Kay I started writing this a few hours after I posted the first chapter so that I remembered where I was going to take the story.
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Benji was watching his best friend Hero try to make some new friends when things had started to spin out of control. Hero had been walking to get in line under the pretense of getting 'seconds' which for him meant somewhere between seconds and thirteenths, what he was really trying to do was get closer to one of the girls.
Just as he was about to get into line two idiot jocks had started to fight and one had collided with Hero, watching Hero and the jock tumble at the new girls' feet had been bad enough, but the Mountain Dew that Hero had been drinking flew from the tray and spilled its contents all over Alex's jacket and shirt, and they both looked so new!
Hero was lying on the ground at Alex's feet with one of the jocks lying on his back. The jock's enemy seeing what he had caused quickly ran forward and grabbed the other idiot by the collar and they both quickly helped Hero to his feet.
"Sorry, didn't see you there won't happen again." One said to Hero while the other apologized about the mountain Dew to Alex before they both quickly ran away.
As soon as the Mountain Dew landed Trudy ran to the napkin rack and grabbed some and ran back. While she was doing that Alex bent down ignoring the spill to help Hero pick up the rest of his food.
"Sorry about that." Hero said as she helped him pick up the remnants of his lunch. "That's okay it wasn't your fault and it's already dried." She said.
Hero looked at her like she was crazy. "How could it already be dry?" he asked her as they both stood up and he gave her one of his infamous smiles. They were infamous because almost every girl he gave one to fell in love like that.
"I dry quickly and I guess my clothes do too. The name's Alex by the way." Alex said.
"Hero," He saw the look on her face, "No seriously that's what everyone calls me so you should too." He extended his hand for her to shake.
She took it and said, "Well it's nice to meet you 'Hero' "as she said that Trudy came back with the napkins. " Who's a hero Alex?" Trudy asked as she handed
"That's my nickname." Hero told the Hispanic girl as they got back into line. He saw that she was about to ask how he had gotten that nickname and he intercepted her. "You don't want to know." Trudy nodded at that and then said "my names Trudy Chacon future Air Force pilot and tough as nails." She said proudly.
"So do I have to go back and beat those guys up?" Trudy asked with a smile. "No my shirt's already dry and it was an accident." Alex said.
"Whatever it's just a shirt and they'll probably give me a reason to beat them up later." Trudy said with a smile like she enjoyed beating up jocks or something.
They quickly went through the line and then Hero led them back to his table he retook his seat next to Benji and then introduced the three of them.
"Nice too meet you." Benji said still typing away without loosing a second as he looked up to talk to them.
"You too." Trudy said "Nice to meet you too." Alex said as they sat down.
The four of them talked for a while and then when the bell rang they threw their trash away and then went to their classes.
In the sixth period Hero sat down in his usual seat in the back of his Science class and started to doze off as boring Mr. Green started to give a speech on global warming and how they all had to save the environment one recycled water bottle at a time, when Alex sat down in the empty seat next to him.
" Wow is this guy boring or what?" she whispered to him as Mr. Green kept going not even noticing that half of the class was asleep.
"It's the same topic every day, save the environment, if you find a tree hug it until it hugs back blah blah blah.
"And what's wrong with that topic?" Alex asked. Hero looked at her like she was crazy for a few long seconds then she laughed.
"Wow you really don't like the environment do you?" "I like the environment fine; I just don't like trees, or working too hard into something that I find unnecessary." Hero responded.
Alex gave him a look that said that is the dumbest excuse I've ever heard. "What! I just don't like tree okay!" he said a little louder than he meant to.
The whole room got quiet for a solid minute then Mr. Green cleared his throat. " Well Mister 'Hero' why don't you spend a detention to show us just how much you don't like trees, and the ability to breathe? Say you here tomorrow night instead of at the dance I'm sure you were asking Ms. Hale to instead of paying attention to my riveting speech!" Mr. Green said.
Alex and Hero quickly and hopefully subtly moved as far away from each other as possible. "Actually , sir, he was telling me why he wouldn't go with me on a camping trip with me this long weekend but he could have just said he had other plans instead of making a dumb excuse like that!" Alex said tearing up at the eyes then she stormed out of the classroom weeping.
The classroom was silent and they all turned to look back at Hero judging him. He sat there for a few seconds and said, "Fine! I'll go apologize!" he said exasperated throwing his hands in the air and rolling his eyes at the ceiling to add affect.
As soon as he was out of the door he looked around and saw Alex taking a drink out of the water fountain.
He walked up behind her and poked her on her sides, a place he knew made all girls over actively jump and giggle, which she promptly did.
"Don't do that." She told him pointing at him. For a second they looked at each other seriously for a minute and then they broke down laughing.
"I can't believe that worked." She said in between waves of laughter. "Me either, where'd you even come up with that?" he asked her, though he knew that his whole class would have expected it.
"going through two periods of girls talking about nothing but your rejections of them and how hot you are I picked up what kind of person you are Playboy." She said the last word extending the –oy part out for emphasis.
"Ignoring that, so what exactly do these girls say about me?" He asked her with one of his smiles. " Oh nothing really important or factual, 'Oh Hero he's so hot, oh he's so cute, the way he smiles and winks at me just blow me away, oh my gawd did you see him during gym class today the sweat on his body made him glisten, Oh I'm . . ."
"Okay! I get the point I'm irresistible to people of the opposite sex!" he told her with a laugh.
"No just by those who have more space in between their ears than the space between you and me in a surfing contest." She said with a smile.
"Is that supposed to be an insult, the space between us in a surfing contest? I don't even surf how that is a fair comparison?" Hero said faking injury.
"You've never been surfing? What do you live under a rock?" she asked shocked.
"No I just go to a school in the middle of a desert." He told her dryly. "Please don't remind me, how can you have any fun when the only water you get comes out of a tap?" she asked him.
Hero rolled his eyes at that. "I'll show you." He said. "What? When?" she asked shocked.
"I'm open right now." He said. "Cut class with the school Playboy hmm no thank you." She said holding up her hand to show him a promise ring. "I'm good." She said.
"That is totally unfair and biased and-you have a terrible sense of humor." He said after seeing her fighting back a laugh.
"So where to first Playboy?" she asked stretching the –oy again. She would keep doing that the whole day as he showed her the local hang outs.
As they enjoyed themselves in Science class and cutting class Benji and Trudy got to know each other a little better, turns out they were both in the same gym class.
Gym wasn't Benji's favorite class by far but he didn't do terrible in it. Today they were playing boys vs. girls flag football, one of Benji's least favorite games, and one of Trudy's favorites.
Benji was a planner not a front line grunt. He knew the perfect plays to get the job done but he wasn't the best at implementing them against a good foe, especially at this game. After the first ten minutes with the girls up twenty-one to seven Benji actually got into the game.
He wasn't sure what caused it, he was pretty sure it was Trudy's touch down dance, or it could have been Trudy jumping over him to score it, or even there was a chance it could have been Trudy getting him 'down' every time he had the ball, but he was pretty sure it was the touch down dance, but suddenly it was simple for him to make all of the big plays in his mind work and he was taking charge of the team.
After another ten minutes of hard fought game play the score was tied at twenty-seven /twenty-seven with an half a minute left on the clock with boys in possession. 3rd and twelve. Benji hiked the ball and pass faked to one of the jocks. Then he ran it.
He got good coverage and he'd cover half of the distance to the first down when he felt something hard slam into him and he flew to the ground. "What now brain boy!" Trudy said into his face as she tossed his flag back down at him.
The whistle blew to signal the down and Coach Wood was yelling at Benji. "O'Connell! What do you think you're doing! Play the game boy! Don't get your butt handed to you by a girl!" the coach was known for being in your face.
He completely over looked the fact that he had just been tackled in a game of flag football by a girl and huddled for the next play. They were going for it.
He hiked the ball and backed up to throw it and let the ball fly from his hands as Trudy charged at him. He jumped over the girl but just missed getting caught by the legs and falling to the ground. There was the hard slam of his head hitting dirt and when he could focus his eyes again he was looking into Trudy's eyes their noses touching. She had landed on top of him.
They both quickly cleared their throats and got as far away from each other as possible.
Coach was blowing the whistle near the dog pile that was taking place at the first down. Trudy and Benji looked at each other both cleared their throats and said, "That never happened." at the same time.
When the dog pile was broken up the Coach said the game had ended in a tie the ball had ended a few inches short of first down in the wide receiver's hand.
The girls and the boys were arguing about it the whole way back to the school. Trudy and Benji were at the back arguing the most, both saying the other cheated in some way or the other, her tackling him, him doing the pass fake which they had agreed was off limits.
The arguing continued until they were back at the school and they got separated to go to different locker rooms.
Trudy went into the locker room and as the girls changed into their school clothes they talked about the dance that was going on the next evening.
She didn't like dances because of two big reasons 1.) she couldn't dance and 2.) boys never asked her to them. She guessed she'd just spend the night and the long weekend that would follow setting up her room with Alex's help not that it needed much. Just some militarizing on her side and it would good, maybe with some blood splatter to tie it all together.
Trudy walked out of the looker room not having taken off her sunglasses the whole day. Benji had noticed this and wondered about it but didn't ask as they walked together as friends to dinner which was right after classes ended at three today.
Benji got in line right next to Hero and Alex who were talking and laughing like old friends. " What's so funny?" He asked as he tapped Hero on the shoulder.
"What Alex here did to the boys bathroom." Hero said laughing again.
Trudy looked at Alex disapprovingly and then asked, "You went into the boys' bathroom with him? What happened to that promise ring of yours?" she said making her own joke.
Hero laughed at that too and Benji joined in. Alex looked at Trudy shocked. " It was not like that he went in there and two idiots came out and tried to hit on me so I pushed them back in and the they hit the toilets causing them to overflow." She told them.
Even though the boys had landed on the other side of the bathroom, she didn't say.
The dinner went along like that each of them telling their stories of their day and making jokes about different incidents.
It was halfway through the dinner when Mr. Brunner wheeled over to them with the assistance of his student aid Olivia.
Olivia was one of those nature freak students who loved to help people and needed perfect grades to get into college, Hero didn't like her but Benji thought she was cute.
"Hero, Alex I didn't see either of you in Ancient History class today I wanted to tell you two that their was a test today that you missed and the homework was on pages 106-120." Mr. Brunner said.
He was a pretty cool guy by Hero's standards but expected way too much from his students. He actually expected them not to skip his class at least once a semester!
As Olivia was wheeling him away Mr. Brunner looked Hero in the eyes and said, " And Hero try to come up with better excuses than 'I just don't like trees' and 'the idiots must have hit the toilets from ten feet away. Please." Mr. Brunner gave them all a knowing wink and wheeled away.
The four friends turned towards each other looking worried for a second then when he was gone they all started to break out laughing. And so ended the first day.
Hey guys please review even if you hate the story just come out and tell me, I know at least ten people have looked at this please just give me a few seconds of your life to tell me whether this story is a waste of my time or that I need to fix something majorly. And one more question for you that i really need answered I can't think how to bridge what's going to happen next do you guys want me to go strait to the day of the dance or do you want me to build a little more romantic tension before the dance?If i don't get an answer to this i can't start the third chapter until i get a beta which is taking some time. Please and Thank you
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