Disclaimer: I don't own Jimmy Neutron.
God, Cindy's prettier than Betty. "Yes, you can come in, I guess." That is, if Cindy doesn't murder you first.
"Quinlan? How have you been?" Cindy asked. "How has your house hunt been going?"
Betty smiled. "Good, my husband and I found a nice place not too far from Jimmy's mansion."
"That's great; it'll be so nice having my other best friend in town." What? Best Friend? Cindy and Betty? I'm dreaming.
"So, I heard you have a little problem."
Jimmy nodded too dumbfounded to say anything. That was fine with the two women. "He has forgotten everything important."
"How much are we talking?"
"Pretty much everything past the first few weeks of fifth grade," Cindy sighed. "It's really frustrating. After all it's almost time."
Betty sighed. "You don't remember being best man at my wedding? Or my husband Kyle?" Jimmy shook his head. "Have you tried shocking him?"
"How?"
"Well I could, you know, do what I did after the play."
"No." Cindy grumped. "I'm not chancing that."
What on Earth did Betty do? "Well Vortex I'm sure it wouldn't hurt…"
"No, Nerdtron. And my answer is final."
"Who are you my mother?"
Cindy gasped. "I need to call his parents! Hugh and Judy are due back in Retroville in a week! Not including all the guests…crap!" She looked at Betty and Jimmy. "Sheen, Carl, Libby, and I have a lot of calling around to do." She walked away muttering something about dress fittings and cancelling a reception.
"So," Jimmy said, "I guess whatever is next month is kind of important." He thought a moment, "Is it Nobel Prize time?" Betty shook her head. "Okay…is it science related?"
"Not everything is science related, Neutron."
"I liked you more before you became friends with Cindy; she's rubbed off on you."
She rolled her eyes. "Says the guy who took up karate, and covered up for it by saying 'It's so I can defend myself'…"
"That sounds reasonable…" Jimmy replied. "Wouldn't it have been more convenient to build a robot army though?"
"You just really wanted to go to karate class with Cindy, deny it all you want. I watched your video diary."
"That's brilliant Betty! I'll just find Goddard and watch all diaries from the past fifteen years!" He smiled, even if he wouldn't remember for real he would know what happened. "Wait…you went through my diary? When was this?"
Betty looked Jimmy in the eye. "My old boyfriend dared me to, you remember Nick. He thought it would be funny." She smiled reassuringly at Jimmy. "Don't worry I didn't tell him anything too personal, like the fact that you proposed to Cindy when you were eight."
"That's an invasion of my privacy. Not even our parents know that little event occurred!"
"But it was adorable! I believe you two had even drawn up a contract!"
Jimmy blushed. "Yes, but keep in mind that was the weekend before I started school…I didn't know we were incompatible then."
"I believe you said something like 'So in turns out my angel is actually my competition for top spot in class. Is it wrong that I like the challenge even though I'm not supposed to like her?' Admit it Jimmy you never liked me…"
With a sigh, Jimmy tried to avoid the oncoming flashback.
It was a nice fall day, Jimmy and his family had just moved to Retroville.
Jimmy had spotted her across the street. His mom had as well, "Go on Jimmy, might as well make a friend."
Then, after looking both ways, he went over to speak to her. "Hi, I'm Jimmy Neutron Boy Genius! My parents and I are new here."
"I'm Cindy," her face scrunched in thought, "and you head is really big."
"You have a big mouth."
"For a genius, you're kind of stupid. Don't you know boys are supposed to be nice to girls?"
Jimmy responded quickly, "That seems kind of sexist."
"Please," she laughed, "you think men are discriminated against? Try being a woman."
He raised his eyebrow at this, "Have you even hit puberty?"
"Yes, and I'll hit you if you don't shut up!"
"I like you, want to get married?"
Cindy shrugged, "I don't care. On one condition, you have to buy whatever I want at the Candy Bar."
"Where's that?"
"C'mon I'll show you."
They drew up a contract later at the Candy Bar. They didn't know then that it would become the booth, the one they all hung around and the starting point of all their adventures. They didn't know anything that would happen. That was the beauty of it…
Jimmy realized Betty was still waiting for an answer. "I can't admit to that, because I have no clue what the answer is." He made a strange face twisted in thought. "Funny," he whispered barely above the sound of the apartment's air conditioning and the hum of activity coming from the other room, "I don't know the answer." His head pounded, how could I not know? I am a genius for Goddard's sake! Why is this so difficult? Oh why couldn't I have made an Anti-Love Vaccine?
His head began to pound further. Love Pheromone #976/J, "I Love You Cindy Vortex," Pecan Ripple ice cream… What on earth were these things? All Jimmy knew was that he had to lie down a bit. He slept fitfully on the couch for the next three hours. "Hey," a soft whisper woke him, "Jimmy, you missed dinner. Are you hungry?"
He opened his eyes to find two emerald green one's waiting for him. Jimmy nodded quietly. His head hadn't really stopped spinning and he got up from the couch extremely slowly to make sure it didn't get any worse. "Do you have anything light?'
"We have a few different types of fruit. Do you feel all right?" Cindy looked concerned.
"Just a little odd, I had a weird dream though."
She helped him up. "Are you sure it was a dream?" She led him to the apartment's modest kitchen. "It's possible that you could have had a memory relapse."
"Okay," he let out a sigh, "this is going to sound weird. Promise you won't laugh." Jimmy waited for her to nod. "Okay, so we were about ten or eleven. And I was acting really out of sorts; I even ended up crashing into the side of the Candy Bar. Then," he gulped, "I kind of told you that I loved you and then you threw ice cream in my face…"
Cindy smiled helpfully. "And then you licked it and said, 'Pecan Ripple your favorite.' Then Sam kicked you out for getting the floor dirty!" She laughed.
Jimmy put his hand behind his head and laughed nervously. "So I guess that actually happened, huh?"
"Yep," she walked over to the fridge.
"Uh, Cindy?" He waited until he heard a muffled reply from her direction. "This is an odd question, but were, um, you the girl I," he gulped, "dated in fifth grade?"
A/N: I watched the Jimmy Neutron movie again today, just about lost it at Nick's scream. Guess that was the day Cindy realized that Jimmy was more of a man than Nick would ever be. She became much less interested in him when the series started. Oh well, I thought Jimmy was better looking anyway. I don't even mind his hair; it's kind of adorable really. I hate stories when they put Jimmy in the army; how can you make him chop off his glorious hair!