《Out With The Old, In With The New》Chapter 33

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The guys, including Caleb since he's chaperoning with Katie, finish getting ready in the living room by finally- after a lot of struggles- tying their ties. They, meaning Caleb and only Caleb, sit around waiting while the rest stand in the line perfectly stiff. Like bodyguards.

Jason: Why do we have to wear these?

Ethan: Because we have to look tough and intimidating!

Matteo: Jacob's got that covered. His looks already scare away ladies. Ain't that right, bro?

Jacob slaps Matteo's head and puts his hands to his sides. Katie comes out and Caleb chokes on his water.

Katie: Are you...good?

Caleb: Y-Yeah!

Caleb coughs a few times to cover his voice crack that fails to go unnoticed by his brothers, since they all snicker.

Katie: Ok, weirdo...Anyway! Enter stunning lady number one!

Jade walks in glaring at Katie before sitting on the couch.

Jade: I hate you for making me wear this. I look like a fool.

Katie: Jacob doesn't think so! Do you Jacob?

Everyone looks at Jacob and Jade tries not to laugh.

Jacob: What's so funny?

Jade: You- You look like you work at Olive Garden! You look ridiculous!

Jacob: YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS!

Jacob covers his mouth and quickly shuffles behind Ethan.

Jade: I told you. Can't I just go in a hoodie or something?

Katie: No. He lied. Enter stunning lady number two!

Sapphire starts walking looking at her phone the whole time, and bumps into Matteo.

Sapphire: You look like a penguin.

Even through the shades, Sapphire can still feel the intimidating glare and backs away slowly to go sit on the couch.

Matteo: Don't think yoh won't get what you have coming.

Sapphire: HE'S GONNA SHOOT ME!

Matteo: No I'm not. I have more dignity than that.

Katie: Settle down. C'mon in dazzling lady number three!

Amethyst walks in and angrily and sits on the couch.

Amethyst: I hope every single good thing in your life goes away!

Katie: Now, why would you wish yourself away? That's not very nice!

Amethyst: Fuck you! I look disgusting! I look p...p...primpy!

Liam: Well, I think-

Amethyst: Can it, zebra man!

Liam: ...Ok.

Katie: Last, but not least, four and five!

Katie walks out and walks back in dragging Pearl and Ruby out behind her.

Katie: Don't be shy, get in here!

Pearl: Let go!

Ruby: Unhand me!

Katie pushes them into the living room and the plop on the couch.

Pearl: It's official. She hates us.

Ruby: I like it, but why the hell can't we just go already? Was this necessary?

Katie: Yes, absolutely. Anyone have any thoughts?

Liam: Yes. One.

Katie: Yeah?

Liam: Why did you do this knowing she won't get very far in those heels to beat any ass!? How am I supposed to fight her!?

Caleb/Katie: You aren't!

Caleb: You're jobs are to guard them.

Ethan: Are we getting-

Caleb: Yes you're getting paid.

Jason: I would've done it for free, but the pay's nice.

Jacob: Same.

Caleb: Well, we wouldn't wanna keep the dance waiting, do we?

Caleb starts pushing all the boys out the door arguing with them all the way to the vans.

Katie: Is there ever a day where you guys DON'T fight?

They all look at each other then look back at Katie.

Everyone: Nope!

Katie just shakes her head as they all start getting into the van.

Ruby: If the dance goes south can we go to that one fancy restaurant by the toy store?

Ethan: I've been there. The parmesan shrimp casserole is all kinds of nasty.

While everyone chats away in the back, Caleb and Katie just sit in the front chill as hell. Well, until Caleb starts pulling his shit. He runs his hand up Katie's leg. He gets a firm grip on her thigh, and smirks when she stiffens.

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They get to school faster than expected, and Caleb gives everyone forty dollars.

Caleb: Whatever you all see here tonight, no you didn't.

Jacob: Right...

Everyone heads into the school and makes their way to the gym while Katie and Caleb trail slower than snail slime.

Ethan: Would you two stop flirting for five minutes and hurry up?

Everyone runs ahead while Katie sulks with a smirking Caleb wrapping his arm around her waist.

Katie: Y'know, one of these days these kids are gonna get beat 'till they have no sense left.

Caleb: You and I both know you're not gonna.

Katie: What makes you so sure?

Caleb: The fact that you've had multiple opportunities to beat, and you haven't.

Katie: Meaning?

Caleb: Heh. Meaning that you want me just as much as I you~!

Katie: In your dreams, Casanova.

Caleb: How did you know you were in my dreams, babe~?

Katie: Drop dead.

Caleb: (Gasp) How could you say something so mean to your boyfriend~?

Katie: Simple.

Katie pushes Caleb away with the tip of her pointer finger and keeps walking to the gym.

Katie: You've got no balls, Sacramento. No balls.

Caleb grumbles and walks after her to the gym. Let's just say things are... low-key dull. Low-key being an understatement. The original theme was supposed to be 'Neon Night', but now everything's...beige.

Liam: WHO DID THIS!? EVERYTHING'S GONE! ALL MY HARD WORK! DEAR GOD! I'M- NO!

Amethyst start a trying to calm him down while everyone goes about their business. Atlas comes over with Marinette and Quinn trailing behind them.

Atlas: We tried not stop them!

Quinn: Yeah, everyone just- They just changed it to what Ashley wanted!

Liam: They even changer the food! WHY THE HELL IS THERE SO MUCH SHIT WITH GLUTEN!?

Marinette: I heard Ashley talking to her dad and...

Liam: Jesus! I can't so anything right!

Pearl: It's not your fault we're hated.

Jade: Yeah. Even when we aren't involved we indirectly find ways to ruin things for people.

Sapphire: (Sigh) Let's just go. I'll be in the lab.

Pearl: Art room.

Jade: Soccer field.

Amethyst: I'll be wherever.

Ruby: Same.

The girls leave as Ashley laughs at the distraught looks on the boy's faces. Jason charges at Ashley hoping to land a punch, but is caught in mid air by a calm looking Ethan.

Ethan: You'll get what you deserve soon enough. C'mon little bro.

Jason: Yeah, you'll get yours!

All the Sacramento boys leave to go find the girls. Jason finds Ruby in the abandoned field by the school running and doing flips in the sprinklers that they never bothered to do anything about. He ditches his jacket and is about not run toward her when he catches a glimpse of something very shiny.

Jason: What...?

He looks closer and sees that it's Ruby's hair. Holy shit. Her hair's gone silver! Jason runs onto the field and grabs her by the shoulders.

Jason: H-Holy shit...

Ruby: Why are you out here!?

Jason: Why is your hair...

Jason looks down and lets her go with a red face and turns around.

Jason: Why are you so...exposed?

Ruby looks down at herself and continues running around through the water.

Ruby: I'm not naked if that's what your worried about.

Jason: You're in your...

Ruby: Bro, my panties?

Jason: Well, yeah!

Ruby: How else am I gonna play in the water?

Jason: I...Good point. Fuck this suit!

Jason takes of the suit and falls back into a forming mud puddle and rolls in it. While Ruby and Jason are being kids, Liam finds Amethyst on the roof laying down.

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Liam: Hey...

Amethyst: Hey. Sorry about your planning.

Liam: (Sigh) It's not your fault. I should've at least has SOME type of back-up plan.

Amethyst: No, everyone else should've just left everything alone.

Liam lays down next to Amethyst and holds hee hand.

Amethyst: Mama always used to say that if you can see your favorite color in the stars, and the wind blows, that you'll have a crazy adventure in life.

Liam: You believe it?

Amethyst: I don't know. I've never seen a purple star before. That's probably why nothing good ever happen to-

She goes quiet when a shower of purple and orange stars fall across the sky.

Liam: Orange...and purple...?

Amethyst: Purple...and orange?

They sit up and look at each other saying nothing. Liam looks back up at the sky and squeezes her hand tighter.

Liam: What do your cosmic wonders tell us about our future this time?

Amethyst: I...don't know...

Liam: We'll be fine. I've got your back. You know that, right?

Amethyst: And I've got yours.

At the same time, Jacob finds Jade beating the soul out of a punching bag hun from a metal standing. He walks up behind her and holds her arm the next time she pulls her arm back for another punch.

Jade: Huh-!?

Jade jumps and then relaxes when she realizes who it is.

Jade: W-What are you...?

Jacob: Your form is off.

He leans in a little closer and shifts her torso a little so her arm is now in a right degree angle.

Jacob: Try it now, freckles.

Jade: Y-Yeah, ok.

Jade punches the bag and it swings further than when she hit it before.

Jade: Whoa! Look! Look! It moved! Further than when I hit it before! It went-

The bag comes back and hits Jade in the stomach knocking both her and Jacob into the grass. They lay facing each other and start laughing. Jacob helps Jade up and they sit up in the grass.

Jade: Punching bag: 1 Jade: 0

Jacob: I mean, at least you hit it right?

Jade: Ok, yeah, there's that. But you're forgetting that part where I got knocked into the grass.

Jacob: You're forgetting the part where I fell too!

They start laughing again when Jacob calms down and places a hand on Jade's face. When Jade stops laughing, she looks at Jacob confused.

Jade: What are you...?

Jacob: Quiet.

Jade: What?

Jacob: Quiet!

Jade: What did I do-?

Jacob kisses her before she even has a chance to be shocked, protest, or have any kind of reaction. He pulls her closer and feels her relax in his arms. In her heart, she know she shouldn't, given everything, but Jade can't bring herself to pull away. But something forces them to. Three pops fill the air and they pull away quickly looking toward the school.

Jade: What...was that?

Jacob: They aren't...

A few more pops fill the silent air, and Jacob and Jade look at each other.

Jade: They are. C'mon!

Jacob grabs Jade's hand and they start running back to the school. They join everyone else in the hallway and start running to the gym.

Jade: Ruru, why are in your damn underwear?

Ruby: I was playing the field!

Jason: Me too! It was fun!

They turn the corner and see Matteo locking the door from the inside. Everyone starts banging on the windows of the doors trying to break them, but they don't even crack. They all get a look inside and see Matteo handing Ethan an M16 that was kept inside the vents.

Sapphire: MATTEO! USE YOUR HEAD DAMMIT!

Matteo: I've never been more in check in my life.

Caleb: How...How did they get...

Caleb falls back and lands on his ass on the floor.

Caleb: How did they get those, Jacob!? I only told you the combination for my gun storage!

Jacob: I...I may have...told them...

Caleb jumps up and pins him to the wall by has collar.

Caleb: YOU WHAT!? DO YOU NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'VE DONE!?

Jacob: I know and I'm sorry!

On the inside, four shots are heard, and four bodies lay motionless on the ground now.

Caleb: Sorry won't change this!

Pearl: STOP IT! E, THINK FOR A MINUTE!

Ethan: I've been thinking for a while. I've made my decision.

He shoots someone in the head and relishes in the screams he gets from everyone.

Ethan: You hear that? It's the sound of justice.

Pearl: It's the sound of murder and fear!

Matteo: DESERVED murder and fear.

Matteo shoots a few guys and watch their girlfriends scramble to stop the bleeding. He laughs. Laughs like there's nothing to worry about.

Katie: You're gonna go to juvie! Juvie than jail! Is that what you want!?

Ethan: If that's what it takes then yeah.

Ethan shoots they guys' girlfriends and laughs when their friends start crying.

Matteo: Awww~ They're crying~

Ethan: It really is a shame isn't it~?

Both: Too bad!

The brothers laugh and shoot more people in the room leaving only half left.

Jade: This is sadistic!

Ethan: And what they did to you wasn't!? Why are we getting reprimanded for doing the right thing!? The student body wouldn't listen.

Ethan shoots the six members of the student body.

Ethan: No teachers!

He shoots the seven teachers in the room.

Ethan: AND THAT FUCKING PRINCIPAL AIN'T WORTH A DAMN THING!

He aims and makes sure to get the principal right between the eyes.

Ethan: AND THE STUPID COUNCILLOR ONLY MADE YOUR LIVES HELL!

Ethan shoots the councillor in the chest.

Matteo: E, pace.

Ethan: Right. Yeah.

Ethan steps to side and sits in a chair to take a few breaths.

Matteo: Like Jason said: You'll get yours!

Jason: This isn't what I meant!

Matteo: But it's what I meant. I meant it good and well.

Matteo takes a pack of cigarettes out of his jacket pocket and sighs.

Matteo: Y'know, it really is worth it to see them look so helpless.

Sapphire: MATTEO SACRAMENTO! DON'T YOU DARE LIGHT THAT CIGARETTE!

Matteo gives Sapphire a fake shocked expression and pulls out his lighter.

Matteo: Oh no! My hand's pulled out the lighter!

Sapphire: Matteo!

He shakes while lighting the lighter.

Matteo: Oh, great heavens! I've lit the lighter!

Sapphire: Fuck you! Don't you dare!

He hold the lighter to the cigarette lighting it.

Matteo: Oh me, oh my! I've lit the cigarette!

He moves the cigarette closer to his lips laughing silently at the glare from Sapphire and the 'Dude, please don't' look from Ethan. Matteo puts the cigarette between his lips, and takes a long puff of it.

Sapphire: YOU SNAKE!

Matteo: I have a snake like little buddy for a reason.

Matteo lets out a hiss and lets the smoke out from his mouth.

Sapphire: I'm gonna kill you!

Matteo: Nuh uh!

Matteo starts shooting more people with the cigarette in his mouth, and only leaves Ashley, Olivia, and Ashley's dad alive.

Ethan: Awww! I wanted to kill some more!

Matteo: You can fish the last three off ya big baby!

Ethan: YES! THANK YOU!

Ethan runs to hug Matteo, but slips in a puddle of blood. Matteo helps him up, and hugs him before sitting in chair continuing to smoke his cigarette.

Amethyst: You're gonna die in juvie!

Both: Worth it!

Liam: You'll be locked up!

Both: We'll have each other!

Katie: Awww.

Caleb: No! No "Awww"! They're gonna have records!

Katie: And just WHAT exactly is wrong with having a record!?

All the Collins girls glare at Caleb, and he just now only realizes whay he's said.

Caleb: I- That's not- I didn't mean it like that! There's nothing wrong with having a record! I mean, there's nothing wrong with having a record because of doing the right thing, yet having the wrong consequences! I mean-

Jason: Give it UP big bro!

Caleb: Shut up! I'm fixing things!

Katie: No, you're not!

Caleb: Huh!?

Liam: The look on his face!

Matteo: Any last words?

Ashley's Dad: Those- Those freaks-

Ethan shoots him in the head laughing at the painful, ear drum bursting scream from Ashley.

Ethan: Ow. Y'know, I really don't like her friend.

He shoots Olivia and enjoys the look of despair on Ashley's face.

Ethan: I love that look.

Matteo: Me too.

They hear foot steps running down the hall, and see everyone step away from the doors.

Matteo: Hurry up, Ethan!

Ethan: I'm out of ammo!

Matteo quickly hands over his gun when the battering ran starts hitting the door.

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