Jack and the others walked down the halls of Seaford high, chatting about health class.
"Yeah I took that class." Jack mentioned. "When they showed the video of the whale having a baby, I almost gave birth to my lunch." he finished, looking slightly green as he thought about it. He tuned out as Jerry started talking about a project and…eggs?"
He was brought out of his thoughts (most focusing on a certain karate fighting blonde) by the principle as he strode proudly down the halls.
"Big news, everyone, Big news. Thanks to a winning essay by our own Kim Crawford, our school has won a concert from international mega popstar: Rickey Weaver!" the hallways erupted into applause, Jack noticing that it was from most of the girls.
He shrugged and clapped as well, always one for adding to the fun. As the principle walked away, Jack watched Kim turn to her friend.
"I can't believe I won!" she exclaimed excitedly to Grace.
"Whoa wait Kim. You're into Rickey Weaver?" he asked, smirking as he pictured Kim dancing to the high pitched weirdo's music who really needed to hit puberty.
"Um…no. I'm not even sure who Rickey Weaver is." she stuttered as her cheeks went bright red. Jack raised an eyebrow at Kim's excuse, knowing she was never really good at lying.
"Really Kim?" Grace smirked as she backed up towards Kim's locker. "Because your lockers a huge fan." she said as she pulled it open, revealing Rickey posters covered in hearts as one of his 'hits' started playing.
Jack, Eddie, Milton and Jerry started snickering, gathering round to get a closer look.
"Thanks a lot Grace!" Kim snapped as she fought to close her locker. Grace resisted a little before letting Kim snap it shut. Jack kept smirking as Kim turned to them, a deep flush across her cheeks.
"Fine. I love him. I downloaded all of his music and now I'm goanna meet him. RICKEY!" she squealed as she danced off on her toes. Jack winced at the sound before turning to the others.
"I'm beginning to think she knows who Rickey is." he said.
He heard an irritated sigh behind him as Grace went to talk to Jerry. Once again he tuned out, Kim on his mind.
It had been happening a lot lately, his mind wandering over to her. She was smart, good at karate, beautiful, totally lovable, cool, fu-wait what? He forgot his current surroundings as he backtracked on what he had just thought.
True everyone thought Kim was pretty, but why would he care if she was beautiful? And lovable? She was his best friend and had been since he moved to Seaford when he was 14, two years ago. True he had taunted her on having a crush on him at first, but he never really meant it or considered it.
He felt himself blush as he thought about what life would be like if Kim did love him, and he loved her back. In all fairness it wasn't hard to love Kim.
'That's because you already do.' he thought. He sighed, knowing that (from watching all those boring movies Kim forced him into on her 16th birthday) arguing with the subconscious was a pointless move. He decided that, since Kim was obsessing over Rickey Weaver, now wasn't the best time to see if she liked him back. I guess I'll have to wait. God why is love so hard?' he thought.
Instead he focused back on what was going on in time to watch Jerry burp before he ran away.