen, who cares?
Kim: You're kinda right, though. (looking at the back) Oh, he's joining the choir?
Ashley: Who is? Mico?
Kim: Yeah. He's with Jace and their friends.
Ashley: Stop talking about that Jace guy.
The next Friday...
Nica: Are you going home already?
Bonnie: Yeah. Where are Ashley and Kim?
Aish: They're up in the classroom. I heard Kim was going to call her brother.
Nica: Let's head out to the carpark, then.
Down in the canteen...
Tyler: I asked her if it was okay for me to talk with her.
Jace: What did she say?
Tyler: No, of course. I think she's mad.
Zander: Maybe you didn't tell her your reason.
Tyler: She knows. Who could we ask then...
Jace: How about Kim? They're friends with Nica and Ashley.
Tyler: You are going to talk with Ashley too?
Jace: Hoping.
(They see Kim and calls her...)
Kim: What's up, guys?
Jace: Where are Ashley and Nica?
Kim: Why? You wanna talk with them again?
Tyler: Yeah. Won't you help us?
Kim: I don't know. They might get mad at me. And I don't want that.
Zander: You have to help them, Kim.
Kim: What's that got to do with you?
Zander: I just want to help.
Tyler: Just talk to them, Kim. Tell them that we're serious.
Kim: You are?
Jace: Of course! Please...
Kim: I'll see what I can do. But if they get mad at me...
Tyler: We know. You'll get mad at us.
Kim: Whatever! See ya. (catching up with Ashley, Nica and Samantha) Guys...
Samantha: What did they say?
Kim: What?
Nica: They wanted to have some 'talk', didn't they?
Kim: Yeah, but -
Samantha: Are you actually helping them? Bernard doesn't want to talk to me...
Kim: Huh? Nica, Tyler said he's serious. And that -
Nica: Stop it, Kim.
Ashley: They're annoying. And why is it that when one guy wants to talk to a girl, the rest would follow?
Kim: I don't know. Don't look at me that way...
Nica: Maybe they're having a contest.
Samantha: Probably even some bets involved. I'm so mad already with Bernard.
Kim: What? Bet?
Nica: If you want to talk with them, you could.
Samantha: Let's go, Nica.
Ashley: I'll go ahead. I'll wait for you back in the classroom.
Zander: How'd it go?
Kim: Are you kidding me? You guys are so dead. They got mad, obviously!
Tyler: What did they say?
Kim: They said that it's as if you're putting bets on them.
Jace: What bets?
Tyler: Does she still think that we're putting bets on? You've known since sixth grade that I've liked her.
Kim: I don't know...
Jace: We're not having a bet. That's for sure.
Kim: I don't know what's the truth here. (walking away)
Outside their classroom...
Ashley: Where have you been?
Kim: Just in the canteen.
Ashley: Where's your brother?
Kim: He might be in the shop room. (seeing Jace and Tyler coming up the stairs) Uh-oh.
Ashley: What?
Kim: Jace and Tyler...
Ashley: Oh great. Let's go.
Kim: What?
Ashley: Let's go. C'mon! ("running" =>)
Tyler: Jace, there they are.
Jace: Let's go after them.
(They run after the two, but weren't able to catch up with them...)
Kim: (inside the shop room) Chris, let's go.
Chris: I'm not done yet. Wait for a while.
Kim: Hurry up. It's almost six.
Ashley: Are they still there?
Kim: I can't see them anywhere. Maybe they've gone home.
Ashley: I'll go home ahead of you.
(The next few days passed with practices for the foundation days and for the beautification of the landscapes...)
Nica: How are we going to put these series lights?
Anthony: Give me that.
Gaven: I'll get something we could stand on.
Aish: Mrs. Alkamire is so lucky to have that spot for their series lights.
Ella: Lane, do we have more series lights?
Lane: I dunno. Try asking Mr. Hathaway.
Mr. Hathaway: (on top of the ladder) You just get this off, and then you connect this with that...
Tyler: Sir, what about these?
Mr. Hathaway: Put it down there for awhile.
Dana: They're so lucky, Mr. Hathaway knows how to deal with wires and lights.
Samantha: However, our adviser is not even helping us.
Airah: (sreaming a bit) The kid almost stepped on that bulb.
Mage: Put it somewhere safe where it can't be stepped on.
Mrs. Alkamire: Ah! I know, we could just have it look like a christmas tree. Like a pyramid...
Tanya: Yes, that's what I'm talking about. Maybe about three series lights on each side. That'd look great already.
Benj: Then who do you suppose would want to climb up there?
Tanya: I'm not telling you to go up and climb.
Lara: Don't talk like that to Benj, Tanya.
Tanya: Someone would have to get a very long ladder and climb up there.
Mrs. Alkamire: Somebody get the janitor. You should not climb that high, it's dangerous.
Lara: You're sweating. Did you bring an extra shirt?
Benj: Yes, Lara. I'm fine.
JM: Maybe you should follow the pattern of the plant, Anthony.
Anthony: Yeah, we could. Help me up here, JM. Oh yeah, and we'd need someone to cut some tape.
Nica: Let me help.
Kim: Me, too.
Mrs. Alkamire: Everybody, proceed to the gymnasium for the practice. Hurry up!
Mr. Cole: Okay, those who are included in the foundation days presentation, you may go. Non-participants, you will help.
In the gym...
Mrs. Alkamire: Where are the black lights? Bring them here. (testing the black lights)
(The guys who were non-participants brought the black lights and tested them...)
Mrs. Alkamire: Nobody should show their teeth, alright? We're going to see what the effect would be on these gloves.
(Zander and Mico were joking around and Mico's teeth were shown...)
Mrs. Alkamire: Mico, don't show your teeth. I told you already.
Mico: Sorry, I didn't mean to.
Zander: (whispering) Haha!
Outside...
Aish: How's Vincent, Bonnie?
Bonnie: (smiling) Fine, I guess.
Kim: Hey, your birthday's coming up! (grinning) You are going to treat us out, okay?
Bonnie: We'll see...
Jim: Hi Bonnie! (pinching the face)
Bonnie: Ouch!
Aish: (clears throat) Chancing...
Leander: Jim, let's go.
Jim: Tomato. (grinning and spanking Aish)
Aish: He's such a kid!
During the practice inside the gym...
Mrs. Alkamire: Damien and Charzie, come here. You guys, you rest for a while.
Ashley: Thank goodness!
Tanya: Excuse me, get your feet off.
Mage: Hey! (falling off the stairs)
Airah: Just stop moving about.
Anna: It was not done on purpose. Dana and Sam were just playing around.
Dana: Yeah. I mean, c'mon...
Lane: You alright?
Mage: Yes, I'm fine.
Halley: You guys did something bad.
Samantha: We did not. Is joking around with your friends bad?
Dana: No, of course not!
Samantha: See?
Nica: Damien sings off-key...
Lane: It should just have been Cedric.
Cedric: I can't sing like that.
Kim: No you can't, because you can sing better than that.
Cedric: (laughing) Yeah right. I can't.
Kim: Plus you'll be singing with Charzie... (grinning)
Ashley: (looking at her phone) Jace miscalled.
Kim: (looking at her phone too) Yeah, he did.
Nica: He miscalled you, too? That's another story, huh.
Kim: What are you, crazy? Ew!
Ashley: (laughing) He's gonna transfer to you, Kim. I feel it.
Kim: Don't even say that. (reading a message) What?
Aish: Who's that from?
Kim: Read this... (showing it to Ashley)
Ashley: (reading mentally) Hey, did you see JM? I saw him play basketball awhile ago, and he was a good player.
Aish: Let me see.
Nica: Share it with me.
Ashley: What does he mean? Why is he teasing you to JM?
Kim: No idea. What is wrong with him?
Ashley: Maybe he thinks it's you and JM...
Nica: There's another message.
Kim: (reading) Look at this. You should be happy already.
Ashley: I really think he thinks you and JM are a couple.
Kim: But we're not even close friends. I also barely talk to him! It's Aish and JM.
Aish: Ew, as if!
Kim: What? (grinning)
Ashley: I dunno... Maybe he saw both of you during one our PE sessions.
Kim: Yeah, right!
The next day of practice, inside the audio visual hall...
Mrs. Alkamire: Please turn off the lights, Sir Henry... (smiling)
Mr. Cole: All of them?
Mrs. Alkamire: Yes.
Lara: Wait a minute, sir. Let me sit first.
Veronica: (laughing out loudly) Turn off your flashlights.
Mrs. Alkamire: Okay, when I say the cue, turn on your flashflights to the beat, alright? That's on-off-on-off and etc.
(They did the turning on and off of the flashflights. After a while, the lights were turned back on...)
Mrs. Alkamire: (laughing) You should turn on your flashlights together, as well as turning them off.
Veronica: (giggling) It never was together... Kim, may I borrow your phone for awhile?
Kim: Sure...
(Veronica went through Kim's messages and read them...)
Veronica: Hey, is Jace saying that he likes you?
Kim: No. Why would he say that too? He likes Ashley.
Veronica: I was just asking.
After how many days, it was their English period...
Teacher: Kindly read number seven, Dana...
Kim: (laughing suddenly) Look, Ashley, you should answer number seven.
Ashley: Whatever...
Teacher: Next number, let's see... How about -
Bonnie: Kimberly would like to answer number eight, ma'am!
Ashley: Yeah!
Kim: Hey, stop that.
N&Ai: Let her answer number eight!
Dana: What's with number eight?
Samantha: How about the name?
Dana: What, Jace?
Samantha: Maybe.
Teacher: Kim?
Kim: (laughing) You guys are crazy... Jace is... (and so on)
Dismissal...
Mr. Cole: Everybody should help in cleaning today. I will be checking the attendance, so be here.
Kim: I have to go to the comfort room...
Ashley: I'll come with you.
Veronica: Hey, Kim! Where's Jace?
Kim: What?
Veronica: Jace Zachery..? We heard what happened during your English subject...
Kim: Who told you? I mean, who told you abobut that?
Veronica: Our English teacher did.
Ashley:How exactly?
Veronica: This is how it happened...
(Jace and Tyler were chewing gum when the teacher caught them...)
Teacher: Those who are chewing gum, spit them out right now.
(Jace, Tyler and the others stood up and approached the trash can...)
Teacher: Take that hair scrunchy off your head, Jace. Is that Kim's?
Jace: Huh?
Tyler: How about Veronica, Jace?
Classmate: Are you separated?
Veronica: It never became us, okay? Understood?
Teacher: Is that Kim's?
Jace: (looking at Mico) No. Ella owns this.
Athan: Yeah, sure.
Veronica: Ahem...
Jace: What are you guys talking about? We're just friends.
Kim: Aw great! Look what you have done...
Ashley: I wasn't the only one who shouted your name.
Kim: But still... What was the reaction of your classmates?
Veronica: Some were teasing, but Mico was not. He looked mad to me
Kim: Look what you did! Now he's mad...
Ashley: Why would you care what he feels? Huh?
Kim: I mean, I just don't want that rumor running about.
Veronica: (grinning) Jace Zachery.
Kim: We're only friends with him. And he's linked to Ashley here.
Ashley: Yeah right!
One day, during a free period...
Mrs. Alkamire: Lane, please call all the sophomores to help here, or else they'll get zero.
Nica: Everybody go out. We are going to help with the plants.
Dana: I'm busy.
Samantha: Yeah, we're still talking.
Airah: Just go out, guys. Be kind to Nica.
Anthony: You help her out, Russ. C'mon, don't be shy...
JM: Yeah, Russ. It's your time to shine in front of Nica. (chuckling)
Russell: Whatever.
Nica: Faster!
Dana: If you want to help, why don't you go?
Nica: Mrs. Alkamire said that everyone should help. Do you want to get zero?
Dana: It won't matter if we get zero. We have great scores, you know. (smirking)
Anna: Perfect as usual. (grinning)
Mage: (whispering to herself) Airy...
Nica: If no one would help, fine! (leaving)
Dana: Who cares anyway? Get out if you want. Better yet, don't ever come back.
Lane: Nica's coming...
Cedric: She's alone, Lane.
Mrs. Alkamire: Where are your classmates?
Nica: They don't want to help.
Mrs. Alkamire: What are they doing? Don't they know that this is your project?
Nica: I don't know with them. They're all just talking inside, and there's someone there who keeps on arguing with me.
Lane: Huh? Who?
Nica: It's Dana.
Mrs. Alkamire: Well, since they're not helping here, they're going to get zero really.
Lane: Of course they will. What did Dana say?
Nica: She said that she didn't need points anymore since she's got high scores already.
Mrs. Alkamire: Oh no, that won't work. A zero in your project could really pull your grades down too, you know.
Kim: Aish, c'mon. Let's go.
Aish: Wait up.
Nica: What's happening inside the classroom?
Kim: Dana and Russell are fighting. It's so painful to the ears.
Mrs. Alkamire: Why?
Benj: Where are we going to place this, ma'am?
Mrs. Alkamire: Just over here. Kindly help.
Aish: I don't know. Some petty problem, I guess.
Cedric: You help here already so you won't get zero.
Ashley: Hi guys.
Bonnie: There's a war going on inside the classroom. You wouldn't want to go there.
Ashley: What can we do?
Lane: That Dana's so annoying. I remember before that she said bad things to the whole class right in front of me!
Bonnie: I remember that.
Ashley: I didn't know that. We weren't classmates though.
(They then worked on wat Mrs. Alkamire asked them to do...)
During Bonnie's birthday, inside their house...
Mom: Bonnie, call your friends and let them in. Your birthday cake's ready already.
Bonnie: C'mon, let's go. Let's eat.
Lane: (singing) Happy birthday to you... (Everyone follows)
Mom: (phone rings) I'll get it.
Bonnie: Let's wait for Mommy.
Mom: Hey, it's a boy! Bonnie, it's a boy. It's for you.
Bonnie: Boy?
Nica: Who could that be?
Mom: Girls, don't be ashamed, okay? You wouldn't want to get hungry.
Kim: Ooh.... Spaghetti.
Nica: Haha. I know you love the spaghetti, Kim.
Bonnie: Okay, be. Thanks.
Aish: Who was that?
Bonnie: It was Vincent...
Lane: We haven't met him yet, Bonnie. Is he coming tonight?
Bonnie: That's why he called. He said he couldn't come because they're staying overnight at the beach.
Nica: Too bad. Maybe you could introduce us next time.
Kim: Yeah. Maybe... (chuckling)
Bonnie: Yup. You guys always get him on the wrong time.
(The whole night, they were eating and chatting away. They ate ice cream too. Then, it was time to go home. Bonnie's mom offered to drive them home...)
During the Foundation Days...
Dana: This is our game assignment? How pathetic!
Mr. Cole: It's not pathetic, it's a good game.
Dana: Just look at that. Only a few students would want to play the "Mini Pool" game...
Mr. Cole: Nica, you and Aish are on duty first, okay?
Nica: Yes, sir.
(After Nica and Aish were Ashley and Kim...)
Kim: Hey, where's your Jace... Ah! Over there.
Ashley: You mean your Jace. (a kid arrives) Are you going to play?
Kid: Yes.
Kim: Maybe I should have you and Jace be handcuffed, huh?
Ashley: What?
Kim: I said maybe I should have you and Jace be handcuffed... (grinning)
Ashley: Don't even think about it. You wouldn't dare...
Kim: I can do it, but I would'nt think of doing it. Do you think I'm crazy to let you get mad at me?
Halley: Kim, may I borrow your phone? I would like to call my boyfriend. I promise I'd pay you back.
Kim: No thanks. I don't have any load anyway.
Halley: How about you, Ashley?
Ashley: I don't have any load too.
Kim: (whispering to a classmate) Could you let Veronica and Jace Zachery be handcuffed?
Classmate: Money please.
Kim: How much is it?
Classmate: Twenty, I guess.
(After being given the money, the classmate went away...)
Ashley: What did you just say to that person?
Kim: Nothing!
Kid: I want to play again.
(Then seniors came bringing along Veronica with them and a handcuff, and were looking for Jace...)
Ashley: Did you just - ?
Kim: Don't tell anyone. (grinning)
Ashley: They will never catch him. He runs fast.
Kim: Really?
Senior: Jace Zachery?
Jace: Yeah?
Senior: You have to come with us.
Jace: Why? I'm on duty.
Mico: No, you're not. (laughing)
Jace: I am.
Senior: Just come with us.
(Suddenly, Jace ran away. The seniors ran after him. They went around in circles, but then one of them caught Jace, and that was that...)
Kim: You were ssaying? (smiling)
Ashley: They got lucky?
Bonnie: Hi!
A&K: Hi!
Veronica: What? It's Jace? Why him?
Jace: Why is it you too? (laughing)
Senior3: Where's Ashley Smith?
Senior: Huh? Why?
Senior3: She's to be handcuffed with Jace Zachery too.
Jace: What?!
Kim: How cool! (laughing)
Ashley: Kim?
Kim: I didn't! Promise!
Ashley: I don't want to be handcuffed!
Senior2: Just agree, okay.
Kim: Yeah. It's just for a couple of minutes only, you know.
(Then the senior with the other handcuff put it on Ashley's and Jace's hands...)
Senior: If you want to be freed, you have to pay.
Veronica: I have money, I'll pay. I don't want to disturb them.
Senior: Okay, thank you. Hope you'd be handcuffed once again.
Veronica: Yeah right!
Kim: Hmm, what now?
Ashley: Don’t ask me.
Senior: Oh, you have to come with us in the booth and you have to stay there.
Jace: Why?
Senior2: Because...
Senior: Just because, okay?
Kim: Bye, Ash...
Ashley: You are coming too, Kim.
Kim: What?
In the booth...
Ms. DeVille: Zachery and Smith, welcome! I see you got handcuffed...
Senior: Yes. Someone requested that.
Jace: Where are we going to pay, ma’am?
Ms. DeVille: Why do you want to pay? You’d just be wasting your money. Why don’t you just sit over
there and, you know, talk about some things.
Kim: (murmuring to self) What are they doing?
Jace: Let’s just sit down. It’d be over in just a few minutes, you know. (both sit down) Well...
(Kim returns to their booth and watches over it when Bernard comes running along...)
Bernard: Hello, Kim. (getting inside the Jade booth)
Kim: Hi..?
Senior: Hello again!
Kim: Hello...
Senior2: Do you know where Mico Xanders is?
Bernard: Mico Xanders? He’s over here. Why?
Senior3: Oh, okay. Mico, come here.
Mico: What?
Senior2: (handcuffing him) You have to come with us.
Senior: Hurry up.
Kim: What are you –
Senior3: You both are getting handcuffed.
Kim: What?!
Bernard: (laughing) Bye, Kim!
Kim: Bernard...!!
Senior: You are coming with us too.
Kim: What? Do we have to? C’mon, just over here!
Senior2: Don’t you want us to get that easily?
Stephen: Why don’t you just pay for it?
Kim: I don’t have any money.
Mico: Do you have any money, Stephen?
Stephen: Nope, sorry.
Mico: How about you, Jack?
Jack: Nope. I only have tickets.
Senior: Well, if you don’t have any money on you, you don’t have a choice. You have to go with us.
Kim: But –
Mico: Don’t you have any money at all, Stephen?
Stephen: Nope.
Mico: Ow, my hand really hurts.
Stephen: (searching his bag) Oh, here it is. Is this enough?
Senior: Hmm, yes it is. But you still have to go to the booth. The key is there, you know.
On the way to the booth...
Ann: Kim! Mico? (fake clearing of throat) What a surprise!
Abby: Where? Oh, it’s you two..!
Kim: Yeah. We don’t want t be handcuffed, Ann.
Ann: Really?
Kim: Yes, really.
Abby: Hey, check it out. His wrist’s all red! You should hurry up.
Kim: Yeah, I know. Bye guys!
Mico: You know them?
Kim: Yeah.
(Then they reached the booth. The handcuffs were taken out. Kim looked for Ashley but didn’t find her.
The Foundation Days came. The sophomores presented with only a few mistakes, luckily. Days after that, it was the last day of examinations...)
Student: What’d you get?
Student2: A gift, duh?!
Student: I knew that.
Nica: Maybe we’ll see you after vacation.
Bonnie: Maybe?
Aish: Of course we will.
In the carpark...
Kim: Aish and JM?
Aish: Shut up. Don’t even tease me.
JM: Hey, have you seen Samantha and Dana?
Ashley: No. Why?
JM: They were taking a bath in the rain. They were supposed to be getting the lights alone, but they took a
bath already because they got really wet.
Aish: Really?
JM: Oh, Nica, Tyler has been looking for you.
Nica: Huh?
JM: And Jace too, Ashley.
Ashley: What do they want?
JM: They wanna talk to you guys, I think.
Xander: Ashley, Jace has been looking for you. He wants to talk to you.
JM: I guessed right, after all.
Ashley: I’m not going. We’re just going to talk about the same things.
Xander: You’re not going to talk about the same things, I tell you.
Nica: How sure are you?
Xander: Just talk to them. And figure it out for yourself.
Nica: (looking at Ashley) Let’s just go, then.
Kim: See ya later!
After a couple of minutes...
JM: You’re back?
Nica: Yeah. It was nonesense really.
[Tyler sat beside Nica...]
Nica: What are you going to say?
Tyler: Umm...
Nica: What?
Tyler: Maybe – I’ll just – Could I talk to you about this next year?
JM: What? How lame!
Kim: Then he shouldn’t have just talked to you right now if that was all he had to say.
Inside the classroom...
(Paul Alberts and his girlfriend were talking. Jace and Ashley were also there. Both “pairs” stood up and went out of the classroom. Then, Mr. Cole arrived and saw the latter...)
Mr. Cole: Ashley? What are you doing inside the classroom?
Ashley: I was just closing the door, sir.
Mr. Cole: Oh, okay. Merry Christmas to you.
Ashley: Merry Christmas too.
After the Christmas vacation...
Ashley: Halley, where’s your payment? It’s already after New Year. Where is it?
Halley: I haven’t asked money from my mom yet.
Samantha: Are you crazy? It’s almost February. Did you forget about the camping?
Halley: Snap, oh yeah! I will pay you every cent I owe you when I get the money, okay?
Dana: Sure, whatever.
Ashley: You just be sure that we are going to get our money back, Halley.
Halley: Yes, yes, you will. I’ll pay you as soon as I get the money from my mom. Maybe she even spent it.
Bonnie: (snort) As if her mom would even do that kind of thing.
Mr. Cole: How was your vacation?
(Students answer in chorus...)
Nica: It was fine.
Bonnie: Not much happened.
Mr. Cole: Then do you already have your new year’s resolutions?
Aish: Yeah, I think.
JM: Ha! As if!
Gaven: Have you changed for the better?
JM: What do you think?
Anthony: Of course not! When has JM ever changed?
JM: I dunno... Never? (laughing)
Gaven: It’s good to know that you know that.
The week after...
Aish: It’s Ashley’s birthday today, isn’t it?
Nica: Yup.
Ashley: Hi guys.
All: Happy birthday, Ash!
Ashley: Hey, shut up.
Girl: Oh, is it your birthday now?
Girl2: No, really, it isn’t...
Girl: Shut up.
JM: Where’s the party gonna be at, Ashley?
Anthony: Yes, free food!
Russell: When are we going to go in your house, so I can see your brother, Vaughn?
Ashley: I’m not going to have a party.
Zander: You are going to invite us, if ever, right?
Nica: She already said she’s not going to have any party, okay? Learn to understand that phrase, Zander.
Zander: I heard what she said.
Still that day...
Kim: Yeah, and –
Anna: You got a present!
Tanishia: Yeah, isn’t that great?
Ashley: Who’s that from?
Tanishia: We just saw Veronica place it there.
Ashley: Veronica?
Samantha: Yup. She placed it when she visited here a while ago.
Airah: Wow, how sweet...
Mage: Why don’t you open it up?
Halley: Is that from your secret admirer?
Kim: Why not look wat is inside it?
Ashley: (opening) Bears...
Nica: It’s pretty cute. Just saying...
Maisie: Who’s it from?
Kim: Most probably Jace?
Ashley: If it is Veronica who placed it here, yes. She was asking me yesterday what I wanted as a gift.
Kim: How...nice.
Ashley: But there’s a problem, how do I bring it home without my family questioning about it?
Aish: Why don’t you just say that it’s a gift from your friends?
Ashley: Oh sure, they’ll just ask who...
Maisie: Us! We raised some money to buy you a gift, yeah!
Nica: Just give it a try...
The next day...
Jace: You gave her the gift already?
Veronica: Yes. I placed it on her chair.
Jace: Good. Thanks.
Veronica: You’re welcome.
Tyler: What was that about?
Mico: A gift for who?
Athan: A gift for Ashley, of course.
Tyler: You did? What was it?
Jace: Veronica was the one buying it. She said she bought figurines.
Tyler: Oh, okay.
Athan: Are you two...-?
Jace: No!
Mico: I thought –
Jace: No, we’re not.
Nica: How was the gift to your family?
Maisie: What was their reaction? Did they notice it?
Ashley: They noticed...and I said what you told me.
Kim: And, did they bite it?
Ashley: Yup!
Aish: Good!
Ashley: Yeah, it’s a good thing it worked on them.
(During their recollection in the retreat house, they were still noisy notwithstanding the countless calling of their attentions. Some people saw that there was a beach below, so they requested that they would be able to go there. The kind-hearted nuns also allowed it. They were all out on the beach. The sand stuck to their feet. The students could no longer go any further because the sand was getting softer and softer, so they went back up. When the confessionals were administered, Kim could no longer listen to the cries of the other people. So, she went out for her confession. When she got out, Jace and Mico were there. Jace went ahead. Mico and Kim were left...)
Mico: You go ahead.
Kim: You just go ahead. I still have to recall what my sins are...
Mico: Okay. (standing up)
(After Mico finishe, he was told to go inside an airconditioned room. When Kim finished, she was also told the same thing. Inside the room, they prayed. She was surprised when she opened the door because Mico was there. She knelt down on one of the pillows just like Mico did, and prayed. After a couple of minutes, Mico stood up and went out. Then, she finished her prayer and went out too. Then they wrote their sins in a paper and put it on fire...)
Several days after, it was their camping day, and still Halley hasn’t paid her debts...
Nica: Sam, we really should practice today. We don’t have a presentation yet. Lane and her classmates
already have one.
Samantha: Okay. We have one period free today, anyway.
(All the girls in the class we’re called together and were practicing for their cheering that night...)
That afternoon...
Scout: And now, we are going to officially start the camping. All patrols are going to join the “race”. But
the start of the race is changing into your girl scout uniforms first which begins...NOW! Go!
(Everyone rushes into their classrooms...The girls of Nica’s class were now rushing inside their classroom. Tossing things away since the guys had cleaned the classroom and had transferred their things in one place...)
Girl: Where’s my bag? Have you seen my bag?
Girl2: Has anybody seen my chair?
Aish: Anybody looking for this?
Girl: Hey, that’s mine!
Mage: This isn’t mine! Who owns this uniform?
Nica: Just place it there. Hurry up!
Kim: Where am I going to – Oh what the heck...(changing)
Airah: Kim, your shoes...(putting them on)
Kim: Oh, thanks.
Halley: Hurry up, let’s go!
Girl3: Those who are done, just follow Halley outside.
(After everyone was done, they rushed out in he carpark. The first patrol to finish was from the first year section. Both patrols of Nica’s class were second and third...)
Scoutmaster: Okay, go!
(The second patrol of the class went first followed by the first patrol. They did weird challenges, including running around while holdin onto each other’s waists and crawling into the bridge where there were a lot of “obstacles” placed. There were also some trivia questions included, and still a lot of running around the campus. After everyone was done, no one was quite sure who the winner really was. Then the scouts were putting up their tents and had started cooking...)
Dana: We don’t have a tent. What are we going to sleep in?
Anna: Don’t worry, we can look for a lot of places here in school to shelter us.
Lori: Stop the chitchat already and let’s start cooking. Where’s the pan?
Mage: It’s in the bag. I’ll go get it.
Airah: Do you already have the gas?
Lori: Yes. And I’ve got some woods here. So, what do we have here? Okay, who wants to eat dried fish?
Kim: I do! I do! (And the rest follows...)
Lori: Dried fish it is...
In the other section...
Girl: What are you bringing?
Lara: Canned goods...
Girl: Great...
Tanya: Just open that up and cook it. It’s as easy... Unlike the others there who still have to cook much...
Carrie: Let’s just get cooking already.
After twenty or more minutes...
Girl3: Oh no, it’s raining!
Girl2: Our tent!
(People scramble around getting their things and their tents out of the rain and relocating somewhere...)
Lori: Lucky us we didn’t have a tent.
Dana: Is it almost done?
Lori: Yeah. Just some finishing up.
Samantha: Great, I’m already hungry!
Anna: You’re not the only one..!
Ashley: (visiting) You haven’t eaten yet?
Kim: Uh, no. We have some difficulty by the faucet.
Ashley: Ohh... At least we’re just going to have to wash our plates.
Airah: It’s clogged up.
Ashley: Right then...
(The second patrol eats their dried fish when one of the girls from the other section passed by carrying a pan of “sisig”...)
Girl: Who wants to eat this?
Samantha: I’ll have some..!
Girl: Here, just take some.
Samantha: Wait, what is it?
Girl: Pork. Why?
Airah: Pork? We can’t eat that... It’s Good Friday!
Kim: I’ll eat that. I’m hungry still.
Samantha: The Lord will understand our suffering today. (getting some)
(After eating, everyone was relocating their stuff in the kindergarten department. The tents were still used though the place was covered because of the mosquitoes. As for those without them...)
Maisie: I’ve got a mat.
Nica: Oh goody! Can we share?
Maisie: Sure!
Aish: Can we share it too?
K&As: Me too!
Maisie: Of course. Dana and Anna are sharing too. They’ve brought a mat, as well.
Nica: That’s good!
Kim: But are yo sure we are all gonna fit?
Maisie: Dana, we’re all going to share...
Dana: Oh, about that. We found some place else to sleep in. We’re going to get our mat.
Maisie: Oh, okay.
Aish: Nice...
Nica: We still could all fit in this mat. Just have it horizontally...
Kim:Yeah.
Lane: Hi guys!
All: Hi Lane!
Nica: Where are you sleeping?
Lane: I’m sleeping with my members...
Nica: Oh yeah. I forgot about that.
Lane: Anyway, I came by to tell all of you that we’re going to the gymnasium now for the “bonfire”.
Ashley: And the cheering?
Lane: And the cheering...
(Everyone goes inside the gym and forms a circle by patrol. People were wearing slippers and pajamas and were talking. When the scoutmaster called everyone’s attention, everyone shut up. They had games first of “Storm, Typhoon and Tornado. Nica and the rest of her patrol members didn’t want to run far, so they just switched places with the others. The scoutmaster then announced that the cheering competition would already be started. Then...)
Airah: When are we going to have our turn?
Nica: I guess we’re the third, fourth or the fifth group to present.
Anna: Would you look at that person...
Dana: What? Where?
Anna: Over there. She’s so fat!
Mage: You are so bad...(laughing)
Anna: What, it is true.
Airah: (whooping) Anna, you’re so bad. You’re such a bad person. (grinning)
Kim: Yeah – Ow!
Nica: What’s wrong with you?
Kim: I think I’ve got the cramps again.
Nica: Cramps? What should we do?
Dana: Red Cross people, hello...
Airah: Lane. Somebody call Lane.
(Lane arrives...)
Lane: What, you’ve got the cramps again, Kimmy?
Kim: Yeah. And it’s painful.
Lane: Okay, lie down.
Kim: What? But my clothes –
Nica: Just do it. (Kim lies down)
(Lane doe her thing with Kim’s cramps. A lot of people were already staring. Ashley and the rest start laughing since they already know Kim to be the “Queen of Cramps”. Some freshmen came over to sort out the problem as well...)
Kim: Man, this is so humiliating!
Lane: Don’t be...
Scoutmaster: Is everything alright there?
Anna: Just a bad case of cramps.
Kim: It just keeps on transferring from one foot to the other.
Scoutmaster: Okay, you’ll just be last to present. Next group please.
Nica: You’re our saviour, Kimmy.
Kim: Yeah, right. (Someone puts on efficascent oil on the foot) What’s that for?
Scout: Just lie still.
Kim: Are you sure it’s going to help?
Halley: Let me do it.
Tanya: What are you doing?
Scout: Does it hurt still?
Kim: Ow, yes!
Scout2: Maybe we should just cut off your foot... What do you think? (grinning)
Kim: Like it would be cut off... (chuckling)
Tanya: Who placed oil on your foot? Everybody knows it doesn’t affect anything.
Kim: Hey...
Tanya: (taking hold of the foot) It’s alright. After all, you have clean feet.
Lane: Isn’t it gone yet?
Kim: Nope.
Airah: You have some weird feet.
Kim: You think?
Nica: Hey, it’s already our turn.
Kim: I can’t go yet.
Lane: Just go. You, however, stay here.
(They perform without Kim. After that, the cramps still wasn’t gone...)
Nica: Maybe you just feel cold.
Kim: I do. Look at my nails, it’s pale.
Tanya: If that’s the problem, why didn’t anyone get your socks?
Halley: Where are they?
Kim: They’re in my shoes. The red ones.
Carrie: You go get it, Halley.
Halley: (when she returned) Here it is.
Tanya: (putting on the socks) How’s that?
Kim: I don’t feel cold anymore. It’s finally going away.
Airah: Really?
Dana: Way to go, Tanya.
(After that, they went back to their tents, and mats for those who don’t. They brushed their teeth, changed and made their beds...)
Maisie: Where’s Nica?
Aish: She’s probably washing her face or taking a bath.
Maisie: Has any of you seen Dana?
All: No.
Aish: But I heard they found a different place to sleep in. I guess it was in the kindergarten classrooms.
(Then Nica arrived. They chatted for a while and finally got to sleep. Aish and Kim, however, kept listening to the cd player even until dawn. Finally, Aish fell asleep. Kim was left awake.She heard the people from the other class making a lot of noise. Then, she started singing to Avril Lavigne’s “Why”...)
Ashley: (waking up and murmuring) Kim, is that you?
(Ashley goes back to sleep. Then Kim fell asleep. After thirty minutes, she awoke...)
Halley: Everybody wake up! It’s time to cook!
Kim: (looking at her phone) It’s still three thirty..?
(After a couple of hours, people started waking up. They were all then called to have their morning prayers in the gym. They were hokding candles and forming a circle. After that, they cooked their food and took a bath...)
Dana: Where are the others?
Nica: Taking a bath, probably. But shouldn’t they be helping?
Lori: Those who aren’t helping shouldn’t eat, you know.
(The rest of the group were in the kindergarten classroom, taking a bath. When Kim got out, their food was already cooked. People were already hot-headed having not taken a bath...)
Dana: Hurry up and eat your breakfast. We would want to take a bath already.
Kim: Ohh canton!
(After everyone had eaten, they went for a ride to the beach. Before they got to leave...)
Athan: Look at the girls...
Xander: Where?
Mico: A lot of them are wearing shorts, huh.
Athan: Yeah. Just like Kim.
Mico: What?
(The girls went to the beach. The others were swimming while the others were just watching...)
Inside the classroom on March 6...
Steven: Ty, what are you waiting for?
Tyler: Why don’t you be the one to call her? Tell her I wanna talk to her.
Steven: You do that, not me..!
(Nica was hanging around with Mage and Gaven, when Steven approached her. He tried to convince her...)
Steven: Nica, just go and talk to Tyler even just for a minute or a second.
Nica: Maybe next time, Steven.
Two days after...
Airah: Nica, let’s go.
Steven: C’mon, Nica. You said next time, and this is the next time you meant.
Airah: Try another next time, Steven. We have to go somewhere.
Steven: She should be true to her word..!
Airah: Don’t you know that Nica is a big liar? (grinning) C’mon, Nica.
Steven: See, she’s not a liar. You should be true to your word and come with me.
Nica: I’m not a liar, but I’m not coming with you Steven.
Steven: Ty, hey, Tyler!
Airah: Tyler?
Nica: Alright, fine. Could you wait for a sec, Airah?
Airah: Okay, sure. (Steven makes faces) Whatever, Steven. You didn’t win.
Steven: Did to!
Airah: Did not..!
Steven: Did to!
Airah: Did not –
Nica: Stop! No one won. You both lost.
Tyler: (laughing at the two) You’re like babies.
(Nica and Tyler were talking inside the classroom. When they got out, Tyler looked verytriumphant...)
Days after, it was their Marine Biological Tour...
Angela: Kim!
Kim: Yeah?
Angela: What – I mean, how did you tell Mico that you just wanted to remain as friends?
Kim: Well, I just, I just texted him, actually.
Angela: You just said that you didn’t want him to be your boyfriend?
Kim: Um, sort of. Why?
Angela: Because I just want us to remain friends. You know once, he came to our house when I was
watching wrestling. My mom laughed because she knew that I wasn’t into that kind of thing.
Kim: Really?
Angela: Yeah. Besides, I don’t really like him as someone more than my friend. Once, I let him come
with me and my friends. But then, he was not in the mood. So, we stayed away from them. Then
he made me come with him and his friends... Lane and the others. And I can’t imagine they could
be his friends because they were so boring. It was icky. He is the guy after all, he should adjust.
Kim: I don’t really know.
Angela: And you see this bracelet? We bought this together in the mall.
Kim: Oh.
Angela: But, did you just really text him that?
Kim: Yeah. Of course.
Angela: And what did he say?
Kim: He’ll get over it. He once said that he wanted to be a free man. He sai he didn’t want to committ
himself to anyone for the moment. (thinking) Like Heather...
Angela: I’m afraid that we might not be friends anymore.
Kim: You will still be. (standing up) Trust me. He’ll be fine afterwards.
Angela: Thanks, Kim.
That Saturday night...
Cara: (texting) Will you wait for us outside? You know, we are ashamed of you.
Kim: (texting) Okay. Just don’t miss the house with the swing outside.
(Minutes after, Kim was already outside. Then, she saw two people. It was Cara and a classmate. They approached the gate. Kim gave the script...)
Cara: Hi! Um, it’s me, Cara Watt...and this is my friend, Edgar.
Edgar: Hi.
Kim: Hi, too.
Cara: Well...
Kim: The script is not really that good, but that’s what we used last year.
Cara: Yeah, it’s okay... I didn’t really expect that we’d meet tonight...
Kim: Likewise...
Cara: Umm, nice meeting you, but we have to go and read this. Thanks, by the way.
Kim: Yeah. You’re welcome.
(Cara and Edgar walk away. Chris, Kim’s brother arrived...)
Chris: Who was that?
Kim: No one.
The week after...
Maid: Kim, someone’s looking for you outside.
Kim: Huh? Who?
Chris: Kim, someone from the other school is looking for you.
Kim: What? Who could it be? No one told me they were coming.
(Kim went down and saw three people who apparently were classmates of Cara...)
Zaldy: Hi!
Cathy: She doesn’t even know you, Zaldy...
Chris: Kim, who’re they?
Kim: I don’t know.
Cathy: He’s cute!
Diane: Maybe that’s her brother...
Kim: Yes?
Zaldy: Hi! We’re classmates of Cara, she came here last week...
Kim: Oh, yeah.
Zaldy: Oh, um, I’m Zaldy...this is Diane, and Cathy.
C&D: Hi!
Kim: (thinking) Diane? Who did you say she was again, Diane?
Zaldy: Yeah.
Kim: Do you know Nathalie Judd?
Diane: Yes.
Zaldy: See, I told you she knows Nathalie.
Diane: Are you friends?
Kim: Yeah. She’s my childhood friend... Wait, how did you know I live here?
Zaldy: Hello, it was my phone that Cara used to text you... And your neighbor Nathalie Carlin dropped us.
Kim: Oh, I see.
Zaldy: Who was that guy?
Kim: Oh, that guy. He’s my brother, Chris.
Cathy: Chris?
Kim: Yeah. He’s a year older than me. Hey, do you know Charlie George?
Zaldy: Yes, we’re friends. Why?
Kim: He lives near here.
Zaldy: How do you know that?
Kim: He’s like, my cousin..?! Would you like me to call him?
Zaldy: Ohh... Okay. No, don’t call him.
Kim: (seeing her father get out of the house) I think you have to go now.
Zaldy: Okay. We’ll see you next time, Kim.
C&D: Bye!
(The night before the Marine Biological Tour, Kim and Mage went to the mall to buy blue shirts for their Biological Tour. They have to look for blue because that was the color for their section...)
Edgar: Cara, she’s here.
Cara: Where?
(Mage and Kim approached Mage’s parents. Kim saw Edgar who was making signs for her to go near them. Mage’s parents were about to leave...)
Kim: Excuse me for a minute, Mage.
Edgar: There you are...
Cara: We meet again.
Kim: Uh, yeah. Hi.
Cara: Oh, these are my friends, Ailyn, Andoreen and, of course, you already know Edgar.
Edgar: Yeah, hi.
Kim: Yeah. Hello to you.
Cara: And everyone, this is Kimberly Canavelle.
Ai&An: Hi!
Cara: What are you doing here, Kim? Are you out here shopping?
Kim: Oh, no. We’re here to buy some food and clothes for our Marine Biological Tour tomorrow.
Cara: Ah, I see.
Kim: (seeing Mage) And, by the way, this is my friend, Mage. Mage, these are Cara and her friends.
Mage: Hi! (laughing)
Cara: Well, we have to go. We have to get home.
Kim: Yeah, and we have to go and buy too. Her parents are waiting for us already.
Cara: Yeah, okay. Bye!
K&M: Bye!
During the Marine Biological Tour...
Mrs. Alkamire: You have to collect different water specimens and draw them. You should also take a
of them. No goofing around, alright?
(They walked on the bamboo bridge going to the shore. Lane almost fell off the bridge because she had a lot of things with her and people were kinda mobile on it. On the shore...)
Anthony: Hey, look! I foud one.
Airah: You coming, Kim?
Kim: I have to fold my pants up.
Tanya: Whoever told you to wear white pants too.
Kim: Yeah, no one did.
Mage: Kim! I see you wore the one we bought last night.
Kim: Yup. And you did too.
Lane: Hurry up already!
Airah: Never mind coming over here, Kim. It’s too muddy.
(When they were done, they climbed back up. Some took pictures on the shore and on the bamboo bridge. They walked back on the bridge and drove off. Then...)
Airah: Hey, guys, we’re going to Roxas Park. Mrs. Alkamire just texted me.
Maisie: Somebody tell that to the driver.
(In Roxas Park, people got loose and ran quickly towards the pool. The guys jumped in and made all sorts of foolishness and scenic distractions. Then the guys got crazier and used the water slide for children...)
Halley: Let’s go and jump in.
Friend: No way. You go ahead. (pushing her in)
Halley: Help!
Friend2: Are you okay? (helping her)
Halley: Yeah. Stop pushing me in.
Friend: Didn’t mean to. (grinning)
(The other guys formed a line on the edge of the pool and then did a chain reaction jump in the pool. Then, an accident almost happened...)
Damien: Help! Help me! (resurfacing and then into the water)
Classmate: Stop playing around with us, okay, Damien.
Damien: Help!
Anthony: Hey, I don’t think he’s playing around, guys.
(Someone helps him. Damien was drowning and nobody took it seriously because they thought he was just kidding. After all their chitchats, pictorials and whatever, they all went to see the giant python...)
Student: It sure has a big mouth.
Halley: A very big one!
Student2: It should be able to swallow you whole, Halley.
Halley: Whatever!
(Then, they went back to the school tired and wet, for those who were swimming. The Saturday before their exams, they were told by Mr. Cole to clean and varnish their chairs. They all started on it, varnishing here and there. Then...)
Kim: My stomache is aching...
Ashley: What?
Kim: I said my stomache is aching. I already sent a message to my parents.
(After several minutes, Kim started not feeling well...)
Kim: Mr. Cole, I want to go home. My stomache is aching.
Mr. Cole: Okay. Did you already tell your parents about it?
Kim: Yes, and they should be here anytime now.
(But after almost half an hour, her parents didn’t arrive. Kim was feeling really unwell...)
Dana: What’s wrong with her?
Ashley: Stomach ache...
Kim: I can’t bear it anymore.
(Then, Kim suddenly throws up. Not on Ashley, but on a vacant spot. People were just staring at her. Then, Gaven pulled out his handkerchief and handed it to Kim. He then assisted her to the clinic telling people that Kim vomitted when they were asking...)
Dana: It’s a good thing Gaven was there. No one dared move.
Mr. Cole: Who has an extra sandpaper?
(In the clinic, the nurse gave Kim hot water to drink and efficascent oil. Afterwards, Gaven assisted her back to the classroom...)
Kim: Sorry about your handkerchief.
Gaven: It’s alright.
(Mr. Cole was the one who continued varnishing Kim’s chair. Out in the carpark, Ashley lent Kim her pillow to cover her stomache...)
Ashley: And don’t face me, you might barf again.
Kim: Whatever, but thanks.
Cara: (texting) Maybe you could come by the mall. My friends want to meet you.
Kim: (chuckling and showed the message to Ashley)
Ashley: Huh?
Kim: (texting) I can’t go. I just had a stomache ache and I vomitted.
Ashley: Who is she?
Kim: She’s Nica’s...um, emulator. Yeah, emulator.
Cara: (texting) Oh, okay. Are you fine?
Kim: (texting) Yeah. I’m fine already.
Hilary’s birthday...
Hilary: Let’s watch a movie. Who wants to watch The Grudge 2?
All: I do!
Hilary: Okay then. (taking the cd and putting it in)
Kim: I haven’t seen the first one.
Airah: It’s about a father who killed his wife and child because he got jealous.
Nica: Yeah, and the spirit of the wife and the child are coming back.
Airah: And after killing the two, the father killed himself in the house, too.
Lane: Let me borrow that pillow.
Airah: What for?
Ai&L: For covering.
Angela: (laughing) Let me borrow one also.
Airah: Me too.
Kim: How about me?
Athan: Let’s start the movie already.
Mico: Boo! (laughing)
Lane: Oh, it’s so funny. The movie hasn’t even started yet.
Jace: Just wait for it.
Bernard: Someone’s not going to be able to sleep tonight...
(They watched the movie. Most of the girls were screaming and stuff. When it ended, the boys went home ahead. But before they went out, they made some impersonations from the movie with the hand placed on the wall and is slowly going down in a haunting way. Then they all went home...)
Aish: My parents are coming. Who’re coming with me?
Airah: I will.
K&N: Me too!
Lane: Of course, I will.
(When they got out, it was raining...)
Kim: Oooh... It’s raining, just like in the movie.
Aish: Shut up, Kim.
Lane: I’m not scared.
Nica: No one said you were scared.
Airah: (laughing loudly) Defensive!
(Their class was having a beach party, but Ashley, Kim and some others did not attend.)
During the vacation...
Mico: (texting) What are you doing?
Kim: (texting) I’m watching television. How about you?
Mico: (texting) I’m watching The Grudge.
Kim: (texting) Could I borrow it? I wasn’t able to see that.
Mico: (texting) Sure. But I’m not in town.
Kim: (texting) Oh...
Mico: (texting) But Jace is coming here to return something. Maybe he could drop it off in your house.
Jace: (texting) Why don’t you just come yourself so you can see their house.
(When they arrive outside Mico’s house...)
Kim: (getting off the motorcycle)
Jace: I didn’t know you were left handed.
Kim: Now you do.
Jace: Let’s go.
Manservant: Yes?
Jace: We’re friends of Mico. I have to return something.
Manservant: Oh. Come in, come in.
Harry: Who’s there?
Manservant: It’s Mico’s friends.
Harry: Did you tell them that he’s not here?
Manservant: They just have something to return.
(Kim looks around the house...)
Kim: (thinking) It doesn’t look small. Well, it isn’t small at all.
Manservant: Please sit down, miss.
Kim: No thank you. I’m fine.
Jace: Wait here for awhile. (talking with Mico’s brother)
Harry: Oh, we already returned it. It was from a friend of mine, and we returned it just yesterday.
Jace: Oh, really. It was Mico who said it was still here and he was going to lend it to Kim.
Harry: Sorry about that. By the way, it wasn’t even The Grudge. It was something else.
Jace: Huh? So, Mico’s weird.
Harry: A bit.
Jace: Well, here’s Mico’s jacket. We’ll be leaving now. Thanks, anyway.
Harry: No problem. I’ll just tell Mico you guys dropped by.
Jace: Okay. (to Kim) The cd was already returned to the owner.
Kim: Oh...
Jace: It wasn’t The Grudge also, so it’s okay, I guess.
Kim: (grinning) He got it wrong, didn’t he.
Jace: Sure did.
(They went out of the house...)
Jace: Is it okay for you if we go to the mall for awhile? I have to buy something.
Kim: Yeah, sure. I have to buy my cellphone load too.
(They ride the motorcycle and go to the mall. Inside, they saw a classmate...)
Cherie: Hi Kim! Who’re you with?
Kim: Jace.
Cherie: You’re with him?
Kim: We had to return something... It’s not what you’re thinking, okay.
Jace: Hi Cherie.
Cherie: Hello! I have to go. See you in school next school year!
(They bought the load and Jace got Kim home. After a couple of weeks, it was Antonio’s birthday...)
Fleur: What’s inside that?
Kim: Camera. I mean, video camera. Happy birthday, Antonio!
Antonio: Thanks. So, let’s go.
In the beach...
(Liz makes herself pretty while Kim gets her video camera out and records a video of Liz...)
Liz: Hey, don’t do that. What’s wrong with you. I look like a witch!
Kim: (laughing) What? Fine, I’ll just take a video of those guys.
(She zooms in on the people who were taking a swim and then they spot Daniel waving at them...)
Liz: Did you see Daniel?
Kim: I didn’t really see him. From here, he looks really blurry.
(They were all called to eat. The guys approached, wet from their swim. After eating, Kim took a video of the guys fooling around, eating, Athan sleeping and the others...)
Benj: Km, could I borrow that?
Kim: Okay.
Benj: How are you going to record this?
Kim: You press that red button. Then the letters T and W are for zooming purposes.
Benj: Okay, I got it. (running to the guys)
CJ: I am the old mermaid. (buried in the sand)
Guys: And we are the other mermaids...
Benj: Look at the camera! Hey! That is Marina, with the hunchback protruding...
Xander: He’s making fun of you Mico.
Mico: (laughing) Marina’s not a hunchback.
Jace: Grandma Ishta, Grandma Ishta...
CJ: Yes, mermaid?
Benj: Grandma Ishta, where’s your hair? And how come you’ve become fat?
CJ: I just cut my hair because it was very long and very white. I’m not having my diet, anymore.
(Kim keeps taking videos of the people in the cottage. Then they heard someone got into an accident...)
Liz: What happened?
Athan: Someone got bumped by a motorcycle.
Liz: Who’s motorcycle? Who was driving? Are they okay?
Benj: They’re okay.
Kim: Who got bumped?
Fleur: Some girl. She got bumped by Jace.
Liz: Is the girl okay? Is she alive?
Fleur: Of course she’s alive. She’s even scolding them for not being careful.
(The guys laugh. Benj then returns the video camera to Kim, who watches the video with Liz. They were laughing. The others were playing pool in the neighboring beach. Kim, Liz and the rest followed them to watch them play...)
CJ: Your turn, Mico.
Mico: Is it already?
CJ: Yes.
Athan: Kim, so you’re rooting for Jace?
Kim: Are you kidding me?
Athan: No, I’m not.
Fleur: Look at how Jace plays pool. He’s good at it.
Kim: I don’t care.
Liz: Just take a look, Kim.
Xander: It’s still my turn. You’re so unfair!
Athan: Sorry, I forgot!
Xander: Excuse me for awhile.
Liz: Xander, be careful with that. You almost hit me!
Xander: Sorry!
Mico: Wait a minute. (ball flies)
Jace: Don’t let the ball fly, Mico. It didn’t do anything to you.
Mico: I hit it too hard.
(After playing pool, the guys played volleyball. Liz and Kim were just watching them when they saw Constantine and they started teasing Liz...)
Antonio: Did you see that guy?
Liz: Where? Which one?
Xander: It’s Zack.
Dude: By dude!
Xander: Bye!
Fleur: Who was that?
Xander: Someone who played volley with us.
Liz: We shoudl have come here earlier so we could get to know that guy.
Antonio: That guy is half-American, wasn’t he, Xander?
Xander: Looks like it.
Kim: What time are we going home?
Xander: I can’t text my cousin because I don’t have any load at all.
Kim: I do. Why don’t you text him because I really wanna go home already.
Back in the cottage...
Airah: Kim, you’re here!
Kim: And you’re here! Who brought you here?
Airah: Kent did.
(Xander’s cousin arrived and they left for home. Inside the cab, Kim was recording another video. This time it was of Fleur and CJ. They were singing to the music. CJ was lying down on Fleur’s lap when the cab turned and Fleur stood up. CJ fell on the floor. Everybody was laughing at him...)
CJ: Ow! Why did you stand up?!
Fleur: I forgot. Plus, it wasn’t entirely my fault. The cab turned the other side, you know.
CJ: It’s so painful!
(Some relatives of the Canavelles arrived. They went to their father’s hometown when...)
Tyler: (texting) Please don’t tell Cara that I already have a girlfriend.
Kim: (texting) Okay, sure. (seconds after, thinking) He has a girlfriend? (texting) Who’s your girlfriend?
Tyler: (texting) I don’t have a girlfriend.
Kim: (texting) But you just said that.
Tyler: (texting) I sure didn’t.
Kim: (thinking) Huh? (texting) Cara, is Tyler text messaging you?
Cara: (texting) Yeah. Why?
Kim: (texting) Oh, nothing. Just asking. Is he courting you?
Cara: (texting) Yeah.
Kim: Through text? That’s weird. (texting) Do you like him?
Cara: (texting) He is thoughtful and kind...
Kim: (texting) But you’re not answering my question.
Cara: (texting) I don’t know. Why?
Kim: (texting) You can’t say yes to him. He has a girlfriend.
Tyler: (texting) I don’t have a girlfriend, Kim. Promise!
Kim: (texting) Is it Nica? It must be Nica, huh?
Tyler: (texting) No, and for the last time, I don’t have a girlfriend.
Kim: I’m getting really confused.
Cara: (texting) Who told you that?
Kim: (texting) He did. Just don’t say yes to him, okay?
Cara: (texting) If you say he does have a girlfriend, then I won’t.
That night...
Kim: (going up her room) It’s locked. Where’s the key, Mico?
Mico: I don’t know. I thought you were the one who locked it.
Kim: I did. But I told you to get the key – You didn’t get the key?!
Mico: No.
Kim: Oh great. (trying different ways to get the door open) Hmm... I wonder.
(Kim goes out of the house and climbs on the grills...)
Kim: Hold this.
Mico: You’re going to climb up there?
Kim: There’s no other way to go. The keys are in the bathroom.
(Kim climbs up the window to her room. She struggles with the windw. Chris comes out of the house and sees Mico holding the grills...)
Chris: What are you doing?
Mico: Holding this.
Chris: (looking up) Mom, Kim’s climbing up the window.
Mom: What? (going out of the house)
Kim: (getting up the window)
Mom: Kimberly, get down from there!
Kim: I have to open the door. (then her slippers drop off and gets into the pond) Sorry about that!
Mom: You might fall down!
(Kim successfully gets into the room and opens the door...)
Kim: Yeah, I did it! (looking at her shirt) Eww!
The next day...
Kim: (calling Aish) Hey Aish!
Aish: Kim! So what’s the news about that girl and Tyler?
Kim: As I’ve told you, Tyler texted me not to tell Cara Watt that he has a girlfriend. And when I asked him
who his girlfriend was, he said he didn’t have any girlfriend.
Aish: Really? How could he!
Kim: Why? Who’s his girlfriend, anyway?
Aish: He’s such a worm!
Kim: What, tell me! Who is his girlfriend?
Aish: Don’t tell anyone, but it’s Nica. They became a couple on March 6.
Kim: Really?
Cara: (texting) I’m sorry, I lied. Tyler and I, we’re a couple already since May 16.
Kim: What?
Cara: (texting) He told me not to tell you about it.
Aish: What, what’s up?
Kim: Cara just texted me now. She said that Tyler made her swear not to tell me about them.
Aish: Meaning, he just two-timed Nica?!
Kim: Yes! And how hard-headed could this girl get? I mean, I already told her that guy has a girlfriend!
Aish: Then what shall we do?
Kim: I don’t know. You tell me. Should we tell Nica?
Aish: I don’t think so.
Kim: What are we going to do about it, then?
Aish: I don’t know what to do.
(Days after, the next school year was about to start. Nica, Aish, Ashley, Lane and Kim planned to meet together in school and see what sections they were in. Kim came with her younger brother, Mico...)
Ashley: Hi Kim! It’s been a whole vacation that we didn’t see each other.
Kim: Gee, you think? (grinning) Have you seen Aish?
Aish: I heard my name. (Kim and Ashley turn)
Ashley: Speaking of the devil.
Kim: Where’s Lane?
Aish: She and Nica said they can’t come. They’re pretty busy at home, I suppose.
Ashley: Oh, I see.
Aish: So what section are we?
Ashley: We’re in the same class, Garnet.
Aish: As well as with Lane and Nica. You’re not with us, Kim...
Kim: Yup. I’m in Sapphire with Maisie. At least I’ve got someone with me.
Aish: What’s the other section?
Kim: Topaz... It’s a good thing I was not placed there.
Ashley: Their adviser’s new.
Aish: Yup. Where’re you going?
Kim: I’m going to the elementary department for my brother. He came with me.
The start of classes...
(The students were already forming their lines, but Lane had no idea where she was supposed to stay...)
Lane: Where am I going to be in?
Ashley: Over there, Lane.
Lane: Where?
Aish: Over there. Far away from us... (chuckling)
Cedric: Where are you going? You’re with us, Lane.
Lane: Oh, haha. That’s so funny.
(The third year in highschool for the group was kinda boring because they weren’t classmates. But then life goes on...)
Roxie: Hey!
Kim: Hey.
Roxie: You’re a bunny!
Kim: Bunny? Why?
Roxie: Hey, Hyacinth! Look, look! Kimberly’s a bunny!
Hyacinth: Bunny - ? Oh, I get it!
Roxie: Bunny, bunny, bunny! Cute little bunny wabbit. The bunny, I mean. Not you. (laughing)
Kim: Whatever! Haha (laughing)
Roxie: There’s a bunny on your pin.
Kim: Oh, that’s why! Giraffe!
(Roxie, Hyacinth and the rest of their friends hang around with Kim while Maisie hangs around with her other friends from before. When Roxie and Kim were playing crazy idiots in the classroom, Kim accidentally faces Betsy and made some joke which made her laugh...)
Betsy: You’re crazy. (laughing)
Kim: (laughing along) Yeah.
(Roxie was laughing at Kim because she was not able to tell the joke in her face...)
Kim: Roxie is such an idiot. Isn’t she?
(From then on, Betsy hung around with them. They kept on acting like stupid people because they were really just happy-go-lucky. One day, when Mrs. Pontil was discussing, Kim’s stomache ached...)
Japheth: Are you okay, Kim?
Kim: Not really. My stomache is aching.
Classmate: Wat’s wrong with her?
Joey: I don’t know. You’re pale!
Classmate: You better tell Mrs. Pontil before anything bad would happen to you.
Joey: (raising his hand) Excuse ma’am, but Kim looks dying.
Classmate2: Dying, are you crazy?
Mrs. Pontil: What’s wrong, Kimberly?
Classmate: She said her stomache’s aching.
Mrs. Pontil: Okay, you accompany her to the clinic.
(In the clinic, she was given by the nurse some medicine...)
Nurse: Did you already call or text your mother?
Kim: Yes, I already did. She said she’s on her way.
Nurse: Just lie down there for a while.
Kim: I don’t want to lie down.
Classmate: May I ask a slip, ma’am? So that we could already go and get her bag and wait for her mom.
Nurse: Okay.
(While waiting for her classmate to get her bag, her classmates waved at her. Then she sat on the benches just infront of the carpark. Then...)
Kim: (moaning in pain then crying) Where is she? She said she’s going to be here already. It’s so painful!
Classmate: We can’t do anything for now. We just have to wait for her.
(Finally, her mother arrived. She showed the signed slips to the guard and left home. Then her mother told her to change because they were going to visit the doctor...)
Doctor: You lie down here. Tell me if it hurts on this side if I poke you here, okay?
Kim: Ow, it does.
Doctor: How about here?
Kim: Nope.
Doctor: Here?
Kim: Yes.
Mom: Well?
Doctor: It could probably be appendicitis, but I can’t really say so because it’s not my specialty. I’ll just
give you directions to the other doctor. He’s in the next clinic just aligned to this.
Mom: Thanks, doctor.
Doctor2: Yes? How may I help you?
Mom: Doctor, would you please see if my daughter has appendicitis? She says her abdomen’s painful.
Doctor2: Okay. Would you please lie down over here...
(Doing the same thing, and he confirms it as appendicitis...)
Doctor2: She is having appendicitis, really.
Mom: And what do you suggest should be done?
Doctor2: There are two options, actually. We could have an operation, or we could just give her some
medications to restrain the pain and further infection of the appendix
Mom: What do you think is best?
Doctor2: I would suggest that we operate on her. Because if we don’t, there is still a great chance that her
appendix would swell and burst even. That would be a greater problem.
Mom: Okay. So, when could you operate on her?
Docor2: If you could come this afternoon at four, then we could have it.
Mom: Four, then.
Doctor2: Another thing, she should not anything today so that it would not swell more.
Mom: Yes, doctor.
Kim: Operation?
Mom: It is better to have the operation because after that, you wouldn’t have any problem anymore.
Kim: Yeah...
(That afternoon, all Kim had to have was water. At about four, she was brought to the hospital. They waited for the doctor for almost an hour and a half. Then, Kim’s blood type was taken. The dextrose was then put on. It hurt for awhile. Then she changed into her hospital clothes, and then was brought inside the operating room via wheelchair. After telling her of what they were to do, the anesthesiologist injected the anesthesia in the tube. Kim felt the anesthesia passing through her veins. It was painful, so she willed herself to sleep. And she did, when she woke up, she saw blurs all around...)
Nathalie: Can she hear us?
Nmom: Kimberly...
Mom: I don’t think she could, Nathalie.
(Then Kim drifts off to sleep again. She just awoke at dawn. She got the remote control beside her and watched Mr. Bean. She checked her phone, no messages. In the morning, she had help from her mother just to go to the comfort room. She still was not allowed to eat any solid food. Then at midmorning, the doctor visited the room...)
Doctor2: How are you feeling now?
Kim: Fine.
Doctor2: Tonight, you can already eat solid food. You could ask your mother to buy you anything you
want. Ice cream, burger, chocolate... you name it! (grinning)
Mom: You heard that, Kim? Anything...
Doctor2: Did you see your appendix?
Kim: No.
Doctor2: I told the attendants to bring it up in your room.
Mom: No one came up here bringing an appendix.
Doctor2: Well, maybe it’s already in the lab. It looks small, really... your appendix. I even had a difficult
time looking for it.
Mom: How long is the stitch, doctor?
Doctor2: It’s really short. It’s just about two inches. I’ll be taking the stitches after several days. Don’t
worry, it won’t be painful.
Mom: It would be taken after several days. The operation would have healed by then.
Doctor2: So, do you know my son, Zack? He goes to your school too.
Kim: (thinking) I knew it! (out loud) Yes, I know him.
Doctor2: Oh, I see. How is he in school?
Kim: Well, he seems silent. I don’t really know becaus we have never been classmates.
Doctor2: I see. He is really silent. I don’t know why.
Kim: (grinning)
Docor2: Oh, I have to go already. I’ll see you when you get out of the hospital tomorrow, alright?
(The doctor leaves. Kim checks her phone again and sees a couple of messages...)
Mary-Kate: (texting) Kim, how are you? How’s the operation?
Mico: (texting) Hi, how are you?
Kim: (thinking) Huh? (texting Mico and Mary-Kate) I’m fine.
Mary-Kate: (texting) Was it painful?
Kim: (texting) I don’t know. I was asleep.
Mary-Kate: (texting) I see. I’ll text you later. Recess is over. Everyone says hi!
Kim: (texting) Yeah? Okay.
: (texting) Hello. I’m fine. Just feeling a bit of the pain.
Mico: (texting) Poor you.
Kim: (texting) Yeah. At least my appendix, which was really useless, was taken away...
Mico: (texting) Yeah. You should take care of yourself.
Kim: (texting) I guess so. Anyway, thanks for the concern.
Mico: (texting) You’re welcome.
(That night, Kim was watching television again. The next day...)
Mary-Kate: (texting) When are you going out of there?
Kim: (texting) This lunch. Why?
Mary-Kate: (texting) We wanted to visit you. But if it’s this lunch, then we wouldn’t anymore.
Kim: (texting) Yeah... Too bad.
Mary-Kate: (texting) You are going to be here on Monday, right?
Kim: I guess so.
In school...
Benj: Ty, what’s with you and Nica?
Tyler: What do you think?
Benj: It looks kinda hazy to me. Plus, you have that Cara girl from the other school...
Tyler: That’s not a problem.
Nica: I’m so sick of this already...
Aish: Huh?
Nica: (texting) It’s over.
Tyler: What?!
Benj: Why, what’s up?
Tyler: She just broke up with me. (texting) You can’t break up with me through phone.
Nica: (texting) Even if I see you, we’re still over. Goodbye.
Joey: Ma’am, is she going to be okay? Is having your appendicitis taken going to be painful?
Mrs. Pontil: (chuckling) It isn’t painful, Joey. You can live without an appendix.
Joey: Just asking. I have never been operated on.
Mrs. Pontil: Don’t wish it.
(Kim was already out of the hospital. She went to school that Monday morning wearing a protective girdle underneath her uniform. Kim was standing up for the flag ceremony. Mrs. Moody, the directress, approached her...)
Mrs. Moody: Are you sure you’re already okay?
Kim: Yes, ma’am. It’s what the doctor said.
Mrs. Moody: Okay. But if you can’t, you can be absent. You’ll be excused from your activities.
Kim: I’m fine, ma’am. Really.
Mrs. Moody: Okay. That’s good to know. You’ll just have to take care of yourself then. Don’t forget to
take your special tests, alright?
Kim: I won’t forget it.
Mrs. Moody: Okay. I have to go.
(After the ceremony, as Kim was about to go to her classroom, Angela caught up with her...)
Angela: Kim! What happened to you? Everybody says you got operated on?
Kim: Uh-huh. I got appendicitis, that’s why.
Angela: Oh. Did it hurt?
Kim: If I use strength from my stomache, yes, it hurts. Especially when walking.
Angela: Oh really. Poor you...
(Kim’s mom puts her bag inside their classroom and lets Kim sit down...)
Mrs. Pontil: Welcome back, Kimberly.
(The week passed by quickly. There was a mall opening. Kim didn’t want to be left out, so she asked her family to bring her with them, or they couldn’t go at all. Then they went back to the doctor. It was time for the stitches to be removed. For Kim, it hurt a bit because the scissors were kinda pointed. One day, Aish and her family were riding on their car. They passed by Tyler’s block when...)
Tyler: Where are we going?
Cara: I don’t know.
Aish: (looking) Hey! That’s – that’s Tyler! ...And that must be Cara...
Tyler: Why are we here?
Aish: Nica looks exceptionally beautiful than her...
(Tyler and Nica’s birthdays passed without much happenings. Moving on to Kim’s birthday... They went to the mall to watch Hilary Duff’s and Chad Michael Murray’s ‘A Cinderella Story’ with Kim’s brother and cousin, Charlie George, as well as the rest of their friends...)
Lane: Ooh... Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game. I’m gonna keep that in
mind and I’m going to put it in my friendster profile.
Hilary: As always, Lane is so fond of those quotes...
Aish: Of course. That’s Lane..!
Thomas: It’s in her nature, right?
Roshanni: Yup!
Charlie: Kim, we’re just going to buy some food.
Mico: Do you have money?
Kim: Here. But give me back the change, alright?
Mico: Sure.
(After the movie, they ate in KFC and were chatting away. August 26 came...)
Kim: Twenty-six.
Ashley: What’s with twenty-six?
Kim: It would have been a year now.
Ashley: What – Oh, yeah... Okay, I remember.
(Two days after, they were surprised about Nica and Tyler. They were already “close”. That’s when they knew that they got back together again...)
Kim: Why did you choose twenty-six? (grinning)
Nica: Shh!
Kim: Just tell me why.
Nica: I didn’t mind the date, really...
Kim: Oh, okay...
Ashley: Why are you always asking about that number? It’s Jace’s birthdate..!
Nica: Oh yes!
Kim: That’s not what I meant!
(Intramurals came again. It was quite fun...)
In the Titans booth...
Teacher: Please give these juice to the players.
Teacher2: These bread too.
Ashley: There aren’t any juice left.
Teacher: Somebody just bring these, then.
In the gym...
Referee: Time out!
Baller: What’s wrong, Kersey?
Kersey: Sprain..!
Nica: Eww, he looks gay.
Ashley: (chuckling) Oh yeah!
Baller2: We’ll have to continue the game.
Ashley: That guy is so airy, just like his cousin.
Kim: Who?
Ashley: Jace’s cousin.
Kim: Oh... right.
Referee: Kersey in, Roy out!
(Kersey makes consecutive shots...)
Ashley: Go Kersey! As if this wouldn’t make it obvious? (laughing)
Nica: And look who’s there, it’s moley.
Kim: Moley?
Aish: As in Christian the Mole?
Nica: Yeah!
Ashley: Ew! I remembered that we became textmates with that guy!
Kim: Really?!
Ashley: Don’t wanna talk about it. Don’t you go near Kersey...
Kim: You’re obsessed! (laughing) He’s gay!
Ashley: No, he’s not!
Kim: He is! Right, Nica?
Nica: I don’t know.
Kim: Right, Aish? He looks gay!
Aish: He looks like it.
Ashley: No, he’s not!
Kim: Why don’t we – I mean, I, make you a deal?
Ashley: Anything..!
Kim: If Kersey makes three consecutive shots, and sinks it, he’s not gay. But if not..
Ashley: Consecutive? Are you crazy? Plus, look, Jace’s cousin doesn’t pass him the ball!
Kim: That’s the deal.
Ashley: Unfair, unfair! You’re so unfair! I won’t accept the deal.
Kim: You already did.
(After the game, Kersey already got two shots...But then, time ran out. Still, the team of Kersey won the game, which also means, the Titans move to the championship. After the Intramurals, the Olympians won. The Titans only got second place because of their exceeding time limit during the cheering. According to Kim’s judgment, as well as the judge’s, the Titans cheering was great, if it just hadn’t gone past the time limit. Months after, it was already March. It meant that they had to comply their requirements...)
In the classroom...
(It was Mr. Hathaway’s class. They were discussing basic electronics when Mr. Hathaway called Francis in front. The guys shouted for Francis to sing. Mr. Hathaway, being the clown that he is, asked Francis to sing with the condition that he will not be failed if he sings. Encouraged, Francis sings. He was doing well when he made a colossal mistake of singing to Roxie. She got mad. Mr. Hathaway noticed, so he asked Francis to stop. That afternoon...)
Benj: You guys, there is still space here. Don’t stay there.
Curt: What? Why? (turning to see Betsy was seated near Samuel) Oh... Yes, there’s still alot of space here.
Kim: Betsy, do you have something to tell us?
Betsy: No...
Samuel: Hey, stop that...
Mrs. Jokerman: What is that? I said keep quiet!
Benj: Betsy... Samuel...
Samuel: What?
Mary-Kate: Excuse me, Samuel. But I guess my seat is over there.
Chester: Just move, Samuel. Excuse me!
Samuel: (moving beside Betsy) Happy now?
Curt: Of course.
Kim: Ahh... I get it now, Betsy.
Betsy: Shut up...
Recess...
Maisie: Stop hanging around here, Benj.
Benj: We’re bestfriends, right, Maisie?
Maisie: Yeah, but just stay somewhere else. It’s already hot here in the classroom.
Curt: Don’t you go near Maisie. Right, Maisie?
Maisie: Just stay away from me, please!
The next day, in the laboratory...
Ashley: Open that a little bit, Japheth.
Japheth: What, this?
Ashley: Yes. Then, clean it afterwards.
Japheth: Why me? I might break it! Why don’t you let Joey do that.
Kim: And where is he now?
Japheth: How about Francis?
Francis: I’m cleaning the other things. That’s your job.
Tanishia: Just do it, Japheth. You’re not helping much, you know.
Japheth: Fine! But if I break this, you’re all going to help me pay for it.
Maisie: Just stay away from me! I know what you are doing. You’re having a bet.
Curt: What bet? What are you talking about?
Benj: There’s no bet!
Maisie: I know there is. I’m not crazy.
Benj: Curt, I’m going to lose already. You win.
(Days after, Curt and Maisie are already close. Then, Joey courts Mary-Kate through text...)
Kian: Joey!
Mary-Kate: Pig!
Kian: Joey! (laughing)
Xander: Joe, hey Joey! Kian’s teasing Mary-Kate.
Joey: I’m going to box you, Xander.
The next day, in the classroom of Ashley, Aish and Nica...
(Damien was in rage. He looked for Thomas’s chair and then destroys it. Everyone in the class becomes silent and stares at him. After a while, Thomas arrives and sees his chair...)
Thomas: What happened to my chair?
Guy: Damien destroyed it.
Thomas: Damien?
(Thomas gets a broom and approaches Damien. No words were said, he just pushed Damien to a wall and bashed the broomstick on his head until it broke. Thomas then walks away. The students were just looking at them. Then, the two were called by the guidance counselor. And as usual, talks about the incident spread to the other classes...)
Student: They were fighting...
Student2: Damien destroyed Thomas’s chair, so Thomas also bashed a broomstick on his head...
Student3: Until it broke...
Student4: And we were just staring at them...
Student5: Lane wasn’t able to stop them...
Student6: And now, they’re in the guidance office.
(The issue about the fight was then followed by another issue. But now, it was not about Thomas and Damien, but about Mary-Kate and Joey...)
Curt: Hey, Joey, look... It’s Mary-Kate...
Joey: Ew! Who even said I liked her. Blech!
Classmate: She texted Joey and asked why he didn’t continue courting her when she was about to say yes.
Classmate2: Eww... And she let herself be fooled by Joey?
Classmate3: Please!
(It was time for Kim’s group in Chemistry to report about their topic. Kim placed it in a diskette, since it was supposed to be a powerpoint presentation. But then, they just knew from Mrs. Pontil that there was no computer provided. And it was their group’s chance to gain extra points...)
Ashley: What are we going to do?
Francis: We can’t report. We don’t have anything to report.
Ashley: Don’t just say that. We have to look for a way.
Mrs. Pontil: Next group, Kim?
Japheth: We can’t have any presentation because it’s in a diskette.
Mrs. Pontil: Why is it in a diskette?
Ashley: Because the idea there was that we would have it in a powerpoint presentation. Since there is none-
Mrs. Pontil: I already told you this morning, we can’t have it in a powerpoint presentation because we have
no computer here. Unless if you’re going to bring your computer...
Joey: But you didn’t tell us ahead...
Mrs. Pontil: You should have asked then... So, if you have none, then zero.
(Ashley, Japheth, Francis, Jpey and Tanishia gasp. Then, Kim walks out of the classroom. She goes inside the bathroom and cries. She close the door and stayed in there. Then, Ashley and Japheth come after her...)
Japheth: Kim, open up. It’s us.
Ashley: Kim, open the door, please.
Kim: (sobbing) She can’t do this. It’s not our fault we weren’t able t transfer it because she just told us this
morning! I would have if there was time..!
Ashley: We know. But I don’t think she’s aware of that.
Japheth: If she gives us zero, it would also affect all of us members. Don’t worry.
Ashley: You can’t just say that. Kim is crying because she worked hard for our presentation and then we
just receive a zero... It’s not your fault, Kim.
Japheth: Sorry. It’s not your fault. So, let’s get out of here.
(They try to open the door but Japheth closed it really hard that it wouldn’t open...)
Kim: Oh no...
Japheth: We’re trapped! In the ladies bathroom..! So this is how it looks like...
Ashley: Just open the door, Japheth.
(So, Japheth opened the door by pulling the bottom part of the door. Finally, they were already out...)
Japheth: Whew! Fresh air!
Kim: Whatever.
Ashley: Nice work, Albrecht. You made her laugh.
Japheth: No problem.
In the THE classroom, two days after...
Betsy: Do you wanna listen?
Kim: Yeah, sure!
Curt: Hey, Francis, keep your head down!
Kim: Just put it on loudspeaker...
(Betsy puts it on loudspeaker. The radio station was playing classical love songs...)
Charzie: Let me borrow that.
Kim: Do you have a ruler?
Betsy: You can borrow mine.
Charzie: Ew, what’s that you’re listening to... It’s for oldies... (sitting back down)
Betsy: (whispering) I really hate her!
Kim: I can see that.
Daniel: Samuel, are you already done?
Samuel: Yeah.
Daniel: May I borrow your work?
Samuel: Sure –
Charzie: I wanna borrow it, Samuel.
Daniel: Sorry, I asked him first.
Samuel: (giving his work plate to Daniel) Betsy, are you done?
Betsy: Not yet.
(Samuel approaches Betsy, but then Charzie asks him to help her...)
Betsy: Is it just me, or is she just irritating?
Kim: Irritating...
Daniel: Are you already done, Betsy?
Betsy: Nope. Why?
Daniel: Then why don’t you ask Samuel to help you?
Betsy: He’s helping Charzie.
Daniel: Oh. Right, then. Well, never mind her.
That vacation...
(Texting was already popular among the teenagers, but then, there came the ulimited text messaging and calling. They were all hooked...)
Francis: (calling) Who else can we call?
Carrie: (calling) Anyone.
Francis: I know, Kimberly. She has the same network with us.
Kim: Hello?
Francis: Kim, this is Francis.
Kim: Oh, it’s you.
Carrie: Hi Kim!
Kim: Who was that?
Carrie: It’s me, Carrie. Hi!
Kim: Oh. Hi, Carrie!
Francis: What are you doing, Kim? Are you watching television?
Kim: Yeah. How about you?
Francis: I’m in our store. It’s so boring here.
Carrie: Oh, wait. I have to go already. Bye guys!
Francis: Could you hold for a minute, Kim? I want to call some people.
Kim: Alright.
(Francis calls David Christophe...)
Francis: Hello, Kim!
Kim: Yeah?
Francis: David wants to talk to you.
Kim: What?
David: Who else are here, Francis?
Francis: It’s just you, me and Kimberly, David.
(Their calls go on. Kim was convinced by Francis to go and try the unlimited call. But when she did, the network deducted her of fifty cellphone load without even registering her to the unlimited promo. She asks David for help, but the fifty was never returned to her and she was discouraged to register for the unlimited promo already. One time, Kim, Nica and Hilary were hanging around. Then Kim remembered that she had to get something from Nathalie. Hilary asked her driver to get them to the other school. Kim asked both Hilary and Nica to look for Nathalie with her...)
Nica: She’s there.
Kim: Huh? Where?
Nica: Over there...
Nathalie: Hey!
Kim: Did you bring the cd?
Nathalie: No!
Kim: What? I thought you did!
Nathalie: You didn’t ask!
Kim: Gimme your bag. I know it’s in there.
Nathalie: (giving her bag) It’s not there, even if you turn it upside down.
Kim: You let us come here for nothing?
Nathalie: What can I say... I’m evil.
Kim: Yeah, I know. (walking towards Nica and Hilary)
Hilary: Is that your cousin?
Nica: Kim, Charlie’s here.
Charlie: (chuckling) What are you doing here, Kim?
Kim: Nothing. I was supposed t be getting something from Nathalie, but she didn’t bring it.
Charlie: Tsk tsk tsk... Too bad.
Kim: Whatever.
Charlie: Bye..!
(It was April, and the Physics Olympics delegates were going to travel to Baguio. There were only fourteen of them, among which, there were tow guys: Cedric, Dave, Kim, Lane, Airah, Dana, Tanya, Cherie, Carrie, Samantha, Vanna, Joyce, Reena and Terry. Of course, they were with some chaperones: Mrs. Moody and her two kids, and Ms. DeVille. While they were on the ship, they were all making alot of noise. Jumping from one bed to another and singing and playing games. They were also exploring the ship, especially the top part of the ship. They would go on top and enjoy the strong winds. They even wanted the wind to “push” them. Although they enjoyed the trip, the downside of being on the ship was, they couldn’t charge their phones...)
Ms. DeVille: Airah, go and ask if we could charge in there.
Airah: No way!
Ms. DeVille: Go, Airah.
Airah: I won’t go. You go, you’re older than us.
Ms. DeVille: I really need to charge my phone. Mr. Moody might get mad if he can’t contact us.
Cherie: There are alot of plugs but they are placing tapes on them.
(After their long search for plugs, they found a chapel. They hung around in the chapel, and found out that there was a plug in there. While waiting for their phones to charge, they prayed the Holy Rosary. When the others left Dave...)
Lester: Hi!
Dave: Oh, hello.
Lester: Do you usually hang out in a chapel?
Dave: No.
Lester: Oh. What are you doing here, then?
Dave: Would you promise not to tell anyone? Any other crewmen?
Lester: Yes, of course.
Dave: We’re charging our phones here.
Lester: Oh, I see. Well, yeah. There are no other plugs here anymore. They taped them up.
Dave: Except that one in the charging area, in the decks and in here.
Lester: Yeah. By the way, I’m Lester.
Dave: I’m Dave.
In the tourist room...
Vanna: Oh no...
Joyce: What, low batt?
Vanna: Yeah. And it’s nearing its end.
Kim: The television’s not working here, huh?
Cedric: No. I think they turn those on only when we’re at shore.
Kim: Hey!
Terry: Yeah! Hey to you, too, Kimberly!
Kim: No, I mean... Televisions have to be plugged in, right?
Joyce: Oh yes.
Vanna: But the distance from the plug to the bed is far and we might get scolded.
Kim: But it is an idea.
Cedric: We can’t. There are crewmen hanging around.
(When they were told about the charging room slash chapel, they flocked out there. On their way to the chapel, a guy keeps on “calling” them...)
Kim: (irritated) Stop it with the calling already. It’s annoying!
(Joyce and the rest laugh at Kim and told the story to the others...)
Tanya: Which one, that guy?
Vanna: Yeah. That one, beside Lester.
(They tease Dave. When they were going to lunch, there was a very long line. And when they finally got their food, the ship was bobbing up and down because of the waves...)
Samantha: Yeah, we already got our food...but nature doesn’t seem to allow us to eat.
Airah: I’m already dizzy.
Dana: You think our food would be placed properly in our stomache? (grinning)
Kim: This is the ship life? But how come the seamen are “big” people?
Samantha: (chuckling) Illegal! You’re dad’s a seaman!
Kim: Living proof! (laughing)
(After thirty-eight hours, they arrived in the shore, but their service van wasn’t there yet. They had to wait for two hours. They just played cards and hung around on the topmost part of the ship. Then, they started their trip to Baguio. At 6 am, they stopped to eat breakfast. After eating, they took pictures first, then left. They fell asleep in the van and awoke to the scent of dried mangoes that Cherie was eating. After a good six hours on the road, they arrived in Baguio. They got inside Teacher’s Camp...)
Airah: Who’re you calling, ma’am?
Ms. DeVille: The guy who will guide us to where we’re supposed to stay in.
Mr. Moody: Don’t you know that she’s calling her partner in life?
Samantha: Oh, partner in life..!
Dana: But they’ve never met, how nice!
Dave: They’ll see each other now. Just wait.
( They got inside one of the halls and looked for a room...)
Lane: Ooh, it looks so scary!
Reena: Don’t say that, Lane!
Samantha: Someone said before that if it’s your first time to sleep in a place, and you’ve got nightmares,
then there are other beings around.
Vanna: Really?
Samantha: Yeah.
Ms. DeVille: Leave your things in your room. Girls will be in this room, ours is on the other end.
(The girls picked their beds. The room was very big and the beds were very, very far apart. Out of fear, they moved their beds closer together. Then they took pictures of themselves with different cameras. After going to the University of Baguio, they all went to Burnham Park, without the family Moody...)
Carrie: Look at those boats!
Airah: Oh yes...
Lane: Do you want to ride on those? I want to!
Ms. DeVille: Where’s Tanya?
Terry: She’s sitting down with Cedric. I think there’s something wrong.
Cedric: Her stomeache’s aching.
Airah: Maybe you’re just hungry...
Joyce: Look at the corn!
Vanna: You could buy the corn and eat it, Tanya.
(When Tanya bought a corn, all the others bought one except for Kim. Then, they rode on the boats. They were novices in manuevering those boats that they kept on bumping on each other and on people. They took pictures again and when they finally got bored, they got out of the boats...)
Reena: We must go ome now. It’s getting dark, and we still have to have dinner.
Ms. DeVille: Where do you want to eat dinner?
Cherie: Can’t we eat in Teacher’s Camp?
Ms. DeVille: I think we can bring our food there.
Samantha: Let’s just buy our food and eat it in our rooms.
(They went to SM Baguio and bought their dinner in Chowking. While waiting for their orders to arrive, Dana and Samantha were going around SM on their own. The others were looking for them until the orders arrived. They decided to go home and text the two that they were already in Teacher’s Camp. Back in their rooms, they were eating. Some of them couldn’t finish their food, so they just threw them away. After a while, Dana and Samantha arrived. Apparently, they were just exploring and had already eaten their dinner in SM. So, they brushed their teeth. There was no mirror in the bathroom, which led the group to make up theories on why there are no mirrors...)
Ms. DeVille: They said there was once a janitress who was raped in the bathroom and was just killed in
there. It was also said that the men hanged her in one of the rooms. And before, whenever someone
would look in the mirror to brush or whatever, they would always see the janitress.
Reena: Ew!
Lane: I don’t want to get in there alone..!
Tanya: Okay, here’s an idea... How about if, there are twelve of us, right? And there are four cubicles for
showering. So, it could be that four people would take a bath and change, then the eight would wait
outside. Then, the next four would go inside and etcetera. Do you get me?
All: Yes. Okay!
(But they found out the sad truth that there were only three cubicles for showering and that the other one was at the other end of the bathroom near the open window. They abandoned the idea and just planned that they would have a partner for them to take a bath. That night, talking. They heard voices that sounded just like their voices...)
Tanya: Wait... Shh!
Vanna: Did that just sound like –
All: Airah!
Airah: Huh?!
Terry: Maybe it’s just your imagination.
Lane: Let’s just go to sleep.
(When they slept, they heard the sound of keypads, as if someone was texting. They wanted to check who it was, but were too scared to look in fear of seeing a white lady. Kim was covering herself with her blanket. When they awoke, Kim was really sweating...)
Samantha: Hey! Guys, take a look at this... My mineral water from last night became as cold as ice.
Carrie: Did you just leave it there?
Samantha: Yes!
Airah: Instant ice!
Cherie: Refrigerator! Whohoo!
(That morning, those who didn’t take a bath the night before were freezing cold because of the water. Then they went to the University of Baguio again for some so called sessions. They were getting in and out of sessions since they were pretty boring. That day was wasted on those sessions. That night, they wanted to experiment on what was that they heard as keypads of the cellphone...)
Vanna: I thought that it was Lane because the sound really came from her side.
Lane: It’s not me. I already slept that time.
Cherie: But I heard it coming from Kim’s side.
Kim: Huh? I heard it come from Lane’s side. I really thought someone was texting. I just didn’t mind.
Carrie: What if we experiment?
Tanya: Okay. Give me all your phones tonight and we’ll keep it inside one of the bags.
Lane: What if our loads would be consumed, huh?
Kim: (laughing) How nice. Someone would be using it. But I have no problem with it because my load is
already zero, plus my battery is dead.
(They were all talking about things. Lane and some others were washing their undies. Terry was already lying in bed, but when she looked up, she saw an undie hanging...)
Terry: Hey! Who’s undie is this?
(They were all laughing when Cherie claimed that it was hers. When Terry lay back on her bed, they all heard a knock on the door. Since Terry’s bed was near the door, she opened it. But then, no one opened. So Terry locked it again. There was the knock again. Terry was already tired that she didn’t open the door yet. The knocking grew louder, so Terry checked who was outside...but no one was there. After awhile, Dave and Cedric arrived. They chatted with the girls when Vanna, who was leaning on the window, suddenly sat straight...)
Joyce: What’s wrong?
Vanna: I just heard a knock on the window.
Joyce: What?
Vanna: Yeah, really!
Kim: Hey, what happened to you?
Joyce: Nothing.
Kim: C’mon, tell me!
Vanna: I just heard a knock on the window.
Kim: Are you crazy? You can’t knock from this high up!
Joyce: That’s the point! You can’t!
Reena: What’s with you?
Kim: Vanna just heard a knock on the window.
Lane: How?!
Vanna: I don’t know. I just heard a knock.
Tanya: No one could knock on our window. We are on the second floor, and it’s how many feet up...
(That night, before sleeping, they prayed the rosary, led by Cedric. The next morning...)
Kim: I heard a large zipper opening and closing last night, did you hear it?
Joyce: No. But I heard an ambulance pass by.
Airah: Here, get your phones!
Tanya: Try checking your load, maybe it’s already consumed. (chuckling)
(They went back to the university and then went somewhere else and bought stuff. But Cedric was told to come with Ms. DeVille. They bought the stuff they needed together and rode on the taxi towards the university...)
Cedric: (closing the door to the taxi) Where now?
Ms. DeVille: We’ll get inside first so that we could register for the tour tomorrow.
Cedric: Oh, okay... – Where’re the things I bought?
Ms. DeVille: Maybe it’s in the taxi?!
(Cedric looked for the taxi. He ran after a taxi, after another. Then, he just opened a door of the taxi and there he saw the stuff he bought. When he returned to where Ms. DeVille was standing, she was laughing very hard at him...)
Ms. DeVille: You should have seen the way you ran.
Cedric: I really needed those! Thank goodness I found it.
(They were about to take their lunch going toward a cafeteria near the university when...)
Tanya: We’ll just take a taxi.
Ms. DeVille: We’ll take the first taxi. You follow, okay?
(The next FX came. Tanya and the rest got inside but when Joyce closed the door, Kim screamed. Her fingers got caught in-between the door of the FX. Tanya opened the door. Kim got inside nursing her fingers...)
Tanya: Is it painful?
Kim: No... (tears fall down)
Tanya: We’ll look for an ice to put around your fingers.
(They arrived in the university and they told the others about it...)
Lane: Kim, don’t even say you can’t move your fingers around because I don’t know how to make a barge!
Kim: You’ll have to do it if I can’t.
(The Physics Olympics was started. The Egg Drop was first. Reena and partner lost because the egg broke. Dave and Cedric had a gay enemy who was jealous of how Dave threw the paper plane which made both of them win the contest. Lane was also given a bad look by the same gay. Vanna and Dana made progress with their game, as well as Joyce and Terry. Airah and Samantha’s bridge broke, while Tanya and Carrie’s tower won first prize. The last game was the Barge Making. Lane and Kim forced the others to join in. Joyce and Terry, Vanna and Dana joined in. Kim told them how to make the barge. Lane and Kim’s barge carried iver 300 plus kilograms, but the barge of Joyce and Terry, which looked like the container for cheese, bagged first prize! Back in their room...)
Tanya: Where’s Josh Moody?
Cedric: Hi guys!
Josh: Hi guys!
Samantha: Ew, why are you following Cedric? Do you like him?
Josh: No. He’s a guy!
Airah: Stop pretending, Josh...
(It went on all night, the teasing and stuff. Then Dave and Cedric went out for awhile. Cherie came inside to change. She accidentally took off her towel when she was already wearing only a shirt...)
Carrie: Cherie, what are you doing?!
Cherie: Oh, I forgot!
(When they slept that night, Joyce and Tanya made Kim a pillow. Joyce laid her head on Kim’s arm, while Tanya placed her arms over Kim’s head. When they woke up, Kim’s arms and neck hurt. That morning, they changed quickly and prepared for their tour. They made friends with some of the scholars of the university while touring around. After the tour, they went home. The next night. They attended the farewell party in the university gymnasium. They all wore skirts even if it was very, very cold. They rode home riding an FX. Airah was looking around when she saw an FX stop for a passenger..though there was none. That night, they teased Josh again...)
Tanya: Josh, do you like guys?
Josh: No.
Tanya: Because there’s a handsome guy who’s coming here tonight.
Kim: Huh?
Joyce: Where are you going, Tanya?
Tanya: Anywhere. Just hang around with Ian.
Carrie: Is he from your place?
Tanya: Yep. Do you wanna come with us?
Josh: I have to go. Bye!
D,S,A,C&J: I do!
Kim: What? I can’t sleep without anyone beside me here!
Lane: I won’t ever come with you. I’m tired!
Joyce: Fine then.
(Everyone came with Tanya, except for Lane, Cherie, Dave and Cedric, but first, they asked permission to go somewhere else to the “Royal Family”. Then, they visited the Lourdes Grotto where they took pictures. Then, they walked towards Burnham Park, which was far away. Reena got into a bad temper when one drunk gal bumped into her. They continued their walk which was led by the two wanderers, Dana and Samantha. After walking several meters, they arrived in Burnham Park. They rented two boats. Kim, Joyce, Vanna, Carrie and Terry rode on the second boat, while the others rode on the first boat...)
Dana: Let’s race..!
Joyce: You’re on.
Dana: Alright! Hurry up, guys!
Kim: Hello! Like, we don’t even know how to manuever this thing properly.
Carrie: Let’s just go.
Joyce: Paddle it the other way.
Kim: What other way?
Joyce: I paddle it like this, you paddle away... Got it?
Kim: Oh, okay...
(The first boat was already gaining speed...)
Dana: We’re already winning!
Kim: C’mon, guys. Let’s hurry up.
Terry: Okay, I’ll tell you what direction we’re going to go.
Vanna: Doctor captain...Hm.
Samantha: Hurry up, guys!
Kim: It’s kinda unfair...You guys have a guy with you, and we don’t!
Samantha: Aren’t you a guy?
Kim: Oh yeah, that’s so funny..!
Tanya: Let’s hurry, Ian.
Ian: No, let me paddle it alone. I can do it.
(But then, the second boat captained by Terry was already leading. Kim exchanged with Terry in paddling for a bit, then paddled again...)
Airah: Why are we slowing down?
Samantha: C’mon, let’s go! We should win!
(While the people in the second boat were laughing, they lost control of their paddling and went in circles. Carrie, who was laying down, got dizzy and mad...)
Carrie: Hey, couldn’t you paddle it in a straight path? I’m getting dizzy here!
Joyce: Paddle the other way, again.
Kim: I’m already confused!
Joyce: Let me do that.
Dana: (laughing) Where are you guys going? The finish line’s the other way!
Samantha: Did you suddenly find a shortcut? (mocking)
(Then, they reached a point when their boats drifted against each other. Kim, at Joyce’s command, raised the paddle upwards so that the boats could separate...)
Samantha: Airah, be careful!
Airah: (shouting) Put it down, put it down!
Kim: I can’t!
(The boat goes past Airah’s place, but then goes near Sam’s place...)
Joyce: Look out!
(Samantha turned, the paddle was right infront of her face. She screamed and moved towards the edge of the boat making it rock. Her shipmates got scared. Sam continued screaming for fear of being wet...)
Samantha: Put it down, what are you doing?!
Terry: She can’t put it down, it will get us stuck.
Vanna: You guys just paddle and we’ll stay still here.
Kim: Hurry! I can’t raise this any longer..!
(Kim and the others were laughing at Samantha. Finally, the boats separated...)
Samantha: You watch out, Kim. I’m going to have my revenge..!
Airah: Did you get wet?
Tanya: She didn’t...yet!
Kim: Man, I think I almost peed in my pants.
Vanna: Ew.
(The race continued. Both boats were equal in speed. Then, Joyce and Kim got tired of rowing, making the first boat the winner. They got out of the boat...)
Dana: Yes, we win!
Terry: No, we win!
Kim: We would have won if we didn’t get tired. You guys didn’t have to row!
Samantha: We won, we won! (chanting with Dana)
(Then they rode on a taxi and went back to the Teacher’s Camp. When they got inside, they saw Cedric, Dave, Lane and Cherie playing by the guard and waiting for them. The guard was mad at them for going home late. When they got inside, he quickly turned off the lights on the outside and told them to go to sleep...)
Vanna: Why are you guys still up?
Cherie: Lane got scared.
Lane: Who wouldn’t? Dave turned off the lights when I was about to sleep in the room.
Dave: Hey, you told me to let you try and sleep alone in the room without the lights..!
Cedric: Yeah. And look who got scared...
Cherie: So, how was your night out?
Terry: Fine.
Airah: Fun!
Reena: And partly horrible!
(They got inside the room and those who went out narrated the things they did that night. They washe their faces, brushed their teeth and changed their clothes. Then, they played cards again inside the room. It was alreay around one in the morning when they decided to pray the Holy Rosary and went to bed. The next morning, they woke up early and fixed their things. They were about to go home. First, they hurried buying some additional things in the souvenir shop in the place and then rode in the car. Airah, Cherie, Cedric, Lane, Kim and Tanya rode in the second vehicle with the luggages. On their way home, they decided to have some story telling. Tanya talke about her cousin’s book which contained the story of their grandmother. After talking about things, they got bored. Then their vehicle went past the first...)
Terry: (showing the cards to them) Wanna play?
Kim: Yes!
Terry: How?
Cedric: Throw it, then we’ll catch it!
Tanya: It’s a good thing I stayed here.
Cherie: And why’s that?
Tanya: Just look at them, they look like tuna in the can... Especially that Vanna is with them.
Lane: Oh, you’re so evil...
Tanya: (Cherie grins) I’m just stating the obvious.
(The talk continued, that it reached the topic about Betsy and Charzie...)
Lane: What happened to Betsy? She’s become so talkative already!
Tanya: Oh yes.
Cherie: She would hardly talk to anyone before, except for Angel.
Kim: Well... She started hanging out with Daniel, and he can be really noisy and all...
Lane: And now it’s her and Samuel.
Tanya: And speaking of which, they say that Samuel’s just using her as cover for Reena.
Lane: What?
Tanya: Yeah. That’s what they said. That Samuel doesn’t really like her, but Reena.
Kim: Really? How bad...
Tanya: I don’t like her because it seems that she’s trying so hard to be...someone popular.
Cedric: She’s a good person. People shouldn’t say that.
Cherie: She’s an okay person once you get to know her.
Tanya: But one of the most hated people in our batch is Charzie... She’s so..., I don’t know.
Cherie: Oh yes, she’s annoying..!
Airah: Yeah, really! She keeps on popping out of nowhere and annoying you.
Kim: I don’t really think people like her.
Tanya: Very, really!
(They arrived in Jace Vallen’s house in Paranaque at around six in the evening. The first vehicle was already waiting for them. Then they unloaded the luggages inside...)
Joyce: What a nice car...
Kim: Yeah. That must be expensive.
(Kim left her bag near the car they were talking about to get her other bag when something banged and the car alarm sounded. Joyce and Kim looked at each other, then Kim hurried to get her bag and went inside...)
Ms. DeVille: What happened?
Joyce: A bag fell down.
Mr. Vallen: Oh, it’s no problem. They will see nothing’s happened to their car. Come in, come in!
(They got inside the house and looked for their beds. Those who were not able to charge their phones scrambled for the plug. Then Dana asked one of the maids for an extension wire and charged three more phones...)
The next morning...
(They prepared to go to Enchanted Kingdom. When they arrived, it wasn’t opened yet, so they waited in Jollibee. Then, some of them bought food and shakes and whatever. Tanya took out her phone and took a picture of Dave...)
Dave: Let me see, Tanya.
Tanya: (covering her phone) Don’t peek.
Dave: Alright, then.
(Tanya drew on the face of Dave using her phone, still...)
Tanya: Kim, don’t tell him what I did... (showing it to Kim)
Kim: (laughing) Cool..!
Dave: What did you do?
Tanya: Nothing. (adding more while showing Kim) Looks good on him, doesn’t it?
Kim: Yeah, kinda.
Tanya: (finishing) Alright, you can see it now. (showing it to Dave)
Dave: Oh yeah, I do look good with a horn. (laughing)
Joyce: Oh, shut up there, Dave.
Dave: Whatever..!
(Enchanted Kingdom was already opened. They got ther tickets and enjoyed themselves. Cedric, Joyce, Vanna, Cherie and Kim took pictures of themselves when Josh joined them. They rode on different rides.
They rode on the Space Shuttle with Josh Moody. They enjoyed its twists and turns. When they got down, Mr. and Mrs. Moody asked Josh how it was, but only caught sight of his pale face. They were laughing at him. They got on the Jungle Log Jam and got wet. After several repetitions, they transferred to the Bumper Cars, wetting the seats. They went and watched a 4D movie. Then, they ate lunch together. But before that, Tanya and Carrie were sitting down...)
Ms. DeVille: Let’s go and eat lunch.
(Carrie, along with the rest, stood up. She forgot to get her phone on the table. It was a good thing that Tanya saw it, but then, she didn’t tell Carrie about it...)
Kim: Where’s the –
J&T: Shh!
Kim: What?
Tanya: I won’t tell her that she left her phone. I’ll let her look for it. Don’t you wanna see her reaction?
Kim: Oh, okay...
Joyce: So, just keep quiet abut it, okay?
Kim: Sure.
(They were strolling around, looking for wonderful rides. They watched a movie but got bored. When it ended, they went inside again to sleep...)
Terry: How are you going to sleep inside when the chairs are all moving?
Lane: We’ll try though.
Cherie: As if you could, Lane. I’ll pay you a thousand if you do.
(Lane was not able to go to sleep inside as what Terry had said. They then explored the whole place. They took pictures of themselves everywhere. Then they passed by Rio Grande Rapids...)
Kim: Let’s get inside there. The ride’s pretty...wild!
Vanna: Really?
Cedric: Let’s go!
(They got inside. They rode on it and went off. The water carried them in circles. They were all shouting because they didn;t want to get drenched by the waterfalls, but they still did. After their ride, they went back again. This time, there was already a long line. The others were also there. Then on their second, third, fourth, nth time to ride, they already wanted to get wet. After that, they dried themselves in the Flying Fiesta ride. They were told to gather up because they were going home, so they took pictures and ate ice cream. But then...)
Airah: What are you doing? They said we aren’t going to go now.
Dave: Why? Where is the Royal Family?
Airah: They already went home. Apparently old age can’t stay up too long, huh?
Dave: Thanks for the info, Airah.
Airah: No problem.
(Having ridden almost all the rides in the place, they looked for a place to sit. Then they found out that there was going to be a free concert that night, so they went to the venue and waited...)
Lane: (sitting on the first row) C’mon guys.
Guy: Excuse me, miss, but the mediamen are going to sit on the first two rows. Sit on the third, though.
Lane: Oh, thanks.
(After an hour of waiting, the concert started. The host came up on stage...)
Rainier: I’m going to sing a song for my special someone. Do you know what song it is?
Dana: Hey Babe.
Rainier: Yeah, it’s for my babe.
Dana: Babe, as in the pig? (laughing)
Rainier: No, not the pig. (grinning)
(The concert continued. They watched for several hours, then it was time to go home. They all stood up at the same time eventhough the concert wasn’t done yet. People looke at them to be rude but they didn’t mind. They arrived home safely and were tired. They brushed their teeth, took a bath, chitchatted a bit...)
Kim: Oh hey, listen to this. (the haunting sound)
Terry: You should have played that when we were in Baguio.
Airah: (laughing) Oh yeah..!
Reena: No way!
Kim: Something else might come out... (grinning)
(Then they went to sleep. That night, Airah had an idea but put it off in the morning. Early dawn, Terry woke up and went in and out of the room several times. Kim noticed it and awoke. She felt Terry’s mosquito net for her feet...)
Kim: So that’s why it’s itchy.
Terry: (getting inside the room and sitting down) Hi!
Kim: You’ve been awake for a long time, huh?
Terry: No...
Kim: I’ve seen you go in and out of the room, Terry.
Terry: Okay, you caught me. (grinning)
Airah: (getting inside the room) Hey, Kim. Let me borrow your phone.
Kim: Huh? Why? (giving the phone)
Airah: I’m going to scare Ms. DeVille. (evil smile)
Terry: You’re going to scare a teacher?
Airah: If she gets scared, that is.
(They waited for Airah to scare Ms. DeVille. They heard the haunting sound...)
Ms. DeVille: Airah, I know that is you.
Airah: (laughing) How’d you know, ma’am?
Ms. DeVille: There’s no one else up aside from you, Terry and me. Go away. (grinning)
Airah: Aw man... (getting back inside the room)
Kim: How was it?
Airah: She knew it was me. Aha! I know, I’ll scare Zia. She’s already awake.
Terry: Aren’t you going to get in trouble for that?
Airah: Not if I won’t get caught. (snickering)
In the other room...
Airah: Hi Zia.
Zia: Hi.
Airah: Why are you already awake?
Zia: I just awoke.
Airah: (playing the haunting sound) What-what’s that? Do you hear that?
Carrie: I’m so scared! Ghost..!
(Carrie played along with Airah who never made it obvious that she was laughing hard already. Zia got so scared because it was dark, plus the haunting sound that she cried. Airah then quickly stopped playing the sound and hushed Zia to keep quiet. She then went out of the room and went inside the other room...)
Ms. DeVille: Airah, come here.
Airah: Yes?
Ms. DeVille: What did you do to Zia?
Airah: I just made her listen to the sound. But of course, I didn’t tell her it was me.
Ms. DeVille: Mrs. Moody doesn’t want Zia crying. She’ll get mad if she knows you made her cry.
Airah: She won’t tell her mother, I’m sure of it.
(Hours later, they were all done taking a bath. The adults went somewhere to buy some things while the others went shopping. The ones left were Airah, Joyce, Vanna, Kim, Terry, Tanya, Josh and Zia. Then they found out that Zia broke one of the chess pieces of the Vallens that Tanya scolded her. It was time to go home. On the ship, they were entertained by the dog and its trainer. As well as the kids and playing hide and seek on the ship...)
Just a day before the classes would start...
(Kim and her family went to the school to check what section she and her brother was going to be in...)
Daniel: Hi Kim!
Kim: Daniel! Do you know if the list of sections are posted already?
Daniel: Wait, let’s ask... Excuse me,ma’am, when are the list of sections going to be posted?
Ms. Zinger: Maybe tomorrow. (walking away)
Daniel: (shrugging) Tomorrow then...
(Kim and her family leaves. Then, Kim receives a text message from Lane that says she and Ashley were in the same section, and that Lane and Nica were in the same section...)
The next day...Inside the class of Miss Zinger...
(Ashley sits behind Kim. There was a vacant seat beside Kim. Miss Zinger begins her lecture about the class rules when Mico knocks on the door...)
Ms. Zinger: Yes?
Mico: They said I’m in this class, ma’am.
Ms. Zinger: So you’re staying here in exchange for Anthony?
Mico: That’s what they said.
Ms. Zinger: Okay, get inside.
(Mico looks for a seat, but couldn’t find any other vacant one except the one by Kim...so he sits there. Then Ms. Zinger catches Veronica using her cellphone and confiscates it...)
Ms. Zinger: You shouldn’t have a bad record on the first day of class, Veronica.
Veronica: Sorry, ma’am.
Recess time...
(Students went out from the different classes to talk with their friends. Ashley and Aish wanted to talk to Mico so that Aish could exchange classes with him...)
Athan: Don’t you transfer anymore to Mr. Cole’s class, alright?
Mico: I originally came from that section, why would I wanna go back there?
Aish: Mico!
Mico: What?
Ashley: Could you please switch classes with Aish... Please, please,please..?
Mico: I don’t know.
Aish: Please, Mico?
Mico: We’ll see.
Back in class...
Kim: I don’t think Mico will switch with Aish, you know. He came from their class...
Ashley: Really?
Kim: Yup.
(Days after, the elections came. Gaven and Reena ran for president while Tyler, Anthony and Lane ran for vice president. Dana ran for a position, too, but lost. Gaven won as president while Anthony and Lane won as vice presidents... Then, the acquaintance party was planned...)
Mage: What’s it going to be?
Gaven: A retro and modern party. Each class would be asked to pick a paper, and whatever they choose,
whether retro or modern, that’s what they’re going to wear and dance.
Nica: I hope we get the modern dance..!
Samantha: Yeah! Modern!
Lane: And last, for the Emerald, is retro.
Nica: Why retro?!
Lane: By the way, you should choose one of you to be the star of your dance. For example, one of you
would be Beyonce or J-Lo or whoever...
The acquiantance party...
(Every class presented. There were some boring ones, and some jolly ones. The presentation of Zircon was a bust since Tyler made a wrong move of when to join in. When the winners were called out, it appeared that all retro dances won all the places..!)
Student: Unfair!
Student2: The judges are old people, that’s why they prefer the retro dances..!
Mr. Cole: Excuse me! Even if you have all those simple steps but you’re doing them together, it’s already
nice. Than doing difficult steps, then you’re not together.
Student: But really, it’s unfair!
Airah: What happened there on stage?
Thomas: I told Tyler that it was time we entered the scene but he said no.
Tyler: It was an honest mistake.
About a month after...
Lane: Who’s that texting you, Rain?
Rain: Huh? Oh, it’s just Betsy.
Lane: Where is she already?
Rain: I guess she’s in Samuel’s house with the others.
Aish: I see a Tyler.
Kim: A what?
Lane: Tyler? Is he texting you now, Rain?
Rain: Yeah. He says he wants me to come along with them in Benj’s beach house.
Aish: When, tonight?
Rain: Yup.
Kim: How am I gonna get home? I can’t go alone, you know.
Lane: Tell Tyler that you can’t go if you won’t bring us along. You can’t just leave us behind.
Athan: Is she coming?
Tyler: She would –
Betsy: Great!
Samuel: Then let’s go get her. Wait, just tell her Landon’s going to pick her up.
Tyler: No, wait.
Athan: She’s not coming, is she?
Tyler: No, she won’t...if her friends couldn’t come along.
Athan: Friends who?
Tyler: Kim, Aish and Lane.
Betsy: It’s just te four of them?
Zander: Why don’t we just let them come with us.
Samuel: I guess so.
Rain: Landon’s coming to pick us up.
Lane: Really? Cool!
Aish: Hey, wait. I have to go pee.
Lane: Let’s hurry before Landon arrives and leaves us all.
In Mico’s house...
Mom: Ask your Dad’s permission. I have to go, okay?
Mico: Okay.
Athan: (texting) Are you coming?
Mico: (texting) I’m working on it.
Athan: (texting) Hurry up and decide already. Nica and her friends are coming, though.
Outside the mall...
Kim: Juan! (People turn and they laugh)
Rain: Your voice was so loud..!
Kim: I didn’t mean it. (laughing)
Lane: So tyou think their names are Juan?
Kim: Nope. But I can’t believe that nursing student turned when you called out Phil Young!
Aish: Oh yeah!
Kim: Oh, wait. A...message...(reading) What? Who does he think he is?
Rain: What? What is it?
Kim: (showing the message to Rain) Does he think I’m his assistant?
Lane: Who?
Rain: Mico wants Kim to ask permission for him to go with Benj and the others.
Aish: Why would he wanna do that? Unless...
Lane: Unless he’s using your name to go out of the house with his girlfriends.
Kim: Are you crazy?
Lane: Maybe he tells his parents that he’s going out with YOU.
Rain: Oh my gosh, are you to on now?
Kim: No! Of course not!
Lane: Then how do you explain this?
Kim: I have no idea..!
Aish: What are you gonna tell him?
Kim: I’m gonna tell him... (texting) No way! I don’t even know your mother.
Mico: (texting) C’mon, please..?
Kim: (texting) No. Just tell your mother you’re going with your friends.
Mico: (texting) That’s just it. They won’t agree if a guy friend is going with me.
Kim: (texting) No, I won’t.
Mico: (texting) Are you going with Samuel and Betsy?
Kim: (texting) Yeah. Why?
Mico: (texting) Where are you?
Kim: (texting) We’re in the mall. I’m with Lane and the others.
Lane: Where is Landon?
Mico: (texting) I’m coming to pick you up, alright. Just wait there.
Kim: He asked where we are right now.
Aish: Why? Maybe, he’s coming.
Kim: Don’t even say that. (reading the message) No way!
Lane: What now?
Kim: He wants us to wait here. He is coming. (texting) Landon’s coming to pick us up.
Rain: But what if Landon’s going to arrive earlier?
Lane: We might have to leave you.
Kim: Don’t leave me! Hey, Lane, come with me!
Lane: What? No!
Mico: (texting) I’m coming alright. I’m on my motorcycle already.
Aish: Did you ask them where Landon is?
Rain: They said he’s coming already. He has to get his car in school.
Aish: In school?
Rain: He left it there. What can I do?
Kim: C’mon, guys. Help me here..!
Lane: We can’t. I can’t go.
Minutes later...
Lane: There he is, Kim.
Kim: What?
Mico: Hey.
A,R&L: Bye, Kim..! (smiling)
Kim: Funny. (getting on the motorcycle) Bye.
Mico: See ya later! (Speeding off) Where’s Landon?
Kim: He’s still coming. (just holding the motorcycle and not Mico)
Mico: Umm... You just have to talk to my mother when she arrives.
Kim: Right...
(They went uphill and downhill that Kim was pushed forward. She then recoiled backward...)
Mico: You okay back there?
Kim: Yeah. (thinking) Slow down, will you?!
Mico: Good. We’re almost there.
Kim: Okay. Hey...
Mico: Yeah?
Kim: Why, why do you want me to ask your mom’s permission?
Mico: Because she knows you...and as I said, she wouldn’t agree if a guy would ask the permission.
Kim: Oh, okay.
Mico: (reading the message and stopping the motorcycle) I thought it’s mom... It’s just Lara.
Kim: Is she coming too?
Mico: I’m not sure. (driving off again)
Lane: How do you think Kim is doing?
Landon: Is Kim coming too?
Lane: Yeah.
Landon: Then where is she?
A,R&L: She’s with MICO!!!
Back in Mico’s house...
Mico: Careful with the ropes. Can you see them?
Kim: Yup. (thinking) Nope!
Mico: Okay. Just follow me. (leading the way) That is my cousin’s house.
Kim: Oh, I see.
(They get inside the house. Mico’s maid opened the door...)
Maid: Mico...
Mico: Is Mom home yet?
Maid: No. Your Dad was here awhile ago, but he left again.
Mico: Where’s he going?
Maid: He’s going to buy something, I guess.
Mico: Oh. By the way, this is Kim. She’s my classmate.
Maid: Hello. Oh, come in, come in.
(Both of them got inside and waited for Mico’s parents. Mico offered some food for Kim, but she declined. Mico then packed some chips for them to eat when some delivery men arrived...)
Mico: Are you okay?
Kim: Yeah, I’m fine.
Mico: Did Rain text you if they’re still waiting?
Kim: Yup.
Tyler: Let’s just go.
A&S: Yeah, let’s go...-
Rain: Wait, but Kim said that we have to wait for them.
Tyler: Mico has his motorcycle – or they could ride with Mico’s parents...
Betsy: Mico’s parents???
Mico: Um, why don’t you just place the bed inside the house.
Maid: Maybe you should call your Mom, Mico.
Mico: Just get inside first. Because if you leave, who would be bringing that in.
Kim: (texting) Are you still in Samuel’s house?
Rain: Guys, she just asked if we’re still in Samuel’s house...
Xander: Then tell her we’ve left.
Athan: No, you can’t tell her that.
Aish: You should tell her the truth, you know.
Tyler: Just tell them to hurry up.
Rain: Okay, then.
Kim: (thinking) They must be kidding! (looking out the window)
Mico: Sorry for having to let you wait too long.
Kim: It’s alright.
Mico: (phone rings; answering) Hello. Mom?...Dad has been looking for you...Okay, okay...Hey, Mom, can
I go to my friend’s party?...Okay, okay. Sure. Bye... Kim, could you talk to my Dad?
Kim: What?
Mico: Could you please ask permission to my Dad?
Kim: I don’t know... I can’t...
Mico: Please? Uh, let’s make-up a story...
Kim: (thinking) Like what? You lie, they’re your parents.
Mico: Like, we’ll tell them that it’s your birthday and that you’re celebrating in the beach. Sound okay?
Kim: Um, yeah, sure.
(Mico goes upstairs and changes. When he comes down, he received a message...)
Mico: Oh, it’s just Lara. She’s annoying, thought it was my Dad already.
Kim: Is she coming?
Mico: I guess. After all, Landon’s coming, right..?
Kim: Oh, yeah. Right.
Mico: (receiving a phone call) Excuse me... Dad? You’re outside already? Okay...
Kim: Is he here?
Mico: Yeah. Let’s go outside.
(They got out and passed the ropes again...)
Mico: Dad..!
Dad: Mico, where’s your Mom?
Mico: She’s out. Anyway, this is my friend, Kim.
Kim: Good evening, sir.
Dad: Good evening.
Mico: Oh, Dad, she’s celebrating her birthday today and she has invited me to come along.
Dad: Really? Where is it?
Mico: It’s in the beach house of our classmate, as well.
Dad: Beach? Well, you should ask your mother about this. I don’t trust beaches at night.
Mico: But Mom said that I should ask you. And besides, everyone’s already there...
Dad: And the celebrant is with you?
Mico: Yeah.
Dad: Oh, okay. Then what are you going to ride?
Mico: The motorcycle. But if you’d let me drive the car, I suppose I could... (grinning)
Dad: I should call your Mom.
(He calls Mico’s Mom and she agrees with his Dad’s decision...)
Dad: I’ll just drive you both to your classmate’s house and then we’ll pick your Mom up.
Kim: (thinking) What???!!!
Mico: Um, where’s Mom?
Dad: She’s in the Sunshine Store.
(The three of them get inside the car. Mico opens the door for Kim and gets in...)
Dad: Please just bare with the bags in the back. I just came from a trip.
Kim: It’s okay, sir.
Dad: Mico, could you kindly move the bags...
(Then when the bags were moved, Mico’s Dad started the car and they picked up Mico’s Mom. Mico goes out of the car...)
Dad: How are you doing in school?
Kim: Umm, fine.
Dad: What course are you going to take up in college?
Kim: Nursing.
Dad: What school?
Kim: Doctor’s College...
Mom: Hello!
Dad: Hi, Hon.
Kim: Good evening, ma’am.
Dad: We have Mico’s friend with us. They’re going to her party.
Mom: Oh, hi. Good evening. Put those bags at the back, son.
Mico: Alright.