He had a pretty good idea of what scenes out of Hamlet would be suitable for that sort of mob rendition of it, since most of it was the wife egging on the husband to kill, it made a certain sense to render it into modern day New Jersey.

"Watch the Sopranos, you'll get a good idea how it works. Just pay attention to how Carmella Soprano speaks," which was to say, Jared learned it off watching James Gandolfini talk on HBO. "Or just google '[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsH--fbw7M4]How to have a New Jersey accent[/url]' because that video is hilarious." It was true, she'd have to do more work, over here in Cali, but at least they'd have something a little different from the usual modern rendition in California accents.

Jared was kind of oblivious to the bathroom trip and vibrating phones, because it really wasn't a part of his life, though Gabe's phone went off. Vibrate was not on, so it started a strain of "Sexyback" which made Jared turn around and give the dude a 'really?' look. He didn't care about the phone, but the ringtone...that was comedy gold. He turned back to Ricki with a smirk on his face.

Montgomery and he got on alright, albeit with an edge of competition involved since the hockey season started as they were working closely together as teammates. Prior to that? Jared was the gray man. Gave looked a little green around the gills but recovered fast, which meant that something was up, but Jared's back was to him already and he missed that look.

By the time the bell rang, enough was figured out that he said, "Okay, so after practice tonight."

Once that was confirmed, he got up and gathered his stuff; he and Gabe usually hit Lit together late, but Gave waved him off with a shake of his head -- that didn't look good, but Jared just gave a nod as he got ready to roll out. Livingston was watching him too, with a look on his face, but Jared Landry was getting pretty good at ignoring the many faces of David Livingston. Anyway, discussion in World Lit was about "In the Time of Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez, and the book was anything but boring. 

He didn't realize that high school politics was about to rear its ugly head.