Kickin' it old school season 2

We have a flag to capture

We were all sitting around, hanging out inside Phil's, but Eddie and Milton were complaining about the how bad the food was smelling. But Milton told Eddie that, that terrible smell wasn't coming from the food, at least not today, but from Jerry. He said it was his new "cologne" and then he sprayed it at us.

And then we turned and heard obnoxious laughter, at high enough frequencies only dogs might like. Everything was perfect about them, perfectly disgusting that is. They were our rival school and they were taking food to go, for their dogs that is. And then the leader of their group came over and flirted with Jerry, if you can call it that.

They think they're so perfect just because they go to a private school. But in our defense or at least in Jack's we were eating their "dog food". And then Milton and Jerry got to talking about the school district parade and how their parade for their school beat ours. I'm sure it wasn't that bad I said with a sweet little smile, radiating hope.

Believe me it was BAD Milton told me. And then Jack said something about how all that their float was, was the janitor sitting in like one of those grocery shopping cart things, you know the big ones you wheel around. And he had a tube sock on his head. And when they started talking about the float our rivals did Kim said she wasn't sure what had been so great about their shuttle float, but all in sync aside from myself reminded her that it flew.

Well, I'm here now, even though I shouldn't be, and you got me. I'm a very creative thinker, I completely think outside the box. Farrah I love you, but most of the time I'm not sure you even know where the box is. Jack told me. To prove it, I held up a tiny confetti popper and giggled as I pulled the tab and it sprayed at his face. See what I mean? He asked as he took some off of himself and blew it at me. But since Kim was in the line of fire, she had most of it all in her hair.

Ok, we need to have a really creative idea about our float, creative, but still "realistic." Do you hear that? That word there. Re-al.... Is- tic. That's a made up word if I ever heard one. And inside the dojo Eddie came in real proud of himself that he was the head of the float committee, but it was less joyful that he was the only one that wanted the job in the first place.

Rudy said he hated this time of year. I asked him why cause I personally like watching parades. Not that I'd ever seen one, but I like the idea of it. Mom never let me watch T.V. at the house. She barely even let me out of it to begin with. Rudy said it was because at this time of year everyone is reminded by what he did when he was in high school.

He began to tell his story, how he'd been proudly pushing down the float, when our rival high school group hand ganged up on him, and that when it was all over, not only was the float ripped apart, but also our school flag had been stolen. And since then they've had the flag, and because of that Kim had advised Rudy to go get it back, now that he was an adult.

Meanwhile, outside just in time for parade season, on one of the floats the girl that had been crowned pearl of Seaford would ride at the front of the float or whatever after winning the title in some lame beauty pageant. That I'm glad really that I was too young for, at least for now, because I wanted no part in it. And out Kim went to "accidently" bump into the rival leader girl.

Kim pretended that she didn't see her because of the giant clam, and probably also pretended that she wanted no part in wanting to sit in it, but as soon as the clam was insulted the girl got mad at Kim. But when she said Kim was too plain, and not beauty pageant material Kim was pissed. I watched from the inside as it all went down.

Kim? I wondered going outside after her, don't be thinking what I think you're thinking. Look here, of course Kim isn't beauty pageant material, and not because she's plain because she's not but because she could beat out any one of you girls, she doesn't need some stupid little degrading pageant to tell her if she's beautiful or not because she is, and totally beautiful then any one of you, especially you ginger lady. I told her pulling at her hair gently.

It's ok Farrah, thank you for all the compliments, but please stand down I'm gonna beat this chick fair and square, one of us plain Seaford girls WILL be sitting in that clam shell when this is all over. I hope you don't mean me, I want no part in it, if you want to participate in a stupid pointless competition you go for it. Yeah, I was, I was talking about me. We'll see about that. Yes, yes we will. Come on Kim I said dragging her back into the dojo.

Or I tried to, but without letting go of my hand she claimed up onto the shell and we sat down into it. Ginger hair girl couldn't believe we were sitting there, but Kim said she could get used to something like this, and that she felt like a real princess. Over at the school Rudy had gone to try to go looking for the flag.

Making a mess of everything in the office as he did. Those little silver clacking balls going everywhere, blue ink everywhere including his hands, a bust almost got broken. He ran his fingers over the yellow curtains trying to wipe the blue ink off, but it was just making things worse.

He accidently pulled the curtain down, he knocked into the bust and it did end up breaking after all, as he quickly tried to clean up all the pieces, until the head of the school came into his office to see the whole mess, and Rudy recognized him as the same guy that took their flag all those years ago. Rudy was straight with the guy telling him why he had came and it looked like the guy was just gonna out and give it to him.

The guy pulled out a wooden box, and set it down onto the desk, and Rudy watched as he opened it, but instead of pulling out the flag he pulled out a chunk of taffy. He told Rudy he was never getting the flag back and that Seaford High, our high school was now the home of the losers.

At the dojo Kim was in an ugly red dress, as if it came from the 70s or 80s it looked tight, and not in the good way, and it had shoulder pads, and the guys and I watched as Milton went into fashion show mode. Jerry said this year was an important year for the girl who wins because she gets a crown and gets to represent Seaford in England for a month, but Kim didn't care about that, at least that's what she said, but she told us that she just wanted to wipe the grin off of the ginger girls face.

Milton looked her dead in the eye handing her a card, and told her to go to this place and ask for the "Disaster" package. She told Milton she didn't want his or this other lady's help. Buy, once she came to her senses.... She got down from her spot and dragged me along with her. As she stomped off. Once Kim and I had left for this place, both against our will however.... Eddie complained to Jack that he needed a theme that he had no idea what he wanted.

Then Rudy came back into the dojo and Jack asked him how it had gone, and Rudy started telling them all about it. But when he said it was gonna be funny, no one except him was laughing and he was forcing himself to do the laughing part when he really just wanted to break down and cry, bottom line of the story is that he didn't get the flag back.

So, like the idiots that the guys were, it sounded like a smart idea, but would be more easier said then done to go get the flag back from them if they weren't gonna give it back. When they got there they got in by pretending to dress like them. How come Kim, Eddie and Farrah aren't here to help us? Jerry asked Jack. I mean if Farrah were here she'd be in and out in disguise and all get the flag and kick butt in a matter of 10 mins even on her own and come back out victorious.

Because, Kim dragged Farrah along to help her build the float and Eddie is trying to win a beauty pageant. Wait, no, no switch them. He corrected himself. And with a little bit of hard caramel candy they were even beginning to sound just like them. Jack told them to split up to look for the flag and not to draw attention to themselves, but Jerry already was failing at that part.

But then Claire the ginger girls name, she came up to Jerry and told her boyfriend she was dumping him for Jerry. That she knew why he had came, to get something that belonged to him, but he was talking about the flag and she was talking about her, her boyfriend didn't like that Jerry was trying to steal his girl.

Meanwhile, Milton was in the fencing room, and took a sword and a helmet and put it on, claiming he'd always wanted to try this. But because no one could see his face, one of the guys and his group, dressed in proper fencing attire thought he was someone else and wanted to have a rematch with the guy that Milton had been pretending to be. But Milton didn't know the first thing about fencing.

After Milton somehow was able to win his short lived match with the guy his goons ran after him now that they knew who he really had been, and meanwhile again Jack was in the office room looking for the flag there. Everything looked back to normal since the last time Rudy had been in there, but so far all that Jack had found was a ton of boxes of taffy. But no flag in sight.

But when he heard people coming, he did some really cool move over the desk hiding under it, as he listened in on the current convo that was happening. And in the process he found out what they were gonna do with the flag, and what kind of float they were gonna have. But he got caught when they pulled the fake bear skin rug off of him and then he ran away also with the guys own goons chasing after him as well.

And now that all the guys were back together, they ran away together. Had I been there, if I had gotten caught, I would've at least grabbed the taffy even if I didn't like it and chewed it up, and either spit out like gum and hoped that it got stuck on the ground tripping everyone up or gave me a sugar high and I would've tired out all the snobs while they chased after me, and been in and back out now knowing their plan of attack.

Meanwhile, Kim was being called on the makeshift stage to preform her talent of dance. But wasn't doing very well, as Claire had hoped. And in the dojo the guys had came back and told Rudy what their plan had been with the flag, and Jack said he had some kind of solution. Jerry said he had one too, but I'm thinking not a good one like Jack's. But to no ones surprise he had nothing and was just gonna say that that's what he was thinking after Jack gave his idea.

After hearing the idea of the plan that they were gonna take the flag before the parade started, Eddie came in with what he said was our float and that it was called the screaming log of Seaford. Whatever that is. But, it had a latch that looked like some kind of opening and in perfect timing after Milton wondered how we were getting anywhere near the float to get to the flag since they knew what the guys looked like now and would have all hands on deck watching out for them to try and take it.

And now they had a plan on how to get the flag back in secret, and again outside Kim was up against Clair and now they were onto the asking and answering questions and really that whole thing about for the children, and feeding children and ending war and world peace kinds of things that the judges like hearing.

Cause where Claire was just looking out for the wealthy and that she should be the pearl because she's pretty and rich, Kim was gonna represent all kinds of people, Claire might have been pretty on the outside but not on the inside and Kim is beautiful on the inside and outside. And when she thought she'd lost, everyone gave her a standing ovation.

She'd also gotten a perfect 30 score from the judges. And there Kim was in the clam, and she'd invited me to sit with her in it, and the guy in charge had accidently smacked Claire in the face, but I'm sure Claire was glad that, that meant that she'd have a reason to get a nose job if her nose was broken. Eddie rolled our "float" in and we were not bright to ask him a very stupid question that we really didn't want the answer to.

The guys jumped out of the log and went to go get their flag back once and for all. And after some music that goes with our day to day fight scenes and Jack almost falling of the plank Kim tossed him her magic wand, as he fought them back, unfortunately it broke very easily. Jerry was all tangled up in the net, Rudy couldn't fight cause his foot was a sleep and had to go walk it off, Milton was up on the deck fencing with swords with the rival gang, and Kim and I left the clam to go fight with our friends.

In the meantime Eddie was sitting eating a bag of popcorn doing nothing but watching the show in front of him like a movie. And we had about 1 min maybe slightly more before all the parade floats had to start moving out and driving down main street. Now, that Rudy's leg wasn't asleep he was fighting with the headmaster. I myself couldn't believe that even though I wasn't gonna get to see the parade but that I was gonna be in it, and that was even better.

Not to mention of course that we did end up with our flag back in the end. And now that the guy in charge of the pageant was hurt he was driving said clam to the hospital and Kim and I were sticking with our friends on the screaming log "float." It's better with our friends anyways.

But because all the other rival guys were gone we didn't have to ride the log anyways we got to steer their pirate ship down the street in the parade and to victory. And when the parade was over, we sang the fight song all the way back to well wherever it was we were going.