Chapter Twenty Two: The Name Game

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by Liz

Sailor Pi

Fighting fractions by moonlight
Challenging teachers by daylight
Reading Shakespeare at midnight
She is the one named Sailor Pi

She would never forget a math operation
Or the rules of heat condensation
Pi is the symbol for a new generation
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one named Sailor Pi
She is the one
Sailor Pi!





"Hey Bizzie, shouldn't we be getting our power-ups around now?" Jeffy and Bizzie were in the baseball team's study hall because of the rain. Though Bizzie did not play baseball for obvious reasons, she always came to their study halls to talk to Jeffy and Kenny.

"Jeffy, what are you talking about?" Bizzie idly threw her hot pink softball up in the air.

"You know, power-ups. You're not supposed to STILL be transforming with 'Pi tangent power-- OUCH!" Bizzie stepped on Jeffy's foot.

"You're not supposed to say that in public, Jeff!"

"What's he not supposed to say in public?" Kenny asked curiously as he came over to them.

"If anyone finds out that we have special powers, we're finished, right?"

"Right. Jeff, you really should stop talking about that in public, we don't want people getting curious." Jeffy sighed.

"You guys, I wasn't going to bring this up, but I think you should know that my name is Geoff, not Jeff."

"What's that, Jeff?"

"Kenny, knock it off!" Jeffy cried.

"I'm sorry, Jeff, but sooner or later you're going to--"

"STOP CALLING ME JEFF! MY NAME IS GEOFF!"

"Jeff, that's what he SAID," Bizzie assured him.

"You're doing it too! I told you when I met you that my name is Geoff!!"

"I know, Jeff, that's why I call you Jeff."

"But my name is Geoff!" Kenny and Bizzie exchanged glances. "G-E-O-F-F!"

"'That so?" Kenny asked, "I'm sorry, Gee-off, I never knew that's how you say your name."

"NO!!! MY NAME IS PRONOUNCED 'JEFF' AND IT'S SPELLED GEOFF!" Now the whole baseball team was staring at Jeffy. "I will not stand here and take this oppression!" he exclaimed, trying to make it look like he was arguing something worthy, "I am leaving!" With that, Jeffy stormed out the door.

"Someone's having a bad day," Kenny mumbled.

"Oh, sorry," Bizzie said, "My favorite nail broke today."



Mark and Roger"How do you start a fire when there's nothing to burn and it feels like something's stuck in your flue?" Roger sang as he helped Mark pick up trash for service credit in the cafeteria after school. The two ex-roommates were singing their song about paying rent.

"How can you generate heat," Mark sang in response, "When you can't feel your feet-"

"And they're turning blue?"

"You light up a mean blaze-"

"With posters!"

"And screenplays!"

"How we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, how we gonna pay, last year's rent!"

"I CAN'T STAND THIS!" shouted Arpiana. Mark and Roger looked at her in surprise.

"Arpi, what's wrong?" Roger asked her.

"Do you guys HAVE to sing everywhere you go?"

"But we haven't seen each other in seven months!"

"That's no reason to think that you can go around singing about paying rent. What are you guys auditioning for, 'La Boheme'?"

"Well, actually..."

"I don't care! Come on, Hanni, we're leaving." Hanni looked at her in surprise, but followed her anyway.

"Where are we going, Arpi?"

"We're going to London. I hear there's a performance there today, something about people being evicted because they can't afford to pay rent."

"But that's 20 miles away! We'll have to take the bus."

"All right then, let's go." Since it was Friday after school and they weren't busy, Hanni and Arpi biked to the bus stop. Just then, a mail truck passed by.

"Oh good, the mail's here," Hanni commented.

"NOOOO! Hanni, it's a mail truck! They're after me! I gotta get out of here, I'll see you at the 11th street lot in an hour." With that, Arpiana was gone. Hanni sighed impatiently. She didn't like taking the bus alone, let alone waiting for it.

Hanni"Excuse me, but are you waiting for the bus to London?" asked a man in a black coat wearing dark sunglasses.

"Yes," said Hanni.

"I just saw it at the stop two blocks from here."

"Thanks!" said Hanni, as she started to walk down the street.

"Now, I just have one thing to ask of you," said the man as he grabbed Hanni by the throat. "TELL ME EVERYTHING YOU KNOW ABOUT BIZZIE LIZZIE."

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