//------------------------------// // Goats On A Boat // Story: "Being the new kid ain't so bad here" // by SolidFerret //------------------------------// Oct. 3rd Notes awoke with a gasp. "Shit..." He muttered out as looked and didn't see his brother in bed. He had yet another dream about being in love, only it wasn't Vinyl. In fact, the dream was a bit... psychical. He ran downstairs a few moments later to find his brother on the couch, watching TV while eating a bowl cereal. The windows showed no light, as an overcast sky gave haze to a lazy Saturday morning. "Come on Dana, your only crime was not banging that guy while he was still alive. just die already." He said before eating another spoonful of cereal. He looked over to see Notes distraught face. "What happened?" He simply asked. "I need to talk to you about something a bit disturbing to me." Notes told him. "Oh boy," Hard Chord rolled his eyes. "What?" "I dreamed about... a girl... last night who wasn't Vinyl." He said. "Wow Notes, thank you for sharing that. Now I can tell Vinyl she doesn't have to reject you now." "Fuck you." Notes growled. "Well there shouldn't be a big fucking deal. Look at yesterday." "That doesn't count. You were part of it too!" Notes nearly yelled. "Calm down... it's not that big of a deal. Yesterday was almost a life lesson in fact... not taught by me...." Oct. 2nd... or just Friday "No... Hard Chord... please don't." *bite* *rip* "Awwww nooooo. I said not to but you did anyways." Notes said quietly, knowing that no matter how loud he was, he wouldn't stop Hard Chord. Everyone who sat at the table looked at him with disgust, except for Twilight who had pure horror in her eyes. "What?" Hard chord asked. "I do this all the time." "That doesn't mean people are gonna react normally to it!" Notes yelled in his face. Hard Chord only did this to freak people out. He ate paper. "I may never allow you at the Library ever again." Twilight told him as she tried to bury her face in her book. Vinyl Scratch found Notes reactions a bit amusing. Blaze Streak had to admit he had seen worse. "I think that if this was The Breakfast Club, you'd be the criminal." Notes told his brother. "and you'd be the virgin." He responded. Notes slammed the locker shut in anticipation for the end of the day. Hard Chord and Blaze Streak stood near him, discussing important matters. "No dude, I don't care what tour they're on." Hard Chord argued. "If they think they fit in with the line-up, I say let em play." "No! They're a Warped tour band. They can't tour with big heavy metal names." Blaze responded. "They need to stay in the demographic." Notes looked over to Spitfire and Vinyl Scratch, whom only the latter was interested in the question. "Gentle men please." Vinyl stepped between the two and put her hands up. "Just enjoy whoever is in the line-up. Please." The two were shocked to have been interrupted by her, but agreed to disagree. "That right there," Notes said quietly as someone walked by, "is why I love her." "Well we got to get to class." Vinyl told the three. "See ya after school." she waved to Notes as they walked off, joining Octavia. "I for one still think that...." Hard chord lost his train of thought as he saw the most hottest woman he had seen. The three looked and all at once their jaw nearly hit the ground. Her brown hair was tied into a pink bow, her pale skin was flawless. She had a wide pair of hips that swayed with every step she took.... .... at the trio of boys. "I know her..." Blaze Streak told us quietly. "Hello again Blaze." She said, sounding a tad unamused to see him. She looked over to the others. "I assume Button is in trouble again." Blaze said under his breath. "Hi there. I'm Milano Mash." She held out her hand, that Notes took almost instantly and shook it. 'They feel so soft.' He thought as he let go. "I'm Electronic Notes." He told her. "Nice to meet you." She smiled and turned to his brother. "And you are?" "I'm his brother, Hard Chord." He introduced himself. Milano smiled at him before looking over to Blaze. "Say, I have some work I need done-" "No." Blaze immediately told her. "Not even if I get pizza?" She asked. "Still no." He told her. "Did someone say pizza?" Notes asked. "Yes, Blaze used to work around my house after he broke one of my windows." She explained. "Ha!' Hard Chord taunted. "I'll do work for pizza." Notes said while he raised his hand. "Ya know what, I'll do it if they come along." Blaze pointed to his friends. "Well sure. Come by my place at six." She turned around and walked off. Notes was speechless, Hard Chord had a smug look on his face and Blaze Streak realized he might have made a huge mistake. "I can't believe I got talked into wasting my Friday doing this." Hard Chord complained. "She said pizza right?" Notes asked Blaze as they walked down the sidewalk. "At times, she would bring pizza. Though her son would eat most of it." "Notes, you're used to not doing anything on Friday night. Why don't you take this one." "Nope." He simply said. "Over there her's house." "Ugh... lets get this over with. I suggest a montage or a jump-cut." Hard Chord said as he knocked on the door. Milano opened the door and smiled. "Come in boys." "Thanks for taking my advice." Hard Chord said as he opened a box of pizza. "Thanks boys. In honesty, I could have done this on my own but I wanted to torture Blaze again." She grinned. "Forget this, I'm out." Blaze said as he grabbed a piece of pizza and walked out. Hard Chord suddenly had a great idea on how to get back at his brother for convincing him to come over. He snuck over to the front door. "Want to freak out my brother?" "Hell yeah. How?" "Easy, step out the door. He'll freak out once he realizes he's alone with Milano." "Like with Vinyl?" "Exactly." He said as he closed the door. Notes heard the door close and looked over and saw his friends missing. 'Oh no. Alone with hot lady. Code red. Code red.' He started to shake a little. "Huh? A good bye would have been nice." She grinned and looked over to Notes, who did a bad job at not showing that he was checking her out when she wasn't looking. "I need to talk to you. Follow me." From outside, the two watched from the window. "What the fuck is she doing?" Hard Chord asked. "That's her room." Blaze told him. The last they saw was he closing the door. Milano turned back to see Notes standing in her room. 'I'm in her room! Code black! Code black!' "So, yo must think this is the part where we do it?" "What!?" Notes yelled. "I'm not a fool." She told him, her tone staying calm. "But I can tell that's what you want. I didn't tell you that Blaze purposely broke my window because he wanted to be closer to me. And after a few kids coming to my house, and some arrests made, I knew how kids were really looking at me." Notes gulped. "But I can tell that you don't want that secretly." She said. "How can you tell?" "When I was walking, I saw you looking at a girl and saying you loved her." Notes knew who she was talking about. "There's someone else, Notes. Isn't there?" Notes nodded. "We're not... together. But you're right." "Well, Notes. You're a nice kid." She got up and put a hand around his head and kissed his forehead. "Now go get her!" She cheered, only to see his bright red face. "Have you never been kissed before?" She asked. "No." He shook his head. "Well that needs to change, now get out of here." She said playfully. As he turned to leave, he told her "Thanks." "Anytime. If you need someone to talk to, I'll be around. Just don't hang around to much my husband might get mad." She joked as Notes left. Outside, Hard Chord and Blaze came running up. "Dude! Did you really just-" "No." "Well, what was that?" Blaze asked. "She knew about Vinyl and me." He told them as they walked home. "Wow, even chicks you try to pick up know about it." Hard Chord said. "Yeah, it was more of a lecture. She was nice still." On the way, Blaze was hoping she didn't tell him about him purposely breaking her window. [Back to Saturday] "So what's the deal? Yesterday you would have been all over a hot mom and now you're worried about girls on your dream that aren't Vinyl?" "It's just that after that talk, why am I not dreaming about Vinyl?" "You're brain is just thinking about other girls. It does that. Mine did it when I got my first girlfriend." "It did?" "Yeah." Hard Chord looked around saw that they were alone. "So who was the lucky lady in you dream?" He teased. "I'll tell you this. There were two." "Damn!" Hard Chord yelled. "Shut up! You'll wake mom and" "Quiet!" A voice yelled upstairs.