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𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒏𝒆. ( 𝒌𝒂𝒏𝒈-𝒂-𝒓𝒐𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚 )
THERE MELODY SILVA and joey rooney stood, at melody's locker while joey was poking fun at melody for tripping on her shoelaces at his doorstep that morning before they walked to school together. technically, they could've just gotten a ride from melody's parents, but they preferred to walk. it just gave them more time to talk. melody had just shut her locker and was about to poke fun at joey herself, when she suddenly realized he was no longer paying any attention to her. instead, he was looking across the hall to his sister maddie, and a girl she hadn't seen before. "helloo?? earth to joey?" melody snapped her fingers, "what.. what are you looking at, dude?" she snickered, "the girl maddie's talking to.." he mumbled, now making his way toward maddie, giggling now that the girl was gone. "who was that ?" he grinned, watching her as she walked away, "that was skyler. she's new." maddie answered. "new? new as in she has no idea who i am and doesn't know me as the stink ninja?" his eyes lit up and melody burst out laughing, "im sorry but that.. that never gets old." she snorted as maddie snickered at melody's amusement, "anyway, yeah.. you should go talk to her." "no can do.. when i talk to girls i tend to.." he thought for a moment "how should i say this? fail!" he nodded, "joey, i'm sure it's not that bad." maddie rolled her eyes, "no it is.. it's bad. really.. really bad." melody emphasized as joey pointed in agreement, "here." maddie stopped a girl walking past them, "talk to her." "oh god.. brace yourself." melody muttered under her breath. "hey girl, if you were a laser, you'd be set on stunning." joey deepened his voice, "oh god." melody covered her face in embarrassment for the girl. the girl quickly walked away, only leaving maddie to say, "wow. you were not kidding." "hm, yeah. but do not worry. i plan on blossoming my sophomore year.. of college." he smiled sarcastically, as melody just shook her head and walked to her first period class.
that night, joey and melody were at the rooney household, originally planning to watch movies together when suddenly, they heard a knock at the door. joey opened it, and it was diggie. great! just what melody wanted, for her night with joey to be interrupted by maddie's boyfriend. melody expected him to go find maddie as soon as possible but no he stayed right there. for joey. the two ended up just playing video games while melody just sat there, bored and eating popcorn. "wow, you're.. you're really good at 'tongue of the phantom'." diggie leaned toward joey, "y'know, playing video games actually requires more skill than.. um talking to girls." there it was, melody realized, that was the reason diggie just appeared for no reason. maddie wanted him to talk to joey about talking to skyler.. or rather, just girls in general. but, oblivious as usual, joey just responded with, "diggie, if you came for me to teach you how to talk to girls, i think you're gonna be disappointed." "uh dude to bro, maddie wants me to help you with your chick chat. but its not that hard, you just gotta practice your jump shot if you wanna make it to the big leagues y'know." diggie continued, "yeah like joey is gonna understand what you just said, like it isn't in sports talk." she scoffed, "oh yeah, you're here." diggie brushed her off, "wow, rude." she rolled her eyes, "sorry.." diggie muttered, "anyway, yeah mel's right. i dont really do sports talk." he paused the game and put his controller and headpiece down, "if you could put that in like a.. zombie related or dragon slaying metaphor.." he smiled awkwardly, "he speaks checkers too if that helps." melody added as she fished out a handful of popcorn from the bowl. "okay.." diggie cleared his throat as melody moved her legs so the two could sit down. "zombies have taken over the world. there are two humans left on earth. you and a really cute girl named skyler. the whole future of humanity depends on you hitting it off with her. so what are you gonna say?" diggie changed his metaphor, "oh, eat skyler first!!" joey screamed, "are you.. stupid?" melody mumbled, smacking the back of joeys head. "okay.. lets try a different approach. um.. scream fest is this weekend! what you need is a great costume thats a conversation starter." diggies eyes lit up, "okay, yeah, no. i was thinking of going as stav. the android from my self published graphic novel, 'android in da house'" joey grinned, "oh my god.." melody sighed, "check it," joey was about to start doing.. who knows what but melody pulled him back down, "nope. please don't ever do that."
