The Finishing School Feminists!
Blue had only been in the finishing school for thirteen hours and already she was sick of it! First she had been forced to wear that stupid, frumpy uniform, which made her torso look rectangular. Then since she was two minutes late for breakfast, Lenora made her eat her oatmeal with just a butter knife! Yeah, that was just as defacult as you can imagine!
And the classes! Ugh, the classes! All these annoying and useless thing they were being taught! It wouldn't be so bad if Lenora and the teachers would just get off her case! All Blue had to do was make the tiniest screw-up of and they would start nagging her about it.
"Don't slurp your tea, Miss Walker!"
"A lady does not slotch, Miss Walker!"
"A lady who gossips is not thought very high of, Miss Walker!"
And the one Blue hated and got told most of all
"Sit like a lady, Miss Walker!"
Now Blue and her classmates, were brought to a library to balance books on their head, so that they could practice good posture.
"Now remember girls!" Lenora announced. "Those books are for balancing, not reading! A literary girl is a lonely girl!"
Blue sighed heavily "This is such bullshit!"
"What's that, Miss Walker?" Lenora shot her a smug look. "You would like to help the dining staff wash dishes tonight after dinner? How nice of you to offer!"
"Listen lady--" Blue started but Lenora cut her off.
"Girls, continue to your practice of perfect posture while I go make some phone calls in my office" she said, walking out of the room and down the hall.
As soon as Lenora left, Blue took the book off her head and began reading it.
"Miss Frigid says we're not allowed to read the books!" One student named Shirley reminded her.
"Well, Miss Frigid can kiss my ass!" Blue said, mocking the girls perky voice.
"Miss Frigid also says we should never use foul language" another girl named Gabriella reminded her. "That sort of talk isn't upper class."
"She can stick her upper class up her ass!" Blue told her. "Seriously are you chick's actually buying into this crap?"
"What do you mean?" Shirley asked.
"C'mon girls, it's 1967! Not 1867!" Blue said. "No guy is gonna give a rats ass wither you sit up straight or not! A lot of the time guys just want you lying down with your panties around your ankles!"
"But that's not good girl behavior!" Gabriella said.
"Believe me sister" Blue told her. "I know what it takes to be a good girl!"
Blue:
I'm a good girl, I'm daddy's favorite!
He's saved for Harvard, he knows I'll make it!
I'm good at school, I'm never truant!
Shirley:
Can you speak French?
Gabriella:
Are you fluent?
Blue:
Well, every night I study hard in my room!
At least that's what my parents assume!
Cause I sneak out the window to meet with my boyfriend
Here's what I told him when he asked what happened!
I told him, forget what you thought
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
So don't you believe all the innocence you saw!
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Oh, I'm a good girl!
A straight A student,
I'm really into all that self-improvement!
I swear you all live in this library!
Gabriella:
But if you ask us we'll say:
All the girls:
That's where you'll find me!
Blue:
But if you look, then you won't find me here!
I may be clever, but I just act too square..
'Cause in the back of the room, where nobody looks,
I'll be with my boyfriend.. but we ain't reading books!
I told him, forget what you thought
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
So don't you believe all the innocence you saw!
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Students:
Do, do do, do do, do do!
Blue:
Good girls are bad girls and good girls are bad girls!
(Girls start ripping their skirts, lighting their bra's on fire, spray painting the library walls & two girls are even kissing each other on the floor!)
Students:
Do, do do, do do, do do!
Blue:
Good girls are bad girls and good girls are bad girls!
We're all good girls who haven't been caught...
We're all good girls who haven't been caught...
Blue & Students:
It's time to show them what we got,
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
So don't you believe all the innocence you saw!
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
We'll show 'em what we got!
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
So don't you believe all the innocence you saw!
'Cause good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
Whoa-oh-oh-oh!
Good girls are bad girls that haven't been caught!
"BLUE WALKER!" Lenora shouted from the doorway of the library.
Blue and the girls turned to see their furious looking headmistress.
"Yes, Miss Frigid?" Blue said in a mimicking monotone.
"What do you think you are doing to my students?" Lenora asked her. "You're a bad influence, Miss Walker! You're a fungus! A disease!"
"Don't talk down to Blue like that!" Shirley told her.
"This is the best fun we've had since we arrived here!" Gabriella added. "We'd rather learn to be like Blue, to have fun and be self-reliant!"
"Well, too bad!" Lenora said. "It's not on the school curriculum!"
"Screw your curriculum!" Shirley shouted. "Whoa! It feels so liberating to swear!"
"You girls were sent here to learn about Social Conformity and that's what you'll learn!" Lenora told them.
"Not anymore, Bitch Witch!" Blue snapped at her. Blue climbed up on one table and shouted "Social conformity is... uh... just a minority! Say it with me, girls! Social conformity is just a minority!"
"Social conformity is just a minority!" The girls chanted with her. "Social conformity is just a minority!"
"I'm warning you girls!" Lenora shouted over their chanting. "I'll shove you all head first into detention if I have to!"
"The hell you will, you Two-faced Tramp!" Blue grinned menacingly, grabbing a roll of scotch tape from the library desk.
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Johnny was still trapped in the bomb shelter, trying to find any means of escape. He had to escape soon, he was getting stir crazy down there! He had even started walking around in circles and talking to himself.
"Okay, I got it!" He told himself. "Step one: Catch the first rat that crossing my path! Step two: Teach rat to speak english instead of rat language! Step three: Send rat up to surface world to get help! It's brilliant! Brilliant! A-ha-ha-ha! ...Oh God, I'm losing it down here!"
Suddenly the heavy steel door of the shelter swung open causing Johnny to jump. Someone stuck there head in.
"Hey Hippy-Dippy!" Kiki called to him. "Quit talking to yourself or you won't get rescued, ya nutcase!"
Kiki along with Conner, Snaredrum and Susie-Q helped Johnny step up out of the bomb shelter.
"Guys! Becky lied about her injuries!" Johnny told them. "She fell in the pool and her bruises leaked off! I saw it! She painted them on!"
"That two-faced brat!" Snaredrum said.
"And now Blue's trapped in that prissy prison school because of it!" Susie-Q snapped.
"I'll pound the puke outta that snobby chick!" Kiki growled. "I'll show her real abuse!"
"We'll worry about getting revenge on Becky later!" Conner told them. "Right now we gotta focus on proving Blue's innocence! We gotta find proof that Becky's bruises are fake!"
"How?" Susie-Q asked. "If we try and expose her, Becky'll just come up with more lies to cover her tracks. If she's crazy enough to lie about Blue hitting her just to drag her down, well she'd be crazy enough to lie about anything!"
Johnny and the gang stood there thinking for a moment. Johnny sighed and looked up at the sky.
"Are you there, God? It's me, Johnny" he silently prayed. "I know I don't pray as much as I should, but I really need your help. I need to solve this injustice for the sake of the girl I love, so please give me a sign!"
Then as if on cue, something flat, metal and hard hit Johnny on the head.
"Ow!" Johnny rubbed his head. "Son of a..." he trailed off looking at what hit him in the head. It was... a sign!
No, literally! A metal sign that was hanging on the wall behind him, had fallen off and hit him on the head. Johnny read the sign:
Johnny's stared at the literal sign with his jaw hanging open. "Wow! That was quick and to the point!" He muttered. "Thanks! I'll never skip church again!" He turned to the Drapes "Hey guys, I think I know how we can bust Becky!"
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Meanwhile at the Finishing School, Blue was finally starting to feel more at home. Now that she was in charge of the class!
Blue felt like a proud mother as she stood in front of a classroom full of girls who had ripped skirts and dyed hair. Some were even carving their names into the desks and rolling their own cigarettes!
"Alright ladies!" Blue announced "while we wait for our glue to set on our bedazzled leather jackets which look fantastic by the way, great job to all of you!"
The girls applauded each other.
"Now we will continue with our art lesson!" Blue then showed them what she was holding behind her back. "Who can tell me what this is?"
One girl raised her hand "A water balloon?"
"Correct, Emma!" Blue praised her. "Except this water balloon isn't filled with water... it's filled with paint!"
Blue nodded to Mindy and Cindy and they both shoved a large canvas to the front of the classroom. It was a large white canvas with Lenora tied in a spread eagle formation, to the frame of it. The woman was bounded and gagged with scarfs and ropes and letting out muffled cries out for help.
Blue placed four buckets of paint-filled water balloons in front of the girls, all of who were smirking evilly at their strict and power-mad headmistress.
"Alrighty, girls!" Blue told them. "Here's a new art project for you called Paint the Prude! Everyone grab yourself a paint balloon..."
The girls all did as she said.
"Ready... aim..." Blue shouted "FIRE!"
The girls hurled the paint balloons at their protesting headmistress, who'e new white blouse and beige pencil skirt were stained with all the vibrant colors of the rainbow!
Blue smirked as the girls giggled and cackled at the sweet feeling of letting loose! This is what they should be taught, to live life and do things they're passionate about and learn from them! To experience the freedom of being oneself and not having to suppress it or apologize for it! This is what separated the Drapes from the Squares!
Blue glanced back at Lenora as she looked down at her ruined outfit and whimpered around the rag stuffed in her mouth.
Well, karma's a bitch... Blue thought while smiling. ...And so is Lenora!
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Back at the Baltimore Country Club, Johnny and the Gang decided to put their plan into action. They had to get into the Club's video surveillance room, there they could find the recorded footage from the poolside with Johnny and Becky from earlier.
Johnny peeked around the corner at the door labelled Club Security. There were Club Security Guards inside, it was just a matter of getting them to leave the room and distract them for long enough.
"Okay, Gang!" Johnny told the Drape Kids. "Take your places!"
The Drape Kids, all dressed up in makeshift Square costumes from the Club's lost & found bin, began the distraction.
Susie-Q rushed around the corner opposite where Johnny and Kiki watched from the other end of the hallway.
"Help!" Susie-Q cried in a soft, helpless voice. "Oh Mr. Security Man, you have to help me! Please!"
"What seems to be the trouble, Miss?" The security guard asked.
"Drapes! A horrid Drape thug has found a way into our lovely club!" Susie-Q put a hand to her forehead dramatically. "He's holding my dear sweet brother hostage with his own croquet mallet! Help us, please!"
"Lead the way!" With that said the security guard and his partner took off following down the hallway and outside.
As the guards turned and rushed out of the room, they swung the door shut. Johnny pulled off one of his sneakers and tossed it at the door frame. As the guards disappeared around the corner of the hallway, Johnny's shoe landed between the door and the door frame, preventing it from shutting all the way.
"Nice shot!" Kiki said impressed.
"Thanks, now let's go!" Johnny whispered to Kiki as they crept quickly and quietly towards the surveillance room door.
Kiki and Johnny entered the surveillance room, which had multiple tiny black and white television screens all stacked on a desk, each one displaying a certain location within the perimeter of the Country Club.
"There's the screen showing the poolside!" Johnny pointed at the fourth screen in the middle right hand corner.
"Back it up and make sure it has the footage of you and Hecky Becky!" Kiki reminded him.
Johnny picked up a remote control labelled with the same number as the poolside screen. He pushed the rewind button and watched as the black and white security footage played back in reverse.
"Find what you're looking for yet?" Kiki asked, staring back at the door nervously.
"It happened at ten a.m this morning, I should be getting close-- Here!" Johnny said, pushing play.
The footage clearly showed Becky grabbing Johnny's arm and him pulling it away as Becky went flying backwards into the pool. Johnny then dove in after the disgruntled Square, who clearly had make-up leaking down her face, which had no visible injuries!
"Yes!" Johnny cheered, ejecting the film footage reel. "It's all here in black and white! ...Quite literally I might add!"
"Great, now let's get outta her before we get busted!" Kiki said.
Johnny poked his head out into the hallway and looked from left and right.
"All clear!" He whispered to Kiki.
The two then rushed around the corner leading to the exit, but came to an abrupt halt as someone blocked their path.
"It's not all clear!" Lenord Prudeman folded his arms across his chest. "Not at all clear in fact! A little hazy even!"
"Get out of our way, Lenord!" Kiki told him.
"No!" Lenord snapped.
"But you love Blue too!" Johnny reminded him. "Surely you hate the thought of her being imprisoned in a Finishing School as much as us?"
"Actually since my mother owns that Finishing School she's in, I can visit her any time I like!" Lenord said. "And once Blue is fully conformed into a Square, I'll make her mine and we'll live happily ever after!"
"But what about Blue's Drape way of life?" Kiki asked.
"Who cares about the Drapes? I was never interested in those grease heads!" Lenord sneered. "I just want Blue to be mine! That motorcycle skank really puts the ants in my pants if you know what I mean..."
"You watch your mouth when you talk about Blue!" Johnny growled.
"Well, that's what she is!" Lenord snickered sickeningly. "A badass with a sexy ass! And when we get married and live in suburbia, I'll get to watch that ass move when she runs to get me my dinner! Ha!"
With each disrespectful and sexist word that came from Lenord's mouth, Johnny's cheeks grew hotter and his fists clenched tighter at his sides. His temper skyrocketed as he watched this smug little twerp bad-mouth the girl he loved and laugh about it in his face.
Johnny was literally seeing red and before he could stop himself, his hands flew up and shoved Lenord to the floor.
Kiki acted quickly and pulled a set of handcuffs from her jacket pocket and used them to cuff Lenord to a push able door handle nearby, so he couldn't escape and tell on them.
"Great job, Johnny now let's go!" She said, taking off down the hallway for the exit.
Johnny looked back at the now cuffed Lenord. "Where'd you get the handcuffs?" He asked her.
"Swiped them from the surveillance room!" Kiki shrugged like it was no big deal.
Johnny and Kiki raced outside the club and saw the two gullible security guards trying to chase down Conner as Snaredrum and Susie-Q stood by in their Sqaure disguises.
"C'mon, Gang! Let's blow this Square Shack!" Kiki called to them. Conner ran forward with Johnny and Kiki as Snaredrum and Susie-Q shed their disguises and threw them at the guards to slow them down.
The Gang ran down the street where Blue's car was parked and hopped in just before Snaredrum put the petal to the metal!
"Where to next, Chief?" Snardrum asked Johnny.
"To the courthouse!" Johnny told them. "We gotta show the tape to the judge and get Blue released!"
"But Baldwin is the judge!" Susie-Q reminded him. "He's not gonna let Blue out! He hates our family!"
"That's right! He's a crooked Judge!" Conner said. "He'd cut off his finger before he'd even think to help a Drape!"
"Well, is there any other Judge we could get to take over this case?" Johnny asked. "Someone better?"
"In comparison to Baldwin, I doubt anyone we get could be worse!" Conner rolled his eyes.
"I think I know one person that could do it!" Snaredrum nodded, thinking. "But we're gonna have to get make some phone calls!"
Alright, let's do it!" Johnny cheered "We'll go to my house! No one will bother us there! Operation Get Blue Out The Joint is a-go!"
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Ms. Daverman rushed to answer the front door of her house when she heard someone rapping at it urgently. As soon as she answered it, Johnny rushed into the house, dragging Snaredrum along with him.
"Hi, Mom! These are some friends of mine and we gotta go make a phone call in the kitchen right now! It's emergency! Okay? Got it? Good! Thanks! Love you!" Johnny said all at once as he and Snaredrum rushed into the kitchen to make a phone call.
"Alright then..." Miss Daverman said confused. She turned and saw the rest of the Drape Kids standing on the front porch. "Would you kids like some cookies and lemonade?" She asked, smiling.
Minutes later Snaredrum was talking on the Daverman's rotary dial telephone in one corner of their kitchen. At the other end of the room, Johnny was sitting at the kitchen table explaining what happened to his mother, as Kiki, Susie-Q and Conner snacked on cookies and sipped lemonade.
"I had no idea Becky Prudeman could be so cruel..." Miss Daverman shook her head. "Well, I suppose I had some idea...? Something about that young lady never sat right with me. There was always a staged, fake quality to her expression. The kind of face you'd see on a... a..."
"A Barbie Doll?" Kiki suggested.
"A snake?" Susie-Q shrugged.
"A hyena?" Conner pointed out.
"All the above, most likely!" Miss Daverman chuckled. "But to think she was this desperate to get back at Blue Walker? What on earth even happened between Blue and Becky?"
"Well, you could say it's history repeating itself" Susie-Q stated.
"How do you mean?" Johnny asked.
"Oh, the Walker's and the Prudeman's have been enemies for a while now!" Susie-Q told them. "Aside from the whole Drape's Vs. Square's fiasco, there's the fact that Becky's Great-Grandfather was the one that pulled the switch on our Great-Grandpa and Grandma Walker! And he and his family still laugh about it!"
"Disgusting!" Miss Daverman shook her head. "How could they laugh knowing they orphaned their children?"
"And it wasn't long before my birth, that Blue's Daddy, Cry-Baby fell in love with Auntie Allison!" Kiki told them. "And guess who else was after Allison's hand in marriage and lost it to Uncle Cry-Baby?"
"Baldwin Prudeman!" Johnny's eyes widened as he saw the peices of the past fall into place.
"Exactly!" Kiki nodded.
"Alright, our back-up is on his way! He said he just needed to get the right paperwork and then he'd meet us in front of the Finishing School in about an hour!" Snaredrum said, hanging up the phone.
"Great" Conner said "Let's go get the adults and get our girl back!"
With that said, the Gang followed by Miss Daverman got into the car and took off to Turkey Point to gather the adults for, what will hopefully be, Blue's release!
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