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Zoey had just seen how Chase was going to suck the teeth from Rebecca's stinky mouth. Quinn and Lola had been so wrong. Chase was no longer in love with Zoey, maybe he had never been, all of the silly rumours notwithstanding. He had found a steady girlfriend. Zoey smiled, being all the way happy for Chase. She turned around, stumbling into another girl. Chase's Number Three? Zoey startled. "If you're on your way to Chase ... he's sold out at the moment."

The girl laughed. "Jenifer Mosely[[1]]I'm Chase's step-sister. You may call me Moze. I guess he's making out with Rebecca?"

Zoey nodded solemnly. She hadn't known that Chase's dad had just been married again.

"So you're who?" Jennifer asked curiously.

"I'm Zoey ..." She didn't know how much Chase had told about her unto his step-sister of a few months.

Moze beamed. "The famous Zoey Brooks? Chase had told me so many good things about you. I have been surprised when he denied that you were his girlfriend. Instead he dates that b#### Rebecca. You can't allow that!"

"Why not? Chase and I, we are just friends!" Zoey insisted. "He's free to date anyone he wants to."

Moze sighed. "OK, Zoey, he certainly is allowed to do so, but if you care about Chase as a friend, you can't watch him got rot like this!"

Zoey couldn't deny that she cared a lot about Chase, even as just-a-friend , so she decided to listen to Jenifer's words of warning.

"Rebecca is perversely jealous and evil. I'm sure she'll try to set up Chase against all of his friends, especially against you." Jenifer sighed deeply. "She has already talked him into hating me, telling hilarious lies about me and my mom. She won't spare Chase's dad, either. I believe she's his mother's tool to get back at his dad and his step-mom."

Zoey almost choked. She waved at Moze, and then she returned to her dorm.

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When Zoey came back to her dorm, she stared in dismay. Lola was getting her belongings together. "What's going on?"

Lola sighed. "Quinn has told Mrs. Burvich[[2]] that we always complain about her items and experiments. Now Quinn gets room-mates that don't mind, and we have to switch to 102."

Zoey banged her head against the wall. "Why me?" Then she cared for her own belongings. "That's so not fair, we've been here before."

Lola shrugged. "So, did Chase finally tell you that ..."

Zoey shook her head with all vigour. "No way. Chase has a steady girlfriend that is not me."

Lola went pale. She had known about this since the days when Chase had helped her with a biology test, almost leading to them dating. But she had never told Zoey. "What's her name?" Chase hadn't told Lola. "I hate her!"

"I've also met Chase's step sister, Moze. She hates Rebecca even more. Well, at least she has got a reason for that. But you haven't even met her yet."

"But everyone knows that Chase has to love you. If she's after him, she's an evil ..." Lola boomed.

"Oh yeah?" Zoey wasn't pleased. "You've been going for Chase as well, do I have to remind you?"

"But I've asked you before, and you ..." Lola shrugged.

Zoey almost exploded in anger. She had allowed Lola to date Chase, but she had just been polite. She had always deemed Lola unsuioted for Chase. The both of them didn't match at all. Regardless of whether Chase loved Zoey or not, he deserved, by all means, better than Lola. Alas, Lola wasn't the problem anymore, now it was Rebecca.

Quinn bounded in, followed by two girls. "These are my roomies, Mary Ferry [[3]] and Liza Zemo [[4]]. They are good roomies that don't get scared by this!" Quinn shook the glass container with some icky green stuff in it. "Oh, and Lisa Zemo has just persuaded Mary and me to get contact glasses. I'll go to the eye medic next week. Mark will sure kiss me afterwards."

Zoey and Lola had finally got their belongings together. They avoided talking to each other. They entered 101, but the top bunk which Lola had wanted desperately was already occupied by some girl with a guitar in her arms.

"Hi, I'm Addie Singer [[5]]" the girl introduced herself.

Lola had always wanted the top bunk. Back at home, her little sister had used to ... hey! Lola had forgotten to help her little sister with her luggage! That was going to mean some terror! Now Lola was totally upset at everyone. "Forget it, I'm moving into 103. I hope they have a spare top bunk!"

Zoey shrugged before she introduced herself to Addie. "She's always been a difficult room-mate. I'm happy that I've just got rid of her." Addie's guitar reminded her of Chase's.

From the next room, they heard some girl with a lispy voice whining piteously. Later, they were going to know that her name was Styacey Dillsen.

"I've built this model of a house of my dreams, all of cotton swabs and white glue. And then this guy with bushy hair came along and ..." Stacey shed tears that soaked the new carpet.

Zoey overheard also that Lola's other room-mate was Lisa Perkins, a girl she had seen on the Californian Idol show.

Moze bounded in. "Sorry, is there a free bed for me? Some lunatic diva that I've seen recently in some TV show just kicked me out of 103 because she wants the top bunk. Oh, hi Zoey!"

"Hi Moze, nice to see you again. This is Addie." Zoey shrugged. She didn't really care anymore.

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"Reese, if you don't score your free throws, you're out!" Coach Keller yelled at Logan Reese who failed each throw.

Logan was desparate.

"I may help you," Quinn Pensky offered. "I've learnt that basketball is based on geometry and physics, especially free throws."

Logan laughed heartily at Quinn, the opinion of Michael, Lola, Zoey, and Chase notwithstanding. "No way! Quinn is a spaz!"

Quinn boiled in anger. Already back at elementary school she had been insulted rudely, and Logan Reese took it to the top.

Suddenly an obscure ten-year old boy showed up behind Logan, booming in anger. "You shouldn't have said that to Quinn, Reese! You are going to rue the day, until the times of dystopia are you going to rue it!"

"Ha, who's that gnome that tries to curse me?" Logan laughed arrogantly.

"Nevel![[6]]" Quinn shrieked. "My half-brother ... excuse me for a moment ..." she whispered into Zoey's ear.

Zoey shrugged. She had often enough felt the urge to curse that jerk, but that just wasn't the style of a Miss Perfect.

"Quinn has got a half-brother?" Michael wondered.

"She doesn't want to talk about it, but yeah ..." Zoey shrugged helplessly.

"Oh, do you already know my little brother, Harper?"[[7]] he asked Zoey.

Zoey shook her head.

Quinn whispered to Nevel "You're basically right, Logan is a jerk and a pervert of the worst sort, but you have to be more subtle. Just cursing him in the public won't help you a lot."

"OK," Nevel sighed. "but he will rue it! I'll ask my room-mate Tyler [[8]] to help me. He's great at conning dumb people."

Quinn nodded. "OK, but be careful!" She kissed Nevel on the top of his head and sent him off, secure in the knowledge that Logan was going to rue the day. And she knew that she better left it all to Nevel and his friend Tyler.

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"What in hell is dystopia?" Logan asked Michael and Chase.

"I know it!" Michael boasted. "It's a misplaced inner organ"

"That dwarf called me a slipped kidney or liver?" Logan whimpered in disgust while he tried to hit the waste paper basket with his basket ball, failing miserably.

Chase had a different idea. "Haven't you paid attention when Mr.Callahan [[9]] talked about Aldous Huxley's Brave New World in our literature classes?"

"Oh yeah, now that you say it ..." Michael remembered joyfully. "It's a mix of apocalyptics and utopia"

"I still don't understand" Logan shrugged. "Whatever, I will be a model or an athlet, and then it won't matter whether I paid attention in any stupid class or not."

"Model maybe," Chase added. "but unless you learn to score with your free throws ..."

"Do you always have to pick on that?" Logan cried.

Chase shrugged. "Maybe you should listen to Quinn and ..."

"No way! Not after that amoeba has cursed me!"

Michael had to talk to Chase about Rebecca. "How could you do that?"

Chase shrugged. "See, Zoey would be my girlfriend for a year or two, and then I'd forget about her. But I prefer her to be a good friend forever, like you. I mean, you are the best, but Zoey is close to that."

Michael smiled. "This sounds like a wise decision! Oh, have you heard from Toon Juice? Not that I expect too much from them, but ..."

Chase twitched. "Aw, I've forgotten ... they've accepted our cartoons!"

Michael cheered and bounced. "Does Rebecca already know about it?"

Dustin bounded in, followed by some girl. "Hi Chase! This is Lola's little sister, Juana Evangelista Maria Luisa Teresa Camacho y Martinez."

Chase choked when he heard that long name. Why did Latinos make things so complicated?

"Don't tell Lola and Zoey that we're friends. They are now at each other's throat, and it's all your fault, so ..." Dustin ducks.

Chase shrugged. "No problem!"

Juanita saw Michael's flute. "May you play something? I love singing operas and stuff." For a few moments, she displayed her soprano voice, hurting Logan's ears.

Michael picked his flute, playing a few notes from George Gershwin's jazz opera Blue Monday[[10]].

In this moment, Rebecca bounded in. She had wanted to tell Zoey that she should cease talking with Chase. Alas, she saw Zoey talking to Moze, from which she concluded that the two of them were plotting against Rebecca. This increased Rebecca's anger endlessly."Don't ever talk to Zoey again! Never again!"

"I talk to whom I want, whenever I want!" Chase declared.

Rebecca took Michaels flute, violently and against his will, and then she swang it at the head of Chase. Fortunately, the bushy hair reduced the force of the blow severely. Then she ran away while everyone else was shocked.

Chase gurgled and slumped down to the ground.

Michael called Zoey on the cell phone, complaining about his scratched flute.

Zoy appeared, followed by Moze. "What has that evil beast done to you?"She nursed Chase's head.

"Basically, I've said that I'm not her slave." Chase sighed. "I should have listened to Moze."

Zoey and Chase declared that they were still best friends, and they declared that their friendship should never suffer from Zoey's boyfriends or Chase's girlfriends.

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[[1] ]from Ned's Declassified SSG

[[2] ]Back At The PCA

[[3] ]from Unfabulous

[[4] ]from Ned's Declassified SSG

[[5] ]from Unfabulous

[[6] ]from iCarly Show

[[7] ]from iCarly Show : iCarly Saves TV

[[8] ]from Drake & Josh : I love Sushi

[[9] ]Zoey's English teacher according to Webcam

[[10] ]which I don't own. Among other things, the opera features a fatally jealous woman