Chapter 13

#0228: Yeah that kid.
Chapter 13: A Week for Kat

#0229: Winsbury the welcome wagon.
Caption: Monday
Kat: I wonder who that boy is.
Annie: What did you get for number four?
Winsbury: Here, mate. You're in the wrong classroom.
Aly: Oh aye?
Winsbury: Yeah, and you forgot to put your uniform on.
Winsbury: And get a haircut.
Kid: Haha!

#0230: Get a load of that guy all smilin' at you, Kat!
Aly: Gee, I *must* be in the wrong place.
Winsbury: Yup.
Aly: I didn't realise this was some sort of fashion advice seminar.
Winsbury: Yup.
Winsbury: Oy! Are you trying to be smart?!
Kat: Hey! Leave off, Winsbury.
Winsbury: Huh.
Anja: Good morning everyone!

#0231: Not Annie then.
Anja: Before we start: *Alistair* here will be joining you for classes this week.
Anja: I'm sure you'll all make him feel welcome.
Anja: Now, for this morning's bulletin...
Caption: 10 minutes later
FX: brrring
Kat: Hi.
Aly: Hiya.
Kat: I'm Kat, and this is-
Annie: Antimony.
Aly: I'm Alistair. Uh... I mean, Aly.

#0232: Stuff!
Kat: You want us to show you where our first class is?
Aly: Haha, yeah, thanks. I can't find my way around here at all.
Kat: Yeah, it's a bit confusing at first.
Kat: Sorry about Winsbury, by the way. He can be a real jerk.
Aly: Oh, haha. No harm done, eh?

#0233: I sure do love popular band, and also popular movie.
Aly: ... That's a great movie!
Aly: Haha! Nah. The song is good, but the video is rubbish.
Kat: ... But people who skip the movie sequences are missing the point entirely.
Aly: The third one was much better than the second one, too.
Aly: Yeah, it's okay.
Kat: Really?!
Aly: I dunno. Their first album was great, but after that is [sic] was all down hill. I didn't even bother with their last one.
Kat: Yeah! It's a shame not many people got to see it.
Kat: Haha!

#0234: Clearly the boy is insane.
Annie: You seem rather taken with him.
Bed Label: 5
Kat: Aww, he's just nice is all.
Annie: *Just* nice, Kat?
Kat: Wellll he's not *perfect!*
Kat: I mean, he thinks the *Prodigy's Fat of the Land* is better than *Music for the Jilted Generation.*
Annie: I have no idea what you just said.

#0235: That's quite the DREAM HOUSE Aly is making there.
Caption: Tuesday
Kat: What's that you're working on, Aly?
Aly: Well, since I'm only here for a week I don't have to do much work.
Aly: This is just something they said I should do.
Aly: It's kinda dumb really.
Kat: Are you going to a new school?
Aly: Y'know, I haven't got a clue.
Kat: Haha, weird!

#0236: Aly's checkin' her out and Kat's fine widdat.
Caption: Wednesday
Winsbury: Don't tell me you don't have to do games either.
Kat: Oh, don't start, Willie!
Winsbury: And what are you wearing a scarf and gloves *inside* for, man?
Winsbury: Is it cold in here?
Winsbury: I might need to wrap up too!
Winsbury: Don't want my delicate skin gettin' all chilly!

#0237: Ultimate schoolboy revenge.
FX: SLAM DUNKIN
Kat: *Whaaa?!*
Winsbury: *Whaaa?!*

#0238: Kat's freaking out over panel 3 she's on the floor right now guys.
Sound: CREAK
Aly: Uh...
Eglamore: Here you are. Just let go.
Aly: Oof!
Eglamore: You need to be more careful, Kershaw.
Eglamore: Don't want to get yourself hurt two days before your parents get here.
Aly: Yeah. Thanks, sir.
Eglamore: Carver.
Annie: *Mister* Eglamore.

#0239: Good question.
Kat: That was amazing, Aly! You should be playing!
Aly: Nah, I'm not supposed to do anything where I could get hurt.
Anne: Pardon me. Alistair.
Aly: Huh?
FX: GRAB
Aly: *Woah! Hey!*
Kat: *A-Annie!* What are you doing?

#0240: Sucks to be you, Carver.
Annie: He's very light. That must be how he can jump so...
Kat: What?!
Kat: What's wrong with you?!
Annie: I-I was only curious...
Kat: *I don't care!*
Kat: Oh my *Gooood!* How embarassing! [sic]
Kat: Aly, are you okay?!
Aly: Uh, Yeah, yeah. It's no big deal.

#0241: I buried a jellyfish once.
Caption: Thursday
FX: Tap Tap Tap Tap
Bed Label: 5
Kat: *sob* *sniffle*
Note: formatting as-is, sfx
Annie: Kat?
Annie: Kat, are you okay?
Kat: *sob* Oh, I don't know what to do!
Kat: I can't do this stuff at all!

#0242: Carver is the last person you want to ask about makeup, come on.
Annie: W-wuh... What are you...
Kat: I-I wanted to make myself look nice... for...
Kat: You know...
Annie: I understand. I can help if you like
Kat: *Oh, could you?!* I don't know how to put on make up.
Note: formatting returns
Annie: Okay. Just close your eyes.
Caption: Soon
Poster: RBIT [? get clarification]
Poster: daft punk
Annie: You can look now.
Annie: Much better, yes?

#0243: Dear male readers: Don't let the guys know you are reading this stuff.
Kat: Hey! I look the same as I always do.
Annie: That's Right. And even I can see Alistair likes you as you are.
Annie: I don't think you need to change yourself to make him like you more.
Annie: Besides, you don't need make up.
Annie: You're far too beautiful for that.
Kat: Aww, jeez, Annie! What are you doing, makin' me all blush!
Annie: I - I'm sorry about yesterday, Kat. I wasn't thinking.
Kat: Don't worry about it.
Kat: I was just embarassed. [sic] I wish I hadn't yelled at you.

#0244: Study. Good joke.
Kat: Hand on... If *I* don't don't need makeup, why do y-
FX: BRRING
Annie: There's the bell.
Annie: We'll be late for registration.
Caption: After registration
Annie: Alistair, I apologise for yesterday. I'll try to make sure it doesn't happen again.
Aly: Haha! Okay, Just give me more warning if it does.
Aly: So what's first today, guys?
Kat: Well, it's just study right now, so we can go to the library.

#0245: Exit stage right... OR LEFT.
Annie: *Well then!* If you will excuse me.
Annie: I have to...
Annie: find...
Annie: a...
Annie: book.
Aly: She's not very subtle, is she?
Kat: No.

#0246: Aly failed to realise the first panel was a statement, not a question.
Kat: Say, aren't you hot wearing all that?
Aly: A little, yeah!
Aly: But I have to wear it. At least until tomorrow when...
Kat: When you leave.
Aly: Yeah...
Aly: I-I'm going to miss you, you know.
Kat: I'll miss you too!
Kat: I w-wish you could have stayed longer.

#0247: You too Carver, I guess.
Caption: Friday
Aly: Kat!
Kat: Morning, Aly!
Kat: Hey... Are you okay?
Aly: I-I came to say goodbye. I have to go now.
Kat: What?! Already?! I thought you didn't have to go 'til later!
Kat: Can... Do you have a ph-phone number? An e-mail address?
Aly: No... I won't have any of those where I'm going.
Aly: I'm really sorry, Kat.
Aly: It-it was good to meet you.

#0248: See, the funny thing is, missing a class in line is perfectly in line with karmatron theory.
Kat: "*Good* to meet me?!"
Annie: Kat, I'm very sorry.
Caption: 10:00
Caption: 12:15
Caption: 1:50
Caption: Eventually
Annie: Okay, this has gone on long enough.
Kat: Where are you going?
Kat: We have *karmatron dynamics* next.
Annie: You will see Alistair before he leaves.
Kat: B-but...

#0249: Annie: Always thinkin'.
Kat: Why'd they make him sleep in a tower room? Nobody ever comes up here!
Kat: I-I think that's him, all wrapped up!
Kat: Oh no! What if he's sick!
Kat: I don't know what to do!
Annie: I have an idea.
Kat: What! What is it?!
FX: SHOVE

#0250: Congratulations to those who figured this out. In my mind I am picturing a dart board with every available space riddled with darts.
Aly: Kat!
Kat: Y-You tried to leave without a proper goodbye, man.
Aly: I didn't want you to see me like this.
Kat: What's happening to you?

#0251: That sounds familiar.
Kat: Oh my God, Aly!
FX: FLAP
Aly: Uh, Kat...
Aly: I'd like you to meat my mum and dad...
Kat: Y-You're turning into a *bird?!*
Aly: My parents took some kind of test.
Aly: And when they passed they were given new bodies.
Annie: *!*

#0252: Happens to the best of us.
Aly: They wanted to take me with them, so I'm changing too.
Kat: Didn't they give you a choice?!
AlysMom: Hey, Aly. You want to be a bird?
Aly: 'Kay.
Kat: Uhhhhh...
Aly: Yeah, yeah, I know.
Aly: And now we are off to life in Gillitie Forest.

#0253: You have to agree that's a pretty good haul, Kat.
Aly: Um... You can have my stuff if you want.
Kat: Oh for God's sake, Aly!

#0254: I'll leave the morphing sequence for the movie adaptation.
Aly: Ugh! It-it's happening a lot faster now.. I th-think... I...
Kat: Aly!

0255: That's some first kiss, Donlan.
Aly: ♪
FX: HOP
Aly: ♪
Narration: And she never saw him again.

#0256: Here's to an age when a love could fly away at a moment's notice.
Annie: Kat...
Kat: You don't have to hide your tears.
Kat: Huh...
Kat: How could I cry after a week like that?

#0256: Kat's new favourite place is the room with that painting in it.
Bonus Page: A Question of Taste
Kat: Hehe! Check out how cute this guy is!
Annie: Kat, that's an ornithological journal.