Jessica Dean was new too Westerburg high. She and her long black trench coat were the topic of many conversations as she sat in the back of the lunchroom by herself. Her short messy black hair and thin, but tall frame made it easy to mistake her for a guy. Her father didn't care enough about anything other then blowing shit up to mind the girls she brought home or her appearance. Add a single ear piercing and it made her an even easier target for bullying.
She rolled her eyes as the Heathers sang their peer pressure at a girl she's come to know as Veronica Sawyer. 'Welcome to your candy store indeed', she thought reading her poetry book.
"Veronica look!" Martha said excitedly from a few feet away from her. "Ram invited me too his home coming party! See I told you there was still something there! It proves he's been thinking about me!" Martha was so excited, and Veronica looked so conflicted.
"Color me stoked." She said with a forced smile and painfully obvious displeasure at not telling her the truth. JD shock her head at the beautiful and obviously guilty girl. The three girls finish with a lot of flare. Veronica walks by her and she decides the girl needs to hear her opinion.
"Way to bow down to the Swatch-Dogs and Diet-Coke-Heads." She says in a slightly taunting voice. Her voice already deep enough to fool anyone even more. "You really crushed that girl." Her voice took a sad turn.
"I'm sorry what?" Veronica asks her looking concerned. JD got up off the floor and locked eyes with her.
"Clearly you've got a soul. You just have to work harder on keeping it clean." She tells her firmly. "We are all born marked for evil." She says before starting to walk away.
"Um, okay. Don't just quote Baudelaire to me and walk away. Excuse me." She says following after her. JD freezes and glances over her shoulder at her. "I didn't catch your name." She says quietly. She was turned on by her mysterious ways.
"I didn't throw it." She says looking at her in an almost reverent way. Veronica turned away at the same time as her and looked shocked at how smooth she was. She walks a few more steps before stopping to find her place again.
"Hey, Sweetheart! What did your boyfriend say when you told him you were moving to Sherwood, Ohio?" Kurt asks as he throws an arm around JD's shoulder as she moved away from Veronica. She looked up at them bored.
"My buddy Kurt asked you a question!" Ram said smacking her on the back of the head.
"Hey Ram doesn't the cafeteria have a no fags allowed rule?" He asks in a condescending tone. She closes the book and notices the crowd that is forming around the three. Maybe this would empress Veronica?
"Seems to have an open door policy on Assholes though." She says in a rather deadpan and uncaring tone.
"Hold his arms." Kurt said and Ram moved to do as he's told. JD uses her book to block Kurt's punch and smacks Kurt upside the face with it. She turns around too hit Ram with it. Kurt was already moving back towards her so her threw out her knee to hit his groan at full force. Ram moves back towards her and she throws a punch at his face. All he could hear was A chorus of 'Holy Shit!" Time seemed to slow too a complete stop as Veronica began to sing to her.
"Why when you see boys fighting does it look so horrible, yet feel so right?" She sang eyes locked in the fight. I shouldn't watch this. That's not who I am but with this kid, Damn~. Hey, Mr.-no-name-kid. So who might you be? And could you fight for me? Hey, and could you face the crowd. Could you be seen with me and still act proud?" She moved over to them and wrapped their hands together. "Hey could you hold my hand? And could you carry me through No Man's Land." She moved away from the fight and back to where she had been standing.
"It's fine if you don't agree, but I would fight for you if you'd fight for me." Time started to crawl forward again. "Let them drive us underground. I don't care how far. You can set my broke bones and I know CPR." Time started too move a little faster. "Well, woah. You punch real good. You've lasted longer then I thought you would." Kurt got back up and moved too punch her, but he missed her completely. "So hey, Mr.-no-name kid. If some night your free, wanna fight for me?" She grabbed his head and moved it to head butt him repeatedly. "If you're still alive. I would fight so you! if you fight for me!" She let him go and he staggered before hitting the ground and the world was finally moving back at full speed.
"He fights better then the real Beau Diddily." Ram says holding his face. "Have you ever seen 'Enter the Dragon'? Beau Diddly fights with his shirt off and he's like pretty ripped."
"Fag." Kurt says pushing him away.
"Shut up!" Ram says pushing him back.
"Ram's eating Chinese tonight!" Kurt yells making it look like he's blowing two dicks at once. Ram pushes him out of the room.
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JD is sitting in her room looking at all of her boxs and sighs before heading back down stairs and out the door to her motorcycle. She turns the key and off she goes to the 7/11. She's standing by the Slurpy machine when the door opens and Veronica walks in. JD smiles to herself.
"Veronica! Don't forget the corn nuts! It's not a party without corn nuts!" Chandler yells.
"BQ or Plain?" She yells back.
"BQ!" She yells as if it were obvious. Veronica reaches down and grabs a couple of bags.
"Greetings and Salutations." JD says as she appears behind her a full slurpy cup in hand."You want a slurpy with that?"
"No, but if your nice I'll let you buy me a big gulp." She said in a flirtatious tone.
"That's like going to Micky D's and ordering a salad!" She informed Veronica in a scandalized tone. "Slurpy is the signature dish of the house. Did you say Cherry, or Orange?" She asks with a charming and open smile.
"I said big gulp." Veronica informs her with a teasing smile of her own. JD walks back over too her moving away from the Machine. "I'm Veronica by the way. Are you ever going to tell me your name?" She asks looking a little nervous.
"I'll end the suspense. I'm Jessica Dean. JD for short." She offers Veronica her hand and is surprised when she doesn't pull away in disgust and instead the girl just takes it slightly embarrassed.
"JD, that was extreme in the Caf yesterday." She said laughing slightly.
"Well, extreme always makes an impression." She says looking at her with a strangely sad smile. Veronica giggles nervously as she fidgets trying to flirt with JD.
"So what's a Baudelaire quoting, bad ass like you doing in Sherwood, Ohio?" She asks before biting her lip. JD's mood visibly soured.
"My dad's work. He owns a de-construction company." She says with sarcastic excitement.
"De-construction company?" She sounds so confused.
"The old man seems to enjoy tearing things down. You've seen the commercial." She does the best impression of her father she can. "My names Big Bud Dean! If it's in the way I'll make your day!" She makes a jerking off gesture and ends it looking disgusted. Veronica laughed at least, and that made JD smile.
"And he pushes the plunger and the screen blows up." Veronica laughs harder before stopping feeling awkward again. "That's your dad?" She realizes what that means.
"In all his semi-psychotic glory." She says in a sarcastic tone smiling softly at Veronica.
"Everyone's life has got static." She has an understanding tone and JD finally feels like she's met someone who actually understands her pain. The sound of a car horn destroys the almost moment between the two.
"VERONICA!" Chandler screams from the car. They both look out the window towards her. JD looks back at her wondering for a split second if she's ditching her girlfriend for her, but the look of displeasure on her face tells her they're not even friends.
"Example: I don't really like my friends." She explains glaring at the car through the window.
"I don't really like your friends either." She explains pointing towards them. 'They ruined our moment.' She thinks bitterly. "Bag the party. Hang here." She says moving closer too Veronica flirting with her.
"Ahhh. At the 7/11?" She asks teasingly. "Swanky first date." She says leaning on the counter in front of JD.
"Hey, I love this place." She says with a shurg trying too act cool about how much she likes the fact the Veronica seems to want to understand her.
"No offense, but why?" Veronica asks with a slight laugh.
"I've been to ten high schools. They start to get blurry. No point of planting roots cause you're gone in hurry. My dad keeps two suit cases packed in the den, so it's only a matter of when." She explains singing too Veronica all her feels. "I don't learn their names don't bother with face. All I can trust is this concrete oasis. Seems every time I'm about too despair, there's a 7/11 right there! Each store is the same from Las Vages to Boston. Linoleum isles I love to get lost in!"
Veronica watches her smiling enjoying JD's love for a Convenient store.
"I pray at my alter of slush! Yeah, I crave that sweet frozen rush." She pauses to take a long sip. "Freeze your brain~." She holds the note almost as if she was singing to the love of her life. "Suck on that straw get lost in the pain. Happiness comes when everything numbs. Who needs cocaine? Freeze your brain. Freeze your brain." She sings almost agressively now. "Care for a hit?" She asks holding it out too her.
"Does your mommy know that you eat all that crap?" She asks teasingly.
"Not anymore." Her hand squeezes the cup harder and her voice gets angry. "When mom was alive we lived halfway normal." She moved away from Veronica when she reached out too comfort her. "Now it's just me and my dad we're less formal." She calmed down and smiled at her softly. "I learn to cook pasta, I learned to pay rent, learned the world doesn't owe you a scent." She explains turning fully towards Veronica.
"You're planning your future Veronica Sawyer. You'll go too some collage and marry a lawyer." She moves closer too her. "But the sky's gonna hurt when it falls, so you better start building some walls." She advises her voice and face hardening again. She moves away from her with the slight change in mood. "Freeze your brain! Swim in the ice; get lost in the pain. Shut your eyes tight til you vanish from sight. Let nothing remain!" She looks at her her face looking almost scary at how angry she seems. "Freeze your brain! Shatter your skull fight pain with more pain! Forget who you are; unburden your load. Forget in six weeks you'll be back on the road! When the voice in your head says your better off dead, don't open a vein!" She holds the note before visibly calming down.
"Just freeze your brain." She moves closer too her singing softly a look of deep sadness in her eyes. "Freeze your brain." She says it more then singing. "Go on and freeze your brain." She holds out the Slurpy to Veronica. She was looking at her with concern, but not pity. "Try it." She offers softly. Veronica touches her face softly, but takes the cup anyway and takes a sip.
"Yeah I don't really see- YEAH OH! SON OF A BITCH!" She says reaching for her head. Heather Chandler walks in looking angry.
"Veronica." She says with poorly hidden rage.
"Ahh, I gotta go." She says handing back the Slurpy.
"Corn Nuts!" She shouts angrily. And Veronica goes and grabs them from the counter. "Wave bye-bye too Red Dawn here and lets motor!" She walks out and Veronica rolls her eyes before turning back to JD. She motions for her too go and watches her leave with a strange almost possessive look.