Ok, here it is, chapter two of I hate you... well here ya go.
The halls of Porkbelly middle school were abuzz with activity. Students were running through the halls, teachers had completely given up all hope to calm them down. That is until Johnny walked in the front door. The halls went quiet; all eyes were on the flame haired boy. The news about Johnny's outburst had quickly traveled throughout the whole town so that every last person had heard the news. Johnny merely sighed and made his was to his locker.
The students parted for him, whether out of fear or something else he didn't know, but really didn't care. Finally he managed to reach his locker and throw his stuff inside. He slammed the locker shut turned away, only to find Sissy Blakely of all people blocking his path.
"Uh... hi." He stammered. He was a bit nervous around Sissy now that he had grown older; girls had suddenly become 'interesting' to him, especially such a pretty girl like Sissy.
"Um... hi Johnny." She stammered as well. "Look, I saw what happened yesterday." She admitted.
"Oh, you saw that huh?" He said, now feeling a little embarrassed over his outburst.
Sissy nodded. "Ya, but I think it was really cool of you how you stood up to your dad like that. I've seen the way he treats you sometimes."
"Th – thanks," Johnny could feel his face beginning to heat up and fought hard to keep himself from blushing. "I better get to class now." He said and began to walk away, until he felt Sissy grab his wrist. He turned around again and saw that Sissy was blushing furiously, making him blush a little as well.
Sissy immediately released her grip on him and looked away. "Uh... w-would you like to, um, come over to my house after school, maybe?" She said. Her voice sounded very small and quiet to Johnny. "I never really see you hanging around anyone other than your dog, so I just figured you might want some human company." She laughed nervously. Johnny swallowed the lump forming in his throat and had to force his voice to work.
"I'd love to." He was surprised at how calm his voice came out.
"Great," Sissy said, smiling wide.
A minute later, the bell for class rung and both preteens had to scramble to make it to their classes. Just as Johnny was about to reach his first class, an arm came out of nowhere and clothes lined Johnny. Not expecting the impact, Johnny had the wind knocked out of him and fell to the ground. He groaned, seeing as his head had made a nice cracking sound when it hit the floor he was disoriented.
"Well well, if it isn't Johnny Test." Johnny looked up and saw the familiar grey face of the school bully Bumper. "Looks like you need to watch where you're going."
Johnny scowled up at the school's tormentor. Johnny quickly stood up and shoved Bumper into a locker while he was busy laughing. They grey boy glared at Johnny who glared right back. In the past year, Johnny had grown a lot taller so that he now stood a good inch taller than the bully. It was a fact that Bumper was now very aware of as he began to lose his nerve against his punching bag.
"Boys," Johnny and Bumper turned and saw the principle standing with his arms crossed. "Is there a problem here?"
"No problem at all sir." Bumper said, faking innocence.
"Then please get to class." Both boys turned around and began to walk to the classroom.
"We'll finish this at recess."
Class was boring as usual for Johnny. As much as Johnny hated it, he was actually smart. He only played dumb because he didn't want to give his father anymore reason to try and groom him into someone like his sisters. Johnny laughed when he thought of how obvious it all really was. All the elaborate plans he had made off the top of his head, how he could always be a step ahead of his sisters and always have something ready to use against them, hell he even managed to break into the lab all those time, despite the fact that the girls were top of their engineering classes at Porkbelly tech. Sure he wasn't a mega genius, but he was defiantly a lot smarter than most people.
Now he was bored though. Mr. Teacherman had already finished the lecture and he had already done his homework. Sighing, he pulled out his iPod and set it to play 'I Hate Everything About You' by Three Days Grace. For some reason he had taken a liking to the song. With nothing else to distract him, Johnny found his thoughts drifting to what would happen at recess. Johnny knew he could easily beat up Bumper. The only reason he had control over the school was because he had a big strength advantage against the other kids. He had no really fighting abilities, in fact the only reason he had a black belt in Kung Fu was because the owner of the dojo was a friend of Bumper's dad. As well as his height, Johnny's strength had grown to the point where he was sure he could out muscle Bumper.
But why bother?
Even if Johnny fought Bumper it wouldn't solve anything. Bumper would just walk away with a wounded pride, then pick on some other kid who were too weak to defend themselves. Bumper needed to be taught a lesson once and for all. Johnny smiled as he let his mind go to work on a plan.
The bell rang a few hours later to signify that recess had come. The student filed outside and immediately headed to a small isolated corner of the schoolyard. Students gathered around where Johnny and Bumper were standing. Both boys were glaring at each other. The crowed quieted, just watching and waiting for who would make the first move. Suddenly, Bumper charged forward with his fist raised, but before he could punch, he felt Johnny's fingers suddenly wrapped around his neck.
Everyone was dumbfounded, including Bumper who was desperately trying to pry his opponents' fingers way from his through, but Johnny's grip was like an iron cable. Johnny threw Bumper backwards. "You know what your problem is Bumper? You're a loser." Bumper scowled furiously at Johnny as he got back up and charged in for another attack. This time, Johnny blocked the other boy's punch and countered with a hard punch of his own.
Bumper stumbled back, clutching his nose. He removed his hands and saw flecks of blood on his hands. "You're dead for that Test."
Bumper charged for a third time, throwing punches that Johnny dodged with impressive speed. Bumper got more and more furious with each punch. He pulled his fist back and threw it forward, putting all his strength into it. Johnny saw the punch coming and rolled his head to the side. Bumper's fist sailed past Johnny and straight into the school wall. He screamed out of pain and sank to his knees, cradling his broken knuckles.
"You're pathetic Bumper." Johnny said, kicking him in the chest. "You're nothing but an arrogant bastard who thinks he can do whatever the hell he wants." Bumper got back to his feet only to be smashed in the jaw by Johnny's fist. Bumper stumbled backwards and managed to open his eyes. What he saw was that Johnny was wearing a furious look of his own. Johnny quickly closed the distance between them and grabbed Bumper's shirt. "The sad simple fact about your life is that you are a loser." He shouted and punched the bully in the face while still holding onto him, "and you will always be a loser until the day you manage to pull your head out of your ass and look at what you're doing." Johnny punched Bumper in the face again and let him fall to the ground. He stood over Bumper, glaring down at him. "It's not the fact that you bully other people, it's not the fact that you arrogant, it's the fact that you actually have potential to be someone, yet you waist it all."
All the students watching the fight gapped at Johnny like he had suddenly grown a second head.
"Wha-?"
"I've seen what you can do Bumper." Johnny said, cutting him off. "You could be someone important; I know what you're capable of." When Bumper still gave Johnny a confused look he continued. "You're strong; people would fallow you if you were willing to lead them."
Before anything else could be said, the principle and Mr. Teacherman appeared. The teacher naturally looked angry, but one look at the principle and Johnny could tell that his anger was forced.
"The office, now." the principle said.
"I know the way," was Johnny's only response. Instead of heading to the office like the principle had ordered though, Johnny bent down and helped his opponent up from the cold ground. Bumper looked confused until Johnny draped his arm over his shoulders and began helping him walk to the office.
Thirty minutes later.
After a short trip the nurse's office for Bumper, both boys sat quietly outside the office. Both their parents had been called and were on their way to pick their respective kid up. As part of the punishment, they were stuck doing extra math homework while they waited, but Bumper couldn't focus on his work. He swallowed as the tension grew. Johnny looked calm as he quickly jotted down answers. Finally it was too much for Bumper to handle.
"You... You really think I could be someone important?" Johnny looked up from his work, not surprised that the bully had talked.
"Bumper, look at this problem." Johnny said, sliding his paper so Bumper could see. "This question here; where it asks us to find the diameter of the circle." Bumper looked at it and thought it was complete gibberish. The way to solve this is simple; divide the diameter by two, then times the answer to that by two, and then times that by pi/three point one four and that's how you get your answer. Now solve the question." Bumper picked up his pencil and began to write quickly, looking back between the numbers and where he was writing. When he set his pencil down, Johnny looked at the answer and smiled. "Congratulations Bumper, you just flawlessly solved a question that the whole class has been struggling with for over two weeks."
Bumper looked between the paper and Johnny's smirking face. "Wow," was all he was able to say.
"I don't know what we're going to do with that Test boy sir. I was hoping he wouldn't go down a path like this, but now I'm not sure." Henry said in the office.
"On the contrary, it looks like Johnny's fallowing in our footsteps perfectly." The principle countered and pointed out the window. Henry followed his finger and gave a quiet gasp when he saw Johnny and Bumper talking animatedly with each other. "Remind you of anyone else." This time, Henry smiled as he faced his long time friend again.
"It sure does, although I don't remember being as pale as Bumper." Both of them laughed.
"History has a funny way of repeating itself, doesn't it? The underestimated town trouble maker finally grows up and stands up for himself against the school bully."
"A fights called and the town trouble maker wins, the two are forced to talk and we've been best friends ever since." Henry finished where his long time friend stopped off. Both of the grown men sighed, revisit the days of their childhoods. The principle casts a lazy glance out his window and saw two cars pull up at the front entrance.
"Damn," he cursed. "I was hoping they'd have a bit more time to bond.
"Don't worry about them," Henry said, standing up then helping his friend out of his chair. "They'll be fine; after all they're just like us."
And there you have it, the second chapter to I hate you, I know Johnny didn't actually say I hate you, but you still get the point. Anyways people who are for some reason still reading this fic, I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
And don't worry, there will be a third.
I'm not asking you to, but getting reviews does help inspire me to write more.
