Here's chapter 4. It took me a long time to make this chapter so, Enjoy.
For the first part of the night, Maddie and Dr. Cockroach chatted with each other about their lives and interests. During their conversation, Dr. Cockroach had to make up some things about his life in order to make himself sound like a real teenager and to keep Maddie from getting suspicious about him.
"Afterwards, I'm thinking about going to college to get my Ph.D." He said when they got to the topic about going to college.
"You sound like you had your whole life planned since childhood." Maddie said smiling "I like guys who have a plan for his future."
"Really?" Dr. Cockroach said smiling back at her.
"Yes!" Maddie told him "Why can't I be like you Herbert? Have a dream and a plan for myself and not care about people crushing them." Dr. Cockroach could tell why, after seeing those mean girls make fun of Maddie not to long ago.
"It's because of those girls isn't it?" He said "Have they always treated you like that?"
"Yea." Maddie responded looking down "They had been treating me like a loser ever since I moved to this school when my Dad became President. They do make fun of other kids, but they claimed that their favorite person to make fun of is me. I think it's because I don't have any friends."
"Really?" Dr. Cockroach said surprised by what he had just heard her say "But you're the daughter of the President of the United States!"
"Exactly!" Maddie responded "That's the reason I don't have any real friends. Friends who like me for myself and not because I'm related to someone. People only want to be my friend because I'm the President's daughter, and guys only date me so they can get their fifteen minutes of fame and then afterwards, they dump me. The only real friend I have is my dog, Ike."
Hearing how people just want to use Maddie for their own personal needs made Dr. Cockroach feel sorry for the poor girl. Having people only like you because you're the daughter of someone who is important is worse than being ignored. "Well, you have two real friends now." He told her.
Maddie looked at him with a suspicious look on her face. "Do you really mean it? Or are you just saying that to make me feel better?"
"I really mean it." He told her "All I know is that you're the prettiest and kindest girl I ever known. I know someday, people will see you the way I do… as an individual, a one of a kind, a real person."
At the sound of those words, Maddie gave him the sweetest smile he had ever seen. She reached out across the table and held his hand. "Thanks Herbert. It means so much to me, knowing that somebody likes me for myself."
Both the teenage girl and the bug headed mad scientist looked lovingly into each other's eyes. Their gaze of affection didn't last long when Dr. Cockroach all of a sudden heard a voice behind him.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing with my girl?" the voice said. Dr. Cockroach turned around and saw muscular boy with a buzz cut standing behind him with a mean angry look on his face. It was Calvin White, Maddie's ex-boyfriend, the one who dumped her before prom.
"Your girl?" Dr. Cockroach said, not moved or even afraid of the face the boy gave him.
"Was I mumbling? I said that's my girl?" Calvin said, giving the doctor attitude "Come on Maddie! Leave the nerd and come dance with me instead!"
He was just about to walk away when Maddie suddenly shouted "No!"
Calvin turned around and gave her a furious disbelief look "What did you just say?"
"I said no Calvin!" Maddie said, sounding like she was standing up to him for the very first time in her life "You dumped me, and during our break up I realized how much of a jerk you are, so I'm refusing to get back together with you! Herbert is my prom date now! You had your chance with me and you blew it! You never cared about me! You only cared about getting your fifteen minutes of fame from me!"
Calvin walked back over to the table and leaned close to Maddie face with a red angry expression "You're refusing to get back together with me just so you can be with this freak?"
Dr. Cockroach was stunned by what he had just heard the hot-headed boy call him. He felt angry as well.
"He's not a freak!" Maddie talked back to Calvin with attitude "He's honest, he's sweet, and unlike you he loves me for myself and not for being the President's daughter! Besides, you shouldn't talk to him the way you had just talked to him a moment ago, he doesn't even go to this school!"
"A stranger huh?" Calvin said. He then backed away from Maddie and this time lean towards Dr. Cockroach's face "Why don't you go back to where you came from loser?"
Maddie stood up, having enough of Calvin acting like a jerk towards her prom date. "Calvin! I told you to not talk to him like that!"
"SHUT UP! And stay out of this!" Calvin screamed at her, loud enough for everyone in the gym to stop what they were doing and watch the quarrel between the trio. Dr. Cockroach didn't like the way this boy was talking to Maddie. The way he had just screamed at her made him furiouse.
"Maybe she doesn't want to stay out of it!" Dr. Cockroach said to the short tempered boy.
Calvin gave him the same disbelief look he gave to Maddie just a few moments ago "What did you just say?"
"You heard me!" Dr. Cockroach told him
"You looking for a punch to the face? Cause right now I'm gonna give you one!" Calvin said before punching Dr. Cockroach in the face, knocking out of his chair and onto the ground. Dr. Cockroach sat on the ground, covering up the pain with his hands. After sitting silently on the ground shocked, his emotions turned into anger. He got back up on his feet and slammed into Calvin, screaming with fury.
Everyone watched as the two physically fought with each other, chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!". Maddie was the only one who watched in horror. Dr. Cockroach pushed Calvin back and shouted "Come on! Punch me again! I dare you!"
Calvin was willing to give the Doctor another punch to the face. But just as he threw the fist, Dr. Cockroach quickly leaned his head forward, causing Calvin's knuckle to hit the top of his skull and thereby break his hand. Calvin screamed in pain as he held his broken hand, while Dr. Cockroach put his hands on his head to cover up the throbbing pain he received from the blow. Afterwards the two continued to physically quarrel with each other, throw punches and kicks. It wasn't too long before, Calvin was on top of Dr. Cockroach trying to strangle him while the Doctor tried so hard to get him off him.
"What the heck is going on here?" A voice yelled out. It was Mr. Howard, the school principle, coming to see what all the commotion was about. He was shocked and angry at the same time when he saw the two in a physical fight. He grabbed Calvin and dragged him off of Dr. Cockroach. The principle struggled with the boy who was viciously fighting to get out of his grasp so he can continue to beat up the wimp.
"Knock it off Mr. White!" Mr. Howards commanded him but Calvin still continued to struggle "I said knock it off!"
"DON'T TOUCH ME YOU PIECE OF TRASH!" Calvin screamed at the principle.
Mr. Howard gasped in shock before saying "Don't you dare talk to me like that young man!"
"Stuff it sideways old hag." Calvin said rolling his eyes.
The principle was angered by the boy talking like this to him. He grabbed Calvin by the wrist and dragged him out of the gym while saying "That's it Mr. White, you're suspended!"
Everyone watched as Mr. Howards dragged Calvin out of the Gym, who was screaming mean things. As soon as they were gone, everyone continued their prom activities. Maddie walked over to Dr. Cockroach and helped him off the floor.
"I'm so sorry about that." She apologized.
"Don't worry, you'll get over it." Dr. Cockroach said to her while smiling. All of a sudden, the D.J. told everyone that he was about to slow things down a bit for the prom couples, meaning that it was time for the prom couples to slow dance with each other. The song "I Hope you Dance" by Lee Ann Womack began to play.
"I love this song!" Maddie said with delight.
"May I have this dance?" Dr. Cockroach said to her smiling while holding out his hand.
"Why yes you may!" Maddie responded and took his hand. Maddie and Dr. Cockroach walked out to the middle of the dance floor and began to slow dance with each other. At first they held each other only an arm length away, but as the song's first chorus came on, they began to dance closer to each other. Maddie looked into Dr. Cockroaches eyes and began to get a warm fuzzy feeling inside her. As the song began to get deeper, the feeling began to rise and she started to realize that she was starting to develop romantic feeling for the boy who took her to prom. She' d never felt this deeply in love with any other boy she had date. It was probably because she knew this boy liked her as herself.
Maddie placed her head and Dr. Cockroach's shoulders, much to his surprise. He held Maddie closer, pressing his cheek to her head and running his fingers through her soft hair. They continued to slow dance through the song, feeling love for one another.
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