Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins were vacationing, for quite a long time. They didn't want any disturbances and since their daughter Zoe Hopkins had started acting up in school, she left them no choice but to send her with her brother Jimmy to Bullworth Academy.
Just after dropping her off at the school, Zoe quickly found her new perfect home. Everyone didn't get along, but it was better than those uptight assholes in Drewberry Academy. She didn't seem to stick out like a sore thumb also like she did in Drewberry. Nobody seemed to mind the two small purple braids in her short jagged brown hair or her black knee length boots clashing with her Bullworth Uniform.
"Hey Zoe." Jimmy approached her at the entrance.
"Jimbo, how's it going?" Zoe hugged Jimmy.
"Pretty nice," Jimmy broke the hug, "Come on, I'll show you around."
As they walked around the school grounds, Jimmy pointed out the different people and the groups they belonged in. She couldn't help but laugh when she saw Algie because she wondered if anyone had already told him his zipper was open.
"And that's your first class." Jimmy led her to the Photography room.
"Thanks a lot Jimmy. Hey we have lunch together right?" Zoe asked before going into class.
"Yeah, I'll meet you down there." Jimmy walked away and seemed to be cutting class.
"Good Morning class." Miss Philips stood at the front of the class.
"Morning Miss Philips," the class mumbled back.
Zoe looked around and saw a girl with horn rimmed glassed and blonde puffy hair writing in a diary. She looked at the desks next to her and saw two boys discussing a piece of paper. One of them seemed to be agreeing with everything the other one said and the other one, with a scar on his eyebrow, was passionately explaining something.
"Ah, Zoe HOPKINS. Your brother seems to have forgotten he has class this hour." Miss Philips tapped her desk with a pencil.
"He said he wasn't feeling well." Zoe lied.
The two boys quickly looked up at Zoe.
"Tell him I hope he feels better next week." Miss Philips sighed and told everyone their assignments, which was to take pictures of the freaks in the Carnival.
Just as Zoe was about to exit the school with her camera at hand, the two boys from class stopped her.
"You're Jimmy's sister?" the one with the scar asked.
"Yeah. Zoe." Zoe nodded.
"I'm Gary. And this is Peewee the Peter." Gary announced.
Peter just shrugged and looked down at his shoes.
"I think we better get a move on on the assignment." Zoe walked out of school.
Gary and Petey followed.
"I know how we can get to town faster." Gary walked beside her.
"Hm, how?"
"Jimmy's bikes, I'm sure he'd let you borrow one. After all you're his sister right?" Gary lef her to the bike garage.
"I'll pedal and you get in back all right?" Gary took out a red and orange bike.
"What about Peter?" Zoe asked looking at a bashful Pete.
"I have my own." Peter went into the neighboring garage and took out his baby blue one.
"He'll be fine." Gary assured Zoe.
Zoe stood securely in back of Gary and held onto his shoulders. Gary smiled inside and quickly pedalled to the carnival with Petey following.
They arrived at the near-empty Carnival.
"Wow, this is so cool." Zoe paid the entrance fee and wandered into the carnival.
Gary snuck past the cashier and went in without paying. Petey, however, paid and went in after them.
"All right, the freak show." Gary held the curtain open for Zoe and let it go on Petey's face.
Petey shook his head and sighed. He went in and started taking pictures.
Zoe, on the other hand, was having small conversations with each of them and asking politely for a picture. They all happily accepted.
Gary and Petey were surprised to see such a nice girl in Bullworth.
When they were finished, they still had an hour of free time.
Zoe stretched out her arms and yawned. Gary stared at Zoe's "shirt" as it stretched. "That was fun." Zoe put her arms down.
"Um yeah..." Gary shook his head and pushed Petey away, "There's Beatrice, have fun."
Petey blushed as Beatrice smiled at him. He joined her and left Gary and Zoe alone.
"What's there to do here?" Zoe walked towards the Squid.
"Rides and more rides!" Gary stretched out his arms to everything, "Anyways, what are you doing here in Bullworthless?"
"Getting kicked out of two schools was the breaking point for my sorry excuse for parents." Zoe replied.
"ZOE!" Jimmy came out of the fun house.
"Hey Jim." Zoe smiled.
"Gary..." Jimmy sort of glared at Gary.
"Ms. Philips wondered where you were..." Zoe hinted.
"Yeah I was just helping those nerds get back at the jocks." Jimmy panted.
"That's just great James." Gary snarled but no one seemed to notice, "I'll just be off with Petey. HEY PETER COTTONTAIL!"
Petey and Gary left and Jimmy rode his bike back to school with Zoe.
"So what's the deal with Gary and you?" Jimmy asked Zoe.
"Gary? well he's nice and all but come on, it's barely my first day." Zoe chuckled.
"Yeah well steer yourself a bit away from him." Jimmy made loop around his ear with his finger.
"He's loony? I...well...thanks for the advice..." Zoe didn't think Gary was crazy, he seemed pretty normal to her, "Um well I'll see ya at lunch, I gotta go hand these in."
"All right," Jimmy disappeared.
When Zoe got to class again, Gary was leaning against the wall in front of it.
"Hey." a neutral greeting on Zoe's part.
"So I was thinking, there's a dance this Friday, care to join us?" he pulled Petey by the collar as he was entering the classroom.
"Um yeah all---umm...i'll get back to you on that." Zoe remembered Jimmy's warning.
Gary didn't seem too pleased, he pushed Petey inside and kept nodding no.
"All right, I'll go." Zoe didn't like his reaction so she decided to go along with it.
Gary suddenly changed his mood, "All right okay, I'll see ya!"
Zoe handed in her photos and left the room, still confused on what she had told Gary. A cheerleader walked by her dorm that night.
"HEY! So I hear you're going to the dance with that ADHD weirdo." she said and smiled mischeviously.
"Yeah what's it to ya?" Zoe struck back.
"Just make sure he takes his medication that night...he's a loon." she turned on her heel and left.
"ADHD?" Zoe thought aloud and fell into her bed, "Can't be too bad."