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Geometry and Physics

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Mr. Beringer was upset when all his pupils slept through the physics lessons. He had been talking about potential and kinetic energy for half an hour, apparently for naught.

Cookie stood up. "Sir! I've got an idea ..."

Mr. Beringer wondered what Cookie had to suggest.

"We should go to a roller coaster! It rests exclusively on the laws of geometry and physics, potential and kinetic energy!" Cookie boomed.

"And a ride on it would be even better!" James suggested.

Mr. Beringer nodded. "OK ... the spine twister on Mystic Mountain should do it!"

Michael Barret was flabbergasted. He had never made it to a rollercoaster because he was terribly afraid of it.

Alas, the rest of the class cheered emphatically, not noticing Michael's fears.

Lola didn't pay attention to the classes. She was happy about a pending field trip, no matter what. She read the Buzz journal which she had hidden under her table. Now she turned around to Addie and asked: "Do you think that a goose would be a cool pet?"

Addie Singer shrugged helplessly. "No idea, I prefer my dog Nancy, in any case."

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"You are afraid of rollercoasters? So what? I'm afraid of raccoons ...[[97]] " Chase remarked unto Michael.

Michael screamed. "That's nothing!"

Chase shrugged helplessly. Michael was a hopeless case.

"Let's make a toon of it!" Chase commanded.

Michael screamed. "Noooooooo!" He grabbed his flute and his clackers and ran away.

"Michael!" Chase yelled after his friend, but it was too late. "Oh my god! First his depression because of Logan's departure, and now the rollercoaster ... ok, he needs to talk to Mr. Beringer about it, so he gets a pass for that day ... and won't fail in science, and they won't let him graduate. And then his grammie will be very sad ...!" Chase looked around. "To whom am I talking anyways?" Chase took his cellular phone and called Michael's grandmother. "Chase Matthews, Michael's room comrade, if you remember ... so far, Michael is fine, but there will be a field trip to a roller coaster ... yeah, I know that he's afraid of it ... oh, thanks for the information!" Chase sighed. Michael had apparently been involved in an accident with a mini rollercoaster when he was very small. And his ex-girlfriend Karen Franklin [[98]] had taunted him mercilessly with that. But how was this going to help Michael now?

Michael clackered all the way across the campus. He stumbled into Nicole.

"Hi Michael!" Nicole squealed like the furious bimbo girl that she was. "Isn't it great that we're going on a field trip to mystic mountain?"

"Yeah, it is!" Michael lied, plastering a fake smile. He assumed, from experience, that nothing could keep Nicole from spreading the news about Michael's phobia, once she was aware of it, whether she wanted to spread it or not didn't matter. Bubbly bimbo wenches like Nicole just are like that.

Nicole was soon thereafter joined by Reginald and Paige. "OK, let's go to the smoothie booth and sip a few cups." she suggested. "Michael, will you come with us? Please!"

"Er ... I ..." Michael stammered, but he didn't find the words to defend himself against the bimbo. "Sure!" He shrugged helplessly and followed Nicole and the middle school kids, feeling all creepy.

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Reginald and Paige said down at a table near Ben Singer's smoothie booth.

"The usual?" Nicole asked the middle school kids.

Paige and Reginald nodded solemnly.

Michael clackered nervously. "A small cranberry smoothie and a donut with whipped cream!"

Nicole nodded and stepped up to Ben. "Do you know that my dad owns a juice factory in Kansas?" she squeaked. "I love apple mango, do you love them, too? A big cup of it with three straws! And three vanilla muffins, please! Please! Please!" She begged him with puppy eyes.

"OK ..." Ben shrugged and tried to fulfill her wishes.

Then Nicole proferred Michael's order.

"Your name is Nicole Bristow, right?" Ben asked.

"Yeah!" Nicole beamed. She had never seen Ben before. "How do you know?"

Ben showed Nicole the cups with which the smoothies came.

"There's my face on it?" Nicole jumped up and down all excited.

Ben grinned. "Your dad is my upstream frenchise provider." He chuckled. "Hence there 's your picture on the cups!"

Nicole smiled sweetly.

"Thus you get family discount, 2 bucks off the total ..." Ben smiled.

When Nicole returned to her table, Stacey was the next.

"A large cup of sassafras tea!" Stacey ordered. "And some pastry crumbs for goosie!" Stacey showed Ben her pet goose.

"OK!" Ben grinned.

Stacey walked away with her crumbs and tea.

"Isn't Ben cute?" Nicole asked. "Tell me that he's cute!"

The three others shrugged helplessly.

"Oh, Michael, as we're going on a rollercoaster ..." Nicole beamed. "Do you already know that Reginald is afraid of roller coasters? Tell Michael how much afraid you are!" Nicole commanded Reginald, but the kid was too shy to answer. "Lisa Perkins is afraid of spiders, do you know that? Today, her friend Millie had to stomp a spider on Lisa's behalf. I know that you wouldn't do that as you can't stomp on bugs, either! [[99]] "

"Yeah, isn't that remarkable?" Michael trembled inside. Now he was sure that Nicole wasn't going to be able to help spreading the message about his fear of roller coasters, if only she came to know about it. And Reginald was only thirteen, not close to seventeen as Michael. "How does he learn about all that energy stuff? Kinetic, potential?" Michael asked nercously, clackering the hell out of it.

Bimbo wench Nicole was nowhere near aware of Michael's tension due to her low attention span.

Reginald was totally sunk in his thoughts about Nirvana or whatever he called it.

Alas, Paige Howard might have noticed what was going on. "Clackers!" She stared at Michael's toy.

Michael shrieked. "Clackers?"

Paige nodded solemnly. "See, clackers rest exclusively on geometry and physics!"

Reginald smiled in anticipation of a lesson about geometry and physics given by his favourite scientist.

Paige asked Michael for his clacker balls. "I will render them back unto you. I just need them for a moment in order to explain geometry and physics unto Reginald." She stressed the term Reginald in a way that made Michael suspicious. "Clackers are essentially described by a combination of the pendulum laws and the laws of collision." She explained. "And in order to do so, you need tounderstand potential and kinetic energy, and , on top of all, the momentum conservation."

Michael listened carefully. Was he really going to learn about geometry and physics this way? Was it that simple?

Unfortunately, the smoothie break did not last long enough for Paige to teach Michael everything. She wrote a note on a piece of paper and handed it to Michael.

Sighing deeply, Michael stood up. "Evening classes ..." he moaned. "And basketball training ..."

Nicole smiled. "Yeah! I love evening classes, don't you love them too? ... oops!"

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Michael had read his sheet. Paige had told him to meet her at the fountain around 8 p.m. And there she was.

Paige shook Michael's hand. "Cool! You've got your clackers with you!"

Michael smiled. "How did you know that ..."

Paige grinned. "Harper has told me that you're afraid of the whole roller coaster thing, and so ..."

Harper! That little obnoxious rat! Michael was so upset. He should have known that his little brother who had already stolen his crush Lisa Perkins from him was exactly going to do that: tell everyone about Michael's fear of roller coasters. And especially to Paige Howard who was in his class. Now he was going to be the laughing stock of the middle school kids. "Harper told this in front of your whole class?" Michael stomped his feet and was close to throwing up. "I should tie his feet and hang him upside down and do terrible things to him ... ,"

Paige shook her head. "Calm down, Michael!" She sighed. "He only told me about your phobia. And that he did in order to make mehelp you, because he knew that I'm an expert for geometry and physics, and I don't start spreading rumours like wild fire."

Michael sighed with relief. In addition, he knew that he owed Harper an apology for having accused him of having done horrible things.

Paige took Michael's clackers and performed some experiments, explaining the laws of the pendulum and of collision all along the way.

Michael sighed. He wasn't exactly a fast learner in science, but he understood at least enough of it worth of a C, so he wouldn't fail in science and disappoint his grammie.

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"Dustin is afraid of little animals?" Carly asked Zoey.

"He had been pinched by a goldfish, and ever since ... [[100]] "

"That's OK ..." Carly shrugged. "I would be equally afraid if that had happened to me. Do you want to know about Spencer's fears? But it remains among us, as future sisters-in-law, right?"

Zoey chuckled. "OK!"

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"Michael!" Olivary Biallo boomed to his boyfriend, allecstatically. "We're going together to the rollercoaster?"

"Erm ..." Michael shivered.

"As a little kid, I've been afraid of roller coasters ..." Olivary admitted. "But then I've seen that it brings me closer to the moon. And the moon phases are just like a big roller coaster in the sky!"

Michael smiled. "OK! I should have known that! The moon will save me!"

Michael boarded the chariot, right by Olivary's side. They started singing a praise to the moon. [[101]]

:: Dammi la luna, più matta che c'è!:: Per una notte sparisci con me!:: Domani è già ritorno.:: Domani è un'altro posto::[[102]]::

All of a sudden, Michael Barret was downright addicted to roller coasters, especially by Olivary's side.

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Lola sighed. "I've thought that a goose might be a cool pet ..." she told Lisa Perkins. "But now I've seen Stacey with a pet goose, and Stacey is the epitome of uncool, so there it goes ..."

Addie just shrugged. "Look at this promise ring that Chase gave me during the ride on the roller coaster!"

Lola's eyes bugged out. Once upon a time, she had wanted Chase for herself, but now she was happy for Addie all the way.

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[[97] ]School Dance

[[98] ]see Class President

[[99] ]see Back at PCA

[[100] ]Quinn's First Date

[[101] ]Dammi La Luna by Eros Ramazzotti which I don't own.

[[102] ]Give me the moon, as cranky as it can be! Disappear with me for a night! Tomorrow is already back. Tomorrow it's another place.