Chapter 5: A Westly Side Story

Yep, it's finaly out! If something happens in the story that makes no sense, it's because i had to upload it today. Why today you ask? It's the 2 year aniversery of when Class of 3000 came out! I rembered because it was the day before I got my braces (There off now). I was typing like crazy and I literally got this in at 11:59! So thanks 4 being patient!

Have you ever gotten that feeling when you're in your school's hallways in the middle of class or when school is out, and absolutely everything is quiet? Where the only sounds are your quiet echoing footsteps and the almost silent sound of the classes you pass by in session? Have you ever enjoyed that? Well than don't EVER go to Westley School of the Performing Arts!

There are explosions in the science hall, stomping feet and blasting radio music in the dance hall, lots of screaming and crying in the drama hall, and the circus tent doesn't even have to be explained (it's a wonder Principal Luna only lost his hearing once). And then there's the music hall. Oh, the music hall. With not only its instruments, but gorillas, people randomly crashing through walls, and peanut oil explosions, it's probably the second noisiest hall in the entire school, next to the circus tent (again, doesn't have to be explained).

But today, Sunny Bridges was going to do something different with his students. He wasn't going to fight villains (unless Lil'D got into trouble again), use magic chalk, or see hobbits. There not even going to use instruments! No, today there were going to see a musical! No, not on Broadway (well, he was going to but the school has low budgets and the school is constantly damaged) but just your regular movie in class. The classic drama of West Side Story.

The seven students came into class that morning more sluggish than usual. It was just another usual Monday. Lil'D and Kim were still kind of distant from each other, even more so than last week.

Don't tell me they're still going at it. Sunny thought She just got his hat a little wet; it's nothing to hold a grudge over!

Well, Sunny was going to solve this fight today. He was sure of it.

"Okay, young people!" Sunny said at his desk with his hands behind his head and his straw hat down, "Today we are going to continue where we left off on the brilliant modern Romeo and Juliet in music that is West Side Story!"

"I thought Principal Luna wouldn't let us watch the rest because of the violence in the gang fighting scene." said Philly Phil.

"I convinced him. And besides we know that wasn't the only reason." He said, glaring at Eddie. The entire class did so as well.

"What?" Eddie asked.

"You know exactly what you did!" yelled Tamika.

"I have no clue what you're talking about."

"Shall we have a short flashback?" asked Kim

"Sure, you can watch that while I set up the projection screen." said Sunny.

Short Flashback (A/N if you've never seen West Side Story, you won't get the joke)

"Tamika! Tamika! Tamika! Say it loud and there's music playing! Say it soft and it's almost like praying!" Eddie sang in a golden jacket on a crate in front of the entire school.

"Boy! You gonna be prayin' for mercy when I get over there!"

End Flashback

"I swear, I thought we were going to going to see a live performance of the fight scene between you two!" said Kam

"I thought it was sweet." said Madison.

"IT MADE ME SICK!" yelled Tamika. "I was going to make him dead like Re-"

"NO!" everyone yelled.

"What?" she asked

"You were about to spoil the movie for us!" yelled Lil'D.

"Well it ain't my fault I seen it three times."

"Well that doesn't mean your have to tell us the ending!" yelled Kam.

"It don't happen in the end. It happens in the figh-"

"STOP!"

"Okay, I've got the DVD ready so let's get this playing while we can!" said Sunny.

The kids immediately dropped there conversation and ran into there seats.

"I'll turn off the lights!" cried Philly Phil, "I'll do it with my new invention-"

"Please don't tell us you re-invented the clapper." said Kam.

"No way! I would never plagiarize someone else's brilliant work! Unless you count the time I tried to recreate Benjamin Franklin's famous kite experiment in a thunder storm, but I just did that for fun."

"You got electrocuted because you forgot the key!" said Lil'D.

"I said I did it for fun, I didn't say it was pleasurable."

Philly Phil pulled out a machine from under his chair that looked almost like a lawnmower without a handle, only with more pumps (God only knows how he got that to school unnoticed).

"Why can't you just flip the switch like normal people?" asked Kim.

"Because this is more fun."

"That's what you said about the kite experiment."

"This doesn't involve 5000 volts!"

"Philly Phil wait, how much electricity does that use?" Sunny asked.

"It's a lawnmower that plugs in, how the heck should I know?"

"I don't think you should plug that in Philly Phil!" Sunny protested.

"Okay, here it goes!" he said, about to plug it in

"Wait stop!"

Philly Phil slammed the plug into the socket and the motor lawnmower began to run like a chainsaw. Shortly after, the lights when out not just in the room, but in the hallways. The music that came out of the dance room that usually filled the halls ceased and there were even louder screams from the Drama Hall.

"Yes! It works!" Philly Phil yelled, punching one fist in the air.

"Your stupid invention didn't do nothin' but blow a fuse!" yelled Tamika.

"How are we going to watch the movie now?" asked Eddie.

"Well, someone is going to have to go down to the basement and put in a new battery. How about Lil'D and Kim."

"WHAT?!" Kim and Lil'D exclaimed simultaneously.

"It's either that or you buy West Side Story on DVD and watch it at home. Your choice."

Kim and Lil'D looked at each other. They both knew what Sunny was trying to do. He thought they were still fighting, so he was going to keep them together and let them talk by sending them to the basement together. If only he knew…

"Fine." They said. Kim and Lil'D knew they couldn't argue with Sunny. At least not without him and the whole class finding out what happened at the dance.

Sunny tossed them a flashlight and they walked towards the door. As they walked out they heard Eddie ask:

"So did you know that your lawn mower would blow a fuse?"

"Of course!" he replied with a snort "It wanted to see how a lawnmower would work with electricity instead of gasoline."

"Why?"

"Why not?"

The halls ere more crowded than ever as Kim and Lil'D walked through the dark halls. Principal Luna was standing on top of the same crate as Eddie was the week before.

"Please, please, calm down students and faculty. I'm sure we can solve this problem and get the lights back on in no time."

It got darker as Lil'D and Kim were walking down the windowless stairway. It felt like a cave as they walked down each step with there flashlight. It would seriously be great for a haunted house.

"So where do you think the fuse box is?" Kim asked.

"It's probably at the bottom of the stairs. Let's keep going."

"Where do you think the janitor is? Maybe he could show us where the fuse box is."

"Is probably already there."

"Oh…"

With out warning, Kim stopped in her tracks, and without warning she asked

"Does Madison know?"

Lil'D stopped and looked back at Kim. "What?"

"You know, the dance?"

"Of course she doesn't know! Are you insane? If I told her can you imagine how she would react? Say goodbye to her happy smiley attitude."

"But it hurts her if we don't tell her either, right?"

"Hey, you know what they say, what she doesn't know won't hurt her."

"How could you be so inconsiderate of other peoples feelings?!"

"What are you saying? You want to tell her what happened? You want me to say that I cheated on her with her best friend and break her heart?!"

"How can you cheat on her if you never dated?"

"We're-" Lil'D paused. He looked away from Kim and said "I was her date to the dance."

There was a long pause. Silence in the darkness for a while. What were they going to do? If they didn't tell Madison it would either eat at them for the rest of there lives or she would find out eventually. And it was obvious that telling her was out of the question. Neither of them wanted to hurt Madison like that.

"Its okay between us though, right?" Kim asked.

"What?"

"We both know nothing happened. It was just an accident, wasn't it?"

"Yeah, defiantly."

"So if she finds out one day, like ten years from now, we'll just tell her it's an accident and we'll just tell the truth, right?"

"Yeah, I guess." Another pause. "Kim?"

"Yeah?"

"Like you said, it was an accident. Nothing changes between us."

"Yeah, totally."

Just then, the lights turned back on in the stairway.

"I guess the janitor got to it after all." Lil'D said turning off his flashlight.

"Yeah, let's go back upstairs and watch the movie."

"Yes! I've been waiting all week for the fight scene!"

Lil'D ran up the stairs two at a time as Kim went slowly one at a time.

Nothing happened. Kim thought. Nothing happened at all and we'll deal with it later, like ten years. But, what are we going to do now?