The California Adventure

Chapter 2: Standing up to an arch rivaled classmate

Reedited on 12/12/20

The next day, Nate got up really early in the morning and packed up his backpack with his previous assignments and overdue library books school and made his way to PS 38 alone. He didn't want to be bothered right now. He had to change since he had bad grades in school and attends peer counseling.

So Nate made his way through the school entrance, in the first thing he did was returned his overdue library books (much to Mrs. Hickson's delight), and made his way to his very messy locker. He then proceeded to clean up whatever junk he had in that locker and threw most of the unwanted garbage away and collected whatever homework assignments he had in it.

Soon a little bit of time passed, most of PS 38 classmates begin pouring into the school. But luckily for Nate, the boy was able to ask for extra assignments to redo his homework, much to the confusion from most of his teachers. Nate then made his way to social studies class. There was Mrs. Godfrey, one of his arch rivals, who gave Nate the usual glare. Nate didn't mind this, of course, mainly due to how much Nate really is a bad student.

Nate then approached Randy, who seemed pretty bitter about yesterday.

"Hey," Nate says to Randy.

"Hi," Randy replied back.

"That was something yesterday."

"Sure was."

"Um, Randy?"

"Yeah?"

"...never mind."

"I know you wanna say something, so say it."

"...I didn't have a great day yesterday."

"Why's that, Nate?"

"When I got home from school yesterday, two things occurred. One: I might be moving to California. And two: When I tried to talk to my friends, they didn't listen, so I had to shout at them to listen. Then all of the sudden, Dee Dee starts playing a game called 'I'm not talking to you until you calm down' on me."

"...is that right?"

Nate nodded.

Randy then asked, "Why are moving to California?

"Because there is some company wants to hire my dad there," Nate replies.

"I see. Is there anything I can do?"

"Not really, no. It's a fifty-fifty chance that I might be moving because Dad has one more job interview lined up. If that never succeeds, my next stop will be in California."

"Yikes. I'm... I'm sorry that you have to endure this. I don't mean to be a little off, but does that I get to have Ruby? For myself?"

"...sure. Knock yourself out."

"Thanks," Randy said and hugged Nate. Nate was surprised by this but then later returned the favor. Until a voice suddenly comes in.

"No hugging in school."

Nate and Randy pulled away from each other to the see who it was that spoke to them.

It was Principal Nichols, the school principal. And he was pretty happy, to be honest.

"Though I am pretty happy that you two are finally getting along with each other. So that's something."

"Sure is," Nate replies to the principal, who then walked away to the teacher's lounge.

Nate then turned to Randy then said, "One more thing. If you want to Ruby to love you, at least put the bullying persona behind you, okay?"

"Okay," Randy replied then suddenly looked at the strange object in Nate's pocket.