Synopsis for Random Adventures of Random Hill Middle

SYNOPSIS FOR RANDOM ADVENTURES OF RANDOM HILL MIDDLE

PROLOGUE and CHAPTER ONE: TRADITION
8th grader DAVID RAMIREZ is worried that his last year of middle school will pass without his goal of having an epic adventure worthy of a Wikipedia page.  His 6th grade sister ESME tries to get him to think positively about school, but to no avail.  On the first day of school, David and Esme leave their apartment into a white Lexus where JOHNNY TRAN, David’s artsy and academically superior best friend, and Johnny’s dad, are waiting.  After a quick trip filled with jokes and small talk, they arrive to school.

CHAPTER TWO: THE FRIENDSHIP OF JOHNNY AND DAVID
David and Johnny discover they have different Advanced Math classes, so David must find a way to get into Johnny’s class so he could copy off of him in order to pass.  We flashback to when Johnny and David, both fifth graders at Random Hill Elementary, first met at the school’s soccer field.  There, David teaches Johnny how to properly kick a soccer ball during a recess soccer game in order to avoid teasing by the other fifth graders.  The boys have looked out for each other ever since.  We then return as David, who has first period advanced math, does everything he can to eventually find his way into Johnny’s sixth period advanced math class with MR. BORE, which he does.

CHAPTER THREE: THE CUBE
The boys are in Mr. Bores class, the strictest, meanest, most boring teacher they have ever had.  David gets Johnny’s attention while Mr. Bore attends to a in class gum chewer and shows him a cube he found outside.  Mr. Bore eventually notices, and heads towards the two boys to take the cube and yell at them.  However, instructions on the cube say “two thumbs to use,” so the boys put their thumbs on the cube.  After a brief sound and light show, they disappear.  Once they come to, they are outside their math class, every student on campus is super disciplined, and Mr. Bore is no longer in that classroom teaching.  After some investigating, they realize that they are five years in the future, and Mr. Bore is now the school principal.  The boys figure out how to use the time traveling cube, and travel to the past, when Mr. Bore was in kindergarten at Random Hill Elementary, hoping to find out the reason behind his boring and mean personality.  They discover through their mission, with numerous close calls of being caught, that young Mr. Bore was not allowed to use colors aside from gray, brown, black, and white, and that everything in his life, from his clothes to his house, is gray.  The boys head to a local craft store, buy multi-colored crayons, and sneak the crayons inside the boy’s room, all the while making sure that his equally mean and gray mom does not discover them and that little Mr. Bore does not see them do the deed.  The boys then use the cube one last time to return to their present, were Mr. Bore is now a cool teacher who uses fun activities like eating pizza to teach geometry

CHAPTER FOUR: MORNING WITH JOHNNY
Johnny wakes up for the morning, and we get a deeper insight into the strict, upper middle class academically focuses household he lives in.  We discover he is happier at school, where he can be free to enjoy life a little more with his best friend David.

CHAPTER FIVE: THE NEVER ENDING SPORTS DRINK
On the hottest day of the year, David and Johnny head to the school’s vending machine to get a drink.  David convinces Johnny to push all the buttons on the vending machine, and out comes a light blue drink with a blank label.  They boys soon discover that the drink is a never ending sports drink, and share the drink throughout the day.  After lunch the boys both realize they really need to use the bathroom, but the restrooms are closed due to a lunchtime vandalism incident.  They meet up, and, after failed attempts to find a restroom they could use, they discover that in fine print on the drink’s inner label a warning that the never ending drink would lead to a never ending bladder.  They head back to the vending machine, insert the drink in the slot, and push all of the buttons again.  The vending machine goes crazy, almost sucking them in, but in the end, they no longer have to pee.  The stress led both boys to be on edge, and they end up grappling with each other, blaming each other for the whole situation.  However, a security guard spots them and takes them to the principal's office, where David get a detention (nothing new) but Johnny gets excused, due to his good reputation on campus

CHAPTER SIX: DAVID AND ESME
We flashback to when David was ten and Esme was eight, and their mom had to work on a Saturday.  David had to babysit his sister for the day.  He was not too happy about it, but in the end, gave in, and the two watched TV together, with Esme putting her head on David’s shoulder in a scene of family love.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE BEST FACIAL TISSUE EVER
Esme is taking a quiz in her sixth grade honors English Class, but she has the sniffles, and her friend SOPHIA cannot concentrate.  Sophia tells her about the best tissues ever, located in the band room.  Her teacher, MS. TANAKA, lets her go, but gives her six minutes to return, or the quiz goes in the trash.  After many obstacles, including the sixth grade gossip queen and her schoolyard crush, Esme makes it to the band room and uses the best tissues ever.  After almost getting lost in the tissues, she hurries back to class.  With seconds to spare, she must dodge a security guard, who she thinks is following her back into class.  She makes it back just as time expires, and as the guard actually enters an unruly class next door.  Ms. Tanaka had dropped the quiz towards the trash, but Esme grabs it just before it makes it inside.

CHAPTER EIGHT: THE TALENT SHOW SONG
David wants to audition for the school’s talent show because his crush, MELANIE RIVERA, is the one judging the auditions.  He decides to write a song, with Johnny promising to back him up with his guitar playing skills.  All week, David cannot come up with a good song, so they go to the library on the day before the audition, to work on the song.  David then opens up The 18th Century Dictionary of the English Language, where an old man, MR. COLERIDGE, appears.  Mr. Coleridge had been cursed to live in the book for over 200 years, and the only way to break the curse would be to use the words in the dictionary for love.  The boys realize that the only words that have not faded away in the book are no longer used today.  They decide to go for it anyway, and David comes up with a very strange sounding song using those words.  At the audition, they play the song for Melanie, and bright lights come out from the book, and a voice declares that Mr. Coleridge is released from the curse.  Melanie freaks out over the scene, and the boys lie and say that Mr. Coleridge is David’s grandfather who works in the special effects department at a movie studio.  David takes one last chance, and, before they leave the audition, asks Melanie out on a date to the library sometime, to which she says yes.  The boys then head out to get rolled tacos from their favorite Mexican spot.