Of Scissors And Scooby Doo

Chapter 19

"Hey there, pretty thing."

I turned my head to see a single blue eye peer at me from behind my open locker door and smiled as I took a step back to properly look at Noel. "Good morning."

"Morning," he said and moved to my left side, "How was your weekend?"

"Good. Cat and I had a sleepover."

"Yeah! I saw the new video on The Slap." He laughed to which I joined in.

"Yeah. We tend to go a little crazy together."

"Oh, well it's very entertaining," he said with a shrug before he took a look around the hall. I frowned in confusion when he took a step closer to me, crossed his arms and leaned his shoulder against the locker wall as he leaned his body a little toward me. "So listen, I have an idea."

"Okay..."

He was just about to open his mouth when two loud voices – and I could recognize those voices anywhere – brought both of our heads to snap toward the entry. "I'm going to freaking kill you, Vega!"

"I didn't even do anything! It's not my fault that you're too clumsy for your own good!"

"You knocked my coffee out of my hand because you're too stupid to walk straight!" That's when the doors burst open and in stormed a really angry looking Jade and an equally upset Trina. Jade's eyes dropped to Trina's feet, her eyebrows creasing. "What kind of person would even be so brain-dead to wear those shoes?" I actually couldn't agree more with her. They were ridiculously high, making my sister tower over almost everyone. She already almost fell down the stairs this morning, tripped several times on the way to her car and almost fell over when she got out of the car in the school's parking lot. I was surprised she hadn't broken her neck yet.

"Stylish people," Trina shot back loudly, "Of course you wouldn't know anything about that."

Jade's scowl got deeper as she got ready to retort, probably something very nasty. But then her eyes met mine. Her face relaxed slightly but when her gaze moved to my left seconds later and she noticed Noel, it took on that same look I saw on Friday morning. "Anyway, I'm definitely not going to buy you a new-"

"Yeah, whatever," Jade mumbled dismissively, not even caring that Trina just walked away from her, as her eyes moved back to me. She didn't return the smile I sent her and instead turned her back to get to her locker.

"Okay, this is perfect." I blinked and moved my gaze back towards Noel.

"What?"

"Is she looking right now?"

My eyebrows furrowed as I – not so subtly – looked over to Jade's locker to see her glance at me before she quickly averted her gaze. Turning back to Noel, I lightly nodded my head. "Yeah, why?"

"Don't look at me like that, you have to smile for it to work."

"What? For what to work?"

"Did you know that they have square watermelons in Japan?"

My furrowed eyebrows shot up at his random statement. "Really?"

"Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up in the morning."

"They do?" Wow. I didn't know that. "But what does that have to do with waterme-"

"Some turtles can breathe through their butt."

I laughed softly. "What?"

There was a loud bang across the hall. When I looked up I saw Jade stalking toward me but instead of stopping she walked right past me, but not without sending both Noel and me a glare. I turned to watch her round the corner and heard a loud 'Out of my way!' followed by a small squeak before a frightened brunette rushed past us. "I knew it."