Chapter Four
Kim's POV
"Hey Milton do you think I could skip rehearsal at lunch today?" I asked looking around. I have no idea how I was going to avoid Jerry, but it meant I couldn't go to anywhere near where he always was. I already found a lizard in my locker and my history and geography homework was glued together. There was no way I was letting Grace do anything else.
"No one skips rehearsals Kim. This is important. Unless you're dying and you're not." I crossed my arms and looked around making sure Jerry wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Please Milton? Oh come on have a heart!" I yelled.
"Fine fine, give me one good reason why I should let you skip."
"Well…uhm…well…my…dog…is—"
"Kim we all know you can't lie and you don't even have a dog. So it looks like we'll see you at practice today."
"Please Milton?! I'm begging you!"
"Sorry Kim, it wouldn't be fair to everyone else." Milton said and closed his locker.
"But—but—"
"Nope and that's final. Now I've got to go, Julie's waiting for me in the Chemistry lab." He said walking off.
I frowned and crossed my arms, so I'd have to find another way to avoid Jerry.
"Hey Kim." Jerry said walking towards me, I started running away from him and went into the girl's washroom. Man that was close. I mean how much longer could I avoid him?
My doorbell rang and Jack was standing there with chips. I smirked.
"We're here to rehearse not eat!" Jack walked inside and gave them to me.
"But I brought your favourite, sour cream." Those chips really were my favourite…I closed the door and sighed.
"Fine, fine." I went into the kitchen and poured some of the chips in a bowl then went back into the living room then handed Jack a script.
"Whoa, this thing is big. How many pages are in here?" Jack asked.
"About five hundred, it used to be a thousand and but I told Milton to change it."
"So which page are we on?"
"Page 34." Jack flipped through the pages and I sat on the couch beside him with my script.
"Hey can I be Romeo?" Jack asked.
"Well sure, I guess. Are you really sure you want to help me with this?" Jack looked zoned out like he was reading the script.
"Hello?" I said waving my hand in his face.
"Oh yeah, I'm fine with helping you. Don't worry."
"Okay then." I said and looked at the script.
"If the touch of my hand offends you, this holy shrine, then my punishment is this: I am willing to make it up with a kiss." Jack said reading the script.
"Do not say such bad things of yourself! Saints have hands that commoners' hands touch too, and hand to hand is a holy kiss."
"Saints have lips and hands too, don't they?"
"Yes, lips they must use in prayer."
"Let our lips do what hands do then! They pray, unless their faith turns to despair." I looked up at Jack and found him already looking at me. I could feel my cheeks heating up.
"Saints don't move, but they will for prayer's sake." I said reading the script.
"Then don't move as I kiss you to remove my sin." I looked at the script, and it said Romeo kisses Juliet. I looked at Jack into his deep chocolate brown eyes. I smiled, and he moved my hair out of my face. He leaned in towards me and slowly our lips touched. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh! So many things were going through my head right now. I mean I knew from the first day I met Jack we had a sort of connection. It's just the way he made me feel that…Kim calm down. Jack and I stared at each other for a moment. I wonder if he regrets kissing me. Maybe that's why he's not saying anything. Oh, what just happened?
"Uhm, so you were a great Romeo." I said trying to break the silence.
"Yeah same to you Juliet." Great, now this was awkward. Suddenly there was a beeping sound and Jack took out his cell phone then answered it. I really wished Jack was Romeo, I mean he read the lines perfectly fine. I think even better than Jerry. Also if he was Romeo I probably wouldn't have Grace hunting me down right now.
"That was my dad, there's some kind of emergency at home. I got to go." Jack said grabbing his backpack.
"Is it serious?"
"Probably not, it's probably just something like we ran out of the ketchup again." I smirked.
"Well I'll see you tomorrow?" Jack nodded and smiled then walked through the door. I sighed and plopped down on the couch. Why did he have to leave?
Jack's POV
I walked over to my locker and opened it then put all my books in there.
"Hey Jack." Jerry said walking towards me. I really didn't hate Jerry anymore; the fact that I kissed Kim yesterday proves that she likes me. Not only can I tease her about this, but Kim and Jerry stage kissing really wasn't bothering me as much.
"Hey, where've you been all day?"
"I've been hunting down the snake I set lose, remember that? Well apparently it showed up in the principal's office and bit the principal. Turned out it was poisonous."
"You poisoned our principal?"
"No worries he's fine. But I had to catch the snake before it bit anyone else." I rolled my eyes, Jerry was always so careless.
"So how's it going with your little crush person?" I asked and closed my locker.
"Not well, she keeps avoiding me."
"Well to be honest, everyone tries to avoid you Jerry."
"No, I mean like every time I'm around she disappears."
"Well who is this girl anyways?"
"Kim." I looked at Jerry and raised my eyebrows, and suddenly my hatred started to build up a lot more for Jerry. It all made sense now. Why he was always with her, he said the girl was different. Kim is different and she wouldn't put up with Jerry's usual pickup lines. She would actually throw him into a brick wall! Now suddenly I wish Kim did throw him into a brick wall.
"What is wrong with you?!" I yelled.
"Well my doctor says I have a weird scar at the back on my neck t—"
"I don't care Jerry. WHY DO YOU LIKE KIM?!" I yelled I felt like Milton right now. Now I understand how Milton feels.
"Wait dude you like Kim don't you?"
"Of course this whole time I've liked Kim since I laid eyes on her and now you come along being Romeo and ruin everything?!"
"I can't help who I like."
"Okay fine, but you can't like Kim. You can like anyone but Kim! HOW CAN YOU OF ALL PEOPLE LIKE KIM?!" Everyone turned to look at us.
"He has anger management." Jerry said to them and they looked at me then started walking off. I rolled my eyes.
"I do not have anger management don't tell people that! Look Jerry, you don't like Kim. You just think you do!"
"I don't know man. I mean when we're not fighting she's a cool person."
"A cool person? Do you even know anything about her?!"
"Of course I do, I know she hates the colour pink. Look Jack if you're not going to get over your crush on her and help me I'm just going to find Kim and-" I threw a punch at Jerry and he fell to the ground. My eyes widened and I looked at my fist. What did I just do?
"What the heck man?" Jerry got up and his nose was bleeding.
"So that's how it's gonna be?" Jerry asked threw a punch at me and I grabbed his fist then pushed him into the locker.
"Look Jerry I don't want to fight yo-" Suddenly something whacked me in the face and I fell to the ground. Jerry was standing there with a book. I got up and charged at him, then flipped him over.
"What is going on here?" We both turned and saw Mrs. Falcon crossing her arms.
"We're just sparring..." Jerry said smiling. What an idiot.
"Jerry your nose is bleeding, and Jack your lip is bruised. You two were obviously fighting and now I'm going to have to suspend you both." I looked at her shocked.
"Sounds good to me, no school!" Jerry exclaimed.
"Whoa wait you can't suspend us. I mean of course Jerry's gotten into a lot of trouble but what about me? This is the first time I've gotten into a fight, don't I get a warning or something?" she crossed her arms and looked at both of us.
"Fine since none of you are severely injured and considering you punched Jerry which is what half of us teachers are always tempted to do... Jack, since this is your first fight you will both be let off with a warning. But you both have detention for a whole month and will have to help out around the school." Mrs. Falcon said and walked off. Jerry and I looked at each other.
"Look Jerry-"
"Save it Jack. Looks like we'll both be fighting for Kim, and this means we're at war."
"At war? What are you talking ab-"
"Watch your back." Jerry said and walked off. Why did I have to get to jealous and punch Jerry? Now Jerry was after me...who knows what he'll do. But I wasn't that worried considering it was Jerry. What's the worst he's could possibly do to me?
The doorbell rang and I answered it then Grace was standing there with a bunch of papers and Bristol board.
"So I got a lot of supplies for this project, I have to get an A on this project or I'm kicked off the cheer squad." she walked inside and looked around.
"Just put the supplies on the table." I said and closed the door.
"Hey Jack you know Kim right?"
"Well I guess."
"Okay is Kim afraid of spiders?" Grace asked. I shrugged.
"Maybe, but then again sometimes it seems like Kim isn't scared of anything."
"Just great, I'm going to need a new plan."
"New plan for what?"
"Uhm, never mind. You know what forget I said anything. Hey what happened to your lip it looks gross."
"Thanks for that...Jerry and I got into a fight today at school."
"Oh right, I heard about that, it happened right in the hallway. Why were you two in a fight anyways?"
"Because of the stupid play. I can't stand it."
"Me either, I mean what's the big deal about it."
"I know right?"
"Stupid Kim thinks she's all that because she's Juliet."
"Kim doesn't think she's all that. It's Jerry who's the problem, he shouldn't have been Romeo. He ruins the play." I got my laptop and turned it on.
"We should probably start researching what animal we're going to choose." I said.
"Wait a minute, your mad Jerry's Romeo?" Grace asked. I nodded slowly.
"And I'm mad Kim's Juliet...Jack do you realize what this means?" I shook my head, what was Grace talking about now?
"We need to team up and sabotage this play."
"And why would we do that when we have a project due next week?" I asked gesturing to the supplies Grace brought on the table. "We'll do all the school stuff, just not now."
"If we don't do it now, how do you expect to get an A, you need one."
"Yeah, yeah we'll get an A but Jack focus. This is more important than the project!"
"Really? You really think that? Well I can see why you have a C average..."
"Whatever just listen to me for minute I have an idea. Okay so you hate Jerry and since he's kissing Kim it makes you jealous right? Well of course it does we all know you like Kim." I rolled my eyes.
"Okay continue."
"Well I hate the fact that Kim's kissing Jerry."
"Whoa you like Jerry?" Grace nodded.
"Well he likes Kim. Sorry to crush your dreams." I said.
"The dream is still alive, I'm not giving up. This is exactly why we need to take down this play. We need to do anything and everything to stop it and keep Kim and Jerry from being near each other. Are you in?" I crossed my arms and looked at Grace. She really was evil. I mean people around school have told me that before, but I never actually believed them until now.
"I have a question, why is it that you're a genius at being evil, but not in school work?" I asked. Grace rolled her eyes.
"Jack focus!" I thought about it for a while, all we'd be doing is taking down the play for our own selfish reasons. I could never do that to Kim, no matter how much I hate Jerry.
"Sorry Grace, I don't think it's a good idea."
"Jack okay think about it this way, if we don't stop this production, Jerry's going to steal Kim from you and they'll be together..." Grace said I filled with anger, just the thought of that made me sick. I couldn't let that happen.
"Okay…fine…let's take this whole production down. So what exactly did you have in mind?"
"A lot, but don't worry this plan is definitely going to work." Grace said smiling.