Fic: iShall Be
Title:
iShall Be
Artist/Author:
Klaus Schilling
Fandom:
Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh
Pairing:
Zoey Brooks/Stacey Dillsen, Quinn Pensky/Mindy Crenshaw, Lola Martinez/Ashley Blake, Dana Cruz/Shelby Marx, Nicole Bristow/Mandy Valdez
Rating:
PG-13
Disclaimer:
iDont Own Any of the shows, and any other discernable works of art.
Recipient:
A_Wa
Author's Notes:
iShall Be
Klaus Schilling
<schilling.klaus@web.de>
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: iDon't Own any of the shows or any of the other quoted or alluded artworks.
Abstract
Fandoms: Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh
Genre: Fluff, Family, Friends
Summary. Lola struggles with the little sister of her fiancé. Zoey needs a partner for starting her journal about modern arts. Quinn thinks that boys and science don't mix well.
Characters and Pairings: Lola Martinez/Ashley Blake, Quinn Pensky/Mindy Crenshaw, Zoey Brooks/Stacey Dillsen, Shelby Marx/Dana Cruz, Nicole Bristow/Mandy Valdez and many many many more
Timeline: The Story starts following the finale of Zoey 101. It diverges from iCarly after the first season. It is post-series Drake & Josh
The story has been written for the nick_girlslashcommunity of LiveJournal for A_Wa. The prompt is Oh my gosh, the first kiss.
Table of Contents
Senior Year
Lola, Zoey, and Quinn had been accomodated , once again, in 101 Brenner Hall.
After having helped Dustin with his luggage, Zoey made it to her own dorm. "Dustin is mean. After I've helped him with his stuff, he ran off, right to the beach."
Lola chuckled. "I have to help my cousin Shelby. She's now at the Pacific Coast Academy."
"Isn't that the famous kickfighter?" wondered Quinn.
Lola beamed. "Sure! She even defeated Chuck Javers in a martial showdown."
Zoey sighed. "This means that I better not mess with her. Chuck was painful enough."
Quinn chuckled. She had plugged in her laptop, and was about transferring her latest scientific records to her science blog. "The last intelligent remark on my science blog I've ever received was from Paige Howard. And that's almost two years ago."
Zoey shrugged. She didn't care about Quinn's geeky blog.
"So, what about you and Logan?" Lola smiled. "Did you make babies during your vacations?"
Zoey slammed her elbow into Lola's ribs. "Lola! You shouldn't ask that sort of questions."
"But it interests me!" Lola retaliated by biting into Zoey's plush squid.
"Logan had picked up the squid when it dropped off from my back, while I was looking for Dustin's new hall."
Lola spit the squit away, and she was close to throwing up. "Gross! I need medical toothpaste!"
Zoey chuckled. My best white lie ever!
Quinn hadn't even listened, but now she made a comment. "Logan is so incredibly dumb, he can't tell a spider from an insect! I can't date such an idiot!"
Lola choked. This was too much! She vomited on the doorstep. "You're so mean!"
Quinn and Zoey chuckled unison.
"So ... how was your trip to Hawaii with Chase?" asked Quinn.
Zoey sighed. "Horrible. He found the locket that James gave me just before the prom. Now it's all over."
Quinn choked. "Is Chase that stern? That's not fair, he had his Rebecca ..."
Zoey nodded. "He was upset because I haven't told him, not because I had another boyfriend. Even more, Chase is now back in England. Admitted, Dustin had threatened Chase into staying away from me."
Lola was done with her business. "Poor Zoey! Do you want to take James back?"
Zoey shrugged. "I think he has left the PCA for good, too."
Lola sighed bitterly.
"So how was your summer?" asked Zoey.
Lola sighed. "I have tutored my cousin Shelby, and stuff."
"What stuff?" wondered Zoey. "Anything related to Vince?"
Lola moaned. "That was awful. His sister Ashley[ 1] is an actress like me, as you may know. We've been at each other's throat all the time."
"Ashley Blake?" Zoey sighed. "Drake Parker told me that she was such an arrogant diva, but that was four years ago."
"Oh, she still is!" Lola moaned bitterly. "And my worst rival for a new movie. And Vince refuses to stick up for me."
Zoey shook her head. "And so? Sometimes, I have to stick up for Dustin instead of my boyfriends."
Lola pouted because Zoey refused to back her up.
Place. 102 Brenner Hall
People. Stacey Dillsen, Nicole Bristow, Dana Cruz, Zoey Brooks (later), Dustin Brooks (later), Mandy Valdez (later)
Room 102 had been assigned to Stacey Dillsen, and to two girls that had just returned from other schools: Dana Cruz and Nicole Bristow.
Stacey had built a wonderful sculpture, using only cotton swabs and white glue.
Dana scoffed at it, and crushed the model with her feet, making Stacey weep piteously.
Nicole's face froze when she recognised how brute Dana had been. "Ouch!"
"Now get out of my way," commanded Dana in an excessively brash manner.
Zoey must have heard the voices of her former room-mates. She stormed in through the door. "Nicole! Dana!"
Nicole turned around and threw her arms around Zoey, squealing cheerfully. "Zoey!"
Zoey returned Nicole's hug in kind.
Dana glared at Zoey, cold as ice. "Brooks?"
"I'm also glad to see you again," replied Zoey in a somewhat sarcastic way.
Dana shrugged and got back to her luggage.
"How was your school?" wondered Zoey.
Nicole moaned. "Very bad. There were no cute boys. I hate schools without cute boys!"
Zoey sighed. Nicole had not changed at all!
All of a sudden, Dustin jumped in. "Zoey!" He screamed like chased by a pack of furies.
Zoey was worried. "Dustin?"
Dustin hid behind his elder sister.
Nicole's eyes bugged out when she saw that Dustin had been growing a lot.
Dustin whispered: "My new class-mate Mandy Valdez is like mad after me. Please save me!"
Zoey told Dustin not to creep under her skirt.
Dustin trembled with fear. "Where?"
Nicole threw a blanket over Dustin. "But I need it back!"
"OK!" Dustin whinced.
A voice was heard from the floor. "Quack-quack!"
"Shit! She's in the building," moaned Dustin.
Stacey felt totally left out.
Mandy Valdez passed by, wearing a ducky costume. "Quack! Quack!" Apparently, she looked everywhere for Dustin. "Have you seen a boy of thirteen years, with dark blond hair and ..."
Zoey and Nicole shook their heads unison.
Mandy shrugged helplessly.
In that moment, Dana pulled at the blanket, reveiling Dustin.
Mandy pounced upon him. "Oh, there he is!"
Dustin tried to escape throught the window.
Alas, Mandy was faster and caught him. "Hi, my sweetheart! We will marry next week, right?" In the process of catching Dustin. Mandy had destroyed yet another cotton swab model.
Stacey screamed even worse.
Zoey grabbed Mandy's cape. "Leave my brother alone!"
Mandy feigned ignorance.
"Have you seen that girl before," asked Zoey.
Dustin sighed. "Somehow. Do you remember my favourite webshow?"
Zoey shrugged. "The one with the hostess Carlene or similar?"
"Carly!" Dustin blushed when he mentioned that name. "Yeah, iCarly. Mandy was a crazed fan that spoiled a live broadcast."
Zoey shrugged.
"Well, when I saw her in the lounge, I've tried to talk to her, because I recognised her from the show, and , ever since, she's obsessed with me! That's like for half an hour!"
"Quack! Quack!"
Zoey glared grimly at Mandy. "You may talk with Dustin about the show whenever you want, well, not after curfew or so, but don't touch him, or quack at him ever again. You've got me?"
"Quack! Quack!"
Dana kicked Mandy out of her dorm.
"Ouch!" Mandy ran away.
Nicole squealed. "The ducky costume was cute. Soooooo cute!"
"Nicole?" Zoey glared at her former best friend.
Nicole knew to stay silent. Then she walked over to 101 in order to greet Quinn and Lola.
Zoey returned to her room as well. She told Dustin to write a letter to their parents, as he had promised.
Dustin sighed and walked out.
Place. 101 Brenner Hall
People. Zoey Brooks, Lola Martinez, Quinn Pensky, Nicole Bristow, Mandy Valdez (later)
Nicole threw her arms around Lola. "Hi! You've grown a lot!"
Lola grinned. "And you're no longer a little girl, either."
Nicole sighed. "Yeah, but at my girl school, there were no cute boys to appreciate that." Nicole pouted piteously.
Quinn shrugged. "hey! There's an entry on my scientific blogspot!" She beamed. "Section: Relativistic Physics!"
Zoey shrugged. "Who cares? Albert Einstein?"
Nicole beamed. "Yeah! I love Albert Einstein. He's so incredibly cute. Don't you love him too?"
Zoey coughed. "Nicole? Are you ..."Nicole apparently didn't know who Einstein was.
"Tell me that Einstein is really cute, please!" Nicole begged like a puppy. "But who is Albert Einstein? Which dorm is he in?"
Zoey grunted. "Albert Einstein died half a century ago!"
Nicole pouted with disappointment. "Ouch!"
"The remark is from some Melinda Crenshaw, a freshman at Caltech. She writes a lot about black holes and stuff. And she wants to come over and talk with me about black holes!" Quinn smiled ecstatically.
Zoey shrugged. OK, there were some other geek girls out there ... but there was probably a way to avoid them!
Quinn smiled. "Melinda writes that she's going to tutor various pupils in science, right over here. She'll be here pretty often!" Quinn beamed.
Lola was desperate. "Vince has to help Ashley Blake with the cafeteria. Grrrr!"
Zoey shrugged. "Vince has got his sister, and you've got a cousin. Go and help Shelby!"
Lola shrugged. "OK!" She left the building.
Zoey had a lot of thinks to tell Nicole.
Nicole was particularly disappointed by Chase and Zoey having fallen apart from each other.
Suddenly, the quacking noise was heard again.
Mandy stumbled in. She held some bags with strange snacks in her hands. "Hi, look what I've found here: Flätdöödles!"
Zoey and Quinn had never heard about those. They looked at each other.
"Yeah," yelled Nicole, "I love Flätdöödles! Don't you love them do?" She beamed brighly. "But ... what are Flätdöödles?"
Mandy made Nicole grab some of the snacks. "Those are fat-free!"
Nicole stuffed a few of the snacks down her throat. The taste was strange. "Yummy!"
"Quack! Quack! I show you where I've found them!" Mandy beamed.
Zoey sighed with relief when Mandy left again, followed by Nicole.
But it was just the silence preceding a tempest ...
[ 1] cf. Drake & Josh : Little Diva
Martial Showdown
Time. next morning, after breakfast
Place. the lounge of Brenner Hall
People. Shelby Marx, Lola Martinez, Quinn Pensky, Dana Cruz, Nicole Bristow,Stacey Dillsen, Zoey Brooks, assorted anonymous students
Lola, Quinn, and Zoey had entered the lounge where they found Stacey, Dana, and Nicole already waiting.
Zoey was glad because Dana and Nicole had not yet killed each other. Hence she had come right in time in order to avoid mayhem and bloodshed.
Also, Shelby Marx arrived at the same time.
Her dormitory was across the main aisle of the campus.
Lola walked up to her cousin and hugged her with one arm, as they used to do. Then she introduced Shelby unto her friends.
Shelby smiled. "But who is that?" She pointed at Dana. She was probably a girl Lola wasn't yet familiar with.
"I'm Dana!" Dana's voice was brash and cold.
Shelby shrugged. "OK!" She kept smiling.
Zoey nodded. "OK, Shelby, so you are already a professional martial artist?"
Shelby nodded with gleeful pride.
Zoey sighed. "I've once been in the wrestling team, and I had to face Chuck Javers. he wiped me out in 6 seconds."
Quinn corrected Zoey slightly.
Zoey moaned. "And you've really beaten him?"
Shelby nodded. "After some tough fight!" She choked. "Nevertheless, he almost bruised my hips."
Dan shrugged arrogantly. "So what?"
Zoey choked. Why could Dana stay so cool?
"Chuck Javers is a wuss," exclaimed Dana.
Nicole smiled. "Yeah, I knew it!" She jumped up and down, beaming brightly. "What is a wuss?"
Stacey disagreed. "Haven't you seen his arms? His arrrrrrrms! Awwwwww!" She swooned mercilessly.
Zoey chuckled. "A weakling, or something like that."
Nicole pouted. She had hoped for a cute boy.
Dana cackled at Nicole.
Nicole sighed. "I'm going to the cafeteria. Maybe mandy has found some new cute boys for me. Do you know that Mandy came to this school because she's the biggest fan of the band that played at this prom[ 2] ? Those guys better be cute!" She waved.
Zoey sighed with relief. One annoying bimbo less.
"Javers is easy to take, if you know how," affirmed Dana.
Shelby chuckled. "I guess you don't know what you're talking about."
Dana glared grimly. She took her coat off, and flang it powerfully into the corner where Stacey was waiting.
Stacey's breath jammed when she noticed her cotton swab model burst into smithereens upon getting hit athwart by Dana's coat. She started screaming and weeping piteously.
Usually Zoey wasn't a great friend of Stavey, but now she pitied her. She shrugged and walked up to the queen of cotton swabs. "OK, Stacey, I may help you fix it."
Stacey sobbed and kept on weeping with diminished fortitude.
Shelby still didn't want to believe it. Was Dana up to a martial showdown?
Dana rubbed her arm's bulging muscles. "What fighting style?"
"Kung Fu?" Shelby shrugged.
Dana nodded. "OK! The last one to stand wins!"
Shelby agreed. "What are the stakes?"
Dana scratched her chin. "The loser has to kiss someone assigned to her by the winner?"
Shelby agreed on the stakes.
Alas Quinn and Zoey were of a different opinion.
"Physical fights here are strictly against the rules," affirmed Zoey.
Dana and Shelby sighed.
Quinn had got an idea. "Why don't you chop planks, stone plates or so?"
Dana and Shelby looked at each other, and they agreed.
"But not Stacey's cotton swab models," remarked Zoey.
Dana sighed.
Most of the pupils left the lounge.
Zoey stayed with Stacey. "OK, Stacey, you know that I make designs of gowns, shirts or stuff like that. That's sort of an art. You're an artist too, with your many cotton swab sculptures. I'm going to write an article about artists at this school. I've thought about Maria[ 3] and her paintings, your cotton swab models, and my designs of fashion. "
"Really?" Stacey beamed. This was the first time she felt useful for anything.
Zoey nodded. "Thanks, I feel this will be great. The real purpose of this project is to get Harry Joyner[ 4] to visit the Pacific Coast Academy. "
Stacey didn't know Harry Joyner.
Zoey explained that harry was one of the greatest pop artistst of the nation. Alas, she had only heard about him from a web show Dustin watched regularly. "Harry Joyner may even work on something with our help."
Stacey beamed. "Cool!"
Zoey sighed with relief. Stacey wasn't that bad a girl to work with.
Time. same day, right after lunch
Place. in front of the campus fountain
People. Quinn Pensky, Shelby Marx, Dana Cruz, Jeremiah Trottman, Lola Martinez, many anonymous pupils (background)
"PCA Sports Channel," announced Jeremiah Trottman, the reporter of PCA TV. "Today, we're reporting live from a kung fu showdown between two pupils at the PCA. In the red corner: Dana Cruz! She's a senior, but she had been away fro a few years."
Dana glared into the webcam like a block of ice.
"In the blue corner," continued Trottman, "we've got Shelby Marx. She's a freshman, and new at the Pacific Coast Academy. She's a younger cousin to my co-commentator Lola Martinez."
Sheby smiled into the webcam.
Lola squealed with excitement: "Yeah! I'm a co-combinator! Hi people, do you see me? I'm using new makeup for my face. It sparkles all over!"
Trottman choked. Then he approached Shelby. "Do you want to date me tonight?"
Shelby coughed with disgust and flattened Trottman's nose with a punch. "Oops!"
Trottman would never again flirt with a martial artist again.
Lola grinned. "This is a karate contest. The one who cracks more wooden planks with one swipe wins. Easy that is. Three attempts for everyone, right?"
Quinn nodded. "These are the rule we've agreed upon." Then she explained something about the physical and geometric aspects of kung fu, such as angles, momentum, and stuff like that.
Lola announced that Dana had got her first attempt.
Quinn placed three wooden planks, as suggested by Dana, on the table, supported by two brick stones.
Dana released a solid Kiai when her hand slammed into the wooden boards, chopping them neatly into half.
The onlookers applauded.
Shelby started with four planks. Her Kiai was even more impressive. She sent the pieces of wood flying across the campus as if they had been cotton swabs.
Again, the onlookers were impressed.
Then it was time for Shelby's second attempt. This tine, she choose to crack five wooden boards. With some more trouble, she managed to split the logs asunder.
Dana breathed deeply. She stepped ahead, she hurled her palms aloft and swang them down on five planks, striking them slightly aslant. For this reason, she slipped, and the boards, albeit slightly bruised, didn't really break.
Trottman shrugged. "It seems that Shelby is on the victorious path. There's only one chance left for Dana."
The public moaned enigmatically.
Shelby choose six planks. She grinned. Her Kiai bellowed across the campus when her palms smote through the oaken logs like a hot knife through a hunk of butter.
The onlookers applauded frenetically.
"Dana has to chop at least seven planks in her last attempt," explained Trottman. "Is that even possible?"
Quinn talked about some theoretical possibilities, but her idiomatics exceeded the intelligence of the onlookers.
Dana closed her eyes. She had to play at full risk. Better to break all fingers in your hand then lose the contest with shame. Her palms struck like a flesh of lightening.
Splinteres and chopped logs flew loft and rained down on the onlookers.
Trottman had to hide and take cover.
Lola sighed. "So, Dana has won?"
Umpire Quinn Pensky nodded solemnly.
Shelby sighed with despair. Whom was Dana going to make her kiss?
Dana grinned, yet she remained as cold as ice.
Lola asked Dana about the stakes.
"I'm going to tell you tomorrow," announced Dana.
Lola and Shelby sighed with doubts.
"Lola remarked: "Maybe she will make you kiss Logan Reese. He doesn't look that bad, but he's a jerk. They didn't get along too well when before she left this school.""
Shelby shrugged. "Maybe ..."
The onlookers had dispersed, and the two cousins were left all alone.
"Whereas I," stammered Lola, "well, Vince told me that Ashley is soon trying out for a movue where she has to kiss some boy. And she hasn;t done that yet, neither in real life nor on screen. And guess whom Vince has chosen to teach her kissing?"
Shelby coughed and choked with disgust. "You're forced to teach your worst rival kissing?"
Lola nodded with despair. "Vince said, we're going to be one family, so I have to do that if I love him. Admitted, I've kissed many guys on- and off-screen, but instructing Ashley ..." she shuddered with disgust.
Time. same day,time for afternoon classes
Place. laboratory of the PCA
People. Quinn Pensky, Zoey Brooks, Mindy Crenshaw(later), various anonymous pupils (background), Stacey Dillsen(later)
Quinn was anxiously watching out for the new student teacher for laboraty classes. She was waiting in the classroom for the laboratory classes.
Zoey was forced to enroll for the laboratory classes, as she had to skip them when she went to London.
Quinn grinned. "OK, she should be here any time."
Suddenly, Mindy Crenshaw appeared in the door. "Hi?"
Zoey and Quinn were consternated. Wasn't that the girl that had once pirated Zoey's backpack design[ 5] ?
Mindy recognised Zoey. "Oh, you're in my class?" She grinned sadistically.
Quinn waved. "Mindy Crenshaw, I'm Quinn!"
Zoey was upset. How could Quinn want to hang out with such a mean person?
Mindy shook Quinn's hand. "OK, we will see us tomorrow?"
Quinn nodded. "OK, same place? "
Mindy grinned. "Get to your work spots! Today, we are experimenting with acids and bases. Don't forget your protective glasses, and stick to the amounts that you find in this list!" She handed a sheet listing chemicals.
Stacey Dillsen was late. "Sorry, I needed to wait for the glue to dry ..."" She held a cotton swab model of some molecule aloft.
Mindy glared grimly at Stacey. "Go to Ms. Brooks, you dweeb! And your shirt is ugly!"
Zoey was upset because Mindy treated Stacey like dirt.
[ 2] cf. Chasing Zoey
[ 3] cf. Zoey 101 : Quarantine,
[ 4] cf. iCarly : iHeart Arts
[ 5] cf. Backpacks
A Kiss is just a Kiss
Time. yet a day later, after the classes
Place. Ashley's dorm
People. Lola Martinez, Ashley Blake, Vincent Blake (later)
Lola entered Ashely's dorm, filled with disgust. "OK, I didn't volunteer for it." She almost threw up.
Ashley shivered with disgust. "I haven't chosen you, either. Vince just didn't trust anyone else." Ashley shrugged, expressing some arrogance.
Lola sat down next to Ashley. "Have you got some doll in order to demonstrate things? Or do you prefer using a mirror in order to study your postures?"
Ashley took a mirror from her pockets.
Lola sighed. "See, actors have to follow the script. And sometimes, this means doing things you wouldn't want to do in real life, such as kissing incredible dweebs like Chase Matthews." Ashley sure considered Chase, who had shamelessly betrayed Vince, as an incredible dweeb.
Ashley choked. "Would I really have to?"
Lola nodded. "When I needed to learn making out with ugly guys, for the cam, I chose Chase. I've tricked him into dating. He really thought that I had had a crush on him[ 6] . But, a few days later, he appeared distracted. I guess it was because of Zoey, but, whatever, I had to choose other dorks, equally disgusting, for what matters." She shuddered, being close to puking.
Ashley sighed. "Oh, what you suggest is ... tricking some guy into making out with me, just in order to see whether I can get it done?"
LOla nodded solemnly. "For example, Dustin Brooks!" Zoey so deserved having to see how her little pet brother got taken advantage of.
Ashley shrugged. "Good concept, but we eighth grade girls don't think that he's a dweeb. You seniors may see it differently."
Lola understood Ashley's concern. "Hey! Try to make out with me! If you get anywhere, you will never be disgusted again by having to kiss whatever guy for the cam," suggested Lola.
Ashley glared grimly. "Does it have to be?"
Lola shrugged. "I'm not the one who still needs to learn kissing for the cam, and I'm as much disgusted as you are, but you need to get anywhere, otherwise Vince will trash me."
Ashley sighed. "OK, let's get it done!" She leaned in for a fake kiss.
Lola sighed.
An electric shockwave ran through their spines.
Lola sighed. Hey, Ashley was damn good.Too bad she's a girl, and we're bitter rivals.
Ashley sighed with relief. "Thanks, Lola!" She seemed to have lost her arrogance.
Lola sighed. "OK, do you need lessons with the mirror?"
Shley shook her head. "I don't think so. As you have been nice, and I really appreciate learning from you, I have to tell you something. Vince has only abused you in order to get back at Chase. And it was partly my idea," admitted Ashley, filled with shame. "I've taught him to act as if he had become nice."
"What?" Lola was flabbergasted.
Ashley sighed deeply with regret. "I haven't always been a good sister for Vince," confessed Ashley, "my arrogance was probably the reason for him to turn intop a cheater and a bully, so I felt obliged to help him back to the PCA, and to get back at Chase. I've thought him to seduce Zoey instead, though. Obviously, you were easier to get at."
Lola moaned. She was bothered not because she had been abused by Vince, but because she hadn't noticed that he had been acting. A good actress should have noticed. "Seems I may learn from you, too."
Ashley shrugged.
Lola smiled. Maybe she had wasted her time with the wrong Blake? She threw her arms around Ashley. "You're my all-time favourite colleague."
"And vice versa," confessed Ashley, brushing her lips tenderly against Lola's.
Suddenly, Vince stood in the door, and he saw the girls smooching. "Hey!"
Lola and Ashley turned around. "Acting!" They grinned.
Vince shrugged, and then he walked away.
Lola and Ashley knew too well that this hadn't been true. They had turned from worst rivals into one happy couple within a few minutes..
"By the way," admitted Lola, "you're a much better kisser than any boy I've yet met."
Ashley smiled enigmatically.
Place. lounge of Maxwell Hall
People. Dana Cruz, Shelby Marx, Jeremiah Trottman, various pupils (background)
"Jeremiah Trottman, PCA Sports Channel," announced Jeremiah, "we have reported the martial duel between Shelby and Dana. Today, Dana is going to announce whom Shelby has to kiss, akin to the stakes that had been made before th showdown."
Dana grabbed the microphone. "OK, Shelby has to kiss ..."
"Me?" grinned Trottman.
Shelby and dana turned around and punched Trottman hard in the shoulders, making him stagger and keel over.
The onlookers laughed like crazy.
Dana grinned mischievously. "Shelby, you are going to kiss ... me!"
Shelby looked consternated. "What?"
"Do I stutter," wondered Dana, "the stakes were ..."
Shelby sighed. "OK ..." She leant in in order to kiss Dana who threw her arms around her. Hey, that wasn't really bad.
Dana sighed. "Boys are incredible winps and weaklings," she claimed, "It feels so good to hold a tough girl in your arms."
Shelby nodded solemnly. "You're right." She grabbed dana, and she guided her away. "If boys can't handle us tough girls, we better stay among us."
Dana smiled. "Do you know that this was my first kiss?"
Shelby shrugged. "I've never wondered. Well, for me, it was certainly my first real kiss."
"Who needs a wimp, anyways," they yelled unison, glaring at Trottman with disgust. "Girl Power!"
"I shall be the best lover you may imagine," claimed Dana unto Shelby.
Shelby chuckled softly and nodded solemnly.
Place. the laboratory of the PCA
People. Mindy Crenshaw, Quinn Pensky
Quinn showed Mindy through the laboratories.
"You still are mad at me because of the backpacks," wondered Mindy.
Quinn sighed. She didn't mind, if it hadn't been for Zoey. "Erm ..."
Mindy grinned. "She's a good designer, but a bad marketer. So I've sold her other designs."
"Wow," boomed Quinn, "Zoey never noticed it."
Mindy nodded. "I've saved the bucks, and now I just need the number of Zoey's bank accound in order to tranfer her share, like fifty fifty?"
Quinn nodded. "Cool!"
Mindy sighed. "OK, so, you're the only one at this school who is into science?"
Quinn scratchewd her head. "Well,there are a few freaks, such as Wayne Gilbert, better known as Firewrie, but they can't hold a candle. They've never let me into the science club because they were afraid of my mental superiority."
Mindy sighed. "Boys are so mean to intelligent girls. My ex-boyfriend Josh wasn't bad, but he was emotionally weak and depended a lot on his jerkish step-brother Drake, you know, that boneheaded rock star."
Quinn nodded. "Boys ... my ex-boyfriend was such a dumb idiot, rich and beautiful, but devoid of any brain, although his grandpa was a great scholar of chemistry who had started teaching him early[ 7] ."
Mindy nodded. "Boys and science simply don't match."
"So, what are your greatest discoveries," wondered Quinn.
Mindy grinned. "I may clone puppies[ 8] , build the strongest magnets[ 9] , construct phaser cannons that demolish brick walls[ 10] ," boasted Minsy.
Quinn smiled with glee. "I think we may start working straight towards our first Nobel Prize before the age of 25, what do you think?"
Mindy agreed wholeheartedly and threw her arms around Quinn, pecking her temples slightly.
"Awwwwww!" Quinn swooned gleefully.
If boys were such dumbasses, girls needed to stay together.
Zoey grinned when she scrutinised a bunch of pictures that Stacey had taken of her cotton swab constructs. "That's wonderful. I think we may put them right into our report."
Stacey nodded solemnly. "Yeah, my cottopn swabs will be famous."
Zoey wrote a few words about the cotton swab exposition. "OK, you've started with building stuff from swabs at the age of seven?"
Stacey noded. "that was when my sister Susan ..." She stopped talking, as she had already mutilated too many hisses.
Zoey nodded. "Harry Joyner will die from envy when he sees our works. I bet they are better than anything he had built at his age."
Stacey jumped up and down with burning excitement.
Zoey threw her arms around Stacey. "Thanks, we've been a great team." She brushed Stacey's cheeks with her lips.
Stacey swooned. "Awww, your liiips ..." But she loved Zoey not for that, but for her great understanding of arts and esthetics.
PLace. cafeteria
People. Mandy Valdez, Nicole Bristow, many random pupils (background)
Mandy and Nicole kissed each other playfully. They were not giving upon cute boys, they never would, but, as long as they scared them away with their bubbly demeaour, all they were going to have was each other, and they tried to enjoy that as much as possible.
The End
[ 6] cf. Lola Likes Chase
[ 7] Logan's grandpa is alluded to in Zoey's Tutor
[ 8] cf. Drake & Josh : Honor Council
[ 9] cf. Drake & Josh : Mindy is Back
[ 10] cf. Drake & Josh : Mindy Loves Josh
iShall Be
Klaus Schilling
<schilling.klaus@web.de>
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: iDon't Own any of the shows or any of the other quoted or alluded artworks.
Abstract
Fandoms: Zoey 101, iCarly, Drake & Josh
Genre: Fluff, Family, Friends
Summary. Lola struggles with the little sister of her fiancé. Zoey needs a partner for starting her journal about modern arts. Quinn thinks that boys and science don't mix well.
Characters and Pairings: Lola Martinez/Ashley Blake, Quinn Pensky/Mindy Crenshaw, Zoey Brooks/Stacey Dillsen, Shelby Marx/Dana Cruz, Nicole Bristow/Mandy Valdez and many many many more
Timeline: The Story starts following the finale of Zoey 101. It diverges from iCarly after the first season. It is post-series Drake & Josh
The story has been written for the nick_girlslashcommunity of LiveJournal for A_Wa. The prompt is Oh my gosh, the first kiss.
Table of Contents
Senior Year
Lola, Zoey, and Quinn had been accomodated , once again, in 101 Brenner Hall.
After having helped Dustin with his luggage, Zoey made it to her own dorm. "Dustin is mean. After I've helped him with his stuff, he ran off, right to the beach."
Lola chuckled. "I have to help my cousin Shelby. She's now at the Pacific Coast Academy."
"Isn't that the famous kickfighter?" wondered Quinn.
Lola beamed. "Sure! She even defeated Chuck Javers in a martial showdown."
Zoey sighed. "This means that I better not mess with her. Chuck was painful enough."
Quinn chuckled. She had plugged in her laptop, and was about transferring her latest scientific records to her science blog. "The last intelligent remark on my science blog I've ever received was from Paige Howard. And that's almost two years ago."
Zoey shrugged. She didn't care about Quinn's geeky blog.
"So, what about you and Logan?" Lola smiled. "Did you make babies during your vacations?"
Zoey slammed her elbow into Lola's ribs. "Lola! You shouldn't ask that sort of questions."
"But it interests me!" Lola retaliated by biting into Zoey's plush squid.
"Logan had picked up the squid when it dropped off from my back, while I was looking for Dustin's new hall."
Lola spit the squit away, and she was close to throwing up. "Gross! I need medical toothpaste!"
Zoey chuckled. My best white lie ever!
Quinn hadn't even listened, but now she made a comment. "Logan is so incredibly dumb, he can't tell a spider from an insect! I can't date such an idiot!"
Lola choked. This was too much! She vomited on the doorstep. "You're so mean!"
Quinn and Zoey chuckled unison.
"So ... how was your trip to Hawaii with Chase?" asked Quinn.
Zoey sighed. "Horrible. He found the locket that James gave me just before the prom. Now it's all over."
Quinn choked. "Is Chase that stern? That's not fair, he had his Rebecca ..."
Zoey nodded. "He was upset because I haven't told him, not because I had another boyfriend. Even more, Chase is now back in England. Admitted, Dustin had threatened Chase into staying away from me."
Lola was done with her business. "Poor Zoey! Do you want to take James back?"
Zoey shrugged. "I think he has left the PCA for good, too."
Lola sighed bitterly.
"So how was your summer?" asked Zoey.
Lola sighed. "I have tutored my cousin Shelby, and stuff."
"What stuff?" wondered Zoey. "Anything related to Vince?"
Lola moaned. "That was awful. His sister Ashley[ 1] is an actress like me, as you may know. We've been at each other's throat all the time."
"Ashley Blake?" Zoey sighed. "Drake Parker told me that she was such an arrogant diva, but that was four years ago."
"Oh, she still is!" Lola moaned bitterly. "And my worst rival for a new movie. And Vince refuses to stick up for me."
Zoey shook her head. "And so? Sometimes, I have to stick up for Dustin instead of my boyfriends."
Lola pouted because Zoey refused to back her up.
Place. 102 Brenner Hall
People. Stacey Dillsen, Nicole Bristow, Dana Cruz, Zoey Brooks (later), Dustin Brooks (later), Mandy Valdez (later)
Room 102 had been assigned to Stacey Dillsen, and to two girls that had just returned from other schools: Dana Cruz and Nicole Bristow.
Stacey had built a wonderful sculpture, using only cotton swabs and white glue.
Dana scoffed at it, and crushed the model with her feet, making Stacey weep piteously.
Nicole's face froze when she recognised how brute Dana had been. "Ouch!"
"Now get out of my way," commanded Dana in an excessively brash manner.
Zoey must have heard the voices of her former room-mates. She stormed in through the door. "Nicole! Dana!"
Nicole turned around and threw her arms around Zoey, squealing cheerfully. "Zoey!"
Zoey returned Nicole's hug in kind.
Dana glared at Zoey, cold as ice. "Brooks?"
"I'm also glad to see you again," replied Zoey in a somewhat sarcastic way.
Dana shrugged and got back to her luggage.
"How was your school?" wondered Zoey.
Nicole moaned. "Very bad. There were no cute boys. I hate schools without cute boys!"
Zoey sighed. Nicole had not changed at all!
All of a sudden, Dustin jumped in. "Zoey!" He screamed like chased by a pack of furies.
Zoey was worried. "Dustin?"
Dustin hid behind his elder sister.
Nicole's eyes bugged out when she saw that Dustin had been growing a lot.
Dustin whispered: "My new class-mate Mandy Valdez is like mad after me. Please save me!"
Zoey told Dustin not to creep under her skirt.
Dustin trembled with fear. "Where?"
Nicole threw a blanket over Dustin. "But I need it back!"
"OK!" Dustin whinced.
A voice was heard from the floor. "Quack-quack!"
"Shit! She's in the building," moaned Dustin.
Stacey felt totally left out.
Mandy Valdez passed by, wearing a ducky costume. "Quack! Quack!" Apparently, she looked everywhere for Dustin. "Have you seen a boy of thirteen years, with dark blond hair and ..."
Zoey and Nicole shook their heads unison.
Mandy shrugged helplessly.
In that moment, Dana pulled at the blanket, reveiling Dustin.
Mandy pounced upon him. "Oh, there he is!"
Dustin tried to escape throught the window.
Alas, Mandy was faster and caught him. "Hi, my sweetheart! We will marry next week, right?" In the process of catching Dustin. Mandy had destroyed yet another cotton swab model.
Stacey screamed even worse.
Zoey grabbed Mandy's cape. "Leave my brother alone!"
Mandy feigned ignorance.
"Have you seen that girl before," asked Zoey.
Dustin sighed. "Somehow. Do you remember my favourite webshow?"
Zoey shrugged. "The one with the hostess Carlene or similar?"
"Carly!" Dustin blushed when he mentioned that name. "Yeah, iCarly. Mandy was a crazed fan that spoiled a live broadcast."
Zoey shrugged.
"Well, when I saw her in the lounge, I've tried to talk to her, because I recognised her from the show, and , ever since, she's obsessed with me! That's like for half an hour!"
"Quack! Quack!"
Zoey glared grimly at Mandy. "You may talk with Dustin about the show whenever you want, well, not after curfew or so, but don't touch him, or quack at him ever again. You've got me?"
"Quack! Quack!"
Dana kicked Mandy out of her dorm.
"Ouch!" Mandy ran away.
Nicole squealed. "The ducky costume was cute. Soooooo cute!"
"Nicole?" Zoey glared at her former best friend.
Nicole knew to stay silent. Then she walked over to 101 in order to greet Quinn and Lola.
Zoey returned to her room as well. She told Dustin to write a letter to their parents, as he had promised.
Dustin sighed and walked out.
Place. 101 Brenner Hall
People. Zoey Brooks, Lola Martinez, Quinn Pensky, Nicole Bristow, Mandy Valdez (later)
Nicole threw her arms around Lola. "Hi! You've grown a lot!"
Lola grinned. "And you're no longer a little girl, either."
Nicole sighed. "Yeah, but at my girl school, there were no cute boys to appreciate that." Nicole pouted piteously.
Quinn shrugged. "hey! There's an entry on my scientific blogspot!" She beamed. "Section: Relativistic Physics!"
Zoey shrugged. "Who cares? Albert Einstein?"
Nicole beamed. "Yeah! I love Albert Einstein. He's so incredibly cute. Don't you love him too?"
Zoey coughed. "Nicole? Are you ..."Nicole apparently didn't know who Einstein was.
"Tell me that Einstein is really cute, please!" Nicole begged like a puppy. "But who is Albert Einstein? Which dorm is he in?"
Zoey grunted. "Albert Einstein died half a century ago!"
Nicole pouted with disappointment. "Ouch!"
"The remark is from some Melinda Crenshaw, a freshman at Caltech. She writes a lot about black holes and stuff. And she wants to come over and talk with me about black holes!" Quinn smiled ecstatically.
Zoey shrugged. OK, there were some other geek girls out there ... but there was probably a way to avoid them!
Quinn smiled. "Melinda writes that she's going to tutor various pupils in science, right over here. She'll be here pretty often!" Quinn beamed.
Lola was desperate. "Vince has to help Ashley Blake with the cafeteria. Grrrr!"
Zoey shrugged. "Vince has got his sister, and you've got a cousin. Go and help Shelby!"
Lola shrugged. "OK!" She left the building.
Zoey had a lot of thinks to tell Nicole.
Nicole was particularly disappointed by Chase and Zoey having fallen apart from each other.
Suddenly, the quacking noise was heard again.
Mandy stumbled in. She held some bags with strange snacks in her hands. "Hi, look what I've found here: Flätdöödles!"
Zoey and Quinn had never heard about those. They looked at each other.
"Yeah," yelled Nicole, "I love Flätdöödles! Don't you love them do?" She beamed brighly. "But ... what are Flätdöödles?"
Mandy made Nicole grab some of the snacks. "Those are fat-free!"
Nicole stuffed a few of the snacks down her throat. The taste was strange. "Yummy!"
"Quack! Quack! I show you where I've found them!" Mandy beamed.
Zoey sighed with relief when Mandy left again, followed by Nicole.
But it was just the silence preceding a tempest ...
[ 1] cf. Drake & Josh : Little Diva
Martial Showdown
Time. next morning, after breakfast
Place. the lounge of Brenner Hall
People. Shelby Marx, Lola Martinez, Quinn Pensky, Dana Cruz, Nicole Bristow,Stacey Dillsen, Zoey Brooks, assorted anonymous students
Lola, Quinn, and Zoey had entered the lounge where they found Stacey, Dana, and Nicole already waiting.
Zoey was glad because Dana and Nicole had not yet killed each other. Hence she had come right in time in order to avoid mayhem and bloodshed.
Also, Shelby Marx arrived at the same time.
Her dormitory was across the main aisle of the campus.
Lola walked up to her cousin and hugged her with one arm, as they used to do. Then she introduced Shelby unto her friends.
Shelby smiled. "But who is that?" She pointed at Dana. She was probably a girl Lola wasn't yet familiar with.
"I'm Dana!" Dana's voice was brash and cold.
Shelby shrugged. "OK!" She kept smiling.
Zoey nodded. "OK, Shelby, so you are already a professional martial artist?"
Shelby nodded with gleeful pride.
Zoey sighed. "I've once been in the wrestling team, and I had to face Chuck Javers. he wiped me out in 6 seconds."
Quinn corrected Zoey slightly.
Zoey moaned. "And you've really beaten him?"
Shelby nodded. "After some tough fight!" She choked. "Nevertheless, he almost bruised my hips."
Dan shrugged arrogantly. "So what?"
Zoey choked. Why could Dana stay so cool?
"Chuck Javers is a wuss," exclaimed Dana.
Nicole smiled. "Yeah, I knew it!" She jumped up and down, beaming brightly. "What is a wuss?"
Stacey disagreed. "Haven't you seen his arms? His arrrrrrrms! Awwwwww!" She swooned mercilessly.
Zoey chuckled. "A weakling, or something like that."
Nicole pouted. She had hoped for a cute boy.
Dana cackled at Nicole.
Nicole sighed. "I'm going to the cafeteria. Maybe mandy has found some new cute boys for me. Do you know that Mandy came to this school because she's the biggest fan of the band that played at this prom[ 2] ? Those guys better be cute!" She waved.
Zoey sighed with relief. One annoying bimbo less.
"Javers is easy to take, if you know how," affirmed Dana.
Shelby chuckled. "I guess you don't know what you're talking about."
Dana glared grimly. She took her coat off, and flang it powerfully into the corner where Stacey was waiting.
Stacey's breath jammed when she noticed her cotton swab model burst into smithereens upon getting hit athwart by Dana's coat. She started screaming and weeping piteously.
Usually Zoey wasn't a great friend of Stavey, but now she pitied her. She shrugged and walked up to the queen of cotton swabs. "OK, Stacey, I may help you fix it."
Stacey sobbed and kept on weeping with diminished fortitude.
Shelby still didn't want to believe it. Was Dana up to a martial showdown?
Dana rubbed her arm's bulging muscles. "What fighting style?"
"Kung Fu?" Shelby shrugged.
Dana nodded. "OK! The last one to stand wins!"
Shelby agreed. "What are the stakes?"
Dana scratched her chin. "The loser has to kiss someone assigned to her by the winner?"
Shelby agreed on the stakes.
Alas Quinn and Zoey were of a different opinion.
"Physical fights here are strictly against the rules," affirmed Zoey.
Dana and Shelby sighed.
Quinn had got an idea. "Why don't you chop planks, stone plates or so?"
Dana and Shelby looked at each other, and they agreed.
"But not Stacey's cotton swab models," remarked Zoey.
Dana sighed.
Most of the pupils left the lounge.
Zoey stayed with Stacey. "OK, Stacey, you know that I make designs of gowns, shirts or stuff like that. That's sort of an art. You're an artist too, with your many cotton swab sculptures. I'm going to write an article about artists at this school. I've thought about Maria[ 3] and her paintings, your cotton swab models, and my designs of fashion. "
"Really?" Stacey beamed. This was the first time she felt useful for anything.
Zoey nodded. "Thanks, I feel this will be great. The real purpose of this project is to get Harry Joyner[ 4] to visit the Pacific Coast Academy. "
Stacey didn't know Harry Joyner.
Zoey explained that harry was one of the greatest pop artistst of the nation. Alas, she had only heard about him from a web show Dustin watched regularly. "Harry Joyner may even work on something with our help."
Stacey beamed. "Cool!"
Zoey sighed with relief. Stacey wasn't that bad a girl to work with.
Time. same day, right after lunch
Place. in front of the campus fountain
People. Quinn Pensky, Shelby Marx, Dana Cruz, Jeremiah Trottman, Lola Martinez, many anonymous pupils (background)
"PCA Sports Channel," announced Jeremiah Trottman, the reporter of PCA TV. "Today, we're reporting live from a kung fu showdown between two pupils at the PCA. In the red corner: Dana Cruz! She's a senior, but she had been away fro a few years."
Dana glared into the webcam like a block of ice.
"In the blue corner," continued Trottman, "we've got Shelby Marx. She's a freshman, and new at the Pacific Coast Academy. She's a younger cousin to my co-commentator Lola Martinez."
Sheby smiled into the webcam.
Lola squealed with excitement: "Yeah! I'm a co-combinator! Hi people, do you see me? I'm using new makeup for my face. It sparkles all over!"
Trottman choked. Then he approached Shelby. "Do you want to date me tonight?"
Shelby coughed with disgust and flattened Trottman's nose with a punch. "Oops!"
Trottman would never again flirt with a martial artist again.
Lola grinned. "This is a karate contest. The one who cracks more wooden planks with one swipe wins. Easy that is. Three attempts for everyone, right?"
Quinn nodded. "These are the rule we've agreed upon." Then she explained something about the physical and geometric aspects of kung fu, such as angles, momentum, and stuff like that.
Lola announced that Dana had got her first attempt.
Quinn placed three wooden planks, as suggested by Dana, on the table, supported by two brick stones.
Dana released a solid Kiai when her hand slammed into the wooden boards, chopping them neatly into half.
The onlookers applauded.
Shelby started with four planks. Her Kiai was even more impressive. She sent the pieces of wood flying across the campus as if they had been cotton swabs.
Again, the onlookers were impressed.
Then it was time for Shelby's second attempt. This tine, she choose to crack five wooden boards. With some more trouble, she managed to split the logs asunder.
Dana breathed deeply. She stepped ahead, she hurled her palms aloft and swang them down on five planks, striking them slightly aslant. For this reason, she slipped, and the boards, albeit slightly bruised, didn't really break.
Trottman shrugged. "It seems that Shelby is on the victorious path. There's only one chance left for Dana."
The public moaned enigmatically.
Shelby choose six planks. She grinned. Her Kiai bellowed across the campus when her palms smote through the oaken logs like a hot knife through a hunk of butter.
The onlookers applauded frenetically.
"Dana has to chop at least seven planks in her last attempt," explained Trottman. "Is that even possible?"
Quinn talked about some theoretical possibilities, but her idiomatics exceeded the intelligence of the onlookers.
Dana closed her eyes. She had to play at full risk. Better to break all fingers in your hand then lose the contest with shame. Her palms struck like a flesh of lightening.
Splinteres and chopped logs flew loft and rained down on the onlookers.
Trottman had to hide and take cover.
Lola sighed. "So, Dana has won?"
Umpire Quinn Pensky nodded solemnly.
Shelby sighed with despair. Whom was Dana going to make her kiss?
Dana grinned, yet she remained as cold as ice.
Lola asked Dana about the stakes.
"I'm going to tell you tomorrow," announced Dana.
Lola and Shelby sighed with doubts.
"Lola remarked: "Maybe she will make you kiss Logan Reese. He doesn't look that bad, but he's a jerk. They didn't get along too well when before she left this school.""
Shelby shrugged. "Maybe ..."
The onlookers had dispersed, and the two cousins were left all alone.
"Whereas I," stammered Lola, "well, Vince told me that Ashley is soon trying out for a movue where she has to kiss some boy. And she hasn;t done that yet, neither in real life nor on screen. And guess whom Vince has chosen to teach her kissing?"
Shelby coughed and choked with disgust. "You're forced to teach your worst rival kissing?"
Lola nodded with despair. "Vince said, we're going to be one family, so I have to do that if I love him. Admitted, I've kissed many guys on- and off-screen, but instructing Ashley ..." she shuddered with disgust.
Time. same day,time for afternoon classes
Place. laboratory of the PCA
People. Quinn Pensky, Zoey Brooks, Mindy Crenshaw(later), various anonymous pupils (background), Stacey Dillsen(later)
Quinn was anxiously watching out for the new student teacher for laboraty classes. She was waiting in the classroom for the laboratory classes.
Zoey was forced to enroll for the laboratory classes, as she had to skip them when she went to London.
Quinn grinned. "OK, she should be here any time."
Suddenly, Mindy Crenshaw appeared in the door. "Hi?"
Zoey and Quinn were consternated. Wasn't that the girl that had once pirated Zoey's backpack design[ 5] ?
Mindy recognised Zoey. "Oh, you're in my class?" She grinned sadistically.
Quinn waved. "Mindy Crenshaw, I'm Quinn!"
Zoey was upset. How could Quinn want to hang out with such a mean person?
Mindy shook Quinn's hand. "OK, we will see us tomorrow?"
Quinn nodded. "OK, same place? "
Mindy grinned. "Get to your work spots! Today, we are experimenting with acids and bases. Don't forget your protective glasses, and stick to the amounts that you find in this list!" She handed a sheet listing chemicals.
Stacey Dillsen was late. "Sorry, I needed to wait for the glue to dry ..."" She held a cotton swab model of some molecule aloft.
Mindy glared grimly at Stacey. "Go to Ms. Brooks, you dweeb! And your shirt is ugly!"
Zoey was upset because Mindy treated Stacey like dirt.
[ 2] cf. Chasing Zoey
[ 3] cf. Zoey 101 : Quarantine,
[ 4] cf. iCarly : iHeart Arts
[ 5] cf. Backpacks
A Kiss is just a Kiss
Time. yet a day later, after the classes
Place. Ashley's dorm
People. Lola Martinez, Ashley Blake, Vincent Blake (later)
Lola entered Ashely's dorm, filled with disgust. "OK, I didn't volunteer for it." She almost threw up.
Ashley shivered with disgust. "I haven't chosen you, either. Vince just didn't trust anyone else." Ashley shrugged, expressing some arrogance.
Lola sat down next to Ashley. "Have you got some doll in order to demonstrate things? Or do you prefer using a mirror in order to study your postures?"
Ashley took a mirror from her pockets.
Lola sighed. "See, actors have to follow the script. And sometimes, this means doing things you wouldn't want to do in real life, such as kissing incredible dweebs like Chase Matthews." Ashley sure considered Chase, who had shamelessly betrayed Vince, as an incredible dweeb.
Ashley choked. "Would I really have to?"
Lola nodded. "When I needed to learn making out with ugly guys, for the cam, I chose Chase. I've tricked him into dating. He really thought that I had had a crush on him[ 6] . But, a few days later, he appeared distracted. I guess it was because of Zoey, but, whatever, I had to choose other dorks, equally disgusting, for what matters." She shuddered, being close to puking.
Ashley sighed. "Oh, what you suggest is ... tricking some guy into making out with me, just in order to see whether I can get it done?"
LOla nodded solemnly. "For example, Dustin Brooks!" Zoey so deserved having to see how her little pet brother got taken advantage of.
Ashley shrugged. "Good concept, but we eighth grade girls don't think that he's a dweeb. You seniors may see it differently."
Lola understood Ashley's concern. "Hey! Try to make out with me! If you get anywhere, you will never be disgusted again by having to kiss whatever guy for the cam," suggested Lola.
Ashley glared grimly. "Does it have to be?"
Lola shrugged. "I'm not the one who still needs to learn kissing for the cam, and I'm as much disgusted as you are, but you need to get anywhere, otherwise Vince will trash me."
Ashley sighed. "OK, let's get it done!" She leaned in for a fake kiss.
Lola sighed.
An electric shockwave ran through their spines.
Lola sighed. Hey, Ashley was damn good.Too bad she's a girl, and we're bitter rivals.
Ashley sighed with relief. "Thanks, Lola!" She seemed to have lost her arrogance.
Lola sighed. "OK, do you need lessons with the mirror?"
Shley shook her head. "I don't think so. As you have been nice, and I really appreciate learning from you, I have to tell you something. Vince has only abused you in order to get back at Chase. And it was partly my idea," admitted Ashley, filled with shame. "I've taught him to act as if he had become nice."
"What?" Lola was flabbergasted.
Ashley sighed deeply with regret. "I haven't always been a good sister for Vince," confessed Ashley, "my arrogance was probably the reason for him to turn intop a cheater and a bully, so I felt obliged to help him back to the PCA, and to get back at Chase. I've thought him to seduce Zoey instead, though. Obviously, you were easier to get at."
Lola moaned. She was bothered not because she had been abused by Vince, but because she hadn't noticed that he had been acting. A good actress should have noticed. "Seems I may learn from you, too."
Ashley shrugged.
Lola smiled. Maybe she had wasted her time with the wrong Blake? She threw her arms around Ashley. "You're my all-time favourite colleague."
"And vice versa," confessed Ashley, brushing her lips tenderly against Lola's.
Suddenly, Vince stood in the door, and he saw the girls smooching. "Hey!"
Lola and Ashley turned around. "Acting!" They grinned.
Vince shrugged, and then he walked away.
Lola and Ashley knew too well that this hadn't been true. They had turned from worst rivals into one happy couple within a few minutes..
"By the way," admitted Lola, "you're a much better kisser than any boy I've yet met."
Ashley smiled enigmatically.
Place. lounge of Maxwell Hall
People. Dana Cruz, Shelby Marx, Jeremiah Trottman, various pupils (background)
"Jeremiah Trottman, PCA Sports Channel," announced Jeremiah, "we have reported the martial duel between Shelby and Dana. Today, Dana is going to announce whom Shelby has to kiss, akin to the stakes that had been made before th showdown."
Dana grabbed the microphone. "OK, Shelby has to kiss ..."
"Me?" grinned Trottman.
Shelby and dana turned around and punched Trottman hard in the shoulders, making him stagger and keel over.
The onlookers laughed like crazy.
Dana grinned mischievously. "Shelby, you are going to kiss ... me!"
Shelby looked consternated. "What?"
"Do I stutter," wondered Dana, "the stakes were ..."
Shelby sighed. "OK ..." She leant in in order to kiss Dana who threw her arms around her. Hey, that wasn't really bad.
Dana sighed. "Boys are incredible winps and weaklings," she claimed, "It feels so good to hold a tough girl in your arms."
Shelby nodded solemnly. "You're right." She grabbed dana, and she guided her away. "If boys can't handle us tough girls, we better stay among us."
Dana smiled. "Do you know that this was my first kiss?"
Shelby shrugged. "I've never wondered. Well, for me, it was certainly my first real kiss."
"Who needs a wimp, anyways," they yelled unison, glaring at Trottman with disgust. "Girl Power!"
"I shall be the best lover you may imagine," claimed Dana unto Shelby.
Shelby chuckled softly and nodded solemnly.
Place. the laboratory of the PCA
People. Mindy Crenshaw, Quinn Pensky
Quinn showed Mindy through the laboratories.
"You still are mad at me because of the backpacks," wondered Mindy.
Quinn sighed. She didn't mind, if it hadn't been for Zoey. "Erm ..."
Mindy grinned. "She's a good designer, but a bad marketer. So I've sold her other designs."
"Wow," boomed Quinn, "Zoey never noticed it."
Mindy nodded. "I've saved the bucks, and now I just need the number of Zoey's bank accound in order to tranfer her share, like fifty fifty?"
Quinn nodded. "Cool!"
Mindy sighed. "OK, so, you're the only one at this school who is into science?"
Quinn scratchewd her head. "Well,there are a few freaks, such as Wayne Gilbert, better known as Firewrie, but they can't hold a candle. They've never let me into the science club because they were afraid of my mental superiority."
Mindy sighed. "Boys are so mean to intelligent girls. My ex-boyfriend Josh wasn't bad, but he was emotionally weak and depended a lot on his jerkish step-brother Drake, you know, that boneheaded rock star."
Quinn nodded. "Boys ... my ex-boyfriend was such a dumb idiot, rich and beautiful, but devoid of any brain, although his grandpa was a great scholar of chemistry who had started teaching him early[ 7] ."
Mindy nodded. "Boys and science simply don't match."
"So, what are your greatest discoveries," wondered Quinn.
Mindy grinned. "I may clone puppies[ 8] , build the strongest magnets[ 9] , construct phaser cannons that demolish brick walls[ 10] ," boasted Minsy.
Quinn smiled with glee. "I think we may start working straight towards our first Nobel Prize before the age of 25, what do you think?"
Mindy agreed wholeheartedly and threw her arms around Quinn, pecking her temples slightly.
"Awwwwww!" Quinn swooned gleefully.
If boys were such dumbasses, girls needed to stay together.
Zoey grinned when she scrutinised a bunch of pictures that Stacey had taken of her cotton swab constructs. "That's wonderful. I think we may put them right into our report."
Stacey nodded solemnly. "Yeah, my cottopn swabs will be famous."
Zoey wrote a few words about the cotton swab exposition. "OK, you've started with building stuff from swabs at the age of seven?"
Stacey noded. "that was when my sister Susan ..." She stopped talking, as she had already mutilated too many hisses.
Zoey nodded. "Harry Joyner will die from envy when he sees our works. I bet they are better than anything he had built at his age."
Stacey jumped up and down with burning excitement.
Zoey threw her arms around Stacey. "Thanks, we've been a great team." She brushed Stacey's cheeks with her lips.
Stacey swooned. "Awww, your liiips ..." But she loved Zoey not for that, but for her great understanding of arts and esthetics.
PLace. cafeteria
People. Mandy Valdez, Nicole Bristow, many random pupils (background)
Mandy and Nicole kissed each other playfully. They were not giving upon cute boys, they never would, but, as long as they scared them away with their bubbly demeaour, all they were going to have was each other, and they tried to enjoy that as much as possible.
The End
[ 6] cf. Lola Likes Chase
[ 7] Logan's grandpa is alluded to in Zoey's Tutor
[ 8] cf. Drake & Josh : Honor Council
[ 9] cf. Drake & Josh : Mindy is Back
[ 10] cf. Drake & Josh : Mindy Loves Josh