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Club Days
Thursday Afternoon: Science Classroom
"Sorry I'm late... I got caught up talking in the hall." Rebecca said entering the science room. Miss Wong was sitting at her desk, drinking a cup of coffee. She looked up from her crossword.
"Not a problem" Miss Wong replied. Rebecca dropped her backpack and sat down in the straight-backed plastic chair, opposite her.
"So what do you want to know?" Rebecca asked. She hoped this wouldn't take long; she really wanted to meet Jill and Chris for lunch.
"Anything you think would be helpful." Miss Wong replied.
"Well-" Rebecca began leaning back, and folding her hands behind her head. "The Super America station always has cheaper gas, but the Shell station has cheaper smokes. Do not try a rolling stop at our four way stop because you will get a ticket. Ray Bedford will let you run a tab at the Bestway for anything but alcohol-" Rebecca stopped as Miss Wong laughed.
"I suppose that's all good to know, but I really want to know about your former science teacher." Miss Wong said taking a drink of her coffee.
"You mean Tom Thacker?" Rebecca said shrugging. "Not much to tell. He's been the science teacher in this county since before they even built this high school. My Mom had him as a teacher in the old high school back in the sixties. He was the basketball coach most of that time. His favorite rants were about how the shot clock ruined the game and about how the three point shot is unnecessary... Why do you want to know about him?"
"Just curious about my job. What the administration is used too, what is expected of me." Miss Wong replied.
"Well all I can really tell you about that is too take it easy on our "student athletes"" Rebecca replied, a resentful quality to her voice.
"Maybe our high schools aren't so different... By the way why is your school mascot the Wildcat?" Miss Wong asked curiously.
"Because no one would be scared of the "Raccoon County Raccoons"" Rebecca said giggling. "Besides that's an awful pun," she added.
"I see... anyone else I should take it easy on?" Miss Wong asked returning to the original subject.
"Well" Rebecca said with a sigh "There are four families with a lot of influence in this town. The Ashfords, the Birkins, the Weskers and the Frosts. Lets just say you mite get a visit from the Principal if you failed one of them."
"Are you serious?" Miss Wong asked disbelievingly.
"The Birkins are the driving force behind this new drug factory being built. The Ashfords are the richest family in the county, not to mention their Dad works in the distract attorneys office. The Weskers are rich and very well connected. The Frosts... Well-" Rebecca hesitated for a second "I know all the Frosts and you probably won't meet any of them."
"Why is that?" Miss Wong asked curiously.
"Well first of all I'm not sure Joey has spent an entire day at school since he got his drivers license. Now this year he's only taking three classes and I doubt you teach any of them. His parents are nice people but they work in Denver, and aren't exactly community pillars... Oh and Albert Wesker is the quarter back of the football team." Rebecca added as an after thought.
"I see" Miss Wong replied leaning forward. "So what do you know about this new pharmaceutical factory that's being built?"
"Uh-" Rebecca stuttered. She hadn't expected that questions. "Just that it's bringing a lot of jobs."
"Hmmmmm" Miss Wong said. She looked like she was thinking hard about something. "Well Rebecca, I don't think I'll need you the rest of the week. How about you show up every Monday and I'll let you know what days I need you too show up that week... That is how this aid thing works isn't it?" she added smiling knowingly.
"That sounds great!" Rebecca said excitedly. She got up and retrieved her backpack. She was halfway to the door before she thought of something. "Has anyone explained "Club Days" to you yet?" she asked turning back to face Miss Wong.
"No what are those?" Miss Wong asked lowering her coffee cup without taking a drink.
"Every other Wednesday all the clubs in the school meet. Instead of meeting after school they just meet during one of the periods. It switches around. Next Wednesday will be first period, then next time it will be second and so and so on."
"What do these clubs do?" Miss Wong asked sounding uninterested.
"Basically figure out what they can do to raise money to take a trip somewhere." Rebecca replied feeling her stomach growl. "You don't have to run a club, just know that's why you won't have a first period a week from tomorrow."
"Good to know... Have a good day Rebecca" Miss Wong said as Rebecca turned and left the room.
"You too Miss Wong" Rebecca called back. She checked her watch. It was a quarter after two. If she hurried she mite still see Jill and Chris. With that she hurried off in the direction of the school parking lot.
Thursday After School: The Running Track
"How in the hell did Bill do this four times a week?" Richard asked Chris, panting, as Billy and Forest blew past them for another lap. Chris was bent over holding his knees and breathing heavily.
"Don't know, but this is some insane shit... How many laps have we run?" Chris asked looking across the football field towards the far side of the track.
"Ten... so that's about two and a half miles" Richard replied.
"Not enough... Jill said Burton wants us to be able to run five easily and at least one and a half at top speed... This is gonna hurt." Chris said standing up straight as Billy and Forest approached them slowing.
"You two come here to run or stand around?" Billy asked in a sarcastic tone.
"We didn't all run two years of track Bill" Chris retorted. "You sure this is the best routine for us too do?"
"Yeah... The full court press means we need to be able to run for a long time, this is the routine the cross country team uses." Billy replied stretching. "By the way anyone know where Leon is? He said he was gonna be here."
"Where do you think he is?" Forest asked rhetorically. They all knew that Leon and Claire would be making the most out of the Redfield's empty house right now.
"Where do you think they are?" Chris asked Forest suspiciously, clearly oblivious to his little sisters pass time.
"Where do you think, that I thought, that they thought, that you once thought they knew?" Forest said rapidly, clearly attempting to steer the conversation out of these dangerous waters. Everyone looked at each other confused for a second.
"You fucked that up big time." Chris said laughing as Forest nodded.
"Yeah I know, I know." Forest said as everyone laughed.
"Alright breaks over wimps!" Billy said loudly clapping his hands. "Move it move it move it!" he said as they all took off around the track to resume their endurance training. After another 45 minutes of running the four stopped for good. They had managed to run a total of roughly 7 miles. Though this had exhausted everyone except Billy it was a good sign. They sat on metal bleachers drinking water and watching the football team run plays.
"What do you think about our football team this year guys?" Billy asked as Alexander Ashford dropped his third pass in a row.
"I think you should suit up Bill" Chris said as everyone laughed.
"Well he's getting better..." Forest said as they ran another play and Alex managed a catch. "That puts him at what about fifty percent completion... when he's wide open."
"Hey guys!" Joey called waiving at them as he climbed up the bleachers. "You guys look beat" Joey said laughing as he reached their row.
"Yeah while you were sitting on your ass we've been conditioning" Richard said taking a drink of water.
"I wasn't sitting around I was just getting an... alternative work out" Joey said grinning.
"Ohhhhh boy... what's her name?" Richard asked as Billy and Chris clapped laughing and Forest looked in the opposite direction.
"Not telling" Joey said sitting down next to Richard. Everyone turned to look at Joey.
"That's a little suspicious Joe... Any reason why?" Chris asked shrewdly. If he didn't want to name names then chances were that he shouldn't have been with her.
"It's not anyone that you guys would care about it's just... Not someone I want to be associated with like that." Joey replied, lighting a cigarette.
"Why would it matter if-" Billy began, but Richard cut him off.
"Look if Joe doesn't want to tell us we shouldn't grill him about it... Besides we all know what will happen if it is someone it shouldn't have been." Richard said turning to look at Joey. Joey looked back at him taking a drag from his cigarette.
"You guys don't trust me at all do you?" Joey asked smiling, knowing the answer.
"No!" they all replied flatly.
"Fair enough" Joey replied taking another pull on his cigarette. "You guys wanna get out of here and go shoot some hoops at the park or something?" he asked wanting to change the subject.
"Not me" Chris said standing up and checking his watch. It was almost six-thirty. "I have to get home and make sure Claire hasn't burnt our house down... Later guys" he said waiving as made his way carefully down the bleachers.
"Anyone else?" Joey asked. There was a general murmur of consent. One by one each of the boys stood and began their decent down the bleachers towards their cars.
Wednesday First Period: Library
"Hey everybody!" Billy called entering the room. He looked around. The library was large with many shelves of books and videotapes. Billy wondered vaguely how many of these books had never been read. He proceeded to the back corner where Chris, Jill, Rebecca, Richard, Forest, Joey, Sherry, Josh, Claire, Leon and Brad were mulling around talking.
"Now that he's here I officially call to order this meeting of the... what the hell club are we again?" Jill asked as everyone laughed.
"The book club silly!" Sherry said in her most girly innocent voice, pulling an encyclopedia off the shelf and holding it over her head.
"Wait no one ever tells me anything you can read now? OUCH!" Richard cried in pain as Sherry clubbed him over the head with the encyclopedia. Everyone was so busy laughing that no one noticed the short red haired boy that slipped into the library and approached them.
"Alright all bickering aside" Jill began as the laughter died out, however she was interrupted as the red haired boy coughed from the side. Everyone turned to look at him. He was average height with red hair. He was clad in a pair of blue jeans with a plain black T-shirt.
"Uh high I'm Steve" the boy said uncomfortable "Mr. Burton said there was some kind of meeting here?"
"You're new around here?" Rebecca asked attempting to cut the awkward tension in the room.
"Yeah I just moved to town... My parents are working on the new factory." Steve said looking around plotting his escape route.
"Oh okay" Chris said looking around nodding to everyone. "Well we can always use a new member right guys?" he asked. There was a murmur of agreement. "Well pull up a chair Steve we're just starting." Steve obeyed looking relieved he wasn't the center of attention anymore.
"As I was saying" Jill continued as if there had been no interruption. "We still have about four hundred bucks left from our New York trip last year which is a good start towards a trip this year... Any ideas?" she asked looking around.
"Somewhere warm" Josh supplied "Florida or California maybe?" he asked looking around.
"How about Daytona or Myrtle Beach?" Joey asked "I've been both those places and their a hell of a lot of fun."
"Didn't the last years seniors get some kind of hotel deal down there?" Claire asked still eying the new kid looking interested.
"Okay okay" Jill said slamming the encyclopedia down on the table to grab everyone's attention. "So Becca will call hotels in all of those places and see who gives us the better deal and we'll go there... Sound good?" Jill asked looking at Rebecca who rolled her eyes. She always got appointed to do the busy work. "Now we need ways to raise money... Any ideas?"
"People auction?" Leon asked looking around.
"Noooo I hate those!" Sherry said with a cringe.
"But the last time we had one you raised so much money for us Sherry!" Joey said clapping his hands together and looking at her and making the sad puppy face "Pleeeeeease?"
"Jill can I have that book back?" Sherry asked as she leaned away from Joey.
"Why don't we do a raffle?" Steve asked, speaking for the first time since he sat down. "We buy a few thousand raffle tickets and charge one dollar a piece. We tell people they can win half of our total sale up to five hundred bucks. We sell them in town and at the away basketball and football games. We do one this semester and one next semester. We can clear a couple of grand easy." he finished looking around. Everyone stared at him.
"That's genius!" Claire said excitedly. Everyone looked at each other and nodded.
"Okay so who's gonna get the raffle tickets?" Jill asked.
"I can get them" Richard said "my uncle works at Freedom Hall in Florence... He can hook us up" he finished.
"Alright well we'll hammer out the dates and stuff next time" Jill said as the bell rang. Everyone scattered heading for their next class.
"Hey!" Claire called catching up with Steve in the hallway.
"Uh hey" Steve said nervously turning to face her. "Whats up?"
"I just wondered if maybe you would like to have lunch today?" Claire asked politely, smiling inwardly at the red flush that appeared in the boys face.
"Uh I'd like that" Steve replied dropping his head to hide the color in his face.
"By the way that was pretty cool how you came up with that idea on the spot in there." Claire said trying to ease the tension.
"I didn't really" he said without looking up. "We used to do that to raise money when I was in band at my old school. Claire rolled her eyes at his downplay.
"Still cool... Meet me on the front steps during lunch." She added walking away. She found it funny how he had suggested a fund raising idea in a room full of strangers without being asked. But when it came to talking to her one on one he got nervous.
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