Chapter 4

Ordinary Day

It was 4 o'clock in the morning and the whole town of Bullworth was sleeping. Nick Cassidy was not, though, as he couldn't fall asleep. He was sitting on the couch in the dormitory common room, dressed in a light blue T-shirt and dark blue bottom pajamas and was watching a film. He let out a deep sigh of boredom, as the movie he was watching wasn't particularly interesting.

"W…who's there?", he heard a squeaky voice behind him and looked back. A fat boy in light pink pajamas and a cap with fluffy ball on top was standing there. Nick smelled urine and noticed that the area around the boy's groin was wet.

"Did you piss yourself?", asked Nick.

"Uh…no, I just…I just spilled soda on myself!", said the boy in a panicking voice. "Yes, it's soda, that's all."

Nick smiled.

"Yeah right", he said. "Anyway, what the fuck are you doing here in the middle of the morning?"

"I needed to go to the bathroom", said the boy.

"There's no bathroom here", said Nick.

"Outside", said the boy.

"Well, it looks like you've already completed that task", said Nick. "Now, what are you waiting for? Get to sleep!"

The boy quickly left and Nick could hear door opening and closing. He returned to the film, but after five minutes he couldn't stand watching it anymore and switched channel. He was going through channels but didn't find anything good.

"Fucking TV", he said, throwing remote at the wall, hit it and broke the remote. He stood up, went to his room and lied in the bed, hoping to get some sleep.

He managed to fall asleep, but he didn't sleep enough; in about half past eight, someone shook him and Nick woke up.

"You'll be late for class if you don't get up soon", said Pete, the one who woke him up.

"I think I don't wanna go to class", said Nick. "What's the time?"

"Half past eight. You've got physical education first", Pete replied.

Nick got up and got dressed. He joined Pete and a black boy on the couch.

"I'm Lance", said the boy, speaking in an ebonics accent. "You're Nick, right?"

"Yeah", said Nick. "Pleased to meet you."

After approximately half an hour of watching television, Nick and Lance couldn't stand watching science program anymore and they walked out.

"So, how you doin' in Bullworth?", asked Lance.

"Fine", replied Nick. "As soon as I arrived, people tried to kill me."

"This place is a dump", said Lance. "But, it was worse before. We non-clique kids used to be tormented by those fuckin' Bullies until Jimmy Hopkins arrived and made peace between the teams. That lasted until he left, but still, we are not bullied anymore. I heard that Bullies attacked you and beat'em up. They suck at fighting but if I'm not mistaken you and Jimmy are the only new kids to fuck those Bullies up when you arrived."

"Where's Jimmy now?", asked Nick.

"Jimmy left at the end of the last school year. He was the king of these parts", said Lance. In that moment, the bell rang. "Hey, I gotta get to class. See ya later, yo."

Lance left and Nick decided not to be truant and to go to Gym class. He entered the gym and changed. The new teacher was a tall, handsome and muscular blonde man who was wearing a light grey T-shirt and blue trackpants.

"Ok kids, I'm Kieran Jackson and I'm your new Physical Education teacher", he said. "Those who play in the football team will head outside on the football field for a practice. The rest, do what you want. Play basketball, dodgeball, wrestling, whatever."

The teacher and all of the Jocks went outside, leaving the rest in the gym. Ricky Pucino suggested they all play basketball, and all accepted apart from the girls and the Nerds. They went to sit in the bleachers, the first to watch basketball game after a cheerleading practice and the latter to play the Grottos & Gremlins board game.

Nick was playing on Ricky's team and they were already leading against the other team by more than 15 hoops. After the first quarter ended, Nick approached the Nerds.

"Listen, you wimps, we need to refresh the teams", he said. "One of you should join the game."

"We're playing G&G", said the fat boy who wet himself earlier.

Suddenly, Nick kicked and broke the G&G board.

"No G&G on gym", he said and returned to the game.

Meanwhile, the girls on the bleachers (the cheerleaders Christy, Mandy and Angie) were talking while watching the game.

"That new kid is hot!", said Christy after Nick hit a 3-pointer. "Do you think I'll be able to hook him up?"

"Do you even know his name?", asked Mandy.

"I think I heard that his name was Nick", replied Christy.

"I don't like him", said Angie. "I mean, he's a bully. Didn't you see how he broke the Nerds' board game?"

"As far as I'm concerned", said Christy, "he was right. 'No G&G on gym.'"

After the game ended (Nick's team won big time), Christy decided to make a move on Nick. He wasn't exactly a very charismatic person, but he wasn't shy either. At the end he managed to call Christy on a Friday night date.