Memories
Klaus Schilling
Abstract
The pupils of the “Pacific Coast Academy” get confronted by their memories of the past. Are they able to drudge them away?
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Pilot
- 2. Drake Parker
- 3. Logan’s Step-Sister
- 4. Dancing Floor
- 5. School Drama
- 6. Nationals
- 7. New Year — New Chaos
- 8. From Past To Future
- 9. Halloween
- 10. Hypnosis
- 11. Droids of War
- 12. Carly At PCA
- 13. Long Time No See
- 14. A Husband For Coco
- 15. Logans’s Grandpa
- 16. Sound Of The Triangle
- 17. Rain Keeps Falling
- 18. Science Fairy
- 19. Dance To The Moon
- 20. PCA Talent Show
- 21. Barbecue Party
- 22. Charles Galloway
- 23. 101 Japanese Nights
- 24. Blix Jet
- 25. Pageant At PCA
- 26. Evaluation Day
- 27. Covington
- 28. New Student James
- 29. Spring Troubles
- 30. Finale
Tip
Primary Fandom. Zoey 101
Secondary Fandoms. Unfabulous, Ned’s Declassified SSG, Drake & Josh
Peripheral Fandoms. Victorious, iCarly, True Jackson VP, Big Time Rush, Just Jordan, Best Player, Spectacular!, Fairly Odd Movie, Shredderman Rules
Genres
Fluff, Family, Friends, Science Fiction, Supernatural, Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Summary
During their studies at “Pacific Coast Academy”, Zoey and her friends have to face memories of their lives before coming thereto.
Zoey gets confronted with Katie Packerman[katie packerman] and with Jeff Norgin[jeff norgin].
Chase Matthews comes to face Rusty Dickerson.[rusty].
Michael is struck by Karen Franklin[Karen Franklin].
Logan meets some of his many stepmothers.[logans stepmoms].
Quinn has to face more traces of her past as a pageant girl.[pageant girl quinn]
How will the kids be able to drudge away those wretched memories of their past?
Characters and Pairings
A big variety of people from the above shows and movies is involved.
Couples include: Zoey Brooks – Jerry Crony[jerry crony]
, Quinn Pensky – “Cal”[cal]
, Lola Martinez – Spencer Carter[spencer carter]
, Logan Reese – Mercedes Griffin[mercedes griffin]
, Chase Matthews – Addie Singer[addie singer],
Michael Barret – Wendy Gellar[wendy gellar],
Dustin Brooks – Carly Shay,
Stacey Dillsen[stacey]
– Eric Blonowitz[eric blonowitz],
Wayne “Firewire” Gilbert – Jade West,
Vince Blake – Shelby Marx[shelby],
Lisa Perkins – Drake Parker[drake],
Dean Carl Rivers – Dr. Sheila Voss[sheila voss],
Coco Wexler – Gordy[gordy],
Coach Keller – Coach Dirga
et cetera.
Timeline
Then the story diverges off Zoey 101‘s mainline through the main characters’ reactions to reminders of people and events from their past.
At the same time, Drake & Josh is supposed to be in second season, Ned’s Declassified SSG and Unfabulous are in their first season
Any other show or movie have not yet started.
Background
This story is also written for prompt The fool’s hope has failed. of Livejournal community 50 Passages.
This story is also written for prompt Memory of Livejournal community Crossovers 50.
This story is also written for Livejournal community 30 Memories, one prompt per chapter.
Q
[katie packerman] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Miss PCA
[jeff norgin] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Vince Is Back
[rusty] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Good-Bye, Zoey!
[Karen Franklin] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Elections
She’s identified with a person of same name mentioned in iCarly : iStage An Intervention.
The connection between Karen Franklin and Principal Ted Franklin from iCarly and “Makeout” Mandy Franklin, mentioned in Zoey 101 : Chasing Zoey, is by no means canonical.
[logans stepmoms] Their existence is alluded to in Zoey 101 : Quinn Misses The Mark.
[pageant girl quinn] cf. Zoey 101 : Silver Hammers.
[jerry crony] This occasional character from Ned’s Declassified SSG is identified with same actor’s cameo as Olivary Biallo in Zoey 101 : School Dance.
[cal] from iCarly : iGo Nuclear
[spencer carter] Spencer is from Ned’s Declassified SSG : “The School Play”.
The family name is taken from same actor’s guest rôle in Nickelodeon’s Amanda Show.
[mercedes griffin] from Big Time Rush : Big Time Party
She is identified with “Missy Meany” from Ned’s Declassified SSG
[addie singer] Addie Singer, star of Unfabulous, is identified with same actress’s cameo in Drake & Josh : Honor Council, a girl helping Megan Parker to annoy Josh Nichols.
[wendy gellar] Wendy appears only in Drake & Josh : Number One Fan.
The family name is taken from same actress’s character in Camp Rock, a movie not owned by me, either.
This Wendy is identified with a Wendy mentioned casually in Zoey 101 : Lola Likes Chase as a former unrequited crush of Dustin Brooks’s.
[stacey] She;s identified with same actress’s cameo in iCarly : iStart A Fanwar
[eric blonowitz] identified with same actor’s cameo in iCarly : iStart A Fanwar
[shelby] from iCarly : iFight Shelby Marx
[drake] idetifies Drake Bell’s self-insert in Zoey 101 : Spring Fling with Drake Parker, star of Drake & Josh
[sheila voss] from Shredderman Rules and identified with Francine Briggs from iCarly and Jacqueline bell from Unfabulous : The Grey Area.
[gordy] from Ned’s Declassified SSG, identified with “Buddha Bob” from Big Time Rush
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The red hot Californian summer was coming to an end.
Classes were about starting at most schools in the greater Los Angeles area.
The “Pacific Coast Academy” was one of the most renowned prep schools of this regions.
This year, it started to open, for the first time, for girls.
Mr. Bradford[bradford]
, owner of the educational institution, was not6 keen on this change. He feared coeducation to result in chaos and turmoil without end.
To some extend, this was totally justified.
Alas, this was usually the fault of some boys fearing for their privilleges, such as Logan Reese, son of Hollywood’s multigazillionary Malcolm Reese.
Barbie-like Zoey Brooks was one of the first girls. She was now a student of the eighth grade. Inspite of being born in Louisiana[born in lousiana]
, she had been growing up and hitherto been attendinging classes at Bushmond[bushmond]
middle school, located in San Diego County. But she had wanted to switch to “Pacific Coast Academy”, her little brother’s school. She loved Dustin above all, was excessively protective, and could not stand imagining Dustin to be all lost and alone.
But Dustin had been on his own for three years already.
For Zoey, this did not prove anything.
“Dustin is so fragile and defenseless …” Of course, Zoey also enjoyed the location of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
The school was not far from the beach. It resembled a spa rather than a boarding school.
But Zoey was going to get accustomed to that. Now she started to accomodate in her dormitory room, 101 Butler Hall.
Zoey wrote her grandparents, living in Boston[grannies in boston]
, almost every day.
Her letters were more or less a diary of her liefe at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
This habit accompanied the blond Mary-Sue already since elementary school.
Zoey had archived the carbon copies of her letters ever since.
They served her as a container of reminiscences of earlier years.
She wanted to cherish some of the memories forever.
Other memories, to the contrary, she would have loved to get out of her life.
They remained in the archive just as a warning agianst Zoey’s own misatakes and negligeance.
Zoey appeared plain cool and likable, and she enjoyed this rôle to the fullest.
But sometimes, they strike again in the most impossible moments.
Zoey’s first letters and entries were about her new friends and roomies.
One of them was bubbly bimbo wench Nicole Bristow from Kansas.
The other roomie was one caramel-haired abrasive Latina tomboy named Dana Cruz.
Zoey was a bit annoyed by their attitudes.
Dana Cruz was messy and arrogant.
Nicole was obsessed with her beauty, especially her hair styling. She was addicted to cute boys and anticipated making out with as many of them as possible. But she could not hadle to face them with her hair in disorder. She squealed a lot, upsetting especially Dana to no end.
For a few days, Zoey had even traded roomies and moved into the adjacent dorm.
Her roomate during this time was nerd girl Quinn Pensky from Seattle.
Zoey had been scared by Quinn’s scientific experiments. She felt disgusted by them.
Thus Quinn sent her back to her old roomies, viz. Nicole and Dana.
But, besides these girls, Zoey had also come to know a few boys.
One of them was a bush-headed dork named Chase Bartholomew Matthews. He appeared quite nice.
Zoey enjoyed his attention.
Alas, there was some grain of salt.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews reminded Zoey somewhat of a boy from her old schools.
Jeff Norkin had had a crush on Zoey for several months straight.
Zoey had not really got feelings for him. Finally, Zoey was overcome by insensate pity and forced herself into kissing him. She feared this to happen again, later in her life. Zoey Brooks just had got some incredibly big heart. And she was not able to help it.
Her first encounter with Chase occurred a few seconds after entering the campus.
Chase passed by on his bike. He startled upon Zoey’s charm and beauty, and he rode his bike into a flag staff.
Zoey had helped him up again.
And thus the fun began …
Chase Matthews had got two room pals, viz. Logan Reese and Michael Barret.
Logan was aforementioned son of Hollywood’s emperor. He used to wave around with his titanium credit card, impressing boys and girls alike. He was one arrogant jerk. But he also played basketball fairly well.
Michal Barret was the only coloured guy in the gang. He was usually very much fun, but he was easily embarrassed and nervous. He was also a good basketball player.
Logan had always considered basketball at “Pacific Coast Academy” as a girl-free zone.
The latter were only welcome as cheerleaders.
Zoey had been the first to challenge those prejudices. She was later on going to do so with many other male chauvinisms stuck to the heads of the boys at “Pacific Coast Academy”. This time, however, she decided to challenge the boys in a basketball match.
The other girls were hardly able to back her.
Only Dana was useful, but she was hesitating.
The boys only won by a very small difference.
This was enough to get Zoey and Dana into the basketball team.
Logan, however, was not yet getting off his high stance.
There was some tough work in front of Zoey.
Like at other schools, there were also classes at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
And with those also came teachers.
Just like at Zoey’s former school, some of the teachers were easier to get along with than others.
The standards at this elitary prep school were a trifle higher than those at the local district schools.
Zoey’s favourite teacher was Mr. Bender. He was responsible for teaching about mass media and public relations.
The “Pacific Coast Academy” was sponsored by many giants of the Hollywood business, such as aforementioned Malcolm Reese.
This made the classes particularly interesting.
Class projects were thus closely related to the daily practice at Hollywood.
This had not been the case at Zoey’s old school.
Classes used to be more boring.
Zoey commented a lot on the differences between classes at Bushmond and those at “Pacific Coast Academy” in her letters to her grandparents. She made notes for that avail during the daily recesses.
Nicole found this stupid. The only thing she found worthy of being recorded and remembered were the many cute boys, and the beach, and the cute boys, and the pools, and, last but not least, all those incredibly cute boys. “Boys at my old school in Kansas are lame and ugly!”
Dana didn’t care. She hated academic classes, anyways. She was only keen on athletics. Her goal was that of becoming a succesful chearleader and a top model for sportswear.
Making it into the cheerio team was not hard.
Boys did not like being a cheerleader. They would have been humiliated for the rest of their life.
And girls were still a minority.
For that reason, many girls from nearby schools were adopted temporarily in order to fill the gaps.
Even the cheerio coach had to be hired from elsewhere.
This opened many portal>s for encounters with memories from the past.
[bradford] from Zoey 101 : Prank Week
[born in lousiana] this fact is hinted in Zoey 101 : Robot Wars
[bushmond] a school mentioned in Drake & Josh : Smart Girl.
[grannies in boston] a fact mentioned in Zoey 101 : School Dance
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Dustin Brooks was only nine years old.
But this did not prevent him from watching out for girls.
Zoey tried to ignore this. She did not yet deem him able of feelings for girls, not in a more narrow sense of the word. But she was wrong.
For the next year, there was that new girl from San Diego to be expected. She had been here with her parents in order to evaluate the school for a potential switch.
Her name was Wendy Gellar.
Alas, the crush had been one-sided.
Wendy only laughed about Dustin.
Zoey had to comfort her brother. Unfortunately, she had not been any better than Wendy to quite a few boys at her old school.
But this will deserve a closer look later on.
This time, she allowed Dustin to stay in her dormitory room over night and tell him a lullaby story, against the protests of Dana, and against the rules.
Fortunately, excessively messy dormitory adviser Coco Wexler was totally easy to fool.[fooling coco]
Dustin just had to pretend to be a doll and hide among the plush toys. He was totally believable.
Dana was always exorbitantly rude to Dustin.[rude dana] She threatened to inform headmaster Rivers.
Zoey did not like this. She was going to make heartless Dana pay dearly, sooner or later. For the time being, she could calm Dana down with a
But what had been Wendy’s reason for her arrogance towards Dustin?
She had got an equally one-sided crush on something much better, an obsession leading to stalking and public drama.
And this “something” was no other than Drake Parker, a hot teenage rock star from San Diego! He was still at the beginning of his career. A few weeks ago, he had subbed for super star Devin Malone[devin malone] due to a stupid accident.
An agent had ever since taken care of Drake’s career.
The heartthrob of Californian girls had started giving concerts throughout Southern California.
Zoey would have laughed Drake to appear as well at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
There was a traditional party called “Spring Fling”.
It used to be lame.
But Zoey was agreat organiser. She had no qualms trying to hire Drake. Among other things, she was up to showing Dustin the folllowing:
Teenage rock stars are not superheroes, they are just boys like anyone else, and they have usually got stern moral flaws, in other words, they were ruthless jerks like Logan Reese.
Dustin should not lose his self-confidence over that one bad experience.
But Zoey was also a fan of Drake’s music, no matter what.
Alas, the first contact with Drake’s agent resulted in a big shock.
The manager wanted 5,000 bucks.
Zoey wondered about a way to pay for it.
Nicole was totally disappointed. She had got an even bigger crush on Drake than his self-proclaimed fan number one, viz. Wendy Gellar.
Zoey was ready to give up. She thought about the usual ways to raise funds, such as a car wash, but she was not convinced of that.
But then there was an important expectation.
Bushmond, her old school, had been able to hire Drake Parker for no cost.
How had that been possible?
Some research lead to the following revelation:
Class president Katie Packerman had offered herself to make out with Drake Parker.
The jerk actually accepted this as a payment.
Zoey threw up upon this information.
Drake switched girlfriends faster than his underwear.
And Katie was not just anyone.
At nursery school, Zoey and Katie had still been friends.
But during elementary school, this changed drastically.
Being competitors for a mini pageant organised by their school turned them into bitter enemies.
Zoey’s transfer to “Pacific Coast Academy”, the most elitary school of that angle of the country, seemed to have resolved the competition in favour of Zoey.
But this news changed the world again.
Could Zoey leave unto Katie Packerman the triumph of having been able to get super star Drake perform at her school and for her friends?
Dustin had already donated twenty bucks for raising funs. He was working on and off as a paid test rabbit for nerdy Quinn.
Zoey was not content with his job and was going to have a serious conversation.
A few days ago, Quinn had found a boyfriend, lethargical Mark del Figgalo.
Zoey was going to suggest unto Quinn to abuse her boyfriend for her experiments instead of an innocent little baby boy.
Dustin should find a better job. He was too young for working at a shop on the campus, though.
Whatever, Quinn’s abominable experiments on Dustin had to stop.
Dustin would have been disappointed to death by missing out on Drake’s concert. He begged Zoey to date Drake and thus allow for a cheaper price.
Zoey was consternated. “Dustin? What are you suggesting? Are you crazy? I don’t want to be number xyz of some jerk. Definitely!”
Dustin sobbed. “No, you are much more charming than Wendy, Katie, and each and every other one-timer of Drake’s. You would be his steady girlfriend. This will kill Katie mercilessly!” Dustin also hoped Wendy to reconsider upon seeing Drake having a steady girlfriend.
Zoey felt flattered. But she did not believe in the possibility of Drake Parker having a steady girlfriend, no matter whom. She sighed bitterly.
Playboy Logan reese could easily afford to hire Drake parker, but he refused to do so. He wanted the attention of all girls for himself, and thence he feared Drake as a serious competitor.
Now there was one more reason for Zoey and her friends for trying to hire Drake.
Zoey decided in favour of a car wash in order to raise funds.
Alas, this did not work oput as much as expected, until …
Garth Burman[garth burman], executibe chairman of the school’s board, showed up on the campus and offered the missing bucks in turn for washing his beloved car. He pitied the students for having a lame spring party. As a former student at “Pacific Coast Academy”, he was able to feel with them.
Zoey and her friends were totally keen on this.
Alas, a short gap in their attentivity caused the car to crash badly.
The car had to be repaired before Burman’s return.
The costs for this were probably going to swallow the award for cleaning the car.
Zoey was consternated.
Chase and Michael knew a grease monkey from Malibu.
Joe Braxley, the mechanic, was a really dull guy.
But there was no other choice, given the lack of time.
Suddenly, Zoey had got a brilliant idea, inspired by Katie’s way of paying for Drake’s concert.
Joe appeared to look desperately for a girlfriend.
Dormitory adviser Coco Wexler got trashed by her on-and-off boyfriend Carl Bubba[carl bubba], coach of “Pacific Coast Academy”’s excessively feeble baseball team, for the third time this year.
Joe Braxley agreed on the deal: A date with Coco for the repair of the car.
The deal worked out perfectly.
Garth Burman had got his car back, clean and in one piece.
Joe Braxley had found a steady girlfriend.
And Drake Parker was about to play for the kids.
Nicole really scared Drake a lot, though.
And Dustin fell asleep early during the concert.
This was a consequence of Quinn’s evil experiments.
Zoey sobbed badly upon spotting the unconscious body of her little brother. She picked him up and carried him in her arms to Drake.
Dustin had been the first to donate for Drake’s concert. He did not deserve missing out on the concert.
Unfortunately, Zoey could not afford another concert.
Dustin woke up, but he was still tired, and bitterly disappointed.
And the evil manager refused to let Drake perform any more.
But Drake noticed some Drake tops worn by various students. “Where are these from?”
Hobby designer Zoey Brooks had planned and taylored all of them.
Drake was enthusiastic. “OK, leave me the legal rights for the design, and I’ll play as much for your brother as he desires.” He looked over at the young sweetie.
Wendy noticed the situation. She would not reply Dustin’s crush in kind though. But she promised to be one of his friends for the rest of school time.
The manager protested.
Drake fired the exorbitantly greedy and hearless agent on site. He was going to employ Joshuah Nichols, his own step-brother, instead.
Josh would hire Zoey as a regular designer for the outfit of Drake’s band.
Zoey wpuld also hire Dustin as her steady business assistant.
Deadly envious vixen Katie Packerman would go totally pale for Zoey’s first recurring job. She decided to switch to “Pacific Coast Academy” at the begin of the nextbyear and make Zoey’s life more miserable than ever.
How was Zoey going to react?
Time was going to tell.
[fooling coco] e.g. Zoey 101 : Defending Dustin
[rude dana] e.g. Zoey 101 : The Play
[devin malone] in Drake & Josh : The guitar
[garth burman] from Zoey 101 : Spring Fling
[carl bubba] from Zoey 101 : Hot Dean
The surname is from same actor’s character in Unfabulous.
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As aforementioned, the administration of “Pacific Coast Academy” needed to hire cheerio girls from other schools due to the minority of girls among its students.
The basketball team had reached the sectionals.
Logan Reese had been suspended from extracurricular activities after having dared to disturb Dean Rivers under the showers for no good reason.[disturbance].
This forced Dana to fill in Logan’s position.
She would have preferred to keep on cheerleading instead.
Thus we needed a hireling in as out chief cheerleader.
Coach Dirga, coach of the cheerio squad, usually worked for James K. Polk, a district school in Santa Clarita, not too far from “Pacific Coast Academy”.
This suggested the choice of a cheerio from that school in order to fill in.
Dirga’s best cheerio was Mercedes Griffin, more commonly known as “Missy Meany” due to her snobbish arrogance. She was one spoiled blond brat.
The “Stingrays” — self-designation of the team of “Pacific Coast Academy” — had experienced this during their match in the sectionals against said team of James K. Polk, alias the “Wolves”.
Mercedes and her pal Candy Manderson[candy manderson] had been harder to defeat than the squad of the “wolves” as such.
Granted, the “wolves” had got some excellent players, such as Seth Powers, Jenifer Mosely, Mike Grudzellanek, Suzanne Crabgrass, and one “Coconut Head”.
But Logan seemed extraneously motivated for the match and downed the “wolves” all on his own withing a few minutes.
But then the “wolves”, down to their cheerio support, achieved some astounding comeback, even moving ahead of the “stingrays” by two or three poinys.
And only during the last minute had Zoey been able to turn the tide and score the decisive last basket, securing a place in the playoffs for her team.
Mercedes’ father was one of the biggest fish in the Hollywood business, not far from Logan’s father Malcolm.
As turning out, there was one other thing in common between Mr. Reese and Mr. Griffin:
They had been married to the same woman, of course at different times.
More precisely, Logan’s mother had been married to Mercedes’ dad a few years after her divorce from Logan’s dad.
At about the same time, Mercedes’ mother was married to Logan’s dad.
These marriages had occured about ten years ago. But they did not last very long.
Properly spoken, none of the countless marrioages of Mr. Griffin or Mr. Reese lasted for more than a few years.
Divorces were sort of a symbol of social status for those families.
Ever since, there had been war between Logan and Mercedes.
And they had been only infants back then.
Things went worse from year to year.
This wa sthe first time for Mercedes to show up on the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
The members of the basketball team had been vaguely informed about Mercedes.
Zoey was not at all keen on the spoiled lass.
Just like Logan, she would have had an exorbitantly bad influence on Dustin. Well, fortunately, she was just a guest cheerio, and thus she was not going to cross his way all the time.
But Zoey was responsible for the creation of the cheerio uniforms. Thus she also had to do directly with Mercedes.
This was by no means going to be one merry and pleasant task.
Zoey tried to fit the cheerio top.
Mercedes asked, “is Logan really going to play in your team?”
Zoey nodded solemnly. “He’s a blocker by now.”
Mercedes boomed. “Hey! I won’t cheer for Logan! Forget that!”
Zoey sighed. “Why is it so?”
Mercedes remarked, “he’s an arrogant snob.”
Zoey knew that. But she thought to herself, “says who? The pot calling the kettle black?”
Mercedes added, “and he’s hotter than me. And I can’t stand being around hotter people. That is so embarrassing. I’d rather drop dead.”
Zoey shrugged helplessly.
The situation was desperate.
Without Mercedes, the cheerio squad was going to break down.
And without the cheerio squad, the basketball squad was going to slouch out on the regionals.
And in that case, Zoey was doomed to be very sad.
The basketball team of the “stingrays” was going to turn into the laughing stock of the school.
The memberes would be forced to join regular gym classes.
And their coach was one ruthless sadist.[sadist coach].
Zoey needed to do something about the situation.
Michael and Chase tried to talk to Logan about the situation.
Apparently, Logan was as mad at his step-sister as vice versa.
Michael wondered why. “You have been toddlers back then. This should be all over.”
Logan grunted, “didn’t you see her? She’s a whole lot hotter than me!”
Michael squealed, “yeah! You aren’t really hot!”
Chase scratched his bushy skull. “May you really compare the ‘hotnessq’ of boys and girls?”
But Michael and Logan ignored him.
Logan almost punched Michael like a sand bag. “Do you have to remind me?”
Michael still did not see the problem.
Logan grunted, “I simply can’t stand being around peoiple hotter than myself. I have to be the top of the heat. And Mercedes beats me there. That’s embarrassing.” He banged his head agains tthe top bunk.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews nodded. “That soounds so much like Logan.”
Agreeing Michael sighed deeply.
Chase and Michael knew one thing:
The situation being like that, all their efforts for the basketball team during the sectionals would have been for naught.
Granted, Zoey could have tried to let the administration look for another cheerio to hire.
But time was running out on them.
In addition, Logan could not run and hide forever from his stupidly insane step-sibling war.
Zoey deemed it better to help Logan and Mercedes to get along.
But that was not a task to be achieved without efforts.
She needed to talk to the mothers of Mercedes and Logan, respectively.
For the time being, Logan’s mother was abroad. She was now the wife of a foreign president or something like that.
But Mercedes’ mother, and thus Logan’s former step-mother, was still in California. She had recently married Mr. Chambrolay, the boss of a hotel chain with branches in Santa Monica, Hawaii, Seattle, and a whole host of other locations.[hotel chambrolay]
Zoey feared her to be as snobbish as her daughter, though. But she was hell-bent on mediating.
Zoey had ordered a table in “Sushi Rox”, aforementioned sushi bar, for the meeting with Mrs. Chambrolay, formerly known as Mrs. Reese, and before even that as Mrs. Griffin.
And there she was, the current wife of the renowned csar of the hotel business.
Zoey shook hands with her.
Some traits of Mercedes’s spoiled demeanour were not to be denied in her mother’s character.
But Zoey had somewhat learned to get along even with Logan Reese.
This allowed the barbie girl to remain totally cool.
Mrs. Chambrolay moaned, “it’s basically always the same problem, be it with mercedes or with any of my step-kids.”
Zoey wanted to hear more about it.
Mrs. Chambrolay talked about her various marriages and step-children. “The fathers have no time, the mothers run away.”
Zoey nodded.
The kids tend to grow up in some golden caged, complete with platinum credit cards.
But their access to unlimited financial resources did not have the power to provide them with everything.
Most prominently, the kids felt unable to do anything without their bucks. They did not develop any reasonable skills, and they did not work for more competences and responsibilities.
That was all the fault of their snobbish fathers. They expected them to grow up, but were unable to show them the way. They leave their children’s lives to numerous servants and aforementioned credit cards.
Zoey sighed deeply.
Mrs. Chambrolay moaned, “the best for Logan and Mercedes would be to stick together and fight side by side against that absurd situation. Sooner or later, their dads will be forced to entrust them with more and more responsibilities. And you other kids should stop repecting them for their money, but for their skills.”
Zoey nodded due to understanding that. She picked up her cellular phone.
A few minutes later, Michael showed up, dragging Logan along.
The playboy screamed, “steppie!”
That seemed to be a cozy form of “step-mother”
Logan hugged Mrs. Chambrolay.
Thereupon, Dana and Nicole showed up with Mercedes. They had even suppressed their usual tendency towards incessant bickering.
“Mom!” screamed the spoiled lass.
Alas, Logan and Mercedes threw gazed at each other in a grim manner.
But the presence of Mrs. Chambrolay moderated the situation.
Zoey smiled.
Mercedes and Logan were now at least able to shake hands and to promise in the face of Mrs. Chambrolay to work together on their common interests instead of letting their fathers whip them against each other. For example, both of them were interested in becoming super-models.
Mrs. Chambrlay knew that business.
It was by far not a dream job for lazy no-good-for-nothings.
Logan and Mercedes had both got the looks and the flair, but this was not enough.
This truce between Logan and Mercedes would be for the best of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Mercedes was even willing to transfer to this school after the summer break. She had always objected to it due to hating Logan.
Zoey saw even a lot more between those hitherto deadly hostile step-siblings. But she did not dare to pronounce it. She would have been rebuked unison.
But there was an undeniable chemistry hidden beneath their envy and rivalry.
As a consequence, the “stingrays” would win the play-offs of the regionals for the first time in over a decade.
[disturbance] cf. Zoey 101 : Webcam
[candy manderson] from Ned’s Declassified SSG : Rally Days
[sadist coach] cf. Zoey 101 : Disk Golf
[hotel chambrolay] The branch on Hawaii is mentioned in Zoey 101 : Chasing Zoey.
The branch in Santa Monica is mentioned in Drake & Josh : Drake and Josh go Hollywood.
The branch in Seattle is mentioned in iCarly : iRock The Votes.
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The next official middle school ball at “Pacific Coast Academy” was now just around the corner.
This time, the partners were to be determined by some computer test.
But, wait, the girls at “Pacific Coast Academy” were still outnumbered by one over ten.
Quinn, of course, knew it more precisely.
But who cared?
There had been middle school balls all the years ago, in other word, even during the time of a boys-ony “Pacific Coast Academy”.
The solution to this dilemma was about the same as for the cheerleading problem.
Girls from nearby schools were admitted to the ball. Of course they had to register for the draw, as much as the students at “Pacific Coast Academy” had to. And this time, they had to submit stupid questionaries for the personality test responsible for the assignment of dance partners.
The schools contacted by Dean Rivers for this event included, just as during the last two years, aforementioned “James K. Polk” from Santa Clarita, “Hollywood School Of Art”, “Silver Spring”[silver spring], “Palmwood”, and “Eastridge”[eastridge].
Alas, many of the students were totally dishonest when filling in the questionaries, just in order to get assigned to a partner of their own choice.
Zoey Brooks was particularly much the target of such an abusive and cheating practice.
One of the mean cheaters was Chase Bartholomew Matthews. He had been stalking Zoey in order to know her answers.
For Zoey, such an situtation had been by no means new.
Things like that occurred regularly at “Bushmond” during Zoey’s sixth and seventh grade.
As a barbie-like Mary-Sue, she was of course used to getting hit on by boys in the most idiotic manners.
Only aforementioned Katie Packerman had been more popular.
But at “Pacific Coast Academy”, not lat least due to the blatant minority status of girls, Zoey was by far uncontested.
Hundreds of boys were estimated to cheat for her, in some one or more evident manner.
During Zoey’s seventh grade, many boys had almost killed each other for a dance date with Zoey.
After some insane turmoil, Zoey had chosen in favour of one Jeff Norkin.
The poor guy had so wished to date a barbie girl like Zoey.
The blond Mary-Sue had pitied him, among all the middle school boys, and even kissed him down on the dancing floor. But she had not really loved him.
Maybe that was just the destiny of a living barbie doll.
Zoey better got accustomed to bearing with it.
Today, the results of the draw were to be announced.
The pupils stood in an endless queue.
The first disappointments were hard.
Logan was disgusted. “Dana?”
Dana was no less disgusted. “Logan?”
Both of them had beengiven excessively arrogant and snobbish answers to the test.
The result was thus little to wonder about.
Chase Bartholomew was even more consternated.
Others had stolen Zoey’s questionary as well, especially some Glen Davis.[glen davis].
Some glitch in the system must have assigned both Chase and Glen as a partner for Zoey.
And Zoey decided in favour of Glen. She already knew Chase quite a bit. And she wanted to take the occasion for getting to know more people.
Another glitch had assigned a partner for Michael:
It was annoying exotic exchange student Olivary Biallo.
Quinn had been worst off. She had started to date Mark del Figgalo, according to each other girl tantamount to the definition of the word dweeb, just a few weeks ago.
Mark was unable to fill in the questionary and had Quinn to do it for him.
This assured their questionaries to match.
But she did not even show upon the table of the draws. Somehow, she was accustomed to that. At her old middle school in Seattle, she had been the wall flower par excellence, deemed as a spaz by each and every fellow pupil.
These memories were murdereous.[quinn the spaz]
But things should have been different here.
Alas, they weren’t really.
So Quinn decided, driven by her bad memories and urged by Logan, Dana, Chase, and Michael, to offer the responsible organiser to fix the bug in the system.
The assignemt of Logan and Dana had not been a bug.
But Logan offered Quinn 500 bucks for considering it as one.
And Quinn desperately needed some bucks in order to pay for the patent of her latest “Quinnvention”.
It was not hard for Quinn to correct the problems.
Dean Rivers gave her the permission to do the necessary upgrades.
The students were gathered on the campus square.
Quinn announced, “OK, I’ve found the problem.” She gave a long and complex technical explanation, boring and annoying the audience.
The table of draws was readily advised.
A few changes had been made.
Quinn and Mark were now listed as the first couple, due to Quinn’s manual intervention.
Logan was no longer assigned to Dana. He got reassigned to … Mercedes Griffin!
The latter had signed up for the event after having been accepted as the cheerleader, anyways.
In the original draw, Dana and Mercedes had been on a par.
Dana had just been chosen because of being a student at “Pacific Coast Academy” and thus preferred over the guest girls.
For Logan, this felt like dropping from the frying pan into the fiery pool of hell.
He cried in agony, “Mercedes? Why, oh Lord, have you forsaken me?” For the records, he did not believe in any god whatsoever, barring the god of money and beauty.
Dana got reassigned to Keith Finch[1]
, some mean and dumb bully right in Dana’s league.
Nicole Bristow was still assigned, as the only exception, to her formerly achosen partner, viz. Nicholas Webber[nicholas webber]
Michael Barret got reassigned to some Suzanne Crabgrass[crabgrass]
from “James K. Polk”.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews, on the other hand, was punished with goth girl named Miriam Klein[miriam klein]. But he had got it coming. Being disappointed by Zoey’s choice in favour of Glen, he had resubmitted another, totally negativist questionary.
But who got now reassigned to Zoey?
The living barbie doll was consternated.
Wayne Gilbert, better known as “Firewire”, showed up at the place of appointment. He was an annoying and permanently cackling dork peresiding the science club. He had banned girls from there and thusly made Quinn incredibly sad and stinky.
Zoey grunted silently, “why does Quinn take it all out on me?” She bit her teeth and tried to make a smiling face, anyways. But she was so going to make Quinn pay.
Finally, the dance was opened.
As expected, not everyone was able to enjoy even the rearranged program.
Especially Logan was as stinky as can be. He grabbed “Missy Meany” and growled, “why did you have to show up here?”
Mercedes grinned. “well, I was looking for a hot guy with money. Could I know … the stupid program was going to choose a run-down hobo? I should sue them.” She sighed deeply.
Logan gasped.
Mercedes took a flower from her handbag and rendered it unto Logan.
It was a black rose, an expression of a death wish.
Logan coughed.
A few years ago, he had gifted another black rose to Mercedes, right for St. Valentine’s.
The two spoiled rich kids glared at each other in a manner colder tha the Antarctic ice.
Zoey was distracted from her horror induced by “Firewire”. “The cold between Logan and ‘Missy’ is going to freeze the whole ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ to a glacier.” She sighed deeply.
Logan and Mercedes had promised to refrain from bickering during the basketball matches. But they had not priomised to behave at school balls.
Alas, Zoey panted heavily. She had to intervene. “Mercedes! You know that Logan is not an uncomely hobo guy. You think him incredibly hot and attractive.”
Missy blushed. “Do you have to mention that?”
Michael chimed in. “And Logan, didn’t you tell to think of ‘Missy’ as much hotter than even yourself in your dreams? Already as a boy of five years you …”
Logan blushed, thinking “why can’t those stupid roomies keep their annoying mouth shut.”
Zoey grunted at Logan, “is that true?”
Mercedes sighed deeply. “Same here. I couldn’t even talk when I started thinking like that about him.”
Michael panted and yelled “standing blues!”
The disk jockey followed Michael’s orders.
Slow snuggle music filled the air.
Michael pushed Logan towards “Missy”.
Zoey poked Mercedes into Logan’s direction.
The spoiled couple stated dancing along.
All the attention was now directed towards them.
Finally, Mercedes grabbed Logan and pulled him into a lingering kiss.
Logan purred ecstatically.
Zoey, Michael, and Chase clapped along.
Applause threeatened to burst the campus.
An excessively attractive Latina walked up to Zoey. “You must be Zoey?”
The barbie girl nodded. “Correct! You are?”
The beautiful muchacha remarked, “I’m Lola Martinez, a guest from ‘Palmwood’. I’ll come to ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ next year. You’ve just been cool.”
Zoey thanked Lola.
The Latina remarked, “I’ve been chosen as a partner for one Glen Davies. But he turned out as a jerl. So I bit his earlobe off. Could we instead have a little girls’ party, while you show me around? An obese messy matron named Coco suggested the latter. She seems to work here as something.”
Zoey nodded. “Sure! Who needs boys for a party, anyays? I’ll just ask my friends, and there we go!”
The girls hi-fived merrily.
But the even had still left many open questions, about the stupid assignment of Zoey and “Firewire”, and about the identity of Olivary Biallo.
So what had been going on?
[eastridge] from Big Time Rush : Big Time Break
[glen davis] only appears in Zoey 101 : School Dance
[quinn the spaz] cf. Zoey 101 : Chase’s Girlfriend
[1] from Zoey 101 : Defending Dustin
He’s identified with “Cleeshaw” from Zoey 101 : iFence
[nicholas webber] appears only in Zoey 101 : School Dance
[crabgrass] this recuring character from Ned’s Declassified SSG is identified with same actress’s cameo in Zoey 101 : School Dance.
[miriam klein] Miriam ids from Shredderman Rules.
The surname is from same actress’s character in a third-party owned movie.
The character is identified with same actress’s anonymous cameo in Drake & Josh : Who’s Got Game.
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There was a drama club at “Pacific Coast Academy”. It was inspired by the vicinity to Hollywood.
But “Pacific Coast Academy” could not really hold a candle to “Hollywood School for Arts”, “Palmwood”, and other specialised schools in this business.
Nevertheless, many great entertainers and their backups had been among the alumni, including playwrights.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews was willing to become one of the latter.
This was a tough and stony way.
Of courrse there was also good theatre outside Hollywood, especially at New York’s “Broadway”.
They were really part of a nation-wide and even international network.
Exchange of people and ideas was nowadays pretty much of a commonplace.
For example, Sofia Michelle[sofia michelle], the most active playwright of the “Broadway”, was visiting Los Angeles each year for two reasons.
On the one hand, her plays were practised at many school drama clubs in the Hollywood region.
On the other hand, she was spotting talents, especially among the playwrights studying at southern Californian school.
This year, Chase Bartholomew Matthews had been targetted by New York City’s master playwright.
The chosen play was Zoeka[zorka]. It featured an alien girl of that name, spaceship wrecked on planet earth and saved from the floods of the Pacific by a hot life guard.
The play had been performed earlier in the year by Logan and Zoey as the main actors.
But the ruthless playboy was a mediocre actor. He only wanted to abuse the situation in order to seduce blond Mary-Sue Zoey.
Zoey was not much better an actress, either.
But “Zorka” had been devised by Chase exactly with Zoey in mind.
This had made it easy for her to get the rôle.
Needless to say, Chase would rather have been in the rôle of the life saver.
Thus his plan had backfired.
He was horribly jealous.
Fortunately, Logan had reveiled himself as an evil jerk once more during the performance. By insulting Zoey after a little mistake.
Against the text of the script, Zoey decided in extremis to refuse to kiss Logan on the stage.
Logan had been left in a stinky mood. He would have sabotaged any further performance of the play.
But his step-sister had changed his mind …
Both Logan and Mercedes were up to proving themself worthy of more responsibility.
For this avail, Logan had sent a copy of the script to Sofia Michelle.
The latter had now announced her visit to “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to watch it live on stage.
In the beginning, Logan and Mercedes had been competeing. But since the school dance, they were working hand in hand, accelerating the business.
In any case, Logan decided, “Sofiia is here for Chase, and not for some mediocre actors. And we are better of using good actors for the main characters, even from other schools.”
Mercedes agreed.
Zoey suggested, “OK, I know the perfect actress for ‘Zorka’!”
Logan wanted to know.
Zoey continued, “Lola Martinez from ‘Palmwood’ … she will come to our school for the enxt year, anyways.”
Logan gasped, “the hot Latina?”
Mercedes poked Logan playfully.
Logan shrugged. “OK, if she’s such a good actress, there’s nothing wrong with letting her play ‘Zorka’.”
Chase agreed wholeheartedly. “So, who will be a life guard?”
Chase contacted Lola Martinez at “Palmwood” on site.
The muchacha was interested. “But there’s one conditio sine qua non!”
Chase wondered, “I won’t razor my bushy head.”
Lola grinned. “Oh, really? Too bad! You could really use a hair makeover.”
Chase replied sarcastically, “thanks?”
Lola giggled. “OK, my ultimate request: The life guard must be played by one of the best kissers.” She was addicted to that sort of boys.
Chase wondered about finding a good kisser able to perform as the life guard.
“Missy Meany” had got an idea. “At our school play at ‘James K. Polk.’, we head a guest star from ‘Hollywood School for Art’ named Spencer. He was scheduled to play Shakespeare’s Romeo. But some jealous vulgar pupils had sabotaged the performance.”
Michael had heard of him. “He’s really hot!”
The other kids looked at him, quite puzzled.
Michale gasped, “or so said Suzie Crabgrass.”
The latter had been “Juliet” in that play.
Mr. Fletcher[mr fletcher], adiver of the drama club, decided to contact his colleague from “James K. Pol”, Mr. Combover[combover] for further assistance.
A week later, Mr. Combover had replied. He was an icon for drama and music. He issued a request to his old friend Mr. Sikowitz, a teacher for drama at “Hollywood School for Arts”.
Sikowitz appeared a bit crazy. But he did not object to a deal.
“Pacific Coast Academy” could borrow Spencer Carter, in turn for Chase writing a play for their next year’s homecoming play.
That was quite some challenege for the bushy head.
But Chase Bartholomew Matthews was up to it.
Spencer was a hot mulato.
Everyone understood his renown as one of the best-kissing middle school actors.
Of course, Spencer even made Lola’s heart beat a lot faster.
And she wasn’t even usually into mulato boys.
But Spencer Carter appeared to be one of a kind. He was gifted with magnetic lips.
Or so it was told.
The great dau for Chase’s play Zorka was now at hand.
Many students, teachers, and stuff members crowded the audience room.
In addition, “PCA News” broadcast the play into the lounges.
Sofia Michelle was of course made sitting in the front row, next to Mr. Fletcher.
Dean Rivers had donned a new tuxedo suit for the event.
Chase was exorbitantly nervous.
Sofia Michelle’s judgment could mean fame or doom for his career.
There were also quite a few visitors from other schools.
This was not much of a miracle, given that studenyts of several Californian educational institutions had been working site by site for this performance.
But some kids were totally new to California.
One of them, a sixth0grade Mary Sue, was looking for a place in the middle part of the audience room. She was of white anglosaxon ethnicity, but claimed to be sort of a relative of Spencer Carter. Thus she was granted.
Zoey Brooks, Nicole Bristow, Dana Cruz, Michael Barret, and Quinn Pensky were accomodated on nearby seats.
Filled with dismay, the nerdy teenager squealed all of a sudden “Leann![leann]” She hid ‘neath Zoey’s legs.
The barbie girl grubted, “Quinn? Who’s that girl? And what are you doing there?”
Quinn whispered, “it’s someone I’ve just seen for the very first time in my life.”
Zoey scratched her head. “Erm … how come you know her name?”
Quinn stammered, “I do?”
Zoey sighed deeply.
Quinn did habve something to hid.
Dana kicked Quinn’s nose for feeling ger feet bothered by Quinn’s sniffling activities.
Zoey would have enjoyed watching the play, but she could not, down to Quinn’s stupid demeanour. She had designed the costumes and was proud of that.
But this did not help.
The performance of Spencer and Lola had been excellent.
Their final kiss lasted for half an hour, attracting more applause than anything hitherto seen on this stage.
The hall was close to bursting into smithereens.
Sofia Michelle took busily notes.
Lola wanted Spencer to come to “Pacific Coast Academy”, too.
The star had to think about it. But he needed tp hurry up. He had seen Leann among the audience. He walked up to her in order to greet her.
Leann sighed. “Spencie! Long time no see! But I’ve promised to come back and watch you as a big star. And today you’ve been the greatest.”
Spencer sighed. “Aw, my step-sister Leann … have you really made the whole way from Seattle to Los Angeles for my performance?”
Leann shrugged. “I have wanted to come to Los Angeles for other reasons, too, but I have really wanted to see you perform.”
Spencer asked, “I’ve been offered a switch to ‘Pacific Coast Academy’. I know, it’s not a specialised school as ‘Hollywood School for Arts’. But it has got other strengths hard to find elsewhere. Knowing Shakespeare’s works by heart is not uncommon here.” He purred, also thinking about Shakespeare-freak Lola.
Leann nodded. “I’ll try to talk mom into sending me hereto. She has always been looking for a good school.”
Spencer smiled.
Quinn Pensky, on the other hand, was still hiding behind and beneath Zoey.
Hearing Leann talking about a switch to “Pacific Coast Academy” was too much for her to bear.
Her world went black.
She passed out between Zoey’s knees.
The blond barbie girl was consternated.
What did Quinn have to hide?
[sofia michelle] from Victorious : Tori the zombie
[zorka] cf. Zoey 101 : The Play
[mr fletcher] from Zoey 101 : The Play
[combover] various cameos in Ned’s Declassified SSG
[leann] Leann Carter form iCarly : iWas A Pageant Girl
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Down to the great motivation by Mercedes Griffin, the basketball team around Logan Reese had got no problems qualifying for the “Nationals”.
This was going to be one great event.
Jeremiah Trottman, the boss of “PCA Channel” and redactor in chief of the Daily Stingray, interviewed the players all day long. “OK, Zoey, we may continue the interview at ‘Sushi Rox’. We just need a table for two.” He grinned.
Zoey grunted, “in your dreams, you jerk!” She stomped her feet and marched away.
Spencer Carter told Zoey about his brother Zachariah Carter Schwartx. “He is the captain of the team of ‘Rocky Road’.”
Zoey shrugged. “OK, I’ll remember you unto him.”
Quinn was still totally depressed. She had not talked to anyone in weeks.
Zoey did not know the reasons for that. But she wanted to find out.
Quinn was unbearable.
Fortunately, the trip to the nationals was going to give Zoey a few days off “Pacific Coast Academy” and off Quinn.
Dustin was chosen as the equipment manager.
This was once more Zoey’s achievement.
Dustin was very enthustiastic concerning the trip.
The finals would be in Seattle, the big city of the state of Washington.
It could have been way worse.
Players, coach, cheerios, and Dustin were finally on the bus.
Coach Ferguson blew the whistle.
The greyhound bus shut its doors and slithered away.
The finals were to take place in the gyms of “Ridgeway”, a district school in the western downtown of Seattle.
Cheerio Melanie Puckett[melanie puckett] was particularly excited. Before making it to “Pacific Coast Academy”, she went to “Ridgeway” for elementary school.
Her family was full of criminals.
The state of Washington had thence decided to stuff her into a boarding school far away to escape from the bad influence.
Her monozygotic twin sister Samantha[samantha puckett] had been chosen for the same programme as the last alternative to youth prison. But she was still adamantly opposed to it. She hated Melanie rigorously at any cost.
Leann Carter had already returned to Seattle. But she had now been awaiting the kids from “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to show them to her favourite places. Alas, she was more excited to see her step-brother Zachariah Carter-Schwartz again.
Zoey greeted Leann.
The team of“Pacific Coast Academy” was accomodated in some run-down “hotel” named “Parker-Nichols Inn”[parker nichols inn]
.
Zoey wondered about a connection with Drake Parker and Josh Nichols. But she decided to postone the question until her return to California.
The opponents were supposed to be very strong.
One of them was the team of the host, “Ridgeway”.
Then there was aforementioned “Rocky Road” from Connecticut.
Other opponents were from Minnesota, Arkansas, and New Jersey.
The first match was against the hosting team.
This was not going to be easy.
Principal Theordore Franklin from “Ridgeway” gave a speech. He decided to break it early. “I don’t want to bore you kids any longer.”
Zoey applauded.
Alas, already the name “Franklin” made Michael twitch nervously.
Zoey wondered, “Michael? Are you OK?”
Michael replied, “I think so …”
Zoey wasn’t excatly convinced. “Michael must hide something,”. Or so she thought.
Ergo, the nervosity grew more and more.
The match was now on.
Dana remained as cold as a fridge during the whole match.
But Michael produced more and more mistakes.
Ferguson even had to replace him.
But the team did not know what to do without him.
The team of “Ridgeway” convinced with captain Pete Pearson[pete pearson].
Tall rake Jake Crendle[jake crendle]
was their best player. He dunked one ball per minute. And his looks distracted Zoey and Dana to no end.
There was not a snowball’s chance in hell left for the “Stingrays”.
Zoey grunted. “That sucks!” She was bitterly disappointed about the team’s most astonishing defeat since her arrival at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Zoey was not only dismayed by her own and her team’s poor performance, but also by Michael’s disappearance.
Where was he gone?
Horrified Dustin explained, “he puked, passed out, and was brought to the nurse’s station.”
Zoey was now even more worried. She had to look it up and stormed towards the infirmary.
Nothing could break her stride.
The dum nurse[ridgeway nurse]
wanted to yell Zoey out of the room.
But Zoey did not care.
Michael had just been reanimated by means of electric shocks.
Zoey asked, “Michael! What had been going on?”
Michael told Zoey a long story.
Three years ago, I had a girlfriend named Karen Franklin.
Her birthday was approaching.
I wondered about a birthday gift.
Karen told me to let it be.
I asked thrice.
The reply was alwaus the same.
At her birthday party, I showed up without a gift.
Karen was upset and never wanted to see me again. She went to Wisconsin, the cheesy state.
Michael squealed like an idiot.
Zoey calmed him down. This is Washington, not Wisconsin.
Michael sobbed. “Washington … Wisconsin … I don’t care.”
Zoey shrugged. “Is Karen the daughter of Ted Franklin?”
Michael sighed. “At least she’s somehow related. And she’s here and watching. She wants to kill me.”
Zoey shook her head. “That’s not a reason for killing you.”
Michael did not trust the peace.
Zoey urged him to go to Karen and get over with it.
But the future jazz rapper was more resilient like a stubborn mule.
Zoey thought to herself, “I have to do everything for them, it seems. But Jake and Pete are so hot … Bear with it!”
The team fropm New York City was not a trace of a problem. They had gota great blocker. Moose[moose]. But they could not score straight.
Arkansas had been very tough, due to their scorer Jordan Lewis[jordan lewis].
But Dana stuffed the opponents’ head down through the hoop.
The cheerio girls, lead by Mercedes Griffin, shouted louder. “Stingrays forever!”
Chase Matthews and Michael Barret had written that song before the departure.
The team from Minnesota was just a joke.
Four of its members had turned sick right before their departure to Seattle. They had to be replaced with four members from the hockey team, viz. Carlos Garcia, James Diamond, Kendall Knight, and Logan Mitchell.
Carlos even wore his hockey helmet during the match.
James Diamond tried to seduce the girls of the “Pacific Coast Academy”’s team. This time, he failed miserably. He was not done competing with Logan Reese though. “I will teach the rich kid what a true Adonis and girl eater is. And if it’s the last thing for me to do!”
But Zoey and Logan mowed them down like a meadow in late August.
The last match against the hitherto unbeaten team from “Rocky Road” had to decide.
Leann had been in a conflict. As a future “Stingray”, she should have cheered for the “Pacific Coast Academy” team. But she had not seen her step-brother Zachariah Carter Schwartz in ages. She swooned to no end.
Indeed, Zach posed a big problem for the “Stingrays”, and so did his adjutant Mario Harris[mario harris].
The “Stingrays” went down pretty early.
But in the middle of the match, Drake Parker showed up. “Go, Singrays!” he played Chase’s and Michael’s song on his guitar, fortifying the motivational impact of the cheerleaders to no end.
“Rocky Road” was powerless against them.
Their cheerleaders, lead by one Natasha Misa[natasha misa] were at a complet loss dancing to their school’s hymn.
The hymn’s author, Addie Singer, one of Zach’s best friends, swooned deliriously. “They have got better cheerios, better uniforms, and a better hymn.”
The uniforms of “Rocky Road” had been designed by Addie’s other best friend, Geena Fabiano.
Geena felt somewhat insulted by the judgment. But she felt the need to learn from the designer genius of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Likewise, Addie needed to learn from the lyrics writer of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
In the end, the “Stingrays” came back and won by one point.
Zach broke down for disappointment, but was soon thereupon restored by his step-sister Leann.
Dustin cheered for Zoey’s great victory. But he had not yet told her about some encounter with some girls from “Ridgeway” behind the scenes.
Zoey would not have liked that. She was still worried about the unresolved conflict of Karen and Michael.
And many other things had gone on off the field and without Zoey’s knowledge, things with a great influence on Zoey’s and her friends’ future life at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
But for now, the team enjoyed the victory, the first of this kind for the “Stingrays” in fifty years or so.
[melanie puckett] from iCarly : iTwins
[samantha puckett] Samantha Puckett from iCarly is identified with Trisha Kirby from Zoey 101 : Bad Girl
[parker nichols inn] mentioned in iCarly : iWant To Stay With Spencer.
[pete pearson] Pete is from iCarly : iMake Sam Girlier.
The surname is from same actor’s character in a third-party owned show.
[jake crendle] from iCarly : iLike Jake
[ridgeway nurse] from iCarly : iSaw Him First
[moose] from True Jackson VP : My Boss Ate My Homework
[jordan lewis] star of Just Jordan
[mario harris] Mario is a multipole cameo in season one and two Unfabulous.
The surmname is from same actor’s character in third-party owned show Sonny with a chance;.
[natasha misa] This is Tasha from iCarly : iNevel.
Do not confuse her with Tasha from iCarly : iEnrage Gibby.
This Tasha here is identified with same actress’s anonymous cameo as a cheerio in some Unfabulous episodes.
The surname is from same actress’s character in third-party owned show JONAS.
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The sun came up from the barren braes of the coastal hill chains, illuminating the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy” for the start of a new academic year.
Zoey and Dustin had just left their das’s convertible and entered the campus in a stormy manner, ready to embrace their friends from last year.
Indeed, Nicole was not far away. She greeted Zoey energically. She wondered about Dana.
Zoey had got some good news. “Dana is no longer at ‘Pacific Coast Academy’. ”
At the same time, Dustin darted across the campus in order to find Logan. He expected being hired once again as the playboy’s factotum for boring and dirty tasks.
This paid well enough to support Dustin’s addiction to gummi worms.
Nicole was puzzled.
“She’s gone to France as an exchanger,” explained Zoey. But she was not quite truthful.
During the last year, Dana had bullied Dustin and treated him like dirt.
Zoey had denounced her to her parents and got her sent away to a boarding school in France.
Dana hated learning foreign languages. “If anyone wants to talk to me, he needs to learn my language first, or bite the dust!”
Nicole cheered. “At least she can’t hurt me anymore from there. But … wait! What about our new room mate?”
Zoey and Nicoel were once more roomies, but as high school freshmen they got relocated to another hall.
“101 Brenner” was their new residence for the upcoming terms.
Coco Wexler passed by, followed by another girl. “OK, Katie, this is your dormitory hall. Zoey, Nicole, your roomie is …”
Zoey Brooks was all consternated. “What? Is it you?” She styood now face to face with her long-time archenemy Katie Packerman.
Nicole shrugged. “Do you know here?”
Coco introduced Katie to Nicole.
Katie smiled. “Hi Zoey!”
Her voice was sarcastical.
But Ms. Packerman appeared polite to Nicole. “So, you must be Nicole?”
The bimbo wench nodded cheerfully. “Hi Katie! Your top is cute. But not as cute as the boys on the campus. Aren’t they cute? And the beaxch, and the pools, and have I already mentioned the cute boys? They are so cute! Aren’t they cute?”
Zoey’s archenemy smiled. “They sure are. I’ve already heard many good things about Logan Reese!”
Nicole squealed, “oh yeah, Logan is incredibly cute.”
Zoey did not get it.
Nicole seemed to get along quite well with Katie Packerman.
Zoey did not like this at all. “Nicole, do you want to come with me to the cafeteria for a blix? They’ve got a new flavour, mango and apple.”
But Nicole just ignored her “best friend” in order to talk with Katie.
Zoey sighed deeply. She walked out on the other girls, looking for the boys and for Quinn.
Zoey entered Quinn’s dorm, same hall, same corridor, just next door.
The geek girl was just fixing a few wires.
Zoey wondered about the purpose of that operation.
Quinn explained, “this is a two-way television system.” She pushe the buttons of her remote control.
A flatscreen was activated.
Zoey saw Nicole and Katie.
Quinn yelled, “hello, Nicole! Oh, who’s that girl?”
Katie introduced herself to Quinn. “I’m Katie Packerman. Hey! That’s cool! We may see us and talk inspite of being in different rooms.”
Zoey was rather scared by this option.
Coco showed up again. “Hello, I’ve got a new roomie for Quinn.”
Lola Martinez slouched in. “Hi girls! What’s up?”
Quinn and Zoey huggled Lola.
The Hollywood diva had got a lot to talk about about her recent adventures, both on and off the stage.
Katie Packerman was also interested in listening to them.
Zoey felt more and more left alone. What had she done to deserve this?
Zoey walked out on the other guirls and crossed her lounge.
A totally hysterical Michael barret darted through the entrance. He was careless enough to run into Zoey Brooks, slamming her graselessly to the ground. But he also lost his equilibrium, floundered, staggered, and slumped to the hard floor.
Zoey was flabbergasted. “Michael? What are you doing here?”
Michael screamed, “I need a safe hideout!”
Zoey wondered, “have you encountered a monster beetle?”
Michael grunted, “never make fun of beetles!”
Zoey shrugged. “OK! So, what’s going on?”
Michael panted like a rusty steam engine. “Karen Franklin …”
Zoey scratched her head while trying to get up again. “The girl from Seattle? You really should have given her a birthday gift …”
Michael stuffed his ears and squealed.
Zoey grunted, “calm down! You need to face her sooner or later. She’s not a monster.”
Michael tried hard to ignore Zoey’s commands.
Could there be anything worse than encountering Karen Franklin?
Hell yeah!
But Michael was not yet aware of the danger.
In any case, Zoey continued, “the girls’ foyer is not the best place to hide from a girl such as Karen Franklin, you know?”
Michael should have known. But being subject to his insane fits of panic and mayhem, he was unable to think logically. He must have abandoned his brain completely.
Zoey told Michael to go back to the boys’ dorms. “At least after eight post meridiem you will be safe.”
Michael sighed. “Logan has installed a new entertainment plant into our dormitory room, and into our lounge. He had paid for it, that is. Dustin does all the dirt work, while Wayne Gilbert does the technical stuff. The whole thing makes more noise than hell.”
Zoey sighed. “Sorry, I can’t help you there.” Also, she was totally upset about Dustin’s employment as Logan’s errant boy and slave worker.
Michael felt lost.
Until Chase’s switch to “Pacific Coast Academy”, a certain Rusty Dickerson had been his best friends.
Alas, they had not seen each other in three long years.
Now he entered his dorm, shared with aforementioned Spencer Carter and with Mark del Figgalo.
This was just across the door from the dorm of Logan Reese, Michael barret, and Chase Bartholomew Matthews.
Of course Rusty was totally eager on meeting his good old friend again. He had heard about him again from his friends from one of the “Stingrays’” opponents at the nationals of basketball, viz. Geena Fabiano from “Rocky Road”. But he was not happy about Chase’s new “best friend forever”.
By the way, Geena and her friends Zach and Addie had also come to “Pacific Coast Academy”. But that’s another subject.
Chase could have only one friend of that sort.
And Rusty deemed himself in the possession of the older rights. He had known Chase since nursery school.
Michael, on the other hand, had come to know him only since middle school.
There was no way for Rusty to leave Chase to Michael without a fight, if necessary a match to the death.
It was a great day for the Carters’ family.
For the first time in many years, Leann Carter was reunited again with her step-brothers Zachariah and Spencer.
The three of them had been living in different angles of the country for several years.
Zach was totally eager on joining the basketball team of “Pacific Coast Academy”. He had obtained a scholarship for that reason.
Addie and Geena had followed him.
Their parents just wanted to get rid of those incessant trouble makers.
In this moment, Quinn Pensky and her boyfriend Mark Del Figgalo crossed the campus, passing by the Carter kids.
Mark would have ignored them.
But Quinn could not. She grabbed Mark and pushed him into the next dark corner. “Never ever dare to see Leann or talk to her!”
Mark wondered, “who is Leann?”
Quinn explained, “it’s a girl I’ve just seen on this campus for the very forst time in my life! And don’t ever dare to ask questions about her! You’ve got me?”
Mark did not quite get it.
How could Quinn know Leann by name?
And which of the kids on the campus was Leann?
But he did not want to lose his furious girlfriend. Thus he gave in and promised to keep her stern commandments as strictly as can be.
Leann was not Quinn’s only old acquaintance new at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
There was also Samantha Puckett. She had been sent by Seattle’s youth office to this school in order to dodge the bad influence of her family.
But unlike Leann, Sam and Quinn had struck a ladies’ agreement on being forever silent about each others’ past.
There was apparently quite a bit to hide from other students.
Zoey’s first night of the new academic year was not an easy one. She had to share her dormitory room with her archenemy Katie Packerman and watch her steal all her friends, at least the female ones, but maybe also the boys.
This would be a very painful experience for the barbie-like Mary Sue.
Would Zoey survive the gauntlet through hell?
At the same time, a crushing sound was heard from outside.
Zoey noticed all of the lights go down on the campus.
Logan’s entertainment system had just crashed the electric supplies.
Drakness seized the campus. Would it also seize the life and the hearts of Zoey and her “friends”?
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The freshmen of Mr. Bender’s homeroom class were studying yearboks from the eighties.
Some kids laughed about the pictures.
Mr. Bender turned out as a former cheerleader.
This was not as much of an embarrassment during those days as it had become during the rule of Dean Rivers.
But Mr. Bender also impressed with his unfashionable glasses.
And even those were pretty much trendy during those years.
Mr. Bender remarked, “hey! what will the kids in twenty years from now say when reading today’s yearbooks?”
Zoey looked aghast. “How about a time capsule?”
Lola wondered, “a capsule containing some medication making you age much slower? I want to look young in twenty years, too.”
Zoey glared at Lola.
Lola scratched her head. “Well, my grandma even still looked like me at the age of fourty. And I look like her, as do Salvia[salvia]
, Victoria[victoria]
, Viviana[viviana]
, and Tamara[tamara]
. So, I won’t really age. It’s generically conditioned.”
Zoey had to correct her. “Genetically!”
Lola shrugged.
Michael explained, “That’s a container for things reminding people in many years from now of our life today!”
Mr. Bender nodded. “OK. We make this a class project. Each of you will contribute something to remember our time to future generations at ‘Pacific Coast Academy’!”
Lola protested, “but in twenty years, people will know me from my movies. I will have made at least five Oscars by then.”
Michael chuckled.
Lola was still hell bent on skipping the project.
Logan wanted to contribute a photograph of himself, the hottest guy of his generation, as a gift for the girls of the future.
Nicole was up to contributing some cute ornation, either a fashionable top or some pink jewelry, for the cute boys of the future.
Chase and Michael were up to writing a song about their life at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
But Rysty Dickerson eyed them suspiciously. He hated Michael and wanted him to leave Chase alone.
Zoey was up to something special: She wanted to make a video for the capsule.
The moving picture document was supposed to show her daily environment.
In addition, Zoey would say a few words about her friends.
Alas, there was one real goal.
Katie Packerman had told her, once alone in a corner: “In twenty years, nobody will care about you even for a dirty dime! The world won’t remember losers, only winners like me!”
Needless to say, Zoey was annoyed to no end.
And the worst of all: Katie Packerman still appeared very nice to everyone else.
Nobody would have believed Zoey’s hallucinatory complaints against her.
Chase and Michael started writing the song. Well, at least they tried hard to.
There were voices at the door.
Michael opened.
Wendy Gellar and Addie Singer stood beyond the brink. “Oh, hi guys! I’m Addie, an eigth grader. This is my fight grade friend Wendy.”
Chase shrugged. “Hi? Oh, Addie has been at the nationals of basketball, right?”
Addie smiled and nodded. “Really, I like writing lyrics. My friend and remote relative Wendy wants to become a composer for rock tunes. We’ve heard about your class project.”
Michael nodded and let the girls in. “We’re trying hard, but we couldn’t even find a start.”
Addie took Chase’s sketchbook. “Oh oh Zoey, I love you from head to toey!”
Chase gasped. “Have I written that?”
Michael gasped. “Logan’s idea … but it really sucks.”
Addie sat dowwn. “You’re talking about Zoey Brooks, don’t you?” She placed her guitar next to herself.
It was a slightly different model, compared to Chase’s.
Chase nodded sadly.
Addie agreed with the opinion about the first line. “So you are now dating?”
Chase grunted desperately, “I wish!”
Addie sighed deeply. “I may imagine what you feel. Last year, I was more or less secretly into a boy named Jake Beheri. I wrote a love song about that.[addie's love song], making a fool of myself. Only during the summer break did I show all my courage. Of course, now we are living across the continent. Who knows?”
Chase sighed for relief.
Addie’s sympathy meant a lot for him in his situation.
Wendy talked about her onesided stalking crush on Drake Parker.
Michael had got an idea. “Chase and Addie, you will work on the lyrics. I will work with Wendy on the tune.”
Chase grinned. “That sounds cool!”
Rusty Dickerson found Katie Packerman in a corner in the cafeteria after dinner. “Hi Katie!” He grinned.
Katie looked puzzled at Rusty.
The latter explained, “I figured something strange about Zoey Brooks.”
Katie would listen carefullyt.
Rustu continued, “well, Chase Bartholomew Matthews has got a crush on her. I’ve heard it from my room. The dormitory blocks must have got fairly thin walls.”
Katie cuckled with excruciating mischief. “Thanks, Rusty! That’s very good to know, indeed!” She was collecting Zoey’s potential weak spots in order to make her despair even more.
Addie and Chase were working on the text.
Addie explained, “my favourite is Edgar Allen Poe. I love especialy Telltale Heart.” She added one last line, better reflecting the rhythm of the song.
Chase nodded. “Cool story! The murderer admitted to his deeds because of going crazy by thinking to hear the heartbeat of his dead victim.”
Addie smiled. “Oh yeah!”
Chase panted.
Addie wondered, “you do want to know what Zoey says about you in her video for the time box?”
Chase nodded solemnly. “And what she thinks about hats.”
Addie added, “you would probably wear one … in that case.”
Chase sighed deeply. He told Addie about his evil deed of stalking Zoey in order to copy her answers for last year’s school ball.
Addie admitted, “I would have done the same for Jake Beheri. I would still do a lot in order to figure Jake’s deeds during my absence. He might cheat on me with Patricia Perez.”
Mr. Bender and his students were finally entombing the secret contributions.
Everytone barring Lola Martinez had contributed something.
The diva had got a credible excuse. She would have donated something from the belongings of her deceased grandma, but she could not beart doing so for piety.
Mr. Bender swallowed Lola’s white lie with hoot, line, and sinker.
Acting had thence saved Lola’s butt, as it would do over and over again.
But one girl on the campus was even better at that game: Ashley Blake[ashley blake]
.
Now the time capsule had just disappeared in the earth.
Chase was just obsessed with one thought: “How will I get to open the box and discover Zoey’s secret without anyone noticing?”
The night was rainy.
Flashes of lightning adorned the sky on and off, shedding enough light for two tomb raiders.
Chase and Addie had picked up shovel and bucket in order to unearth the sunk “treasure”.
Addie and Chase watched the video clip in a closet near the boys’ lounge.
Zoey talked about her “friends”, especially Dana, Nicole, Quinn, Lola, Logan, Chase, and Michael. She mentioned Chase as particularly nice from her very first moment, but nothing more, no feelings whatsoever. She admitted to having got Dana removed from “Pacific Coast Academy” for bullying Dustin.
Chase choked. He was uttermost disappointed.
“I’m terribly sorry for you.” Addie offered to put the crap back into the capsule all on her own. “You better get your sleep. Or you will never get over it!”
Chase sobbed sadly. “That’s great!”
Chase’s night would not be an easy one.
And his remorses for violating Zoey’s secret grew more and more.
Would Chase end up like the narrator of Poe’s story and admit to his sinful deed just for not going completely insane due to hearing Zoey’s imaginary voice?
Time would tell.
[salvia] Shelby Marx
[victoria] Victoria ‘Tori’ Vega
[viviana] Vivian from True Jackson VP : True Crush
[tamara] Tammie Dysen from Spectacular!.
[addie's love song] from Unfabulous : The 66th Day
[ashley blake] from Drake & Josh : Little Diva
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Zoey was consternated. She had lost out badly against Katie Packerman during the elections for class presidency.
Katie had become really popular prettily fast, as seen before.
Even Logan had voted for her. And he had been totally opposed to girls as a class president.
Katie started with some great initiatives concering the cafeteria and the basketball pitch. She had recently replaced Zoey as the captain of the basketball team, by the way.
But the next challenge was already around the corner.
It was the day of Al Halloween.
Logan was preparing a horror mansion for the elementary school kids.
This was a traditional task for the high school freshmen at “Pacific Coast Academy”
Lola was not around. She was said to be at a family reunion of some sort.
Logan fooled Nicole with fake blood, making her squeal.
Suddenly, two strangers showed up, talking French.
Zoey was supposed to know French very well. She had been tutoring many others during the last year.[zoey and french]. But now she did not understand zilch.
Anyone with a brain would have sensed something fishy.
Buut Michael, Chase, Logan, and Nicole were way too dumb.
Quinn was not there. She was busy dressing Mark del Figgalo as a mummy. She was already dressed as Albert Einstein.
Katie Packerman knew about Zoey’s perfect knowledge of French. She had expected her archenemy to offer herself voluntarily as a guide for them.
But Beverly, the secretary of Dean Rivers, was apparently forced to do that. She also explained the purpose of the visit.
André and Monique Chaumont[chaumont]
were teachers at an important but fairly new French boarding school. They were visiting “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to learn more about the administration of elitary prep schools.
Katie did not have to think very far.
Had not her forerunner, Dana Cruz, left “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to go to some Fench prep school?
Katie concluded: “Zoey Brooks knows Monique and Amdré Chaumont. She is responsible for getting Dana se nt off ‘Pacific Coast Academy’, to the French school run by the Chaumonts.” She did not know how. But she would go and use that in order to make Zoey even more unpopular. During the last weeks, Katie had become friends with Samantha Puckett, aforementioned evil dumb girl from Seattle.
Michael was dressed as a zombie. But to unaware onlookers, he looked a bit injured and beaten up. He was standing at the parking lot in order to await the arrival of a delivery van with supplies for Logan’s mansion of horror.
Suddenly, the French teachers walked along. They startled and deemed Michael injured. They were up to taking him into the next hospiutal.
But Michael was not really hurt. He did not understand much of the French conversation, barring the word for hospital, similar in French. Of course he was not willing to go to hospital. He was even less willing to go to the evil school nurse.
But the French visitors did not know about her.
And this was certainly for the better of Michael. He started running away like an idiot. He would almost have escaped.
But, all of a sudden, Rusty Dickerson and Karen Franklin barred his way.
Rusty asked, “hey, where do you want to go?”
Michael squealed.
Karen grinned. “Maybe we should give us another chance. What do yiu think about it?”
Unfortunately, Michael’s fears of another date with karen Franklin were much bigger than his fears of hospital. Thus he turned around, running straight into Monique and André. Now he was lost.
And off to hospital would have been their way.
But Karen told Monique and André abiout the local infirmary.
Michael did not understand their words. He thought, “the doc of the next hospital will certainly know about Al halloween and thence somehow figure my masquerade as pointless, and not as an injury.”
But bear with it!
Many kids flocked the entrance of Logan’s mansion of exorbitant horror.
Chase Matthews was dressed as a vampire. Or he thought so, at least.
But most onlookers deemed him to be a mage, including Zoey Brooks.
Chase almost started weeping.
Dustin and his friends Jack[jack] and Wendy were already shivering.
But Zoey was trying to fool Logan for being so mean and arrogant to the elementary school kids.
Logan opened the entrance to the tunnels of horror. He was mad for missing out on the expected supplies from the delivery van. He would treat Michael badly for having neglected his duties.
Chase, still firmly believeing in being dressed as a vampire, slouched through the tunnels.
Many kids squealed upon spotting the usual Halloween crap.
Suddenly, a voice was hurt. “Dana … Dana … Dana …”
Zoery choked. “Dana is in France!”
But the voices did not stop.
Most of the kids knowing Dana knew that as well.
But the voice laughed in some excruciatingly taunting manner. You’ve killed me, Zoey! Mwahahah! You will pay for it!
Zoey started trembling over and over.
Her fear of Dana’s ghost was now a lot stronger than her will to let Logan pay for his arrogance.
Chase, aware of Zoey’s guilt, tried to be calm. But he also had to hide his own guilt, viz. having dug out the time capsule and viewd Zoey’s vigeo message.
About everyone felt now lost in the tunnels.
Logan had not seen those ghost voices coming. But he had to move on.
The tunnels had been left behind.
Also another middle hall was passed.
The group approached the exit of the mansion.
Yet the voices were stuck to almost everyone’s ears and mind. They had even made a rremark about Chase beinbg a poor wexcuse of a vampire.
Finally, Chase could not stand it any longer. “I’m a mage, dern! I’m not a vampire! I’m a mage!”
But this did not help him with the other problem.
He still felt awfully dirty because of havuing snooped Zoey’s contyribution for the future capsule.
A spot light went on.
The breath of the first kids started freezing.
What was there? A real corpse?
Dustin, standing in the front row, screamed like a victim of furies. He turned round and leapt into Zoey’s arms.
Zoey went pale.
It was not just an ordinary bleeding corpse. No! It was the corpse of no other than — Dana Cruz!
Logan gasped as well.
Chase was now totally consternated. “I’ve seen Zoey’s video! This can’t be! Zoey has gotten Dana sent to Paris!”
Zoey was deadly pale. She could hardly comfort Dustin in her situation. “It did it! I murdered Dana! I got her sent to Paris, to the school of those foreign visitors.” She kept on stammering. “She must have killed herself off and haunt this place for good.”
Even Logan’s teeth rattled like a snake’s tail.
Suddenly, the corpse moved.
A wig was dropped.
The “corpse” reveiled herself as Lola Martinez. She licked at her own “blood”. “Raspberry juice! Yummy!”
The kids were still paralysed.
Lola grinned. “Logan payed me for this. Now I will get a rôle in his dad’s next soap, The Witches of Rodeo Drive[witches of rodeo drive], won’t I?
”
Alas, Logan had not been responsible for the wig making Lola look like Dana.
That had been the idea of Katie Packerman.
Lola smiled. “Haven’t I been great? I tell you, I will make my first oscar while still a teenager!”
Nobody else was able to smile.
Zoey was now infinitely stinky. She would hardly ever forgive Chase his fraudulent deed of unearthing and viewing her DVD.
But having reveiled her important rôle concerning the departure of Dana Cruz would not make Zoey exactly more popular among her fellow pupils.
The nurse of “Pacific Coast Academy” kept on treating Michael Barret with painful injections in order to restore his healthy skin.
But it did not work.
So she needed more injections, using syringes with even longer needles.
Zoey and Quinn were visiting him.
Monique Chaumont had reassured, “Dana is still at our school, unhappy but still alive.”
Zoey Brooks, on the other hand, felt her life ruined for the time being.
Would that ever change again?
[zoey and french] cf. Zoey 101 : Little Beach party
[chaumont] only appear in Zoey 101 : Huanted House
[jack] varioue cameos in Zoey 101, e.g. Zoey 101 : Haunted House
[witches of rodeo drive] mentioned in Big Time Rush : Big Time Break
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The scholl bell was ringing the begin of yet another period.
Mr. Gangrel[gangrel], entered his laboratory class room.
It was time for the lessons for the fifth and sixth graders.
They worked in teams of two.
Dustin Brooks, for example, was working with his room mate Jack. He took classes very serious. He had learned from Zoey to take responsibbility for his demeanour and for his pals.
But someone was hell bent on undermining Dustin’s goody two shoes image: Katie Peckerman. She was a high school freshman, but she had got a secret envoy in the lower classes: Trisha Kirby alias Samantha Puckett.
The latter was only interested in letting things in the laboratory explode. She deemed those accidents cool.
Her partner in laboratory classes, Henry Nolston[henry nolston], was thoroughly scared. He was unable to handle Trisha’s abrasivity.
Mr. Gangrel had no other choice than reassigning Trisha to Dustin Brooks due to the latter’s extreme sense for responsibility.
Samantha Puckett had already seduced other innocent boys for fun. She would not have needed Katie Packerman’s instigation in order to deal with Dustin. But it was certainly an extra motivation to annoy a certain blond Mary Sue by corrupting her little brother in a most shameful manner.
After the experiences with Wendy, Dustin feeled honoured by Samantha’s, or Trisha’s interest.
He felt so cool.
Triusha wrote her number onto Dustin’s skin. “Call me!”
Dustin smiled. “Sure!”
Needless to say, Zoey was little pleased hearing about Dustin’s new girlfriend.
According to the blond Mary Sue, girls like Samantha Puckett had a very bad influence unto Dustin.
Alas, after having already messed with Dustin’s choices for too many tuimes, Zoey felt herself unable to talk any reason into Dustin, let alone into Trisha.
About everyone on the campus was aware of Zoey’s obnoxious overprotectivity.
Dana Cruz’s forced deportation to France had been proof enough of that.
Katie Packerman was not tired of emphasising this inapproppriate deed.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews might have been talked into helping Zoey.
But she was no longer willing to ask Chase for a favour.
The reason was clear.
How could Zoey Brooks trust a freak snooping her video clips thought for future generations of kids at “Pacific Coast Academy” only?
That was plainly impossible.
Zoey could by no means tolerate such an evil fraud.
Melanie Puckett may have helped.
But this was only valid in Zoey’s deed.
For all that really matters, Melanie had got absolutely no influence on her evil monozygotic twin sister Samantha.
Was anyone able to save Dustin Brooks from total decadence and corruption?
To make things worst, Katie Packerman has started talking Dustin into doubting about Zoey. “Maybe she is not even your real sister. She must be an evil step sister or a child abductress. No real sister would tell you whhom to date or not.”
Did Dustin believe Katie’s words? He was sure scared by the thought.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews and Michael Barret had started producing a web show on their own.
Of course they lacked the necessary technological knowledge.
Quinn Pensky had tried to help them out. But she was too busy to do things like these during the broadcast of the show.
This circumstance threw Chase and Michael into a state of permanent confusion while recording their sessions.
Needless to say, nothing good came out of it.
In addition, their program was lame.
A few stupid gestures by Michael and Chase, followed by some boring cartoons, did not make any good content for aweb show.
Rusty Dickerson was able to listen to them across the thin walls. He was not at all pleased by Chase and Michael working closely together on such a project. He was thus the ringleader of the devastating critocism against the Chase And Michael Show.
The slanter was published in the Daily Stingray, the official school newspaper redacted by Jeremiah Trottman.
The inclusion of interviews with othe pupils, such as Quinn Pensky, Mark del Figgalo, Leann Carter, Spencer Carter, Zachariah Carter Schwartz, Logan Reese, Lola Martinez, Mercedes Griffin, Nicole Bristow, and stuff like that, seemed to be a remedy at first glance.
This raised to some degree the popularity of the show.
But Rusty Dickerson was able to inform Dean Rivers. “Those discussions hold the potential of starting fan wars. And a fan war on this campus would be catastrophic.”
Fan wars used to be especially about “ships”.
Ships were assumed dates between members of the cast or their guests. They were often named using a blend of the names of the thusly connected characters.
For example, a relationship of Chase and Michael went by the name “Chichael”.
A ship tying Michael and Lola was coined “Mola”.
Fans’ opinions about those diverged often and were likely to lead to bloody, violent conflicts.
The worst brood of all were so-called “Quoganers”, viz. shippers of Quinn Pensky and Logan Reese. They were aggressive perverts starting permanently riots against rivalling ships.
Dean Rivers had already heard about fan wars in other shows, web or TV. He imagined the campus turning into a battle field. After having already been rebuked by Mr. Bradford for being too liberal, he could not afford another escalation. In other words, he started to introduce censorship and apply it to the Chase And Michael Show.
Was this the end of freedom of opinion at “Pacific Coast Academy”?
Nicole Bristow suffered from lack of attention.
Cute boys in her classes kept on distracting her and making it impossible for Nicole to concentrate on the teachers’ words.
Lola had got some sort of an idea. “My first teacher for acting, Mr. Sikowitz, used to hypnotise me. This way, I could better concentrate on my rôle instead of getting distracted by my feelings for hot fellow actors.” She grinned.
Quinn Pensky deemed this an excellent idea. Alas, she was horribly distracted as well.
The presence of Leann Carter at “Pacific Coast Academy” had really been a spine in Quinn’s achilles heel.
This was so creepy and eery.
Was this a good situation for conducting a hypnotic therapy?
Quinn tried anyways. She had read a lot about Sigmund Freud and similar junk. Now she started a handmade machine helping her hypnotising her distracted friend.
Nicole started feeling dizzy.
Quinn started talking, “there are so many boys at this school …”
Nicole swooned. “cute boys … so cute …”
Quinn continued, “but thence you will forget about cute boys. You will not see them as cute boys. You will see them as Leann Carter.”
That was a terrible lapsus linguæ.
Lola coughed. “Why would Nicole want to see them as Leann Carter?”
Neither Nicole nor Lola really knew Leann.
Lola had heard about Leann from Spencer, Leann’s step-brother.
Nicole had already seen Leann passing by, but she was not aware of her name.
Quinn grunted, “how do I know? That’s a girl I’ve never seen or heard about before! Just forget about cute boys, Nicole! Will you?”
Nicole woke up and screamed like a fury. She ran away.
Quinn sighed deeply.
Leann’s face popped up in her memory here and there.
Lola wondered, “why do you know her name and mention her here without reason? Noone would do that with respect to some unknown person.”
Quinn wanted Lola to just shut up.
Alas, the apparatus helping Quinn to hypnotise other people was still functioning and active. It was not just able to hypnotise Nicole.
Quinn’s eyelids felt more and more heavy.
Her mind was dazed.
Quinn looked totally strange.
Lola smiled. “OK, Quinn, why do you know Leann do well? If you wake up, you will tell me. You are going to return in five … four … three … two …” She clapped her hands as loud as can be.
Quinn returned from her hypnotic swoon. “Leann! I saw it!”
Lola asked, “you saw what?”
Quinn started talking, “as a little girl, I participated in beauty pageants. First, I was a majorette. Then I switched to blowing the trombone as one of my talents. I had composed my own tunes. That’s an intellectual task. But it’s still embarassing.”
Lola chuckled. “You and beauty pageants?”
Quinn moaned, “mom forced me. During one of the events, I was already older, I saw Samantha Puckett pushing Leann Carter down the staircase. I saw it! I can’t forget about it. I wish I could.” She drummed her fists against her skull.
But this did not work.
Quinn’s medical knowledge had saved Leann’s life.
This had never been enough to make Quinn feel at ease.
And now Lola knew about it. Would she be able to keep her bubbly mouth shut?
Under no circumstances did Quinn want to become known as a former pageant girl.
According to her fears, this would have ruined both her career and her relationship with Mark del Figgalo, also known by shippers as “Quark”.
Were those fears justified?
[gangrel] cameo in Zoey 101 : Bad Girl
[henry nolston] Henry is a cameo from Zoey 101 : Bad Girl.
The surname is taken from same actor’s rôle in some third-party owned movie.
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There were certainly various attempts of keeping hygienic standards high at “Pacific Coast Academy”, such as cleanliness and a nurse’s station.
But sometimes, epidemies snuck in and seized the campus.
Due to the concentrated life on the campus, those diseaseswere usually able to spread like wildfire.
And now it was time for a wave of chicken pox.
There could have been more dangerous diseases for the individual, of course.
But for the organisation of the school, it was a problem.
The sick kids had to be insulated from possible victims.
Some kids had already gone through that sort of illness and were now considered to be safe and immune. Those were freely allowed to visit the sick ones.
Zoey Brooks was one of the safe kids. She was thus allowed to visit her sick Dustin in the nurse’s station.
Dustin grinned.
Trisha Kirby had just left the infirmary.
Zoey choked. She eas still dismayed by Dustin’s “girlfriend”. “So, Trisha has already overcome the chicken pox?”
Dustin shook his head. “She just made out with me, so she copntracts the pox as well and is allowed to skip classes, especially her next presentation.”
Zoey shuddered for excruciating disgust.
There was a new nurse named Shannon[nurse shannon], She was a whole lot nicer than the older one, a perverse fury, but she was only responsible for the elementary school kids.
Zoey asked, “why does Trisha not get treatment?”
Dustin replied proudly, “she loves it when she gets everyone sick. Isn’t that cool?”
Zoey threw up. But she was still powerless.
Nobody at “Pacific Coast Academy” was able to talk any trace of reason into Trisha alias Samantha.
Even wworse, Katie Packerman defended her and prevented her from getting expelled.
Zoey was facing another problem.
Many kids loved hanging out on their roof tops, especially at dusk.
Watching the sunset was suchh a romantic experience, not likely to ever leave the memory of the students.
But that of “Brenner Hall” was ugly.
A large tree took away most of the sunlight.
Squirrels roamed the campus, and they left their excrements preferrably on the larger trees such as that one.
This was not exactly a pleasure for the girls’ noses.
The female students tried to make it to the boys’ roof top.
But the boys did not allow them. “It’s the only place left on the whole campus for us girls to be ourselves.”
Katie Packerman was the one and only girl allowed to the boys’ roof tops. She had of course flirted her way up there.
Lola Martinez had got the idea of crossdressing as a boy.
Too bad her attempt got thoroughly undermined by Katie Packerman.
Tracey Baldwin[tracy baldwin], a sophomore, was the last standing friend of Zoey Brooks.
Zoey would have liked Sandy Baldwin, Tracy’s younger sister, to date Dustin.
Sandy was a nice girl next door without ant potentially bad influence on Dustin.
Tracy had got a vague idea. “You know the former school of Samantha Pucket, right?”
Zoey nodded. “From last year’s nationals in middle school basketball.”
Tracy continued, “maybe someeone there is able to talk a word of reasion into Sam. She must have needed someone in order to not get into more serious trouble.”
Zoey gasped. “Yeah, she was hanging out with some nicer looking girl.”
Tracy smiled. “OK, you just need to find her!”
Quinn Pensky was still suffering from not bering allowed to the science club ruled by Wayne “Firewire” Gilbert.
The club was involved in a project involving robot combats.
Wayne thought of girls as being inferior in matters of technology and science.
Zoey was still dismayed by Wayne. She wanted to build her own war robot and beat Wayne’s.
Unfortunately, only Quinn was really able to build one. She agreed on the task.
But Quinn’s mental pains had been increasing rapidly.
Leann Carter was like a sharp spine in her butt.
This could not go wrong.
Lola had made a picture of the robot to be built. “OK, and the name is either ‘Loganator’ or ‘Mercedes Lance’, due to the sponsors.”
Quinn choked. But she started anyways.
Logan had to stay away from her laboratory, though.
Quinn needed some ingredients.
Her upstream provider was some “Cal” from nearby “Caltech”.
Logan repeatedly called Quinn a nerd and a spaz.
Lola remarked in her excruciatingly bubble manner, “Hey! Quinn was once a majorette and participated in beauty pageants. Isn’t that cool?”
Logan gasped. He could hardly believe it.
Chase and Michael had got their problems believing, as well.
The message was shouted from the roof tops.
Quinn was consternated. She stood up, kicked her half-done robot into the corner, and ran away screaming. She would not talk again to Lola for many a month.
Her life was now over.
It was impossible for Quinn to live with such a shame.
Lola kept on talking, mentioning Leann Carter. “Leann still wins many pageants. She’s cool!” She smiled.
Zoey sighed deeply. “Why did Lola have to say that?”
Her chances of teaching Wayne “Firewire” Gilbert a lesson were now reduced to zilch.
Needless to say, the freak guy would make an insane lot from the news about Quinn’s infamous past as a majorette.
His prejudices were now totally confirmed.
In addition, Lola was also careless enough to mention Quinn’s testimony of envious Samantha Puckett’s vicious onslaught upon Leann’s life during one of the pageants.
Zoey smelled some hope for getting Samantha rightfully busted.
But her chances to defeat Wayne Gilbert’s battle droid were dwindling to zilch.
Chase suggested a certain Miles Brody[miles brody].
That was the top nerd of “Pacific Coast Academy”. He lived in a dark place in the main library.
But asking the creep would be for no avail whatsoever.
Katie seduced Miles into refraining from helping Zoey’s gang.
Zoey had tried in vain to talk to Leann.
The pacifist pageant queen replied, “he among you without a sin shall throw the first stone!”
Thus another hope for Zoey was drifting down the drain.
But there was some kind of sort of a hope.
Melanie, while not able to control her twin sister, knew indeed someone with the abilitiy of doing so. “There’s one Carlotta Shay, a girl living in Seattle. She had usually been able to talk some sort of sense into Samantha. It won’t be eassy, though.”
Zoey moaned, “where can I find Carly?”
Fortunately, Melanie knew the address of Carly. “‘8 C Bushwell Plaza’ Or you could ask principal Franklin of ‘Ridgeway’ to help with a contact.”
Zoey panted heavily. She looked into the dying sun.
But there appeared to be some light at the end of the tunnel.
Zoey just needed to look for some help named Carly Shay from “Ridgeway”.
At the same time, the science club of “Pacific Coast Academy” was turning into the laughing stock of California.
Wayne Gilbert’s lethal combat droid had been blown up by that of Mindy Crenshaw from “Belleview”, the same school as that of Drake Parker.
Wayne was watching the sunset from his girl-free roof top. He deemed his time for retiring from science for good near.
During the following days, Lola had been seeking Chase’s help with biology classes.
Of course Chase had no clue about biology either.
But it was all about the flowers and the bees, a very touchy subject for psubeescent teenagers like Chase.
Indeed, Lola was not in need of tutoring. She just wanted to practise seducing dweebs for her next movie, I Kissed A Dweeb. She had got the fullest approval of her boyfriend, Spencer Carter.
As an actor, Spencer understood the situation. He was often enough in similar rôles. “An actor needs to do what an actor needs to do!”
In addition, Katie Packerman had instigated Lola into being particularly aggressive and merciless.
Their highlight involved a picnic at sunset in the school garden.
After a few days, Lola dropped Chase like a hot potato, following her script. The perfect Hollywood starlet was proud of her perfect performance.
Chase had still been clueless. Now he was heartbroken.
Michael just made fun of it. “Cool! Maybe I will now date Lola!”
Chase was horribly upset by Michael’s heartless demeanour. He would refuse to share his room with him for quite a few eternities.
Rusty Dickerson was totally glad about the situation. Indeed, he had planned it with Katie. Now he offered generously to share his dormnitory room with Chase.
In turn, Mark del Figgalo would move in with Michael and Logan.
Spring break was now around the corner.
Carly had agreed on a trip to “Pacific Coast Academy” during those vacations.
Would spring break really put an end to the longest emotional winter in Zoey’s life?
[nurse shannon] from Zoey 101 : Girls Will Be Boys.
[tracy baldwin] both Tracy and Sandy Baldwin are from Zoey 101 : Lola Likes Chase
[miles brody] only in Zoey 101 : Robot Wars.
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The students were now looking forward to their long awaited spring break.
Zoey had been in amisterable tste during the last months.
Katie Packerman had successfully stolen or scare all of her former friends away, and even — by means of her right hand Trisha Kirby — alienated her little brother Dustin.
But also Chase’s state was no better.
He had now broken with Michael, his best friend for over three years.
Michael, of course, would either be totally ignored or just abused by Lola.
The diva was no better than her behated rival Ashley Blake. She used her acting prowess successfully in order to manipulate people at whim.
Spencer Carter would stay her boyfriend of choice, no matter what, due to being the best kisser of all.
Likewise, Logan and Mercedes used their money in order to manipulate ther fellow pupils at whim.
Totally depressed Quinn was in a deep depression.
Things could not turn worse for the former geek queen, could they?
The hell they could!
Nicole Bristow feigned being a friend for Zoey. But she let her down for each and every cute boy in sight. She was even shamelessly hitting on Dustin in Zoey’s absence.
The latter development was promoted shamelessly by Katie Packerman.
But Nicole’s obsessive demeanour was a spine in Zoey’s side, with or without Katie’s manipulation.
After all, Zoey Brooks saw only one potential solution: The removal of Nicole from “Pacific Coast Academy” to a school only for girls. She sent a fly paper about nearby girl school “Eastridge” to the parents of Nicole Bristow.
Carlotta Shay was a cousin of Drake Parker. She was now living with her grandpa and her irresponsible adult brother Spencer in Seattle.
Her father, a navy officer, was stuck in his submarine somewhere out in the seven seas.
She had been missing her best friend Samantha upon the clond demon’s departure to California. She was very much worried by the news about her bad demeanour. Carly had always known Sam as an incredibly bad girl. But she had honestly believed in Sam’s ability to improve.
Alas, the complaints from people like Zoey Brooks had hinted towards the contrary.
Of course Carly had never taken Zoey Brooks’s words for granted.
Elder sisters were often pointlessly possessive of their little siblings and don’t like seeing them start dating..
The same was valid for rlder brothers, such as Spencer Shay.
So Carly had to check the situation on site before coming to a conclusion.
And the time for a close scrutiny had now come.
During the last months, Carly had been repeatedly bothered by some obsessive horny creep named Fredward Benson, superficially a nice neighbour boy, at least in the euyes of naïve viewers.
But Freddie was rotten at heart through and through. He was ready to murder other boys in his way. “One day, I will be Carly’s second husband. The first one? Noone will be able to prove anything.”[freddies perversity]
Unfortunately Carly was too young to see that. She still believed naïvely in the possibility of being friends with Freddie without falling for him.
But that was so wrong.
Freddie’s thoroughly corrupt mentality did not allow for such a thing.
Carly arrived with Sam’s mother.
Old Mrs. Puckett was not just coming to “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to visit her daughters, but also for surgical treatment.
Her surgeon was one Dr. Hollywood[dr hollywood]. But he also had got one important deputy: Quinn Pensky! He performed mist surgeries in nearby “Come On Inn”[come on inn], a cheap and dirt motel in downtown Los Angeles.
The trip from Seattle to Malibu had been outright tiresome.
Carly was glad to have made it. She stormed the campus and huggled the living hell out of Samantha and Melanie. But now she needed to talk about the complaints.
Samantha grunted, “noone can prove anything!”
Carly sighed. “I’m not a judge or so. If I am your best friend, you have to tell me. Are you using little boys, such as the brother of …”
Sam grunted ferociously, “Zoey is a paranoid bitch!”
Carly did not exactly approve of Sam’s words. “She’s just worried about her brother.”
Sam poked her filthy tongue at Carly. Then she walked over to Dustin. “Where do we want to make out today?”
Carly gasped. She figured, “Dustin is certainly not doing this all voluntarily. Zoey was right. I must control Sam more.” She still hoped for Sam taking a turn for the better. Carly liked the general atmmosphere on this spa-like campus. She would persuade her grandpa, an alumnus of “Pacific Coast Academy”, into sending her hereto. She expected everyone and everything at this school waiting for her.
Sam for sure had broken all her promises given before her departure from Seattle, promises still well remembered by Carly.
The latter sighed deeply.
The spring break was now over.
Carly had to return to Seattle.
12.3. Otis[otis]
The Alpaca
Pets were strictly illegal at “Pacific Coast Academy”
At least this was the case according to the official rules.
But Quinn had always been able to keep litt;e petrs well hidden, such as a king snake named Marvin[marvin].
This was not possible for bigger ones.
Quinn’s tallest pet was an alpaca named Otis. It still lived in Seattle with her dad and mom. But it took the separation from Quinn very ill.
Learning about Otis’s depressions, Quinn ‘s mood turned worse and worse as well.
She was in desperate need of Otis. She would have left the campus on site for the beast, risking suspension and expulsion. But she did not even have the power to make it to the next bus stop.
With some help from friends, it would have been possible for her to get a special permission form Dean Rivers.
But noone was here in order to help Quinn.
The latter thusly needed the help of a shrink.
There were not many reliable ones in Los Angeles known to Quinn.
Quinn asked Dr. Hollywood for advice.
The latter only knew one competent shrink suited for Quinn.
It was Dr. Lowe, currently school shrink at “James K. Polk”.
Quinn would thus enroll for open rehab during the next academic year. She was thrown back a lot in her scientific career. She remembered the good old times of her promise of intellectual superiority. And now she was like mental junk. Would the world of science still wait for her until after a successful recovery from her creeping depression?
As of recent, Michael had got a crush on a girl named Vanessa.
But Karen Franklin was jealous of the cute mulata. She did not really want Michael back. She just did not want any other girl with him.
At the same time, Logan and Michael were running a bet about the possibility of avoiding the letter “s”.
Well, “Vanessa” contained two of them.
Thus Michael was unable to talk to her. But he finally broke down and lost the bet.
The stakes were hard.
Michael had to cross the campus in a ridiculous outfit.
Karen Franklin took pictures of this wevent with her webcam, She would send them to Michael’s grandmother, wreaking an insane amount of havoc.
This academic year had been one string of catastrophes for all of them.
Would the next year be any better?
Heavy clouds were already approaching from all sides.
But nobody was yet aware of them.
[freddies perversity] cf. iCarly : iSpy A Mean Teacher
[dr hollywood] several cameos in Big Time Rush
[come on inn] featured in iCarly : iTake On Dingo, even in connection with Mrs. Puckett
[otis] from Zoey 101 : Quinn’s Alpaca
[marvin] from Zoey 101 : Girls Will Be Boys
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Logan Reese and Michael Barret had got very annoying summer breaks.
Logan had seen yet another divorce and remarriage of his father.
Michael was glad to get rid of Karen Franklin for a few months. But he had to face a hurricane’s attack.
Alas, no tropic cyclon could mess with the violent whirl caused by Michael’s grandmom.
The old lady had heard about Michael’s embarrassing loss in a stupid bet. Now she was upset to no end. She had refused to cook Michael’s favourite meals, and she had forced him to do his laundry all on his own.
In any case, for this year, both of them were eager on occupying the single bed.
Logan had occupied the single bed in sixth, seventh, and ninth gradr.
Michael had done so in eighth great. But he was a reckless liar and foolishly denied this important fact.[michaels lie]. Now he was hell bent on defending his unjustified claim to the single bed.
Logan and Michael got into a fight.
Bypassing Chase shook his head. He could not care any less about his former room mates. He had been bored to death during the summer months in a camp with Rusty Dickerson. After a tiresome trip to “Pacific Coast Academy”, we was now ready to reach his dormitory room as fast as possible.
Due to Zoey’s intervention, Nicole had been removed from “Pacific Coast Academy” and sent to “Eastridge”.
Lola and Quinn had not been informed beforehand. But really, they were not unhappy about this change. But they feigned to be sad, in an excruciatingly hypocritical manner.
Zoey of course would not talk about the true reasons for Nicole’s elimination.
Lola had secured for herself the top bunk.
At a younger age, her little sister Salvia, later on better known as “Shelby Marx” had always beaten Lola with her fists into leaving her the top bunk.
Salvia was incredibly strong.
But until turning twelve, nobody had believed her being strong enough to beat up Lola.
This had made it easy for Salvia to terrorise Lola.
And now she was a student at “Pacific Coast Academy”, too. She had been fascinated by Lola’s stories about her boyfriend Spencer Carter, the best kisser. Salvia was up to stealing him from Lola.
Lola would avoid her evil little sister at any cost.
Quinn had spent the summer in Seattle with Otis.
This should have released her pains.
But they had just turned worse than before the summer break in the moment of Quinn’s departure. She could not help weeping.
Fortunately, Dr. Lowe had already agreed on several sessions during the first three weeks.
And there were a few new girls in “Brenner Hall”.
One of them was Stacey Dillsen from Swampscott in Massachusetts. She talked with a pentrant lisp and loved building things from cotton swabs and carpenter’s glue. She would have preferred to work in a woodshop.
But her father had deemed this too dangerous.
Thus Stacey had to do with cotton swab sculptures. Due to her lisp , she was extremely unpopular.
Most kids at “Pacific Coast Academy” would treat Stacey like dirt.
This was especially true for Lola Martinez, the arrogant Hollywood diva.
The Latina beauty had even passed by her colleague Ashley Blake in this respect.
Stacey’s cotton swab constructs lacked stability and often got destroyed by bypassing careless students.
Stacey would shed an insane amount of tears over destroyed cotton swab models.
The sculptures were an expression of Stacey’s most vital dreams.
Their destruction made Stacey doubt in being alive at all.
The total contray to Stacey Dillsen was Lisa Perkins, a hillariously popular mulata. She had recently applied for a popular casting show named “America Sings”[america sings]. Lisa had not yet settled in her dorm. But she was now begged nt many fans to give them an autograph.
Carly Shay had been taken to “Pacific Coast Academy” by her elder brother Spencer. This way, she had gotten rid of her obsessively stalking “nice” guy next door, viz. Fredward Benson.
Carly’s dormitory room would be “101 Butler Hall”, i.e. the same as that of Zoey Brooks and her sidekicks Nicole Bristow and Dana Cruz during her first year at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
She would share it with Samantha Puckett and with Salvia Martinez alias Shelby Marx.
Sam had promised to help Carly with her luggage.
But bear with it!
She was now up and away in order to make out with Dustin, down by the beach.
Carly was really upset. She had to do Sam’s luggage and her laundry as well. She was now really forced to talk some serious words to Dustin Brooks.
Spencer should have helped Carly, too. But he had preferred to go to the boys’ toilets. He hated schools. He had dropped out of law school because of being annoyed by teachers talking stuff.
The atmosphere here at “Pacific Coast Academy” reminded him too much of his painful college years.
Spencer broke into tears, even more than Quinn. He had to leave silently and return to his now lonely loft in Seattle. He would miss Carly to the death. But he did not yet anticipate this.
Chase and Rusty were now back on their dorm.
Chase had gone through quite some mayhem.
Logan and Michael had almost killed each other over the single bed.
Mark del Figgalo had not really cared.
But Chase had heard everything through the thin walls. He had not been able to avoid calling Dean Rivers and denouncing his former friends.
The headmaster decided to ground Michael and Logan for the next six weeks, which implied in particular the exclusion from all extracurricular activities, including the basketball team.
Chase did not look forward to the basketball season.
The former glorious squad was now a shipwreck.
Thinking about the year of the conquest of the nationals made Chase break into tears.
Rusty had got a hard time comforting Chase.
And now their third roomie marched in. He introduced himself as Jeff Norgin.
Chase had heard of him as one of the best tennis players at Californian high schools.[norgin the tennis player]
But he did not know a very important fact about Jeff.
This new roomie had been a class mate of Zoey Brooks at her previous school. He had been lured to “Pacific Coast Academy” by Katie Packerman in an attempt.
Katie knew an embarrassing secret about Zoey and Jeff Norgin, a secret not unlikely to break Zoey’s neck.
Coach Keller was responsible for training the basketball team in his second season. He was a terribly annoying trainer. He gave useless commands. As opposed to Ferguson, he was a lousy motivator.
Ferguson’s departure had been one of the reasons for the downfall of the athletic teams at “Pacific Coast Academy”, barring the football team.
Dana’s departuree had not improved the situation.
But now the team was forced to do without Logan and Michael.
All hope was now left up to the cheerio girls.
This year, the quota of girls had increased to almost fifty percent.
Hired cheerleaders were no longer needed.
But Coach Dirga was hired permanently as the cheerleading coach. She had been absent during the last season due to additional tasks at her own school, “James K. Polk”. Thus she had not stumbled into Coach Keller. But now she needed to make it to the basketball field.
Coach Keller saw Dirga approaching. he was consternated. Back at college, he had been the quarterback.
Dirga had been the cheerio captain.
The students were not aware of this coincidence.
Many years had passed ever since.
Keller started breaking into tears.
The kids had never seen him like this.
Mayhem seized the arena.
Zoey Brooks, on the other hand, was totally consternated when spotting a new member of the basketball team: Jeff Norgin.
[michaels lie] cf. Zoey 101 : The Play
[america sings] mentioned in iCarly : iRock The Votes
[norgin the tennis player] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Good-Bye Zoey
But the canon does not hint to his identification with Jeff Norgin mentioned in Zoey 101 : Vince Is Back.
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Dustin and some other middle school boys were playing with a model plane.
Unfortunately, the whole thing did not work any longer.
Sam Puckett walked up.to them. She grabbed Dustin for a perversely dirty and disgusting kiss.
Dustin complained about the broken plane.
Sam grinned. “Not really a problem!” She fumbled at a few wires.
The thing worked again.
Dustin grinned. “Cool! Where have you learned that?”
Sam grinned. “I have learned about electronics from my uncle, a former expert for deactivating security alerts in banks and so.”
Dustin took the plane and started letting it fly. He tried to concentrate on the flight.
Samantha started making out with him during that action.
Dustin couldn’t see the plane any longer.
Suddenly, a scream was hurt.
Sadistic onlookers, lead by aforementioned Jeremiah Trottman from “Pacific Coast Academy” News Channel, crowded around the victim.
Alert bells rang out.
The lads in white arrived at the speed of light.
The victim was no other than … Dean Rivers, the very headmaster of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Sam ylled cheerfully. “Plain strike!”
Dustin went pale.
That meant quite some trouble.
According to Beverly, executive chairman Garth Burman had already ordered a sibstute for the sidelined dean.
Dr. Taylor from Harvard would be the new dean for the next weeks or so.
Coco Wexler, messy dorm adviser of the girls, had got a very abusive bopyfriend named Carl Bubba[carl bubba], coach of the baseball and softball team of “Pacific Coast Academy”, the greatest losers of all athletic teams of the school.
Coco was dumped every now and then.
But this times, it was particularly hard.
Carl had done it by means of an SMS.
This hurt most of all.
Coco was now lying on the pavement oif the campus square and was weeping, begging everyone to let her die right there.
Zoey and Lola picked her up from the paved ground. They deemed Coco in a really miserable state.
But what was there to do for them?
Katie was happy about the upcoming troubles for Dustin Brooks.
A suspension or expulsion of the little bugger would push Zoey completely over the edge and thus make Katie Packerman excruciatingly happy.
Katie had informed Dr. Sheila Voss, the vice president of the national trades union for teachers and school administration staff.
Dr. Voss, also known as superintendent Jacqueline Bell and Francine Briggs, ordered the immediate suspension, expulsion, and deportation of all the pupils involved in the incident.
Zoey was consternated. She did not mind Samantha getting sent to Siberia. “But Dustin is really innocent. Whereas Sam is even proud of her deed.”
Carly was not excessively pleased, either. She had told Sam some hundred times since the start of the academic year to leave those things. But she had failed miserably.
A honour council was scheduled in order to deal with the case.
Zoey would have defended Dustin, but she was noit up to defending Samantha. She was also worried by Coco’s excruciating misery.
Fortunately, one of the most successful defenders at honour councils of the county appeared available.
Claire Sawyer from “James K. Polk” was generally known as “The Future Lawyer”.
Lola had seen only one chance for Coco.
The chubby dorm adviser needed a new husband. Otherwise she would always return to Carl and get her heart and brain broken over and over and over again.
But where to find one?
Zoey had suggested Dean Taylor.
They just needed to arrange a date for them.
The place of their choice for this was “Sushi Rox”
Unfortunately, their sense of organisation was not the best.
This was the result of Katie packerman’s thorough sabotage of the friendship between Zoey and Lola.
Quinn was sidelined, anyways. She had to go to Dr. Lowe for therapy sessions.
Mr. Bradford was presiding over the session of the honour council against Dustin, Sam, and some other middle school kids.
Dean Rivers was still in hospital.
Mrs. Sheila Voss alias Jacqueline Bell alias Francine Briggs represented him. She was in favour of the worst possible punishments. “Those damn’ kids need to be expelled from all American schools for good. And then we need to call the police and put them into military borstal in Alaska.”
Dustin shivered. “I don’t want to go to Alaska! There are polar bears!”
Sam added, “and penguins! I love fried penguin wings! Yummy!”
Jeremiah Trottman was already reporting ain a way anticipating the outcome. “Why will you get expelled?”
Finally, Claire Sawyer arrived. She had been brought hereto by Robert Gordon, better known as “Gordy”, tthe custodian of “James K. Polk”.
Gordy announced, “I will wait out on the campus until after the session.” He walked out.
Ms. Voss had already been a teacher at Carly’s and Sam’s former school, “Ridgeway”. Then she had strayed. This year, she returned to there.
Carly did not sense any good.
Ms. Voss mentioned many occasions of Sam threatening teachers and Dean Rivers, or insultingthem behind their back.
Mr. Bradford confirmed, “such an attitude cannot be tolarated at my school!”
Carly yelled. “Hey! We know that Sam says stuff like that. But she can’t help it! She’s Sam!”
Claire Sawyer saw the situation as crappy as only possible. She figured the possibility of getting the other kids off the hook with a bit of detention.
Most of them regretted the incident.
But Sam was a totally hopeless case.
Claire would have been able to save her at a normal district school.
But “Pacific Coast Academy” was nothing like that.
The honour code at elitary prep schools was an insane lot stricter.
Custodian Gordy was roaming the campus. He was also evaluating the location for a potential new job.
At “James K. Polk”, he was just on the brink of expulsion.
That was the fault of meanspirited Vice Principal Crubs.
Admitted, Gordy was fairly messy, like Coco. He always assumed the colleagues of the nightshift responsible for everything.
Trutrh said, there was no such thing as a night shift at “James K. Polk”.
At a boarding school like “Pacific Coast Academy”, things were different.
Gordy loved those prospects. He was now holding a giant net in his hand.
Chase Matthews passed by. “What are you doing here?”
Gordy replied, “oh … I’m hunting weasels!”
There had been a weasel, actually a ferret, residing at “James K. Polk”’s.
Gordy had always been eager on hunting it down.
Chase wondered, “oh, does this also work with racoons? I’, afraid of them. They may bite![fear of racoons]”
Gordy gasped. “Oh! What is good for weasels will also work for racoons!”
They also added squirrels and skunks to the list. Now ach of them was wielding a giant net, ready to catch one or the other helpless victims on four legs.
A few bushes served for taking cover, facilitating the process of observing and sneaking up to the victims.
Minutes passed in silence.
Suddenly, Gordy squealed, “a killer weasel!”
The net, mounted on a stick with a hoop, was swung without warning.
Something was caught in the net, but it was no furry little mammal.
Chase gasped. “Coco!”
The chubby mess cringed and floundered in the net.
Gordy choked. “Oops!”
Chase and Gordy tried hard to release the lump of misery from the chaos of nylon strings.
In the process, Coco was rolling several times all over poor Gordy.
Chase had to chuckle. He saw some sort of chemistry between the messy employees.
But where exactly would that lead to?
Claire Sawyer had given her best.
Just as expected, Sam could not be saved from expulsion.
But this was only valid for “Pacific Coast Academy”.
And she would not be delivered to military borstal or similar stuff.
The other kids were condemned to several weekends of janitor patrol.
Carly was sad about Sam’s expulsion. She would certainly miss her. She had come to “Pacific Coast Academy” just to keep better care of Sam. Now she felt miserable.
Bradford had also sentenced Carly to several weekends of janitors’ patrol.
Eager to say something good for Sam’s sake, Carly had interrupted the court too often for getting away with it.
Bear with it!
Carly would haveliked to follow Sam.
But her grandpa was proud of Carly being a student at an elitary prep school, and he wanted her to graduate from there.
So Carly was now forced to stay all alone at “Pacific Coast Academy”. She sighed deeply.
[carl bubba] cameo in Zoey 101 :Hot Dean
The family name is chosen for same actor’s cameos in the last season of Unfabulous.
[fear of racoons] admitted in Zoey 101 : School Dance
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Like at every high school, the kids at “Pacific Coast Academy” had to go through some minimum amount of mnatural science classes, both pre-laboratiory and laboratory.
This year, chemistry was rtaught by one Mrs. Bromwell[mrs bromwell]
.
She was a really inept teacher for science. She was more obsessed with the kids’ hair than with making them understand basic principles about nature’s laws. She was also teaching yoga classes.
Today, the kids got the results for a recent test.
Zoey Brooks had always had difficulties understanding the nonsense uttered by Mrs. Bromwell. As a consequence, she received a C plus, the worst mark ever in her life.
That was absolutely humiliating by any stretch of the word.
Zoey Brooks saw her chances of getting accepted to a decent college dwindle to naught. She already deemed herself end up as a nobody, just like her forevermore utterly useless ex-friends Dana Cruz and Nicole Bristow.
Katie Packerman noticed Zoey’s exorbitant embarrassment of the worst sort. She was sure up to abusing this knowledge in the worst possible manner.
Mrs. Bromwell suggested tutoring.
Geeks like Quinn Pensky, even in a good condition, were out of question.
In order to understand them talking, you already needed to be an expert. But then you would not have needed tutoring in the first place, anyways.
Quinn was not even available by now. She was still in need of the therapy for feeling worthless upon the revelation of her humiliating and badmouthig past as a majorette.
Mr. Lowe was only starting making slow progress. He was also working in many other trades at the same rtime, getting himself confused over and over again.
Katie stalked Zoey in orderto figure her mysterious tutor.
Zoey had not yet admitted to him.
So there must have been something fishy, made perfectly for the purpose of being used shamelessly against the blond Mary Sue.
And there it was.
The turtor of Zoey Brooks was nobody other than filthy dandy Logan Reese!
Nobody would have expected Logan to be able to do that.
Indeed, Logan understood next to nothing about chemistry. But he had learnt by heart from his grandfather, a former teacher at “Caltech”, the top school for scientists and engineers in southern California.
This opened a can of new possibilities for intrigante Katie Packerman.
Logan was so embarrassed. He was for sure ready to pay some hundreds of bucks a month in order to keep Katie packerman stay silent about this dark secret, especially keeping it secret from his Mercedes Griffin.
Carly was totally sad about her situation of being lost alone at “Pacific Coast Academy” without her Samantha Puckett. But she wondered, “why have I ever dared to put up with Sam? She could only mean doom and emvbarrassment for me. Why, oh why? I am not a bad girl. I do deserve better friends, don’t I?” She sighed bitterly.
Along came Dustin. He was still not at ease after Sam’s expulsion. “Aw, hi, Carly!”
Carly moaned, “hi!” She had got a hard time forgiviing Dustin.
The little buygger had been the reason for Carly being called to “Pacific Coast Academy” in the first place.
Without his dirty affair with her best friend, Carly would not have been stuck in California. She didn’t even trust Melanie.
Samantha’s twin sister had always been hostile to Sam, and vice versa. Melanie had for sure been looking for a way to get rid of her evil twin sister.
Dustin sat down. “So, you know Trisha, sorry, Sam, very well?”
Carly nodded. “For three years, kind of, sort of. In a summer camp, she stole my tuna sandwich.” She shuddered.
Dustin replied, “typical Sam!”
Carly nodded solemnly. “According to your sister, you are not really a bad guy. You want to become a teacher for elementary schools. I want the same. Why the heck did Sam stick to you like glue for several months? Ben Huebscher[ben huebscher]”
Dustin sighed. “Honestly, I just stayed with Sam because … it was cool to be with an elder girl. And my sis is so overprotective.”
Carly sighed deeply. “Spencer can be protective, too … that’s my eldeer bro, by the way. Have I mentioned him?”
Dustin shook his head. “Don’t think so. I still don’t understand Sam. I don’t understand myself any longer, either.”
Carly looked at her watch. “My classes are going to resume in a buit, See you around. It’s nice to talk with you!” She smiled timidly and ran away.
Dustin almost blushed. He stammered, “see you!”
Over a year had passed since the victory of the basketball team of the “Stingrays” in the national championships of the middle school basketball teams.
But this victory was not as important for the renown of “Pacific Coast Academy” as a success of the high school teams would have been.
The queen of all athletic awards would have been the football bowl.
Even the Californian state playoffs were of way more importance than the middle school’s basketball team.
The teams of “Pacific Coast Academy” had failed miserably during the last decay.
Only the new cheerleader squad had prepared the way to greater success.
By now, boys and girls were almost equally distributed, at least in the high school grades.
This was very important for the harmony in the athletic teams.
Hired cheerio girls were thus banned and buried in the history of the school.
Zoey’s design of the cheerio outfit was another essential factor. She needed the help of Olivary Biallo, though.
Olivary was a fake name. He was really known as Jerome Crony, former student of “James K. Polk”. He had been hiding his girlish hobby under the cover of a bully gang. But now he was on the way of recovery.
The fledgling recovered relationship between Dirga and Keller would contribute further this.
But, for the moment, this was still immature.
However, the cheerio squad alone could of course not win a football match.
But the athletes had improved a lot as well.
This was especially valid for no other than the quarterback: Vince Blake. He was the elder brother of Hollywood diva Ashley Blake.
But life was not easy for a quarterback. He needed to train hard, but also mauintain his grades in order to be admitted to extracurricular activities.
This was of course valid for all the other athletic teams, too. They were chock full with dumb jocks.
Doubts about the correctness of their marks were totally in order.
And one evening, the worst case happened.
Chase Bartholomew Matthews caught Vincent Blake copying the results for an upcoming test in history.
This was of course a very serious crime at “Pacific Coast Academy”, worthy of a suspension.
In this case, Vince Blake would have missed out severely on the play off matches for the state championships.
And this was totally Chase’s goal.
The basketbakll team was the only one ever accepting Chase Matthews.
And he did not want any other team of “Pacific Coast Academy” to be more successful.
Of course, Chase would never have admitted to his motivation and use stupid arguments like fairness when denouncing Vince Blake to the school administration.
But the result was exactly the same.
The whole football team, including Logan Reese, ganged up and beat the living hell out of Chase Matthews.
Only Michael Barret refrained from doping so. He was kept busy by Wendy Gellar during the whole evening.
Dean Rivers had to expell the whole football team from “Pacific Coast Academy”, including especially Vincent Blake.
Logan Reese got away with it due to his father’s generous donations to “Pacific Coast Academy”. He just needed to go to anger management classes by Dr. Lowe. He would be forced to beat a stuffed doll instead of people. But he had got another problem, caused by Katie Packerman’s black mailing. He sighed deeply. Inspite of being saved from expulsion, he would even have lost more by letting people know about his grandfather and his past.
Back then, Logan had once asked, “why is the sky blue?”
His grandpa had explained, “the sky is not blue. It is an optic illusion.” Then he had explained everything about light waves in chemical substances. He had used to lock Logan into a dark rooom without dinner in order to get him to learn everything by heart.
Now Logan hated his grandpa. All his angry moments during his life at “Pacific Coast Academy” were ultimately the result of his anger about his evil and abusive grandfather.
Would Dr. Lowe be able to fix him?
Chase Matthews was still unable to move or talk.
Dr. Hollywood was considering a very serious step, a new surgery never been before.
Chase’s martyrdom was in vain, anyways.
The football squad had been expelled, but the subs around Shelby Marx, the first female football player at “Pacific Coast Academy”, were successful and won the first Californian championship for a football team at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
[mrs bromwell] from Zoey 101 : Zoey’s Tutor and Michael Loves Lisa
[ben huebscher] mentioned in iCarly : iKiss was not half as bad, and he left me after two weeks. And Sam hates teachers above all.
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The “Silver Hammers” were an “elitary” society, or “Brotherhood”, about like the globally renowned “Rotarians” or the “Lions”, but exclusively active at high schools and colleges of coastal southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego.
This included in particular the metropolitan complex of larger Los Angeles and Hollywood.
Members recruited as high school kids could look forward to an almost certain continuity into college, university, and the corporal world of that region, and that could as well mean: around the whole world, given the global significance of Hollywood and other economic heavy weights based in Los Angeles.
Many politicians, scientists, artists, financial titans of all sorts, and on and on and on it goes, got their career launched on their membership in the “Silver Hammer Society”.
Needless to say, the elitary society of the “Hammers” maintained also a branh at California’s most elitary boarding school, viz. “Pacific Coast Academy”.
After all, membership in the society was very popular and yearned for among the students of this boarding school.
During the first two years of coeducation, the “Pacific Coast Academy” branch had only recruited boys.
But this was by no means a rule.
Boys had just been more well known until then.
This year, girls had become more and more propular. They weren’t a bold minority any longer, either.
Thus it was inevitable calling girls into the ranks of the society.
Logan Reese had tried to bribe his way in to the society, but he got rebuked for that.
These days, the elders roamed the campus, armed with a famous silver hammer. They knocked lightly any potential new member, such as Zoey Brooks, Lola Martinez, Katie Packerman, Michael Barret, Rusty Dickerson, Jeff Norgin, and many other sophomores.
Michael Barret, however, was urged by Wendy Gellar to desist from joining.
Wendy and Addie had noticed the perversity of the club.
It would have also been mean to Chase.
The latter was just recovering from a comatose state.
16.2. Sarah Kyla[sarah kyla]
Sometimes, kids arrived at “Pacific Coast Academy” in the middle of a term.
This was now the case afor a new girl, Sarah Kyla.
Her official reason was the following:
Her father was taking over a greater responsibility for a pasta factory in Los Angeles.
But this was a lie.
Really, Sarah Kyla was here in order to serve as a body guard for Ashley Blake.
This office had hitherto been in the hands of Vince Blake.
But upon the quarterback’s expulsion, a new guard was needed.
Sarah was specialised on body guarding high school kids and passing as a new kid. In addition, she was a cheerleader. And in former times, she had been a majorette competing once at a pageant with Quinn Pensky.
Quinn strolled the campus, spotting the new girl.
Of course, Sarah’s presence did not exactly fill Quinn with ease.
Quinn’s former life as a pageant girl had thrown her into a deep crisis.
Usually, she would have been feeling even worse. She would have avoisded each and every contact, and urged her remaining friends to stay away from Sarah, just as previously in the case of Leann Carter.
But Dr. Lowe’s therapy had already prepared her for similar encounters.
Quinn sighed deeply. She had already started learning to get along with her past.
Mr. Conroy[conroy], a member of the boarding staff, assigned Quinn to help Sarah getting started.
Sarah recognised Quinn only vaguely.
Her long time memory was way worse than that of the reckless nerd queen.
Quinn sighed deeply. “Yea, I have been a pageant girl, eleven years ago. Have you got problems with that?”
Sarah shook her head. “Of course not! Have you?”
Quinn sighed for relief. She was now almost over it.
And that was very good so.
Dr. Lowe’s capacities were more and more needed for other kids at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
The elders of the “Hammers” had united all the freshly knocked canditates in a dark room.
The latter were already looking forward to their new lives as “hammers”.
The session was dominated by the chime-like sound of a triangle.
It was beaten rhythmically by one of the elders, about during each sentence break.
Some kids were thoroughly annoyed by this.
Unfortunately, the kids’ hopes were not really satisfied, at least not by now.
The presidenty of teh session announced the conditions for the next step.
The postulants for membership had to do some disgusting services for the elders.
Zoey Brooks, for example, was condemned to feed them on a daily base.
This was totally icky, of course.
Lola Martinez was even worse off. She had to save the established members.
And they were not even as hot as expected.
This was downright humiliating.
But Lola wanted to become a famous Hollywood star.
Zoey wanted to become a famous Mary Sue.
Thus they had to go through it, rigorously at any cost.
Michael Barret was totally deranged.
There was a new girl at “Pacific Coast Academy”, Lisa Perkins, a totally ggifted pop rock singer. She was already scheduled for America Sings[america sings], the most renowned casting show for future pop stars.
Michael Barret was hankering after Lisa Perkins like an uttermost perverted idiot.
Wendy watched the scene with disgust. She was totally reminded of her similar crush on Drake Parker.
That had taken place like two years ago.
Wendy was now over it.
Drake had rejected her due to the age gap.
There was no such thing as an age gap between Michael and Lisa.
But Michael would certainly have ruined himself to death on the long run. He simply was not suitable for a star standing in the spot lights each day and each night. He was much too timid for this.
The night of truth had come.
The elders had gathered all the postulants in the same dark room.
The latter were now looking forward to their final acceptance. They deemed it ultimately worth all of the enervating troubles of a long week of burning pain and exorbitant humiliation.
Once again, the chime of the triangle filled the dark hall.
The president congratulated the postulants. “All of you have mastered their tasks. So you will now all be accepted to the Brother hood, all except one!”
The postulants started muttering for insecurity. “What does that mean?”
The elder explained, “each year, one of the postuulants has to be rejected by the elders.”
The intimidated members wondered, “so … who is it?”
The president shrugged. “This is not up to us. You will have to vote off one from your midst.”
The relentless triangle fortified the brash sound of this statement.
Zoey Brooks was angry. “I don’t want to belong to a ‘brotherhood’ forcing you to decide against your friends.” She placed her sticker onto the table.
Those stickers had been granted to the potulants when being knocked by the roaming elders for the first time.
Many others followed Zoey’s examples.
But one person did not: Katie Packerman. She grinned with excessive mischief. “What a weakling you are, Miss Mary Sue Brooks!”
Alas, Zoey could not take that easy. She felt totally humiliated by having given up on the “Hammers”,
It would not have hurt her under normal circumstances.
But now Katie Packerman was the only new member.
Her influence was growing faster and faster.
Katie was now very close to getting all the powers to ruin Zoey’s life even more. She just needed to climb up the hierarchy of the “Brotherhood”.
Zoey could not live with this shame. But what exactly would she do? Ever since, she would not get the perverted chime of the triangle out of her tortured head.
Dustin was worried about his elder sister.
But the blond Mary Sue refused to talk to anyone, including Dustin, Lola, and stuff.
Was all hope lost?
[sarah kyla] this identifies Sarah from Zoey 101 : Silver Hammers with Kyla from True Jackson VP : “Flirting With Fame”
[conroy] cameo in Zoey 101 : Silver Hammers.
[america sings] cf. iCarly : iRock The Vote
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Chase had hardly been recovering from the “accident” with Vince and Logan. Now he was looking forward to his own birthday.
One of his grandmathers had been born the same day of the year, of course many years before Chase.
This was definitely one of Chase’s most favourite relatives.
Over the course of quite a few long years, grandma had comforted Chase after his accidents.
Chase he to think back of those numerous silent yet rainy nights.
Their favourite song for these nights had been A Million Raindrops[million raindrops].
Rusty Dickerson had always hated Chase’s grandma.
Chase had spent a lot of time with her, eventually more time than with Rusty, getting him turn jealous and envious.
Rusty had never told it right into Chase’s face.
Tonight, Chase wrote a birthday card for his grandma, attaching their favourite song. He had not got the time to think about his own birthday.
Many snacks, usually very unhealthy one, were sold by vendor machines.
Lola was for example addicted to raspberry doodle cakes.
Those were totally unhealthy.
Zoey would have compalined about that crap. But she was too depressed those days.
Unfortunate;y, this machine refused to work the way it was supposed to do.
As a consequence, her money was now gone.
But there was no candy in return.
Lola punched the tin bandit.
Quinn tried to kick the machine.
But they failed completely.
Vice Principal Thatcher[thatcher] saw that and admonished the kids severely. Then he moved on.
Lola and Quinn were consternated. They hated vendor machines.
Dustin and Carly came along.
Dutin wanted to stick his arm into the ejection slot and catch the cake for Loal.
Carly shook her head. “My brother has once assembled a vendor machine. He probably knows something better. I don’t want your sweet arm to get stuck in the candy machine.” She blushed a shade of flaming carmine.
Dustin sighed deeply.
Of course, Carly had to call her brother first.
Rusty Dickerson had organised t a bierthday party for Chase.
It was totally lame, though.
Unfortunately, Chase could not help thinking but about his grandma.
Rusty turned slightly grumpy.
Suddenly, Mark del Figgalo showed up with a cellular phone. “Chase! Important news …” He yawned. “May I now go backto sleep?”
Chase nodded. He picked up the call. “Chase Matthews … what?”
His face went totally pale.
His bushy hair was now standing out from end to end.
Chase squealed for agony.
The reason was really sad.
Chase’s favourite grandma had just died, on their common birthday.
Rusty grunted, “come on! It’s your birthday party. It’s time to celebrate!”
Chase looked aghast at his heartless “best friend”. He screamed and ran away.
According to weather frog Walter Nichols, the whole week in coastal southern California was supposed to be sunny and warm.
But he had been such an idiot.
Really, the rain kept on whipping the whole campus into oblivion.
Nobody dared to show up on the campus.
The only exception was Chase Bartholomew Matthews. He could not care.
After grandma’s death and the rude perversity of his roomie Rustuy, nothing could matter any more.
This could not go well.
Chase had been exposed to the heavy rain all night long. Little surprise, he could not help contracting a bad infection. Now he had to stay in the infirmary. He didn’t talk to anyone. He just wanted to die and be faster with his grandma this way.
Even less of a wonder, the infection was the same as the one killing his grandma.
The nurse was unable to treat cases like Chase.
For that avail, Doc Hollywood was dealing with that case, along with his deputy Quinn Pensky.
The medic examined the busht freak cautiously.
Quinn had heard on and off about that sort of bad cold. Having heard of the death of Chase’s grandma, Quinn had started developing a countermedic. She needed to experiment with various types of bacteria.
Until then, Doc Hollywood had to pump up Chase’s blood with exorbitantly strong antibiotics.
An old woman would not have survived those.
Even Chase’s state was very critical.
Lola martinez and her beloved Spencer Carter were trying out for a new movie by Malcolm Reese nown as The Squeal.
Lola was cast for the female star rôle. She had to practice squealing.
Accidentally, Carly’s brother, also named Spencer, knew a cool recipe against bitchy vendor machines.
Squealing at the right frequence would make them drop their goods.
Little wonder, Lola was going to combine this hint with her acting practice.
Zoey was with Lola out on the campus during squealing practice.
After one scream, a startled guy rushed towards the girls. He was named Danny.[danny].
Zoey and Danny immediately agreed on a cinema date for the same night.
Quinn was worried about the bacteria in her test tubes. She had to hurry up in order to save Chase’s life. But she had also got to worry about her boyfriend Mark del Figgalo.
As of recent, the ultimate dweeb was frequently hanging out with his class mate Maria Misa[maria misa].
Quinn was terribly jealous.
Her increased nervosity made her fumble with the test tubes.
Bang!
The tubes keeled over and released their contents all over the floor.
Quinn had to inform the bio hazard team.
Lola, Quinn, and Zoey were now quarantined in their own dormitory room.
The rest of the inhabitants of “Brenner Hall” was forced to leave it immediately until the end of the red alert.
This was going to be hell for thengirls locked into their own dorm.
Quinn was still brooding over the impending loss of Mark.
Lola was worrying about her job for the movie. She could not help but keep on practising even more annoying squeals.
Zoey Brooks was only thinking about Danny.
Quinn called Dustin on his cellular phone and ordered him to spy on Mark and Maria.
But also Zoey needed Dustin in order to watch out for Danny and cancel his date.
Dustin had been tracking down Mark and Maria for several hours.
Maria kept staring at Mark’s perfect face.
Needless to say, Dustin’s report just stoked Quinn’s increasing jealousy.
Carly caught Distin on the campus. “Hi!”
Dustin blushed and smiled back at the girl. Then he explained the situation.
Carly shrugged. “I suggest you keep on watching the two. I may search that Danny guy at the cinema and cancel Zoey’s date!”
Dustin smiled. “That would be great!”
The two of them hi-fived.
Dustin followed Mark and Maria to “Sushi Rox”.
Dustin kept on watching the love birds having their sushi.
Maria was talking about a portrait. She was up to drawing Mark.
This was supposed to be gift for Quinn.
Dustin reported this back to his mandant, using his cellular phone.
Quinn sighed for relief and could now concentrate on her research. Unfortunately, she had lost several valuable hours, or maybe even days. weeks, months … down to her stupid jealousy. She needed new ingredients from her upstream provider, Cal.
This would only be possible after the end of the quarantine.
Chase would probably die in the meantime.
Carly did not know about Danny’s looks.
Dustin had not known about them, either.
Carly could only watch out for some — according to Zoey’s opinion — “incredibly cute guy” listening to the name “Danny”. She waited next to the queue, muttering the words, “hi, Danny!”
A tall blond rake listened. “Are you talking about me?”
Carly gasped.
The guy was no other than aforementioned Jake Crendle, the girl’s heartthrob at “Ridgeway”.
Carly grunted, “are you appointed with Zoey Brooks?”
Jake sighed. “I wish. But now I am stuck with that annoying wench …”
Stacey Dillsen came along. “Hi, Dennifer! The movie will soon start. And then we will have some nice time with my cotton swabs!” She grabbed Jake.
The two of them walked on.
Carly pitied Jake for having to be with Stacey. But she also wondered about the usage of the name “Dennifer”. In any case, she had to keep on looking for the real Danny. She whispered, “hi Danny” … over and over again.
Finally a tal dark-haired rake showed up, reacting to the words, “Hi, Danny!”
Carly asked, “are you appointed with Ziey Brooks?”
Danny nodded solemnly.
Carly told him about the accident.
Danny just laughed about it.
That was strange.
The whole campus had been iinformed by several megaphones about the quarantine.
And Danny did nit care.
Carlys shrugged. She walked way.
The next moment, Danny grabbed another girl and invited her to cinema with him.
It was nobody other than Katie Packerman. She accepted Danny’s offer gladly and started making out with him on site.
Carly called Zoey.
The blond Mary Sue was very sad.
Carly comforted her. “Danny was not worth it in the first place.”
Zoey sobbed. “Probably! But why always Katie …”
The night was horrible for the quarantined girls.
Lola had finally fallen asleep, unable to break the silence of the night with insane screams.
The other girls from “Breanner Hall”, such as Stacey Dillsen, had been forced to sleep in sleeping bags in one of the foyers.
Stacey Dillsen was disappointed by Dennifer’s alias Jake Crendle’s lack of love for cotton swabs. She never would want to see him again.
Quinn’s bacteria turned out as harmless.
The very next morning, the quarantine could thus be lifted.
Quinn would continue her research and complete it in time for saving Chase’s life. Or so she hoped.
[million raindrops] some third-party owwned song
[thatcher] cameo in Zoey 101 : Chase’s Grandma
[danny] cameo in Zoey 101 : Quarantine
[maria misa] Maria is from Zoey 101 : Quarantine.
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Three weeks later, Quinn’s continued research proved fruitful.
The formula against the dreadful disease was finally found.
Of course it was too late for Chase’s grandmother.
But Chase himself had to be saved, anyways.
This was not exactly easy.
Chase really wanted to wither away.
His grandma had died pretty fast.
But the antibiotics and Chase’s age had delayed the course of the disease already to a very big deal.
And now a few injections from Quinn’s syringes, filled with some freshly developed medication, separated him from overcoming the disease.
But for Chase, all this seemed unfair.
Doc Hollywood was already desperate.
As aforementioned, the basketball team had been in a deep crisis since the very start of the season.
Michael and Logan had started suspended from extracurricular activities.
And now Chase had dropped out due to his depression and his disease.
Jeff Norgin and Zachariah Carter Schwartz had been responsible on their own.
But the lack of Chase was horrible.
Losing him for good would have busted the team.
Zach thus urged Addie to talk to Chae. “Your grandaunt Bertha[bertha] died like two years ago.”
Addie nodded sadly.
Zach explained, “so you should be the most suitable for talking to Chase.”
Addie scratched her head. “Do you really think so?”
Zachariah Carter Schwartz nodded vigorously. “You’re the only one able to help him.”
Addie panted heavily. “Maybe I can?”
Leann Carter nodded solemnly. “Come on, you want to help Chase. I know it!”
Addie nodded sadly. She knew it to be a really big burden, though.
Doc Hollywood had just given a permission for Addie visiting Chase.
Addie entered the infirmary. She carried her accoustic guitar around. She remembered the days of having helped Chase to write a song for the time capsule.
Chase whimpered, thinking, “yet another visitor!”
Addie sighed. “Hi Chase!” She petted the chords of her guitar, letting a little accord escape.
Chase moaned, “when will I be with grandma?”
Addie shrugged. “Sooner or later? Hell, I have lost an elder relative, too.”
Chase looked puzzled.
Addie reported, “it was my grand aunt Bertha. I had not really known how much I would miss her when …” She sobbed.
Chae gasped. “Sorry!”
Addie nodded. “It’s OK. As said, my brother Ben was to tally shocked by her death. I refused to notice it. Even for days, I saw visions of Bertha alive among us.” She shuddered.
Chase moaned, “ouxh! You know what hurts me most?”
Addie shook her head. “What was it?”
Chase weeped. “I have never taken the time to say good-bye to grammie.”
Addie sobbed. “Oh, I know that feeling.”
Chase rested his head on Addie’s shoulder.
Addie held him closer.
Chase purred. “Aw!” But then he gasped. “What are we doing? What will ”
Addie sighed deeply. “Jake Beheri?”
Chase had been thinking on that one.
Addie sighed deeply. She croaked, “he must have known about my mistrust. You know, I’ve talked to you about it when digging out that time capsule.”
Chase sobbed.
There had been too rain storms striking the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy” since his arrival.
The first one had been the night of the time capsule.
The second night had been the birthday of doom and gloom.
Chase started weeping.
Addie pulled him closer and sobbed sadly. “And then, Jake explained not to want to be with someone ready to spy on him and mistrust him this way.” She coughed badly.
But Chase’s presence filled her very fast with comforte and ease.
Addie finally started playing a little self-made song. “WEithout Wendy’s help, I would not have been able to compose the whole thing.”
Chase sighed deeply. “It’s good you have Wendy Gellar.”
Addie nodded. “And you have got Michael.”
Chase moaned, “I’ve got no friends left. Michael has trashed me …”
Addie shook her head. “It’s all Rusty’s fault. He has always driven an edgy wedge between you and Michael.”
Chase gasped. He had trusted Rusty until the day of making fun of grammie’s death. He was not going to forgive him that, probably never. But he had not seen that coming.
Addie explained, “Wendy told me. She watches Opera Winfried’s[opera winfried]
. There she has seen something similar. She can be a bit fast coming to conclusions. But here it seems right on the spot.”
Chase sobbed. “So … I may still make up with Michael again?”
Addie nodded solemnly. “You should!”
Then they started playing and singing the favourite song of Chase’s grandma on their guitar.
Chase sighed for relief.
They wrapped their arms around each other and started smooching.
The door went open.
Michael and Wendy walked in. They grinned miscievously, remarking, “that’s what evrlasting love must look like.”
Doc Hollywood was surprised by the fast effect of Quinn’s power medicine.
Quinn smiled. “It was not all that hard, after all.”
Doc Hollywood suggested Quinn to use this invention for the national science fair.
Quinn had missed out on a lot due to her depression.
Strangely, even Leann wanted Quinn to keep on researching. “You’ve made great progresses within just a few weeks. You can’t throw away all that by now.”
Quinn’s career as a scientest had not been un contested.
Wayne “Firewire” Gilbert had deemed her inept. He was very knowledgeable, But he was not as much of a genius as Quinn. He had been ashamed to admit to this during his first two years. But now he had not got any qualms left admitting to Quinn’s superiority.
Too bad it was already too late for this year’s national science fair.
Some hitherto unbeknownst Paige Howard[paige howard]
from the state of Colorado had won it.
Nobody had ever heard of said Paige before.
Not even Wayne Gilbert or Quinn Pensky had seen her name mentioned in any scientific journal.
And now there was that message.
Doc Hollywood even thought further. “Your discovery is not just worthy of a science fair, but of a Nobel Prize!”
Katie Packerman had received a strange message from one “zoeykiller”. She opened it.
Her eyes bugged out.
Katie established a web chat connection.
The girl introduced herself as one Melinda Crenshaw.
Katie had only heard that name briefly. “Mindy Crenshaw> The robot mistress?”
Mindy cackled demonically. “Oh yeah, I have truly obliterated Wayne’s ego.”
Katie shrugged. “I don’t care about Wayne Gilbert.”
Mindy continued, “two years ago, I have already been here at ‘Pacific Coast Academy’[mindy at pca]. I have copied Zoey Brooks’s backpack design and made some bucks with it. They got me busted from ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ for this clever plagiarism. But I have continued selling her backpacks over the interweb … secretly!”
Katie smiled. “Wow! That sounds perfect!”
Mindy continued. “This year, I have won the national science fair. I also want to get back at Zoey and her friend Quinn. I wanted to demonstrate my invention and humiliate Quinn, causing Zoey lots of troubles this way. But they know me already. I tried to hire some friend to do that on my behalf. But she refused to. Her cousin studies at ‘Pacific Coast Academy’. She would thus be easily recognised. So I need to wauit for a better occasion. And I need some support from some ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ student, someone hating Zoey to the death.”
Katie nodded solemnly. “That sounds very wise! Of course I will help you. The hell I will!”
Mindy grinned for uttermost mischief. “Time of Revenge!”
[bertha] from Unfabulous : The Rhinoceros in the Middle of the Room
[opera winfried] spoof of third-party owned Oprah Winfrey Show
[paige howard] from Zoey 101 : Paige At PCA
[mindy at pca] this identifies Mindy Crenshaw from Drake & Josh with same actress’s guest appearance in Zoey 101 : Backpack
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At “Pacific Coast Academy”, coffee could be fixed either at the cafeteria, one of the coffee vendor machines, or at the coffee cart of Calvin[label]
.
The cafeteria was only oepn duriing three windows,, i.e. breakfast time, lunch time, and dinner time.
The vendor machines were often screwed.
This had been blatantly demon strated demonstrated like half a year ago.
Lola had tried to buy a doodle cake, but in vain.
The administration had promised to take care of the problem.
But nothing had ever happened.
According to the conspiration theorists among the students at “Pacific Coast Academy”, the vendor machines and the school administration were working hand in hand.
Thus most pupils had to wait in front of the coffee cart in order to fix their warm, brown sewage.
The queue was terribly long at certain times of the day, especially on weekends.
The cafeteria was closed on most of the Saturday evenings.
But there was one spart of light at the very end of the long tunnel of twisted passages.
Each week, Calvin selected a so-called customer of the week.
This lucky fellow was excempted from having to wait in th queue and endowed to one free cup of coffee each day.
But nobody barring Calvin knew the rules for getting chosen.
This year, there was a dance contest to be held at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Dancing had got a long tradition in the family of Zoey Brooks.
Alreaady her grandmother had won, many years ago, in the northeaster states contest in New York City.
The anniversary of this historical victory would coincide with this year’s contest.
Zoey had got a good feeling, her depressions notwithstanding.
Dr. Lowe had even encouraged her participation.
But Zoey needed a dance partner.
This was not going to be easy.
Only few boys were able to dance on her level.
Chase Matthews and Michael Barret were probably not among them, let alone Mark del Figgalo.
Lola suggested Gene Conroy, a senior.[hgene conroy], the son of Mr. Conroy, aforementioned staff member.
Zoey accepted Lola’s suggestion greatfully.
Alas, Katie Packerman could not let her archenemy get away with it that easily.
Gene was just studying a few moves for his dance with Zoey Brooks.
Along came Katie Peckermn. “Hi Gene!”
The dancing freak smiled. “Aw. hi!”
Katie sked, “so you are really going to the dance contest with Zoey Brooks?”
Gene Conroy nodded solemnly. “That’s what I’m up to. She’s a really good dancer, or so I have heard. Already her grandmother had been perfect. And she will come to the even, on her anniversary day, in order to see Zoey win.”
Katie sighed. “Oh, good for the grandma!” She sniffled a chance of humiliating Zoey in front of her grandma’s euyes.
The blond Mary Sue would hardly survive that.
Gene nodded. “I have to prepare the dance. See you!”
Katie waggled her hips and her breast rhythmically in front of Gene’s eyes, performing some seductive dance. “Are you sure about Zoey?”
Gene started sweating and stammering.
Katie grabbed Gene’s wrists and pulled him extremely close. She started stepping elegantly around.
Gene’s face changed shades rhytnically, as if following the beat of a dance.
All of a sudden, Gene was no longer sure about going to the dance with Zoey as his partner. Sooner or later, he would change his fickle mind.
Zoey was consternated. The day befor the big dance, she concluded: “Katie has stolemn my dance partner!”
Lola Martinez made only remarks of a less than helpdful kind. She was still not convinced of Katie’s mean and spiteful nature, as sometimes suggested by Zoey Brooks.
Zoey had made her dancing gown for the contest all alone.
And now the whole work had been for absolutely naught.
Leann Carter walked past them. She had originally wanted to dance with her beloved step brother Zachariah.
But the latter had been the victim, standing in the crossfire of several kids trying to attract Calvin’s attraction in order to become the customer of the week. Zach himself was not keen on the whole coffee cart thing. “The coffee is from sweatshop plantations in Latin America or Africa.”
Leann agreed wholeheartedly. “That is really not fair trade.”
Zoey shrugged. She loved coffee, but she had not got an argument against Zach’s and Leann’s.
Leann suggested, “you should dance with Olicary Biallo. He had sewed himself a dancing tuxedo, but now he has not got a partner.”
Zoey understood the situation. “Olivary alias Crony is really not as weird as commonly assumed. He’s just very unusual. It isn’t easy to get accustomed to him.”
Zoey’s situation was now stressed enough to give Olivary Biallo alias Jerry Crony kind of sort of a try.
She was not convinced of it going out well. But she would at least not have to send her grandma away without getting to show her all the skills.
Megan Parker, alike looking cousin of Carly Shay and little sister of Drake Parker, entered the hall. She held her oboe in her arms. She was responsible for the music, along with some violinist and some violoncellist.
The umpires, presided by Dean Rivers, were sitting solemnly on their chairs, watching the couples.
Katie Packerman and Gene Conroy had just convinced them more than any couple before with their slow waltz.
Beating them was now deemed impossible.
This was especially to be assumed by Zoey Brooks and Jerome Crony, the last pairing in the list of participants. The two of them had never practised any dance together. They had not yet agreed on a programme, either.
Dean Rivers was already tired and interested in leaving the place as soon as possible. He yawned.
This was hardly a good sign.
He rushed Zoey and Jerry to bring it on.
Megan asked them kindly, “OK … what music am I supposed to play for you?”
Zoey stammered, “er … Jerry? What do you want to dance?”
Jerry Crony remrked, “I want to pray to the moon with you.”
Zoey’s eyes bugged out.
She wondered, “The moon?”
Megan coughewd. “You mean Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, don’t you?”
Jerome had not got a traceof a clue.
Dean Rivers was deadly impatient.
Zoey nodded. “Yeah, that one.” She thought to herself, “whatever it is … it’s still better than giving up on site.”
Megan nodded. “OK!”
Lovely music filled the air.
Jerome Crony had never heard the tune before.
Zoey had heard it, but would not have been able to identify it.
But for some reason, Jerome seemed to guide Zoey magically all over the dancing floor.
Dean Rivers stared dreamily at the couple.
It had been like in his good old times.
Zoey’s grammie was even more enthusiastic. She cheered like a fury.
Finally, the dance was over.
Megan’s last quaver had been lost in the waves of silence.
Dean Rivers could not help but declaring Zoey Brooks and Jerome Crony the winners.
Katies eyes were filled with bitter and caustic poison.
It was time for Calvin to reveil the next customer of the week.
The jerk stood in front of a covered blackboard. He removed a blanket, reveiling thusly a picture of the chosen one: Leann Carter.
The pageant queen of Seattle was consternated. “Sorry, I don’t drink coffee. And I have not done aanything for this title.”
Most of the other kids had almost killed each other over that more than questionable honour.
Logan, for example, had bribed Calvin by buying lots of free cups of coffee for the other kids.
And everything was for naught.
Calvin grinned. “The customer of the week would always be a hotgirl, so that we may make out at the cart while the other kids have to wait for their coffee. But if you don’t want to …” He removed teh picture and got ready for another one.
Katie Packerman emerged from the masses. “Aw, hi Calvin!” She waggled with her body in a seductive manner.
Calvin smiled. “OK, the winner is … Katie Packerman!”
Zoey held the trophy for the dance contest in her hand and shook her head upon hearing those news.
Her depressions were now finally gone.
[label] from Zoey 101 : Dance Contest
[hgene conroy] This is Gene from Zoey 101 : Dance Contest.
The surname is borrowed rom same actor’s rôle in some third-party owned movie.
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20.1. Jatie Hawthorne[jatie hawthorne]
Zoey was now finally healed from her depressions. Even more, she was looking forward to some upcoming event.
Next Saturday, Jatie Hawthorne, Zoey’s favourite chick flick author, was coming to Los Angeles, more precisely, to some book shop about a car trip of twenty minutes from “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Zoey was hell bent on making it there. She had always wanted to meet her. She just needed her dad’s and Dean Rivers’s permission for leaving the campus for a few hours. And she needed a responsible adult with a car to take her there.
Finding a responsible adult was harder than previously assumed.
Coco wanted to choose Coco Wexler.
But the messy adviser of the dormitiry hall for the girls had imposed a condition. She wanted Zoey to talk Michael into making some ravili for her, following the fabulous recipe of his grandother, an exorbitantly well guarded family secret.
Unfortunately, Michael was forced to be Stacey’s Dillsen’s partner in a project for history classes. He had to assiste her in building a cotton swab model of the pyramids of Gizeh. Thus he was in an exorbitantly stinky mood, and he had not got the time to build the pyramids with Stacey.
But the cotton swab queen had been ready to negotiate. She wanted to release Michael from his duty in turn for a date with Logan Reese.
Of course, the ruthlessly perverse dandy was many miles beneath Stacey’s dignity. But he had got those arms making Stacey swoon.
The greatest dandy of Hollywood was of course by absolutely no means pleased by Stacey Dillsen’s idea.
But that was not yet set in stone.
Of course, there was a real price for that.
Logan urged the blond Mary Sue to fetch for him some rare PCA ring lost in a bet to her little brother, Dustin Brooks.
And Zoey Brooks was now stuck exactly there.
Dustin was practising for one last time for the annual “Pacific Coast Academy” talent show talent show. He was going to perform the virgin sawing trick formerly perfectioned by the great illusionist Henry Doheny[henry doheny].
Carly Shay would be the virgin in the box. She was already looking forward to gettuing sawed into half.
Quinn Pensky would take pictures with her webcam and send them to Spencer Shay.
He should keep them as memories of Carly’s great time at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Zoey would not attend the whole show.
It happened to coincide with her trip downtown in order to meet Dustin Brooks.
So, Zoey needed Dustin to return the ring unto Logan Reese.
But Dustin was not willing too. He had earned that ring honestly in some bet.
Logan had claimed, “bunnies eat salsa.”
But that was completely wrong.
His dad’s bunny hated the smell of salsa.
Two many memories were attached to that ring for Dustin.
He was by no means wanting to part with it.
Even carly wondered about Dustin’s stubborn demeanour. But she could not do anything about it.
For Zoey, this was horrible.
No ring for Logan meant no date for Stacey, cotton swab toryure for Michael, no ravioli for Coco, and ultimately no trip downtown to a book representation with Zoey’s adored author Jadie Hawthorne.
The depressions, inspite of already having believed to be overcome, were once more rigged and ready to seize the mood of the girl of girls.
Zoey could not blackmail Dustin.
Otherwise he would, in turn, tell mom about Zoey’s refusal to attend his talent show.
And mom would by no means be pleased by this.
Zoey walked the campus.
He head was hanging down to her knees.
Missing out on Jatie Hawthorne would be the worst thing ever happening to her on this campus.
Suddenly, her cellular phone was ringing.
Zoey gasped and picked it up. “Zoery Brooks … aw, hi, Lola!”
Lola had got good news for Zoey. “I have been able to find a transport to the book shop for you.”
Zoey gasped. “Really?”
Lola nodded. “At five fifty at the parking lot. Melinda, the youyng woman ready to take you to town, will wear a pink top and grey jeans.”
Zoey smiled. “Wow! These are wonderful news!” Zoey smiled. She started singing Drake Parker’s Makes Me Happy[2]. She decided to switch in her best clothes and take a shower, using the best fragrance in order to make a good impression at the event of the year.
So Coco Wexler would not get her seasoned ravioli.
Michael Barret would be stuck in a quagmire of cotton swabs and carpenter’s glue.
Stacey Dillsen would stay a lonely wall flower.
Logan would not get his valuable ring.
But Zoey would make it to her adored Jatie Hawthorne.
Zoey Brooks was sdone with the toilet. She was now rushing to the student day.
The car with a young woman matching with Lola’s description was already waiting.
The transport girl was wearing mirrored glasses and more makeup than before.
Otherwise, Zoey would have recognised her from afar. But now she jumped cluelessly into the car.
The driver needed tpo know the exact actress.
The spectacles were not suited for reading maps, only for driving the car. Thus she had to remove them slightly.
Zoey choked. “It’s you?”
Mindy Crenshaw nodded solemnly. “It’s me, Mindy Crenshaw.”
Three years ago, Mindy had been at “Pacific Coast Academy” for a few weeks, using a fake name. And she had caused a lot of great troubles for the blond Mary Sue.
Ultimately, Zoey and her friends had been able to scare Mindy away.
But now things were different.
The tide was high.
Zoey was in desperate need of a lift to the book shop. But she also feared Crenshaw’s real intentions.
Ultimately, Zoey’s addiction to some mediocre fluff author would be stronger than any caution and prudence.
Katie Packerman had anticipated that when telling Mindy about that great occasion.
Zoey relaxed in the passengers’ seat.
Mindy grinned and started the engines.
But where was the trip really going to?
It was time for Dustin’s and Carly’s presentation at the talent shop.
Shelby Marx had already impressed the whole audience with some martial strikes, obliterating marble slabs like cotton swab couses.
Ashley Blake had given some great solo pantomimic performance, imitating various well known people.
Robbie Carmichael alias Scooter[robert carmichael] was just getting ready for his duck dance.
But now all attention was required by Dustin Brooks and his charming assistant Carly Shay.
The letter slipped into the black box.
Her head and her feet were still protruding from respective ands of the box.
Dustin started sawing through the wooden container.
Carly giggled. “That tickles. Egad!”
Some warm and red liquid splattered.
The audience squealed fro excitement.
The box was split into half.
Many sadistic onlookers gasped.
Carly kept on giiggling.
Dustin separated the two halves of the box visibly.
Some viewers screamed at the top of their lungs for excessive horror.
Then Dustin was reuniting the parts of the box and nailed it together, using a wheel of swininging hammers, invented by Carly’s brother Spencer[wheelof swinging hammers].
The box was opened.
Carly jumped out of it, alive and healthy. She grinned. “Hey!”
The following applause made the whole campus tremble.
The umpires could not help but declare Dustin and Carly as the winners of the talent shop.
Zoey Brooks had been thoroughly disappointed by the event at the book shop. She had not been able to purchse a hand signed copy of the next master piece of Jatie Hawthorne. And now she had to make it back to “Pacific Coast Academy”, in a car with a girl not trustworthy by any stretch.
Mindy grinned and started the car.
Zoey shivered.
Was that really the way back to the campus of the boarding school?
Zoey had got her doubts.
But maybe things just looked different at night.
Mindy cackled manically.
Zoey’s fears increased from yard to yard.
The blond Mary Sue started squealing in a swoon.
But it was too late.
Carly and Dustin were sitting at the margin of the campus fountain, excruciatingly phappy about their victory.
Carly wondered, “does the ring mean really that much to you?”
Dustin nodded. “it will be a great memory of our days here.”
Carly nodded. “Of course. I just hoped to be your greatest memory.”
Dustin vblushed and stammered, “you are …” He started panting and swooning.
Carly wondered, “Dustin? Is anything wrong?”
Dustin coughed. He panted again. “Carly, would you please accept this ring as a gift of promise?”
Carly’s eyes bugged out.
She blushed to no end. “Erm … I …” She started panting heavily.
Dustin showed her the ring closely.
Carly purred. “Aw! I will!” She accepted the ring and donned it solemnly. “For always and ever!”
There were lights from the drop site.
Mindy had just halted her car. She grinned. “We are now back! The campus of ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ … your school!;” She enjoyed having made the girlk of girls tremble like aspen leaves in a hurricane.
Zoey Brooks was shivering, letting her teeth rattle like a venomous snake.
Mindy shook her head and released Zoey.
Finally, the blond Mary Sue smelled the sweet scent of her campus. She sighed for relief. She could not walk straight, but was in need of staggering and slouching.
Dustin noticed his sister. “Hey, Zosy! We have won, and we have promised.”
Usually, Zoey would have reacted strongly, at least to the second statement. But she did not really notice. She was mindlessly stumbling towards her dormitory hall. She was looking forward to a series of nightmares.
Carly and Dustin shrugged.
[jatie hawthorne] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Favor Chain
[henry doheny] from Drake & Josh : The Great Doheny
[2] third-party owned song by Drake Bell
.
[robert carmichael] This identifies Robert Carmichael from Drake & Josh : Tree House with “Scooter” from Zoey 101 : Favor Chain
[wheelof swinging hammers] cf. iCarly : iWant To Stay With Spencer
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21.1. Granduncle Morris[morris]
A few days later, some delivery truck halted in front of the campus.
Zoey Brooks was called to show up there.
The truck appeared to contain a lot of frozen pork.
According to the delivery sheet, the pork chops had been sent by the lawyer of Zoey’s great uncle Morris.
Zoey had never heard about such a remote relative and connected no memories at all with this name. She picked her telephone in order to call her dad. She could not trust the situation.
Katie Packerman was possibly up to making some crude jokes.
Mr. Brooks confirmed the story as told. He had not seen his uncle Morris in ages, either.
But what to do with the pork chops?
Dustin and Carly had now got the video of their performance at the rececent talent show improved and upgraded.
People on the interweb should be able to see it.
But Dustin and Carly did not understand anything about web technology and web cams.
Zoey walked in and told Dustin about the dead great uncle.
Carly sighed deeply. “Condolences!”
Dustin shivered. Of course, he did not know said Morris, either. But he was still afraid.
Zoey shrugged. “OK, so what? I certainly don’t miss him. But there is now a problem.” She talked about teh spare ribs in the deep freezer van. “The cafeteria may only store it for us for like two days.”
Carly sighed. “Sam would probably eat them in less time than that.”
Zoey grunted. “Sam? As in that Sam, Samantha Puckett alias Tisha Kirby?”
Her capital orifices started smoking.
Dustin calmed her down. “Zoey!”
Zoey sighed deeply. “Sorry!”
Carly moaned, “it’s OK! SHe has often enough costed my last nerves.”
Zoey announced, “I thought about a barbecue party, maybe a contest.”
Carly and Dustin liked the idea. But they were too young to be allowed to operate a barbecue grill.
Zoey still needed to think about the details. She walked away.
Dustin suggested, “how about a barbecue party with Sam’s presence as the judge?”
Carly nodded. “I thought of that. It would be totally cool!”
Unfortunately, Dean Rivers insisted in some adult responsibles.
Zoey first asked Coco and Gordy.
Dean Rivers had got a better idea. He had met Pierre Le Mange[pierre le mange], the most renowned star cook from Cooking Channel, downtown.
Coco would serve him as an assistant.
Gordy was responsible for cleaning up after the whole mess. He would probably leave it to the night shift, though.
Finally, the barbecue festival arrived.
The weather was nice, as predicted by Bruce Windchill[bruce windchill]
, the best weather reporter of Southern California, as totally opposed to Walter Nichols, the worst possible of all of them.
Pierre Le Mange declared the contest for open.
There had been several teams.
Carly and Dustin were not allowed to the grills, due to their age. But they worked on the dips.
Carly liked them creamy and spicy.
Zoey was adding the first rib to her grill.
Suddenly, a familiar voice sounded around the corner. “Am I dio late?”
Carly looked around and shook her head. “Sam!” She ran up to her and hugged her tightly.
Sam growled, “hi Carls! I have talked my mom into visiting Melanie.”
Carly smiled. She knew Sam to be deadly reliable in such cases.
Samantha Puckett was most certainly not willing to skip a barbecue party of whatever sort.
Also, her mother was going to get an infested abscess surgically removed from her butt.
This would be done by either Doc Hollywood or Quinn Pensky in nearby “Come On Inn”.
Sam was, of course, here in order to enjoy the barbecue party. “Fredward Benson is really obnoxious.”
Carly nodded.
Sam whispered, “but his butt is hot! I love wedgying him.”
Carly choked for disgust.
It was time for the first tests.
Stacey Dillsen’s barbecue ribs were checked. “With mustard sauce. I don’t like fried meat without mustard.”
Unfortunately, there was a cotton swab found in the marinade.
Le Mange “awarded” Stacey Dillsen with zero points.
The cotton swab artist started weeping like a fury. She accidentally squirted her own face with mustard.
The next contestants were Logan Reese and Mercedes Griffin.
Le Mange bit a piece off their rib. “Ten points!”
The onlookers gasped.
Logan boomed, “yeah! Take this! Logan’s rib rub is the best!”
The Reese rib rub was a famous spice mix used for barbecue ribs.
Chase and Addie were the next in the queue.
Suddenly Samantha burst forth, “stop! This is not Pierre Le Mange!”
Carly gasped. “What?”
The kids were starting to become noisy.
Sam explained, “Pierre Le Mange is allergic to jalapeno. And Logan’s rib rub contains jalapeno. I do my homeworks and watch Cooking Channel at least thrice a week. And what about you?”
Le Mange screamed, “huh?” He tried to run away.
But Carly flang a bowl of quacamole right into the mean cheater’s face.
Le mange staggered and floundered.
A few minutes later, officer Vega[officer vega] from Los Angeles county police arrived at the campus and arrested the fake guy.
Sam, usually arrested by policemen, was now due for an award for having contributed majorly to the arrest of the biggest cheater in the history of California.
Unfortunately, there was now no judge left for the barbecue context.
But this did not matter.
With everyone else being too excited by the news about the fake Le Mange, Sam had used the occasion to eat all of the remaining pork chops. Then she burped like a hippopotamus and rubbed her belly.
Even Sam looked flabbergasted. Now she could leave the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy” with the best possible memories, the memorie of a full stomach.
Zoey Brooks sighed deeply.
Her barbecue contest had gone totally awry.
Zoey asked Sam, “so, you have tasted them all … which ones were the best?”
Sam belched rudely. “They were all equally good!”
The kids applauded.
Sam bellowed, “and next time you have got a load of chicken wings from your dead fifth cousin …”
Zoey groaned, “Hey! Don’t stretch it!”
Sam grinned.
Unfortunately her stomach started aching. It was bigger from the inside than Sam was from the outside, but still …
Carly gave Sam some tummy massage. She was accustomed to this.
Sam would soon feel a lot better. And she reveiled a secret. “I have made a video of the barbecue fest.”
Carly sighed. “Really?”
Sam grinned.
Dustin moaned, “too bad we don’t know how to set up a web show, with these pictures and those from the talent show … maybe aome live event … I don’t want it to become as lame as that of Chase and Michael.”
Sam sighed. “Freddie would know what to do.”
Carly nodded.
Dustin and Carly were now going to look for a suitable tech pro.
The kids celebrated the rest of the day even without barbecue chops.
Logan was angry, though. He had paid the fake Le Mange a few hundreds of bucks for letting him win.
And now everything was cancelled.
Katie was equally disappointed. She had manipulated Zoey’s barbecue marinade with some other ingredient hated by Pierre Le Mange.
And now this was all pointless.
Le Mange had not even made it to Zoey’s barbecue table.
Night fell.
Sam would sleep in a hammock in Carly’s before returning to Seattle with the memories of her fantabulous last meal at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
[morris] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Zoey’s Ribs
[pierre le mange] mentioned in Zoey 101 : Zoey’s Ribs
[bruce windchill] mentioned several times casually throughout Drake & Josh.
[officer vega] various cameos in Victorious
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Zoey Brooks, Michael Barret, Chase Bartholomew Matthews, and Logan Reese were stuck in suckish classes about national economy taught by Mr. Hotchins[mr hotchins], the oldest and meanest of all teachers at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Hotchins treated his students regularly like dirt.
This was the case now. And it had been the case already about fifty years ago.
The very first pupil driven insane by Mr. Hotchins had been one Charles Galloway. He had left the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy” in panic and fled into the barren wastelands. According to rumours, he died and was buried at a nearby canyon known as Redstone Gulch.
But nobosdy had ever really seen him after his departure.
Logan and Michael were hell bent on verifying the story.
Logan Rese saw there the unique chance for landing his own first successful movie about the legend of Charles Galloway. Fore that purpose, he had just to find the tomb and grab any evidence from there.
Logan Reese had thus prepared an expedition to Redstone Gulch.
Mercedes Griffin was following voluntarily. She wanted to become rich and famous with him, too.
Michael Barret and Wendy Gellar were also joining in.
Zoey Brooks and Chase Matthews did not want to believe the legend.
Alas, Katie Packerman was sitting in Zoey’s neck again. She made fun of Zoey’s fears.
Now Zoey really wanted to sock it to the obnoxious wench by seeking for the tomb out in the wilderness.
Quinn Pensky saw a welcome ocasion to test some of her umost useful inventions, including a quinnocular, i.e. some set of five coordinated telescopes with improved vision.
But they still needed a leader out there.
None of them knew the exact location of the tomb.
And nobody volunteered.
A certain Lafe Berkowitz[lafe berkowitz] would have offered himself as a guide.
But Katie Packerman could dissuade him from doing so, in a very sneaky manner as usual.
In desperate need of a responsible adult, Zoey asked Coco and Gordy.
Coco was as irresponsible as can be. She had been one of teh advisors for a tent camp of sixth graders during the year before, including Dustin, and she had lost a few kids out there.
The two of them agreed on joining in.
Gordy just delegated his tasks on the campus to the night shift. He also deemed the occasion great for a hunting infamous desert weasels. He was appropriately equipped for that important task.
And the “fun” could begin.
Dustin worried a lot about his sister out in the desert. He was especially unable to trust Coco out in the desert of desolation.
Carly had tried to calm him down. But the harder she tried, the less convinced did she turn. “You are right. Opening tombs and disturbing the last rest of people is too scary.” She started shivering.
Spencer Carter suggested, “If you are that scared … call for an exorcist.”
Dustin and Carly shivered.
Spencer continued, “actually, I know a really scary goth girl able to talk to the dead and control them.”
Carly and Dustin looked very much interested.
The girl insinuated was Jade West, a middle school student from famous “Hollywood School for the Professional Performance Arts”.
But Carly and Dustin first had to look up a way to contact the goth princess.
Lola’s cousin Trina Vega[trina vega]
was studying at the same school.
Lola was thus able to start establishing a contact.
After an hour, Carly was able to talk Jade.
The goth girl was not exactly pleased. But she promised to show up in a few.
Alas, it would cost the kids from “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Dustin nodded solemnly. “OK! Hurry up!”
Wayne “Firewire” Gilbert cackled. “The end is near. The disturbance of the tomb will trigger the wild hunt. We are lost.”
Carly and Dustin shivered even more.
Half an hour later, a scooter arrived at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Jade West was steering the vehicle.
Her company was one Caitlyn Valentine, a bubbly bimbo beast. Dhe thought herself as Jade’s best friend. But she only got abused by her. She was totally easy to abuse due to her endlessly hilarious naïvity.
Jade grinned. “The wild hunt is very dangerous. And once triggered, it may only be delayed, not stopped, until the end of the culprit alias the days of dystopia.”
“I’ve told you,” boomed Wayne Gilbert. “The end is bear!”
Cat Valentine asked, “what is that supposed to mean?” Later, she started hanging out with Lafe.
Dustin and Carly shivered insanely.
Some other kids on the campus had made some strange observations.
According to rumours, a green tornado was seen in the distance, morer or less exactly the same direction as Redstone Gulch.
The end was thus near, as predicted by Wayne Gilbert.
Jade West had not got any trace of a problem identifying the approaching doom. “It is the wild hunt!”
Chase and Addie started playing and singing Ghost Riders In The Sky[ghost riders].
Jade West had got a tattoo on her right arm.
It was a five-pointed star, alias a pentagram, known as “Seal Of Solomon”.
With this symbol, legendary King Solomon was supposed to have controlled demons in order to build the first temple of Jerusalem.[solomon and demons].
The upright star symbol symbolises the domination of the four elements, viz. fire, water, earth, and air, by the hovering spiritual quintessence.
The reversed pentagram, on the other hand, meant the fall of spirit into matter.[meaning of pentagram].
Thus Jade West needed to operate in a very careful manner.
Finally, the kids arrived from their trip.
Coco was talking nothing but nonsense.
Gordy was by no means better.
Zoey and Logan boasted, “we have found the tomb! And we can prove it!”
Zoey held a locket aloft. “I found it! And Katie did not find anything like that.”
The talismanic amulet had belonged to the tomb of Charles Galloway.
The name of its former owner was engraved.
Jade West growled, “you have triggered the wild hunt! Your destiny will be doomed!”
Zoey gasped.
The green tornado had finally arrived on the campus and started wreaking havoc.
Only Jade and Wayne — protexted by the pentagram — dared to face the ghost riders.
Zoey wondered, “I am going to return the locket. Then teh ghost riders …”
Jade laughed in a grisly manner. “You fool! You really think returning the locket to the tomb would help you?”
Zoey nodded timidly, stammering, “I do … somehow”
Jade cackled. “Such an action is a waste of tiime. The curse would just come back to you in seven years, thrice as strong as now.”
Zoey went awfully pale. She passed out and slumpled mercilessly onto the pavement.
Dustin was worried about his elder sister. He cringed over her lifeless wreck.
Jade told him to take cover. Then she continued performing the ancient rites of King Solomon.
A few hours later, the situation would clear up.
Jade West was exhausted. “This should do it for now.”
Zoey regained her consciousness. She was totally dizzy.
Jade ordered the blond Mary Sue to regret and to repent, unti the days of dystopia. “Failing to do so will make the wild hunt return, thrice as strong as before.”
Zoey trembled like aspem leaves. But she had forgotten a few things.
Jade’s magic ritual had destroyed the amulet of Charles Galloway.
Strangely, none of the kids passed out during this part of the wild hunt would be able to remember the name, or the legend.
The memories of Galloway had been destroyed along with the locket.
But the danger would always be out there.
Jade grabbed Cat. “Come on, we need to return home.”
It was already very late.
Abd a scooter trip of half an hour was in front of the teenage girls.
Cat had got a hard time prying herself loose from Lafe’s fascination. “Finally a boy able to understand me!”
Jade grunted, “yeah, right!” She forced Jade onto her scooter.
It had been a long night.
Fortunately, the night shift at “Pacific Coast Academy” was able to restore the campus before the next morning.
But would the wild hunt return one day?
Not even Jade West could tell.
[mr hotchins] from Zoey 101 : The Curse Of PCA
[lafe berkowitz] Lafe is from Zoey 101 : The Curse Of PCA.
The surname is taken from same actor’s rôle in a different show.
[trina vega] This regular of Victorious is here identified with same actress’s guest rôle in Zoey 101 and her cameo in iCarly : iPsycho.
[ghost riders] third-party owned song by Johnny Cash
[solomon and demons] cf. Testimony of Truth from the Nag Hammadi scrolls
The shape of the seal is subject to medieval speculations, though.
[meaning of pentagram] cf. Éliphas Lévy The Key To The Great Mysteries
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Dusti Brooks was working on and off as a delivery boy for Logan Reese. Today, he had been sent to the post office in order to fetch a special parcel.
The wrapping of the parcel was covered witth Japanese characters, not readable by Dustin.
Carly noticed Dustin with this parcel. She wondered, “that looks strange. Do you know anyone in Japan?”
Dustin shook his head. “It’s for Logan Reese.”
Logan’s father, Malcolm Reese, was just shooting scenes in Japan for an upcoming movie.
Dustin wondered about the content.
Carly was curious, too. “One day, I will go to Tokyo. I don’t know why, though.”
Dustin shrugged.
In the foyer of “Maxwell Hall”, Logan Reese opened his parcel.
It apparently contained several things.
One of them was a japanese smart phone known as the J-phone. It was able to download movies for Logan over night. For some technical reason, it was illegal uin America.
Logan did not really care.
Another movie was directly contained in the parcel: Shinusha. It was illegal in most states due to its excessive terror.
Addie Singer chuckled. “Aw, my elder bro, Benjamin, has onve watched a similar Japanese horror movie known as ‘The Liver Eater’, with his girlfriend of that time. He had to vomit all over.”
Logan sighed. “Those movies are for men, not for wimps!”
Dustin claimed, “oh, I am not a wimp! I don’t collect peewee babies and stuff.”
Carly snickered. “We girls can watch it, too!”
Mercedes agreed wholeheartedly.
Zoey growled. “Dustin? Hello? You are much too young for horror movies.”
Dustin moaned for disgust.
Evening had started.
Logan and Mercedes sat in Logan’s dormitory room and inserted a movie, not just any movies, but the most terrific one ever: Shinusha.
Its horror adult content notwithstanding, it was the work of two Japanese tween twins, Yuki and Kyoko[yuki kyoko].
Those hated Americans and wanted to see them suffer badly.
Dustin and Carly entered, against Zoey’s explicit verdict.
Logan and Mercedes did not care.
The movie went along.
The pop corn was already empty.
The end of the movie was as horrible as can be.
Two insane ninjas killed their victims with chop sticks.
Dustin and Carly shivered.
But holding the hand of each other it was possible to survive the horror.
Carly and Dustin left “Maxwell Hall” after the movie. They shivered mercilessly. But they were still standing.
Carly sighed. “When I was horrified as a little girel, Spencer always took me into his arms and sang me asleep.”
Dustin sobbed and nodded sadly. “Zoey took much better care of me before coming to ‘Pacific Coast Academy’.”
They missed the good old times.
Dustin sighed badly.
Carly wondered, “those were the days …”
Dustin had got an idea. “Maybe Zoey will revert back to the good ld Zoey when seeing me afraid of the ninja?”
Carly smiled. “Cool! Of course she will.” She wanted to make Spencer revert back, too.
But he was a bit too far away for doing so directly.
Zoey, Lola, and Quinn returned to dormitory room “101 Brenner Hall” after having had their feet pedicured.
Quinn and Lola removed a blanket in their dorm. They started squealing insanely.
Dustin had been hiding under the cloth. He was shivering, trembling, and squealing all over.
Against the prootests of Quinn and Lola, Zoey allowed Dustin to stay in her dormitory room, just like in the good old times before “Pacific Coast Academy”.
During the same night, “Maxwell Hall” was struck by a fire alert.
The brigades had to show up.
But no fire had been found.
Dean Rivers was upset. He could not figure anyone responsible for the fake alert. He threatend to ground the whole of “Maxwell Hall” in the case of a repetition.
Of course, the pupils were uposet and started accusing each other.
This was leading to quite a bunch of chaos and turmoil of the uttermost horrible sort.
The fights between Michael Barret and Rusty Dickerson were by far the worst of them all.
This time, Chase was sticking with Michael and not with Rusty.
Zoey Brooks had kind of sort of hoped to be able to send back Dustin to his proper dormitory room after just one night. But the blond Mary Sue was fundamentally mistaken.
This was even more of a problem for Zoey’s relationship with her room mates, Quinn and Lola.
Dustin threatened with having to leave “Pacific Coast Academy” for fear of frenzied ninjas.
Zoey wanted to hire Shelby in order to protect Dustin from ninjas with chop sticks. “This should get rid of his fears.” But she still had to host Dustin for at least two more nights.
Unfortunately, things were not as easy as that.
Katie Packerman had heard about the whole mess going on in “101 Brenner Hall”. She had not hesitated denouncing Zoey Brooks for hosting a boy in her dormitory room.
This was against the law and order of the school.
Dean Rivers had to call Zoey into his office for this excessively illegal crime. He held aloft a book titled Da Rulez.
Zoey sighed. “Dustin is a little boy. He was afraid of the ninjas from that illegal moveie.”
Dean Rivers grunted,
The rules are about boys in girlls’ dormitory rooms.
This goes for all boys and all girls’ room.
There is no exception whatsoever for fearsome little brothers.
Zoey Brooks sighed deeply.
Dean Rivers had to punish Zoey for this abominable offense. “Three months of suspension from all extracurricular activities!”
Dustin was punished with detention.
The basketball team would go down the drain even much more due to the lack of their most reliable player.
Finally, the Japanese phone was discovered as the source of all those fake alerts.
This had been discovered by Jeffry Norkin.
Logan was warned in time and could throw the whole thing into the trash before getting discovered and punished.
Dustin and Carly were now severely depressed.
Dustin was infinitely sad for having been the reason for Zoey’s punishment.
Carly had also informed Spencer about her “fears”.
The freelance artist had dropped his current project in order to visit his little sister on site, thusly losing an important customer.
Following all that, both Dustin Brooks and Carly Shay were caught in a severe depression.
Dr. Lowe was now called in order to take car eof them.
This was a very hard task.
Both of the kids were stuck deep in their memories of the good old times of lying in their respective elder sibling’s arms after a lightening or a supersonic jet plane.
The quagmire was deep, oh so deep.
Would there ever be a chance for them to get out?
Katie Packerman had suspected Logan’s phone to be behind the troubles.
It had disappeared the day after the last fake alert.
Katie did not have to look far.
The device was still in the trash.
Katie fished it out from the junk and told Melinda Crenshaw about it.
The katter knew about the problems with the phone and promised to use it “appropriately” in order to wreak some kind of sort of havoc.
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Dean Rivers had got a son named Lance.
The latter was a total jerk, not one of the same sort as Logan Reese, but still a very creepy way. He even hit on Zoey Brooks. Lance abused his connections shamelessly in order to impress the girls.
But the blond Mary Sue had started having feelings for Jerry Crony since the dance contest. She would never have admitted to them during those months.
It was nevertheless some sort of an obstacle preventing her from immediatle agreeing on dates with Lance Rivers.
Zoey would not have minded being the daughter in law of a headmaster like Dean Rivers, though.
It would have been a boost for her potential career as a CEO or a shark.
Of course, big spoiler Katie Packerman noticed Zoey’s weakness and was up to abusing this mercilessly. She did not hesitate asking Lance Rivers for a date in turn.
The jerk liked this equally.
Not much later, Lance Rivers and Katie Packerman were officially seen as a couple.
Lance’s connections had given them a limousine trip to uptown Los Angeles for the première performance of one of the latest movies of one of Malcolm Reese’s closest competitors.
Zoey was totally envious, and she would certainly have bit her own head off, if only possible.
At the same time, Logan and Mercedes were producing a video known as Dance With Logan.
As suggested by the name, it was a course in dancing featuring Logan Reese as a sort of a dancing teacher.
Arthur Griffin was probably going to distribute this work commercially all over the nation.
But this was not a self runner.
Logan and Mercedes had to market it first at “Pacific Coast Academy” and make a certain amount of bucks with them.
Logan was not really a great dancer.
Thus Mercedes had to trick a bit. She did not really mind Logan flirting virtually with the girls supposed to buy and use the video course.
But things worked out well.
Some hundred girls would buy the DVD within less than a month, thusly convincing Arthur Griffin of the commercial value of the whole mission.
Blix was the most popular brand of soft drinks at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
This was due to long year contracts between Blix and the catering services and vendor machine providers serving the campus.
Once in a while, the company was organising promotional contests for their latest products.
This time, zingleberry blix was a most promising starter.
Those contests were taking place at the most important sites of blix vendors.
And the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy” was one of them.
Thence there was such a competition for promoting zingleberry blix.
This contest involved a van used by the company as a vehicle for promotional tours.
But there was now a special purpose.
The kids participating in the contest had to touch the van with at least one of their hands for as long as only possible.
The last one to stand would win a trip with the blix jet.
Only the sophomores were given the permission from Dean Rivers, though.
Michael Barret wanted to go to Alaska in order to visit the wild penguins living there.
Of course there were none.
But Michael was too dumb to know.
Zoey Brooks wanted to go to the fashion fair in Milan in northern Italy.
The kids were ready for the start of the contest.
Some official employee explaine dthe details.
There were a few scheduled breaks, but not too many of them.
Logan tried to win with illegal tricks learned from Ashley Blake. For example, he feigned being injured in order to be allowed to sit on a chair. He also tried to lock Zoey into one o the portable toilets used during the scheduled breaks.
Fortunately Zoey Brooks could escape in the last moment.
Logan got others to give up prematurely.
Once more, Ashley Blake had done a great job tutoring him in acting.
Zoey and Logan continued to eye each other suspiciously.
But for long time, nothing happened.
Katie Packerman shouted angrily. “Dern van! The lacquer and green surface paint has spoiletd may sleeves and my dresses.”
Zoey gasped. She was wearing her latest model of a fashionalble top. Now she worried about it. She had to check it.
But there were no stains.
Zoey sighed for relief. Alas, she had taken off her hands in order to be able to check her sleeves. For that reason, she had to be disqualified, like many other surprised students.
Lola Martinez did the same.
Only Katie Packerman had not been falling for her own trick learned from Ashley Blake. Thus she was the last one to stand.
Katie Packerman had chosen a trip to “Wonderland”, one of the greatest and most impressive amusement parks of southern California, not really far from Katie’s home.
Zoey’s breath froze.
As an elementary school kid, she had often been dreaming of a trip to “Wonderland”. But she had never got the time. She had given up on the dream as a middle school trip.
Katie had heard about Zoey’s little girtl’s dream. And she was now abusing her knowledge just in order to rub some caystic salt into Zoey’s wounds, making her squeal for excruciating agony.
Quinn had been working on chemicals for removing stenches for quite some time.
The existence of skunks on the campus, Gordy’s desperate hunting expeditions notwithstanding, had made this necessary.
Unfortunately, her first attempts had been a complete failure.
The stench killer had got a horrible side effect. It removed not only stinks, but also most of the synthetic fibres containt in the clothes themselves.
This was usually less than desirable.
Only by now had Quinn achieved the goal of removing that abominable problem.
Aforementioned “Cal” from “California Institute For Technology” had given her the necessary hints.
But stopping there was not an option.
Quinn needed something to work more than just on the clothers and the skin.
The goal was that of removing stenches from withing your orifices, especially from the mouth.
Her former stench killer would have been of obnoxious effects when incorportated.
Thus Quinn had been forced to remix and to retry.
Unfortunately, the first attempts had been little promising.
There was an even worse side effect.
Quinn could not stop laughing.
Only Ashley Blake could help her. She started making out with Mark del Figgalo right in front of Quinn’s eyes.
Of course, this was just acting.
Ashley was great at that. And she was really disgusted by Mark del Figgalo.
But Quinn was shocked. She had to “give up” on her laughter on site.
The reasearch had to go on.
Quinn was no longer willing to swallow lots of onions, cheese, tuna, and other stench makers just in order to try out. She had thus been compelled to using others.
Dustin and Carly had been her first choice.
But Zoey protested vigorously.
Mark del Figgalo hated sauces and did not want to swallow the smelly ones required for the ongoing tests.
Fortunately there was still good old Coco.
The chubby dormitory adviser got some artificialfood in turn preventing her from turning more chubby.
Unfortunately, the food had got its side effects.
After some days, Coco had turned unable to speak.
Some of the girls enjoyed that time, though.
For that reason, Lola Martinez suggested strongly to let Coco continue to swallow the fake food.
Curious Gordy was trying the stuff as well.
Quinn’s improved and upgraded stench killer was now finally working perfectly.
Now Quinn just needed to find some company for marketing this invention.
For now, it was only available in Doc Hollywood’s medical kits.
Would Quinn succeed?
Time would tell.
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Logan Reese, the most reckless dandy of all time, suddenly came up with the idea of a beauty pageant for all girls at “Pacific Coast Academy”. There would be but one umpire. And that would be no other than the very Logan Reese in person.
Of course this was nothing really unexpected.
Strangely, the official reason behind this was Logan’s application for a college.
Of course Logan was not interested in anything like that. He could keep on wasting his father’s money on the jet.
Mercedes Griffin even rejoiced endlessly when watching masses of other girls grovelling like smelly pigs in the mud ‘neath the feet of Logan Reese.
Logan had already chosen some award for the winner.
She would be on the cover page of one of the next edition of Buzz, on of the most popular journals among today’s teenagers.
This arrangement was easy due to Logan’s contacts.
More precisely, one of Logan’s huge variety of step mothers was now married to the owner of the dirty tabloid journal.
Lola Martinez and Ashley Blake were of course particularly keen on participating.
The Buzz was the only thing read voluntarily by Lola Martinez, thusly demonstrating its low level character.
Zoey Brooks deemed those pageants excruciatingly sexist, especially with a judge like Logan Reese, yeah, even an only judge.
But then she saw Katie Packerman signing up for the pageant.
Now there was nothing to stop Zoey and prevent her from enrolling as well.
Seven years ago, Katie had called Zoey ugly.
This statement had to be avenged.
Otherwise, the pageant would have been the most humiliating remembrance in Zoey’s life..
The blond Mary Sue was of course going to design and taylor her own outfit for the presentation. She also offered gladly to prepare one for Lola Martinez.
Katie Packerman ordered some outfit from a certain Amanda Cantwell, one of the leading women’s fashion designers of New York City.
Other participants included Melanie Puckett, Karen Franklin, and Stacey Dillsen.
Jeremiah Trottman started the live broadcast of the pageant.
There were apparently some troubles between Lola Martinez and Zoey Brooks.
The reason for that was simple.
Logan had spread the rumour of Zoey making Lola’s gown particularly ugly.
And Lola was excessively dumb, at least stupid enough to believe Logan Reese’s dirty lie.
Zoey Brooks was of course exorbitantly upset by Lola’s baseless accusations of the most perverted sort.
There had been already many clamourous arguments between the blond mary Sue and the Latina drama queen during the days leading up to the contest.
But now the whole unholy war was taken to yet another level of decadence and corruption.
Lola’s and Zoey’s arguments had been very dirty.
And now they were taking this literally.
A few necessary repairs n the campus had left a muddy patch.
It was only protected by some tape barrier, no solid fence at all.
Zoey and Lola started picking mud and throwing it at each other. Then they conbtinued wallowing in the mud.
Logan wanted to intervene.
But his future wife told him, “hey! don’t care about them, just contin ue with the other girls.”
Logan nodded solemnly at Mercedes. He calmed down. “OK, those without a clean outfit are disqualified. And the winner is …”
Stacey hoped to be the winner. But she was plainly ignored.
Logan Reese continued, “there is a break of twenty minutes! I need some back rub.”
Mercedes started working her fingers all their way down from Logan’s neck, making him purr with exorbitant glee.
Of course, Lola and Zoey were totally mud covered.
And they lacked a substitute outfit.
Along came Jerry Crony. “Zoey, Lola … I’ve got some substitutes.”
Addie Singer and Chase Matthews were carrying a few pageant gowns.
Zoey sighed deeply. “OK, thanks. But I am a bit … muddy!”
Michael and Wendy were carrying a portable bath tub, complete with soap and warm water.
Zoey gasped. “You must have thought of everything!”
Lola shook her head. “No way!” She held nothing but deepest distain and prejudices against the male fashion creator.
Chase and Addie opened a dress cabin established on the campus for the purpose of the pageant.
The cabin was big enough for a bath tub.
Zoey disappeared inside the tent.
The contest was going on.
Logan was just a few seconds short of declaring Katie Packerman the winner.
The lass had appeared in an outfit completely inappropriate for an underaged girl.
In that moment, Zoey appeared in the outfit made by Crony.
Logan felt forced to reconsider his decision. “OK, the winner is Zoey Brooks!”
The blond Mary Sue grinned mercilessly.
Katie looked disappointed.
The next day the team of Buzz appeared on the campus.
Zoey was rigged and ready to get her picture taken for the next cover page.
Alas, the guys from Buzz were all perverse jerks, just like Logan Reese.
Zoey had to puke upon hearing the details for the shooting.
Logan said, “she’s ill disposed.” He ordered another break of twenty minutes.
But Zoey did not want to return from the toilets. “Know what …” She panted and roared, “take Katie Packerman as your next cover girl!”
Logan Reese looked puzzled. Then he shrugged. “OK! But don’t think you will ever get any occasion like that again!” He yelled his orders at the top of his lungs.
Katie grinned mischievously. She had got no qualms fulfilling the conditions of the shooting.
Two days later, Logan arrived on the campus with a very expensive car. He had not got a driver’s license. He claimed to be under sixteen. Buit he was almost seventeen years old. He lied about his age in order to cover his ongoing failure in the tests for the license.
Mercedes Griffin sat next to him.
Then they made out, surrounded by several hundreds of onlooking students.
Zoey was particularly disgusted by this excessively perverse scene.
Katie Packerman walked past her. “Hey! Look what I’ve just bought!” She ran against the car.
Logan growled, “be careful! The car costs more than your parents’ house!”
Katie’s breasts appeared to grow rapidly.
Katie boasted mercilessly at Zoey.
Quinn told Zoey, “that’s my latest invention, an air bra. It works like an air bag.”
Zoey sighed. “It also inflates her arrogance.”
Quinn shrugged. “She hads paid me well.” Then she looked closer at Zoey. “Do you want to buy one for only five hundred bucks? You seem to need one badly.”
Zoey grunted, “no!” with an ultimate determination.
Quinn shrugged. “OK!”
Alas, Lola wanted one. She expected the air bra to be useful for landing better rôles at Hollywood. “But I can’t pay by now.” She sighed deeply. “You will get my autograph after my first Oscar. That will be worth more than five hundred bucks.”
Unfortunately Quinn’s expenses for her research did not allow her for waiting that much.
She agreed in continuing to negotiate with Lola afterwards, though.
Having wasted half a million on a noble sledge was not without severe consequences for Logan Reese.
His father, producer Malcolm Reese, was excessively upset upon seeing the bill for Logan’s credit card.
There was no way for Malcolm to let his wasteful son get away with this.
The csar of hollywood and his faithful butler Chaunsey showed up at “Pacific Coast Academy” in order to cancel Logan’s credit card and take away hios overpriced possessions.
Consternated Logan protested vigorously.
But it was all for naught.
The credit card was gone.
And the spoiled sheik was certainly not able to survive without it. Now he begged his girlfriend Mercedes for some bucks for paying his errant boys.
Mercedes sighed. “OK, I would, but …” She panted heavily. “dad has cancelled my credit card.” She sobbed bitterly. “You remember the half a million diamond tiara?”
Logan moaned, “dern!”
Now both of the spoiled rich kids were lost.
But Katie Packerman made a saving remark. She told them to ask their step mothers for support.
The idea was great.
This way, Logan and Mercedes were able to remain rich spoiled sheiks without their dads even knowing.
Of course this was only valid for the time of keeping that secret.
Quinn had already made several suggestions for Lola to pay for the air bra.
But Lola refused to sacrifice one of her kidneys.
Quinn needed one of them for the purpose of scientific research.
Lola offered finally tickets for the impending première party of a Hollywood movie with Quinn’s favourite acor, Edwin Begley[edwin begley]
.
Quinn agreed finally. “OK! Thanks! It’s always great to strike such a deal!”
Lola grinned.
But would the air bra really boost her career?
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Twice each year, the administration of “Pacific Coast Academy” organised a day of evaluation for potential new students.
These days consisted of several programs.
In the case of availabilty, students from very far away were even given the opportunity to spend one or two nights in one of the dormitory rooms.
There was also a guided tour across the majority of the facilities on the campus.
The most important part were the questions and answers.
The school administration was choosing a few established students for that purpose.
This time, Zoey Brooks, Lola Martinez, and Michael Barret had been chosen as representants for the high school students.
Dustin Brooks, Henry Nolston, and Ashley Blake were about representing the middle school kids.
Mr. Bender and had been chosen as a spokesperson for the teachers.
The non-academic staff was represented by Gordy and Coco.
Dean Rivers would give an introductory speach.
Dean Rivers had officially opened the interview session for the elementary and middle school kids.
Nervous Dustin Brooks braced for the first charge.
Some guy from Seattle asked, “hey! Is weariing shirts or tops obligatory here at ‘Pacific Coast Academy’?”
Duston scratched his head. “No, there are n’t any patrticular dress codes.” He panted. “Why do you?”
The weirdo stood up, jumped onto the table, ripped his shirt off, flang it across the hall, and yelled, “Here comes Gibby! Yeah!” He started rock and roll dancing.
Henry whispered to Dustin, “he’s crazy!”
Dustin nodded solemnly. “But it si really cool!”
Other kids joined Gibby. They were about performing PCA Rock, a good old evergreen of teh rock and roll scene.[pcarock].
Unfortunately, that was not exactly Dean Rivers’s understanding of an interview session. Fortunately he had just left the building.
Dustin needed to move on to the next session. He went through teh list of students.
Erm, Gibby, thsi is the session for the lower classes.
You are an eight grader. Next year, you will be high school. You should better go to the high school information session.
They are located across the hall, …
Dustin gave further instructions.
Gibby shrugged. Then he moved on. “Fun spoilers!”
Dustin wiped some sweat off his face. But he would not mind Gibby as a new student, anyways.
A boy around twenty years old stood up, with the next question. He looked a lot like Drake Parker.
Dustin reinforced the purpose of this meeting. “Elenmentary and middle school kids only!”
The boy laughed. “I am Timothy Turner[timothy turner]
from Dimsdale elementary school.”
Dustin looked dumbfounded.
Timmy showed him his school identity card. “I have been a fifth grader for ten years.”
Hentry muttered, “Something is wrong with that man.”
Ashley Blake nodded solemnly.
Dustin sighed. “So, what is your question?”
Timmy sighed. “Am I allowed to stay a kid here forever, or am I forced to grow up?”
Dustin sighed. “Oh, of course you may stay a kid forever as long as youy can afrord the tuition fees.” He shrugged.
Timmy smiled. “Oh, are wishes allowed at this school?”
Dustin sighed deeply. “Trust me, I have got quite a few wishes.” He whispered sadly, “but this doesn’t make them come true.”
Timmy grinned. “oh, there are means and ways to …”
Henry asked, “sit down, please! The next questions!”
An arrogant girl stood up. “I am Amber Tate[amber tate].”
Ashley grunted. “Oh no!”
Amber was yet another tween diva.
Dustin grinned. “Wow! You really come to ‘Pacific Coast Academy’?”
“Mommy wants to.” Amber shrugged. “But may I still become a real star, even at this school>”
Ashley gasped. She did consider herself a real star.
Dustin nodded. “Of course! Lola martinez, for example …”
Ashley frowled, “do you have to mention that fury?”
Dustin sighed deeply. He deemed both Lola and Ashley excessively gifted actresses in their way and could hardly understand their little fights.
Henry wanted to mopve on to the next question.
Another shirtless guy stood up. “Happy Birthday!”
That as neither the case for Ashley, nor for Dustin, nor for Henry.
Dustin remerked this. “Who are you anyways?”
“I am Guppy” remarked the other guy, “where is my brother Gibby?”
Dustin banged his head against the wall. “I should not haves sent Gibby away.” He panted heavily. “OK, Guppy, I will take you top Gibby after the lessons.” He started sweating.
Guppy copntinued, “happy birthday!”
Another girl stood up for the next question. “Hi! I am Morgan Eichman[morgan eichman]
, daughter of TV Producer Brad Eichman[brad eichman]
.”
Dustin smiled. “Hi Moprgan, what is your Question?”
Morgan sighed. “My daddy is so arrogant and stubborn.” She moaned, “are there students here like that?”
Dustin sighed. “Unfortunately yes. They are everywhere.” He shrugged. “Or so I believe.” He scracthed his chin. “But you may always stick to the nice fellow studentshere.”
Morgan smiled. “Cool! That Gibby guy seems very nice.”
Dustin nodded.
Guppy repeated, “happy birthday!”
Dustin decided, “it’s time for a break.” He grabbed Guppy. “Let’s look for your brother!”
Guppy smiled. “Happy birthday!”
Zoey was very busy answering the kids’ questions. While doing so, she had to scan her memories of three and a half years at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
This was even worse for Michael.
Fortunately, Lola had only got two years and a half of mamories.
One of the students stood up. “I am Logan Mitchell from Minessota. I am interested in Mathematics.”
Zoey grinned. “We’ve got agreat tradition here at this school: Quinn Pensky, Miles Brody, Wayne Gilbert, …”
Logan nodded and sat down.
The excessively hot guy next to him stood up. “I am James Diamons. I want to be a big star and a top model.”
Lola grinned. “If you are a good kisser, I will teach you the details.”
Zoey poked Lola. “Yes, this school is quite the rightthing for you.” She moaned, “our min sponsor, Malcolm Reese, is always interested in guys like you.”
Two other boys stood up, apparently friends of Logan and James. They were wielding hockey sticks.
Now Zoey recognised them from their first encounter during the middle school basketball nationals.
One of them, some Carlos Garcia, still wore his hockey helm.
Zoey remarks,
Yes, we have got a hockey teams.
It sucks.
But you are probably up to changing this.
The four visitors nodded solemnly.
Other kids had got even worse questions.
A certain Christina Saunders[christina saunders]
, a cousin of Sam and Melanie Puckett, wanted to know about arcades at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
Zoey remembered painfully the power failure of the start of her freshman year. “Officially, they are outlawed. But there are certainly a few underground.”
Christina sighed. But she was accustomed to hiding an seeking.
Zoey went on to the next question.
Miriam Klein, the next girl, introduced herself as “man hands” Miriam[miriam] “Are goths allowed at this school?”
Zoey shivered. She was still scared by Jade West and her threats. “Probably!” She almost puked.
For the established students, the day was an occasion to go through the events of the last years.
Many of the memories were still alive.
Some of the potential new students appeared quite nice.
Others would better be left in front of the campus gates.
But the school had to take everyone able to afford the fees.
[pcarock] parody of third-party owned Jailhouse Rock
[timothy turner] from Fairly Odd Movie
[amber tate] from iCarly : iCarly Saves TV
[morgan eichman] Morghan is a cameo from iCarly : iCarly Saves TV
[brad eichman] This identifies TV Producer Brad from iCarly : iCarly Saves TV with Principal Eichman from Victorious : Pilot.
[christina saunders] from Best Player
[miriam] from Shredderman Rules, identifies with same actress’s anonymous rôle in Drake & Josh : Who’s Got Game.
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Jeff Norgin had just beaten Chase Matthews in a tennis match.
Chase sighed deeply. “You serve harder than a sledge hammer.”
Jeff sighed. He was usually not known as a jock.
But his abilities of serve and volley were remarkable.
This was the only chance for the “Pacific Coast Academy” tennis team in the regionals.
Somehow, both of them had got kind of an uneasy foreboding feeling.
Along came Mark del Figgalo. “Have you heard about the latest news?”
Jeff and Chase shook their head. They had been here on the tennis court for the last two hours.
Mark grunted, “Zoey Brooks will leave us.”
Chase and Jeff squealed, “what?”
Mark repeated the news. “It is on the ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ news channel, all morning. Zoey goes to England.”
Indeed, Stacey Dillsen had started informing Jeremiah Trottman, the leader of the news club.
The obnoxious tabloid columnist had kept on ignoring Stacey Dillsen’s cotton swabs.
Thus she had been compelled to try to be the first to start spreading tghe news about the impending departure of the blond Mary Sue.
Chase was really consternated. After his abominable faux pas concerning the time capsule, he had given up all hope on Zoey. He was very happy with Addie Singer, anyways. But he thought, “A ‘Pacific Coast Academy’ without Zoey Brooks is something totally different from one with Zoey Brooks.” He could not bear the thought.
Jeff Norgin chimed in.
Zoey had kissed him once bnack in seventh grade, just for pitying him.
Jeff was over it, but he was accustoomed to Zoey being able to fix most things at “Pacific Coast Academy”, inspite of Katie Packerman’s bad influence on the fellow pupils.
Mr.Brooks, a hard working businessman, had been delegated to the new European branch of his firm.
The company needed a competent person in charge with overseeing the headquarters in London.
Mras. Brooks would of course follow her husband.
But the kids were left with the choice of either living here at “Pacific Coast Academy”, separated from their parents by an ocean, or to join them to England and go to some boarding school over there.
Said school would have been “Covington’s”, an exorbitantly prestigeous and elitary prep school with royal tradition.
Zoey’s decision was of course not an easy one.
The blond Mary Sue was absolutely not looking forward to separating from her friends.
But it was such a big chance.
Even Zoey’s long term friends had to admit that.
Even Jerry Crony, inspite of loving Zoey to quite some degree, was encouraging her.
London was one of the big three European centres of fashion business, besides Milan in Italy and Paris in France.
Of course she would never forget about any of her friends at “Pacific Coast Academy”.
And the most important reason for Zoey to go to Covington was simply the following:
Katie Packerman would not make it there.
Finally, Zoey would have demonstrated being better than her archnemy of all times. She would meet the Queen.
Katie Packerman would not get anywhere near there.
And this ultimate triumph would make Zoey happy, make her want to sing, just as expressed in Drake Parker’s aforementioned song.
Dustin decided to stay in California. He hated the English weather, viz. clouds, fog, and gales. He hated the English kitchen even more. And he hated the English accent most of all. Finally, he wanted to stay with Carly Shay. He would have rather stopped breathing than thinking about her.
Of course, being separated from his parents by the seven seas would not be easy for him.
Likewise, Dustin had already suffered from missing Zoey right here on the campus for quite a few times, leading to the stupid action after watching the Japanese horror movie.
How much harder would it be to feel Zoey across the ocean?
But Dustin did not want to try to talk his elder sister into staying here, just hor his sake.
The message about this would have spread like wildfire and caused Dustin to appear uncool.
His fellow pupils, barring Carly, would have started laughing about him.
Carly understood what missing an elder sibling meant.
Likewise, her father had been crossing the seven seas in a yellow submarine for quite some time already.
Thus Carly was now more needed by Dustin than ever before.
27.4. Sad Songs[sad soongs]
There was not really time left for a good-bye party for Zoey Brooks.
The moment of the departure was too close for Lola and Quinn to organise anything.
All spparks of hope had disappeared down the drain.
This increased the immediate relevance and expressivity of sad songs.
Addie Singer was loitering with her guitar in Zoey’s corridor, singing and playing some tune uttermost appropriate for the situation.
Va’, pensiero, sull’ali dorate.
Va’, ti posa sui clivi, sui colli,
Ove olezzano tepide e molli
L’aure dolci della California!
Del Pacifico la spiaggia saluta
Della PCA i dormitori alti.
O mia campo, sì bella e perduta!
O remembranza sì cara e fatal!
O chitarra del Drake Parker,
Perché muta dal salice pendi?
Le memorie del petto riaccendi,
Ci favella del tempo che fu![va pensiero]
Zoey Brooks sighed deeply. “OK, I won’t forget any of you. But I have to go.”
Time was running out.
Addie sobbed. “Will you really leave Dustin behind?”
Zoey sighed. “Quinn and Lola will take care of him, somehow.”
Addie shrugged. “And you think they can replace you?”
Zoey replied, “Dustin knows them well enough by now.”
Addie continued, “but they won’t be able to stop Katie Packerman.”
Zoey wondered, “what does she have to do with Dustin and all that?”
Addie sighed. “Katie has been corrupting many people against you. She won’t stop there.”
Zoey gasped. She had not yet thought about it. She walked silently away. Then she thought to herself:
Katie could certainly try to corrupt Dustin.
Why have I not thought about it?
Dana and Nicole had abused him in one way or the other behind my back.
And I was only a few yards away.
Lola and Quinn are too naïve to see the danger.
I can’t leave Dustin behind like this.
Then she flang her belongings aloof, scattering them across the corridor and the lounge. “I am going to stay!”
The hall was about getting filled with excessively nopisy reactions of Zoey’s fellow pupils.
Some of them were consternated.
Zoey was not someone to change her mind easily.
Her parents were already waiting outside the hall. They were able to watch the situation through the windows. Now they gasped in an almost explosive manner.
Dustin walked up to his elder sister and hugged her.
Zoey ruffled his hair. Then she sighed for relief. She was now ready to tell her parents about her unanticipated change of mind.
They could not help it but sob along.
The choices had been made.
It was now their time to say good bye to it all.
[sad soongs] This alludes to Sad Songs, a third-party owned song by Elton John
[va pensiero] lyrics adapted from the slaves’ chorus of teh great opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi.
Go and fly, thought, on golden wings, go and rest on the braes and the hills, the place of the tender and sweet airs of California. Greet the bech of the Pacific, the tall dormitories of the PCA. Oh, my campus, so bbeautiful and lost, oh remembrance, so dear and so lost. Oh guitar of Drake Parker, why do you hang so silent, just like a willow? Rekindle the memories in our chest, tell us about the past.
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Coco Wexler and Custodian Gordy had spent the term break camping with Zoey, Lola, Quinn, Chase, Michael, Mark, and Logan.
This hads been a very messy week.
Gordy had been equipped with a giant beavcoon net in order to catch the legendary beavcoon, a blend of a racoon and a beaver.
Michael Barret had even believed this crap.
Logan had tried to fool him with a stuffed “beavcoon”.
Zoey had had a hard time getting him to disbelive the cheat.
Dustin had been with his roomie Robbie Carmichael in San Diego.
But now they were all back on the campus.
And the new term came with a few surprises.
One of the new pupils was Brooke Margolyn. Unlike Quinn Pensky, Brook Margolyn shared Mark’s hobbies and was thus infinitely much more suited for Mark del Figgalo.
Mark would have tried to tell Quinn in a less rude way.
But Katie Packerman had accidentally come to hear about it and started to spread the rumour right away, even making Zoey look responsible for it.
Rusty Dickerson and Katie Packerman then started talking about Mark and Brooke in a way to be “accidentally” heard by Zoey Brooks.
The blond Mary Sue could not keep it for herself. She had believed in Rusty and Katie planning to tell Zoey. And she wanted to beat Katie to there.
Now Quinn was totally consternated. But she had had it coming due to the large differences betwween Quinn and Mark. Quinn definitely needed a boy in her league, i.e. a nerd interested in exact science and in engineering, and not a brainless dork like Mark del Figgalo.
Another new guy was James Garrett, a tall blond rake. He was a nephiew of Hollywood star Jeff Garrett[jeff garrett]
.
The opinions about him were manifold.
Most girls swarmed around him like wasps around sugar water.
James appeared top be a bit annoyed by those.
Logan Reese feared James as a competitor. Granted, he was totally happy with Mercedes Griffin. But he wanted to be the girls’ guy number one on the campus, no matter what.
Strangly, he looked like a dork on older pictures. But now he was one tall blond rake.
Even more, Carly Shay knew him already, but under a different name.
James garrett was no other than aforementioned Dennifer alias Jake Crendle.
Carly was consternated. She had always deemed Jake a friendly guy.
But his change of names was quite suspicious.
Carly dared to tell Dustin Brooks about it.
There was something smelling totally fishy.
And that was not even the kitchen of Kazu’s “Sushi Rox”.
During the nexty hours, thing appeared to become even worse.
Zoey was helping James to get started on the campus.
Of course they just tried to appear friendly.
But Dustin and Carly did not trust this.
According to their judgment, James Garrett alias Dennifer alias Jake crendel was subtly hitting on Zoey.
And this was no good.
Dustin wanted to talk to Zoey about the problem.
Alas, Zoey would deny any potential chance of the two of them dating. She just laughed about her little brother’s reasonable fears.
Dustin had informed other kids about James Garrett’s dubious existence.
Some of them wre now trying hard to dissuade Zoey from seeing him.
But the thoughts of those friends counted for nothing.
Zoey accused Lola of just wanting James for herself.
But Lola was still happy with Spencer Carter.
Zoey was apparently completely screwed up.
And then the inevitable happened.
Night had seized the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
James and Zoey were strolling the campus.
Suddenly, James pecked Zoey’s lips for no good reason.
Even worse, Zoey kissed him back.
Carly and Dustin kept on watching James and Zoey from the bushes, using a set of quinnoculars.
They were totally consternated.
That was so horrible.
Certainly James was up to no good, given his many fake names.
Dustin was still in need f working on and off as an errant boy for Logan Reese.
This had to do with his need of earning some bucks in order to buy a web cam for his mom.
Chatting across the ocean would thus be a lot easier.
It needed to be a really easy to handle camera.
Those cams used by Quinn Pensky required an expert in technology. They were thus utterly useless for Dustin’s mom.
Unfortunately, Logan was not exactly a good example of a patient teenager.
Dustin had to negotiate with Logan’s teachers about the remission and delay of certain assignments.
This was not easy.
Fortunately, Dustin could bribe the teachers with Logan’s money.
Dinner coupons in nearby “Vaccaro’s”, a restaurant of six stars, were particularly popular.
Alas, it was not possible forDustin to negotiate with the teachers and to answer Logan’s calls at the same time.
Logan was much too dumb to see that. He left a really angry and utterly perverse message on Dustin’s cellular phone.
Carly was consternated when hearing about the message. She commforted Dustin. “logan deserves a hard lesson!”
Dustin shrugged. “But how?”
Logan would not admit to having said all those abominations.
For that reason, Dustin and Carly needed to consider other steps.
Recently Samantha Puckett, Fredward Benson, and Gibby had started their own web show, iGibby.
Carly decided rto submit the message on Dustin’s mailbox to the web show.
This way, as many people all over the land, even all over the world, would be informed about Logan’s excessive evilness.
Sam wanted to bash Logan right between the eyes with a heavy steel hammer.
But Carly dissuaded her from doing so.
At least Freddie was able to help in a different way. He was ready to send a used web cam to Dustin’s mom. “It is no longer good for iGibby, but it should serve your purpose.”
Dustin smiled.
Sam grunted, “but his mom can’t handle it. Too many buttons …”
Shirtless Gibby nodded. He demonstrated this.
Sam and Freddie offered to tune the cam for the purposes of Dustin’s mom.
Dustin accepted gladly.
The message about Logans misdemeanour was now ready to spread around the world.
Of course, Logan’s foul perversity was unforgivable.
Deasn Rivers wanted to expel the sucker.
Unfortunately Logan’s father was the main sponsor of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
There would soon be some “Reese Hall” on the campus.
But, fortunately, Garth Burman, a total fan of iGibby, had got a better solution.
Logan would not be really expelled, at least not in the official sense of the word.
Burman wrote Logan a recommendation letter for “Hollywood School for the Professional Performance Arts”, a school sponsored by Malcolm Reese as well.
This way, the “Pacific Coast Academy” got rid of its worst dandy of all times.
Now some inferior school had to put up with the creep.
But Carly and Dustin did not care.
The life on the campus would be a lot more peaceful and harmonical without the sheik of sheiks.
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One week later, Michael Barret was stalked by some horse.
Stallion Winchester had escaped from a nearby horse ranch owned by one Faye Dunnaway.
Fortunately, Wendy Gellar knew the owner of the ranch.
Faye was already hosting a zebra owned by Megan Parker[megans zebra]
.
Winchester was thus returning easily to his ranch, making Michael sigh from relief.
And that was good so.
Karen and Rusty had already been up to making the stallion stampede and run all over Michael. Now they were disappointed for getting their fatal plans spoiled.
The previous year, Vince Blake had been expelled from “Pacific Coast Academy” for beating up Chase.
The expulsion had been meant for good.
But now there were shocking news.
Vincent Blake was about to return. Doewn to Ashley Blake’s lessons in acting, he had been completely able to fool everyone into thinking of himself as a nice guy.
This was particularly horrible for Chase Matthews. He was now due for more beatings and carnage.
At first glance, Lola Martinez, Zoey Brooks, and Quinn Pensly hated Vince, too, for the things done unto Chase.
But then Vince bribed the girls with gummi worms.
And those traitors trurned weak.
Quinn even started dating Vince. She was very feeble minded after her separation from Mark del Figgalo.
There was no other reason for this one big mistake.
Vince was really just waiting for the great moment of beating the living hell out of Chase Bartholomew Mattews.
And this would be the day after prom night.
Everyoone with a clear mind saw that coming.
James and Zoey were looking for a place for their dates.
Unfortunately, it was close to impossible to do so on the campus of “Pacific Coast Academy”.
They did not want to get bothered by their roomies.
Thus James scratched his hard earned bucks together in order to buy a candle light dinner over at “Vaccaro”’s.
Of course, Dustin and Carly could not trust them.
Carly’s memories of an on and off long term crush on Jake Crendel were too stromg now to forgive his deeds.
All girls at “Ridgeway” had been like that.
Dustin was particularly angry at Jake alias James alias Dennifer.
The two of them had thence decided to snoop the two excessively foolish love birds.
No sane boy would have blown his college savings on a tinner for tow.
That situation stank like crap.
Dustin and Carly had been sneaking in through the delivery entrance. They were dressed as kitchen helpers.
Zoey was about ordering up and down the menu.
James just smmiled.
Carly parodised James’s voice. “Oh, yeah, sweetie, as long as you don’t order the lobsters …”
Dustin took James’s and Zoey’s shoe laces and tied them together.
James and Zoey started making perverse stuff.
The meals were served, one by one, by Maître D’ Maurice[maurice].
Finally, it was time for the surprise desert.
It was served on a plate with a bell shaped cover.
Zoey and James left each iother the initiative.
Finally, James was the one to lift cover of the silver platter.
Surprsie …
Cary’s head showed up under the silver hood.
James went pale.
Carly growled, “hi Jake!”
Zoey gasped. “Jake?”
Carly grunted, “or should I say … Dennifer?”
Zoey looked at James.
The tall blond Rake denied knowing any of the things mentioned by James.
Dustin merged from under the table.
Zoey gasped. “Dustin? What are you doing here?”
Dustin boomed, “trying to dissuade you from some big mistake!”
Zoey was totally consternated.
James tried to calm Zoey down. But he was only half the way successful.
Dustin ran away. he still expected Zoey’s anger.
Carly’s head disappered again.
Carly followed Dustin.
Zoey yelled, “Dustin! Come back and explain!” She stood up in order to follow her little brother.
But her shoes were still tied to those of the tall blond charlatan and heartbreaker king.
Both Zoey and James slipped and lost their balance.
They slumped gracelessly to the barren floor of the snobbish restaurant.
James could not escape.
Thus Zoey grabbed him and pinned him to the ffloor, thundering at him, “jake? Dennifer? What does that mean?”
James stammered helplessly.
Finally, Maître Maurice expelled both of them from the restaurant.
The next morning, Zoey would have calmed down and begged James for forgivenness.
But it would be too late.
Zoey would come in the right moment to see James Garrett make out with inevitable Katie Packerman. She threw up like a sick elephant. But she had to forget about the womanising charlatan.
Calvin was still the owner of teh coffee cart.
The customers of the week had been forbidden by the county administration.
Calvin was now switching to a new promotional trick, the infamous happy hours.
Needless to say, the stuiudents were particualarly reckless during those minutes.
Lola had forgotten to take a straw for her coffee. She rrturned to the cart in order to take one, hitting accidentally the stopper for the coffee cart.
The vehicle could not stop. It was rolluing down the campus.
Tipper Rivers, the psychopathical wife of the headmaster, stood in its way.
A collission was inevitable.
Mr. Rivers was upset. He was about getting a divorce. Thus he could not afford annoying her sharks. He coud not help but banning the coffee cart, and coffee completely from the campus.
The kids were consternated.
Fortunately, Quinn’s new aunt in law had got a coffee shop in Seattle. This allowed her to run secretly a coffee bar in “Brenner Hall”.
They had to be very careful to escape from the keen eyes of Dean Rivers.
Zoey Brooks helped Quinn with her coffee bar.
But they had made one big and unforgivable mistake. They had failed to hide their business from Katie Packerman.
The latter had heard everything through the thin walls. She went straight to Dean Rivers and told him about the break of rules.
Zoey was now due for suspension from the junior prom.
But, fortunately, Dean Rivers had broken his own rules and made some coffee in his office.
Zoey Brooks could blackmail him into telling Garth Burman about this circumstance.
Burman’s action, and especiallythat of Mr. Bradford, would not exactly have made Dean Rivers look good in the impending divorce war.
Rivers had to give in and allow the coffee bar and the cart again.
Zoey Brooks was now consternated.
There were only a few days left until junior prom.
James had been stolen from her by Katie Packerman, just like so many things in her life.
Quinn had thought to be able to go to the junior prom with Vince. But she was mistaken. She had found out about Vince having donated some coffee from her coffee bar to some nearby senior retreat.
This was of course totally unacceptable.
She had invented that type of coffee just for Vince, and not for anyone else.
Vince reminded Quinn too much of Leann Carter with all his demeanour.
Quinn did not know:
Vince was just feigning to be nice.
It was all but Ashley’s plan to get back at Chase in the right moment.
But what would Quinn and Zoey do, right before the prom?
A field trip to a roller coaster known as “The Spine Twister” was still awaiting them.
Michael was feigning an illness in order to avoid participating.
His fear of roller caosters was much stronger than his fear of syringes.
Quinn and Zoey were thus uttermost consternated.
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Upon some students’ recommendation, Dean Rivers consulted Claire Sawyer, future lawyer as his advocate for a divorce.
Tipper had hired many sharks for her divorce campaign.
But Claire Sawyer would be able to beat all of them into oblivion.
For now, Dean Rivers took some vacations in order to prepare his new life without Tipper.
His next wife would be some evil teacher, viz. aforememtioned Ms. Briggs, currently a vice principal at “Ridgeway”.
For the students this would be even worse.
But the prom ball was not supervised by Dean Rivers.
Mr. Bender replaced him.
This in turn was a big boon for the pupils.
Zoey had created dozens of prom outfits, including her own.
Only Olivary Biallo had been able to help her.
But now Zoey was probably forced to go alone to prom dance.
And Katie Packerman would make endlessly fun of Zoey, just as in her worst nightmares since ages.
Well, there was one chance left.
Zoey remembered her dance contest with Olivary Biallo alias Jerome Crony, her one faithful helper.
Jerome Crony was not the one guy to boast with, unlike James Garrett, Lance Rivers, Danny, Gene Conroy, and so on, the boys grabbed from Zoey by Katie Packerman.
But dancing with him at the contest had been a lot more fun.
And, most importantly, Zoey and Crony had got the utterly significant common interest of fashion design.
Zoey cloased her eyes, panted heavily, and then dared to ask Crony. “Do you want to be my prom date?”
Crony looked a bit surprised. But then he accepted. “Sure, if we dance to the moon?”
Zoey nodded solemnly. “But of course!”
Zoey and Crony snuggled up to each other and started purring.
Quinn Pensky was even more desperate. She had scared all the boys away already due to her science talk and her sixth toe on her right foot. Thuys she could skip prom night as a whole and keep on performing her scientific experiments. But she needed new ingredients. For that avail, she contacted her upstream provider with strange ingredients, aforementioned “Cal”.
The freak from “Caltech” agreed with the nerd queen on showing up during the evening with some new ingredients.
Quinn wanted a balanced mixture of explosives, bacteria, poisons, and radioactivity. She still had to figure the scope of her experiments.
They were more reasonable than her experiments with boys, nevertheless, especially excessively worthless guys like Mark del Figgalo and Vince Blake.
Dustin Brooks and Carly Shay had been chosen by Kazu as the responsibles for serving the prom banquet.
That was a very responsible task.
Carly had mixed a few dips for the purpose. She was tempted to give James Garrett the hot chili sauce.
But Dustin was afraid of Zoey eating from it.
Carly nodded solemnly.
The music started playing.
Down to the efforts of Spencer Carter and Lola Martinez, there was one really great band available for the prom ball:
Drake Parker had made it again.
And there had been one particular surprise for Lisa Perkins.
She was invited to sing in Drake’s band.
Too bad the band only consisted of Drake Parker and middle school boy Neil Winchester[neil winchester]
, the auxiliary drummer of the band.
The students had not been able to fire the full band.
Drake’s price was now horribly high already.
Thus Lisa had to stand close to Drake all the time. She started blushing.
Drake was still known as an excellent kisser.
This was sure going to be a hot evening for Lisa.
Drake had chosen Makes Me Happy as the first song of the evening.
This increased the atmosphere at the ball tremendously.
Wendy and Michael loved that tune.
But Wendy’s favourite song would have been Down We Fall[down we fall]
.
Drake and Lisa had reserved that song for later, though. They wanted to sing it in order to make up for havuing hurt Wendy’s and Michaael’s feelings badly during the last years.
“Cal” had finally arrived on the campus. chock full with most carefully chosen ingredients for Quinn’s most advanced experiments.
Quinn smiled.
“Cal” remarked, “should you not be at your prom ball tonight?”
Quinn sighed deeply. She sobbed and reported about her recent bad luck with boys.
“Cal” sighed deeply. “Give me ten minutes, and we may go together to the event.”
Quinn gasped. “Really? You would do that?” She could hardly believe it.
“Cal” nodded solemnly. “Sure!”
Quinn looked at her watch. “OK, ten minutes, no second more or less!”
The freak from “Caltech” nodded and snuck away.
Zoey was shocked.
Quinn and “Cal” appeared in some very futuristical outfit.
Zoey Brooks did not yet know about Cal and asked herself, “where did Quinn get that guy from?”
The music played louder.
Drake’s Highway To Nowhere[highway to nowhere]
Katie Packerman and James Garrett were like floating across the dancing floor. They were envied by everyone.
Especially Zoey was annoyed by Katie’s demeanour, just like all those years.
All of a sudden, the bells rang.
Some students mistook it for a special sound effect.
But there was no such thing.
It must have been an alert bell.
Katie grinned with excessive mischief. She knew very well about the origin of the sound. She had triggered the universal alert by using the Japanese J-phone formerly owned by Logan Reese.
But nobody else knew.
Not even James Garrett had been aware of this while dancing with Katie Packerman. He started to panic and stampede like almost everyone.
Unfortunately, Quinn Pensky was still carrying the bag with her ingredients.
Of course it was impossible to get anywhere in a controlled manner when pushed and stomped all over by the panic-stricken mob.
Her ingredients shattered, burst into smithereens, and provided a real reason for panic.
Stacey Dillsen was strolling the campus. She had decided to skip the prom. Suddenly, she stumbled into Eric Blonowitz.
The latter was a dweeby friend of Drake Parker. He had been testing the accoustics and the illumination of the stage for Drake’s performance. But he had been unwanted . He used to get abused shamelessly by Drake Parker.
Both of them went dizzy from the impact.
Eric sighed. “Sorry. I was watching the stars.”
Stacey liked that do. She grabbed her telescope. “Maybe we can watch them together?” Stacey said, “Look! A meteorite shower!”
Eric nodded. “Yeah, I see it as well!”
They wished to spend the rest of their life watching stars together.
Actually, the meteorite shower was just a very feeble explosion caused by Quinn’s shattered ingredients.
Unfortunately, the panic stricken mob was now out on the campus and rab all over Eric and Stacey.
Now they were seeing stars in a different sense. But at least they did so together.
Wayne Gilbert was now convinced of the begin of the end of the world. “These are the very last signals!” He decided to call Jade West and inform her about the impending dystopia.
Chase had not been injured and was thus one of the few students left back in his dormitory hall after the prom night.
This made Vince Blake’s tasl easier.
There was now a perfect occasion for beating the living daylights out of that traitor in the absence of any witness whatsoever.
Chase slouched across the hall.
Vince suddenly blocked his way. “Chase Bartholoew Matthews!”
Chase shrugged. “What?”
Vince grabbed Chase. “Now it’s time for pay back!”
Chase went pale.
Vince grinned. “Nobody is watching us, except … oh, Lola!” He cackled. “But she can’t stop me at all and will end up like all traitors and their friends.” Too bad for him he was unable to tell Lola from Shelby.
The drama queen would of course not have been able to stop Vince.
But Shelby was of a different category altogether. She had been hired by Addie Singer in order to protect Chase. The martial Latina leapt forward and grabbed Vince’s arms. Then she pinned him to the floor.
The football jock looked excruciatingly dumbfounded.
Shelby grinned. “aw, who thought himself in-vince-able?”
Vince groaned. He had a hard time trying to defend himself.
Shelby remarked, “you are totally out of form, Vince Blake! You need to train harder for the next championships in another life, don’t you? Now say your last words!” She took elan with her right fist.
Vince saw himself already in the next century. He closed his eyes , awaiting the deadly punch.
Instead, Shelby kissed Vince. “Aw, I like tough boys.”
Vince blushed and started melting away.
Chase shrugged, shook his head, and left the building.
Shelby dragged Vince to the gym. “Come on, you can do so much better!”
The football jock moaned.
Doc Hollywood was done nursing Zoey’s and Olivary’s wounds. “It was not that bad.”
Quinn’s bacteria had been harmless.
The rest was only dangerous in certain combinations with stuff found in Quinn’s laboratory.
Zoey sighed deeply. “Crony, have you already got plans for the summer break?”
Crony shook his head.
Zoey asked, “do you want to come with me to Maui?” She was going to work as a life saver at the beach hotel of “Chambrolay”’s.
Crony accepted gladly.
Carly and Dustin were going to Maui as well, working as candy vendors at the same hotel.
Suddenly, an elderly Japanese man appeared in front of Zoey. He introduced himself as Mr. Takato[takato].
Zoey and Crony had never seen him.
Mr. Takato was from the Japanese minority on Hawaii. He owned “Chambrolay”’s and gave Zoey the keys for her apartment. “But don’t forget:” He panted. “I do not exist.”
Olivary smiled. “Cool.”
Zoey looked a bit dumbfounded.
Mr. Takato continued, “you are the real key to your life.” He added, “Katie Packerman will disappear if not believed in.”
Zoey shrugged. “OK? I will figure that with Katie.” But was she already convinced?
Indeed, due to Crony’s fascinating qualities, she would not think any longer about Katie on Maui.
The next fall, Katie and James would not exist any longer in the minds of the students at “Pacific Coast Academy”, ditto for Rusty Dickerson and Karen Franklin.
Having figured all this, the mind of Zoey Brooks was finally free from chains of the past.
The End
[neil winchester] Neil is from Drake & Josh : Megan’s New Teacher.
The surname is from same actor’s flashback cameo in third party owned show Supernatural.
[down we fall] third-party owned song by Drake Parker
[highway to nowhere] third party owned song by Drake Bell
[takato] from Zoey 101 : Chasing Zoey
