Chapter 1: The Healing of an Old Friendship
It was a peaceful Friday at the park but a poignant one for a girl. She had her blonde hair done in a ponytail, tied with a pink hair tie. She wore a green tank top and beige jean capris along with pink and white sneakers. She sat a bench unaccompanied at the park, under a nest of three diplomatic eggs in a cozy nest which was sitting on an old branch, crying. A girl came along and sat down beside her. She had her black, sentimental hair braid and wore a pink lengthy t-shirt and plain blue jeans. With that she had a black choker and austere brown shoes.
BLONDE GIRL: Libby, what do you want!
LIBBY: Girl, Cindy, it's all right.
CINDY: No it's not!
LIBBY: Cindy, I got a B+ too. I even got a B- on my report card and I'm cool with it.
CINDY: You know I've been running straight As and A+s! And now I have one B! That B+ can change my future. I won't be that great! Spewtron would get spotlight and I'd be watching him! I mean sure I could be a teacher or a nurse or a lawyer but Putron could be a real genius!
LIBBY: Cindy, what part of 'Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius' do you not understand?
CINDY: I understand that but all I'm saying is that my future is getting worse with that one B!
LIBBY: Girl, you should really stop with the drama. You could improve that B+ to an A-. Maybe an A again or even better an A+.
CINDY: I just wanna be left alone.
LIBBY: Cindy, you should just relax. Chill. Cool down. Okay?
Libby left Cindy, alone. Clouds began to gather, gray and gloomy. Raindrops started to descend. Cindy just stayed there no matter how rigid the rain was on her. Cindy just thought over and over about her outlook. She looked back, earlier to when she opened her report card.
: Flashback :
It was a good ol' Friday, report card day. Cindy was confident she'd get all As and A+s. A lady with a red shirt and a blue skirt, glassed and slip on sandals and her hair up, her teacher passed Cindy with her report card envelope. The envelope read 'Cynthia Vortex'. Cindy carefully began opening the envelope and seized her report card. She unfolded it, glee and anxiety running all over her. She finally got a glimpse of it and she turned over from glad to sad. It read:
Math - A
Science - A+
Social Studies - A+
Health - A
Physical Education - A+
World Language - A
Language Arts - B+
She panicked and dropped her report card, raising her hand in dread.
TEACHER: Yes Cindy?
CINDY: Ms. Fowl, this can't be! It just can't!
MS. FOWL: What can't be?
CINDY: This B! In Language Arts! B!
Ms. Fowl took the paper of grades and looked across Language Arts which read B+
MS. FOWL: Cindy, I'm sorry but you've been forgetting to bring in your Language Arts homework and remember that A- you got on three projects in Language Arts?
A kid sitting next to Cindy, a boy with a red shirt and cuffed jeans, with gray and white sneakers and an acorn shaped head was laughing in triumph.
BOY: Ha-ha-ha! Finally! The joker got karma. So, what are you going to get next marking period? A B-? Maybe even a C!
CINDY: Jimmy, you better shut it!
JIMMY: Why? It's about time you went down after all those ghastly deeds you've done. Even though I don't believe in karma, you still got it!
Cindy rushed to her locker and grabbed her bag and departing the building, running away to another place. She went to the park and sobbed there, alone
: Flashback Ends :
CINDY: (murmuring to herself) Maybe Neutron is right. Karma. Maybe I should be nice to him. No wait, that's dumb. But maybe I could go up back to an A student if I'm nice to him.
Cindy got up, took her bag and walked to Jimmy's house. Cindy rang the doorbell and Jimmy answered, staring at her in amazement, angst and trepidation
JIMMY: Vortex? What do you want.
Jimmy remembers her report card grades and a smile came upon him
JIMMY: You want to be scorned even more? How great is this day!
CINDY: Neu…I mean Jimmy, I'm sorry.
JIMMY: Hey look, it's the girl whose grades went dow…wait, excuse me?
CINDY: I said I'm sorry Jimmy.
JIMMY: Is this some trick because you know I'm smart enough not to fall for it. Okay so maybe I could fall for it but still, since when would you be sorry to me?
CINDY: I realized then how pitiless and malevolent I've been to you, since our first Science fair, since I gave Goddard a big shock in front of everyone, in front of the judges, the contestants, us and leaving you in tears.
JIMMY: This is really peculiar and bizarre.
CINDY: I'm really sorry. Truly.
Mrs. Neutron came and gave Jimmy an old picture, a picture with Cindy and Jimmy in their younger ages. Jimmy was wearing a red and white striped t-shirt and shorts. Cindy was wearing a nice pink dress.
JIMMY: Mom! Did you have to eavesdrop on us?
MRS. NEUTRON: Well I was sitting with you and you two were in front of me, well I had a feeling you forgot but still, I noticed during the past few years, you've shun one another. Now Cindy here is apologizing and I remembered that picture in your room of you two coloring pictures.
CINDY: You know, I have that same picture on my dresser in that wooden picture frame you gave me on my sixth birthday, well except it's faced flat down.
MRS. NEUTRON: Maybe you could get along, be friends again like before.
Jimmy and Cindy are thinking and Mrs. Neutron was standing behind Jimmy when the oven alarm set off DING!
MRS. NEUTRON: Ooh, the lemon cookies are ready. Jimmy, Cindy, want to help with the icing?
Jimmy turned to Cindy and smiled
JIMMY: Well come on in, Cindy.
Jimmy took Cindy's hand and Cindy came inside