Chapter two Getting used to each other

"Oh my God!" said Claire disgusted.

Lily did not believe Bender would pee in the library.

"Hey, yer not urinating in here man!"

"Don't talk! Don't talk! It makes it crawl back up!"

Lily lowered her head again as she did not want to see anyone peeing.

"You whip it out and you're dead before the first drop hits the floor!"

Bender gasps mockingly.

"You're pretty sexy when you get angry... grrr!"

Bender turns to Brian.

"Hey, homeboy..."

Brian points at himself with his pen.

"...why don't you go close that door. We'll get the prom queen impregnated!"

Lily lifted her head in horror at this suggestion. Claire turns and glares at him. Andrew started shouting to catch the attention of Bender, who ignored him.

"Hey!"

"What?" Bender finally answered.

"If I lose my temper, you're totalled man!"

"Totally?"

"Totally!"

"Why don't you just shup up! Nobody here is interested!"

Andrew mumbled something to Claire.

"Well hey Sporto! What'd you do to get in here? Forget to wash your jock?"

"Seriously, do not you get tired?" she asks with her head on the table, Lily.

"Shh." Asnwered Bender to her.

"Uh, excuse me, fellas? I think we should just write our papers..." Brian spoke without being heard.

"Look, just because you live in here doesn't give you the right to be a pain in the ass... so knock it off!"

Bender mockingly registers pain in his face.

"It's a free country..."

Claire tells Andrew to forget Bender, who replies that she would be unable to forget him.

"So... so! Are you guys like boyfriend/girlfriend? Steady dates? Lo-vers? Come on Sporto, level with me. Do you slip her the hot... beef... injection?"

Claire and Andrew turn to face Bender, both furious. Bender had reached the limit.

"Go to hell!"

"Enough!"

Claire and Andrew shouted at the same time, drawing attention to Vernon across the hall.

"Hey! What's going on in there?"

They all look to each other. Andrew turns away from Bender.

"Scumbag!"

Bender stands up and walks over to the railing. He sits on it.

"What do you say we close that door. We can't have any kind of party with Vernon checking us out every few seconds."

"Well, you know the door's s'posed to stay open..." Brian answered, being first heard by Bender.

"So what?"

"So why don't you just shut up! There's five other people in here you know..." said Andrew.

"God, you can count. See! I knew you had to be smart to be a... a wrestler."

"Who the hell are you to judge anybody anyway?"

"Really..." said Claire.

"You know, Bender... you don't even count. I mean if you disappeared forever it wouldn't make any difference. You may as well not even exist at this school."

Lily, who now had her head up, notices in Bender's eyes that he was hurt by Andrew's words, but he did not let it show. She was going to give an answer to the sportsman, but was stopped by the look of Bender.

"Well... I'll just run right out and join the wrestling team."

Andrew and Claire look at each other and laugh at him.

"Maybe the prep club too! Student council..."

"No, they wouldn't take you."

"I'm hurt."

"You know why guys like you knock everything..." Claire begins to give her opinion.

"Oh, this sould be stunning..."

"It's cause you're afraid."

"Oh, God! You ritchies are so smart, that's exactly why I'm not heavy in activities!" said Bender with mock enthusiasm.

"You're a big coward!"

Brian feels left out. "I'm in the math club..." said to no one in particular.

"See you're afraid that they won't take you. You don't belong so you just have to dump all over it..."

"Well... it wouldn't have anything to do you with you activities people being assholes... now would it?"

"Well you wouldn't know... You don't even know any of us."

"Well, I don't know any lepers either, but I'm not gonna run out and join one of their fucking clubs."

"Hey let's watch the mouth, huh?" said Andrew.

Brian feels he needs to contribute.

"I'm in the physics club too..."

Bender excuses Claire and talk to Brian.

"What are you babbling about?"

"Well, what I said was... I'm in the math club, the Latin club and the physics club... physics club."

Lily smiles as she contemplates Brian's innocence.

"Hey... Cherry... do you belongs to the physics club?"

"That's an academic club..."

"So?"

"So the popular do not come together in useful groups, only in themselves." Lily replied, wringing a smile from Bender.

"You're the smart one. So, are you in any club? "

"No."

"So... academic clubs aren't the same as other kinds of clubs." The redhead responds, glaring at the blonde.

"Oh, but to dorks like him... they are. What do you guys do in your club?"

"In physics, um, we ah, we talk about physics... about properties of physics."

"So it's sorta social... demented and sad, but social. Right?"

"Yeah, well, I guess you could consider it a social situation. I mean there are other children in my club and uh, at the end of the year we, um, you know, a big banquet, at the, uh, at the Hilton."

"You load up, you party..."

"Well, no, we get dressed up... I mean, but, we don't... we don't get high."

"Only burners like you get high..." Claire said, maybe spoiling the first interesting part of this morning.

"And, uh, I didn't have any shoes. So I had to borrow my dad's. It was kinda weird 'cause my mom doesn't like me to wear other people's shoes. And, uh, my cousin Kent... my cousin Kendall from, uh, Indiana... He got high once and you know, he started eating like really weird foods. And, uh, then he just felt like he didn't belong anywhere. You know, kinda like, you know 'Twilight Zone' kinda."

The life of the nerd may, perhaps be interesting

"Sounds like you..."

"Look, you guys keep up your talking and Vernon's gonna come right in here... I got a meet this Saturday and I'm not gonna miss it on account of you boneheads..." Andrew complained.

"Oh and wouldn't that be a bite..."

Bender lets out a moan of fake agony.

"Missing a whole wrestling meet!"

"Well you wouldn't know anything about it, faggot! You never competed in your whole life!"

"Oh, I know... I feel all empty inside because of it. I have such a deep admiration for guys that roll around on the floor with other guys!" said Bender with mock hurt.

"Ahhh... you'd never miss it. You don't have any goals."

"Oh, but I do!"

"Yeah?"

"I wanna be just like you! I figure all I need's a labotamy and some tights!""

Brian becomes interested.

"You wear tights?"

"No I don't wear tights, I wear the required uniform..." tried to explain Andrew.

"Tights..."

"Shut up!" shouted Andrew defensively.

Guys, it's going to be like this for a while, Lily is like Allison, does not say much. The part that I really want to get, for you to understand, is group therapy. See you next chapter!