Teenage texts

📱 Jules Kendall created the group Odyssey Outcasts (And Buck) 📱

Jules Kendall: Okay, I did it. Now stop complaining that you’re out of the loop just because you’re stuck in Maryland. 🙄

Buck Meltsner: FINALLY. 🎊 You have no idea how mind-numbingly dull Baltimore is. The most exciting thing that happened today was a pigeon fighting a bagel. I need Odyssey drama to survive. 🥯🐦

Bridget Perkins: If you want drama, come take Wyatt. He just spent forty-five minutes trying to teach the dog how to play the recorder. My head is literally throbbing. 🤕🚫🎶

Jules Kendall: Bridget, you’re always grumpy. It’s like your default setting.

Bridget Perkins: I have a ten-year-old brother, Jules. Grumpy isn't a setting; it's a survival tactic. 😒

Cooper Calhoun: Yo! Thanks for the add, Jules! 🏀🔥 Buck, my man, Baltimore can’t be that bad. Don’t they have, like, museums and stuff?

Buck Meltsner: Cooper, I am sixteen. Do I look like I want to spend my Saturday looking at 18th-century oil paintings of guys in powdered wigs? I want to be at Whit’s End eating a Wod-Fam-Choc-Sod and watching you miss free throws. 🍦🏀

Cooper Calhoun: Hey! I haven’t missed a free throw since the middle school playoffs. 😤

Jules Kendall: Can we focus? I started this chat so we could actually plan something. Connie is working late at the station, and I’m bored out of my mind.

Bridget Perkins: I can’t do anything. I’m grounded because Wyatt told Mom I was the one who hid his LEGO sets. I didn’t even hide them! I just... moved them to a higher shelf so I wouldn’t step on them and die. 🧱🦶

Buck Meltsner: That sounds like a gross miscarriage of justice, Bridget. If I were there, I’d represent you in the court of Perkins Parents. ⚖️🎩

Bridget Perkins: You’d just make it worse, Buck. You’d try to con them into giving us ice cream instead.

Buck Meltsner: And would that be a bad thing? 🍦✨

Jules Kendall: Anyway... Cooper, what are you doing?

Cooper Calhoun: Just finished practice. 🏀💦 There’s a crowd of girls waiting by the gym doors again. It’s exhausting being this popular, guys. Truly. 💅✨

Jules Kendall: I am literally rolling my eyes so hard they might fall out of my head. 🙄🙄🙄

Bridget Perkins: Ugh, Cooper. Nobody cares about your fan club. I’m currently staring at a pile of Wyatt’s dirty socks. That’s my reality. 🧦🤢

Buck Meltsner: See! This is what I miss! The banter! The trivial complaints! In Baltimore, people just talk about the weather and the Orioles. It’s soul-crushing. 😫🏙️

Jules Kendall: If you say "soul-crushing" one more time, I’m removing you from the chat.

Buck Meltsner: You wouldn’t dare. I’m the spice in this stew. The zest in this lemon. 🍋

Bridget Perkins: You’re the fly in the soup. 🪰🥣

Cooper Calhoun: Savage, Bridget. 😂

Jules Kendall: So, since Bridget is a prisoner of war and Buck is in a different time zone... Cooper, you want to go to the park and watch me fail at skateboarding? 🛹

Cooper Calhoun: Only if I can film it for the highlight reel. 🎥😎

Buck Meltsner: WAIT. If you guys go to the park, you have to FaceTime me. I need to feel the Odyssey breeze through the screen. 🌬️📱

Bridget Perkins: Buck, you are so weird. Go outside. Walk to a harbor. Do something Maryland-ish. 🦀

Buck Meltsner: I don’t want to do Maryland-ish things! I want to be at McAlister Park! I want to hear Penny Wise say something confusing! I want to see Mr. Whittaker look disappointed in my life choices! 😭

Jules Kendall: Honestly, Buck, we all want that last one. It’s a rite of passage.

Bridget Perkins: WYATT JUST ACCIDENTALLY RECORDER-BLASTED THE DOG IN THE EAR AND NOW THE DOG IS HOWLING. I CANNOT LIVE LIKE THIS. 📢🐕🆘

Cooper Calhoun: LOL. 🤣

Jules Kendall: Bridget, just give him a tablet or something.

Bridget Perkins: Mom took his screen time away too. We are in a dark age. A literal dark age of acoustic instruments and sibling rivalry. 🕯️🎻

Buck Meltsner: Sounds like the plot of a very boring movie. 🎬🍿

Jules Kendall: Okay, Cooper, meet me at the fountain in ten. Buck, I’ll call you when we get there so you can "smell the trees" or whatever. 🌳🤳

Buck Meltsner: Bless you, Jules. You’re a true friend. A beacon of light in my Baltimore darkness. 🕯️💖

Cooper Calhoun: I’m bringing my basketball. I bet I can beat both of you in a game of HORSE while holding the phone for Buck. 🏀💪

Jules Kendall: In your dreams, Calhoun. Prepare to be humbled. 🛹🔥

Bridget Perkins: I hate you all. Have fun. I’ll be here... folding socks. 🧦💀

Buck Meltsner: We’ll bring you back a virtual soda, Bridget! 🥤✨

Jules Kendall: Gtg. Peace out, losers. ✌️🎸

Cooper Calhoun: 🏀💨💨💨

Bridget Perkins: 😒👋

Buck Meltsner: 🦀🚫 ➡️ 🍦✅