Log:Sugar and Spice, Scene 6

Sugar and Spice 2006/06/01 	 Alex Caleb Ivy Tara 6

It's night time, afterschool hours.. Haze is sneaking around looking at people's lockers..

Tara enters the school having changed into dry clothing, carrying her camera as always and a bag with the school bookshop logo on it.

Haze is at Becky Martin's locker rummaging through her things...

Tara heads for the lockers to pick up the homework assignments for the weekend.

Haze tries her best to be quiet..

Alex is locking up the drama club room. He starts to walk out towards the hall with the lockers.

Haze frowns. . o O (Damn it! Why are so many people around!) She quickly closes the locker and hazes into the locker...

Alex heads for his locker but spots Tara on the way over. "Hey there."

Haze sneaks away to find a place to change..

Tara turns and smiles at Alex. "Hi!"

It's a strange thing. Caleb doesn't show up in school when it's in session and he's supposed to go. Here he is, suspended, and classes are long since over. Why is he here? No doubt one of the deep mysteries. Or maybe he's just looking for his brother.

Alex chuckles, "I'm used to being the only one about on a Friday night."

Haze looks at herself in the mirror in her locker after she stashes away her Haze costume. She mutters to herself. "That was a close one.. Ivy." After seeing that she's ok, she closes the locker door and heads down the hall, where Alex and Tara are.

Tara grins. "I'm Tara. Started here today so I'm still finding my way around. Where's the lockers for 'K' girls?"

Caleb spots Alex talking to the photographer girl. "Yo bro!"

Haze spots Caleb as he yells out "Yo Joe! I mean.. Bro!" Ivy blanches and quickly makes a U-turn, heading back towards the girls lockers.

Alex waves. "Hey Cale." He says to Tara. "Right over there. I can show you in a sec."

Caleb spots Ivy/Haze and pales a bit himself, though in his case it's harder to tell.

Tara says, "Thanks. New schools are a pain. They all have their own silly ways to do things.""

Ivy goes back to her locker and clanks her head against the locker door. "Idiot.." she mumbles to hersellf.

Caleb looks Tara over, then elbows Alex. "You gonna introduce the new girl, bro?"

Ivy opens her locker and makes sure to conceal everything...

Tara laughs. "He hasn't introduced himself yet."

Alex catches sight of Ivy's quick turn around. o O ( That was weird. ) He shrugs and looks back to Tara. "How's it been so far? I'm Alex. Pleased to meet you. That, is my brother Caleb."

Ivy fails to conceal things as she's panicing. Ivy thinks. o O (Damn it Ivy.. What's wrong with you.)

Caleb chuckles. "Well, that's timing then. Usually Alex meets all the pretty girls before I do... leastwise this time we're tied."

Tara chuckles. "I only started this afternoon. That's not time to get into trouble even for me."

Caleb grins at Tara. "Mm? How long does it take you, usually?"

Alex smirks. "So I don't get it, Cale. You're suspended, but here you are at school, after hours. Is this some kind of rebellion that I'm not understanding?"

Caleb keeps looking over his shoulder nervously at Ivy.

Tara grins at Caleb. "I lasted three months at White Marsh High."

Ivy does some more stuff at her locker. She needs to walk past the group to leave campus without using her abilities.. The girl sighs and slams the locker closed. She walks slowly towards the group trying to not make eye contact and hopefully walk past the group with out any interaction.

Alex greets Ivy warmly as she tries to slink past. "Hey Ivy!"

Caleb says, "Hey, 'lex, you're the psychologist... you tell me." To Tara he adds "Heh. Well, you've trumped me, then... been here longer than that, and all they did was suspend me. Good to meetcha, Tara."" Caleb is carefully not looking at Ivy. He's trying to look casual about it, and failing.

Tara nods. "You too, Caleb. Suspended? Well I know who to ask the way when I get sent to the Principal's Office."

Ivy flinches as Alex greets her. She slowly stops and smiles a nervous smile to Alex. She wonders if caleb has said anything to Alex. "H.. hello Alex.." Ivy avoids saying anything to Caleb or even looking at him.

Caleb laughs, a little nervously. "Yeah... I know the shortcuts."

Ivy smiles to Tara. "Hey Tara.."

Tara gives Ivy as cheerful grin. "Hi, I'm Tara."

Ivy dohs! She nods. "Right.. I overheard Alex saying that.." . o O (Yeah.. that's it.)

Alex says, "You ok, Ivy? What's up?"

Ivy asks Alex. "Um.. Nothing. IS something up, Alex?"

Caleb takes a deep breath. . o O (All right. This is crazy.) He turns to face Ivy. "OK, look... we need to talk. Privately. Right?"

Ivy gulps as Caleb says that to her. "Sure.. Um.. if you think so.."

Alex shrugs. "Nothing out of the ordinary. Except for the fact that this is the most people I've ever seen here on a Friday night."

Ivy says, "haha.. Friday night at school. What beats that? Right Cale?""

Caleb nods. "Um... yeah. Whatever." He walks down the hall and opens a classroom door.

Tara glances at Ivy, then Caleb, then Ivy again. She turns to Alex. "You were going to show me where my locker was."

Ivy follows Caleb. "..."

Tara calls after Ivy and Cakeb. "Ni hitting." Tara calls after Ivy and Cakeb. "No hitting."

Caleb gestures Ivy into the room, turns on the lights, calls out to Tara "Only when asked!", and closes the door

Alex looks aside to Tara. "That was weird, huh? Right." He leads the ways. "You're from Ireland? I love accents. I think I could listen to you read the phone book."

Ivy nods quietly to Tara's advice. She enters the room.

As Alex is talking to Tara.. (Make per roll please?)

Caleb says, "OK. So, you know. And I know. So, now what?"

Tara nods to Alex. "Me Da moved over here when I was seven. Most of my accent's gone. Except when I get angry."

Ivy tells Caleb, "What? So what? I mean.. What is going on Caleb?"

Caleb blinks. . o O (Maybe she doesn't know?)

Ivy asks Caleb. "Are you going to tell Alex? Have you already?" She looks very worried.

Caleb says, "I don't tell him everything."

Alex nods. "What happened over at White Marsh?" Alex paused for a moment to see who's about to come out of the room.

Caleb says, "But I tell him most things."

Tara says, "I burnt down the sports building."

Caleb says, "Should I keep my mouth shut?"

Ivy nods to Caleb. "Please?" She offers her most pitiful look.

Alex winces. "How'd you manage that?"

Tara and Alex see Logan exit the room.

Ivy drops Logan Huntz.

Tara says, "I started a fire in the boy's changing room and.. it got a bit out of control."

Caleb strokes his chin. "So, what's in it for me?"

Ivy blinks. "I.. I'm not that kind of girl.. my past is the past.. I don't want to go back to that.."

Caleb blinks a few times before he figures out what Ivy's talking about. "Jeez! Not what I meant!"

Ivy seems a bit relieved. "Oh.. Um.. Well. I won't tell if you don't tell.. Are you trying to figure out about the robbieries? Maybe we can help each other out."

Alex says, "Hey Logan. Burning the late-evening oil, I see."

Logan nods to Alex. "Hey Alex." He seems a bit mad.

Alex says, "Logan, Tara. Tara? Logan. What's up man?"

Caleb shrugs. He hadn't cared too much about the robberies... but he owes that 20th-century dance-hall throwback a pounding. "Yeah... those ladies and I have some issues to resolve. What happened after I, um, afterwards?"

Tara smiles to Logan and snaps a quick photo. "Hi."

Logan flashes his uber high COM grin at Tara, "Hello Tara. Logan Huntz. Editor of the CHHS Journal."

Ivy sighs. "They got aaway.."

Logan grins. "Tara, You a photographer?"

Tara grins back. and holds up her camera. "Nah, I carry it around as a fashion accessory."

Caleb nods. "OK. So there's the bomb girl, the DDR reject, and the quadruplets. They steal anythin' interesting?"

Alex smirks. "No flies on yuo, Logan. Hey, I'm working on a piece for the journal."

Ivy nods to Caleb. "Um.. You promise you won't tell?"

Caleb says, "I won't tell if you don't. Even better: I won't mention the Hellions, either... or your old line of work. Or should I say lines?"

Logan chuckles at Tara, "We could use a good photographer for the journal. If you are interested, Tara, I can get you working with the Journalism club. We produce the CHHS Journal. A weekly newspaper for the school. It'll look good on your resume." He then answers Alex. "Really? What's that?"

Ivy nods to Caleb. "Its a deal.. Well I heard that Eva was around Darrell's car after the dance.."

Caleb says, "Eva? She... wait. Darrell's car? The one that blew up?"

Tara shrugs to Logan. "I don't know. Let me think about it. My pics are for me. I don't take them for anyone else."

Ivy nods to Caleb. "Yeah. So I got suspicious and started doing some snooping around.."

Caleb says, "Mm? Whadja find?"

Logan nods to Tara, "Ok, you think about it. I'm sure we could work something out. Something you would like."

Alex says, "It's an interview with Ellbeth Wyrd, the author. I'm still working on it though."

Ivy pours out the info to Caleb. "Well.. I snuck into the cheer leader's lockers. Eva's a smoker.. not sure if that goes with the bombing thing. I talked to someone at the bank robbery and Da Bomb has a spanish accent like EVA! Also Philippa's locker has cheer moves that are similar to some of the bank robber's moves. Jinghua's has the songs that Dance Craze has and a brochure to the jewlery store that they robbed. But this could all be coincidence.. Caleb. I can't prove anything. I was going to check out Stephie and Becky's locker too.. But too many people around."

Logan blinks. "Dr. Wyrd? Impressive! I would be happy to put that interview in the journal."

Alex nods. "We'll see how it gets received. Maybe people like it maybe I could find another interview to do."

Logan smiles his million dollar smile. "Maybe Tara can get some pictures for the interview as well."

"That'd be up to her..." Alex looks over to Tara. "Er, to you."

Ivy says, "You can meet a lot of prominent people this way, tara."

Caleb grins. "You snuck in... way cool. Heh. Sounds like the cheerleaders are up to something." He thinks a while. "Hey... have you noticed anythin' odd about Stephie, lately? Like, you know about drugs 'n stuff... like she's got some kinda happydust thing goin' on?"

Tara loses her grin. "Well there's the problem, you see. If I was involved in this publication of yours you'd be expecting to tell me what photos to take. I don't work that way."

Logan tells Tara, "Well We hope to get some photographs that way, But you are free to do whatever you want and submit whatever you like to us as well. You can even write your own captions. THis is just a high school paper. It's not like professional. He shrugs

Ivy nods to Caleb. "I don't know about Stephie.. You saw her.. And Phil at the mall. I don't even know what to think. They might not be involved at all. But Stephie and Jinghua are friends right? Jinghua probably gave her some of her perk."

Caleb says, "Perk?"

Alex smiles to Tara. "That's cool. I can respect that."

Ivy says, "Pep?" Ivy says, "Something like that.." Ivy shrugs. Ivy says, "You know Perky?"

Caleb seems completely baffled.

Ivy eyes Caleb. "Are you ok from that fall." Ivy says, "You asked about Stephie and drugs.. I just think she's getting perky, peppy from all those cheerleaders."

Alex says, "Hey Logan... what photos do you have from the Valentine's dance?"

Caleb says, "Oh, I see. No, I meant _other_ people, around her. Never mind, doesn't matter." Caleb says, "Anyway. Spoze we should join the others."

Logan tells Alex, "Not much. Our photographer got caught in the spores and spend most of the time making out with Shelly. You want to come in and take a look? I'm trying to figure out what pictures to put in the paper."

Tara nods, cooling down. "Okay, I might submit a photo or two. Don't know if you'll find them useful though." She sets her camera to display mode and brings up one of her first shots from the Mall before she started dancing, a pic of Kibin facing off against the gour Teen Spirits. "These are the shots I like to take." She says, and hands the camera to Logan.

Ivy nods to Caleb but then tries to grab his arm before he leaves. "cale?"

Caleb says, "Yeah?"

Logan takes a look. "Very nice Tara! You are very good!"

Alex asks, "Logan, mind if I help myself to a look?"

Ivy blushes and looks down. "Caleb.. When you said you didn't want me that way earlier.. Is it because you don't think I'm attractive? Im not pretty Like stephie, huh?"

Logan smiles to Alex, "Hey come on and look. I could use some people who like to spend Friday nights at school."

Alex starts to look through the photos, pulling them up one at a time on the digital light table. He's flipping through them rapidly, as though he's searching for something.

Logan asks Alex, "What are you looking for?" He tells Tara, "Feel free to look around the Journal Club's room. We got our own dark room and printing press."

Tara leans over Alex's shoulder if nobody objects. She is always happy to look at another photographers work and pick up tips.

Caleb says, "What? Oh, geez. No, no... you're pretty enough... I just meant, I wasn't gonna, you know, threaten... I mean..." he is blushing furiously. "Look, um... well... you, uh, wanna go out some time?""

Ivy sighs. "i dunno. I'm having some trouble with Matt. He might get mad if we go out."

Caleb says, "Oh... you and Matt an item?"

Tara looks over at Logan in astonishment. "Dark room? You mean like stinky chemicals? Wow, that is so uncool."

Ivy shakes her head. "No! We aren't! But its.. its confusing. I think he likes me, but is mad at me for being with Dan because of the spores.."

Caleb wonders who Dan is, but lets it go.

Logan tells Tara. "Um its like antique stuff. The former editor's dad donated all this stuff for us."

Ivy bites her lip. "Im sorry. This is all so confusing for me.." Ivy says, "Im trying to do the right thing."

Caleb says, "I think he's mad at you for dumpin' him on Becky, actually. But, whatever.""

Tara shakes her head in amusement. "Nikon digital is the only way. With Kingley lenses of course."

Ivy nods silently. . o O (He did say he didn't like that..)

Alex responds slowly -- his attention is on the photos. "...I'll let you know when I find it, Logan..." He pauses once he finds the photo. It's a photo of Philippa trying to cover herself after the lovestruck Ed ripped her top. "This one. I'd like to as a favor of you, Logan. Man to man."

Logan blinks. "Wow you have Kingley lenses? Aren't those expensive?" Logan peers down at the picture. He grins. "Oh certainly. Of course. The principal would never let us print that anyways.."

Ivy tells Caleb. "So.. um let's go join the others then?"

Caleb says, "Yeah."

Tara grins. "I'm Tara Kingley. They're my designs. I licence a couple of them in exchange for optical components."

Alex nods. "I want you to delete all copies of it, ok? Would anyone else have it?"

Caleb heads back out into the hall.

Alex says, "Right. K for Kingley."

Caleb joins the others, and spots the picture. "Whooo! Didn't know Phil was into that sorta thing, Alex... nice!"

Logan nods to Alex, "Done. I'll make sure they are all out of the system. Um the photographer. Gary.. might have it.. He's good friends of Nils.. You know him?"

Ivy follows Caleb through the hall to the Journal Club room. "Wow. Poor Phil.."

Logan tells Tara, "Wow.. Tara. An honor to meet you." Logan is certainly impressed. Logan explains to Alex, "Gary might still have um personal copies.."

Alex blurts, "Jesus!" He turns off the display. He levels a finger at Caleb. "It's your fault. I don't want another crack about that picture out of you."

Ivy giggles. "Aw.. Alex, There's not that much showing.."

Tara seems a little embarrassed by the fuss. "Anyone could do it if they set their minds to it. Optical engineer isn't difficult."

Logan grins. "Is that what you want to be? High endeavors, Miss Kingley."

Alex frowns at Ivy. He doesn't seem buoyed by her words.

Caleb might have also noticed a picture of Ivy with a spiky red haired punk on her hoverboard.. Holding each other.. Caleb sighs. "I keep _tellin'_ you, I ain't the one who spilled the damned spores. Anyway... what's the deal? Need to get the pix away from Nils and Gary?"

Alex says, "/I'll/ take care of it."

Ivy asks, "Are you going to beat them up like you did with Bubba?"

Logan goes to sit down and erase those pictures from the datafiles.

Tara says, "Optics is only a stepping stone. I want to be the best photographer ever. An image is worth a thousand words. I want to speak to everyone with my photos, to touch hearts and change lives."

Logan smiles to Tara, "I feel the same way about my stories.. I understand completely."

Alex shakes his head. "No. I'm going to trade Nils the picture of him with his cousin." Alex clicks on the light table again and clicks back a couple of slides to the incriminating one.

Tara flashes Logan a sincere understanding smile.

Ivy laughs. "Oh that's good." Ivy blinks. "Oh there's that picture of me and Dan.. Please don't put that one up either!" Ivy seems very embarassed about it.

Logan grins. "We'll see."

Alex looks over. "Hey Logan, I know I've cracked on you before. But you're a stand-up guy when it counts." He offers his hand to Logan. "I owe you one."

Logan nods to Alex, "No problem. It was a crazy mess. I'm having a hell of a time trying to make sense of it all." Logan shakes Alex's hand.

Tara snaps a photo of the handshake.

Alex smiles to Tara. "The camera never stops blinking, huh?"

Tara nods and smiles. "Never."

Ivy sits down to rest.

Tara stands. "I need to head back home. See you monday, if I don't see you in the city over the weekend."

Logan nods to Tara, "See you around, Tara!"

Ivy waves to Tara, "Laters.

Tara slowly fades from the IC world...

Logan tells Caleb and Alex, "Well I should get this stuff finished before the weekend starts. I'll see you two around." He glances at Ivy. "So you don't want this picture in the paper or yearbook? Im sure we can work something out.. Let's talk about this.. " Caleb and Alex are ushered out as Logan is all alone with Ivy..